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32 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv.
SHREWSBURY 5^- each ; even 6d. per annum, as at Rodingtone.
ABBEY appearino: in the schedule.* Hence the value of the
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^^__ (three) small rural mills which Roger gave to the
1. Foundation, abbey would be very far from making up the desired
^° ^
;^i2 per annum. Now, it is remarkable that the
monks in no one of their future inspeximus charters,
nor in their History of the Fotmdation, nor elsewhere,
ever claim to have been endowed with these burgage
rentals ; and it will, indeed, be suggested, shortly, that,
before the actual ''
foundation charter " was drawn up
in 1087, this combined gift of city burgages and rural
mills, given at the initial stage
of the foundation in
1083, had been found, on experience, to be inadequate
to meet Roger's ideas, and that he consequently made
a suitable change in its nature when the abbey was
opened and an abbot installed, in 1087.
2. Grant of 2. Earl Roger's ''foundation charter" is the next
City Multure, \\yi\^ in the evidences. From this we learn that, prior
to and during the erection of the monastery, the earl
and others had vowed various gifts to the foundation,
Hist. Shby.,
but that the monks, who were trustees for the erection,
had not been endowed with them. It is already
apparent from Domesday that the abbey was built in 1086 ;
being
and we may gather from the later
evidence of the History of the Foundation that it was
in 1087 when the building was fairly completed, the
abbey at length opened, and an abbot appointed.
This, as Ordericus tells us, was Fulchard, of the reign
of William Rufus. It was in the last quarter of 1087,
therefore, that Roger's charter was drawn up. In it
were formally recited all the gifts that had at different
* Owen and Blakeway say:
"Tlie mill of Ellesmere forms a
1825, ii. 10. remarkable : exception in the time of the
Confessor, which was doubled when Domesday was made." This
is an error. No valuation is quoted for the mill : the j[^\o is the
it paid a rent of ^10
Domesday,
rent of the whole manor :— Ipsi com ten^ Ellesmeles : Ibi iiii hidae,
i. 254. &c., &c : Ibi molin : T.R.E. reddet» x li'b de firma : Modo xx li'b.