This charter is one of the earliest documents in the archive collection. Written on vellum in Latin, the charter has a brown wax seal depicting a pentangle, a piece of straw is knotted around the seal tag. The straw represents the ancient ‘delivery of seisin’ when the grantor would present a turf from the land being granted to the grantee in the presence of witnesses.
See translation below:
A grant by Robert son of Henry de Whytewrth to Robert son of Henry del Stok of all his lands in Whytewrth (called) ‘le Wyngrene’.
Witnessed by Henry de Hawrth, Peter de Wardhull, Ranulph de Whytewrth, Michael del schagh, Richard de Ton Walleclif and Roger de Bradshull.