Plow reap make the Lords Malt and do other servile work Cukeney In Cukeney in Com. Nott. manebat quidam homo qui vocabatur Gamelbere fuit verus Dreinge ante Conquestum tenuit duas Carucatas terrae de Domino Rege in Capite pro tali servitio de ferrando Palesridum Domini Regis 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 The Mannor of Scrivelsby in the County of Lincoln is and long has been held by the Dymocks to whom it devolv'd from the Marmyons by grand Serjeanty viz. of being Champion to the Kings of England on their Coronation day By virtue of which tenure 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 Claymes had adjudged the Office of the Kings Champion entred Westminster-Hall on a goodly white Courser armed at all points in rich armour and having a Plume of blew 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 Serjeant Trumpeter The Serjeant at Arms An Esquire carrying a Target having the Champions own Arms depicted thereon An Esquire carrying the Champions 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 combate 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 Gantlet 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 Gantlet 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 Gantlet 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 Guilt 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 Mannour 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 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. dicitur in Inquisitione tenuisse Manerium de Narborough in Com. Norfolk cum tertia parte Advocationis Ecclesiae c. de Domina Regina ut de Manerio suo de Wirmegay per servitium militare per redditum 14 s. pro Wayt-fee Castle-gard Worthynbury Richardus de Pynelesdon tenet terras tenementa in Worthynbury in partibus de Mailer Says-nec in Com. Flint quae tenentur de Domino Rege per certa servitia per Ammobragium quod ad quinque solidos extenditur cum acciderit sicut per Inquisitionem c. Lastres 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 pro prandio Domini in Festo S. Michaelis Archangeli Sectam Curiae alia Servitia inde debita c. Burgus de Guldeford Robertus Testard tenuit quandam terram in Villa de Guldeford per seriantiam custodiendi Meretrices in Curia Domini Regis Et arrentata est ad xxv s. Pinley Adam de Oakes was found by Iniquisition to dye seized of certain Tenements in Pinley in the County of Warwick 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 after the making the Statute of Quo Warranto in the Parliament held at Glocester 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 shewed 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 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 York-shire was one which had twenty eight Towns and Hamlets within its Soke Setene Bertram de Criol held the Mannor of Setene in Com. Kantiae of the King by Sergeanty viz. to provide one man called 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 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 Mued Sparhawk to be delivered into the kings Exchequer every year at the Feast of Saint Michael Greens-Norton Otherwise called Norton-Dauney in North-hampton-shire which the Greens antiently held by Knights Servito To lift up their Right
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
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 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 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 in guerra Walliae quandocunque contigerit Regem ibi guerrare Langewath Vniversis Capitulum Beati Petri Ebor. concessisse ad firmam J.S. totam Hayam nostram de Langewath cum solo ejusdem Hayae bruera marisco omnibus aliis pertinentiis Reddendo inde annuatim nobis tempore Pinguedinis unum damum Fermisonae tempore unam damam c. Dat. 13. Calend. Januar. Anno M CC LXXIX Brokenerst Petrus Spileman finem fecit cum Rege pro terris quas dictus Petrus tenuit 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 Rodeley Certain Tenants of the Mannor of Rodeley in Com. Glocester do pay to this day to the Lord thereof a Rent called Pridgavel in duty and acknowledgment to him for their Liberty and Priviledge of fishing for Lampreys in the River Severn Plompton 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 Messuage in testimony of the said Tenure Hildesley Ad istam Curiam Johannes Rede fecit finem cum Domino pro Tenemento suo Per servitium octo solidorum unius Bederip in Autumno Stamford William Earl Warren Lord of this Town in the time of King John standing upon the Castle Walls saw two Bulls fighting for a Cow in the Castle Meadow till all the Butchers Doggs 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 Bulls 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 King Henry the fifth granted to Sir Walter Hungerford the Castle and Barrony of Homet in Normandy in special Tail rendring 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 Marquess of Suffolk had a Grant from King Henry the Sixth of the Mannors of Nedding and Kettilberston in Com. Suffolk to hold by the service of carrying a Golden Scepter with a Dove on the head of it upon the Coronation day of the Kings heirs