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Cookes Family: Worcestershire title deeds - Gift with warranty
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Gift with warranty from William Geffrey of Bentley Pauncefote to Dom William Strynger, vicar of Tardebygge, and Richard Cokys, farmer of Shyltewod', of all his lands and tenements in Bentley and Tardebygg;
to hold for ever from the chief lords of the fee for due and customary service.
Dated at Benteley, Monday before the feast of St. John the Baptist, 34 Henry VI.
Witnesses: William of the Heeth, Richard Russhale, Simon atte Haye, Henry Wassell', John Style and others.
Circular seal of black wax on tag, 1/2 in., a merchant's mark.