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
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
nudis pedibus camisia bractis vestitum habentem in una manu unum arcum sine corda altera manu unum Tribulum non pennatum Maperdeshale Terra in Maperdeshale in Com. Bedford tenetur in Capite per servitium essendi in guerra Regis cum uno equo non appreciato una habergione gladio lancta Capello ferreo uno cultello sumptibus suis propriis Hoton Manerium de Hoton in Com. Cumbr. tenetur de Domino Rege in Capite per servitium Forestae Custodis in Haya Domini Regis de Plompton ultra hoc per servitium tenendi slippam sellae Domini Regis dum equum suum in Castro suo Carleoli scanderit per servitium reddendi per An. 33 s. 4 d. ad Scaccarium Regis Carliol per manus Vicecom Cumbriae qui pro tempore fuerit Domus in London Rex Johannes concessit Willielmo de Ferrariis Comiti Derby domum quae fuit Isaac Iudaei de Norwico in London in parochia Sanctae Margaretae Tenend de nobis haeredibus nostris per tale servitium scil quod ipse haeredes sui servient coram nobis haeredibus nostris ad prandium omnibus Festis annalibus quando Festum celebrabimus capite discooperto sine capello cum una Garlanda de latitudine minoris digiti sui vel haeredum suorum pro omni servitio Dat. 27. Jūnii 15 regni Morton Edmundus Busche tenet terras in Morton in Com. Essex de Rege in Capite per servitium inveniendi unum stimulum ferreum pro uno Warroks super quoddam Clothsack quandocunque Dominus Rex equitaverit in exercitu versus partes Walliae tempore guerrae Quaere Gloucester City Tempore Regis Edwardi reddebat Civitas de Gloucestre xxxvj libras numeratas xij Sextaria mellis ad mensuram ejusdem Burgi xxxvj dicras ferri C virgas ferreas ductiles ad clavos navium Regis quasdam alias minutas consuetudines in Aula in Camera Regis Esseby Willielmus filius Warini tenet tertiam partem Villae de Esseby in Com. Northampt. de Rege Scotiae per quoddam servitium quod teneat Strepe suum die Natalis Et idem Rex tenet de Rege Angliae in Capite Bishops-Castle Within the Mannor of Bishops-Castle in Com. Salop Howel de Lydom and William ap John held one Yard Land paying iij s. at the Feast of Pentecost and iij s. at Michaelmas vel tria Vomera tria Cultra reparare ferramenta ad tres Carucas ad electionem Ballivorum Episcopi Slapton Hugh Courtenay Esquire Son and Heir of Sir Hugh Courtenay Knight held the Mannor of Slapton in Com. Devon of the Bishop of Exeter by the service of being Steward at the Installation Feast of every Bishop of that See The particulars whereof were after some controversie thus ascertained by Walter Stapledon then Bishop of Exeter and his Dean and Chapter under their Seals at Newton Plympton the morrow after the Feast of St. Tho. the Apostle Anno Dom. 1308. 2 Edw. 2. That the said Hugh or his Heirs shall at the first coming of the Bishop to Exeter meet him at the East-gate of the City when he descendeth from his Horse and then going a little before him on the right hand shall keep off the press of People and attend him into the Quire of the Cathedral Church there to be Installed And shall at the Installing Feast serve-in the first Mess at the Bishops own Table In consideration of which service the said Hugh Courtenay and his Heirs shall have for their Fee four Silver dishes of those which he shall so place at the first Mess two Saltcellars one Cup wherein the Bishop shall drink at that Meal one Wine-pot one Spoon and two Basons wherein the Bishop shall then wash All which Vessels are to be of Silver Provided the said Hugh or his Heirs being of full Age do attend this service in person if not hindred by Sickness or the Kings Writ c. then to appoint some worshipful Knight to supply the place by a Deputation who shall swear that his Lord is sick c. Seaton Richardus Rockesley Miles tenebat terras Seatoniae in Com. Kantiae per Serjantiam esse Vautrarium Regis in Gasconia donec perusus fuit pari Solutarum pretii iiij d. Yorkshire Philippus de Lardimer clamat esse Venditorem Domini Regis de feodo in Com. Ebor. de omnibus rebus quae vendi debent pro debito Domini Regis vel etiam pro Auro Reginae Ita viz. quod ipse vel certus suus Attornatus ibit ad mandatum Vicecomitis de loco in locum insra Comitarum sumptibus suis ad praedictas venditiones faciendas Et capiet de unaquaque venditione pro feodo suo xxxij denarios Which tenure was afterwards seised into the Kings hands for the abuse thereof as appears by the great Roll in the Pipe-Office Anno 2 Edw. 2. Kibworth Queen Elizabeth granted to Sir Ambrose Dudley the Mannor of Kibworth-Beauchamp in Com. Leic. to be held by the service of being Pantler to the Kings and Queens