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Archidiacono, magistro Thoma de Husseburne, Willelmo
de Warenne, Ricardo de Herierd, Osberto filio Heruei, Johanne
de Gestling, Justiciariis, et aliis Baronibus et fidelibus domioi
Regis ibidem tune presentibus.
Inter PHILIPPUM DE DINE1 filium SARRE, filie SIMONIS DE
CHELEFELD, petentem, et PHILIPPUM et LECIAM, tenentes.
De tercia parte terre que fuit SIMONIS de CHELESFELD.
Unde placitum fuit inter eos in prefata Curia, scilicet quod
predictus PHILIPPUS de DANMARTIN et LECIA uxor sua,
concesserunt
prefato PHILIPPO DE DINE et heredibus suis, vj libratas
redditus in CHELESFELD, tenendas advitam JULIANE matris LECIE
DE CHELESFELD ; et post obitum ipsius JULIANE revertentur predicte
vj librate redditus predictis PHILIPPO DE DANMARTIN et LECIE uxori sue, et
heredibus ipsius LECIE.
Et ipse PHILIPPUS DE DINE et heredes sui habebunt totam
terram de ELMS,2 cum pertiaentiis, quam ipsa JULIANA tenet in
dotem de dono predicti SIMONIS DE CHELESFELD.
Et preterea, predictus PHILIPPUS DE DANMARTIN et LECIA uxor
sua, concesserunt eidem PHILIPPO DE DINA servicium j militis
de feodo JOHANNIS DE GODINTON, in GODINTON, et servicium j
militis de feodo JOHANNIS DE BERTON, de feodo predicti SIMONIS.
Et PHILIPPO DE DINA, et teredibus suis, remanet maritagium
SARRE matris predicti PHILIPPI in HECHAM,3 et in
MACSTONE.,
(continued from page 256) without license of the lord of the fee. "Maritagium"
signifies the liberty
to marry thus given by the lord. In Magna Charta the clause
relative to
widows stands thus :—"A widow, after the death of her
husband, shall
immediately, and without difficulty, have her 'maritagium' and her
inheritance. Nor shall she give anything for her dower, or for her marriage,
or for her inheritance, which her husband and she held at the day
of his
death, and she may remain in her husband's house for forty days
after his
death, within which time her dower shall be assigned. No widow
shall
be distrained to marry while she chooses to live without a
husband; in
such wise, however, that she give security that she will not marry
without
our consent, if she hold of us, or without the consent of the lord
of whom
she does hold, if she hold of another." And these are only
expansions of
the charter of Henry I. The consent of the lord previous to any
future
marriage was with good reason required, in order, first, that
widows of the
King's capite tenants should not marry with his enemies;
and secondly,
that they should not be united to strangers, by whose means the
treasure
of the realm might be carried out of the country.
1 P Diue.
2 P Eline, Elnie, Elive. 3 Probably
Higham.
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