Provisional indenture and feoffment by William & Alicia Stamyndene of John Lynton & others [28 March 1375]

This indenture testifies that whereas William Stamyndene, citizen and goldsmith of London, and his wife Alice have enfeoffed John Lynton, rector of the church of St Vedast’s in London, John Adam and Thomas Polle, goldsmiths of the aforesaid city, with all the lands, rents and tenements with all their appurtenances which the same William and Alice have by right of the same Alice in the parishes of St Vedast, St Mary Colechurch, St Mary Aldermary and All Hallows Bread Street in the city of London, to have and to hold for themselves and their heirs and assigns, as is set out more fully in a deed drawn up concerning this. However, the wish of the aforesaid William and Alice and the condition of the feoffment is this, that if the said Alice shall regain her health from the illness in which she is living on the day this present deed is being drawn up, then the aforesaid John, John, and Thomas shall re-enfeoff the aforesaid Alice with all the lands, rents and tenements aforesaid, except for two tenements, i.e. one in the parish of St Vedast in which the same William and Alice are now vested, and the other a tenement in the parish of St Mary Colechurch and a mark’s worth of annual free quit-rent coming from the tenement of Thomas Flete, goldbeater, in the aforesaid parish of St Vedast, to have and to hold by the aforesaid Alice and her heirs and assigns, by reasonable advance notice whenever they shall be required to do this by the aforesaid William and Alice. And they shall also re-enfeoff the aforesaid William and Alice with the aforesaid two tenements in the said parishes of St Vedast and St Mary Colechurch, together with the aforesaid mark’s worth of annual free quitrent, to be held by the aforesaid William and Alice and the heirs and assigns of the same Alice.