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against them nor apply to any one else for patronage. Also 

 you shall rest content with the rights rents and profits of your 

 church now as of old appertaining thereto : and you shall not 

 claim accept or hold more to the prejudice or hurt of this 

 monastery. Also you shall pay the yearly and ancient payment 

 of your church faithfully and in full without any deductions from 

 year to year as long as you shall be rector or vicar there. In 

 the aforesaid register. 



i o But in the register of the Monastery of Langdon we have a 

 charter of appropriation after the following fashion: "Edward 

 by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of 

 Aquitaine to all to whom the present letter shall come Greeting. 

 Know ye that for the special devotion which we bear to the 

 blessed Thomas, the glorious martyr, in whose honour the Abbey 

 of Langdon near Dover of the order of Premonstratensians was 

 founded, and also for the sincere affection which we have for 

 brother William the Abbot of that place and the canons serving 

 God there we have given and granted to the same Abbot and 

 Canons the Advowson of the Church of Tonge in the County of 

 Kent which belonged to Bartholomew of Badelesmere lately our 

 enemy and rebel and which by his forfeiture came into our hands 

 as our escheat to have and to hold to the same abbot and 

 canons and their successors of us and our heirs in free pure and 

 perpetual alms for ever. We have also for us and our heirs as 

 far as in us lies granted and given licence to the same abbot 

 and canons that they may appropriate that church and hold it so 

 appropriated to their own use for themselves and their aforesaid 

 successors for ever without disturbance or hindrance from us or 

 our heirs justices escheators sheriffs or other our bailiffs or 

 officers whatsoever notwithstanding the statute passed concerning 

 the putting of lands and tenements into mortmain. In witness 

 whereof we have caused these our letters patent to be executed. 

 Witness myself at Langdon on the 28th day of August in the 

 1 9th year of our reign, to wit Edward II." 