of this Realm at their Coronations Chesterton Gilbert le Harpour held Lands in Chesterton in Com. Warwick of the King by grand Serjeanty viz. to keep the place called Teddesley Hay within the Forest of Canoke at his own cost Bruham Bertrammus le Wyle tenet dimidiam Hidam terrae in Villa de Bruham Com. Bedf. de Domino Rege per Serjantiam reddendi per annum unum par Arceonum ad Sellam Et Prior de Neunham tenet dimid Hidam terrae in Villa de Turvey de Domino Rege in Capite per Serjantiam reddendi per ann unum par Arceonum dealbat ad Sellam valet terra illa x s. per ann Sutton Alexander de Summersham tenet dimidium feodum militis in Villa de Sutton in Com. Bedf. de Domino Rege in Capite per Serjantiam essendi in propria persona cum Domino Rege ubicunque fuerit in guerra in Anglia seu alibi Standebury Robertus de Tadeshale tenet viginti libratas terrae in Standebury in Com. Berks de Domino Rege per Serjantiam custodiendi unum Girefalconem pro Domino Rege Benham Willielmus Lovel tenet duas Carucatas terrae de Domino Rege apud Benham in Com. Berks per Serjantiam custodiendi unam Meutam deynectorum Canum ad custum Domini Regis Et Willielmus de Valence decem libratas terrae de Domino Rege in eadem Villa quae fuit Escaeta Domino Regi per Hugonem Wake per Serjantiam custodiendi Hostium Camerae Domini Regis Lyndeby Johannes de Metham Sibilla uxor ejus tenuerunt de Rege in Capite medietatem Villae de Lyndeby per servitium reddendi Pollicium
ad Lupum pro voluntate sua in Comitatu isto Vpton Nicholas Chaunceux tenet Manerium de Vpton in Com. Northampton quod est de antiquo Dominio Coronae Domini Regis per servitium inveniendi unum hominem armatum in guerra Domini Regis quandocunque necesse fuerit infra quatuor maria Angliae per xl dies sumptibus suis propriis Rode Robertus Maunsel tenet xl acras terrae cum pertin in Rode in quodam loco vocato Somerhale Lidgate de honore Peverelli per Serjantiam inveniendi Domino Regi in guerra sua Walliae cum accederit unum equum precii quinque solidorum unum saccum precii iiij d. ob cum uno brochetto per quadraginta dies sumptibus suis propriis Radeclyve Glapton Manerium de Radeclyve tenetur de Domino Rege in Capite per servitium mutandi unum Estricium inveniendi unum portatorem ad custus Domini Regis Item Gervasius de Glapton Johannes de Skerington alii tenent medietatem unius messuagii trium bovatarum terrae in Glapton per servitium inveniendi unum sub-ballivum pro feodo Peverelli in Com. Nottingham Abbeford Laurentius do Scaccario tenuit duas Carucatas terrae in Abbeford in parochia de Aston per Serjantiam essendi Marescallus coram Justiciariis Itinerantibus per totam Angliam coram Justiciariis de Banco Baronibus de Scaccario Nettlebed Oliverus de Stanford tenuit quandam terram in Nettlebed in Com. Oxon per Serjantiam Espicurnantiae Cancellaria Domini Regis Hokenorton Ela Comitissa Warwici tenet Manerium de Hokenorton in Com. Oxon. quod est de Baronia de Oyly de Domino Rege in Capite per Serjantiam scindendi coram Domino Rege die Natalis Domini habere cultellum Domini Regis de quo scindit Staunton Henricus de la Wade tenet decem libratas terrae in Staunton in Com. Oxon. per Serjantiam portandi unum Gerefalconem quolibet anno coram Domino Rege quando Domino Regi placuerit spaciari cum hujusmodi Falconibus ad custus ipsius Domini Regis Nether Overton Robertus de la Sale tenet duas virgatas terrae in Nether-Overton per Serjantiam inveniendi in exercitu Domini Regis hominem portantem unum Penicillum per quadraginta dies sumptibus suis modo arrenta est ad Scaccarium Thethercote Cheddich Petrus de Chetwode tenet dimidiam Carucatam terrae in Thethercote Cheddich per Serjantiam quod solebat invenire in exercitu Domino Regis sumptibus suis propriis tempore guerrae unum hominem peditem cum una Lancea uno Bucino ferreo per xl dies quaere Thamewell Robertus de Grant tenuit unum Messuagium xiij acras terrae in Hameletto de Thamewell in Com. Oxon. de Domino Rege per Serjantiam custodiendi portam de Wodegate apud Wodestoke in presentia Domini Regis cum idem Dominus Rex moram ibidem faceret Boghton Johannes Mauduit tenet manerium de Boghton in Com. Oxon. in capite de Domino Rege per Serjantiam mutandi unum Hostricum Domini Regis vel istum Hostricum portandi ad curiam Domini Regis Lewe Robertus de Eylesford tenet tres virgatas terrae in Lewe in Com. Oxon. de Domino Rege per servitium inveniendi unum hominem cum arcu sagittis per xl dies sumptibus suis propriis quotiescunque contigerit Dominum Regem ire in Walliam cum exercitu suo Wylington Walter de la Lynde tenet Bedelleriam Hundredi de Wyllington Hundredi de Westperet in Com. Somerset per Serjantiam inveniendi Bedellos