Chattels whatsoever even in like manner as it is used and accustomed in London Regna Regum 19. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1291. Mayors and Bayliffs John Zouch William Gatepath John Rook. William Kerswell William Buffett Regna Regum 20. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1292. Mayors and Bayliffs William Gatepath William Kerswell Henry Goldecot William Well Richard Montin Bishop Quivell in the Eleventh year of his Government 18. Octobris by drinking a Syrup and in too hasty swallowing it was choaked and lies buried in the Lady Chappel of his own Church The Franciscan or Grey Fryers reported that he died of God's just Judgment for that he favoured not nor would suffer them to build their new intended House notwithstanding his promise made to the King of so doing This Mayor with Richard Poltymore Herbert de Pyne and William le Speke Knights were witnesses to a Deed of one Ongarus de Sancto Milone a Citizen hereof wherein he gave to the Dean and Chapter of this Church his Wood at Stoke called Stoke-Wood and united the same to their Mannor of Stoke now commonly called Stoke Canonicorum Regna Regum 21. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1293. Mayors and Bayliffs Richard Tantifer John Feniton John Cook Alexander Coryton Robert Newton Thomas Bitton 15. Januarii was installed Bishop of this Diocess the See of Canterbury being void by John Roman Arch. Bishop of York Hugh Courtney the second of that name was now made Earl of Devon as Heir General to the Lord Ridevers late Earl of Devon that is to say the Son of Hugh the Son of John the Son of Robert and Mary the Daughter and Heir to William Ridevers named William de Verona the Son to Baldwyn the First the Son to Richard Ridevers the first Earl of Devon so created by King Henry the First Son to William the Conqueror Regna Regum 22. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1294. Mayors and Bayliffs John Zouch Walter Langdon John Rook William Buffett John Horn Modus forma processus quomodo Meretrices infra Civitatem praedictam sunt attachiandae Rot. 15. Regna Regum 23. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1295. Mayors and Bayliffs John Zouch Walter Langdon William Kerswell William Buffett Roger Wheaton Customia pro vinis solebat reddi de antiquo pro singulo dolio 4 d. Rot. 31. Regna Regum 24. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1296. Mayors and Bayliffs Walter Tantifer Walter Langdon William Kerswell Robert Newton Roger Wheaton Consuetudo est quod viginti quatuor de Communi Concilio dictae Civitatis elegi debent solebant per consensum majoris partis dictae societatis Regna Regum 25. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1297. Mayors and Bayliffs Walter Tantifer Walter Langdon Robert Newton William Kerswell Henry Trecott The King came into the County of Devon and visited the House of Plimpton and took this City in the way of his return homewards A Composition made between the City and the Dean and Chapter for a Lane leading to the City-walls between St. Catharques Almes-house and the Black Fryars now the Earl of Bedford's house Regna Regum 26. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1299. Mayors and Bayliffs Walter Tantifer William Buffett William Kerswell Roger Wheaton Nicholas Paige It was now found by Verdict that as the Lands within this City of a Freeman descend to any person so by the Custom the Freedom of he said City descendeth therewith Regna Regum 27. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1299. Mayors and Bayliffs John Horn Nicholas Paige Roger Beynim Robert Newton Stephen Bennant Inquisitio capta fuit versus maritum pro eo quod verberavit male tractaverit uxorem unde commissus fuit Goale Rot. 23. Major Communitas consituere solebant Custodes de in Portu Exonicensi ad scrutandum in navibus batellis alibi ne aliquis monetum argentum vel aurum extra Regnum transvehat Rot. 26. Libertas seu Franchesia Civitatis Exoniensis descendit per successionem haereditariam sive â—i Patre Fratre vel Avunculo vel quocunque alio cui quis haeres existis Rot 36. Regna Regum 28. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1300. Mayors and Bayliffs William Gatepatb John Paige Jordan Atlane Robert Newton John Perour Edmond Earl of Cornwal died sans issue whereby the Earldom reverted again to the Crown and came to the King's hands Regna Regum 29. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1301. Mayors and Bayliffs William Tantifer Stephen Langdon William Kerswell John Gervis Roger Beynim The Mayor of this City was this year chosen by the Voyces of four and twenty Free-men and Citizens hereof upon their Oaths Rot. 1. Great contention arose between the Dean and Chapter of this Churth and the Warden and Fryers Preachers commonly called the Black Fryers touching the Burial of Sir Henry Rawley Knight whose Corps the Dean and Chapter required to be presented at St. Peter's Church before it should be interred which the said Fryers refusing to do yet the Dean and Chapter caused it there to be brought where the same being presented 't was sent back again to the Fryer's house which they would not receive therein but made fast their Gate by means whereof the said Corps lay so long unburied 'till it stank and at last the Canons were enforced to bury it in St. Peter's Church Regna Regum 30. