ON THE CHARTERS OF CLEEVE ABBEY. N, 
toms, and easements, in all things and places pertaining to 
the same vill. All these aforesaid tenements and pasture 
I have given to the aforesaid monks, with all their appur- 
tenances, free and quit of me and my heirs, and released 
from all land service and seeular exaction for ever. And 
whatsoever is due from thence to the King or to any other 
man, I and my heirs will discharge and warrant it by our 
other tenement to the aforesaid monks against all men and 
all women. And be it known that the aforesaid monks at 
my decease shall do service for me as for a monk, and, if it 
shall please me, shall receive my corpse for burial. "These 
are witnesses : Robert Fitz-Urse, John his son, and 
others.” 
With the following concludes my second division. It 
was written only two years previous to the Dissolution, 
and while the House was under the government of its last 
Abbot. For permission tocopy it Iam indebted, and offer 
my sincere thanks to, Thomas Warden, Esq., of Bardon, 
in whose office it has been, as he inforns me, for upwards 
of sixty years. In addition to its intrinsie interest, it 
possesses a most valuable appendage, in an impression, 
which I believe to be unique, of the Common Seal of the 
Abbey. I shall revert to this presently with greater 
detail. The document follows in the meanwhile ; and I 
have added a translation of the Latin portion :— 
(18.) “Nou’int vniu’si p’ p’sentes, nos, Will’m Dovell, 
Abb’tem Domus siue Monasterij B’te Marie de Cliua, in 
Com’ Som’s, & eiusdem loci Conventus, teneri & firmiter 
obligari Joh’i Sydenh’m de Netilcombe in Com’ p’de’o, 
Gen’os, in quadringent’ libris sterlingor’, soluend’ eidem 
Joh’i Sydenh’m, Executoribus, vel assign’ suis; ad quam 
quid’m solucio’em bene & fidelit’ faciend’ obligamus nos & 
Successores n’ros firmit’ p’ p’sent'. In cuius Rei testio'm, 
