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whenever they might wish and see fit so to do, to dung dig and 

 trench as well their lands as their waste and to enclose the same 

 as long as crops should be there, provided that after the carrying 

 of the crops they should have their common of pasture as before 

 saving to both abbots and convents and their men and tenants 

 free ingress and egress over that portion of the pasture or waste 

 which should not be cultivated and sown. Moreover to the 

 maintenance of this friendly compromise for all future time the 

 aforesaid abbots bound themselves in their own name and that of 

 their convents by corporal oaths on either side. Also for greater 

 security the present compromise was reduced into duplicate 

 charters made up after the fashion of a chirograph of which one 

 sealed with the seals of the abbot and convent of Cerne is 

 deposited in the monastery of Abbotsbury and the other sealed 

 with the seals of the abbot and convent of Abbotsbury is 

 deposited in the monastery of Cerne. The following being 

 witnesses. 



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If wheat shall be sold for six shillings [the quarter] then good 

 white bread should be sold at a farthing and ought to weigh 16 

 shillingsweight * and wholemeal bread 24 shillingsweight. And 

 then two gallons of good beer ought to be sold for one penny. 



If wheat shall be sold for 53. 6d., white bread should weigh 

 2os., and wholemeal bread 285., and three gallons of good beer 

 be sold for id. 



If wheat shall be sold for 55., white bread ought to weigh 243., 

 and wholemeal bread 323., and three gallons of good beer for id. 



If wheat shall be sold for 43. 6d., white bread ought to weigh 

 303., and wholemeal bread 403. And four gallons of good beer 

 for id. 



If wheat shall be sold for 43., white bread ought to weigh 363., 

 and wholemeal bread 463. And five gallons of good beer for id. 



* A shillingsweight = 12 pennyweights = 3-oths of the ounce ; indicated, like 

 the shilling, by s. 



