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INTRODUCTION.
Tue Manuscripts at Bliekling Hall, Norfolk, passed with that property to the Lothian family through the marriage of Lord Ancram (afterwards sixth Marquess) with Lady Henrietta Hobart, daughter of John, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire.
The present publication is due to the initiative and active personal interest of the late Constance Marchioness of Lothian, who a few years before her death permitted Mr. D’Arcy Collyer to examine and arrange the numerous charters and papers in her possession at Blickling, which had not been accessible to the Inspector on behalf of the Commissioners on his visit in 1869. These on examination arranged themselves under the three heads which follow :—
1. Ancient deeds and documents.
2. Hobart papers, documents belonging to the period commencing with the first connexion of the Hobart family with the property.
3. Buckinghamshire papers, belonging to the time of John Hobart, second Earl of Buckinghamshire.
The last section comprises part of a large collection of diplomatic correspondence and memoranda collected and endorsed by Lord Buckinghamshire himself, which was discovered by Constance Marchioness of Lothian in a cabinet, enclosed in antique cardboard boxes of foreign make, in which they had probably rested undisturbed for just over a century. An instalment of these papers has already been published by the Royal Historical Society in 1900 and 1902 (8rd series, Vols. 2 and 8), together with the text of the official despatches from St. Petersburg, noticed, but not set out, in the Commissioners’ first Report above mentioned.
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The first two sections of the present Report contain gleanings from the Muniment Room, a remote turret room where the papers had been either stored in boxes which had made many a journey in the London ''stage," or had been piled in miscellaneous heaps of rolls, charters and correspondence, relating to persons whose relative significance had long since been forgotten, and to estates long parted with. These are now arranged in nine large tin boxes and docketed. Not till the documents had been cleaned and sorted was it possible out of this mass to evolve order or coherence. There then revealed itself, however, a singular and unexpected element of continuity in the presence, among the earlier muniments, of charters and rolls belonging to the foundations of Langley and Horsham St. Faith, two religious houses founded by the family of Fitz Robert (Cheyney), the first lay tenants of Blickling after the Conquest. This family held their manor in Blickling by grant or exchange from the Bishop of Norwich, whose predecessors had received it from the Conqueror in suecession to Harold. The St. Faith's documents comprise court rolls going back to 49 Hen. III., and a number of charters of endowment; and the coincidence by which the muniments reverted after the dissolution of the monasteries to the home of their origin, if fortuitous, is remarkable. By a like coincidence, a charter of Bishop Eborard (p. 39) 1s among the documents, the Bishop who is recorded as having attempted in the beginning of the 12th century to recover the Cheyneys’ manor to the see, on the ground of some condition in the grant. It was the destiny, however, of the two divisions of the manor into which the grant to John Fitz Robert had divided it, to become at last reunited in the hands of the lay holders, and the site of the Dagworth Manor House (where Blickling Hall now stands) superseded that of the older structure (occupied by Harold) of which the traces are still discernible on the river’s edge, north of the Park.
So large a collection of papers, of course, contains many matters of interest to the local antiquarian. The extract (at p. 61) of the Langley rental, which is only a minute specimen of the elaborate code of task work (filling many pages) detailed for a long list of tenants, calls to mind how old is the never ceasing dispute between master and men in a wet harvest; the 24 days’ work must not be hurried over to the detriment of the crops, mediante equitate et justitia ne nimis cito accipiantur,
vil The records of Hevingham, once a favourite lodge of the Bishops of Norwich (whither, too, Edward I. eame in his progress in 1277), supply a specimen of a manorial extent (p. 33) whieh exemplifies the great multiplieity of ownership which widely obtained from earliest times and the extremely artificial character of the subinfeudation.
It is noticeable that Bishop Askew, minister to De la Pole? (Earl of Suffolk) in the reign of Henry VI., emerged from the position of parish priest in this obscure village (p. 48).
Social life is illustrated by the covenant (of cosenage) of Humphrey Bourgehier (p. 65), and the letter of William Trussel on the education of a ward (p. 75). The letter appears to be a 15th century copy. The Trussels were connected with Weybourne, where the De Veres too left their name. A will of John Thetford of 1565 (p. 44), gives bequests of his ‘‘sylver salte," his ' bow and quiver of arrows."
Of wider and more national significance may be noticed e.g. the original (duplicate) in good preservation of the subsidy roll for the county of Norfolk made on the occasion of the knight- hood of the Black Prince; the names of well-known members of the royal party of Henry III. in a few charters; that of Joan Countess of Hertford (daughter of Edward I., whose title is handed down into Richard the Second's time in connexion with Saxthorpe (p. 46) ; and (in the case of the Blickling records) & trace here and there of the distinguished statesmen and warriors who found here relaxation from the toils of peace and war. Blickling seems early to have been a favourite place for sport, and it is appropriate to find John Engainet in 1807 promul- gating for Blickling the very scientifically drawn custumary which appears here (on pp. 22-24). Poaching was rife in the 14th century (pp. 25-28), and later Sir John Fastolf's bailiff seems to have had before his eyes the possible complaints of over- preservation of game from the ‘‘ Hommages of the Lordschepes ”
* The De Ja Poles are chiefly remembered (locally) as the builders of the beautiful churches at Sa]l and Cawston.
+ This warrior seems to have been official or hereditary master of the Pytcheley bunt. The lands which he held at Pightesley in the county of Northampton were held by the service of ‘finding at his own expense certain dogs for the destruction of wolves, foxes, martins and other vermin, within the counties of Northampton, Rutland, Oxford, Bucks, Essex and Huntingdon."
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(p.57). Devolving always among collaterals and following several ramifications of the Cheyney family, the manor fell to several distinguished owners. Margaret Cheyney, Aileen le Mareschal, Dagworth (who commanded in Aquitaine and suffered imprisonment at the hands of the Barons), Holveston, Sir Thomas Erpingham, of Agincourt and Shaksperian fame, Sir John Fastolf, the Boleyns and Sir Edward Clere, are among the noble owners whose names appear in these charters, but in none of the documents prior to the sale by Clere to the Hobarts can the personal share of the house in public life be definitely traced.
Sir Henry Hobart, Knight and Baronet, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, temp. James I., bought the Blickling estates from Sir Edward Clere, the representative of the Boleyns in the female line, and on the site of the Dagworth manor house built the mansion which remains so impressive and beautiful an example of the architecture of his time. Sir Henry Hobart’s publie character is best known from the sketch by Judge Jenkins comparing him with his great contemporary, Coke :— ‘Two lights of the law, . . . the monument of whose genius ‘and Jabour shall flourish so long as our most just and sacred "laws, the splendour, majesty and fame of England shall "endure. In Hobart were many noble things, an excellent ** eloquence, the éclat of ancestry, the most engaging sweetness ‘“animated with a singular gravity." Sir Henry’s handwriting in several holograph leases attests the diligence and accuracy with which his private affairs were conducted. His son Sir John, who married, first, Philippa, daughter of Robert Sydney, dying without an heir male, left as his widow a second wife, Lady Frances. This lady, who was the daughter of the Earl of Bridgewater and sister of Lady Alice Egerton (the ‘‘ Lady ” of Milton's Comus), lived to old age in Chapel Field House in Norwich, for many years the local town house of the Hobarts.t
À note of Lady Frances to General Lambert and his reply to it (p. 89) show that the family was not without influence with the leaders of the Civil War; for though one or two cadets of
* De Cressi, Fitz Roger, Engaine and Dagworth are all descendents of the Cheyneys io the female line. !
+ Recent exoavations show that the chapel of this chantry foundation stood in the ' open ground north of the house and east of the bowling green. A paroel of title deeds relating to this property are preserved at Blickling.
ix the family were found in the ranks of the Royalists, its main influence was steadily on the Parliamentary side throughout
the crisis, while the estates and title passed to Sir John, son of Miles Hobart? and nephew of his predecessor.
This Sir John, who enjoyed power and repute during the Commonwealth, ** a quondam lord of Oliver Cromwell," as he is styled by Tompson, the contemporary newswriter,t lived to present in 1659 a petition for the return of the secluded members, to see his friend Sir John Holland of Quidenham the next year taking part in the deputation to bring the King back, aud himself to return to the Lower House of Parliament after the Restoration, as member for Norfolk.
Of these stirring and troublous times unfortunately no epistolary correspondence remains, and scarcely a trace of the visit paid by Charles II. to Blickling shortly after the Restora- tion, when he conferred knighthood on the ill-fated Sir Henry, Sir John's eldest son.
The Estreat of Subsidies for the year 1668 (pp. 89-116) gives a list of landowners in five hundreds; the name of ‘ Philip Skippon, Esq., ultra mare," whose house is still conspicuous at Foulsham, illustrates the vicissitudes of political influence; a local tradition credits this noted republican general with profiting by his neighbourhood to Melton (p. 108) to become possessed by some illicit means of the plan of Naseby fight, from some follower of Sir Jacob Astley.
À volume of Lieutenancy Journals fortunately preserved (of which a few extracts only are here given) affords a valuable contribution to the county history of the later years of Charles II. and the Revolution, and supplements the scanty entries in the house books and other casual memoranda in affording glimpses of the party jealousies which the stress of civil strife had exacerbated and His Majesty's presence in the county soon after the Restoration had evidently not permanently allayed. The List of Deputy Lieutenants and Officers of Militia given on pp. 125-7 stands as it appeared after being reformed and
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* The Dict. Nat. Biog. distinguishes this Miles Hobart from the Sir Miles who was conspiouous for locking the doors of the House of Commons during the vote on Tonnage and Poundage (1629). Cf. the passages there cited from the Gentleman's Magazine for the grounds of this conclusion.
t Unpublished Felbrigg papers. Sir John was in fact a member of Cromwell's Upper House.
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expurgated in the interests of the Court by Robert Paston, Lord Yarmouth, who replaced Lord Townshend on his removal from that office in 1675. It is significant that none of the three first signatories of the manifesto for reducing the expenses of the High Sheriff (pp. 122-4) are included in the new commissions as Deputy Lieutenants or in the Militia, and this perhaps makes it probable that what appears to be a harmless sumptuary agree- ment for reducing extravagance was represented at Court as having a disloyal intention.® Barillon's confidential imputations in his reports to Louis XIV. about this time as to the accessi- bility of certain country politieians to foreign influence suggest that economy was a matter of sufficient concern in the county to make the movement & natural one.
The entry (at p. 129) below, referring to the trial at the Bar of the House of Commons and another mentioning Verdon by name, are almost the only memorials of two contested elections fought with much determination by Sir John Hobart for the county representation in 1678-9, which were both the subject of petition. The first of these figures more largely in Mr. Ketton's Felbrigg papers.t Mr. Windham on the first occasion had declined Sir John's overtures to engage him in Parliamentary life on the ground that his opponent, Sir Neville Catelyn, the Court candidate, was ‘‘ encouraged from above and countenanced here," and his surmise seems to have had ample foundation.
The tide of Protestant and Parliamentary reaction on which Titus Oates was being floated to the surface was not yet flowing so turbulently as to discourage the Court party from making a bold bid for power at the general election in Jan. 1678-9, and Sir Christopher Calthorpe and Sir Neville Catelyn enjoyed a short-lived triumph in being returned as knights of the shire, though Sir John after the ‘trial at barr" on his petition was successful in replacing Sir Christopher Calthorpe, unseated.j But the contest was persistent and severe. The Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff had been strong for the Court. ‘‘To oppose
* Cf. Hist. MSS., Rep. VI., part I., 374, William Hughes to Lady Yarmouth.
+ Hist. MSS., Rep. XII., App. IX., 183.
| Dean Prideaux' impressions of this election given in the Camden Society's volume of his letters to Ellis (p. 176) may be compared ‘The Dean is in error in citing this election as for the last Parliament at Westminster of Charles II., and his general statements about it seem equally incorrect. He came to Norwich afterwards, and his report was probably at second hand.
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** any interest sett up by the civil and military government of a “country,” Mr. Windham had written, ** will be called faction by * some, inconsiderate by others, and very improbable to be * successful by most, and that he who is sole judge of the poll, *and by whom the returne is to be made, is our open and * declared enemie."9 Mr. Windham, however, seems to have been busy just at this time with the ciclings of his house at Felbrigg, that beautiful Italian work in high relief that is still one of its chief ornaments, and was dragged a very reluctant Cincinnatus into the strife of the second election. The country gentry were perhaps naturally unwilling to renew the strife of a generation earlier and the acts of fraud and intimidation charged in Sir John Hobart’s petition against Samuel Verdon, the under sheriff, support the theory that the latter was backed ‘‘from above,” and that funetionary's vigorous and defiant methods must have been exceptional even in the days of unreformed elections. First refusing poll books or writing materials to Sir John’s voters and throughout the day fraudulently hindering the record of votes, tearing leaves from Hobart’s poll books, several times ‘‘ beating and abusing’’ the freeholders, he ended by closing the poll prematurely in the face of 1,000 unpolled electors, *' violently ** took the pollbooks away, and drew his sword in defence of it.” + Paston, the Lord Lieutenant, was believed to have taken a strong part. The petition charges ‘‘that before the election several ‘“letters were dispersed as written by the said Lord as heynge ‘‘Lord Lieutenant of the said county (Norfolk) to the gentry and ‘clergy of the said county not only appointing persons by name '" to be the said knights of the shire, but assuming it would be " an affront to him and his authority as Lord Lieutenant to elect
* Unpublished Felbrigg papers.
t Unpublished Felbrigg papers. An account of Verdon and his eccentrio pro- grese to London is given by North in his memorial of the Lord Keeper Guilford (II., 21), where he also mentions how the insolence of this man secured him the favour of Judge Jeffreys. ‘The sergeant’s men went down and took him (Verdon)
. But in bringing him up he would not be prevailed with, either to mount or dismount his horse, but forced the messengers at every town to lift him on and off, and at the same time had his olerks taking notes in order to testif y these assaults of his person, for every one of which he intended to bring an action of battery. It so fell out that as he was upon the road between Norwich and London the Parliament was prorogued, by which the warrant c»ased, and after that tho custody was a false imprisonment, and Verdon brought his action for it against the messengers, which action was tried at the Exchequer bar."
xii ‘for to be elected without his consent or concurrence » ‘and the said Lord Lieutenant's Steward as by his Lordship's ‘command required some of his Lordship's tenants to give their '" votes for Sir Christopher Calthorpe and Sir Neville Catelyn, '" who were threatened that if they did not vote for them, the
"farms which they had of his Lordship should be taken from ** them.”
When Sir John's petition came on for hearing, the excitement of the Popish Plot was rising high, and he records how he was vexatiously shut into the house on one occasion, and detained during the arrest and examination of & suspect parliamentary lawyer, one Reading.
Sir John obtained the seat at the next election, and again with his son Henry sat in the Oxford Parliament of 1681. The Ryehouse Plot in 1688 marked the decadence of the Protestant and popular party, and the turn of the wheel found Sir John obnoxious to the ascendant faction. In execution of an order in Council addressed to the Earl of Arundel, who had suceeeded Lord Yarmouth in the Lord Lieutenancy, his house was searched in July of the latter year. The list of arms found at Blickling (given at p. 180 below), is the result of this search. Mr. Seambler at Wolterton, Hamond Claxton at Aylsham, Henry Marsham at Stratton Strayless, and Thomas Newman at Baconsthorpe were at the same time subjected to a like ordeal. Dr. John Collinges, the biographer of Lady Frances and the Presbyterian chaplain of the Hobarts at Chapel Field, was arrested as a nonjuring suspect in 1685.° A few years later it was the turn of the Papists, and later, of the nonjurors proper, to experience these reciprocal visitations, Christopher Layer, of Booton, whosis marked for search in 1696 (p. 142), is uncle and namesake of the notorious conspirator who suffered at Tyburn in 1728. But as is shewn in these Lieutenancy Journals, these neighbourly inquisitions were rewarded on each succeeding occasion with less satisfying results. The seizures even at the period of the “ horrid designe " of the Rye House in 1683 were of less value than variety. ‘‘ A back, breast and head piece of a horse” are found at Colney, “three Olliverian swords” at
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* He appears to have been arrested twice this year according to the entries in the Lieutenanoy journal.
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Warham. In 1696 Sir Christopher Calthorpe yields only ''9 old * carbines, 4 old musketts, one brass blunderbuss, 8 old pistols, *8 old swords. The four black coach horses seized by Sir Frances Guybon from Sir Nicholas L'Estrange, “one mealy faced and one with a white starr," are discharged by the Deputy Lieutenants in conclave, who certify that none of them is worth bl, ‘‘ they being old and lame, and some of them blind." The lowest point is reached in 1707 with the seizure of ‘‘ one musquet and a belt of bandoliers ’’ from Mr. Lake at Sparham (p. 145).
Sir Henry Hobart on his succession in 1688 found the estates largely eneumbered, and had further to reduce them by sale to meet the demands made by creditors. Taking an active part in the politics of the time and on the constitutional side, he appears to have presided over the counsels of the county in the absence of the Lord Lieutenant and to have favoured a policy more comprehensive than that of his superior (pp. 155-6).
It is no doubt to the appointment of his son, the first Earl of Buckinghamshire, to the Lord Lieutenancy, that is due the preservation of the Lieutenancy Journals of this period, which give a vivid illustration of the Revolutionary crisis of 1688-9. The militia force of the county is shewn to be in a high state of organisation, and the action of the Protestant Duke of Norfolk, cool-headed and constitutional. ‘‘ Bel homme à cheval,” as Evelyn ealls the latter, it is evident (pp. 184-5) that his personality counted for something in the period of transition. He seems to have sat the fence with masterly firmness, and so long as hopes were held out by James II. that & Parliament would be summoned the forces of the county were engaged to maintain the existing régime. Not till the cause was surren- dered by the retirement of James II. was their weight thrown on the side of the Revolution.
In 1690 Sir Henry Hobart served on King William's staff at the battle of the Boyne, but on his return the embar- rassed state of the country was not such as to afford any relief to his encumbered finances, and in a quarrel which is asserted to have had some connexion with his contested election for the county, he met with the wound from a left-handed antagonist ?
(militia) Company. There was evidently political animosity involved in the quarrel. (See Le Neve Papers, edited by Mr. Bye).
xiv that proved fatal. A stone marks the spot at Cawston heath where this, one of the last duels fought with swords, took place. The long minority and succession of his son (three of whose sisters were borne in their infancy to the churchyard of Blickling) added little of publie interest to the archives, and in the papers of his grandson begin what are practically modern polities.
The diplomatic papers collected by John second Earl of Buckinghamshire in the course of his long life (1728-1798) relate for the most part, Ist, to the period of his Embassy to St. Petersburg (Sept. 1762-Jan. 1765); 2ndly, to the American Colonies; 8rdly, to his momentous Vice-Royalty of Ireland. Among the private letters are eight bundles addressed to Sir Thomas Drury, of which Lord Buckinghamshire became possessed through his first wife Mary Anne, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Drury. The chief public interest of these consists in the record which they contain of the feeling with which men in the more distant parts of the country viewed the invasion of '45, and of the fluctuations of the money market at the time.
The letters addressed by Lord Buckinghamshire to Henrietta Countess of Suffolk, the Lady Suffolk of Pope, Swift, and Walpole, are those of a son to an indulgent mother, for such she had been to him and his only sister since the death of their mother in 1726. They serve to complement and illustrate Lady Suffolk’s letters to him in reply, which have been pub- lished in Croker’s edition of her correspondence, while the curious narrative (pp. 166-170) of her interview with Queen Caroline on retiring from office at Court in 1734 goes far to support the belief of her friends, to which Horace Walpole refers while he dissents from it, that Lady Suffolk’s ‘‘ connection with the King was confined to pure friendship." The cryptic allusion to ‘Lord B." is probably to be explained by a passage in a con- temporary letter from Lady Elizabeth Compton (Hist. MSS. Comm. Report XI, 4, p. 248) in which she mentions a rumour that Lady Suffolk had been too often seen in the company of Lord Bolingbroke at Bath, and that her retirement was the result of consequent suspicions cast upon her loyalty to the House of Hanover.
The Russian papers make a considerable contribution to the chronicles of British trade with Russia both before and after
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the first formal treaty of commerce concluded by Lord Forbes in 1734, and there is also a long series of documents relating to the disputed succession to the Duchy of Courland. This was an event which at the time passed with scarcely a comment in England, yet it was Frederick the Great's promise to support Catherine II. in her policy toward that Polish fief which was the first step to the conclusion of the alliance between Prussia and Pussia in 1764, of which the direct result was the partition of Poland. The absorption of Courland by Russia had long been in contemplation. Since the dissolution of the Livonian State in 1561, the Duchy had had an independent existence as a fief of Poland, and it was to the interest of Russia that it should be looked upon not as an appanage to the Crown of Poland but as a vassal state of the Republic. In 1788,the Czarina Anna made it a condition of her consent to support the election of Augustus III. of Saxony to the Crown of Poland that the Duchy should be so considered, and that it should not be divided into Palatinates. In 1787, the death of the last Duke Ferdinand of the Kettler family enabled Anna to force upon the Courlanders her favourite, John Ernest de Biren, whose grandfather had been groom to the Dukes of the ancient house. For one month in 1740, during the reign of the infant Ivan, the new Duke of Courland was Regent of Russia. For twenty years from May 1741 he was an exile in Siberia. Meanwhile, on the 8rd of January 1759, Augustus III. invested his son Charles Christian of - Saxony with the Dukedom, at the request, as he declared, of the states of the country. But with the accession of Peter III. in 1762, Biren returned from exile once more to claim his Duchy, to become in the hands of Catherine the Second a convenient instrument in her design of ridding both Courland and Poland of the rule of the House of Saxony. It is at this point that Lord Buckinghamshire's papers take up the tale and furnish an official statement of the case on both sides between Russia and Poland in the matter of Courland. Stanislas Poniatowski's letter of 81st, May, 1764, congratulating Duke Biren on his re-establish- ment, is significant as giving a clue to one of the conditions upon whieh he received the support of the Czarina in his election to the Crown of Poland.
The events which led up to that election are related by Thomas Wroughton, British Envoy to the Elector of Saxony and King
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of Poland, from the point of view of & man who was strongly prepossessed in favour of Catherine II., with whom he had lived on terms of intimacy before her accession. Wroughton had at that time the office of Consul General at St. Petersburg, and it was said that his house became the place of rendezvous for the Archduchess Catherine and Stanislas Poniatowski. Whatever may have been the truth of this, Peter III., when there was a question of Wroughton's appointment as Envoy, refused to admit him to an audience, and he was in consequence recalled in March 1762, and sent as resident to Warsaw.
Lord Buckinghamshire’s embassy to Russia, partly from the uncertainty surrounding the prospects of the new Empress, partly from the inadequate realisation at home of the importance of the Russian factor in politics (p. 871), was attended by no political success. He was, however, upon his return to England, offered the Embassy to Madrid, which he refused, and he held no other publie office until he became Viceroy of Ireland in January 1777.
When Lord Buckinghamshire accepted the arduous task which Lord Harcourt had not reluctantly dropped, he encountered, without that cordial support from the Government at home enjoyed by his predecessor, a combination of diffieulties which, having increased under Lord Harcourt's administration, offered at the close of that nobleman's tenure of office a prospect which he felt scarcely able to encounter. The advent of a new Viceroy, besides being the oecasion for & renewal of unsuccessful claims for patronage, prompted fresh appeals for the redress of the eommercial and financial disabilities under which Ireland was suffering, and a phase of more active agitation in and out of Parliament synchronised with the external disquiet caused by the unfavourable conduct of the American war.
During four years, however, of a period the most critical in English history, Lord Buckinghamshire contrived to maintain in some fashion the status quo. The like succeeding period of four years witnessed the advent and departure of as many Viceroys and the establishment of an independent Parliament. His partial success seems attributable to personal qualities of tact and temper, which, combined with a sincere zeal for the welfare of the Irish people, created, in the opinion of Grattan, “a passion in his favour approaching to love."
xvil The impoverished and defenceless state of the country, indeed,
seem amply to have justified the concessions granted during his Vieeroyalty to the export trade and the Volunteers.
On the question of Free Trade a memorandum of Sackville Hamilton (p. 801) is worth notice. A number of such mono- graphs was collected specially by Lord Buckinghamshire for the instruction of Government. These able and eloquent disserta- tions justified the economic reform which was precipitated by the growing danger of the trade with France, then inflated by the existing embargo on the export of provisions and other economical restrictions. ‘Two of her" (Ireland's) ‘‘ provinces,” says one writer, may at this very day be called provinces of ** France as much as provinces of Great Britain." The rupture of diplomatie relations with France following on her action in regard to the revolted colonies, foreed on the concession of an outlet for à trade which, diverted in illicit channels to France, had up to this time supplied & large share of the taxable wealth of the island. Of the same financial depression the rise of the volunteer movement was another natural outeome. The pro- posed militia scheme being abandoned for want of money, fresh drains were made on the military establishment, and the constant drafts of troops for the American war could not be replaced, even though Scotland was laid under contribution, and we find the Athol Highlanders among the infantry of the garrrison (p. 380). In these papers, however, we find little trace of the ‘‘impotent dismay” which the writer of the article in the Dictionary of National Biography (following Mr. Lecky) discovers in the Viceroy at this crisis. His attitude of passive acquiescence in the growth of these voluntary associations is not obscurely invited in Lord Sandwich’s signifi- cant reminder that ‘‘a coast cannot be protected by ships alone," a phrase suggesting the tacit assent of the Home Government to & eondition of things which the Viceroy was expected to tolerate, without any overt sign of approval.
