Research Notes:
"To the archbishop of York and to all the sons of holy mother church, Hervey son of Acaris, greeting. Because I am aware that the monks of Jervaulx are unwilling to maintain their abbey on my fee at Fors on account of the poverty and barrenness of the place and the inclement weather, I consent, with good will and love, that they should transfer their abbey from Fors into the demesne land of my lord, Earl Conan of Richmond, at East Witton, saving to them all theri lands and tenements wich they holdof me, wherever they may be, freely and in peace, that is one and a half carucates of land in Fors and three carucates of land in Worton to construct a grange there, with all things that belong to the said land, in free, pure and perpetual alms, in wood and plain, in watercourses, fields and pastures, high and low, below ground and above ground. I keep nothing for myself or my heirs from any of this, so that I and my heirs shall warrant, acquit and defend all the foresaid to the monks, as has been said, against all men in perpetuity. And all men who are now living and those who are to come should know that the barony of Witton begins downstream at the water of Ure, stretching as far as 'Staynlupanegil' and on the western side of Thornton Rust as far as the centre of the hill of Addlebrough, and from there to Greenber and across Green Scar and as the spring falls below into Keld Bottom, and as the samll stream flows and runs into Blean Beck and as the water of Blean Beck runs into Semer Water, and again along the Bain into the Ure. The witnesses of this matter are Hervey the priest, Walter the clerk of St Rainald. In his other confirmation not all this is specified. However it says there, 'I concede and confirm the transfer of the said abbey on this condition, that I shall lose nothing from the advowson in respect of the alms granted by my father and me. I shall share in the prayers and good deeds that are performed in the church of Jervaulx in perpetuity, and the monks will take away wit them and reverently keep together the bons of my father and mother.'" [1]
[1] Janet Burton, The Foundation History of the Abbeys of Byland and Jervaulx (York: University of York, 2006), 55-6, [GoogleBooks].