ON THE CHARTERS OF CLEEVE ABBEY. 53 
daries of the land given, as for the stipulations which are 
annexed to the gift. The latter, however, are not uncom- 
mon in ancient instruments. To facilitate its due compre- 
hension, the original is now accompanied by a literal 
translation. Its age I consider to be about that of 
Richard I. or Henry IV. :— 
(17.) “ Abbas de Cleve cu’ aqua de Heyn’. 
“ Seiant p’'ntes & futuri, q’ ego, Rob’t', filius Hugonis de 
Wude, dedi, & conc’, & hac p’nti carta mea confirmavi, 
Deo & S’ce Marie & Mo®chis de Ulyua, pro salute anime 
mee, & o’im an’cessor’, & parentu’, & hered’ meor’, in 
puram & p’'petuam elemosinam, q’ndam p’tem t’re mee; 
scilicet p’ has diuisas :—quar’ prima ineipit ad diuisam de 
Chidesle subt’ Le Corde, & tendit vsq’ in spinam que 
diuidit t'ram illam, & t’ram qua’ ip’i mo:chi h’ent de feodo 
meo, de dono Geroldi filii Baldwyny ; &inde v’sus occiden- 
tem, vsq’ in vrlam bosci de Macherith; & inde v’sus aqui- 
lonem, p’ fossatu’ q’ p’dieti monachi fod’nt int’ terram illam 
& t'ram Geroldy ; & inde p’ id’m fossatu’ v’sus orientem, 
vsq’ in divisas t're de Weletuna ; & inde v’sus austru’, p’ 
id'm fossatum, vsq’ in diuisas t’r’ de Chidesle; & inde 
v'sus oceidentem vsq’ in p’dieta’ spinam. Et q’equid h’ui 
int’ p’de’as diuisas, cu’ p’dictis fossatis, dledi p’fatis mo’chis, 
eu’ o’ib’ p’tin’ suis. Et p’t’ea dedi eis co'munione’ pastur’ 
in o'i t'ra mea de Wude, excepto blado & p*to a Kl’ Ap’lis 
vsq’ du’ falcetur, & colligatur, ad trecentas oues, & ad 
sexaginta aljalia, & ad sexaginta porcos, cu’ lib’is introitib’, 
& exitib’, & cu’ om’ib’ lib'tatib’, & lib’is consuetudinib’, & 
aesiame’tis, in o’ib’ reb’ & locis eid’m ville p’tinentib’. Hec 
oija p’fata tenementa & pasturam dedi p’fatis mo®chis, cu’ 
o’ib’ p’tinenciis suis, lib’a, & quieta a me & h’edib’ meis, 
& soluta ab om’i t’reno s’uic’o & sec’lari exaccione in- 
p’petuu’. Et q’equid debetur inde regi vel ulli alüi ho'i, ego 
