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that ninth were properly assessed upon the said abbot in the 

 aforesaid towns according to the quantity of his goods assessable 

 to the said ninth in the aforesaid i4th year they say, yes. In 

 witness whereof the said jurors have set their seals to this 

 inquisition. Given at the above-mentioned day place and year. 

 Therefore it is considered that the said abbot be discharged 

 from the aforesaid 19 os. 5^d. and be quit by virtue of the 

 scrutiny the inquisition the royal writ and other the premisses. 



In the great roll of the 24th year of King Edward the Third in 

 the roll of Somerset there is contained this entry : " The Abbot 

 of Cerne owes 19 os. sjd. for the ninth of sheaves skins and 

 lambs granted to the king in the i^-th year in respect of his 

 goods in the towns of Symondsbury, Toller Fratrum, Winter- 

 borne Abbas, Longbredy, Powerstock, Cerne, Hawkchurch, and 

 other towns, but he ought not to be summoned therefor accord- 

 ing to the writ of the king enrolled in the memorandum of the 

 i yth year of the present king in Michaelmas term and the 

 process which was held thereupon and the judgment of the 

 barons noted in the roll of pleas of the zist year to wit among 

 the pleas of Michaelmas Term. And he is quit." 



Folio 5. Be it remembered that King Henry the Second, the father to 

 wit of Richard and John kings of England, in the fourteenth 

 year of his reign demanded from every knight's fee in England 

 one mark for the marriage of his daughter to the Duke of 

 Saxony. And he required every one who held of him in chief 

 to notify by their letters patent how many knights they held. 

 Among whom Robert, the tenth Abbot of Cerne, notified to him 

 that he held ten knights for whom he owed only the service of 

 two knights. And it is written in the fourteenth roll of the said 

 King that [the Abbot] paid two marks for two knights and is 

 quit : and that he owes eight marks for eight knights which he 

 does not admit. And these eight marks were never paid, but in 

 the 6th roll of King Richard that debt was cancelled. 



The letter of Robert the Abbot addressed to the Lord King 

 Henry the Second is written in the roll and in the book at the 

 Exchequer of London as follows: "To his illustrious Lord 



