Indenture witnessing that whereas Nicholas de Strelley, knight enfoeffed in fee simple...

Indenture witnessing that whereas Nicholas de Strelley, knight enfoeffed in fee simple Thomas Meres of Awburne, Thomas Hunt of Lyndeby, and Richard Metham, esquires, with all his lands etc, in Feribrigge and Friston, lately belonging to his father Sampson de Strelley, knight, by grant dated Sunday the feast of St. Gregory, 2 Henry VI. and Metham having released all his right in the premises to Meres and Hunt on Saturday the Annunciation, 2 Henry VI; the said Meres and Hunt at the special request of Nicholas demise to him the premises for his life, at a yearly rent of 3l.6s.8d., and undertake to keep them in their hands for eight years after his decease to be disposed of according to his will, and at the end of that term to grant them in tail male to Robert de Strelley, knight, son of the said Nicholas, with similar remainder to John de Strelley, son of John de Strelley, esquire, son of the said Nicholas, and remainder to the right heirs of Nicholas Strelley: York. Dated: Monday after Whit-Sunday, 4 Henry VI.