Indenture between Agnes Allosley and family of John Horewood of Staverton, 1457

Translation

This indenture [rental agreement] witnesses that Mistress Agnes Allesley, prioress of Catesby and the convent in the same place grant, hand over and convey [give] at farm [to rent] to John Horewood of Staverton, Alice his wife, and Thomas the son of the same John and Alice, one messuage [house] in Staverton aforesaid lying between a messuage [house] that John Odam inhabits on one side and the high road on the other side, with three parts of pasture and its appurtenances [rights of the land] in the town and fields of Staverton aforesaid, [mentioned] to have the same messuage [house] equally and wholly as William Braundon once had and held the aforesaid messuage, with three parts of pasture and its appurtenances for the said John, Alice and Thomas from the day of the present agreement until the end and term of their lives… they are to pay annually the prioress and convent and their successors fifteen shillings in good and legal money, in two equal portions, that is at Lady Day [25 March] and Michaelmas [29 September]. And the aforesaid John, Alice and Thomas are to repair, sustain and maintain the messuage at their own expense… Given at Catesby in the chapter house, 10 March 1457.