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Demise by William Whelpele, citizen and shoemaker of London, and Elena his wife,...

Catalogue reference: E 40/2459

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This record is about the Demise by William Whelpele, citizen and shoemaker of London, and Elena his wife,... dating from 1385-1386 in the series Exchequer: Treasury of Receipt: Ancient Deeds, Series A. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
E 40/2459
Date
1385-1386
Description

Demise by William Whelpele, citizen and shoemaker of London, and Elena his wife, to Sir William Rysyng, the prior, and the convent of Holy Trinity, London, of two stone tenements in Adellane, etc, in the parish of St. Alban's in Woodstreet, by the lane leading from Aldermannebury to the lane called 'Selvyrstret,' for 90 years; paying yearly to William and Elena during their lives 100s., and after their decease 7d. weekly to a canon celebrating mass in their church, and conveying two cartloads of wood yearly to their house in London: [Middx.] Endorsed: Memorandum of enrolment at the Husting for pleas of land, Monday before St. Margaret, 10 Richard II. The morrow of St. Mark the Evangelist, 9 Richard II

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