Hand towards the King upon Christmas day every year wheresoever the King should be in England Sculton The Mannor of Sculton otherwise called Burdos or Burdelois in Norfolk was held by this Tenure That the Lords thereof on the Coronation day of the Kings of England should be chief Lardiner Hemingston Rowlandle Sarcere held one hundred and ten Acres of land in Hemingston in Com. Suffolk by Sergeanty for which on Christmas day every year before our Sovereign Lord the King of England he should perform simul semel unum Saltum unum Sufflum unum Bombulum or as we read elsewhere in French un saut un pet un Syffet simul semel that is he should dance puff up his Cheeks making therewith a sound and let a Crack Et quia indecens servitium ideo arrentatur sayes the Record ad xxvi s. viij d. per annum ad Scaccarium Regis Sloley Richard Sloley held of the King in Capite one Messuage and four Acres of Land in Sloley in Com. Warwick by Serjeanty that is giving to the King upon every Expedition with an Army towards Scotland one Pole-axe or xij d. in silver for all Services Astley The Mannors of Astley Wedington Hill-morton Milverton and Merston Jabet were antiently held by Philip de Astley of William Earl of Warwick by the service of holding the Earl's Stirrop when he should get up or a light from his Horse Cotes Sir Stephen de Segrave in Henry the thirds time purchased the Mannor of Cotes in Com. Derby of the Daughters and Heirs of Stephen de Beauchamp to hold by the service of one Brache yearly Eastbrig Hubert de Burg Earl of Kent had a grant in Fee from King Henry the 3 d. of the mannor of Eastbrig in Kent To hold by the service of a Sore Sparhawk at Lammass yearly Tonge Roger la Zouch being Lord of the Mannor of Tonge in Com. Salop did by a fair deed in Henry the third's time grant to Henry de Hugefort and his Heirs certain Messuages and Lands lying in Norton and Shaw in the Parish of Tonge with liberty of fishing in the Waters pawnage for Hogs and liberty to get nuts for certain days in the woods of the said Mannor rendring yearly to the said Roger and his Heirs a Chaplet of Roses upon Midsomer day in case he should be then at Tonge if not then to put it upon the Image of the Blessed Virgin in the Church of Tonge for all Services Pole William Montacute obtained a grant from King Edward the third of the Mannor of Pole with the Advowson of the Church in Comitat. Cumbriae Paying the King his Heirs and Successors wheresoever he or they should happen to be a Sword of 3 s. 4 d. price in lieu of all Services Burg on the Sands The Barony of Burg on the Sands in Com. Cumbriae with divers other Mannors and Lands in that County were antiently held by the service of Cornage i. to blow a horne when any invasion of the Scots was perceived Northampton-Shire In 12 Hen. 2. Richard de Lizures was certified to be Forester in Fee to the King for North-hampton-shire and was by his Office obliged to attend him in his Army well fitted with Horse and Arms his Horn hanging about his neck Wilton In the time of King Henry the first Hugh de Logushamp obtained by the giftâ— of that King the Mannor of Wilton in Com. Heref. to hold by the service of two men at Arms in the Wars of Wales Ashele William de Hastings being Steward to King Henry the first held that Office by Sergeanty in respect of the Tenure of his Mannor of Ashele in Com. Norfolk by the service of taking Charge of the Napery i. the Table Clothes and linnen at the Coronations of the Kings of England Castle-Cary In 47. Hen. 3. Henry Lovel was found to dye seized of the Mannor of Castle-Cary in Com Somerset by him held in Capite of the King for a whole Barony by the service of finding two Souldiers in the Kings Army at his own cost for forty dayes Biwel Hugh de Baliol was certified to hold the Barony of Biwel in Com. Northumberland of the King by the service of five Knights Fees and to find thirty Souldiers for the Guard of New-Castle upon Tine as his Ancestors had done from the time of King William Rufus by whom they were enfeoff'd of that Barony as the Record expresseth East-Gareston In 11. Edw. 1. Paganellus de Cadurcis i. Pain Chaworth was found to be seized of a Messuage and 400 Acres of Land in East-Gareston in Com. Berks held by the service of finding a Knight armed with Plate-Armour in the Kings Army when it should be in the Territory of Kidwelly in Wales Staveley In 17. Edw. 1. John Musard was found to be seized of the Mannor of Staveley in Com. Derby held of the King in Capite by Barony finding for that and his other Lordships two souldiers in the Kings Army in Wales Riddesdale In the tenth year of William the Conquerour Robert de Vmfranvil Knight obtained from that King a grant of the Lordship Valley and Forest of Riddesdale in Com. Northumb. by the