Grant

Scope and Content

Grant from Ranulf II, Earl of Chester, to Alan Silvester of Storeton and Puddington. 'R[anulphus] Comes Cestr' Constabulario et dapifero et omnibus baronibus suis et hominibus et amicis francis et anglis et Walensibus salutem. Sciatis me dedisse et concessisse Alano Silvestri meo homini et ministro stortunam et puditan in feudo et hereditate sibi et suis heredibus pro suo seruicio scilicet pro dimidio milite, et volo et precipio quod supradictas villas habeat et teneat cum omnibus adiacentibus in bosco et in plano et utrique libere et honorifice et quiete. T. Willelmo de Romara, Willelmo de p[er]ci, Ricardo de haia, Willelmo constabloe [?Constabulario], W. Monaco, Roberto greuesac, Roberto de treueres, Serlone Venatore, Willelmo meschin de romara, Gaufrido dispensatore, Berigo [Beringario] falcunario, Rogero de uerdun', Spilemanno camerario, Ricardo pincerna, Philippo camerario, Adam de praheres, Hugone filio Anschetil, Roberto filio Walteri, Willelmo pincerna, Johanne clerico qui hanc cartam fecit ad cestriam precepto comitis.'

Bibliography

Edited, with a full transcript and detailed commentary, by Geoffrey Barraclough in The charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c.1071-1237, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. 126 (1988), pp. 50-51 (charter no. 35). See also R. Stewart-Brown, 'The charter (with facsimile, transcription and translation) and horn of the Master Forester of the Wirral', Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. 87 (1936).