^^^^^O Hibernie salutem. Noueritis me diuini amoris obtentu, et ç salute anime mee et p animab3 antecessorum et successorum mcorum dedisse concessisse et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse Deo et beate Marie et Abbati et monachis de Stanlawe, quod dicti Abbas et monachi appropriant maram meam de Merton, et faciaut stagnum, et ducant aquam dicte mare usque ad molendinum suum de Steyning, sicut fuit die quo ipsum claudi fecimus et obtrudi. Habend, et tenend. in pu ram et ppetuam elemosynam. Ita tamen quod piscis meus dicte mare non exeat nee depereat per dictam appropriationem et dictum stagnum. Et ut hec mea donatio, concessio, et confirmatio rate et inconcusse pmaneant, presentem paginam sigilli mei impres- sione roboraui. Hijs testib3, Petro de Buryngeh, Hug. Purcell, Willmo filio Hugonis, Ricardo de Salesbur, Jacobo de Birkya, Roberto de Lathom, Hamone Noch, Joh de Hakeford clerico, qui hanc cartam scripsit, et multis alijs.

John, alive 20 Henry VI. Robert, and

Elizabeth, who, about 1402, had a dispensation to enable her to marry Richard le Botiller de Kirkland, related to her in the fourth degree of consanguinity.

The arms borne by the Butlers of Rawcliffe were a chevron between three covered cups. In the coat of Butler of Merton the chevron was charged with three estoiles of six points. The crest of the latter family (which was afterwards used by the Crofts of Dalton, who quartered their anus) was a man kneeling on one knee, and presenting with the right hand a covered cup. On seals of the Rawcliffe Butlers a covered cup appears to be used as a crest.

* See ante, p. 417.

NIUERSIS sanete matris ecclesie filijs ad quos pre- sens scriptum puenerit, Theobaldus Walteri Pincerna*

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