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ecclesie in fundo proprio siti (séc). spoliaverunt eosdem vivlenter 
de xiij agnis. et xviij agnos sub pedibus equorum conculca- 
verunt. et quosdam gladiis ingulaverunt. et quosdam lanceis 
perforaverunt. et asportari peterunt ad sellas satellitum suorum 
ut lepores. Ministros ecclesie attrociter verberando et quosdam 
graviter vulnerando. ut supra. et in ipsa ecclesie ostio ipsius 
violenter fracto partem lane rapuerunt eorum satellites in 
eadem ecclesie et ejus cimeterio sanguinem fundentes. et est 
estimatio predictorum agnorum et lane. ij. marce et dimidium. 
Item spoliaverunt eosdem eodem anno in eisdem locis de quadam 
parte feni ad estimationem xxs. et de xxv aucis. que estimantur 
ad iiijs. et ijd. Hic in estate. 
Item in autumpno anno eodem spoliaverunt eosdem in iisdem 
locis de MLX travis garbarum avene et amplius. Item in quadam 
cultura Ricardi Daniel que vocatur campus molendini. de xxviij 
travis de qua nichil prius perceperit et estimantur predicte trave 
ad xv marcas.* 
Summa secunde spoliationis. seu continuationis prioris cum 
excessu per marcas xxxy marcas et dimidium. et ij* et ij* 
* Translation.—‘‘ The same Prior and Convent despoiled the same Dean 
and Chapter in the same parish in the summer and autumn of the year of grace 
1251, by continuing the first spoiling in the aforesaid places, and by, in a great 
measure, exceeding that spoiling by seizing with force of arms, and by carrying 
off both their greater and lesser tithes—namely, in the town of Tideswell, and 
in the places of Wormhill, Tunstead, Greatrakes, Meadow, in the summer 
fourscore and three Jambs which are valued at 58s., and one sack and a half of 
wool which are valued at 12 marks—and of the sheep the special property of 
the church, having broken the doors of the sheepfolds placed at the bottom 
(z.e., the west end of the nave) of the church itself, they violently robbed 
them of 14 lambs, and 18 lambs they trampled under the feet of the 
horses ; and some they slew with swords, and some they pierced with 
lances, and caused them to be carried over to the cells of their satellites 
as if they were hares: by savagely beating the ministers of the church, 
and by seriously wounding some as above; and the door having been 
violently broken in the church itself, their satellites seized part of the wool, 
shedding blood in the church and in the churchyard, and the estimate of 
the said lambs and wool is 2} marks. Also they despoiled the same in the 
same year and in the same place of a certain portion of the hay to the value of 
20s., and of 25 geese which are valued at 4s. 2d. Thus far in the summer. 
‘© Also in the autumn of the same year they despoiled the same in the same 
places of 1060 thraves of sheaves of oats, and upwards. Also in a certain culture 
of Richard Daniel, which is called the Mill Field, of 28 thraves, of which 
he formerly received nothing, and the aforesaid thraves are valued at 15 
marks.” 