ad Officium Bedellorum faciend in Hundredis praedictis Et Walterus dicit quod Dominus Henricus Rex pater Domini Regis nunc concessit Johanni de la Lynde patri suo praedictam Bedelleriam per Cartam suam quam profert c. Stony-Aston Bartholomaeus Peytevyn tenet duas Carucatas terrae in Stony-Aston in Com. Somerset de Domino Rege in Capite per servitium unius Sextarii vini gariophilati reddendi Domino Regi per annum ad Natale Domini Et valet dicta terra per ann x l. Stert Matheus de Chamfleur tenet Manerium de Sterte in Com. Somerset in Capite de Domino Rege per Serjantiam unius Grunae vini solvend per annum ad Scaccarium Domini Regis ad festum Sancti Michaelis Arrentata est ad iij s. per annum Mertok Robertus de Sancto Claro tenet decem libratas terrae in Hundredo de Mertok de Domino Rege in Capite per servitium inveniendi unum servientem armatum cum uno equo in exercitu Domini Regis in Wallia per xl dies sumptibus suis propriis Brom. Barthol de Avylers tenet terram in Brom in Com. Suffolk per Serjantiam ducendi pedites istius Comitatus in Walliam quotiescunque contigerit Dominum Regem ire ad partes illas cum exercitu Hanlegh Robertus Bardolf tenet quoddam Tenementum in Hanlegh in Com. Suffolk per Serjantiam essendi faciendi Officium Ballivi Honoris de Hanlegh in Capite de Domino Rege Aston-Bernard John Molyns held the Mannor of Aston-Bernard in Com. Bucks of the King in Capite by the service of being Marshal of the Kings Falcons and other Hawks Wingfeild Galfridus Frumband tenuit sexaginta acras terrae in Wingefend in Com. Suffolk per servitium reddendi Domino Regi duas albas Columbas per ann Wrotting Walterus Pychard de Wrotting in Com. Suffolk tenuit Centum acras terrae de Domino Rege in Capite per Serjantiam inveniendi Domino Rege unum hominem peditem cum uno arcu quatuor sagittis quotiescunque contigerit Dominum Regem ire in Walliam cum exercitu per xl dies sumptibus suis propriis Wylemondele Reginald de Argentyne in King Edward the firsts time was seized of the Mannor of great Wylemondele now called Wymble in the County of Cambridg which he held by grand Serjanty to serve our Lord the King on the day of his Coronation with a silver Cup ad Ordinationem Seneschalli Domini Regis This Mannor is now come to the Lord Allington who at the Coronation Dinner of his Majesty King Charles the second carried the King his first draught of Drink in a Silver gilt Cup the Office of Cupbearer as also the Fee having been adjudged to him by the Courts of Claims in right of this Mannor And when the King had drank the said Lord Allington received the Cup for his Fee Guldeford Thomas de la Puille tenet unam Serjantiam in villa de Guldeford de Dono Ricardi Testard per quam aliquando solebat servare Lotrices Curiae Domini Regis modo reddit ad Scaccarium xxv s. Cumbes Petrus de
seed two pair of Gloves and a Steel Needle in Elston Thorp and Stoke by Newark Cotinton Walter de Marisco held the Mannor of Cottinton in Com. Nottingham by the service of presenting the King yearly with a pair of Scarlet Hose Bulewel Roger Rastal held Lands in Bulewell in Com. Nottingham of the King by the service of paying every year a Horse with a Halter Brunnesley Gilbert de Brunnesley held ` Lands in Brunnesley in Com. Nottingham of the Honour of Peverel by Serjeanty of finding a Horse of v s. price with a Sack and Broach and an Halter of an halfpeny price for forty dayes at his own cost in the Kings Army in Wales Borebach Conelesfeld Henricus Sturmy M. uxor ejus tenet de Domino Rege in Capite Maneria de Borebach Conelesfeld cum pertin in Com. Wiltes per servitium custodiendi Balivam totius Forestae de Savernake Censariam quae vocatur la verme in Foresta praedicta etiam per servitium inveniendi unum hominem armatum ad Loricam quando Dominus Rex eum habere voluerit citra Mare Pro quidem custodia Forestae Censariae praedictae habere debent omnia Jura pertinencia subscripta Omnes Forestarii de feodo totius Forestae praedictae erunt eis intendentes respondentes tanquam Capitali Forestario Forestae praedictae debent habere equitaturam sellam frenum gladium Cornu Forestariorum de feodo cum obierint Et debent habere Estov erium suum ad Housebote Heybote per totam Balivam praedictam omnia Amerciamenta facta in Curia Forestae praedictae de defaltis Et omnia Placita de Leporibus Rechibus Heymectis Tessonibus Vulpibus Murilegis perdicibus omnia Amerciamenta de escapiis animalium mortuo bosco per totum annum excepto mense yetito Et omnia Averia sua exceptis Bidentibus Capris in Foresta praedicta quieta de Herbagio per annum Porcos suos quietos de Pannagio per totum annum excepto mense vetito Et debent habere Extrahuras per totam