“This is the final Concord, made in the Court of our Lord the King, at Westminster, on the Vigil of the blessed Peter, the Apostle, in the Thirty-third[300] Year of the Reign of King Henry the Second; before Ranulph de Glanville, Justiciary of our Lord the King, and before _H.R.W._ and _T._ and other faithful subjects of our Lord the King, then there present, between the Prior and Brethren of the Hospital of Jerusalem, and _W.T._, the Son of Norman, and Alan his Son, whom he appointed Attorney in the Court of our Lord the King to gain or lose, concerning all such Land and its Appurtenances (except one Oxland[301] and three Tofts[302]) which the said _W._ held: concerning all which Land (except the aforesaid Oxland and three Tofts) there was a Plea between them in the Court of our Lord the King; to wit, that the aforesaid _W._ and Alan concede and attest the Gift which Norman the Father of the said _W._ made to them; and they quit-claim all that Land from them and their Heirs to the Hospital and the aforesaid Prior and Brethren for ever: except the one Oxland aforesaid, and the three Tofts, which remain to the said _W._ and Alan and their Heirs, to be held of the Hospital and the aforesaid Prior and Brethren for ever, by the free service of four pence a year, for all service. And for this concession, and attestation, and quit-claim, the aforesaid Prior and Brethren of the Hospital have given to the said _W._ and Alan one hundred Shillings sterling.” Or in these Terms—— [Footnote 300: This and a similar passage, in the following chapter, afford strong _data_, from whence to ascertain the year, when the present work was written. Admitted as it is, on all hands, that it was composed in the Reign of Henry the Second, and it being a strong presumption from the passages in question, that it could not have been written antecedent to the 33d year of such Reign, it merely remains for us to chuse between the 33d, 34th, and 35th years; for on the latter year the Reign terminated. If we follow Sir Henry Spelman’s plan, and divide the intermediate period, we should infer that the present work was written in the 34th year of Henry the Second, in other words, in 1187. Dr. Robertson, though without alleging any reason, says, it was composed about the year 1181. (Hist. Charles. V. vol. 1. p. 296.) Blair’s chronology uses precisely the same assertion.] [Footnote 301: It seems by no means to be agreed of what quantity an Oxland consisted. (Co. Litt. 69. a. and Mr. Hargrave’s note.)] [Footnote 302: Toftis. A Toft is said to be the scite where a House formerly stood; and is a word much used in Fines. (Vide Spelm. Gloss. and Cowell’s Interp. ad voc.)] CHAP. III.