1092. (MS. lat. 12, 878, 235d; MS. Baluze, fo. 62.)
1213. Notification that Richard de Mereio, son of Humfrey de Bohonio, claimed from the monks of Marmoutier a field lying near the monastery of Bohum. After many words and threats, the monks made this agreement with him. They received one of his little sons (parvulis), Humfrey by name, on the terms that at Bohun or in one of their houses, they would bring him up and teach him until he reached the age at which he could be a monk, if he wished. Meanwhile, if he should die, and his father Richard wished to become a monk, they would receive him, and if he did not wish it himself, and should wish to make one of his sons a monk, they shall receive him only, and no more, on the terms that, if he is a little boy, the father, and not they shall teach him and bring him up till he is of age to become a monk (esse in riga).
Hoc audierunt testes isti.... Postea auctorizaverunt hec uxor ejus domina Luc[i]a, et filii ejus Rotbertus, Hainricus, Hunfridus, Havidis filia eorum, testibus istis audientibus: Hunfrido patre eorum; Ricardo filio suo; Roald milite. Actum anno ab incarnatione Domini MXCII., agentibus nobis;sub domno abbate Bernardo, tempore Philippi regis, Rotberto Normannorum comite.
1093. (MSS. lat. 5441[2], fo. 25; 12,880, No. 326.)
1214. Notification that Richard de Mereio granted to the monks of St. Martin in chapter all that his father Humfrey had given them, for his own and his father's souls and for his brother Ingelram (Ingelrannum) a monk there, who urged it on him and for love of a little boy of his, whom he had given them to bring up and teach, etc...
Actum anno ab Incarnatione Domini 1093(sic) agentibus nobis sub domno abbate Bernardo Xmoanno ordinationis ejus.
