DERLEY ABBEY CHARTERS PRESERVED AT BELVOIR. 43 



convent &: their successors, all their enclosures, with the appurts., 

 in the territory of \V)stanton, quiet and free from all claims, 

 contradictions, impediments, and reproaches from the same John 

 & his heirs for ever. 



For this concession, &c., the said abbot and convent granted 

 for themselves & their successors to the same John and his heirs, 

 common in the whole common pasture of Wystanton for all kinds 

 of their animals, and of their men of Biakenthweyt, so that the 

 said John & his heirs shall never have any reason of right, claim, 

 or demand to drive out or sell in other lands, tenements, woods, 

 or pastures outside the said common pasture of Wystanton for 

 ever, nor that pasture to overburden by other animals than by 

 those of his and his men, which from year to year they can sustain 

 at Brakenthweyt. 



But if the animals of the said John, his heirs, or their men shall 

 enter in any place outside the said common pasture by escape, 

 without being enclosed, they shall be drawn back and freely 

 dismissed, but if they be found in custody, the damage which 

 they have done by view of lawful men agreed, shall be remitted. 

 In the same manner, if the animals of the said abbot & convent, 

 and their men of Wystanton in any place beyond the said moiety 

 of common pasture of Brakenthwayte, enter by escape, without 

 being imparked, they shall be driven back and freely dismissed, 

 but if they be found in custody, the damage, if any, shall be made 

 by view of lawful men, and restored. In corroboration of these 

 premises, the aforesaid parties to both writings containing this 

 agreement have afifixed their seals. These witnessing : Sir Walter 

 de Ribeof and Geoffry de Dethic, knights ; Dom. Roger de 

 Draycot, Roger de Somervill, Will de Ufton, Hugo de Ulkerthorp, 

 Robert de Butterleg, Will de Oggediston, Reginald de Holyes." 

 Seal, circular, of green wax. Two lions saltant as 

 vis-a-vis, but reversed, one with head up, the other 

 down. 



"s. loi^is Da i^aRiz." 



Among these archives is a draft or a copy of a similar deed, 

 dated 1289, without witnesses, and unsealed. 



