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of the same chapel remaining uninjured and untouched, 
being miraculously preserved, as it is believed, by the 
assisting help of God,) and for that reason the same Abbot 
and Convent are in manifold ways impoverished : They 
have nevertheless begun to erect and build anew a cer- 
tain other chapel in a certain other place within the pre- 
cinet of their aforesaid manor, that the memory of the 
said blessed and glorious Virgin may in the same place by 
the devoted and faithful servants of Christ be honourably 
held in praise and veneration, as it used to be of old ; not 
in any wise sparing their labours and charges thereunto : 
But because their own means are not suflicient for the 
completion and full finishing of so expensive a work, and for 
sustaining the other burdens from old time lying on the same 
Monastery, apart from our special grace employed in this 
behalf,-—we would be pleased, by consideration of piety, 
most liberally to communicate with the same our special 
grace and favour: We, taking the premises into our 
deepest consideration, out of the reverence for the said 
Mary mother of God, in whom after God we have ever 
placed our entire hope, of our special favour we have by 
this granted and given licence for us and our heirs, as far 
as in us is, to the aforesaid Abbot and Convent, that they 
and their successors for ever may have one market within 
the preeinet of their aforesaid manor, to be held on 
Wednesday in every week, and two fairs to be held 
at the same place in every year, to wit, on the feast 
of S. James the Apostle, and also on the feast of the 
Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and to last for the three 
days next following, with all the liberties, rights, and eus- 
toms, appertaining to or respecting a market and fairs of this 
kind ; unless that market and those fairs be to the injury 
of the neighbouring markets and the neighbouring fairs, 
