ON THE CHARTERS OF CLEEVE ABBEY. 43 
illud & ferie ille sint ad nocumentum vicinor' m’cator’ & 
vieinar’ feriar’, sicut pdie'm est : aliquo iure nob’ compe- 
tente ; aut nob’, heredib’, aut successorib’ n’ris compet', seu 
quovis statuto, actu, ordinaco’e, siue restrietu antea fact’; 
aut eo q’d exp’ssa mencio de aliquib’ alüis donis siue con- 
cessionib’ eisdem Abbii & Conventui aut p’decessorib’ suis, 
p’ nos aut aliquem p’genitor’ n’ror’ quondam Regum Angl' 
ante hec tempora fact’, in p’sentib’ non existit ; non obstant!'. 
In eujus, &c. T’. R’.apud Westm’, xxij die Octobr. P’ 
l’re de privato sigillo, & de dat’ &c.” * 
Or thus in English :— 
“ For the Abbot and Convent of Clive. The King to 
the Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Earls, Barons, 
Justices, Sheriffs, Provosts, servants, and all his Bailıffs 
and liegemen, to whom, etc. health. Our beloved in Christ 
David the Abbot and the Convent of the Monastery of 
Blessed Mary of Clyve have petitioned us, that,—whereas 
lately upon a certain chapel, from ancient times founded 
and erected on the seashore in the manor of the same 
Abbot and Convent of Clive, by the predecessors of the 
aforesaid Abbot and Convent, to the praise and honour of 
Mary the blessed and glorious Mother of God, where the 
only-begotten Son of God and of the same glorious Virgin 
has vouchsafed of His mercy, through the merits of His 
own glorious Mother, to work divers kinds of notable mira- 
cles, and innumerable restorations of health, a large clıff in 
the same place, by reason of an incessant abundance of rain 
and mighty down-flood of waters, horribly fell, and in fallıing 
had entirely prostrated, cast down, and shaken to the 
ground the same chapel, with all the adjacent buildings, 
(the image alone of the said glorious Virgin and the altar 
* Pat. 6 Edw. IV., p. 1, m. 2. 
