Note 5.3

The Original Acta of Saint Peter's Abbey, Gloucester, (edited by Robert Patterson, Gloucestershire Record Society, Volume 11, 1998, Bristol and Gloucester Archaeological Society) number 389, dates a charter of Philip de Braose to between 1095 and 1139. In this charter Philip granted the abbey a burgess tenement in his recently established borough of New Radnor in Herefordshire. My translation of the Latin is: Let it be noted by those present and in the future that Philip de Braose has given in alms to the church of Saint Peter and to the monks of Gloucester a certain burgess at Radnor, free and quit of all suits and customs except keeping watch and raising alarm, with all its possessions and land and 12 pence from the bailiff of the same town annually at the end of the feast of Saint John to buy hay for the feeding of horses whenever they go there and back. This gift moreover was made in the presence of his wife and knights and many burgesses of that town. Adam de Carnelia, William de Mesnil, William the steward and Romold and W. de Bascheuilla, Robert de Ca'posecreto and Walter de Putanglo, Ernulf de Louentonia and Robert the butler and Robert the dispensor and Edwin the baker and Odo the chaplain and Radulf the clerk and many others who would be long to list. Still more he conceded to them the rights of going and returning, buying and selling through all his lands.

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