service of defending that part of the Countrey for ever from Enemies and Wolves with that Sword which King William had by his side when he entred Northumberland with liberty also to hold and determine Pleas of the Crown Drakelow William de Gresely tenet Manerium de Drakelaw in Com. Derby in Capite reddit unum Arcum sine Corda unam Pharetram de Tutesbit duodecem Sagittas flectatas unum Buzonem Pightesle Thomas Engaine held certain Lands in Pightesle now called Pitchley in Com. Northhampton by the service of finding at his own proper Costs certain Dogs for the destruction of Wolves Foxes Martrons Cats and other Vermin within the Countys of Northampton Roteland Oxford Essex and Buckingham Kings-Brome In 14 Edw. 2. Rich de Stanford held one Toft and four Yard Land and a half in Kings-Brome in Com. Warwick of the King in Capite by the Service of a pair of Tongs to be delivered yearly into the Exchequer by the hands of the Sherif of that County Northampton William the Conqueror gave to Simon St. Liz a noble Norman the Town of Northampton and the whole Hundred of Falkely then valued at forty pounds per annum to provide shoes for his Horses Marden Johannes Freeman held one Yard Land in Marden in Com. Heref. per Seriantiam mensurandi Fossata opera Domini Regis ad custum ipsius Domini Regis Coningston Thomas Winchard held land in Coningston in Comitat. Leyc in Capite by the Service of saying daily five Pater Nosters and five Ave Marias for the Souls of the Kings Progenitors and the Souls of all the faithful departed pro omni servitio Bridgnorth King Henry the first
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
tenere Canes opertias ex omni genere Canum non impediatas Et etiam omnes liberi tenentes solebant summoneri per tres dies ante Curiam custumarii similiter Et si aliquod Placitum fuerit inter vicinos defendentes negaverint vadierint Legem versus Querentem solebant facere Legem cum tertia manu solebant se essoiniare de communi secta Curiae bina vice tercia comparere warantizare Essoinium Et similiter de Placito tam Querentis quam defendentis bis de Placito bis de Lege essoiniari tertia vice venire feu habere Considerationem Curiae Et praedicti Custumarii folebant reparare vadum circa Stagnum Molendini Domini de Sutton in opere terreno Thurgarton and Horsepoll The tenants of these Mannors in Com. Nottingham held their Lands by these Customes and services Every Native or Villain which were such as we now call husbandmen paid each a Cock and a Hen besides a small Rent in Money for a Tost and one Bovat of Land held of the Priory of Thurgarton These Cocks and Hens were paid the second day in Christmas and that day every one both Cottagers and Natives dined in the Hall and those who did not had a white loaf and a Flagon of Ale with one Messe from the Kitchin Every Villain gave a halfpeny towards cleansing the Mill-damm The Freeholders were bound to tribus arruris three plow days for the Lord with one Plow which were then valued at 12 d. and likewise 3 days work in Harvest the first day with one man the second day with two and and the third with five workmen and one of themselves in person and every day to have their refection The Natives were likewise bound to give three Plowdays each and every plow was to be allowed four boon-loaves and to harrow three dayes and every harrower was allowed a brown loaf and two herrings a day Likewise all the Natives and Cotagers were to reap every other day in harvest the first day every two were to have one brown loaf and two Toillects the second day two brown loaves and one Toillect and afterwards every two men to have every day three brown loaves And on the day of the great Bidrepe which was called the Priors Boon every Native was to find three Workmen and Cottager one Every of the said Natives were to make carriage from the forain Granges thrice a year each with one Horse and every time to have a Miche or white loaf And all the Reapers in Harvest which were called Hallewimen were to eat in the Hall one day in Christmas or afterwards at the discretion of the Celerer Likewise every Naif or she Villain that took a husband or committed fornication paid Marchet for redemption of her blood 5 s. 4 d. and the Daughter of a Cottager paid but half a Marchet And every Native paid for Paunage of every Swine in the Park 3 d. c. East and West Enborne The Mannors of East and West Enborne in Com. Berks have this Custom That if a Copyhold tenant dye the Widow shall have her Free-Bench in all his Copyhold Lands dum sola casta fuerit but if she commit Incontinency she forfeits her Widows estate yet after this if she come into the next Court held for the Mannor riding backward on a black Ram with his tail in her hand and say the words following the Steward is bound