Kings Chamber a fur of Grise Mansfeild Woodhouse Sir Robert Plumpton Knight was seized of one Bovat of Land in Mansfeild Woodhouse in Com. Nottingham called Wolfhunt Land held by the service of winding a Horn and Chasing or Frighting the Wolves in the Forest of Shirewood Over Colewick 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 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 Kings service Worksop 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 Knights 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 Scepter in his hand and paying yearly 23 l. 8 s. o d. ob Whichnor Sir Philip de Somervile Knight held the Mannor of Whichnour in Com. Stafford of the Eirle of Lancaster then Lord of the Honour of Tutbury by these memoable services viz. by two small Fees that is to say when other Tenants pay for Releef 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 Knyght or for to marry the eldest Doughter of the Lord the sayd Sir Philip shal pay bot the moty of it that other shal paye Nevertheless the sayd Sir Philip shal fynde meynteinge and susteigne one Bacon Flyke hanginge in his Halle at Wichenore ready arrayed all tymes of the yere bott in Lent to be given to everyche Mane or Womane married after the day and yere of their mariage be passed and to be given to everyche Mane of Religion Arch Bishop Prior or other religious and to everyche Preest after the year and day of their Profession finished or of their Dignity reseyved in forme following whensoever that ony such before named Wylle come for to enquire for the Baconne in there owne person or by any other for them they shall come to the Bayliff or to the Porter of the Lordship of Whichenour and shal say to them in the manere as ensewethe Baylife or Porter I doo you to knowe that I am come for my self or if he come for any other shewing for whome one Bacon flyke hanging in the Halle of the Lord of Whichenour after the forme thereunto belonginge After which relation the Bailiff or Porter shal assigne a daye to him upon promise by his feythe to return and with him to bring tweyne of his neighbours and in the meyn time the said Bailif shal take with him tweyne of the Freeholders of the Lordship of Whichenoure and they three shal goe to the Mannour of Rudlowe belonging to Robert Knyghtleye and there shal somon the foresaid Knyghtley or his Bayliffe comanding hym to be ready at Whichenour the day appoynted at Pryme of the day with his Cariage that is to say a Horse and a Sadyle a Sakke and a Pryke for to convey and carry the said Baconne and Corne a journey owt of the Countee of Stafford at his Costages And then the sayd Bailiffe shal with the said Freeholders somon all the Tenaunts of the said Manoir to be ready at the day appoynted at Whichenour for to doe and performe the services which they owe to the Baconne And at the day assigned all such as owe services to the Baconne shal be ready at the Gatte of the Manoir of Whichenour frome the Sonne risinge to None attendyng and awayting for the Comyng of hym that fetcheth the Baconne and when he is comyn there shal be delivered to hym and his felowys Chapeletts and to all those whiche shal be there to doe their services deue to the Baconne And they shal lede the seid demandant wythe Tromps and Tabours and other manner of Mynstralseye to the Hall dore where he shal fynde the Lord of Whichenour or his Steward redy to deliver the Baconne in this manere He shal enquere of hym which demandeth the Baconne if he have brought tweyne of his neghbours with hym which must answere They be here redy And then the Steward shal cause theis two neghbours to swere yf the seid demandant be a weddyt Man or have be a Man weddyt and yf syth his marryage one yere and a day be passed And yf he be a freeman or a Villeyn And yf his seid neghbours make Othe that he hath for hym all theis three poynts rehersed then shall the Baconne be take downe and broght to the Halle dore and shal there be layd upon one half a Quarter of Wheatte and upon one other of Rye And he that demandeth the Baconne shal kneel upon his knee and shal hold his right hande upon a Booke which Booke shal be layd above the Baconne and the Corne and shal make oath in this manere Here ye Sir Philip de Somervyle Lord of Whichenour mayntayner and giver of this Baconne that I A. syth I wedded B. my Wife and syth I had her in my kepyng and at my wylle by a yere and a daye after our marryage I wold not have chaunged for none other farer ne fowler richer ne powrer ne for none other descended of gretter lynage slepyng ne waking at noo tyme. And if the seid B. were sole and I sole I wolde take her to be my Wife before all the Wymen of the Worlde of what condytions soevere they be good or evyle as helpe me God and his Seyntys and this Flesh and all Fleshes And his neghbours shal make oath that they trust verily he hath said truely And yf it be founde by his neghbours before named that he be a freeman there shal be delyvered to him half a Quarter of Wheatte and a Cheese And yf he be a Villein he shall have half a Quarter of Rye withoutte Cheese and then shal Knyghtley the Lord of Rudlowe be called for to carry all theis thynges to fore rehersed And the sayd Corne shal be layd upon one Horse and the Baconne above yt and he to whome the Baconne apperteigneth shal ascend upon his Horse shal take the Cheese before hym if he have a horse and yf he have none the Lord of Whichenour shal cause him have one Horse and sadyl to such tyme as he be passed his Lordshippe And soe shal they departe the Manoyr of Whichenour with the Corne and the Baconne to fore him that hath wonne ytt with Trompets Tabourets and other manoir of Mynstralce And all the Free Tenants of Whichenour shal conduct him
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
Somery haeredes sui quacunque hora veniant in Foresta ipsius Comitis ad 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 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 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 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 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 c. Hiis testibus Colewyke Wyleweby Reginaldus de Colewyke debet pro Serjantia de Colewyke Domino Regi in adventu suo apud Nottingham semel in anno duodecim Sagittas Et pro Serjantia de Wileweby debet Domino Regi in exercitu suo Wallia unum equum precii 3 s. 4 d. unum Saccum cum Brochia unum Capistrum cum Canabo precii i d. Benham Fulk Fitz-Warine held certain Lands in Benham in the County of Glocester of Thomas Lord Berkley Lord of Brimmesfeild by Serjeanty To carry a Horne 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 King Richard the First gave to Henry de Grey of Codnor the Mannor of Turroc in Essex which Grant King John confirmed and by his Charter vouchsafed him the priviledge 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 Nativi tenentes de Calistoke in Com. Cornubiae reddunt per annum de certo redditu vocato Berbiagium ad le Hokeday xix s. Savernake Johannes Mautravers 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 Manour of Eresby with its appurtenances in the County of Lincoln of the Bishop of Durham 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
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