Feet of Fine

between

Richard de Braose & Alice his wife

and

William de Braose

15 November 1271

National Archives document
CP 25/1/283/17

Transcription and Translation
by
Paul Mackenzie

Translation

Sussex, Surrey and Wales

This is the final concord made in the court of the lord king at Westminster, fifteen days from St. Martins Day in the fifty sixth year of the reign of King Henry son of King John, before Martin Littlebry, Stephen Haym, Robert Fulcon, justices, and other subjects of the lord king present there at that time, between Richard de Breouse and Alice his wife, complainants, and William de Breouse, deforciant, through John de Lytton appointed in his place to win or lose, concerning the manor of Akenham with appurtenances and the advowson of the church of the same manor and the advowsons of the church of Cleydon and Hemmyngeston, whence a plea of contract was summoned between them in the same court, namely that the aforesaid William acknowledged the aforesaid manors and the advowsons of the aforesaid churches and appurtenances to be the right of this Alice and he remitted and quitclaimed for himself and his heirs to the aforesaid Richard and Alice and the heirs of this Alice in perpetuity. And for this acknowledgment, remission, quitclaim, fine and agreement, the same Richard acknowledges the manor of Brumlegh with appurtenances, Surrey, to be the right of the aforesaid William and Mary his wife, as that which this William and Mary held by gift of the aforesaid Richard and Alice, the same William and Mary and heirs whom the same William may procreate by the aforesaid Mary, to have and hold of the aforesaid Richard and Alice and the heirs of Alice in perpetuity, on payment per annum of a pair of white gloves worth one penny at Easter for all service, custom and exaction, and if it may happen the aforesaid William should die without heirs of himself procreated of Mary or if the heirs whom the same William procreated of Mary should die without heirs of themselves then the aforesaid manor of Brumlegh with appurtenances after the death of Mary will remain to the right heirs of William to hold of the aforesaid Richard and Alice and the heirs of Alice by the aforesaid service in perpetuity and the aforesaid Richard and Alice and the heirs of Alice warrant, acquit and defend the same William and Mary and the heirs of William aforesaid of the aforesaid manor of Brumlegh with appurtenances by the aforesaid services, against all men in perpetuity. And the aforesaid same Richard and Alice gave, granted and surrendered in the same court to William land with appurtenances in Landimore and Rossuly worth forty pounds and they remitted and quitclaimed for themselves and the heirs of Alice to the aforesaid William and his heirs in perpetuity. And let it be known that the earlier fine made between said William Richard and Alice of the aforesaid manor of Akenham with appurtenances, and advowsons of the aforesaid churches, and land and appurtenances worth forty pounds in Landimore and Rossuly, by this fine is completely annulled