2IO THE CERNE CARTULARY. 



was summoned between them in the same court. To wit, that 

 the aforesaid abbot of Abbotsbury admitted his disseisin of the 

 aforesaid tenement and restored that tenement to the aforesaid 

 Abbot of Cerne on these terms that each of them should abide by 

 the arbitrament of four knights selected with their common assent 

 concerning the common of pasture in the same tenement and a 

 strip of land concerning which there was a dispute between them. 

 With regard to which the aforesaid abbot of Cerne complains 

 that the aforesaid abbot of Abbotsbury does not abide by that 

 agreement. And therefore we command you that without delay 

 you cause that agreement to be observed between them according 

 to the aforesaid terms, so that if either of them shall go counter 

 to it you shall distrain him to observe it without delay. And let 

 there be no more dispute about it through your default. Witness 

 myself at Woodstock the 4th day of November in the 20th year 

 of our reign. 



In the year of grace 1235 on the feast of S. Andrew the 

 litigation raised between the abbots and convents of Abbotsbury 

 and Cerne about certain pasture and the whole waste of Fineley 

 and Hawkchurch was settled by a friendly compromise on these 

 terms — namely that the aforesaid abbot and convent of Abbots- 

 bury granted to the aforesaid abbot and convent of Cerne that 

 they and their men and tenants of Hawkchurch should have 

 common of pasture throughout the whole waste of Fineley and 

 Hawkchurch for every kind of their beasts of the plough without 

 hindrance in consideration of one pound of wax to be paid 

 yearly to God and the church of S. Peter of Abbotsbury on the 

 feast of the apostles Peter and Paul : but upon the terms that the 

 aforesaid abbot and convent of Abbotsbury and their men and 

 tenants of Fineleye shall have common of pasture throughout the 

 whole waste of the abbot and convent of Cerne in Hawkchurch 

 for every kind of their beasts of the plough except where corn 

 and grass are growing and are not carried. It was also agreed 

 between the said abbots and their convents that it should be lawful 

 for them and their men and tenants of Hawkchurch and Fineley, 



