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ON THE CHARTERS OF CLEEVE ABBEKY. 239 
The Abbey had also royal benefactors, for the next is a 
charter of K. Henıy III., containing a very important 
concession, and was doubtless received and kept with all 
possible observance :— 
(VIIL.) “Henry, by the grace of God K. of England, 
lord of Ireland, etc., to the Archbishops, etc., health. 
Know ye that we, in regard of God, and for the health of 
our soul, and of the souls of our ancestors and our heirs, 
have granted, and by this present charter have confirmed, 
to our beloved in Christ the abbot and convent of Clyve, 
in the county of Somerset, our manor of Branton in the 
county of Devon, with the hundred outward, and other its 
appurtenances, to be had and holden of us and of our 
heirs, by paying every year to our treasury, by their own 
hand, twenty and two pounds, at two terms ; that is to 
say, at the feast of S. Michael eleven pounds, and at 
Easter eleven pounds; saving to the men of the same 
manor, and to other men who are not of the same manor, 
their own common pasturage, which they have possessed in 
the same manor, prior to this our grant. WWherefore we 
will, ete. Given by the hand of the venerable father R. 
bishop of Chichester, our chancellor, at Gloucester, the 
twenty-fifth day of June, in the thirteenth year of our 
reign.” 
This, therefore, was in the year 1228. Two years pre- 
vious to this, however, K. Henry had granted the Abbey 
a charter referring to grants already noticed. In English 
it stands thus:— 
(IX.) “Henry, King, etc., health. Know ye that we, 
in regard of God, ete., have granted, and by this our charter 
have confirmed to God and blessed Mary and the monks 
of Clyve, the lands and tenements underwritten, that is to 
say of the gift of Hubert de Burgh, at the time that he 
