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
Kings Chamber a fur of Grise Mansfeild Woodhouse Sir Robert Plumpton Knight was seized of one Bovat of Land in Mansfeild Woodhouse in Com. Nottingham called Wolfhunt Land held by the service of winding a Horn and Chasing or Frighting the Wolves in the Forest of Shirewood Over Colewick Reginald de Colewike held Lands in Over Colewick in Com. Nottingham of the King in Capite by the service of paying him twelve barbed Arrows when he should come to Nottingham Castle Burton John Burdon held Four Bovats of Land in Demain in Buron in Com. Nottingham of the Honour of Tickhill by the service of finding one Horse and one Sack when the Constables of Chester marched into Wales in the Kings service Worksop King Henry the Eighth granted to George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury the Scite and Precinct of the Monastery of Wirksop cum pertin in Com. Nottingham to be held of the King in Capite by the service of the tenth part of a Knights Fee and by the royal service of finding the King a right hand Glove at his Coronation and to support his right Arm that day as long as he should hold the Scepter in his hand and paying yearly 23 l. 8 s. o d. ob Whichnor Sir Philip de Somervile Knight held the Mannor of Whichnour in Com. Stafford of the Eirle of Lancaster then Lord of the Honour of Tutbury by these memoable services viz. by two small Fees that is to say when other Tenants pay for Releef one whole Knights Fee one hundred shillings he the said Sir P. shall pay but fifty shillings and when Escuage is alsessd throgheout the Land or Apde for to make the eldest Son of the Lord Knyght or for to marry the eldest Doughter of the Lord the sayd Sir Philip shal pay bot the moty of it that other shal paye Nevertheless the sayd Sir Philip shal fynde meynteinge and susteigne one Bacon Flyke hanginge in his Halle at Wichenore ready arrayed all tymes of the yere bott in Lent to be given to everyche Mane or Womane married after the day and yere of their mariage be passed and to be given to everyche Mane of Religion Arch Bishop Prior or other religious and to everyche Preest after the year and day of their Profession finished or of their Dignity reseyved in forme following whensoever that ony such before named Wylle come for to enquire for the Baconne in there owne person or by any other for them they shall come to the Bayliff or to the Porter of the Lordship of Whichenour and shal say to them in the manere as ensewethe Baylife or Porter I doo you to knowe that I am come for my self or if he come for any other shewing for whome one Bacon flyke hanging in the Halle of the Lord of Whichenour after the forme thereunto belonginge After which relation the Bailiff or Porter shal assigne a daye to him upon promise by his feythe to return and with him to bring tweyne of his neighbours and in the meyn time the said Bailif shal take with him tweyne of the Freeholders of the Lordship of Whichenoure and they three shal goe to the Mannour of Rudlowe belonging to Robert Knyghtleye and there shal somon the foresaid Knyghtley or his Bayliffe comanding hym to be ready at Whichenour the day appoynted at Pryme of the day with his Cariage that is to say a Horse and a Sadyle a Sakke and a Pryke for to convey and carry the said Baconne and Corne a journey owt of the Countee of Stafford at his Costages And then the sayd Bailiffe shal with the said Freeholders somon all the Tenaunts of the said Manoir to be ready at the day appoynted at Whichenour for to doe and performe the services which they owe to the Baconne And at the day assigned all such as owe services to the Baconne shal be ready at the Gatte of the Manoir of Whichenour frome the Sonne risinge to None attendyng and awayting for the Comyng of hym that fetcheth the Baconne and when he is comyn there shal be delivered to hym and his felowys Chapeletts and to all those whiche shal be there to doe their services deue to the Baconne And they shal lede the