Colne Priory Charter 2
I wish it known to all the whole church of the faithful under my governance that I, Henry, by the grace of God king of England, for the remission of my sins and my salvation and that of all my predecessors and successors, with all the power of my office, grant and confirm and authorize to continue eternally the donations of lands, churches, tithes, dues, liberties and other things that Alberic de Ver and his wife Beatrix and their heirs, and their followers and their heirs, and other faithful men, have already made, and shall make, to God and his glorious mother the Virgin Mary and the monks of Abingdon at Colne in Essex of God’s family. That is to say, the church of St. Andrew at Colne with the land of the priest Ranulf and with everything pertaining to the church and six times twenty acres of land and garden which is beyond the water with game, and the land that Serlo held, as better and more generously than ever it was held, in fields and woods and pasture, and two woods, that is, Dodepolesho and Norwude, and the wood of Litleheia with twenty acres of land, and Goda’s land, ten shilling’s worth of land and Edwin’s land, five shillings worth and twenty acres of land which were exchanged for Blachemann’s land, and one man with five acres, and the land of Elmar Long,and the land and mill and granges of the forester Wulfwin. And the church of Dovercourt with thirty acres of land and with all its appurtenances, and the church of Belchamp and appurtenances, and the church of Camps with all appurtenances. In these manors, namely, Hedingham, Belchamp, Lavenham, Aldham, Dovercourt, Great Bentley, Roding, two parts of the tithes on everything of the lordship and one man with five acres. In Weald and Wadenhoe a moiety of the tithe on all things of the lordship and one man with five acres. In Hedingham two mills that Aldwin the miller held. From the land of Adelhelm of Burgate, ten shillings worth. At Cadwell forty shillings worth of land, half a tithe of the demesne of Miblanc de Colne, near Bures the whole tithe of Richard son of Hadaline and Gilbert his neighbour, save the part belong to the priest; at Canwell a third part of the tithe of Alured the sheriff and two parts of the tithe of Ralph in the same town; at Hedingham a third part of the tithe of Rannulf Mengui and a third part of Robert Balci et of the land of Guihumar and of the land of Willhelm Grosvassal. All these donations I wish and resolutely enjoin that the aforesaid monks, with all that they have justly and legally acquired, should hold and possess in perpetuity, freely and peacefully, in woods and on the plain, in meadow and pasture, in water and the mill, the hatchery and the fish, in the ways and paths, in the community and outside it, and in all other things and places, with the right to hold court for pleas of trespass among the community’s tenants and a lord’s jurisdiction and toll and the right of judging bondsmen and infanganetheof and with all the other liberties and customary privileges which the aforementioned Alberic de Ver held better or more freely, or any one of his ancestors. Moreover, I concede and advise that everything the above-said monks and their men, concerning their own home, shall be exempt from all tolls and customs and passage through the whole of England and I prohibit anyone from disturbing them on pain of forfeiture of ten pounds.
Witnesses. Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and John de Baiocis, and Gilbert, chaplain, and Goisfrid de Diva, and Hamon, steward, and Rannulf Meschin, and William Peverell de Nottingham, and Hugo of Buckland. At Reading.