NIUERSIS hoc scriptum inspecturis vel audituris, Radulphus filius dñi Radi le Boteler salutem in dño. Nouerit uniuersitas vestra me cartam Cristiane filie Ber- treye de Cestrie factam religiosis viris Abbati et conuentui Loci Benedicti de Stanl. inspexisse in hec verba. Omnib3 Cristi fidelib3, (<$-? . omnia ut supra in carta prox. precedente mq. ad finem.) Quam quidem cartam ego Rad. adeo ratam habeo acceptam et approbatam, quod eam presenti scripto sigillo meo signato duxi confirmand. Saluo mihi et heredib3 meis prenominato redditu quinq. solidorum et duorum denariorum annuatim in festo sancti Martini a nobis seu nostro certo attornato a dictis Abbate et conuentu et eorum successorib3 secundum tenorem carte predicte Cristiane pcipiend. Hiis testib3 dño Guncelino de Badelesmer* tunc Justic. Cestrie, dño Uriano de sancto Petro, dño

a port of considerable resort, and as a chief port had a jurisdiction extending from Barmouth in Merionethshire, along the coast, to the extremity of Lancashire. Even Liverpool was styled a creek of the port of Chester.

Mr. Pennant quotes a poem, a. d. 1430, which enumerates the Chester articles of commerce:

Hides and fish, salmon, hake, herringe,

Irish wool, and linnen cloth, faldinge

And marternes good to her merchandie,

Hertes hides and other of venerie,

Skinnes of otter, squirrel, and Irish hare,

Of sheepe, lambs, and foxes is her chañare,

Felles of kiddes and conies great plenty. * Gunceline de Badlesmere was excommunicated by the Archbishop of Canter bury, for his disloyalty to Henry III., but, on his return to allegiance, he was pardoned, and continued in his office of Justice of Chester until the year 1281. He engaged in the wars of Wales and Gascony, and dying in the year 1301, was succeeded by his son Bartholomew, who was summoned to Parliament as Baron Badlesmere, 26th October, 3 Edw. II.

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Waltero Cardun canonico saneti Johannis Cestrie, Philippo Clerico, Ran. de Deresbury tunc vie. eiusdem ciuitatis, Willo de Bunebury, Willo Bernard, Magistro Rob. de Sauthorp, et alijs.