I well knowing the Learning and Industry of the Author, do allow the Printing of this Book. Fra. North. Fragmenta Antiquitatis. ANCIENT TENORS OF LAND, And Jocular CUSTOMS Of some MANNORS· Made public for the diversion of some, and instruction of others. By T.B. of the Inner-Temple Esquire. — Neque semper Arcum tendit Apollo. Hor. LONDON, Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires. For Abel Roper, at the Sun, Tho. Basset, at the George, and Christopher Wilkinson, at the Black-Boy, all in Fleetstreet, 1679. TO THE READER. WHilst I was perusing many of our both public & private Records for other ends, I thought a small Collection of some remarkable Tenors of Land and unusual Customs of some Manors might not be unacceptable to the Studious, who when weary with poring upon Littleton's Tenors, and his Learned Commentator, might relax are fibulam by recurring to these, and smile at the inoffensive mirth both of our Kings in former times, and Lords of Manors, in creating them; some of which I confess are since, converted into a Rent, having a modo arrentatur entered in the Record, others are by length of time disused, and others yet remain in force: As not long since I had the curiosity to ask an old Officer in the Exchequer, whether he ever remembered any Herring Pies paid to the King for the Manor of Carleton in Norfolk? yes, very well, answered he, for we had some of them in Court among us here last Term, Nor does the late Act of Parliament, for taking away all Tenors by Knight-service and Capite, extend to the discharging the honorary Services of Grand Serjeanty, other than of Wardship, Marriage, etc. but are left standing on their old foundation by a particular Proviso in that Act. Stat. 12. Car. 2. ca 24. Neither are these kind of Tenors unusual in other Countries▪ for we read of a Queen of Hungary, who upon her Deathbed bequeathed the City and Province of Altenburg to one of the Lords of her Court, upon condition that he and his successors should always keep a certain number of Peacocks, in defect whereof the Territory should revert to the Crown. My first intention was to render all the Records in English; but upon second thoughts, I judge the original words would be more acceptable both to the Learned and Learner; and for the help of the latter, have explained (to the best of my skill) those of any difficulty, at least as many of them as I could, for some I believe may pose the ablest Glossographer now living; as Warocks, Muta deynectorum Canum, Heymectis, Cyppos, Berbiagium, Chacuros, Sensas, Muta vini & Gruna Vini, etc. Or, to speak more truly, I took them as I found them, some out of the very Records, others extracted thence, and translated to my hand; for I was not willing to spend very much time in rem levem, as Sir Henry Spelman words it, upon a liike occasion. And yet, as light as the subject may seem to be, I am very well informed, that Attorney General Noy had, a little before his Death, bespoke a Copy of all the Tenors by Serjeanty, remaining upon Record; 'tis like he judged them useful, or divertising, or both. I have purposely omitted, or but rarely mentioned, those more common Tenors, whereby the owner was obliged to deliver yearly into the Exchequer, a Mewed Sparhawk, a pair of Spurs, Gloves or the like, of which kind I met with many, and held them not for my purpose, which was to take in none but what were in some respect or other remarkable. Nor must I forget to advertise the Reader, that the names of divers Manors and places here mentioned are written otherwise now, than they were of old, which the knowing in each County will easily reconcile: And, however others may like of this Essay, some Gentlemen of Ancient descent, I presume, will be well enough pleased to see their Ancestors names thus revived and transmitted from our seldom seen Records to a more public Register. Nothing of this nature, having to my knowledge been ever till now, made public. And I will be bold to say, the Studious in Law-latin and Record-learning shall not any where find so much singular of that kind collected in so small a Volume. Lege, Ride, Disce. Tho. Blount. Ancient Tenors OF LAND. Addington. ROberius Agyllon tenet unam Carucatam terrae in Addington in Comitatu Surrey per Seriantiam faciendi unum Ferculum in olla lutea in Coquina Domini Regis, Pla. Coronae. 39 Hen. 3. rot. 29. Dorso. die Coronationis suae, & vocatur Dilligrout, Escaet 14. Edw. 1. Num. 1●. Et si sit seym (sagimen) in illo ferculo vocatur Maupigyrnun. Afterwards in K. Edw. the first's time, William Walcot held the Manor of Addington by the same service, only in this Record it is called Quoddam Pottagium vocatum Maupigyrnun. And it is now come to the possession of Thomas Leigh Esquire, who, at the Coronation of his Majesty that now is, Anno 1661., brought up to the King's Table a Mess of Pottage called Dillegrout, Mr. Ashmoles Narrative. this service being adjudged to him by the Court of Claims in right of this his Manor, whereupon the Lord High Chamberlain presented him to the King, who accepted the Service, but did not eat of the Pottage. Aston-Cantlou. In. post Mortem Laur. Hastings, 22. Ed. 3. The Manor of Aston-Cantlou ( i With a Bow without a string and one Bassinet or Helmet. de Cantulupo) in the County of Warwick, was by inquisition, after the death of Laurence Hastings, Earl of Penbroke, returned to be held in this Form; Quod quidem Manerium per se tenetur de Domino Rege in Capite per servitium inveniendi unum hominem peditem cum Arcu sine Corda, cum uno Basneto sive Cappa, per quadraginta dies, sumptibus proprijs, quoties fuerit Guerra in Wallia. Bericote. Sir W. Dugd. Antiq. of Warwickshire. King Henry the second enfeoffed one Boscher, his servant, with the Manor of Bericote in the County of Warwick, by the Service of keeping a white young Brach (Brachetam) with red Ears, to be delivered to the King at the years end, and then to receive another, to breed up, with half a quarter of Bran. Henly. Lands in Henly in Comitat. Warwick, were held by Edmond Lord Stafford, Esc. 24. Ed. 1. N. 59 by the service of three shillings, or a payr of Scarlet Hose. Carleton. Edmundus Willoughby Tenuit unum Messuagium & sex Bovata terrae, is as much as one Ox can plow in a year. And Catapulta, was an ancient warlike Engine to shoot Darts. Bovatas terrae, in Carleton, Lib. Sched. 14. Hen. 4. Nott. fol. 210. in Com. Nott. ut de Manerio de Shelford, per servitium unius Catapultae per annum pro omni servitio. Alcester. In the 32 of K. Edw. 1. upon the Relief paid by William de Bauteraux, Mich. rot. 32. Ed. 1▪ for the moiety of the Town of Alcester in Com. Warwick, it is there Recorded to be held of the King per servitium inveniendi medietatem equitis armati, i. With one Horse without a Saddle. cum uno Equo Discooperto in guerra Domini Regis. Stoneley. In the Manor of Stonley in Com. Warwick, Reg. dé Stonely Monast. there were anciently four Bondmen, whereof each held one Message, and one Quartron of Land, by the service of making the Gallows and hanging the Thiefs. Each of which Bondmen was to wear a red Clout betwixt his Shoulders, upon his upper Garment; to Blow, reap, make the Lords Malt, and do other servile work. Cukeney. In Cukeney (in Com. Nott.) manebat quidam homo, Mon. Angl. 2. Par. qui vocabatur Gamelbere & fuit verus 1. By Dreinge is understood a Knight or one that held Land by Knight-Service, before the Conquest, and was not outed of his Estate by William the Conqueror. Dreinge ante Conquestum, tenuit duas Carucatas terrae de Domino Rege in Capite pro tali servitio, de * 2. By the service of shoing the King's Palfery, or Saddle Horse, upon all four feet, with the King's Nails and Shoing materials, and if he lamed him, to give the King another of four Matks price. ferrando Palesridum Domini Regis, Esc. 3. Ed. 3. N. 108. super quatuor pedes de cluario Domini Regis, quotiescunque ad Manerium suum de Manifeld jacuerit, & si inclaudet Palesridum Domini Regis, dabit ei Palesridum quatuor Mercarum. Scrivelsby. Inq. 23. Edw. 3. The Manor of Scrivelsby in the County of Lincoln is and long has been held by the Dymocks (to whom it devolved from the Marmyons) by grand Serjeanty, viz. of being Champion to the Kings of England on their Coronation day. By virtue of which tenure, Narrative by Elias Ashmole Esquire 1661. at the Coronation Feast of his Majesty that now is, a little before the second Course was served up, Sir Edw. Dymock (to whom the Court of Claims had adjudged the Office of the King's Champion) entered Westminster-Hall on a goodly white Courser armed at all points in rich armour, and having a Plume of blue Feathers in his Helm, he there made a stand for some time, and then advanced in manner following, way being made for him by the Knight Marshal, First two Trumpets, The Sergeant Trumpeter, The Sergeant at Arms, An Esquire carrying a Target, having the Champions own Arms depicted thereon. An Esquire carrying the Champion's Lance upright. Mr. Owen, York Herald. The Earl Marshal on his left hand. The Champion. The Lord High Constable on his right hand, Both likewise on Horse back. At the lower end of the Hall York-Herald proclaimed the Challenge in these following words. Viz. If any Person of what degree soever high or low, shall deny or gainsay our Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Son and next Heir to our Sovereign Lord Charles the First, the last King Deceased, to be right Heir to the Imperial Crown of this Realm of England, or that he ought not to enjoy the same, here is his Champion, who saith that he lieth, and is a false Traitor, being ready in person to combat with him, and in this Quarrel will adventure his life against him, on what day soever he shall be appointed. Thereupon the Champion threw down his Gauntlet, which lying some small time, and no body taking it up, it was delivered unto him again by York-Herald. Then all advanced forward until the Champion came to the middle of the Hall, where York-Herald made the like Proclamation, and the Gauntlet was again thrown down and after some time returned to the Champion, who advanced to the foot of the ascending steps to the state, and at the top of the steps the said Herald proclaimed the Challenge the third time, whereupon the Champion threw down his Gauntlet again, which no body taking up, it was finally delivered to him. This being done, the Earl of Pembroke and Mongomery, with Viscount Montagu, and the Lord Paget his Assistants, presented on the knee to the King a Gild Cup with a Cover full of wine, who drank to his Champion, and by the said Earl sent him the Cup, who, after three Reverences, drank it all off, went a little backward, and so departed the Hall, taking the Cup for his Fee, according as had been adjudged him by the Court of Claims. East-Bilsington. Robert Bernham Esquire holds the Manor of East-Bilsington in the County of Kent of the King by the service of presenting the King with three Maple-Cups on the day of his Coronation; Ibid. which service was performed at the Coronation of his Majesty that now is, by Erasmus Smith Esquire, in behalf of the said Robert Bernham. Narborough. Thomas Spelman (qui obijt 12 Martij 1 Eliz. In Sched. Liberae. 5. Eliz. ) dicitur in Inquisitione tenuisse Manerium de Narborough in Com. Norfolk cum tertia parte Advocationis Ecclesiae, etc. de Domina Regina, ut de Manerio suo de Wirmegay, per servitium militare & per redditum 14 s. pro This Wayt-fee I suppose may be money paid by the Tenant, in lieu of his waiting or attendance at the Castle. Wayt-fee & Castle-gard. Worthynbury. Richardus de Pynelesdon tenet terras & tenementa in Worthynbury in partibus de Mailer Says-nec in Com. Flint, Pat. 7. Ed. ●. p. 2. m. 7. intus▪ quae tenentur de Domino Rege per certa servitia & per This Ammobragium I conceive to be the same, which in Welch is called Amabr, or Amvabyr. i. Pretium virginitatis Domino solvendum; according to the Laws of Howel Dha. Ammobragium, quod ad quinque solidos extenditur, cum acciderit, sicut per Inquisitionem, etc. Lastres. Rot. Cur. 10 Ed. 4. Johannes de la Hay cepit de Will. Barneby Domino de Lastres in Com. Heref. unam parcellam terrae de terris Dominicalibus. Reddend. inde per annum xx d. & unam Aucam habilem, i. Paying a Goose fit for the Lords dinner on Michaelmas day. pro prandio Domini in Festo S. Michaelis Archangeli, Sectam Curiae & alia Servitia inde debita, etc. Burgus de Guldeford. Pla. Coronae 19 Hen. 3. Surrey. Robertus Testard tenuit quandam terram in Villa de Guldeford per seriantiam custodiendi By Meretrices was in those times understood Laundresses. Meretrices in Curia Domini Regis. Et arrentata est ad xxv s. Pinley. Adam de Oakes was found by Iniquisition to die seized of certain Tenements in Pinley in the County of Warwick, Rot. Fin. 18. Ed. 2. n. 26. which he held of the King, by the payment of a half penny per annum, called Warth. Earl Warren and Surrey. In the sixth year of King Edward the first, Bar. of Engl. 1. vol. after the making the Statute of Quo Warranto in the Parliament held at Gloucester, the King by his Justices, questioning certain of his great Subjects, by what Title they held their Lands; among others, John Earl Warren and Surrey, being called, and demanded by what Warrant he held his, showed them an Old Sword, and unsheathing it, said, Behold, my Lords, here is my Warrant, my Ancestors coming into this Land with William the Bastard, did obtain their lands by the Sword, and I am resolved with the Sword to defend them against whomsoever shall endeavour to dispossess me▪ for that King did not himself conquer the Land and subdue it, but our Progenitors were shaters and assistants therein. And good sharers were they; doomsday. for it appears that William the first Earl Warren was at the time of making the General Survey, possessed of two hundred Lordships in several Counties of England, whereof Coningsburg in Yorkshire was one, which had twenty eight Towns and Hamlets within its Soak. Setene. Bertram de Criol held the Manor of Setene in Com. Kantiae of the King by Sergeanty, Esc. 34. Ed. 1. n. 37. Kent. viz. to provide one man called This Veltrarius or Vantrarius, comes from the French Vaultre, a Mongrel Hound, for the Chase of the wild Boar. Veltrarius, a Vautrer, to lead three Greyhounds, when the King should go into Gascony, so long as a pair of shoes of four pence price should last. See Seaton postea. Egmund and Newport. Carta 11. Hen. 3. p. 1. m. 5. King Henry the third gave to Henry de Alditheley, Ancestor to the Lord Audley, Earl of Castle-Haven, the Lordships of Egmundun and Newport, in Com. Salop, for the yearly rent of a Mewed Sparhawk, to be delivered into the king's Exchequer every year at the Feast of Saint Michael. Greens-Norton. Fines 18. Ric. 2. Otherwise called Norton-Dauney▪ in North-hampton-shire, which the Greene's anciently held by Knights. Servito; To lift up their Right Hand towards the King, upon Christmas day, every year, wheresoever the King should be in England. Sculton. The Manor of Sculton, Camden in Norfolk. otherwise called Burdos', or Burdelois, in Norfolk▪ was held by this Tenure; That the Lords thereof, on the Coronation day of the Kings of England, should be chief Lardiner. Hemingston. Pla. Cor. 14. Ed. 1. rot. 6. dorso Suff. Rowlandle Sarcere, held one hundred and ten Acres of land in Hemingston in Com. Suffolk, by Sergeanty, for which on Christmas day, every year before our Sovereign Lord the King of England he should perform simul & semel, unum Saltum, unum Sufflum, & unum Bombulum, or as we read elsewhere in French, un saut, un pet, & un Syffet, simul & semel; that is, he should dance, puff up his Cheeks, making therewith a sound, and let a Crack, Et quia indecens servitium, ideo arrentatur, (says the Record) add xxvi s. viij d. per annum ad Scaccarium Regis. Sloley. Escaet. 9 Hen. 5. n. 17. Richard Sloley held of the King in Capite one Message and four Acres of Land in Sloley in Com. Warwick, by Serjeanty, that is, giving to the King, upon every Expedition with an Army towards Scotland, one Pole-axe or xij d. in silver for all Services. Astley. The Manors of Astley, Wedington, Cartular. Warwici Com. Hill-morton, Milverton, and Merston Jabet were anciently held by Philip de Astley of William Earl of Warwick, by the service of holding the Earl's Stirrup, when he should get up or a light from his Horse. Cotes. Claus. 13. Hen. 3. m. 20. Sir Stephen de Segrave in Henry the thirds time purchased the Manor of Cotes in Com. Derby, of the Daughters and Heirs of Stephen de Beauchamp, to hold by the service of one Brache yearly. Eastbrig. Cart. 17. Hen. 3. p. 1. m. 24. Hubert de Burg Earl of Kent had a grant in Fee from King Henry the 3 d. of the manor of Eastbrig in Kent, To hold by the service of a Sore Sparhawk at Lammass yearly. Tonge. Roger lafoy Zouch, Ex ipso Autographo. being Lord of the Manor of Tonge in Com. Salop, did by a fair deed in Henry the third's time, grant to Henry de Hugefort and his Heirs certain Messages and Lands lying in Norton and Shaw, in the Parish of Tonge, with liberty of fishing in the Waters, pawnage for Hogs, and liberty to get nuts for certain days in the woods of the said Manor, rendering yearly to the said Roger and his Heirs a Chaplet of Roses upon Midsummer day, in case he should be then at Tonge; if not, then to put it upon the Image of the Blessed Virgin in the Church of Tonge, for all Services. Pole. Carta. Ed. n. 26. William Montacute obtained a grant from King Edward the third of the Manor of Pole with the Advowson of the Church in Comitat. Cumbriae, Paying the King his Heirs and Successors, wheresoever he or they should happen to be, a Sword of 3 s. 4 d. price, in lieu of all Services. Burg on the Sands. The Barony of Burg on the Sands in Com. Cumbriae, Regr. de Holmeoltram. with divers other Manors and Lands in that County, were anciently held by the service of Cornage, i. to blow a horn when any invasion of the Scots was perceived. Northamptonshire. In 12 Hen. 2. Richard de Lizures, Lib. Ruber Scac. tit. North-hampton-shire. was certified to be Forester in Fee to the King for North-hampton-shire, and was by his Office obliged to attend him in his Army well fitted with Horse and Arms, his Horn hanging about his neck. Wilton. In the time of King Henry the first Hugh de Logushamp obtained, by the gifts of that King, Plac. apud Heref. 20. Ed. 1. Rot. 39 the Manor of Wilton in Com. Heref. to hold by the service of two men at Arms in the Wars of Wales. Ashele. William de Hastings, Testa de Nevil Norf. Suff. being Steward to King Henry the first, held that Office by Sergeanty, in respect of the Tenure of his Manor of Ashele in Com. Norfolk, by the service of taking Charge of the Nappery (i. the Table Clothes and linen) at the Coronations of the Kings of England. Castle-Cary. In 47. Hen. 3. Henry Lovel was found to die seized of the Manor of Castle-Cary in Com▪ Somerset, Esc. 47. ●. 3. N. 11. by him held in Capite of the King, for a whole Barony, by the service of finding two Soldiers in the King's Army at his own cost for forty days. Biwel. Hugh de Balliol was certified to hold the Barony of Biwel in Com. Northumberland of the King, Testa de Nevil. Northumb. by the service of five Knights Fees, and to find thirty Soldiers for the Guard of Newcastle upon Tine, as his Ancestors had done from the time of King William Rufus, by whom they were enfeoffed of that Barony, as the Record expresseth. East-Gareston. In 11. Edw. 1. Paganellus de Cadurcis i. Pain Chaworth, Esc. 11. Ed. 1. N. 35 was found to be seized of a Message and 400 Acres of Land in East-Gareston in Com. Berks held by the service of finding a Knight armed with Plate-Armour in the King's Army, when it should be in the Territory of Kidwelly, in Wales. Staveley. In 17. Edw. 1. John Musard was found to be seized of the Manor of Staveley in Com. Derby, Esc. 17. Ed. 1. N. 6. Derb. held of the King in Capite by Barony, finding for that and his other Lordships, two soldiers in the King's Army in Wales. Riddesdale. In the tenth year of William the Conqueror, Testa Nevelli. Robert de Vmfranvil Knight obtained from that King a grant of the Lordship, Valley and Forest of Riddesdale in Com. Northumb. by the service of defending that part of the Country for ever from Enemies and Wolves, with that Sword which King William had by his side, when he entered Northumberland, with liberty also to hold and determine Pleas of the Crown. Drakelow. William de Gresely tenet Manerium de Drakelaw in Com. Derby in Capite, Veredict. de singulis Wapent in Com. Not. & Derby. & reddit unum Arcum sine Corda, & unam Pharetram de Tutesbit, & duodecem Sagittas flectatas, & unum Buzonem. Pightesle. Thomas Engaine held certain Lands in Pightesle (now called Pitchley) in Com. Northhampton, by the service of finding, Rot. Fin. 42. Edw. 3. M. 13. at his own proper Costs, certain Dogs for the destruction of Wolves, Foxes, Martrons, Cats and other Vermin, within the Counties of Northampton, Roteland, Oxford, Essex and Buckingham. Kings-Brome. Esc. 14. Ed. 2. N. 39 In 14 Edw. 2. Rich de Stanford held one Toft and four Yard Land and a half in Kings-Brome in Com. Warwick of the King in Capite, by the Service of a pair of Tongues to be delivered yearly into the Exchequer, by the hands of the Sheriff of that County. Northampton. Jorval. William the Conqueror gave to Simon St. Liz a noble Norman, the Town of Northampton, and the whole Hundred of Falkely, then valued at forty pounds per annum, to provide shoes for his Horses. Marden. Lib. niger Heref. Johannes Freeman held one Yard Land in Marden in Com. Heref. per Seriantiam mensurandi Fossata & opera Domini Regis ad custum ipsius Domini Regis. Coningston. Inq. 27. Ed. 3. Esc. 37. Ed. 3. Thomas Winchard, held land in Coningston in Comitat. Leyc. in Capite, by the Service of saying daily five Pater Nosters and five Ave▪ Maria's, for the Souls of the King's Progenitors and the Souls of all the faithful departed, pro omni servitio. Bridgnorth. Camden's Britannia. King Henry the first gave Sir Ralph de Pichford the little Burgh near Bridgnorth; to hold by the service of finding dry wood for the great Chamber of the Castle of Burgh (i Bridgnorth) against the coming thither of his Sovereign Lord the King. Whittington. Beneath Whittington in Shropshire, Camden in Shropshire. one Wrenoc, Son of Meuric, held Lands by the service of being Latimer, that is, Trucheman or Interpreter, between the English and the Welshmen. Kinwaldmersh. Nicholas filius & haeres Nicolai de Longford, Fines 1 Ric. 2. Derby. Chivalier, tenet quatuor Messuagia, 40 acras terrae, deeem acras prati, & lx s. redditus cum pertinentiis in Kinwaldmersh, de Rege in Capite, per Servitium inveniendi unum Equum, unum Saccum, & unum Pryk signifies a Goad or Spurco, as I suppose, and is elsewhere in Latin called Compunctum. Pryk in guerra Walliae, quandocunque contigerit Regem ibi guerrare. Langewath. Vniversis— Capitulum Beati Petri, Ex ipso Autographo. Ebor. concessisse ad firmam J.S. totam Hayam nostram de Langewath, cum solo ejusdem Hayae, bruera, marisco & omnibus aliis pertinentiis— Reddendo inde annuatim nobis What Tempus Pinguedinis and Tempus Fermisonae are, see under the title of Brodgate Park. tempore Pinguedinis unum damum, & Fermisonae tempore, unam damam, etc. Dat. 13. Calend. Januar. Anno M CC LXXIX. Brokenerst. Petrus Spileman finem fecit cum Rege pro terris quas dictus Petrus tenuit, Fines-Hill. 1. Edw. 2. Wilts. per Seriantiam inveniendi unum servientem cum Hambergello per 40 dies in Anglia & inveniendi Literam ad Lectum Regis, faenum ad Paleefridum Regis, quando Rex jacuerit apud Brokenerst, in Com. Southampton. i. A Shirt or Coat of Mail. Straw for the King's Bed, and Hay for his Horse. Rodeley. Tailor's Hist. of Gavelkind. fol. 112. Certain Tenants of the Manor of Rodeley in Com. Gloucester do pay to this day, to the Lord thereof, a Rent called Pride, for brevity being the later syllable of Lamprid (as they were anciently called;) and Gavel, a Rent or Tribute. Pridgavel, in duty and acknowledgement to him for their Liberty and Privilege of fishing for Lampreys in the River Severn. Plompton. Dugdales Warwick-shire, fol. 765. a. In King Henry the third's time Walter de Plompton held certain Lands in Plompton in the Parish of Kingsbury and County of Warwick by a certain Weapon, called a Danish Axe, which being the very Charter whereby the said Land was given to one of his Ancestors, hung up for a long time in the Hall of the Capital Message, in testimony of the said Tenure. Hildesley. Ad istam Curiam Johannes Reed fecit finem cum Domino pro Tenemento suo— Per servitium octo solidorum & unius i. One days work in Harvest. Bederip in Autumno. Rot. Curiae Maner. de Hildeslegh in Com. B●●ks, 12. Rich. 2. Stamford. William Earl Warren, Rich. Butcher in his Survey of Stamf. p. 4●. Lord of this Town in the time of King John standing upon the Castle Walls, saw two Bulls fight for a Cow in the Castle Meadow, till all the Butcher's Dogs pursued one of the Bulls (madded with noise and multitude) clean through the Town. This sight so pleased the Earl, that he gave the Castle Meadows, where first the Bull's duel began, for a Common to the Butchers of the Town, after the first Grass was mowed, on condition that they should find a mad Bull, the day six weeks before Christmas day, for the continuance of that sport for ever. Homet. Rot. Norman 6 Hen 5. p. 1. m. 2. King Henry the fifth granted to Sir Walter Hungerford the Castle and Barony of Homet in Normandy in special Tail, rendering to the King and his Heirs, one Lance with a Fox-tayl hanging thereat yearly, upon the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and finding ten men at Arms and twenty