Grant by John Egerton, of Wrymhill, esquire, to Master Richard Delves, clerk, Master...

Grant by John Egerton, of Wrymhill, esquire, to Master Richard Delves, clerk, Master Robert Foulehurst, clerk, John Aston, knight, John Harcourt, William Chetwyn, John Cotes, and Humfrey Hill, of his manors of Wrymhill, Chedilton, Haselwall, and Caldey, also of lands, etc, in the counties of Stafford, Salop, and Chester, except lands assigned to Eleanor, the grantor's wife, by way of jointure, and except a burgage tenement in Newcastle-under-Lyme, to hold on the trusts of a schedule annexed. Appointment of John Brassyngton and Hugh Brenner attorneys to deliver seisin: Staff. Salop. Chesh. Schedule annexed: The above feoffees were to stand possessed of the premises (over the value of 40l.), to the use of the grantor for life, and after his decease to pay annuities to his wife and his daughter Isabella, to his bastard sons Robert, John, and Richard, to William Eggerton, of Batteley, and to John Brassyngton; and subject thereto to the use of the heirs male of the grantor's body, with limitations over in favour of his brothers, and the heirs male of their bodies. Dated: 28 May, 7 Henry VIII

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