Forestam praedictam amerciamenta de expeditatione Canum Aeria Espervariorum mel nuces Cyppos per totam Forestam praedictam post quodlibet Regardum factum Et habent Chaceam suam per totam Balivam Forestae praedictae ad Lepores vulpes Murilegos Tessones ad omni modas hujusmodi vermes Et debent habere mortuum boscum in praedicta Censaria de la Verme per tres septimanas ante Festum Sancti Michaelis sine Utensili prosternendum Et debent habere in eadem Censaria quicquid vento prosternitur praeter Cablicium quod pertinet ad Dominum Regem Et Retropannagium a Festo Sancti Martini usque ad Festum Purificationis Beatae Mariae omnes Coopertiones de Maerennio Prostrato ad opus Domini Regis vel dato per Dominum Regem Et Sabulonarium Chyminagium per totam Censariam praedictam Et Pasturam cujusdam anguli bruerae extra Colput c. Borebach Conelesfeld Henry Sturmy and M. his Wife hold the Mannors of Borebach Conelesfeld in the County of Wilts of our Lord the King in Capite by the service of keeping the Bail of the whole Forrest of Savernake and the Farm which is called la verne in the said Forest and also by the service of finding a Man Armed with a Coat of Mail when our Lord the King will have him beyond Sea For the keeping of which Forest and Farm they ought to have all the rights and appurtenances here under written All Foresters in Fee of the said Forest shall be attendant and answerable to them as to the chief Forester of the said Forest and they ought to have the Horse and furniture Saddle Bridle Sword and Horn of such Foresters in Fee when they dye And they ought to have their Estovers of Housebote and Haybote through the whole Bail aforesaid and all amerciaments for defaults made at the Court of the Forest and all Pleas of Hares Nets Badgers Foxes Wyldcats and Partridges And all Amerciaments for the escapes of wild beasts and for dead wood in the whole year except in the fence month which was from fifteen dayes before Midsommer day to fifteen dayes after and was also called Tempus de Foyneson because the Dear did then fawn or bring forth their young to have all their Cattle except Sheep and Goats during the whole year quit of Herbage and their Hogs quit of Paunage for the whole year except in the Fence moneth and they ought to have the Estrays of the whole Forest and the Amerciaments for expeditating Dogs and Airys of Sparhawks Honey and Nuts and Hipps through the whole Forest after every Regard there made And to have their Chace at Hare Fox Wildcat Badger and all such like Vermin through the whole Bayle of the said Forest And they ought to have the dead Wood on the said Farm de la Verme for three weeks before the Feast of St. Michael to be puld down without a Tool or Axe And they ought to have on the said Farm whatsoever is thrown down by the wynd except Wood which belongs to our Lord the King And Retropaunage from the Feast of St. Martyn to the Feast of the Purification of Blessed Mary And all coverings or Crops of Timber felld for the Kings use or given away by him and liberty to dig Gravel or sand and Toll for wayfarage through the whole Farm aforesaid and the pasturage of a certain Nook of Heath-ground beyond Colput Chichester Quaedam terrae tenementa in suburbia Cicestriae in parochia Sancti Pancratii tenentur de Rege in Capite per Servitium reddendi Rege quandocunque venerit per quandam venellam vocatam Goddestrete super mari australi unum fucillum plenum fili crudi ad falsam cordam pro Balista sua facienda Cuckwold Thomas Colevyle miles tenet Manerium de Cukwold in Com. Ebor. de Thoma nuper Domino de Mowbray ut de Manerio suo de Threke Reddendo unum Tergum sine Scutum cum Armis dicti Domini depictis annuatim die Pentecostes Eggefeild Walterus le Rus Alicia uxor ejus tenent duodecim acras terrae in Eggefeild per Servitium reparandi ferramenta ad Carucas Regis Husknal-Torcard Sir John Leek held the Mannor of Hucknal-Torcard in Com. Nottingham of the Crown by Knights service and also by the service of carrying a Gerfalcon from Michaelmas till lent at the Kings cost with Horses and 2 s. a day and half a Sextary of Wyne and two Robes when he was summoned to perform the service Lindeby The Town of Lindeby in Com. Nottingham was an Escheat of the Kings of the Honour of Peverel and William de Saint Michael had one Moity of it of the gift of King John Paying yearly in the
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
