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1127, and the following is a translation :—‘ In the name of the 
Blessed Trinity, in honour of St. Mary of Furness, I, Stephen, Earl 
of Boulogne and Moreton, consulting God and providing for the 
safety of my own soul, and the soul of my wife, the Countess 
Matilda, the soul of my lord and uncle Henry, King of England 
and Duke of Normandy, and for the souls of all the faithful, living 
as well as dead, in the year of our Lord 1127 of the Roman 
Indiction, and the 5th and 18th of the Epact, considering every 
day the uncertainty of life, that the roses and flowers of Kings, 
Emperors, and Dukes, and the crowns and palms of all the great 
wither and decay, and that all things with an uninterrupted course 
tend to dissolution and death: I therefore return, give, and grant 
to God and St. Mary of Furness, all Furness and Walney, with the 
privilege of hunting, with Dalton, and all my lordships of Furness, 
with the men and everything thereto belonging that is in woods 
and open grounds, in land and in water, and Ulverston, and Roger 
Braithwaite, with all that belongs to him, my fisheries at Lancaster 
and Little Guoring and all land thereof; with sac and soc, toll and 
theam, infangtheof and everything within Furness, except the lands 
of Michael le Fleming, with this view and upon this condition :— 
That in Furness an order of regular monks be by divine permission 
established.” Sac and soc was the privilege enjoyed by the lord of 
a manor of holding courts, trying causes. Zheam was the power 
of having servants and slaves. Jnfangtheof was the right to judge 
any thief taken within the lordship. It was not long after this 
grant was made that a question arose between the monks and 
William de Lancaster, the fifth Baron of Kendal and first of 
Lancaster, as to the boundary between Furness Fells and the 
Barony of Kendal, which is stated to have been referred to thirty 
sworn men. The agreement come to by them was confirmed by 
the king, and, with the charter of ratification, is still extant. By 
it the boundary is declared to be “by the Waterfall from Wringe- 
hills (or Wrynose Hill) in Little Langdale, and from thence into 
Eller or Helterwater, and from thence to Braza or Brathey, and 
where the said waters run into Windermere or Winendermere, and 
so down the said mere to Leven sands to the sea,” For something 
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