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Reference Number705:134 BA1531/76/49
Hierarchy Browser NumberP1531/1/76/49
TitleCharter of Edmund Rudyng of Droitwich
DescriptionGiving to Richard Lechemere of Hanley and Joan his wife a moiety of all those lands and tenements with appurtenances which recently belonged to John Whytemere in the lordship of Hanley and which [moiety] he [sc. Edmund] recently held along with John Sampson, Henry Hanley and Maurice Waterden [all] deceased of the gift and feoffment of the said John Whytemere; to be held to Richard and Joan, their heirs and assigns, in perpetuity, of the chief lord of the fee by the services due from the property and lawfully accustomed. Sealing clause.
Witnesses: Simon Hanley, Robert Turnour, Richard Frewen, William Frewen, John Lawton and others.
Dated at Hanley.

Seal: red wax, device of a goat's head.

1. Edmund Rudyng was apparently the last survivor of a body of trustees who held the land to be settled on John Whytemere's daughter Joan on her marriage to Richard Lechmere, presumably not long before this charter was written (Introduction, p xvii).

[Ref. 153 in J. P. Toomey, Records of Hanley Castle (Worcs. Hist. Soc. 2001) [q.v. for additional details])]
Date14 January 1459
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