seid demandant wythe Tromps and Tabours and other manner of Mynstralseye to the Hall dore where he shal fynde the Lord of Whichenour or his Steward redy to deliver the Baconne in this manere He shal enquere of hym which demandeth the Baconne if he have brought tweyne of his neghbours with hym which must answere They be here redy And then the Steward shal cause theis two neghbours to swere yf the seid demandant be a weddyt Man or have be a Man weddyt and yf syth his marryage one yere and a day be passed And yf he be a freeman or a Villeyn And yf his seid neghbours make Othe that he hath for hym all theis three poynts rehersed then shall the Baconne be take downe and broght to the Halle dore and shal there be layd upon one half a Quarter of Wheatte and upon one other of Rye And he that demandeth the Baconne shal kneel upon his knee and shal hold his right hande upon a Booke which Booke shal be layd above the Baconne and the Corne and shal make oath in this manere Here ye Sir Philip de Somervyle Lord of Whichenour mayntayner and giver of this Baconne that I A. syth I wedded B. my Wife and syth I had her in my kepyng and at my wylle by a yere and a daye after our marryage I wold not have chaunged for none other farer ne fowler richer ne powrer ne for none other descended of gretter lynage slepyng ne waking at noo tyme. And if the seid B. were sole and I sole I wolde take her to be my Wife before all the Wymen of the Worlde of what condytions soevere they be good or evyle as helpe me God and his Seyntys and this Flesh and all Fleshes And his neghbours shal make oath that they trust verily he hath said truely And yf it be founde by his neghbours before named that he be a freeman there shal be delyvered to him half a Quarter of Wheatte and a Cheese And yf he be a Villein he shall have half a Quarter of Rye withoutte Cheese and then shal Knyghtley the Lord of Rudlowe be called for to carry all theis thynges to fore rehersed And the sayd Corne shal be layd upon one Horse and the Baconne above yt and he to whome the Baconne apperteigneth shal ascend upon his Horse shal take the Cheese before hym if he have a horse and yf he have none the Lord of Whichenour shal cause him have one Horse and sadyl to such tyme as he be passed his Lordshippe And soe shal they departe the Manoyr of Whichenour with the Corne and the Baconne to fore him that hath wonne ytt with Trompets Tabourets and other manoir of Mynstralce And all the Free Tenants of Whichenour shal conduct him
to be passed the Lordship of Whichenour then shal all they retorne except hym to whom apperteigneth to make the carriage and journy withoutt the Countye of Stafford at the costys of his Lord of Whichenour And yf the seid Robert Knyghtley doe not cause the Baconne and Corne to be conveyed as is rehersed the Lord of Whichenour shal do it to be carryed and shal distreigne the said Robert Knyghtley for his default for one hundred shillings in his Manoir of Rudlowe and shale kepe the distresse so takyn irreplevisable Bridshall Moreover the sayd Sir Philippe holdeth of his Lord the Erle the Manoir of Briddeshalle by theis services that att such tyme that hys sayd Lord holdeth hys Chrystemes at Tuttebury the sayd Sir Philippe shal come to Tuttebury upon Chrystemes Evyn and shall be lodged yn the Town of Tuttebury by the Marshall of the Erlys house and upon Chrystemes day he hymself or some other Knyght his Deputye shal goe to the Dressour and shal sewe his Lordys Messe and then shal he kerve the same mett to his sayd Lord and this service shall he doe as well at Souper as at Dynner and when his Lord hath eryn the sayd Sir Philippe shal sit downe in the same place their his Lord satt and shall be served at his Table by the Steward of the Erlys House And upon Seynt Stevyn day when he haith Dyned he shal take leve of his Lorde and shal kisse him and for his service he shal nothing take ne nothing shal gyve And all theis Services to fore rehersed the sayd Sir Philippe hath doo by the space of