CI A N T omnes presentes et futuri quod ego Hugo Dis pensarius dedi et concessi et hac mea presenti carta confir- maui Deo et beate Marie et Abbati et monachis Loci Benedicti de Stanlawe totam villam de Wynlaton cum omnib3 ptinentijs et libertatib3 suis et communib3 predicte ville adiacentib3 in bosco, in plano, in pratis, in pascuis, in vijs, in semitis, in viuarijs, in aquis, in stagnis, in molendinis, in assartis, in terra arabili et non arabili, in villa et extra villam, et in ommb3 locis cum ommb3 aisia- mentis que ibi sunt vel fieri possunt, libere, quiete, pacifice, et integre sine ullo retenemento mei vel heredum meorum. Habendam et tenendam de me et heredib3 meis imppetuum, in quietam et ppetuam elemosynam, sicut ulla elemosyna liberius vel quietius dari potest vel recipi, preter decem solidos monialib3 Cestrie a predicto Abbate et

* Wynlaton, or Willington, or Willaton, is in the hundred of Edisbury, in Cheshire. At Domesday it was held by Walter de Vernon, of the Earls of Chester, by whom it was afterwards resumed, and held in moieties by the families of Staple- ford and D'espencer. The manor continued part of the possessions of the abbey till the dissolution, and was then vested in the Leghs of Booths. The township claims to bo extra-parochial, but the impropriator of the adjoining parish of Tarvin has the corn tithes of part of the township, but it does not pay small tithes or church dues. — Ormerod. It is curious, however, that the township was stated in the early population returns to be in the parish of Whalley.

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monachis Loci Benedicti de Stanlawe in die natiuitatis saneti Johannis Bapte annuatim reddendos. Hanc autem predictam villam de Wynlaton cum omnib3 ptinentijs et libertatib3 suis dedi prenomi- nato Abbati et monachis Loci Benedicti de Stanlawe in excambium carucate terre de Bamford et molendini de Parco et medietatis molendini de Swyneford in Barue, que ffrater meus Thomas Dispen sarius* dedit illis in puram elemosynam cum corpore suo. Ego vero et heredes mei prenominatam villam cum omnib3 ptinentijs et liber- tatib3 suis, sicut carte Henrici fratris mei testantur, sepedicto Abbati et monachis Loci Benedicti de Stanlawe contra omnes homines fideliter warantizabimus et defendemus. Et predictum Abbatem et monachos Loci Benedicti de Stanlawe versus Willmum filium Hen rici et heredes suos de duob3 calcarib3 vel de duob3 denarijs in die nativitatis saneti Joh. Bapte annuatim acquietabimus. Et ut hoc meum donum ratum, firmum, et stabile imppetuum preseruet presen ten! cartam mei sigilli appositione confirmaui. Hijs testib3, Philippo de Horreby tunc temporis Justiciario dñi Comitis Cestrie, Rogero Senesc. de Mohaut, Warino de Vernon, Willmo de Venables, Petro clerico dñi Comitis Cestrie, Hugone de Dutton, Ricardo de Kynges- ley, Joscerano de Hellesby, Willmo de Walton, Rogero de Pull, Riderico de Baroue, et multis alijs.