Archers, to serve him or his Lieutenant during his Wars with France. Nedding and Kettilherston. William de la Pole, Carta 24 H. 6. n. 20. Marquess of Suffolk, had a Grant from King Henry the Sixth of the Manors of Nedding and Kettilberston in Com. Suffolk, to hold by the service of carrying a Golden Sceptre, with a Dove on the head of it, upon the Coronation day of the King's heirs and Successors. As also a Sceptre of Ivory, with a Golden Dove on the head of it, upon the day of the Coronation of the Queens of England. Isle of Man. Sir John Stanley of Hen. IU. had a Grant in Fee of the Isle of Man, Pat. 7 H. 4. M. 18. with the Castle † Pele or Pile, is a Fort built for defence of any place, especially against the force of the Sea. Pele (Pelam) Patronage of the Bishopric, with all the Regalities and Franchises thereto belonging: To be held of the King, his Heirs and Successors, by Homage and the service of two Falcons, payable on the day of his or their Coronation. Brayles. Inquis. per H. Nott. tit. Brayles In King Edward the Firsts time Adam Underwood held one Yard land in Brayles in Com. Warwic. of William Earl of Warwick, paying therefore seven bushels of Oats yearly and a Hen, and working for the Lord from Michaelmas till Lammas every other day, except Saturday; viz. at Mowing, as long as that season lasted, for which he was to have as much Grass as he could carry away with his Sith; and at the end of Hay-harvest, he and the rest of his Fellow-Mowers to have the Lords best Mutton, except one, or xuj d. in money, with the best Cheese, saving one, or uj d. in money, and the Cheese-Vat, wherein the Cheese was made, full of Salt. From Lammas to Michaelmas he was to work two days in the week, and to come to the Lords Reap with all his household, except his Wife and his Shepherd, & to cut down one Land of Corn, being quit of all other work for that day. That he should likewise carry 2 Cart-loads and an half of the Lords Hay, and 7 Cartload of Stones for 3 days, and gather Nuts for 3 days. And in case the Lord kept his Christmas at his Manor of Brayles, to find three of his Horse's meat for three nights. That he should plough thrice a year, viz. 6 Selions; and make 3 Quarters of Malt for the Lord, and pay for every Hog he kept above a year old j d, and for every one under a halfpenny. And lastly, that he and the rest of the Tenants of this Manor, should give 12 Marks yearly to the Lord at Michaelmas, by way of Aid, and not marry their Daughters, nec † This was an usual restraint of Old in Villeinage Tenure, to the end the Lord might not lose any of his Villains, by their entering into Holy Orders. filios coronare, (i. nor make their Sons Priests) without licence from the Lord. Bainton. Esc. 3. Ed. 2. N. 34. In 2. Ed. 2. Peter de Manley was found to be seized of the Manor of Bainton with the Advowson of the Church, by the service of finding two Knights and four Esquires in the King's Army for 40 days, in time of War, and to provide a Steward to do suit for him at the King's Court at York, from six Weeks to 6 weeks. Wiltshire. The County of Wilts anciently paid to the King ten pounds for a Hawk, doomsday tit Wiltes. twenty shillings pro Summario, a Sumpter Horse, one hundred shillings for Hay, and in Money five This Ore was a Saxon Coin, which valued xuj. d. a piece, and sometimes according to the variation of the Standard, xx d. Oars. Fernham. Esc. 10. Edw. 2. N. 71. Orig de 39 Ed. 3. Rot. 3. The Barons Furnival held Fernham in Com. Bucks (now called Farnham-Royal) by service of finding their Sovereign Lord the King upon the day of his Coronation, a glove for his right-Hand, and to support his right Arm the same day, whilst he held the Regal Verge or Sceptre in his Hands. From the Furnivals' this Manor came to the Talbots, who though they exchanged it with King Hen. 8. Yet they reserved this honourable Office to them and their heirs for ever. Fingrey and Wulfelmelston. The Earls of Oxford, by the heir of Sandford, Inq. 6 Ed. 2. anciently held the Manors of Fingrey and Wulfelmelston in the County of Cambridge, by Serjeanty of Chamberlain-ship to the Queens of England, at the King's Coronation. Lufnam. Fines 14 Edw. 3. Tho. Beauchamp held South-Luffenham and other Lands in Com. Rutland by service to be the King's Chamberlain in the Exchequer. Hodnet. Hodnet in Shropshire was anciently held by the Vernons of the Honour of Mongomery, Inq. 10 Edw. 2. to be Seneschal or Steward of the same Honour. Barons of Cheshire. The Earl of Chester's Barons were anciently bound in time of War with Wales, Cam. Brit. ex Antiq. MS. to find for every Knight's Fee, one Horse with Caparison and Furniture, or two without, within the divisions of Cheshire; and their Knights and freeholders' to find Corslets and Haubergeons, and defend their Fees with their own Bodies. Lanton. The Baskervils anciently held Lands there, in chief, Fin. Hill. 20 Ed. 3. as of the Honour of Montgomery, by the service of giving the King, a Barbd-headed Arrow, when he came to hunt in Corndon-Chace. Newbigging. Mon. Ang. 2. p. fo. 539. a. Apud Newbigging xiij Bovatae assifae de hijs hominibus. Baldwinus una Bovata pro ij s. & dimid. & duas Gallinas, & xx Ova & quatuor * Reap-days. Precarias in Autumpno cum uno homine, bis arare, bis herciare, semel falcare, semel foenum levare, & cum opus fuerit stagnum reparare, & molas attrahere, & oves uno die lavare & altera tondere. i. To harrow twice, mow or reap once, make hay once,— I know not what Molas attrahere should signify, unless to draw or carry Millstones. Hundred de Lidingeland. Claus. 15 Edw. 1. Suffolk. Johannes de Balliolo tenet medietatem Hundredi de Lidingeland quae seisita fuit in manus Regis, eo quod ipse non optulit se personaliter ad portandum virgam coram Justitiarijs Itinerantibus in eodem Comitatu. Tutbury. MS.D. de S. Kniveton, fo. 249. Walter Achard or Agard claimed to hold by Inheritance the Office of Escheater and Coroner through the whole Honour of Tutbury in Com. Staff. and the Bailiwick of Leyke. Pro quo Officio nullas Evidentias, Carta vel alia scripta proferre possit, nisi tantum * i. A white Hunter's horn, garnished with silver, inlaid with Gold, in the middle and at both ends. To which is affixed a Girdle of black silk adorned with certain buckles of silver. Cornu venatorium album argento inaurato in medio & utroque fine decoratum; Cui etiam affigitur Cingulum byssi nigri fibulis quibusdam argenteis ornatum, in medio quorum posita sunt insignia Edmundi secundi filij Regis Henrici tertij. Stafford. Edmund Lord Stafford held the Manors of Stafford, Esc. 2 Ed. 2. Bradeley and Madeley in Com. Stafford of the king in Capite by Barony, by service of finding for 40 days at his own charge, three armed men, with three Equis coopertis., Horses harnessed for War, as often as there should be War with Wales or Scotland. Listun. Godefridus filius Johannis held certain land in Liston in Com. Essex of our Lord the King by the service of making Wafers at his Coronation. Felstede. Adam de Glanvile tenet xx acras terrae in Felstede by the service of keeping two Palfreys, Pla. Cor. apud Chelmsf. 11 Hen. 3. ad liberationem Domini Regis. i. At the King's Livery. Estham. Ibidem. Radulpbus' de Moigne held Estham in Essex by Serjeanty, ut sit Emptor Domini Regis in Coquina sua. i. Caterer. Legere. Ibidem. Willielmus filius Johannis de Legere held certain Lands in Legere in Com. Essex by Serjeanty, to find unum Equum, unum Saccum & unam Brochiam in servitio Domini Regis in Wallia ad custum Domini Regis. Wodeham Mortimer. Pla. Cor. de 13 Ed. 1. Hardekynus tenet quoddam Tenementum in Wodeham Mortimer in Com. Essex per Serjantiam ad nutriendam unam † i. a little Brache or Bitch-hound. Brachettam Domini Regis cum Dominus Rex ei illam miserit ad nutriendam, & custodiendi quousque habilis fuerit ad currendum. Mauldon. The Inhabitants of Mauldon in Essez, Ibidem. anciently held that Town by Serjeanty, to find the King unam Navem cum * i. A Ship with his Furniture or Tackle. Apparatu suo quotiescunque contigerit dictum Regem ire cum exercitu extra regnum Angliae per xl dies sumptibus suis propriis, & hoc ad summonitionem Domini Regis. Rewenhall. Eutach de Ho tenuit unam Carucatam terrae cum pertin. Ibidem▪ in Rewenhall in Com. Essex per Seriantiam inveniendi unum hominem equitem cum uno * i. A long Horsemans' Coat, that covered part of the Legs; from the French Gambe or Jambe, a Leg. Gambesone in exercitu Domini Regis, Ibidem▪ cum contigerit ipsum ire in Wallia, sumptibus suis propriis per xl dies. Heydon. Johannes Pycot tenet quoddam tenementum in Villa de Heydon in Com. Essex per Serjantiam, Ibidem. tenend. manutergium coram Domino Rege die Coronationis. Et Petrus Pycot tenet quoddam tenementum in eadem Villa, per Serjantiam tenendi pelves ad aquam dandam ad Coronationem praedictam. Hallingbury. Ibidem. Rogerus quondam Cissor Domini Regis tenuit unam Carucatam terrae in Hallingbury Com. Essex, per Serjantiam Solvend. ad Scaccarium Domini Regis unam acum argenteam quolibet anno in Crastino Sancti Michaelis. i. Paying a Silver Needle into the Exchequer. Alesbury. Willielmus filius Willielmi de Alesbury tenet tres Virgatas terrae de Domino Rege in Alesbury in Com. Buck. Pla. Cor. de Anno 14 Edw. 1. Bucks. per Serjantiam inveniendi stramen ad lectum Domini Regis, & ad straminandam Cameram suam, & reddendi tres anguillas Domino Regi cum venerit apud Alesbury in * i. In Winter. Yeme. Et etiam inveniendi Domino Regi cum venerit apud Alesbury in Estate stramen ad lectum suum, & praeter hoc † i. Grass or Rushes to strew the King's Chamber: Duas Gantas, two (green) Geese. herbam ad jucandam Cameram suam, & etiam reddet duas Gantas, & haec servitia praedicta faciet ter in anno, si contigerit ipsum Regem ter venire apud Alesbury, & non pluries. Stow. Pla. Cor. apud Cantebr. 21 Ed. 1. Johannes de Curtese tenuit 30 acras terrae in Stow in Com. Cantabr. per Serjantiam adducend. unam * i. A Truss of Hay for the use of the King's necessary House. Trussulam foeni ad Cloacham Domini Regis cum ipse Rex transierit per partes illas, & arrentatur ad Scaccarium Domini Regis ad x s. per ann. Maplescaump. Willielmus de Valoignes tenet de Domino Rege in Capite medietatem Manerii de Maplescaump per talem servitium, In Parvo Rot. Hundredor. Ka●cia. quod si Dominus Rex venerit usque Maplescaump ad Missam suam audiendam; tunc idem Willielmus inveniet ei unum denarium ad oblationem. Exmore. Henricus III. dedit Willielmo de Plessets, Orig. de Anno 35 Ed. 3. Ballivam de Exmore in Com. Somerset per servitium reddendi eidem Regi proinde 14 juvenculas & unum Tauriculum, vel pro quolibet eorum x d. Winfred. Robertus de Novoburgo tenuit Manerium de Winfred in Com. Dorset una cum Hundredo ibidem de Rege in Capite, Inq. 12 Edw. 3. n. 2. Dorset. per servitium dandi aquam manibus Domini Regis die Coronationis suae, & habebit * i. Shall have the Basin and Ewer for his service. pelvem cum lavatorio pro servitio praedicto. Holicote. Inq. 35 Ed. 1. n. 1. Somerset. Walterus Barun tenuit quasdam terras & quaedam Tenementa in Villa de Holecote de Rege in Capite, i. By the service of hanging the Red-Deer that die of the Morion in the King's Forest, upon a forked piece of Wood per servitium pendendi super quoddam lignum furcatum Cervos de morina defunctos in Foresta Regis de Exmore; ac etium hospitandi pauperes supervenientes, de infirmitate debilitatos, sumptibus suis propriis pro animabus antecessorum Domini Edwardi Regis. Brineston. Inq. 27 Ed. 3. n. 40. Manerium de Brineston in Com. Cestriae, tenetur de Rege in Capite per servitium inveniendi unum hominem in exercitu Domini Regis in partibus Scotiae praefecturum nudis pedibus, camisia & * i Breeches or Drawers. bractis vestitum, habentem in una manu unum arcum sine corda, & altera manu unum † i. A Calthrop (anciently used in War) without those four pricks, which it usually had, to annoy the Enemy's Horses feet. But quaere. Tribulum non pennatum. Maperdeshale. Terra in Maperdeshale in Com. Bedford, Pasche 14 Ed. 2. Dorset. tenetur in Capite per servitium essendi in guerra Regis With one Horse of no set price, one Hanbergion or Coat of Mail, a Sword, Lance, Iron-Headpiece, and a Whittle or little Knife. cum uno equo non appreciato, una habergione, gladio, lancta, Capello ferreo & uno cultello, sumptibus suis propriis. Hoton. Manerium de Hoton in Com. Cumbr. tenetur de Domino Rege in Capite, Esc. de Anno. 5. Hen. 7. per servitium Forestae Custodis in Haya Domini Regis de Plompton, & ultra hoc per servitium tenendi † i. Of holding the King's Stirrup when he mounted his Horse in his Castle of Carlisle. slippam sellae Domini Regis dum equum suum in Castro suo Carleoli scanderit & per servitium reddendi per An. 33 s. 4 d. ad Scaccarium Regis Carliol. per manus Vicecom. Cumbriae, qui pro tempore fuerit. Domus in London. Ex libro magno du cat. Lanc. Rex Johannes concessit Willielmo de Ferrariis Comiti Derby domum, quae fuit Isaac judaei de Norwico in London, in parochia Sanctae Margaretae. Tenend. de nobis & haeredibus nostris per tale servitium, scil. quod ipse & haeredes sui servient coram nobis & haeredibus nostris ad prandium omnibus Festis annalibus, quando Festum celebrabimus, capite † i. With his head uncovered, without a Cap; but with a Garland of the breadth of his Little finger. discooperto sine capello, cum una Garlanda de latitudine minoris digiti sui vel haeredum suorum pro omni servitio. Dat. 27. Junnii, 15 regni. Morton. Hill. 22 Ric. 2. Essex. Edmundus Busche tenet terras in Morton in Com. Essex, de Rege in Capite per servitium inveniendi unum stimulum ferreum pro uno Warroks super quoddam Clothsack, quandocunque Dominus Rex equitaverit in exercitu versus partes Walliae tempore guerrae. Quaere. Gloucester City. Tempore Regis Edwardi reddebat Civitas de Gloucestre, doomsday, tit. Gloucestre. xxxuj libras numeratas, & xij Sextary was an ancient Measure containing our Pint and a half, and in some places more. A Dicar of Iron contained ten Barrs: And Virgas ferreas ductiles were Iron-rods wrought into a fit size for making Nails for the King's Ships. Sextaria mellis ad mensuram ejusdem Burgi, & xxxuj dicras ferri, & C virgas ferreas ductiles ad clavos navium Regis, & quasdam alias minutas consuetudines in Aula & in Camera Regis. Esseby. Lib. feod. 24 Edw. 1. fo. 292. Willielmus filius Warini tenet tertiam partem Villae de Esseby in Com. Northampt. de Rege Scotiae, per quoddam servitium, quod teneat † i. his Stirrup. Strepe suum die Natalis. Et idem Rex tenet de Rege Angliae in Capite. Bishops-Castle. Within the Manor of Bishops-Castle in Com. Salop, Lib. niger Heref. Howel de Lydom and William ap John held one Yard Land, paying iij s. at the Feast of Pentecost, and iij s. at Michaelmas; i. Or 3. Ploughshares, 3 Coulters, and to repair the Ironwork of three Plows, at the election of the Bishop's Bailiffs. vel tria Vomera, tria Cultra, & reparare ferramenta ad tres Carucas, ad electionem Ballivorum Episcopi. Slapton. Hugh Courtenay Esquire, Antiq. of Exeter. Son and Heir of Sir Hugh Courtenay Knight, held the Manor of Slapton in Com. Devon. of the Bishop of Exeter, by the service of being Steward at the Installation Feast of every Bishop of that See. The particulars whereof were, after some controversy, thus ascertained by Walter Stapledon then Bishop of Exeter, and his Dean and Chapter under their Seals at Newton Plympton, the morrow after the Feast of St. Tho. the Apostle, Anno Dom. 1308. 2 Edw. 2. That the said Hugh or his Heirs, shall, at the first coming of the Bishop to Exeter, meet him at the East-gate of the City, when he descendeth from his Horse, and then going a little before him on the right hand shall keep off the press of People, and attend him into the Choir of the Cathedral Church, there to be Installed. And shall at the Installing Feast serve-in the first Mess at the Bishops own Table. In consideration of which service the said Hugh Courtenay and his Heirs shall have for their Fee, four Silver dishes of those which he shall so place at the first Mess, two Saltcellars, one Cup, wherein the Bishop shall drink at that Meal; one Wine-pot, one Spoon and two Basins, wherein the Bishop shall then wash. All which Vessels are to be of Silver. Provided the said Hugh or his Heirs, being of full Age, do attend this service in person, if not hindered by Sickness or the King's Writ, etc. then to appoint some worshipful Knight to supply the place by a Deputation, who shall swear that his Lord is sick, etc. Seaton. Richardus Rockesley Miles, Rot. Fin. Mich. 2 Ed. 2. tenebat terras Seatoniae in Com. Kantiae per Serjantiam, i. To be the King's Vauterer or Dog-leader in Gascoigny, till he had worn out a pair of Shoes of four pence price. esse This Vautrarium Regis is by some miswritten Vantrarium, and Englished, the King's Fore-footman. See Setene suprà. Vautrarium Regis in Gasconia donec perusus fuit pari Solutarum pretii iiij d. Yorkshire. Philippus de Lardimer clamat esse Venditorem Domini Regis de feodo in Com. Ebor. de omnibus rebus, Quo war▪ Ebor. temp. Ed. 1. quae vendi debent pro debito Domini Regis, vel etiam pro Queen-gold is a Royal duty of Ten in the Hundred, due to the Queen Consort of England, for all Fines and Oblations made to the King. Auro Reginae. Ita viz. quod ipse vel certus suus Attornatus ibit ad mandatum Vicecomitis de loco in locum insra Comitarum sumptibus suis ad praedictas venditiones faciendas: Et capiet de unaquaque venditione pro feodo suo xxxij denarios. Which tenure was afterwards seized into the King's hands for the abuse thereof, as appears by the great Roll in the Pipe-Office, Anno 2 Edw. 2. Kibworth. Pat. 1. Eli. Queen Elizabeth granted to Sir Ambrose Dudley the Manor of Kibworth-Beauchamp in Com. Leic. to be held by the service of being Pantler to the Kings and Queens of this Realm, at their Coronations. Chesterton. Esc. 32 Ed. 1. N. 43. Gilbert le Harpour held Lands in Chesterton in Com. Warwick of the King by grand Serjeanty, viz. to keep the place called Teddesley † A separate enclosure within a Forest or Park, fenced with a Rail or Hedge, or both; of which there were several in this Forest of Cank. Hay within the Forest of Canoke at his own cost. Bruham. Bertrammus le Wile tenet dimidiam Hidam terrae in Villa de Bruham (Com. Bedf.) de Domino Rege per Serjantiam, Pl. Cor. coram Joh. de Vallibus & Soc. 15 Ed. 1. Bedford. reddendi per annum unum par † Q. If it may not signify a pair of Saddle-bows, from the French word Arceau, which denotes as much. Arceonum ad Sellam. Et Prior de Neunham tenet dimid. Hidam terrae in Villa de Turvey de Domino Rege in Capite per Serjantiam, reddendi per ann. unum par Arceonum dealbat. ad Sellam, & valet terra illa x s. per ann. Sutton. Alexander de Summersham tenet dimidium feodum militis in Villa de Sutton (in Com. Bedf.) de Domino Rege in Capite per Serjantiam, Pl: Cor. 15 Ed. 1. essendi in propria persona cum Domino Rege, ubicunque fuerit in guerra in Anglia, seu alibi. Standebury. Pla. Cor. apud Wirdesor. 12 Ed. 1. Robertus de Tadeshale tenet viginti libratas terrae in Standebury, in Com. Berks, de Domino Rege per Serjantiam custodiendi unum Girefalconem pro Domino Rege. Benham. Plac. ut supr. Willielmus Lovel tenet duas Carucatas terrae de Domino Rege apud Benham, in Com. Berks, per Serjantiam custodiendi unam † i. A Pack of I know not what Dogs. Meutam deynectorum Canum ad custum Domini Regis. Et Willielmus de Valence decem libratas terrae de Domino Rege in eadem Villa, quae fuit Escaeta Domino Regi per Hugonem Wake, per Serjantiam custodiendi Hostium Camerae Domini Regis. Lyndeby. Esc. 5 Ed. 2. Johannes de Metham & Sibilla uxor ejus, tenuerunt de Rege in Capite medietatem Villae de Lyndeby, per servitium reddendi i. A Grey furr'd Coat or Pilch. Pollicium de Griseo ad Scaccarium Domini Regis tantum. East-Gareston. Pla. Cor. apud Windesor 12 Ed. 1. rot. 28. in dorso. Patricius de Cadurcis (ay Chaworth) tenet Manerium de East-Gareston in Com. Berks, per Serjantiam inveniendi unum Armigerum armatum ess●ndi in anteriori parte Exercitus Domini Regis in Westgales tempore guerrae, per xl dies sumptibus propriis. Bokhampton. Johannes le Bayliff tenet duas Hidas terrae de Domino Rege in Bokhampton per Serjantiam, Pla. & rot. ut supr. custodiendi unam Meutam Caniculorum † i. By Serjanty of keeping a kennel of little Hounds called Harriers, at the King's charge. Harrectorum, ad custum Domini Regis. Bokhampton. Willielmus Hoppeshort tenet dimidiam Virgatam terrae in eadem Villa de Domino Rege, Pla. ut supr. per servitium custodiendi Domino Regi sex Damisellas, scil. Meretrices, ad custum Domini Regis. East & West-Haured. Johannes Paternoster tenet unam Virgatam terrae cum pertin. in East-Haured in Com. Berks, Pl. ut sup. rot. 29. in dorso. per Serjantiam dicendo pro anima Domini Regis unum Pater-Noster quotidiè, & valet per ann. v s. Et quidam Willielmus de Insula tenuit unam Carucatam terrae cum pertin. in West-Haured, per Serjantiam emendi Cervisiam ad opus Domini Regis; & valet per ann. C. s. Creswell. Pl. ut sup. rot. 40. in dorso. Hugo de Sancto Philoberto tenet Manerium de Creswell in Com. Berks, i. Of carrying Bottles of Wine for the King's Breakfast. per Serjantiam ducendi butelloes Vini ad jentaculum Domini Regis, & vocatur illa Serjantia de la Huse per regnum Angliae. Padeworth. Pl. ut sup. rot. 46. Petrus de Condrey tenet Manerium de Padeworth in Com. Berks, in Capite de Domino Rege, per Serjantiam inveniendi unum servientem in navi Domini Reginae, quotiescunque contigerit ipsam transfretare ad partes Normanniae, ad tenendam unam Cordam ejusdem Navis in eadem. Et valet per ann. Serjantia illa x marcas. Hertrug. Philippus de Hertrug tenuit quandam terram in Hertrug in Com. Berks, Ibid. quae valet per ann. xl s. per Serjantiam mutandi & custodiendi unum Osturcum Domini Regis. Burstal. Johannes filius Nigelli tenet unam Hidam in Burstal in Com. Bucks, Pla. Cor. in Com. Bucks. 