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the king as appears in the aforesaid memoranda. But he is not 

 to be summoned on that occount by reason of the King's writ 

 dated the 27th day of December in the 22nd year in which it 

 appears that the King has pardoned the same Abbot the service 

 which he ought to have performed in the aforesaid army of 

 Wales in the i oth year for one knight's fee which he holds of the 

 King, by which writ he orders the Treasurers and Barons of the 

 Exchequer to allow the aforesaid Abbot to be quit of that service 

 for the year aforesaid. And he is quit. 



Folio 7*. Be it remembered that Edward King of England the son of 

 King Henry in the thirty-first year of his reign demanded from 

 every knight's fee of England forty shillings for the marriage of 

 his first born daughter. And then the Abbot of Cerne answered 

 for two fees paying four pounds to John Gereberd the then sheriff 

 and John of Milbourne knight from whom he holds a tally. 



Edward by the grace of God &c. to his beloved and faithful 

 the Sheriff of Dorset and John of Milbourne Greeting. Whereas 

 we lately appointed you to collect and levy for our use forty 

 shillings of every military fee in the aforesaid county as an aid 

 to the marriage of our first born daughter. And whereas now 

 by the complaint of our beloved in Christ the Abbot of Cerne 

 we have heard that that you exceeding the terms of your 

 appointment are unjustly distraining this same Abbot to pay us 

 an aid of this amount as well for the lands and tenements which 

 he holds in socage and in free and perpetual alms as of other his 

 lands and tenements which he holds by military fees and 

 services of that nature and also for more fees than he holds in 

 the aforesaid county, to the no small damage and grievance of 

 the said Abbot: Now we, being unwilling that any injustice 

 should be done to the Abbot in this respect, command you that, 

 having regard only to the military fees and to the lands and 

 tenements which the Abbot holds of military service in the 

 aforesaid county and not to the whole extent of his lands and 

 tenements, you in no wise distrain the said Abbot to pay to us 

 anything on account of the aforesaid aid beyond his proportion 

 of his aforesaid fees and lands and tenements which he holds 