by the Custome to readmit her to her Free-Bench Here I am riding upon a black Ram Like a Whore as I am And for my Crincum Crancum Have lost my Bincum bancum And for my Tailes game Am brought to this worldly shame Therefore good Mr. Steward let me have my Lands againe The like Custom is in the Mannor of Tor in Devonshire and elsewhere in the West Brug vel Burg. Sciendum est quod quando aliquis Customarius Manerii de Burg in Comitatu Salop. moritur Episcopus habebit melius Averium omnes porcos Apes Baconem integrum Pullum masculum Pannum integrum Ollam aeneam Tenellam Cervisiae si sit plenam Et quando maritabit filiam extra feodum dabit tres solidos dabit etiam pro qualibet Lierwyte ij s. Durham Bishopric De decimis quae de vaccis proveniunt sâ—atuendum duximus quod ubicunque fuerit receptaculum earum licet in vicinis Parochiis Horn with Horn secundum Anglicam linguam pascua quaerant illa remaneat tota decima ubi fuerit domicillium remanentia Hecham In Soca de Hecham in Comitatu Norfolk sunt 24 Lancetae Consuetudo eorum est ut unusquisque eorum debet operaria Sancto Michaele usque ad Autumpnum unaquaque hebdomada per unam diem sive cum furca sive cum Besca vel Flagello ad libitum Domini cum Corredio ad nonam uno pane ad vesperam vel si eis remittitur hoc opus quisque eorum dabit pro hoc opere sex denarios Hartlepool Robertus de Brus habet apud Hartlepool in Com. Dunelm Portum maris capit ibi Killagium scil de qualibet Navi cum Batello applicante ibi octo denarios de qualibet Navi sine Batello quatuor denarios Llantrissim Raaf ap Howel ap Philip Praepositus de Llantrissin in Com. Glamorgan amerciatus fuit pro eo quod habuit in manu sua coram Justiciariis hic Virgam nigram inhonestam ubi habere debuisset Virgam albam honestam de certa longitudine prout decet Rochford On Kingshill at Rochford in the County of Essex on every Wednesday morning next after Michaelmas day at Cocks crowing there is by antient Custom a Court held by the Lord of the Honour of Raleigh which is vulgarly called the Lawless Court The Steward and Suiters whisper to each other and have no Candles nor any Pen and Ink but supply that office with a Coal And he that ows suit or service thereto and appears not forfeits to the Lord double his Rent every hour he is absent The Court is called Lawless because held at an unlawful or lawless hour on quia dicta sine lege The title of it in the Court Rolls runs thus to this day Kingshill in Rochford ff Curia de Domino Rege Dicta sine Lege Tenta est ibidem Per ejusdem consuetudinem Ante ortum solis Luceat nisi Polus Nil scribit nisi Colis Toties voluerit Gallus ut cantaverit Per cujus solum sonitum Curia est summonita Clamat clam pro Rege In Curia sine Lege Et nisi cito venerint Citius paenituerint Et nisi clam accedant Curia non attendat Qui venerit cum lumine Errat inregimine Et dum sunt sine lumine Capti sunt in Crimine Curia sine cura Jurati de injuria Tenta ibidem die Mercurii ante diem proximi
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
to be passed the Lordship of Whichenour then shal all they retorne except hym to whom apperteigneth to make the carriage and journy withoutt the Countye of Stafford at the costys of his Lord of Whichenour And yf the seid Robert Knyghtley doe not cause the Baconne and Corne to be conveyed as is rehersed the Lord of Whichenour shal do it to be carryed and shal distreigne the said Robert Knyghtley for his default for one hundred shillings in his Manoir of Rudlowe and shale kepe the distresse so takyn irreplevisable Bridshall Moreover the sayd Sir Philippe holdeth of his Lord the Erle the Manoir of Briddeshalle by theis services that att such tyme that hys sayd Lord holdeth hys Chrystemes at Tuttebury the sayd Sir Philippe shal come to Tuttebury upon Chrystemes Evyn and shall be lodged yn the Town of Tuttebury by the Marshall of the Erlys house and upon Chrystemes day he hymself or some other Knyght his Deputye shal goe to the Dressour and shal sewe his Lordys Messe and then shal he kerve the same mett to his sayd Lord and this service shall he doe as well at Souper as at Dynner and when his Lord hath eryn the sayd Sir Philippe shal sit downe in the same place their his Lord satt and shall be served at his Table by the Steward of the Erlys House And upon Seynt Stevyn day when he haith Dyned he shal take leve of his Lorde and shal kisse him and for his service he shal nothing take ne nothing shal gyve And all theis Services to fore rehersed the sayd Sir Philippe hath doo by the space of xlviij years and hys Ancestors before hym to his Lordys Erles of Lancastre Tatenhul and Drycot Item the sayd Sir Phelippe holdeth of his seid Lorde the Erle his Manoirs of Tatenhull and Drycotte en Parcenerye by theis services that the seid Sir Phelippe