ON THE CHARTERS OF CLEEVE ABBEY. öl 
successors, freely, quietly, well, and in peace. The said 
John and Lucy his wife to pay from thence year by year 
to us and our successors, to the end of their life, or of 
the one of them surviving, sixteen sbillings and ninepence 
of sterling money, at the four principal terms of the year, 
by equal portions; and to the Lord of Wachetford, year by 
year, three shillings and three pence, on the feast of S. 
Michael, for services, heriots, reliefs, exaetions, and all 
other secular demands whatsoever ; saving two suits at 
our court of Clyve yearly, and this by the auditor’s 
summons. And we the aforesaid Abbot and Convent 
and our successors will warrant, and discharge, and in 
form aforesaid will defend, against all men, all the afore- 
said lands and tenements, with common pasture afore- 
said, together with the aforesaid six acres of land, to 
the aforesaid John and Lucy his wife, to the end of 
their life, or of the one of them surviving. In witness 
whereof we have one after the other affixed our seals to 
this present indenture. These are witnesses : William 
Hamelyn, Robert Martyn, John Sandhull, Andrew Drake- 
will, Robert Damarle, and others. Given at Clyve, on 
Sunday next after the feast of S. Benedict, Abbot, in the 
year of the reign of King Edward III. after the Conquest 
forty-first.” 
We have next a grant by Nicholas Orchard to Laurence 
de Lomene, Vicar of the Church of Clyve, and to Ralph 
Knap of Milverton, of all his lands with their ‘various 
appurtenances at Combe in the parish of Stogumber, and 
in Milverton and Taunton. It concludes with the usual 
warranty, assurance of quiet possession, &c. A seal of 
brown wax remains, having the impress of a shield of 
arms, but the bearings and legend are undecypherable :— 
(15.) “ Sciant p’'sentes & fut'i, q’d ego, Nich’us Orchard’, 
