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radchemister having amongst them 3 plow tillages. There is one 
colibert and a mill of 50 pence and 6 acres of meadow, it is worth 
and was worth £4. The following are some further extracts from 
the Chartularies. In A.D. 1156 Application by Bishop Robert to 
Pope Hadrian for confirmation of the estates held by the Monas- 
tery of Bath, a list of the estates is given. Dated at Benevento 
per manum Rolandi. 
Grant by Prior Robert and the Convent to Richard Burel, his 
clerk of the Church of Aixton. Witnesses Henry Hosat de 
Tatwick, Henry de Cherlecumb, &c. There is no date to this but 
Robert was Prior of Bath from 1198 to 1223, when he was appoin- 
ted Abbot of Glastonbury. This appears to be the first record of 
an appointment to the Church of this Parish. 
Another Grant by Prior Robert is to Robert Launcestone, of the 
office of farm bailiff in the Manor of Hameswell, together with 
the Chamber in the said Manor which the farm bailiffs are accus- 
tomed to have. 
On page 152 will be found a lengthy document, the first part 
of it gives the rites and customs to be observed on the death of a 
brother of the house—the Monastery—next is given the com- 
memoration of benefactors and their gifts. 
There are several documents bearing date A.D. 1330, one being 
a Writ by the King to the Barons of the Exchequer to search the 
Records to see if the Prior of Bath holds the lands of this parish 
in free and perpetual alms and not by Knights service, that is to say 
that he is not bound to pay an aid for the eldest daughter of King 
Edward. Another Writ to make inquisition concerning the same, 
and a further Writ to the Sheriff of Gloucester to supply a jury. 
The Inquisition was held at Sodbury. The jury say that the 
NoTE.—Hadrian or Adrian IV. was Nicholas Brakespeare, the only 
Englishman who has held the Papal chair. Pope from 1154 to 1159. 
Robert was Bishop of Bath, and Rolandi, a Cardinal Priest, became 
Pope as Alexander III. in 1159, died in 1179. 
