OMNIBUS Cristi fidelib3 hoc scriptum visuris vel audi- turis, Willmus filius Alexandri de Brodhalgh salutem in dño sempiternam. Nouerit uniuersitas vestra me concessisse, dimisisse et omnino a me et heredib3 meis imppetuum quietuclamasse dño Abbati et conuentui Loci Benedicti de Stanlawe dño meo totum ius et clameum quod habui vel aliquo modo habere potui in villa de

* Robert, son of Roger de Midleton, gave all his lands in the town of Midleton to Roger de Midleton, "domino meo," 24 Edward I., and in 10 Edward III. Roger de Midleton and Agnes his wife levied a fine of two-thirds of the manor of Midleton and the advowson of the church, and settled the same on their six daughters, one of whom married Thomas Barton of Rydale, and had a son, William Barton, on whom his father settled the manor and advowson of Middleton on his marriage with Isabella, daughter of William de Radeclyffe, 44 Edward II. — Asshelon Evid. vol. xiv. Lane. MSS. p. 57.

t Broadhalgh is a hamlet adjoining Chadwick. Tho word halgh is a Lancashire Saxon guttural, probably from how, a hill.

622 2Ttatlue be fñexlonb et CTaeteltott.

Chadewyk, videlicet, in tota terra de le Brodhalgh cum omтb3 suis ptinentijs quam de ipso tenui in feodo, et etiam homagium Ricàrdi Wynt et heredum suorum, scilicet, seruicium eiusdem iij. denariorum annualis redditus in festum sancti Martini in hyeme recipiend. Ita quod nec ego predictus W. nec heredes mei, nec aliquis alius iure nostro seu nomine nostro aliquod ius vel clameum in dicta terra cum suis ptinentijs seu in homagio et seruicio trium denariorum, sicut dictum est, versus dictum Abbatem et conuentum vel assignatos eorum de cetero exigere vel vendicare poterimus. In cuius rei testi monium huic scripte sigillum meum apposui. Hijs testib3, Willmo de Salebury, Nich. de Berdeshull, Ada de Liuesay, Willmo de Haword, Willmo de Liuesay, et alijs.