Folios: 225v-226. Norfolk. Inspeximus of a charter, which Robert, count of Meulan...

Folios: 225v-226. Norfolk. Inspeximus of a charter, which Robert, count of Meulan and earl of Leicester, made to the church of the Apostles St Peter and St Paul of Pratell' and the monks there.

First party: Edward I.

Second party: [unspecified].

Place or subject: For the salvation of Robert's soul and that of King William, his lord, and the souls of his ancestors, Robert granted to the church of the Apostles St Peter and Paul of Pratell' [Préaux] and the monks there his manor of Toftes [Toft Monks] with appurtenances, namely lands, groves, marshes, meadows, turbaries, men, rents, pastures, commons and appurtenances, as freely as King William gave it to Robert. To hold to the monks and their successors in free, pure and perpetual alms well and in peace, honourably and justly, quit from suits of hundred courts, pleas, complaints, customs and all royal demands with soke, sac, 'thol, thif, infongenethef and utfongenethef', and with free warren in the parishes of Toftes [Toft Monks], Hadesco [Haddiscoe] and Thorp [Haddiscoe Thorpe] with all other liberties. Robert has also added to this gift the rights of patronages of the churches of St Margaret of that vill, St Mary of Haddiscoe, St Michael of Eston [Aston], St Leonard of Wileya, St Mary of Spectebury [Spettisbury], St Michael of Cherlinton [Charlton] and St Nicholas of Neubiry [Newbury], with tithes, obventions and pensions pertaining to those churches. In addition, in the vill Newbury the tithe of the whole rent or issue of the vill, i.e. from mills from toll and everything which can be tithed in the future, with one hide of land free from all rent and custom, suit of court and all secular service, all of which Ernulf de Hesdin, count of Perche, lord of Newbury, gave to Robert to the uses of alms of the monks. Robert also gave to the monks the small vill called Orlauescote [Arlescote] and five hides of land pertaining to it, free and abolsute from suits of hundred-courts, pleas, complaints, aids, customs, secular services and all demands and exactions. He also gave to them another manor by the name of Spettisbury with the whole vill, lands, groves, meadows, pastures, banks, mills, men, their services, chevages, rents and all things belonging to the manor and vill, free and absolute from suits of hundred-courts, pleas, complaints, aids, customs, secular services and all royal forced service with soke, sack, 'thol, thif, infongenethef' with all other liberties.

County: [Norfolk; Berkshire; Dorset; Warwickshire].

Additional people: Witnesses to the charter: the archbishop of Canterbury; the bishops of Salisbury, Norwich and Coventry; the earls of Gloucester, Salisbury and Warwick; the counts of Perche and Mortagne, and other barons, knights, clerks, nobles and freemen. Witnesses to the inspeximus: R. bishop of Bath and Wells [Robert Burnel]; G. bishop of Worchester [Godfrey Giffard]; W. bishop of Norwich [William Middleton]; William de Valence, the king's uncle; Edmund, earl of Cornwall; William de Bello Campo [Beauchamp], earl of Warwick; Roger de Grey; Robert son of John; and Richard de Bosco.

Dated at Westminster.

27 Apr 14 Edw I.