xlviij years and hys Ancestors before hym to his Lordys Erles of Lancastre Tatenhul and Drycot Item the sayd Sir Phelippe holdeth of his seid Lorde the Erle his Manoirs of Tatenhull and Drycotte en Parcenerye by theis services that the seid Sir Phelippe or his Atturneye for hym shal come to the Castle of Tuttebury upon Seynt Petyr day in August which is call Lammesse and shal shew the Steward or Recever that he is come thither to hunt and catch his Lords Greese at the costages of his Lord. Whereupon the Steward or the Recever shal cause a Horse and Sadyl to be deliveryd to the sayd Sir Phelippe the price fifty shillings or fifty shillings in mony and one hound and shal pay to the seid Sir Philippe everyche daye fro the seid day of Seynt Petyr to Holyroodeday for hymself two shillinges six pence a day and everyche day for his Servant and his Bercelett duryng the seid tyme twelve pence And all the Woodmasters of the Foreste of Nedewode and Duffelde with all the Parkers and Foresters shal be commanded to awatte and attend upon the seid Sir Phelippe while theyr Lordys Greese be takyn in all places of the sayd Forestys as upon theyr Master duringe the sayd tyme. And the sayd Sir Phelippe or his Atturney shal deliver to the sayd Parkers or Foresters that which shal belonge to their Lordys Lardere commanding them to convey itt to the Erlys Lardyner abiding at Tuttebury and with the remanant the seid Sir Phelippe shal do his plesoure And upon Holye-rood day the sayd Sir Phelippe shall returne to the Castle of Tuttebury upon the sayd Horse with his Bercelett and shal dyne with the Steward or Receyver and after dynner he shal deliver the Horse Sadyle and Bercelett to the Steward or Receyveour and shal kisse the Porter and depart Hopton To the heyes male of the Hopton laufully begotten To me and to myne to thee and to thine While the water runs and the Sun doth Shine For lack of heyrs to the King againe I William King the third year of my reign Give to the Norman Hunter To me that art both Line and Deare The Hoppe and Hoptoune And al the bounds up and downe Under the Earth to Hell Above the Earth to Heaven From me and from myne To thee and to thine As good and as faire As ever they myne were To witness that this is sooth I bite the white Wax with my tooth Before Jugg Marode and Margery And my third Son Henery For one Bow and one broad Arrow When I come to hunt upon Yarrow This Grant made by William the Conqueror to the Ancestor of the antient family of the Hoptons I copied out of an old Manuscript and John Stow has it in his Cronicle but in both it wanted the four First Lynes which seem to create that Estate Tayle by which Richard Hopton Esquire a Gentleman of low fortune but haply may be the right heir of the Familye hath of late years by vertue of this Charter made several Clayms and commenced divers suites both for this Mannour of Hopton in the hole in the County of Salop and for divers other the Mannours and Lands of Raph late Lord Hopton but hitherto for ought I hear without any successe Cholmer and Dancing in Com. Essex Carta Edwardi Confessoris Iche Edward konyng Have geven of my Forest the keping Of the Hundred of Cholmer and Dancing To Randolf Peperking and to his kindling With Heort and Hynd Doe and Bock Hare and Fox Cat and Brock Wild Fowell with his Flock Partridge Fesant Hen and Fesant Cock With green and wyld stob and Stock To kepen and to yemen by all her might Both by day and eke by night And Hounds for to holde Gode and swift and bolde Four Greyhounds and six Braches For Hare and Fox and Wildcats And thereof iche made him my Book Witness the Bishop Wolston And bock ycleped many one And Sweyn of Essex our Brother And to ken him many other And our Stiward Howelyn That bysought me for him Comitatus de Ewe King Henry the Fifth by his Charter dated 10 Jun. 7. regni granted to Sir William Bourchier the whole County of Ewe in Normandy Reddendo dicto Regi haeredibus suis apud Castrum Rothomagi unum Gardebrache ad festum Sancti