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ON THE CHARTERS OF CLEEVE ADBEY. 25 
charters of the donors respectively attest. Wherefore we 
will, et. Dated by the hand of H. Archbishop of Can- 
terbury, our chancellor, at Loch, on the twenty-eighth day 
of January, in the third year of our reign.” 
The instrument just read was accordingly written in 
the year 1201-1202. 
The Abbey had powerful friends; for the next charter is 
one of Richard E. of Cornwall, brother of K. Henry IIL., 
granting to the monks various lands in Cornwall of consider- 
able value, together with sundry important privileges. 
The series of exemptions furnishes a curious pieture of the 
multitudinous rights and services incident upon feudal 
tenure. In English it reads thus :— 
(IV.) “To all to whom the present writing shall arrive,, 
Richard Count of Poicetiers and Cornwall wisheth health. 
Know allof you that Ihave granted, and by this my present 
charter have confirmed for me and my heirs, to the Abbot 
of Clyve and to the monks serving God there, by considera- 
tion of charity, and for the health of my soul, and of all 
my ancestors and successors, for a free, pure, and perpetual 
alms, all the lands which they possessed in Cornwall, on the 
day of the nativity of S. John the Baptist, in the nine- 
teenth year of the reign of my brother King Henry; that 
is to say, Pochewill and Treglastan, with the appurtenances 
which they possessed before of the gift of Lord Hubert de 
Burgh, Earl of Kent; and the land which they possessed 
before at Pundestoke, of the gift of William de Pundestoke, 
to be had and holden by the same abbot and monks freely 
and peacefully, with infangendethef and utfangendethef. 
Also I have granted to the same, that the lands aforesaid 
should be quit of hidages, and shires, and hundreds, levies, 
assizes, and summonses for collecting treasure, and the 
eitements of the sheriff’ and his servants, of the sheriff’s turn, 
V@L. vI., 1855, PART II. D 