14 Edw. 1. de Domino Rege in Foresta de Bernewode, per Serjantiam, quae vocatur le Derhyde pertinentem ad Ballivam suam de custodiendo Forestam; unde idem Johannes est custos de feodo. Aylesbury. Margeria de Aspervil tenet unam Virgatam terrae de Domino Rege in Capite, Ibid. in Aylesbury in Com. Bucks, per Serjantiam custodiendi omnes districtiones factas pro debito Domini Regis per summonitionem Scaccarii. Fulmer. Marmaducus Darel Miles, Esc. 3 H. 6. tenet de Domino Rege Manerium de Fulmer in Com. Bucks, per servitium unius Rosae rubeae per annum. Papworth-Anneys. Johannes Russel tenet in Villa de Papworth-Anneys in Com. Cantabr. duas Hidas terrae & dimidium de Domino Rege in Capite, Pla. Cor. 14 Ed. 1. Cant. per Serjantiam pascendi duos pauperes pro animabus antecessorum suorum; & arrentatur ad Scaccarium pro viij s. Cumberton. Ibid. Alexander here tenet dimidiam Hidam terrae in Cumberton Com. Cantabr. de Domino Rege per Serjantiam, essendi Pistor Domini Regis. Wilburgham magna. Pla. Cor. 21 Ed. 1. C●nt. Willielmus Loveday tenet unum Messuagium, & octoginta acras terrae in magna Wilburgham in Com. Cantabr. de Domino Rege in Capite, per Serjantiam inveniendi Spervarium Sorum: Et cum hoc fecerit deferet illum ad Curiam Domini Regis, & ibidem faciet moram per xij dies, cum duobus Equis, duobus † i. With two Boys or Grooms, and two Hare-hounds, or Greyhounds. Garcionibus, & duobus Leporariis ad custum Domini Regis. Raghton. Simon de Raghton & Dominus Robertus de la Ferte, Pla. Cor. 20 Ed. 1. Cumbria. & Ivo filius Hugonis de Fornecostes, tenent unam parvam Serjantiam, in Raghton in Com. Cumbriae, custodiendi † i. The King's Aeries of Goshawks (or Falcons, as some will have it) from the French Austour, a Goshawk. Aerias Austurcorum Domini Regis: Et valet per ann. ix s. quos reddit ad Scaccarium Domini Regis. Airedale. Willielmus de Boyvile tenet unam Serjantiam inveniendi unum Forestarium in Warda de Alredale, Ibid. & capit per diem ad sustentationem Forestarii sui de Villa de Alredale, quolibet die iij d. à Festo Sancti Michaelis, usque ad Festum Apostolorum Philippi & Jacobi, & à die illo usque ad Festum Sancti Michaelis singulis diebus ij d. Auri & Hole. Walterus Aungerin tenet unam Carucatam terrae in Auri & Hole in Com. Devon. Pla. Cor. de Anno 9 Edw. 1. Devon. per Serjantiam, quod quotiescunque Dominus Rex fugare voluerit in Foresta de Exmore, inveniet eidem Domino Regi duas sagittas barbatas: Et valet terra illa per ann. xx s. La Barr. Morinus de la Barr tenuit octo acras terrae apud la Barr in Com. Devon. de Domino Rege in Capite, Ibid. per Serjantiam reddendi Domino Regi unum Salmonem, & duas Sagittas * i. Two barbed Arrows barbatas quotiescunque contigerit ipsum Dominum Regem *— when the King shall chase or Hunt in Exmore-Forest. fugare in Exmore. Droscumbe. Ibid. Walterus de Bromhall tenuit quandam terram in Droscumbe in Com. Devon. per Serjantiam inveniendi Domino Regi, quotiescunque contigerit ipsum fugare in Foresta de Dertmore, unum arcum, & tres sagittas barbatas: Et arrentata est ad v s. per ann. Windebury, & Loston. Willielmus de Albemarle tenet Manerium de Windebury in Com. Devon. de Domino Rege in Capite, Ibid. per Serjantiam inveniendi unum hominem equitem per xl dies propriis sumptibus in exercitu Domini Regis in Wallia. Item tenet Manerium de Loston, per Serjantiam inveniendi Domino Regi duas sagittas, & unum panem Avenae, cum Dominus Rex currit in Foresta de Dertmore. Bakton. Ibid. Galfridus Arblaster tenet quandam terram in Bakton in Com. Devon. per Serjantiam custodiendi Gayolam Com. Exoniae. Brodeham. Galfridus de la Hull & Millesenta uxor ejus, Pla. Cor. ut supra. tenent unum * Ferlingus vel Ferlingata terrae, is the fourth part of a Yard-land. Ferlingum terrae in Brodeham in Com. Devon. per Serjantiam, essendi Bedellus Domini Regis in Hundredo isto. Saundford. Hugo Peverell tenet Manerium de Saundford in Com. Devon. per Serjantiam inveniendi Domino Regi, Ibid. in exercitu suo per totam Angliam sumptibus propriis unum hominem equitem armatum, & duos homines pedites. Bryanstan. Radulphus de Stopham tenet Manerium de Bryanstan in Com. Dorset, Pla. Cor. apud Schyreburne, 8 Ed. 1. Dorset. rot. 3. per Serjantiam inveniendi Domino Regi, quotiescunque contigerit ipsum habere exercitum in Anglia in Walliam * i. A Boy, carrying a Bow without a string, but what Buzonem signifies, Lector, tu tibi Oedipus esto. Garcionem deferentem unum arcum sine corda, & unum Buzonem sine pennis, ad sumptus suos proprios per quadraginta dies. Gissag. Imbertus Pogeys tenet Manerium de Gissag omnium Sanctorum de dono Henrici Regis, Ibid. rot. 4 Dorset. per servitium unius paris Calcariorum deauratorum: Et eidem Imbertus dedit dictam terram Abbathiae de Tarent, etc. Hundred de Loseberg. Ibid. rot. 7 Thomas filius Richardi de Marshal de Cerberg, tenuit quandam terram in Hundredo de Loseberg (Com. Dorset) in Capite de Domino Rege, per Serjantiam inveniendi quendam i. A certain Horse-comb or Currycomb. strigulum, etc. Porscaundel. Juliana uxor Johannis filii Alani, Ibid. rot. 10. tenuit dimidiam Hidam terrae in Porscaundel in Com. Dorset, in Capite de Domino Rege, per Serjantiam custodiendi † i Leash-hounds or Parkhounds, such as draw after a hurt Deer in a Leash or Liam. Canes Domini Regis lesos, si qui fuerint, quotiescunque Dominus Rex fugaverit in Foresta sua de Blakemore: Et ad dandum unum denarium ad clancturam Parci Domini Regis de Gillingham. Windesor. Johannes de Windesor tenuit Manerium de Windesor in Com. Dorset, Ibid. rot. 13. quod valet per ann. xx l. per Serjantiam, quod ipse & haeredes sui debent ponderare denarios venientes ad Scaccarium Domini Regis. Kingeston-Russel. Willielmus Russel tenet Kingeston in Com. Dorset, Ibid. rot. 14. in Capite de Domino Rege per Serjantiam, essendi Custos ostii Botilarii Domini Regis, per quatuor principalia Festa per annum. Bradepole. Elena de Gorges tenet Manerium de Bradepole in Com. Dorset, Ibidem. per Serjantiam inveniendi quendam servientem— armatum, cum guerra evenerit, per quadraginta dies. Oketon & Dalton. Pla. Cor. 15 Hen. 3. Ebor. rot. 1. dorso. Anketil Malore tenet quandam terram & x s. redditus in Oketon & Dalton, in Com. Ebor. de Serjantia Domini Regis per Archeriam, quam terram Dominus Rex dedit eidem Anketilo in maritagio cum filia & haerede Willielmi de Muletorp; & tenet praedictam terram unius Archeriae, quod inveniet unum servientem ad custodiam Castri Ebor. tempore guerrae per xl dies ad custum proprium. Debet etiam invenire unum servientem ad ducendum thesaurum Domini Regis, per totum Comitatum ad custum proprium, & extra Com. ad custum Domini Regis. Swinton. Ibidem rot. 17. Willielmus filius Daniel tenet quatuor bovatas terrae & dimid. in Swinton in Com. Ebor. reddendo inde per annum unum Flaskettum, etc. i. A kind of Basket. Wapentake de Strafford. Thomas Carnifex tenet de Domino Rege in Capite Manerium de R. in Com. Ebor. per Serjantiam inveniendi Domino Regi in exercitu suo in Walliam, unum Equum, unam Falcem, Pla. Cor. 7 Edw. 1. Ebor. unam Brochiam, & unum Saccum, etc. Et praedictus Thomas in misericordia pro injusta detentione. Hereford. Hospitilarij tenent in Hereford unum messuagium cum pertin', Testa. Nevelli. quod Philippus filius Odonis tenuit per Serjantiam * Intelligo (says the learned Spelman) de Serviente ad Clavam, a Sergeant at the Mace; we retain the word Catchpol still, for a Sheriff Bailiff or such like Officer. Chachepolli, quod eis legavit in puram Eleemosynam. Ho. Jeremy del Honorio & Radulfus de Coggeshale tenent feodum del Ho in Rivahale, Pla. Cor. 11 H. 3 Rot. 1. apud Chelmsford. quod est de Honore Bononiae & valet xl s. & deb●nt tenere per servitium * i. The Chamberlainship. Ward-pennies, or money paid to the Sheriff or Castellain, towards the guard or defence of a Castle. Chamberlangeriae in Com. Devon ', & modo nullum servitium faciunt nisi duos Wartpenys per an▪ ad Hundredum de Wyham. Hundred de Beckingtre. Johannes le Parker tenet dimid. Hidam terrae per Serjantiam custodiendi Parcum domini Regis & Boscum forinsecum, Ibidem. & valet per annum dimidiam marcam. Bures. Ibidem. Willielmus de Bigod tenet cum uxore sua villam de Bures, & Hundredum de domino Rege in Capite, scil. Villam de Bures per Serjantiam * i. The chandry, where the Candles are kept. Eschanderiae, & Valet Villa C s. & de Hundredo reddit ad Scaccarium xviijl. Vpminster. Pla. Cor. 13 Edw. 1. Essex. Johannes Engayne tenet manerium de Vpmenistre in Com. Essex, quod Valet per ann. xxxl. per Serjantiam custodiendi Canes Leporarios Domini Regis. Morton. Henricus de Avering tenuit manerium de Morton in Com. Essex in Capite de domino Rege, Ibidem▪ per Serjantiam inveniendi unum hominem cum uno equo precii x s. & quatuor † † i. Four Horse-shoes, a Leather sack and one iron Broch, which was a great Pot or Jug to carry Liquid things▪ as the Sack was to carry the dry, from the French word Brock, which signifies a great Flagon, Tankard or Pot. So the learned Spelman interprets it. Though some are not willing to submit to his opinion herein. ferris equorum, & uno sacco de coreo, & una Brochia ferrea, quotiescunque contigerit dominum Regem ire in Walliam cum exercitu sumptibus suis propriis per quadragnita dies. Pusey. Alicia Paternoster tenet unam Virgatam terrae in Pusey in Com. Berks in Capite de domino Rege per servitium dicendi quolilet die quinquies Paternoster, Pla. Cor. 12 Edw. 1. Rot 35. Dorso. pro animabus antecessorum Domini Regis. & Valet per ann. v s. & Richardus Paternoster pro Relevio suo ter dixit coram Baronibus modo hic Orationem Dominicam cum Salutatione Beatae Mariae, Rot. Fin. Pas. 31 Ed. 3. sicut Johannes frater ejus fecerat pro Relevio suo. Saling. Radulfus Picot tenet unam Carucatam terrae in Saling in Com. Essex per Serjantiam custodiendi unum Spervarlum ad custus Domini Regis; Pla. Cor. 13 Edw. 1. Essex. & Dominus Rex invenient eidem sustentationem suam ad tres equos, tres † i. Three Boys or Grooms and three hounds for the Hare, or Gyrehounds. garciones & tres Leporarios, & idem Radulfus mutabit praedictum Spervarium sumptibus suis propriis. Falsted. Ibidem. Walterus de Glanvile tenet quadraginta acras terrae in Falsted in Com. Essex per Serjantiam † i. Of carrying a Seam or Horseload of Oats, which in some places is accounted Eight Bushels, in others perhaps more properly, but four. cariandi unam Summam Avenae sumptibus suis propriis ad equos Domini Regis, dum tamen Dominus Rex moram fecerit in Com. Essex inter pontem de Stratford extra London & pontem de Colcester, & modo terra illa arrentata est. Boyton. Ibidem. Willielmus de Reynes aliquando tenuit duas Carucatas terrae in Boyton in parochia de Finchingfend in Com. Essex per Serjantiam custodiendi Domino Regi quinque Canes † Luporarios, Wolf-Dogs. & decanus & Capitalum Londoni modo tenent terram illam. Hashwell. Ibidem. Simon de Hashwel tenet quoddam Tenementum in Villa de Hashwel in Com. Essex per Serjantiam essendi † i. The King's Spear-man. Hastilarius Domini Regis. Springesend. Petrus le Marshal tenet quoddam Tenementum in Spring send in Com. Essex per Serjantiam custodiendi unum Palefridum in stabulo Domini Regis sumptibus ipsius Domini Regis. Ibidem. Fingreth. Robertus de Vere, Comes Oxoniae, Pla. Corona 13 Ed. 1. Essex. tenet Manerium de Fingreth in Com. Essex per Serjantiam essendi Camerarius Domini Regis Die Coronationis suae & idem Robertus & Matilda uxor ejus tenet Manerium de Ging-reginae, per Serjantiam custodiendi Cameram Dominae Reginae die Coronationis Praedictae. Tey magna. Ibidem. Robert 〈…〉 de Trumpeton tenet Dimid. Carucatam 〈…〉 Tey Magna in Com. Essex per Serjan 〈…〉 inveniendi Domino Regi unum equum 〈…〉 num * i. A bag made of Hempen cloth or canvas, And a jug or bottle to carry drink. See Morton. Saccum de Cannabe, & unam brochiam in exercitu Domini Regis in Walliam per xl. dies sumptibus suis propriis. Brokenerst. Fines in Wistes & Southton. Anno. 1. Edw. 2. Petrus Spileman tenuit de Rege in Capite unam Carucatam terrae in Brokenerst in Comitatu Southamptoniae per Serjantiam inveniendi unum Servientem cum * i. Munimen ex complicatis hamis vel circulis ferreis, in French, Coat de Mail, in English, a Shirt of Mail. Hambergello per quadraginta dies in Anglia etc. Launceston. Pla. Coronae de An. 12. Ed. 1. Cornub. Robertus Hurding tenet unam acram terrae & unum furnum in Villa Castri de Lanceveton nomine Serjantiae essendi in Castro de Lanceveton cum uno capello serreo & una * i. A Danish Hatchet, or Pole- 〈…〉▪ Hachet Denesh per xl. dies, tempore guerrae ad custum suum proprium, & post xl. dies si dominus Castri Velit ipsum tenere in eodem Castro, 〈…〉 custus ipsius Domini. Degemue. Ibidem. Willielmus Trevelle tenet unam Note a Cornish acre of Land makes 60 of our Statute acres or near thereabout. acram terrae Cornubiensem in Degemue & Eglosderi per Serjantiam inveniendi unum batellum & rethia ad piscandum in lacu de Hellestone, quandocunque Dominus Rex venerit apud Hellestone & quamdiu moram ibi fecerit. Penkelly Johannes de Treveilly tenet in Penkelly in Com. Cornub. dimidiam acram terrae Cornubiensem per Serjantiam recipiendi unam Capa de Grisanco, a grey Cloak, from the French Cape, a short and sleeveless Cloak, or Garment, that in stead of a Cape has a Capouche behind it; and Grissel, Grey. De Domino de Cabilia, I suppose may intend a Lord of the King's bedchamber, who was to deliver the Cloak to him. Capam de Grisanso ad pontem de Pauleton cum Rex fuerit in veniendo versus Cornubiam, Ibidem. & intrando de Domino de Cabilia, qui eam in adventu Domini Regis, ibidem deferre debet, & eam tradere eidem Johanni, qui quidem Johannes eandem Capam ferre debet cum Domino Rege per totam Cornubiam. Pengevel. Ibidem. Robertus de Wena tenet tres acras Cornubienses terrae in villa de Pengevel in Capite de Domino Rege per Serjantiam inveniendi quinque soldarios ad vada Gayte Castri de Lanceveton etc. Schipton. Pla. Stin. de Anno 5 Hen. 3 Gloc. Willielmus le Moyne tenet man●rium de Schipton in Com. Gloc. de Domino Rege per Serjantiam custodiendi Lardarium Domini Regis. Twigworth. Robertus le Sauvage tenet unam virgatam terrae in Twigeworth de Domino Rege per servitium quinque Solidorum per annum, Ibidem. & debet portare brevia Domini Regis quae veniunt ad Vicecomitem per comitatum istum ad custum suum proprium. Vpton. Ibidem. Galfridus de la Grave tenet unam Virgatam terrae in Vpton in Com. Gloc. per Serjantiam quod debet sequi Dom. Regem in exercitu suo in Anglia cum arcu & sagittis ad custum suum proprium per xl. dies, & postea ad custum Domini Regis, & Willielmus de Kingsham tenet duas acras terrae per Serjantiam custodiendi Hostium dispensorii Domini Regis. Stapelton. Ibidem. Johannes de Allebyr tenet unam Virgatam terrae in Stapelton in Com Gloc. per Serjantiam ad portandum brevia Dom. Regis de Castello Gloucestriae per unam * i. For one day's journey at his own charge. Dietam ad custum suum proprium, & ultra ad custum Dom. Regis. Teynton. Hugo de Kilpec tenet Manerium de parva Teynton in Com. Glouc. de Dom. Rege per Serjantiam servandi * i. This Hay of Hereford was a great woodland ground near the City, and heretofore reputed a Forest. Hayam de Hereford ad custum suum. Idem habuit duas filias, Pla. Cor. 32 H. 3. rot. 10. in Dorso quae sunt ejus haeredes, quarum Philippus Marmion desponsavit unam & Willielmus de Cantilupo habet custodiam alterius per Dom. Regem. Molesey. Pla. Cor. 39 H. 3. rot. 29. Dorso Surrey. Walter de Molesey tenet terram suam de Dom. Rege in Molesy per Serjantiam existendi † i. He that shot in the Engine called Balista; a Cros-bow man. Balistarius Domini Regis in exercitu suo, per xl. dies ad custum suum proprium, & si amplius ibi moram fecerit ad custum Domini Regis Stoke. Pla. Cor. 15 E. 1. Glouc. Nicholas le Archer tenet duas Carucatas terrae in Villa de Stoke in Com. Glouc. per Serjantiam inveniendi Domino Regi in exercitu Walliae unum hominem cum arcu & Sagittis, sumptibus suis propriis per xl. dies. Kingesham. Johannes de Daubeney tenet Manerium suum apud Kingesham in Com. Glouc, Ibid. per Serjantiam custodiendi † i. The Pantry Door. hostium Panetriae Domini Regis. Et praedictus Johannes dicit quod die Coronationis Domini Regis nunc fecit Serjantiam suam in propria persona. Lancaster. Rogerus de Hesam tenet duas Carucatas terrae, Pla. apud. Lanc. 30 Hen. 3. rot. 21. per servitium sonandi Cornu suum quando Rex intrat & exit Comitatum Lancastriae. Vpton. Walkelinus de Fabrica tenet unam Virgatam terrae in Vpton in Com. Glouc. per Serjantiam reddendi ad Manerium Domini ducenta Capita Sagittarum. Pla. Cor. 15. E. 1. Gloc. Et Juratores dicunt quod Dominus Rex est in seisina. Kings Stanford. Pla. Cor. de Anno 20 E. 1. Heref. Richardus Pygot tenet duas virgatas terrae in Stanford Regis in Com Hereford de Domino Rege in Capite per servitium conducendi Thesaurum Domini Regis de Hereford usque ad London, sumptibus Domini Regis & in redeundo sumptibus suis propriis; & etiam summonendi Episcopum Hereford ad portas manerii dicti Episcopi de Bromyard, si contingat Dominum Regem praedictum Episcopum implacitare. Mawardyn Walterus de Monemuwe (i. Monmouth) tenet unam virgatam terrae in Mawardyn in Com. Heref. per Serjantiam conducendi Thesaurum Dom. Regis usque London, Ibid. quotiescunque summonitus fuerit per Vicecomitem, cum uno equo & Capello ferreo sumptibus Domini Regis, viz. xij. d. quolibet die versus London, & in redeundo sumptibus suis propriis. Et Willielmus Caperon tenuit duas virgatas terrae ibidem per Serjantiam custodiendi portam Castri Hereford, & habendi 12 Denarios per diem de Domino Rege. Watton. Pla. Cor▪ 6 E. 1. rot. 39 Hertford. Robertus Aguillum tenet Manerium de Watton in Com. Hertford per Serjantiam inveniendi unum hominem ad pedes quandocunque Dominus Rex vadit in Walliam per xl. dies sumptibus suis propriis. Lighthorn. Comes Warwici est Dominus de Lighthorn in Com. Warwic, Inq 7 E. 1. in Scac. & tenet de Rege in Capite etc. Tota villa est geldabilis, & dat Scutagium & Warth is the same with Ward-peny, that is, money paid ob Castri praesidium, vel excubias agendas. Warth, & venit ad duos magnos Turnos vicecomitis. Hornmede. Juratores dicunt quod manerium de Hornmede in Com. Hertford, Pla. 7 E. 1. rot. 39 quod Domina Lora de Saunford tenet in dotem, est Serjantia Domini Regis, essendi Camerarius Dominae Reginae. Magna Gidding. Johannes Engayne tenet unam Carucatam terrae in Magna Gidding in Com. Hunt. per Serjantiam currendi ad Lupum, Pla. Cor. 14 E. 1. rot. 7. Dorso. Hunt. Vulpem & Cattum, & amovendi omnem verminam extra Forestam Domini Regis in Comitatu isto. Peckam. Pla. Cor. 21 E. 1. rot 27. Kanc. Johannes Peckam tenet Manerium de Peckam in Com. Kanciae in Capite de Domino Rege i. Of Mewing a Goshawk every year. Note a Goshawk is in our Records termed by the several names of Osturcum, Hostricum, Estricium, Asturcum, & Austurcum, and all from the French Austour. per servitium mutandi unum Osturcum per ann. Bilsington. Antecessores Comitis Arundel solebant tenere Manerium de Bilsynton, Ibid. rot. 34. in Com. Kanciae quod valet per ann. xxx l. per Serjantiam essendi Pincerna Domini Regis in die Pentecostes. Coperland & Atterton. Ibid. rot. 45. Solomon de Campis tenet quasdam terras quae vocantur Coperland & Atterton in Com. Kanc. de Domino Rege in Capite per Serjantiam & servitium tenendi Caput ipsius Domini Regis inter Dover & Whitsond, quoties contigerit ipsum inter praedictos Portus transfretare versus Whitsond. Ovenhelle. In rot. Hundred Anno 3 E. 1. rot. 7. Kanc. Osbertus de Longchamp miles tenet quandam terram quae vocatur Ovenhelle in Com. Kanciae, per servitium quod debet exequi Dominum Regem in exercitu suo usque in Walliam xl. diebus propriis sumptibus, cum uno equo precii v s. & cum uno sacco precii uj d. & cum brochia ad eundem sacuum. Hundred de Middleton. Ibid. Willielmus de Leyburn tenet terram suam de Domino Rege per Serjantiam ad custodiendum Lardarium Domini Regis die quo Dominus Rex portabit Coronam. Bilsington. Ibid. Prior de Bilsington tenet quandam partem Serjantiae in Bilsington in Com. Kanciae † i. To be Cupbearer to the King on Whitsunday. ad serviendum Dominum Regem die Pentecostes de coupa sua. Lenyngburn. Ibid. Willielmus filius Willielmi Bek tenet terram suam in Lenyngburn per Serjantiam inveniendi ad transfretationem Domini Regis unam navem quae vocatur Baard, versus Vasconiam, sumptibus suis propriis. Portus Maris. King Edward the first ordained, Claus. 1 E. 1. that his Seaport Towns should provide for his service certain Ships sumptibus suis propriis & Duplici Eskippamento. Sr. Robert Cotton (in his answer to Motives for War) interprets it double Shippage, by which I suppose he means double Tackle or furniture for the Ships. Keperland & Atterton. Ibid. Solomon Attefeld tenet terram apud Keperland & Atterton in Com. Kanciae per Serjantiam, viz. quod quotiescunque Dominus Rex vult transire mare, idem Solomon & haeredes sui debent transire cum eo ad tenendum caput ejus in mare, si necesse fuerit. Waleton. Richardus de Waleton tenet quatuordecim Bovatas terrae cum pertinentiis, Pla. Cor. Anno 20 E. 1. Lanc. in Waleton in Com. Lanc. de Domino Rege per Serjantiam faciendi executiones ad brevia Domini Regis & Attachiamenta in Wapentachiis de Derby & Makerfeld, & est Ballivus eorundem de feodo. Parva Singelton. Ibid. Thomas de Singelton tenet parvam Singelton in Com. Lanc. per servitium faciendi Attachiamenta & executiones ad brevia Domini Regis & Attachiamenta ad Placita Coronae in Wapentachiis de Amonderness & Blakeburnschire, die qua pater suus obijt▪ Seisitus. Scargerthorp etc. Abbas de Netele tenet in Scargerthorp, Pla. de libertat. & quo War. 9 E. 1 Lincoln. Bekingham & Sutton in Com. Lincoln quoddam Manerium cum pertin. quod habet de Dono Walteri de Burgo qui illud tenuit de Domino Rege in Capite, per servitium reddendi Domino Regi unam † i. A Head-piece, lined with Syndon or fine Linen, and a pair of gilt spurs. Capellam lineatam de Syndone & unum par Calcarium Deauratorum pro omni servitio. Bradele. Ibid. Radulfus de Fletcher tenet in Villa de Bradele in Com. Linc. unum Messuagium & duas Bovatas terrae & sex acras bosci cum pertin. de Domino Rege in Capite per servitium reddendi per ann. viginti * i Arrows with narrow Feathers; Fleet Arrows, such as they shoot at Revers. Flectas ad Scaccarium Domini Regis. Renham. Esson c●pt. apud Crucem lapideam. 3 E. 1. Mid. rot. 18. Laurentius de Broke tenet villatam de Renham in Com. Middlesex de Domino Rege in Capite per servitium inveniendi Domino Regi in exercitu ubicunque fuerit infra quatuor maria Angliae unum hominem equitem precii equi v s. & unum saccum precii v d. & unam Brochiam precii duorum Denariorum ob. qr. per xl. dies sumptibus ipsius Laurentii. Idem tenet villatam de Ikenham per idem servitium. Enfield. Pla. Cor. apud Crucem. lapideam rot. 15. Richardus de Plessetis tenet viginti libratas terrae in Enefend in Com. Middlesex de Domino Rege per Serjantiam essendi Capitalis Forestarius Domini Regis in Forestis de Menedop Exemore, Rychiche & Selewode in Com Somerset. Lilleston. Oto filius Willielmi tenuit Manerium de Lilleston in Com. Middlesex de Domino Rege Henrico Patre Domini Regis nunc in Capite, Pla. Cor. 22 E. 1. per Serjantiam custodiendi * This Cuneum is expounded, by the learned Spelman, sigillum ferreum quo nummis cuditur, the King's stamp for coinage: And from this Cuneum, comes our word Coin, quasi Cune. Cuneum monetae Domini Regis. Sed Magister Militiae Templi modo tenet, etc. Brambelegh. Ibid. Richardus Caws & Sabina uxor ejus tenent unum Messuagium & sexaginta acras terrae in Brambelegh in Com. Middlesex, per servitium inveniendi Domino Regi unum hominem equitem armatum per xl. dies sumptibus suis propriis, quotiens contigerit ipsum Dominum Regem adire alicubi cum exercitu. Et Priorissa Beati Leonardi de Stretford tenet quinquaginta acras terrae in eadem villa per servitium inveniendi Domino Regi unum hominem ad tenendum manutergium ipsius Regis in Coronatione sua. East-Smithfield. Pla. Cor. 22 Ed. 1. Thomas de Meose tenet unum Messuagium & unum Molendinum aquaticum & octo acras prati cum pertin. in East-Smithfield per servitium inveniendi Domino Regi unum hominem peditem cum arcu & sagittis per xl. dies sumptibus suis propriis in Turri London. tempore guerrae. Carleton. Eustachius de Corson, Pla. Cor. de An. 14 E. 1. rot. 3. Norf. Thomas de Berkedich & Robertus de Wethen tenent triginta acras terrae in villa de Carleton in Com. Norfolk per Serjantiam ducendi Domino Regi ubicunque fuerit in Anglia, viginti & quatuor * i. Four and Twenty Pasties of fresh herring, at their first coming in. pastillos de Fresh Allec in primo adventu. Herlham. Ibid. Radulfus de Herlham tenet Manerium de Herlham in Com. Norf. per Serjantiam inveniendi in Castro de Norwico unum Balistarium tempore guerrae xl. dies sumptibus suis propriis. Redenhal. Ibid. Petrus filius Roberti le Espicer tenet quandam terram in Redenhall in Com. Norf. per Serjantiam custodiendi unum Austurcum Domini Regis sumptibus Domini Regis a festo Sancti Michaelis usque ad quadragesimam; & postmodum ipsum mutare debet sumptibus suis propriis. Shelfhanger. Ibid. Johannes filius Bartholomaei de Avyleres tenuit quandam Serjantiam in villa de Shelfhanger in Com. Norf. & in Brome & Everwarton in Com. Sufolk, per Serjantiam essendi Mareschallus peditum Com. Norf. & Suff. in exercitu Domini Regis in wallia, cum contigerit Dominum Regem ibidem ire cum exercitu, sumptibus Comitatuum praedictorum. Norton & Clun. Willielmus filius Alani dat duos bonos I suppose this Catzuros is the same, which is elsewhere written Chacuros and may signify, Coursers, Tilting-Horses, or Horses for the Career; from the French Coursier; but see in Tit. Grosmunt. Catzuros pro habendis duobus Feriis, Rot. Fin. 6 Joh. m. 13. una apud Norton, per quatuor dies duratura, & alia apud Clunne, per tres dies duratura, secundum tenorem Chartae Domini Regis, quam inde habet. Ashley. Ibid. rot. 28 in Dors. Johannes de Hastings tenet Manerium quod vocatur le Vppehall in Ashelt in Capite de Domino Rege i. Of being Pantler to the King. per Serjantiam essendi Pannetarius Domini Regis. Rakey. Ibid. rot. 39 Walterus de Burgh & participes sui tenent xujl. Librata terrae, is a pound Land, or so much as is yearly worth xx s. libratas terrae in Rakey in Com. Norf. per Serjantiam duorum Mues vini rubei & ducentorum pirorum de Permeines solvendorum ad festum Sancti Michaelis quolibet anno ad Scaccarium Domini Regis. Runham. Ibid▪ rot. 48 in Dorso. Walterus de Hevene tenuit Manerium de Runham in Com Norfolk in Capite de Domino Rege per Serjantiam duarum How much Muta vini or a Muc of Wine was I know not, but it is worth the observing that in King Edward the first's time Permain-Cider was called Wine. Mutarum vini sacti de Permains, Solvend. Domino Regi ad Scaccarium per ann. ad festum Sancti Michaelis. Banningham. Rogerus Bygod Comes Norfolk tenet quandam Serjantiam in Bannyngham, Ibid. rot. 54. quae vocatur Tusard per servitium inveniendi Domino Regi unum * i. A Crosbow-man, or one that did sling stones or shoot Darts at the Enemy, before the invention of Guns. Balistarium tempore guerrae per quindecim dies sumptibus suis propriis. Stanhow. Ibid. rot. 58. Johanna quae fuit uxor Johannis King tenet quandam Serjantiam in Stanhow in Com. Norf. Serjantiam custodiendi unum Bracelettum deymerettum Domini Regis. quaere. Sibertoft. Pla. Cor. 3 E. 1. 