OMNIBUS sanete matris ecclesie filijs ad quos presens scriptum puenerit, ffrater Rogerus tunc prior hospital is saneti Johannis* Cestrie extra portam aquilonalem et fratres ibidem Deo serui entes salutem in dño. Nouerit uniuersitas vestra nos communi consilio et consensu capituli nostri dedisse, concessisse, et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse Willmo de Bacford filio psone Ade et heredib3 suis terram nostram quam habemus de dono dñi Ade de Gerstan, p homagio et seruicio suo, scilicet, mesuagium Edrici filij Auel, et croftam eidem mesuagio ptinentem, et unam croftam in qua sunt quinq. saltus, qui tendunt usque ad pratum dñi, et medietatem unius piscary, quod est inter piscarium Roberti filij

* The hospital of St. John the Baptist, without the North Gate, was founded by Randle, duke of Britany and earl of Chester and Richmond, in honour of God, the Virgin, and St. John the Baptist, "for the sustentation of poore and sillie per sons, and granted in pure and perpetual almes," and was confirmed by Henry III. And Edward I., when earl of Chester, gave the keeping of the said hospital to the prior of Birkenhead, In the list of priors extracted from Stowe's MSS., Roger de Beirstan occurs temp. 40 Ilenry III.

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Thurstani et piscarium Thurbe. Tenendam et habendam de predicta domo et priore et fratrib3, libere et quiete, et honorifice, cum communi pastura et aisiamentis omтb3 eidem ville ptinentib3. Reddendo inde annuatim predicte domui et fratrib3 xij. denarios argenti ad festum sancti Martini in hyeme p omni seruicio et exactione quacunque. Et quia volumus ut ista donatio nostra et concessio rata et inconcussa pmaneat, eam sigilli nostri appositione roboraui, et istam predictam terram predicto Willmo et heredib3 suis contra omnes homines et feminas warantizabimus. Hijs testib3, Ada de Gerstan, Ada de Aynolnesdale, Alano de Mosse, Ricardo de Lyuerpul, Henrico de Thorneton, Ricardo de Bickerstath, Ada clerico de Bacford, et multis alijs.