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56 Select Formulas of
prout solet communiter provenire, bonis temporalibus ecclesie Cathe-
dralis Karliolensis et aliarum ecclesiarum collegiatarum duntaxat
exceptis.
Karliolensia
Spiritualia.
Decanatus Karliolensis.
Porcio Archidiaconi in Ecclesia de Dalstone, ...
Porcio Prioris Karlioli in ecclesia Beate Marie,
Porcio Episcopi in eadem, ... ... ..
Ecclesia Sancti Cuthberti Karlioli,
Porcio Episcopi in Ecclesia de Stainewegg ..
Porcio Prioris Karlioli in eadem, ... ..
Porcio Rectoris Scolarum Karlioli in eadem, ..
Vicarius ejusdem Ecclesie, ... ... ..
Ecclesia de Crosseby, ... ... ... ... 14
Vicarius ejusdem,... ... ... ... ..
De Ecclesia de Den tone, nichil, quia non excedit sex marcas nee
Rector alibi est beneficiatus. [Other entries follozv]
* * * * * *
Taxatio bonorum temporalium domini Karliolensis Episcopi et
religiosorum omnium ejusdem Karliolensis diocesis facta anno domini
Millesimo ducentesimo nonagesimo secundo per magistros Petrum de
Insula, Archidiaconum Exonie, et Adam de Astone, rectorem ecclesie
de Bekingham, gerentes in hac parte in Eboracensi, Dunelmensi et
dicta Karliolensi diocesibus vices venerabilium patrum dominorum
Johannis, Dei gratia Wyntoniensis, et Oliveri eadem gratia Lincolni-
ensis Episcoporum, executorum negocii Terre Sancte a sede apostolica
deputatorum, quoad Decimam domino Edwardo illustri Regi Anglie
in subsidio Terre Sancte concessam.
s. d.
Episcopatus Karliolensis habet... ... ... 126 7 7
Abbas de Heppe habet ... ... ... ... 46 13 4
Priorissa de Ermithwayt habet ... ... ... 10 o o
Prior de Lannercost habet ... ... ... 74
I 2
6J
Prior de Wedirhal habet 52 17 6
Abbas de Holmcoltran habet ... 206 5 10
Prior Karlioli habet 96 19 o
Summa totalis bonorum temporalium ... 613 15 g\
Summa summarum utriusque, tarn tem-
poralium quam spiritualium, ... ... 3171 5 7k
Summa Decime ... ... ... ... 317 2 6f
(c) Return of the Bishop of Carlisle reciting the Writ for the Re-
assessment of the Ecclesiastical Benefices in his Diocese
(1318).
Viris venerabilibus et discretis, dominis Thesaurario et Baronibus
de Scaccario Domini nostri Regis, Johannes, Dei gratia Karliolensis
Fiscal Assessments 57
Episcopus, Salutem. Cum debitis reverencia et honore mandatum
Regium nuper recepimus formam continens infrascriptam.
Edwardus, etc. [as in No. 11] venerabili in Christo patri
Johanni, eadem gratia Karliolensi Episcopo, Salutem. Quia plura
beneficia ecclesiastica et temporalia spiritualibus annexa in diocese
vestra per hostiles aggressus Scotorum, inimicorum et rebellium
nostrorum, vastata sunt, ut accepimus, et destructa, per quod de
Decima, nobis per dominum summum Pontificem jam concessa, nobis
de dictis beneficiis et temporalibus, spiritualibus annexis, ibidem ad
presens responderi non valet, juxta taxacionem decime nunc currentis,
prout alias fieri consuevit. Nos, super valore beneficiorum et tem-
poralium hujusmodi in dicta diocese vestra, quantum videlicet modo
valeant, certiorari volentes, ut Decima inde juxta valorem ilium
ad opus nostrum levari possit; vobis mandamus quod super valore
omnium beneficiorum ecclesiasticorum infra dictam diocesem vestram,
et eciam temporalium prelatorum ibidem, que taliter sunt vastata et
que ad Decimam hactenus' taxari consueverunt, quantum videlicet
valent hiis diebus, inquiratis plenius veritatem, et beneficia et tem-
poralia hujusmodi, prout per Inquisitiones predictas reperiri contigerit,
taxari faciatis et collectoribus Decime in eadem diocese vestra de
taxacionibus hujusmodi, cum facte fuerint, constare faciatis indilate,
ut ipsi Decimam illam, juxta taxaciones illas, ad opus nostrum levare
valeant ut debebunt, et nichilominus taxaciones illas ad opus nostrum
levare valeant ut debebunt; et nichilominus taxaciones illas, cum
plenius facte fuerint, Thesaurario et Baronibus nostris de Scaccario
mittatis, et hoc breve. Teste me ipso, apud Eboracum, xxvj die
Octobris, anno regni nostri duodecimo. Per Consilium.
Nos igitur sequentes Inquisitiones, quas per viros fide dignos
curatos fieri fecimus in hac parte, predicta beneficia ecclesiastica et tem-
poralia spiritualibus annexa taxavimus, prout in sequentibus poterit
apparere, ipsaque sub sigillis nostris vobis duximus transmittenda.
Karliolensia
Spiritualia.
Decanatus Karliolensis. . s. d.
Ecclesia de Dalstone, ... ... 5 0 0
Porcio Prioris Beate Marie Karlioli in ecclesia
Beate Marie ... 5 0 0
Porcio Episcopi in eadem, ... 3 0 0
Ecclesia Sancti Cuthberti Karlioli, ... ... 5 0 0
Porcio Prioris Beate Marie Karlioli in ecclesia de \ non taxantur
Staynwigg, I quia parochia
Porcio Episcopi in eadem, j totaliter de-
J structa.
Vicarius ejusdem non taxatur, quia non sufficet
pro stipendio unius Capellani
Ecclesia de Crosseby, ... ... ... ... 1 0 0
Vicarius ejusdem non taxatur, quia non sufficet
pro omnibus incumbentibus.
Ecclesia de Dentone non taxatur in antiqua.
[Other entries follow.]
58 Select Formulas of
Decanatus Karliolensis . s. d.
Temporalia Episcopi Karliolensis ... ... 20 o o
Temporalia Prioris Karlioli ... ... ... 20 O O
Temporalia Abbatis de Heppe ... 2 0 0
Temporalia Priorisse de Hermithueyt... ... [ non taxantur,
\ quia totaliter
I nunc destructa.
Temporalia Prioris de Lanercost ... / non taxantur, prop-
\ ter destructionem.
Temporalia Prioris de Wedirhale, ... ... 4 0 0
Temporalia Abbatis de Holmcoltram,... ... 40 o o
Summa bonorum temporalium, ... ... 86 o o
Summa bonorum spiritualium et tem-
poralium, 480 19 o
Summa Decime inde provenientis, ... 48 1 10J.
[Taxatio Pape Nicholai {Record Com.),pp. 318320 and 331333-]
32. The Inquisitiones Nonarum (15 Edward IIP).
(a) Writ of Assessment and Collection.
Rex venditoribus et assessoribus subsidii None garbarum vellerum
et agnorum ac None civitatum et burgorum et Quintedecime hominum
forinsecorum nobis nuper concessarum in comitatu Northampton',
Salutem. Licet vobis pluries mandaverimus quod, quibuscunque ex-
cusacione et dilacione postpositis, dictas Nonam et Quintamdecimam
in eodem comitatu, juxta commissionem nostram vobis inde factam,
venderetis et denarios de subsidio predicto provenientes receptori
denariorum eorundem in comitatu predicto liberari faceretis ad opus
nostrum ; nichilominus propter quasdam dimcultates et dubietates in
venditione et levatione subsidii predicti ex certis causis, ut accepimus,
intervenientibus eedem Nona et Quintadecima, pro majori parte,
adhuc restant levande, in nostri dampnum [etc.]. Per quod per nos
et consilium nostrum, ut hujusmodi difncultates et dubietates amove-
antur, concordatum existit quod levatio subsidii predicti fiat in forma
que subsequitur, videlicet, quod venditores et assessores dicte None
garbarum vellerum et agnorum in singulis comitatibus regni nostri
Anglie eandem Nonam juxta taxam singularum ecclesiarum pre-
bendarum et aliorum beneficiorum quorumcunque, si valor ejusdem
None ad taxam eorundem aliquo modo attingere poterit et ad
majorem summam ubi verus valor ejusdem None taxam eorundem
excedit, levari faciant; Et si, per presentacionem, per sacramentum
proborum et legalium hominum parochiarum corafn eis capiendam vel
per compotos firmariorum, ubi firmarii existunt, seu alias legitimas
Fiscal Assessments 59
informaciones de vero valore dicte None singularum ecclesiarum,
prebendarum et beneficiorum predictorum in comitatibus predictis
tam taxatorum quam non taxatorum faciendas, inveniri contigerit
quod valor ejusdem None taxam hujusmodi beneficiorum taxatorum
tam venditorum quam non venditorum excedat, tune Nonam pre-
dictam ab hominibus parochiarum hujusmodi ecclesiarum, prebendarum
et beneficiorum juxta valorem sic excedentem ad opus nostrum levari;
et si eadem Nona ad valorem taxe hujusmodi beneficiorum attingere
non poterit, tune verum valorem ejusdem None de hominibus paro-
chiarum hujusmodi ecclesiarum prebendarum et beneficiorum, taxa
eorundem minime considerata, sine dilatione levari et denarios inde
provenientes receptoribus denariorum eorundem in dictis comitatibus
assignatis liberari faciant, ut ipsi denarios illos ulterius dilecto clerico
nostro Willelmo de Edynton, quern receptorem nostrum dicti subsidii
citra Trentam apud Turrim nostram Londonie constituimus, infra
certum tempus mittant, prout comitatus propinqui sint vel remoti;
quodque dicti venditores et assessores tam nos in Cancellaria nostra
quam prefatum Willelmum de vero valore None predicte singulorum
beneficiorum predictorum taxatorum et non taxatorum et de quibus
valor None taxam eorundem excedit, et in quantum, tam videlicet
beneficiorum cardinalium quam aliorum, et etiam de valore dicte
None taxam ecclesiarum et beneficiorum non attingente, necnon de
nominibus illorum de parochiis qui hujusmodi presentaciones coram
eisdem venditoribus et assessoribus fecerint, et ob quas causas dicta
Nona minus quam taxa valet, per Indenturas inde sub sigillis suis
particulariter faciendas certificent, ita quod versus eosdem presenta-
tores capere possimus si contigerit presentationes illas minus veraces
inveniri; et etiam quod iidem venditores et assessores nos et prefatum
Willelmum tam de vero valore hujusmodi None hominum civitatum
et burgorum ac Quintedecime hominum forinsecorum qui de agri-
cultura non vivunt, quam garbarum, vellerum et agnorum in forma
predicta certificent; quodque Nona predicta generaliter de omnibus
temporalibus tam de illis que in manibus archiepiscoporum [etc.] quam
aliorum quorumcunque existent ad opus nostrum levetur. Nos vo-
lentes [etc.] vobis mandamus [etc.] quod subsidium None predicte de
hominibus omnium et singularum parochiarum comitatus predicti,
quacunque dilatione postposita, in forma predicta levari et denarios
[etc.] per Indenturam [etc.] citra diem Dominican! in Medio Quadrage-
sime proximo futuram mittere [etc.] ac nos [etc.] de vero valore [etc.]
per Indenturam [etc.] citra diem predictam [etc.] certificetis. Man-
damus enim dicto receptori nostro [etc.] et si denarios predictos citra
dictam diem levare [etc.] non poteritis tune vos ipsi personaliter sitis
coram nobis in Cancellaria nostra [etc.] ad ostendendum [etc.]. Teste
Rege, apud Westmonasterium, xxvj die Januarii [15 Edward III].
Per ipsum Regent et consilium.
[Patent Roll, 15 Edw. Ill, pt. II. m. 47 (Cal. p. 499).]
60 Select Formulas of
(U) The Inquisition for the Hundred of Wardon (co. Beds.).
Inquisitio capta coram Abbate Sancti Jacobi extra Northamp-
tonam et sociis suis assessoribus et venditoribus Nonarum garbarum
vellorum et agnorum in comitatu Northampton' domino Regi con-
cessarum, anno regni Regis Edwardi tercii a conquestu quintodecimo,
per sacramentum Alani Chamberleyn de Wardone [and eleven others].
Qui dicunt per sacramentum suum quod xij juratores de villata de
Wardone bene presentaverunt, eo quod ecclesia non extendit se ad
taxam per xiiij marcas nee amplius valet, sicut in Indentura inter
predictum abbatem et socios suos et predictos xij juratores villate
predicte plenius continetur. Item, dicunt quod Abbas de Wardone
habet in predicta parochia de Wardone iiij acras terre pro quibus
assessus fuit ad xvj s. et cum villata solvit. Item, dicunt quod
xij juratores de villata de Byfelde bene presentaverunt, eo quod
ecclesia predicte villate non extendit se ad taxam per sex marcas, nee
amplius valet, sicut in Indentura [No. 32 (cj\ inter predictum abbatem
et socios suos et predictos xij juratores villate predicte plenius con-
tinetur. Item, dicunt quod priorissa de Catesby habet in predicta
villata duas carucatas terre pro quibus cum bidentibus super manerium
existentibus assessa fuit ad xxixj. xd. quos nondum solvit cum villata
predicta
Item, dicunt quod Prior de Wardone [habet in predicta]
1
villata
sex virgatas terre et dimidiam pro quibus assessus fuit ad xix s. vj d.
quos nondum s,olvit
1
[Item, dicunt quod xii juratores] de villata
de Bottings bene non presentaverunt, eo quod ecclesia villate predicte
non.se extendit ad taxam per vij marcis nee amplius valet, sicut in
Indentura inter predictum Abbatem et socios suos et predictos xii
juratores villate predicte plenius continetur. Item, dicunt quod
Priorissa de Catesby habet in predicta villata duas carucatas terre pro
quibus assessa fuit ad xvij s. iiij d., quos nondum solvit cum villata
predicta. Item, dicunt quod Prior de Clatercote habet in eadem
villata duas carucatas terre pro quibus assessus fuit ad xvj s. iij d.,
quos nondum solvit cum villata predicta. Item, dicunt quod xij
juratores de villata de Eydone bene presentaverunt, eo quod ecclesia
de Eydone non extendit se ad taxam per sex marcas et xij solidos
nee amplius valet, sicut in Indentura inter predictum Abbatem et
socios suos et predictos xij juratores villate predicte plenius con-
tinetur. Item, dicunt quod xij juratores de villata de Wodeford bene
presentaverunt, eo quod ecclesia de Wodeford non extendit se ad
taxam per viij marcas, sex solidos et octo denarios nee amplius valet,
sicut in Indentura inter predictum Abbatem et socios suos et predictos
xij juratores villate predicte plenius continetur. Item, dicunt quod
xij juratores de villata de Hachecote bene presentaverunt, eo quod
ecclesia villate predicte non extendit se ad taxam per x\s. nee amplius
valet, sicut in Indentura inter predictam Abbatem et socios suos et
predictos xij juratores villate predicte plenius continetur. Item,
1
Illegible. The continuation of the MS. which has been recovered since the publication
of the Record Commission text begins here.
Fiscal Assessments 61
dicunt quod xij juratores villate de Sulgrave bene presentaverunt, eo
quod taxa ecclesie predicte extendit se ad x marcas et tantum valet
et non amplius, sicut in Indentura inter predictum Abbatem et socios
suos et predictos xij juratores villate predicte plenius continetur.
Item, dicunt quod Prior Sancti Andree Northamptone habet in pre-
dicta villata duas virgatas terre pro quibus assessus fuit ad iiij s. et
nondum solvit cum villata predicta. Item, dicunt quod xij juratores
villate de Aston bene presentaverunt, eo quod ecclesia villate predicte
non extendit se ad taxam per iiij /. iij s. nee amplius valet, sicut in
Indentura inter predictum Abbatem et socios suos et predictos xij
juratores villate predicte plenius continetur. Item, dicunt quod Prior
de Chaucombe habet j carucatam terre ibidem pro qua assessus fuit
ad xs. quos nondum solvit cum villata predicta.
In cujus rei testimonium predicti xij juratores de hundredo de
Wardone huic Inquisitioni sigilla sua apposuerunt. Data apud...
1
ante
festum...anno supradicto.
[Lay Subsidies, 155/15, andNonarum Inquisitiones {Record Commission),
P- 34-]
(c) The Indenture for the Villata of By field in Wardon.
