It should also be observed that the question of title is carried back straight to the days of Edward the Confessor, and is decided by the oath of twenty-one men, familiar, evidently, with the locality, in the style of the 11th century. The list of jurors is headed by Or(d)gar ‘le prude,’ who seems to have become a monk (_monachus_) since he had taken so prominent a part in transferring the ‘soke’ of the Cnihtengild to Holy Trinity Priory in 1125.[210] The land in dispute was in “East Smithfield,” within the soke of the Cnihtengild, which lay outside the wall from Aldgate to the Thames, and therefore adjoined immediately the Tower precinct. The Priory having now acquired the soke, complained that successive constables of the Tower had encroached upon this land to make a vineyard. The document which follows records the result.[211] Secundo autem anno regni Stephani Regis quodam vice cum esset Rex Westm[onasterio] adiit prefatus prior [Normannus] assistentibus et auxiliantibus sibi Regina Matilde ipsius Regis conjuge, Algaro episcopo Constanciensi, Rogero tunc cancellario, Arnulfo archidiacono Sagiensi, Willelmo Martel dapifero, Roberto de Courcy, Albrico de Ver, Gaufrido de Magnavilla, Hugone le Bigot, Adam de Balnai, Andrea Buchuinte, pluribusque aliis burgensibus Londoniæ, adiit eum et diligenter ostendit qua vi vel injuria pars illa a reliqua fuerit separata; advocat’ et Aschuillo coram Rege quesitum est ab quo jure partem illam tenuisset et quid super eam clamasset. Ipse vero r[espo]ndit se nil super ea clamare, sed _sic inquit: tenui_[212] Tunc Rex viva voce Andr[eæ] Justiciario suo ceterisque Burgensibus qui ibi aderant precepit (?) ipsis et ceterisque per breve suum mandavit quatinus certum diem priori constituerent in quo super eandem terram convenientes rem rationabiliter examinarent, examinata autem sic permaneret quemadmodum fuerat in tempore Regis sancti Eadwardi.[213] Quod si prior potuisset ostendere partem illam esse de predicto jure ecclesie sine dilacione seisiatur. Quod ita factum est. Statuto die super eandem terram convenerunt ex una parte prior cum coadiutoribus suis, ex alia parte Andreas Buchuinte et plures alii maiores et meliores Lond[onie]. Ratione igitur deducta a tempore sancti Eadwardi Regis usque ad illum diem quo hoc fiebat, inventum est et ostensum illam partem ad reliquam pertinere et totam similiter de predicto jure. Quod et ibidem probatum est multis testibus et sacrament’ xxj^o hominum quorum hec sunt nomina: Orgarus Monachus cognomento le prude, Ailwinus filius Radumf’ Estmund’ Alfricus Cherch’ Briccred Cucherd Wlfred’ Semar Batum Alsi Berman Wlpsi faber Alfwin Hallen Leuesune faber Wlwin’ Abbot, Ailwin’ clericus, Algarus frater Gerald’, Wlfric carnifex, Elfret Cugel Wlfric’ Edric’ Modheuesune Godwinus Balle; et multi alii parati fuerunt jurare, sed isti judicati sunt sufficere.