Since contention has arisen between Thomas, prior of Bath and the Convent of the same place, of the one part, and the citizens of the same city, of the other part, concerning the pasture of a certain meadow which is called Kyngesmed, it was agreed on Monday next before the Nativity of the Blessed Mary, in the year of grace 1260, between the aforesaid persons under this form:- This is to say, that the aforesaid citizens may enter the said meadow with their cattle each year on the Morrow of St. Peter ad Vincula (28 June), giving to the said Prior and his successors for each head of cattle having a tooth 1d, and for every one not having a tooth 1/2d; on condition that the cattle of the said citizens feed in the said meadow with the cattle of the said Prior from the before named term until the said Prior or his successors should remove their cattle from the said meadow, or cause them to be removed; and should put them in certain stubble fields pertaining to the barton, which the said Prior holds of the King at fee farm, namely, in the east field between Walekot and the bridge of Lambrugge, in the year when the said field was cultivated, and in the west field of the barton, in the year when that field was cultivated. So that, when the said Prior or his successors should remove their cattle from the aforesaid meadow, or cause them to be removed, and should put them into the said fields, the said citizens should be obliged to remove their cattle from the aforesaid meadow, and to feed them in the said fields of the barton with the Prior's cattle; giving to the said Prior and his successors, for every head having a tooth 3d,, and for every head not having a tooth a 1/2d, so that both the said Prior and his successors should have their ancient defences in defence and should pasture them with their own cattle for three continuous weeks before the said citizens should have entry on the said defences with their cattle; and so that the said citizens should have entry on the aforesaid defences after the three weeks with their cattle, giving for one defence in the summer for every head having a tooth a penny, and for every head not having a tooth a halfpenny. And it shall be lawful for the Prior and his successors from the day on which they remove their cattle each year from Kyngesmed and put them on the aforesaid fields to have and to do their will thereupon. The citizens should have no entry with their cattle until the Feast of Saints Crispin and Crispinian (October 25), and then the citizens may enter with their cattle into the said meadow and pasture it with their cattle up to the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle (November 30) every year, giving nothing to the said Prior or his successors during the aforesaid time, but at the said Feast of St. Andrew the cattle of the citizens should be removed from the said meadow without opposition. For the security of this agreement both the said Prior and the citizens alternately have affixed their seals. Witnesses: Sir Thomas de Baus'; Sir William de Marmyun, knights; Master John de Axebrug; Master Roger Rufus; Master Symon de Bath; Master Thomas le Franceys; Henry de Montford of Nony; Robert Blakeet; Robert de Luttlethon, then steward of the Prior of Bath. Language: Latin
