422 RIBVAULX ABBET. 



this monastery into his immediate protection, en, 

 joining that the cistercian order should there conti- 

 nue for ever ; confirming to them all their possess- 

 ions, many of which are there specified ; (being all 

 I suppose which at that time had been given to them,) 

 and exempted them from paying tythes ; forbidding 

 all persons to detain any of the brethren of the house j 

 charging all bishops not to interdict them, unless for 

 some notorious offence ; allowing them to perform 

 the divine office in private, although the community 

 should happen to be under an interdict ; declaring, 

 any person excommunicate, who should presume to 

 steal any thing out of their lands, or to take any 

 man thence ; and confirming all the immunities 

 granted to them by king Henry I., and Henry II. 



Pope Alexander IV., (who reigned from A. D. 

 1254 to 1261,) confirmed their exemption from tythes^ 

 explaining that such exemption extended also to the 

 tythes of such newly cultivated ground as they shoulcj 

 occupy, or be at the expense of improving. 



Among the numerous grants of land, &c., made 

 to this abbey, Walter l^Espec gave the manor of 

 Hehnsley. Peter de Ros granted the monks leave 

 to buy fish at Redcar, and carry it through all the 

 ways of his lordships. Roger de Mowbray gave 

 Midel-hovet, Siclicet Salton, in Farndale ; where 

 Edmund the hermit lived j with the other Salton, 

 called Du Vauthave. 



Dugdale makes the monks to have had fifty caru- 

 cates of land. A carucate of land was from 120 to, 

 180 acres, varying according to the places and cus- 

 toms ; consequently the total amount of acres would; 



