Colne Charter 35
Alberic earl of Oxford to all his men in France and England, present and future, greetings.
Know you that I have given and conceded in perpetual alms, for the soul of
my father Alberic de Ver and for the souls of all my kinsmen living and dead, to God and S. Mary and S. John the Evangelist and
my monks of Colne, the moiety of the town of Colne Miblanc, in forest and plain and in all things, and half the mill and the whole church with all appurtenances, and the land of
Algodus which renders five shillings, and the church of Horstead on condition that if I or my heirs are not able to guarantee the render, we shall give five marks of silver to the aforesaid monks, and in addition I grant and confirm whatever my forefathers or my father or others of my enfeoffment have given, namely the church of S. Andrew of Colne with all its appurtenances and the tithe of the fishponds of the park and mill and the tithe of everything titheable in the demesne, and the church of Belcamp with all its appurtenances, the tithe of everything titheable in the demesne, and the church of Dovercourt with all its appurtenances and a man with five acres, and the church of Grimbald’s Roding with its appurtenances and the whole demesne tithe, and in the other Roding one man who returns thirty-two pennies and two parts of everything titheable in the demesne, and two parts of the demesne tithe of Aldham and of Lavenham and of Hedingham on everything titheable in the demesne, and the mill that returns twenty shillings in Hedingham and part of the tithe of the demesne of
Ernaldus de Topesfeld and
Warinus Grosvassal and
Radulfus de Hosden on everything titheable, and two parts of the tithe of
Hubert de Tagalea, and 4 shillings of the land of
Richard son of Picardus, and the whole tithe of the demesne of Roger
de Ver in Waldingfield and a third part of the church with acres of land, and half of the tithe of
Thiele, knight of Aldeham, and half of the tithe of Wadenhoe and Weald, and fifteen shillings of land at Burgate, and three shillings worth of land at Cruppinge, and twenty shillings worth of the mill of the Forde, and at Sudbury four shillings, and at Colchester sixteen pennies, and the church of Kensington just as
Ingulfus the abbot of Abindon gave in perpetuity on the day of dedication of the church of Colne and placed upon the altar. I grant that the aforesaid monks should have all these things as freely and peacefully and honorably as ever my father or I or my forefathers had better or more peacefully. Moreover, I grant that whomsoever of my men wishes to bestow upon the the church of Colne some benefit in land or in church or in renders, may make the grant with my will and consent.
Witnesses:
Robert, bishop of London.
Hugo, abbot of Colchester.
Ailward, archdeacon.
Godfrey de Ver.
Wilhelm de Ver.
Gilbert de Ver.
Fulcone, steward, and
Peter, his clerk.
Robert, chaplain.
Ernald de Topesfeld.
Ralph de Guines.
Ralph son of Adam.
Master Sampson.
Hamon, clerk of Stistede.
Payn, forester.
Robert, carpenter.
Turchillus, mason.