King’s Bench 27/477 m. 58 d
Memorandum quod Cecilia Chaumpaigne filia quondam Willelmi Chaumpaigne et Agnetis uxoris
eius die lune proximo ante festum pentecostes isto eodem termino coram domino rege in
propria persona sua venit et profert hic in curia quoddam scriptum quod cognovit esse
factum suum et petivit illud irrotulari et irrotulatur in hec verba—Noverint universi per
presentes me Ceciliam Chaumpaigne filiam quondam Willelmi Chaumpaigne et Agnetis uxoris
eius remisisse relaxasse & omnino pro me et heredibus meis imperpetuum quietum clamasse Galfrido
Chaucer armigero, omnimodas acciones tam de feloniis transgressionibus compotis debitis quam aliis accionibus
quibuscumque, quas erga, dictum Galfridum unquam habui habeo seu quovismodo habere potero a principio
mundi usque, in diem confectionis presencium In cuius rei testimonium presentibus, sigillum meum apposui
hiis testibus, domino Willelmo de Beauchamp tunc camerario domini Regis domino Johanne Clanvowe
domino Willelmo de Nevylle militibus et aliis Datum Londonie primo die maii anno regni Regis
Ricardi secundi post conquestum tertio.
Let it be remembered that Cecilia Chaumpaigne, daughter of the late William Chaumpaigne and Agnes his wife,
on the Monday closest before the Feast of Pentecost in this same term came before the Lord King
in her own person and puts forward here in the court a certain document which she recognized as being
her own deed and she requested that it be enrolled and it is enrolled in these words—Let all know through these
things at hand that I, Cecily Chaumpaigne, daughter of the late William Chaumpaigne and his wife Agnes,
have remitted, released, and entirely quitclaimed on behalf of myself and my heirs in perpetuity Geoffrey
Chaucer, esq., all manner of actions related either to felonies, trespasses, accounts, debts, or to whatever other actions
that I ever had, have, or any I could have against said Geoffrey from the beginning of
the world up to the day of completing the present circumstances. In testimony of which situation I have appended my seal to these things at hand
with these men as witnesses: Sir William Beauchamp, then Chamberlain of the Lord King; Sir John Clanvowe,
Sir William Neville, knights; and others. Given in London on the first day of May in the third year of the reign of King
Richard the Second after the Conquest.
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