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Robert granted them to us. And of the corn of those Manors 

 you shall cause to be replaced as much as may be necessary for 

 seed for the land, and for the food of the servants, for themselves 

 only, and the residue you shall have valued and kept in safe 

 custody till such time as you know if we wish to retain it at that 

 price for our own use. September 7, 1205." 



King John was at Poorstock on the following dates : 

 1205 Ann. 7 August 25. 



1207 Ann. 8 March 29, 30, 



1207 Ann. 9 Septembers. 



1210 Ann. 12 September 27. 



1213 Ann. 15 July 29, 30, 31. 



These dates are from Sir D. Hardy's Itinerary of King John. 

 Notes to above. " For the sake of ready reference I have 

 numbered the Extracts given above. The last entry (No. 12) is 

 of importance. The King commands the Sheriffs of Dorset to 

 cause Robert de Newburgh to have sieizn of eight librates and 

 one hundred solidates of land in Fordington, which he had given 

 him in exchange for Powerstock and its pertinences. As Power- 

 stock was an Honour or Barony (No. i) it must have been held 

 by Robert de Newburgh of the King in capile ; after the exchange 

 it was held by the King himself in demesne, as stated in the Testa 

 de Nevill. The date of the above extract (No. 12) fixes the 

 actual date of the exchange September 8th, 1205, but the agree- 

 ment must have been come to between the King and Robert de 

 Newburgh earlier than this, for the King on April 1 7th previously 

 orders materials to be provided for the building (No. 5), and 

 some progress must have been made with the work, for on 

 November 1 3th of the same year the Barons of the Exchequer 

 are ordered to pay the Sheriff what he had laid out on the 

 buildings at Powerstock, and a second payment was ordered on 

 June ist, 1206 (No. 7), and a third on June i7th, 1207 (No. 8). 

 The work extended over a considerable time. In the Pipe Rolls 

 two of these payments are mentioned (and I may have over- 

 looked the third), namely, ^"104 in John 8, and ^25 in John 9 

 in all. This would be equivalent to 2,000 in the 



