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Identifying the key clauses of a medieval deed

The images below will help you to navigate your way through a typical medieval conveyance charter in order to locate the section most likely to contain field-names.

These resources should be used in conjunction with Figure 4 and Table 1 within the article "Preparing the ground: finding minor landscape names in medieval documents".

Although they replicate the images found within the article, you may wish to download them, so that you can enlarge the text. 

'dedi concessi et hac p[re]senti carta mea confirmaui Joh[ann]i Pekoc de Broml' Abb[at]is'

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[have given, granted and by this my present charter confirmed to John Pekoc of Bromley Abbots]

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'H[abe]nd[um] et tenend[um]…'

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[To have and to hold ...]

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'q[uo]d Ego Margareta Messager de Tunstall'

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[that I Margaret Messager of Tunstall]

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'tres acras t[er]re cu[m] p[er]tinenc[iis] suis in feodo de Broml' Bagot iacentes apud le gorstes iuxta le Breche int[er] t[er]ram d[omi]ni ex p[ar]te vna in latitudine et t[er]ram quondam Ade Wiyer et extendunt se sup[er] t[er]ra q[uo]nd[am] Rob[er]ti de

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[three acres of land with its appurtenances in the fee of Bagots Bromley, lying at le gorstes next to le Breche, between the lord's land on one side in width, and the land sometime belonging to Adam Wiyer, and extending onto the land sometime belonging to Robert of Tunstall]

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