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moniu’ huie p’senti sc’pto indentato sigill’ n'ra alt'natı’ 
apposuim’. Hiis testib, Will’mo Hamelyn, Roberto 
Martyn, Joh'ne Sandhull, Andr’ Drakewill', Rob’to Da- 
marle, et aliis. Dat’ apd Olyue, die d’nica p'x’ post f'm 
Sc’i Benedicti Abb’is, anno Regni Regis Edward’ t’cij post 
Conquest’ q’dragesimo p’mo.” 
Most unfortunately the seals are wanting. The docu- 
ment, however, is of special interest to the historian of this 
House, as it furnishes the name of another Abbot previ- 
ously unknown. To the list already published we have 
therefore the satisfaction of adding our second contribution 
in James, Abbot of Clyve, 1367-8. 
On this aceount a translation may probably be interest- 
'ing, and is now presented :— 
“To all the faithful of Christ to whom the present 
writing: shall arrive, James, by the grace of God Abbot of 
the Monastery of Clyve, and of the Convent of the same 
place, health eternal in the Lord. Know ye, that we have 
delivered, granted, and by this our present writing have 
confirmed, for ourselves and our successors, to John Bruer 
the younger and Lucy his wife, all the lands and tenemeuts 
at Zistecote, with the common pasture appertaining to the 
same lands and tenements ; which certain lands and tene- 
ments with common pasture Robert Peverel formerly 
possessed and held in Lynegerscote, within our manor of 
Clyve. We have also given and granted to the same John 
and Lucy his wife, six acres of land of our demesne at 
Nonemanyslond, next adjacent to Les forchis in the same 
place, towards the south and east. All the lands and tene- 
ments aforesaid to be had and holden, with common 
pasture aforesaid, together with the aforesaid six acres of 
land aforesaid, by John and Lucy his wife, to the end of 
their life, or of the one of them surviving, of us and our 
