210 A REGISTER OF THE ABBEY OF MILTON. 



Bordehalpeny : this is, quit of a customary charge exacted for 



(?) pitching a booth. (?) 

 Brugbote : this is, free of aids to be given for rebuilding 



bridges. 

 Brugbote : this is, free of aids to be given for rebuilding 



a borough, castle, city, or walls thrown 



down. 

 Averpeny : this is to be free concerning different things 



to be given for the purveyance of our Lord 



the King. 



The Register of the Priory of Saint Mary of Coventry, in 

 the same place. 



8 ^ e li remembered that in the year of our Lord 1278 and in 

 the 8th year of the reign of Edward the son of Henry the Third 

 there was passed that accursed statute forbidding the putting of 

 lands and tenements into mortmains. So that thenceforth no 

 one might give sell bequeath exchange or by any title convey to 

 ecclesiastical persons any lands or tenements without the licence 

 of the King and the chief Lords, as is more fully set out in the 

 same statute. But after the promulgation of that statute the 

 same King Edward by his charter under date of the icth day of 

 April in the 1 2th year of his reign gave a licence to Thomas the 

 son of Gervase of Walton and John of Warre to give and convey 

 to the Prior and Convent in Coventry 40 acres of land in 

 Olughton and 40 shillings of rent in Coventry with the appur- 

 tenances which are of the proper fee of the said convent, as 

 appears by the underwritten charter of the said King to wit 

 " Edward &c." And there follow many other licences of the 

 same King against the tenor of the statute for the benefit of the 

 aforesaid house. 1 



of 9 You shall swear that you will be faithful to God and to the 



Monastery of Milton, to the Lord Abbot and to the monks now 



serving God there and to their successors. You shall not vouch 



1 It is not clear whether this comment is made by the writer of the Cartulary 

 or by the 17th century copyist. See further, translator's note, p. 212. 