Georgii singulis annis c This Gardebrace is otherwise called vambrace and signifies Armor for the Arme. Coringham In the Third year of King Edward the First Sir William le Baud Knight made a signal Grant to the Dean and Canons of St. Pauls London of a Doe yearly on the feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul and of a fat Buck upon the Commemoration of the same Saint to be offered at the high Altar in St. Pauls by the said Sir William and his household-family and then to be distributed among the Canons resident which said Doe and Buck were so given by him in lieu of 22 acres of Land lying within the Lordship of Westlee in Com. Essex belonging to the said Canons and by them granted to him and his heyrs to be enclosed within his Park of Coringham But about the certain time and formality in offering the said Buck and Doe there growing afterwards some dispute Sir Walter le Baud Knight son and heyr of the said Sir William by his Deed dated
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
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
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
de faire lour services ministralcie as eux appurtenants a faire de ancient temps a Tuttebury suisdit annualment les jours del Assumption de nostre dame Donants grantants au dit Roy de Ministralx pur le temps esteant plien poyer mandement de les faire resonablement justifier constrener de faire lour services Ministralcies en manere come appeint come illonques ad este use de ancient temps accustome Et en festimoignianco de quel chose nous avous fait faire cestes noz Letres patents don souz nostre privie Seale a nostre Chastel de Tuttebury le xxij jour de August le an de regne nostre tres dulce le Roy Richard quart Nos autem Literas praedictas ad requisitionem dilecti nobis in Christo Thomae Gedney Prioris de Tuttebury duximus exemplificandas per presentes In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes Datum sub sigillo nostri ducatus Lancastr apud Palatium nostrum de Westm 22 die Febr. Anno regni nostri vicesimo primo Item est ibidem quaedam consuetudo quod Histriones venientes ad Matutinas in festo Assumptionis beatae Mariae habebunt unam taurum de Priore de Tuttebury si ipsum capere possunt citra aquam Dove propinquiorem Tuttebury vel Prior dabit eis xl d. pro qua quidem Consuetudine dabuntur domino ad dictum Festum annuatim xx d. Out of the Coucher-Booke of the Honour of Tutburye Cap. de Libertatibus The Prior of Tutburye shall have yerely one oure Ladye dey the Assumption a Bukke delivered him of seyssone by the WoodMaster and Kepers of Nedewoode and the Woodmaster and Kepers of Needwoode shale every yere mete at a Lodgge in Nedewoode called Birkeley Lodgge by one of the Cloke att afternone one Seynt Laurence dey at which dey and place a Woodmoote shal be kept and every Keper makinge deffalte shall loose xij d. to the Kynge and there the Woodmaster and Kepers shall chose 2 of the Kepers yerely as itt cometh to there turne to be Stewards for to prepare the dyner at Tutburye Castell one oure Ladye dey the Assumption for the Woodmaster Kepers and Officers within the Chase and there they shall appoint in lykewyse where the Bukke shall be kylled for the Prior ageynst the saide Ladye dey and also where the Bukke shall be kylde for the Kepers dyner ageynst the same dey and on the said feaste of Assumption the Woodmaster or his Lyvetenant and the Kepers and their Deputies shall be at Tutburye and every man one Horsebake and soo ryde in order two and two together from the yate called the Lydeat goinge into the commen felde unto the highe Crosse in the Towne and the Keper in whose office the Seynt Marye Bukke was kylled shall beire the Bukks heede garnished aboute with a rye of pease the Bukks heede must be cabaged with the hole face and yeers beinge one the Sengill of the Bukke with two peces of fatte one either side of the Sengill must be fastened uppon the brooankelers of the same heed and every keper must have a grene