Catalogue description Maud the Empress, daughter of King Henry [I] and Henry her son, Duke of Normandy, to...

Maud the Empress, daughter of King Henry [I] and Henry her son, Duke of Normandy, to their Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Earls, Barons, Justiciars, Sheriffs, Ministers and all their faithful men of all England, both French and English, greeting.

Know that we have given and granted to God and St. Mary of Drogo's spring and the brothers serving God there, for the soul of Henry our father and also for the well-being of the kingdom of England and for our health in perpetual alms a meadow of the forest of Cheppeham for pasture and making hay, and twenty shillingsworth of land near the bridge of Lacoc which belongs to the fee of Ruda, as long as Ruda shall be in our hands. And besides this finally we have granted to the said place three pence daily from our farm of Cheppeham as long as that place shall be inhabited by religious people.

Witnesses : William the chancellor, Herbert the chaplain, Alexander de Buhun, Richard de Haia, Hugh de Doura, Walkelin Maminot, Hubert de Vallibus, Manasser Biset, William fitz Hamo, Warin fitz Gerold, William de Ansgervilla. At Rouen.

See Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum iii, No.837.