80 THE CERNE CARTULARY. 



Abbot of Cerne signified that he held ten Knights for whom he 

 owed only the service of two knights. And it is written in the 

 1 4th roll that he paid the composition of 2 marks for two knights 

 and is quit of that, and that he owes eight marks for eight 

 knights which he does not acknowledge, which eight marks were 

 never paid. But in the 6th roll of King Richard that debt is 

 cancelled. In the other rolls, nothing is found. 



Folio 2b. In the zyth year of the reign of King Henry, son of King John, 

 the Abbot of Cerne paid the scutage of Gascony, to wit four 

 pounds for two fees which he acknowledges, and the tally was 

 allowed. 



Folio Za blank. 



Folio 3J. In the Plea Roll of the 2ist year of King Edward the Third 

 among the pleas of Michaelmas Term, the Lord King directed 

 this his writ under his great seal which is among the common 

 entries of Michaelmas Term in the i yth year of his reign in these 

 words : " Edward, by the grace of God King of England and 

 France and Lord of Ireland, to his Treasurers and Barons of the 

 Exchequer, Greeting. Whereas recently (because in our last 

 parliament it was agreed that the religious brotherhoods and 

 other ecclesiastical persons who [were not summoned] to our 

 parliament held at Westminster on the Wednesday next after 

 Mid Lent Sunday in the i4th year of our reign in England, at 

 which the prelates earls barons and commonalty of the same 

 realm summoned to the same parliament granted us one ninth 

 part of sheaves one ninth part of skins and one ninth part of 

 lambs for the furthering of certain affairs of ours in ports beyond 

 the seas, and who should pay to us the tenths formerly granted 

 to us by themselves of those temporalities annexed to their 

 spiritualities which were taxed for tenths among the same 

 spiritualities in the 2oth year of the reign of the lord Edward 

 formerly King of England our grandfather, should be altogether 

 exonerated from the payment of the aforesaid ninth in respect of 

 their aforesaid temporalities so taxed at a tenth, and that of the 

 lands and tenements acquired by the same religious and other 

 ecclesiastical persons since the said twentieth year the same 



