XIX. Indentura inter nos et Abbatem et conuentum de Rupe de decimin de Hildebrighthop.*

E N 0 R E presentium patet uniuersis, quod cum contro- uersia mota fuisset inter religiosos viros Abbatem de Whall. cum conuentu suo rectore ecclesie de Rachedale ex parte una, et Abbatem de Rupe ex altera, sup exactione decimarum de

* Roche, alias Rupe, a Cistercian abbey in the West Riding of Yorkshire, ,vas founded anno 1147 by Richard de Beilli and Richard Fitz Turgis. The abbey of Roche obtained its possessions in Hildebrighthope, now called Friar-mere, one of the divisions of Saddleworth, chiefly from the de la Leghs, who assumed the пamo of Crompton, and the Byrons. Its earliest benefactors were Edmund de Lascy and William, earl of Warren.

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Hildebrighthop infra limites dicte parochie situati, tandem ex consilio et ordinatione dñorum de Ryeualle* et de Bildewas,-f- Abbatum judi- cum a capitulo ordinis generali in dicta causa datorum ex assensu quoq. et voluntate dictarum partium lis in hune modum conquieuit, videl. quod dictus Abbas de Rupe soluet singulis annis predicto Abbati de Whalleya vel suo certo pcuratori apud Hildebrighthop xl. denarios argenti et unam libram cere et uuam libram thuris, ad duos anni terminos, videl. xx. denarios et unam libram cere ad festum sancti Martini in hyeime, et xx. denarios et unam libram thuris ad Pentecosten, p omnib} decimis garbarum de omnib} terris cultis et coleudis ad dictum locum de Hildebrighthop ptinentib}, ab impe- tratione bulle dñi Bonifacij pape octaui. Et quia in pactione istius conuentionis hesitatum fuit utrum decima feni cum maiorib} decimis garbarum, vel cum minorib} debet computari, concordatum fuit p partes, quod per fidelem inquisitionem rectorum et vicariorum patrie illius neutri parti suspectorum, coram ordinarijs illius archidiaconatus in presentia partium dicta dubitatio derimatur. Et quod in ipsa inquisitione comptum fuerit teneatur, et presens compositio de decimis garbarum cum adiectionc decime feni siue maiorib} decimis siue minorib} put dicta inquisitio decreuerit assignand. post dictam inquisi tionem renouetur et sigillis communib} utriusq. capituli roboratur, ppetuis duratura temporib}. In cuius rci testimonium partes sigilla quib} utuntur isti ordinationi bipartite apposuerunt. Dat. apud Wakcfeld die veneris prox. post festum sancti Barnabe apostoli anno dñi m.ccc. decimo.

* Rival, alias Rivaulx abbey, in Yorkshire, was founded by Walter le Spec, for monks of the Cistercian order, anno 1132, and in 1140 Pope Alexander HI. con firmed the possessions of the monks, and granted them divers privileges.

t Bildwas, a Cistercian abbey in Shropshire, was founded in 1135, and King Stephen, in 1139, confirmed the possessions to God and the church of St. Chad, and the abbot and monks here, in the same manner as Roger bishop of Chester had given them.

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