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Updated: May 11, 2025
It may have been in the shadow of that gateway that a group of townsmen stood gathered to greet the return of their lord, but with other business on hand besides kindly greeting. There was a rustling of parchment as the alderman unfolded the town-charters, recited the brief grants of Abbots Anselm and Ording and Hugh, and begged from the Lord Abbot a new confirmation of the liberties of the town.
On the other hand there was the alderman pleading for the old privileges of the town for security of justice in its own town-mote, for freedom of sale in its market, for just provisions to enforce the recovery of debts the simple, efficient liberty that stood written in the parchment with the heavy seals the seals of Anselm and Ording and Hugh.
At any rate he quietly compromised the question for twenty shillings a year. The convent was indignant. "Abbot Ording, who lies there," muttered an angry monk, as he pointed to the tomb in the choir, "would not have done this for five hundred marks of silver." That their abbot should capitulate to a mob of infuriated town-wives was too much for the patience of the brotherhood.
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