206 A REGISTER OF THE ABBEY OF MILTON. 



it similar gifts of townships and goods ; and he also sent from 

 Britain beyond the seas and other places relics, which he had 

 brought with great care and trouble and expenditure of his own 

 money, to his monastery at Milton, in which place he had built 

 up a monastery from the foundations. 



Coronation. 2 The first king crowned in England, which was then called 

 Britain, was named Kynel ; he was baptized by Saint Birinus, the 

 Bishop, and reigned 27 years, and after him reigned King 

 Knewald, his son (&c., with the names of the kings down to 

 Edward the Third). 



The iuarket' 3 They have also in the same manor to wit, of Milton by the 

 gift of the same King Athelstan a fair yearly on the eve and day 

 of Saint Sampson and a market every week on Monday, and 

 all the rights of judicature which appertain to a fair and a 

 market. 



A MoTtnmi!r 4 Edward by the grace of God King of England Lord of 

 Ireland, Duke of Aquitaine, to all to whom these letters shall 

 come, greeting. 



Although it was ordained by the common council of our realm 

 that it should not be lawful for religious men or others to enter 

 upon any man's fee so that it should come into Mortmain 

 without the licence of ourselves and of the chief lord of whom 

 the property may be immediately held ; nevertheless in consider- 

 ation of the fine which our beloved in Christ the Abbot of Milton 

 has made with us, we for ourselves and our heirs as far as in us 

 lies have granted and given licence to our beloved and faithful 

 Robert of Faringdon that he may give and assign to the afore- 

 said Abbot and the convent of the same place 100 shillings of 

 rent issuing out of one messuage and four virgates of land with 

 the appurtenances in Up Sydling, which John Cosset holds for 

 the term of his life of the aforesaid Robert, for the finding of 

 one monk as chaplain to celebrate divine service every day in 

 the Chapel of the blessed Mary of Milton for ever as well during 

 the life of the said John as after his death for the soul of the 

 said Robert and the souls of his ancestors and of all the faithful 

 dead &c. 



