aforesaid, lying in breadth between Mersee water and nearer to the said water than any [other land] on the west, and land of the said Peter in the tenures of John Hardwar and John Hakynsall on the east, and extending in length from land of Geoffrey Sawer in the tenures of John Wilkynson and Henry Wodecok on the east, as far as the land of the said Peter in the tenure of Roger Holbroke on the south; which render to the said Peter yearly. with two days' service in autumn, worth four pence per annum.

RALPH SOTHURNE holds of the said Peter Legh one messuage with a garden lying in the aforesaid town of Weryngton in the said place called Pratte rowe [and] at the easterly corner of the [same place] and of the said market place, which messuage is situate in length between a messuage of the said Peter in the tenure of John Hakynsall on the north and the said easterly corner of the said market place on the south, and the aforesaid garden lies in breadth between the garden of the said John Hakynsall on the north and the aforesaid messuage of the said Peter in the tenure of the said John Dychefeld on the south, and extending in length from the said messuage in the tenure of the said Ralph on the east as far as the garden of the said Peter in the tenure of William Mulyngton on the west.

Also he holds one acre of land in Arpeley aforesaid lying beside the thorn in Arpeley, to wit, [on the side] nearest to the town of Weryngton, in breadth between an acre of the said Peter in the tenure of the said John Hakynsall on the north, (a certain biland divides the said acre in the tenure of the said Ralph, and an acre of the said Peter in the tenure of John Hakynsall, and land of Randle Ryxton in the tenure of Roger Hyndeley on the south,) and extending in length from land of the said Peter in the tenure of Richard Hardewar on the west, as far as the land supposed to be William Botiller's in the tenure of the wife of Roger Clerk the elder on the east.

Also he holds a half acre of land in Arpeley aforesaid lying in breadth between the said land supposed to be William Botiller's

in tenura dictæ uxoris Rogeri Clerk ex parte boreali et terram dicti Willielmi Botiller in tenura dictæ uxoris ex parte australi et extendit in longitudine a terra heredis Rogeri Arosmythe in tenura Johannis Twysse ex parte occidentali usque ad quandam acram terræ in tenura Willielmi Fletcher ex parte orientali.

Item tenet duas seliones in Arpeley prædicto jacentes in latitudine inter terram Ricardi Pasmethe in teuura Willielmi Hille ex parte occidentali et terram dicti Willielmi Botiller in tenura Willielmi Kyngeley ex parte orientali et extendit in longitudine a terra Johannis Birom in tenura Johannis Hardwar ex parte fere boreali et partim occidentali usque ad terram Willielmi Gerard de Ince in tenura Rogeri Clerk junioris ex parte fere australi et partim orientali.

Item tenet unam dimidiam acram terræ jacentem in loco dicto Arpeley vocato Weteakyrs in latitudine inter terram dicti Petri in tenura Johannis Hardwar ex parte orientali et terram dicti Willielmi Botiller in tenura dictae uxoris Hamundi Nayler ex parte occidentali et extendit in longitudine a terra dicti Willielmi Botiller in tenura dictæ uxoris Hamundi ex parte boreali usque ad terram dicti Willielmi Botiller in tenura Willielmi Barbor ex parte australi.

Item tenet aliam dimidiam acram terræ jacentem in dicto loco de Weteakyrs in latitudine inter terram dicti Willielmi Botiller in tenura Ricardi Wynyngton ex parte boreali et terram dicti Willielmi Botiller in tenura Willielmi Sporis et dictæ uxoris Hamundi Nayler ex parte australi et extendit in longitudine a terra dicti Petri in tenura Johannis Hardewar ex parte occidentali usque ad duas seliones dicti Petri in tenura dicti Ricardi Hardewar ex parte orientali.

Item tenet unum croftum continens duas acras terræ et dimidiam unius acræ cum sepibus et fossis inclusum jacens in latitudine inter terram dicti Petri in tenura Johannis Fulshaghe ex parte orientali et altam viam ducentem a villa de Weryngton usque ad campum de Arpeley ex parte occidentali et extendens in longitudine a via ducente a Weryngton versus Sonky ex parte

in the tenure of the said Roger Clerk's wife on the north, and land of the said William Botiller in the tenure of the said wife on the south, and extending in length from land of Roger Arosmythe's heir in the tenure of John Twysse on the west, as far as a certain acre of land in the tenure of William Fletcher on the east.

Also he holds two ridges of land in Arpeley aforesaid lying in breadth between land of Richard Pasmethe in the tenure of William Hille on the west and land of the said William Botiller in the tenure of William Kyngeley on the east, and extending in length from land of John Birom in the tenure of John Hardwar in part towards the north and in part towards the west, as far as the land of William Gerard of Ince in the tenure of Roger Clerk the younger in part towards the south and in part towards the east.

Also he holds one half acre of land lying in a part of Arpeley aforesaid called Weteakyrs, in breadth between land of the said Peter in the tenure of John Hardwar on the east and land of the said William Botiller in the tenure of the said wife of Hamund Nayler on the west, and extending in length from land of the said William Botiller in the tenure of the said Hamund's wife on the north, as far as the land of the said William Barbor on the south.

