OMNIBUS sanete matris ecclesie filijs hoc presens scrip tum visuris vel audituris, Alex. del Okenrod salutem in dño. Nouerit uniuersitas vestra me, diuine caritatis intuitu, dedisse, et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse ç salute anime mee et

* The pedigree of Gartside, of Gartside, Okenrod, and Rochdale, of small extent, was entered in the Collego of Arms at the last visitation of Lancashire in 1664, beginning with James Gartside, living, probably, soon after the year 1500. Arms, argent, on a bend sable, three mullets of the field, — now quartered by the Lord Delamere, the representative, by descent, of this respectable family.

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anteeessorum et successorum meorum Deo et beate Marie Abbati et conuentui Loci Benedicti de Stanlawe nouem denarios argenti firme annualis, quos Alex. de Brodbalgh mihi ad festum saneti Martini in hyeme annuatim reddere consueuit. Habend, et possidend. de me et heredib3 meis libere quiete pacifice et integre cum homagio, wardis, et releuijs et omnib3 alijs commoditatib3 ptinentib3 in puram et ppe- tuam elemosynam. Nichil inde reddendo mihi vel heredib3 meis preter elemosynas et orationes. Ego autem Alex. et heredes mei predictam donationem predictis Abbati et monachis de Stanlawe contra om- nes homines et feminas imppetuum warantizabimus et defendemus. Tactis etiam sacrosanetis euangelijs iuraui quod non queram artem vel ingenium unde prenominati Abbas et monachi predictam dona tionem amittant. Et ut hec donatio firma sit et inconeussa sigilli mei appositione et testib3 subnotatis eam confirmaui. Hijs testib3, dño J. vicario de Rachedale, Nich. de Wordul, Henr. de Haword, Rogero de Butterword, Willmo de Salebury, Nich. de Berdeshull, Willmo serviente de Milnehouses, et alijs.