2 88 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



enclofed grounds, they paid a halfpenny, and the fame for five 

 Iheep, as a compenfation, for three fevcral trefpaffes, as well 

 without as within the enclofures ; and for the fourth trefpafs of 

 every horned beaft in his enclofed wood or bofcage, they paid 

 eight-pence, and four-pence for each taken without the enclo- 

 fure, and afterwards taking only a halfpenny for a beaft tref- 

 paffing three times as at firft. If their cattle were taken among 

 corn cr in the meadows, they made reparation according to the 

 feafon of the year. He granted and confirmed to them and their 

 fucceflbrs moft of the unoccupied ground, which was their an- 

 tient market-place, with an injunction to build flails for the ufe 

 of butchers and thofe that fold fifhes ; and a prohibition for any 

 of their goods to be fold before the hour of nine o' clock, and in 

 no other part of the town, except in grofs or by wholefale ; his 

 lordfhip rcferving to himfelf and his fucceflbrs a power to build 

 upon any of his lands wherein he had granted a right of com^ 

 mon to the corporation. He confined them to grind their : corn 

 at his mill of Morpeth, according to former ufage (zj. 



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f 2 ) Oiriri'nis hanc cartani vifurio vel auclituris Rogen/s de Merlay tertius, falutem. No- 

 veriiis me audilib carta Rogeri pa'.ris mei in hac verba. Omnibus homir.ibus has literas vi- 

 furis, vc! audituris, Rogcrus de Ma Icy, falutem. Sciatis quod ego Rigerus de A fir fay dedi 

 et conccfli, ct hac praefenti carta mea confirmavitTe, meis liberis burgenlibus de Marpet/.', 

 illis, et hasrcci.bi: ; luis, tenend. et habend. ia perpetuum de me et hasredibus meis, omnc? 

 libertates, ct omnes liberas confuetudines, honorabiliter, et libere, et integre, ficuti carta 

 domini tegis purportat quam ego habeo de dono fuo. His tcftibus, J^illielmo de Mcrlay, Ri- 

 chardo de Pleffw, &c. Quare vo!o, concede, et confirmo, pro me, et haeredibus meis, 

 prsediflis. burgenfibus, et hseredibus fuis, quod habcant omncs libertates prsedictas ficut 

 carta Rtgerl de Merlay patris mei purportat et teftatur. Et praeterea conceffi pro me et hae- 

 redibus meis quod priefati burgenfcs nee haeredes eorum tallientur nifi qunndo dominus rex 

 talliabit burgenfss fuos et ad promogenitum metim milit. faciend. et ad primogenuam filiam 

 rr.eam maritandam, e; ad corpus meum de prifona redimcndum. Item conceffi eifdem quod 

 fi ego vd hsredesTiu'i priazs ferimus per fcrvientes noftros de pane vel decervifia, vel de a!i- 



qua 



