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
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
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
City of London That is to say that the said Robert and his heirs ought to be and are cheif Banner-bearers of London in Fee for the Castelry which he and his Ancestors have of Baynards Castle in the said City In the time of war the said Robert and his heirs ought to serve the City in manner hereafter written That the said Robert ought to come armed upon his Horse of service with twenty men at Armes mounted upon Horses harnessed with Mail or with Iron even to the great door of the Minster of St. Paul with a Banner of his Armes displayed before him And when he is come to the great door of the said Minster mounted and armd as aforesaid then ought the Mayor of London with all his Sheriffs and Aldermen to come on foot armed out of the Minster of St. Paul to the said door with his Banner in his hand and the Banner ought to be Gules an Image of St. Paul d'or the feet hands and head Argent with a sword Argent in the hand of the said Image And as soon as the said Robert shall see the Mayor and his Sheriffs and Aldermen coming on foot out of the said Minster armed with this Banner he or his heirs who shall perform this service to the City shall dismount his Horse and salute the Mayor as his Companion and shall say to him Sir Mayor I am come to do my service which I owe to the City And the Mayor Sheriffs and Aldermen shall say we allow you here as our Banner-bearer of this City in Fee this Banner of the City to carry and govern to your power to the Honour and profit of our City And the said Robert and his heirs shall take the Banner in his hand And the Mayor and Sheriffs of the said City shall follow him to the door and present him with a Horse of xx l. price which Horse shall have a Saddle garnished with the Arms of the said Robert and covered with a Sendal of the same Armes and shall deliver xx l. sterling to the Chamberlain of the said Robert for his charges of that day And the said Robert shall mount the Horse which the Mayor then presented him with the Banner in his hand and as soon as he is mounted he shall desire the Mayor forthwith to cause a Marshall to be chosen out of the Host of the City of London And as soon as the Marshall is chosen the said Robert shall command the Mayor and his Burgesses of the City to cause the common Signal to be sounded through the City that all the Communalty may follow the Banner of St. Paul carried before them by the said Roberts own hand to Algate to which the said Robert and the Mayor shall assent If it so happen that the said Robert shall march out of the City then he shall choose two of the most sage persons out of every Ward of the City to take care how it may best be guarded in his absence and this Council shall be held in the Priory of the Trinity near Aldgate And before every Town or Castle which the Army of London shall beseige if he continue a year about the seige the said Robert ought to have from the Commons of London one hundred shillings for his pains and no more These are the Rights which the said Robert ought to have in London in the time of War That is to say that the said Robert hath a Soke in the City of London viz. from the Wall of the Canonry of St. Paul as a man goes down by the Bracine of St. Paul to the Thames and so to the side of the Mill which stands on the water that runs down by Fleet-Bridge and thence by London Walls round about the Friers Preachers to Ludgate And so returns by the back of the said Friers House to the corner of the said Canons Wall of St. Paul That is to say all the Parish of the Church of St. Andrew which is in the gift of his Ancestors by the said Seignory The said Robert hath also apppendant to this Soke all these things here under written That he ought to have a Sokeman of his own choice provided he be of the Sokemanry And if any of the Sokemanry shall be impleaded in the Guild Hall for any matter which touches not the body of the Mayor for the time being or any Sheriff of the said City it shall be lawful for the Sokeman of the Sokemanry of the said Robert le Fitz-Walter to demand the Court of the said Robert le Fitz-Walter And the Mayor and Citizens of London ought to grant him to have his Court in which his Judgment ought to be agreeable to that of the Guild-Hall If any thief shall be taken In his Soke he ought to have his flocks and imprisonment in his Soke and from thence he shall be carried to the Guild-Hall before the Mayor to receive his Judgment which ought there to be