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1302. Mayors and Bayliffs Roger Beynim Roger Newton Walter Duport Thomas Farthein Michael Champernon An Agreement made between the Dean and Chapter and the Pryor and Fryers Preachers That no person within the said City and Suburbs should be buried within the Church or Cemitery of the said Fryers but that he should first be presented at St. Peter's Church Rot. 16. A great contention arose between the Mayor and Commonalty of this City and the Tenants of the Lord of Kenton and Wyke Earl Marshal of England for denying to pay Murage for their Wares and Merchandizes Rot. 13. About this time flourished one Walter of Exeter so named being here born who was a Monk of the Order of St. Bennet and dwelt in a little Cell in Cornwal called St. Caroke near about Lystithiel he was well seen in History and at the request of one Baldwyn a Citizen here wrote the History of Guy of Warwick Regna Regum 31. Edw. the 1. An. D. 1303. Mayors and Bayliffs Roger Wheaton Walter Langdon William Kerswell William Buffett Henry Trecott A Controversie arose between the Mayor and Commonalty and the Tenants of Kenton touching certain Attachments made upon the River of Exe. The like difference arose between the Tenants of Kenton against the Inhabitants of Limston and Prattishead Rot. 18. Sundry persons breaking ground in Croll ditch for standings before the time appointed for Lammas Fair were all attached to answer the Mayor and Commonalty for the same Rot. 42. Consuetudo in Civitate Exoniensi est approbata quod liceat unicuique Civi infra eandem Civitatem omnia Tenementa quae in eadem Civitate habuerit aut perquisiverit in
tenendum Curiam sive Curias-dictae Civitatis quoties me ab eisdem abesse contigerit ad faciendum omnia alia in dicta Civitate Curia quae ego facerem si personaliter interessem In cujus rei testimonium has literas patentes sigillo Officii Majoratûs ficri feci Sigillatum datum Exoniae praedicto decimâ— septimo die mensis Martii Anno Regni Regis Edvardi tertii à conquestu octavo This Martin Lekenn 18. Martii died in his Mayoralty and Thomas Lichfield was elected Mayor to supply for the residue of this year that Office Regna Regum 9. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1335. Mayors and Bayliffs Henry Hughton Robert Pleigh Thomas Furbor William Lydeland Alexander Wallis Custos Magister domus beatae Mariae Magdalenae extra portam Australem Civitatis Exoniensis tulerunt glebam pro redditu exeunte de quodam gardino extra portam oriâ—ntalem Civitatis praedictae vocato Morley Shulteshay jacente inter gardinum Willielmi Tantifer Richardi Russell haec Consuetudâ— vocata Gleba Adjudicatum fuit Decano Capitulo beati Petri Exoniensis quoddam Tenementum scâ—tuatum is vico Australi Civitatis Exoniensis secundum Consuetudinem Civitatis praedictae dicitur Shortford Decanus Capitulum beati Petri Exoniensis recuperaverunt seisinam unius Tenementi in Parochia Sanctae Sativole extra portam orientalem dictae Civitatis secumdum consuetudinem esusdem Civitatis dicitur Gavelock Regna Regum 10. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1336. Mayors and Bayliffs Henry Hughton Thomas Furbor John Coles William Shillingford John Colebrook The King in Parliament holden at Westminster made a Dutchy of the Earldom of Cornwal and gave the same to his eldest Son Prince Edward surnamed the Black Prince from his dreadful acts and sent his Letters thereof to the Mayor by the name of the Mayor of his Honourable City of Exeter and also sent a Writ for the proclaiming thereof and withal made this City parcel of the said Dutchy as formerly it was of the Earldom This City being now held of the said Duke as parcel of the said Dutchy by the Fee Farm Rent of twenty pounds per Annum Regna Regum 11. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1337. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Gervis Rober Noble Richard Pleigh John Newton John Davy Bishop Grandison Founded and built the Colledge and Church of Oâ—tcry St Mary in the County of Devon and endowed the same with great Livelihoods He was also a liberal Benefactor to the Vicars Choral of his own Church Regna Regum 12. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1338. Mayors and Bayliffs Henry Haughton Nicholas Godescott Richard Pleigh Thomas Furbor John Davy Consuctudo in Civitate Exoniensi est quod nothus non gaudebit privilegio ullo pariter cum legitimis which well agrees with a rule in Law Qui ex damnato coitu nascuntur inter liberos non computentur Regna Regum 13. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1339. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Lichfield Robert Bridport John Cook John Newton Roger Wythom Fines for the Conveyance of Lands or Rents were now usually levied within this City whereof I here thought good to instance one or two instead of many viz. Haec est finalis Concordia facta inter Johanem Carpenter quaerentem Robertum Cottrell Defensorem de duabus acris terrae jacentibus in suburbiis extra portam orientalem Civitatis Exoniensis Haec est finalis Concordiae facta inter Robertum Brâ—dworthy quaerentem Walteram dâ— Swemthull Matildam uxorem ejâ—â— defensorem de uno Messuagio jacente in summo vico Civitatis Exoniensis Regna Regum 14. