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Appendix 2 Archaeologica Cambrenisis vol II pp143-145
Agreement between Sir John Bluet Knt. And William Martell Temp. Edw.
I
Translated by Thomas Wakeman, 1847
In the year of the reign of King Edward, son of King Henry, one score
and five [1297] it was thus agreed between Sir John Bluet, knight and
William Martel, that is to say , that the said John Bluet acknowledges
for himself and his heirs to be bound to the aforesaid William Martel,
his esquire, for the life of the said William, in sixty pence of silver of
the good and lawful money, to be paid yearly and every year at the two
terms of Hockday [ie the second Tuesday after Easter week] and
Michaelmas, out of his manor of Langston, in Netherwent, that is to say,
out of the lands and tenements that Walter le Swon, John Fitz Thomas
Robert le Joevene, Ann le Swon and Alice Ketyng hold of him in the moor
of Langston, so that the aforesaid William, or his certain attorney, may
levy the said rent by distress upon the said tenements in whosoever
hands they may be, at their will and pleasure, without let or hindrance
from any one, and such distress securely keep till such time as the said
rent be duly paid; and also two Robes yearly of the value of twenty pence
from his chamber during the life of the said William, one at Christmas
and the other at Easter: and maintain the said William as long as he lives
in sufficient meat and drink as a gentleman ought to have, and his two
boys,[servants] and to find his two horses in hay and oats and shoes
during the life of the said William, that is to say half a bushel of oats
each. And for these advantages the said William Martel will serve the
said John Bluet well and faithfully as an esquire ought to do, in the wars
now waging between the King of England and the King of France; and also
in England, if war should break out there, which God forbid, and in
Wales, and in all other lands either on this side of the sea, or beyond
the sea, wherever the said John shall be (except the Holy Land;) and in
tournaments, in the time of peace, with a great war- horse which the
said John will find him, and good and suitable armour without any default
on his part; and for the greater security for the due performance of the
due performance of the covenants above written, the said John Bluet
binds himself and his heirs and executors, and all the lands and
tenements in England and Wales which he holds on the day of completion
of this writing, in whose hands soever they be in time to come; and also
that he may be constrained by the stewards or Marshals of our lord the
King of England or the bailiffs of the liberties of Caerleon, whosoever