given but the Judgment shall not be pronounced untill he come in the Court of the said Robert and in his Franchise And the Judgment shall be such If he have deserved death for Treason he ought to be tied to a Pillar which stands in the Thames at Wood-wharf whereunto Water-men tye their Barges or Boats and there continue two Floods and two Ebbs of the Water And if he be condemned for a common Larcin he ought to be hangd at the Elms and there suffer his Judgment as other common Thieves Also the said Robert and his heirs have a great honour in holding so great a Franchise in the said City where the Mayor and Citizens ought to doe him right that is to say that when the Mayor is minded to hold a great Council he ought to call the said Robert or his heirs to be of his Council and of the said Cities Council And the said Robert ought to be sworn of the Cities Council against all people save the King of England and his heirs And when the said Robert shall come to the Hustings at the Guild-Hall of the said City the Mayor or his Deputy ought to rise to him and then place him by him And whilst he is in the Guild-Hall all Judgments ought to be pronounced by his mouth according to the Record of the Recorders of the Guild-Hall And all the Waifs which shall happen whilst he is there he ought to give to the Bailifs of the City or to whom he pleases by advice of the Mayor of the said City Whorlton Nicholaus de Menyll tenuit Manerium de Whorlton c. de Archiepiscopo Cantuarensi serviente dictum Archiepiscopum die Consecrationis suae de Coupa qua idem Archiepiscopus bibere debet eodem die Michleham Radulfus de Belvoir tenet duas Carucatas terrae in Michleham de Rogero de Mowbray Reddendo annuatim quasdam Caligas de Scarleto ad Natale Domini pro omnibus servitiis London Anostre Seignour le Roy et a
Hampton episcopi in Com. Hereford debent quaerere annuatim sex Summas virgarum apud Boscum de Haya juxta Hereford apportare ad Hereford ad Cletas Nundinarum faciendas quando fuerint requisiti pro qualibet summa dictarum virgarum allocabitur eis obolum de Nundinis Sufflete Duae mulieres in villam de Sufflete in Comitatu quae furatae fuerunt multos pannos in villa de Croindone secuti sunt eas homines ejusdem Villae de Croindone quorum pannos furtive asportaverunt usque in villam de Sufflete ibi captae fuerunt incarceratae habuerunt judicium suum in Curia de Sufflete ad portandum calidum ferrum quarum una fuit valua altera Damnata unde submersa fuit in Bikepole i. in Stagno quod vocatur Bike Et hoc totum contigit tempore Gilberti Domini Episcopi Roffensis in quolibet Judicio fuerunt Coronarii Domini Regis Et Paulus de Stanes fuit tunc Cacherellus de Hundredo de Acstan Et per illud tempus Robertus de Hecham Monachus fuit Custos Manerii de Sufflete ad mulieres judicandas fuit Dominus Henricus de Cobham alii plures discreti homines de Patria Clun It is the Custom of some Mannors within the Honour of Clun in Com. Salop that at the entrance of every new Lord of that Honour the Tenants shall pay him a certain sum of Money called Mise-Money In consideration whereof they claim to be acquit of all Fines and amerciaments which are Recorded at that time in the Court Rolls and not levyed which they call White Books Dunmow The Custome of the Priory of Dunmow in the County of Essex was such That if any person from any part of England came thither and humbly kneeled on two stones at the Church-door which are yet to be seen and solemnly took the ensuing Oath before the Prior and Convent he might demand of them a Gamon or Flitch of Bacon You shall swear by the Custom of our Confession That you never made any Nuptial transgression Since you were married to your wife By household brawles or contentious strife Or otherwise in bed or at board Offended each other in deed or in word Or since the Parish Clerk said Amen Wished your selves unmarried agen Or in a twelve moneth and a day Repented not in thought any way But continued true and in desire As when you joyned hands in holy Quire If to these conditions without all fear Of your own accord you will freely swear A Gamon of Bacon you shall receive And bear it hence with love and good leave For this is our custom at Dunmow well known Though the sport be ours the Bacon's your own It appeareth in an old Register of this Priory That Richard Wright of Badesnorth in Norfolk in the 23 of Henry the sixth when John Canon was Prior that Steven Samuel of Little Easton in Essex 7º Edward 4. when Roger Rulcot was Prior And that Thomas Lee of Coxal in Essex 2 Hen. 8. when John Taylor was Prior demanded their Bacon upon the terms