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 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. 381 The conflict of jurisdiction between the crown and the lords of fran- chises, and between the lords of adjacent liberties, was a continual cause of complaint and litigation, especially when great cities were hetnnied in by territorial franchises. The great Liberties of St. Remain, of St. Ouen, of Montivilliers, and Fecamp encompassed the city of Rouen, and penetrated far within its walls ; hence the early history of that city is a tale of unin- terrupted warfare between the municipal and ecclesiastical authorities, which did not always evaporate, like the Winchester disputes, in an inquest or a judgment in the king's courts. A quarrel between the canons of the cathedral and the trade-gilds of Rouen, in 1192, respecting a grievance closely similar to Bishop Haley's protection of the Winchester weavers, was not appeased without many anathemas and much bloodshed. (Cheruel, Hist, de Bouen, vol. i., p. 40, and seq. ; Id. p, 72, and vol. ii., pp. 114, 135, 137.) In the language of Sir Matthew Hale, such a franchise was a feather in the lord's cap, and a thorn in the king's side. The conflict of jurisdiction between the city of Winchester and the Hyde liberty continued for many years, as will be seen in the Hyde Register (Harl. MSS., No. 1761, fo. 35, 37), but seems to have been eventually settled in favour of the abbey. Indeed, if the Golden cartulary, preserved in the Cotton collection (Vesp. A. No. viii, fo. 37), be as authentic in matter as it is beautiful in caligraphy, the abbey had been favoured by Henry I. with a distinct grant of the " libertatem vici extra portam borealem ejusdem civitatis ;" — a grant, however, in terms of obscure import and rather suspicious generality. The transaction relating to Walter de Pavel}', called in other records William de Pavilly, explains the grants in the Close rolls 17 Job. 1215 (Rot. Lit. Glaus, p. 219, 225), and justifies the conjecture of Mr. Hawkins that it was meant to be only a pecuniary gift of the rent or reversion to W. de P., and not to convey to him any privileges of the mint. The agreement of the mayor in 1247, to give an increased rent of 60a-. for the removal of the Drapery into the High Street, is also adverted to by Mr. Hawkins ; but it should seem that the extra rent was actually paid to the crown by the city down to the date of the inquest, although the Pipe rolls, as cited by Madox (Firma Burgi. p. 19, n.) only debit the city with the amount. (See Notices of the Mint, &c., at Winchester ; Proceedings of Arch. Inst., A.D. 1825, pp. 37, 38.) It is remarkable that the list of jurors supplies the names of two mayors, hitherto unnoticed, viz. — W. de Pavilly, mayor of Rouen, whose name does not occur in the list of M. Cheruel ; and Nicholas Coppinger, mayor of Winchester, whose name is not to be found in the Winchester tables during the reign of Henry 111. The large house granted to King John's tailor, and used for the Linen Cloth Hall, was probably near the church of St. Mary De Linea Tela and opposite St. John's house. From the Testa de Nevill (p. _'36, print, ed.), it appears that this house was in fact the Chcpemancscla, or Chapman 's-hall, which figures in the early Pipe rolls as rendering to the crown 20 marks of silver annually by the hand of the shei'ili" of Hants. (Pipe rolls, 31 Hen. I. ; 4 Hen. II. ; 1 Ric. I., (fee.) So that it continued to be a cloth hall after the rent and reversion had been granted away. It was probably the " Sold' ubi liuei panni venduntur," noticed in the survey of 1148 (Lib. Wint. p. 544). It would be curious to ascertain how long the serjeanty or service of rendering the fur pelisse or coat continued to be performed. The Close roll.