of lincolne. And in-to wytnes of thys he put to hys seal: & the date was the xij. yere of hys bysshopryche.
[2. By the Sovereign.]
A. D. 1138/9 Confirma|tion by King Stephen, of no. 4, with full manorial rights.
THE sentence of thys chartur is, how Stephyn kynge yeuyth & confermithe to the seyd Mynchyns & her successours of God|stowe all the yftys, landis & possessions, rentys, tenwrs, that byn rehersyd in the next dede a-fore, that begynnyth Alex|ander, in pure quiet fre & in perpetual almys from all seculer seruice ['… Yowre fredomys in alle placis,' in margin.] & customis, and her courtys to be holde with sok & sake, tol & team, with infange & outfange [folio IIb(14b)] theyf, as wor|sheply & frely as eny chyrche in englond or bettur or freer may holde in all thynges.
[[NOTE.—In the Exchequer MS., on a leaf of the table of contents, an annotator has noted, from 'William de Shareshulle' [C. J. K. B., 1350-7], that socha is 'secta curiae,' i. e. a lord's right to attendance of his tenants at his court and to try their causes in it; 'sacha' is 'amerciamentum tenentium,' i. e. a lord's right to retain to his own use the fines imposed in his court; toll is 'taxatio [Otherwise explained in Oseney Regis|ter, no. 10.] nativorum ad voluntatem Domini, Anglice scuse vel yelde'; team is a lord's right to retain in serfdom the issue of his serfs; infangethef is a lord's right to take cognisance, at the suit of the injured party, of thefts committed within his demesne if the thief be taken within the demesne, cum manuopere (mainour or manour, i. e. the stolen goods) found in the thief's possession, but if the thief is not indicted within three days, both he and the mainour shall be handed over to the king's gaol. Out|fangethef is not explained. Cowell's Interpreter (1607) makes it a 'priviledge, whereby a lord is inabled to call any man dwelling within his owne fee, and taken for felonie in any other place, and to judge him in his owne court.' In the valuation (Escheat 14 Edw. III. 67, no. 2), 10 April, 1340, of the Castle and Manor of Fotheringhay, Northts., note is made that the manor possessed Infangenthef et Outfangenthef,' but 'nichil valent per annum eo quod magis cadunt in onere quam in aliquo alio valore,' i. e. they are burdens, not sources of profit. Outfange-theyf is absent from most charters of Godstow; and its mention here, and on p. 658, is probably due to a clerical error. It was a power rarely conferred.]]About 1142. Confirmation to Godstow, by empress Maud, of the fair at God|stow on June 24 and two next days, with protec|tion to traders.
THYS Chartur makyth mension how that the emperice Mald hath graunt in perpetual almys that the Mynchyns of Godstowe
