Calendar of Documents Preserved in France This free content was digitised by double rekeying. All rights reserved. Cartulary in Public Library of Rouen , Y. Charter [professedly] fn. Infringement of it to involve forfeiture of a hundred pounds of gold.
Signa—Willermi Anglorum regis et ducis Normannorum, domini Roberti archiepiscopi; Gingolor archiepiscopi; domini Johannis abbatis; Gradulfi abbatis; Ranerii abbatis; Durandi abbatis; Valerani fn. It was there settled and agreed as to the wood of Hamode that it should be divided through the middle, both the wood and the land in which the villeins had dwelt and which belongs to the wood; and by the king's command a hedge hagia was made through the middle, and the abbey and William had their respective shares.
As to St. Cuthman's rights of burial sepultura it was decreed that they should remain unimpaired, and by the king's command the bodies which had been buried at William's church were dug up defossa by William's own men, and transferred to St.
Cuthman's church for lawful burial, and Herbert the dean restored the money denarios he had received for burial, for wakes wacis , for tolling the bells signis sonatis and all dues for the dead, swearing, by a relative in his place, that he had not received more.
As to the abbey's land which William had taken for his park, it was adjudged that the park should be destroyed, and it was destroyed. So with the warren he had made on the abbey's land. As to the toll he took at his bridge from the abbey's men, it was adjudged that it should not be given, as it was never given in the time of king Edward; and, by the king's command, what had been taken in toll was restored, the tollman swearing that he had not received more.
