ON THE CHARTERS OF CLEEVE ABBEY. 31 
series; and I hope that the English dress, in which they 
now for the first time appear, will avail to make them more 
generally intelligible. 
My second division, however, may be allowed to be 
of still greater interest, as it consists of documents not 
hitherto printed, and which, I presume, are consequently 
new to the majority at least of the Society’s members. 
The first is a transcript of the original charter of K. 
Henry III., which was abstracted rather than copied in 
the Registrum before mentioned as belonging to Sir Hugh 
Windham, and thence printed by Dugdale, No. VIII. I 
believe the one now given to be the oldest of the Cleeve 
Charters which have come down to us in their original 
form, and have accordingly printed it, as supplying the 
means to those who possess the Monasticon of making a 
very interesting comparison. It is suffieiently similar to 
No. VIII, above given, as to need no translation.* 
* In printing these documents, I have thousht proper to give them as 
nearly as possible in their actual form; but as the Society’s fount is unable 
to supply the numerous marks of MS. contraction, I have signified the pre- 
sence of these by the apostrophe comma (’). By persons who are conver- 
sant with MS. literature, not the slightest diffieulty will be found in supplying 
the particular marks thus indicated, and the letters whose absence they 
serve to denote. 
My researches have furnished so large a quantity of materials, that I 
am precluded from even expressing a desire that the Society should publish 
the whole. I have, therefore, selected for the press such of the Charters, 
ete., as I deem most interesting. I would direct the attention, however, of 
any future historian of Cleeve Abbey to the following list of documents, 
which appear to me of the next degree of interest, and which I have taken 
from a long and varied catalogue :— 
Fin. 13 Hen. III., m. 7.—Pat. 20 Edw. I., m. 26.—Pat. 9 Edw. I., m. 
16.—Rec. in Scace. 24 Edw. I, Rot. Trin.—Cart. 12 Ed. II., n. 37.—Pat. 14 
Edw. II., p. 2, m. 13.—Pat. 20 Edw. III, p. 1, m. 19.—Pat. 27 Edw. III, 
p. 1, m. 26.—Pat. 30 Edw. III., p. 3, m. 10.—Pat. 2 Hen. IV.,p.1,m. 36.— 
Rec. in Scace. 4 Hen. V., Pasch. rot. 9.—Pat. 24 Hen. VI.,p. 1, m. 6.—Pat. 
8 Edw. IV., p. 2, m. 20. 
