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
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
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
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
post Festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli Anno Regni Regis c. This Lawless Court is imperfectly mentioned by Camden in his description of Essex who says this servile attendance was imposed on the Tenants of that Mannor for conspiring at the like unseasonable time to raise a Commotion Kidlington At Kidlington in Oxford-shire the Custom is That on monday after Whitson week there is a fat live Lamb provided and the Maids of the Town having their thumbs ty'd behind them run after it and she that with her mouth takes and holds the Lamb is declared Lady of the Lamb which being dress'd with the skin hanging on is carried on a long Pole before the Lady and her Companions to the Green attended with Musick and a Morisco Dance of Men and another of Women where the rest of the day is spent in dancing mirth and merry glee The next day the Lamb is part bak'd boyld and rost for the Ladies feast where she sits majestically at the upper end of the Table and her Companions with her with musick and other attendants which ends the solemnity Kilmersdon At Kilmersdon in Somerset-shire by the Custom of the Mannor the Wife has Widows Estate which she loseth if she marrys or is found incontinent but to redeem this last if she come into the next Court riding astride upon a Ram and in open Court do say to the Lord if he be present or to his Steward these words For mine Arses fault take I this pain Therefore my Lord give me my Land again She is by the Custom to be restored to it without further Fine doing this Penance Burgus de Wallingford Juratores dicunt super Sacramentum suum quod nullus de Natione istius Burgi pro quocunque facto quod fecerit debet suspendi Nam secundum consuetudinem istius Burgi debet Oyels Testiculis privari tali libertate usi sunt a tempore quo non extat memoria South-Malling Tenentes de South-Malling in Com. Cantiae debent de Consuetudine inter eos Facere Scotalium de sexdecim denariis ob Ita quod de singulis sex denariis detur unum denarium ob ad potandum cum Bedello Domini Archiepiscopi super praedictum Feodum Mountgomery Quia per Objurgatrices Meretrices multa mala in villa oriuntur viz. Lites pugnae diffamationes c. ac aliae multae inquietationes per earum hutesias clamores Igitur utimur de eisdem quod cum captae fuerint habeant Judicium de la Gogingstoole ibi stabunt nudis pedibus suis crinibus pendentibus dispersis tanto tempore ut aspici possint ab omnibus per viam transeuntibus secundum voluntatem Balivorum nostrorum Capitalium East-Rudham De Inpeny Outpeny Consuetudo talis est in Villa de East-Rudham in Com. Norf. de omnibus terris quae infra Burgagium tenentur viz. Quod ipse qui Vendiderit vel dederit dictam tenuram alicui dabit pro exitu suo de eadem tenura unum denarium simile pro ingressu alterius Et quod Balivus Domini erit ad deliberationem cujuslibet feisinae deliberandae Et si praedicti Denarii aretro fuerint Balivus Domini distringet pro eisdem Denariis in eadem tenura Kinderton Thomas Venables clamat quod si aliquis tenentium sive residentium infra Dominium sive Manerium de Kinderton in Com. Cestriae feloniam fecerit corpus ejus per ipsum Thomam super factum illud captum convictus fuerit habere Pelfram viz omnia bona catalla hujusmodi seisire Et ea quae domino Comiti pertinent ad Castrum Cestriae praesentare habere omnia inventa domestica de omni genere boum vaccarum boviculorum juvencarum porcorum bidentium unum viz. melius Et si de aliquo genere non habuerit nisi unum clamat habere illud unum cum aliis minutis animalibus ut gallis gallinis ancis hujusmodi omnes pannos talliatos attaniatos omnes carnes attainiatas totum brasium infra unum quarterium de quolibet Tasso bladi clamat habere Groundstal integrum cujuscunque tassi totum plumbum extra fornacem omnia vasa lignea omnes mappas manutergia omnia ad lectum pertinentia linea lanea omnes Carrectas ferro non ligatas omnes Carrucas cum tota apparura c. Coleshill They have an antient Custom at Coleshill in the County of Warwick that if the young-men of the Town can catch a Hare and bring it to the Parson of the Parish before ten of the clock on Easter-monday the Parson is bound to give them a Calves head and a hundred of Eggs for their Breakfast and a groat in money Fiskerton and Moreton The Custom was here for the Natives and Cottagers to Plow and Harrow for the Lord and to work one Boon-day for him every week in Harvest when every two workmen had three Boon-loaves with Companage allowed them Each Customary Tenant in Fiskerton and Moreton in Com. Not. one day in the year found a man to cleanse the Dam of Fiskerton Mill. Si quis Braciatrix braciaverit Cerevisiam if any Alewife brewed Ale to sell she was bound to satisfy the Lord for Tolsester If any Native or Cottager sold a Male Youngling after it was weaned he paid 4 d. to the Lord as a Fine Or killed a Swine above a year old he paid the Lord one Peny which was called Thistletac Every she Native that married or committed Fornication paid pro redemptione sanguinis 5 s. 4 d. to the Lord which was in lieu of marcheta mulierum which whether from Mark a Horse in the old Gallique implying the obscene signification of equitare as Mr. Selden thinks or from Marca the sum of money by which it was afterwards commonly redeemed I cannot determine Stanlake At Stanlake in the County of Oxford the Minister of the Parish in his Procession in Rogation week reads a Gospel at a Barrels head in the Cellar of the Chequer Inne in that Town where some say there was formerly an Hermitage Others that there was antiently a Cross at which they read a Gospel in former times over which now the House and particularly the Cellar being built they are forced to continue the Custom in manner as above Burford About the year 750 a Battel was fought near Burford in Oxford-shire perhaps on the place still called Battle-Edge west of the Town towards Vpton between Cuthred or Cuthbert a Tributary King of the West Saxons and Ethelbald King of Mercia whose insupportable Exactions the former King not being able to endure he came into the Field against Ethelbald met and overthrew him there winning his Banner whereon was depicted a Golden Dragon in memory of which Victory the Custom yet within memory of making a Dragon
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