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490 sedente die Martis proximo post festum Sancti Marci Evangeliste coram baronibus et aliis fidelibus domini Regis presentibus tunc ibidem tempore Iohannis Extranei tunc iusticiarii Cestrie anno regni domini Regis Henrici filii Regis Iohannis xxviiio. On the dorse is another grant to Combermere, entered as read in a similar way but before the king himself at Chester, John Lestrange being justiciar as before. Only the year, 29 Henry III, can now be deciphered, but the date was no doubt October 1245. All these entries are in the same thirteenth-century hand. The next are all in different writings of about the same period. One is a grant on 13 April 30 Henry III (1246) by the justiciar, John de Grey, in the presence of the steward of Chester, of the wardship of children and their lands. Then follow memoranda of a Vernon charter read and allowed in pleno comitatu on St. Chad's Day 1 Lord Edward (earl of Chester) (7 January 1254/5) and of a grant dated about 1257–8 and enrolled on Tuesday 12 November of a year now illegible but no doubt 1258.

The other fragment (no. 1) is a piece of parchment 13 inches by 8, stained and now repaired. It contains enrolments of two charters for the abbey of Dieulacres, one being an inspeximus and confirmation by Richard de Sandbach of his father Roger's grant in 40 Henry III of the advowson of Sandbach, and the other a quitclaim of the same. Both are dated 8 September 1280 and witnessed by Guncelin de Badelsmere, the justiciar. Then follows an entry of the appointment in 10 Edward I of the succeeding justiciar, Reginald de Grey. The Shakerley collector from the 'Domesday' Roll saw and noted these entries, which he describes as in eodem rotulo, so this fragment was possibly then part of the roll itself.

We have consulted the authorities at the Public Record Office about these membranes, and they consider that there is nothing against the view that they at one time formed part of a roll. They agree that no. 2 bears distinct marks of having