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How widely to cast the net in terms of spelling variants? Chetwall and Chetwood have been mentioned above. Are they possible variants of Chettow?

When I search for Chetwood, the results are mostly from around Bucks, but there's one a bit closer, from Wordelston or Worleston, Cheshire, about 10 or 12 miles from Whitchurch. This is from Common Pleas:

1543 Chetwode, Roger, of Wordelston, Cheshire, gent
index
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/Indices/CP40Indices/CP40no1116Cty.htm

original, second entry:
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/aalt1/H8/CP40no1116/aCP40no1116fronts/IMG_0891.htm



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I don't know if this is significant, but there's a Thomas Cheto of Whitchurch (Salop), butcher, recorded in 1427. This is more than 100 years earlier, but less than 10 miles from Wem.

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9150613

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Latin Feoffment 1497
« on: Saturday 06 April 24 17:48 BST (UK)  »
I interpreted that as "pecias terra."

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The Common Room / Re: Why so much Scottish DNA?
« on: Saturday 06 April 24 16:54 BST (UK)  »
Language and DNA are not one and the same.

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The Common Room / Re: Why so much Scottish DNA?
« on: Saturday 06 April 24 16:42 BST (UK)  »
Well yes, if you go back a few thousand years, they may be related. Gildas reported that when the Saxons invaded, British people were pushed back into Wales and Cornwall and then escaped to Brittany. But more recently?

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The Common Room / Re: Why so much Scottish DNA?
« on: Saturday 06 April 24 15:55 BST (UK)  »
I can see how Northern Ireland and Scotland would be connected. I have ancestors who moved from Ireland to Glasgow in the 19th century. But Brittany seems like any family connection would go back at least a thousand years.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Latin Feoffment 1497
« on: Saturday 06 April 24 07:51 BST (UK)  »
A bit more, now that I've had my morning cuppa:

Be it known present and future that we John Barton junior of Hadlo and Robert Brygys in the county of Kent have demised, conceded and by this present charter delivered to John Symon of Palmerstret(e) in Hadlo aforesaid, Thomas Stoperfyld, John Crud, and John Walter, butcher, five parcels of land, grain (arable?), wood, called Snodes, Pocokk and Newlond in Hadlo aforesaid, with the land formerly of John Symon to the east, the land of John Bysschop to the south, the land of the aforesaid John and Lawrence Farman, and the heirs of Richard Bysschop to the west, and the land of the aforesaid William Symon, John Stabyll, and Peter Fyssher to the north ...
(skipping one line)
to have and to hold the aforesaid land with the grain and wood appertaining, to the aforesaid John Symon, Thomas Stoperfyld, John Crud and John Walter, their heirs and assigns ...

Granam, which had me stumped earlier, must mean the grain in field, which is being sold along with the land. Normally this would belong to the person who planted it and they would have the right to harvest the crop (emblements).

The end, briefly:
To hold of the chief lord for customary rents and services. This sealed charter given 28 April 8th year of Henry VII. Witnesses Thomas Fysscher, William Pulter, Richard Kebbyll, and others.


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Latin Feoffment 1497
« on: Saturday 06 April 24 05:46 BST (UK)  »
I interpreted the start of that line as:

five parcels of land, grain (arable?) and wood, called...

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Latin Feoffment 1497
« on: Saturday 06 April 24 05:09 BST (UK)  »
Here's a start, the first two lines:
Be it known present and future that we John Barton junior of Hadlo and Robert Brygys in the county of Kent have demised, conceded and by this present charter delivered to John Symon of Palmerstret(e) in Hadlo aforesaid, Thomas Stopfyld, John Crud, and John Walter, butcher,

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