ANCIENT DOCUMENTS RELATING TO TITHES IN THE PEAK. 147 
majorum et minorum decimarum proveniencium de illa villula et 
valent majores, etc., xl*, et minores x* 
Item. Iidem P. et C. spoliaverunt eosdem Decanum et Capitulum 
duabus partibus, etc., de terris existentibus in villulis de Tunstede. 
Medwe. Gretraches. Herdwyk. et Wyrmenhull. excepta quedam 
terra que dicitur de foresta. et valent ille due partes majorum 
decimarum, etc., xij"*, minores autem xv™* 
Item iidem P. et C. spoliaverunt eosdem Decanum et Capitulum 
duabus partibus decimarum de quadam terra que dicitur Melneflat 
que spectat ad molendinum de Wyrmenhull situm infra: limites 
parochie de Tydeswell. et valent decime, etc., viij* 
Summa superdicte spoliationis anno MCCLI xxxiij™~ 
xj® liij* 
Estimatio dampnorum et interesse xx" Estimatio  injurie 
eccc" violentissima fuit autem ista secunda spoliatio sive con- 
tinuatio prioris et modus spoliandi dictu horribilis. Quia in 
ipsa fuit ipsa parochia fere tota depredata. edificia in fundo 
ecclesie sita invasa et dirruta. Animalia ecclesie occisa in parte. 
et conculcata sub pedibus equorum. Oves videlicit et agni. Et 
in parte vi et armis extracta. et abducta. Ministri ecclesie ver- 
berati et atrociter vulnerati. ipsa et ecclesia violata per ministros 
et monachos eorumdem Prioris et Conventus. et sanguine polluta. 
et cimiterium similiter.* 
- Sciendum quod superdicte estimationes secunde et ultime 
spoliationis sive continuationis prioris una cum quibusdam in 
quibus excessunt prima abstracte sunt ab inquisitionibus factis 
per Robertum de Melton et socios suos : per testes juratos. 
Estimationes autem proximo subscripte abstracte sunt ab 
* Translation.—‘‘ Estimate of the damages and interest £20. Estimate of 
the injury £400 ; but that second spoiling, or continuation of the former one, 
was most violent, and the manner of spoiling horrible to be mentioned, 
Because in it almost all the parish itself was plundered ; the buildings placed 
on the floor of the church invaded and wrecked ; some arimals were killed 
under the feet of horses in the church—viz., sheep and lambs ; and others were 
dragged out and carrie off by force of arms ; the ministers of the church were 
beaten and savagely wounded ; and the church itself violated by the ministers 
and monks of the said Prior and Convent, and polluted with blood, and the 
churchyard likewise.” 
