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tempore future super tota dicta terra vel aliqua sui parte inquietabit vel molestabit coram aliquo judice ; Quos si inquietaverimus contra dictam meam promissionem, concessi pro me heredibus et assignatis meis, ad simplicem denunciacionem dicti Ricardi heredum vel assignatorum suorum, sine juramento vel alia probacione eorundem, et sine aliqua vocacione mihi heredibus vel assignatis meis facienda, et sine aliquo strepitu judiciali, quod Decanus Bristolli, qui pro tempore fuerit, nos omnes et singulos nostrum publice et soUempniter candelis accensis et pulsatis campanis in omnibus ecclesiis Bristolli excommunicari faciat, et denunciari ut excommunicatos ab omnibus arctius evitandis donee a dicta inquietacione cessaverimus, una cum omnibus dampnis et expensis dicto Ricardo heredibus vel assignatis suis, quas occasione ejusdem inquietacionis fecerint, a me heredibus vel assig- natos meis refundendis ; quas simplici verbo dicti Ricardi heredum vel assig- natorum suorum concessi declai-ari : Et subjeci me heredes et assignatos meos sponte et pure jurisdictioni et cohercioni dicti Decani ubicunque fuerimus ad dictam excommunicacionem in personas nostras fulminandara cum opus fuerit : Et ne contra predictas promissionem et stipulacionem venire presumamus, affidavi in manus dominorum Gilberti tunc Decani Bristolli et Stephani de Gnohussalo tunc Vicarii Ecclesie omnium Sanc- torum Bristolli, qui una cum sigillo meo presenti scripto sigilla sua apposuerunt. Actum Anno gratie M°. CC°. L°. quarto circa festum Sancti Eadmundi Regis. Hiis testibus Paulo de Corderia, Martino de Corderia", Roberto Pikard, Adamo Snel, Waltero de Monte, Reginaldo Golde, Willielmo Halye, Johanne de Templo et aliis." L.S. L.S. L.S. The seal of Hawisia, ^vliicli is the middle one, is a pointed ellipse, and upon it the device of a flaming star (or a star with wavy rays) above a crescent, and round it S' D^WISSIG D e. The letters between D and the final G are broken off. The last letter is certainly 6, though I suppose that De WYGORNL^ was intendeds On the seal of the • Corderia, a ropery. The business of justiciaries, and in 1213 to Rome on busi- rope-making must have been of sonic im- ncss with the pope, and was a witness to portance in a maritime town like IJristol. tlie charter granted by Jolni in the seven- •> I have not been able to lind any of tcenth year of his reign to the city of these witnesses mentioned elsewhere ; hut Dublin ; also a William de Wygornia, the names of Halye, Golde, and Snel occur called " Magister Willielmus de Wy- at diHerent times in the thirteenth and gornia," who was one of the two persons fourteenth centuries among the proposi- named in the letters of Henry the Third in tors and bailifl's of Bristol. A William 1265, for annulling the grant of the trea- de Ilalyes, who was a propositor in 1 229, surership of York made to Almeric de may have been the witness William Halye. IMontfort while the king was a prisoner in
- ■' I have not been able to discover any the hands of the earl of Leicester, Alme-
thing certain of this lady or of Peter de ric's father. This William was, I think, Wygornia her husband in addition to what the nephew of Phillip ; but I have not been this document furnishes. Rymer men- able to trace any connexion between either tions a Phillip de Wygornia who was in of them, and Peter or Hawisia ; it is never- the service of King John, and sent l)y iiiiii theless worthy of notice, that the device in 1208 to Ireland associated with two on the seal of Hawisia closely resembles a