I well knowing the Learning and Industry of the Author do allow the Printing of this Book Fra. North. Fragmenta Antiquitatis ANTIENT TENURES OF LAND And Jocular CUSTOMS Of some MANNORS· Made publick for the diversion of some and instruction of others By T.B. of the Inner-Temple Esquire Neque semper Arcum tendit Apollo Hor. LONDON Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires For Abel Roper at the Sun Tho. Basset at the George and Christopher Wilkinson at the Black-Boy all in Fleetstreet 1679. TO THE READER WHilst I was perusing many of our both publick private Records for other ends I thought a small Collection of some remarkable Tenures of Land and unusual Customs of some Mannours might not be unacceptable to the Studious who when weary with poring upon Littletons Tenures and his Learned Commentator might relax are fibulam by recurring to these and smile at the inoffensive mirth both of our Kings in former times and Lords of Mannours in creating them some of which I confess are since converted into a Rent having a modo arrentatur enter'd in the Record others are by length of time disused and others yet remain in force As not long since I had the curiosity to ask an old Officer in the Exchequer whether he ever remembred any Herring Pies paid to the King for the Mannour of Carleton in Norfolk yes very well answered he for we had some of them in Court among us here last Term Nor does the late Act of Parliament for taking away all Tenures by Knight-service and Capite extend to the discharging the honorary Services of Grand Serjeanty other than of Wardship Mariage c. but are left standing on their old foundation by a particular Proviso in that Act. Neither are these kind of Tenures unusual in other Countries for we read of a Queen of Hungary who upon her Death-bed bequeathed the City and Province of Altenburg to one of the Lords of her Court upon condition that he and his successors should always keep a certain number of Peacocks in defect whereof the Territory should revert to the Crown My first intention was to render all the Records in English but upon second thoughts I judge the original words would be more acceptable both to the Learned and Learner and for the help of the latter have explained to the best of my skill those of any difficulty at least as many of them as I could for some I believe may pose the ablest Glossographer now living as Warocks Muta deynectorum Canum Heymectis Cyppos Berbiagium Chacuros Sensas Muta vini Gruna Vini c. Or to speak more truly I took them as I found them some out of the very Records others extracted thence and translated to my hand for I was not willing to spend very much time in rem levem as Sir Henry Spelman words it upon a liike occasion And yet as light as the subject may seem to be I am very well informed that Atturney General Noy had a little before his Death bespoke a Copy of all the Tenures by Serjeanty remaining upon Record 't is like he judg'd them useful or divertising or both I have purposely omitted or but rarely mentioned those more common Tenures whereby the owner was obliged to deliver yearly into the Exchequer a Mew'd Sparhawk a pair of Spurs Gloves or the like of which kind I met with many and held them not for my purpose which was to take in none but what were in some respect or other remarkable Nor must I forget to advertise the Reader that the names of divers Mannours and places here mentioned are written otherwise now than they were of old which the knowing in each County will easily reconcile And however others may like of this Essay some Gentlemen of Antient descent I presume will be well enough pleased to see their Ancestors names thus revived and transmitted from our seldom seen Records to a more publick Register Nothing of this nature having to my knowledge been ever till now made publick And I will be bold to say the Studious in Law-latin and Record-learning shall not any where find so much singular of that kind collected in so small a Volume Lege Ride Disce Tho. Blount Antient Tenures OF LAND Addington ROberius Agyllon tenet unam Carucatam terrae in Addington in Comitatu Surrey per Seriantiam faciendi unum Ferculum in olla lutea in Coquina Domini Regis die Coronationis suae vocatur Dilligrout Et si sit seym sagimen in illo ferculo vocatur Maupigyrnun Afterwards in K. Edw. the first 's time William Walcot held the Mannor of Addington by the same service only in this Record it is called Quoddam Pottagium vocatum Maupigyrnun And it is now come to the possession of Thomas Leigh Esquire who at the Coronation of his Majesty that now is Anno 1661 brought up to the Kings Table a Mess of Pottage called Dillegrout this service being adjudged to him by the Court of Claims in right of this his Mannour whereupon the Lord High Chamberlain presented him to the King who accepted the Service but did not eat of the Pottage Aston-Cantlou The Mannor of Aston-Cantlou de Cantulupo in the