XLVIII. Approbatio et ratificatio domhii Walteri Couentremis episcopi depredicta terra de Snelleshon.

OMNIBUS Cristi fidelib} ad quos presens scriptum pue- nerit, W. pmissione diuna Couentr. episcopus eternam in dño salutem. Noueritis nos inspexisse cartas dilectorum in Cristo filiorum dñi Joh. de Lascy constab. Cestrie et Galfridi de cani de Whalleye super concessione et collatione cuiusdam terre facta Elie fil. Thome, quam quidem gratam habentes et ratam eam presenti scripto et sigilli nostri appositione prout in cartis eorum iuste et rationabiliter continetur duximus confirmand. Hijs testibus dño H. Abbate Cestri, Magistro R. de Maydenston archid. Salop., Ma- gistro Alano de Tawell, Willo de Hatfeld, Gervasio de London, clericis, et multis alijs.

ecclesie. If bo were the lord of the manor, and as such seised of the land, where was the necessity for resorting to the patron and ordinary? But it was necessary for a rector to have such a confirmation, nor is there much difficulty in supposing that the two carucates of land mentioned in Domesday ns belonging to the chureh of St. Mary of Whalley, were the glebe of the church; for, according to Lord Coke, the carucate depended more on value than on quantity, and the warm, fertile situation of Whalley would produce a greater value under the fostering care of an ecclesiastical establishment, than the same quantity of land without similar advantages.

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