If the extent and importance of the volunteer movement were at first underrated by him, the famous epigram of Hussey Burgh? is proof that the nation itself stood startled and surprised at the sudden growth and formidable proportions of its own military
* “ You have sown the dragon's teeth and they have sprung up armed men."
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offspring. If official discouragement disparaged the movement in the eyes of immediate aspirants to Court favour, as these letters seem to show, that movement at least in iis earlier stages was strong in the high character and loyal disposition of its leaders.
With the termination of his Viceroyalty, Lord Buckingham- shire's publie life eame to an end, though it may be gathered from these letters that the conduct of Irish business presented no difficulties (except those factitious ones arising from his unfortunate relation to his colleagues at home) that he felt unable to grapple with, and that he would not have been unwilling to utilise his experience in a second term of office.
Sir Henry Clinton's letters to Lord Buckinghamshire, written at and about the date of Lord Cornwallis' surrender, may interest students of the polemies of this episode, though they cannot be said to throw much additional light on an unfruitful controversy. The rude original prints of the manifesto of the Pennsylvanian line are tacitly eloquent of a crisis that seems so nearly to have wiped out the army of the revolted colonies.
Dying in 1798, the second Lord Buckinghamshire was buried the following year in the mausoleum which he had designed, but not lived to complete, in the centre of his park at Blickling. Tradition till lately kept alive the impressive memory of the torehlight procession which accompanied the translation from the church to their final resting-place of the remains of one who had filled an honourable place in the public life of his time, who had moved, a stately and representative figure, in the social and politica! scenes of his environment and generation.
This Report, with the Introduction and Index, has been prepared, with some assistance in revision of the early documents from the Rev. W. D. Macray, by Mr. D'Arcy Bedingfeld Collyer.
MANUSCRIPTS
OF
THE MARQUESS OF LOTHIAN,
AT BLICKLING HALL, NORFOLK.
SECTION I—ANCIENT DEEDS, Erc.
In the First Report of this Commission issued in 1870, one page is occupied by an account by Mr. A. J. Horwood of a few historical papers which he examined in July, 1869. But he makes no mention of the voluminous contents of the Muniment Room, which had not then been examined for probably a century and a half, and were entirely unsorted and unarranged, and evidently not then open to his inspection, as being no doubt supposed to lie outside the objects of his visit. These have now for the greatest part been sorted and are described below.
The manor of Blickling belonged to Harold at the Conquest, and the alleged site of Harold's house can even now be traced in dry weather in the cornfield adjoining the river which runs beyond the extreme end of the park from the north of the present Hall The manor, according to the return made in the Hundred Roll of 8 Edw. I. (Rot. Hundr. vol. i. p. 518), was confirmed by Henry I. to Herbert, first bishop of Norwich, who gave it in exchange for Thorpe near Norwich to John le Cheny (sic), son of Robert Fitz Walter.
* Mr. Horwood mentions the existence of certain classical MS8,, with Missals and Books of Hours, which he was unable to see. These, which still have not been open to inspection, are, it is understood, chiefly, if not entirely, of foreign origin, possessing no English historical interest.
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HORSHAM ST. FAITH.
Robert Fitz Walter, with Sibyl de Caineto his wife, founded the priory of St. Faith near Norwich, A.D. 1105-6, as a cell of the abbey of Conches in Normandy, in pursuance of a vow, under circumstances well-known and narrated by Dugdale. It became independent of the abbey in 14 Rich. IT.
The Priory documents include a charter of confirmation by the founder's grand-daughter Margaret Cheyney, and a copy of one of her father, William de Kaneto, containing one of those ambiguities which sometimes gave rise (as it seems to have done in the present case) to disputed claims. A fine levied in 34 Hen. III., of which the record is among the papers, settled a dispute between Berengarius the Prior and Hugh de Cressy the patron as to the title to 5 acres of wood, ‘‘ utrum sit libera eleemosina pertinens ad ecclesiam dicti Prioris de Horsham an laicum feadum ipsius Hugonis."
Among other benefactions to the priory is one of Theobald Halteyn, who bestows 67 acres for the benefit of the soul of his lord King Henry [II.] and his lord Humphrey de Buun [Bohun], for which he receives 27 marks to assist him in his expedition to Jerusalem. The name of the first or second prior hitherto not recorded, Austorgius, is found in a charter which may be dated about 1120-80, and that of a successor, Bertrand, about 1140-60.
The manor rolls, commencing in 49 Hen. IIL, are very voluminous. The domestic discipline in regard to admitting Strangers to sojourn in the village appears to have been strict, à number of presentments being made of persons who had enter- tained strangers without licence. A selection of presentments is given below.
There is also a small roll of the market court chiefly interesting in regard to the nature of the chattels ‘attached’ to answer the judgment of the court.
Among later documents, the probate of the will dated 1521 of Helen Carter (see Blomefield’s Norfolk, vol. x. p. 488), providing for & Trental to be sung for twenty years by the monks, and providing for the repair of the cross in St. Faith's churchyard, is worth noting. Also the ''testimonyall" or letter of commendation from Prior Stokes given to one Metcalfe, the bearer of a bede-roll.
BLICKLING.
The rolls of greatest interest and antiquity are those of Dagworth manor, in Bliekling, which from the time of Bishop Eborard (Hen. L) was separated from the episcopal manor until re-united in a grant from Henry VIII. to Sir John de Clere. It is recorded that Eborard sought a Bull from the Pope to restore it to the see on the ground that it was granted away in order to protect it during times of civil disturbance. The manor belonged to & series of historical families, Dagworth, Holveston, Engayne, Erpingham, Fastolf, Boleyn and Clere.
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An interesting order in Chancery (in English), relating to the terms of purchase between Sir John Fastolf and Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, 1s copied at length. |
A roll of 7 Edw. IT. affords a good specimen of the varied and interesting matters which the early Blickling rolls contain. Presentments are made of a parochial chaplain prosecuting in a Court Christian, and for his usury; of the taking by a tenant the order of Exorcist without the lord’s licence; of two parochial chaplains for being concerned in an affray; of hamsoken; breaking the assize; selling mead; raising the hue and cry unlawfully; regrating; purpresture; &c.
It is probably owing to the connexion of the Hobarts with Blickling that the muniments include so large and varied an accumulation of manor rolls. Lord Chief Justice Hobart, who amassed considerable estates in Norfolk in the time of James I., appears, with commendable carefulness, to have got into his hands the oldest muniments of the several properties which he acquired by purchase. It is probably owing to this that there is so large a collection of documents of the Priory of Horsham St. Faith’s, which came to him after the Dissolution, when the connexion of the priory with the lords of Blickling as its founders had apparently long ceased to exist. Many of Hobart’s leases to his tenants are apparently drawn in his own handwriting.
HEVINGHAM.
To Sir Henry Hobart is probably also due the early and interesting series of manorial documents of Hevingham (which was purchased from the Thetfords), a former ‘‘ hunting-box ” of the Bishops of Norwich on the road from Norwich to Blickling, where the bishops had a deer park, and a manor which appears to have flourished and increased under their ascendancy. A charter of Bishop William Turbus granting lands in the manor to Herbert Catte and Alda his wife, ‘ nepoti ejusdem Willelmi," suggests the origin of the name of “ Catt’s manor," which is not elsewhere accounted for.
An extent of the manor of Hevingham in the time of Henry III., with sundry interlineations (apparently amendments sanctioned by the King's Commissioners in Eyre), seems to illustrate the method in which manorial jurisdictions sometimes grew. This is here printed in full, and the corrections are noted by being printed in italics.
The charters connected with this manor include also an interesting compact under seal granting a '' peace of mayhem ”’ to the son of one considerable tenant who had injured another. The document is witnessed by a number of the junior representa- tives of neighbouring families. Here, as a presentment in Bishop Middleton’s time [1278-88] attests, it was the custom for the tenants to choose yearly ‘‘ tres homines ad officium prepositi, tres ad cornu gerendum, et unum ad officium porcarii."
The account-roll for the year of the Black Death is among these documents.
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An entry on one roll relates that a number of the records were burnt by the mob at the time of Litester's rebellion (following Wat Tyler's), when Bishop Spencer was riding about after the . rioters. North Walsham, where he defeated them, is only a few miles distant.
SAXTHORP.
There are two principal manors in Saxthorp, those of Mickelhall connected more especially with Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and Loundhall. The latter extends into a number of adjoining parishes. William de Valence had a castle in this place, and the records shew it to have been a place of much greater relative importance than at present. The Loundhall rental of the time of Rich. II. noted below shews 248 tenants. The deeds and documents connected with these manors comprise the names of Wendenual (the holders temp. Hen. I.), William Valence Earl of Pembroke (a good impression of his seal), Ralph Lord Cromwell, Sir John Fastolf, Sir Thomas Erpingham, W. Oldhalle, Grey de Ruthin, Gresham, Yelverton, and W. Waynflete and other feoffees of Sir J. Fastolf.
There is a specimen of the seal of Bromholm priory, almost perfect, attached to & release of a rent of 4s. payable to the foundation.
Among the deeds worthy of note (of which there are not many in a very large collection) is à grant by Heloisa de Wendenual to an old servant of her father.®
Another of interest is the grant (27 Edw. E.) of licence to Sir Simon de Crepping from Richard de Hertford, the rector of the parish church, to have divine service performed ‘‘ per idoneum capellanum " in a chapel or oratory to be erected by Sir Simon near his court, provided that Sir Simon attends - the parish church on the four principal feast days.
A record of assize of 41-50 Ed. III. gives a considerable contribution to the pedigree of the Dautre family.
The free chapel of St. Dunstan seems to have been connected with the Mickelhall manor ; it is not that for which the license above was granted.
The name of ‘‘ Peddersty " for a path (deed of 6 Hen. VI.) may perhaps throw a light on the vexed question of the origin of the name Corpusty, the name of the adjoining parish. ‘ Peddersty ” is presumably ‘‘ the pedlar's way." Cf. A. S. Stig.
The series of charters and rolls for Saxthorp gives evidence of the thieker population of these districts in the 14th century compared with that at present existing. A customary of the manor of Loundhall temp. Richard II. shews 104 tenants paying a money rental, with 56 who pay in kind altogether 210. The popula- tion of the parish of Saxthorp at the census of 1891 was 276.
* The Wendenyals or Wendevals are mentioned by Blomefield as the earliest tenants of the manor after the Conquest, but-he does not refer togthe name as occurring in any charter which he had seen.
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LANGLEY.
Of the manor and abbey of Langley there was an ancient link with Bliekling in the fact of its foundation by Robert Fitz Roger. Im this case also the abbey site came into the hands of Chief Justice Hobart after the Dissolution, by purchase from Sir Richard Berney, and with it a beautiful survey or rental of the monastic lands dated 1288 in excellent condition.
WYMONDHAM.
À mass of bulky manor rolls of Wymondham deserve more detailed examination than time has permitted; the bailiffs’ accounts (as in the case of all these collections) being fairly numerous. An interesting pedigree tracing the title of Buckenham from D'Albini to the Knyvetts deserves mention.
I. HORSHAM ST. FAITH'S.
Manor Court Rozzs, 1265-1640; viz. Courts and Courts General and Courts with Lete for the years :—
Henry III. 49-55.
Edward I. 2-6.
Edward IT. 5-20.
Edward III. 6-20 and 42.
Richard II. 8-10.
Henry IV. 2-14.
Henry VI. 1-87, 88, (36, 87 and 89 appear to be copies).
Henry VII. 1-24.
Henry VIII. 1, 8-17, 31, 34, 35, 86,88, (81s W. Castlety’s first Court).
Edward VI. 1, 2, 4-6.
Mary 1, Philip and Mary 1-5.
Elizabeth 1-18 (6 is the first Court of Richard Southwell, alias D’Arcy), 80-89, 44, 45.
James I. 1-19, except 8. Sir Henry Hobart's first Court is James I. 10.
1681-1640.
Account Rolls:—1890-1509. Collectors and Messors.
Richard II. 18-23.
Henry IV. 1-8, 14.
Henry V. 1, 2, 4-9.
Henry VI. 1-89. '' The accounts of Receivers of Rent for Richard Lord Prior of the Priory."
Edward IV. 2, 5, 6, 9-12, 16, 20, 21.
Henry VII. 2-17 (except 6 and 14), 20, 21, 28, 24. Also the Bailiff of Ryburghs for 23, 24.
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Rolls of the Market Court, Hen. VI. 18-21.
Edw. IV. 1.
Bailiffs Accounts, 1461-1545 .—
Henry VI. 89-40.
Henry VII. 28-24.
Henry VIII. 1-29, 5-6, 8-9, 11-12, 17-21, 26-27. 36 is the first Court of Will. Rogers, Alderman of the city of Nor- wich, ** ad usum Marie Leche, uxoris Robert Leche."
Cellarer' Account. |
Henry IV. 2 (1401).
Priors’ Receipts, 1408-1452 :—
Henry IV. 9.
Henry VI. 16, 25, 30. For the year 16: ‘Outgoings of Grange and tithes received from Haveringland."
Extent (draft) of the late Priory lands, completed 4 Elizabeth (1562).
ExrRAcTS FROM HonsHaM ST. FarrH's Manor BRorrs.
Betrothal without licence.
Presentant quod Sibilla Colbert et Radulfus le Savere affida- verunt se adinvicem sine licentia, ete. Morrow of SS. Peter and Paul, 50 Hen. III.
Presentment of persons entertaining strangers without licence.
Seventeen tenants are presented ‘‘ quia sunt consueti hospitari extraneos contra statutum curie." Monday before St. Dunstan's day, 51 Hen. III.
Entry into the Homage.
Herveus Bele devenit hominem (sic) prioris reddendo annuatim pro capite suo unum caponem ad Natale Domini.
Item Levota fil. Willelmi piscatoris de Thaverham, similiter devenit hominem prioris reddendo annuatim pro eapite suo unum caponem ad Natale Domini. Wednesday after Nat. B.M.V., 52 Hen. III.
Ysabell Brunville devenit hominem prioris et fecit feoda- gium priori et dabit annuatim pro chevagio unum caponem ad Natale Domini.
Presentment against the Millers.
Item presentatio totius soce de Roberto mollendinario et de Waltero mollendinario. ^ Dicunt quod fraudulenter et inique curam mollendinorum eis in plena curia traditam custodierunt, et ad opus domini et totius soce incongruam adhibuere custodiam. Dicunt item quod male mollant et tonn [ant ? |
Et ideo in miserieordia. Et invenere plegios de misericordia et de pace reformanda eis qui conquesti sunt de ipsis. Plegii Walteri, Willelmus Crobert, Will. le Forester. Plegii Roberti, Will. Rust et Symon Lanke. Et dietus Robertus invenit plegios
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Will. Rust et Symonem Lanke. Item dictus Walterus invenit plegios Johannem Pokoc, Robertum Eyward. Ita quod in hoc anno proximo venturo proficuum dictorum mollendinorum procurabunt tam de advenis quam de secta, et quod fideliter mollent et tonn[ent?] ad opus domini sine fraude facienda domino sive alicui alio.
Oath of Homage and licences of Marriage.
Memorandum quod Radulfus le Syrer devenit hominem Prioris et fecit sacramentum, et habet licentiam accipere in uxorem filiam quondam Alani Cole, scilicet Sibilam, et dedit vij^, pleggio W. Holcot.
Memorandum quod Robertus cementarius fecit pacem cum Priore ut habeat licentiam aecipere in uxorem filiam Matilidis Cole, et devenit homo Prioris et dedit ij sol. Monday before St. Gregory's day, 52 Hen. III.
Presentment of Brewers.
The capital pledges (who are not enumerated) present that all the brewers broke the assize. St. Peter's day, 52 Hen. III.
Complaint against a wife.
Henrieus le Porter conqueritur de uxore sua Alicia de transgressione. Pleggio Alano Coco ad prosequendum. Dicta Alicia atachat se ad respondendum et invenit plegium W. Holcot. Tuesday after St. Dunstan's day, 58 Hen. III.
Grant of land in perpetuity at a capon rent.
Memorandum quod Berengarius prior et conventus Sancte Fidis de Horsham dederunt et conceserunt Viello garcifero suo et heredibus suis unam peciam terre sue, videlicet que vocatur Presteroft per metas positas, in qua pecia continet (sic) in longitudine sexaginta pedes et in latitudine duodecim pedes, pro servicio suo, habendum et tenendum sibi et heredibus suis in perpetuum; reddendo inde annuatim dicto priori et conventui et eorum successoribus ipse et heredes sui quolibet anno unum eaponem ad Natale Domini pro omni servicio, consuetudine, exactione, et omnimoda seeulari demanda. Data in curia apud Horsham die Martis proxima post festum St. Dunstani anno Regni Regis H. fil Regis Johannis quinquagesimo tercio, in tempore Berengarii Carbonel tunc temporis seneschalli.
Transyressions.
Memorandum quod capitales plegii presentant quod Willelmus le Frere cecavit (secarit) unum frenum contra defensionem et illud vendidit sine licentia domini Prioris.
Item presentant quod in curia Willelmi Hacun invenere magnum dampnum quod factum fuerit in alneto Prioris et de hayis fractis et hasportatis. Vigil of St. Andrew, 58 Hen. III.
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Presentment as to freedom.
Capitales plegii presentant et dicunt cum alus juratis quod W. Hacun non est liber, et quod non potest maritare filiam suam sine licentia, et quod ipsa debet solvere gersumam. St. Luke's day, 58 Hen. III.
Entering the homage on marriage.
Memorandum quod Petrus Swyft devenit hominem Prioris red- dendo annuatim unum caponem pro omnibus consuetudinibus ad Natale Domini, et dat domino xij denarios ut maritaret Agnetem Cappe nativam Prioris. Plegg. Will. Holkot.
Building lease for life.
Memorandum quod Beatrix filia Alicie Henrici concessit Roberto Yve unam aream in tota vita ipsius H. super quam possit edificare in longitudine xl pedes et latitudine xxx pedes. Post decessum vero dieti Roberti, dieta area quiete revertetur una cum edificiis tune in eadem inventis predicte Beatrici et heredibus suis. Et sciendum quod dicta area jacet inter messuagium Viell in Upgate et messuagium Anse Croket; et dietus Robertus dat domino Priori vj. denarios. Friday after Epiphany, 58 Hen. III.
Marriage conditions on. entering on land.
Johannes Colbert dat domini Priori vijs. pro herieto terre ipsum contingentis, et etiam pro licentia habenda ducende uxoris ubicunque voluerit, et esse sine uxore quamdiu voluerit, excepto hoc quod si ducat aliquam de homagio Prioris quod ipsa faciat pacem pro se ipsa. Et seneschallus dicti Prioris posuit. eum 1n plena seysina de predieta terra et fecit feutagium (sic) dieto Priori. Plegii de dietis vij. Henricus le Mey et Willelmus Rust. Tuesday before St. Hilary, 54 Hen. III.
Custody of an infant.
Margareta Lanke dat unum marcam domino Priori pro eustodia Willelmi filii sui habenda usque ad etatem decem annorum, et pro licentia habenda maritandi filium suum predictum ubicunque et quandocunque voluerit. Salvo hoc, quod de consensu parentum ex parte patris et ex parte matris ducet uxorem, et dicti parentes videbunt catalla que debent dari in maritagium eum dieto Willelmo. Et dicta Margareta interim faciet consuetudines integre que pertinent ad tenementum dieti Willelmi et quod nullam faciet destruccionem arborum domorum nisi iu emendacionem messuagii predicti Willelmi. Plegii de dicta marca solvenda et de predictis observandis Will. Lanke, Herb. Biscop, Will. Crobert, Henricus le Mey.
Becoming '* Husbond " of a tenement.
Memorandum quod Walterus Hering factus est husbond de illo tenemento quod fuit patris e& matris ejusdem Walteri, et positus
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est in seysinam dicti tenementi, et fecit domino Priori feudagium, et dat. domino Priori unam marcam argenti pro seysina dicti tenementi habenda, et etiam pro eo quod possit, ducere uxorem quando voluerit et ubicunque, et esse sine uxore quamdiu voluerit, et quietus de herieto (etc). St. Mark's day, 55 Hen. III.
Villein. claiming to be a freeman.
Willelmus Molendinarius in misericordia pro pluribus transgressionibus domino Priori factis, ut dicitur, videlicet pro eo quod debuit asportasse sepem cirea nidum cingni reparatam, et de asportatione straminis pertinentis ad dietum nidum, et similiter eo quod dietus W. et parcenarii sui detinuerunt dicto domino Priori unum percarium |precarium?] suarum carucarum prout fecisse debuerunt, et etiam super eo quod idem W. dicebat se liberum hominem memorati domini Prioris cum sit villanus ejusdem Prioris, et ita negavit dominum suum coram seneschallo ejusdem domini. Plegii de misericordia Henricus le Porter et Symon Jolle. Et sciendum est quod dictus W. spontanea sua voluntate posuit se in misericordia ut predictum est. Morrow of SS. Peter and Paul [49 Hen. III.]
Presentatio capitalium. plegiorum.
(Here follows a list of presentments, including several for wrongful encroachments in making footpaths.)
Item Matilda Spole in misericordia quod sine licentia domini Prioris hospitavit quasdam, scilicet., Anwyt [am] et fil. ejus.
Item presentant quod magister Gwydo et dominus Prior levaverunt quandam injustam [foveam in itinere regali juxta domum magistri Willelmi.
Item presentant quod Robertus de Brie hospitavit quosdam in domo sua sine licentia domini Prioris.
Item presentant quod Radulfus faber desponsavit quandam mulierem sine licentia, &e.
Item presentant quod Sibilla Colbert et Radulfus le Savere affidaverunt se adinvicem sine licentia, &e. Morrow of SS. Peter and Paul, 50 Hen. III.
Fine for false petition.
Willelmus Cut in misericordia pro sua falsa petitione super hereditate Alicie filie quondam Roberti Pitans, quia omnes de euria dieunt quod dietus Willelmus non habet jus in petitione sua, et quod nullus alius heres habet jus ad eandem hereditatem nisi illa Alicia cum viro suo et filis suis et filiabus, nisi Galfridus Pitans, frater dicte Alicie, de transmarinis partibus arripuisset. Plegius Alexander Cocus.
Preceptum est in curia sub pena duorum solidorum ut nullus hospitetur aliquem vel aliquam ultra duos dies et duas noctes. Court held by R. the Cellarer, feast of St. Scholastica.
[But at the very next court on St. Dunstan's day seventeen persons are presented as ‘‘consueti hospitare extraneos contra Statutum curie." |:
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Compounding an assault.
Matildis le May in misericordia pro verberatione facta filio suo a filio Willelmi Mollendarii, quia reconciliati sunt per licentiam. Pleg. Will. Mollend. Court held by Berengarius Carhonel, rector of the church of Haveringlond, St. Bartholomew’s day, 52 Hen. III. [1268].
CHARTERS.
[c. 1120-80 ?] SURRENDER and QurrcLamx by RoraND and SIMON, sons of WinLiAM the Priest of HELETUXNE, of land and buildings in Heletune.
Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Rolandus et ego Simon filii Willelmi sacerdotis de Heletune resignavimus et concessimus et quietam clamavimus pro nobis et omnibus heredibus nostris Deo et ecclesie Sancte Fidis de Horsham et domino Austorgio Priori, et conventui ejusdem loci, totam terram que fuit Willelmi patris nostri in villa de Heletune et in campis de Heletune quam nos aliquando de eis tenuimus, cum omnibus edificiis et omnibus aliis pertinenciis suis, in liberam puram et perpetuam elemosinam, pro animabus patris nostri et matris nostre et omnium ante- cessorum nostrorum et pro salute animarum nostrarum et omnium suecessorum nostrorum, ita quod nos nec aliquis heredum nostrorum nee aliquis nomine nostro aliquid juris vel elamii in predicta terra de cetero habere aut ponere possit. Set tota predicta terra cum omnibus pertineneis suis in proprios usus predictorum Prioris et monacorum integre et plenarie devolvatur. Et ad perpetuam eorum securitatem sigilla nostra huic scripto apposuimus. Hiis testibus: Willelmo de Sancto Martino, Radulfo de Erlham, Willelmo de Pynkeny, Hugone filio ejus, Godefrido filio Johannis, Radulfo de Seugham, Nicolao Bus, Radulfo de Chaineto, Willelmo filio Alani, Godefrido fratre ejus.
Cory [temp. Edw. I.] of the CowriRMATION of a CHARTER of Rosert FrrzwaLTER and fSisyr his wife (Founders circa A.D. 1106 of St. Faith's Priory) by their son WiLLIamM DE KavNETO (Cheyney), to the monks of Horsham, with grant of the advowsons of St. Martin le Bailey and St. Michael Berstrete, Norwich, &c.
