Dore's surviving charters from these years are:
- Dore Abbey's Confirmation Charter, 1199 for which Dore paid £333 6s 4d.
- Grant of land in Trivel [Treville], 15th September 1202. One of the witnesses was William de Braose, patron of Dore Abbey.
- Charter to restore land confiscated from Dore Abbey, 30th August 1213. Confiscation of land from those who supported the Interdict was a normal tactic for John. However, the only Cistercian monasteries where land was confiscated were Dore and Meaux in Yorkshire.
- Re–issue of above, 4th November 1213
- Grant of land and permission to enlarge a millpond, 30th July 1215 for which Dore paid 600 marks and 10 palfreys [riding horses, especially for ladies] for the charter.
- Wine given to Dore, 5th October 1215. This was not unique as fourteen Cistercian houses were sent the same letter.
- Dore Abbey had to pay 300 marks for the license to allow them to deforest their monastic land, 28th July 1216.
John himself was a witness to the two charters in 1213, the two in 1215 and the one in 1216. The king being a witness was standard procedure but it is worth noting that none of these coincided with his hunting trips to Kilpeck Castle on 11th March 1211, 27th–28th November 1212 and 18th–19th December 1214.
The key to the descension between John and Dore Abbey was Trivel, now spelled Treville. 'Renowned for haunting woods and streams and greatly delighting in the pleasure of them, John regularly stayed at Kilpeck Castle to hunt in the forest of Treville. He knew the forest well and was keenly aware of how his brother Richard's need for money in 1198 and 1199 had been exploited by [Abbot] Adam...' [Hillaby p.111] A forest was an area devoted to hunting but it also included clearings and houses.
Abbot Adam was very keen to extend Dore Abbey's land holdings. He was one of the newly ambitious 12th–13th century abbots described by Hillaby as 'not altogether scrupulous. An aggressive and highly acquisitive landlordism led to widespread social distress... In an economy based on the system of granges and sheep runs worked by lay brothers the local peasantry often found themselves disinherited of their small holdings.' [Hillaby p.109] The policy was to buy land that was contiguous to the abbey estate. Abbot Adam had several schemes to maximise income including developing the abbey's wool production and encouraging the influential to pay for burial in the abbey, facilitated by each being made a monk regardless of gender. He needed the money to rebuild the presbytery and chapter–house. However, he was also an intellectual. Some of his sermons are preserved. He wrote treatises and his interest in music led to the introduction of three–part and four–part chanting at Dore. Clearly Abbot Adam was ambitious for Dore and for his own career.
Trevil was a forest to the north–west of Kilpeck. In 1398 the then abbot was complaining that 94 'great oaks of the best' had been felled by local lords, which gives an indication of Trivel's value and appearance. In 1882 Treville House was at approximately SO425325 and it was an extra–parochial area, shrunken in size but still including the vallets (an Old English name for woodland that is felled regularly) and Crizeley (from OE leah, a clearing in a forest). The modern core of the old forest, west of the A465, is the Whitfield estate and there are still majestic trees in the woods. According to Gerald of Wales, Abbot Adam, encouraged by one of the local lords, actually journeyed to Aquitaine to petition Richard I in person. His introduction was to tell the king of a victory over the Welsh. He then 'informed the king of three hundred acres of wild and rough royal domain, adjoining his abbey lands, which were a peril to the neighbourhood, inaccessible to all save Welshmen and