Grant by John Adames, vicar of Alberbury, and John Heye, chaplain, to Alice, the relict of John de Eyton, of lands in Vennington and Whitton [Shropshire], 1412

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We John Adames, vicar of the parish church of Alburbury, and John Heye, chaplain, have granted to Alice, the relict of John de Eyton', all the lands and tenements, rents and services which we have in the vills and fields of Fenyton' and Wytton', which we had of the gift and feoffment of the same Alice, to hold to Alice for her life of the chief lords, and after the decease of Alice they are to remain to Roger Cleoton' and Joan, his wife, to hold to them and the heirs of their bodies, and if it happens that they die without heirs of their bodies they are to remain to Eleanor, the wife of William Pusselowe, to hold to Eleanor for her life, and after her decease they are to remain to Margaret, daughter of the same Eleanor, to hold to Margaret and the heirs of her body, and if it happens that Margaret dies without heirs of her body they are to remain to the next [heirs] of the aforesaid Alice and their heirs for ever. We and our heirs shall warrant and defend all the lands and tenements [etc]. In witness whereof we have put our seals to this charter.
Witnesses: John Wytton', John Corbet of Stanford, Thomas Corbet of Lye, William Bromshulfe, William Spenc[er] and others.
Given at Fenyton' on Tuesday in the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross, 13 Henry IV [3 May 1412].

[Vennington and Whitton were in the parish of Westbury, in Shropshire.]

[I am grateful to Jim Poynor for kindly providing the photographs of this document]