The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain Accompanied with descriptions . y, that if any person adjudged guilty of homicide,or any other crime, should fly to that cburch, no harm shouldbe done him, and he should be dismissed entirely free : but,above all, he gave to the abbot the royal power of pardoningany condemned thief he should casually pass by, or meetgoing to execution. He also bestowed on them the land for a league roundtheir house, likewise the manor of Wye in Kent, both freef
The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain Accompanied with descriptions . y, that if any person adjudged guilty of homicide,or any other crime, should fly to that cburch, no harm shouldbe done him, and he should be dismissed entirely free : but,above all, he gave to the abbot the royal power of pardoningany condemned thief he should casually pass by, or meetgoing to execution. He also bestowed on them the land for a league roundtheir house, likewise the manor of Wye in Kent, both freefrom all aids, impositions, and services. He likewise gavethem his royal customs in Wye, together with his right ofWreck in Dengemarsh (a member thereof), as also that of anygreat or royal fish, called crassipies, which should be theredriven ashore, except when it happened without certainlimits, in which case they were to have only two parts of thefish and the tongue, these being all the king usually had. Helikewise endowed them with the manors of Aldsiston in Sus-sex, Lymsfield in Surrey, How in Essex, Craumere in Ox-fordshire, and Briswalderton in Berkshire, with divers other. BATTLE ABBEY. lands, together with the churches of Radlngs and Coluntonin Devonshire ; also that of St. Olaves, afterwards the prioryof St. Nicholas, Exeter. Moreover, he confirmed to them allgifts of lands, bestowed by his subjects, to be held as free asthose granted by himself. The abbey of Brecknock in Waleswas also afterwards made a cell to this bouse. At the dissolution, the estates of Battle Abbey were valued,the twenty-sixth of Henry the Eighth, according to Dugdale,at 880/. I4s. Id. per annum ; Speed says, 9S7/. 10^. whenpensions were assigned to several of the monks. The scitewas granted, by king Henry, to one Gilmer, who first pulleddown many of the buildings, and sold the materials: heafterwards also disposed of the land, which was purchased bysir Anthony Brown, whose descendants converted wha
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