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1340. Mayors and Bayliffs Henry Hughton Robert Bridport Thomas Furbor Richard Pleigh Richard Halberton I held it likewise requisit to set down how ancient the Inrolment of Deeds hath here been and thereof only to give you a like precedent or two viz. Irrotulatur Charta Willielmi Leigh facta Thomae Robin de uno Messuagio jacent infra Parochiam dâ—â—i Stephani Civitatisâ— Exoniensis Irrotulatur Charta Rogeri Shillingford facta Waltero Hugthon de uno Mâ—ssuagio â—acente extra portam occidentalem Civitatis praedictae Regna Regum 15. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1341. Mayors and Bayliffs Hanry Hughton Reynold Wythen Thomas Furbor Richard Pleigh John Sutton The ancient Custom of this City is when the Chief Lord in Fee cannot be answered of the rent due to him out of his Tenement and no distress can be there levied for the same The Lord must come to the Tenement and there take a stone or some other dead thing of the said Tenement and bring the same to the Court at the Guildhall held before the Mayor and Bayliffs and thus must he do seven quarter days successively And this is called Aglebe And if on the said seventh quarter day the Lord be not satisfied of his rent and arrears then the said Tenement shall be adjudged to the said Lord To hold the same a year and a day And this is called Gavelock And then forthwith Proclamation shall be openly made in the Court That if any man pretends any Title to the said Tenement that he appear within the year and day then next following and satisfie the Lord of the said rent and arrears but if no appearance be made and the rent not paid Then shall the Lord come again to the said Court and pray that according to the said Custom the said Tenement be adjudged to him in his Demesh as of Fee according to the intention of the Law in such like cases which is commonly called le cessavit per biennium And this Custom here is called Shortford and in French Foreclose And so the Lord shall have from thenceforth the said Tenement with the appurtenances in Fee to him and his Heirs for ever Regna Regum 16. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1342. Mayors and Bayliffs Robert Furbor Robert Bradworthy Nicholas Halberton Nicholas Godescott Walter White Bishop Grandison with others by order of Parliament Were sent over as Embassadors to the Pope touching a Treaty of Peace and afterwards concluded between England and France Nemo infra aetatem viginti unius Annorum existens potest ullo modo terras seu Tenementa sua alicui dimittere per consuetudinem Civitatis praedictae Rot. 40. Regna Regum 17. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1353. Mayors and Bayliffs Thomas Furbor William Hastment Roger Treseler Richard Pleigh Robert Noble Regna Regum 18. Edw. the 3. An. D. 1344. Mayors and Bayliffs Henry Hughton John Newton John Sutton Richard Pleigh Robert Noble The King was advertized but untruly of a Ryot here committed by sundry lewd and evil disposed persons which information was so enforced that the King being otherwise incumbred with the care of his Forreign Wars conceived the worse of the Report and thereupon sent down his Commission of Oyer and Determiner dated 20. Aug. this year and directed to the Mayor and Justices of the said City strictly requiring them to have
Februarii 1 Jacobi Anno Domini 1603. inter alia devised to the said Alms-house the sum of three shillings and four pence yearly for ever Richard Lant of Kingston in the County of Surrey Esquire towards the rebuilding of the said Alms-house it being much decayed freely gave the sum of one hundred pounds and endowed the same together with Bonvill's Alms house in Rocks-lane in the said City with Lands of the yearly value of fifty pounds for ever He bears party per pale Argent and Gules a cross engrailed counterchanged 8. William Lord Bonvill Founded an Alms-house in Rocks-lane alias the Combrew within this City for twelve poor people and endowed the same with Lands of the yearly value of one and twenty pounds eleven shillings and four pence which with his other Lands by the Attainder of the Marquess of Dorset heir to the said Lord Bonvill the same fell to the Crown but the Poor were still paid by the King's Receiver and upon their respective deaths the Mayor and Aldermen of this City name others to succeed them by vertue of Queen Elizabeths Letters Patent to them granted on that behalf dated 7. Novembris 4 Regni Annoque Domini 1562. He bears sable six mullets Argent 3. 