Willelmus de Kaneto, fihus Roberti fili Walteri, omnibus hominibus suis Francis et Anglicis salutem. Sciatis me con- cessisse et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse Deo et Sancte Marie et Sancte Fidi et monachis de Horsham terram de Helgheton et advocacionem ecclesie ejusdem ville cum homagio et aliis libertatibus in perpetuam elimosinam, sicut Robertus pater meus et Sibil& mater mea predictis monachis dederunt. Insuper ex propria mea donacione dono eisdem advocacionem eeclesiarum Saneti Martini in Ballia et Sancti Michaelis de Berstrete in Norwyco. Item dono eis totum alnetum quod jacet inter eorundem curiam et boscum meum ex una parte et viam
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regiam ex altera, et inter terram Gilberti Wade et Gunny (sic) eum pastura interjacente, et molendinum eum stagno suo ex alia parte vie regie cum omnibus suis pertinenciis. Et volo et precipio ut bene et in pace omnia predicta teneant.
Testibus, Radulfo de Noers, Lamberto camerario, Alano armigero, etc.
Cory, on the same parchment as the preceding, of a GRANT and Quir Cuam by RoBERT son or RoGER (c. 1280-90) of a right of pasture in Gunnysmede, reciting a controversy apparently arising from the terms of the preceding grant.
Universis sancte Matris ecclesie filiis ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit Robertus filius Rogeri dominus de Horsford et de Werkworth salutem in Domino sempiternam. Noverit univer- sitas vestra, quod cum inter nos ex parte una et religiosos vivos fratrem Reymundum, Priorem Sancte Fidis de Horsham, et ejusdem loci conventum ex altera, controversia et materia questionis oriretur, scilicet de communia cujusdem prati in Horsham que vocatur Gunnyldesmedwe in quo quondam com- muniam ad animalia nostra et hominum nostrorum a festo Saneti Michaelis usque ad Purificationem Beate Marie virginis vendicavimus; Tandem ex nostra gratia speciali concessimus pro nobis et heredibus nostris, etiam quiete clamavimus, nominatis Religiosis et eorum successoribus communiam quam in dicto prato petebamus in perpetuum. Ita videlicet quod habeamus ingressum et egressum in dicto prato ad palicium nostrum cum necesse fuerit emendandum. In cujus rei testimonium presenti scripto sigillum nostrum fecimus apponi.
ORIGINAL CHaRTER Of CONFIRMATION by MarGaRET DE CHESNEY.
Universis sancte Matris ecclesie filiis ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit Margareta de Chesneto salutem. — Noverit universitas vestra quod ego Margareta de Chesneto et heredes mei debemus manutenere et defendere et warantizare domum Sancte Fidis de Horsham, videlicet personas monachorum et facultates et posses- siories eorum, contra omnes, sicut patroni, et sicut puram et perpetuam elemosinam a patre meo et antecessoribus meis dedicatam Deo et Sancte Marie et beate Fidi Virgini ac martyri, et ecelesie Conchensi. Etin hujus rei testimonium presentem paginam sigilli mei appositione corroboravi.
Hiis testibus, Ada de Bedingfeld, Willelmo Peche, loma de Sancto Audomero, Andrea Malherb, Turgys de Chesneto, Henrico de Hosa, Johanne de Poswie, Toma Bardolf, et multis aliis.
[c. 1140-50?] Grant of Lanp by THEoBazp HALTH{EIN |.
Theobaldus Halth' omnibus hominibus suis Francis et Anglis salutem. Sciatis me dedisse et concessisse et hac presenti mea carta confirmasse Deo et Beate Marie et Sancte Fidi, et monachis de Horsham, xij acras terre in liberam et perpetuam helemosinam,
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de dominio de Helesdh [on] quas pater meus eis in helemosinam dedit in brugario, videlicet quod est inter quinque hogas et terram quam dedieavit hospitali Ierusalem. Concedo quoque monachis prenominatis ex mea propria donacione viii aeras terre in eodem brugario juxta predictas xij acras, in liberam et perpetuam helemosinam, pro salute anime mee, et anime Agnetis uxoris mee et pro salute animarum patris [mei] et matris mee et omnium parentum meorum. Hujus donacionis et concessionis sunt testes Walterus presbiter de Oxenede, Henricus frater domini Theobaldi, Theob. de Belhus, Robertus fil. Hug', Rogerus Dispensator, Petrus de Harch', Gislabertus, Willelmus Coqus, Alexander filius Eluuriz, Hugo, Raimondus nepotes Bertrandi Prioris et multi alii.
[c 1160?] Grant and CoNFIRMATION by THEeoBALD HALTEIN.
Notum sit omnibus Christi fidelibus quod ego Tedbaldus Haltein, filius Walteri Halt[ein], de consilio salutis mee et meorum, et concessu Angnetis uxoris mee, et voluntate filiorum meorum, dedi et concessi et presentis testimonio confirmavi carte, Deo et Sanete Marie et Sancte Fidi virgini de Horsham et monachis ibidem Deo servientibus et in perpetuum servituris, totam terram illam de dominio meo que est ultra stratam puplicam que est à Norvico ad Horsseford per domum ospitalis sub Sutwuda, scilicet Ixvij ei[r]eiter acras, in liberam et puram et perpetuam elimosinam, pro salute Domini Regis H[enrici] et filiorum suorum et domini mei Humf[ridi] de Buun, et pro salute anime patris mei et matris mee, et pro salute parentum meorum et parentum uxoris mee A., et Johannis et aliorum filiorum et suecessorum meorum et omnium amicorum meorum, liberam et quietam ab omni servicio et seculari exaccione et penitus absolutam, nichil de illa terra mihi vel heredibus vel successoribus meis retinens preter solam elimosinam. Pro hae autem donacione mea et concessione et confirmatione recepti sunt in communionem orationum et beneficiorum memorate ecclesie Dominus meus Rex H{enricus] et omnes filii sui, et dominus meus Humfr{idus] et omnes sui, et ego et A. uxor mea et liberi nostri, et omnes amici et benevoli mei. Et ego de beneficiis predicte ecclesie Sancte Fidis et fratrum ibidem Deo militantium aecepi xxvij marcas argenti ad perficiendum peregrinationem meam in Ierusalem. Hane quoque confirmacionem meam sub presentia domini nostri Willelmi Norwieensis episcopl et clericorum suorum, et aliorum plurium ecclesie Sancte Fidis, et predictorum fratrum, per manum Bertrandi Prioris Sanete Fidis feci. Hiis testibus: Maistro (sic) Nicolao, Magistro Ricardo de Dreit', Galfrido eapellano episcopi, Maistro Rogero, Maistro Amicio, Rad. de Schechet', Roberto filio Ricardi, Tedbaldo Walter, et Hamone fratre ejusdem, Everardo et Henrieo fratres (sic) domini Tedbaldi, Galfrido de Hicheligge, Will. filio Engelrami, Waltero fil. Reg [inaldi], Augustino de Taverham, Rob. de Chent, Alexandro, Rogero filio Herberd', Rob. filio Hugonis, Hugone nepote Prioris, Reinmudus (sic) nepos suus,
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Willelmo filio Scule, Alexandro janitore, Rob. de Toppesfeld, et Johanne clerico de Posswie, et Roberto capellano ¢ de Rendlesham qui banc cartam seripsit.
There is a duplicate of this charter written in a | much clearer and better hand, and free from the grammatical and other mis- takes in the attestations. In this ‘‘Maistro” becomes * Magistro, Robert ‘‘de Chent" is ‘‘de Kent," Ralph ‘‘de Schechet " is ‘‘ de Sceget," and ‘ Will. fil. Seule " is ** Will. fil. Escole.”
[r. 1180-1190 ?] CoNFIRMATION by WALTER SON or ROBERT DE BasiNGHaM? of a grant of Salt.
Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Walterus filius Roberti de Basingham dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi Deo et beate Marie et ecclesie Sancte Fidis de Horsham et : monachis ibidem Deo servientibus, in liberam et puram et perpetuam elimosinam, pro salute anime mee et omnium anteces- sorum et successorum meorum, v wais (sic) salis in marisco de Maltebi, scilicet ad accipiendum in salina Edrici Hare, seeundum mensuram marisci de Maltebi; quam salinam avus et pater meus eis dederunt in liberam et perpetuam elemosinam. Et istum prefatum Edricum et heredes suos istum redditum in perpetuum reddendum predicte eeclesie assigno. Ita quod ego nec heredes mei aliquam molestiam nee calumpniam prefato Edrico vel heredibus suis de predicta salina, de prefata ecclesia bene et in pace tenenda, inferre possimus; reddendo semper annuatim integre prenominatum redditum ad Nativitatem Sancte Marie. Et si ita eontigerit quod prefatus Edricus vel heredes sui ante- dictum redditum — reddere non valuerint, ego et heredes mei prefatum redditum integre et sine omni diminu- eione de alis redditibus nostris in dicta villa de Maltebi ad predictum terminum eis reddemus et inde satisfaciemus. Et ego et heredes mei sepedictam elimosinam prefate ecclesie contra omnes homines eis warantizabimus. Et ut ista mea donacio rata et inconcussa in perpetuum permaneat, presentis seripti testimonio et sigilli mei appositione eam corroboravi. Hiis testibus: Hugone capellano Sancte Fidis, Rodberto per- song de Maltebi, Philippo de Verlt', Willelmo de Sundlond, Rodberto filio Seule, Symone preposito de Maltebi, Johanne milite, Ailmero filio Godwini, Willelmo de Winpou (?), Rodberto filio Sefredi, Bartolomeo de Nes, Osmundo de Nes, Bertrando de Wichingham, Huberto serviente Sancte Fidis, Ricardo coco, et multis aliis.
Fragment of seal; a horse courant.
[1240-50.] IwpENTED DEED or ÆExcHANGE between Prior BERENGARIUS and the Convent and RicHarp LE Moyne.
Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit, Berengarius humilis prior Sancte Fidis de Horsam et ej jusdem
* The grantor died in 1198.
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loci conventus salutem in Domino. Noverit universitas vestra nos unanimi assensu et communi voluntate Ricardo le Muyne de Norwico, filio Ricardi le Muyne defuncti,—pro decem aeris terre et dimidia quas idem Ricardus nobis et successoribus nostris et ecclesie nostre sancte Fidis in villa de Hyntewde dedit, concessit, et carta sua confirmavit, in perpetuum habendas et possidendas, quarum quinque aere jacent inter boseum Radulfi de Tyvile ex una parte et terram Rogeri de Stalam ex altera, et una acra jacet in eultura que vocatur Rokeshage inter terram nostram et terram Anabele Dunich (?), et tres rode jacent in cultura que vocatur Chirchecroft inter terras Radulfi de Tyvile ex utraque parte, et una dimidia aera jacet in eadem cultura inter terram nostram et terram Radulfi de Tvvile, et una roda jacet inter terram persone de Hyntewde et terram Johannis Bigge, et una acra et dimidia jacet in cultura que vocatur Lampitlond, inter terram dicte persone de Hyntewde et terram Rogeri Tubbing, et habuttat unum capud super communem pasturam, et una acra et dimidia jacent in cultura que vocatur Norgate inter terram Radulfi de Tyvile et terram Simonis de Kesewic,—dedisse con- cessisse et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse decem acras et dimidiam terre nostre arrabilis in villis de Hyntewde, Manegrene, et Kesewie, de terra quam Johannes Gochop eeclesie nostre ante- diete et nobis dedit in perpetuam elimosinam, quarum due acre jacent in cultura que vocatur Surwong, inter terram ejusdem Ricardi le Moyne et terram Agnetis Puttoch, et due acre jacent inter terram Symonis de Kesewic et viam regiam, et habuttat unum capud super terram Henriei le Waleys versus haustrum, et tres acre et dimidia jacent in cultura que vocatur Hunnolwesbrom inter terram Galfridi de Florindune et terram Ade le Neve, et una acra jacet inter terram Rogeri Hardekin et terram Sibille Lorewen, et habuttat unum capud super Egelunde, et una aera jacet in cultura que vocatur Larkebat inter terram Willelmi Carpentarii et terram Herberti de Managrene, et una acra jacet inter culturam que vocatur Hunolwesbrom et terram Emme del Hyrne, eidem Ricardo et heredibus suis in perpetuum escambium, sive plus contineant diete pecie terre sive minus ultra numerum antedictum, habendas et tenendas de nobis et successoribus nostris et eeclesie nostre (sic) sanete Fidis libere, quiete, integre et plenarie, prorsus quietas et solutas ab omni servicio, consuetudine, secta curie, exaccione et seculari demanda. Et nos et successores nostri predicto Ricardo le Moyne et heredibus suis predictas terras warantizabimus, defendemus, et acquietabimus, contra omnes gentes in perpetuum. In eujus rei testimonium et securitatem presenti scripto ad modum cyrographi indentato, quod residebit penes dictum Ricardum le Moyne, sigillum commune capituli nostri apponi fecimus. Alteri vero scripto quod residebit penes nos idem Ricardus sigillum suum apposuit. His testibus: Alexandro de Wallibus majore, et Alexandro filio suo, militibus; Willelmo le dene (?), Waltero de Karletune, Willelmo de Hyling- tune, Radulfo de Tyvile, Mylone de Muletune, Radulfo de
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Taseburg, Henrico le Waleys, Thoma filio Nicolai, Willelmo de Mangrene, Nicolao le Waleys, et multis aliis.
(ce. 1250-60 ?] Grant by WinLiaw De Mvuiers of Caldwell Mill.
Universis sancte Matris Ecclesie filiis ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit Willelmus de Mullers, filius Hugonis de Mulers, eternam in Domino salutem. — Noverit universitas vestra me divini amoris intuitu concessisse et dedisse et hac presenti carta mea con- firmasse Deo et Beate Marie et ecclesie Sancte Fidis de Horsham et monachis ibidem Deo servientibus totum molendinum meum de Caldewelle propinquior [sic] de Tirninge versus le suth, cum aqua et stagno et secta et omni libertate integre et plenarie, sine omni retinemento, sieut illud unquam melius aut liberius in dominico tenui, in liberam et puram et perpetuam elemosinam, pro salute anime mee et Agnetis uxoris mee, et omnium antecessorum et successorum meorum. Quare volo et firmiter precipio ut predicti monachi prefatum molendinum habeant et teneant libere et quiete et honorifice ab omnicalumpnia et reclamatione de me et omnium heredum meorum (sic) in tantum quod nichil in illud (sic) retineo mihi vel heredibus meis preter solam elemosinam. Et prohibeo ne aliquis heredum meorum predicte ecclesie de prefata elemosina aliquam calumpniam aut molestiam aut contumeliam inferre presumat. Ego autem et heredes mei warantizabimus et defendemus predictum molendinum prefatis monachis cum omnibus supradictis pertinentibus contra omnes homines. Hanc igitur donacionem et concessionem feci consensu et eonsilio et bona voluntate Agnetis uxoris mee. Et ut hee mea concessio et donacio perpetue firmitatis robur optinent presentis seripti testimonio et sigilli mei apposicione eam eoroboravi. Hiis testibus: Rodberto filio Rogeri, Rogero de Cressi, Willelmo de Gisnei, Rogero de Kerdestun, Willelmo Pesche, Willelmo de Stallam, Rodberto Filiol, Rodberto filio Seule, Willelmo fratre suo, Hugone de Sancto Dionisio, Bertrando de Wichingham, Gervasio mercatore de Skothoth, Rogero Coco, Ricardo Peitevin, Benedicto de Lammesse, Radulfo de Lammesse, et aliis pluribus.
Grant by Sin Roperr Havteyn, knt., of right of pasture for 800 hoggets at Hellesdon.
Universis has litteras visuris aut audituris Robertus Auteyn, miles, salutem in Domino. Noverit universitas vestra me cari- tatis intuitu et pro salute anime mee, patris mei, et omnium antecessorum et successorum meorum, dedisse et concessisse et hae presenti carta mea confirmasse, in puram et perpetuam elimosinam, Deo et eeclesie Sancte Fidis de Horsham et mon- achis ibidem Deo servientibus, pasturam trescentorum bidentum in bruario meo de Heylisdune in perpetuum. Dieti vero monachi receperunt me in fraternitatem sui capituli et omnes antecessores et successores meos, et in omnia beneficia sua tam communia quam specialia, Et ego et heredes mei warantizabimus dictis
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monachis et successoribus suis dictam pasturam contra omnes in perpetuum. In eujus rei testimonium huie scripto sigillum meum apposui. Hiis testibus: Magistro Reginaldo de London, magistro Willelmo de Tukeby, Johanne capellano, Radulfo de Rudham, capellano, Roberto Auteyn, Henrico le Porter, Johanne de Camera, Simone Seule, et aliis.
Seal of arms; three . . . . , in chief a label of five points ; * Sigill Roberti Hautein."
[1955-1965.] ExcHaNcE between the ABBoT and CowvENT of LanGLey and the Prior and Convent of Sr. Farrx of two pieces of land in Ryveshale, each containing 6 perches in width and 48 in length, the perch containing 164 feet.
Hiis testibus: Magistro Johanne de Alvechirche, Archidiacono Suffolehie, domini Norwicensis officiali, Ricardo de Witton, Will. de Gysinghe, Henrico de Sancto Paulo, Rogero de Hekingham, domino Henrico de Ryveshale milite, dominis Willelmo de Wendlinge, Galfrido de Lodnes, Reynero de Werthe capellano, Johanne filio dicti domini Henrici de Ryveshale, Rogero de Dicleburch, Johanne de Holebeche, Henrico le Neve, Waltero le Brun, Stephano Alvered de Ryveshale, et aliis.
Grant of an acre in the field of HorsHam, by Simon SCULE, son of the late Ropert ScuLE of Sr. Farrn’s, to the Priory, for twenty-five shillings and sixpence.
Hiis testibus: Barthol. Cordel, magistro Thoma de Derham, Henrico janitore, Johanne Fraunceys de Spykeswrthe, Willelmo ad Ecclesiam de Spykeswrthe, Willelmo Palmer de Cattone, Rogero de Feletorp, Rogero filio sacerdotis de Cattone, Alexandro fratre ejus, Benedicto de Tungate, Waltero Avis de Einford, Willelmo Seeth de eadem, et aliis.
RELEASE by Henry DE BRapereur, formerly porter of the Priory, of a messuage and 6 acres.
Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Henricus de Bradefeud, quondam janitor de Sancta Fide, remisi et quietum clamavi de me et heredibus meis in perpetuum totum jus et clamium quod habui aut habere potui in uno messuagio et sex acris terre cum pertinenciis in villa de Horsham, que habui de dono Austorgii quondam Prioris et Conventus Sancte Fidis de Horsham, que fuerunt Johannis le Careter et Margarete Rygeday uxoris sue, villanorum predictorum Prioris et Conventus. Ita videlicet quod ego dietus Henricus nee aliquis nomine meo aliquid de cetero inde poterimus exigere. In cujus rei testimonium huie seripto sigillum meum apposui. Hiis testibus: Galfrido Rydel, Simone Seule, Johanne fratre suo, Willelmo le Curtays, Willelmo Huggemayden, Willelmo de Stanighale, Bartholomeo Cordel, Rogero de Feletorp, Willelmo le Palmer de Catton, Willelmo Gurnel, Willelmo de Spyheswrd, Willelmo Schet de Heinford, et aliis,
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Grant of land and a villein by RoBERT DE MannaM.
Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Robertus de Marham con- cessi et dedi et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi Deo et beate Marie et ecelesie Sancte Fidis de Horsham et monachis ibidem Deo servientibus, totam medietatem terre cum omnibus pertinenciis que fuit Roberti sacerdotis de Tirnigges, cum messuagio Willelmi sacerdotis de Tirnigges et prato ejusdem Willelmi clauso in Benetingesker. Concessi etiam et dedi predicte ecclesie absque ullo retinemento humagium Emme filie ZEluriei cum omni sequaci progenie filiorum et filiarum, scilicet ipsam et totam progeniem suam in liberam et puram et perpetuam elemosinam ; [etc.
Hiis testibus: Alexandro et Philippo capellanis de Sancta Fide, Willelmo de Miliariis, Richero de Huuitewelle, Hugone Daubeni, Willelmo filio Rocelin, Alexandro persona de Tirninges, Matheo de Stred, Roberto et Willelmo filiis Seule, Roberto clerico de Scothoch, Eudone clerico, Henrico Mercatore, Willelmo filio. Radulfi, Hunfrido de Tirninges, Waltero Coco, Roberto filio ejus, Willelmo de Belache, et multis aliis.
CoNFIRMATION by WinLLiaM Pyziecrowe of a grant by his grandfather of land in Brockdish.
Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Willelmus filius Nicholai Pyllecrowe de Brokedis concessi et hac presenti carta mea con- firmavi Deo et monasterio Sancte Fidis de Horsham et religiosis viris Priori et Conventui ejusdem loci et eorum successoribus, in liberam puram et perpetuam elimosinam, totam terram quam Willelmus pater Nicolai patris mei dedit dictis Priori et Conventui Sanete Fidis in campo de Brokedis, que quidem terra quondam fuit Christine filie Willelmi Basseth, videlicet duas turneras in campo qui voeatur Seveneacris, in quibus turneris sex acre terre continentur, que jacent inter Wygate et terram que fuit Reginaldi de Brokedis, quarum una turnera abutat super Ryvishalemerke versus boream et alia super terram quondam Willelmi predicti avi mei versus nothum (sic) ; [etc. |
Hiis testibus: Domino Johanne de Ryveshale, Mylone Pille- erowe, Reginaldo Pollard, Willelmo Alger, Rogero de Ketelleye, Will. Gundolf de Brokedis ; [eto. |
Grant of twenty-five acres of land by JogN and WILLIAM, sons of GEOFFREY PALMER, of Marlesford.
Omnibus Christi fidelibus presens scriptum visuris et audituris Johannes et Willelmus filii Galfridi Palmer de Marlesford salutem. ^ Noverit universitas vestra nos concessisse et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse et in puram et perpetuam elemosinam dedisse Priori et Conventui Sancte Fidis de Horsham viginti quinque acras terre, cum omnibus pertinenciis ad eandem terram spectantibus, que fuit Alexandri capellani le Fraunceis, et quam nos deracionavimus in curia domini Regis coram
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justiciariis per breve directum contra Willelmum le Fraunceis ; et omne jus ad eandem terram spectans ad predictum Priorem et Conventum concedimus ; [etc.]
Hiis testibus : Johanne de Estrin, Willelmo Hamund de Estrin, Hugone serviente de Horsford, Willelmo Russel, Willelmo Curteis, T. Fowle, Adam le Schipper, Rogero Norreys, Stephano le Chanu de Tibenham, Simone le Frauncieys, Wydone rectore ecclesie de Sorpesti [Corpesti ?], R. de Tynkebi.
RELEASE by Cecizy, relict of Richard the baker of the house of St. Faith, to the Priory of her right by reason of dowry in 24 acres and one rood in Westfeld, bounded by land called Westaker and Chaungedelond; with a clause barring herself by her corporal oath, ‘‘tactis sacrosanctis evangeliis,” against any future revocation ‘‘instigatione inimici." For this release the Priory gives eight shillings.
Hiis testibus: Domino Thoma Bardolf, Will. Burel, Petro fratre ejusdem, Steph. de Colne, Will. Pyam, Ric. Sket, Will. Russel, Radulfo de Cattone, Radulfo de Staninghale, Johanne de Wyniston, Johanne de Beston, Joh. de Salle, capellano, presentis instrumenti scriptore, et aliis.
[c.12802°] Grant by ALAN son or JoHN DE REINHAM of villeins to the Priory.
Universis ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit Alanus filius Johannis de Reinham salutem in Domino. Noverit universitas vestra me in liberam et puram et perpetuam elemosinam dedisse et concessisse et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse Priori et monachis Sancte Fidis de Horsham, Ywinum de Sudgate de Heg- letune et Isabellam uxorem ejusdem cum omni sequela eorundem, videlicet filiis et filiabus ab eisdem procreatis et procreandis et omnibus ab eisdem descendentibus, et cum omnibus terris, tene- mentis et catallis que de me et antecessoribus meis tenuerunt vel tenere debuerunt in villa de Hegletune et de Reinham, absolvendo eosdem et quietos clamando pro me et heredibus meis ab omni honere servitutis, auxilii, consuetudinis, et servitii in quibus mihi et antecessoribus meis vel successoribus tenebantur vel teneri potuerunt vel debuerunt. Ita scilicet quod ego vel heredes mei nichil juris aut clamii in predictis hominibus vel eorundem catallis terris vel tenementis possimus vendicare vel exigere in perpetuum. Et ne in posterum aliqua oriri possit. contentio ratione alicujus pasture ab eisdem antiquitus use (sic) vel percepte, concessi eisdem et successoribus suis leberas (sic) pas- turas et immunes ab omni exactione prestatione et auxilio, in omnibus locis in quibus averia eorum pascere consueverunt vel debuerunt in villa de Reinham vel de Hegletune. Ego vero et heredes mei warantabimus predictam donacionem et quietam
* The grantor died before 1291. Blomefield’s Norfolk (8vo edit.), VIT, 148.