abovesaid and received it accordingly Priory of Rochester Memorandum quod primo die adventus Domini Regis ad Roffensem debent Spigurnelli habere quatuor panes de pane Armigerorum quatuor pane de panes Garcionum Item debent habere quatuor Galones Cervisiae Conventualis quatuor Galones Cervisiae communis Item de Coquina quatuor fercula quibus Conventus servitur quatuor fercula de communi scil 24 haleces 24 ova Item ad Praebendam septem parvos Bussellos Item debent habere octo obolos ad emendum faenum Et hoc provisum Statutum est per Dominum Regem Henricum filium Regis Johannis per Hubertum de Burgo G. de Craucumbe Pro ista autem provisione concessione debet Prior Conventus Roffensis ubicunque Dominus Rex fuerit quieti esse procera ad sigillum Item si Dominus Rex fecerit moram in Roffense per duos dies vel amplius non habebunt Spigurnelli de praedictis sed si exierit redierit habebunt sicut in primo adventu ut praedictum est Battle-Abby Tenentes debent falcare spergere vertere cumulare cariare in Manerium Domini ad Tassum furcare unam acram prati de prato Domini Et invenient etiam per totam Autumpnum unum hominem ad tassandum blada Domini in dicto Manerio Dum blada Domini ibidem tassanda fuerint Bishops-Castle Omnes Burgenses de Bishops-Castle in Com. Salop. debent invenire unum hominem ter per annum ad stabliamentum pro venatione capienda quando Episcopus voluerit Vrchenfeild Cum Exercitus Regis in hostem pergat homines de Vrchenfeild in Com. Hereford per Consuetudinem faciunt Avantward in reversione le Rerewarde Jurati Hundredorum de Irchenfeild Webtre Greytre dicunt quod Botholin qui tenuit villam de Comboglin solebat facere sectam ad Hundredum praedictum esse unus Domesman de eodem Hundredo Hereford-City Quando Rex venatu instabat de unaqnaque Domo per Consuetudinem ibat unus homo ad stabilitionem in sylva alii homines non habentes integras Masuras inveniebunt Inewardos ad Aulam quando Rex erat in Civitate Burgensis cum Caballo serviens cum moriebatur habebat Rex equum arma ejus de eo qui equum non habebat si moreretur habebat Rex aut de cem solidos autterram suam cum domibus Si qui mortepraeventus nondevisisset quae sua erant Rex ha bebit omnem ejus Pecuniam c. Chakendon Omnes Servi de Chakendon in Com. Oxon. pro servitio Falcationis habebunt de Domino unum Arietem precii octo Denariorum ad minus quilibet Falcans habebit unum panem precii oboli Et hi conjunctim habebunt unam Carectatam bosci unum Caseum precii quatuor Denariorum unum batinum sab Et quaelibet Virgata terrae habebit sex Toddas herbae dimidia Virgata terrae tres Toddas Tutbury Henricus sextus dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint salutem Inspeximus Literas patentes Johannis nuper Regis Castellae Legionis ducis Lancastriae proavi nostri factas in haec verba Johan par le grace de dieu Roy de Castille de Leon Duke de Lancastre a touts ceux qui cestes nos Letres verront ou orront saluz Saches nous avoir ordenoz constitut assignez nostre bien ame le Roy des Ministraulx deins nostre Honor de Tuttebury quore est ou qui pur le temps serra pur prendre arrester touts les Ministralx deins mesme nostre Honeur Franchise quenx refusont
of his Little finger Hill 22 Ric. 2. Essex Domesday tit Gloucestre Sextary was an ancient Measure containing our Pint and a half and in some places more A Dicar of Iron contained ten Barrs And Virgas ferreas ductiles were Iron-rods wrought into a fit size for making Nails for the Kings Ships Lib. feod 24 Edw. 1. fo 292. †i. his Stirrup Lib. niger Heref. i. Or 3. Plow-shares 3 Coulters and to repair the Iron-work of three Plows at the election of the Bishops Bayliffs Antiq. of Exeter Rot. Fin. Mich. 2 Ed. 2. i. To be the Kings Vauterer or Dog-leader in Gascoigny till he had worn out a pair of Shoes of four pence price This Vautrarium Regis is by some miswritten Vantrarium and Englished the Kings Fore-footman See Setene suprà Coke on Lit fo 69. b. Quo war Ebor. temp Ed. 1. Queen-gold is a Royal duty of Ten in the Hundred due to the Queen Consort of England for all Fines and Oblations made to the King Lib. Scac. p. 43. Pat. 1. Eli. Esc 32 Ed. 1. N. 43. †A separate enclosure within a Forest or Park fenced with a Rayl or Hedge or both of which there were several in this Forest of Cank Pl. Cor. coram Joh. de Vallibus Soc. 15 Ed. 1. Bedford †Q. If it may not signifie a pair of Saddle-bows from the French word Arceau which denotes as much Pl Cor. 15 Ed. 1. Pla. Cor. apud Wirdesor 12 Ed. 1. Plac. ut supr †i. A Pack of I know not what Dogs Esc 5 Ed. 2. i. A Grey furr'd Coat or Pilch. Pla. Cor. apud Windesor 12 Ed. 1. rot 28. in