Hec indentura testatur quod die Martis proxima post terminum
Annunciationis Beate Marie Virginis anno regni Regis Edwardi tercii
a conquestu quintodecimo Rogerus Basset [and eleven others], jurati et
onerati per Abbatem Sancti Jacobi extra Northamptonam et socios
suos, assessores et venditores Nonarum garbarum, vellerum et ag-
norum domino Regi in comitatu Northampton' concessarum, super
verum valorem dicte None de villata de Byfeld anno quartodecimo.
Qui dicunt, super sacramentum suum, quod None predicte garbarum,
vellerum et agnorum de eadem villata valebant in anno preterito
xxiiij marcas et non plus, et non attingit ad taxam ecclesie quia
predicta taxa est xx/., quia plures commoditates continentur infra
taxam videlicet dos ecclesie, que continet unum messuagium et ij
virgatas terre cum pertinenciis eisdem contingentibus, que valet xx s.
Item, decima feni valet xx s. Item, mortuaria, oblaciones, decime
pullorum et vitulorum, lactis, mellis, et aliorum minutorum, que valent
iij marcas. Et ideo None predicte non attingunt ad taxam predictam
per vj marcas. Et sic est summa None predicte garbarum, vellerum
et agnorum xxiiij marce. Item, dicunt quod nulli sunt mercatores nee
alii homines qui de agrorum cultura nee ovibus suis non vivunt, nee
aliqui alii homines in locis solitudinum manent in villata de Byfeld.
In cujus rei testimonium predicti juratores dicta Indentura sigilla sua
apposuerunt. Data die et anno supradictis.
[Nonarum Inq.,p. 25 b.]
(d) The Account for the Parish of By field.
Idem reddunt compotum de xxiiij marcis de Nona garbarum
[etc.] parochie de Byfelde, commissa Johanni Walter[i] et Johanni de
1
The Record is mutilated.
62 Select Formulas of
Mersshton et aliis dicte parochie ad respondendum domino Regi, cujus
ecclesia taxatur ad xxx marcas, unde Nona temporalium priorisse de
Catesby in eadem xxixj. xd., et de Nona temporalium prioris de
War[done] in eadem xix s. vj d. Et sit minus quam taxatur vj marcis,
quia maxima pars valoris ecclesie predicte consistit in dote, feno, obla-
tionibus, et aliis minutis decimis, ut patet per Inquisicionem et
informationem Rogeri Basset, Willelmi Constantyn et aliorum dicte
parochie juratorum, quorum nomina ibidem annotantur et ad Scacca-
rium liberantur.
[Lay Subsidies, 155/14, m. 5 d.]
33. The Valor Ecclesiasticus (1535).
(a) Act of Parliament directing a Valuation of Ecclesiastical
Benefices.
And it is ordeyned and enacted by auctoryte aforesaide that the
saide yerely rent and pensyon shalbe taxid, rated, levyed, perceyved
and payed to the Kynges use, his heires and successours, yn maner and
fourme hereafter to be declarid by this Acte, that is to saye; that the
Chauncelour of Englande for the tyme beynge shall have power and
auctoryte to dyrecte ynto everie Dyoces yn thys Realme and yn Wales
severall Commyssions yn the Kynges name under his Greate Seale,
aswell to the Archebusshoppe or Busshoppe of everie such Dyoces as
to suche other parsone or parsones as the Kynges Highnes shall name
or appoynte, comaundynge and auctorisinge the said Commyssioners
so to be named in everie suche Commyssion, or iij of them at the
leaste, to examyn serche and enquyre, by all the wayes and meanes
that they can by their dyscrecions, of and for the true and just hole
and entyre yerely values of all the manours, londes, tenementes,
hereditamentes, rentes, tythes, offeringes, emolumentes and all other
profittes, aswell spirituall as temporall, apperteyninge or belonginge to
any Archebusshopriche, Busshoprich, Abbacye, Monasterie, Priorie,
Archdeaconry, Deanry, Hospitall, College, Howse Collegyate, Pre-
bend, Cathedrall Churche, Collegiat Churche, Conventuall Churche,
Parsonage, Vicarage, Chauntrie, Frechappell, or to any other benefice
or promocion spirituall within the lymyttes of their Commyssion;
withe a Clause to be conteyned in everie suche Commyssion that the
said Commyssioners, or iij of them at the leaste, shall deducte and
alowe yn the makynge and ratinge of the saide yerely values of the
premisses these deduccyons folowinge and none other, that is to saye;
the rentes resolute to the chief Lordes, and all other annuall and
perpetuall rentes and charges whiche any spirituall person or persones
ben bounden yerely to paie to any person or persones to their heires
or successours for ever, or to gyve yerely yn almes by reason of any
foundacyon or ordynaunce; and all fees for Stewardes, Receyvours,
Baylyffes, and Auditors and Synodes and Proxis; withe an other
clause to be also conteyned yn everie suche Commyssion that the said
Fiscal Assessments 63
Commyssioners, or iij of them at the leaste, shall certifie under theyr
seales, at suche dayes as shalbe lymytted by the said Commyssions,
aswell the hole and entiere value as the Deduccyons aforesaid of
everie Archebysshoprich, Bysshoprich, Abbacye, Monasterie, Priorie,
Archdeaconrie, Deanry, Hospitall, College, Howse Collegiate, Prebend,
Cathedrall Churche, Collegiate Churche, Conventuall Churche, Par-
sonage, Vicarage, Chauntrie, Frechappell and of all other benefices
and promotions spirituall.
[26 Henry VIII, c. 3, s. 9 {Statutes of the Realm, III. 495).]
(b) Royal Commission for the Valuation of Ecclesiastical Benefices.
Henricus Octavus, Dei gratia Anglie et Francie Rex, Fidei Defensor,
Dominus Hibernie et in terra Supremum Capud Anglicane Ecclesie,
Reverendo in Christo patri J[ohanni] Episcopo Exoniensi ac dilectis
et fidelibus suis [names of Commissioners follow], Salutem. Sciatis
quod nos de fidelitatibus et providis circumspeccionibus vestris
plenius confidentes, assignavimus vos, quinque vel quatuor vel tres
vestrum, dantes vobis [etc.], vel in majori aut minori, prout per dis-
creciones vestras vobis melius visum fuerit, plenam potestatem et
auctoritatem ad inquirendum, scrutandum et examinandum, viis,
modis et mediis quibus melius scire poteritis, tarn infra comitatum
nostrum Devonie quam civitatem Exonie et libertates ejusdem, de
omnibus et singulis Articulis et instruccionibus presentibus annexis;
faciendique et exequendi cum effectu prout in eisdem Articulis plenius
continetur. Et ideo vobis mandamus, firmiter injungentes, quod circa
premissa effectualiter intendatis ac ea faciatis et exequamini diligenter;
ita quod veritatem de eisdem Articulis et de eorum singulis habere
poterimus absque favore, fraude, dolo, corrupcione seu covina prout
vos inde nobis respondere velitis. Et quicquid in premissis feceritis
Thesaurario, Cancellario, Camerariis et Baronibus de Scaccario nostro
inde et de omnibus suis circumstanciis eorundem, prout Articuli pre-
dicti in se exigunt et requirunt, in octabis Sancte Trinitatis proximo
futuris sub sigillis vestris distincte et aperte in debita forma in scriptis
certificetis. Et hoc sub periculo incumbenti nullatenus omittatis.
Damus etiam preterea vobis plenam potestatem et auctoritatem ad
tales et tantos scribas, registrarios et eorum deputatos, ac receptores,
auditores et alios officiarios et ministros quorumcumque prelatorum
et clericorum ecclesie coram vobis convocandos et examinandos prout
vobis pro meliori execucione Articulorum predictorum videbitur ex-
pedire. Mandantes insuper, tenore presentium, omnibus et singulis
Vicecomitibus, majoribus, ballivis, registrariis ac aliis officiariis et
ministris tarn nostri quam aliquorum prelatorum seu clericorum
quorumcumque ac aliis omnibus et singulis fidelibus subditis nostris
quibuscumque quod vobis, in execucione premissorum de tempore in
tempus, intendentes sint et auxiliantes, prout decet. In cujus rei
testimonium, has Litteras nostras fieri fecimus Patentes. Teste me
ipso, apud Westmonasterium, tricesimo die Januarii, anno regni nostri
vicesimo sexto.
[ Valor Ecclesiasticus (Record Commission), II. 289.]
64 Select Formulas of
(c) Instructions for the Commissioners.
Instruccions devysed by the Kynges Highnes by the advyse of his
counsaylle for knowlege to be had of the hole true and juste yerely
values of all the possessions, maners, londes, tenements, hereditaments
and proffets, aswell spirituall as temporall, apperteynynge to any maner
of dignyte, monasterie, priorie, church collegiat, church conventuall,
parsonage, vicariage, chaunterie, fre chapell or other dignytie, office, or
promocion spirituall within this realme, Wales, Cales, Berwyk and
Marches of the same, aswell in places exempt as not exempt, which
his pleasure is that such as shall have charge by his Commission to
survey the same shall effectually with all uprightnes & dexterite
folowe and ensue as they wull answer unto his magestie at theire
perells.
Fyrste yt ys ordeyned that severall Commyssions shall be made
unto every dioces, shire and place within this realme and into Wales
[etc.] where it shall pleas the Kyngs highnes to lymyte and appoynte
and to such nombre of personnes as shall please his Magestie to
assigne, and that to every of the same commyssioners theis Articles
assigned with his Gracys hande shalbe annexed.
Item, that the Commissyoners, after the sight of the Commission
with these Artycles annexed, shall first sende for suche and so many
of the bushoppys and archideacons, scribes and ministers within the
lymytts of ther Commission as they shall think mooste convenyent for
knowlaige to be hadd of the nombre and namys of all denryes rurall
within the lymytt of ther Commission, and in whoys dioces or jurisdic-
cion the said denries ben, and howe many dignities, cathedrall churches,
collegiatt churches, colleigis, hospytalls, monesteries, priories, houses
religiouse, parsonages, vycariages, chaunteries, frechapells or other
promocions spirituall byn within the lymytts of every denry or
elsewhere within the lymytts of ther Commission.
Item, after the said Commissioners by examynacion of the regesters
and other ministers shall have knowledge of the nombre and names of
all the denries within the lymytts of ther Commission, and in whois
dioces or jurisdiccion they byn, and of the nombre and namys of all
the dignyties [etc.], within the lymytts of every denrye or ells where
within the lymytts of ther Commission, then the said Commissioners
shall devide them selfys by thre and thre in nombre, or by any other
nombre above three by ther discrecions, allottyng to every nombre so
devided so many denries rurall and other distinct placys within the
lymytts of ther Commission as they by ther assentts shall think con-
venyent. And that every suche nombre soo devided shall, with all
diligence, without favour, mede, drede or corruppcion, enquyer, serche
and knowe of the hole and yerly values of all dignities [etc.] and all
other cures, offices and promocions spirituall, what name or nature so
ever they bee, within the lymytts of ther charge to them allotted,
aswell in placys exempte as nott exempt; and in whois dioses or
jurisdiccion they ben, and for true execucion of ther charche in this
behalfe shall examyn suche incumbentts, ther receyvours and auditours,
by ther othes and also se and veu suche regesters, boks of accompt, Ester
Fiscal Assessments 65
boks and all other writings as by ther discrecions shalbe thought
convenyent and resonable for sure declaracion of the premissis; and
over that use all suche other wayes and menes wherby the true and
just yerly values of all the said dignities [etc.'] may playnly and dis-
tinctly appere, without any maner concelament thereof, usyng them
selfes after the order, maner and forme as in thes Articles next ensuyng
ys mencyoned and declared, makyng a playne boke therof after the
auditors' fashyon, accordyng as shalbe expressid in the last of the said
articles under written
Item, finally after the true and juste yerely values of all the
dignities, benefices, offices, cures and other promocions spirituall
afore rehersed, examyned and known, then the said Commissioners
to whome Commission shalbe directed shall cause to be made a fayer
boke, after the auditours' fashyon, putting first in the hed thereof the
name of the archbushoprick or bushoprick where the Commission ys
directed, yf the see be within the lymytts of ther Commission, and the
hole and entire yerely value thereof, lyke as before ys mencyoned in
the Article concernyng the same, with the deduccions to be resolute
that ar mencyoned in the said Article and none other; and then next
after that to putt the name of the cathedrall churche or monasterie
where the see of the archebushopricke or bushopricke ys, and the
nombre or namys of all such dignities [etc.] which be in succession in the
said cathedrall churche or monasterie, and aswell the hole and entire
yerely value of the said Cathedrall churche or monasterie as the
particuler yerely profitt that belongeth to every of the said dignities,
[etc.] in the same, with the deduccions to be resolute oute of the same
as ys mencyoned in the Article above specyfied concernyng the same;
and then next after that to put the nombre and names of every archi-
diaconry and denry rurall within the lymytts of ther commission and
in whose dioces or jurisdiccion they be and their severall and particular
yerly values and deduccions lyke as is mencyoned in the article con-
cernyng the same; and next after that to put every colleige, churche
collegyate [etc.] under the title and name of the denery rurall where
colleges [etc.] lyen and ben foundyd and theyr severall and distinct
yerly values, with suche deduccions as ys above mencyoned in the
Articles afore written concernynge suche dignities [etc.] and the nombre
and names of all suche prebendys, dignyties [etc.] what so ever they be
in any the said colliges, churches [etc.] and ther distinct severall and
yerly values, as afore declared yn the said Articles. So that always
under the title of every denry rurall ther be conteyned all suche
dignyties [etc.] where so ever they lyen or byn in the denry where
they ben founded and edefied. And yf any of them be out of the
lymytts of all denryes, then so to putt them by their selfys rehersing
ther names and the placys where they lyen and in whoys dioces and
jurisdiccion with ther hole values and deduccions as ys afore lymyted
added to every of them distinct by them selfys.
[Ibid., I. Intro.]
H. F. II
66 Select Formulas of
(d) The Oath of the Commissioners.
Henricus Octavus, [etc.] Reverendo in Christo patri S[tephano]
Wintoniensi episcopo, Salutem. Sciatis quod dedimus vobis potestatem
et auctoritatem capiendi et recipiendi sacramenta Willelmi Paulett
militis ac Majoris civitatis Wintonie, Majoris ville Suthamptone [and
eighteen other Commissioners], et eorum cujuslibet, juxta formam
cujusdam scedule huic brevi annexe. Ac preterea damus vobis prefato
Willelmo Paulet potestatem et auctoritatem recipiendi sacramentum
predicti Episcopi Wintoniensis, juxta formam scedule predicte. Et ideo
vobis mandamus quod sacramenta predicta recipiatis, et cum ea sic rece-
peritis, nos inde, in Cancellariam nostram, sub sigillis vestris, distincte
et aperte sine dilatione reddatis certiores, hoc breve nobis remittentes.
Teste me ipso, apud Westmonasterium, primo die Februarii, anno
regni nostri vicesimo sexto.
Pexsall.
Henricus Octavus, [etc.] Reverendo in Christo S. Wintoniensi
Episcopo ac dilecto et fideli suo Willelmo Paulet, militi, Salutem.
Sciatis quod dedimus vobis, conjunctim et divisim, potestatem et
auctoritatem capiendi et recipiendi sacramenta Nicholai Tychebourne
senioris [andfive others], et eorum cujuslibet, juxta formam cujusdam
scedule huic brevi annexe; et ideo vobis mandamus quod sacramenta
predicta recipiatis et cum ea sic receperitis, etc. [as above]. Teste, etc.
[as above].
Pexsall.
Ye shal swere that diligently and truely, without favour, affection,
fraud, covyn, mede, drede or corrupcion, ye shall doo, fulfill and execute
the hole effectes and contents expressed in the Kynges Commyssion,
with Instructions and Articles therunto annexed, to you and others
directed for serche and enquierie to be made of the hoole and entier
values of all spirituall possessions within the lymyttes in the same
Commission and Instructions expressed, accordyng to the Acte of
Parliament in that case ordeyned and provided, and accordyng to the
saide Commission and Instructions to you made and yeven in that
parte, as nere as ye can or may, to your cunnyng, witt, and uttermost
of your power. So helpe you God and the Holie Evangelystes.
(/) Extract from the Valor of Southampton.