14. rot. Northamp. Thomas Curzonn tenet Manerium de Sibertoft in Com. Northampton de Domino Rege in Capite per servitium inveniendi unum hominem peditem cum arcubus & sagittis in exercitu Domini Regis per xl dies infra quatuor maria, sumptibus suis propriis. Wrencholm. Robertus filius Alexandri tenet Manerium de Wrencholm per custodiam Porcorum Regis, Inq. 13 Jo●. Cumber. tempore Pannagii, donec apprecientur, Pightesley. Ibid. rot. 20. in Dor▪ Johannes D'engayne miles & Elena D'engayne tenent de Domino Rege in Capite viginti libratas terrae cum pertin. in Pightesle in Com. Northhampton per servitium fugandi ad Lupum pro voluntate sua in Comitatu isto. Vpton. Nicholas Chaunceux tenet Manerium de Vpton in Com. Northampton, Ibid. rot. 33. quod est de antiquo Dominio Coronae Domini Regis, per servitium inveniendi unum hominem armatum in guerra Domini Regis quandocunque necesse fuerit infra quatuor maria Angliae per xl. dies sumptibus suis propriis. Rode. Robertus Maunsel tenet xl. acras terrae cum pertin. in Rode in quodam loco vocato Somerhale & Lidgate de honore Peverelli per Serjantiam inveniendi Domino Regi, Ibid. rot. 35. in guerra sua Walliae cum accederit, unum equum precii quinque solidorum & unum saccum precii iiij d. ob. cum uno * i. A little Bottle or Jug. brochetto per quadraginta dies sumptibus suis propriis. Radeclyve & Glapton. Manerium de Radeclyve tenetur de Domino Rege in Capite per servitium * i. Of Mewing a Goshawk. mutandi unum Estricium, Pla. Cor. de An. 3. E. 3. rot. 6. in Dor. Notting. & inveniendi unum portatorem ad custus Domini Regis. Item Gervasius de Glapton, Johannes de Skerington & alii tenent medietatem unius messuagii & trium bovatarum terrae in Glapton per servitium inveniendi unum sub-ballivum pro feodo Peverelli in Com. Nottingham. Abbeford. Pla. Cor. 13 E. 1. rot. 26. Oxon. Laurentius do Scaccario tenuit duas Carucatas terrae in Abbeford in parochia de Aston per Serjantiam essendi Marescallus coram Justiciariis Itinerantibus per totam Angliam, & coram Justiciariis de Banco & Baronibus de Scaccario. Nettlebed. Ibid▪ rot. 27. Oliverus de Stanford tenuit quandam terram in Nettlebed in Com. Oxon, per Serjantiam * i. By the Office of Spigurnel, or Sealer of the King's Writs in Chancery, see Rochester. Espicurnantiae Cancellaria Domini Regis. Hokenorton. Ela Comitissa Warwici tenet Manerium de Hokenorton in Com. Oxon. quod est de Baronia de Oily, Ibid. rot. 30. de Domino Rege in Capite i. Of Carving before the King, and to have the Knife with which she Carved. per Serjantiam scindendi coram Domino Rege die Natalis Domini, & habere cultellum▪ Domini Regis de quo scindit. Staunton. Ibid. rot. 37. Dorso. Henricus de la Wade tenet decem libratas terrae in Staunton in Com. Oxon. per Serjantiam portandi unum Gerefalconem quolibet anno coram Domino Rege, quando Domino Regi placuerit spaciari cum hujusmodi Falconibus, ad custus ipsius Domini Regis. Nether Overton. Ibid. Robertus de la Sale tenet duas virgatas terrae in Nether-Overton per Serjantiam inveniendi in exercitu Domini Regis hominem portantem unum † i. An Ensign or the Colours in an Army, or Flag. Penicillum per quadraginta dies sumptibus suis; & modo arrenta est ad Scaccarium. Thethercote & Cheddich, Petrus de Chetwode tenet dimidiam Carucatam terrae in Thethercote & Cheddich per Serjantiam quod solebat invenire, Ibid. in exercitu Domino Regis sumptibus suis propriis tempore guerrae, unum hominem peditem cum una Lancea & uno Bucino ferreo per xl. dies. quaere. Thamewell. Ibid. rot. 46. Dors●. Robertus de Grant tenuit unum Messuagium & xiij. acras terrae in Hameletto de Thamewell in Com. Oxon. de Domino Rege per Serjantiam custodiendi portam de Wodegate apud Wodestoke in presentia Domini Regis, cum idem Dominus Rex moram ibidem faceret. Boghton. Ibid. rot. 50. Dorso. Johannes Mauduit tenet manerium de Boghton in Com. Oxon. in capite de Domino Rege i. By the Serjeanty of Mewing a Goshawk. per Serjantiam mutandi unum Hostricum Domini Regis, vel istum Hostricum portandi ad curiam Domini Regis. Lewe. Ibid. Robertus de Eylesford tenet tres virgatas terrae in Lewe in Com. Oxon. de Domino Rege per servitium inveniendi unum hominem cum arcu & sagittis per xl. dies sumptibus suis propriis, quotiescunque contigerit Dominum Regem ire in Walliam cum exercitu suo. Wylington. Walter de la Lind tenet Bedelleriam Hundredi de Wyllington & Hundredi de Westperet in Com. Somerset, Pla. Cor. de An. 8. E. 1. Summer. per Serjantiam inveniendi Bedellery is the same to a Beadle, as Bailywic to a Bailiff. i. The extent or Circuit of his Office. Bedelloes ad Officium Bedellorum faciend. in Hundredis praedictis. Et Walterus dicit quod Dominus Henricus Rex, pater Domini Regis nunc concessit Johanni de la Lind patri suo praedictam Bedelleriam per Cartam suam, quam profert, etc. Stony-Aston. Ibid. Bartholomaeus Peytevyn tenet duas Carucatas terrae in Stony-Aston in Com. Somerset de Domino Rege in Capite per servitium unius † i. A Sextary of July-Flower Wine, and a Sextary contained about a Pint and a half, sometimes more. Sextarii vini gariophilati reddendi Domino Regi per annum ad Natale Domini. Et valet dicta terra per ann. x l. Stert. Ibid. Matheus de Chamfleur tenet Manerium de Sterte in Com. Somerset in Capite de Domino Rege per Serjantiam unius † i. What quantity this Gruna Vini was, I am to seek Grunae vini, solvend. per annum ad Scaccarium Domini Regis ad festum Sancti Michaelis. Arrentata est ad iij s. per annum. Mertok. Ibid. Robertus de Sancto Claro tenet decem libratas terrae in Hundredo de Mertok de Domino Rege in Capite per servitium inveniendi unum servientem armatum cum uno equo in exercitu Domini Regis in Wallia per xl. dies sumptibus suis propriis. Brom. Barthol. de Avylers tenet terram in Brom in Com. Suffolk per Serjantiam ducendi pedites istius Comitatus in Walliam, Pla. Cord An▪ 14. E. 1. rot. 6. in Dorso. Suffolk. quotiescunque contigerit Dominum Regem ire ad partes illas cum exercitu. Hanlegh. Ibid. rot. 9 Robertus Bardolf tenet quoddam Tenementum in Hanlegh in Com. Suffolk per Serjantiam essendi & faciendi Officium Ballivi Honoris de Hanlegh, in Capite de Domino Rege. Aston-Bernard John Molyns held the Manor of Aston-Bernard in Com. Bucks of the King in Capite, Carta. 20 E. 3. N. 18. by the service of being Marshal of the King's Falcons and other Hawks. Wingfeild. Pla. Cor. 14 E. 1. rot 6. Dorso. Galfridus Frumband tenuit sexaginta acras terrae in Wingefend in Com. Suffolk per servitium reddendi Domino Regi duas albas Columbas per ann. Wrotting. Walterus Pychard de Wrotting in Com. Suffolk tenuit Centum acras terrae de Domino Rege in Capite per▪ Serjantiam inveniendi Domino Rege unum hominem peditem, Ibid. rot. 46. cum uno arcu & quatuor sagittis, quotiescunque contigerit Dominum Regem ire in Walliam cum exercitu per xl. dies sumptibus suis propriis. Wylemondele. Reginald de Argentyne, Esc. 11 E. 1. N. 19 Cant. Hereford. in King Edward the firsts time, was seized of the Manor of great Wylemondele (now called wimble) in the County of Cambridg, which he held by grand Serjanty, to serve our Lord the King on the day of his Coronation with a silver Cup, ad Ordinationem Seneschalli Domini Regis. This Manor is now come to the Lord Allington, who at the Coronation Dinner of his Majesty King Charles the second, carried the King his first draught of Drink in a Silver gilt Cup; the Office of Cupbearer, as also the Fee having been adjudged to him by the Courts of Claims, in right of this Manor; And when the King had drank, the said Lord Allington received the Cup for his Fee. Guldeford. Thomas de la Puille tenet unam Serjantiam in villa de Guldeford de Dono Ricardi Testard, Pla. Cor. de An. 39 H. 3. Sur. per quam aliquando solebat servare Lotrices Curiae Domini Regis, & modo reddit ad Scaccarium xxv s. Cumbes. Petrus de Baldewyn tenet quandam Serjantiam in Cumbes in Com. Surrey i. To go a Woolgathering for the Queen, among the Thorns and Briers, though I confess I do but guess at albas spinas, for the Record is illegible, and seems to make it per albias with a dash over the word. ad colligendam lanam Dominae Reginae per albas spinas, Ibid. rot. 31. si voluèrit, & si nolit eam colligere solvet ad Scaccarium Domini Regis xx s. per ann. Mayford. Mayford est Serjantia Domini Regis, Pla. cor. 19 H. 3. Surrey. & debet invenire unum servientem cum uno Hambergello & una lancea, per xl. dies ad custum suum. Gateshill. Robertus de Gatton tenet Manerium de Gateshill in Com Surrey, Ibid. per Serjantiam Marescalli duodecim puellarum, quae sequuntur Curiam Domini Regis. Biscopestre. Habuit Rex Griffin unum Manerium Biscopestreu, Doomesday tit. Cestre. & in Dominio unam Carucatam habebat, & homines ejus sex Carucas. Quando ipse Rex ibi veniebat, reddebat ei unaquaeque Caruca CC. * Hestha may be a corruption of the Latin Hecta, a little loaf of Bread. Hesthas, unam 2 a Tub or Cump full of Ale. And Cunam plenam Cervisia & unam Butyri 3 Rusca Butyri, a Tub of Butter, in Ireland still called a Rushin of Butter. Sir H. Spelman interprets these Hestha's, Capons; from the French Hestaud and Hestaudeau; but it seems more probable, that every Plowland should pay 200 Loaves, rather than so many Capons. Ruscam. Westcurt. Pla. Cor. 19 H. 3. Surrey. Walterus Gatelyn tenet Manerium de Westcurt in villa de Bedinton in Com. Surrey in Capite de Domino Rege reddendo inde Domino Regi per annum unam i. A Crossbow or a Warlike Engine to cast stones or Darts. Balistam precii xij d. Lederede. Willielmus Frankelen tenet quandam terram in Lederede in Com. Surrey de feodo Regis inveniendo † i. In the Record it seems to be so written, Scaunam perhaps it should be Scenam, For a Hall or Pavilion, wherein the Assizes or County Court was to be held. Scaunam ad Comitatum, Ibid▪ quotiescunque contigerit Comitatum ibi teneri. Et Walterus le Hore tenet quandam terram in eadem villa de feodo Regis inveniendo quandam domum ad prisonam, cum contigerit aliquem prisonem capiari ad Turnum vicecomitis, sed prisones debent esse in custodia vicecomitis. Et Willielmus de Oxencroft tenet quandam terram in eadem villa de feodo Domini Regis inveniendo * a Pound Parcum ad averia, cum aliquae averia capta fuerint pro debito Domini Regis. Chenes. Ibid. Othonus' de Grandison & Johannes de Valletorta & Alicia uxor ejus tenent villam de Chenes de Serjantia inveniendi die Coronationis Regis i. Two white Cups. duos albos Ciphos ad prandium, & modo arrentata est ad viij s. Gateshull. Hamo de Gatton tenet Manerium de Gateshul in Com. Surrey de Domino Rege per Serjantiam, Ibid. ut erit Marescallus The word Meretrices was heretofore used for Latrices or Laundresses. Meretricum, cum Dominus Rex venerit in partibus illis, & non tenet nisi ad Voluntatem ipsius Regis. Midlovent. Willielmus de Thadeham tenet duas Hidas terrae apud Midlovent in Com. Sussex de Domino Rege in Capite, Pla. Cor. de An. 7 E. 1. r. 93. Sussex. & solebat reddere pro eadem terra Domino Regi per annum duos chapones albos, & modo reddit unam Marcam. Et Willielmus Papylon tenet terram in Boseham per idem servitium. Wolbeding. Johannes de Arundel de Wolbeding tenet Manerium de Wolbeding in Capite de Domino Rege per Serjantiam deferendi † i. An Ensign or Foot Colours. vexillum peditum de Comitatu Sussex per medium Sussex, Pla. Cor. 16. E. 1. r. 67. Dorso. Sussex. cum contigerit Dominum Regem transitum facere tempore guerrae per medium Comitatus Sussexiae. Boseham. Rogerus Papilon tenet unum Messuagium, Ibid. unum Molendinum & tres Virgatas terrae in Boseham in Com. Sussex per Servitium portandi Domino Regi duos albos Capones quotiens transierit per portam ipsius Rogeri. Chinting. Pla. Cor. de An. 7 E. 1. r. 81. Sussex. Thomas Therel habuit quandam Serjantiam in Chinting in Com. Sussex inveniendi quendam servientem quotiescunque contigerit Dominum Regem cum exercitu suo ire in Walliam vel alibi in Anglia sumptibus suis propriis per xl. dies. Et Thomas de Peverel tenet terram in Blachinton per idem servitium. Estwordham. Johannes le Vnz tenet Estwordham in Com. Southampton de Domino Rege per Serjantiam portandi unam virgam coram Domino Rege, Pla. Cor. 8 E. 1. r. 13. South. & arentatur ad C s. per ann. Hertlegh. Patricius de Cadurcis. Ibid. (i. Chaworth) tenet Manerium de Hertlegh in Com. predict. faciendo servitium Camerarii ad Scaccarium Domini Regis. Hochangre. Ibid. Jacobus de Hochangres tenet Hochangre in Com. Southampton per Serjantiam inveniendi unum valectum in exercitu Domini Regis per quadraginta dies; Et ad faciendam pontem de Hochangre & valet per ann. C s. Stapeley. Ibid. Edmundus Synagor tenet Manerium de Stapele in Com. Southampton per Serjantiam inveniendi unum Serjantium ad arma ubique in exercitu Domini Regis in Anglia sumptibus suis propriis per xl. dies. Schyrefend. Ibid. Johannes de Wintreshul tenet Manerium de Schyrefend in Com. predicto per Serjantiam inveniendi unum Serjantum ad custodiendum meretrices in exercitu Domini Regis. Vide Shirefeld postea. Bentley Thomas de Brustvil tenet decem libratas terrae in Bentlegh in Com. Southampton per Serjantiam inveniendi unum hominem cum arcu & sagittis in exercitu Domini Regis in Anglia & Wallia per xl. dies sumptibus suis propriis. Ibid. rot. 20. Dorso. Et Ricardus de Cardevile tenet centum solidatas terrae in Tudderlegh per idem servitium. Lindeshull. Willielmus le Moyne tenet duas Hidas terrae in Lyndeshull in Com. Southampton de Domino Rege in Capite, Ibid. rot. 23. per Serjantiam custodiendi hostium Lardarii Domini Regis. Frollebury. Ibid. Willielmus de Wintreshul tenet Manerium de Frollebury in Com. Southampton in Capite de Domino Rege per Serjantiam custodiendi hostium Garderobae Domini Regis. Et Henrious de Edmunsthorp tenet unam virgatam terrae in eadem villa per Serjantiam custodiendi Forestam Domini Regis de Wytel. Casham. Ibid. rot. 26. Dorso. Roulandus de Arley & Henricus Wade tenent medietatem cujusdam Serjantiae in Casham in Com. Southampton ad inveniendum quendam hominem peditem, ad custodiendum Castrum de Porchester tempore Guerrae per xl. dies sumptibus suis propriis, & arrentata est Serjantia illa per annum ad dimid. Marcam. Hundred de Ford. Ibid. rot. 28. Richardus de Carevile tenuit sex libratas terrae in Capite de Domino Rege in eodem Hundredo per Serjantiam inveniendi quendam Serjantum ad arma ubique in exercitus Domini Regis in Anglia sumptibus suis per xl. dies. Warneford. Ibid. rot. 30. Nicholas de Malis Manibus Malmayns tenet Centum solidatas terrae in villa de Warneford in Com. Southampton pro uno † i. A Sore Sparhawk. Spervario soro reddendo Domino Regi per annum ad Festum Sancti Michaelis ad Scaccarium. Eling. Ibid. Rogerus de Eling tenet quandam terram in Eling to Com. Southampton per servi●ium ad ferenda brevia Domini Regis quae mittenda sunt vicecomiti Southampton in Insula de Wight in Hundredis de Christ-Church, Ringewode & Ford. Burgus de Porcestre. Rogerus de Wanstede tenet dimid. Serjantiam ibidem per servitium inveniendi unum vallectum per octo dies sumptibus propriis, Ibid. rot. 41. cum praepuncto, capella ferrea & lancea, custodire Castrum de Portesmue tempore guerrae & arrentata est per annum ad decem solidos. Elston. Thomas Rooper and William Wright claimed against Francis Leek Esquire, Mich. 32. H. 8. rot. 122. Notting. the Manor of Elston in Com. Nottingham with the appurtenances, and the rent of one pound of Cumin seed, two pair of Gloves, and a Steel Needle in Elston, Thorp and Stoke by Newark. Cotinton. Testa de Nevil, Walter de Marisco held the Manor of Cottinton in Com. Nottingham by the service of presenting the King yearly with a pair of Scarlet Hose. Bulewel. Testa Nevilli. Roger Rastal held Lands in Bulewell in Com. Nottingham of the King, by the service of paying every year a Horse with a Halter. Brunnesley. Gilbert de Brunnesley held ` Lands in Brunnesley in Com. Nottingham of the Honour of Peverel by Serjeanty, Ibid. of finding a Horse of v s. price, with a Sack and Broach and an Halter of an halfpenny price, for forty days at his own cost in the King's Army in Wales. Borebach & Conelesfeld. Bundle. Petit. Parl. A●. incerto E. 3. in Turre. Henricus Sturmy & M. uxor ejus tenet de Domino Rege in Capite Maneria de Borebach & Conelesfeld cum pertin. in Com. Wiltes per servitium custodiendi Balivam totius Forestae de Savernake & † a Farm. Censariam quae vocatur la verme in Foresta praedicta, & etiam per servitium inveniendi unum hominem armatum ad Loricam quando Dominus Rex eum habere voluerit citra Mare. Pro quidem custodia Forestae & Censariae praedictae habere debent omnia Jura & pertinencia subscripta. Omnes Forestarii de feodo totius Forestae praedictae erunt eis intendentes & respondentes tanquam Capitali Forestario Forestae praedictae, & debent habere equitaturam, sellam, frenum, gladium & Cornu Forestariorum de feodo cum obierint. Et debent habere Estov erium suum ad Housebote & Heybote per totam Balivam praedictam, & omnia Amerciamenta facta in Curia Forestae praedictae de defaltis. Et omnia Placita de Leporibus, Rechibus, Heymectis, Tessonibus, Vulpibus, Murilegis & perdicibus, & omnia Amerciamenta de escapiis animalium, & mortuo bosco per totum annum, excepto mense yetito. Et omnia Averia sua, exceptis Bidentibus & Capris in Foresta praedicta quieta de Herbagio per annum, & Porcos suos quietos de Pannagio per totum annum, excepto mense vetito. Et debent habere Extrahuras per totam Forestam praedictam, & amerciamenta de expeditatione Canum & Aeria Espervariorum, mel & nuces & Cyppos per totam Forestam praedictam post quodlibet Regardum factum. Et habent Chaceam suam, per totam Balivam Forestae praedictae, ad Lepores, vulpes, Murilegos, Tessones & ad omni modas hujusmodi vermes. Et debent habere mortuum boscum in praedicta Censaria de la Verme per tres septimanas ante Festum Sancti Michaelis sine Utensili prosternendum. Et debent habere in eadem Censaria quicquid vento prosternitur praeter Cablicium quod pertinet ad Dominum Regem. Coopertiones. i Crops of wood or timber. Et Retropannagium a Festo Sancti Martini usque ad Festum Purificationis Beatae Mariae & omnes Coopertiones de Maerennio Prostrato ad opus Domini Regis vel dato per Dominum Regem. Et Sabulonarium & Chyminagium per totam Censariam praedictam. Et Pasturam cujusdam anguli bruerae extra Colput etc. Because there are in this Record some words of Difficulty, to be understood, I have therefore thus reudred it into English; Borebach & Conelesfeld. Henry Sturmy and M. his Wife hold the Manors of Borebach & Conelesfeld, in the County of Wilts, of our Lord the King in Capite, by the service of keeping the Bail of the whole Forest of Savernake, and the Farm which is called lafoy verne in the said Forest; and also by the service of finding a Man Armed with a Coat of Mail, when our Lord the King will have him beyond Sea. For the keeping of which Forest and Farm they ought to have all the rights and appurtenances here under written. All Foresters in Fee of the said Forest shall be attendant and answerable to them, as to the chief Forester of the said Forest, and they ought to have the Horse and furniture, Saddle, Bridle, Sword and Horn of such Foresters in Fee; when they die. And they ought to have their Estovers of Housebote and Haybote through the whole Bail aforesaid; and all amerciaments for defaults made at the Court of the Forest; and all Pleas of Hares; Hcymedis. q. Nets,— Badgers, Foxes, Wyldcats, and Partridges; And all Amerciaments for the escapes of wild beasts, and for dead wood in the whole year, except in the fence month (which was from fifteen days before Midsummer day to fifteen days after) and was also called Tempus de Foyneson; because the Dear did then fawn, or bring forth their young; & to have all their Cattle, except Sheep and Goats, during the whole year quit of Herbage, and their Hogs quit of Paunage for the whole year, except in the Fence month; and they ought to have the Estrays of the whole Forest, and the Amerciaments for expeditating Dogs, and Airys of Sparhawks, Honey and Nuts and Hips through the whole Forest after every Regard there made: q. Cyppos. And to have their Chase at Hare, Fox, Wildcat, Badger, and all such like Vermin through the whole Bail of the said Forest; And they ought to have the dead Wood on the said Farm de la Verme, for three weeks before the Feast of St. Michael, to be pulled down without a Tool or Axe. And they ought to have on the said Farm, whatsoever is thrown down by the wind, except Wood, which belongs to our Lord the King. And This Retropaunage I suppose is the latter or after Paunage; for Paunage begins at Michaelmas and ends at Saint martyn's, in which time the Beech Mast and Acorns are ripe and fall. And Retropaunage begins at St. martyn's and ends at Candlemass in which time Hips and Haws and such like Berries yield some nutriment to Swine and Poultry. Retropaunage, from the Feast of St. Martin to the Feast of the Purification of Blessed Mary: And all cover or Crops of Timber felled for the King's use or given away by him; and liberty to dig Gravel or sand, and Toll for wayfarage through the whole Farm aforesaid, and the pasturage of a certain Nook of Heath-ground beyond Colput. Chichester. 〈◊〉. Fin. 2. Ric. 2. Quaedam terrae & tenementa in suburbia Cicestriae in parochia Sancti Pancratii tenentur de Rege in Capite per Servitium reddendi Rege quandocunque venerit per quandam venellam vocatam Goddestrete super mari australi, i A Spindle full of raw thread, to make a false string for the Kings Balister or Crossbow. unum fucillum plenum fili crudi ad falsam cordam pro Balista sua facienda. Cuckwold. Thomas Colevyle miles tenet Manerium de Cukwold in Com. Ebor. de Thoma nuper Domino de Mowbray, Esc. 6. H. 4. N. 43. ut de Manerio suo de Threke, Reddendo unum Tergum sine Scutum cum Armis dicti Domini depictis, annuatim die Pentecostes. Eggefeild. Pla. Cor. 30. H. 3. Lanc. Walterus le Rus & Alicia uxor ejus tenent duodecim acras terrae in Eggefeild i. To repair the Iron work of the Kings Plows. per Servitium reparandi ferramenta ad Carucas Regis. Husknal-Torcard. Sir John Leek held the Manor of Hucknal-Torcard in Com. Nottingham, Escaet. 37. H. 6. of the Crown by Knight's service, and also by the service of carrying a Gerfalcon from Michaelmas till lent at the King's cost with Horses and 2 s. a day, and half a Sextary of Wine, and two Robes, when he was summoned to perform the service. Lindeby. The Town of Lindeby in Com. Nottingham was an Escheat of the Kings of the Honour of Peverel, Testa Nevilli. and William de Saint Michael had one Moiety of it of the gift of King John, Paying yearly in the King's Chamber i. Grey Fur. a fur of Grise Mansfeild Woodhouse. Sir Robert Plumpton Knight was seized of one Bovat of Land in Mansfeild Woodhouse in Com. Nottingham, Esc. 11. H. 6. N. 5. called Wolfhunt Land, held by the service of winding a Horn, and Chase or Frighting the Wolves in the Forest of Shirewood. Over Colewick. Esc. 36. H. 3. N. 38. Reginald de Colewike held Lands in Over Colewick in Com. Nottingham of the King in Capite, by the service of paying him twelve barbed Arrows, when he should come to Nottingham Castle. Burton. Testa Nevilli. John Burdon held Four Bovats of Land in Demain in Buron in Com. Nottingham of the Honour of Tickhill by the service of finding one Horse and one Sack, when the Constables of Chester marched into Wales in the King's service. Worksop. Pat. 33. H. 8. par. 4. King Henry the Eighth granted to George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury the Scite and Precinct of the Monastery of Wirksop cum pertin. in Com. Nottingham, to be held of the King in Capite, by the service of the tenth part of a Knight's Fee, and by the royal service of finding the King a right hand Glove at his Coronation, and to support his right Arm that day, as long as he should hold the Sceptre in his hand, and paying yearly 23 l. 8 s. o d. ob. Whichnor. Sir Philip de Somervile Knight held the Manor of Whichnour in Com. Stafford of the Eirle of Lancaster, This was a Translation in H. 7▪ time from a Roll in French of E. 3. ty me and printed in Bar. Angl 2. part. fo. 106. than Lord of the Honour of Tutbury, by these memoable services, viz. by two small Fees, that is to say, when other Tenants pay for Relief one whole Knights Fee, one hundred shillings; he the said Sir. P. shall pay but fifty shillings, and when Escuage is alsessd throgheout the Land, or Apde for to make the eldest Son of the Lord Knight, or for to marry the eldest Daughter of the Lord, the said Sir Philip shall pay bot the moty of it, that other shall pay. Nevertheless the said Sir Philip shall found, meynteinge and sustain one Bacon Flyke, hanging in his Halle at Wichenore, ready arrayed all times of the year, bott in Lent, to be given to everyche Mane or Woman married, after the day and year of their marriage be passed; and to be given to everyche Mane of Religion, Arch Bishop, Prior or other religious, and to everyche Priest, after the year and day of their Profession finished, or of their Dignity reseyved, in form following, whensoever that any such before named will come for to inquire for the Baconne, in there own person, or by any other for them, they shall come to the Bailiff or to the Porter of the Lordship of Whichenour and shall say to them, in the manere as ensewethe. Bailiff or Porter I do you to know, that I am come for myself (or if he come for any other, showing for whom) one Bacon flyke, hanging in the Halle of the Lord of Whichenour, after the form thereunto belonging. After which relation, the Bailiff or Porter shall assign a day to him, upon promise by his faith to return, and with him to bring tweyne of his neighbours, and in the meyn time the said Bailif shall take with him twain of the Freeholders of the Lordship of Whichenoure, and they three shall go to the Manor of Rudlowe belonging to Robert Knyghtleye, and there shall summon the foresaid▪ Knyghtley or his Bailiff, commanding him to be ready at Whichenour the day apppointed at Prime of the day, with his Carriage that is to say, a Horse and a Sadyle, a Sakke and a Pryke, for to convey and carry the said Baconne and Corn a journey out of the Countee of Stafford, at his Costages: And then the said Bailiff shall, with the said Freeholders summon all the Tenants of the said Manoir, to be ready at the day apppointed at Whichenour, for to do and perform the services, which they owe to the Baconne. And at the day assigned all such as owe services to the Baconne, shall be ready at the Gat of the Manoir of Whichenour, from the Son rising to None, attending and awaiting for the Coming of him that fetcheth the Baconne; and when he is common, there shall be delivered to him and his feloows Chapeletts, and to all those which shall be there, to do their services due to the Baconne: And they shall lead the said demandant with Tromps and Tabours and other manner of Mynstralseye to the Hall door, where he shall found the Lord of Whichenour or his Steward ready to deliver the Baconne in this manere. He shall inquire of him which demandeth the Baconne, if he have brought tweyne of his neighbours with him, which must answer, They be here ready. And then the Steward shall cause these two neighbours to swear, if the said demandant be a weddyt Man, or have be a Man weddyt; and, if sith his marriage one year and a day be passed; And if he be a freeman or a Villeyn. And if his said neighbours make Oath, that he hath for him all these three points rehearsed, then shall the Baconne be take down and brought to the Halle door, and shall there be laid upon one half a Quarter of Wheatte and upon one other of Rye. And he that demandeth the Baconne shall kneel upon his knee, and shall hold his right hand upon a Book, which Book shall be laid above the Baconne and the Corn, and shall make oath in this manere. Here ye, Sir Philip de Somervyle, Lord of Whichenour maintainer and giver of this