boghe in his hand and every keper that is absent that dey beinge noder sikke nor in the Kings service shall lose xij d. and soo the kepers shall ridde two and two together tyll they come to the said Crosse in the Towne and all the Minstrells shall goe afore them one foote two and two together and the Woodmaster or in his absence his Lyvetenant shall ride hindermast after all the kepers and at the said Crosse in the Towne the formast keper shall blow a Seeke and all the other kepers shall answer him in blowinge the same and when they come to the cornell ageynst the Yue hall the formast keper shall blowe a Recheate and all the other kepers shall answere hyme in blowinge of the same and so they shall ride still tyll they come into the Churchyorde and then light and goo into the Churche in lyke arrey and all the Minstrells shall pley one their Instruments duringe the offeringe tyme and the woodmaster or in his absence his Livetenant shall offer up the Bukks head mayd in silver and every keper shall offer a peny and as soone as the Bukks head is offered uppe all the kepers shall blowe a Morte three tymes and then all the kepers goo into a Chappell and shall there have one of the Monks redye to sey them Masse and when Masse is done all the kepers goo in lyke arreye uppe to the Castell to dynner and when dynner is done the Stewards goo to the Prior of Tutburye and he shall give them yerely xxx s. towards the charges of ther dynner and if the dynner come to more the kepers shall beire it amongst them and one the morrow after the Assumption there is a Court kept of the Minstrells at which Court the Woodmaster or his Lyvetenant shall be and shall oversee that every Minstrell dwellinge within the Honor and makinge defaute shall be amercyed whiche amercement the Kynge of the Minstrels shall have and after the Courte done the Pryor shall deliver the Minstrells a Bull or xviij s. of money and shall turne hyme loose amongs them and if he escape from them over Dove river the Bull is the Priours owne ageyne and if the Minstrells can take the Bull ore he gett over Dove then the Bull is their owne The Modern Vsage Upon the morrow after the Assumption of the blessed Virgin being the 26th of August all the Musicians within the Honour are to repair to the Bailiffs House in Tutbury where the Steward of the Court who is usually a noble man and rhe Woodmaster or his Lieutenant are to meet them from whence they goe to the Church in this order I two wind Musicians as Trumpets or long Pipes then four string Musicians two and two all playing then the Steward of the Court or his deputy and the Bailiff of the Mannor deputed by the Earl of Devon the King of Musick going between them After whom the four Stewards of Musick each with a white Wand in his hand and the rest of the company follow in order At the Church the Vicar of Tutbury for the time being reads the service of the day for which every Musician pays him a peny Then all goe from the Church to the Castle in manner as before Where the Steward takes his place upon the Bench in Court assisted with the Bailiff and Woodmaster the King of Musick sitting between them to see that every minstrel within the Honor being call'd and making default be presented and amerced by the Jury which Amercements are collected by the Stewards of Musick who accompt the one Moity to his Majesties Auditor the other they retein themselves for their pains in collecting them When the King Steward and the rest are so fate the Steward commands an Oyez to be made three times by one of
