22 PAPERS, ETC. 
The following is a literal translation of the charter of 
foundation just now alluded to :— 
(I.) “To Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Monks,and Can- 
ons, Earls, Barons, Soldiers, Clerks, and Laymen, and to all 
the sons of Holy Mother Church, as well present as future, 
William de Romara wisheth health. Know ye that I have 
given, and granted, and by this charter have confirmed all 
my land of Clyve, with all its appurtenances and liberties, 
and the customs which are due from the same land, the 
service of my soldiers of the same land alone excepted, to 
found an abbey, by the hand of Hugh, abbot of S. Lau- 
rence of Revesby, for the health of my soul and of that 
of my father, and of my mother, and of all my ancestors. 
These all I have given and granted and confirmed, to 
found the said abbey, with all its appurtenances, free and 
discharged from me and my heirs, and quit of all land 
service, and customs, and secular exaction, and pleas, and 
causes, and quests, for a perpetual and pure alms. Also I 
will and appoint that the said abbey do have and hold all 
these fully and entirely, in good-will and in peace, in the vill 
and out of the vill, with the tofts and crofts, and churches 
and chapels, arable land and marshes, and thickets, and 
meadows, and pastures, and woods, and flats, and alder 
groves, and moors, and roads, and paths, and waters, and 
rivers, and marshes, and mills, and liberties, and common 
rights, and all things pertaining to the same tenure, with 
other things and eustoms. These are witnesses: Reinald 
Bishop of Bath, Roger de Benigeworth, Radbot the butler, 
David de Thochington, Robert de Engain, Roger clerk.” 
This was written in or previously to a.D. 1188. It was 
followed by a second charter in the reign of Richard IL, 
who succeeded in 1189, reciting still more minutely the 
