Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county . her father andmother, her deceased first husband, her brother and sisters,gave to the abbey Sneling of Snergate (Snargate in Kent) 6 Cartwrighfc, Rape of Arundel, pp. 117-18. 148 NOTICES OE THE ABBEY 01? JIOBERTSBRIDGE. and his family, with his tenement of Snergate and its appurte-nances, which formed part of her free dowry,7 and was there-fore at her disposal; with other lands belonging to her, foithe maintenance of hospitality. Among the witnesses to thissdeed of gift are Henry Earl of Eu (her son), Rob
Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county . her father andmother, her deceased first husband, her brother and sisters,gave to the abbey Sneling of Snergate (Snargate in Kent) 6 Cartwrighfc, Rape of Arundel, pp. 117-18. 148 NOTICES OE THE ABBEY 01? JIOBERTSBRIDGE. and his family, with his tenement of Snergate and its appurte-nances, which formed part of her free dowry,7 and was there-fore at her disposal; with other lands belonging to her, foithe maintenance of hospitality. Among the witnesses to thissdeed of gift are Henry Earl of Eu (her son), Robert his brotherAlured cle St. Martin (her husband), Sanson of Gestling, andStephen de St. Martin. This Henry Earl of Eu gave to the monastery Wertb(Wertham), with the valley (Combam) adjoining to his forestof Brightling (Bristlinga), elsewhere described as CumJdenne;8 and confirms an agreement respecting these landsmade between the monks and Ringer of Northiam {Biiige-rium de Nor did). By another charter he concedes, as an!hereditary possession, the whole feoff of Eodilande, which the. Exterior of Chapel, Robertsbridge. monks had purchased of Reginald de Meinys and Matilda hiswife, and of Ingeran de Fressenville. In the Monasticon, Fudlandes are said to be in Selsecombe and Ewhurst: Ifind them subsequently stated to contain together 244 appears incidentally from another document, that the earladded to these gifts a prebend in the Church of St. Mary, ofHastings. In consequence of this beneficence, which was 7 De libero mariagio meo. 8 There are in Brightling two farms,now called Great and Little Worge—an-ciently Upper and Nether Werthe. Combe contained (circ. 1580) about thirty-two acres of wood; it still retains thename of Coombden. NOTICES OP THE ABBEY OP ROBERTS BRIDGE. 149 the more acceptable because their abbey was built in asterile place—which, by the way, seems a common complainton the part of the religious—the brethren, with Dionysiustheir abbot, by a
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