A Feudal Charter (from family pipe roll) quot;Henry, king of the English greets the bishop of Lincoln and earl David and the earl of Leicester and...

A Feudal Charter

(from family pipe roll)

“Henry, king of the English greets the bishop of Lincoln and earl

David and the earl of Leicester and earl Rannulf of Chester and all

the barons and lords of whom Geoffrey Ridel held lands, and all the

sheriffs within whose jurisdiction he held them. Know that I have

given to Richard Basset the daughter of Geoffrey Ridel to wife, and

the custody of Geoffrey Ride’s land until Robert Ridel can be a

knight and marry the granddaughter of Ralf Basset, namely the

daughter of one of his daughters. Thereupon, the aforesaid Richard

shall have twenty librarae of land of my fee in demesne in marriage

with his wife, and four enfeoffed knights, and if Robert shall die

without heir by his wife, I grant to Richard Basset and the heir

whom he shall have by the daughter of the aforesaid Geofrey the

whole land of Goefrey Ridel, of whomsoever he held it. And if

the daughters of Geoffrey Ridel shall not be married during the life

of Robert their brother or while under the wardship of Richard

Basset, he shall provide for them according to my advice and dis-

cretion. And this gift and compact have been made at the request

and with the advice of Rannulf earl of Chester and William his

brother and Nigel de Albini and (Robert Ridel’s) other kin and

Geva his mother and Geoffrey the earl’s chancellor and Simon dean

of Lincoln and William son of Rannulf and Thomas de St. John

and Geoffrey de Clinton and Pain fitz John and William de Albini

and Umfrey de Rohun and Robert Musard and Robert Basset and

Osmund Basset and Turstin Basset and William constable of earl

Rannulf of Chester and Ralf fitz Norman and Hugh Maubane, at Woodstock

taken from:

The Feudalism of the Norman Settlement by D.M. Stenton