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abbot himself to be discharged therefrom at the same exchequer 

 and to be quit, and that you do cause any distraint which you 

 may have put upon him in that matter to be released without 

 delay. Provided that the aforesaid ninth of any lands and 

 tenements which have been acquired by the abbot himself or his 

 predecessors after the said zoth year, if not already levied for 

 our use, be levied according to the aforesaid arrangement. 

 Witness Edward Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester our 

 most beloved Son, Warden of England, at Kennington the 25th 

 day of October in the i6th year of our reign in England and the 

 3rd of our reign in France." 



And now comes here the aforesaid abbot by John Longesdone 

 his attorney and says that he will be grievously distrained by the 

 Sheriff of Dorset for 19 os. 5^d. for the aforesaid ninth as if 

 his temporalities were not annexed to his spiritualities. And he 

 prays that right may be done to him in this matter according to 

 the tenor of the aforesaid command of the King. And there- 

 upon, scrutiny being made of the rolls &c. it was found in the 

 great roll of the i8th year in Dorset that ig os. 5^d. are 

 exacted of the Abbot of Cerne for the ninth granted in the i4th 

 year of the reign, of which 403. was in the town of Symondsbury, 

 43. in the town of Toller Fratrum, los. in the town of Winter- 

 borne Abbas, 405. ki the town of Longbredy, 4. i8s. s^d. in the 

 town of Powerstock, 205. in the town of Cerne, 73. in the town of 

 Hawkchurch, 133. 4d. in the town of Minterne, 155. in the town 

 of Radipole, 6s. 8d. in the town of Worth, 24.5. in the town of 

 Kimmeridge, 363. 8d. in the town of Pokeswell, 195. in the town 

 of Woodsford, 33. in the town of Stoke, 205. in the town of 

 Bloxworth, 22S. 4d. in the town of Affpuddle as appears in the 

 1 4th roll, and in the roll of the particulars of the assessment of 

 the Abbot of Sherborne and his colleagues, the appraisers and 

 sellers of the aforesaid ninth in the County of Dorset, which 

 rolls are here present in the Treasury. Moreover upon 

 examination of the rolls as to what temporalities of the same 

 abbot are annexed to his spiritualities, it was found in the rolls 

 of the particulars of the valuation of the temporalities of the 