Illustrissimo et excellentissimo Principi ac supremo et metuendis-
simo domino nostro Henrico Octavo, [etc.] humillimi et addictissimi
subditi majestatis vestre Stephanus Wintoniensis Episcopus [and
fourteen other Commissioners] ac reliqui vestre majestatis in hac parte
Commissionarii solidam et perpetuam precantur felicitatem cum omni
honore et subjectione. Accepimus cum ea qua decet reverencia
Litteras Commissionales majestatis vestre presentibus annexas; se-
cundum quas, quarumque vigore, ad executionem metuendissimi
mandati vestri in eisdem comprehensi procedentes, juxta vim, formam
et effectum earundem, omnia qua potuimus fide et diligencia executi,
Fiscal Assessments 67
per has litteras nostras de hiis que nobis gesta sunt vestram Ma-
jestatem metuendissimam certiorandam duximus, et, Commissionis
predicte tenorem sequentes, certioramus et certificamus in hiis scriptis,
libros ac libellos verum valorem annuum omnium et singulorum
monasteriorum, prioratuum, locorum religiosorum, ecclesiarum col-
legiatarum, hospitalium, ecclesiarum parochialium, capellarum et
cantariarum infra vestrum comitatum Southamptone in se continentes
a nobis editos fuerunt etiam dictas vestre metuendissime Majestatis
Commissionem et Instructiones annexas habentibus (sic). Datum apud
Wintoniam sub sigillis nostris anno regni Excellentissime Majestatis
vestre vicesimo septimo. [Signatures of Commissioners follow.]
COMITATUS SOUTHAMPTONE.
Valor omnium et singulorum castrorum honorum maneriorum
terrarum et tenementorum ac aliarum possessionum quarumcunque,
necnon omnium et singulorum proficuum provenientium de spiritu-
alibus et jurisdiccionibus spiritualibus pertinentibus sive spectantibus
tarn episcopatui Wintoniensi et monasterio Sancti Swithuni Wintonie
predicto, quam omnibus et singulis aliis monasteriis [etc.] necnon
omnibus aliis promotionibus spiritualibus in comitatu predicto, prout
valent communibus annis, ut inferius sequuntur. Videlicet.
EPISCOPATUS WINTONIENSIS, STEPHANUS MODO EPISCOPUS
IBIDEM.
Valet in Spiritualibus
Rectoriis appropriatis, ut
patet per quoddam quater-
num papireum, signis manu-i
alibus Commissionariorum f
domini Regis signatum, per
annum, )
Sinodis, procuracionibus et
pensionibus, prout patet per
dictum quaternum, per an-
num,
Casualibus jurisdicionis spiri-
tualis, prout patet per dictum
quaternum, communibus an-
nis,
Temporalibus.
Redditibus et firmis omnium \
castrorum, maneriorum, ter-
rarum et tenementorum ac
aliarum possessionum, prout
patet per predictum quater-
num, per annum,
s. d.
XX
iiij.ij. xij. iiij.
lxiij. xij. xj ob.
vnj.
V cliiij. v. ii] ob.
MMMDciiij.iij.
xvs. xjd. ob. qdr. di.
MMMMxxxvij.
xixs. xjd. qdr. di.
52
68 Select Formulas of
Perquisicionibus curie et aliis^l ,- ,
casualibus communibus annis, , '. ". ,
. . ,. . . \ cccimj. in. xj ob.
ut patet per dictum quater-
J J J
num, J s. d.
XX
MMMMciiij.xij v ij
ob. qdr. Inde in
Reprisis, videlicet.
In elemosinis resolutis et aliis|
redditibus, ut patet per eun-^ xxxvij. xix. iiij.
dem quaternum, per annum, ) \
Feodis senescallorum, recep-\ [
c c c v
i j _
xxi i
j
torum, auditorum, et balh-l , . .. .. ,
vorum,ut patet perquaternum
c c l x l x > 1J V1J qdr
'
}
predictum, I
s. d.
XX
Et valet clare MMMDccciiij iij iij ob. qdr. di. qdr.
s.
XX
Decima inde CCCiiij.viij. x. .
[Ibid., II. 12.]
(c) FEUDAL INQUISITIONS
The Inquisitions grouped under this conventional heading are such
as may seem to relate more especially to the royal prerogative (if we
may use such a loose expression) in the shape of claims to certain
incidents of feudal tenure, and to the sole enjoyment of the ancient
forests, together with a traditional control over matters of public
policy.
In the former category we have documents relating to Reliefs,
Escheats, Dower, Distraint of Knighthood, the duties of Serjeants,
Regards of the Forest. In the latter class specimens are given of
processes relating to Lunatics and Encroachments.
A few remarks are needed in respect of the diplomatic character
and relations of the several specimens. In the case of the earliest in
date (Nos. 34 and 35) the conventional sequence of a Writ and
Return will not be found. The Formular for Escheators (No. 36) has
already been referred to in connexion with Agrarian Surveys
(No. 10). Amongst the miscellaneous Inquisitions connected with
Escheats those for ' Proof of Age' (No. 39), Homage (No. 40),
Feudal Inquisitions 69
'Taking the Veil' (No. 41) and 'Assignment of Dower' (No. 42)
afford interesting variants of the familiar Inquisition Post Mortem
(No. 37) and its supplemental form (No. 38). Similarly the sequence
of the proceedings connected with Distraint of Knighthood (Nos.
4345), and their distribution, are of considerable interest. It is by
no means certain, however, that an actual Inquisition was taken to
supply the information in the Return of the last of these documents.
The case of David le Lardiner the King's serjeant (No. 46) will be
found also noticed elsewhere (Nos. 37 and 73). For the Forest
Inquisition (No. 47) this text is chiefly indebted to Mr Turner's
scholarly edition of the Forest Pleas (Selden Society). The distinc-
tion between 'Lunatic' (No. 49) and ' Non compos mentis' (No. 48)
is apparently an actual diplomatic variant. The ministerial uses of
the Inquisitions Ad quod danipnum (No. 50) and Ad quod nocumentum
(No. 51) have been referred to in the previous volume (pp. 26 and 59).
34. Writ reciting the terms of the Reliefs payable by the tenants of
the bisliopric of Worcester {c. 1095).
Willelmus, Rex Anglorum, omnibus Francis et Anglis qui francas
terras tenent de episcopatu de Wireceastra, Salutem. Sciatis quod,
mortuo episcopo, honor in manum meam rediit. Nunc volo ut de
terris vestris tale relevamen mihi detis, sicut per barones meos disposui.
Hugo de Laci xx libras, Walterus Puuher xx libras, Gislebertus
filius Turoldi c solidos, Rodbertus episcopus x libras, Abbas de
Evesham xxx libras, Walterus de Gloecestra xx libras, Roger filius
Durandi (quietus per breve Regis) x libras, Winebald de Balaon x
libras, Drogo filius Pontii x libras, Rodbert filius Sckilin c solidos,
Rodbert Stirmannus lx solidos, Anschitillus de Colesburna x libras,
Rogerus de Cumtune xx solidos, Eudo lx solidos, Willelmus de
Begebiri xl solidos, Ricardus et Franca c solidos, Angotus xx solidos,
Beraldus xx solidos, Willelmus de Wic xx solidos, Rodbertus filius
Nigelli c solidos, Alricus Archidiaconus c solidos, Ordricus dapifer xl
libras, Ordricus Blaca c solidos, Colemannus xl solidos, Warinus xxx
solidos, Baldwinus xl solidos, Suegen filius Azor xx solidos, Alvredus
xxx solidos, Siwardus xl solidos, Saulfus xv libras, Algarus xl solidos,
Chippingus xx solidos. Testibus Rannulfo capellano et Eudone
dapifero et Ursone de Abetot. Et qui hoc facere noluerit, Urso et
Bernardus sasiant et terras et pecunias in manu mea.
[MS. Cotton. Tiberius A. I3,fo. 37 (ed. Hearne, 'Heming's Cartulary' I.
and f. H. Round, Feudal England, p. 309).]
yo Select Formulas of
35. Inquisition of Royal Marriages and Wardships (1185).
DE DOMINABUS ET PUERIS ET PUELLIS [DE SUDFOLK].
Mabilia de Heliun, que est lx annorum, est de donatione domini
Regis, cujus heres est Robertus de Heliun; et ipsa fuit filia Rogeri
filii Ricardi. Terra sua quam tenet in dote, valet annuatim c solidos,
cum hoc instauramento ; scilicet, xl ovibus, vj bobus, ij equis, ij suibus
et j verre
DE DOMINABUS ET PUERIS ET PUELLIS IN NORHAMTONSIRA.
Margareta Engaine fuit in donatione domini Regis intra hos viij
annos; et Galfridus Brito desponsavit earn, ut dicitur, sine licentia
Regis ; et hoc fuit prius ostensum Justiciariis. Galfridus Brito invenit
plegios habendi warrantum suum, iij septimanis post festum Sancti
Michaelis ad Scheccarium, de dicta Margareta quam duxit in uxorem ;
scilicet Thomam de Hale et Alanum de Hale et Johannem de
Sudwic
Margareta Engaine quam desponsavit Gaufridus Brito, ut supra-
dictum est, habet in Pictesleia vj libratas terre ; et ipsa est L annorum,
et heres ejus est Ricardus Engaine, et fuit filia Ricardi filii Ursi.
\Rotulus de Dominabus (ed. S. Grimaldi, p. 31 and pp. 13, 14).]
36. Form of Inquisition for Escheators (1259).
Forma inquisitionis faciende, per domini regis eschaetorem, de
terris et tenementis et rebus aliis in eisdem contentis archiepiscoporum,
episcoporum, comitum, baronum, abbatum et priorum et aliorum, qui
de domino Rege tenent in capite, post eorum decessum.
Inquiratur de maneriis, quot acre sint in dominico arabiles, et
quantum quelibet valeat per se, et qui eas teneant. Quot acre prati,
et quantum quelibet valeat, et qui eas teneant. Quot pasture separ-
abiles, et qui eas teneant. Quales et quantas bestias quelibet pastura
possit sustinere, et quantum valeat pastura cujuslibet acre per se ad
locandum. Quales et quantas bestias dominus possit habere in
pastura communi. Quod commodum columbariorum, gardinorum
per annum. Quod commodum piscaturarum separabilium per
annum. Quot molendini, et quantum valeant per annum. Quales
bosci, et quid valeant, ut in pannagiis, herbagiis et aliis. Quot
libere tenentes, et que tenementa teneant, et a quo tempore;
que servitia teneantur facere, et quantum reddunt per annum.
Quot consuetudinarii, et quales consuetudines faciant; quantum
valeat quelibet consuetudo per se; quantum reddant de redditu
assiso preter consuetudines. Et qui, tarn libere tenentium quam
consuetudinariorum, possint filios et filias maritare sine licentia
domini vel ballivorum suorum, et qui non; et qui possint tayliari ad
voluntatem domini, et qui non. Quantum valere possint placita,
Feudal Inquisitions 71
perquisita, cherchescot, tarn in blado quam in gallinis et in aliis
exitibus, herieta, mercata, per annum. Quod commodum de visu
franci plegii. Item, si sit hundredum conjunctum manerio, quantum
valeat commodum hundredi per annum. Item, quale et quantum
instaurum dominus possit habere in manerio. Inquiratur etiam que
approchiamenta fieri possunt in eodem manerio, ut de assartis,
brueriis frustrandis, de molendinis et furnis consuetudinariis con-
struendis. Item, de mercato et nundinis faciendis. Item, de gurgiti-
bus et columbariis levandis et omnimodis aliis approbamentis faciendis.
Inquiratur etiam que eschaete acciderint domino in manerio Y. ut de
terris Normannorum, felonum, et pro defectu heredum, et omnibus
aliis eschaetis; quis eas teneat, et per quos, et a quo tempore, et
quantum valeant per annum, et que expletia inde provenientia
hucusque receperint. Inquiratur etiam que alienationes facte fuerint
in eodem manerio, ut de domibus, redditibus, consuetudinibus, liber-
tatibus, advocationibus ecclesiarum, de manu domini Regis subtractis
vel alienatis. De nativis, et fugitivis, vel in libertatem mutatis. De
boscis domini Regis extra forestam assartatis et vastatis, et omnimodis
aliis alienationibus; qui illas alienationes teneant, et qui expletia inde
provenientia hucusque receperint. Item, si aliquis gerat se pro libero,
cujus pater fuit nativus; et quo jure et waranto libertatem habeat.
Item, inquiratur de alienatione servientium, si qua fuerit alienatio
adhuc non arentata, et quantum possit arentari de cetero.
[A nnales Monastici {Rolls), Vol. I. (A nnals of Burton), p. 479.]
37. Inquisition Post Mortem (55 Henry III).
(a) Writ of Inquisition (Diem clausit extremum).
Henricus, Dei gratia Rex Anglie, Dominus Hibernie et Dux
Aquitanie, dilecto et fideli suo Johanni de Reygate escaetori suo ultra
Trentam, Salutem. Quia David le Lardiner, qui de nobis tenuit in
capite, diem clausit extremum, ut accepimus, vobis mandamus quod
omnes terras et tenementa de quibus prefatus David fuit seisitus in
dominico suo ut de feodo in balliva vestra die quo obiit sine dilatione
capiatis in manum nostram et ea salvo custodiatis donee aliud inde
preceperimus; et per sacramentum proborum et legalium hominum
de balliva vestra, per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit, diligenter
inquiratis, quantum terre prefatus David tenuit de nobis in capite in
balliva vestra die quo obiit, et quantum de aliis, et per quod servicium,
et quantum terre ille valeant per annum in omnibus exitibus, et quis
propinquior heres ejus sit, et cujus etatis. Et Inquisitionem inde
distincte et aperte factam nobis, sub sigillo vestro et sigillis eorum per
quos facta fuerit, sine dilatione mittatis et hoc breve. Teste me ipso,
apud Westmonasterium, xxv die Octobris, anno regni nostri lv
to
.
72 Select Formulas of
(6) The Extent.
Extenta [facta] die Lune proxima post festum Sancti Leonardi
coram J[ohanne] de Reygate, apud Eboracum, anno regni Regis
Henrici Lsexto, quantum terre David le Lardiner tenuit de domino
Rege in capite die quo obiit, et quantum de aliis, et per quod servicium,
et quantum terre ille valeant per annum in omnibus exitibus, et quis
propinquior heres ejus sit, et cujus etatis, facta per sacramentum
Thome Busterd [and eleven other jurors']. Qui dicunt super sacra-
mentum suum quod idem David tenuit quoddarn mesuagium in
Eboraco vij /. xij s. j d. annui redditus, et recepit dictum redditum per
manum ballivorum Eboraci. Idem recepit ij s. annui redditus per
manum Johannis le Especer. Et recepit in Eboraco de Johanne de
Beverle, iiij s. Item, Thomas Bustard reddit eidem vij s. pro terra sua
in Bustardthorp. Et tenet quandam landam que vocatur Cortteburn,
et valet per annum vj s. viij d. Omnia predicta tenuit de domino
Rege in capite, ad gaolam domini Regis de foresta custodiendam, et
ad lardariam domini Regis faciendam et custodiendam, et ad sal
custibus suis inveniendum. Et pro hoc habebit crura superiora et
loynes; et faciet venditiones pro debito domini Regis per summoni-
cionem de Scaccario; et ad quamlibet venditionem habebit \)s. viij d.
Et tenuit de domino Roberto de Neuvilla in Skeltone unum mesua-
gium cum columbario et gardino quod valet per annum j marcam.
Summa paret. Et tenet ibidem de eodem, in dominico, quinque
bovatas terre, quarum quelibet valet per annum x s. Summa, LJ . Et
facit forinsecum domino Roberto. Item, tenet unum molendinum ad
ventum, et valet per annum j marcam. Item, tenet unam carucatam
terre in dominico in Mortone que valet, cum pertinenciis, iiij /. Summa,
iiii/. Et reddit altari monasterii Sancte Marie Eboraci VJ\ per
annum. Et David filius ejus est ejus heres propinquior et est plene
etatis.
[Endorsed.] Domino Regi vel ejus Cancellario.
[Ch. Inq.p. m. Henry III, File 39, No. 6 {Cal. No. 753).]
38. Supplementary Inquisition Post Mortem (7 Elizabeth),
(a) Writ of Inquisition (Que plura).
Elizabetha, Dei gratia Anglie, Francie et Hibernie Regina, Fidei
Defensor etc. escaetori suo in comitatu Wigornie, Salutem. Quia
datum est nobis intelligi quod Willelmus Pynnock, generosus, de-
functus, qui de nobis tenuit in capite, tenuit die quo obiit plura terras
et tenementa in comitatu predicto quam in Inquisicione inde post
mortem predicti Willelmi de mandato dominorum Philippi et Marie,
nuper Regis et Regine Anglie, capta et in Cancellariam ipsorum nuper
Regis et Regine retornata specificantur, tibi precipimus quod, per
sacramentum proborum et legalium hominum de balliva tua per quos
rei veritas melius sciri poterit, diligenter inquiras que plura terras et
Feudal Inquisitions 73
tenementa predictus Willelmus tenuit in comitatu predicto die quo
obiit, et de quo vel de quibus ilia plura terre et tenementa teneantur,
et per quod servicium, et quantum valeant per annum in omnibus, et
Inquisicionem inde distincte et aperte factam nobis in Cancellariam
nostram, sub sigillo tuo et sigillis eorum per quos facta fuerint, sine
dilacione mittas et hoc breve. Teste me ipsa, apud Westmonasterium,
xij die Marcii, anno regni nostri septimo.
