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ninth should be levied for our use) we by our writ commanded 

 the sellers and appraisers of the aforesaid ninth in the County of 

 Dorset that they should altogether set aside the demand which 

 they had made upon our beloved in Christ the Abbot of Cerne 

 (who was not personally summoned to our parliament held on 

 the said Wednesday as appears from inspection of the rolls of 

 our Chancery) for payment to us of the said ninth part of sheaves 

 skins and lambs in respect of the temporalities annexed to his 

 spiritualities which were taxed for a tenth as part of his 

 spiritualities in the said twentieth year ; and also that they 

 should cause to be restored to him, the aforesaid abbot, without 

 delay, anything which they had levied from him in respect of the 

 said ninth ; provided that the said ninth should, according to the 

 aforesaid arrangement, be levied for our use in respect of the 

 lands and tenements acquired by the said abbot or his 

 predecessors since the said twentieth year ; Yet now we have 

 been informed on the part of the aforesaid abbot that, although 

 the said sellers and appraisers had altogether set aside the 

 demand which they had made upon the said abbot for the 

 payment to us of the aforesaid ninth of his aforesaid tempor- 

 alities by virtue of our aforesaid command, nevertheless you are 

 unjustly causing this very abbot by a summons of the aforesaid 

 exchequer to be grievously distrained and disturbed concerning 

 the payment for our use of the like ninth of his temporalities 

 which were taxed at the rate of a tenth among his same 

 spiritualities in the said 2oth year, to the no small charge and 

 grievance of the same abbot ; whereupon he besought us that 

 provision should be made for a remedy for him by ourselves. 

 Now we, being [un] willing to burden the abbot unduly in this 

 respect, command you (if on view of our aforesaid order it shall 

 appear to you that such demands have been made on our behalf) 

 that then you do cause to be set aside the exaction which by the 

 summons of the aforesaid exchequer you are causing to be made 

 for our use upon the said abbot for payment of the aforesaid 

 ninth of his temporalities so taxed at the rate of a tenth among 

 the spiritualities in the aforesaid zoth year, and also do cause the 



