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Agreement between Alice, late wife of John Waren' of Toneworth' and John Huggeford' esquire that whereas John Waren' late of Toneworth' and Alice his wife enfeoffed John Huggeford' esquire and others by a deed dated Thursday next after the feast of St. Lawrence the Martyr 3 Edward IV [11 August 1463] of their manor of Toneworth' with all messuages, gardens, lands, meadows, feedings, pastures, woods, waters, pools and commons, to hold the same in fee simple for ever, the said Alice, now a widow, agrees to make to the said John Huggeford' a lawful estate of the said manor of Toneworth' called Sydenhales manor with all lands lying between a brook called Haukeshawbroke on the one hand and Ilshawbroke on the other in breadth, and extending in length from the river Blythe to Ilshawheth', and a grove belonging to the said manor called Ilshawgrove, together with all rents and services belonging to the said manor, as devised by the learned counsel of the said John and at the cost of the said John; for which the said John agrees to grant the said Alice for the term of her life the annual rent of 4 marks from the said manor and lands, and also receive the rents and profits of the said manor and lands from this date to the feast of the Purification of Our Lady next [2 February]; the said John Huggeford' also agreed to pay the said Alice for the said estate the sum of £20, of which 10 marks was to be paid at this date, 5 marks on Midsummer Day next [24 June], 5 marks at Michaelmas next and 10 marks at the feast of the Purification next [2 February]. Dated, 23 Edward IV. Circular seal of red wax on tag, 3/4 in., a rabbit. Latin, parchment, 12 x 63/4 in., indented.