(jb) The Inquisition.
Wigornia. Inquisitio indentata capta apud Upton super Sabrinam
in comitatu Wigornie xxvj die Novembris, anno regni domine Eliza-
bethe, etc. [as above] octavo, coram Johanne Badger, armigero,
escaetore dicte domine Regine comitatus predicte, virtute brevis
dicte domine Regine de 'que plura' post mortem Willelmi Pinnocke
nuper de Hanley Castle in comitatu predicto armigeri defuncti
eidem escaetori directi et huic Inquisitioni consuti, per sacramentum,
etc. [names of the jurors follow] proborum et legalium hominum
comitatus predicti, qui dicunt super eorum sacramentum quod pre-
dictus Willelmus Pynnock, in dicto brevi nominatus, non tenuit alia
sive plura terras aut tenementa in dicto comitatu die quo obiit quam
in Inquisicione quadam inde, post mortem predicti Willelmi, de man-
dato dominorum Philippi et Marie nuper Regis et Regine Anglie
capta et in Cancellariam ipsorum nuper Regis et Regine retornata,
specificantur. In cujus rei testimonium tarn predictus escaetor quam
juratores predicti huic Inquisitioni sigilla sua apposuerunt, die et anno
supradictis.
Per me Joannem Badger escaetorem domine Regine pro comitatu
Wigornie
1
.
Transcriptum inde mittitur in Curiis Wardarum et Scaccarii per
Hawley.
Liberata fuit Curie viij die Februarii anno subscripto per manum
Humfridi Wilshere.
[Chan. Inq.p. ni. Elizabeth., Vol. 143, No. 14.]
39. Inquisition for ' Proof of Age' (35 Henry III).
(a) Writ of Inquisition.
Henricus, etc. [as in No. 37] vicecomiti Cantebrigsire, Salutem.
Precipimus tibi quod, per sacramentum proborum et legalium hominum
de Comitatu tuo, per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit, diligenter
inquiras si Matheus films Guimari de Torintune, qui est in custodia
Petri de Sabaudia, legittime sit etatis, ita quod hereditas sua, secundum
regni Anglie consuetudinem, de jure sibi debeat restitui; et Inquisi-
tionem inde factam, sub sigillo tuo et sigillis eorum per quos facta
fuerit, nobis mittas et hoc breve. Teste me ipso, apud Wudestoke,
xij die Julii, anno regni nostri xxxv.
1
The names and marks of the jurors are subjoined.
74 Select Formulas of
(b) The Inquisition.
Inquisitio facta de etate Mathei filii Gumari de Torintone, per
Robertum de Hastingges [and twelve other jurors]. Qui dicunt, super
sacramentum suum, quod predictus Matheus erit etatis viginti duorum
annorum ad festum Sancti Mathei proximo venturum anno regni
Regis Henrici xxxv
to
, et quod hereditas sua, secundum consuetudinem
Regni Anglie, sibi de jure debet restitui.
[Chan. Inq. p. m. Henry III, File 12 it) (Cal. No. 226).]
40. Certificate of Homage (2 Henry VI.).
(a) Departmental Warrant for Homage to be taken in accord-
ance with an Inquisition.
Salutem cum dilectione sincera. Compertum est per quandam
Inquisicionem coram Andrea Botillere, chivaler, escaetore domini
nostri Regis in comitatu Suffolcie, de mandate ejusdem domini nostri
Regis captam et in Cancellaria sua retornatam, quod Radulphus
Sheltone miles defunctus tenuit, die quo obiit, in dominico suo ut de
feodo,manerium deBrendilleye cum pertinenciis in comitatu predicto de
dicto domino nostro Rege ut de honore suo de Elione per servicium
unius feodi militis et dimidii, et quod Willelmus Sheltone filius ejusdem
Radulphi est heres propinquior et plene etatis. Per quod idem
Willelmus ad homagium suum dicto domino nostro Regi pro manerio
predicto, ut tenetur, faciendum personaliter ad vos venit. Placeat
igitur vobis eundem Willelmum predicto domino nostro Regi pre-
sentare ut, capto homagio suo, ulterius inde significet velle suum.
Scriptum Londonie, xxvj die Januarii.
H[omfrey] chambellain d'Engleterre.
Per Custodem rotulorum Cancellarii domini nostri Regis.
Juratutn d[icto\ xxvj die Januarii anno etc. secundo.
[Endorsed!] Nobili ac potenti viro Camerario domini nostri Regis
Pro homagio Per custodem Privati SigilH ejusdem domini nostri Regis.
(b) The Certificate.
Le Roy a pris son homage
1
.
[Chancery, Certificates of Homage, Bdle 1.]
41. Inquisition upon taking the Veil (7 Richard II).
(a) Writ of Inquisition.
Ricardus, Dei gratia, Rex Anglie et Francie et dominus Hibernie,
dilecto sibi Willelmo de Skipwyth juniori, escaetori suo in comitatu
1
This note is written on the top of the document in a cursive hand.
Feudal Inquisitions 75
Lincolnie, Salutem. Quia Johanna filia Johannis, filii Johannis, filii
Johannis Chamont, militis, defuncti, qui de domino Edwardo, nuper
Rege Anglie, avo nostro, tenuit in capite, consanguinea et una heredum
ejusdem Johannis Chamont nuper dum infra etatem et in custodia
nostra fuit habitum religionis assumpsit, in quo habitu professa est, ut
accepimus, tibi precipimus quod, per sacramentum proborum et
legalium hominum de balliva tua, per quos rei veritas melius sciri
poterit, diligenter inquiras si eadem Johanna hujusmodi habitum
religionis assumpserit, et in eodem habitu professa existat, necne. Et
si sic, tune ubi, et quo tempore, et que terre et que tenementa in
manu nostra ratione minoris etatis prefate Johanne existunt, et
quantum inde de nobis teneatur, et quantum de aliis, et per quod
servitium, et qualiter, et quo modo, et quis propinquior heres ipsius
Johanne est, et cujus etatis. Et Inquisicionem inde, distincte et
aperte factam, nobis in Cancellaria nostra, sub sigillo tuo et sigillis
eorum per quos facta fuerit, sine dilatione mittas et hoc breve. Teste
me ipso, apud Westmonasterium, xv die Octobris, anno regni nostri
septimo.
[Endorsed?^ Responsio Willelmi de Skipwith, Escaetoris domini
Regis in comitatu Lincolnesire.
Per sacramentum proborum et legalium hominum de balliva mea
diligenter inquisivi de omnibus articulis et circumstanciis in isto
brevi contentis et Inquisicionem inde, distincte et aperte coram me
captam, coram vobis mitto, sub sigillo meo et sigillis eorum per quos
facta fuit, huic brevi consuto, inspiciendam.
[Chanc. Inq. p. in. 7 Ric. II, No. 29.]
(b) The Inquisition.
Inquisitio capta apud Hospitale super Stratam, die Lune proxima
post festum Sancti Valentini, anno regni Regis Ricardi secundi post
conquestum, septimo ; coram Willelmo de Skipwith juniore, escaetore
domini Regis in comitatu Lincolnesire, virtute brevis dicti domini
Regis eidem escaetori directi, per sacramentum Willelmi Nevyl [and
eleven others]. Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum quod Johanna
filia Johannis, filii Johannis, filii Johannis Chaumont, militis, defuncti,
qui de domino Edwardo nuper* Rege Anglie, avo Regis nunc, tenuit
in capite
1
, habitum religionis assumpsit, videlicet in ordine de
Sympryngham, in uno prioratu ordinis Sancti Gilberti de Chykesond
juxta Bedeford. Et dicunt quod utrum dicta Johanna sit professa
aut non, penitus ignorant. Et dicunt quod predicta Johanna assump-
sit dictum habitum monialem in festo Sancti Michaelis anno regni
Regis nunc sexto. Et dicunt quod sunt in manu domini Regis,
ratione minoris etatis ejusdem Johanne, medietas unius aule in
Spridlyngton [Extent of lands follows]. Et dicunt quod non tenuit
plura terras seu tenementa de domino Rege nee de aliis dominis in
comitatu predicto. Item, dicunt quod Margareta soror ipsius Johanne
1
Cf. Inq. p. m. 6 Ric. II, No. 24 and 8 Ric. II, No. 11.
76 Select Formulas of
est heres propinquior ejusdem Johanne et est etatis octodecim
annorum et amplius. In cujus rei testimonium presentibus sigilla
predictorum juratorum sunt appensa. Data die, loco et anno
supradictis.
[Ibid, and Inq. p. m. {Exchequer Series), File 50, No. 12.]
42. Assignment of Dower (15 Richard 1Y).
(a) The Writ' De dote assignanda
1
.'
Rex dilecto sibi Willelmo Bolle, escaetori suo in comitatu Lincolne-
sire, Salutem. Scias quod de maneriis, terris et tenementis que fuerunt
Johannis de Burgherssh, chivaler, defuncti qui de nobis tenuit in
capite die quo obiit et que per mortem ipsius Johannis capta fuerunt
in manum nostram, tam de assensu Johanne de Mohun domine de
Dunster, cui custodiam propartis Matilde, filie et unius heredum
ejusdem Johannis, infra etatem et in custodia nostra existentis, ipsam
Matildam de maneriis, terris et tenementis predictis secundum legem
et consuetudinem regni nostri Anglie contingentem, concessimus,
quam Johannis Grenevylle et Margarete uxoris ejus, filie et alterius
heredum predicti Johannis de. Burgherssh, plene etatis existentis,
assignavimus Ismanie, que fuit uxor predicti Johannis de Burghessh,
terciam partem manerii de Skendelby cum pertinenciis in comitatu
predicto, exceptis [certain parcels follow], habendam in dotem ipsius
Ismanie, ipsam, de maneriis, terris et tenementis cum pertinenciis que
fuerunt predicti Johannis de Burgherssh quondam viri sui die quo
obiit, secundum legem et consuetudinem predictas, contingentem. Et
ideo tibi precipimus quod, capto sacramento ipsius Ismanie quod se
non maritabit sine licencia nostra, eidem Ismanie dictam terciam
partem predicti manerii de Skendelby predictis duabus acris terre in
eadem tercia parte exceptis [etc.] que per mortem predicti Johannis de
Burgherssh capta fuerunt in manum nostram sine dilatione liberes
habendam in dotem suam predictam in forma predicta. Teste Rege,
apud Westmonasterium, xxj die Marcii.
[Close Roll, 15 Ric. II, M. 8.]
(&) Certificate of Assignment of Dower, by virtue of the King's
Writ*.
Assignacio dotis facta per Johannem Malvire vicecomitem
Warrwici, Willelmo de Tyryngtone et Johanne uxori ejus, nuper uxori
1
This writ has been substituted for that referred to in the following document (No. 42 (6))
which has not been found on the Close Roll. The form is a very common one, but the
assent of the lord is not always expressed (see 42 {c)).
2
See above n. 1 and cf. Inq. p. m. 12 Ric. II, No. 91 and 14 Ric. II, No. 82. This and
the following Inquisition are also found as draft Assignments, having been probably preserved
as vouchers for the Escheator's Account. They were communicated by the kindness of
Mr Ratcliffe of the Public Record Office.
Feudal Inquisitions yy
Roberti le Fyzwith, de manerio de Bobenhulle in dicto comitatu, die
Saboti in crastino Sancti Thome Martiris in septimana Natalis
Domini, anno regni Regis Ricardi secundi post conquestum
quinto decimo; videlicet de situ manerii, aulam cum camera [the
boundaries follow]. Item, redditus exeuntes de tenementis [names of
tenants follow]. Simul cum serviciis omnium tenentium supradictorum,
cum eorum tenuris et eorum sequelis. In cujus rei testimonium
sigillum vicecomitis predicti comitatus presentibus est appensum.
[Inquisitions p. m. {Exchequer Series), File 60, No. 16.]
(c) Certificate of Assignment of Dower, by the lords consent,
Assignacio dotis facta apud Shoteswelle, die Mercurii, in septimana
Pasche, anno regni Regis Ricardi, secundi post conquestum, quinto-
decimo, Willelmo de Tyrington et Johanne uxori sue, nuper uxoris
Roberti le Fitzwyth de manerio de Shoteswelle, cum pertinenciis, in
comitatu Warwicsire per preceptum Comitis Warwici et concilii sui,
unde dicta Johanna ante hec tempora dotata fuit et nunc idem comes
de certo prebet assensum
1
. Inprimis, ipsa dotata fuit de citu manerii,
videlicet [the boundaries and parcels follow] cum redditibus et serviciis
omnium tenencium supradictorum, cum tenuris eorundem cum
acciderint; cum libero introitu et exitu per portas et hostia citi dicti
manerii et rationabiles vias ad terras et tenementa predicta. In
cujus rei testimonium Johannes de Catesby firmarius, jam dicti
Comitis de duabus partibus, quam dicti Willelmi et Johanne de tercia
parte ejusdem manerii, sigilla sua presentibus apposuit. Data die
et anno supradictis.
[Inquisitions p. m. {Exchequer Series), File 60, No. 16.]
43. Distraint of Knighthood (21 Edward I).
{a) Precept to the Sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire to extend
and take possession of the lands of those neglecting to take
up knighthood.
Edwardus, Dei gratia Rex Anglie, Dominus Hibernie et Dux
Aquitanie, vicecomiti Oxonie et Berkesire, Salutem. Cum decimo
octavo die Februarii anno regni nostri vicesimo tibi preceperimus quod
in plenis comitatibus tuis proximis publice proclamari, et omnibus
illis de balliva tua quorum interesset ex parte nostra scire faceres quod
illi de comitatibus predictis qui haberent quadraginta libratas terre in
feodo et hereditate, et qui terras illas et tenementa per triennium ante
diem predictum et amplius tenuissent et milites esse debuissent et non
erant, arma militaria reciperent ante festum Natalis Domini proximo
jam preteritum; ac quidam de balliva tua, licet arma militaria juxta
1
Cf. above 42 (a) in the case of Joan de Moiun.
78 Select Formulas of
formam mandati nostri predicti recepisse debuissent, ea tamen, ut
accepimus, nondum receperint, in ejusdem mandati nostri contemptum
manifestum; per quod nos inde certiorari volentes, tibi precipimus
quod, inquisita inde per sacramentum tarn militum quam aliorum
proborum et legalium hominum de balliva tua, per quos rei veritas
melius sciri poterit, plenius veritate, omnes terras et tenementa
omnium illorum de balliva tua predicta qui arma militaria recepisse
debuerunt ante festum predictum, juxta tenorem mandati nostri pre-
dicti, et ea non receperunt ante festum Circumcisionis Domini jam
transactum, sine dilatione capias in manum nostram et ea salvo
custodias donee aliud a nobis inde specialiter habueris in mandatis.
Inquisita etiam veritate, quantum terre et tenementa cujuslibet
ipsorum in balliva tua valeant per annum in omnibus exitibus nobis
inde, et de nominibus eorundem, per latorem presentium, quern ad te
ea occasione transmittimus et cui injunximus quod responsum tuum
super hoc expectet per litteras tuas, cum omni festinacione qua fieri
poterit, distincte et aperte constare facias, remittens nobis hoc breve.
Et ita te habeas in hoc mandato nostro exequendo ne super negligentia
tua in hac parte merito valeas reprehendi, per quod ad te et tua graviter
capere debeamus. Teste me ipso, apud Novum Castrum super Tynam,
secundo die Januarii, anno regni nostri vicesimo primo.
Herdewyk.
[Endorsed^] Responsum hujus brevis patet in cedula huic brevi
attachiata et etiam in Inquisicionibus huic brevi attachiatis.
(b) Inquisitions of Knighthood in Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
Ad mandatum domini Regis cepi Inquisiciones in comitatibus
Oxonie et Berkesire secundum tenorem brevis domini Regis michi
inde directi. Que quidem Inquisiciones brevi domini Regis sunt
attachiate. Et per inquisicionem in comitatu Oxonie factam com-
pertum est quod Willelmus Loveday habet quadraginta libratas terre
in feodo per annum, in omnibus exitibus, et terram illam tenuit per
triennium ante diem in brevi contentum, set terre sue non excedunt
predictas quadraginta libratas. [ The names of others qualified follow.]