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clammationem dictis priori et monachis contra omnes. Et ut hec omnia firma et inconcussa permaneant huic seripto sigillum meum apposul.
Hiis testibus : Magistro Constantino de Ley, magistro Reginaldo de Londiniis, Galfrido de Rudham, Willelmo filio Petri, Waltero Schule, Bartholomeo de Aldreford, Galfrido de Secheford, Nicolao Buis, Johanne fabro, Radulfo fabro.
Seal in brown wax; an eagle displayed; ‘‘Sigillum Alani fil. Johannis."
[c. 1280-90 ?] ExcHaNaE of Lanp.
Seiant presentes et futuri quod ego Walterus clericus de Newetune filius Willelmi de Newetune concessi, relaxavi, quietam clamavi, et abjuravi in perpetuum de me et heredibus meis, Deo et beate Marie, et ecclesie Sancte Fidis de Horsham, et monachis ibidem Deo servientibus, in curia domini mei Roberti filii Rogeri, totum jus et clamium quod ego et heredes mei habuimus aut habere potuimus, aut habere poterimus, in quinque aeris terre que quondam fuerunt toftum Walteri de Horsford, in villa de Horsham. Et pro hac relaxatione et quieta clamantia et abjuratione, dederunt michi predieti monachi, in excambium, quinque acras terre in campis de Horsham ad valentiam predietarum quinque acrarum, et unum toftum quod jacet inter domum Walteri Brennecat et domum Godwini Lanke, videlicet tres acras in Longefurlond, citra cheminum acram et dimidiam, et ultra eheminum acram et dimidiam, et juxta toftum Willelmi le Mai unam acram et unam rodam, et tres rodas que abuttant super Derling. Et ut hec relaxatio et quieta clamantia et abjuratio rate permaneant et inconcusse, eam hujus scripti testimonio et sigilli mei appositione roboravi. Hiis testibus: Domino Roberto filio Rogeri, Alexandro de Dunham, Roberto de Kent, Galfrido le Gros, Willelmi Bataille, Rogero filio Willelmi, magistro Ada Daco, Waltero de Couele, magistro Hugone medico, Roberto capellano de Lings, Hugone et Johanne eapellanis de Sancta Fide, Johanne de Stanford, Roberto filio Seule, et multis aliis.
Of this charter there is also a copy with the added confirma- tion of Robert Fitz Roger at the end. ‘Et ego Robertus filius Rogeri ad majorem hujus rei securitatem in hujus rei testi- monium perpetuum, ad instanciam et peticionem predicti Walteri clerici de Newetune presenti scripto sigillum meum apposui." But the seal (in brown wax) is only ‘‘ Sigillum Walteri Clerici."
[1280-90.] Rezease by AcNES, widow of GEOFFREY LE SVEIN of Bt. Faith's, to Prior Raymund and the Convent, for the sum of two marks, of all her right in eleven acres of land which her late husband held of the Priory.
Hiis testibus: Domino Johanne de Strus, Rogero Feltorp, Willelmo Russel, Ricardo Sket, Herveo Burel, Johanne Lomb, Ricardo Pluket, Simone Seule, et aliis,
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1524, March 10. Grant from William Castleton, Prior of St. Faith's, and the Convent, to John Greye, gent., William Russel, citizen of Norwich, William Wolcy, William Birton, Robert Rynouse, John Burwode, and Robert Warden, and their heirs, of a Guild-house formerly built by and at the cost of Prior John Ryssley for the Guild of St. Andrew, ‘‘et pro potationibus ad [usum] ecelesie parochialis S. Andree de Horsham predicte in eadem domo tenend. et custodiend.”’
1595. CrRcuLAR LETTER, sent with a bede-roll, requesting offerings and prayers for departed members of the Priory.
Omnibus Sanete Matris Ecclesie filiis ad quos presentes litere pervenerint Nos Johannes Stokes, permissione divina Prior monasterii Sancte Fidis de Horsham, et ejusdem loci conventus, ordinis Saneti Benedicti, Norwicensis diocesis (sic), salutem in Eo quem peperit uterus Virginalis. Si grata sit et laudabilis apud Deum compassio qua hic vivis pauperibus corporibus alimentum porrigitur, quanto commendabilior est apud Deum oblatio qua defunetis fidelibus panis vite qui de celo descendit proponitur, culpa quevis remittitur, et per precum suffragia defunctis in Christo venia, vivis in mundo gracia, et mortuis in celo gloria, feliciter eomparatur. Divina siquidem clementia sic dignatur lapsibus humanus (sic) de congruo remedio providere, ut non solum peregrinantibus in via, verum etiam resolutis carne ad pene refrigerium per oblacionem Victime salutaris annuit benigne sub- venire. Cum igitur salubre sit hie vivos reficere et defunctos in Domino per pias preces et hostias pacificas penis eruere, a culpis absolvere, et sanctorum consorciis post mortem aggregare, vestram rogamus et exortamus in Domino caritatem ut nostris in Christo mortuis quorum nonina vobis transmittimus oracionum suffragia et oblacionem (sic) solacia caritatis intuitu salubriter impendatis. Et Galfrido Metealfe, latori presentium, ne deficiat in via, humanitatis officio favorabiles propicios et benignos prompta benignitate piaque munificencia liberales studeatis vos exibere. Vestris equidem pro nostris reciproca vicissitudine volumus obligari. In eujus rei testimonium has literas patentes sigillo nostro communi fecimus appenso. Datum apud Horsham Sancte Fidis in domo nostro capitulari, vicesimo sexto die mensis Agusti (sic) anno Domini millesimo ccece vicesimo quinto.
A small parcel of documents relates to the family of Burel of Horsham; viz. Hervey Burel, William son of Hervey Burel, Hervey son of William, and William Burel and Agnes his wife, in the time of Hen. III. and Edw. I.
There are about 77 other deeds relating to Horsham from the time of Henry III. to that of the Commonwealth.
BLICKLING. MaNoRIAL AND OTHER DOCUMENTS.
In 2 Ric. II. is the first court of Joan Holveston. In the next year is the first court of Thomas Gyssing, knight. This Lord continues during 4 and 5 Ric. Il. The Lady Joan
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Holveston appears to resume the manor in the 6th year till the 12th, when there is a precept to distrain the tenants for homage and fealty and to shew their titles.
At the next court, viz. on Friday, St. Katherine, 12 Ric. II., in accordance with this precept, ‘‘ad istam curiam totum homagium veniunt et concedunt domine ex mera sua propria voluntate, pro recognitione predicta, x*." The vicar of Aylsham, who seems to have held the mill, is three times threatened with distraint, but not after this last entry, which seems to be a compromise. The very elaborate and particular customary of the manor made in the 85th year of Edw. I. expressly states that no recognition 1s to be paid on the accession of a new lord.
List oF THE BLicxziNG Manor Rorrs.
Court Rorrs:—Edward I. 29.
Edward II. For the years 2, 5, 14, 17. : Besides two undated of this reign.
Edward III. 1-17, 19-21, 25, 84-89, 40, 41, 48, 46, 47 (with others defaced).
Richard II. 1-7, 12, 18, 15, 16, 18, 91.
Henry IV. 1-18. (8 is the first court of Richard Pycot, Agneta Fransham and of Henry, Bishop of Norwich? "ratione minoris setatis Will. fil. Baudwini de Thaverham.''
4 and 5 the court is held by Ric. Pykot, Agneta Fransham,
William Taverham, Thomas Erpingham, knight, farmers
of the dower of Eleanor relict of Nicholas Dagworth.)
Henry V. 4 and 9.
Henry VI. 8, 9, 14, 16-24, 25, 26, 28, 31-86, 89. Court General 49.
Edward IV. 1, 18, 22.
Edward V. 1.
Richard III. 1, 2, MP
Henry VII. 1, 7,8
Henry VIII. 18, 19, aL 83, 84, 37, 38.
Edward VI. 1- 6.
Mary 1-5.
Elizabeth 1-14, (except 4) 17, 19.
And for the years 1622-86, 1689, 1640.
Leet BRoLLs:—
Edward I. 84.
Edward II. 10, 18, 19, 28 (and other rolls with dates defaced).
Edward III. 16.
Richard II. 2. 8, 5, 8, 9, 18, 14, 16.
Henry IV. 1-8, 10- 18. (Bi is the first court of Thomas Langlee, Bishop of Durham, (Lord Chancellor) ‘et sociorum suo- rum." 18isthe first Court of John Pelham, John Ingoldes- thorp, and Robert Barney, knights, co-feoffees.)
Henry VI. 9, 11-14, 16-28, 81-86, 49.
Richard ITI. 1-8.
Henry VII. 1, with view of frankpledge.
* Henry Despenser or le Spenser; Bp. of Norwich 1870-1407.
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Henry VIII. 85.
Edward VI. 1-6.
Mary 1-5.
Elizabeth 1-14 (except 4), 15, 20.
James I. 9, 19.
And for the years 1632-1636, 1638-1640.
Account RoLzs.
Edward III. Collectors’ accounts for the years 25 and 26. Henry IV. Bailiffs' accounts for years 11-18. Henry V. 8. Henry VI. Bailiffs and Collectors for 10 and 11. Edward IV. 3-4, 7-8, 11-18. Henry VIII. 6-7. Elizabeth 6. À Rental. temp. Henry IV.
CusTOMARY OF THE Manor, 85 Epw. I. [1807.]
Omnibus Christi fidelibus presentibus et futuris et ballivis et fidelibus suis Johannes Engayne salutem. Quia per sacramentum proborum et legalium hominum de manerio nostro de Blyclinge et eorum visneto, scilicet Roberti Sket de Erpingham, Johannis Baldewyne, Henrici de Yernemuth, Bricii Sweyne de Ingeworthe, Roberti de Caldewode, Thome de Rystone, Edwardi Carpentere, Willelmi ad Ecclesiam, Walteri fil Johannis ad Ecclesiam, Nicholai Passe, Jacobi Attewode, Roberti Kenyng, Godwyni et Valentini le Doo, TInvenimus quod dictum manerium est de antiquo dominio corone domini Regis, et homines nostri tenentes de eodem manerio sunt sokemanni et tenere debent tenementa sua in eadem villa per fidelitatem et certa servicia et consuetudines subscripta annuatim nobis facienda et reddenda, Reddendo nobis et heredibus nostris annuatim triginta duas libras cum redditibus provenientibus de liberis tenentibus manerii predicti ad quatuor terminos subscriptos, Et reddendo annuatim pro nobis et heredibus nostris domino Norwyci Episcopo ad finem triginta duarum septimanarum tres solidos sex denarios pro warda castri, et eidem Episcopo scutagium domini Regis cum evenerit quantum pertinet ad feodum unius militis, Et facienda secta ad curiam nostram in eodem manerio de tribus septimanis in tres septimanas. Et nos tenebimus visum franci plegii in eodem manerio quolibet anno die Sancti Petri ad Vincula. Et habebimus amendas de omnibus transgressionibus factis in boscis, aquis separalibus, warrennis, hutesiis injuste levatis, sanguinis effusione, wayf, stray, catallis felonum et fugitivorum, rapinis, hamsoken, rescussu, thesauri et armorum inventione, et purprestura in separali nostro. Et omnes tenentes dicti manerii sokemanni habebunt amendas de omnibus aliis purpresturis in villa factis, de assiza panis et cervisie fracta, de falsis ponderibus, ulnis, mensuris, et omnibus defectis capitalium plegiorum et eorum decennariorum ; et placita debent tenere omnium transgressionum et querelarum si prius querantur eis quam nobis
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et inde amendas habere. Et ipsi homines ad proximam curiam nostram tentam ante festum $S. Michaelis quolibet anno colligere (sic) debent collectorem, messorem, et duos custodes bosci, pro quibus respondere voluerint. Ita quod messor respondeat de omnibus attachiis et districtionibus in dieto manerio faciendis. Et custodes bosci respondebunt nobis de omnibus transgressionibus in bosco et warennis factis et collectis de bosco et alus proficuis bosci venditi. Et collector nobis respondebit de omnibus exitibus dieti manerii infra dictum manerium per rationabilem compotum ad quatuor terminos anni, videlicet ad festum Sancti Andree Apostoli, ad festum Annunciationis Beate Marie, et ad festum Nativitatis Saneti Johannis Baptiste, et ad festum Sancti Michaelis. Ita quod ad quemlibet terminum solutionis sue fidelem habeat acquietantiam. Et si in fine anni super compotum suum in arreragio fuerit, et inde ad solutionem non sufficiat, tota soca pro eo nobis respondebit.
Et ipsi reparabunt fossatam nostram circa boscum ne dampnum intus fiat defectu clausture. Et nos sustentabimus et reparabimus sumptibus propriüs molendinum nostrum in omnibus vectariis, salvo tantum cariagio unius mole per annum et reparatione stagnorum et enclusarum, scilicet ad quod de terra operari debet. Et ipsi facient sectam ad molendinum nostrum. Et de jure molare debent ex antiqua consuetudine duo quarteria et dimidium frumenti vel ordei pro dimidio bussalo ejusdem bladi et tria quarteria brasii pro dimidio bussalo brasii.
Et piscare debent in omnibus communibus aquis dicte ville. Et heredes dictorum sokemannorum post mortem eorum ante- cessorum, cujuscunque etatis fuerint, habere debent hereditates suas sine relevio, herietto, aut aliqua fine inde nobis facienda. Et si quis heres eorum post mortem antecessoris sui infra etatem fuerit, proximi parentes ejus quibus hereditas descendere non debet habebunt custodiam ipsius heredis et tenementi sui usque plenam etatem quindecim annorum. Et placitari aut implacitari non debent de tenementis suis infra dictum manerium nisi per parvum breve domini Regis de recto clauso secundum consuetudinem manerii nobis aut ballivis nostris directo. Et si in amerciamentis nostris inciderint tam per breve quam sine brevi per pares suos inde debent afforari. Et maritare debent filios suos et filias suas tam extra manerium quam infra sinelicentiam petere aut aliquam finem inde facere (sic). Non debent chevagium dare aut recognitionem facere in adventu alieujus novi domini dieti manerii, neque gersumam dare pro mulieribus parientibus extra matrimonium. Et si quis eorum aliquod tenementum de bassa tenura adquisierit, in curia nostra finem faciet rationabilem pro ingressu inde habendo secundum antiquam consuetudinem, pro meliori acra campestri quatuor solidos, et pro mesuagio clauso et prato et pejori terra secundum valorem tenementi. Et non debent talliari ad aliquam talliagiam nisi quando dominus Rex facit talliari dominica sua per Angliam, et hoc per breve domini Regis. Et cum aliquis forinsecus infra
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dictum manerium alicui mulieri heredi se maritaverit, ideo non faciet finem pro licentia ad ipsam mulierem ingrediendam.
Et quod de nullis consuetudinibus quam de predictis pro tenementis suis onerari debent.
Nos dictus Johannes Engayne dietas consuetudines appro- bantes, ratus habentes, volentes et concedentes, ex eonsensu Elene consortis nostre, pro salute animarum nostrarum pro nobis et heredibus et assignatis nostris, quod omnes dieti homines heredes de dicto manerio in perpetuum remaneant ut de antiquo dominio sicut compertum est, et quod habeant et teneant omnia (tenementa sua predicta per predictas con- suetudines et servicia predicta sine mutatione alicujus servicii aut consuetudinis. Et omnes alias consuetudines et servicia que vel quas ab eis exigebamus eisdem hominibus et eorum heredibus de nobis et heredibus et assignatis nostris remisimus et quietum clamavimus in perpetuum. Salvis nobis et heredibus nostris consuetudinibus et serviciis prenominatis. In hujus rei testi- monium his duobus scriptis in modum cirografii confectis die Annunciacionis Beate Marie anno regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Henrici tricesimo quinto, quorum parti penes dictos homines remanenti Johannes Engayne sigillum suum apposuit, et parti penes dictum Johannem remanenti dieti homines sigillum eorum commune apposuerunt.
Testibus: Johanne de Erpingham, Rogero de Calethorp, Johanne de Colby, Henrico filio ejus, Rogero de Woltertone, Johanne de Irmynglonde, Radulpho de Irmynglonde, et aliis. Datum per copiam.
Court holden there on Monday in the feast of St. Peter ad Vineula in the 7th year of Ed. II. (T'ranslation.) Mutilated roll.
Head Borghs. John Attwode, John Skyppyng, Adam de Bondeker, John Impe, Ralph . . , John Bemund, Adam Passe, Richard le Palmere, junior, Robert Prayd, John Haghene, John le Waler, . . . Ketchod, Thomas Belle, Stephen de Skothowe, Richard Keye, John le Munne, Henry Mort, Nicholas Sukke, Robert Rente, Will. Kythod, . . . . Sworn.
Say upon their oath that John le Chusser ought to repair a certain well at Lund ; therefore, etc. 6d. And they present that Richard de Thorp drew blood of Thomas Wytlok against the peace, etc. 6d Also they present that Beatrice Prigge committed hamsoken on Maud Doleh by carrying away a belt of the said Maud from the house of the said Maud against the peace, etc. 8d. And they present that Agnes de Thorpgate did not open a ditch through which water ought to have course; by reason whereof, etc. 6d. Also they present that Thomas Wrchipe drew blood of Henry Grys. 6d. Also they present that Reginald, son of Robert Sucke, ‘‘ fecit vetitum Matillidi uxori Roberti Dolch de bidentibus voluit inparcasse pro damno facto." 8d.
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Also they present that the said Maud drew blood of the said Reginald ; therefore, etc. 8d.
Also they present that Simon Fyn broke a certain division between himself and Richard le Palmer in length . . . and unlawfully removed a certain boundary placed by the consent of the parties ; therefore, etc. 6d.
Also they present that Margaret, the daughter of Simon Spye, is an habitual thief in autumn time of the neighbours’ corn and . . . . and does great damage ; therefore, eto.
8d. Pillory.
Also they present that Margaret, daughter of Agnes of Matelask, is an habitual thief in autumn time of corn and all the year through is used to steal hens and do damage to the neighbours ; therefore, etc. And the said Agnes is a receiver ; therefore, etc.
Pillory.
Also they present that Beatrice, the wife of Semann the Smith, raised the hue and cry upon John Wodeman the hayward (messorem) unjustly ; therefore, etc.
Also they present that when John de Causton stood at his gate in the peace of the lady, thither came Richard and Robert, chaplains of the parson, with two forks and atrociously assaulted the said John ; whereupon John for fear of the assault raised the hue and cry upon them lawfully, but did not follow them to the hall because John the servant of the lady was present and Thomas. 1s.
And John de Causton, because he raised the said hue and ery and is not present, and therefore he is amerced. 6d.
Also they present that John Payn is a common fisher, fishing on the lady's banks.
Also they present that William Figge brewed and broke the assize ; therefore, etc.
Also they present that Will. Wildun did the like. ds Also they present that Reginald le Palmer did the like. 1s. Also they present that John Skipping did the like. 1s. Also they present that Nicholas Caterine did the like. ls. Also they present that Adam Godsone did the like. 25. Also they present that Cecily Salve . . . but she is dead. Also they present that Agnes Salve brewed four bushels. 6d. Also that Agnes Grand did the like. 6d. Also that Elviva Keninge did the like. 1s. Also that Edmund Larke is a baker and broke the assize. 6d. Also that Roger Rose did the like. 6d. Also that Adam Bateman is a regrator; therefore, etc. 8d. Also that Nicholas Ffre is the like. 8d. Also that Simnel Lewyn is the like. 8d.
Also that Margaret Edes brewed and broke the assize. 8d.
It is also presented that Robert son of John Demund, the parson's servant (manupastus), arrested Roger Hullerd with his cart on the King's highway and detained him by night against the peace, etc.
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Also they present that Richard the Chaplain, attorney of the parson, prosecuted Roger Hullerd in a Court Christian about matters which do not concern our testimony. They are agreed.
Also that the said Richard prosecuted Hugh le Mune in the Same way.
Also that Richard the parson has eneroached upon the high- way with a wall built 22 feet in length and a foot in breadth. 2s.
Also that Richard the parson's chaplain is an usurer 40d.
Also that the said Richard dug the King's highway and made it beyond measure deeper than before, to the great hurt of the whole vill. 6d.
Also that John de Thorp dug the King's highway and deteriorated it, to the detriment of passengers. 6d.
Also that Robert Luue ploughed under a certain division between the said Robert and John Impe to the length of sixteen feet. 6d.
And that Estrilda Prigge damaged the corn of her neighbours throughout the summer. 94.
And that Margaret, daughter of Richard Grys, is an habitual doer of damage to her neighbours in summer. 6d.
And that John son of Beatrice entered the house of William Kytot and did damage to the amount of 6d. 9d.
And that Mariota wife of William Schirlok is a habitual doer of damage to hens and other things of the neighbours. 8d.
And that John Freysell and John his brother, John le Pillemere, and Nicholas son of Hugh, and John Payn came by night to the lady's closes for eels, against the peace, ete. 1s. 8d.
And that William de Holt fished on the lady's bank.
And that the Master of the Hospital did the like. 25. And that Thomas and Ralph sons of Richard son of Adam did the like. 1s. And that Henry de Colby did the like. 25. And that the son of Payn Meye did the like. 10d. And that Ralph the baker did the like. 6d.
And that the willows on the side of the sacrist of St. Edmund hang on the bank and hinder the course of the river so that the (fields) on that side of the village are inundated and submerged, to great damage, etc. 6d.
And that William Lytot and John Chusser, assayers of beer, did not fulfil their office as they ought; therefore, etc.
Aud that John Skyppyng brewed honey mead and sold it con- trary to the assize.
And that Roger Palmer did the like.
And that Richard Waller came within the liberty of the lady and took one cow of John G . . . . and drove the said cow to Irmingland, to the great prejudice of the lady and her liberty ; therefore, etc.
[There are a few more entries, of which the following are the more noticeable :
** All the capital pledges, for concealment, because they did not make their perambulation to the tenement between the lady and
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Edmund the carpenter to see the boundaries broken between them, as had been ordered in the Court.
John son of Roger Adyolf is accustomed to take chicken (pulcinas) aud capons with nets which Robert Keye had at the lady's mill.
Juetta the wife of Richard le Palmere is an usuress, and sells at a dearer rate for accommodation.
And they ask to distrain the said Juetta to answer to the lady about the said usury."]
EXTRACTS FROM THE Court RoLLs. Taking the order of Exorcist without licence. St. Peter ad Vincula, 18 Edw. II.
Preceptum est, sicut pluraliter, attachiare Andream Wardeyn per corpus suum eo quod cepit ordines exorciste sine licentia.
Levy for fabric of the church. Tuesday after St. Barnabas, 18 Edw. II.
Preceptum est messori levare de communitate agistamentum ad fabrieationem ecclesie ad opus Roberti Keye.
Prescriptum est levare de communitate agistamentum ad fabricationem ecclesie ad opus Roberti Keye eo quod pacavit pro eis et delib. . . . nomina eorum messori per billam.
Presentment of the Bishop. 8 Ric. II.
Present. est domine quod Episcopus fecit unum cursum aque apud Hallemedwe in aysiamentum plus vicinorum.
Of the Vicar of Aylsham.
Present. quod Rieardus vicarius de Ailsham exaltavit stagnum suum in ponendo blestas altius quam facere debet in mergendo fossata de feodo domine injuste, etc.
Item present. quod predictus Richardus fecit purpresturam super pratum Johannis Impe ponendo . . . ad exaltandum vivarium aliter quam facere debet ad prejudicium domine, etc.
(This Richard was a benefactor to St. Peter's Coll. Camb.)
Swearing in of youths to the Tithings. St. Peter ad Vincula, 5 Ric. II.
Nicholas filius Ricardi Kethod juratus est in decennium. Johannes Kethod filius Johannis Kethod juratus est similiter. Johannes filius Nicholai Kethod juratus est similiter.
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Poaching. 12 Ric. II.
[Presentant] quod Johannes de London, capellanus, fugatus fuit infra warrennam captando lepores.
Leaving the manor. St. Agnes, 12 Ric. II.
Robertus filius Symonis Fygge nativus domini est fugitivus et manet extra dominium, etc., et ubi ignorant, etc., et precipitur seisire [per] corpus.
Robertus filius Johannis Froysel nativus domini de sanguine, similiter et similiter, e& manet 1n villa de St. Botulph ; ideo pres. etc.
Robertus fil. John Wederall nativus domini similiter et similiter, et manet in Hemesby.
Johannes filius Roberti Altholf, et Thomas et Radulfus fratres ejusdem Johannis sunt similiter, et manent in Cleye, et Radulfus manet in Salle, et precipitur similiter.
Pleading in a Court Christian. 15 Ric. II.
Item quod Johannes fil. Thome Wattys injuste vexavit Robertum Fanmakere in curia Christianitatis.
Tuesday aft. St. Agnes, 16 Ric. II.
Item quod Joh. Melior injuste vexavit Johannem servientem Johannis Love in curia Christianitatis pro re tangente curiam regalem; ideo precipitur est seisire omnes terras et tenementa que idem Johannes tenet in villenagio domini.
Poacher's assault on a keeper.
