also this peculiar right of sanctuary, that if any person adjudged guilty of homicide, or any other crime, should fly to that Church, no harm should be done him, and he should be dismissed entirely free. But, above all, he gave to the Abbot the royal power of pardoning any condemned thief he should casually pass by, or meet going to execution. He also bestowed on them all the land for a league round their house ; like wise the Manor of Wye, in Kent ; both free from all aids, impositions, and services.
He likewise gave them his royal customs in Wye, together with his right of wreck in Dengemarsh (a member thereof), as also that of any great or royal fish, called Crassipies, which should be there driven on shore, except where it happened without certain limits ; in which case, they were to have only two parts of the fish and the tongue,these being what the King usually had.
Besides these, he endowed them with the Manors of Aldsiston, in Sussex ; Lymsfield, in Surrey; How, in Essex; Craumere, in Oxford -
