THE LIFE AND ACTS OF JOHN WHITGIFT, D. D. THE THIRD AND LAST LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. The whole digested, compiled, and attested from Records, Registers, DD45 148,1 AN APPENDIX то THE LIFE AND ACTS OF JOHN WHITGIFT, D. D. CONTAINING Records, Letters, and other Original Writings, referred to in the foregoing History. AN APPENDIX &c. BOOK I. 3 Number I. rium San nuper penes Biblioth. D. et Mortim. A charter of lands in Staynburn in the East Riding of Yorkshire; granted to the Abbot and Convent of St. Mary's in York, by John Fitz Adam de Whitgift. SCIANT omnes, tam præsentes quàm futuri, quod ego Chap. i. Johan. fil. Adæ de Whitgift, dedi, concessi, reddidi, et hoc Chartulapræsenti scripto meo confirmavi religiosis viris dominis ctæ Mariæ meis, Johanni de Gilling, Abbati monasterii beatæ Mariæ de Ebor. Ebor. et ejusdem loci conventui, quinque tofta et quatuor me: nunc in bovatas terræ, cum omnibus suis pertinentiis in villa de Roberti coStainburne, quæ de feod. dictorum Abbatis et conventus, mit. Oxon. dominorum meorum, sine ullo retinemento michi et hæredibus meis. habend. et tenend. eisdem dominis Abbati et conventui, et successoribus suis in perpetuum, libere et quiete, benè et in pace cum-pastura et cum omnibus libertatibus et-proficuis, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis, ad predicta tofta et quatuor bovatas terræ infra villam de Staynburn; et extra, qualitercunque pertinentibus, ab omni servitio seculari, exactione et demanda, michi et heredibus meis pertinent. faciendo inde capitalibus dominis feod. servitia, inde debita et consueta. Et ego vero Johannes fil. Adæ predictus et heredes mei predicta quinque tofta, et quatuor bovatas terræ, cum omnibus suis pertinentiis, ut predictum est, predictis dominis, Abbati et conventui, et successoribus suis dominis meis, contra omnes gentes warrantizabimus, adquietabimus, et in perpetuum defendemus. In cujus rei testimonium presenti scri |