Grant of Portchester Castle by Edward I

Translation

Writ de intendendo [writ of intent] directed to the bailiffs [who kept law and order in a castle], etc. of the following castles manors, etc. assigned in dower [property given by law to a man’s widow in her lifetime] to Eleanor, the king’s mother, queen of England:-

…Bailiffs and good men of Portchester, Guldeford [Guildford] and Aulton [Alton], the foresters, etc. of Porcestre forest, the hundredors and good men of the hundred of Aulton, and the parker of Guldeford – Castle and manor of Porcestre with the forest, manor of Guldeford with the mills and park, manor of Aulton with the hundred [an area of land]…’