PAGE 84 VOL 1 PART 1. Composition made between Sir Ralph de Truno, Prior of Lancaster, by the title of the Lord Abbot of Seez specially committed to him, and by the authority of his church of Poulton and the Abbot and Convent of Cockersand. The said Prior having been appointed to collect what had been lost, so far as it might be possible to do so, and to make terms in such wise as he should consider advantageous to the abbey of Se'ez and to the church of Poulton, and having accordingly demanded from the said abbot and convent of Cockersand the parochial tithe of a certain pasture, in the parish of the said church, lying between Colecross and the outer western dyke towards Preesall, called Stockpool, which said pasture the said abbot and convent obtained by the confirmation of Sir John de Hackensall and Geoffrey, his son - came to the following agree- ment with the said abbot and convent, on Thursday, being the eve of the circumcision of our Lord, A.D. 1271- to wit, that the said Prior having remitted all the losses previously sustained, the said abbot and convent should yearly thereafter pay to the said church of Poulton, in the name of tithe for the said pasture, the sum of eighteen pence at the feast of St. Michael ; and further, that if the said abbot and convent should hereafter seek to bring the said pasture into tillage, that the said church of Poulton should fully gather the tithe of garbs of the whole tillage to be made therein, as well as the aforesaid sum of eighteen pence. To render this composition irreftagably binding for the future, both parties have hereunto set their seals. Dist December, 1271. (Agreement, Settlement, , LANCASHIRE (ENGLAND)) Givers: Ralph de Truno (Prior of Lancaster Alien Priory) Receivers: Cockersand - St. Mary Abbey