With characteristic agreement upon this point, William Martel, who served the king, John the marshal, who followed the Empress, and William de Beauchamp, who had joined both, were at one in the evil work.
[1192] "Hi læiden gæildes on the tunes ... and clepeden it tenserie" (ed. Thorpe, i. 382). Mr. Thorpe, the Rolls Series editor, took upon himself to alter the word to censerie.
[1193] No. 1001, p. 37 (July 11, 1891).
[1194] "De Cæmeteriis et Ecclesiis, sive quibuslibet possessionibus ecclesiasticis tenserias dari prohibemus, ne pro Ecclesia vel cæmeterii defensione fidei sui Clerici sponsionem interponant." Compare the passage from the Chronicle of Ramsey, p. 218 n., ante.
[1195] Abingdon Cartulary, ii. 231.
[1196] William and Peter Boterel were related to Brian Fitz Count (of Wallingford) through his father. They both attest a charter of his wife, Matilda "de Wallingford," to Oakburn Priory.
[1197] Burton Cartulary, p. 50. A pilgrimage to this shrine is alluded to in a charter (of this reign) by the Earl of Chester to his brother the Earl of Lincoln, "in eodem anno quo ipsemet ... redivit de itinere S. Jacobi Apostoli."
[1198] "Robertus Comes Leg' Radulfo vicecomiti. Sciatis me pro satisfactione, ac dampnorum per me seu per meas Ecclesiæ Lincoln' Episcopo illatorum restitutione, dedisse ... præfatæ Ecclesiæ Lincolnensi et Alexandro Episcopo," etc. (Remigius' Register at Lincoln, p. 37).
[1199] See his life by me in Dictionary of National Biography.
[1200] Cartulary of Abingdon, ii. 200, 543.