[Footnote 239: A charter of Henry I (_Mon. Ang._, vi. 496) addressed 'Willelmo Episcopo Exoniensi et Ricardo filio Baldwini vicecomiti' (see p. 256) contains the clause: 'Prohibeo ne aliquis præter monachos ipsas terras amplius teneat vel alias aliquas quæ de dominio ecclesie fuerunt, exceptis illis quas Gaufridus abbas dedit _ad servicium militare_.' Abbot Geoffrey is said to have died in 1088. A curious difficulty has been raised about the words in italics. It is argued in Alford's _Abbots of Tavistock_ (p. 68) that as, according to Mr Freeman, military tenures did not exist in Abbot Geoffrey's day, there was perhaps a second abbot of that name to whom that charter refers. But he is only introduced by Mr Alford under protest; and we see now that there is no need for him. Henry's charter being witnessed by Ralph, Archbishop of Canterbury, William, the King's son, and the Count of Meulan, at Odiham, belongs, I may observe to 1114-16.] [Footnote 240: 'Quis stipendii annuis quotidianisque cibis immane quantum populabantur' (Will. Malmesb., _Gesta Pontificum_).] [Footnote 241: _Liber Eliensis_, p. 275.] [Footnote 242: _Cart. Abingdon_, ii. 3.] [Footnote 243: _Ibid._, p. 2331: 'misit ... in Normanniam pro cognatis suis, quibus multas possessiones ecclesiae dedit et feoffavit, ita ut in anno lxx. de possessionibus ecclesiae eis conferret.'] [Footnote 244: Cott. MS. Vesp. B. xxiv. f. 8, 'Randulfus frater abbatis Walterii habet in Withelega iii. hidas de dominio, etc., etc. ... dono Walterii Abbatis contradicente capitulo'. This was the 'Rannulfum [_sic_] fratrem ejusdem Walteri abbatis ... qui cum fratre suo tenebat illud placitum' (_temp._ Will. I), whom the Bishop of Worcester's knights challenged to trial by battle (Heming's _Chart. Wig._, ed. Hearne, p. 82). His holding was represented in 1166 by the fees of Randulf de Kinwarton and Randulf de Coughton. Other cases of contested enfeoffment by Abbots Walter and Robert are those of Hugh Travers and Hugh de Bretfertun.] [Footnote 245: See the _carta_ of 1166, which explains how this holding became half a fee.] [Footnote 246: 'Miles quidam, Odo nomine, dono praedecessoris mei Sifridi abbatis, ob graciam cusjusdam consobrinae suae, quam idem Odo conjugem duxerat ... tria maneria de dominio sibi astrinxerat ... invitis fratribus. Alius quidam ... dono abbatis ... tamen absque fratrum consensu manerium possidebat' (_Domerham_, p. 306).]