xx. shillings of sterlyngis be-fore handis in warison, and quytte hym of xxj. shillings ayenst Vynos Sapin, Iewe of Oxenford, in the whiche he was I-bound to hym in the same day that this charter was I-made, that is to sey, the monday next afore the fest of the appostels Petir and Paule, the yere of oure lord Ml CC xliiij, that is to sey, the forsaid Alisaundir acquyted hym of the forsaid money fully. And that this writyng shold be sure & cetera.
About 1240. Grant by Alexander of Swer|ford, to John son of Ralph Wotton, and to John's wife Juliana, of his lands. Quit-rent, a sparrow|hawk 'sowring.'
THE sentence of this charter is, that Alisaundir of Swereford tresorer of Seynt Powles of london, yaf, & cetera, to Iohn Wotton, sone and heire of Raf Wotton, his cosyn and Iulian the doughtir of William of Seynt Eweyne wyf of the forsaid Iohn, all his lond of karsynton with all theire pertynentis the which he had and held of the yifte and graunte of the forsaid Raaf. And also all the londis and tenementis that he had and held in the same towne of his owne getyng, as hit is conteyned in the charters more fully of [i.e. of the persons of whom he had.] them of the which he had the londes and the tenementis, the which [i.e. charters.] he delyuered to the forsaid Iohn and Iulian and to theire heires: to be had and to be hold, to the same Iohn and Iulian and to theire heires, [folio 77b] of hym and of his heires or assignes for ever who-so-ever they be, frely quyetly holy and fully, yeldyng therof euery yere to hym and to his heires or to his assignes who-so-ever they be, at london in his hous, a spere-hawke sowryng ['unum speruarium sorum.' Sorus = red, as a smoke-dried herring; 'sowring' = moulting for first time (Phillips's World of Words).] at lammas, for all seruyce and exaccioun, and doyng ther seruyce to the lordis of the feys and of tho tenementis, that tho londis ought to do and were woned to do, for hym and for his heires or his assignes for euer. And he and his heires or assignes shold warantiȝe to the same Iohn and Iulian and to theire heires all the forseid londis and tenementis, with all theire pertynentis, by the forsaid seruice of
