er A a a 1 . 
ON THE CHARTERS OF CLEEVE ABBEY. 45 
Wherefore we will and straitly charge, for us and our 
heirs, as much as in us is, that the aforesaid Abbot and Con- 
vent and their successors do have for ever one market to be 
held in the same place on Wednesday in every week, and 
two fairs in the same place in every year, to wit, one on the 
feast of S. James the Apostle, and the other on the feast of 
the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and to last for three days 
next following the aforesaid feasts, with all the liberties, 
rights, and free customs appertaining to or respecting a 
market and fairs of this kind ; unless that market and those 
fairs be to the injury of the neishbouring markets and the 
neighbouring fairs, as is aforesaid : any right contrariwise 
suing to us ; or contrariwise suing to us, our heirs, or our 
successors, either any statute, act, rule, or restriction before 
made ; or because that express mention regarding any other 
gifts or grants to the same Abbot and Convent, or to 
their predecessors, by us or any one of our progenitors, 
formerly Kings of England, hitherto made, is not at present 
extant ; notwithstanding. In testimony whereof, etc. 
Witness, the King, at Westminster, the twenty-second day 
of October.” 
For the seven documents which now follow, (No. 11 to 
No. 17 incl.) and which not unpleasantly contrast with the 
royal and noble Charters already given, I am indebted to 
the kind courtesy of the President, Sir W. C. Trevelyan, 
Bart., to whom I desire to offer my best acknowledgments. 
They long found a home among the family papers at Net- 
tlecombe, but, with a rare liberality which cannot be too 
highly appreciated, have lately been presented to the 
British Museum, where they will be placed among what are 
technically called the “ Additional Charters.” They have 
not yet been furnished with numbers of reference ; but in 
the copies which follow I have taken very great care to put 