Distringere Radulfum filium Johannis de Irmyngland ad respondendum, eo quod fecit rescussam Roberto Berte, custodi bosci domini, de duobus leporariis, et ipsum verberavit et male tractavit contra pacem, etc.
Regrating. 15 Ric. II.
Quod Johanna Parys junior est regratrix panis et vendit contra assisam.
1868. Henry de Berneye, William de Qualissal (?), ànd Thomas Hervy, grant to Sir James Holveston, and Joan his wife, the manor of Blicklyng to hold to them and the heirs male of the body of Sir James; remainder to Sir Nicholas Dagworth and the heirs male of his body; remainder to the rightful heirs of Sir James Holveston. 492 Edw. III.
1373. Indenture between James de Holveston and Johanna his wife, of the one part, and John de Colby of the other part.
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Compounding a dispute about the flooding of Holveston's land by the misuse of Colby's water mill at Ingworth. (In French.) Friday, St. Andrew's day, 47 Edw. III.
1415. Roger Brekes and William Annes, churehwardens of Blickling. Declaration of trust of three roods of land in one piece in Blickling at the Kirkegap, adjoining the common path through the churchyard on the east. To remain for ever a garden of the church of Blickling and all parishioners of the said church. Tuesday after Nat. B.M., 8 Hen. V.
1444. Edward Love of Bliclyng grants to Richard Chever and others all his messuages in Bliclyng called Bertrams, otherwise Dygardes, with right of keeping two running dogs to catch foxes, and liberty of foldage, bull and boar; and other tenements. Conditionally on payment of 1601. 1 Sept., 28 Hen. VI.
1448. Henry Inglose, knt. and John Lynford, release to John Fastolf, knight, all their right in the manor of Bliklynge, and a piece of land containing 7 acres which they had together with the said John Fastolf and others. 21 Sept., 27 Hen. VI.
1448. Sir William Oldhall, knt. releases to many co-feoffees his right in the preceding land, as conveyed in a feoffment of 7 July. 8 August, 27 Hen. VI.
1506. Wm. Multon, clerk, at the special request of Thomas Boleyn, son and heir and executor of the will of Will. Boleyn, knt. demises to Richard Davy, clerk, Robert Davy, his brother, Thomas Semann, clerk, and Thomas Lanyon, junr., all the messuages in Bliclyng which he held with Robert Heyles, and 2d. rent. 9 Nov., 22 Hen. VII.
[1551], March 8, 5 Edw. VI. Covenant for the conveyance by Sir James Boleyn, knt. to ‘‘ the right noble ladie Elizabeth, daughter of the late King of most famous memorie, King Henry VIII., sister of our Soverayne Lord King Edward VI.," of all his manors, lands, &c., in Heveningham, Marsham, Buxton, and various other places in Norfolk.
1554. Sir James Boleyn, knt., and Dame Elizabeth his wife and Sir John Clere on the one part, and John Mason, of Erpyngham, on the other part; lease of Blicklyng Mill for 60 years, reciting that James Boleyn and Elizabeth his wife were seized of the manor of Blikling with remainder to Sir J. Clere. 7 Bept., 1 and 2, Ph. and Mary.
1554. Conveyance by Edward Lord North and John Williams of the advowson of Blykelyng to Bir John Clere and Edward Clere. 22 Oct., 1 and 2, Ph. and Mary.
1558. Probate of will of Thomas Wilkinson, of Blickling.
Chancery Order in a suit between Sir John Fastolf and Geoffrey Boleyn respecting the purchase of the manor of Blickling.
Beit remembred that the Tewesday the v. day of Septembre the yere of the reigne of our soveraigne lord King Henri the sixte . . . apperid afore my Lorde Cardynall the Chauncellor
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of Englande at Fullham Sir John Fastolf, knight, and Geffrey Boleyn, Alderman of London, with both theire counselles, where it was desired at that tyme for the partie of the said Sir John the delivery of two obligations eyther of them of the summe of x. marc, thenne beyinge in the kepyng of Master Thomas Eborall, and also a dede of an annuite of marc xx. and iiiis. &c., agenste the which desire it was answered for the partie of the said Geoffrey that the saide obligations and dede of annuite oght noght to be delyvered to the said Sir John afore that he hadde fulfilled diverse conditions conteyned in certeyne Indentures thenne rehersed, and the tenour of theyme redde by Byllyng, Recorder of London, afore my saide Lorde, the whiche conditions as it was thenne surmytte for the partie of the said Geffrey in no wise wer perimplissht, and in especiall a defaute was assigned in the nonne delyvery of certayn stuffe of shepe and other that the saide Geffrey oughte to have with his purches of the manour of Bliclyng, accordyng to the saide indentures, ete., and the nonne attournement of diverse tenantes holdyng of the saide manour. Wherto it was replied and sayde by som of the counsell of the said Sir John that he had no noumbre of shepe at his first pur- chas of the said manour, and thenne my saide Lord answered and reherced that thendenture specified that the said Sir John hadde solde to the saide Geoffrey the saide manour with the stuffe of shepe and other, ete. And also how the same Sir John as it was thenne declared for the partie of the said Geffrey hadde sent by his letter to Bliclyng aforesaide to his servant there to delyvere to the said Geffrey dlix. shepe. Wherefore my saide Lorde thenne saide that hym thoght it accordyd noght well to make any suche allegeaunces, and so in conclusion forasmoche as it was thoght that the saide Sir John oghte of reason to delyvere the stuff of shepe and other accordyng to the saide indenture and also the other condicions in the same indenture specified trewly performe, etc., it was agreed at the laste for the partie of the saide Geffrey at the reverens of my saide Lordes lordship that the dede of annuitie and one of the saide obligations sholde be delyvered to the saide Sir John, and that other obligation to remayne stylle with the saide maister Thomas to [sic] the said stuff were delyvered and the other conditions in the saide indenture specified performyd, etc., and that Haydon and Genny the elder sholde examyne and make reporte of the noumbre and value of the said stuff, etc.
HEVENINGHAM. . Manor Horas. An undated Roll of Henry III. ?
Edward I. For the years 6-21, 25, 26. The 25th is the 9th of the Pontificate of R. (Walpole), 1297. Also for Cattes manor 4-7.
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Edward III. 2, 8, 5, 6, 18, 14, 16, 17. 2 and 8 are the 4th of the Pontificate of W. (Ayermine or Armine), 1829. 18, 14 and 16 are the 2nd, 4th and 6th of the Pontificate of Anthony (Bek).
There are ‘‘ Letes " for the years 2, 5, 14, 16.
Richard II. 1, 2, 8, 5-28, except 12 and 15. That of the year 5 has this note :—
‘Prima curia ib. tent. die mere. prox. post festum St. Petri ad Vincula anno Regis Ricardi II. post conquestum quinto, postquam rotuli curis, custu- maria, rentale et rotuli secte curis, et alia monumenta dicti manerii cremati fuerunt per tenentes Domini et alios communes quando communes comitatus Norf. et aliorum com. surrexerunt contra pacem domini et magna dampna fecerunt, etc.”
18, Catts manor. |
Henry IV. 1-14. 2 is the 31st of Episcopate of Henry le Despencer, 1401; at his court in 8 John Spencer and others are farmers of the temporalities. (2, 10, and 11 are also Lete courts.)
Henry V. 1 (Lete). 2-10. 8, First court of the Kingon escheat following the death of Courtenay, Bishop of Norwich, 1415. A? 4 is the first general court of Bishop Wakering, 1417.
1-8 also Catts manor.
Henry VI. 1-88 (Courts, Courts General, and Letes). 7 is the 2nd court of Bishop William Alnwick, 1429; 15 is the first court of Bishop Thomas Brown, 1487 ; and 27 is the 4th year of Bishop Walter Lyhert, 1449.
Also Cattes manor, 4, 5-8.
Edward IV. Courts and Courts General, with separate jurors for Parkhalle, Ryptonhall and Keritoft, 1-8, 8-12. (Letes, Hevingham cum Marsham, 1-6.)
Catts manor, 19-28.
Richard III. Catts manor, 1.
Henry VII. 1-24.
Henry VIII. Marsham eum Hevingham and Hevingham Courts, and Marsham cum Hevingham Letes, 2, 8, 5-11, 18, 15-80 (Anno 80 is Marsham Hegis and Hevingham Regis), 31 (first court of James Boleyn), 82, 83, 84 (cum visu franciplegii), 96, 87, 38.
Cattes manor, 1-87.
Edward VI. 4, 5 Hevingham; Hevingham eum Marsham, 1-6.
Philip and Mary.
Cattes manor, 8-6.
Elizabeth. 1, 2, 4-8, 29-84, 87, (17, 18 is the court of W. Yaxley). Also a roll for the year 1564.
Catts manor, 1-8, 17, 18, and between 82 and 42.
James I. 4, First court of Sir H. Hobart,
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Account Rous.
Edward III. Provost’s and Messor’s accounts for years 2, 8, 6-18, 86, 40, 41. (18 is the 1st year of the Episcopate of W. (Bateman) Bishop of Norwich.)
Farmer’s accounts, 20-21. Bailiff's accounts, 27-28.
Richard II. Provost’s account for year 18 and 14. Bailiff s account, 20-21.
Account of works (task), 28 to 1 Hen. IV.
Henry IV. 1, Account of work (tasks).
Ripton and Critoft manors. Messor’s account for years 5 and 7.
Cattes and Ripton manors. Messor’s account, years 11 and 12. Account of work (tasks).
Henry V. Messor's account for years 2 and 8 (Parkhalle). (Hevingham cum Marsham.) Bailiffs account for years
5 and 6.
Henry VI. Bailiff's account for years 28, 24, 27, 28. (Rypton.) Bailiff's account, 8 and 9.
(Parkhalle. Messor’s account, 15 and 16. (Critoft.) Messor’s account, 24 and 25.
Edward IV. Provost’s and Messor’s accounts, 2 and 8, 8 and 9,9 and 10.
Henry VII. Messor’s account, 16 and 17. (The account of John Helwyn, deputy. Same date, like account of Robert Bushop.)
(Hevingham eum Marsham.) Provost's and Messor's accounts, 8. Henry VIII. Messor's aecount for year 24 (John Martyn).
Manor HRoLrs.
1881-2. Ripton Hall. Rental, Richard II. 5.
Customary, Rich. II. 8?
1884-5. Parkhalle Manor. Customary and Rental, Rich. Il. 8, taken before Henry Cat, Lord of the Manor, and his tenants. 1444. Hevingham. Rental, Hen. VI. 22. In part renewed, Hen. VIII. 1.
1444. Hevingham Cattes. Rental and Customary, endorsed Hen. VI. 22. (Also an extract of an ancient extent undated.)
1500. Hevingham Critofts. Customary, Hen. VII. 15.
1584. Hevingham with Marsham. Abuttal and Rentals, Henry VIII. 26.
1544. 1569.
1598.
Hevingham Cattes. Book of Demesne Lands, Henry VIII.
86.
An abuttal of Andrew Thetford, Esq. His free lands in Hevingham filde, 1569. (Formerly Master's.)
Hevingham. Rental endorsed E.T. 1598.
Tenant Rolls of the manors of Hevingham, Repton or Rypton Halle, Crichetots, ete. (undated).
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1847-48. Account of Geoffrey Horsford, servant of Sir Constantine [Mortimer], for the manor of Hevingham, from Mich. 20 to Mich. 21 Edw. III. The year before the Black Death.
Idem re[cepit] de xxxvi quarteriis bladi multure r [eceptis] de firna duorum molendinorum quorum unum ventricum et aliud aquaticum per annum. Summa xxxvi. qu.
De quibus, liberat. Johannis Randolph, tenentis, carucantis ab in erastino S*- Michaelis usque diem Veneris proximum post festum S" Johannis ante Portam Latinam per xxxii septimanas, jii dies, iii qu. ii bus., capientis quarterium per x septimanas.
In lib. unius tenentis carucantis per totum annum preter iii septimanas in autumpno iii quarterios vi bus., capientis quarterium per x septimanas. In lib.ii fugantium carucantium ab in erastino S" Michaelis usque diem Veneris prox. post f. S*! Johannis ante Portam Latinam per xxxii septimanas et iii dies et a festo Nativitatis beate Marie Virginis usque festum S*'- Michaelis per iii septimanas vi quarteria, quorum quilibet capiat quarterium per xii septimanas. In lib. J. Daye per totum annum iiii quarteria ii bus. dim. capientis quarterium per xii septimanas. In lib. i [unius] bercarii per idem tempus v quarteria ii bus. et dim. capientis quarterium per x septimanas. In lib. i herciatoris per xiv sept. et tres dies i qu. ii bus. iii p. capientis quarterium per xii sept. In lib. i porearii a festo S"- Michaelis usque diem lune proximum post festum Augustini in Maye per xxxiii sept. et iii dies, ii quar. iv. bus. p. eapientis qu. per xiii sept. Item lib. eidem versus Burnham pro porcis domini ibidem custodiendis iiii bus. precepto domine. In lib. i aucarum custodis, eustodiendis bestiis in Heselholt ii bus. In lib. Willelmi Soukis, eustodiendis bestiis in Heselholt in estate vi. bus. In pane frumenti pro stotis tem- pore sementis ordei vi. bus. Item datur Henrico precepto domine ii.. . . Item datur Johanni Randolph ii bus. precepto domine. Item datur Thome de Midilton i bus. precepto domine in expensis autumpnalibus ii qu. iii bus. In venditione i quar. ut in fr. Item allocatur pro stacione molendini aquatici per unam xiv"- ii bus. Item in stipendio i garciferi euntis ad carucandum ante festum Natalis Domini per iii sept. ii bus.
[c. 1250?] ExrENT of the Manor or Hevinenam. Episcopus Norwic. est capitalis dominus ville. [Words added.]
Episcopus Norwic. habet in eadem villa unum messuagium et unum parcum [stagnum continentem. ii acras infra clausum :— words struck out] unam acram terre arabilis in dominio.
Villani ejusdem.
Habet quinque villanos qui tenent v messuagia et xxvii acras terre.
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Tenentes.
Will. de Parco tenet unum messuagium xl acras terre arabilis, unam acram prati, unum molendinum aquaticum, cum stagno, de episcopo Norwic.
Villani.
Idem Will. habet ij villanos qui tenent ij messuagia et unam acram terre.
Cotarii. Idem Will. habet v cotarios qui tenent v. cotagia.
Liberi tenentes ejusdum Willelmi.
Henry de London tenet 1 cotag. et reddit 11j*-
Galfridus Craske tenet 1 cotag. et reddit v. den.
Rich [erus] de Pagrave tenet medietatem unius messuagii et 1 acram terre, et reddit per annum iij*- ob.
Ricardus Faber tenet unum messuagium et dim. acram terre et reddit per annum xx‘
Willelmus fil. Christiane tenet unum cotag. et reddit inj?
xi sol. xd: ob.
Willelmus le Kat tenet xxiiij acras terre. Richerus de Pagrave tenet de eodem Will. i acram terre et
annum iij? Et dictus Will. tenet predictum tenementum et liberos tenentes de episcopo Norwic., et reddit per annum ij* vj* ob., et tenet per socagium.
Andreas de Bramton tenet v villanos qui tenent v messuagia et viij acras terre, et tenet de episcopo Norwic. et dat per annum iij* iij .
Rich. de Pagrave tenet unum acram terre de episcopo Norwic., et reddit per ann. pro se et pro Joh. fil. clerici vj* ob.
Johannes fil. clerici tenet dim. acram terre de Rich. de Pagrave et dat per ann. iij?
Et dietus episcopus est patronus ecclesie de Hevyngham, et ecclesia habet in proprios usus xx acras terre et unum messuagium et unum villanum qui tenet ij acras terre.
Will. Olok tenet j rodam terre et dat per annum j*
Will. fil. Simonis tenet dim. acram terre et reddit 11j*
Et idem Episcopus habet visum franciplegii [aprum, taurum, wayf de aver. extranea, furcas, thumerell ; struck out]. Et tenet totum predictum tenementum cum libertatibus et predictos villanos cotarios et libere tenentes eum eorum tenen- tibus de Domino Rege per baroniam episcopatus Norwic.
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. Dominus Rex.
Andreas de Branton (sic) tenet decem villanos qui tenent decem messuagia, |x et xiij acras terre, et unum eotarium qui tenet unum cotagium, et tenet predictos villanos, cotarium, de domino Rege de manerio de Aylesham de antiquo dominico pertinente ad suum manerium de Branton, quod quidem manerium tenet per servic. xv - et viij
Willelmus de Ecclesia et ejus tenentes tenent xij acras terre de
Andr. de Brantone et reddunt per annum xij*- [De] rege sed quo waranto et per quod servieium jurati nesciunt. [Last clause struck out. | : Rich. Cucuk et parcenarii sui tenent x acras terre et unum messuagium. Idem habent unum cotarium qui tenet unum cotagium. Et tenent de Domino Rege de manerio de Aylsham de antiquo feofamento, et reddunt per an. iiij* iiij*
Thomas Faber et parcenarii sui tenent iij acras et dim. terre de Domino Rege, et reddunt per an. viij*
Thomas fil. Galfridi tenet iij acras et dim. terre de Domino Rege, et reddit per an. viij*
Et tenent de manerio de Caustone de antiquo feofamento.
Comes Glovernie.
Willelmus le Chat tenet unum messuagium, lx acras terre et 1j acras prati. Idem habet xiiij villanos qui tenent xiiij messuagia, quater viginti et xij acras terre arabilis. ltem habet iij cotarios qui tenent iij cotagia.
; Rich. de Pagrave tenet dim. messuag. unam rodam et dim. terre, et reddit per ann. vj*
Isti subscripti | Henry le Blunt tenet unam acram et tenent de Willel- | dim. terre, et reddit per an. iiij* mo le Kat. Liberi; Willelmus fil. Walteri tenet unum mes- tenentes ejusdem |suagium et vj acras terre, et reddit per an. Willelmi. iij"
Willelmus de Ecclesia tenet unum mes- suagium et iiij acras terre, et reddit per an. uj*
Et dietus Will. le Kat tenet predictum tenementum, villanos, cotarios, et libere tenentes de comyte Glovernie per scutagium
scil. ad xl. sol. quinque sol, ad plus plus, ad minus minus, et tenenteg dioti Oofmitis]
debet pro tenemento suo [ words interlined are substituted for those in italies] [debent] unam sectam hundredi de Erpingham quam Johannes Parys et heredes sui facere tenentur. Et Comes tenet de Domino Rege per baroniam comitatus Glovernie viij pars unius feodi militis. Et idem Will. habet liberum aprum et taurum et faldam. Et debet unam sectam bis per annum comitatui Norvic. [words struck out |.
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Henricus de London tenet v acras terre et j acram prati de comite Glovernie per serv. j*- et scutagium, scil. ad xl* v*
Et habet duos villanos qui tenent duo messuagia et ix acras terre.
Rich. de Pagrave tenet unum aeram et dim. terre et reddit per an. j*- ob.
Petrus ad Pareum tenet unam acram terre et dat per an. iiij
Thomas Wayt tenet 11] rodas terre et dat per an. E
Radulphus Bonde tenet j acram terre et reddit ijf-
Thomas Faber tenet j acram et dim. terre et reddit per an. ij*
Et isti tenent de
Henrieus le Blunt tenet unam aeram | Will. fil. Walteri, terre et dat per an. iiij: et Willelmus tenet
ji de Will. le Kat, et
Henricus Rake tenet unam acram terre et | reddit per an. iiij dat per an. j* pro toto tenement
suo, et VW. le Kat
Johannes fil. clerici tenet dim. acram |tenet de Henr. de terre et dat per an. ij* London et reddit
\per an. j*:
Et dictus Henr. de London tenet dictum tenementum, villanos, et liberos tenentes de Thoma Jurdon per scutagium, scil. ad xl sol. v sol., ad plüs plus, ad minus minus, et debet unam sectam hundredo de Erpyngham quam Willelmus fil. Walteri et heredes sui facere tenentur. Et Thomas Jurdon tenet de Comite Glovernie et Comes de Domino Rege per baroniam eomitatus Glovernie.
Kerebrok.
Willelmus de Ecclesia tenet iij acras turbarie, et habet unum cotarium qui tenet unum cotagium.
Wulmere Bondes tenet unum cotagium de eodem Will. et reddit per an. iij*^ Et Will. de Ecclesia tenet de domo de Kerebrok et reddit per an. iij^, et domus tenet in libera elee- mosina; de cujus feodo ignoratur.
Prior de Gyslingham.
Will. le Kat tenet lx acr. pasture de Will. de Ecclesia et reddit per an. dim. marc., et Will. de Ecclesia tenet de Priore de Kyslingham, et Prior tenet in libera eleemosina de honore de Ry ex dono antecessorum J. le Mareschal.
Prior de Bromholm.
Johannes fil. clerici tenet unum messuagium et xviij acras
terre, 1j acras et dim. prati, de Priore de Bromholm, et reddit per e Baronia de Ry
an. vij" vj", et Prior tenet de domino Rege sed qualiter [words inter- lined are substituted for those in italies] et per quod servieium tenet jurati nesciunt,
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Dominus J. le Marchal tenet in Hevingham xl acras terre arabilis, unum messuagium, xi acras prati, xvi acras pasture, x acras turbarie, et cc acras bruerie. Idem habet ix villanos qui tenent ix messuagia et lx acras terre. Idem habet iii cotarios qui tenent iij cotagia.
Et dominus J. le Marchal percipit per annum de feodo Guyet xxij ob. ad wardam castri Norwic., et ad seutagium quando venerit ad xls. xx* ad plus plus, ad minus minus, et habet visum franci plegii et faldam. Et tenet predictum tenementum cum liber- tatibus, villanos, cotarios, et liberos tenentes a principio tenure sue infrascriptos, de Domino Rege per baroniam de Ry.
Liberi tenentes ejusdem J.
Thomas Schade [tenet] ij acras per j* de J. le Mareschal.
Henricus Prente tenet dim. acram terre.
Petrus Guyet tenet unum mess. et unam acram terre.
Ricardus Howard tenet unum mess. et vj acras terre.
Ric. de Pagrave tenet 4 acras et dim. per ij4 de J. le Marschal.
Willelmus ad Ecelesiam tenet vj acras terre.
Thomas Wayegrave (?) tenet 1j acras.
Radulphus Belle tenet unam acram.
Willelmus Brese tenet dim. acram.
Radulphus fil. Roberti tenet iiij acras.
Willelmus Cueuk tenet dim. acram per j ob.
Johannes Cucuk tenet unam acram per j*
Henricus Cucuk tenet iij rodas per ob.
Ricardus Faber tenet ij acras per j^
Willelmus frater ejus tenet dim. acram terre de Ricardo fratre ejus per j ob.
Henricus le Kat tenet 1j acras terre.
Ric. Mariot tenet vij acras terre per vj* de J. le Mar [eschal].
Petrus Wiltam tenet unam acram. . Adam Knut tenet dim. acram.
Thomas de Alvingetun tenet dim. acram.
Elvida Schade tenet dim. acram terre per 1j4
Philippus de Middelton tenet dim. acram terre.
Robertus serviens persone, tenet dim. acram.
Johannes atte Fen tenet dim. acram terre.
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Robertus Faber tenet 1. cottagium. Radulphus le Pottere tenet i. cotagium. Johannes le Minere tenet 1. cotagium. Adam le Minere tenet i. cotagium. Robertus le Potere tenet i. eotagium.
Johannes Luve tenet i. cotagium.
Henrieus capellanus tenet i. messuagium et viii acras terre de Willelmo le Kat et reddit Willelmo v* et J. le Mareschal 924, et Willelmus tenet eundem (sic) tenementum de J. Marchal per scutagium.
Radulphus Streyt tenet unum mess. et unam acram et reddit v*-
Thomas Sade tenet unum mess. et iii acras de eodem Rad. et reddit vd; et Rad. tenet totum tenementum de W. ede Lovesæ et reddit per an. vi: ob, et Willelmus tenet de J. de Marchal.
Johannes fil. clerici tenet 1 acram et unum cotagium de Joh. de Lem, et reddit vj* et J. de Lem tenet de J. de Marchal per scutagium.
Wlvive (sic) Bondes tenet 1 acram terre de J. de Lem, et reddit vjt: et J. de Lem tenet de J. le Marchal per scutagium.
Ricardus serviens persone tenet 1 cotagiuni et reddit ecclesie de Hevingham per an. iij* ob.
Radulphus Cappe tenet i cotagium de War. de Herford et reddit i*-
Willelmus Veys tenet 1 cotagium de Will. de Ecclesia et reddit iij^- et Will. tenet de J. le Marchal.
Idem Willelmus de Ecclesia tenet unam acram prati de Johanne clerico et reddit viij** et Johannes tenet de J. le Marchal et reddit vj*-
Henricus de Branteston tenet unum messuagium, iiij acras et dim. terre de heredibus Henriei le Neuman, et reddit x* ob. et ipsi tenent de Johanne le Marchal.
Item pater noster tenet j cotagium et j acram terre de eisdem heredibus, et dat per an. x*, et ipsi tenent de J. le Marchal.