Baconne, that I A. sith I wedded B. my Wife, and sith I had her in my keeping and at my will by a year and a day after our marriage, I would not have changed for none other, farer ne fowler richer ne powrer, ne for none other descended of greater lineage, sleeping ne waking, at no tyme. And if the said B. were sole and I sole, I would take her to be my Wife before all the Wymen of the World, of what conditions soevere they be, good or evyle, as help me God and his Seynties, and this Flesh and all Flesh's. And his neighbours shall make oath, that they trust verily he hath said truly: And if it be found by his neighbours before named, that he be a freeman, there shall be delivered to him half a Quarter of Wheatte and a Cheese, And if he be a Villain, he shall have half a Quarter of Rye, withoutte Cheese, and then shall Knyghtley the Lord of Rudlowe be called for to carry all these things to fore rehearsed; And the said Corn shall be laid upon one Horse, and the Baconne above it, and he to whom the Baconne appertaineth shall ascend upon his Horse & shall take the Cheese before him, if he have a horse, and if he have none, the Lord of Whichenour shall cause him have one Horse and saddle, to such time as he be passed his Lordship; And so shall they depart the Manoyr of Whichenour with the Corn and the Baconne to fore him that hath won ytt with Trumpet's, Tabourets and other manoir of Mynstralce. And all the Free Tenants of Whichenour, shall conduct him to be passed the Lordship of Whichenour, & then shall all they return, except him, to whom appertaineth to make the carriage and journey withoutt the county of Stafford, at the costs of his Lord of Whichenour. And if the said Robert Knyghtley do not cause the Baconne and Corn to be conveyed as is rehearsed, the Lord of Whichenour shall do it to be carried, and shall distreigne the said Robert Knyghtley for his default, for one hundred shillings in his Manoir of Rudlowe, and shalt keep the distress, so take, irreplevisable. Bridshall. Moreover the said Sir Philippe holdeth of his Lord, the Earl, the Manoir of Briddeshalle, by these services, that, att such time, that his said Lord holdeth his Chrystemes at Tuttebury, the said Sir Philippe shall come to Tuttebury upon Chrystemes Evyn, and shall be lodged yn the Town of Tuttebury, by the Marshal of the Erlies house; and upon Chrystemes day, he himself or some other Knight, his deputy, shall go to the Dressour, and shall sew his Lordys Mess, and then shall he kerve the same met to his said Lord, and this service shall he do as well at Souper as at Dinner, and when his Lord hath eryn, the said Sir Philippe shall sit down in the same place, their his Lord sat, and shall be served at his Table by the Steward of the Erlies House, And upon saint Stevyn day, when he haith Dined, he shall take leve of his Lord, and shall kiss him; and for his service he shall nothing take, ne nothing shall give. And all these Services to fore rehearsed, the said Sir Philippe hath do by the space of xlviij. years, and his Ancestors before him, to his Lordys, Earls of Lancastre. Tatenhul and Drycot. Item the said Sir Phelippe holdeth of his said Lord, the Earl, his Manoirs of Tatenhull and Drycotte, en Parcenerye, by these services, that the said Sir Phelippe, or his Atturneye for him; shall come to the Castle of Tuttebury upon saint Petyr day in August, which is call Lammesse, and shall show the Steward or Recever, that he is come thither to hunt, and catch his Lords * Wild swine. Greese, at the costages of his Lord. Whereupon the Steward or the Recever shall cause a Horse and saddle to be deliveryd to the said Sir Phelippe, the price fifty shillings or fifty shillings in money and one hound and shall pay to the said Sir Philippe everyche day from the said day of saint Petyr to Holyroodeday, for himself two shillings six pence a day, and everyche day for his Servant and his * a Hound Bercelett, during the said time, twelve pence. And all the Woodmasters of the forest of Nedewode and Duffelde, with all the Parkers and forester's shall be commanded to awatte and attend upon the said Sir Phelippe, while their Lordys Greese be take, in all places of the said Foresties, as upon their Master, during the said tyme. And the said Sir Phelippe or his Attorney shall deliver to the said Parkers or forester's that which shall belong to their Lordys Lardere, commanding them to convey itt to the Erlys Lardyner, abiding at Tuttebury, and with the remanant the said Sir Phelippe shall do his plesoure. And upon Holye-rood day the said Sir Phelippe shall return to the Castle of Tuttebury, upon the said Horse with his Bercelett and shall dine with the Steward or Receyver: and after dinner he shall deliver the Horse, Sadyle and Bercelett to the Steward or Receyveour, and shall kiss the Porter and depart. Hopton. To the heyes male of the Hopton lawfully begotten, To me and to mine, to thee and to thine, While the water runs, and the Sun doth Shine; For lack of heirs to the King again. I William King the third year of my reign Give to the Norman Hunter, MS. Rob. Glover. in Com. Salop. To me that art both Line and Dear The Hoppe and Hoptoune And all the bounds up and down Under the Earth to Hell Above the Earth to Heaven, From me and from mine To thee and to thine, As good and as fair As ever they mine were. To witness that this is sooth, I by't the white Wax with my tooth, Before Jugg, Marode and Margery, And my third Son Henery, For one Bow and one broad Arrow, When I come to hunt upon Yarrow. This Grant, made by William the Conqueror to the Ancestor of the ancient family of the Hoptons', I copied out of an old Manuscript, and John Stow has it in his Chronicle, but in both it wanted the four First Lynes, which seem to create that Estate Tail, by which Richard Hopton Esquire, a Gentleman of low fortune, but haply may be the right heir of the Family, hath of late years by virtue of this Charter made several Clayms and commenced divers suits both for this Manor of Hopton in the hole in the County of Salop, and for divers other the Manors and Lands of Ralph late Lord Hopton; but hitherto for aught I hear without any success. Cholmer and Dancing. in Com. Essex. Carta Edwardi Confessoris. Iche Edward koning Have given of my Forest the keeping Of the Hundred of Cholmer and * Int. Record. de An. 17 E▪ 2 in Thesaur Scac. i. Dengy. Dancing To Randolf Peperking and to his kindling; With Heort and Hind, Do and Bock, Hare and Fox, Cat and Brock, Wild fowel with his Flock, Partridge, Fesant Hen and Fesant Cock, With green and wild stob and Stock To keep and to yeomen by all her might, Both by day and eke by night, And Hounds for to hold Good, and swift and bold, Four Greyhounds and six Braches For Hare and Fox and Wild-cats, And thereof iche made him my Book, Witness the Bishop Wolston And bock cleped many one, And Sweyn of Essex our Brother, And to ken him many other, And our steward Howelyn, That bysought me for him. Comitatus de Ewe. King Henry the Fifth by his Charter dated 10 Jun. 7. regni, granted to Sir William Bourchier the whole County of Ewe in Normandy. Bar. of E. 2 par. Reddendo dicto Regi & haeredibus suis apud Castrum Rothomagi unum * Roan in Nor. Gardebrache ad festum Sancti Georgii singulis annis &c— [This Gardebrace is otherwise called vantbrace, and signifies Armour for the Arme. Coringham. Hist. of St. Paul's. by Sir W. Dugdale In the Third year of King Edward the First Sir William le Bawd Knight made a signal Grant to the Dean and Canons of St. Paul's London, of a Do yearly on the feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, and of a fat Buck upon the Commemoration of the same Saint, to be offered at the high Altar in St. Paul's by the said Sir William and his household-family, and then to be distributed among the Canon's resident; which said Do and Buck were so given by him in lieu of 22 acres of Land lying within the Lordship of Westlee in Com. Essex, belonging to the said Canons and by them granted to him and his heirs to be enclosed within his Park of Coringham. But about the certain time and formality in offering the said Buck and Do there growing afterwards some dispute, Sir Walter le Bawd Knight son and heir of the said Sir William, by his Deed dated on the Ides of July, 30 Edward 1. for the health of his Soul and of his Progenitors and heirs, confirmed his said Fathers Grant and obliged himself and his heirs, his Lands and Tenements, That every year for ever on the day of the Conversion of St. Paul, there should be a good fat do, brought by one of his fitting Servants and not the whole family, at the hour of Procession, and through the midst thereof, and offered at the High Altar, without exacting any thing for the said service of the Dean and Canons. And on the day of the Commemoration of St. Paul in Summer, a fat Buck by some such Servant, attended with as many of the Family as had heretofore been usual, and so carried through the midst of the Procession, and offered at the high Altar; the said Dean and Canons, after the Offering thus performed, giving, by the hands of their Chamberlain, one shilling to the persons bringing the Buck for their entertainment. And to this grant were witnesses Sir Nicholas de Wokyndon, Sir Richard de la Rokele, Sir Thomas de Mandevyle, Sir John de Rocheford Knights, with divers others. [The reception of which Do and Buck was till Queen Elizabeth's days solemnly performed at the steps of the Choir by the Canons of St. Paul's, attired in their sacred Vestments and wearing Garlands of Flowers on their heads; and the horns of the Buck carried on the top of a Spear in Procession round about within the body of the Church with a gr 〈…〉 noise of horn blowers, Camd. in Midelsex. as the learned Camden, upon his own view of both, affirms. Bure Ferrer. Johannes de Ferrer Chivalier tenet de Honore Castri de Tremanton in Comitatu Cornubiae xxj. Feoda militum in Bure Ferrer & alibi per servitium militare, Antiq. Supervis. ducatus Cornubiae. reddend. ad Festum Sancti Michaelis quatuor * Virones is here used for Boatmen, or such as could manage the passage Boat. And Kernella are the nooks or notches on the top of the wall of an Embatteled Castle, which is therefore called Castellum Kernellatum, from the latin Crena a notch. Virones ad Batellos Passagii de Esse, & sustinend. xxj Kernella Castri praedicti, sumptibus suis propriis. Clymeslond. Ibid. A. B. * i. This Nativus de stipite was a Villain or Bondman by stock or birth, and differed from Nativus Conventionarius, who was so by contract or Covenant. For the meaning of Berbiagii you must consult some learned Cornish man; it seems to have been a certain rent, but why so called quaere. Nativus de stipite quondam tenuit unam Messuagium cum pertin. in Clymeslond in Com. Cornubiae, & respondet inde per annum ad quatuor terminos ij s. iiij d. Et Berbiagii ad sestum Apostolor. Philippi & Jacobi xuj d. Et faciet Sectam ad Curiam Domini de tribus Septimanis in tres Septimanas, & erit Praepositus, decennarius & Bedellus cum electus fuerit. Et cum Dominus Princeps fuerit apud Launceston, cariabit, quotiens dictus Dominus Voluerit, unum Cariagium per diem de Bosco de Clymeslond usque Launceston ad custum proprium— Et filius ejus novissime natus, quem reliquerit superstitem, habebit terras suas, per Finem quem fecerit cum Domino ad voluntatem suam, & non amovebitur a terra sua pro tota vita sua. Non mittet filium suum ad Scholas, nec filiam suam maritabit, sine licentia Principis: Et cum obierit Dominus habebit omnia Catalla sua. Aslaby. MS. penes Sam. Roper. A●. Richardus filius Wydonis de Aslaby in Com. Ebor. tenet duas Carucatas terrae per servitium aptandi unum canem liverium Domini Regis. Cheshire. William the Conqueror created Hugh Lupus Earl of Chester and Swordbearer of England, Cam. Brit. with these words. Habendum & tenendum dictum Comitatum Cestriae sibi & haeredibus suis ita libere ad Gladium, sicut ipse Rex totam tenebat Angliam ad Coronam. Halton. Hugh Lupus Earl of Chester created Nigel or Neal Baron of Halton in Chesshire, Cronicon Cestriae. Constable and Marshal of Chester, by condition of service to lead the Vanguard of the Earl's Army, when he should make any Expedition into Wales; so as the said Baron should be the foremost in marching into the Enemy's Country, and the last in coming back. Wallingford. Tainus vel miles Regis Dominicus moriens, Domesday. tit. Berocscire pro Relevamento Dimittebat Regi omnia Arma sua & equum unum cum Sella, & alium sine Sella; quod si essent ei Canes vel Accipitres praesentabuntur Regi, ut si vellet, accipiet. Acton. Cam. Brit. tit. Bucks. The Lord Grey of Wilton held the Manor of Acton in Com. Buckingham by Serjanty of keeping one Gerfalcon for their Sovereign Lord the King. Whereupon that Family of the Greys had, for their Badge or Cognisance, a Falcon Sejant upon a Glove. Shorn. Anciently Sir Roger Northwood held the Manor of Shorn in Kent by service to carry, Ibid. tit. Kent. with other the King's Tenants, a White Ensign forty days at his own charges, when the King should make war in Scotland. Tachebroke. Lib. niger Lichfeldiae. Roger de Wellesburne tenuit medietatem unius Hidae terrae in Tachebroke in Comitatu Warwici, & veniet ad magnam † i. Magna Precaria is a general Reap day in some places called a Love-reap, Precariam in Autumpno cum omnibus messoribus suis ad † Ad puturam Domini, at the Lords diet, for 2 meals. Puturam Domini bis in die. Grenocle. Inq. 5. Edw. 1. Matthew de Hastings held the Manor of Grenocle in the County of Sussex of the King, by this service, that he shoved find an Oar for the King's use, when he should pass over the Sea at the Haven of Hastings. Sciredun and Siplegh. David de Sciredun held lands in Sciredun and Siplegh in Com. Devon. of the King by the service of finding two Arrows, Cam. Brit tit. Devon. when the King his sovereign Lord should come to hunt in the Forest of Dertmore. Shrewsbury In William the Conqueror's time, doomsday tit. Sciropescire. this City (for so it was then called) paid yearly seven pounds, sixteen shillings and eight pence de Gablo, they were reckoned to be two hundred fifty two Citizens, whereof twelve of the better sort were bound to Watch about the Kings of England, when they lay in this City, and as many to attend them with Horse and Arms when they went forth a hunting. Which last service the Learned Camden believes was ordained, Britan. because not many years before Edric Streon, Duke of the Mercians, a man of great impiety, lay in wait near this place for Prince Afhelm, and barbarously murdered him, as he road a hunting. Servitia et Libertates Roberti Fitz-Walter, de Castro Baynardi in London. Ces sont les droicts que appendent a Robert Fitz-Wauter Chastellein de Loundres, Ex antiq. MS. penes William Dugdale Mil. Seigneur de Wodeham, en la Citee de Loundres: Cestascavoir, que le dit Robert et ces heirs deivent estre a sont chief Banoors de Londres, de fee, pour la dicte Chastelrie, que ces auncestres et luy ont du Chastel-Baynard en la dicte city En temps de guerre doit le dict Robert et ces heirs servir la Ville en la manere desouz escript. Que le dict Robert doit venir sus son Destrer covert, montant soi Vintisme des hommes as Arms, as chevaulx coverts de teyle ou de fer, tanque all grand huis de Mynstre de S. Pol, ove sa Banere desploye devant luy, de ses Arms. Et quant il est venuz. a grand huis du Mynstier avantdit, mountez et apparaillez, si come il est avantdit▪ si doit le Maire de Loundres Venir, ove touse ses Viscountz el ses Audermans', Arms de leur Arms horse du Mynstier de S. Pol, taunque au dit huis, ove son Banere en sa main, tout a pee: Et serra la Banere vermaille od un ymage de S. Pol, d'or ove les piez et les mains, et la teste d'argent, odd un espeie d'argent en la main le dict image. Et si tossed come le dict Robert verra, le Meire et ses viscount's, et ses Audermans venir au pee horse deal dit mynstre armez ove cete Banere; si descendera le dit Robert ou ces heirs, que ceo servise deivent a la dite Citee de son chival, et salueta le Meire come son compaignon, et son pier, et luy dirra. Sire More, jeo so venur pour fair mon service que jeo dei a la city. Et le More, les Viscounts, et les Audremans' diuront; Nous vous baillons ici come a nostre Baner de fee, de ceste ville, ceste Banere de ceste ville, a porter et governor all honour et a profit de nostre Citee a vostre poer. Et le dit Robert et ses heirs resceveront la Banere en sa main. Et la Maire de la dicte city et les Viscounts le suiveront all huis, et meneront un cheval au dit Robert pris de xx l. Et serra le chival enselle d'un selle d'Armes le dit Robert, et covert de cendal de mesme les Arms; et prendront xx l. d'esterling, et les baudront all chamberlain le dit Robert pour ses despenses de cel jour. Et le dit Robert montera le cheval, qui le dict More li ad present, ove tute le Banere en sa main. Et si toast come il est montee, il dirra au Maire q'il face estier un Marshal maintenant, deal oft de la Citee de Londres. Et si tossed come le Mareschal est esteuz, le dit Robert serra commander au Maire, ela ses Burgeis de la ville, dit facent sooner le sein communal de la dit city; et irront tute le commune suiz la Banere S. Pol, mes 〈…〉 es seli Robert portera en sa main demene tanque a Algate enavant a porter; a qui le dit Robert et le Maire se assentent. Si i 〈…〉 〈…〉nt soit q'il devient issue fury horse de la ville, si doit donques le dit Robert, de chechune garde de la ville, eslier deux des plussages pour pourveier, comment la ville poet mielux estre garde derere eux. Et ceo counsel serra pris en la Priorie de la trinity, id est juxta Aldgate. Et devant chescun ville ou Chastel, que l' oft de Loundres assege sil demorast un an entour le siege, se deit le dit Robert avoir pour chescun seige de la commune de Loundres cent ●euz pour son travail, et nient plus. Ces sont les droectures q' appendent a Robert le Fitzwalter, et a ces heirs en Loundres, en temps de pees. Ces sont les droectures que le dict Robert avera en Loundres en temps de guerre. Cestascavoir, que le dict Robert ad un Sokne en le Citee de Loundres; cestuscavoir du Mure de la Chanoniare de S. Pol, si come home va aval la rue devant le Bracine de S. Pol, tanque a Thamise; et issent tanque a cost du molin q'est en l'eaw que vint avant avale del pount de Flete, et va issi sus par les murs de Loundres tout entour les Freres prechours, tanque a Ludgate: Et issint return jus arere par le meisan de ses ditz Freres, tanque a la dit cornere de mure de la dite Chanoinerie de S. Pol, cestaseavoir tout la paroche del esglise de S. Andrew, q' est en le donesein de ces Auncestres par la dit signory. Si ad le dit Robert appendent a eel Sokne, tortz cestes choses desus escritts; q' il doit avoir Sokman, et mettre qui q'il voudra Sokman; mel q'il soit de la Sokmanrie. Et si nul de la Sokmanrie soit emplede en la Gihalle de nule chose, que ne touche le Corps le Meire, qui que soit pour le temps; ou qui touch le corps de nul Viscounte de la dicte ville, list a Sokman de Sokmaneri le dit Robert le Fitz-Water a demander la Court le dit Robert Fitz-Waulter. Et le Meire et les Citizens de Loundres le deivent granter d'aver sa Court; et en sa Court doit son juggement porter ainsi come il est assentue en la Guihalle que done li serra. Si nul laron soit pris en san Sokne, il doit aver son cep, et son prisonement en son Sokne; et serra illucque menez tanque a la Gihalle devant le Meire et la pour veiront son juggement que le deit ester donee mes son juggement ne serra mie puplie tanque il veigne en Court le dit Robert, et en sa Franchise. Et serra la juggement tiel, s'il ad mort deservi pur traison, q'il soit lie au piler que estret en Thamise all Wode-Warfe, la ou home attach les nieses, deux montes et deux recreces deal ewe. Et s'il soit damn pur common larcin, i'll deit estre menee as Homeaus (id est Helmes) et suffrir la son juggement come autres ommuns larouns. Et si ad le dit Robert et ses heires un grand honeur, q'il tient a un grant Franchise en la dite city; que le Maire de la Citee et les Citizens de mesme la ville, li deivent faire de droict; cestascavoir, que quant le More voet tenir un grand Conseil, il doit appeller le dit Robert ou ses heirs, p●r estre a son Conseil, et au Conseil de la ville. Et deit le dit Robert estre jurez du Counseil de ville countra toutz gentzes, save le Roy d'Engleterre et ses heirs. Et quant le dit Robert vint a Hustinges en la Gihalle de la city, si deit le Meire, ou son lieutenant lever country li, et le mette pres de luy. Et taunt come il est en la dite Gihalle, si devient tous les juggements host donez par my sa bouche, selone le Record des Recordoures de la Gihalle. Et toutz les weyfes qui veignont, il y soit, il les doit donor as Baillifs de la ville, ou a qui il voudra per le Counseil le Maire de la dite city. Which I have thus endeavoured to English. These are the Rights which belong to Robert Fitz-Walter, Castellan of London, Lord of Wodeham, in the City of London: That is to say, that the said Robert and his heirs ought to be and are chief Banner-bearers of London in Fee, for the Castelry, which he and his Ancestors have of Baynard's Castle in the said City. In the time of war the said Robert and his heirs ought to serve the City, in manner hereafter written. That the said Robert ought to come armed upon his Horse of service, with twenty men at Arms mounted upon Horses harnessed with Mail or with Iron, even to the great door of the Minster of St. Paul, with a Banner of his Arms displayed before him. And when he is come to the great door of the said Minster, mounted and armed as aforesaid, then ought the Mayor of London with all his Sheriffs and Aldermen, to come on foot armed, out of the Minster of St. Paul, to the said door, with his Banner in his hand, and the Banner ought to be Gules, an Image of St. Paul d'or, the feet, hands and head Argent, with a sword Argent in the hand of the said Image. And as soon as the said Robert shall see the Mayor, and his Sheriffs and Aldermen coming on foot out of the said Minster armed with this Banner, he, or his heirs, who shall perform this service to the City, shall dismount his Horse and salute the Mayor, as his Companion and shall say to him, Sir Mayor I am come to do my service, which I owe to the City. And the Mayor, Sheriffs and Aldermen shall say, we allow you here as our Banner-bearer of this City in Fee, this Banner of the City to carry and govern to your power, to the Honour and profit of our City. And the said Robert and his heirs shall take the Banner in his hand: And the Mayor and Sheriffs of the said City shall follow him to the door, and present him with a Horse of xx l. price; which Horse shall have a Saddle garnished with the Arms of the said Robert and covered with a Sendal of the same Arms; and shall deliver xx l. sterling to the Chamberlain of the said Robert, for his charges of that day. And the said Robert shall mount the Horse, which the Mayor then presented him, with the Banner in his hand, and as soon as he is mounted, he shall desire the Mayor forthwith to cause a Marshal to be chosen out of the Host of the City of London. And as soon as the Marshal is chosen, the said Robert shall command the Mayor and his Burgesses of the City, to cause the common Signal to be sounded through the City, that all the Communality may follow the Banner of St. Paul (carried before them by the said Roberts own hand) to Algate, to which the said Robert and the Mayor shall assent. If it so happen, that the said Robert shall march out of the City, than he shall choose two of the most sage persons out of every Ward of the City, to take care how it may best be guarded in his absence; and this Council shall be held in the Priory of the Trinity, near Aldgate. And before every Town or Castle which the Army of London shall beseige, if he continue a year about the siege, the said Robert ought to have from the Commons of London, one hundred shillings for his pains, and no more. These are the Rights which the said Robert ought to have in London in the time of War. These are the Rights appertaining to Robert le Fitz-Walter and his heirs, in London in time of Peace. That is to say; that the said Robert hath a Soak in the City of London, viz. from the Wall of the Canonry of St. Paul as a man goes down by the * Boe●house. Bracine of St. Paul to the Thames and so to the side of the Mill which stands on the water that runs down by Fleet-Bridge, and thence by London Walls round about the Friar's Preachers, to Ludgate: And so returns by the back of the said Friar's House, to the corner of the said Canon's Wall of St. Paul. That is to say, all the Parish of the Church of St. * St. Andrew Wardrobe. Andrew which is in the gift of his Ancestors, by the said signory. The said Robert hath also apppendant to this Soak, all these things here under written: That he ought to have a Sokeman of his own choice, provided he be of the Sokemanry. And if any of the Sokemanry shall be impleaded in the Guild Hall for any matter which touches not the body of the Mayor for the time being, or any Sheriff of the said City, it shall be lawful for the Sokeman of the Sokemanry of the said Robert le Fitz-Walter, to demand the Court of the said Robert le Fitz-Walter. And the Mayor and Citizens of London ought to grant him to have his Court, in which his Judgement ought to be agreeable to that of the Guild-Hall. If any thief shall be taken In his Soak, he ought to have his flocks and imprisonment in his Soak, and from thence he shall be carried to the Guild-Hall before the Mayor, to receive his Judgement, which ought there to be given; but the Judgement shall not be pronounced, until