Colne Priory Charter 13 William, by the grace of God archbishop of Canterbury and legate of the Holy Roman Church to all the faithful of the church and the sons situated throughout England, greetings and benedictions of God Himself. We wish it to be known universally that the all the goods and possessions and alms in the land and the tithes of the churches, liberties and any other things whatsoever that the monks of Abingdon serving God at Colne in Essex possess or shall possess by the grant of Alberic de Vere or his wife Beatrice and their posterity or other faithful persons or in any other pious fashion, are confirmed and strengthened by this our present muniment. Wherefore, the sentence which our predessor Ralph the lord archbishop imposed upon those harming them, we corroborate by the authority of God and the lord pope and our own, and we give and concede to their benefactors confraternity with the brotherhood both of Canterbury and Abingdon. Farewell.