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 sollempniter candelis accensis et pulsatis campanis in omnibus ecclesiis Bristolli excommunicari faciat, et denunciari ut excommunicatos ab omnibus arctius evitandis donec 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 assignatos meis refundendis ; quas simplici verbo dicti Ricardi heredum vel assignatorum suorum concessi declarari: Et subjeci me heredes et assignatos meos sponte et pure jurisdictioni et cohercioni dicti Decani ubicunque fuerimus ad dictam excommunicacionem in personas nostras fulminandam 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 Sanctorum 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[1], Roberto Pikard, Adamo Snel, Waltero de Monte, Reginaldo Golde, Willielmo Halye, Johanne de Templo et aliis[2]."
The seal of Hawisia, which 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' HĀWISSIЄ D........Є. The letters between D and the final Є are broken off. The last letter is certainly Є, though I suppose that DЄ WYGORNIĀ was intended[3]. On the seal of the
- ↑ Corderia, a ropery. The business of rope-making must have been of some importance in a maritime town like Bristol.
- ↑ I have not been able to find any of these witnesses mentioned elsewhere; but the names of Halye, Golde, and Snel occur at different times in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries among the propositors and bailiffs of Bristol. A William de Halyes, who was a propositor in 1229, may have been the witness William Halye.
- ↑ I have not been able to discover any thing certain of this lady or of Peter de Wygornia her husband in addition to what this document furnishes. Rymer mentions a Phillip de Wygornia who was in the service of King John, and sent by him in 1208 to Ireland associated with two justiciaries, and in 1213 to Rome on business with the pope, and was a witness to the charter granted by John in the seventeenth year of his reign to the city of Dublin; also a William de Wygornia, called "Magister Willielmus de Wygornia," who was one of the two persons named in the letters of Henry the Third in 1265, for annulling the grant of the treasurership of York made to Almeric de Montfort while the king was a prisoner in the hands of the earl of Leicester, Almeric's father. This William was, I think, the nephew of Phillip; but I have not been able to trace any connexion between either of them, and Peter or Hawisia; it is nevertheless worthy of notice, that the device on the seal of Hawisia closely resembles a