Et non sunt plures in comitatu Oxonie qui quadraginta libratas terre
tenuerunt in forma predicta. Attamen quidam habent terras in
comitatu Oxonie et terras in aliis comitatibus, et quorum interest
esse milites, ut dicitur, quorum nomina patent in Inquisicione de
comitatu Oxonie facta que attachiatur brevi, et quarum quidem
terrarum valor in comitatu Oxonie videri potest in ilia Inquisicione.
Et valor in aliis comitatibus sciri non potest per me nee per in-
quisicionem comitatus predicti, nisi tantum de Johanne de Leukenore,
uno nominato in Inquisicione predicta, qui habet terras in comitatibus
Oxonie et Berkesire, set se non extendunt ad predictas quadraginta
libratas. Et quia ignoratur de valore terrarum hujusmodi tenentium
in diversis comitatibus, ideo terre eorum in comitatu Oxonie capte
non sunt in manum domini Regis.
Feudal Inquisitions 79
Et per aliam inquisicionem, in comitatu Berkesire captam, com-
pertum fuit quod nullus in comitatu predicto fuit tenens de quadraginta
libratis terre in feodo, per annum, per terminum ante diem contentum
in brevi, quique arma militaria recepit secundum preceptum domini
Regis, nisi quidam qui tenent terras in diversis comitatibus, de quibus
patet plenius in Inquisicione in comitatu Berkesire capta et que
attachiata est huic cedule et brevi. Et quia valor terrarum suarum
in aliis comitatibus quam in comitatibus Oxonie et Berkesire sciri non
poterit, ideo capte non sunt in manum domini Regis, quia terre
eorum in balliva mea ad xl libratas per annum non extendunt.
Inquisitio capta coram vicecomite Berkesire super Magnum Pontem
Oxonie per sacramentum Willelmi atte Hide [and 35 other jurors] ad
inquirendum qui sunt illi qui habent quadraginta libratas terre in feodo
et hereditate et terras illas tenuerunt in manus suas per triennium ante
decimum octavum diem Februarii anno Regis Edwardi vicesimo, et
milites esse debent et arma militaria non receperunt ante festum
Circumcisionis Domini anno Regis Edwardi vicesimo primo, secundum
quod per breve domini Regis prius inde predicto vicecomiti directum
fuit preceptum. Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum quod non est
aliquis in comitatu Berkesire qui tenuerit quadraginta libratas terre in
feodo et hereditate per triennium ante diem in brevi contentum et qui
miles debeat esse, nisi tantum illi qui arma militaria ante Circum-
cisionem Domini receperunt, set sunt quidam in comitatu Berkesire
qui debent esse milites, ut dicitur, propter terras quas tenent, et per
triennium, ante diem in brevi contentum tenuerunt, in diversis comita-
tibus, quarum quidem terrarum valor in isto comitatu inquiri non
potest, videlicet Willelmus de Favelore tenet terram, etc. [other names
follow\. In cujus rei testimonium predicti juratores sigilla sua huic
Inquisitioni apposuerunt. [A similar inquisition follows for Oxford-
shire^
[K. R. Knights' Fees, Bundle 3/5, m. 101-4.]
44. Composition for Knighthood,
(a) Commission of Inquiry.
Carolus, Dei gratia Anglie, Scotie, Francie et Hibernie Rex, Fidei
Defensor, Etc. dilectis et fidelibus nostris Thome Sackvile, militi
Balnei, Waltero Covert, militi, Willelmo Foorde, militi, Ricardo
Amherst, servienti ad legem, Ricardo Lewkenore, armigero, et
Johanni Middleton, armigero, Salutem. Cum nos ex certis causis
urgentibus diversa brevia nostra omnibus et singulis vicecomitibus
de quolibet comitatu civitate et burgo regni nostri Anglie mandave-
rimus, precipiendo quod quilibet hujusmodi vicecomitum summon[eret]
omnes et singulos infra ballivas suas, tarn infra libertatem quam extra,
terras tenementa vel hereditamenta quecumque annui valoris xl
librarum in usu vel possessione habentes, quod compareant ad certum
80 Select Formulas of
diem et locum in hujusmodi brevibus contenta ad recipiendum ordinem
militarem, juxta formam Statuti in hujusmodi casibus editi, et provisi;
sciatis quod nos, de fidelitate, industria et providis circumspectionibus
vestris in negotiis nostris agendis confidentes, assignavimus vos Com-
missionarios nostros ad tractandum, communicandum et componendum
cum omnibus et singulis subditis nostris de comitatu nostro Sussexie,
in libertate Quinque Portuum de comitatu nostro Sussexie predicte,
qui finem nobiscum in hujusmodi casu facere voluerint pro ex-
oneratione predicte ordinis militaris hac vice, vel pro contemptu
suo in ea parte. Dantes et concedentes vobis, quatuor, tribus sive
duobus vestrum plenam auctoritatem et potestatem, per presentes, ad
tractandum et componendum, determinandum et concludendum cum
omnibus et singulis dictis subditis nostris qui finem nobiscum in
hujusmodi casu facere voluerint; necnon ad taxandum et assidendum
hujusmodi fines ad certam pecunie summam prout cum subditis
nobis predictis, quorum interest in hac parte, concordare poteritis
secundum quosdam Articulos presentibus annexatos et non aliter.
Ac dies sive diem solucionis hujusmodi finium limittandum et ap-
punctuandum, juxta sanas discretiones vestras et secundum veram
intencionem Articulorum predictorum, ad manus collectorum sive
receptorum nostrorum in ea parte appunctuatorum sive appunctu-
andorum ad usum nostrum; et quicquid in premissis vos aut duo
sive plures vestrum feceritis secundum veram intencionem presentium,
nos gratum et ratum habebimus; ac omnes illos qui nobiscum fines
fecerint pro exoneracione ordinis predicte, vel pro contemptu suo in
ea parte, ut prefertur, exoneramus, et exonerati sint et quieti erga nos
proinde per presentes.
Volumus etiam quod vos [etc.] certificacionem de toto facto vestro
[etc.] in premissis habeatis [etc.] coram Baronibus de Scaccario nostro
apud Westmonasterium quam citius poteritis [etc.] sub sigillis vestris
[etc.] Curie nostre tune ibidem, unacum hac Commissione nostra,
liberandam. Volumus, insuper, et mandamus, per presentes, vice-
comitibus [etc.] infra comitatum nostrum predictum quod vobis [etc.]
auxiliantes sint [etc.]. In cujus rei, etc. [as in No. 28]. Teste Humfrido
Davenport milite, apud Westmonasterium, xiij
0
die Februarii, anno
regni nostri septimo.
Per rotulum Memorandorum de eodem anno, rotulo kujus Trinitatis,
Commissionum et Litterarum Patentium rotulo, et per Barones
1
.
Fanshawe.
(b) The Articles of Inquisition.
Instruccons to bee observed in the execucion of the Commissions
touchinge Knighthood.
i. First upon the receipt of this Our Commission you are to meete
together and by your joint consents to advise and resolve of the fyttest
tymes and places and manner of the executinge of this Comission w
th
the most expedicion and beste advantage for our service. [Fourteen
other articles follow?^
1
Endorsed with a note of delivery into Court by one of the Commissioners.
Feudal Inquisitions 8r
(c) The Return by the Commissioners.
The names of those persons, together with theire severall answeres,
within the Rape and Citty of Chichester and the Rape of Arundell
who have been summoned to appeare beefore us [etc.] comicioners,
amongst others, assigned within the County of Sussex by virtue of his
Ma
ties
Comicion and Instructions to us directed out of his Ma
ties
Court
of Excheq
r
, beareing date the thirteenth day of February in the
seaventh yeare of the reigne of our soveraigne lorde Charles, by the
grace of God, Kinge of Englande, [etc.] to compound for not appearinge
at his Ma
ties
coronacion to take upon them the order of knighthood;
this beeinge the true states of theire cases particularly as wee can any
way bee informed, viz.
Chichester Citty.
Allen Gawen of Chichester sayth that hee hath not forty pounds
per annum, and he was in ward at the time of his Ma
ties
coronation.
[Other evidence follows.]
[Commissioners' Signatures appended.]
[Exchequer K. R. Special Commission 5678 {collated with K. R.
Memor. Roll, Hil. 7, Car. I, rot. 88).]
45. Summons to Court in respect of Knighthood (21 Edward I).
(a) Writ of Summons.
Edwardus, etc. [as in No. 43] dilecto et fideli suo Reginaldo de
Grey, Justiciario suo Cestrie, Salutem. Quia Alianoram filiam nostram
primogenitam nobili viro domino H[enrico] Comiti de Bar volumus
maritare, et festum maritagii illius apud Bristolliam die Dominica
proxima post festum Exaltationis Sancte Crucis, Domino concedente,
honoriffice celebrari, vobis mandamus, firmiter injungentes, quod
omnes milites de balliva vestra corpore et facultatibus potentiores
et magis idoneos ex parte nostra specialiter rogari faciatis et requiri
ut, dictis die et loco, predicte solempnitati non omittant personaliter
interesse. Et habeatis ibi tune nomina militum quos sic rogari
feceritis et hoc breve. Teste me ipso, apud Clarendon, xxx die
Augusti, anno regni nostri vicesimo primo.
(b) The Return.
Milites potenciores corpore et facultatibus et magis idonei de
balliva mea, rogati ad maritagium domine Alianore filie domini Regis
primogenite. Domini:Hamo de Mascy, Johannes de Orreby, Hugo
de Duttone, Thomas Tuschet, Radulphus de Vernon, Edmundus
Fyton, Petrus de Duttone.
[Misc. of the Chancery, Bdle i, File 4, No. 3.]
H. F. 11. 6
82 Select Formulas of
46. Inquisition as to the duties of a Serjeanty (31 Henry III).
(a) Writ of Inquisition.
Henricus, etc. [as in No. 37] vicecomiti Eboracsire, Salutem.
Precipimus tibi quod per sacramentum proborum et legalium hominum
de comitatu tuo per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit diligenter in-
quiras utrum gaiola nostra de foresta que est in custodia Davidis le
Lardiner et in civitate nostra Eboraci fieri debeat ad custum nostrum
vel ad custum ipsius Davidis eo quod custodiam illam habet de feodo.
Et Inquisicionem inde factam, sub sigillo tuo et sigillis eorum per
quos facta fuerit, sine dilatione nobis mittas et hoc breve. Teste
me ipso, apud Westmonasterium, xiij die Februarii, anno regni
nostri xxxj.
(b) Further Writ of Inquisition.
Henricus, etc. [as in No. 37] vicecomiti Eboracsire, Salutem.
Precipimus tibi quod, per sacramentum proborum et legalium hominum
de comitatu tuo diligentem facias Inquisitionem utrum David Lardi-
narius, qui habet de feodo custodiam gaiole nostre de foresta in
comitatu Eboracsire, debeat gaiolam illam construere et reparare ad
custum suum proprium, vel construi et reparari debeat gaiola ilia ad
custum nostrum. Et Inquisicionem inde factam, sub sigillo tuo et
sigillis eorum per quos facta fuerit, sine dilatione nobis mittas et hoc
breve. Teste me ipso, apud Wodestoke, xxvj die Julii, anno regni
nostri xxxj.
(c) The Inquisition.
Inquisitio utrum gaiola domini Regis de foresta, que est in custodia
Davidis Le Lardiner in civitate Eboraci, fieri debeat ad custum domini
Regis, vel ad custum ipsius Davidis, eo quod custodiam illam habet de
feodo, facta per subscriptos scilicet Willelmum de Barton [and eleven
other jurors']. Qui dicunt, super sacramentum suum, quod dominus
Rex habuit eandem gaiolam suam in civitate Eboraci ad incarceratos
suos custodiendos qui capti fuerunt pro transgressione foreste domini
Regis, quam predictus David Le Lardener modo habet in custodia
sua de feodo; priusque idem David vel alii antecessorum suorum
feoffati fuerunt per cartam domini Regis de custodia dicte gaiole, que
facta fuit ad custum domini Regis. Et nunquam postea necesse fuit
ipsam gaiolam innovare; set in tempore Galfridi de Nevilla, Camerarii
Anglie, qui fuit custos de foresta et vicecomes Eboracsire et custos
castrorum domini Regis in eodem comitatu, fuit predicta gaiola in
aliqua parte sua emendata, ita, scilicet, quod maeremium unde fuit
reparata captum fuit in foresta domini Regis de Galtris per predictum
Galfridum et reparata fuit ad custum domini Regis, et hac ratione
dicunt dicti inquisitores quod dicta gaiola debet reparari ad custum
Feudal Inquisitions 8$
domini Regis et non ad custum predicti Davidis. In cujus rei
testimonium huic inquisitioni sigilla sua apposuerunt.
\Chanc. Miscellaneous Inquisitions, File 2, Nos. 15 and 19.]
47. Regard of the Forest (1339 Henry III),
(a) Writ of Inquisition (13 Henry III).
Rex, vicecomiti Rotelande
1
, Salutem. Precipimus tibi quod sine
dilatione convenire facias coram te, ad diem competentem et locum,
omnes forestarios et regardatores ballive tue, ad regardum faciendum
in eadem balliva tua, ante adventum capitalis justiciarii foreste nostre
in partes illas. Et loco regardatorum qui mortui sunt vel infirmi, alios
eligi facias de comitatu tuo, ita quod duodecim sint in quolibet regardo,
et nomina eorum imbrevientur. Debent autem forestarii jurare, quod
ducent duodecim milites electos per totam ballivam suam, ad viden-
dum omnes transgressiones que exprimuntur in scripto Capitulorum
quod tibi mittimus, et hoc non dimittent pro aliqua re. Debent etiam
milites jurare quod facient regardum secundum formam Capitulorum
predictorum et quod ibunt sicut forestarii illos ducent ad predicta vi-
denda. Et si forestarii noluerint vel nescierint illos ducere, vel aliquod
forisfactum concelare voluerint, quod ipsi milites non dimittent pro
illis, quin forisfactum illud videant et imbreviari facient, et hoc pro
nulla re dimittent. Hoc autem breve et Capitula predicta conscri-
bantur et mittantur in quolibet regardo; ita quod regardatores
secundum formam predictorum Capitulorum possint operari. Manda-
vimus autem forestariis et regardatoribus ballive tue, per Literas
nostras quas ad te mittimus, quod ad mandatum tuum sic faciant.
Tu igitur predicta predicto modo exsequi non omittas, ita quod
regardum fiat ante octavas Pasche anno regni nostri decimo tertio.
Teste rege, apud Westmonasterium, vicesimo primo die Februarii,
anno [regni nostri tertio decimo].
(b) Writ of Instruction (same date).
Rex, forestariis et regardatoribus per comitatum Rotelande
1
constitutis, Salutem. Mandavimus vicecomiti Rotelande quod, sine
dilatione, vos coram se convenire faciat, ad faciendum regardum
in balliva sua, ante adventum capitalis justiciarii foreste nostre in
partes illas ; et loco regardatorum qui mortui sunt vel infirmi alios
eligi faciat, ita quod duodecim sint in quolibet regardo, et nomina
illorum imbrevientur. Jurabitis autem, vos forestarii et regardatores,
quod inde operabimini, sicut plenius exprimitur in Literis nostris et
scripto Capitulorum que predicto vicecomiti misimus. Vobis igitur
mandamus quod hec omnia, que ad vos pertinent secundum predicta,
ad mandatum ipsius vicecomitis exsequamini diligenter; ita tamen
quod regardum illud fiat ante octavas Pasche anno regni nostri
decimo tertio. Teste ut supra.
1
This writ was also sent to 24 other counties.
62
84 Select Formulas of
(c) Articles of Inquisition {same date).
Videnda sunt omnia assarta facta in foresta, post principium
secundi anni prime coronationis domini Henrici regis filii Johannis
regis, et estimanda per numerum acrarum ; et inquirendum quis ilia
fecerit, et quis modo ea teneat, et quo blado imbladata fuerint; et
si modo imbladata non fuerint, inquirendum quo blado inbladata
fuerint post principium secundi anni prime coronationis dicti Regis
Henrici, sive post ultimum regardum post tempus predictum factum.