and Successors As also a Scepter 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. IV. had a Grant in Fee of the Isle of Man with the Castle Pele Pelam Patronage of the Bishoprick 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 In King Edward the Firsts time Adam Vnderwood 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 Sythe and at the end of Hay-harvest he and the rest of his Fellow-Mowers to have the Lords best Mutton except one or xvj d. in money with the best Cheese saving one or vj 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 houshold 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 Cart-load of Stones for 3 days and gather Nuts for 3 days And in case the Lord kept his Christmas at his Mannor of Brayles to find three of his Horses 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 halfpeny And lastly that he and the rest of the Tenants of this Mannor should give 12 Marks yearly to the Lord at Michaelmas by way of Ayd and not marry their Daughters nec filios coronare i. nor make their Sons Priests without license from the Lord. Bainton In 2. Ed. 2. Peter de Manley was found to be seized of the Mannor of Bainton with the Advowson of the Church by the service of finding two Knights and four Esquires in the Kings Army for 40 dayes in time of War and to provide a Steward to do suit for him at the Kings Court at York from six Weeks to 6 weeks Wiltshire The County of Wilts antiently paid to the King ten pounds for a Hawk twenty shillings pro Summario a Sumpter Horse one hundred shillings for Hay and in Money five Ores Fernham 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 Scepter in his Hands From the Furnivals this Mannor 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 antiently held the Mannors of Fingrey and Wulfelmelston in
the County of Cambridge by Serjeanty of Chamberlain-ship to the Queens of England at the Kings Coronation Lufnam Tho. Beauchamp held South-Luffenham and other Lands in Com. Rutland by service to be the Kings Chamberlain in the Exchequer Hodnet Hodnet in Shropshire was antiently held by the Vernons of the Honour of Mongomery to be Seneschal or Steward of the same Honour Barons of Cheshire The Earl of Chesters Barons were antiently bound in time of War with Wales to find for every Knights Fee one Horse with Caparison and Furniture or two without within the divisions of Cheshire and their Knights and free-holders to find Corslets and Haubergeons and defend their Fees with their own Bodies Lanton The Baskervils antiently held Lands there in chief 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 Apud Newbigging xiij Bovatae assifae de hijs hominibus Baldwinus una Bovata pro ij s. dimid duas Gallinas xx Ova quatuor 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 Hundred de Lidingeland 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 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 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 Mannors of Stafford Bradeley and Madeley in Com. Stafford of the king in Capite by Barony by service of finding for 40 dayes 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 ad liberationem Domini Regis i. At the Kings Livery Estham Radulpbus de Moigne held Estham in Essex by Serjeanty ut sit Emptor Domini Regis in Coquina sua i. Caterer Legere 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 Hardekynus tenet quoddam Tenementum in Wodeham Mortimer in Com. Essex per Serjantiam ad nutriendam unam Brachettam Domini Regis cum Dominus Rex ei illam miserit ad nutriendam custodiendi quousque habilis fuerit ad currendum Mauldon The Inhabitants of Mauldon in Essez anciently held that Town by Serjeanty to find the King unam Navem cum 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 in Rewenhall in Com. Essex per Seriantiam inveniendi unum hominem equitem cum uno Gambesone in exercitu Domini Regis 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 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 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 Alesbury Willielmus filius Willielmi de Alesbury tenet tres Virgatas terrae de Domino Rege in Alesbury in Com. Buck. per Serjantiam inveniendi stramen ad lectum Domini Regis ad straminandam Cameram suam reddendi tres anguillas Domino Regi cum venerit apud Alesbury in Yeme Et etiam inveniendi Domino Regi cum venerit apud Alesbury in Estate stramen ad lectum suum praeter hoc 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. Johannes de Curtese tenuit 30 acras terrae in Stow in Com. Cantabr per Serjantiam adducend unam 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 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 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 per servitium dandi aquam manibus Domini Regis die Coronationis suae habebit pelvem cum lavatorio pro servitio praedicto Holicote Walterus Barun tenuit quasdam terras quaedam Tenementa in Villa de Holecote de Rege in Capite 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 Manerium de Brineston in Com. Cestriae tenetur de Rege in Capite per servitium inveniendi unum hominem in exercitu Domini Regis in partibus Scotiae praefecturum