County of Warwick was by inquisition after the death of Lawrence Hastings Earl of Penbroke return'd to be held in this Form Quod quidem Manerium per se tenetur de Domino Rege in Capite per servitium inveniendi unum hominem peditem cum Arcu sine Corda cum uno Basneto sive Cappa per quadraginta dies sumptibus proprijs quoties fuerit Guerra in Wallia Bericote King Henry the second enfeoffed one Boscher his servant with the Mannor of Bericote in the County of Warwick by the Service of keeping a white young Brach Brachetam with red Ears to be delivered to the King at the years end and then to receive another to breed up with half a quarter of Bran. Henley Lands in Henley in Comitat. Warwick were held by Edmond Lord Stafford by the service of three shillings or a payr of Scarlet Hose Carleton Edmundus Willoughby Tenuit unum Messuagium sex Bovatas terrae in Carleton in Com. Nott. ut de Manerio de Shelford per servitium unius Catapultae per annum pro omni servitio Alcester In the 32 of K. Edw. 1. upon the Relief paid by William de Bauteraux for the moity of the Town of Alcester in Com. Warwick it is there Recorded to be held of the King per servitium inveniendi medietatem equitis armati cum uno Equo Discooperto in guerra Domini Regis Stoneley In the Mannor of Stonley in Com. Warwick there were antiently four Bondmen whereof each held one Messuage and one Quartron of Land by the service of making the Gallowes and hanging the Theeves Each of which Bond-men was to wear a red Clout betwixt his Shoulders upon his upper Garment to
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
son Conseil monstre Richard de Bettoyne de Loundres qe come au Coronement nostre Seignour le Roy q'ore est il adonque Meire de Londres fesoit l'Office de Botiller oue CCCLX Vadletz vestuz d'une sute chescun portant en sa maine un Coupe blanche d'argent come autres Meirs de Londres ount faitz as Coronementz des Progenitours nostre Seignour le Roy dont memorie ne court et le Fee q'appendoit a cel iorne Cest asavoir un Coupe d'or ove la Covercle et un Ewer d'or enamaille lui fust livere per assent du Counte de Lancastre et d'autres Grantz qu'adonques y furent du Conseil nostre Seignour le Roy per la maine Sire Robert de Wodehouse Et ore vient en Estreite as Viscountes de Londres hors del Chokker de faire lever des biens et Chateux du dit Richard 89 l. 12 s. 6 d. pur le Fee avantdit dont il prie que remedie lui soit ordeyne Et le Meire et les Citeyns D'oxenford ount per point de Chartre quils vendront a Londres a l'encoronement d'eyder le Meire de Londres pur servir a la Fest et toutz ount usee Et si il plest a nostre Seignour le Roy et a son Conseil nous payerons volenters le Feel issent que nous soyoms descharges de la service Id est To our Lord the King and his Council Richard de Bettoyne of London sheweth that whereas at the Coronation of our Lord the King that now is he being then Mayor of London performed the Office of Butler with three hundred and sixty Valets clothed in the same Livery each one carrying in his hand a white Silver Cup as other Mayors of London have time out of mind used to doe at the Coronation of the Kings Progenitors and the Fee appendant to that service that is to say a Gold Cup with a Cover and with an Ewer of Gold enameled was delivered to him by assent of the Earl of Lancaster and other great men then of our Lord the Kings Council by the hands of Sir Robert de Woodhouse And now there comes an Estreat out of the Exchequer to the Sheriffs of London for the levying of 89 l. 12 s. 6 d. for the said fee upon the goods and Chattels of the said Richard wherein he prays that remedy may be ordained him And the Mayor and Citizens of Oxford are bound by Charter to come to London at the Coronation to assist the Mayor of London in serving at the Feast and so have always used to doe Or if it please our Lord the King and his Council we will willingly pay the Fee so that we may be discharged of that Service Stapleherst Tenementum Newstede cum pertin in villa de Stapleherst in Comitatu Cantiae tenetur de Manerio de East-Greenwich per fidelitatem tantum in libero Socagio per Paten dat 3. Feb. 4. Edward 6. And by the payment for Smoak-silver yearly to the Sheriff the sum of six pence Apelderham Johannes Aylemer tenet per irrotulamentum Curiae unum Messuagium unam virgatam terrae c. in Apelderham in Com. Sussex debet invenire unum hominem cum uno equo ad herciandum qualibet Septimana per unum diem ad utrumque Semen Yemale Quadragesimale dum aliquid fuerit ad herciandum in terra Domini Et ille qui herciat quolibet die recipiet unum Repastum viz. Panem Potagium Compernagium potum precii 1 d. quilibet equus