he come in the Court of the said Robert and in his Franchise. And the Judgement shall be such; If he have deserved death for Treason, he ought to be tied to a Pillar which stands in the Thames at Wood-wharf, whereunto Watermens tie their Barges or Boats, and there continue two Floods and two Ebbs of the Water. And if he be condemned for a common Larcin, he ought to be hanged at the * These Elms stood near smithfeild and were the place of Execution, before Tyburn had that Office. Elms, and there suffer his Judgement, as other common Thiefs. Also the said Robert and his heirs have a great honour, in holding so great a Franchise in the said City, where the Mayor and Citizens ought to do him right; that is to say, that when the Mayor is minded to hold a great Council, he ought to call the said Robert or his heirs, to be of his Council, and of the said City's Council: And the said Robert ought to be sworn of the City's Council, against all people; save the King of England and his heirs. And when the said Robert shall come to the Hustings at the Guild-Hall of the said City, the Mayor or his Deputy ought to rise to him, and then place him by him. And whilst he is in the Guild-Hall, all Judgements ought to be pronounced by his mouth, according to the Record of the Recorders of the Guild-Hall. And all the Waifs which shall happen, whilst he is there, he ought to give to the Bailiffs of the City, or to whom he pleases, by advice of the Mayor of the said City. Whorlton. Nicholaus de Menyll tenuit Manerium de Whorlton, etc. de Archiepiscopo Cantuarensi, Esc. 16. E. 3. n. 37. serviente dictum Archiepiscopum, die Consecrationis suae de Coupa, qua idem Archiepiscopus bibere debet eodem die. Michleham. Radulfus de Belvoir tenet duas Carucatas terrae in Michleham de Rogero de Mowbray. Carta antiqua. Reddendo annuatim quasdam Caligas de Scarleto ad Natale Domini pro omnibus servitiis. London. Anostre Seignour le Roy et a son Conseil monster Richard de Bettoyne de Loundres, Pet. in Par. An. 11 E. 3. qe come au Coronement nostre Seignour le Roy q'ore est, il adonque Meire de Londres fesoit l'Office de Botiller oue CCCLX Vadletz vestuz d'une suit, chescun portant en sa maine un Coupe blanche d'argent, come autres Meirs de Londres ount faitz as Coronementz des Progenitours nostre Seignour le Roy, dont memorie ne court, et le Fee q'appendoit a cel iorne, Cest asavoir un Coupe d'or ove la Covercle, et un Ewer d'or enamaille, lui fust livere per assent du Counte de Lancastre et d'autres Grantz qu'adonques y furent du Conseil nostre Seignour le Roy per la main Sire Robert de Wodehouse: Et ore vient en Estreite as Viscountes de Londres horse del Chokker de fair lever des biens et Chateux du dit Richard 89 l. 12 s. 6 d. pur le Fee avantdit, dont il prie que remedie lui soit ordain. Et le Meire et les Citeyns' D'oxenford ount, per point de Chartre, quills vendront a Londres a l'encoronement d'eyder le Meire de Londres pur servir a la Fest, et toutz ount usee. Et si il plest a nostre Seignour le Roy et a son Conseil, nous payerons volenters le Feel, issent que nous soyoms descharges de la service. Id est. To our Lord the King and his Council Richard de Bettoyne of London showeth that whereas, at the Coronation of our Lord the King that now is, he being then Mayor of London, performed the Office of Butler, with three hundred and sixty Valets clothed in the same Livery, each one carrying in his hand a white Silver Cup, as other Mayors of London have time out of mind used to do, at the Coronation of the King's Progenitors, and the Fee, appendent to that service, that is to say, a Gold Cup with a Cover, and with an Ewer of Gold enamelled, was delivered to him by assent of the Earl of Lancaster and other great men, then of our Lord the King's Council, by the hands of Sir Robert de Woodhouse: And now there comes an Estreat out of the Exchequer to the Sheriffs of London, for the levying of 89 l. 12 s. 6 d. for the said fee upon the goods and Chattels of the said Richard, wherein he prays that remedy may be ordained him. And the Mayor and Citizens of Oxford are bound by Charter, to come to London at the Coronation, to assist the Mayor of London in serving at the Feast, and so have always used to do. Or if it please our Lord the King and his Council, we will willingly pay the Fee, so that we may be discharged of that Service. Stapleherst. Inq. post more tem domini Wotton. 1628. Tenementum Newstede cum pertin. in villa de Stapleherst in Comitatu Cantiae tenetur de Manerio de East-Greenwich per fidelitatem tantum & in libero Socagio per Paten. dat. 3. Feb. 4. Edward. 6. And by the payment for Smoak-silver yearly to the Sheriff, the sum of six pence. Apelderham. Johannes Aylemer tenet per irrotulamentum Curiae unum Messuagium & unam virgatam terrae, Con suetudinar. Monast de Bello. etc. in Apelderham in Com. Sussex & debet invenire unum hominem cum uno equo ad herciandum qualibet Septimana per unum diem ad utrumque 1 At Winter Seedness and Lent seedness. Semen, Yemale & Quadragesimale, dum aliquid fuerit ad 2 To Harrow. herciandum in terra Domini. Et ille qui herciat quolibet die recipiet unum Repastum, viz. Panem, Potagium, 3 Bread and Meat or, quicquid cibi cum pane sumitur. Compernagium & potum precii 1 d. & quilibet equus hercians habebit qualibet die tantum de Avenis sicut capi potest inter duas manus; & etiam debet venire quolibet anno ad duas 4 To two work-days of the Blow. Precarias Carucae cum Caruca sua, si habeat integram Carucam, vel de parte quam habet Carucae, si Carucam non habeat integram, & tunc arare debet utroque die quantum potest a mane ad meridiem, & uterque 5 I suppose uterque tentor etc. may signify (how properly I will not determine) both the man that held the Blow and he that drove it, who were to have a solemn repast. tentor, viz. Carucae, & fugator habebunt unum Pastum solempnem utroque die praedictarum Precariarum— Et debet invenire ad tres Precarias in Autumpno, quolibet die duos homines, & habebit uterque dictorum hominum ad utrumque diem precariarum, Primus unum Panem utroque die de frumento & ordeo mixto, qui ponderabit 18 Libras cerae, precium cujuslibet panis 1 d. q. Et ad tertiam Precariam habebit uterque homo unum Panem praedicti ponderis, totum de frumento prec. 1 d. ob. Et habebunt praedicti duo homines coniunctim, ad quamlibet de praedictis tribus Precariis, Potagium & ferculum de Carne sine potu prec. 1 d. Dylew or Dylwin, Adam de Dyleu tenet in Dilew in Com. Heref. duas virgatas & dimid. terrae, Carta 34. E. 3. Reddendo inde annuatim Willielmo filio Warini tres solidos argenti, & inveniendo tempore guerrae dicto Willielmo singulis annis per quindecim dies, unum hominem, cum uno equo & uno This Compuncto, I guess to be the same, which elsewhere is called Pryk, and whether that may signify a Spur, Goad or what else, let the more learned determine; for Sir Henry Spelman himself leaves it unexplicated: Some think it was an old fashioned Spur, not with Rowels of five points, but with one only. Compuncto & uno Capello ferreo & una lancea, ad custum dicti Willielmi. Et si equus ejus moreretur vel esset interfectus in servitio praedicti Willielmi, idem Willielmus daret ei xx s. pro equo ipso. Lincoln. Rex mandat Baronibus, quod allocent Roberto de Chadworth Vicecomiti Lincoln11. Communia. 16 E. 1 Pas. rot. 10. in Dorso. luj s. seven d. quos per Praeceptum Regis, liberavit Johanni de Bellovento, pro putura septem Leporariorum & trium Falconum & Alanerarii, & pro vadiis unius Bracenarii, a die Sancti Johannis Baptistae usque ad Vigiliam Sancti Michaelis prox. sequen. utroque die computato, viz. Pro Putura for the food or maintenance of seven greyhound or Hare-Hounds, Three Falcons, and a Falconer, and for the Wages of one Huntsman, for so Bracenarius signifies, from the French Braconnier, which denotes the same. pro Putura cujuslibet Leporarii & Falconis per diem, 1 d. ob. & pro vadiis praedicti Bracenarii per diem, 2 d. Shirefeld. Johannes de Warbleton tenet Manerium de Shirefeld in Com. Southampton de Rege in Capite per Magnam Serjantiam, Fin. Hill. 13. E. 2. & Pas. 1. E. 3. viz. per Servitium essendi Mareschallus de meretricibus, & dismembrandi Malefactores adjudicatos, & mensurandi Galones & Busselloes in Hospitio Regis. Brodgate Park. Com. Leyc. Haec est Concordia fact apud Leycestriam die Sancti Vincentii Martyris, Anno Regni Regis Henrici filii Regis Johannis xxxj ●, Coram Domino Rogero de Turkilby, Ex Codice MS. penes Elyam Ashmole Arm. Magistro Simone de Walton, Domino Gilberto de Preston & Domino Johanne de Cobham Justiciariis tunc ibidem Itinerantibus, Inter Rogerum de Quincy Comitem Wintoniae & Rogerum Somery, viz. Quod praedictus Rogerus de Somery concessit pro se & haeredibus suis, quod praedictus Comes & haeredes sui habeant & teneant Parcum suum de Bradgate ita inclausum sicut inclusus fuit in Octabis Sancti Hillarii anno praedicti Regis Henrici xxxjᵒ cum * De arloaps. Saltatoriis tunc in eo factis. Et pro hac concordia & concessione idem Comes concessit pro se & haeredibus suis, quod idem Rogerus de Somery & haeredes sui quacunque hora veniant in Foresta ipsius Comitis ad * De arloaps. bersandum in ea cum novem Arcubus & sex Berseletis secundum formam Cyrographi prius facti inter praedictum Rogerum Comitem Wintoniae & Hugonem de Albaniaco Comitem Arundeliae in Curia Domini Regis apud Leycestriam; & si aliqua fera, To chase with nine bows and 6 hounds. per aliquem praedictorum Arcuum vulnerata, intraverit praedictum Parcum per aliquem Saltatorium, vel alibi, bene licebit praedicto Rogero de Somery & haeredibus suis mittere unum hominem vel duos ex suis qui sequentur praedictam feram, cum canibus, illam feram sequentibus, infra praedictum Parcum, sine Arcu & sagittis, & illam capiant eo die quo vulnerata fuerit, sine laesione aliarum ferarum in praedict' Parco existentium: Ita quod si sint Pedes intrabunt per aliquem saltatorium vel Hayam, & si sint eques intrabunt per Portam, si aperta fuerit, & aliter non intrabunt, antequam corna bunt pro Parcario, si venire voluerit. Et praeterea idem Comes concessit pro se & haeredibus suis, quod ipsi de caetero quolibet anno capi facient duos damos tempore Pinguedinis & duas damas tempore Firmationis, & eas liberari facient ad Portam praedicti Parci alicui hominum praedicti Rogeri de Somery & haeredum suorum, literas Patentes ipsorum deferentes pro praedictis Damis. Concessit etiam praedictus Comes pro se et haeredibus suis, quod ipsi de caetero nullum Parcum Facient, nec▪ Parcum augmentabunt Infra metas bersationis, within the limits of his hunting Ground. Non portabunt sagittas barbatas sed pilettas, sagitta piletta, is an Arrow that has a round knob (pila) in the shank of it, some two inches above the head to hinder the Arrows going too far into the Deers Body. Tempus Pinguedinis, the Buck-season, and Tempus firmationis (which elsewhere is written firmisonae) the Doe-season, the times of their continuance are declared above. infra metas bersationis praedicti Rogeri & haeredum suorum, praeter antiqua Clausa praedictae Forestae. Et praedictus Rogerus de Somery concessit pro se & haeredibus suis, quod ipsi de caetero nunquam intrabunt praedictam Forestam ad bersandum nisi cum novem Arcubus & sex Berseletis, & quod Forestarii sui non portabunt in Bosco praedicti Rogeri de Somery & haeredum suorum, Sagittas barbatas set pilettas, & quod homines sui de Barwe & Forestarii infra Octabis Sancti Michaelis ad Vadum Parci Fidelitatem facient quolibet anno Balivis praedicti Comitis & haeredum suorum, quod venationem praedicti Comitis et haeredum suorum servabunt fideliter & alia quae ad dictam Forestam pertinent, secundum proportum dicti Cyrographi inter praedictos Comites Wintoniae & Arundeliae prius confecti. Et haec Concordia facta est inter praedictum Comitem & praedictum Rogerum de Somery, salvis eidem Comiti & haeredibus suis & praedicto Rogero de Somery & haeredibus suis omnibus Articulis in praedicto Cyrographo confecto inter praedictos Comites Wintoniae & Arundeliae contentis. Et praeterea idem Comes concessit pro se & haeredibus suis, quod unus vel duo hominum praedicti Rogeri de Somery & haeredum suorum qui sequentur praedictam feram vulneratam cum canibus eam sequentibus infra praedictum Parcum cum praedicta fera, fi eam ceperint vel non cum praedictis Canibus, praedicti parci libere exeant per Portam & sine impedimento. Et praedictus Comes & haeredes scire facient aliquem de suis praedicto Rogero de Somery & haeredibus suis apud Barwe quo die mittetur pro supradictis damis ad praedictum locum praedictis temporibus, & hoc scire eis facient per sex dies ante praedictum diem. In cujus rei testimonium alter alterius Scripto sigillum suum apposuit. Et sciendum est quod Tempus Pinguedinis hic computatur inter Festum beati Petri ad Vincula & Exaltationem Sanctae Crucis, & Tempus Firmationis inter Festum Sancti Martini & Purificationem Beatae Mariae. Sutton Courtenay. Sciant praesentes & futuri; Ex ipso Autographo, penes Tho. Wollascot. Arm. Berk●. quod ego Ricardus de Harrecurt dedi & concessi Willielmo de Sutton pro homagio & servitio suo totam illam Virgatam terrae in Sutton cum uno Messuagio & pertin.— dictus vero Willielmus & Here the Tenants were hound to plow a Selion or Ridge of Land at Winter-Seednes and another at Lent-Seednes, and one Selion at Fallow, and to weed one day with one Man, and to mow one day with one man in Summer, for so I think is meant by Esteia, from Aestate, though I have not elsewhere met with the word. They were bound also to find one man to make hay, and to carry it with one Cart, till all were fully carried to the Court of Sutton (which was their Lord's House.) And to find one Man to make Cocks or Ricks of Hay, till they were finished, and to assist at four Reap-dayes in Autumn with two men each day, the three first days at their own diet, and the fourth at their Lords: And to carry Corn for one day with one Cart, and to find one man for one day to make Moughs or Meys in the Grange or Barn etc. This Deed was without date, but by the Character seemed to be made in King Henry the thirds Reign. haeredes sui arabunt unum Seilonem ad Yvernagium & unum Seylonem ad Semen Quadragisimale & unum Seylonem ad Warectam, & sarclabunt per unum diem cum uno homine, & falcabunt cum uno homine per unum diem in Esteia. Et imvenient unum hominem ad levandum prata, & cariabunt dicta prata cum una Carecta, quousque cariata sint plenarie in Curiam de Sutton, & invenient unum hominem ad faciendum Mullones saeni quousque perficiantur, & facient quatuor Precarias autumpnales cum duobus hominibus, scil. tres ad cibum illorum proprium & quartam ad cibum Domini, & cariabunt bladum per unum diem cum una Carecta, & invenient unum hominem per unum diem ad faciendum Meyas in Grangia. Haec omnia Servitia etc. Hiis testibus— Colewyke & Wyleweby. Reginaldus de Colewyke debet pro Serjantia de Colewyke Domino Regi in adventu suo apud Nottingham semel in anno duodecim Sagittas; De Serjantiis arrentatis per Rob. de Passelew, tempore H. 3 Et pro Serjantia de Wileweby debet Domino Regi in exercitu suo Wallia unum equum precii 3 s. 4 d. & unum Saccum cum Brochia, & unum star; A Horse Collar with a Canvas Cloth. Capistrum cum Canabo precii. i d. Benham. Esc. 23. E. 3. n. 39 Gloc. Fulk Fitz-Warine held certain Lands in Benham in the County of Gloucester of Thomas Lord Berkley, Lord of Brimmesfeild, by Serjeanty; To carry a Horn in Brimmesfeild Park, betwixt the feasts of the Assumption and Nativity of the blessed Virgin, at such time as the King should hunt there. Turroc. Carta 1. Joh. M. 29. King Richard the First gave to Henry de Grey, of Codnor, the Manor of Turroc in Essex; which Grant King John confirmed, and by his Charter vouchsafed him the privilege to Hunt the Hare and Fox in any Lands belonging to the Crown, except the Kings own demean Parks, a special favour in those times. Calistoke. Antiq. Supervis. Ducatus Cornub. Nativi tenentes de Calistoke in Com. Cornubiae reddunt per annum de certo redditu vocato Why this rent was called Berbiagium, I am to seek; but it was payable at Hokeday, of which there were two, viz. the Monday and Tuesday seven-night after Easter week▪ but I think Tuesday was the chief Hokeday, which day was long celebrated here in England in memory of the expulsion of the domineering Danes. Berbiagium, ad le Hokeday, nineteen s. Savernake. Johannes Mautravers, Inq. temp. E. 1. Custos Forestarum Regis citra Trentam, clamat habere de quolibet Forestario tam infra Forestam de Savernake quam alibi in Com. Wiltes, cum obierit, Equum, Sellam cum fraeno, Cornu & gladium ejusdem, & Arcum & Sagittas barbatas. Eresby. John de Wileghby held the Manor of Eresby with its appurtenances in the County of Lincoln, of the Bishop of Durham, Esc. 46. E. 3. N. ●● by the service of one Knights Fee, and of being Bailif to the Bishop for the time being, of all his Lands in the County of Lincoln; To hold his Courts, make Attachments, Distresses and whatsoever else belongs to that Office, at his own costs; And to levy all the Issues and profits arising thereby, and to be answerable to the Bishop for the same. Also by the service of being Steward to him and his Successors, and to carry a Mess of meat to his Table, on the day of his Consecration as also at Christmas and Whitsuntide, by himself or his eldest Son, in case he were a Knight, or some other fitting Knight thereunto deputed by his Letters Patent. Grosmunt. Willielmus de Braosa dedit Regi octingentas Marcas, Rot. Fin. 7 Job. M. 7. tres Dextrarii are Horses for the great Saddle, from the French Dectrier, denoting as much. Chacuros' must either signify Hounds or Dogs for the Chase, from the French Chaseur, a Huntsman; or Coursers, Horses for speed or Career, from the French Coursier, but the first seems most probable. The word in another Record, tit. Norton, is written Catzuros, and I suppose intended for the same thing. And it adds to the probability of this exposition in that King john was a great lover of Horses Hawks and Hounds, taking a great part of his Fines in those Animals of recreation as appears by the Fine Rolls of his time. What Sensas may signify let the more Learned Determine. dextrarios, quinque Chacuros viginti quatuor Sensas & decem Leporarios, pro habenda seisina Castrorum de Grosmunt Skenefrith & LLantely in Com. Monmouth. Bondby. Edwardus Botiler Chivalier & Anna uxor ejus, Pas. Fines. 4. Hen. 4. soror & haeres Hugonis le Despenser tenent Manerium de Bondby in Com. Lincoln per servitium portandi albam virgam coram Domino Rege in Festo natalis Domini, si idem Rex in eodem Comitatu ad idem Festum interesset. More. Walterus de Aldeham tenet terram de Rege in la More in Com. Salop per servitium reddendi Regi per annum ad Scaccarium suum duos cultellos, Com. Mich. 3. R. 〈…〉 ot. 1. Salop. quorum unus talis valoris esse debet, unam virgam Coryleam unius anni & longitudinis unius Cubiti, ad primam percussionem per medium scindere debet, etc. Quod quidem servitium in medio Scaccarii in praesentia Thesaurarii & Baronum quolibet anno in Crastino Sancti Michaelis fieri debet. Et dicti Cultelli libereatur Camerario ad opus Regis custodiendi. Chetington. Rogerus Carbet tenet Manerium de Chetington in Com. Salop de Rege in Capite per servitium inveniendi unum hominem peditem tempore guerrae in exercitu Regis Walliae, Lib. de Tenuris. 24. E. 1. cum uno arcu & tribus sagittis & uno Palo; Et deseret secum unum Baconem, & cum ad Exercitum Regis pervenerit, liberabit Mareschallo Regis medietatem Baconis, & inde Mareschallus deliberabit ei quotidie ad prandium suum de praedicto dimidio Baconis, dum steterit in praedicto exercitu. Et debet sequi exercitum durante dimidio Bacone praedicto. Winterslew. Johannes de Roches tenet Manerium de Winterslew in Com. Wiltes per servitium, Esc. 50. E. 3. n. 24. Wiltes. quod quando Dominus Rex moram traxerit apud Clarendon, tunc veniet ad Palatium Regis ibidem, & ibit in Botellariam, extrahet a quocunque vase in dicta Botellaria inventa, ubi eligere voluerit, vinum quantum viderit necessarium pro factura unius Picheri Claretti, quod faciet ad sumptus Regis; Et serviet Regi de Cipho, & habebit vas unde vinum extrahet cum toto residuo vini in eodem vase dimisso, simul & Ciphum unde Rex petaverit Clarettum illud. Norwich. Tempore Regis Edwardi in Civitate Norwici MCCCXX. Burgenses numerabantur, Domesday. quo tempore reddebat xx libras Regi, & Comiti X libras, & praeter haec xx solidos & quatuor What Praebendarios may here signify I cannot well tell, some think Chaplains; others more probably, certain Measures of Provender for Horses, which Measure Debet esse 13 pollicum latitudinis infra circulum, & altitudinis trium pollicum. [Gersuma Reginae is a Fine to the Queen, otherwise called Aurum Reginae. [Asturconem, a little Nag or Palfrey. Sir Henry Spelman interprets it, Equus generosior. Libras blancas is contradistinguished to libras ad numerum, the first was Money paid by weight, the other by tale; The French indeed call Coin of Brass or Coper, silvered over, Monnoye blanche. Praebendarios, & sex Sextarios mellis, & Ursum, & sex Canes ad Ursum: Modo vero reddit lxx libras pensas Regi, & Centum solidos de Gersuma Reginae, & Asturconem & xx libras blancas Comiti & xx solidos de Gersum● ad numerum. Kidwelly Haeredes Mauricii de London, pro hac haereditate tenebantur, Camd. ex vetusta Inquisitione. si Dominus Rex vel Capitalis ejus Justiciarius venerit in partibus de Kidwelly cum exercitu, deberent conducere praedictum exercitum cum vexillis suis & tota gente sua per mediam terram de Neth usque ad Loghar. Eton & Waterhal. 9 Jan. 17. E. 3. Inp. in Com. Buck. Reginaldus de Grey tenet Manerium de Eton in Com. Buckingham de Domino Rege per servitium custodiendi unum Falconem usq. ad volatum, & pro custodia illa, cum Falconem illum duxerit ad Regem, habebit Equitatura Regis signifies here, as I suppose, the King's Horse and Furniture And Flaccum sine capite must doubtless be intended for an Arrow without a head, from the French Fleche, an arrow or shaft. equitaturam Regis cum toto apparatu & indumentis Domini Regis; Et etiam habebit Mensam Domini Regis cum Tressello & Mappa, & habebit omnia Vasa de quibus Dominus Rex servatus fuerit eo die. Et habebit dolium vini immediate postquam Dominus Rex ex ipso vino gustaverit. Idemque Reginaldus tenet Manerium de Waterhall in Com. praedicto de dicto Domino Rege per servitium inveniendi unum hominem super unum equum sine Sella, precii xv d. & unum arcum sine corda, & unum flaccum sine capite cum Dominus Rex mandaverit pro servitio suo dicti Manerii, habendi in exercitu suo, etc. Sir Edward Coke says, On Litt. fo. 86. a. the worst Tenure he has read of, is to hold Lands to be ultor sceleratorum condemnatorum, ut alios suspendio, alios membrorum detruncatione vel aliis modis juxta quantitatem perpetrati sceleris puniat, that is, to be a Hangman or executioner, etc. As in the Tenure of some Bondmen in the Manor of Stonely before mentioned. Customs of Manors. Sutton-Colfeild. Com. Warwic. Antiq. of War▪ sh▪ by Sir W. Dugdale Kt. Inquisitio xij. Juratorum capta ad hunc Visum coram Galfrido de Okenham Senesthallo per Sacramentum Anselmi de Cliftona, etc. Juratorum oneratorum de antiquis Consuetudinibus istius dominii, tam de libertate quam de Bondagio, quales Consuetudines solebant facere & habere, ante Coronationem Domini Henrici Regis, Avi Domini Regis nunc a tempore Athelstani quondam Regis Angliae, etc. Qui dicunt, quod unusquisque liber homo de Sutton solebat terras & tenementa sua vi et effectu Cartae suae originalis tenere, etc. Item illi qui tenuerunt dimidiam virgatam terrae vel nocatam terrae vel Cotagium de Bondagii tenura, solebant esse Bedellum Manerii & decennarium. Et etiam omnes illi qui tenuerunt in Bondagii tenura, solebant vocari Custumarii. Et quotiescunque Dominus ad venandum venerit illi Custumarii solebant * To drive the Deer to a Stand that the Lord may shoot. fugare Wanlassum ad Stabulum, in sugatione ferarum bestiarum secundum quantitatem tenurae suae, ut illi qui tenuerunt integram virgatam terrae, per duos dies, & sic de aliis. Et solebant habere inter eos dimidiam partem feodi Woodwardi de venatione capta. Et solebant esse Custodes * A heath-ground. Bruerae de Colfeild quotlescunque fuerint electi per vicinos ad Curiam, etc. Et etiam si aliqui de hujusmodi Custumariis exierint de Domino, solebant venire in Curiam & sursum reddere in manum Domini tenuram suam Bondagii, cum omnibus equis suis Masculis & pullis masculis, & Carectam ferro ligatam, cum porcis masculis, Panna sua integra, Lana non formata & meliorem ollam suam aeneam, & exire & trahere moram ubicunque voluerit, sine calumpnia Domini, & ipse cum omni sequela sua esse Liber imperpetuum. Et etiam dicunt quod audierunt Antecessores dicere, qoud tempore quo Manerium de Sutton praedicta fuit in manibus Regum Angliae, tota Chasea fuit afforestata, & omnes Canes infra Forestam solebant esse impediati & amputati * Dogs to be lawed on the left Claw of the foot. finistro ortello: Et postquam devenit in manum Comitis Warwici licentiam habere & tenere * Dogs unlawed or with whole feet. Canes opertias ex omni genere Canum & non impediatas Et etiam omnes liberi tenentes solebant summoneri per tres dies ante Curiam & custumarii similiter; Et si aliquod Placitum fuerit inter vicinos, & defendentes negaverint & vadierint Legem versus Querentem, solebant * to make Law, by bringing 3 others to swear besides himself, facere Legem cum tertia manu, & solebant se essoiniare de communi secta Curiae bina vice, & tercia comparere & warantizare Essoinium. Et similiter de Placito tam Querentis quam defendentis, bis de Placito & bis de Lege essoiniari & tertia vice venire, feu