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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28463	Fragmenta antiquitatis, antient tenures of land, and jocular customs of some mannors made publick for the diversion of some, and instruction of others / by T.B. of the Inner-Temple, Esquire.	Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.	1679 (1679)	Wing B3333; ESTC R2884	79,276	200

on the Ides of July 30 Edward 1. for the health of his Soul and of his Progenitors and heyrs confirmed his said Fathers Grant and obliged himself and his heyrs his Lands and Tenements That every year for ever on the day of the Conversion of St. Paul there should be a good fat Doe brought by one of his fitting Servants and not the whole family at the hour of Procession and through the midst thereof and offer'd 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 carryed through the midst of the Procession and offer'd 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 Doe and Buck was till Queen Elizabeths days solemnly performed at the steps of the Quire by the Canons of St. Pauls 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 as the learned Camden upon his own view of both affirmes Bure Ferrers Johannes de Ferrers Chivalier tenet de Honore Castri de Tremanton in Comitatu Cornubiae xxj Feoda militum in Bure Ferrers alibi per servitium militare reddend ad Festum Sancti Michaelis quatuor Virones ad Batellos Passagii de Esse sustinend xxj Kernella Castri praedicti sumptibus suis propriis Clymeslond A. B. 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 xvj 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 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 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 Constable and Marshall of Chester by condition of service to lead the Vauntguard of the Earles Army when he should make any Expedition into Wales so as the said Baron should be the formost in marching into the Enemies Countrey and the last in coming back Wallingford Tainus vel miles Regis Dominicus moriens 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 The Lord Grey of Wilton held the Manour 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 Antiently Sir Roger Northwood held the Manour of Shorn in Kent by service to carry with other the Kings Tenants a White Ensigne forty dayes at his own charges when the King should make warr in Scotland Tachebroke Roger de Wellesburne tenuit medietatem unius Hidae terrae in Tachebroke in Comitatu Warwici veniet ad magnam Precariam in Autumpno cum omnibus messoribus suis ad Puturam Domini bis in die Grenocle Mathew de Hastings held the Manour of Grenocle in the County of Sussex of the King by this service that he shouid find an Oare for the Kings use when he should passe 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 when the King his sovereign Lord should come to hunt in the Forest of Dertmore Shrewsbury In William the Conquerors time 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 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 murder'd him as he rode 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 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 Citee 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 Armes as chevaulx coverts de teyle ou de fer tanque al graund huis de Mynstre de S. Pol ove sa Banere desploye devant luy de ses Armes Et quant il est venuz a graund huis du Mynstier avantdit mountez et apparaillez si come il est avantdit si doit le Maire de Loundres Venir ove touz ses

yearly and carrying it up and down the Town in great jollity on Midsomer Eve to which they added the Picture of a Giant was in all likelyhood first instituted Ensham It has been the Custom at Ensham in Oxfordshire for the Towns people on Whit-Monday to cut down and bring away where-ever the Church-Wardens pleased to mark it out by giving the first Chop as much timber as could be drawn by mens 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 Abby 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 W.M. Tenet novem acras terrae Custumariae in Bosbury in Com. Heref. quoddam Molendinum aquaticum ad voluntatem Domini debet quasdam Consuetudines viz. Tak Toll Faldfey sanguinem suum emere Lodebrook In the Mannor of Lodebrook in the County of Warwic whereof the Catesbyes were heretofore Lords each Tenant paid Swarf-money yearly which was one peny half-peny 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 Randle the third sirnamed Blundevil Earl of Chester having many Conflicts with the Welch 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 Lacy sirnamed 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 Fidlers Players Coblers and other debauched persons both men and Women out of the City of Chester for 't was then the Fair there marched immediately with them towards the besieged Earl The Welch 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 Fidlers and Shoemakers of Chester in reward and memory of this service The Constable reteined 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 Fidlers and Minstrels yet ancient Custom has now reduced it onely 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 Fidlers 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 to shew 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 halfpeny and why he claimed from every Whore in Chesshire and the City of Chester Officium suum exercente four pence yearly at the said feast c. 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 Taffata 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 priviledge is by a Daughter and heir of Thomas Dutton devolved to the Lord Gerard of Gerards Bromley in Staffordshhire And whereas by the Statute of 39 Eliz Fidlers are declared to be Rogues 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 Custome and priviledge Esseburn Juratores dicunt quod in principio quando Mineratores veniunt in Campum Mineria quaerentes inventa minera 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 c. dicunt etiam quod Placita del Bergmote debent teneri de tribus septimanis in tres septimanas super minerias in Pecco c. Berk-holt Homines de Berkholt in Com. Suffolk dicunt quod tempore Regis Henrici Avi Domini Regis nunc solebant habere talem Consuetudinem Quod quando maritare volebant filias suas solebant dare Domino pro filiabus suis maritandis duas Oras quae valent xxxij Denarios Warham By the Custom of Warham in the County of Dorset 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 unusuall a Custom that perhaps it may be hard to find the like elsewhere in England Honington The Tenants of the Mannor of Honington in the County of Warwic were by antient 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 Tenentes de