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Thomas Schade tenet dim. acram de eodem feodo et dat per an. j*
Rich. fil. Simonis tenet unum cotagium et reddit iij*-
Alicia Guyet tenet unum cotagium et ij acras et reddit iij
Willelmus Capellanus tenet unum messuagium et ij acras terre et reddit v* ob.
Mariota Leces tenet unum cotagium et dim. acram terre et reddit ij*-
Wulvive (sic) Bondes tenet unum messuagium et ii acras terre et reddit vij*
Henrieus Lante tenet unum cotagium et reddit iij*
Henrieus Rut tenet unum cotagium et dim. acram terre de W. le Kat, et reddit v*: ob.
Et Willelmus le Kat tenet eundem (sic) tenementum de Will. de Parco per eundem servicium.
Matilda Guyet tenet unum cotagium et j acram terre et reddit 1j*-
Filie Henrici le Neuman tenent vj acr. terre et reddunt vij*-
Radulphus Goding tenet unum cotagium et dim. aer. terre et reddit viij*-
Henricus le Blunt tenet v acras terre et redd. v* ob. Le Rich. de Pagrave tenet j acram terre et dim. et reddit
* ob.
Simon le Blunt tenet dim. aer. terre et reddit 1* ob.
Wulvive (sic) Parker tenet unam aeram et reddit 1%
Mirylda la Blunde tenet vj acras et reddit viij?
Alexander de Feltorp tenet ij acras terre et reddit iij*
Jocel[inus] Buleman tenet dim. aer. terre et reddit 1j?
Omnes isti sub cireulo scripti tenent de Willelmo de Parco per servicium subscriptum et per scutagium in eartis suis contentum, et Willelmus tenet de J. le Marchal per scutagium de feodo Guet.
[c. 1185-1145.] Grant of EgBerarn, Bp. of Norwich, to his officer PurL1P.9
> In Nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Notum sit omnibus tam presentis quam futuri temporis fidelibus quod ego Ebrardus Dei gratia Norwic. Episcopus dedi et con- eessi prece et concessione proborum hominum meorum huie Philippo ministro meo pro servitio suo et pro dimidio marco (sic) de gersuma, in feudo et in perpetua hereditate iiii toftes (sic) terras inter Heuigham et Ripeteunam, et simul cum illis iiii. toftes lviii acras de terra lucrabili et boscum et prata atque pascua et omnia eidem terre juste appendentia. Concessi etiam ei molendinum quod fecit in prato suo de quo stagnum ligatum est in bosco meo licentia et eoncessione mea. Hsec omnia
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supradieta eidem Philippo hereditarie dedi, faciendo mihi per annum v sol. de servitio. Preterea noscat dilectio vestra postea me concessise et dedisse prenominato Philippo et heredibus suis terram meam de Stratuna quam Herbertus bone recordationis Episcopus dedit Jordano cognato suo. Hoc autem feci prece et bona voluntate et concessione ejusdem Jordani per idem servitium quod Jordanus tenebat die qua Herbertus Episcopus fuit vivus et mortuus, videlicet per duos solidos per annum pro omnibus servitiis sicut carta Herberti Episcopi et carta mea, quas predictus Jordanus sua bona et spontanea voluntate liberavit Philippo, testant. Hec omnia supradieta volo et firmiter precipio ut bene, honorifice, et in pace teneat per prenominatum servitium. Et ut ista donatio rata permaneat impositione sigilli mei et nostre ecelesie sigilli eonfirmo. Sunt etiam testes ad hane donationem corroborandam, Willelmus Prior et Conventus eeclesie Sanete Trinitatis, et Willel- mus, et alter Willelmus, et Walkerel', Rogerus archdiaconus,° et Adam et Walterus, nep[otes] episcopi, et Toraldus et Gaifer capellani episcopi, et Johannes dapifer episcopi, et Petrus stab latins] et Symon de Nuers, et Rogerus de Fleg, et Gocelinus Grossus, et Willelmus de Ecclesia, et Herveus eam [erarius], et Adam dapifer, et Hugo de Blafer', et Osmundus Ruffus, et Rodbertus cocus, et Rand[ulfus] cocus, et Willelmus pistor.
[c. 1150.] Grant by BisHop Wizziam TurB to HERBERT Car.
Notum sit futuris et presentibus Christi fidelibus quod ego Willelmus Dei gratia Norwicensis Episcopus dedi Herberto Catto et Alde uxori sue, nepti mee, et heredibus suis totam terram que fuit Grimbaldi in Ripetunia, cum omnibus liberis consuetudinibus ad eandem terram pertinentibus, pro duobus solidis annuatim. Kapropter volo et precipio ut teneat ipse et heredes sui post eum predictam terram pro prefato servitio bene et in pace, libere et quiete, et in pratis et in pascuis et turbariis. Et ut hee donatio nostra firma et inconcussa permaneat sigilli nostri impositione eam confirmo. Teste (sic) Daniele Abbate de Hulmo,t Helya Priore, Johanne dapifero, Petro de Mall[ar|d, Petro constabu- lario, Ric. de Ferreris, Hernaldo Lupell, Turoldo capellano, Hemero presbytero, Philippo de Martham, Gwarino hostiario, Roberto Wandelardo.
[c. 1170-4.] Grant by Bishop WinLiaw TurB to WinnnM Car.
Willelmus Dei gratia Norwie. Episcopus, omnibus hominibus suis Francis et Anglis salutem. Sciatis quod ego reddidi et concessi Willelmo Catto terram que fuit Grimbaldi de feodo de Marsham, videlicet xxx acras quas pater ejusdem Willelmi Herebertus Cattus tenuit, ei et heredibus suis, tenendam de me
* No Roger is found in the printed lists of the archdeacons of the diocese in the time of bishop Everard. + Died in 1158.
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et de meis in perpetuum successoribus ita bene et libere et per idem servicium sicut pater suus melius et liberius eam tenuit. Volo igitur et precipio ut idem Willelmus et heredes sui habeant et teneant prefatam terram libere et quiete et hereditarie, honorifice et pacifice, per prenominatum servieium. Test: Willelmo et Staingro'? Archidiaconis, Gaüfrido filio Petri dapiferi, magistro Nicholao, Roberto Crasso, Richerio de Marsham, Roberto Grisio, Johanne clerico filio Roberti, Osmundo, Rie. Daniel, Stephano Ruffo, Joscel [ino] fratre Willelmi Archidiaconi, Roberto Pincerna et Godefrido fratre suo.
Grant of two pieces of Land by Roger Gur of Hevingham to WiLLIAM LE Kar and LaunETTA his wife, the one called Hevidlond and the other Brodlonde.
Hiis testibus: Willelmo de Parco de Hevingham, Willelmo filio suo, Willelmo de Monasterio, Willelmo et Andrea de Levishaye, Henrico de London, Nieholao et Herveo filiis suis, Willelmo de Marheshal, Johanne filio clerici, Thoma Schade, et multis aliis.
Grant of Land by Henry Firz-Simuon to Wizzraw LE Kar in consideration of a '*PEAcE or MAYHEx.”
Seiant presentes et futuri quod ego Henricus filius Simonis de London concessi dedi ét hac presenti carta confirmavi Willelmo le Kat unam peciam terre mee in campo de Dudewik jacentem super Langfurlong inter terram Willelmi Spendluue ex parte orientali et terram Hugonis del Hil ex parte occidentali, et abuttat super terram Gerard versus austrum et super terram Will. Aldman versus aquilonem. Et homagium et servicium Walteri de Mendham merkatoris quod mihi debuit per annum pro tribus peciis terre, seilicet unum clavum gariofili pro tribus _peciis terre quas aliquando de me tenuit. Quarum una pecia est medietas de messuagio Alquen, et alia super Wotelond inter terram Roberti le Kniht ex parte oriental et terram Petri le Kat ex parte occidentali. Et tertia pecia in crofto quod fuit Radulfi Alyetti inter viam regiam ex parte orientali et terram que fuit Radulfi prenominati ex parte occidentali, cum releviis et eskaettis et omnibus aliis rebus que mihi accidere possent de prefato Waltero et suis heredibus. Habendum et tenendum eidem Willelmo et heredibus suis vel suis assingnatis bene et in pace in perpetuum sine aliquo seculari servicio, pro pace de mahenio formata et facta per predictum Willelmum inter prefatum Walterum ex una parte et me et Richerum filium meum ex altera parte. Et ego Henricus et heredes mei vel assingnati mei warrantizabimus, acquitabimus, defendemus predicta tene- menta et servicia cum eskaettis et releviis et aliis rebus
* Btaingrin (Taingrin in Le Neve) was archdeacon of Norwioh in 1174-5, in which latter year bishop William died in January ; but no William appears to be found in the lists of archdeacons of Norfolk, Suffolk, or Sudbury about that time.
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inde accidentibus prefato Willelmo et heredibus suis vel suis assingnatis pro pace de mahenio facta, sicut predictum est, contra omnes homines et feminas in perpetuum. In cujus rei testi- monium presens scriptum sigilli mei impressione corroboravi. Hiis testibus, Johanne de Leem, Johanne de Tudeham, Willelmo de Parco de Hevingham, Willelmo et Richero filiis suis, Henrico de Leveshaye, Willelmo et Andrea filis suis, Reginaldo de Refham, Johanne filio suo, Willelmo de Monasterio de Heving- ham, Henrico et Willelmo filiis suis, Eudone Toppais, Petro filio suo, Rogero Guet, Johanne filio Johannis clerici, Richero Streit, et multis aliis.
Grant of VinLLEINS by WiLLIAM AT CHURCH to WiLLram LE Kar.
Omnibus Christi fidelibus presens scriptum visuris aut audituris, ego Willelmus ad Ecclesiam de Hevigham salutem. Noverit universitas vestra me concessisse dedisse et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse Willelmo le Kat, de eadem, et heredibus suis de se et Laurota condam uxore sua procreatis et eorum heredibus vel asignatis (sic), corpus Johannis Popi et corpus Seyhive matris sue et corpus Cecilie filie dicte Seyhive servos meos, cum toto tene- mento et tota sequela eorundem, pro vinginti (sic) solidis argenti quos michi dedit premanibus. Habendum et tenendum de me et heredibus meis illi et heredibus suis prenominatis et heredibus eorum vel asignatis in perpetuum. Reddendo inde annuatim michi et heredibus meis unum clave de gelofero pro omni servicio consuetudine et seculari demanda [etc.]. His testibus: Andrea de Branton, Petro filio suo, Roberto de Bolewik, Will. de Levishaye, Rogero de Refham, Johanne filio suo, Will. de Park, Joh. le Clerk, Will. de Thorp, Hen. de Lundune, Richero filio suo, et multis aliis.
WiLLIAM LE Kat of HEvVINGHAM
grants to Henry, his eldest son, his whole messuage in Marsham. Witnesses: Sir Tho. Bardolf, kt., Sir Will. de Whitwell, kt., Will. de Merceshalle, Will. de Leveshaye, John de Refham, Henry de London of Hevingham, Andrew de Braunthonne, John son of Philip de Stratehonne, John Huberd of the same, Richard Seyet, Henry de Belagh, John le Bond, Christopher de Botheby, Simon Wrantham, clerk.
Sarra, daughter of Ralph the Smith (**fabri"), of Hevingham, releases to Ralph Smith (sic) all right in the land formerly her father's in Hevingham. One of the witnesses is Walter Bukeskin, the King's seneschal at Causton, and another, Henry le Cat.
1977[-8]. Roger, bishop of Norwich, for himself and his *nativi" of Hevingham, restores to William de Parco, of Hevingham, seven acres of meadow and one of alder-wood “ in stagno," of which he had been disseised by William le Kat and many others named in a writ returned before the judges at Norwich, “ cujusmodi disseisine faciende quidem nativi nostri de Heving- ham personaliter interfuere." Suthelmham xvij Kal. Feb. 1277.
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1318. Fine for settlement of lands in Hevingham, &c., between William le Kat and Katherine his wife, and Robert Felbrigg and John his brother, comprising 88 messuages, two mills, 500 acres of land, &c.—Octave of Hilary 11 Edward II.
1859. Andrew le Smyth of Hevyngham grants to Will. Burel of Hevyngham and Andrew Huberd of Straton all his lands, tenements, and messuage, in Hevyngham and Marsham, except a small house at the east of the messuage '' pertinente ad artificium fabri."—Hevingham, Monday after Purif. B.M.V., 38 Ed. III.
1871. John de Herlyngge, John de Berneye, Nicholas, parson of the church of Boton, and William Curszon release to Will. Cat and Margaret his wife their rights in Riptonhalle and Park- halle. Witnesses : Sir Will. de Wychingham, Will. de Clere, and others. Hevingham, 45 Edward III.
1411. Robert Mauteby to Henry Katt. Covenant to settle Hevingham manor on marriage. French. Easter Monday, 12 Hen. IV.
1489. Deed of Henry Catt of Hevingham, reciting a feoffment of all his manors in Norfolk to William Bishop of Salisbury, by name of Master Will. Askewe, clerk, Will. Yelverton, and others, to the uses of his will; directing the sale of certain manors for payment of debts, with gifts of residue; inter alia, his best Missal to his wife Dionysia, for her life, afterwards to the chapel of St. Mary in the church of Hevingham for ever, or so long as the same should last.
Declaration under seal by Wizzram [Askew] BisuoP or SALISBURY about Catt’s Manor of HEviNGBAM.
1442. To the Cristen people that this presente wryting see or here, I William by the grace of God Bishop of Salisbury sende gretyng in our Lord God. Inasmoche as it is said and I am enformed that Henry Catte late of Hevyngham in the county of Norff., squir, shuld have died seised in his demene as of fee in the manor of Hevyngham and other his manors lands and tenements rents and services with thappurtenances in the said county of Norff., and for as moche as it 18 merytory and byhofful (behoveful) to witnesse trouth and to put away perjurie and other perill, I by this my writyng witnesse and thus notifie that the sailed Henrye the fiftene year of the reigne of our soverayne lord the King that now is, me at that tyme being person of the churche of Hevyngham aforesaid, made & lawful feoffment of the said manor and other of his said manors landes and tenementys in the said counte of Norff. to me and to William Yelverton, Robert Mortymer, and to other, and to our heires in fee for ever more, to thentent to do and performe thereof his will: and we, as eommone cours is, suffered the said Henry to occupie by our suffrance all his lyve, and otherwise deyde he not seisd in his demene of fee ; and this wol I seyn and witnesse as ferre as mine
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estats axith or requireth, and for the more open evidence hereof to give my writyng I have sette my seall the xvii day of the moneth of Feverere, the xx yere of the reigne of King Henry the sixth after the conquest of Inglond.
1171. Will. Aynse of Hevyngham and Nicholas Lincolne of Skothowe demise to John Wotton, '' jurisperito," John Abbes of Buxton, sen., and James Jurdon of the same, two messuages with closes and 14 acres of land in Hevyngham which they had by demise of John Hall of Stratton.—2 Nov. “anno ab inchoatione regni Reg. Hen. VI. 49, et readeptionis sue Regie potestatis anno primo." Witn. Rob. Brampton, Will. Vergeons, Rich. Arnold, esq., Rob. Bulley, Rob. Marsham, &c.
1479. Release by John Ryther to his son William; reciting that he held a moiety of the manors of Ripton Hall, Park Hall and Kerytoft in Hevingham, Marsham, Brampton, Stratton next Hevingham, and half the manor of Horsted, called Cattes in Horsted, for life, in right of Johanna his late wife, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Margaret Calys sister and heiress of Henry Catte; with remainder to his said son William, heir of said John and his wife Johanna; which moiety he now releases to him.—20 May, 19 Edward IV.
1479. Edmund Auncell, of Hevingham, ‘‘ husbondman,” grants to Thomas Tyler and John Coduham, of the same place, five acres of land in Hevingham. Witnessed (inter alios) by ''reverendo domino domino Thome (sic) Seroope, episcopo Dromorensi." 25 Aug., 19 Edward IV.
1553. James Boleyn, knight, grants by royal license to Edward Lomnour,? esq., and Thos. Payne, gent., the manors of Heving- liam, Causton, Cardeston and Ryffehame, which he and his wife Elizabeth had by sale of Henry VIII., by letters patent, dated 22 March, 28th of his reign; to hold of the Queen in capite, by military service for the tenth part of one knight's fee, with the condition that they should make a recovery to the use of the said James and Elizabeth his wife and the longer liver, with remainder to the Princess Elizabeth, commonly called the Lady Elizabeth's Grace.—9 October, 1 Mary.
1550. Will of John Martyn of Hevingham. Probate, 15 March, 1555.
1557. Will of Robert Martyn, of Hevingham, and probate at Aylsham the same year.
1565. Will of John Thetford, of Heveningham, gent.
Forty-four other deeds relating to Hevingham between the reigns of Edward I. and Eliz. have been examined and summarized, and about thirty-three examined from the time of Hen. IV.
* This name is evolved from Le Mynor, through Lemynour, to Lomnour and Lumnor.
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SAXTHORPE With the Manors of MICKELHALLE and LOUNDHALLE.
Manor Rozzs. Between 1290 and 16928.
Courts AND Courts GENERAL.
Edward I. for the year 18.
Edward III. for the years 2, 6, 7, 8, 20, 22-86. For Lound- halle : 28, 30, 31, 32, 38, 34, 86-50, except 46. Copies (?) also of 41,47, 50. (Theroll for the year 2 much damaged.)
Richard II. 1-28 except 4. (The year 10 is the court of Edmund Gurney.) For Mickelhalle: 17.
Henry IV. For Loundhalle : 1-14, except 8 and 9.
Henry V. For Loundhalle: 1, 8-8.
Henry VI. For Mickelhalle : 8, 14-82, 85, 86, 87. For Loundhalle: 1-4, 7-12, 16-28, 81-82, 38, 85-88. (The year 4 is the first court of ‘‘ Oldhalle and others." 6 is the first eourt of Sir John Fastolf and others.)
. Edward IV. For Mickelhalle : 8, 5, 15, 18, 19, 21, 22.
Richard III. For Loundhalle: 1-8. For Miekelhalle: 1. For Saxthorpe: 1.
Henry VII. For Loundhalle: 1-24. For Mickelhalle: 1, 2, 6, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, (18, 19, 20, with Matlask). For Saxthorpe: 1, 2, 9, 10, 12, 18, 14, 17.
Henry VIII. For Loundhalle: 1-88. For Mickelhalle: 1-16 (except 3), 17, 18, 20-28, 25-28, 29. For Saxthorpe: 21.
Edward VI. For Loundhalle: 1-6.
Mary. For Loundhalle: 1 and 2 to 5-6, P. and M. For Saxthorpe: 4-6.
Elizabeth. For Loundhalle: 1-28. For Mickelhalle: 11-25. (18 is with Briston ; 19 is Sir Christopher Heydon’s first Court. For Saxthorpe: 1, 2, 8, 6, 7-17.
James 1. For Loundhalle: 15 and 18, Sir Henry Hobart's Court. For Mickelhalle: 14-20.
Leet Rozzs:—
Edward IV. for year 21. Mickelhalle with Byrsten.
Henry VII. For Mickelhalle : 6, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 28 (18, with view of frank pledge). For Saxthorpe: 1, 2,9 10, 12, 18, 14 (1, 2 and 14 with Briston).
Henry VIII. For Mickelhalle : 1-16 (except 8), 17, 18, 20-28, 25-29. For Saxthorpe : 21.
Elizabeth. 1, 2-18.
Account RoLLs:—
Edward I. For Loundhalle: Provost's accounts for 25, and accounts for 81. Two fragments, temp. Ed. I.
Edward III. For Loundhalle: Account for 10; Provost's for 18; Bailiff's for 24; ‘“‘Serviens” for 29 and 80.
Richard II. ‘‘ Serviens " for 9 and 10.
Henry IV. For Loundhalle: Provost's (W. Skottowe) for 6.
Henry V. For Mickelhalle, Bailiff's for 20-21,
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Henry VI. For Loundhalle: Bailiffs for 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 91, 98, 24, 95, 27-80, 86-87. For Mickelhalle : Bailiff s for 18-21. For Saxthorpe: 12, 18, 25. Messor’s and Farmer's for 16. Account of John Bert, Bailiff to Sir John Fastolf, 16, 17.
Mary. For Loundhalle: Bailiffs for 1-5, P. and M.
Elizabeth. For Loundhalle: 1-8. Sir Christopher Heydon's
ourt.
Rental of Mickelhalle, of Edward Grey, Esq. Undated.
Rental of Loundhalle. Undated, temp. Henry III.
A very fine rental of Loundhall, temp. Ric. IL,? in good preservation, entitled : ‘‘ Manerii de Lound, de liberis custumariis et nativis, termini solutionis, videlicet festis Pasche, Johannis Baptiste, Michaelis Archangeli, et cetera. Nomina tenentium, et cetera." Followed by particulars of 106 money rents, 54 fowl rents. ‘ Corpusty, Héidone, extenta eorundem; termini solutionis redditus, videlieet fest. Purifieationis, Pentecosten, S. Mich. Archang. Nomina tenentium, &c." With particulars of 55 money rents, 16 fowl rents. Huneworth, with 6 money rents, 6 fowl rents. Memoranda as to rents payable to Dominus de Brewse, Dominus de Valence, Dominus Ric. Nugun, and others. Attached is an ancient list of tenements liable to the office of messor in rotation.
Rental of Loundhalle, in the time of Joan, Countess of Hert- ford, daughter of Edw. I.
SUMMARIES OF DEEDSs.
Helvisa de Wendenval grants to Geoffrey le Cras the land and tenement which Elgar Kide, merchant, held of her aneestors in the vill of Saxthorp ''et libere adquisivit," to hold **ita quod nen faciat venditionem terrarum nee more nec turbarum, nec destructionem, sed accipiat ad mensuram quod ad vietum sufficiat ardendi in domo propria." After his death to the heirs of him and his wife Elviva, daughter of the said Elgar. Rent of 2s. 10d., quarterly, and one hen or one penny for 2 aeres, of the fee of Wikemere; two shillings for scutage. Reeord of homage by Geoffrey and delivery of deed sealed by Helvisa, ‘‘ pro salute anime Ruellenni fratris mei in eujus servicio idem Galfridus multum laboravit."
Witnesses: Willam her chaplain, Ralph le Nugun, Nicholas his son, Robert Tirel, Roger de Croft, Roger de Saule, Robert de Kent, Simon de Crosdale, Godfrey ehaplain, and many others. Oblong seal, broken, in green wax, a fleur-de-lis; “.. . Avelise de..... ” |
* A faint note at the head, in a hand of late 15th oent., runs thus: ''Patet esse tempore Ric. 2 per rot. cur. in nominibus tenentium."
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Ralph de Clere releases to Ranulph Fitz Robert, Lord of Lound in Saxthorp, all his right in a rent of 8s. which was paid for the submersion of his common by the mill pond of Lound Mill; also of his right of turbary in the pool beyond the old course of the river, with rights of fishery, &c. The said Ranulph grants to said Ralph de Clere half the profits of the mill of Lound, provided that he pays half the expenses and costs thereof, and that his whole suit of villeins of all the homage pertaining to his manor of Styntone grind their corn at the mill.
Witnesses: Richard de Langcroft, Ralph de Nuion, Richard his son, Ralph de Irmynglond, Godfrey de Irmynglond, Robert Parker, Adam de Aula, John Josep, Simon de Crosdale.
À copy, made probably about A.D. 1800.
Ralph de Brus, keeper of the manor of Lund in Saxthorp, grants to Sigar de Oultone, for sixteen marks, all his tenements in Iteringham (except the homages of Skut of Iteringham) ; also Legatemill in Saxthorp; to hold the tenement and mill of him and his heirs in fee and inheritance ; rendering yearly ‘de censu 23s. and three halfpence and two capons; for the lord’s aid, 14 pence to the mark, “et ad plus plus et ad minus minus," ‘et similiter ad omne servitium forinsecum.”’
Witnesses: Sir Roland de Averas, Sir Ralph de Clere, Ralph his son, Ralph de Irmigland, Richard de Nugun, William Bainard, Geoffrey de Beck '* serviente domini," William Bainard, Ranulph de St. John, and all the lord's soke.
Ralph de Brus grants to Robert son of Sigar de Oweltune, for six marks of silver, all the tenement that Sigar his father held of him, as in the preceding charter.
[c. 1200-20.] Ralph de Nugun, grants to Roger son of Steingrim of Corpesti all the land which he holds of Warin de Salla in Corpesti, viz., in Mueclelund and Litelelund, . for one mark and *' pro uno bisantio quod dedit Sabine uxori mes," paying annually 26d. and two capons.
Witnesses: Ralph de Irmingheland, Symon son of Alan, Richard son of Nicholas, Warin de Tithebi, Benedict his brother, Robert the merchant, Richard Fitz Warin, Matthew de Storh', Adam de Aula, Everard son of Stengrim, Richard de Norwich, Everard son of Hugh.
[1252.] 86 Hen. fil. Joh. Gervase and John, sons of Roger son of Arnald, grant to Simon son of Roger de Birston all the land of Roger their father in the vill of Saxtorp, ‘de feodo Templi Gerosolomitani," to hold free of all secular exactions at a rent of 2s. yearly.
