David,
>Would Wenlock Abbey have stood to benefit in anyway from
>this grant?
Possibly, if the mine was productive, and it was located on land within a
parish where the benefice was held by the 'abbey', then the abbey as rector
would be entitled to a tenth part of the produce as tithes.
The grant you cite, Cal. Pat. R., Ric. II, vol. 5, p. 444, was wider ranging
than the 'demesne of the alien priory of Wenlock' and included any mine of
copper and silver within the county. As a general rule, although there were
occasional specific exceptions, in grants of minerals subject to the Crown
prerogative, ie. silver, gold, copper, plus any base ores which might
contain those metals, except on land subject to a grant of lordship which
included such minerals or where those minerals were work in common according
to custom, there was no provision for compensation to the land holder.
Peter
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