Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ...dedit, concessit Henrici filii sui, concedo. Has omnes terras, et ecclesias, cum terris, qua; iis adjacent, concedo iis solutas et quietas ab omni geldo et omnibus consuetndinibus praeter geldum Regis, videlicet Danegeldum. Hiis testibus Turstino, Archiepiscopo; Alano de Perci; Eustachio filio Jobannis; Jordano Pagnel; Willielmo constabulario: Lamberto constabulario; Willielmo de Mundavilla, Radulpho de Novavilla, Willielmo de Perci, Radulpho de Grendala, et Radulpho filio ejus, Gocelino Buch, Malgero de Erghom, Wimundo capellano, Richardo pincerna, et Girardo fratre ejus, Roberto de Ropesle, Waltero de Calce; et superaddo etiam eis ecclesiam de Elthesdona cum eadem libertate, quam in supra dictis ecclesiis habent." In a note to Tanner's Notitia it is remarked that this charter does not seem so much the charter of an original foundation as a grant to a monastery already existing. We have already noticed the probability of a Nunnery, or some other religious establishment existing at Bridlington, prior to the Conquest, and this conjecture derives additional force from the following remarks extracted from a very ancient pedigree, in Latin, probably the work of some monk, relating to the families of the Euros and Vescys, and now in the possession of Sir William Strickland of Boynton, Bart. This ancient record contains the line of English kings, from William the Conqueror downwards; Henry VI. being the last whose name occurs. He succeeded to the crown, A.D. 1422, and the birth of his son Edward, A.D. 1453, is the latest date mentioned. At the top of the pedigree the five following personages are placed as contemporaries, with a rudely painted likeness of each in a circular border, and their respective armorial bearings. 1. William the...
