ON THE CHARTERS OF CLEEVE ABBEY. 41 
issue of which is recorded in Dugdale (Vol. v., p. 731, 
note e), from the Harleian MS. 6966, p. 82. The com- 
mission is said to be issued (I give it in translation) “for 
the dedieation of a chapel near the Monastery of Clyve, 
which David the Abbot of the same Monastery has lately 
caused to be built and erected from the foundation hand- 
somely and sumptuously to the honour of the B. V. Mary, 
and of a certain small portion of land adjacent and contigu-- 
ous to the said chapel, to be limited at the judgment of the 
said Bishop, for the formation of a cemetery, and itself to 
be consecrated ; it being provided that nothing be yielded 
to the prejudice of the parish church.” 
The Charter itself now follows, with a literal English 
translation :—— 
(10.) “P’ Abb’e & Conventu de Cliva. R’. Archiep’is, 
Ep’is, Abb’ib’, Priorib’, Comitib’, Baronib’, Justie’, Vice- 
comitib’, Prepositis, ministris, & om’ib’ Ballivis, & fidelib’ 
suis ad quos, &c. salt'm. Supplicarunt nob’ dilc’i nob’ in 
Xp’o David Abbas & Conventus Monast’ijj B’e Marie de 
Cliva, vt cum nup’ sup’ quandam Capellam, ab olim sup’ 
ripam maris in man’io ip’or’ Abb’is & Conventus de Cliva, 
ad laudem & honorem b’e & glo’se Dei genitricis Marie, p’ 
p’decessores p’de’or’ Abbis & Conventus fundatam & 
fabricatam, vbi vnigenitus Dei & ip’ius gl’iose virginis 
Filius multiplicia miraculor’ insignia & infinita salutis 
remedia, p’ m’ita sue gl’iose genitricis, misericordit’ op’ari 
dignatus est, Clivus magnus ibidem ex continua pluviar’ 
habundaneia & vehementi aquar’ decursu horribilit’ ceci- 
derit, & cadendo eandem capellam, cum vniv’sis edificiis 
adjacentib’, sola de’e gl’iose virginis imagine & altari 
ejusdem capelle illesis & intactis, p’ Dei virtutem vt credit" 
mirabilit’ reservatis, ad t'ram funditus prostraverat, op- 
presserat, & quassaverat; eaque de causa ijdem Abbas & 
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