Witnesses: Godfrey de Irmigl[ond], Bartholomew his brother, Geoffrey son of Simon de Irmigl[ond], Ralph his son, Roger de Irming|lond], Arnald de Irming[lond], Simon de Crosedale, Nicholas Morel, Richard de la Croft, Richard the baker, Joh. Joseph, Geoffrey the smith, Robert son of Adam de Corpesti.
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John son of Joseph de Saxtorp to William de Peletot. Grant of land ealled Marlepit, and buildings between the free land of Saxtorp church and land of Robert son of Eda de Lund.
Witnesses: Sir Nicholas de Bernigham, knight, Walter Tirel, Godfrey de Irmiglond, Bartholomew his brother, Geoffrey de Irmiglond, Ralph his son, Roger de Corpesti, Hugh his brother, Richard de Crufta, Nicholas Morel, Simon de Brisstune, Simon de Crosedale, Nicholas Cappe, Robert Coli, Geoffrey the smith. Seal.
Roger, son of the late Simon de Birston of Saxthorp, grants to Robert son of the late Robert Ode of Saxthorp, a piece of land at Saxthorp which Robert acquired from Robert Hunewyne, and two pieces which Adam son of John de Glosdale acquired from John Joseph.
Witnesses : Ralph de Hirminglond, John de Hirminglond, Roger le Cres of Saxthorp, Roger his son, John le Neuman, Simon de Crosdale, Nieholas the tanner, Robert the tanner, Luke Bate, Edmund Pilyng. Small seal.
Robert son of the late Lucy de Coventre, daughter of John de Coventre, grants to John his brother all his right in the land of his mother at Saxthorp, which she held of the lady Helewisa de Wendeval.
Witnesses: Walter Tyrel, Nicholas Morel, Simon de Birston, Simon de Crosdale, Geoffrey the smith, Ralph Mus, Richard de Croft, Nicholas Cappe, John le Quyit, Nicholas le Neuman, and William de Basingham.
John Covyn[tre], son of Lucy de Coventre of Ouletoune, grants to Robert Ode of Saxtorp, for the sum of 40s., one piece of his land lying in Saxtorp in the place called le Ride, one end abutting on the land of Sir William de Valence, ‘‘ quae com- putatur pro quatuor acris et dim." ; paying annually 2s. 8d., and 2d. for a scutage of 40s. ; with power of assignment except to religious houses.
Witnesses: Walt. Tyrel, Walter his son, Nicholas Morel of Saxtorp, Simon de Birstune of the same, Roger his son, William the tanner of the same, Simon de Crosdale of the same, Geoffrey the smith, Ralph Mus of the same, Thomas de Croft of Birstonne, Nicholas Cappe of the same, Joh. Quyit of the same. Seal, a fleur-de-lis ; ‘* S' Johannis fil’ Lucie de Coventre.”’
' Odo de Peletot grants to Stephen son of Adam de Gloresdale all that messuage that was Nicholas Gibney's in Saxthorp and five acres of land which said Nicholas had in Saxthorp and Corpesty of Sir Robert Wendeval, and one piece of land which he held of Nicholas Morel, and a piece of land ealled Marlepit- lond which his brother William bought of John Josep, and 12d. annual rent from a cottage which Sibilla Gibny held of him in Saxthorp; ‘‘reddendo inde annuatim dominis feodi servicium sieut continetur in cartis quas habui de predictis dominis, et mihi et heredibus meis unum obolum ad festum St. Mich,”
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Witnesses : Walter Tyrel of Manyngton, Walter his son, Sir William de Parc of Saxthorp, Nicholas Morel of the same, Simon de Briston of the same, Roger his son, Robert Ode of the same, William his son, Simon de Crosdale of the same, William the tanner of the same, Thomas de Croft of Briston, and Nicholas Cappe of the same.
[c. 1260-70.] William de Valence, “ Dominus Panbroch’,” grants to Roger le Cras the land and tenement which his ancestors held of the grantor's ancestors in the vill of Saxtorp, at a rent of 2s. 10d., quarterly, and one hen or one penny for half an acre held of his fee of Wykmere.
Witnesses : Geoffrey Scatelyn, Jordan de Sakevile, knights, William de Saxtorp, chaplain, Walter de Bynetre, Simon de Birston, Roger his son, Nicholas Morel, Nicholas Cappe, Robert Ode, William his son, Ralph de Irmyngland, Geoffrey the smith, Richard de Croft. Seal of arms; barry of six, thereon eight martlets : '*Sigill Willi de Val...... ”
John son of the late Lucy de Coventry grants to William son of Rob. Ode of Saxthorp, for half a mark, 44 acres ‘‘ inter terram Beatricis fil. Lucie versus austrum et terram Johannis fil. Joh. Robyn versus aquilonem, et unum capud abuttat supra terram Domini Will. de Valence et aliud super regiam viam."
Witnesses: Sir Richard de Creppingge, knight, Walter Tyrel, ‘Simon de Birston, Roger his son, Simon de Crosdale, Will. the tanner, Nich. Neuman, Will. de Basingham. Seal.
John le Plomer and Agatha his wife grant to Sir Richard de Creppyng and Margaret his wife, ' pro quadam summa pecunie,” all their right and title in the Baililond in Saxthorp "simul cum dote quando acciderit."
Witnesses: Bir John de Cokefeld, Sir Ralph de Nougoun, Sir Roger de Wolterton, John le Pouere, Thom. de Burston, John de Ermilaunde, Simon de Burston, Roger his son, William Ode of Saxthorp, Thomas de Apedall, Ralph Godes,Godfrey de Brandeston.
Ralph son of the Lady Wlviva de Iteringham grants to Gervase son of Richer Hare of Saxtorp one piece of land which he holds of Robert Siger of Oweltune in Saxthorp, lying between land which he holds of Sir William his brother, and the land which the sons of Turkill hold of William son of Robert de Iteringham, for ten shillings; paying yearly 2d.
Witnesses: Walter Tyrel, Ralph de Irminglond, Roger his brother, Godfrey deIrminglond, Bartholomew his brother, Richard de Oweltune, Benedict his brother, John de Corpesti, Symon de Crosedale, Nicholas Morel, John Joseph, Martin the clerk of Saxtorp, Richard the baker of Corpesty. Seal, a cross; ''Sigill Radulfi de Hiteringham."
Simon son of Simon de Crosdale of Saxtorp grants to Godfrey son of Ralph Totinger of Saxtorp three acres in Saxtorp for three marks and a yearly rent of 8d.; with power to give to assigns, “‘ exceptis domibus religiosis."
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Witnesses: Ralph de Irminglond, John his son, Walter Tyrel de Manington, Walter his son, Nicholas Morel of Saxtorp, Simon de Birston, Roger his son, William son of Robert Ode of Saxtorp, William the tanner of the same, Nicholas le Neuman of the same, Robert Simenel of Irminglond. Dated Sunday after f. of SS. Peter and Paul. Seal.
[1975.] Hugh Tyrel and Matilda his wife release to Richard de Crepping, his heirs and assigns, all their right in a mill at Saxthorp called Gate mille, which they had by way of dowry on the death of Thomas Syger, former husband of the said Matilda, to hold for the lives of the said Hugh and Matilda, rendering yearly three quarters of barley as good as comes commonly to the mill; with power to seize the barley by their bailiff for the time being if in arrear for 8 days.—Saxthorp, Tuesday after f. of St. Katherine V., 8 Edw. I.
Witnesses: Ralph de Irmingland, John his son, Bawdwine de Cankewell, Hugo le Parlene, Simon de Birston, Roger his son, Roger de Crosdale, Robert Simenel, Walter de Appleby, clerk.
. 1277. Stephen son of Adam de Gloresdale grants to William son of Robert Ode of Saxthorp all the messuages that were formerly Nicholas Gibny's in Saxthorp, 5 acres which the said Nicholas held of Robert de Vendeual, and a piece of land called Marlepitlond, which William de Peletot bought of John Josep.
1977. Juliana daughter of Robert Tyrel of Saxthorp, widow, grants and quit-claims to Robert Ode of Saxthorp and Matilda his wife all her rights in all the tenement with the houses, etc., that belonged to Robert Tyrel, her father, in Saxthorp, for 45s., with all liberties, etc., as contained in the charter of feoffment of Helewisa de Vendewal.—Dated Sunday before f. of St. Gregory the Pope, 5 Edw. fil. Hen. 1276[-7].
Witnesses: Sir William de Park of Saxthorp, chaplain, Walter Tyrel of Manington, Walter his son, Simon de Birston of Saxthorp, Roger his son, Nicholas Morel, William the tanner, Simon de Crosdale, Ralph Mus, all of the same, Thos. de Croft of Birston, Nicolas Cappe of the same, William de Bassingham of Manington. Seal: ‘ $’ Juliane fil’ Rob’ Tirel."
1299. Richard de Hertford, rector of the church of Saxthorp, grants to Simon de Creppingge, son and heir of Sir Richard de Creppingge, knight, permission to have, during his life, divine service performed in a proposed oratory or chapel near his court in Saxthorp, ‘‘ per idoneum capellanum "; provided that he attend the parish church on the four greater feast days of the year, and that the offerings be paid over. Dated at Possewyk, Tuesday after the f. of St. Hilary, 27 Edw. [I].
Parpon to Simon CnEPPING by Epvw. II.
1818. 1 Aug. Edwardus Dei gracia Rex Anglie Dominus Hibernie et dux Aquitanie, omnibus ballivis et fidelibus ad quos presentes litere pervenerint salutem. Sciatis quod cum Simon de
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Creppingges nuper implacitasset, ut accepimus, Johannem le Neweman coram Justiciariis nostris de Banco per breve nostrum, de uno messuagio, sex acris terre, quatuor acris prati et tribus acris pasture cum pertinenciis in Saxthorp, idemque Simon coram prefatis Justiciaris nostris in curia nostra per consideracionem ejusdem curie messuagium, terram, pratum et pasturam predictam versus eundem Johannem per defaltam post defaltam recuperasset, ac postmodum idem Johannes suggerens in curia nostra coram eisdem Justiciariis quod ipse in loquela predicta summonitus, seu visus de eisdem tenementüs factus non fuit, quodque tenementa illa in manum nostrum capta non fuerunt, ut est moris, breve nostrum de deceptione versus prefatum Simonem impetraverit, de qua quidem deceptione idem Simon eoram prefatis Justiciariis nostris ad prosecutionem dieti Johannis convictus fuit et prisone nostre ea occasione adjudicatus, in qua sic adhuc ut dieitur detinetur: Nos eidem Simoni volentes super hoe gratiam facere specialem, perdonavimus ei id quod ad nos pertinet de imprisonamento et deceptione supradictis: Nolentes quod predictus Simon per nos vel heredes nostros, justiciarios, vicegerentes, seu alios ballivos vel ministros nostros quoseunque inde occasionetur in aliquo seu gravetur. In eujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste me ipso apud Notingh. primo die Augusti anno regni nostri undecimo. Per ipsum Regem, nunciante magistro Thoma de Cherletone. Fragment of seal.
1812. Luke Bate of Saxthorp grants release to Sir Simon de Creppinge, knight, of all actions, claims and demands which he might have against Richard de Creppinge and Margaret his wife.— Saturday after Easter, 4 Ed. II.
1819. John le Neuman of Saxthorp releases to Sir John de Merewrth, knight, and Margaret his wife, daughter and heiress of Simon de Creppingge, and to all their tenants, both free and serfs, and to Ralph Gerveys of Saxthorp, chaplain, and Reginald Fox of Corpesty, clerk, and all men whom it concerns, all actions, elaims, debts and demands on aecount of any trans- gression or deception against him by the said Simon de Crepping or any in his name, for which he has recovered against the said Simon ‘‘ sexcies viginti et decem libras in curia domini Regis."—Baxthorp, Sunday after Nat. of St. John Bapt., 19 Edw. fil. Edw.
1824. John le Neweman of Saxthorp releases to Bir John de Merewrthe, knight, and Marjory his wife and all their tenants in Saxthorp, Corpesti, Irminglond, etc., all actions, quarrels and demands occasioned by any transgression by them done to him in the time of Sir Simon de Crepping or after his decease.— Saxthorp, Sunday after Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, 17 Ed. fil. Edw.
1886. Release by Reginald de Bilney of all actions and demands against Sir John Mereworth and Hugh de Derby.— Saxthorp, Tuesday before f. of St. Luke, 9 Edw. III. French.
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1861. Indenture of grant by Sir Ralph de Cromewelle, knt., to Esmon Gurnay of the wardship and marriage of William son of William (Dautre), heir of Margaret widow of John de Mereworth, with the manor of Loundhall, for 86 marks of silver. —Westbarsham, Monday after St. John Bapt., 85 Edw. III. French.
1368-77. Record of Assize on a claim against Leonell Dautre and John de Bery for wrongful disseisin of Dautre's assigns at Saxthorp, showing the descent of the owner, William Dautre, from Simon Crepping through the marriage of Simon's daughter Margaret to Sir John de Mereworth.— Between 41-50 Edw. III.
* Mem. quod Edwardus Gurney anno xxxvi. E. tertii perquisivit de Radulfo Cromewell custodiam Willelmi Dawtery consanguinei Margerie Mereworth ac custodiam manerii de Saxthorp.
Mem. Johannes Gurney obiit anno ix. H. quarti et Johannes Drew super [vix ]it."'
1867. William Dautre grants to Ralph de Beston, parson of the church of Harpelee, Thomas de Beston, and Simon Gurwhant, the manor at Saxthorp. [This enfeoffment is defended and maintained in the preceding record of assize.]— Sauxthorp, Monday before f. of St. Katherine V., 41 Edw. III.
1872. William son of William Dautre grants and quit-claims to Thomas de Beston and Simon Gurquant, chaplain, all his right in the manor of Saxthorp called Loundhall.—West Lexham, Sunday after f. of St. Matthias, 46 Edw. III. [See the two preceding documents. |
1377. Thomas de Beeston and Simon Gurwhan, chaplain, grant to Hamon de Felton, William de Elmham, Ralph. de Shelton, knts., William de Gunthorp, rector of the church of Fakenham, Edmund Gurnay, William Wynter, Clement de Bretthenham, Edmund de Clypesby, and John Gurnay, the manor of Loundhalle in Saxthorp.—Wednesday after f. of St. Agnes, 50 Edw. III.
1890. William Dautre grants to John Gurnay, John Wynter, Richard Creyke, and Simon Baret his manor of Saxthurp called Loundhalle, in exchange for the manors of West Lexham and Gurnays in Wotton, with the wards, &c. ‘‘ ef cum omnibus nativis et eorum sequelis," with all the appurtenances of the manor in the vills of Saxthorp, Corpesty, Irmynglond, Heydon, Bernyng- ham Parva, Plumstede, Briston, Eggefeld, Itringham and Honeworthe.—Saxthorp, Monday after Whitsunday, 18 Ric. II.
1891. Fine levied at Westminster before Roberd de Cherlton, Will. Thirnyng, Will. Rikhill, John Wadham and Richard Sydenham, justices, between Robert de Martham, John, vicar of the church of Saxthorp, Robert, parson of the church of Great Rakheythe, and Matthew, parson of the church of Little Rakheythe, and John de Yelverton and Margaret his wife, con- veying to the four former a messuage, 50 acres of land and
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2 acres of meadow in Saxthorp, for 100 marks paid to said John Yelverton and his wife. A previous fine in 14 Rich. II. had conveyed the property for 50 marks.—Octave of Bt. Joh. Bapt., 15 Rie. II.
1394. Simon Baret of Hecham releases to John Gurnay all his right in the manor of Saxthorp called Loundhalle which the said John Gurnay, John Wynter, Richard Creyk and the said Simon acquired from Will. Dautre.—Bakunsthorp, Monday before St. Bartholomew Ap., 18 Ric. II.
1406. Thomas Erpyngham, Robert Berneye, Ralph Shelton, knights, John Wynter and John Yelverton, demise to John Gurnay, esq., John Drewe, clerk, William Brygg and Thomas Taseburgh, the manor of Saxthorp called Loundhalle, which manor they lately had by feoffment of the said John Gurnay.— Saxthorp, Monday before Annunciation B. M. V., 7 Hen. IV.
Same date, Power of Attorney by grantors to deliver seisin.
1407. John Gurnay, John Drewe, parson of the church of Harpele, ànd Thomas Taseburgh grant to Robert Morle, knight, Thomas Astle, John Boson, Robert Brunham, burgess of Linn Episcopi, John Eyre of Skulthorp and John Person of Massing- ham 20{. of annual rent from their manor in Saxthorp called Lonndhallo. Baxthorp, 1 April?, [*xxxij mensis Marcü" !], 8 Hen. IV.
1409. Alice Gurnay, late wife of John Gurnay, releases to Simon de Felbrigge, Robert Berneye, Roger Drewry, knights, Robert Mauteby, Edmund Oldhall, Edmund Wynter, Clement Herward, Robert Wynter, clerk, and Will. Howlyn, clerk, all her right in the manor of Saxthorp called Loundhalle, which the said Simon, &c., had by feoffment of John Drury, clerk, and Thos. Tasburgh.—Saxthorp, Thursday before Nat. S. Joh. Bapt., 10 Hen. IV.
1410. Simon de Felbrigg, Robert Berneye, Roger Drewry, knights,. Robert Martham, Edmund Oldhalle, Edmund Wynter, Clement Herward, Robert Wynter, clerk, and William Howlyn, clerk, demise to John Wynter, esq. , and Alienora his wife the manor of Saxthorp called Loundhalle, which they lately had by feoffment of Roger Drewe, clerk, and Tho. Tasburgh, to hold to the said John and Alienora for their lives, with remainder to the grantors.—Saxthorp, Thursday in Whitsun week, 11 Hen. IV.
1412. Alice, widow of John Gurnay and of John Wynter, John Drewe, parson of the ehurch of Harpelee, William de Snetesham, and William Morel, chaplain, execute deed of arrangement for sale of the manor of Saxthorp for payment of the debts of said John Gurnay.—Bakenesthorp, Tuesday after the week of St. Hilary, 18 Hen. IV.
1426. Clement Herward, John Grene, John Drew, clerk, and
John Baxtere of Honyng appoint Nicholas Manne, chaplain,.
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and Walter Arnold, attorneys to deliver seisin to William Oldhalle, Thomas Kyngston, knights, William Alyngton of the county of Cambridge, esq., William Fynderne, esq., W. Kynge, chaplain, John Harleson, esq., and John Conteshale, of the manor of Loundhalle.—81 July, 4 Hen. VI.
1428. The path called ''Peddersty" and the way called ‘“Walsingham waye” are mentioned in a feoffment dated at Saxthorp, St. George the Martyr, 6 Hen. VI.
1428. William Oldhalle, knt., and Thomas Kyngeston, knt., release to John Fastolf, knt., Henry Inglose. knt., John Kirtling, clerk, Henry Sturmer and John Lynford, all their right in the manor of Loundhall.—Saxthorp, 9 June, 6 Hen. VI. Oldhall’s seal, a lion rampant, remains.
1429. Edmund Wynter, esq., grants to John Fastolf, Henry Inglose, knts., John Fastolf, esq., John Kyrtling, clerk, Henry Sturman and John Lynford, their heirs and assigns, all his tenement called Odes in Saxthorp and all his land in Saxthorp, Briston, Manyngton, and Stafford Berningham, which he had (in common with John Braunche, John Hagon and Thomas Robyns, parson of the church of Berningham) from Thomas Barker of Bernigham, son and heir of John Barker of Saxthorp [by deed in 10 Hen. V.]—Saxthorp, 12 May, 7 Hen. VI.
1442. Will. Oldhall, kt., releases to John, Cardinal Archbp. of York, John Archbp. of Canterbury, W. Bishop of Winchester, Ralph Lord Cromwell, Ralph Lord Sudley, John Lord Beauchamp, John Fortescue, Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas, William Yelverton, Justice of the same, Richard Waller, esq., Will. Tolye, Clement Denston, Thomas Ludham, Thomas Howys, clerks, Thomas West, esq., William Wangford, Nicholas Gyrlyngton, William Genneye, and Thomas Grene, all his right in the several manors and tenements formerly held by him jointly with them under the grant of Sir John Fastolf, viz., in the manors of Castre in Flegge by Great Yernemouth, Redham halle, Vaux and Bosons, advowson of St. Jo. Baptist there, manor of Hemsby, 25 marks rent of Hickling priory from Netherhall manor, one third part of Runham manor, manor of Wynterton called Begvyles, manor of Boyton called Pedhamhall, manor of Mundham with the advowson of the church of St. Ethelbert, manor of Heylesdon and advowson of the church and two chantries there and the water mills, manor of Drayton and the advowson, manor of Felthorp with the advowson, half the church of Taverham, manor of Heynford with the advowson, manor of Guton in Brandeston with the advowson, manor of Blyclyng with the appurtenances, manor of Loundhall, in Saxthorp, with water mill and appurtenances, manor of Tichewell with the appur- tenances ; and all lands in Caistor, Great Ormesby, Scroutby, and forty-five other places in Norfolk, tenements in Norwich, manor of Caldecotys, and manors and lands in other places in Suffolk, manor of Dedham, Netherhalle and Overhall in Essex with the watermill, and the manor or messuage in St. Olaves, Southwark in
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Horseydoun in Surrey, with the watermills and appurtenances, formerly Henry Yevele’s, and seven houses and 25 acres of land in said parish of St. Olave, Southwark, called Dunleys. — 12 Jan., 20 Hen. VI.
1442. Edmund Grey, Lord de Hastynges, Creysfford, and Ruthyn, grants to Robert Grey, esq., his manor of Saxthorp.
Witnesses: John Fastolfe, Henry Ynglose, Thomas Todinam, knights.—11 June, 20 Hen. VI. Fine seal of arms.
1469. William Boleyn occurs as a witness, 9 Edw. IV.
1470. Edmund Grey, Earl of Kent, William Calthorp, knight, Henry Boteler, gent., demise to Humfrey Grey, esq., Thomas Tresham, knight, John Bellers, William Catesby, son and heir of William Catesby, knight, William Alyngton, William ffilddyngs and Everard ffilddyngs, the manor of Saxthorp with the appurtenances and advowson of the free chapel.—5 June, 10 Ed. IV.
1470. John Hunte of Burbage, co. Leicester, yeoman, releases to Humfrey Grey, esq., Thomas Tresham, knight, John Bellers, William Catesby, son and heir of William Catesby, knight, Wm. Alyngton, William ffylddyngs and Everard ffylddyngs, his right in the manor of Saxthorp and the advowson of the free chapel.—20 July, 10 Edward IV.
1472. John Paston, knight, releases to William Waynflete, Bishop of Winton, David Husbond, William Gyfford, clerk, Thomas Danvers, William Danvers, and Richard Burton, all his right to the manors of Heynford, Saxthorp, ete., formerly John Fastolf's, knight.—10 April, 12 Edward IV.
1472. Will Wayneflete, Bishop of Winton, Thos. Ursewyk, knight, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, John Say, knight, David Husbond, William Gyfford, John Nele, William Tebard, Richard Bernes, Stephen Tyler, clerks, Thomas Pounde, Thomas Danvers, William Danvers and Richard Burton, demise to John Morton, John Selot, clerks, John Heydon, Hugh Fenne, Henry Heydon, John Fyncham, Richard Southwell and Thomas Brampton, the manor of Loundhall in Saxthorp and all the lands formerly John Fastolf's, and also all the lands, etc., formerly Alienora Wynter's, which they had by demise of Robt. Anketell and Nicholas Westcote.—10 May, 12 Edward IV.
1472. William Paston, esq., reciting the seisin of Wm. Waynflete, Bishop of Winton, and his co-feoffees of the manor of Loundhall and the land late Sir J. Fastolf's, and their demise of the same to Jóhn Morton, John Selot and others, releases all his right in the said premises to Sir John Morton, etc.— 1 July, 12 Edward IV.
1472. Similar release from Sir John Howard, Lord Howard, William Yelverton, knight, Thomas Littleton, one of the Justices of the King's Common Bench and Wm. Genney, Sergeant-at-law. —1 July, 12 Edward IV.
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1473. William Gurnay, esq., releases to John Morton, John Selot, clerks, John Heydon, Hugh Fenne, Henry Heydon, Richard Southwell, esqs., all his claim in the manor of Lound Hall, with the lands, etc., formerly Sir John Fastolf's.--14 Jan., 12 Edw. IV.
1474. William Yelverton, knight, grants to Robert Wyngteld, knight, Thomas Brewes, knight, William Yelverton, esq., son of the said William Yelverton and the lady Ela his late wife, Robert Brewes, jun., William Wayte and John Motte all his messuages, lands and tenements in Saxthorp and Irminglond.—27 Dec., 14 Edw. IV.
1547. Fine between Richard Heydon and Rowland Shakerley and Anna his wife, and Robert Bedyngfeld, deforciant, con- veying to the said Robert the manor of Micklehall in Saxthorp, with 80 houses, 20 tofts, 300 acres of land, 40 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 20 acres of wood, 500 acres ‘‘camporum et bruarium," and the advowson of the free chapel of St. Dunstan in Saxthorp.—15 days after Easter, 1 Ed. VI.
