Sine Datum [circa 1285]; 17 lines; white wax seal complete; worn, folds, small stain, browned; 110mm by 187mm: Grant for a certain sum, of SirWilliam de Watevil of Hempstead, knight, to Stephen Selong of Helion Bumpstead and his wife Isabel, for their homage and service, three rods of meadow with the hedges and ditches of Hempstead, to hold of William de Watevile by an annual rent of 1½d and scutage of ½d. Witnesses: Geoffrey Cocus, Alan, son of Geoffrey, John Lanteline and others. [ehr3.jpg] Sir Robert de Watevil, Knight was born 1290 in Orton Waterville, Huntingdonshire, England. He died May 1330 in Orton Waterville, Huntingdonshire, England. Robert married Margaret de HASTINGS on Jun 1326 in Orton Waterville, Huntingdonshire, England. Source: Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910.), 8:538, 14:469, Los Angeles Public Library. See also: Sanders, Ivor John, English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent, 1086-1327 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960.), p. 105 note 1.