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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

City of London That is to say that the said Robert and his heirs ought to be and are cheif Banner-bearers of London in Fee for the Castelry which he and his Ancestors have of Baynards 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 Armes 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 Armes displayed before him And when he is come to the great door of the said Minster mounted and armd 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 Armes 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 Marshall to be chosen out of the Host of the City of London And as soon as the Marshall 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 Communalty 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 then 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 seige 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 That is to say that the said Robert hath a Soke in the City of London viz. from the Wall of the Canonry of St. Paul as a man goes down by the 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 Friers Preachers to Ludgate And so returns by the back of the said Friers House to the corner of the said Canons Wall of St. Paul That is to say all the Parish of the Church of St. Andrew which is in the gift of his Ancestors by the said Seignory The said Robert hath also apppendant to this Soke 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 Judgment ought to be agreeable to that of the Guild-Hall If any thief shall be taken In his Soke he ought to have his flocks and imprisonment in his Soke and from thence he shall be carried to the Guild-Hall before the Mayor to receive his Judgment which ought there to be given but the Judgment shall not be pronounced untill he come in the Court of the said Robert and in his Franchise And the Judgment 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 Water-men tye 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 hangd at the Elms and there suffer his Judgment as other common Thieves 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 doe 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 Cities Council And the said Robert ought to be sworn of the Cities 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 Judgments 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 Bailifs 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 c. de Archiepiscopo Cantuarensi 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 Reddendo annuatim quasdam Caligas de Scarleto ad Natale Domini pro omnibus servitiis London Anostre Seignour le Roy et a

I well knowing the Learning and Industry of the Author do allow the Printing of this Book Fra. North. 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 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 publick private Records for other ends I thought a small Collection of some remarkable Tenures of Land and unusual Customs of some Mannours might not be unacceptable to the Studious who when weary with poring upon Littletons Tenures 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 Mannours in creating them some of which I confess are since converted into a Rent having a modo arrentatur enter'd 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 remembred any Herring Pies paid to the King for the Mannour 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 Tenures by Knight-service and Capite extend to the discharging the honorary Services of Grand Serjeanty other than of Wardship Mariage c. but are left standing on their old foundation by a particular Proviso in that Act. Neither are these kind of Tenures unusual in other Countries for we read of a Queen of Hungary who upon her Death-bed 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 c. 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 Atturney General Noy had a little before his Death bespoke a Copy of all the Tenures by Serjeanty remaining upon Record 't is like he judg'd them useful or divertising or both I have purposely omitted or but rarely mentioned those more common Tenures whereby the owner was obliged to deliver yearly into the Exchequer a Mew'd 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 Mannours 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 Antient 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 publick Register Nothing of this nature having to my knowledge been ever till now made publick 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 Antient Tenures 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 die Coronationis suae vocatur Dilligrout Et si sit seym sagimen in illo ferculo vocatur Maupigyrnun Afterwards in K. Edw. the first 's time William Walcot held the Mannor 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 Kings Table a Mess of Pottage called Dillegrout this service being adjudged to him by the Court of Claims in right of this his Mannour whereupon the Lord High Chamberlain presented him to the King who accepted the Service but did not eat of the Pottage Aston-Cantlou The Mannor of Aston-Cantlou de Cantulupo in the County of Warwick was by inquisition after the death of Lawrence Hastings Earl of Penbroke return'd 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 King Henry the second enfeoffed one Boscher his servant with the Mannor 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. Henley Lands in Henley in Comitat. Warwick were held by Edmond Lord Stafford by the service of three shillings or a payr of Scarlet Hose Carleton Edmundus Willoughby Tenuit unum Messuagium sex Bovatas terrae in Carleton 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 for the moity of the Town of Alcester in Com. Warwick it is there Recorded to be held of the King per servitium inveniendi medietatem equitis armati cum uno Equo Discooperto in guerra Domini Regis Stoneley In the Mannor of Stonley in Com. Warwick there were antiently four Bondmen whereof each held one Messuage and one Quartron of Land by the service of making the Gallowes and hanging the Theeves Each of which Bond-men was to wear a red Clout betwixt his Shoulders upon his upper Garment to