The Coucher Book - or chartulary of Whalley Abbey, Nr. 23, S. 30
OMNIBUS Cristi fidelib3 hoc scriptum visuris vel audi- turis, Cristiana filia Bertreye de Cestria eternam in dño salutem. Nouerit uniuersitas vestra me in legitima potes- tate mea sine ullo retenemento dédisse concessisse et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse Deo et beate Marie et Abbati et conuentui Loci Benedicti de Stanlawe in puram et ppetuam elemosynam p salute anime mee et omnium antecessorum meorum totam terram meam in löngitudine et latitudine cum omnib3 ptinentijs in Brugge Strete ciuitatis Cestrie, iacentem inter terram Ricardi clerici quon dam maioris Cestrie ex una parte, et terram Roberti Harald ex altera parte, quam quidem terram dictus Rob. Harald emit de Rico filio
Ши De Oomtuue ete. in Ceetrta. 357
Nichi filij Orm. Habend, et tenend. dictis Abbati et conuentui Loci Benedicti de Stanl. et eoram successorib3 de me et heredib3 meis adeo libere et quiete sicut aliqua elemosyna melius liberius aut quietius dari potest cum omnib3 edifieijs in dicta terra positis et ponendis, ptinentijs, libertatib3, commoditatib3, et aisiamentis omnib3 dicte terre ubiq. ptinentib3, et cum redditu xx. denariorum quem quidem redditum Rob. Harald mihi solebat reddere, p terra quam emit de Rico filio Nichi filij Orm., in festo saneti Michaclis. Redd, inde annuatim de dictis Abbate et conuentu et de eorum successorib3 Willo de Paunton et heredib3 suis vel eorum certo attornato quinq. solidos argenti et duos denarios ad festum saneti Martini in hyeme p omnib3 8ccularib3 seruieijs, consuetudinib3, et exactionib3 uniuersis vel de- mandis predicte terre ptinentib3. Ita quidem quod ego Cristiana vel heredes mei nee aliquis p me vel p nie iure mco nichil iuris vel clamei in dicta terra cum ptinentijs, exigere, clamare, aut vendicare de cetero poterimus, preter orationes et elemosynas. Ego vero Cris tiana et heredes mei totam dictam terram cum ptinentijs, sicut predictum est, dictis Abbati et conuentui Loci Benedicti de Stanlawe et eorum successor^ contra omnes homines et feminas imppetuum warantizabimus et defendemus. Et ut hec mea donatio, concessio, et confirmatio in pleno portmoto Cestrie facte ppetuitatis robur optineant presenti scripto sigillum meum apposui. Hijs testib3, dño Reginaldo tunc Justic. Cestrie,* Joh. de Arnewey tunc maiore Cestrie, Alex. Hurel, Ric. le Spicer tunc vie. Cestrie, Ric. clerico quondam maiore Cestrie, Matho de Deresbur, Stepho Saraceno, Rado Dubleday, Johe Norman, Rob. Harald, Johe Grund, Philippo Clerico tunc Judicib3 portmoti-f Cestrie, Reginaldo Erneys, et multis alijs.
* The date of this deed is traced with certainty to 1269 or 1270, for in 1270 Reginald Grey was Judge of Cheshire, and John Arneway was Mayor, Richard Gierke having finished his Mayoralty, beginning A.D. 1261, and ending 1267.
t The portmoto was a court peculiar, as its name implies, to ports and havens. And Chester was at this time, and, from an early period of Saxon history, had been
358 2Ttt. De Öomtbue etc. in Ceßtrta.
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