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p 326] It is probable that her husband was a prisoner, which debarred her from having access to him.

The abbot of Rucford paid ten marks for leave to erect houses and place men upon his land near Welhang, in order to secure his wood there from being stolen; Hugh, archdeacon of Wells, gave one tun of wine for leave to carry six hundred summs of corn whither he would; Peter de Perariis gave twenty marks for leave to salt fishes as Peter Chevalier used to do.
It was usual to pay high fines, in order to gain the king's good will or mitigate his anger.

In the reign of Henry II., Gilbert, the son of Fergus, fines in nine hundred and nineteen pounds nine shillings, to obtain that prince's favor; William de Chataignes, a thousand marks, that he would remit his displeasure.