Lansdowne MS 415

folio.

The register or chartulary of the Monastery of Gerondon, or Geroldon, in the county of Leicester. It contains grants and charters from the time of Henry I. to Edw. III. concerning lands chiefly in the following places:-Aleby, fo. 10 b, & seq. 23 b, 31 b; Bernewang, fo. 10; Burton, fo. 7 & seq. 17 & seq. 22 & seq.

30; Cortingstock, fo. 5 & seq. 15 b, 16, 23, 27 b; Dixley, fo. 20 ; Estwell fo. 9; Goutely, fo, 9 b, 20 b; Haliwellhage or Haliwellhawe, fo. 25, 33 b; Melton, fo. 10; Rampeston, 6 b, 29; Ringolden or Ringoldcorp, fo. 4, 10, 20; Segheswald, fo. 19 b; Stanton, fo. 4 b, 14 b, 15, 27; Swinefen, fo. 26; Wollstonewell, 8 b; Wymundwold, 33 b; Ybestock, fo 4, 14, 20, 26. It also contains divers Popes bulls, charters of Kings Henry I. and II. and Stephen; Kings writts, agreements, and various other instruments. On the last leaf is an entry of pestilences in the years 1348, 1360, 1361, 1368, 1369, 1374, and 1375. A copy of the original grant or endowment of this monastery by Robert Bossu Earl of Leicester is in fo. 13, and not at the beginning, as stated in a very inaccurate note by Dr Ducarel, the latter being a charter from his son Robert avec les blanches mains. This register, which is fairly written on vellum, was in the possession of the Duke of Buckingham, A. D. 1680, and afterwards in the library of Mr. West.