^W" E C est compositio facta inter Abbatem et conuentum dc W I Stanlawe ex una parte et Abbatem et conuentum de Mira je. \j ualle ex altera, de vicinitate pasture super ripam de Alte commissa per generale capitulum venerabilib3 de Rupe et de Kyrke- stall et de Salleye Abbatib3 terminanda, videlicet, quod dicti Abbas et conuentus de Miraualle in veritate fidei compmiserunt se neque p se neque p suos aliquid opus manuale aut machinamentum p retia vel piscationem, vel aliquid quod cedere possit ad nocumentum

* Merivalc, or Miravale, was a Cistercian abbey in Warwickshire, founded by Robert ff'errers, second earl of Derby, temp. Stephen, as a filiation from Bordesley abbey in Worcestershire. He endowed it with lands in that county and Leicester shire, which, on the dissolution of the monastery in the reign of Henry VIII., were, by an act of justice almost unparalleled in those days of confiscation, granted to his descendant, Sir W. Devereux, Lord fferrers of Chartlcy, afterwards created Vis count Hereford, The abbey had considerable possessions in Lancashire, probably the gift of the earls fferrers.

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dictorum Abbatis et conuentus de Stanlawe super ipsam ripam de Alte facturos in quantum terra Willmi Blundel vel heredum eius se extendit. Neque facient aquam duci extra cursum antiquum, sed omnia illis integre et illibata pmaneant, sicut fuerunt tempore com position's huius facte. Quod si averia monachorum de Stanlawe dictam ripam ad pasturam casu transierint, aut averia monachorum de Miraualle^ ex aduerso, sine retentione, vel contentione, aut dampno reddantur. Si autem ex emptione, vel collatione fidelium in villis de Rauenesmeles vel de Forneby monachi de Stanlawe accrescere potuerint, liceat illis absque ulla contradictione monachorum de Miraualle aut impedimento libere recipere. Saluo dictis monachis de Miraualle ingressu et exitu cum omnib3 auerijs suis ad pasturam suam sine contradictione monachorum de Stanlawe. Siquis autem monachus vel conuersus contra istam compositionem venire presump- serit ad domum contra quam presumpserit pedes eat ibidem satisfac- turus. Ut autem ista compositio illibata pmaneat imppetuum dicti Judices de Rupe, de Kirkstall, de Salleye Abbates cum sigillis Abbatum utriusque domus huic scripto cyrographato sigilla sua appo- suerunt, anno gratie m° cc° xxxviij°.