hercians habebit qualibet die tantum de Avenis sicut capi potest inter duas manus etiam debet venire quolibet anno ad duas Precarias Carucae cum Caruca sua si habeat integram Carucam vel de parte quam habet Carucae si Carucam non habeat integram tunc arare debet utroque die quantum potest a mane ad meridiem uterque tentor viz. Carucae fugator habebunt unum Pastum solempnem utroque die praedictarum Precariarum Et debet invenire ad tres Precarias in Autumpno quolibet die duos homines habebit uterque dictorum hominum ad utrumque diem precariarum Primus unum Panem utroque die de frumento ordeo mixto qui ponderabit 18 Libras cerae precium cujuslibet panis 1 d. q. Et ad tertiam Precariam habebit uterque homo unum Panem praedicti ponderis totum de frumento prec 1 d. ob Et habebunt praedicti duo homines coniunctim ad quamlibet de praedictis tribus Precariis Potagium ferculum de Carne sine potu prec 1 d. Dylew or Dylwin Adam de Dyleu tenet in Dilew in Com. Heref. duas virgatas dimid terrae Reddendo inde annuatim Willielmo filio Warini tres solidos argenti inveniendo tempore guerrae dicto Willielmo singulis annis per quindecim dies unum hominem cum uno equo uno Compuncto uno Capello ferreo una lancea ad custum dicti Willielmi Et si equus ejus moreretur vel esset interfectus in servitio praedicti Willielmi idem Willielmus daret ei xx s. pro equo ipso Lincoln Rex mandat Baronibus quod allocent Roberto de Chadworth Vicecomiti Lincoln11 lvj s. vij d. quos per Praeceptum Regis liberavit Johanni de Bellovento pro putura septem Leporariorum trium Falconum Alanerarii pro vadiis unius Bracenarii a die Sancti Johannis Baptistae usque ad Vigiliam Sancti Michaelis prox sequen utroque die computato viz. pro Putura cujuslibet Leporarii Falconis per diem 1 d. ob pro vadiis praedicti Bracenarii per diem 2 d. Shirefeld Johannes de Warbleton tenet Manerium de Shirefeld in Com. Southampton de Rege in Capite per Magnam Serjantiam viz. per Servitium essendi Mareschallus de meretricibus dismembrandi Malefactores adjudicatos mensurandi Galones Bussellos in Hospitio Regis Brodgate Park Com. Leyc Haec est Concordia fact apud Leycestriam die Sancti Vincentii Martyris Anno Regni Regis Henrici filii Regis Johannis xxxj â— Coram Domino Rogero de Turkilby Magistro Simone de Walton Domino Gilberto de Preston Domino Johanne de Cobham Justiciariis tunc ibidem Itinerantibus Inter Rogerum de Quincy Comitem Wintoniae Rogerum Somery viz. Quod praedictus Rogerus de Somery concessit pro se haeredibus suis quod praedictus Comes haeredes sui habeant teneant Parcum suum de Bradgate ita inclausum sicut inclusus fuit in Octabis Sancti Hillarii anno praedicti Regis Henrici xxxj o cum Saltatoriis tunc in eo factis Et pro hac concordia concessione idem Comes concessit pro se haeredibus suis quod idem Rogerus de
the Musicians as Crier of the Court that all Minstrels within the Honor residing in the Counties of Stafford Derby Nottingham Leicester or Warwick do appear to do their suit and service on such pain and peril as the Court shall inflict for their default Essoynes nevertheless are allowed in excuse of defaulters upon good reason shewed After which all the said Minstrels are called by a Sute-roll as Suitors are in a Court Leet And then two Juries are empanelled of the chief Minstrells by the Stewards of Musick each Jury consisting of 12 which are returned into the Court where the Steward swears them The form of their oath is the same which is given in a Court-Leet only in a Leet the Jury swear to keep the Kings Counsel their fellows and their own in this to keep the King of Musicks Counsel their fellows and their own The better to inform the Jurors of their duty the Steward gives them a charge in commendation of the antient Science of Musick shewing what admirable effects it has produced what Kings and Noble persons have been Professors of it what manner of persons the Professors ought to be and to admonish them to choose skilful and good men to be Officers for the year ensuing The Officers chosen by the Jurjes are one King and three Stewards of Musick the fourth is chosen by the Steward of the Court the King is chosen one year out of the Minstrells of Stafford shire and the next year out of those of Derby shire The Steward of the Court issues out Warrants to the Stewards of Musick in their several districts by virtue whereof they are to distrain and levy in any City Town Corporate or other place within the Honor all such fines and Amerciaments as are imposed by the Juries on any Minstrel for offences committed against the dignity and honor of the profession The one Moity of which Fines the Stewards account for at the next Audit