Guild of the Holy Cross: Grants and leases

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Grant by Richard Bragge, clerk, John Raynwell, alderman of London, Richard Neal, gent., and John Webbe of Stretford upon Auen, to John Abbot, mercer, and Ralph Say, grocer, citizens of London, of a tavern in which wine used to be sold in Stretford with all the shops solars and other buildings erected over it in Middelrowe, between a tenement of the Fraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Holy Cross of Stretford on the west and the highway on the north, east and south: which tavern they had of the gift and feoffment of Roger Forst Witnesses: John Sklatter, `capitalis ballivus', John Harapp' and William Stretford, `subballivi', Richard Lokyer, William Brasyer, John Kynges, William Lokyer and many others Dated at Stretford, 10 February, 20 Hen.VI With notarial signature: `Stodeley' Seals of red wax. (1) Lost. (2) Oval A bust of a man in profile to left. (3) A cusped triangle. Broken. (4) A crowned I between palm branches. The first tag is a fragment of .a deed from John Botiller of Buklond in the parish of Therfeld, co. Herts. and Alice his wife, late wife of William Marcheford, mercer of London, mentioning William Estfeld and John Olney, citizens mercers and aldermen of London