Excerpt from The Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey of the Premonstratensian Order, Vol. 2: Part I Richard, son of Alexander de Forton, also releases all his right to the mast in Forton Quaere con; woods to the said canons, in return for the right to put twenty pigs in any, except the fi canons' demesne woods, acquitted from pannage (no. Elias de Fleming after wards bestowed all his estate in Forton upon his son Thomas, who also acquired the In prlncipio interest of various free tenants in F orton (34 A) apparently, however, he died without libri, inter issue, for some time after 1246, but not later than 1272, his brother, under the style Confirma_ of William, son of Elias Fleming the Boteler, gave the lordship of the whole Ciones town of Forton, and all his lands and tenements there, which he duly recited, to gether with the services 0 the free tenants there, also duly recited, to the canons of Cockersand (n o. Who thereby - having already been in possession of one moiety of the town by the gift of Adam de Lee, and having received many small grants from various free tenants at sundry times by charters herein recorded - became possessed of the whole township, including both demesne lands and services of the free tenants. Finally, in order to buy out the remaining interest of the de Lee family, if any, and that there should be no future dispute as to title, a Fine was levied at Lancaster, at fifteen days after the Purification of the Virgin, 56 Henry III. (16th Feb., by which Sir Henry de Lee, knight, son of Sir John de Lee, and grandson of Henry son of Warin, acknowledged the manor of F orton, with appurtenances, to be the right of the Abbot of Cockersand and of his church of St. Mary (n o. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.