the other they retain themselves As soon as the Charge is given an Oyez is made with a Proclamation that if any person can inform the Court of any offence committed by any Minstrel within the said Honor since the last Court which is against the honor of his profession let them come forth and they shall be heard Then the Juries withdraw to consider of the points of the Charge and the old Stewards of Musick bring into the Court a Treat of Wine Ale and Cakes and at the same time some Minstrels are appointed to entertain the Company in Court with some merry Airs After which the Juries present one to be King for the year ensuing who takes his oath to keep up all the dignities of that Noble Science c. Then the old King ariseth from his place resigning it and his white Wand to the new King to whom he also drinks a glass of wine bids him joy of his honour And the old Stewards do the like to the new which done the Court adjourns to a certain hour after noon and all return back in the same order they came to the Castle to a place where the old King at his own cost prepares a dinner for the new King Steward of the Court Bailiff Stewards of musick and the Jurymen After dinner all the Minstrels repair to the Priory Gate in Tutbury without any manner of weapons attending the turning out of the Bull which the Bailiff of the Mannor is obliged to provide and is there to have the tips of his horns sawed off his ears and tail cut off his body smeared all over with Soap and his nose blown full of beaten Pepper Then the Steward causes Proclamation to be made That all manner of persons except Minstrels shall give way to the Bull and not come within forty foot of him at their own peril nor hinder the Minstrels in their pursuit of him After which proclamation the Priors Bailiff turns out the Bull among the Minstrels and if any of them can cut off a piece of his Skin before he runs into Derby shire then he is the King of Musicks Bull But if the Bull get into Derby shire sound and uncut he is the Lord Priors again If the Bull be taken and a piece of him cut off then he is brought to the Bailiffs house and there collered and roped and so brought to the bullring in the highstreet in Tutbury and there baited with Dogs the first course in honour of the King of Musick tha second in honour of the Prior the third for the Town and if more for divertisement of the spectators and after he is baited the King may dispose of him as he pleases This usage is of late perverted the young men of Stafford and Derby shires contend with cudgels about a yard long the one party to drive the Bull into Derby shire the other to keep him in Stafford shire in which contest many heads are often broken The King of Musick and the Bailiff have also of late compounded the Bailiff giving the King five Nobles in lieu of his right to the Bull and then sends him to the Earl of Devons Mannor of Hardwick to be fed and given to the Poor at Christmas FINIS Index Nominum A. AChard or Agard Page 25 Aguyllon 1. 59 Aldithely or Audley 10 Astley 11 Aspervil 41 Aungerin 43 Albemarle 44 Arblaster 44 Avering 50 Allebyr 56 Archer 57 Aguillum 59 Attefeild 63 Avilers 68.77 Argentyne 78 Arundell 82 Arley 86 Aylemer 123 Arundel Comes 61.127 Alesbury 28 Aldeham 135 Allington 78 B. BErkley Baro 132 Bellovent 125 Beauchamp 23 Balliol 14 24 Boscher 2 Boteraux 3 Burg Comes Kantiae 12. 69 Barons of Cheshire 23 Baskervile 24 Barun 30 Busche 32 Le Bay 39 Boyvyle 43 De la Barre 43 Bromhall 44 Bigod 50 Bek 62 Broke 64 Bygod Comes Nors 69 Bardolf 77 Baldwyn 79 Brustuyl 85 Brunnesley 88 Burton 94 Bourchier 104 Bawd 105 Belvoir 121 Bettoyne Mayor of London 121 Brus 146 Bernham 7 Braos 134 Blundevil Comes Cestriae 156 Botiler 135 C. CAntuar Archiep. 121 Cantulupe 57 Carevile 86 Chaworth 14 38.84 Criol 9 Corbet 136 Curtese 28 Courtenay 34 Coudrey 40 Carnifex 49 De Campis 61 Cauus 66 Colevile 92 Corson 67.70 Chaunceux 71 Chetwode 74 Chamfleur 76 Colewyke 94.131 Chester Earls and Barons 23.109 Clifton 140 Catesby 156 Coggeshale 49 Cobham 126 Cardevile 85 D. DArell 41 Dudley 36 D'aubeney 58 D'enguine 71 Dutton 157 Dymoc 4 Delahay 8 De Dyleu 125 E. EDmundsthorp 85 Enguine 50.60 Eylesford 75 Elyng 87 Espicer 67 Exeter Episcopus 34 F. FErrers Earl 32 De Ferrers 107 Fremon 16 Furnival Baron 22 Fitz-Daniel 48 De Fabrica 58 Fletcher 64 Frumbaud 77 Frankelyn 81 Fitz-Walter 112 Fitz-Hugh 42 Fitz-William 28 Fitz-Alan 46.68 Fitz-Warine 132 Fitz-Wydon 108 G. GErard 158 Gamelbere 4 Gatton 80.82 Glanvile 26.52 Green 10 Gorges 47 De la Grave 56 Grant 74 Gresley 15 Grey 109.132.138 Gatelyn 81 Griffin Rex 80 Grandison 82 Glapton 72 H. HAstings 2.13.68.110 Hungerford 19 Hardekin 26 Ho 27.49