Et imbladatio hivernagii scribatur per se, et imbladatio tremesii
scribatur per se, et inquirendum de cujus feodo fuerint, et ad quam
villam pertineant. Et assarta que facta fuerunt ante ultimum regardum
factum post principium secundi anni prime coronationis predicti
Regis Henrici scribantur per se; et ilia que facta fuerint postea scri-
bantur per se. Item, vidende sunt purpresture veteres et nove facte
post principium secundi anni prime coronationis predicti Regis Hen-
rici, ubicumque facte fuerint, sive in bosco sive extra boscum, sive in
landis, brueris, mariscis, turbariis et glebis, qualicumque modo occupate
fuerint, nisi sit molendinum, vivaria, stagna, marlera, vel fossatum
extra coopertum foreste, que facta fuerunt post confectionem carte
domini Regis de libertatibus foreste; et veteres scribantur per se, et
nove per se, et quis teneat.
Item, vidende sunt omnes purpresture de terra arabili extra
coopertum foreste in terra arabili, facte post confectionem carte
domini Regis de libertatibus foreste, et estimande per numerum
acrarum, et videndum quo blado modo imbladate fuerint; et si modo
imbladate non fuerint, inquirendum quo blado imbladate fuerint post
tempus predictum, et quis ea tenet, et ad quam villam pertineant et
scribantur per se.
Item, videnda sunt omnia vasta boscorum, tam nova quam vetera,
facta post principium secundi anni prime coronationis predicti Regis
Henrici, et inquirendum quis ea fecerit, et quis modo ea teneat, et de
cujus feodo sint, et quorum bosci fuerint, et ad quam villam pertineant,
et vetera scribantur per se, et nova per se.
Et videndi sunt dominici bosci domini Regis, et quilibet ceppus
de quercu et de fago factus, post principium secundi anni prime
coronationis predicti Regis Henrici, sive post ultimum regardum,
si quod postea factum fuerit, debet diligenter nominari et per se
scribi; et inquirendum utrum bosci deteriorati fuerint de subbosco vel
exbrancatura, et deterioratio subbosci et exbrancature scribatur per se.
Simili modo vidende sunt dominice haye et chacie domini Regis
ubi nemo communicat, utrum fuerint custodite de herbagio et aliis
sicut debent custodiri; et scriba[n]tur per se.
Omnes purpresture et omnia essarta et vasta facta in dominicis
domini Regis videantur, et imbrevientur eodem modo quo solebant
fieri ante confectionem carte domini Regis de libertatibus foreste con-
cessis probis hominibus Anglie.
Vidende sunt etiam aerie osturcorum et espervariorum et falconum,
in quibus boscis fuerint, et quis ea habuerit et de jure habere debuerit
et consueverit, et scriba[n]tur per se.
Feudal Inquisitions 85
Item, vidende sunt forgie et minere, in cujus feodo fuerint in
foresta, sive in dominico domini Regis, sive extra dominicum, et
inquirendurn quales consuetudines et redditus reddant, et quis ea
habuerit et de jure habere debuerit et consueverit, et ex quo tempore
incepte fuerint, et scribantur per se.
Item, videndi sunt portus in quibus applicant naves vel batelli
ad exportandum maremium vel buscam de forestis, si quis fuerit de
novo factus tempore Regis Henrici primi; quis eum fecerit vel mae-
remium vel buscam asportaverit, et per quern et in cujus feodo fuerit,
et scriba[n]tur per se.
Item, videndum est de melle si fuerit in foresta, quis illud habuerit
et de jure habere debuerit, an dominus Rex an alius.
Item, milites debent attente inquirere in itinere suo quis habuerit
arcus vel sagittas, vel balistas, vel brachettos, vel leporarios, vel
aliquid aliud ingenium ad malefaciendum domino regi de bestiis suis.
{Patent Roll, 13 Henry III, m. gd. Cal. {Shirley, Royal letters, I.
345-8)-]
(d) The Regard (29 Henry III).
Hoc est Regardum factum ad Pentecostem anno regni Regis
Henrici filii Regis Johannis xxix, tarn de Assartis, quam de Purpres-
turis et aliis articulis contentis in capitulis Regardatorum quorum hec
sunt nomina [the names follow]:
Qui jurati dicunt quod Adam de Pyrintone, dominus de Faxtone,
assartavit Fackel de feodo suo proprio, et continet in se, per
estimationem, lxj acras, et pertinet ad manerium suum de Faxtone,
unde recepit post ultimum regardum, de xx acris et dimidia, j ves-
turam frumenti; et modo inbladiatur avena; et de xx acris et
dimidia, j vesturam avene, et modo jacent warecte; et xx acre
inbladiantur frumento; et dictus Adam dictum assartum adhuc tenet.
Willelmus de Merca fecit j purpresturam in Audewincle de dominico
domini Regis, et continet j rodam et dimidiam, unde nichil recepit
post ultimum regardum set modo inbladiatur frumento; et adhuc
tenet.
Nova assarta facta post itinera comitatus R. Passelewe.
Robertus de Mares assartavit in Ristone j acram, de feodo domini
Regis, unde Robertus, clericus dicti Roberti qui dictum assartum
tenet, recepit post ultimum regardum j vesturam frumenti; et modo
inbladiatur avena.
'Videnda sunt omnia vasta.'
Vetera Vasta.
Boscus de Wymale est in veteri vasto de quercubus per Simonem
de Wymale, et modo tenet illud Wido Wake.
86 Select Formulas of
Nova Vasta.
Boscus Abbatis de Burgo pertinet ad manerium suum de Cotingam
de proprio feudo suo ; set quidam angulus sub villa vastatur de novo
de quercubus per Willelmum de Hottot, Abbatem, et per castrum de
Rokingam.
Ceppi quercuum.
' Videndi sunt omnes dominici bosci et quibus ceppi,' etc.
Numerus cepporum inventorum in dominicis boscis domini Regis
tempore W....de Norhamptone.
In bosco de firma de Clyve inventi fuerunt xxxvij ceppi [etc.].
Item, 'vidende sunt dominice haye domini Regis'Dicunt quod
nichil sciunt; sed bene custodiuntur. Item, dicunt quod de pur-
presturis nee assartis factis in dominicis domini Regis nichil sciunt.
Item, 'vidende sunt omnes aerie austurcorum, spervariorum et
falconum,' etc.Dicunt quod nichil sciunt.
Item, 'vidende sunt portus quibus applicant naves,' etc.Dicunt
quod nichil sciunt.
Item, 'videndum est mel,' etc.Dicunt quod Johannes de Hout
in Stanerne exarsit in altitudine septem pedum unum quercum in
dominico bosco domini Regis pro melle invento.
Item, 'milites debent attente inquirere,' etc. Dicunt quod Henricus
de Engayn habet leporarios brachettos, ad leporem, wlpem, et catum
capiendos.
Item, dicunt quod Willelmus de Bretun habet leporarios brachettos
ad idem.
\Exch. T. of R. 67, in. 7 {Pleas of the Forest, Selden Soc.,p.
48. Inquisition 0/Non compos mentis (55 Henry III).
(a) The Writ of Inquisition.
Henricus, etc. [as in No. 37] vicecomiti Huntindonesire, Salutem.
Cum Simon de Staunton non sit compos mentis sue, ut se aut sua
regere possit, ut accepimus ; per quod, ex alienatione terrarum
suarum, posset ei et heredibus suis exheredationis periculum im-
minere; nos, volentes super hoc remedium adhiberi, tibi precipimus
quod per sacramentum, tarn militum, quam aliorum proborum
et legalium hominum de balliva tua per quos rei veritas melius sciri
poterit, in propria persona tua diligenter inquiras utrum predictus
Simon compos mentis sue non existat, sicut predictum est; et si
compos mentis sue non existat, qualiter, et quo modo, et a quo
tempore; et quantum terre sue valeant per annum in omnibus
exitibus ; et de quo teneat, et per quod servicium. Et inquisitionem
inde distincte et aperte factam nobis, sub sigillo tuo et sigillis eorum
per quos facta merit, sine dilatione mittas et hoc breve. N.D.
Feudal Inquisitions 87
(b) The Inquisition.
Inquisitio facta apud Huntingdone die dominica proxima post
festum Sancti Mathei Apostoli, anno regni regis Henrici Lquinto per
[the jurors' names follow], in Stanton, utrum Simon de Stanton
compos mentis sue non existat, prout continetur in brevi. Qui dicunt
per sacramentum suum quod predictus Simon est compos mentis sue
et in bono statu, et se et sua bene et competenter regit, nee aliquam
terrarum suarum facit alienacionem ; set dicunt quod vendidit cuidam
Ricardo Capellano vij rodas terre pro v marcis et pro redditu ix d. per
annum. Item, dicunt quod terre sue in omnibus exitibus valent per
annum xx/ . ; et tenet de Nicholao de Segrave et Roberto de Bos-
worth, per servicium unius libre cimini dicto Nicholao, et ix denari-
orum et oboli predicto Roberto pro omnibus serviciis.
[Chanc. Inq. P. M. Hen. Ill, File 40, No. 11 (Cal. No. 778).]
49. Inquisition De Lunatico inquirendo (6 William and Mary),
(a) The Writ of Inquisition.
Gulielmus et Maria, Dei gratia Anglie, Scotie, Francie et Hi-
bernie Rex et Regina, Fidei Defensores, etc. dilectis sibi Henrico
Dawly [and six other Commissioners'] Salutem. Sciatis quod assig-
navimus vos, tres vel plures vestrum, quorum prefatum Henricum
Dawley vel Thomam Coward unum esse volumus, ad inquirendum,
per sacramentum proborum et legalium hominum de comitatu nostro
Southamptone, tarn infra libertates quam extra, per quos rei veritas
melius sciri poterit, utrum Willelmus Allwin de Alresford in comitatu
Southamptone predicto, generosus, lunaticus est aut lucidis gaudeat
intervallis, ita quod regimini sui ipsius, maneriorum, messuagiorum,
terrarum, tenementorum, bonorum, et catallorum suorum non sufficit;
et si sit, tune a quo tempore, qualiter, et quomodo. Et si idem
Willelmus, in eodem statu existens, terras aut tenementa aliqua
alienaverit, necne; et si sic, quas terras et que tenementa; cui vel
quibus, ubi, quando, qualiter, et quomodo. Et que terre et tenementa,
bona et catalla adhuc sibi remaneant; et de quo vel de quibus tarn terre
et tenementa sic alienata quam terre et tenementa sibi retenta teneantur,
et per quod servicium, et qualiter et quomodo, et quantum valeant per
annum in omnibus exitibus, et quis propinquior heres ejus sit et
cujus etatis. Ideo vobis [etc.], quorum [etc.], mandamus quod, ad
certos dies et loca, quos ad hoc provideritis, diligenter super premissis
faciatis Inquisicionem, et earn distincte et aperte factam nobis in
Cancellariam nostram, sub sigillis vestris [etc.], quorum [etc.], et
sigillis eorum per quos facta fuerit, sine dilatione mittatis et has
Litteras nostras Patentes. Mandamus enim, tenore presentium, vice-
comiti nostro comitatus Southampton' predicti quod ad certos dies
et loca, quos ei sciri feceritis, venire faciat coram vobis [etc.], quorum
88 Select Formulas of
[etc.] tot et tales probos et legates homines de balliva sua, tam infra
libertates quam extra, per quos rei veritas in premissis melius sciri
poterit et inquiri. In cujus rei testimonium, has Litteras nostras fieri
fecimus Patentes. Testibus nobis ipsis, apud Westmonasterium, vice-
simo primo die Aprilis, anno regni nostri sexto.
Thomson.
[Endorsed.'] Executio istius Commissionis patet in quadam scedula
huic brevi annexata.
Thos. Coward, Ri. Cobbe, Jo. White.
(b) The Return.
Inquisitio indentata capta apud Novum Alresford in comitatu
Southampton' predicto decimo septimo die Maii anno regni domini
Willelmi et Marie [as above] sexto, coram Thoma Coward [and two
others] commissionariis eorundem domini Regis et domine Regine,
virtute Commissionis sue sub Magno Sigillo suo Anglie, eisdem
commissionariis et aliis in eadem Commissione nominatis directe
et huic Inquisitioni annexe, in natura brevis dictorum domini
Regis et domine Regine ' de Lunatico Inquirendo,' ad inquirendum
(inter alia) de lunacia Willelmi Allwin de Novo Alresford in
comitatu Southamptone predicto, generosi, per sacramentum [the
names of twelve jurors follow] [etc.]. Qui dicunt, super sacramentum
suum, quod predictus Willelmus Allwin tempore capcionis hujus
Inquisitionis lunaticus est et non compos mentis sue, et non gaudet
lucidis intervallis: ita quod regimini sui ipsius, maneriorum, mes-
suagiorum, terrarum, tenementorum, bonorum et catallorum suorum
non sufficit. Et iidem juratores, super sacramentum suum predictum,
ulterius dicunt quod predictus Willelmus Allwin fuit lunaticus per
spacium quinque mensium ultra elapsarum; sed qualiter et quomodo
idem Willelmus ad lunaciam suam predictam deveniebat, juratores
predicti penitus ignorant, nisi per visitacionem Dei. Et ulterius
iidem juratores super sacramentum predictum dicunt quod predictus
Willelmus Allwin tempore capcionis hujus Inquisitionis, seisitus
existit in dominico suo ut de feodo de certis terris et tenementis in
[etc.] ad annuam valenciam [etc.] sed de quo vel de quibus, aut per
que tenementa predicta teneantur juratores predicti ignorant. Et
iidem juratores, super sacramentum suum predictum, ulterius dicunt
quod predictus Willelmus Allwinn tempore capcionis hujus Inquisi-
cionis possessionatus est de diversis bonis et catallis ad valenciam
[etc.]. Et ulterius iidem juratores [etc.] dicunt quod predictus [etc.]
non alienavit aliquas terras sive tenementa durante lunacia sua
predicta, nee habet [etc.]. Et postremo iidem [etc.] dicunt quod
Robertus Allwin est ejus filius et proximus heres ac tempore cap-
cionis hujus Inquisicionis est etatis quinque annorum aut eo circiter.
In cujus rei testimonium, tam commissionarii predicti quam
juratores predicti sigilla sua huic Inquisitioni alternatim appo-
suerunt die, anno et loco primo supradictis. [Names and seals of
jurors^]
Feudal Inquisitions 89
Liberate fuit Curie vicesimo quarto die Maii anno Regni domini
Gulielmi et domine Marie Regis et Regine Anglie [etc.'] sexto per
manus Rogeri Lewis servientis Roberti Thomson generosi
:
.
[Chancery, Petty Bag, Lunacy Commissions, Bdle I. No. 7.]
50. Inquisition Ad quod dampnum (25 Henry III).
(a) The Writ of Inquisition.
Henricus, etc. [as in No. 39] vicecomiti Eboracsire, Salutem.
Precipimus tibi quod per sacramentum proborum et legalium
hominum, per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit, Eboraci, dili-
genter inquiras quantum dampnum probi homines nostri de Eboraco
passi sunt per purpresturam quam Galfridus, quondam Camerarius
noster, fecit ad elargiendum fossatum civitatis nostre de Eboraco et
ad tuicionem ejusdem civitatis tempore Gwerre, et quantum singulis
annis eisdem hominibus per purpresturam predictam deperit; et
Inquisitionem inde factam, sub sigillo tuo et predictorum inquisi-
torum, nobis mittas et hoc breve. Teste me ipso, apud Westmonas-
terium, iiij die Maii, anno regni nostri xxv.
(b) The Inquisition.
Inquisitio facta per sacramentum Pauli de Mubray [and eleven
other jurors] ad inquirendum quantum damni probi homines civitatis
Eboraci passi sunt per purpresturam quam Galfridus quondam Came-
rarius domini Regis fecit ad elargiendum fossatum civitatis Eboraci
et ad tuicionem ejusdem civitatis tempore Gwerre, et quantum sin-
gulis annis eisdem hominibus per purpresturam predictam deperit.
Qui dicunt quod Herbertus de Holdernes habuit septem domos super
duwam fossati de Floxwangate que prostrate fuerunt per predictum
Galfridum, tune Camerarium, ad elargiendum fossatum tempore
Gwerre, et amisit annuum redditum viginti solidorum. [Other cases
follow. There is no clause of execution by the jurors?^
[Inqs. Misc. Chancery, File I, No. 10.]
51. Inquisition Ad quod nocumentum (36 Henry III).
(a) The Writ of Inquisition.
Henricus, etc. [as in No. 39] vicecomiti Kancie, Salutem. Pre-
cipimus tibi quod, per sacramentum proborum et legalium hominum,
diligenter inquiras utrum esset ad nocumentum nostrum vel vicino-
rum mercatorum si concederemus domino Cantuariensi archiepiscopo
quod ipse haberet unum mercatum, singulis septimanis, per diem
1
MS. torn.
