Transcript of Deed of Gift; 5 Seal Casts and Seal matrix

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 ARL/29/1
  • Dates of Creation
      1852
  • Physical Description
      1 mem. [Plus 1 matrix (2 pieces) and 5 casts of seals.]

Scope and Content

Parties: (1) Geoffrey Warburton the elder; (2) Thomas Danyers the elder, and the heirs of his body.

Details: Transcript of grant by (1) to (2), of three acres of land in Appleton and Bradley, near the boundaries of High Legh. Transcript of original of 22 April 1347, made in 1852; note on dorse adds that the ms contains the earliest reference to Arley.

Witnesses: Thomas de Legh; Mat[thew] del Mere; William Danyers; William de Statham; Robert de Kendale, clerk, and others. Given at Arley the Sunday next before the feast of St Mark the Evangelist [25 April], 21 Edward III.