Harrow 3 Bread and Meat or quicquid cibi cum pane sumitur 4 To two work-dayes of the Plow 5 I suppose uterque tentor c. may signify how properly I will not determin both the man that held the Plow and he that drove it who were to have a solemn repast Carta 34. E. 3. This Compuncto I guess to be the same which elsewhere is called Pryk and whether that may signify a Spur Goad or what else let the more learned determin for Sir Henry Spelman himself leaves it unexplicated Some think it was an old fashioned Spur not with Rowels of five points but with one only Communia 16 E. 1 Pas. rot 10. in Dorso Pro Putura for the food or maintenance of seven Greyhounde or Hare-Hounds Three Falcons and a Falconer and for the Wages of one Huntsman for so Bracenarius signifies from the French Braconnier which denotes the same Fin. Hill 13. E. 2. Pas 1. E. 3. Ex Codice MS. penes Elyam Ashmole Arm. * De arloaps * De arloaps To chase with nine bows and 6 hounds Infra metas bersationis within the limits of his hunting Ground Non portabunt sagittas barbatas sed pilettas sagitta piletta is an Arrow that has a round knob pila in the shank of it some two inches above the head to hinder the Arrows going too far into the Deers Body Tempus Pinguedinis the Buck-season and Tempus firmationis which elsewhere is written firmisonae the Doe-season the times of their continuance are declared above Ex ipso Autographo penes Tho. Wollascot Arm. Berkâ— Here the Tenants were hound to plow a Selion or Ridge of Land at Winter-Seednes and another at Lent-Seednes and one Selion at Fallow and to weed one day with one Man and to mow one day with one man in Summer for so I think is meant by Esteia from Aestate though I have not elsewhere met with the word They were bound also to find one man to make hay and to carry it with one Cart till all were fully carried to the Court of Sutton which was their Lords House And to find one Man to make Cocks or Ricks of Hay till they were finished and to assist at four Reap-dayes in Autumn with two men each day the three first dayes at their own diet and the fourth at their Lords And to carry Corn for one day with one Cart and to find one man for one day to make Moughs or Meys in the Grange or Barne c. This Deed was without date but by the Character seemed to be made in King Henry the thirds Reign De Serjantiis arrentatis per Rob. de Passelew tempore H. 3 star; A Horse Collar with a Canvas Cloth Esc 23. E. 3. n. 39. Gloc. Carta 1. Joh. M. 29. Antiq. Supervis Ducatus Cornub. Why this rent was called Berbiagium I am to seek but it was payable at Hokeday of which there were two viz. the Munday and Tuesday senight after Easter week but I think Tuesday was the chief Hokeday which day was long celebrated here in England in memory of the expulsion of the domineering Danes Inq. temp E. 1. Esc 46. E. 3. N. â—â— Rot. Fin. 7 Job M. 7. Dextrarii are Horses for the great Saddle from the French Dectrier denoting as much Chacuros must either signify Hounds or Dogs for the Chase from the French Chaseur a Huntsman or Coursers Horses for speed or Career from the French Coursier but the first seems most probable The word in another Record tit Norton is written Catzuros and I suppose intended for the same thing And it adds to the probability of this exposition in that King Iohn was a great lover of Horses Hawks and Hounds taking a great part of his Fines in those Animals of recreation as appears by the Fine Rolls of his time What Sensas may signify let the more Learned Determin Pas. Fines 4. Hen. 4. Com. Mich. 3. R. 〈…〉 ot 1. Salop. Lib. de Tenuris 24. E. 1. Esc 50. E. 3. n. 24. Wiltes Domesday What Praebendarios may here signify I cannot well tell some think Chaplains others more probably certain Measures of Provender for Horses which Measure Debet esse 13 pollicum latitudinis infra circulum altitudinis trium pollicum Gersuma Reginae is a Fine to the Queen otherwise called Aurum Reginae Asturconem a little Nag or Palfrey Sir Henry Spelman interprets it Equus generosior Libras blancas is contradistinguished to libras ad numerum the first was Money paid by weight the other by tale The French indeed call Coyn of Brass or Coper silver'd over Monnoye blanche Camd. ex vetusta Inquisitione 9. Jan. 17. E. 3. Inp. in Com. Buck. Equitatura Regis signifies here as I suppose the Kings Horse and Furniture And Flaccum sine capite must doubtless be intended for an Arrow without a head from the French Fleche an arrow or shaft