A guide to Ripon, Fountains Abbey, Harrogate, Bolton Priory, and several places of intrest in their vicinity - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...from which the sketch of the abbey tower and How-hill on page 90 is taken. It may be necessary to mention that "Keldale" is that dry valley which runs up from the Canal Gates to the Horse Coppice in the Leases-pasture. "Charter or Cassandra De Estodley.--To all sons of Holy Church, present and to come, Cassandra de Estodley, widow of John the Doorkeeper, sends greeting. Know ye that I, in my widowhood, and in my lawful right, have given, and by my present charter have confirmed, to God and the Monks of St. Mary of Fountains, the whole land and whatever belongs to my fee in Estodley, in the whole parcel of arable which is called Swanley. That is to say by these boundaries: as the ditch begins at the Close of the Abbey of Fountains on the eastern part of Swanley, and goes to Keldale, and so by the edge of the valley of Keldale to the boundaries of Aldfield, and so by the boundaries of Aldfield on the western part of Swanley to the Close of the said Abbey: to inclose and do therein whatsoever they may wish, as of their proper and perpetual possession. And I and my heirs will warrant, acquit, and defend the whole of that land for the Church of Fountains, as our eleemosynary gift, discharged free and quit from all services and charges relating to the land. Moreover, I have given in my lawful right to the aforesaid Monks, all the right and franchise which I and my heirs and ancestors have had in one carucate of land, which is of our fee in Malham, and especially an annual rent-charge of four shillings, which the men who hold the said land have been accustomed to pay to me and my ancestors; for the health of my soul, and that of all my ancestors and heirs. These being witnesses: Matthew the Clerk of Ripon, Nicholas de Cayton, Matthew the Forester, a...
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