OMNIBUS sanete matris ecclesie filijs ad quos presens scriptum puenerit, dñus Robertus de Rethom salutem. Sciatis me dedisse Deo et beate Marie et Abbati Loci Benedicti de Stanlawe monachis ibidem Deo seruientib3 unum mesuagium in villa de Warton,-f scilicet, in le Banchouse inter domum Ricardi filij Symonis et domum Amarici quondam tenentis, videlicet, de xxxiiij. pedum longitudine et viginti iiijor pedum latitu- dine, cum libero ingressu et libero exitu p aquam et p terram in puram et ppetuam elemosynam, p me et p animab3 patris mei et matris mee et p anima Matilde quondam uxoris mee, et ammab3 antecessorum meorum, libere, quiete, pacifice, honorifice. Ita quod ego dictus dñus Robertus et heredes mei nichil inde exigere poterimus, preter preces et orationes p predicta terra. Et ego dñus Robertus predictus et heredes mei predictam terram contra omnes homines et feminas imppetuum warantizabimus. Et ut hec mea donatio stabilis et rata pmaneat, huic scripto sigillum meum apposui. Hijs testib3, dño Willmo le Boteler, dño Ricardo le Boteler milite, Willmo de Syngel- ton, Henrico de Clifton, Willmo de Neuton, Gilberto de Meles,

* Thomas de Bethom, who probably was the grandfather of this grantor, accord ing to Nicholson's history of Westmoreland, married Amuria, daughter and coheir of Richard Fitz Roger, and, according to the Testa de Nevill, held a third part of a knight's fee in Warton, of the fee of the earl of Lincoln.

t Warton is a township on the banks of the Ribble, in the parish of Kirkham. The name Bankhouse still exists in the township.

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Waltero de Myrescogh, Eogero de Warton, Rogero Collan, Symone capellano, et alijs,