Agreement in settlement of a dispute between Fountains and Byland respecting the mines of Nidredal. … The Abbot and Convent of Fountains grant to Byland two pits in Le Feldberg successively to be possessed forever, within the bounds of Fountains; and likewise for a term of seven years from the Day of the Purification B.M. 1225, two pits in Kaldstanes in common with them, so that the two houses shall divide all expenses and all mineral of those two pits except the King’s share, during that term, and at the end thereof Byland shall withdraw from these two pits at Kaldstanes whether they shall have been thoroughly explore or not.

Byland shall also have that pit at Kaldstanes jointly with Fountains in which they previously worked in common until the same pit shall have been explored according to the bounds of the mine, with suitable exit and entrance and right of carriage through the pastures and wood of Fountains by the proper ways.

In consideration of this Byland has renounced all right, possession and use within any bounds belonging to Fountains by reason of certain charters, so that at the end of the term of seven years Byland shall claim nothing within the bounds belonging to Fountains beyond the two pits in Le Feldberg nor Fountains within the bounds of Byland.

Reference = Chart. Fount. 216, No. 35. Egerton MSS. 2823.f.76.