On Litt. fo 86. a. Com. Warwic Antiq. of War sh by Sir W. Dugdale Kt. * To drive the Deer to a Stand that the Lord may shoot * A heath-ground * Dogs to be lawed on the left Claw of the foot * Dogs unlawed or with whole feet * to make Law by bringing 3 others to swear besides himself * To repair the Ford of the Milpond Reg. Priorat de Thurgarton cited by Dr. Thurroton in his Antiq of Nott. shire Law Dict. Verbo Free-Bench Liber ruber Castri Episcopi * Tenella or Tonella Cervisiae is a little Tun Tub or Rundlet of Ale Lierwyte or Lairwyte from the Saxon lagan concubere and piâ—e mulcta signifies a Fine or mulct by the custom of some Mannors imposed upon offenders in Adultery or Fornication and due to the Lord of the Mannor Constitut Rob. Dunelm Epi. An. 1276. This Horn with Horn is when Horned Beasts of several adjoyning Parishes do promiscuously intercommon together per cause de Vicinage Custumar Prior. Lewensis The learned Spelman says These Lancetae were Agricolae quaedam sed ignotae speciei Besca a Spade or Spittle from the French Bescher to dig or delve Flagellum a Flayle Cum corredio ad nonam signifies meat and drink or Dinner at Noon Spelm. Gloss Rot Parl. 21 E 1. * Keelage whereby he had by Custom what is here expressed for the Keel of every Ship that came into his Sea-port with a Boat Iu Sessione Itin. de Kerdiff 7 H. 6. Ex Rot. Curiae Ib. Camd. Brit. fo 441. Ex relationâ— habitantium MS. pener Sam. Râ—per Arm. Pla. apud Rading 45. H. 3. Rot 29. Ex Vet. Consuetud in Archivis Archiep Cant. * To make a Scotale is to make a Collection of a sum of Money to be spent in Ale And in like sence does Manwood interpret it in his Forest-Laws MS. LL. liberi Burgi de Mountgomery This Gogingstool is the same which in our Law-Books is written Cuckingstool and Cokestool antiently Tumbrel or Trebuchet by Bracton Tymborella The Saxons for it is of great antiquity called
the County of Cambridge by Serjeanty of Chamberlain-ship to the Queens of England at the Kings Coronation Lufnam Tho. Beauchamp held South-Luffenham and other Lands in Com. Rutland by service to be the Kings Chamberlain in the Exchequer Hodnet Hodnet in Shropshire was antiently held by the Vernons of the Honour of Mongomery to be Seneschal or Steward of the same Honour Barons of Cheshire The Earl of Chesters Barons were antiently bound in time of War with Wales to find for every Knights Fee one Horse with Caparison and Furniture or two without within the divisions of Cheshire and their Knights and free-holders to find Corslets and Haubergeons and defend their Fees with their own Bodies Lanton The Baskervils antiently held Lands there in chief as of the Honour of Montgomery by the service of giving the King a Barbd-headed Arrow when he came to hunt in Corndon-Chace Newbigging Apud Newbigging xiij Bovatae assifae de hijs hominibus Baldwinus una Bovata pro ij s. dimid duas Gallinas xx Ova quatuor Precarias in Autumpno cum uno homine bis arare bis herciare semel falcare semel foenum levare cum opus fuerit stagnum reparare molas attrahere oves uno die lavare altera tondere Hundred de Lidingeland Johannes de Balliolo tenet medietatem Hundredi de Lidingeland quae seisita fuit in manus Regis eo quod ipse non optulit se personaliter ad portandum virgam coram Justitiarijs Itinerantibus in eodem Comitatu Tutbury Walter Achard or Agard claimed to hold by Inheritance the Office of Escheater and Coroner through the whole Honour of Tutbury in Com. Staff and the Bailiwick of Leyke Pro quo Officio nullas Evidentias Carta vel alia scripta proferre possit nisi tantum Cornu venatorium album argento inaurato in medio utroque fine decoratum Cui etiam affigitur Cingulum byssi nigri fibulis quibusdam argenteis ornatum in medio quorum posita sunt insignia Edmundi secundi filij Regis Henrici tertij Stafford Edmund Lord Stafford held the Mannors of Stafford Bradeley and Madeley in Com. Stafford of the king in Capite by Barony by service of finding for 40 dayes at his own charge three armed men with