42 DERLEY ABBEY CHARTERS PRESERVED AT BELVOIR. 



reliefs, for all secular services, suits of court, demands, exactions 

 to lord Henry, and his heirs appertaining. And let it be known 

 that if the aforesaid pack horse, sack, & halter of one halfpenny, 

 be not returned to the said abbot or to his successors after the 

 return of the said army of our lord the king from Wales, then the 

 said abbot and convent will be quit of the said service until the 

 said articles be fully returned, &c. 



These witnessing : — Sir Hugo de Meynil, Robert le Vavasur, 

 & Walter de Rybof, knights ; AValter de Vfton, Peter de Vlker- 

 thorp, Robert de Oggedeston, William of the same, Robert de 

 Winnefend, and others." 



Round seal, green wax. Fleur-de-lis in centre. 

 Inscription : — 



"S'. HaNRici Da j^aRica." 



Bvaclienfielt) Common, 



(33) Qyhis is the agreement made in the year of dace, 1275, 

 on Thursday next afier the Epiphany of the Lord, between John 

 de Heryz on one part, and Henry, Abbot of Derley, on the other, 

 viz., that the same John has granted for himself and his heirs, 

 and by the present writing confirmed to the aforesaid abbot and 

 convent and their successors, and to their men of Wessington, free 

 common in a moiety of the whole common pasture pertaining to 

 the village of Brakenthweyt (Brackenfield), for all kinds of their 

 animals, and of their men of Wystanton, viz., in a moiety of the 

 part nearest towards Wessington, by metes and bounds made in 

 the whole of the said common pasture. So that the said abbot & 

 convent can have no reason of right or claim to drive out or to 

 sell in other lands, tenements, woods, or pasture outside the 

 moiety of the common pasture of Brakenthwayte for ever. Nor 

 can that moiety be overburdened by other animals than by those 

 belonging to him or his men which from year to year they are able 

 to sustain at Wystanton. He granted also, and by the present 

 writing confirmed for himself and his heirs, to the said abbot & 



