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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	high_a	lord_n	steward_n	3,887	5	11.1026	5	false

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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

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

it a Scealfing-stole i. Cathedra in qua rixosae mulieres sedentes aquis demergebantur Reg. Priorat de Cokesford Pla. in Itin. apud Cestriam 14. H. 7. 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 Et totum brasium infra unum Quarterium and all the Mault except one quarter 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 Carruca cum tota apparura is a Plow with all its furniture Reg. Pr●rat de Thurgarton Nat. Hist of Ox. sh fo 203. Ibid. fo 348. Nat. Hist of Ox. sh Liber niger Heref. fo 158. 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 Ex. Antiq. Rentali ejusd Man I know not what this Swarf-money may signify unless it were miswritten for Warth-money or Ward-money Sir Pet. L●yc Hist. Antiquities of Chesshire Inter Placita apud cestriam 14 H. 7. Stat. 39. Eliz. cap. 4. Esc de anno 16 E. 1. N. 34. Derby Pla. coram Rege Mich. 37 H. 3. rot 4. Here those Ores which was a Saxon Coyn are declared to be in value of our money 16 d. a peece but after by the Variation of the Standard they valued 20 d. a peece And this Fine for the tenants marrying their Daughters was without doubt in lieu of the Merchera Mulierum or first nights lodging with the Bride which the Lord anciently claimed in some Mannors Pla. de Jur. Assi de Anno. 16. E 1. Inq. per H. Nott. Lib. niger Heref. * 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 Claye which signifies a hurdle or watled Gate E monumentis Roffenfis Ecclesiae sub anno 1200. * This Judgment 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 * 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. Antiq. Supervis Honorii de Clun Reg. Priorat it de Dunmow Liber de Consuetud Eccl. Roff. fact 1314. * For Provende● These Spigurnelli were Sealers of the Kings 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 Pat. 11 H. 3. M. 7. Castumar de Bello in Com. Sussex Ad tassum furcare i. to pitch to the Mongh Liber niger Heref. * For driving Deer to a stand in order to shooting them or into Buckstalls or Deer-Hays for taking them Domesday Rot. de Quo War 20 E. 6. 1. Heref. This Domesman is one of those that sit in the Court in Judicature with the Steward for Dome in Saxon signifies Judgments 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 Taylors History of Gavelkind Domesday tit Heref. Stabilitionem in sylva is the same with Stabliamentum pro Venatione expounded above Masuras dwelling houses Inewardos I suppose may signify such as guarded the Kings person Pecunia is here used for Cattle and goods for of old Pecunia pro pecude often occurs see Law Dictionary Inq. temp E. 1. de Hundr de Langtre in Com. Ox. Ex Regist de Tutbury * 1 H. 6. The Erle of Devonshire is now Prior ab H. 8. * Cabossed Ears Single or tayle Brow-antler s. The present Steward is the Duke of Ormond Mr. Edw. Foden his deputy The Earl of Devon is Prior.