habere Considerationem Curiae. Et praedicti Custumarii folebant reparare * To repair the Ford of the Milpond. vadum circa Stagnum Molendini Domini de Sutton in opere terreno. Thurgarton and Horsepoll. The tenants of these Manors in Com. Nottingham held their Lands by these Customs and services. Reg. Priorat. de Thurgarton cited by Dr. Thurroton. in his Antiq. of Nott. shire. Every Native or Villain (which were such as we now call husbandmen) paid each a Cock and a Hen, besides a small Rent in Money, for a Tost and one Bovat of Land, held of the Priory of Thurgarton. These Cocks and Hens were paid the second day in Christmas, and that day every one both Cottagers and Natives, dined in the Hall, and those who did not had a white loaf, and a Flagon of Ale, with one Mess from the Kitchin. Every Villain gave a halfpenny towards cleansing the Mill-damm. The Freeholders were bound to (tribus arruris) three plough days for the Lord with one Blow, which were then valued at 12 d. and likewise 3 days work in Harvest, the first day with one man, the second day with two, and and the third with five workmen and one of themselves in person, and every day to have their refection. The Natives were likewise bound to give three Plowdays each, and every plough was to be allowed four boon-loaves, and to harrow three days, and every harrower was allowed a brown loaf and two herrings a day. Likewise all the Natives and Cotagers were to reap every other day in harvest, the first day every two were to have one brown loaf and two Toillects, the second day, two brown loaves and one Toillect, and afterwards every two men to have every day three brown loaves. And on the day of the great Bidrepe, which was called the Prior's Boon, every Native was to find three Workmen and Cottager one. Every of the said Natives were to make carriage from the foreign Granges thrice a year, each with one Horse, and every time to have a Miche or white loaf; And all the Reapers in Harvest which were called Hallewimen were to eat in the Hall one day in Christmas, or afterwards at the discretion of the Celerer. Likewise every Naif or she Villain that took a husband or committed fornication paid Marchet, for redemption of her blood, 5 s. 4 d. and the Daughter of a Cottager paid but half a Marchet. And every Native paid for Paunage of every▪ Swine in the Park 3 d. etc. East and West Enborne. The Manors of East and West Enborne in Com. Berks have this Custom: Law Dict. Verbo, Free-Bench. That if a Copyhold tenant die, the Widow shall have her Free-Bench in all his Copyhold Lands dum sola & casta fuerit; but if she commit Incontinency, she forfeits her Widow's estate, yet after this if she come into the next Court held for the Manor, riding backward on a black Ram, with his tail in her hand, and say the words following, the Steward is bound by the Custom to readmit her to her Free-Bench. Here I am, riding upon a black Ram, Like a Whore as I am; And for my Crincum Crancum, Have lost my Bincum bancum; And for my Tails game, Am brought to this worldly shame. Therefore, good Mr. Steward let me have my Lands again. The like Custom is in the Manor of Tor in Devonshire, and elsewhere in the West. Brug, vel Burg. Liber ruber Castri Episcopi. Sciendum est, quod quando aliquis Customarius Manerii de Burg in Comitatu Salop. moritur, Episcopus habebit melius Averium, omnes porcos, Apes, Baconem integrum, Pullum masculum, Pannum integrum, Ollam aeneam, * Tenella (or Tonella) Cervisiae is a little Tun Tub or Roundlet of Ale. Lierwyte or Lairwyte (from the Saxon lagan, concubere, and pi●e, mulcta) signifies a Fine or mulct by the custom of some Manors imposed upon offenders in Adultery or Fornication, and due to the Lord of the Manor. Tenellam Cervisiae, si sit plenam. Et quando maritabit filiam extra feodum, dabit tres solidos, dabit etiam pro qualibet Lierwyte ij s. Durham Bishopric. De decimis quae de vaccis proveniunt s●atuendum duximus, Constitut Rob. Dunelm. Epi. An. 1276. quod ubicunque fuerit receptaculum earum, licet in vicinis Parochiis This Horn with Horn is when Horned Beasts of several adjoining Parishes do promiscuously intercommon together, per cause de Vicinage Horn with Horn, secundum Anglicam linguam, pascua quaerant, illa remaneat tota decima ubi fuerit domicillium & remanentia. Hecham. Custumar. Prior. Lewensis. In Soca de Hecham in Comitatu Norfolk sunt 24 The learned Spelman says, These Lancetae were Agricolae quaedam, sed ignotae speciei. Spelm. Gloss. Besca, a Spade or spital from the French Bescher to dig or delve. Flagellum, a Flayle. Cum corredio ad nonam signifies, meat and drink or Dinner at Noon. Lancetae; Consuetudo eorum est; ut unusquisque eorum debet operaria Sancto Michaele usque ad Autumpnum unaquaque hebdomada per unam diem, sive cum furca, sive cum Besca vel Flagello ad libitum Domini cum Corredio ad nonam, & uno pane ad vesperam, vel si eis remittitur hoc opus, quisque eorum dabit pro hoc opere sex denarios. Hartlepool. Robertus de Brus habet apud Hartlepool in Com. Dunelm. Rot, Parl. 21 E▪ 1. Portum maris, & capit ibi * Keelage, whereby he had by Custom what is here expressed for the Keel of every Ship, that came into his Seaport with a Boat. Killagium, scil. de qualibet Navi cum Batello, applicante ibi, octo denarios, & de qualibet Navi sine Batello, quatuor denarios. Llantrissim Raaf ap Howel ap Philip Praepositus de Llantrissin in Com. Glamorgan amerciatus fuit pro eo quod habuit in manu sua coram Justiciariis hic Virgam nigram & inhonestam, In Sessione Itin. de Kerdiff. 7 H. 6. ubi habere debuisset Virgam albam & honestam de certa longitudine, prout decet. Rochfort. On Kingshill at Rochfort in the County of Essex, Ex Rot. Curiae Ib. on every Wednesday morning next after Michaelmas day at Cocks crowing, there is by ancient Custom a Court held by the Lord of the Honour of Raleigh, which is vulgarly called the Lawless Court. The Steward and Suitors whisper to each other, and have no Candles, nor any Pen and Ink, but supply that office with a Coal; And he that owes suit or service thereto and appears not, forfeits to the Lord double his Rent every hour he is absent. The Court is called Lawless, because held at an unlawful or lawless hour, on quia dicta sine lege; The title of it in the Court Rolls runs thus, to this day. Kingshill in Rochfort. ff. Curia de Domino Rege Dicta sine Lege, Tenta est ibidem Per ejusdem consuetudinem; Ante ortum solis, Luceat nisi Polus, Nil scribit nisi Colis. Toties voluerit, Gallus ut cantaverit; Per cujus solum sonitum Curia est summonita, Clamat clam pro Rege, In Curia sine Lege, Et nisi cito venerint Citius paenituerint; Et nisi clam accedant Curia non attendat; Qui venerit cum lumine Errat inregimine, Et dum sunt sine lumine, Capti sunt in Crimine; Curia sine cura, Jurati de injuria, Tenta ibidem die Mercurii (ante diem) proximi post Festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli, Anno Regni Regis, etc. This Lawless Court is imperfectly mentioned by Camden in his description of Essex; Camd. Brit. fo. 441. who says this servile attendance was imposed on the Tenants of that Manor, for conspiring, at the like unseasonable time, to raise a Commotion. Kidlington. At Kidlington in Oxford-shire the Custom is, That on monday after Whitsun week, Ex relation● habitantium. there is a fat live Lamb provided, and the Maids of the Town, having their thumbs tied behind them run after it, and she that with her mouth takes and holds the Lamb, is declared Lady of the Lamb, which being dressed with the skin hanging on, is carried on a long Pole before the Lady and her Companions to the Green, attended with Music and a Morisco Dance of Men, and another of Women, where the rest of the day is spent in dancing, mirth and merry glee. The next day the Lamb is part baked, boiled and roast, for the Lady's feast, where she sits majestically at the upper end of the Table and her Companions with her, with music and other attendants, which ends the solemnity▪ Kilmersdon. At Kilmersdon in Somerset-shire by the Custom of the Manor, MS. pener Sam. R●per Arm. the Wife has Widow's Estate, which she loseth if she marrys, or is found incontinent: but to redeem this last▪ if she come into the next Court, riding astride upon a Ram, and in open Court do say, to the Lord, if he be present, or to his Steward, these words. For mine Arses fault take I this pain, Therefore, my Lord, give me my Land again, She is by the Custom to be restored to it without further Fine, doing this Penance. Burgus de Wallingford. Juratores dicunt super Sacramentum suum, quod nullus de Natione istius Burgi, Pla. apud. Rading 45. H. 3. Rot 29. pro quocunque facto quod fecerit, debet suspendi: Nam secundum consuetudinem istius Burgi, debet Oyels & Testiculis privari, & tali libertate usi sunt a tempore, quo non extat memoria. South-Malling. Tenentes de South-Malling in Com. Cantiae debent, Ex Vet. Consuetud. in Archivis Archiep. Cant. de Consuetudine inter eos, * To make a Scotale, is to make a Collection of a sum of Money to be spent in Ale. And in like sence does Manwood interpret it in his Forest-Laws. Facere Scotalium de sexdecim denariis & ob. Ita quod de singulis sex denariis detur unum denarium & ob. ad potandum cum Bedello Domini Archiepiscopi super praedictum Feodum. Mountgomery. Quia per Objurgatrices & Meretrices multa mala in villa oriuntur, MS. LL. liberi Burgi de Mountgomery. viz. Lites, pugnae, diffamationes, etc. ac aliae multae inquietationes per earum hutesias & clamores. Igitur utimur de eisdem, quod cum captae fuerint, habeant Judicium de la This Gogingstool is the same which in our Law-Books is written Cuckingstool and Cokestool; anciently Tumbril or Trebuchet, by Bracton Tymborella: The Saxons, (for it is of great antiquity) called it a Scealfing-stole, i. Cathedra, in qua rixosae mulieres sedentes, aquis demergebantur. Gogingstoole, & ibi stabunt nudis pedibus & suis crinibus pendentibus & dispersis, tanto tempore ut aspici possint ab omnibus per viam transeuntibus; secundum voluntatem Balivorum nostrorum Capitalium. East-Rudham. De Inpeny & Outpeny, Reg. Priorat. de Cokesford. Consuetudo talis est in Villa de East-Rudham in Com. Norf. de omnibus terris quae infra Burgagium tenentur, viz. Quod ipse qui Vendiderit vel dederit dictam tenuram alicui, dabit pro exitu suo de eadem tenura, unum denarium, & simile pro ingressu alterius. Et quod Balivus Domini erit ad deliberationem cujuslibet feisinae deliberandae. Et si praedicti Denarii aretro fuerint, Balivus Domini distringet pro eisdem Denariis in eadem tenura. Kinderton. Thomas Venables clamat, Pla. in Itin. apud Cestriam. 14. H. 7. quod si aliquis tenentium sive residentium infra Dominium sive Manerium de Kinderton in Com. Cestriae feloniam fecerit, & corpus ejus per ipsum Thomam super factum illud captum, & convictus fuerit, habere Pelf or Pelfre appears here to signify such a quantity of goods and Chattels as are here expressed, which to this day in common speech we call worldly Pelf. What Attaniatos may signify I am to learn. Pelfram, viz, omnia bona & catalla hujusmodi seisire; Et ea quae domino Comiti pertinent, ad Castrum Cestriae praesentare, & habere omnia inventa domestica, & de omni genere boum, vaccarum, boviculorum, juvencarum, porcorum, bidentium, unum, viz. melius. Et si de aliquo genere non habuerit nisi unum, clamat habere illud unum, cum aliis minutis animalibus, ut gallis, gallinis, ancis & hujusmodi, & omnes pannos talliatos & attaniatos, & omnes carnes attainiatas, Et totum brasium infra unum Quarterium and all the Malt except one quarter. & totum brasium infra unum quarterium, & De quolibet Tasso bladi clamat habere Groundstal integrum, of every mow of Corn be claimed to have as much as would cover the ground or floor where the Corn lay. de quolibet Tasso bladi clamat habere Groundstal integrum cujuscunque tassi, & totum plumbum extra fornacem, & omnia vasa lignea, omnes mappas, manutergia, & omnia ad lectum pertinentia, linea & lanea, & omnes Carrectas ferro non ligatas & omnes Carruca cum tota apparura, is a Blow with all its furniture. Carrucas cum tota apparura, etc. Coleshill. They have an ancient Custom at Coleshill in the County of Warwick, that if the youngmen of the Town can catch a Hare, and bring it to the Parson of the Parish before ten of the clock on Easter-monday, the Parson is bound to give them a Calf's head and a hundred of Eggs for their Breakfast, and a groat in money. Fiskerton and Moreton. The Custom was here, Reg. Pr●rat. de Thurgarton. for the Natives and Cottagers to Blow and Harrow for the Lord, and to work one Boon-day for him every week in Harvest, when every two workmen had three Boon-loaves with Companage allowed them. Each Customary Tenant in Fiskerton and Moreton (in Com. Not.) one day in the year found a man to cleanse the Dam of Fiskerton Mill. Si quis Braciatrix braciaverit Cerevisiam, if any Alewife brewed Ale to sell, she was bound to satisfy the Lord for Tolsester. If any Native or Cottager sold a Male Youngling after it was weaned, he paid 4 d. to the Lord as a Fine; Or killed a Swine above a year old he paid the Lord one Penny, which was called Thistletac. Every she Native that married or committed Fornication, paid pro redemptione sanguinis, 5 s. 4 d. to the Lord which was in lieu of marcheta mulierum, which whether from Mark a Horse in the old Gallique (implying the obscene signification of equitare) as Mr. Selden thinks, or from Marca, the sum of money, by which it was afterwards commonly redeemed, I cannot determine. Stanlake. At Stanlake in the County of Oxford the Minister of the Parish in his Procession in Rogation week, Nat. Hist. of Ox. sh. fo. 203. reads a Gospel at a Barrels head in the Cellar of the Chequer Inn in that Town, where some say there was formerly an Hermitage: Others, that there was anciently a Cross, at which they read a Gospel in former times, over which now the House and particularly the Cellar being built, they are forced to continue the Custom in manner as above. Burford. About the year 750, Ibid. fo. 348. a Battle was fought near Burford in Oxford-shire, perhaps on the place still called Battle-Edge, west of the Town towards Vpton, between Cuthred or Cuthbert a Tributary King of the West Saxons, and Ethelbald King of Mercia, whose insupportable Exactions the former King not being able to endure, he came into the Field against Ethelbald, met and overthrew him there, winning his Banner whereon was depicted a Golden Dragon, in memory of which Victory, the Custom (yet within memory) of making a Dragon yearly and carrying it up and down the Town in great jollity on Midsummer Eve, to which they added the Picture of a Giant, was in all likelihood first instituted. Ensham. It has been the Custom at Ensham in Oxfordshire, for the Towns people on Whit-Monday, Nat. Hist. of Ox. sh. to cut down and bring away (wherever the Churchwardens pleased to mark it out, by giving the first Chop) as much timber as could be drawn by men's hands into the Abby-yard, whence if they could draw it out again, notwithstanding all the impediments could be given by the servants of the Abbey, and since that by the Family of the Lord, it was then their own, and went in part at least to the reparation of their Church: And by this Custom, as some will have it, they hold both their Lammas and Michaelmas Common. Bosbury. Liber niger Heref. fo. 158. W.M. Tenet novem acras terrae Custumariae in Bosbury in Com. Heref. & quoddam Molendinum aquaticum ad voluntatem Domini, & debet quasdam Consuetudines, viz. Taken & Toll & I suppose this Faldfey might signify a Fee or Rent paid by the Tenant to his Lord, for leave to Fold his Sheep on his own ground. And by sanguinem suum emere, was meant, that the Tenant being a Bondman, should buy out his Villainous blood, and make himself a Freeman. Faldfey, & sanguinem suum emere. Lodebrook. Ex. Antiq. Rentali ejusd. Man. In the Manor of Lodebrook in the County of Warwic, whereof the Catesbyes were heretofore Lords, each Tenant paid I know not what this Swarf-money may signify, unless it were miswritten for Warth-money, or Ward-money. Swarf-money yearly, which was one penny halfpenny; It must be paid (says the Rental) before the rising of the Sun, the party must go thrice about the Cross, and say, The Swarf-Money, and then take witness, and lay it in the hole; And when he hath so done, he must look well that his witness do not deceive him, for if it be not paid, he giveth a great forfeiture, thirty shillings and a white Bull. Chester. In the time of King John, Sir Pet. L●yc. Hist. Antiquities of Chesshire. Randle the third surnamed Blundevil Earl of Chester, having many Conflicts with the Welsh was at last distressed by them and forced to retreat to the Castle of Rothelent in Flint shire, where they besieged him, who presently sent to his Constable of Chester, Roger Lacie, surnamed Hell for his fiery spirit, that he would come with all speed and bring what forces he could for his relief. Roger having gathered a tumultuous rout of Fiddlers Players, Cobblers and other debauched persons both men and Women out of the City of Chester (for 'twas then the Fair there) marched immediately with them towards the besieged Earl. The Welsh, perceiving a great multitude coming, raised the siege and fled. The Earl, coming back with his Constable to Chester, gave him power over all the Fiddlers and Shoemakers of Chester in reward and memory of this service. The Constable retained to himself and his heirs the authority and donation of the Shoemakers, but John his Son conferred the Authority over the Lechers and Whores on his Steward, which then was Dutton of Dutton, by this his deed. Sciant praesentes & futuri, quod ego Johannes Constabularius Cestriae, dedi & concessi & hac praesenti Carta confirmavi Hugoni de Dutton & haeredibus suis Magistratum omnium Leccatorum & Meretricum totius Cestershiriae, sicut liberius illum magistratum teneo de Comite. Salvo jure meo mihi & heredibus meis. Hiis testibus— Though this original Grant makes no mention of giving Rule over Fiddlers and Minstrels, yet ancient Custom has now reduced it only to the Minstrelsey; for probably the Rout which the Constable brought to the Rescue of the Earl, were debauched persons drinking with their Sweethearts in the Fair, the Fiddlers that attended them and such loose persons as he could get. Anno 14- Hen 7. a Quo Waranto was brought against Laurence Dutton of Dutton Esquire, Inter Placita apud cestriam. 14 H. 7. to show why he claimed all the Minstrels of Cheshire and the City of Chester, to appear before him at Chester yearly on the Feast of Saint John Baptist, and to give him at the said Feast quatuor Lagenas Vini & unam Lanceam. i. Four Flagons of wine and a Lance, and also every Minstrel then to pay him four pence halfpenny, and why he claimed from every Whore in Chesshire and the City of Chester (Officium suum exercente) four pence yearly at the said feast, etc. Whereunto he pleaded prescription. The heirs of this Hugh de Dutton enjoy the same power and Authority over the Minstrelsy of Cheshire even to this day, and keep a Court every year upon the Feast of Saint John Baptist at Chester, being the Fair day, where all the Minstrels of the County and City do attend and play before the Lord of Dutton upon their several Instruments: He or his Deputy then riding through the City, thus attended to the Church of St. John, many Gentlemen of the County accompanying him, and one walking before him in a Surcoat of his Arms, depicted upon Taffeta; And after Divine Service ended holds his Court in the City, where he or his Steward renews the old Licences granted to the Minstrels, and gives such new ones as he thinks fit, under the Hand and Seal of himself or his Steward, none presuming to exercise that faculty there without it. But now this Dominion or privilege is by a Daughter and heir of Thomas Dutton devolved to the Lord Gerard of Gerard's Bromley in Staffordshhire. And whereas by the Statute of 39 Eliz▪ Fiddler are declared to be Rogues, Stat. 39 Eliz. cap. 4. yet by a special Proviso therein those in Chesshire, Licenced by Dutton of Dutton, are exempted from that infamous Title, in respect of this his ancient Custom and privilege. Esseburn. Juratores dicunt quod in principio quando Mineratores veniunt in Campum Mineria quaerentes inventa minera▪ Esc. de anno 16 E. 1. N. 34. Derby venient ad Ballivum qui dicitur Berghmanster, & petent ab eo duas Metas, si sit in novo Campo, & habebunt unam, scil. pro inventione, & aliam de jure Mineratorum, & unaquaeque meta continet quatuor Perticatas, & ad foveam suam septem pedes, & unaquaeque Perticata erit de 24 pedibus, etc. dicunt etiam quod Placita del Bergmote debent teneri de tribus septimanis in tres septimanas super minerias in Pecco, etc. Berk-holt. Homines de Berkholt in Com. Suffolk dicunt quod tempore Regis Henrici, Pla. coram Rege Mich. 37 H. 3. rot. 4. Avi Domini Regis nunc solebant habere talem Consuetudinem; Quod quando maritare volebant filias suas, solebant dare (Domino) pro filiabus suis maritandis duas Here those Oars (which was a Saxon Coin) are declared to be in value of our money 16▪ d. a piece, but after, by the Variation of the Standard, they valued 20 d. a piece. And this Fine for the tenants▪ marrying their Daughters, was without doubt in lieu of the Merchera Mulierum, or first night's lodging with the Bride, which the Lord anciently claimed in some Manors. Oras, quae valent xxxij. Denarios. Warham. By the Custom of Warham in the County of Dorset, Pla. de Jur. & Assi. de Anno. 16. E 1. both Males and Females have a right equally in the partition of Lands and Tenements; Tenementa in Warham sunt partibilia inter Masculos & Faeminas, says the Record. And is so unusual a Custom, that perhaps it may be hard to find the like elsewhere in England. Honington. Inq. per H. Nott. The Tenants of the Manor of Honington in the County of Warwic were by ancient Custom to perform several services to the Lord every other day from Midsummer to Michaelmas. To pay six shillings, and eight pence yearly for maintenance of the Lords Corn-Cart, and none of them to sell his Horse-Colt without licence from the Lord. Hampton. Lib. niger Heref. Tenentes de Hampton, episcopi in Com. Hereford debent quaerere annuatim sex Summas virgarum apud Boscum de Haya juxta Hereford, & apportare ad Hereford ad * These Tenants were bound to get yearly six Horseloads of rods or Wattles in the Hay-Wood, and to bring them to Hereford for the making of Hurdles to pen sheep in at the Fair. For Cleta I suppose is made a latin word from the French word Clay, which signifies a hurdle or wattled Gate. Cletas Nundinarum faciendas, quando fuerint requisiti, & pro qualibet summa dictarum virgarum allocabitur eis obolum de Nundinis. Sufflete. Duae mulieres in villam de Sufflete in Comitatu quae furatae fuerunt multos pannos in villa de Croindone, E monumentis Roffenfis Ecclesiae. sub anno 1200. & secuti sunt eas homines ejusdem Villae de Croindone, quorum pannos furtive asportaverunt usque in villam de Sufflete, & ibi captae fuerunt & incarceratae, & habuerunt judicium suum in Curia de Sufflete, ad portandum * This Judgement to carry hot Iron, to try the guilt or innocency of the criminal, was according to the Ordalian Law, not abolished here in England till King Henry the thirds time. calidum ferrum, quarum una fuit valua & altera Damnata, unde submersa fuit in Bikepole (i. in Stagno quod vocatur Bike.) Et hoc totum contigit tempore Gilberti Domini Episcopi Roffensis, & in quolibet Judicio fuerunt Coronarii Domini Regis. Et Paulus de Stanes fuit tunc * Chacherellus Hundredi, is thought by the learned Spelman, to signify the Steward of the Hundred, from the French Cachereau i. Chartularium Rot. Pat. 3. H. 3. m. 5. Cacherellus de Hundredo de Acstan. Et per illud tempus Robertus de Hecham Monachus fuit Custos Manerii de Sufflete, & ad mulieres judicandas fuit Dominus Henricus de Cobham & alii plures discreti homines de Patria. Clun. Antiq. Supervis. Honorii de Clun. It is the Custom of some Manors within the Honour of Clun in Com. Salop, that at the entrance of every new Lord of that Honour, the Tenants shall pay him a certain sum of Money called Mise-Money▪ In consideration whereof they claim to be acquit of all Fines and amerciaments, which are Recorded at that time in the Court Rolls and not levied, which they call White Books. Dunmow. The Custom of the Priory of Dunmow in the County of Essex was such, Reg. Priorat. it. de Dunmow. That if any person from any part of England came thither, and humbly kneeled on two stones at the Church-door (which are yet to be seen) and solemnly took the ensuing Oath before the Prior and Convent, he might demand of them a Gammon or Flitch of Bacon, You shall swear by the Custom of our Confession, That you never made any Nuptial transgression, Since you were married to your wife, By household brawls, or contentious strife; Or otherwise in bed or at board Offended each other in deed or in word, Or since the Parish Clerk said Amen Wished yourselves unmarried again; Or in a twelve month and a day Repent not in thought any way; But continued true and in desire, As when you joined hands in holy Quire. If to these conditions, without all fear, Of your own accord you will freely swear, A Gammon of Bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave; For this is our custom at Dunmow well known, Though the sport be ours, the Bacon's your own. It appeareth in an old Register of this Priory, That Richard Wright of Badesnorth in Norfolk, in the 23 of Henry the sixth, when John Canon was Prior, that Steven Samuel of Little Easton in Essex 7ᵒ Edward 4. when Roger Rulcot was Prior▪ And that Thomas Lee of Coxal in Essex 2 Hen. 8. when John Taylor was Prior, demanded their Bacon, upon the terms abovesaid, and received it accordingly. Priory of Rochester. Memorandum quod primo die adventus Domini Regis ad Roffensem debent Spigurnelli habere quatuor panes de pane Armigerorum, Liber de Consuetud. Eccl. Roff. fact. 1314. & quatuor pane de panes Garcionum. Item debent habere quatuor Galones Cervisiae Conventualis, & quatuor Galones Cervisiae communis. Item de Coquina quatuor fercula, quibus Conventus servitur, & quatuor fercula de communi, scil. 24 haleces & 24 ova. Item ad * For Provender Praebendam septem parvos Bussellos. Item debent habere octo obolos ad emendum faenum; Et hoc provisum & Statutum est per Dominum Regem Henricum filium Regis Johannis & per Hubertum de Burgo & G. de Craucumbe. Pro ista autem provisione & concessione, debet Prior & Conventus Roffensis, ubicunque Dominus Rex fuerit, quieti esse procera ad sigillum. Item si Dominus Rex fecerit moram in Roffense per duos dies vel amplius non habebunt These Spigurnelli were Sealer's of the King's Writs; for King Henry the third appointed Geofry de Spigurnel into that Office, and perhaps the first in it; or for some other eminency in him, it was, that these Officers were afterwards for some time called Spigurnels. Spigurnelli de praedictis, sed si exierit & redierit, habebunt sicut in primo adventu, ut praedictum est. Battle-Abby. Tenentes debent falcare, Castumar. de Bello in Com. Sussex. spergere, vertere, cumulare, cariare in Manerium Domini, & Ad tassum furcare. i. to pitch to the Mongh. ad Tassum furcare unam acram prati de prato Domini. Et invenient etiam per totam Autumpnum unum hominem ad tassandum blada Domini in dicto Manerio, Dum blada Domini ibidem tassanda fuerint. Bishops-Castle. Omnes Burgenses de Bishops-Castle in Com. Salop. Liber niger Heref. debent invenire unum hominem ter per annum ad * For driving Deer to a stand in order to shooting them, or into Buckstalls or Deer-Hays for taking them. stabliamentum pro venatione capienda, quando Episcopus voluerit. Vrchenfeild. Cum Exercitus Regis in hostem pergat, homines de Vrchenfeild in Com. Hereford, doomsday. Rot. de Quo War. 20 E. 6. 