in Wigan; and that then the said lands, &c., in Wigan shall be free from the said annual rent-charge. And that after the deed of rent-charge is made and delivered to the said Lawrence de Standish by the said Sir Ralph de Langton, within 40 days ensuing the date thereof the said Sir Ralph shall enfeoff Edmund Crawford, &c., &c., his heirs and assigns, by deed indented, in the lands and tenements of Newton and Langton, upon condition that the said Edmund, &c., shall enfeoff the said Sir Ralph and his heirs for ever in the same lands, &c., within six months of the said enfeoffment made by the said Sir Ralph to the said Edmund, &c., and the said Sir Ralph shall deliver one part of the said indentures to the said Lawrence de Standish to keep with him and his heirs for ever. And also that both the said parties shall be sworn upon a book before me, the aforesaid Alice, in the presence of Sir Philip Boteler, Sir Richard Houghton, and Henry de Kyghley, truly and faithfully to hold this award in all points according to the true intent thereof. And if any altercation, case, or variance, full of matter of any circumstance or dependence thereof, amongst the said parties arise, that then the said parties shall be ruled by me the said Alice and my counsel therein until the time that this matter be at an effectual end by the advice of me the said Alice and my said counsel, so that I the said Alice determine this matter before the feast of St Michael next coming. Dated at Weryngton the Saturday next after the feast of St. Hilary in the 8th year of the reign of King Henry the sixth (1429), in witness whereof I the said Alice have hereto set my seal."
This award does not appear to have been acted upon, for litigation continued to a later date. In the meantime Sir Ralph de Langton died in July, 1331,[1] and John Gerard of Bryn, within a year afterwards. William de Langton also appears to have resigned the benefice about this time, for in 10 Hen. VI. (1431-2) we find him fining with the King as late parson of Wygan.[2]
In the same year, 1432, James de Langton, brother of Sir Ralph, occurs as parson of Wigan.[3] He is doubtless the same with the James de Langton, mentioned in the award of Dame
