THE CERNE CARTULARY. 5 



clerk assigned by the king's letters patent for holding that 

 inquisition at a certain day and place which &c. so that he have 

 it here on the aforesaid day within the quindene of Easter. The 

 inquisition was held at Dorchester in the county of Dorset 

 before John Tidilington the clerk on the Thursday after the 

 feast of S. Gregory in the 2ist year of the reign of King Edward 

 the third since the conquest, in the presence of the Abbot of 

 Cerne appearing there by his attorney, and in the absence of the 

 Abbot of Sherborne and his colleagues appraisers and sellers in 

 the aforesaid county of the ninth of sheaves skins and lambs 

 granted to the Lord King in the i4th year of his reign, who had 

 notice for this purpose and did not appear, by the oath of Henry 

 of Promesleye, William Sprot, Henry Sherard, Henry Antioch, 

 Walter Sparrow, William Warham, John Gillingham, Alexander 

 of Watercombe, John Bagber (?), John Warfoghell, Robert 

 Quarel, John Warmwell, who upon their oath say that neither the 

 aforesaid abbot of Cerne nor his predecessors recently abbots of 

 the aforesaid place had any lands or tenements in the towns of 

 Symondsbury, Toller Fratrum, Winterborne Abbas, Longbredy, 

 Powerstock, Cerne, Hawkchurch, Minterne, Radipole, Worth, 

 Kimmeridge, Woodsford, Pokeswell, Stoke, Bloxworth, and 

 Affpuddle other than' those which were in the possession of 

 his house in the aforesaid zoth year of the reign of the Lord 

 Edward formerly King of England, grandfather of the present 

 King, which were then taxed at the rate of a tenth with the 

 clergy, nor any moveable goods in the aforesaid towns other than 

 those issuing out of his lands and tenements. And they say that 

 the temporalities of the aforesaid abbot in Wynford Eagle are 

 assessed with the clergy at 645. 8d. in the aforesaid town of 

 Toller Fratrum, and those in Remmescombe at ^13 153. 4d. in 

 the aforesaid town of W T orth, and those in Woolbridge at 1 155. in 

 the aforesaid town of Stoke : and they are those and the same 

 temporalities for which the aforesaid abbot was assessed at the 

 rate of a ninth in the aforesaid i4th year in the aforesaid towns 

 of Toller Fratrum, Worth, and Stoke. The aforesaid jurors being 

 further questioned on behalf of the king if the particulars of 



