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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 37
Sanctorum patrum monemur exemplo possessiones quas nostris Htemporibus
sanctae ecclesiae k fidelibus collatas noverimus, literarum ^^^F^^^^^
memoriae diligentur assignare, turn propter conferentum utilitatem MILLS.
quoniam eorum exemplo posteri ad bene agendum provocentur ;
turn propter malignorum perversitatem qui ad diripiendas possessiones
ecclesiasticas toto conamine inhiare noscuntur. Nos itaque majorum
3.
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An alleged
Forged
imitantes industriam posterorum notitiae scribendo transmittere Charter, 1094.
curavimus quoddam pietatis opus quod venerabilis comes Rogerius Monast. Ang.,
et devota ejus conjux Adelaisia nomine nostra setate Deo obtulerunt. i. 380''
Eratin suburbis civitatis Scropesbery parva satis ecclesiain honore i
(Pat. Hy. VL,
beatorum apostolorum Petri et Pauli constructa cujus situs ad P- S> ^- ^9)-
collocanda servorum Dei habitacula congruus videbatur. Comes
ergo fretus licentia et auctoritate regis Willielmi et Cantuariensis
archiepiscopi Lanfranci necnon et Cestriensis episcopi Petri, ad
cujus diocesim isdem pertinebat locus, monachos illuc pro sua
suorumque salute Domino exoraturos aggregavit anno ab Incarnatione
Domini millesimo octogesimo septimo.
Quibus ad victus subsidia ipse et veneranda ejus uxor possessiones
subscriptas imperpetuum donaverunt. Imprimis scilicet vicum unum
eidem ecclesiae contiguum cum tribus molendinis cunctusq. redditibus
ad eum pertinentibus, qui vicus Anglice dicetur Biforieta quod
Latine significat ante portam. . . .
Haec omnia venerabilis comes Rogerius cum filiis suis Hugone
scilicet Roberto Rogero et Arnulpho concessit atque firmavit.
Haec omnia ego Willielmus rex Anglorum concessi et sigillo meo
corrobaravi.
We are moved by the example of the holy fathers to sign our
hand to a script preserving the memory of what possessions in our
time we have known to be granted to the holy church by the faithful—
as well because of the practical benefit of such a record (since by
their example posterity may be moved to do good) as because of the
known perversity of malignants who with one accord band together
for rending asunder ecclesiastical possessions. We, therefore,
imitating the industry of the worthies [the monks], have had the
care to transmit for the attention of posterity a writing of a certain
work of piety which the Venerable Earl Roger and his devoted wife,
named Adelaisa, have [now] offered to God in our time.
In the suburbs of the city of Shrewsbury was a small, poor,
little church, built in honour of the Saints Peter and Paul, the site
of which w^as seen to be suitable for providing a small habitation for
the servants of God. The earl, therefore, relying on the licence
and authority of King William, the Archbishop of Canterbury,
Lanfranc, also of Peter, Bishop of Chester, to whose diocese the
place belonged, has congregated the monks there to exhort God for the
welfare of the souls of himself and his, in the year of the incarnation
of our Lord one thousand and eighty-seven.
As an auxiliary support for them, he and his revered wife have
given in perpetuity the under-written possessions.
First, one road contiguous to the said church, with three mills