DERLEY AliBEY CHARTERS PRESERVED AT BELVOIR. 39 



Plaustowe, and others. Given in the year of grace 1252, the 

 second day Thursday next before the feast of S. Botulph 

 abbot." (S. Botulph's Day is June 17.) 



Seal of green wax — usual impression. 



(30) 3U e it known to all who shall see or hear this writing, that 

 so it was agreed between Matilda relict of Ralph the son of Ralph 

 of AVessington on the one part, and lord Walter the abbot and the 

 Convent of Derley on the other, viz. ; that the said Matilda in 

 . her free widowhood released and quit claimed to the same Abbot 

 & convent the third part of all the lands and tenements, with 

 their appurts. in the vill. and territory of Wistanton, which from 

 them in the name of dowry, after the decease of her husband she 

 sought and claimed to be restored to herself, as well of those 

 lands and tenements which the said Abbot and convent held in 

 demesne, as of those which Nicholas Balle and Richard de 

 Ulmsdiss held of them : which lands and tenements the same 

 Abbot & convents had of the gift or sale of the said Ralph, 

 formerly her husbani, and also of those lands and tenements 

 which they had either of the gift or sale of Robert de Winnefeld 

 .n the vill. and territory of Wistanton. For this remission and 

 quit claim, the Abbot and convent granted to the said Matilda 

 that she might have five sheep and one sumpter or nag in her 

 enclosure of Wistanton, which if it went into the pasture of the 

 abbot & convent it should be released without reproach. They 

 granted also food for one servant, as the servant of R.ilph her 

 husband previously used to receive, she paying his wages. Further, 

 they granted to the same for pittance between the courses and his 

 supper, one bushel of salt, one bushel of oatmeal, one bushel 

 of pease {pisorum), for each year, and one cow's milk for a whole 

 year from the pasture of the abbot and convent, saving to herself 

 and two servants to themselves, a general course for each day, and 

 a second course to herself on the great double feasts throughout 

 the year, so that on Monday and Wednesday they may have flesh, 

 when agreeable, saving to them their oiher estovars, which may 



