aU M mota esset contentio inter dñum Symonem Abbatem et conuentum Cestrie ex parte una, et dñum Robertum Abbatem et conuentum de Stanlawe ex altera, super quan- dam plateam terre inter campos de Aldricheholm et quendam Pul,

* The ledger book of St. Werburg contains an agreement between the monks of Stanlawe and St. Werburg, relative to the mills and fisheries in Tanin water between Stanlawe and Ince; and a covenant on the part of the monks of the first to maintain a road of thirty feet in width through their domain, "versus Wyrhale directe extendentem usque ad altam calceam inter abbatiam de Stanlawe et grangiam de Staneya." The bridges on the Ince side to be maintained at the expense of Chester Abbey, " unum ad bigas et plaustrum, et aliud ad equites et pedites," and those towards Wirral at the expense of Stanlawe. The monks of Chester, as lords of Ince, also agree, that the monks of Stanlawe and their successors and free men shall have passage "bigis et plaustris in perpetuum per viam que ducit a molendinis de Ynes."

Of these roads, that, which formed the communication between Ince and Stan lawe, much to the inconvenience of this part of Cheshire, has been disnsed beyond

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qui vocatur le Holpul, versus mariscum de Stanlawe ex parte occi- dentali iacente, predictis Abbate et conuentu Cestrie dictam plateam esse de solo et territorio suo de Alrichesholm asserentib3, dictis Abbate et conuentu de Stanlawe ipsam ad se pleno iure per- tinere contendentib3, ac etiam super quodam chymino, habend, a dicta terra ipsorum Abbatis et conuentus Cestrie de Alriches ad molendina sua de Ynes. Tandem dicta contentione omnino cessante, unanimi consensu inter partes amicabiliter conuenit, quod dicta platea terre inter easdem partes equaliter diuideretur. I ta quod pars superior versus Abbathiam de Stanlawe dictis Abbati et conuentui de Stanlawe et eorum successorib3, ad omne commodum suum inde faciendum imppetuum remanebit. Pars vero altera versus Alriches tam extra vetus fossatum quod includit pratum ipsorum Abbatis et conuentus de Stanlawe quam nouum inter partes pro diuisis factum usque ad medietatem fundi dicti noui fossati, et ad aperturam veteris fossati, predictis Abbati et conuentui Cestrie et eorum successorib3 et assignatis ad omnimodum commodum suum inde faciendum, soluta et quieta sine aliqua contradictione dictorum Abbatis et conuentus de Stanlawe vel eorum successorum aut assig- natorum imppetuum remanebit. Concesserunt etiam predicti Abbas et conuentus de Stanlawe p se et successoriïrç suis, quod predicti Abbas et conuentus Cestrie et eorum successores assignati et homines habeant imppetuum unum chyminum ad plaustra et bigas a dicta terra sua de Alriches ad molendina sua de Ynes inter fossatum prati dictorum Abbatis et conuentus de Stanlawe et aquam de Teruen descendendo usque ad corneram siue extremitatem dicti fossati ppin- quiorem superiori molendino de Ynes. Ita quod tota terra et maris- cus ubique inter aperturam dicti fossati et ipsam aquam ad faciendum chyminum et omnimodum aliud commodum quod simul possit fieri

the memory of man; the other part, leading from Stanlawe to Stanney, crossed a piece of land called Pooles Wharf, and was swept away by an inundation into the Mersey, about the middle of the last century." — Ormerod.