2. and 1. The aforesaid John Baker gave more to this Alms-house by his said Will the sum of three shillings and four pence for ever The aforesaid Stephen Rudgway gave more yearly to this Alms-house six pence half-penny 9. John Stevens Doctor in Physick and sometime a Canon Residentiary of this Church next without Bickly-gate Founded an Alms-house for thirteen poor people calling it St. Catharines Alms-house and gave towards their relief yearly seventeen shillings and four pence but with meat and drink their necessities were daily supplyed through the Charity of the Canons Residentiary of the said Church and their houses to be repaired by the Dean and Chapter to whom the nomination of the Alms-men therein was left after the Founders death He bears Gules on a bend Or three garlands Vert. The aforesaid William Hern gave more to the said Alms-house yearly the sum of 2 l. 16 s. 4 d. A Garden behind their house and six and thirty shillings more is yearly paid them as the interest of thirty pounds recovered Anno Domini 1636. by vertue of a Decree obtained in the High Court of Chancery against Robert Michell Doctor in the Civil Laws and others Robert Hall Doctor in Divinity and late Treasurer of this Church by his last Will and Testament in writing dated 25. Aprilis Anno Domini 1667. inter alia bequeathed to the said Alms-house the sum of ten pounds per Annum for ever to be paid them quarterly by equal portions He bears sable three Talbots heads erazed Argent 10. William Wynard Esquire sometime Recorder of this City Founded an Hospital without the South-gate of the said City calling it God's house for twelve poor Men allotting to each of them eight-pence weekly towards their maintenance the government of which said house he left to his heirs and that they should in all things perform his will he appointed the Mayor and Bailiffs of this City to be Overseers thereof and twice yearly that is to say within eight days of Easter and St. Michael th' Arch-angel to visit the said house with power to hear the complaints of the poor therein and to redress them reform all abuses or cause them so to be done which said Alms-house in the fury of the late intestine Wars within this Kingdom being destroyed by Fire was began by vertue of a Decree obtained in the High Court of Chancery by the said Visitors rebuilded at the charge of Terâ—tenant and Defendant in that suit George Speke of White Lackington in the County of Somerset Esquire and several complaints redressed amongst which the poors pay is encreased weekly to two shiliings to each person therein and shortly the sum of 12 l. per Annum more to be added thereunto for the better relief of the said Alms-men He bears Argent on a bend Azure three mollets of the first 11. John Hurst late of this City Merchant by his last Will and Testament dated 16. Novembris 6 Edward 6. Anno Domini 1552. gave six several Tenements lying within the Parish of Alhallows on the Walls for the habitation of six poor people and six other Tenements a shop and a stable lying in St. Mary Arches-lane towards their maintenance also he gave two hundred marks in Money to be paid them by two shillings weekly He bears Argent a star of eight points Gules in chief a â—able of three points of the second 12. William Hurst Esquire who had been five times Mayor of this City Founded an Alms house without the East-gate for the better relief of twelve poor people allotting to each of them twenty shillings per Annum the government of which said house he wholly left to the Chamber of this City as by his deed Indented bearing date 19. Octobris 10 Elizabeth Anno Domini 1568. may appear He bears ut Prius John Lant Esquire sometime Mayor of this City by his last Will and Testament bearing date 9. Julii 12 Jacobi Anno Domini 1614. bequeathed to the said Chamber the sum of 100 l. in Money for the better support and maintenance of the said Alms-house He bears party per pale Argent and Gules a cross ingreiled counterchanged 13. John Davy Esquire thrice Mayor of this City by his Deed indented bearing date 10. Februarii 42 Elizabeth Anno Domini 1600. founded an Alms-house within the Parish of St. Mary Arches for the relief of two poor Men and their wives and two single persons men or women and settled the sum of sixteen pounds per Annum for their maintenance that is to say to the married men and their wives fourteen pence a piece and to the single men or women eighteen pence to each of them He gives Azure three cinquefoils Or on a chief Argent a Lyon Passant Gules 14. The aforesaid William Hern by his said Deed gave to two poor people in a house without the South-gate of this City who were afterwards removed and settled in a house within the Key-gate the sum of eight shillings and eight pence yearly He bears ut Prius The aforesaid John Baker gave more to these poor people by his said Will yearly the sum of two shillings 15. Thomas Flay Esquire late Mayor of this City by his last Will and Testament bearing date 26. Junii 10 Caroli Anno Domini 1634. bequeathed diverse Lands and Tenements to Elizabeth his Widow and Relict to the end that she should erect four convenient houses within the Parish of St. Paul in the said City for the habitation of four poor widow women allotting to each of them weekly twelve-pence which said trust the said Elizabeth Flay hath well performed and through her own Charity hath added twelve-pence a piece weekly to every one of them and also at her own charge hath added and erected