Also he holds another half acre of land lying in the said place called Weteakyrs, in breadth between land of the said William Botiller in the tenure of Richard Wynyngton on the north and land of the said William Botiller in the tenure of William Sporis and of the said wife of Hamund Nayler on the south, and extending in length from land of the said Peter in the tenure of John Hardewar on the west, as far as two ridges of land of the said Peter in the tenure of the said Richard Hardewar on the east.

Also he holds one croft containing two acres and a half of land inclosed with hedges and ditches, lying in breadth between land of the said Peter in the tenure of John Fulshagh on the east and the highway leading from the town of Weryngton as far as the Arpeley field on the west, and extending in length from a way leading from Weryngton to Sankey on the north, as far as land of Peter War

boreali usque ad terram Petri Werburton in tenura Henrici Garnet ex parte australi quæ omnia prædicta reddunt dicto Petro . cum servitio duorum dierum autumpnalium valent per annum quatuor denarios.

per annum

quæ

§ JOHANNES HAKYNSALL de Weryngton tenet de dicto Petro Legh unum messuagium cum orto adjacente in dicto loco vocato Pratte rowe cum orreo et gardino jacentia in latitudine inter regiam stratam quæ ducit a dicto foro de Weryngton versus Beawsee et Wynwhik ex parte orientali et gardinum dicti Petri in tenura dicti Willielmi Mulyngton ex parte occidentali et extendunt in longitudine a messuagio et gardino dicti Petri in tenura Radulphi Sothurne ex parte australi usque ad gardinum dicti Petri in tenura dicti Johannis Dychefeld ex parte boreali.

Item tenet unam acram terræ in campo vocato Cocage cum sepibus et fossis inclusam jacentem in latitudine inter campum Ranulphi de Rixton in tenura Willielmi Kyngeley2 ex parte boreali et campum dicti Willielmi Botiller in tenura Radulphi Kellurmargh ex parte australi et extendentem in longitudine a terra Mariæ nuper uxoris Hamundi Assheton ex parte occidentali usque ad certa burgagia . ...in tenura Thomæ Balfrunte ex parte orientali et in parte occidentali prædictæ acræ dicti Petri in tenura dicti Johannis Hakynsall est quadam via3 ducta per duodecim juratores quia invenitur per dictos duodecim quod dicta acra dicti Petri non fecit burgagium in antiquo tempore neque moderno &c.

Item tenet duas acras terræ in quadam parva haia cum sepibus et fossis inclusa et vulgariter nuncupata le Crymbull jacentes inter

1 Ante page 46.

2 We meet with two William de Kyghleys, probably of this family, amongst the warriors at Agincourt, and "Monsieur Richard Kyghley" was then in the retinue of Sir William Butler. (Nicholas's Agincourt, pp. 353, 357.) In the introduction to this work, where Richard Kyghley is mentioned, his name is spelt as in the Agincourt roll.

3 One portion of the footway over Cockhedge, which the public at this day enjoy,

burton in the tenure of Henry Garnet on the south; all which aforesaid premises render unto the said Peter yearly with two days' service in autumn, worth four pence a year.

....

JOHN HAKYNSALL of Weryngton holds of the said Peter Legh one messuage with a garden adjoining in the said place called Pratte rowe, with a barn and garden lying in breadth between the king's [highway or] street which leads from the said market place of Weryngton towards Beawsee and Wynwhick on the east and a garden of the said Peter in the tenure of the said William Mulyngton on the west, and extending in length from a messuage and garden of the said Peter in the tenure of Ralph Sothurne on the south, as far as the garden of the said Peter in the tenure of the said John Dychefeld on the north.

Also he holds one acre of land in a field called Cocage inclosed with hedges and ditches, lying in breadth between a field of Randle de Rixton in the tenure of William Kyngeley on the north and a field of the said William Botiller in the tenure of Ralph Kellurmargh on the south, and extending in length from land of Mary late the wife of Hamund Assheton on the west as far as certain burgages .. in the tenure of Thomas Balfrunte on the east; and on the western side of the aforesaid acre of the said Peter in the tenure of the said John Hakynsall a certain way has been made by the twelve jurors, because it is found not to have been a burgage either heretofore or now &c.

....

Also he holds two acres of land within a certain small enclosure enclosed with hedges and ditches, and commonly called le Crym

seems to be owing to this spirited resistance of our forefathers against an incroachment on their rights. The interference here, to his honour so faithfully recorded by the Legh chronicler, has probably been the means of preserving to us that portion of the road over Cockhedge, which crosses the field lately rented from Thomas Legh, esquire, as a depository for the street sweepings and paving stones.

4 The term burgage is here applied with reference to the exercise of some privilege to be exercised in the manor court; and the twelve men who are here found asserting the public right by drawing "a ploughshare" across the site of the assumed burgage, were no doubt the jury of the court baron.