Award of Robert Roos....

31 25 May 1471

Award of Robert Roos of Ingmanthorpe, Robert Gascoigne, Thomas
Clapham and Lawrence Kighley, reciting that whereas William
Plompton, kt, and the minister of the house of St Robert are bound in
mutual obligations of £100 to observe this award,¹ the arbitrators ordain
that each party shall be friendly and loving towards the other, that
William shall be good master to the bretheren and tenants of the
convent, and the minister a good father and neighbour.

     Also that Sir William shall repair his mill and dam on the river
Nidd, cleanse and free the goit, and not allow the workmen . . .² so that
the goit shall be in use before St Margaret’s Day [8/20 July]; that Sir
William and his heirs shall retain possession of these premises without
interruption from the minister and his successors, and that the minister
shall certify this by sealed deed before the feast of St Peter called
Lammas Day. The minister shall also grant to Sir William the farm of
the fishing of the convent’s water mill from Grimbald Bridge as far as
the mill. Sir William is to grant to the minister and his successors
licence in pure and perpetual alms, before the feast of St Peter to . . .
his mill from the convent’s mill that stands at the east end of the goit,
as long as it shall not [?impede] the water supply to his mill. He is to
relinquish all claim to the convent’s mill.

     Also Sir William shall not suffer William Husworth, William Rute,
Christopher Craven, Richard Dryver, Richard Warter and John Ripley,
friars and bretheren of the convent . . . as John Cock, William Parker,
Thomas Choldeyn, William Haworth and John Nonnes,³ indicted and
. . . over their . . . after the form of the law. Also the minister is to
deliver to Sir William a cross . . . belonging to him before Easter.

     Sir William is to release the minister and bretheren before St Peter’s
Day from all personal actions moved before St Ellen’s Day next before
this award [3 May], and likewise the minister shall release Sir William,
provided always that if either party wishes to vary the wording of this
award, it shall be modified according to our true intent by two, three
or by the four of us, whereof two must be trustees representing each
of the parties.

[English]

[Copyist’s note.] This award hath fawer seales att the copying the 25th
day of June 1616.

[CB, 573]

     ¹CB, 571.

     ² A 17th cent. copyist described this deed as ‘so dimmed þat it cannot be read’, Acc.
1731/6, fol. 230v., hence the illegible words/phrases indicated here.

     ³ Friars who had been indicted and outlawed by Sir William during his dispute with
the convent, 9, 18 above pp. 31–2, 42–3.