PO U E RIN T tam posteri quam presentes quod contro- uersia que versabatur inter ecclesiam sanete Wereburge* de Cestria et ecclesiam de Benedicto Loco, siue de Stanlawe, super decimis de Staneya-f hoc modo ppetualiter sopita est, videlicet, quod ecclesia de Benedicto Loco, siue de Stanlawe, reddet annuatim ecclesie sanete Wereburge duas petras de cera, unam infra oct. passionis apostolicorum Petri et Pauli, et aliam ad festiuitatem

* Edgar, king of у* Mercians, anno 8Л8, founded this abbey, and endowed it with several lands specified in his charter. — See Bishop Gastrell's Notitia Cestriensis.

t At Domesday the monastery seems to have been possessed of some lands in this township, that record stating, Staney — de hac terra v. acra fuit et esse debet sanete Werburge : canonici calumpniantur, quia injuste perdunt. The manor was subse quently granted to the barons of Halton, and was granted (see p. 1,) by John, con stable of Chester to the abbey of Stanlawe. The tithes, however, remained attached to the abbey of St Werburg. This charter is referred to by Ormerod as taken from the chartulary of St. Werburg, and it shows that the township was anciently a part of the parish of Eastham. Ormerod places the date in the time of Henry III., but an earlier date may be assigned with certainty ; for there appears to have been only one Robert abbot of Chester after the foundation of Stanlawe, viz. Robert de Hastings, from 1186 to 1194; and the confirmation is by Archbishop Baldwin, who filled the see of Canterbury from 1185 till 1191.

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sancti Michaelis. Et ipsa sepedicta ecclesia de Benedicto Loco, siue de Stanlawe, solute et quiete habebit omnes decimas et omnes alias obuentiones totius terre de Staneya et eius ptinentijs, quam fratres prefate ecclesie pprijs manib3 vel sumptib3 excoluerint, et quicquid ipsi habuerint, siue in nutrimentis animalium, siue in alijs rebus, unde decime dari solent, absque omni calumpnia et reclamatione ecclesie sanete Wereburge. Ita tamen quod quamdiu homines secu lares in Staneya manserint, ipsi omnia ecclesiastica iura sue matricis ecclesie de Hesteham psoluant, prout fecerunt ante aduentum mona- chorifm ad Stanlawe. Et ecclesia sanete Wereburge prefatam eccle- siam p hijs duab3 petris de cera ab omni exactione ecclesie de Hesteham, cui villa de Staneya parochiali iure subiacebat, p omnia defendet. Et ut hec conuentio inconeussa psistat in posterum ideirco eam appositione sigillorum dñi Roberti Abbatis de Cestria, et Radulphi Abbatis de Buldewas, Johannis Abbatis de Cumbermara, corroboran volumus.