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earliest of the four Deeds exhibited is without date, but is probably of the latter half of the thirteenth century; by it William de Oddynggeshel, lord of the manor of Solihull, gave and confirmed to Kobert Tyberay a piece of land in Solihull, lying in the township of the borough of Solihull, to him and his heirs.

The seal of green wax appended to this Deed (Plate XIV. fig. 1) has on it a shield with a fess and in chief two mullets, being the arms of Odingsells ; the inscription, which is very faint, reads * S* WILLI D6 OVDINGeSBLGS.

William de Odingsells, Lord of Maxstoke, was descended from Galfrid de Oding- sells, who was Lord of Maxstoke in right of his wife Basilia, daughter and coheir of Gerard de Limsey, Lord of Maxstoke ; a marriage which took place about the 20 Henry II. The arms borne by this line are those on the seal now exhibited ; but Hugh de Odingsells, a younger son of Galfrid just mentioned, took the name of De Flanders from having resided in that country, and he added a mullet to the two already in the arms, changing their tincture to sable. Ida, one of the daughters and coheirs of William de Odingsells, became the wife of Sir John de Clinton, Knight, who was Lord of Maxstoke in her right. He was summoned to parliament 27 Edward I., and died 8 Edward II. Of this marriage there were two sons, John Baron Clinton, of Maxstoke, who was summoned to parliament 6 Edward III., and William de Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon.

This William de Clinton, who was created Earl of Huntingdon in 1337, was the grantor in the second Deed exhibited, by which he gave to John Bertulmeu, of Maxstoke, a piece of land called Sotecroft, in exchange for a piece of land in the Ruddynge. On the seal appended to this Deed (Plate XIV. fig. 2) are six crosses crosslet fitchy, and on a chief two mullets of six points, Clinton : the shield is inclosed in a foliated circle of nine-foils, and accompanied by the six lions rampant of Leybourne in the area of the seal, two over the shield, and two on each side, the Earl having married Juliana, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Leybourne, Knight, who had previously married John Lord Hastings of Abergavenny, and Sir Thomas Blount, Steward of the Household to Edward II. This instrument bears