90 Select Formulas of Feudal Inquisitions
Martis, apud manerium suum de Wengham. Et si esset ad nocu-
mentum nostrum vel vicinorum mercatorum, ad quod nocumeritum.
Et Inquisitionem inde factam, sub sigillo tuo et sigillis eorum per
quos facta fuerit, nobis sine dilatione mittas, et hoc breve. Teste me
ipso apud Otteforde, xiiij die Marcii, anno regni nostri xxxvj.
(b) The Inquisition.
Nomina inquisitorum ad inquirendum si dominus rex concederet
domino Cantuariensi archiepiscopo quod ipse haberet unum mer-
catum, singulis septimanis, per diem Martis, apud manerium suum
de Wyngeham, et si esset ad nocumentum ipsius domini Regis vel
vicinorum mercatorum, ad quod nocumentum [etc.] sunt: scilicet
Rogerus de Chiltone [and eleven others]. Qui dicunt, super sacra-
mentum suum, quod predictum mercatum, sic concessum, non erit ad
nocumentum domini Regis nee vicinorum mercatorum; immo potius
ad commodum. Et quod mercatum tarn de Cantuaria quam de
Sandwico per diem Mercurii poterit meliorari per accessum mercatorum
venientium ad dictum mercatum de Wyngeham. Dicunt etiam quod
per diem Martis non est aliquod mercatum prope Wyngeham cui
nocere posset nee etiam vicinum per xx leucas, quod est apud
Lenham.
[Chan. Inq. Ad Q. D. II. 22.]
B. ROYAL ACCOUNTS
The conventional Account naturally differs in its general aspect
from other Records, although in certain cases it may assume the
shape of a narrative document or may be incorporated in a Record or
State Paper (No. 54"). Again the Account itself may be described
under a title derived from the subject-matter with which it deals, and
thus we speak familiarly of ' Subsidies' and ' Assessments,' of a
Taxatio and a Valor (Nos. 2833). So too, special titles are applied
to presentments of Account, such as ' States' and ' Views' (Nos. 5 3 /
55 (ii) c, 55 (iii)), ' Imprests,' ' Estreats,' ' Assignments' and the like.
It should be noticed also that, although the construction of the
conventional Account is apparently uniform, the theoretical com-
position of certain forms, such as the Pipe Rolls, frequently differs
from the actual practice observed in individual cases. The normal
Account should, however, consist of the following parts or clauses:
1. The Heading or Title, containing the name of the accountant
and the date and place or subject-matter of the Account.
2. The Charge (a statement of the Arrears, Receipts, or Imprests,
which are to be accounted for, with their ' sum').
3. The Discharge (a corresponding statement of the Paying in, or
Re-payment, or of the authorized Disbursements and Expenses made
or incurred by the Accountant, with their ' sum').
4. The Balance (ascertained by subtracting the ' sum' of the
Allowances from the 'sum' of the Charge) proving the Accountant to
be quit or indebted or possessed of a surplus as the case may be.
It may be remarked, however, that originally the ' Paying in' was
noted in a separate clause {Liberatio) inserted either between the
Receipts and the Disbursements or in the statement of the Balance.
The outward form of the Account is equally important for deter-
mining the classification of this group of Records. Thus we are able
to recognise certain distinctive classes, which may perhaps be arranged
92 Select Formulas of
according to the successive stages through which the Account passed
from its first inception to its final acceptance.
1. The Sub-Accounts or other subsidiary documents from which
the Original Account was compiled.
2. The Original Account (with 'Particulars'), presented for Audit.
3. The Enrolment of the original Account, as a Record of the
Audit.
4. The ' State' or ' View' or ' Parcels ' of the same, for depart-
mental purposes.
5. Compilations based on the Account for statistical purposes or
for official reference.
Finally, it should be noted that the Account itself is to be regarded
as a Return to a royal writ or other warrant which usually takes the
form of a Commission or Precept appointing the Accountant or
authorizing his disbursements subject to account at the Exchequer.
At the same time it must be remembered that the form of the
Account itself is also to some extent affected by the subject with
which it is concerned. Thus in the class of Revenue Accounts the
Charge or Receipt side is specially developed and the Allowances or
Disbursements are comparatively insignificant leaving a large balance
to be paid into the Treasury or accounted for by the fact that the
Collector has honoured ' Assignments' made upon his funds in favour
of some importunate royal debtor (cf. No. 29). On the other hand
the Accounts of executive officers, like those of the later ' spending
departments' of the State, merely acknowledge the receipt of large
sums ' imprested ' or advanced from the Exchequer or Wardrobe, the
disbursement of which is accounted for in great detail.
The antiquity of the royal Account is a subject of purely con-
stitutional or economic interest, and few materials for its history
exist in this country before the 12th century. Nevertheless the
conventional form of the Account was recognized in the early days of
the Frankish Empire
1
, and it can at least be traced in the records of
the Anglo-Norman Exchequer during the greater part of the 12th
century (No. 52).
From that date to the middle of the last century the conservation
of these fiscal methods forms one of the most striking features of our
national Records. But although the general system of the Exchequer
remained practically unchanged from first to last, the clerical style
of the Account underwent great changes in the early part of the 16th
century.
1
M. G. Leges I. 185 [Cap. de Villis, c. 55].
Royal Accounts 93
In order to illustrate the evolution of the official Account,
sequences of main and subsidiary forms (Nos. 5255) have been
prepared to illustrate the practice that prevailed during the earlier
and later periods of the history of this country. (Cf. also No. 59.)
It will be noticed here that the earliest Accounts are in the usual
sequence of an Original Account, as rendered yearly, with its Sub-
sidiary documents, and the official Enrolment of the former at the
Exchequer at first in the Pipe Roll and, after the 42nd year of
Edward III, in a continuous series of Foreign Accounts. During
the Tudor and Stuart periods, however, the sequence comprises a
Subsidiary Account, now known as a ' Ledger Book,' a Declared
Account (of which the Pipe Office duplicate only is printed here) and
brief Exchequer enrolments in the shape of certain ' States' and
'Views
1
.'
No specimens of the very extensive class of departmental certifi-
cates and statements of Accounts, for the modern period, have been
printed here for the reason that these are either mere memoranda, or
are in the nature of statistical compilations. Similarly no attempt
has been made to illustrate the purely departmental system of the
Exchequer for the purposes of the audit. A good account of this
practice will be found in Mr Scargill-Bird's Guide, whilst some in-
formation on the subject of special forms of Account such as the
Debenture, Indenture, Estreat, Valor, Inventory, Assessment, Subsidy,
Taxation, Imprest, etc., will be found in this or in the former volume
of official formulas.
(i) ROYAL ACCOUNTS (12TH CENTURY)
Although the Norman method of accounting at the Exchequer
based upon the system of the Abacus was evidently in use from the
early part of the 12th century and was preceded by a still earlier
method connected with the levy of the geld in the nt h century,
no specimens of Royal Accounts have survived previous to the
13th century with the exception of the enrolments known as the Pipe
Rolls and mere lists of figures contained in a few fragments of
Exchequer memoranda
2
. Similarly narrative compoti, such as the
1
See below, Nos. 55 ii (<r) and 55 iii.
2
The loss in respect of Subsidiary Accounts is especially to be regretted. These include
the well-known Tallies which have been described from a few imperfect specimens (cf. Pipe
Roll Soc. Vol. i n. ; H. Hall, Court Life, p. 118) but about which there is still much to
be learnt. From certain official counterparts, or tally ' stalks,' recently discovered in official
custody a conventional formula could doubtless be obtained.
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famous Account of Richard de Anesti, do not furnish us with the
conventional forms of an Account. A specimen has been printed
here (No. 52 (a)) of a Minister's Account which, though derived from
a private source, and an enrolment of later date than the year 1200,
can be shown to be in the same form as Bailiffs' Accounts of the
12th century
1
. To this have been added two specimens of the
Exchequer Revenue Rolls of that period, and it will be observed that
the items of the Receipt Roll (No. 52 b) agree with the corresponding
entries in the great Pipe Roll itself (No. 52 c). The latter, moreover,
exhibit the same plan of construction as that found in the Winchester
Bailiffs' Account of 1208, and it must be insisted that a very similar
Account must have been rendered at the Exchequer in 1185 in con-
nexion with the Lincoln bishopric enrolment printed here
2
.
(ii) ROYAL ACCOUNTS (13TH15TH CENTURIES)
The Account of the Keeper of the Queen's liberty of the Forest
of Feckenham in the 43rd year of Edward III has been selected quite
at random as a type which seemed likely to comply with the
exigencies of the present section in respect of space. This ' liberty'
was one of many similar franchises in other counties administered by
bailiffs, and, as in other cases, it was closely connected with the ad-
ministration of the Forest and of the royal manor, under the charge
of a separate accountant.
The typical documents of the present sequence should include the
Queen's commission for the accountant's office, but this is not ap-
parently preserved either as an original or an enrolment. Its loss has
been supplied by using the original commission for a kindred office,
that of the Keeper of the Queen's Liberty of the Forest of Chippen-
ham at the same date (No. 53 (a)). The Particulars of the Feckenham
Account (b) would have been compiled from certain sub-accounts,
corroborated by various precepts and vouchers (c). In the present
instance, however, the meagreness of the Account, which was so
desirable for reasons of economy of space, precluded the preparation
of such subsidiary documents. This void has, however, been supplied
by the fortunate survival of numerous vouchers appended to the
closely-related Account of the bailiff of the Manor of Feckenham
1
Winchester Pipe Roll (London School of Economics), p. xii. It is interesting to find
that the Accounts of this Bishopric, sede vacante, are preserved in the same form in the reign
of Henry III.
2
The Winchester Bishopric Account on the Pipe Roll of 1185 was not used because the
entries for this see in the Receipt Roll of the same date are somewhat meagre.
Royal Accounts 95
together with some for earlier Accounts presented by the Keeper of
the Liberty of the Forest itself. Most of these are badly mutilated,
but the whole series furnishes us with a graphic picture of the local
administration.
As in the case of other bailiffs of this Queen's ' Liberties' the
receipts of forfeited goods might be diminished not only by bad debts
(c (i)) but also by the Queen's warrants releasing poor debtors from
their ' Lady's' feudal claims. There exists such a warrant for John of
Leicester, the present accountant, to forego the Queen's claims to the
chattels of a poor outlaw, and another desiring him to expend the
issues of fines imposed by the Justices (an ' Estreat' of which is
annexed) in the repair of houses and the enclosure {claustura) of the
Park. The latter undertaking is illustrated by several interesting
documents. By a warrant of the 16th year the Park was to be sur-
rounded with a ditch and quick-set 'hedge' and the work was to be
paid for by periodical sales of underwood. The result was found in
the 38th year to be so unsatisfactory that a paling was to be added,
the timber being found from the Queen's forest.
These successive operations involved the exchange of indentures
between the farmer, the bailiff of the liberty, the surveyor of works
(c (ii)) or the Ranger of the Forests, and the keeping of detailed Ac-
counts (c (Hi)). Next to the enclosure of the Park the preservation of
the ' Lake' seems to have been the chief concern both of the farmer
of the forest and the bailiff of the Liberty. Warrants were issued for
this stew to be ' fished' during Lent and the proceeds, up to the value
of 20, to be expended on the repair of buildings and of the lake itself.
Another indenture was taken for this purpose between the Queen's
fisherman and the local officers, but it appears from a forest inquisi-
tion of the period (T. of R. Forests, 319) that the former was accused
of 'lending' his nets to local poachers,including a neighbouring rector,
and these offenders actually figure in the Estreat of fines above referred
to. It would seem that when the resources of the forest, under-wood,
and the fishery were temporarily exhausted the bailiff of the liberty
was even directed by the Queen's warrant to sell a certain grange and
other buildings to defray the cost of the perennial 'operations
1
.'
Amongst these subsidiary documents there are also included a few
that were directly connected with the official audit of the original
account including besides the expenses of the local audit at Fecken-
ham by the Queen's surveyor (c (ii)), the 'View' of a sub-accountant's
1
This grange can probably be identified by an undated deed (Ancient Deeds, B. 3329).
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' St at e' of account, and a formal petition or 'craving' for allowance
of certain particulars.
The several stages in the audit of an Account at the Exchequer
itself are partially illustrated by the concluding documents in this
sequence. A complete series of instruments representing the several
stages of the Process of the Exchequer would occupy a very con-
siderable space and, moreover, the local account originally selected for
illustration was not one that required the close attention of the officials.
The detailed Audit of the Accountant in question was taken, as we
have seen, upon the spot and its result probably figured in the amended
particulars of the original Account (b). Some other record, however,
was probably compiled in connexion with the administration of the
Queen's revenue, but this, like the entry of her warrants, no longer
exists. In the case of the King's own revenue, such Original Accounts
were enrolled in a distinct series of enrolments, the 'Foreign Ac-
counts' gradually thrown off by the great Pipe Roll since the
Ordinances of the Exchequer under Edward II {RedBook, pp. 860, etc.)
1
;
but the manors or liberties allotted for the Queen's dower were not
brought to account here. In the exceptional case, however, of the
Accounts pending at the death of Queen Philippa, a special enrolment
was provided known as the Account of the 'Queen's Lands,' and this
has supplied the typical form of an Enrolled Account (d). The final
audit and enrolment of these ' Particulars' is of course found in the
Worcestershire account of the Pipe Roll itself {) reduced to the form
of a brief entry. But before this was completed various formalities
had to be gone through. The Sheriff's Account begins with the
Summons of the Pipe (e), to which, from the earliest times, the first
draft of the Account was appended as a schedule, though only a few
fragments of these Summonses have survived before the reign of
Henry VI. The successive stages of the Proffer and View of the
Account, the appearance of the Sheriff at the Exchequer, the
appointment of his attorneys, the day given him to account and the
precepts of the court issued from time to time in connexion with
outstanding debts and other business are noted amongst the Ex-
chequer Memoranda ( / ) . No entry occurs for this year in the
Exannual Roll which provided a distinct enrolment of ' desperate
debts' under the statute of 12 Edward I, these being forthwith re-
moved from the Pipe Roll. In spite of this provision it will be noticed
that debts continued to be entered in the Pipe Roll. No extracts
have been given here from the important Receipt Rolls and Issue
1
See Public Record Office, 'List of Foreign Accounts,' Introduction.
Royal Accounts 97
Rolls of the Exchequer of Receipt, since at this date the former series
have ceased to display the operations of the local bailiwicks in con-
nexion with the Pipe Roll which have been demonstrated elsewhere
(No. 52), and the latter series is not brought into operation by the
nature of the Account under consideration.
The sequence of mediaeval Accounts described above has been
chosen to illustrate the combined procedure of the local Minister's
Account, the quasi-departmental system of enrolment in the Foreign
Account, and the audited Account on the Pipe Roll. A further
sequence, however, appeared to be required to illustrate the system
employed in connexion with the Revenue and Household Accounts,
particularly such as came within the sphere of influence of the
King's Wardrobe, constantly encroaching upon the functions of the
Exchequer.
For this purpose an attempt has been made to illustrate the re-
lations of an interesting statement of Account presented in diplomatic
form amongst the ' Royal Letters' (No. 54 {)), and up to a certain
point the date and circumstances of this transaction have been
elucidated. Owing, however, to the loss of most of the subsidiary
documents during this early period, it has been found necessary to
supply their place from later Records, but this composite example
may be instructive both as to the actual condition of the Records and
also as indicating the antiquity of the departmental system which
was revised by the Statute of 16 Edward II.
(iii) ROYAL ACCOUNTS ( I 6TH 19.TH CENTURIES)
The later system, represented by the Declared Accounts above
referred to, begins with the reign of Henry VIII and shows a con-
siderable improvement in official methods. Here the Particulars of
the Account are carefully entered in ' Ledger Books,' which are
merely Paper Accounts in book-form. These when presented for the
purpose of Audit were engrossed in duplicate for the information of
the Pipe and Audit Offices of the Exchequer in a Parchment and
a Paper Roll respectively. The original Account (a), as here set out
in a formal style, will be found to embody all the material evidences
connected with the business in hand, including a recital, frequently
verbatim, of the Accountant's commission. Moreover, instead of
serving as a subsidiary Account to a concise official enrolment as in
previous examples (53 # and 547'), the Original Account itself was
H. F. II 7
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audited or ' declared,' and was then preserved, in duplicate, as the
main record of the proceeding. Thus an enrolment was merely
needed for departmental purposes, and this again was preserved in
duplicate, namely, in the ' Enrolled Accounts' of the King's Remem-
brancer's department (55 ii (c)) as well as in the Lord Treasurer's
Remembrancer's 'Memoranda Roll
1
.' In the last years of the 17th
century still another series of enrolments came into action on the
Treasurer's side, namely the Auditors' Declarations of Accounts, but
these were apparently reserved for a special class of revenue returns.
