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The gild of clothworkers whereof John Maurus is alderman owes 1 mark.
The gild whereof Odo the Watchman is alderman owes 1 mark.
The gild of Bridge whereof Thomas the Cook is alderman owes 1 mark.
The gild whereof Robert Rochefolet is alderman owes 1 mark.
The gild whereof Hugh Leo is alderman owes 1/2 mark.
The gild whereof William de Haverhill is alderman owes 10 marks.
The gild whereof Thedric Feltrarius is alderman owes 2 marks.
The gild of Bridge whereof Peter son of Alan was alderman owes 15 marks.
The gild whereof John the White is alderman owes 1 mark.
2. CHARTER OF LIBERTIES TO THE BOROUGH OF TEWKESBURY [_Charter Roll, 11
Edward III, m. 10, No.21_], 1314.
Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, to all whom the
present letters shall come, greeting. Whereas William and Robert,
sometime earls of Gloucester and Hertford,[152] our progenitors, of
famous memory, formerly granted and confirmed in turn for them and their
heirs by their charters to their burgesses of Tewkesbury and their heirs
and successors the liberties below written:
First, that the burgesses of the borough aforesaid should have and hold
their burgages in the borough aforesaid by free service, to wit, each of
them holding one burgage should have and hold it by the service of 12d.
a year to be rendered to the same earls, and if holding more should have
and hold each of them by the service of 12d. a year together with the
service of doing suit to the court of the same earls of the borough
aforesaid from three weeks to three weeks, for all service, so that
after the decease of any of the burgesses aforesaid, his heir or heirs
should enter the burgage or burgages aforesaid, of what age soever he or
they should be, to hold the same quit of relief or heriot.
And to the same burgesses, each of them, that they might sell, pledge or
loan to other burgesses their burgage or burgages aforesaid which they
had in the same borough by purchase, at their will, without any ransom
to be made, so that those burgesses to whom such burgages were sold,
pledged or loaned, should show the charters or writings which they had
thereof before the steward of the aforesaid earls in the court of the
borough.
And if any of them should hold half a burgage, he should hold it with
the same liberty with which tenants of a whole burgage should hold and
have the same, according to the quantity of his burgage.
And that no burgess of the borough aforesaid should by reason of a
burgage or half a burgage be in any wise tallaged or make ransom of
blood or be disturbed by reason of the sale of his horse, ox or other
his chattels whatsoever, but each of them should employ his merchandise
without challenge.
And to the same burgesses, that they might make their wills and lawfully
in their wills bequeath at their pleasure their chattels and burgages
which they should hold by purchase.
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