1. Heref. per Consuetudinem faciunt Avantward, & in reversione le rearward. Jurati Hundredorum de Irchenfeild, Webtre, & Greytre dicunt, quod Botholin, qui tenuit villam de Comboglin, solebat facere sectam ad Hundredum praedictum, & esse unus This Domesman is one of those that sit in the Court in Judicature with the Steward, for Dome in Saxon signifies Judgements; And there are nine of these Domesmen continued to this day in Irchenfeild, and were so from a long and unknown beginning, of which see Tailor's History of Gavelkind. Domesman de eodem Hundredo. Hereford-City. Quando Rex venatu instabat, Domesday. tit. Heref. de unaqnaque Domo per Consuetudinem ibat unus homo ad Stabilitionem in sylva is the same with Stabliamentum pro Venatione, expounded above. Masuras, dwelling houses Inewardos, I suppose may signify such as guarded the King's person. Pecunia is here used for Cattle and goods; for of old Pecunia pro pecude often occurs. see Law Dictionary. stabilitionem in sylva; alii homines non habentes integras Masuras inveniebunt Inewardos ad Aulam, quando Rex erat in Civitate, Burgensis cum Caballo serviens, cum moriebatur, habebat Rex equum & arma ejus; de eo qui equum non habebat, si moreretur, habebat Rex aut de cem solidos autterram suam cum domibus. Si qui mortepraeventus nondevisisset quae sua erant, Rex ha bebit omnem ejus Pecuniam. etc. Chakendon. Omnes Servi de Chakendon in Com. Oxon. pro servitio Falcationis, Inq. temp. E. 1. de Hundr. de Langtre, in Com. Ox. habebunt de Domino, unum Arietem, precii octo Denariorum, ad minus, & quilibet Falcans habebit unum panem precii oboli. Et hi conjunctim habebunt unam Carectatam bosci & unum Caseum precii quatuor Denariorum, & unum batinum sab. Et quaelibet Virgata terrae habebit sex Toddas herbae, & dimidia Virgata terrae tres Toddas. Tutbury. Henricus sextus dei gratia Rex Angliae & Franciae & Dominus Hiberniae, Ex Regist. de Tutbury. omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint salutem. Inspeximus Literas patentes Johannis nuper Regis Castellae & Legionis ducis Lancastriae proavi nostri factas in haec verba,— Johan par le grace de dieu Roy de Castille & de Leon Duke de Lancastre a touts ceux qui cestes nos Letres verront ou orront saluz. Saches nous avoir ordenoz constitut & assignez nostre bien ame— le Roy des Ministraulx deins nostre Honour de Tuttebury quore est, ou qui pur le temps serra, pur prendre & arrester touts les Ministralx deins mesme nostre Honeur & Franchise, quenx refusont de fair lour services & ministralcie as eux appurtenants a fair de ancient temps a Tuttebury suisdit annualment les jours del Assumption de nostre dame. Donants & grantants au dit Roy de Ministralx pur le temps esteant plien poyer & mandement de les fair resonablement justifier & constrener de fair lour services & Ministralcies en manere come appeint, & come illonques ad este use & de ancient temps accustom. Et en festimoignianco de quel chose nous avous fait fair cestes' noz Letres patents, done souz nostre privy Seal a nostre Chastel de Tuttebury le xxij. jour de August le an de regne nostre tres dulce le Roy Richard, quart. Nos autem Literas praedictas ad requisitionem dilecti nobis in Christo Thomae Gedney, Prioris de Tuttebury duximus exemplificandas per presents. In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Datum sub sigillo nostri ducatus Lancastr. apud Palatium nostrum de Westm. 22 die Febr. Anno regni nostri vicesimo primo. * 1 H. 6. Item est ibidem quaedam consuetudo quod Histriones venientes ad Matutinas in festo Assumptionis beatae Mariae habebunt unam taurum de Priore de Tuttebury si ipsum capere possunt citra aquam Dove propinquiorem Tuttebury, vel Prior dabit eye xl d. pro qua quidem Consuetudine dabuntur domino ad dictum Festum annuatim xx d. Out of the Coucher-Booke of the Honour of Tutburye, Cap. de Libertatibus. The Earl of Devonshire is now Prior. ab. H. 8. The Prior of Tutburye shall have yearly, one our Lady they the Assumption, a Bukke delivered him of seyssone by the WoodMaster and Kepers of Nedewoode: and the Woodmaster and Kepers of Needwoode: shalt every year meet at a Lodgge in Nedewoode called Birkeley Lodgge by one of the Cloak at afternone one saint Laurence day; at which day and place a Woodmoote shall be kept, and every Keeper making deffalte shall lose xij d. to the King and there the Woodmaster and Kepers shall choose 2 of the Kepers yearly as itt cometh to there turn to be Stewards for to prepare the dinner at Tutburye Castell one our Lady they the Assumption for the Woodmaster & Kepers and Officers within the Chase, and there they shall appoint in likewise where the Bukke shall be killed for the Prior against the said Lady day; and also where the Bukke shall be killed for the Kepers' dinner against the same day; and on the said feast of Assumption the Woodmaster or his Lyvetenant and the Kepers and their Deputies shall be at Tutburye and every man one Horsebake and so ride in order two and two together from the yate called the Lydeat going into the come field unto the high Cross in the Town; and the Keeper in whose office the saint mary Bukke was killed shall beire the Bukks heed garnished about with a rye of pease; & the Bukks heed must be * Cabossed. Ears. Single or tail. Brow-antler s. cabaged with the hole face and years being one the Sengill of the Bukke with two pieces of fat one either side of the Sengill must be fastened upon the brooankelers of the same heed, and every keeper must have a green boghe in his hand: and every keeper that is absent that they being noder sikke nor in the King's service shall lose xij d. and so the kepers shall rid two and two together till they come to the said Cross in the Town; and all the Minstrels shall go afore them one foot two and two together; and the Woodmaster or in his absence his Lyvetenant shall ride hindermast after all the kepers; and at the said Cross in the Town the formast keeper shall blow a Seek, and all the other kepers shall answer him in blowing the same, and when they come to the cornel against the You hall the formast keeper shall blow a Recheate and all the other kepers shall answer he in blowing of the same; and so they shall ride still till they come into the Churchyorde and then light and go into the Church in like arrey, and all the Minstrels shall play one their Instruments during the offering time, and the woodmaster or in his absence his Lieutenant shall offer up the Bukks head maid in silver, and every keeper shall offer a penny, and as soon as the Bukks head is offered uppe all the kepers shall blow a Morte three times: and then all the kepers goo into a Chapel and shall there have one of the Monks ready to say them Mass: and when Mass is done: all the kepers goo in like arreye uppe to the Castle to dinner: and when dinner is done the Stewards go to the Prior of Tutburye, and he shall give them yearly xxx s. towards the charges of their dinner: and if the dinner come to more the kepers shall beire it amongst them: and one the morrow after the Assumption there is a Court kept of the Minstrels, at which Court the Woodmaster or his Lyvetenant shall be: and shall oversee that every Minstrel dwelling within the Honour and making default shall be amercyed; which amercement the King of the Minstrels shall have; and after the Court done the Prior shall deliver the Minstrels a Bull or xviij s. of money: and shall turn he lose amongst them, and if he escape from them over Dove river the Bull is the Priours own again: and if the Minstrels can take the Bull o'er he get over Dove then the Bull is their own. The Modern Usage. Upon the morrow after the Assumption of the blessed Virgin, being the 26th. of August, The present Steward is the Duke of Ormond, & Mr. Edw. Foden his deputy. The Earl of Devon. is Prior. all the Musicians within the Honour are to repair to the Bailiffs House in Tutbury, where the Steward of the Court (who is usually a noble man) and the Woodmaster or his Lieutenant are to meet them, from whence they go to the Church in this order, I two wind Musicians as Trumpets or long Pipes, than four string Musicians, two and two, all playing: then the Steward of the Court or his deputy and the Bailiff of the Manor, deputed by the Earl of Devon. the King of Music going between them: After whom the four Stewards of Music, each with a white Wand in his hand, and the rest of the company follow in order. At the Church the Vicar of Tutbury for the time being reads the service of the day, for which every Musician pays him a penny; Then all go from the Church to the Castle in manner as before, Where the Steward takes his place upon the Bench in Court, assisted with the Bailiff and Woodmaster, the King of Music sitting between them, to see that every minstrel within the Honour, being called and making default, be presented and amerced by the Jury, which Amercements are collected by the Stewards of Music, who account the one Moiety to his Majesty's Auditor, the other they retain themselves for their pains in collecting them. When the King, Steward and the rest are so fate, the Steward commands an Oyez to be made three times by one of the Musicians, as Crier of the Court, that all Minstrels within the Honour, residing in the Counties of Stafford, Derby, Nottingham Leicester or Warwick, do appear to do their suit and service, on such pain and peril as the Court shall inflict for their default, Essoynes nevertheless are allowed, in excuse of defaulters, upon good reason showed. After which all the said Minstrels are called by a Sute-roll, as Suitors are in a Court Leet, And then two Juries are empanelled of the chief Minstrels, by the Stewards of Music, each Jury consisting of 12, which are returned into the Court, where the Steward swears them; The form of their oath is the same which is given in a Court-Leet, only in a Leet the Jury swear to keep the King's Counsel, their fellows and their own, in this to keep the King of Music's Counsel, their fellows and their own. The better to inform the Jurors of their duty the Steward gives them a charge, in commendation of the ancient Science of Music, showing what admirable effects it has produced, what Kings and Noble persons have been Professors of it, what manner of persons the Professors ought to be, and to admonish them to choose skilful and good men to be Officers for the year ensuing. The Officers chosen by the Jurjes are one King and three Stewards of Music, the fourth is chosen by the Steward of the Court, the King is chosen one year out of the Minstrels of Stafford shire, and the next year out of those of Derby shire. The Steward of the Court issues out Warrants to the Stewards of Music in their several districts, by virtue whereof they are to distrain and levy in any City, Town Corporate or other place within the Honour, all such fines and Amerciaments as are imposed by the Juries on any Minstrel for offences committed against the dignity and honour of the profession; The one Moiety of which Fines the Steward's account for at the next Audit, the other they retain themselves. As soon as the Charge is given an Oyez is made, with a Proclamation, that if any person can inform the Court of any offence committed by any Minstrel within the said Honour, since the last Court, which is against the honour of his profession, let them come forth and they shall be heard. Then the Juries withdraw to consider of the points of the Charge, and the old Stewards of Music bring into the Court a Treat of Wine, Ale and Cakes, and at the same time some Minstrels are appointed to entertain the Company in Court with some merry Airs. After which the Juries present one to be King for the year ensuing, who takes his oath to keep up all the dignities of that Noble Science etc. Then the old King ariseth from his place, resigning it and his white Wand to the new King, to whom he also drinks a glass of wine & bids him joy of his honour; And the old Stewards do the like to the new, which done the Court adjourns to a certain hour after noon, and all return back in the same order they came to the Castle, to a place where the old King, at his own cost, prepares a dinner for the new King, Steward of the Court, Bailiff, Stewards of music and the Jurymen. After dinner all the Minstrels repair to the Priory Gate in Tutbury; without any manner of weapons, attending the turning out of the Bull, which the Bailiff of the Manor is obliged to provide, and is there to have the tips of his horns sawed off, his ears and tail cut off, his body smeared all over with Soap, and his nose blown full of beaten Pepper. Then the Steward causes Proclamation to be made, That all manner of persons, except Minstrels, shall give way to the Bull, and not come within forty foot of him at their own peril, nor hinder the Minstrels in their pursuit of him. After which proclamation the Prior's Bailiff turns out the Bull among the Minstrels, and if any of them can cut off a piece of his Skin before he runs into Derby shire, than he is the King of Music's Bull: But if the Bull get into Derby shire sound and uncut, he is the Lord Priors again. If the Bull be taken and a piece of him cut off, than he is brought to the Bailiffs house and there collered and roped, and so brought to the bullring in the highstreet in Tutbury, and there baited with Dogs, the first course in honour of the King of Music, tha second in honour of the Prior, the third for the Town, and if more, for divertisement of the spectators; and after he is baited, the King may dispose of him as he pleases. This usage is of late perverted, the young men of Stafford and Derby shires contend with cudgels about a yard long, the one party to drive the Bull into Derby shire, the other to keep him in Stafford shire, in which contest many heads are often broken. [The King of Music and the Bailiff have also of late compounded, the Bailiff giving the King five Nobles in lieu of his right to the Bull, and then sends him to the Earl of Devons Manor of Hardwick to be fed and given to the Poor at Christmas.] FINIS. Index Nominum. A. AChard or Agard Page. 25 Aguyllon 1. 59 Aldithely or Audley 10 Astley 11 Aspervil 41 Aungerin 43 Albemarle 44 Arblaster 44 Avering 50 Allebyr 56 Archer 57 Aguillum 59 Attefeild 63 Avilers 68.77 Argentyne 78 Arundel 82 Arley 86 Aylemer 123 Arundel. Comes 61.127 Alesbury 28 Aldeham 135 Allington 78 B. BErkley, Baro 132 Bellovent 125 Beauchamp 23 Balliol 14 24 Boscher 2 Boteraux 3 Burg, Comes Kantiae 12. 69 Barons of Cheshire 23 Baskervile 24 Barun 30 Busche 32 Le Bayliff 39 Boyvyle 43 De la Bar 43 Bromhall 44 Bigod 50 Bek 62 Broke 64 Bygod, Comes Nors. 69 Bardolf 77 Baldwyn 79 Brustuyl 85 Brunnesley 88 Burton 94 Bourchier 104 Bawd 105 Belvoir 121 Bettoyne, Mayor of London 121 Brus 146 Bernham 7 Braos 134 Blundevil, Comes Cestriae 156 Botiler 135 C. CAntuar. Archiep. 121 Cantulupe 57 Carevile 86 Chaworth 14▪ 38.84 Criol 9 Corbet 136 Curtese 28 Courtenay 34 Coudrey 40 Carnifex 49 De Campis 61 Caws 66 Colevile 92 Corson 67.70 Chaunceux 71 Chetwode 74 Chamfleur 76 Colewyke 94.131 Chester Earls and Barons 23.109 Clifton 140 Catesby 156 Coggeshale 49 Cobham 126 Cardevile 85 D. DArell 41 Dudley 36 D'aubeney 58 D'enguine 71 Dutton 157 Dymoc 4 Delahay 8 De Dyleu 125 E. EDmundsthorp 85 Enguine 50.60 Eylesford 75 Eling 87 Espicer 67 Exeter Episcopus 34 F. FErrers Earl 32 De Ferrer 107 Fremon 16 Furnival, Baron 22 Fitz-Daniel 48 De Fabrica 58 Fletcher 64 Frumbaud 77 Frankelyn 81 Fitz-Walter 112 Fitz-Hugh 42 Fitz-William 28 Fitz-Alan 46.68 Fitz-Warine 132 Fitz-Wydon 108 G. GErard 158 Gamelbere 4 Gatton 80.82 Glanvile 26.52 Green 10 Gorges 47 De la Grave 56 Grant 74 Gresley 15 Grey 109.132.138 Gatelyn 81 Griffin Rex 80 Grandison 82 Glapton 72 H. HAstings 2.13.68.110 Hungerford 19 Hardekin 26 Honorio 27.49 Hoppeshort 39 Hertrug 40 here 42 De la Hull 45 Hashwell 52 Hurding 54 Herlham 67 Hevene 69 Hochangre 84 Hopton 102 Harrecourt 130 Ap Howel 147 Harpour 36 Hore 81 Hesam 58 K. KIplec 57 Knightley 9● Kingsham 56 King 70 L. LAncaster Comes 167 Leigh 1.163 Lizures 13 Longchamp 13.61 Lovel 14.38 Longford 17 Legere 26 Lydom 33 Lardimer 35 Loveday 42 Leyburn 62 De la Lind 75 Leek 93 St. Liz. 16 Lupus, Hugh Comes 108.109 M. MAuley 22 Montacute 12 Musard 14 Moigne, i Monk 26 Malore 48 Mareshal 46.53 Molesey 57 Le Moyne 56.85 Monemue 59 Meose 66 Maunsel 71 Mauduit 74 Molyns 77 Malmains 86 Mariscus', Marsh 87 Mandevyle 106 Menill 121 Mowbray 121 Metham 38 Mautravers 133 N. NIgel, Neal 41.109 Nettle, Abbas 64 Northwood 110 O. De OKes 8 Oxencroft 81 Oxford, Earl 23.53 P. PArker 50 Pichford 16 Plompton 18.94 De la Pole, Marq. 20 Pycot 27.51 Plesset 29.65 Paternoster 39.51 S. Philibert 40 Peverell 45 Pogeys 46 Pygot 58 Perkam 61 Peytevin 76 Pychard 78 De la Puille 79 Papilon 82.83 Peperkin 103 Pynelesdon 7 Q. QUincy, Comes 126 R. ROches 136 Rastal 88 Reed 19 Rochesly 35 Russel 41.47 Raghton 42 reins 52 Rooper 87 Rus, Rous 93 S. STafford, Baro 25 Segrave 11 Sloley 11 Stanford 15.72 Stanley 20 Somersham 37 Stopham 45 Spelman 7.18 Sauvage 56 Saunford 60 Sarcere 10 Singleton 63 De Scaccatio 72 De la Sale 73 De Sancto Claro 76 Synagor 84 Sturmy 88 Somervyle 95 Sciredun 111 Somery 126 Sutton 130 Skerington 72 Spileman 54 T. TAteshall 37 Trumpeton 53 Trevelle 54 Treveily 55 Thadeham 82 Therell 83 Talbot, Comes Salopiae 94 Testard 8 V. Valence 38 Umfranvil 15 Underwood 20 Valoignes 29 Le Unz 84 Venables 151 Vernon 23 W. WIlloughby 3.133 Winchard 16 Wrenoc 17 Warren, Comes 9.19 Le Wile 37 Windesor 47 De Wena 55 Waleton 63.126 Warwici Comes & Comitissa 60.73 Wade 73.86 Wintreshull 85. Ib. Won 〈…〉 ede 87 Wokynden 106 Wellesburn 110 Woodhouse 122 Wake 38 Wright 87.163 Warbleton 126 Z. ZOuch 12 Index Locorum. A. ADdington 1 Alcester 3 Astley 11 Asheley 13.68 Aston-Cantlou 2 Alesbury 28.41 Alredale 43 Aury & Hole 43 Abbesord 72 Aston-Bernard 77 Acton 109 Aplederham 123 Atherton 61.63 Aslaby 108 B. BAynards-Castle 112 Baynton 22 Bericote 2 Burg in Com. Salop 145 Burg on the Sands 13 Bywell 14 Brokenerst 18.54 Brayles 20 Burford 154 Bishops Castle 33.165 Bridgnorth 19 Bruham 37 Benham 38.152 Bockhampton 39 Burstal 41 Bar 43 Bakton 44 Brodeham 45 Bryneston 30 Bryanstan 45 Bradepole 47 Beckingtre hundred 50 Bures 50 Boyton 52 Bilsington 7.61.62 Bradeley 64 Bramlegh 66 Boghton 74 Brom 77 Boseham 83 Bentley 85 Bulewel 88 Brunnesley 88 Borebach 88 Bondby 135 Bucton 94 Bridshall 102 Bure-Ferrers 107 Brodgate Park 126 Bosbury 155 Berkholt 159 Banningham 70 Blachington 83 Brimsfeild 132 Biscopetreu 80 Battle-Abby 164 C. CAlistoke 133 Castle-Cary 14 Cuckeney 4 Cotes 11 Coningston 16 Chesterton 36 Creswell 40 Cumberton 42 Clun 162 Coperland 61 Chetington 136 Carlton in Com. Not. 3 Carleton Com. Norf. 67 Cumbes 79 Chenes 82 Chinting 83 Casham 86 Colewyke 131 Cotinton 87 Chichester 92 Conelesfeld 90 Cuckwold 92 Cholmer 103 Coringham 105 Clymeslond 107 Chester 108.156 Cheddish 74 Coleshill 153 Chakendon 166 D. DRaklaw 15 Droscumb 44 Degemue 54 Dylew 125 Drycot 101 Dengy hundred 103 Durham 145 Dutton 157 Dunmow 162 E. EAstbrig 12 Egmundun 10 East-gareston 14.38 Eastham 26 Exmore 29 Esseby 33 East-Haured 39 East-Smithfeild 66 East-Wordham 84 Eling 87 Elston 87 Eggefeild 93 Ewe in Normandy 104 Enborne 144 Ensham 155 East-Rudham 151 Esseburn 159 Eresby 138 Eton 133 Enfield 65 F. FAlsted 26.52 Fernham 22 Fingrey 23 Fulmer 41 Frollebury 85 Ford-Hundred 86 Fiskerton 153 Finchinfeild 52 Falsted 52 Fingreth 53 G. GAteshill 80.82 Greens-Norton 10 Grenocle 110 Gidding-Magna 60 Gloucester 33 Gissag 46 Gamelbere 4 Guldeford 8.79 Glapton 72 Grosmunt Castle 134 H. HAllingbury 28 Halton 109 Hampton 160 Henly 2 Homingston 10 Hildesley 19 Homet in Normandy 19 Hodnet 23 Holcot 30 Hoton 31 Hertrug 40 Hereford 49.166 Honorio 49 Hashwel 52 Hornmede 60 Hokenorton 73 Hanlegh 77 Hertlegh 84 Hochangre 84 Husknall-Torcard 93 Hopton 102 Horsepoll 142 Hecham 146 Hartlepool 146 Honington 160 Hill-Morton 11 Heydon 27 Herleham 67 I. ISle of Man 20 Ikinham 65 K. KIngs-Brome 15 Kilmersdon 149 Kinwaldmersh 47 Kettilberston 20 Kingston-Russel 47 Kingesham 58 Keperland 63 Kinderton 151 Kibworth 36 Kidlington 149 Kidwelly 138 L. LAncastre 58 Lastres 8 Langwath 17 Lanton 24 Listun 25 Legere 26 London 32.121 Launceston 54 Leningburn 62 Lilleston 65 Lewe 75 Lederede 81 Lindeshul 85 Lindeby 38.93 Lantrissin 147 Loseberg 46 Lodebroke 156 Lidingland Hundred 24 Lighthorn 60 Lufnam 23 Lincoln 125 M. MErston-Jabet 11 Marden or Mawerdin 16.59 Mauldon 27 Mapleschamp 29 Maperdeshale 31 Morton 32.50 Molesey 57 Middleton Hundred 62 Mansfeld-Woodhouse 94 Mertok 76 Mayford 79 Midlovent 82 Michleham 121 Mountgomery 150 Milverton 11 Mautravers 133 More 135 N. NOrthampton Town 16 County 13 Nedding 20 Newbigging 24 Nettlebed 72 Nether Overton 73 Narborough 7 Norton 68 Norwich 137 Newport 10 O. OKeton 48 Ovenhelle 61 Over-Colewic 94 P. PAdeworth 40 Pole 12 Pightesley 15.71 Plompton 18 Papworth-Anneys 41 Porscaundell 46 Pusey 51 Penkelly 55 Pengevel 55 Peckam 61 Porohester 87 Pynley 8 R. RAlegh 147 Riddesdale 15 Rodeley 18 Rewenhal 27.49 Raghton 42 Renham 64 Redenhall 67 Rakey 69 Runham 69 Road 71 Radeclyve 72 Rochfort 148 Rudlow 99 Rochester 163 S. SAling 51 Saundford 45 Scrivelsby 4 Stonely 3 Sculton 10 Setene, Seaton 9▪ 35 Staveley 14 Stafford 25 Stow 28 Slapton 34 Sutton 37 Sutton-Colfeild 140 Standebury 37 Swinton 48 Springesend 53 Schipton 56 Stafford-Wapentake 49 Stapleton 56 Stoke 57 Stanford Regis 58 Singleton parva 63 Scargerthorp 64 Shelfhanger 68 Stanhow 70 Sibertoft 70 Staunton 73 Stony-Aston 76 Stert 76 Stapeley 84 Schyrefend 85 Shorne 110 Sciredun 111 Siplegh 111 Staplehurst 123 Sutton-Courtenay 130 Shrewsbury 111 Schirefeld 126 South-Malling 150 Stanlake 154 Suffleet 161 Stamford 19 Seaports 62 Sloley 11 Savernake 133 T. Tongue 12 Tutbury 25.160.167 Tey-Magna 53 Twigworth 56 Teynton 57 Thetercote 74 Turroc 132 Thamewel 74 Tatenhul 101 Tachebroke 110 Tudderley 85 Thurgarton 142 Turvey 37 Thorp. 87 V. UPton in Com. Gloc. 56.58 Upton in Com. Northhampton 71 Upminster 50 Urchenfeild Hundred 165 W. WAterhall 138 Watton 59 Wilton 13 Whittington 17 Wiltshire 22 Wulfelmelston 23 Wodeham-Mortimer 26 Winfred 29 Wilburgham magna 42 Windebury 44 Windesor 47 Waleton 63 Woodstoc 74 Winterslew 136 Wrencholm 70 Wedington 11 Wyllington 75 Wingfeild 77 Wrotting 78 Wimble 78 Wolbeding 83 Warneford. 86 Worksop 94 Whichnor 95 Wallingford 109 Warham 160 Worthingbury 7 Wylewby 131 Whorlton 121 Westcurt in villa de Bedinton 81 Y. YOrkshire 35 FINIS. ERRATA. PAge 18. l. 6. r. faenum ad Palefridum. p. 20. l. 9 r. King, his heirs. and l. 15. the words transposed. p. 22. l. 2. r. Mauley. p. 27. l. 11. r. Eustach. p. 28. l. 18. r. juncandam. p. 31. l. 5. r. lancea. p. 40. l. 13. r. Dominae. p. 46 l. 21. r. clausturam. p. 49. l. 17. r. Sheriffs Bailif. p. 51. l. ult. r. Greyhounds. p 55. l. 5. r. Grisauco. P. 70. l. 13. r. per Sir-. p. 77. l. 19 r. Frumbaud. p. 82. l. 15. r. lotrices. p. 86. l. 15. r. Exercitu. p. 88 l. 25. r. pro qua quidem. p. 89. l. ult. r Maeremio. p. 90. l. 18. r. on this side the Sea. p. 92. l. 12 r. suburbiis. and l. 15. r. Regi. & l. 18. r. faciendam. p. 94. l. 16. r. Burton. p. 96. l. 13. r. to demand one. p. 112. l. 8. r. et sont chief Banoyers & l. 23. r. et ses, with other faults in the French. p. 135. l. 19 r. ut unam. and l. 25. r. liberentur. p. 41. l. 10. r. de Domino. and in Margin r. 2 others. Coke on Lit fo. 69. b. Lib. Scac. p. 43. This Crucem Lapideam, noted in the Margin, stood near the Maypole in the Strand, where the Judges Itinerant in old time used to sit. Spelm. Gloss. Pat. 11 H. 3. M. 7.