three Equis coopertis Horses harnessed for War as often as there should be War with Wales or Scotland Listun Godefridus filius Johannis held certain land in Liston in Com. Essex of our Lord the King by the service of making Wafers at his Coronation Felstede Adam de Glanvile tenet xx acras terrae in Felstede by the service of keeping two Palfreys ad liberationem Domini Regis i. At the Kings Livery Estham Radulpbus de Moigne held Estham in Essex by Serjeanty ut sit Emptor Domini Regis in Coquina sua i. Caterer Legere Willielmus filius Johannis de Legere held certain Lands in Legere in Com. Essex by Serjeanty to find unum Equum unum Saccum unam Brochiam in servitio Domini Regis in Wallia ad custum Domini Regis Wodeham Mortimer Hardekynus tenet quoddam Tenementum in Wodeham Mortimer in Com. Essex per Serjantiam ad nutriendam unam Brachettam Domini Regis cum Dominus Rex ei illam miserit ad nutriendam custodiendi quousque habilis fuerit ad currendum Mauldon The Inhabitants of Mauldon in Essez anciently held that Town by Serjeanty to find the King unam Navem cum Apparatu suo quotiescunque contigerit dictum Regem ire cum exercitu extra regnum Angliae per xl dies sumptibus suis propriis hoc ad summonitionem Domini Regis Rewenhall Eutach de Ho tenuit unam Carucatam terrae cum pertin in Rewenhall in Com. Essex per Seriantiam inveniendi unum hominem equitem cum uno Gambesone in exercitu Domini Regis cum contigerit ipsum ire in Wallia sumptibus suis propriis per xl dies Heydon Johannes Pycot tenet quoddam tenementum in Villa de Heydon in Com. Essex per Serjantiam tenend manutergium coram Domino Rege die Coronationis Et Petrus Pycot tenet quoddam tenementum in eadem Villa per Serjantiam tenendi pelves ad aquam dandam ad Coronationem praedictam Hallingbury Rogerus quondam Cissor Domini Regis tenuit unam Carucatam terrae in Hallingbury Com. Essex per Serjantiam Solvend ad Scaccarium Domini Regis unam acum argenteam quolibet anno in Crastino Sancti Michaelis Alesbury Willielmus filius Willielmi de Alesbury tenet tres Virgatas terrae de Domino Rege in Alesbury in Com. Buck. per Serjantiam inveniendi stramen ad lectum Domini Regis ad straminandam Cameram suam reddendi tres anguillas Domino Regi cum venerit apud Alesbury in Yeme Et etiam inveniendi Domino Regi cum venerit apud Alesbury in Estate stramen ad lectum suum praeter hoc herbam ad jucandam Cameram suam etiam reddet duas Gantas haec servitia praedicta faciet ter in anno si contigerit ipsum Regem ter venire apud Alesbury non pluries Stow. Johannes de Curtese tenuit 30 acras terrae in Stow in Com. Cantabr per Serjantiam adducend unam Trussulam foeni ad Cloacham Domini Regis cum ipse Rex transierit per partes illas arrentatur ad Scaccarium Domini Regis ad x s. per ann Maplescaump Willielmus de Valoignes tenet de Domino Rege in Capite medietatem Manerii de Maplescaump per talem servitium quod si Dominus Rex venerit usque Maplescaump ad Missam suam audiendam tunc idem Willielmus inveniet ei unum denarium ad oblationem Exmore Henricus III. dedit Willielmo de Plessets Ballivam de Exmore in Com. Somerset per servitium reddendi eidem Regi proinde 14 juvenculas unum Tauriculum vel pro quolibet eorum x d. Winfred Robertus de Novoburgo tenuit Manerium de Winfred in Com. Dorset una cum Hundredo ibidem de Rege in Capite per servitium dandi aquam manibus Domini Regis die Coronationis suae habebit pelvem cum lavatorio pro servitio praedicto Holicote Walterus Barun tenuit quasdam terras quaedam Tenementa in Villa de Holecote de Rege in Capite per servitium pendendi super quoddam lignum furcatum Cervos de morina defunctos in Foresta Regis de Exmore ac etium hospitandi pauperes supervenientes de infirmitate debilitatos sumptibus suis propriis pro animabus antecessorum Domini Edwardi Regis Brineston Manerium de Brineston in Com. Cestriae tenetur de Rege in Capite per servitium inveniendi unum hominem in exercitu Domini Regis in partibus Scotiae praefecturum
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