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Catalogue description Notification by Henry [I], king of the English, to Ralph, bishop of Chichester, and William FitzAnger and the barons of Sussex, both French and English, of his grant in alms to the church of St. Martin of Battle and the monks of that place.
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| Reference: | COWDRAY/1/(iii) |
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| Title: | Notification by Henry [I], king of the English, to Ralph, bishop of Chichester, and William FitzAnger and the barons of Sussex, both French and English, of his grant in alms to the church of St. Martin of Battle and the monks of that place. |
| Description: |
(1120 is the date suggested by C. Johnson and H. A. Cronne, Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, vol. ii, p. 152) Manor called Apeldreham [Appledram], free from all manner of customary services as when it was in the king's demesne, and [rent of] 40s. 0d. which the king had previously retained in the same manor, with the farm of Boseham [Bosham]. This grant is made in exchange for their possessions at Reading [co. Berks.] (pro excambio de Rading'). Further grant that they may hold without challenge (calumpnia) this custom in the wood of Bocfalde and in that of Betlesparrioc, i.e. that if the king shall place therein three pigs in pannage, the monks may always send the fourth and take back freely, and shall moreover have the fourth penny of pannage; and if the king shall have taken three oaks, the monks may take the fourth for the repair of their houses, and they may have the fourth penny from the land belonging to the same woods and the fourth hen at Christmas, and from Yringesmed the fourth penny, and twenty-five eggs at Easter. No sheriff or minister or other person to molest the monks upon pain of forfeiture, but they shall have the property freely and quietly as the king held it in his own demesne, and the monks and the men of the manor shall be free and quit from all customary services with sac and soc, toll and team, infangthief, geld, scot, hidage, danegeld, and bridgework, castlework, parkwork and enclosurework and military service, and from all aids of shire and hundred, and wardpenny, lastage, larceny-fine, murder-fine, treasure, and right of warren, and all pleas and plaints. Witnesses--Roger, bishop of Salisbury, Adam de Port. Given at Portesmuda [Portsmouth]. Monasticon (1846 edition), vol. 3, p. 247; but J. H. Round, Ancient Charters (Pipe Roll Society, vol. 10), pp. 27-28, gives reasons for doubting the genuineness of this actual charter, although not of its provisions. |
| Date: | Nov-Dec 1120 |
| Held by: | West Sussex Record Office, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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