Guild of the Holy Cross: Grants and leases

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Grant by William Gerbode, cousin and heir of William de Waspertone to John atte Lake of a messuage containing half a burgage in Stretford upon Auen in Reber Strete, between the tenements of Robert atte Brugge ende and Margery Wyht Witnesses: Adam de Styuynton', William Saucer, William de Clynton', Robert Wylmyn, Alan de Shotrythe, `prepositus de Stretford', John atte Cornere, William de Vtlycote and others Dated at Stretford upon Auen, Friday before the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary, 20 Edw.III Endorsed in a later hand, (8 Hen.IV ?), `Carta Alisie Suttun'. See BRT1/2/369 Seal circular, red wax. A figure in the attitude of prayer before the Virgin and Child (Engraved in Fisher's Antiquities, no.35. See also the seal to BRT1/2/184). The tag is a fragment of another deed mentioning Margery Wyht