or his Atturneye for hym shal come to the Castle of Tuttebury upon Seynt Petyr day in August which is call Lammesse and shal shew the Steward or Recever that he is come thither to hunt and catch his Lords Greese at the costages of his Lord. Whereupon the Steward or the Recever shal cause a Horse and Sadyl to be deliveryd to the sayd Sir Phelippe the price fifty shillings or fifty shillings in mony and one hound and shal pay to the seid Sir Philippe everyche daye fro the seid day of Seynt Petyr to Holyroodeday for hymself two shillinges six pence a day and everyche day for his Servant and his Bercelett duryng the seid tyme twelve pence And all the Woodmasters of the Foreste of Nedewode and Duffelde with all the Parkers and Foresters shal be commanded to awatte and attend upon the seid Sir Phelippe while theyr Lordys Greese be takyn in all places of the sayd Forestys as upon theyr Master duringe the sayd tyme. And the sayd Sir Phelippe or his Atturney shal deliver to the sayd Parkers or Foresters that which shal belonge to their Lordys Lardere commanding them to convey itt to the Erlys Lardyner abiding at Tuttebury and with the remanant the seid Sir Phelippe shal do his plesoure And upon Holye-rood day the sayd Sir Phelippe shall returne to the Castle of Tuttebury upon the sayd Horse with his Bercelett and shal dyne with the Steward or Receyver and after dynner he shal deliver the Horse Sadyle and Bercelett to the Steward or Receyveour and shal kisse the Porter and depart Hopton To the heyes male of the Hopton laufully begotten To me and to myne to thee and to thine While the water runs and the Sun doth Shine For lack of heyrs to the King againe I William King the third year of my reign Give to the Norman Hunter To me that art both Line and Deare The Hoppe and Hoptoune And al the bounds up and downe Under the Earth to Hell Above the Earth to Heaven From me and from myne To thee and to thine As good and as faire As ever they myne were To witness that this is sooth I bite the white Wax with my tooth Before Jugg Marode and Margery And my third Son Henery For one Bow and one broad Arrow When I come to hunt upon Yarrow This Grant made by William the Conqueror to the Ancestor of the antient family of the Hoptons I copied out of an old Manuscript and John Stow has it in his Cronicle but in both it wanted the four First Lynes which seem to create that Estate Tayle by which Richard Hopton Esquire a Gentleman of low fortune but haply may be the right heir of the Familye hath of late years by vertue of this Charter made several Clayms and commenced divers suites both for this Mannour of Hopton in the hole in the County of Salop and for divers other the Mannours and Lands of Raph late Lord Hopton but hitherto for ought I hear without any successe Cholmer and Dancing in Com. Essex Carta Edwardi Confessoris Iche Edward konyng Have geven of my Forest the keping Of the Hundred of Cholmer and Dancing To Randolf Peperking and to his kindling With Heort and Hynd Doe and Bock Hare and Fox Cat and Brock Wild Fowell with his Flock Partridge Fesant Hen and Fesant Cock With green and wyld stob and Stock To kepen and to yemen by all her might Both by day and eke by night And Hounds for to holde Gode and swift and bolde Four Greyhounds and six Braches For Hare and Fox and Wildcats And thereof iche made him my Book Witness the Bishop Wolston And bock ycleped many one And Sweyn of Essex our Brother And to ken him many other And our Stiward Howelyn That bysought me for him Comitatus de Ewe King Henry the Fifth by his Charter dated 10 Jun. 7. regni granted to Sir William Bourchier the whole County of Ewe in Normandy Reddendo dicto Regi haeredibus suis apud Castrum Rothomagi unum Gardebrache ad festum Sancti Georgii singulis annis c This Gardebrace is otherwise called vambrace and signifies Armor for the Arme. Coringham In the Third year of King Edward the First Sir William le Baud Knight made a signal Grant to the Dean and Canons of St. Pauls London of a Doe yearly on the feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul and of a fat Buck upon the Commemoration of the same Saint to be offered at the high Altar in St. Pauls by the said Sir William and his household-family and then to be distributed among the Canons resident which said Doe and Buck were so given by him in lieu of 22 acres of Land lying within the Lordship of Westlee in Com. Essex belonging to the said Canons and by them granted to him and his heyrs to be enclosed within his Park of Coringham But about the certain time and formality in offering the said Buck and Doe there growing afterwards some dispute Sir Walter le Baud Knight son and heyr of the said Sir William by his Deed dated
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