OMNIBUS Cristi fidelib3 has literas visuris vel audituris, Warinus de Hanewall salutem in dño. Nouerit uniuersitas vestra me dédisse et concessisse et hac presenti carta mea con-

* The barony of Wyco Malbank, or Nantwich, descended to William Malbank, who was the last of the Norman barons of Wych Malbank in the male line. He left three daughters and coheiresses, Philippa, Eleanor, and Alda, between whom the barony was divided,

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firmasse Deo et beate Marie et dño Abbati et conuentui Loci Benedicti de Stanlawe p salute anime mec et Alicie uxoris mee et p salute animarum patris et matris mee et omnium antecessorum et successo- rum meorum totam terram meam in Wyco Malbanc in longitudine et latitudine, quam dederunt mihi imppetuum hereditarie p cartam suam dñus Warinus de Vernon et dña Alda de Maubanc uxor eins. Que quidem terra iacet inter terram Ricardi de Hanewell fratris mei et inter terram quam Willmus Wodebrid tenet de feudo dñi Ade Muscel in Wyco Maubanc. Tenendam et habendam eisdem dño Abbati et conuentui imppetuum cum omтb3 edifieijs in eadem terra positis vel ponendis, libere, et quiete, bene, integre, et in pace, cum ommb3 ptinentijs libertatib3 et aisiamentis ad dictam terram ptinen- tib3 in omnib3 put carta purportat quam habeo de dictis dñis Warino de Vernon et dña Alda Maubanc uxore eius de eadem terra. Red-

1. Philipps married Thomas, Lord Basset of Hedrington, and had also three

daughters and coheiresses,

1. Philippa, married Henry, Earl of Warwick.

2. Joanna, married Reginald de Valletort.

3. Alice, married John, Lord Bisset. 5 H. III.

2. Eleanor, died unmarried, but granted her share to Henry Aldithelea, and at

the inquisition 16 Edward I. this share was found to be vested in James de Audley.

3. Alda, married Warin de Vernon, baron of Shipbrook, temp. John, and had

issue,

1. Warin, married Margaret, daughter and heir of Ralph do Audevillo.

He left a son, who died s.p., and three coheiresses.

2. Ralph, rector of Hanwell. On the death of his nephew, the son

of Warin de Vernon, he entered on the barony, and retained possession against his nieces; but an arrangement was made whereby they had one moiety of the barony and the manor of Leftwich, and he retained the other moiety with the capital manor of Shipbrook, which he settled on his illegitimate son, Ralph Vernon, the grantor of No. 14.

3. Matthew, had Brickull in Buckinghamshire.

4. Nicholas, ancestor of the Venions of Whatcroft.

5. Richard,

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dendo inde annuatim dño capitali dicte terre de dicto Abbate et con- uentu duodecim denarios ad Natalem dñi, et xij. denarios ad natiuitatem beati Joh. Bapte p omni seruicio et demanda et exactione quacunque. Ita, scilicet, quod nec ego Warinus nec heredes mei nec aliquis p me vel p heredib3 meis aliquid de cetero a predictis dño Abbate et conuentu p predicta terra exigere poterimus vel vendi- care, nisi preces et orationes. Ego vero dictus Warinus et heredes mei dictam terram, sicut predictum est, prenominatis Abbati et con- uentui contra omnes homines et feminas imppetuum warantizabimus. Et ad maiorem securitatem et firmitatem optinendam hoc scriptum sigilli mei munimine roboraui. Hijs testib3, dño T. de Crue, Willmo de Wystoneston, Rogero de Henul, Ricardo Knoilyn, Roberto de Hextal, Ranulpho de Oldenton, Willmo Daukyn, et alijs.