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[[[[westch353. Grant in pure and perpetual alms by William de Camera and Eluva Lombard his wife to St Peter and the convent of Westminster, for their souls, and those of their ancestors and successors, of the land which they bought from Hawise daughter of Rumin, lying between the wharf of Godard le Tanner and the land of Ralf the shipwright, with buildings and a wharf and other appurtenances. [c. 1191 x ante 21 April 1196]
Willelmus de Camera and Eluva Lumbard' uxor eius omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quorum notitiam presens scriptum pervenerit, salutem. Noven t universitas yestra nos, pro salute animarum nostrarum et omnium antecessorum et successorum nostrorum, dedisse et concessisse et presenti carta confirmasse Deo et Beato Petro apostolorum principi et conventui Westmonasterii terram nostram quam emimus de Hawisa flu a Rumin, videlicet: illam que iacet inter sharvam Godardi le Tannur et terram Radulfi qui facit naves, cum edificiis et cum sharva et cum omnibus ad eandem terram pertinentibus, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam, liberam et absolutam, ab omni exactione seculari. Nos et heredes nostri prefatam terram warantizabimus et adquietabimus prefato conventui versus omnes homines inperpetuum. Hiis testibus: Henrico, maiore London'; Rogero Duc[et]; Rogero filio Alani; Willelmo de Haverhell; Magistro Ern[ulfo]; Theob[aldo] senescallo; Jord[ano] Esperlenos; Magistro Simone de Bareswic; Henrico Sumer; Jacobo hostiario; Ricardo janitore; Eustachio pincerna; Roberto marescallo ; Gerardo coco; Willelmo Albo, presbitero, et pluribus aliis.
MS: WAD, f. 486.
Rubric: Carta Willelmi de Camera et Eluve uxoris sue de terra quam emerunt de Hawisa flu a Rumin apud sharvam Godardi.
Date: Theobald of Feering as seneschal (of Abbot William Postard). William and the convent subsequently demised this land to Alfwin the dyer, c. 21 April 1196 (307); cf. 308. |