dorso Pla. rot ut supr †i. By Serjanty of keeping a Kenel of little Hounds called Harriers at the Kings charge Pla. ut supr Pl. ut sup rot 29. in dorso Pl. ut sup rot 40. in dorso i. Of carrying Bottles of Wine for the Kings Breakfast Pl. ut sup rot 46. Ibid. Pla. Cor. in Com. Bucks 14 Edw. 1. Ibid. Esc 3 H. 6. Pla. Cor. 14 Ed. 1. Cant. Ibid. Pla. Cor. 21 Ed. 1. Câ—nt †i. With two Boys or Grooms and two Hare-hounds or Greyhounds Pla. Cor. 20 Ed. 1. Cumbria †i. The Kings Aeries of Goshawks or Falcons as some will have it from the French Austour a Goshawk Ibid. Pla. Cor. de Anno 9 Edw. 1. Devon Ibid. * i. Two barbed Arrows * when the King shall chase or Hunt in Exmore-Forest Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. Pla. Cor. ut supra * Ferlingus vel Ferlingata terrae is the fourth part of a Yard-land Ibid. Pla. Cor. apud Schyreburne 8 Ed. 1. Dorset rot 3. * i. A Boy carrying a Bow without a string but what Buzonem signifies Lector tu tibi Oedipus esto Ibid. rot 4 Dorset Ibid. rot 7 i. A certain Horse-comb or Curry-comb Ibid. rot 10. †i. Leash-hounds or Parkhounds such as draw after a hurt Deer in a Leash or Liam Ibid. rot 13. Ibid. rot 14. Ibidem Pla. Cor. 15 Hen. 3. Ebor. rot 1. dorso Ibidem rot 17. i. A kind of Basket Pla. Cor. 7 Edw. 1. Ebor. Testa Nevelli * Intelligo says the learned Spelman de Serviente ad Clavam a Serjeant at the Mace we retain the word Catchpol still for a Sherif Bailiff or such like Officer Pla. Cor. 11 H. 3 Rot. 1. apud Chelmsford * i. The Chamberlainship Ward-pennies or money paid to the Sherif or Castellain towards the guard or defence of a Castle Ibidem Ibidem * i. The chandry where the Candles are kept Pla. Cor. 13 Edw. 1. Essex Ibidem †i. Four Horse-shoes a Leather sack and one iron Broch which was a great Pot or Jug to carry Liquid things as the Sack was to carry the dry from the French word Brock which signifies a great Flagon Tankard or Pot. So the learned Spelman interprets it Though some are not willing to submit to his opinion herein Pla. Cor. 12 Edw. 1. Rot 35. Dorso Rot. Fin. Pas 31 Ed. 3. Pla. Cor. 13 Edw. 1. Essex †i. Three Boys or Grooms and three hounds for the Hare or Gyrehounds Ibidem †i. Of carrying a Seam or Horseload of Oats which in some places is accounted Eight Bushels in others perhaps more properly but four Ibidem Wolf-Dogs Ibidem †i. The Kings Spear-man Ibidem Pla. Corona 13 Ed. 1. Essex Ibidem * i. A bag made of Hempen cloth or canvas And a jug or bottle to carry drink See Morton Fines in Wistes Southton Anno. 1. Edw. 2. * i. Munimen ex complicatis hamis vel circulis ferreis in French Cote de Mail in English a Shirt of Mail. Pla. Coronae de An. 12. Ed. 1. Cornub. * i. A Danish Hatchet or Pole 〈…〉 Ibidem Note a Cornish acre of Land makes 60 of our Statute acres or near thereabout Capa de Grisanco a grey Cloak from the French Cape a short and sleeveless Cloak or Garment that in stead of a Cape has a Capouche behind it and Gris Grey De Domino de Cabilia I suppose may intend a Lord of the Kings bedchamber who was to deliver the Cloak to him Ibidem Ibidem Pla. Stin de Anno 5 Hen. 3 Gloc. Ibidem Ibidem Ibidem * i. For one dayes journey at his own charge * i. This Hay of Hereford was a great woodland ground near the City and heretofore reputed a Forest Pla. Cor. 32 H. 3. rot 10. in Dorso Pla. Cor. 39 H. 3. rot 29. Dorso Surrey †i. He that shot in the Engin called Balista a Cros-bow man Pla. Cor. 15 E. 1. Glouc. Ibid. †i. The Pantry Door Pla. apud Lanc. 30 Hen. 3. rot 21. Pla. Cor. 15. E. 1. Gloc. Pla. Cor. de Anno 20 E. 1. Heref. Ibid. Pla. Cor 6 E. 1. rot 39. Hertford Inq 7 E. 1. in Scac. Warth is the same with Ward-peny that is money paid ob Castri praesidium vel excubias agendas Pla. 7 E. 1. rot 39. Pla. Cor. 14 E. 1. rot 7. Dorso Hunt Pla. Cor. 21 E. 1. rot 27. Kanc. i. Of Mewing a Goshawke every year Note a Goshawke is in our Records termed by the several names of Osturcum Hostricum Estricium Asturcum Austurcum and all from the French Austour Ibid. rot 34. Ibid. rot 45. In rot Hundred Anno 3 E. 1. rot 7. Kanc. Ibid. Ibid. †i. To be Cup-bearer to the King on Whitsunday Ibid. Claus. 1 E. 1. Ibid. Pla. Cor. Anno 20 E. 1. Lanc. Ibid. Pla. de libertat quo War 9 E. 1 Lincoln †i. A Head-peece lin'd with Syndon or fine Linen and a pair of gilt spurs Ibid. * i. Arrows with narrow Feathers Fleet Arrows such as they shoot at Revers Esson câ—pt apud Crucem lapideam 3 E. 1. Mid. rot 18. This Crucem Lapideam noted in the Margin stood near the May-Pole in the Strand where the Judges Itinerant in old time used to sit Pla. Cor. apud Crucem lapideam rot 15. Pla. Cor. 22