[1098] As a matter of fact, her son's succession was marked by the exaction of heavy sums, under this head, as shown by the extracts from his first Pipe-Roll in the Red book of the Exchequer.

[1099] Pat. 2 Hen. VI., p. 3, m. 18.

[1100] "Reddo et concedo ecclesiæ Berchingie et Abbatissæ Adel[iciæ] omnes boscos et terras suas ... quas Henricus Rex afforestavit, ut illas excolat et hospitetur."

[1101] Probably present as a brother of the abbess ("Soror Pagani filii Johannis").

[1102] "Omnes forestas quas rex Henricus superaddidit ecclesiis et regno quietas reddo et concedo."

APPENDIX S.
THE TREATY OF ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE EARLS OF HEREFORD AND GLOUCESTER.

(See p. [176].)

The document which is printed below is unknown, it would seem, to historians. It is of a very singular and, in many ways, of a most instructive character. The fact that Earl Miles is one of the contracting parties dates the document as belonging to the period between his creation (July 25, 1141) and his death (December 24, 1143). Further, the fact that the treaty provides for the surrender by him to the Earl of Gloucester of one of his sons as a hostage, taken with the fact that the Earl of Gloucester is recorded (supra, p. 196) to have demanded from his leading supporters their sons as hostages when he left England for Normandy, creates an extremely strong presumption that this document should be assigned to that occasion (June, 1142). It is here printed from a transcript by Dugdale, which I found among his MSS. The absence of any provision defining the services to be rendered by Earl Miles suggests that this portion of the treaty is omitted in the transcript. There is, I think, just a chance that the original may yet be discovered among the public records, for they fortunately contain a similar treaty between the sons and successors of the two contracting parties.[1103] It may be, however, that the original is the document referred to by Dugdale (Baronage, i. 537) as "penes Joh. Philipot Somerset Heraldum anno 1640." The close resemblance between the later document[1103] and that which I here print confirms the authenticity of the latter, and is, it will be seen, illustrated by the wording of the opening clauses:—

Noscant omnes hanc esse confederationem amoris inter Robertum Comitem Gloecestrie et Milonem Comitem Herefordie.Hæc est confederatio amoris inter Willelmum Comitem Gloec[estrie] et Rogerum comitem Herefordie.