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RICHMOND (Abbey of St. Agatha). EASBY? Henry, the abbot, and convent of St. Agatha grant and quit-claim to the abbot and monks of Jorevall the cow-common of Mudebech in Garcedale which they held of sir Adam fitz Hugh of Magneby , by girograph dated feast of St. Peter ad vincula 1240, for 12 years saving the common pasture, which they previously had for the payment of 16 marks by the abbot and convent of Jorevall. Witn. sir Adam de Alverly, bailiff of Richmond , sir William de Midelton, sheriff of York [etc.] (c. 1240) .

Chirograph, written by the hand of Samson de Albineio of a composition between the church of Fountains and the church of Messaham for the annual payment by the former to the latter for the Easter light of 6d. worth of wax for the tithe of land called Aldeburch, ...(?) a payment because there was not much arable land there when it was first given to the monks, but afterwards they sowed almost the whole. (c. 1140-50.)

An agreement between the prior and convent of Giseburn and the monks of St. Mary's, York, concerning the tithes of Urvele Sich and certain other lands between Piketon and Apelton, referred by Pope Celestine , by bull dated Lateran, 3 Kl. Aug., 5th year of his pontificate (i.e. 1196), to the abbots of Kirkstall and Suanesbi and R., prior of Malton , for settlement. .