[1549.] Sept 26, 8 Edw. VI. Sir Thomas Woodhous, of Waxham, knt., conveys to Christopher Heydon, esq. ‘‘totam illam nuper capellam S. Dunstani in Saxthorp, et totum scitum ejusdem nuper capelle, et omnes illas decimas garbarum, granorum, bladorum, lane, agnellorum, et feni, et alias decimas quascunque annuatim ut de tempore in tempus crescentes, provenientes, sive renovantes, in villa et campo de Saxthorp predicta, modo vel nuper in tenura sive occupatione Anthonii Temple, dicte nuper capelle S. Dunstani in Saxthorp predicta dudum spectantes et pertinentes." Recites a grant from the Crown of 29 Sept. in the previous year of the Chapel to Sir Thomas Woodhous. With seal and signature.
[1558.] March 81, 7 Edw. VI. Building lease from Sir Christopher Heydon, knt., to William Empson, of Saxthorpe, miller, of Lound Mill, for 21 years, at sixty shillings a year; the said lessee to “‘ mak, frame, sett up, and fynyshe one watremylle with all things necessarye in all purposes for the goyinge of a corne mylle or fullers mylle, in the place where the olde fullynge mylle was sometyme edyfyed at Lounde Wood in Saxthorpe, and also that he the s&me Wyllym shall repare and make the dammes and cawnses, and repare and amende the olde mylle hous now ther edyfyed."
Bailiffs covenant with Sm Jon Fasrorr for farming the manor. [Hen. VI.]
“This Indenture made at Castre the 15 day of August wytnesseth that John Bert baily of Saxthorp hath made covenant wyth John Fastolf knyth that he at the said S" John Fastolf's costages shall done erye sowe and harwyn at Saxthorp Ixx [acres] of divers cornes, that is to sayn xl acres of ote xx acres of barley x acre of pesen, which shall ben in due and sesonable tyme, the said John Bert takyng for erying and
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sowyng and harwyng of yche acre of ote x‘, for yche acre of barly at all erthes cutte thereof 2° 24, and for yehe acre of pesyn at the sowyng and harwyng thereof ix’, and the said Sir John Fastolf wyl and graunteth that en cas the said John Bert may lete sufficient ferme these said landis or part thereof that he panne for as many londes as he so leteth xal ben discharged of the saith earth and sowyng; and if there be mo londes in the said Fastolf is hands the said John Bert graunteth to erye and sowe them under the same ferme.
(Endorsed.) Item, the said John Bert shal kepe and answer of covynet partriches and fesaunts within the wareyn of Eynford and Saxthorp, so that no defaute may be found in hym by the hommages of the lordshepes."
Many other deeds relating to lands here have also been examined and summarized, viz. :—
Nine temp. Edw. I.
Fifteen temp. Edw. III.
Sixteen temp. Rich. TI.
Eight temp. Hen. IV.
Eight temp. Hen. V.
Three temp. Hen. VI.
Eight temp. Edw. IV.
Three temp. Hen. VIII.
Seven temp. Edw. VI.
One temp. Mary.
Three temp. Eliz.
Two temp. James I.
TINTERN ABBEY.
1518, March 10. Grant from Abbot Thomas and the Convent of St. Mary of Tinterne to Henry Palmere, of Moughton, of twenty-six acres of land, a piece of water called The Pounds, etc., at Acle, at an annual rent.
Sr. MARY'S ABBEY, YORK.
1518, Oct. 16. Letter of Proxy from Edward [Whalley] Abbot of St. Mary's, and the Convent, to John Diatson, Prior of their cell of Romburge in the diocese of Norwich, John Longe, M.A., and Robert Burghe, Proctor General of the Con- gistory of Norwich, to appear on their behalf before the Bishop of Norwich, his commissaries and delegates, in all matters con- nected with the cell.
1568-1567. A bundle of papers relating to an arbitration by Thomas Gawdy and John Blennerhasset on a difference between William Blennerhasset and Sir Richard Southwell as to the partition of certain rights under a joint lease of Horsford Park. The correspondence contains several letters of Sir Richard Sackville, P.C., the father of Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset.
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1526. Will of Helen Carter, of Horsham.
*In Dei nomine Amen. I helyn Carter, widow, of Horsham Saint Fethes, beyng in my good mynde this 80' day of August in the yere of our Lord God MCCCCCXXVI thus order my will. Inprimis I commende my soul to Almyhte God, to Our Lady Saint Mary, to the virgin and martyr Sente Feyth and all the holy company of hevn, and my body to be buried in a covenient place there as it shall please master prior of Sant Feythes or my son Dawne John Carter to doo, to wit I leve and bequeath to Master Prior of Sant Feythe and to Dawne John Carter my son all my goodis movable and unmoveable upon this condition that they dispose my said goodis in the manner following: First I will that the said M. Prior and my son Dawne John Carter shall kep me with my own goods unto the tym of my dethe, and afterwards I dispose it to the most pleasure of God as follweth, Item I will that all the profyghts of my tenement lying in the parish of Saint Olave within Noruich remain to Dawne John Carter my son for the term of his life soe that he offer every fridaie in the year on penye, and after his decease I will it shall remayne to the said prior and convent, as makith mention in a deed of gift indented which remayneth with them. Also I will that my tenement with the appurtenances thereto belonging lying in the parish of Horsham foresaid remayn to the said John my son for the term of his life so that he syng every yer by the space of xx yeares or cause to be song Seynt Gregorys trentall, and after his decease the said trentall to be song amongst the brethren of the said place for the said term afore rehersed, and so after the said term to remayn to Geoffrey Hagon and his asseyns paying the some of ten pounds to my said son as is before rehersed. Also I bequeth to the church of Horsham Seyne Feythes one acre and half of free land lying in the field of Seynte Feythe foresaid to thentent that the churchwardens of the said churche shall find reparation of the crosse being in the churchyard of Horsham newly edified by me. All the residew of my goods nott bequethed I putt to the good disposition of Daun John Carter be the licens of master prior and Robert Warden, worstedman, of Noruyche foresaid, and I pray master supprior of the said monastery to be my supervisor of this my former and last will. These being witnesses, Raff (legible) and John Collett of the s&me town.
Also I will that Alice Parkes alias Saker have my said tenement in the parish of Saint Olaves foresaid to ferme by the space of lx yeares, aceording to an indenture and the obligation made to the said helyn and to her assignes or her certain attorney.
[Endorsement.] Be it remembered that I the said Daune John Carter within Noruich have reseyved for my modyrs goodys Helen Carter wyth in Norwich xlli., That ys to say for all the stuff of howyssholde and all other utensyll be langyn to the same Helen. Also here followeth the expenses. I the said Daun John Carter disposyd for my said modyr at my own meynde without any com- maundment of my said modyr, In primis, for hyr beryall govyn
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in elmess xxxs. Item govyn to the prior and to the convent for her beryall x*. Item govyn for her vii day kept at ye parish chureh x]?. Item for her xxx*^ day spent in elmess in ye said parish xxxiü* & 4%. Item hyr grave light the space of a yer or more vi* & viii". Item the grave stone lyging upon her, at the monastery xlvs. vi‘. Item her crosse in the said parish church yeerde iii. Item for her twelvemonths day pore folkys xii’. Item paye for the Probate of this Elens wille nui. Item
plate of her obite day in the monastery . . . vt. . . any wyse said Robert Warden kepe the seyd will term of his life
. . Indenture of thre parts, on for the convent, anodyr for the parish church, the third for Alice Parker, and after the said Robertes deceas to be delivered on to the supprior of the monastery the supervysor of the said will to remain in a common coffyr of theyrs, that the said M. Prior and covent and the foresaid parish church may have ther bequests that the said Elen gave them by this present testament.
Summa totalis expensarum per me Joh. Carter xlili. xiis. 11112.”
LANGLEY ABBEY. Manor RoLs. Between 1265 and 1648.
Courts AND Courts GENERAL (no Court Lete occurs) for the years :—
Henry III. 49.
Edward II. 16-20.
Edward III. 1-49.
Henry IV. 49.
Henry V. 1-9.
Henry VI. 81-89.
Edward IV. 1-8, 5, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22.
Richard III. 2. Also extracts.
Henry VII. 1, 2-18, 20, 28, 24; and for Carleton Bastewyk, 1. Also extracts.
Henry VIII. 1, 8-18, 80-85. For Carleton Bastwyk, 21, 28, 24. Alsoa bundle of extracta.
Edward VI. 8-7. Also extracts.
Mary. A bundle of extracts.
Elizabeth. 2-44 (some in draft). 9-10 is the first court of Riebard Barney, with roll of tenants having rights of common on Lang Marshe. There are also a number of drafts relating to Richard Barney's rights in the manor. Also & bundle of various extracts.
James I. 1-5, 14-22. The latter are the courts of Sir Henry Hobart. Also a bundle of extracts.
Charles I. A bundle of extracts.
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BarLiFF8' Account RoLLs, between 1461 and 1608 :—
Edward IV. 1-8 (7-8 a copy ?)
Henry VIII. The Collector's account for 2 October, 28 (1537, the year of the Dissolution). Also an extract for 29.
Elizabeth. 26-45.
James I. 1-5.
1289. Extent and Rental of the Abbot's Manor of Langley, 17 Edw. I. Parehment; a fine folio volume, in excellent con- dition ; ff. 81.
* Extentum de manerio de Langele cum omnibus pertinentiis guis ut in villis de Laungele, Hardele, Chategrave, Thurtone et Bergh ac Carletune," made in 1288-9, in the time of abbot Adam de Phileby, “ per manum fratris Ricardi de Hanewrth, ejusdem monasterii canonici."
On eight leaves at the beginning of the volume are these miscellaneous entries :—1. Rents belonging to the office of sacrist. 2. Full description of all the marshes belonging to the abbey. 8. Tithes of Langley in Hardele. 4. ''Noticia diversarum aquarum jacentium apud mariscum de Lynes." 5. Writ dated 6 July, 2 Hen. IV., to abbot John to restore land to Henry Inglose, esq. 6. Grant by abbot Nicholas of land to Denis Wylles, 21 Hen. VI. 7. Particulars of lands in Hardele, Langmershe, &c., with the free tenants in Hardele. 8. “Extente herbagii in Chattgrave et Hardele pertinencia ad manerium Grange." 9. ‘‘Rentale Johannis filii Thome Berneye, militis, de manerio suo in Norton juxta Hekyngham." 10. Plea at the assizes at Great Jernemuth, 49 Edw. IIL, in a case against Sir Thomas de Verney, knt., and Nicholas Hardhend for unjust disseisin of Katherine who was the wife of John de Berney. 11. Note of land held by Thomas de Berney, knt. 12. Note of homage made to abbot Ralph at Hekyngham, 12 July, 28 Edw. fil. Hen. 18. Rents acquired by the abbot from Sir John Reveshale, knt., 5 Edw. II.
The personal services rendered by the tenants are very fully set out in the Rental. Of these the following extract relating to one holding affords a sufficient specimen.
‘ Galfridus Griel qui est quinque akering tenet de villenagio Abbatis et conventus septem acras et unam rodam, quarum due acre et dimidia, in quibus continetur messuagium suum, jacent in crufta sua inter cruftam qus fuit de domo Pres et Thome Bigot. Et debet operari annuatim pro tenemento suo videlicet a festo S. Mich. usque ad festum S. Martini, per sex septimanas, duodecim dimidios dies à mane usque ad nonam, sine cibo ; prec. cujuslibet diei unius oboli. Et a festo S. Martini usque ad Natale Domini, per sex septimanas, sex dimidios dies à mane usque ad nonam, sine cibo; prec. diei ut supra. Non debet operari in prima septimana Natalis Domini. Et a Cireumeisione Domini usque ad festum Sancte Crucis in Maio, per septendecim septimanas, septendecim dimidios dies, a mane usque ad nonam, sine cibo; prec. diei ut supra. Eta
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festo Sancte Crucis predicto usque ad festum Johannis Baptiste, per octo septimanas, sexdecim dimidios dies & mane usque ad nonam, sine cibo; prec. diei ut supra. Et a festo Sancti Johannis Baptiste usque ad gulam Augusti, per quinque septimanas, decem dies integros, sine cibo; prec. cujuslibet diei unius denarii Eta gula Augusti usque ad festum Sancti Michaelis, per octo septimanas, viginti quatuor dies integros, sine cibo; prec. diei cujuslibet trium obolorum. Qui quidem viginti quatuor dies accipiendi sunt circa blada secanda et colligenda, mediante equitate et justicia, ne nimis cito accipiantur. Et debet facere tres dies integros precarios in autumpno, cum uno repastu quolibet dierum ; prec. diei unius denarii. Et debet arare cum una caruca integra a festo Sancti Martini usque ad Natale Domini qualibet quindena unam arruram; prec. cujuslibet arrure duorum denariorum et oboli. Et a Circumcisione Domini usque ad festum Sancte Crucis in Maio, per septendecim septimanas, qualibet quindena unam integram arruram ; prec. unius arrure trium denariorum et oboli.
Si autem Prior et conventus in festo Sancte Crucis predicto non plene perseminaverint set necessario oportet ipsos uberius seminare, 81 seminaverint ultra dictum diem Sancte Crucis per unam septimanam, tunc faciet unam dimidiam arruram, et habebit in predicta dimidia arrura allocationem unius dimidii diei de minutis operibus suis. Sed ista ultima arruera non ponitur ad precium cum ceteris arruris quia raro accidit. Et debet facere unum averagium per annum usque Riveshal ut alibi ad tot leucas ; prec. averagii duorum denariorum. Sed in faciendo dictum averagium habebit allocationem unius diei dimidii, qui valet obolum. Et sic averagium in se valet tres obolos. Et debet averagiare per aquam quotiens turnus ad eum venerit, sed habebit ea que sibi necessaria fuerint in cibo et potu. Et cum redierit et si super averagium per septimanam aut amplius moram traxerit, habebit allocationem unius diei aut dimidii tune secundum diversitatem temporis anni. Et debet falcare in majori prato cum uno homine, et habebit cibum suum, videlicet unum repastum tunc. Et debet colligere et cassare in eodem prato cum uno homine sine cibo; prec. falcationis et cassationis unius denarii. Et debet unam gallinam ad Natale Domini, prec. unius denarii, et septem ova ad Pascham, prec. unius quadrantis. Et faciet tres cumbos brasii vel dabit duos denarios."
The last eight leaves are a cartulary for Langle, Hardele, Lodnes, and Nortun, and on the reverse of the last leaf is the descent of the family of Roger Fitz Roger the founder.
MiscELLANEOUS DEEDs.
1585. Extent of Langley Manor, and Copy of Roger Berney’s Voucher to purchase the Manor from the King's Commissioners 27 Henry VIII.
1587. Patent of grant of Langley Abbey. 28 Henry VIII. (27 J an.) |
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1576. A Draft Rental, 18 Eliz.
À number of 16th century Rentals.
Boundaries of Gilbert's land ? T'emp. James I.
Extent and Rental of Roger Berney's manors of Chetgrave, Langley, etc. (undated).
À book containing copies of deeds, extents and rolls of the manor of Carleton Bastwyks, Banyards, etc.
There are between forty and fifty other Deeds relating to Langley from the time of Edw. II. to 1696.
À large and very minute map, on paper, of all the lands of the manor of Langley; temp. Charles I. (The watermark on the paper is a flower-pot with a crescent above ; this is found used from about 1630 to 1645.)
DisPuTED Riaut of a PARISHIONER tO ATTEND HIS PARISH CHURCH.
1608. ‘‘ Dr. Redmayne’s letter in the behalf of Burgh parish against Langley " (endorsement). Directed ‘To his lovinge freinds Mr. Cooe, parson of Burrough Castle, and to Mr. Butts, vicar of Langley.” ‘‘Whereas the Inhabitants and dwellers in Ravenshall in Norff. have by the space of threescore yeares, or thereabouts, repayred upon Sabboth Dayes, ffestivall dayes and other tymes appointed for publique prayer by the lawes and statutes of this realme of England to the parishe churche of Burrough Castle, and not to the parishe churche of Langly, being distant from Ravenshall by the space of viii miles, and the inhabitants in that howse have by the tyme before mencioned receyved the sacraments in the parishe churche of Burrough Castle aforesaid, and ther’ paid their offeringes and oblacions, and performed all other sacramental rites: And for that, the premisses notwithstanding, Edmond Gedge the now fermer or dweller in the said howse is lett and hindered by the needlesse contention of you and pretensed claim that you do make, to have him your parishioner to heare Devine service in the parishe church of Burrough Castle® as I am informed : theis are to require you without further disturbance to permitt and suffer the said Edmond and his famelye to repaire and resorte to the parishe churche of Burrough Castle aforesaid upon Sabboth dayes and holye dayes and at other tymes appointed for publique prayer by the lawes of this realme untill you shall by due course of lawe prove and evict him for your parishioner ; and further to require you the parson of the churche of Burrough Castle aforesaid to admitt him the said Edmond and his famely, without sufferinge the churche of Burrough Castle aforesaid beinge in possession of him to be dispoyled in that behalfe without lawfull and due proofe made by the parson or vicar of Langley in that behalfe required: And so I bid you farewell: Norwiche, this xiiij of March, 1602.
Your very lovinge freind, R[oBERT] REDMAYNE.”
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68 WYMONDHAM.
Manor Rozzs. With the various Manors of GRESHAUGKH (or GREISHEIGHE), CROMWELLS, BARNAK, SUTTON, SILFELD, WATTELFELD, Norton, RusTEYNS, and Knyverts. Between 1272 and 1664.
Courts, Couris GENERAL AND Courts Lets for the years :—
Edward I. 1-85.
Edward II. 1, 2, 4, 6-20, except 15. (2 1s the first court of Joan de Tateshall; 4, the first court of Thomas de Cailly; 12, of Robert de Ufford ; 19 and 20, the courts of Joan de Driby, all in Wymondham Manor.)
Edward III. 1-9, 10, 12, 14, 17, 19, 21-28, 30, 33-51. (41 is the court of Ralph Crumbwell at Wymondham ; 48 is the first court of John Clyfton at Old Bukenham.)
Richard II. 1-10, 18-18, 20, 21.
' HenryIV. 1-14.
Henry V. 1-10.
Hen. VI. 1-88. Year 12, for Wymondham, contains a copy of writ to the Escheator to give seisin to John, son and heir of Constantine Clyfton, of all the lands and tenements that Margaret, the widow of Constantine, had in dower and otherwise to the end of her life. 27 is the first court of the feoffees of Sir John Clyfton, R[oger] Lord Say, Andrew Oyard and others.
Edward IV. 1-22. 16 is the first court of William Knyvett and Joan his wife, daughter of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, for Wymondham and Wymondham Gryshaugh.
Richard III. 1, and various other rolls.
Henry VII. 8-18, 24.
Henry VIII. 1-28, except 11.
Mary. 1; and Philip and Mary. 1.
Elizabeth. 1-21, 80, 81, 84, 35, 87, 88, 89, 40. 12 is the first court for Gryshaugh of Roger Woodhouse, executor of the will of Thomas Knyvett, knight. 80-31 is the first eourt of Thomas Lovel, Francis Woodhouse, Philip Audeley, esquires, inquisitors of the manor of Wymond- ham under a settlement on Thomas Knyvett and Katherine his wife and their heirs. 89 is the first court of William Downs for Wymondham Gryshaugh.
James I. 1-22. 8 1s the first court of Philip Knyvett for Grysaugh Knyvett. 9 is View of Frankpledge.
Charles I. 6-38, 1651-1664. 7 is for Wyinondham Regis. For Wymondham Cromwells in 1651-1661 the courts are those of Lady Frances Hobart.
Barzrrrs’ and Provosts’ Account Rorr8, between 1281 and 1564 :—
Edward I. For the years 9, 12, 18, 14, 18, 19, 22, 28, 24. Edward II. 6, 7, 10, 15, 19,
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Edward III. 1-9,.11, 12, 14-17, 24-27, 82, 84, 36-88, 41-50 (except 44). Ralph Lord Cromwell occurs as Lord of the Manor for the years 16-17, 45-48. There are
' © Serriens" Accounts for 4-5, 81-82; and an audit of Bailiff Accounts for 26.
Richard II. 1.22. 1-2 are the accounts of the Receivers and Bailiff of John de Clyfton. In 8 and 9 Richard Kette is Provost for Wymondham. For 18 and 19 there are the accounts of the Receivers of Constantine de Clyfton for Wymondham manor. For 20 and 21 those of the Bailiff of Gilbert Talbot for Wymondham Grisaugh. For 21 and 22 those of the receipts in Lord Cromwell's manor follow- ing the date of the death of the lord. For 22 and 28 the Court is that of Lady Matilda Cromwell, of Tatis- hall. There are Messors’ accounts for Sutton, Silfeld, Wattelfeld and Norton for the years 2-16, 21 and 22, and
** Serviens ” for 18 and 19.
Henry IV. 1-14, except 12. In 8 and 4 J. Parker acts for William Hervy, Provost of Wymondham Manor. In8a Deputy Provost acts for Elizabeth Sporell, also of Wymondham. In 5 Hugh Kette is Provost for Wymond- ham. There are Messors’ accounts for Silfeld, Sutton, etc., 1-12.
Henry V. 1-8,except 6. 4 is for Bokenham Castle. There are Messors' accounts for Silfeld, ete. 2-10, except 6. John Hardenheth is Messor.
Henry VI. 1-88, with a few exceptions. There are Farmers' accounts for 27, 28, 36, 87. Messors’ for 1-88, with a few exceptions. ''Offieium receptoris in com. Norff.”: An account of manors, lands, tenements, and other possessions of Ralph Lord Cromwell for the years 9-10, 16-17.
Edward IV. 1, 2, 8, 10-20, except 19. There are Messors’ accounts, 10-20, except 19.
Richard III. 1 and 2 for Bailiffs, Messor's and Market account.
Henry VII. 1-14, 17-18, 22-25. There are the accounts of Bokenham Castle for 8-4 ; of the Market Bailiff for 4-7, 9-10, 15, 16, 21, 22; of the Messor for 1-25, (8-24 is ‘ex parte Fitz- william’). The Woodman's accounts also occur for 12-25.
Henry VIII. 1-8, 7-10, 12-24. Also various accounts on paper.
Mary. Philip and Mary. 1-5. Also Provost’s accounts for 4 aud 5 for Rusteyns, Calthorp, Gunvile manor.
Eliz. 1 and 6.
James I. Various officers’ accounts on paper from Henry VIII. to James I.
MiscELLANEOUS DocuMENTs and DEEDs.
À bundle of old Rentals, mostly undated. One of 19 Edward I. (1291) contains a return of the proceeds of a sale of oak timber,
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An ancient extent, undated. Rental (containing 16 leaves), temp. Edward III.
1899. An extent and customary of Wymondham Grisaugh. 1 Henry IV.
Another, undated, of Gresaugh and Norton.
1400-1. Rental and Customary of Wymondham Grysheigh ; and Rental and Customary of Wymondham ‘Crunqwelle.’ 2 Henry IV.
1428. Sir Ralph Cromwell’s Rental and Customary of manor of Rokels Lyttebar. (10?) Henry V.
1454. Extract of Ralph Cromwell’s will. 1515. Rental for Wymondham Rusteyns. 6 Hen. VIII.
An abuttal of lands in Wymondham, with a Pedigree of the family of Barnard, temp. James I.
A rental of Wymondham Grisaugh and Norton, temp. James I. 1624, 4 Aug. A list of accounts and documents.
1688, 10 Oct. Finding of the jury as to Wymondham Common.
Five other deeds, Henry VI.—Eliz. One of 7 Eliz. is a release from John Flowerdew of Hethersett and his sons of their moiety of Wymondham Cromwelle to Edward Clere.
AGREEMENT between Humrrey Bouracuier and JoHn KNyver for assistance to the latter in recovering the Manor of WYMONDHAM.
1457. ‘ This Indenture the xviii. day of November the year of the reigne of King Henry the Sixt xxxvj, betwixt Humfrey Bourgchier, son of Lord Bourgchier, of the one part, and John Knyvet, cosyn and heir to John Clyfton, knight, on the other part, wytnesseth that the same Humfrey shall be good maister and frend to the said John Knyvet and support hym as far as the lawe will, and help him to recover all the manor, londes, and tenements in the Counti of Norfolk, the which were late the said John Clyfton knight, and of the which the said John Clyfton died seised; whos heyre the said John Knyvet is, that is to say sone to Elizabeth suster to the said John Clyfton knight, as it apperith of record in the chaunncerie be an office founde befor sertain commyssioners by vertue of a comyssion in nature of a diem clausit extremum to them direct, and forasmuch as the said John Knyvet is cousin to Jobane the wyffe of the said Humfrey, the said Humfrey graunteth to the said John Knyvet that he shall bere and pay to the said John Knyvet as moch sylver as shall grow to the third part of the reasonable costys to the recovery of the said livelode, and that as well the counsel of the said Humfrey as the counsell of the said John Knyvet shall be helping, consorting and assisting to the recovery of the said live- lode on assent whan they therto ben reasonable required, and
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that the said Humfrey or his servauntes or other persons for him shall ride and goo wit the said