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Reference Number705:134 BA1531/77/58
Hierarchy Browser NumberP1531/1/77/58
TitleCharter of Richard Lechmere gentleman
DescriptionGiving to William Frewen and John Suffeld all the messuages, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures and pasture rights, customary (consuet') rents and services, which he holds or which anybody else holds for his use in the lordship of Hanley, otherwise called Hanley Castle, county Worcester (Wigorn'), except one tenement which his father Thomas Lechmere got from Roger Churchey in Hanley and another parcel of land and meadow which Richard himself recently got from Roger Lechmere in the said lordship; to be held with appurtenances to William and John, their heirs and assigns, in perpetuity, of the chief lord of the fee by the services formerly due from the property and lawfully accustomed. Warranty clause. Sealing clause.
Signed : Rychard Lechmare.
Witnesses(on dorse) : Richard Berd esquire, Thomas Rock, William Pynnock gentleman, Lawrence Ludlow, William Cox and others.
Dated at : [no place given].

1. The signature of Richard Lechmere validating suggests that it was the copy given to William Frewen and John Suffeld. Charters making grants were not usually chirographed, unlike leases.

[Ref. 305 in J. P. Toomey, Records of Hanley Castle (Worcs. Hist. Soc. 2001) [q.v. for additional details])]
Date14 August 1541
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