It should, indeed, be noted that the accepted belief that the Declared
Accounts were habitually 'registered' in these Auditors' 'Declara-
tions' as well as in another series of Auditors' 'States of Accounts'
appears to be scarcely justified. The former series existed only
between 1686 to 1767 and the latter between 1776 to 1856, and
both were strictly limited in their application.
The above system of ' Declared Accounts' prevailed from the
reign of Henry VIII to that of George IV. Shortly before the great
reforms of the years 183334, a further change was introduced which is
illustrated here by a final specimen of HanaperAccounts(5 5 (iii)). From
the year 1827 the duplicate Rolls of 'Declared Accounts' gave place
to a series of ' Declared' or ' Passed' Accounts in book form. Here
again subsidiary or rough Accounts are found, together with a depart-
mental enrolment in the King's Remembrancer's Office which had
survived the great Exchequer sessions. Here too we meet with a new
class of enrolment previously referred to in the shape of the Auditors'
' States of Accounts' which presents us with the modern and char-
acteristic view of an enrolment reduced to a common form to avoid
repetition, whilst the subsidiary papers are now separately filed and
are referred to by a mere cross reference.
The publication of a form of a Hanaper Account for the period
subsequent to the year 1827 is simplified by the fact that of the
several sources mentioned above the ' Declared Account' and the
King's Remembrancer's enrolment would be found to be exact dup-
licates of the Original Account, on paper, with its accompanying
vouchers or subsidiary documents, whilst the Sub-Account would
preserve the form of a chronological Journal or Day Book which
had obtained for at least six centuries. As, however, all the above
sources are closed to public inspection for this late period with the
1
Although States and Views of Accounts are found in these enrolments during the earlier
period, it is doubtful if we are justified in regarding the practice as continuous down to the
reform of the Exchequer in the 19th century.
Royal Accounts 99
exception of the Exchequer enrolment, the last-mentioned document
only has been given here as representing the exact form of the corre-
sponding Accounts in the Audit Office and Treasury Series, with the
exception of the Auditors' ' State of Account,' which would now be
reduced to a brief entry, and the Hanaper comptrolment which has
been represented in a former sequence (No. 55 (ii)^).
52. Documents connected with the passing of an Account at the
Exchequer in the twelfth century.
(a) Bailiff's Account presented at the Exchequer of the Bishop of
Winchester (1208).
WlDEHAE.
Johannes de Weltona et Nicolaus prepositus reddunt compotum
de iiij /. iiij s. x d. de toto gabulo assiso per annum. Summa, iiij /.
iiij s. x d.
In quietancia j prepositi, per annum ij s. iiij d. [other acquittances of
gafol follow], Summa, xx J. x d. Summa remanens, lxiiijj.
Idem reddunt compotum de iiij s. j d. de pannagio [and other exitus
manerii including sales of stock from the demesne]. Summa, xxxvj s.
vj d.
Idem reddunt compotum de vj /. iiij s. v d. ob. de xliiij quarteriis
dimidio frumenti venditis [other sales of crops follow]. Summa, x /.
xviij s.
Summa utriusque, xij /. xiiij s. vj d.
De Purchasiis. Idem reddunt compotum de vj J. de Reginaldo de
Cumba pro pannagio concelato [other fines or perquisites of tlie lord's
court follow]. Summa, xiij s. vj d.
Idem reddunt compotum de iiij /. x s. de tallagio. Summa tocius
recepte, xxj /. ij s.
Liberatio. In liberatione Johanni decano, de gabulo, lxiiij s. per iiij
tallias [other cash payments into the Bishop's Exchequer follow]. Summa,
xvj /. xv s. viij d.
Expensa. In ferramentis ij carrucarum per annum, j carruce, per j
terminum, iiij s. x.d. [further expenditure on materials, wages, purchase
of stock and carriage follows]. Summa, lxix s. vij d.
Summa tocius liberationis et expense, xx/. vs. \\)d. Item, vs.
viij d. computati sunt eis quos solverunt in anno preterito. Et debent
xj s. j d. Postea solvit et quietavit decanum per j talliam.
Exitus Grangie. Idem reddunt compotum de lij quarteriis de toto
exitu frumenti. Et de ij quarteriis de cheriset. Et de vij quarteriis
dimidio proventis de Esmeresworda. Summa, lxj quarteria dimidium.
XX
In semine iiij.iiij acrarum, xvij quarteria. In venditis xliiij quarteria
72
ioo Select Formulas of
dimidium. Summa, lxj quarteria dimidium [entries for other kinds of
grain follow],
Instaurum. Item reddunt compotum de xxxj bobus remanentibus
anno preterite Et de ij proventis de Clera. Et de iij emptis. Summa,
xxxvj. In missis ad Cleram, xij. In mortuo, j ; de corio superius
respondent
1
. In misso apud Esmereswordam, j . Summa, xiiij. Et
remanent xxij [a similar entry of sheep follows].
Idem reddunt compotum de ccclx.xj velleribus grossis. In decimis
xxxvij. In consuetudine bercarii, j . In missis ad Cleram, cccxxxiij
2
.
Idem reddunt compotum de lx.xviij gallinis
3
de cheriset. In missis
apud Wlveseiam et liberatis Johanni decano, lx, per ij tallias. Et
remanent xviij galline.
Idem reddunt compotum de ML ovis. In missis apud Wlveseiam
et liberatis Johanni decano, totum, per j talliam.
{Ecclesiastical Commission, Various, Bdle 22, No. 159270 (ed. London
School of Economics, pp. 810).]
(b) Receipts from the Bishopric of Lincoln, sede vacante (1185).
Episcopatus Lincolniensis.
De Ricardo archidiacono Coventrensi et Magistro Roberto de
Hardres C et xxxviij/. et xjs. et viij d. de firma maneriorum.
De eisdem C et xviij /. et xvij s. de archidiaconatibus.
De eisdem xj /. et xix s. et ix d. de prebendis vacantibus.
De eisdem xiij /. et vj s. et viij d. de ecclesiis vacantibus.
De eisdem vij s. et ij d. de denariis Beati Petri apud Bugedene.
De eisdem xliij /. et vs. de placitis et perquisitionibus.
De eisdem xv /. et xviij s. de tribus feriis Stowe.
De eisdem xij s. et iiij d. de reragio firme episcopatus Lincolnensis.
{Receipt Roll of the Exchequer, Mich. 1185 {L.T.R. Misc. Rolls, Bdle i,
No. 2, m. 5).]
(c) Account of the Keepers of the Bishopric of Lincoln, sede
vacante, summarized in the Pipe Roll (1185).
EPISCOPATUS LINCOLNIENSIS.
Ricardus Brito Archidiaconus de Covintre et magister Gregorius,
Adam clericus suus pro eo, reddunt compotum de xxviij /. et ij J. et
viij d. de veteri firma Episcopatus Lincolniensis. In thesauro xij s.
et viij d. Et Waltero Episcopo Lincolniensi xxvij /. et x s. de
redditu Archidiaconatus Norhantone per breve Ranulfi de Glanvilla.
Et quieti sunt.
1
i.e. amongst the casual profits in the Exitus Manerii omitted above.
2
In most of the Accounts of these episcopal manors the schedule of the Pigs and Bacon,
together with the produce of the Dairy follows here.
3
In most of these Accounts other domestic fowls are entered. The fowls referred to
here are oblations to the Church at Martinmas.
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Idem Ricardus Archidiaconus et Magister Robertus de Hardre
reddunt compotum de cccc /. et xxvij s. et x d. de firma maneriorum
Episcopatus Lincolniensis. Et de c et liiij /. et xv s. et iiij d. redditibus
Archidiaconatuum de anno integro. Et de xiiij /. et ix d. de ij pre-
bendis vacantibus quarum una est de tribus partibus anni et altera de
medietate anni. Et de xiij /. et vj s. et viij d. de ecclesiis vacantibus
quarum una est de tribus partibus anni et altera de apud Norhan-
tonam. Et de vij s. et ij d. de denariis Beati Petri apud Bugendone,
de toto anno, et de liiij /. et viij s. et vj d. et ob. de placitis et per-
quisitionibus et operationibus unde non habuerunt opus. Et de
lxiij s. de ovibus venditis que unire non poterant. Et de vij /. et vj s,
et viij d. de blado de Wilegebi vendito. Et de xxvj s. et iiij d. de
arreragiis Episcopatus que receperunt. Et de xxxiiij s. et viiij d. de
remanenti seminis et feni vendito. Et de xv /. et xviij s. de feriis de
Stowe.
Summa, DC et lxvij/. et xvs. In thesauro, D/. et lxixj. et ij d.
in xj talliis.
Et in elemosynis constitutis lxxiiij prebendariorum per maneria,
xxj /. et xj s. et viij d. Et in sepultura v prebendariorum, ij s. et vj d.
Et in aliis elemosynis constitutis per maneria, xij /. et xv s. et x d.
Et capellano veteris Templi, lx s. et x d. Et in liberationibus con-
stitutis per maneria servientibus, x /. et iiij s. et iij ob. Et pro semine et
feno et terra excolenda ante Pascham, viij /. et vs. et vi}d. et ob. Et
pro bobus et affris, ix/, et ixs. etob. Et in operationibus per maneria,
scilicet in haia parci et grangiis et calceis et aliis minutis operationibus,
iiij /. et xv s. et ij d. Et in operationibus pontis de Niwerch vij /. et
xiiij s. et iij ob. per breve Regis. Et in operationibus torclerarium; et
sicera facienda et vino faciendo apud Buggendone, iiij /. et xx d. Et
in terris quas Episcopus tenet de militibus provintie de Stowa, xxx s.
et iiij d. Et in precariis autumpni, et pro blado et feno congregandis,
xij /. et xvij s. et ij d. et ob. Et in reparatione carrucarum, et in ferra-
mentis et faldis et in minutis rebus que pertinent ad carrucas, lix s. et
j d. Et in cariagio denariorum ad Westmonasterium, iij s. Et pro
Sudwelle wapentac, x /., unde vicecomes reddit compotum. Et pro
redditu Veteris Templi, xiiij s. de ij annis. Et vicario prebende que
fuit J[ohannis] de Constantiis, ij m. de toto anno. Et vicario prebende
que fuit G. capellani, xiij s. et iiij d. Et Archiepiscopo xlij /. de
denariis Beati Petri. Et in vasto xix s. et iiij d. et ob.
Summa exitus, c et lv /. et iij s. et vij d.
Et debent ix /. et ij s. et iij d.
[Pipe Roll, 31 Henry II, m. 8, in dorso.]
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53. Documents connected with the Account of the Bailiff of the
Queen's ' liberty' of Feckenham (42-3 Edward III)
1
.
(a) Commission to the Queens bailiff [of Chippenham, etc.] (42
Edward III).
Philippe, par la grace de Dieu, Reine cTEngleterre,Dame d'Irlande e
d'Acquitaine,as touz ceux que cestes nos lettresverront ou orront, Salutz.
Sachez nous avoir ordeignez e establiz nostre bien amez Robert Porter
de Devyses de lever e coiller touz noz rentes d'assartz, wasts e pur-
prestures es noz forestes de Chippenham, Melkesham e Peusham el
counte de Wiltesire. Donantz plein poair a dit Robert de resceivre
les rentes susdites, e sur chescune rescette de faire tailles, endentures,
ou acquitances as parties, come reison voudra; paiant les deniers
provenantz de sa dite rescette a ceux q'ore sont assignees de reparailler
nostre chastel de Devyses ou que pour le temps seront, par taille ou
endenture ent affaire entre eux; issint toutes foitz que le dit Robert
respoigne par bone acompte d'an en an de ceo q'il resceivra de noz
dites rentes celles parties. Pourquoi nous mandons a touz as queux
il appartient, empriant a touz autres q'a dit Robert, come a nostre
resceivour e coillour de noz rentes susditz, soient entendantz e
respoignantz, eidantz e conseillantz en manere come appent pour
nostre profit celles parties. En tesmoignance de quelle chose nous
avons fait faire cestes nos Lettres Patentes. Donne a Wyndesores le
xxvj jour de Septembre, l'an du regne nostre trescher seignour le Roi
quarante secound. [The Queen's Seal is attached^
[Ministers' Accounts {Gen. Ser.), 1294/2 (11).]
(b) The bailiff's Original Account (42-3 Edward III).
Particule compoti Johannis de Leycestre, custodis omnium feo-
dorum et libertatum regalium domine Philippe Regine Anglie in
comitatu Wygornie et in foresta de Fekenham, ad omnia debita ipsius
domine Regine de feodis et libertatibus et etiam omnia debita domini
Regis levanda et recipienda constituti, et ad acquietationes debitorum
inde faciendas, ac eciam ad omnimodas execuciones brevium et
mandatorum ejusdem domini Regis, per plenum returnum vicecomitis
comitatus predicti, prout moris est, faciendas et exequendas. Ita
quod dictus Johannes tarn de debitis predicti domini nostri Regis quam
de debitis prefate domine Regine et de aliis exitibus de feodis et liber-
tatibus nostris predictis nobis respondeat ad Scaccarium nostrum, prout
decet; prout in commissione prefate domine Regine dicto Johanni inde
facta, datum apud Eltham, xviij die Februarii, anno regni domini Regis
xxxviij
0
, plenius continetur; videlicet a xviij die Februarii anno xlij,
usque festum Assumptionis Beate Marie anno xliij; quo die prefata
Regina obiit, et extunc vicecomes dicti comitatus respondet Regi de
1
Certain documents which would presumably have been executed in connexion with this
Account, but which are no longer preserved, have been supplied here from analogous Records
(Nos. 53 a, c (i), e).
Royal Accounts 103
hujusmodi exitibus [etc.] quasi per unum annum et xxv septimanas et
iij dies.
Arreragia. Idem respondet de xxiiij s. ij d. ob. de arreragiis
compoti sui predicti. Summa, xxiiij s. ij d. ob.
Redditus Assartorum de foresta de Fekenham de termino Michaelis
anno xlij
do
. Idem respondet de vj /. iiij s. viij d. [cxiiij s. xj d.
1
], prout
oneratur in compotis precedentibus, receptis de redditu assartorum in
dicta foresta, de termino Michaelis, anno xlij
do
, per tempus compoti.
Et de j d. de incremento redditus Ade Mensk pro tribus partibus unius
virgate terre ad idem festum [per idem tempus videlicet per annum
j d.]. Et de j d. de Willelmo Gynnur de novo redditu unius purpres-
ture in Benhale ad idem festum [per tempus compoti videlicet per
annum j d.}. Et de obulo de novo redditu Walteri Fesant pro uno
fosso levato in Benhale ad idem festum [per tempus compoti videlicet
per annum obolum]. Et de j d. de novo redditu Walteri Musar[d]
pro una purprestura in Benhale ad idem festum [videlicet per annum
j d.]. Et de obulo de novo redditu Nicholai Dusbert pro una purpres-
tura in Fekenham, ad idem festum [vizt. per annum obulum]. Summa,
vj /. vj s.
Arreragia dictorum assartorum. De arreragiis assartorum Johannis
de Hambury
2
et Makelyn Musard
2
non respondet, quia nichil percepit
per tempus compoti, ut dicit per sacramentum suum. Summa
nichil.
Fines, amerciamenta, cum venditione bosci. De hujusmodi proficuis
non respondet per tempus compoti, quia nulla accidebant per tempus
compoti. Summa nichil.
Catalla Felonum et Fugitivorum. De hujusmodi proficuis non
respondet per tempus compoti, quia nulla accidebant per tempus
compoti, ut dicit, per sacramentum suum. Summa totalis recepte:
vij /. ix s. ij d. ob.
Feodum Ballivi. De quibus computat in feodis ballivi per tempus
hujus compoti, Lx, quasi pro uno anno, prout allocatur in compotis
precedentibus [et in expensis ejusdem ballivi venientis ad Scaccarium
Regine
3
]. Summa, L,s.
[Summa expensarum, L.s. Et debet iiij/. xi xj . ijd. ob. Pro-
batur.]
Liberacio Denariorum Receptori. Et computat liberatum domino
Ricardo de Ravens[ere], receptori denariorum domine Regine, per
unam talliam levatam xij die Februarii anno xliii. Summa, xl s.
Summa expensarum, iiij /. x s. Et debet lix s. ij d. ob.
Irrotulatur rotulo iiij" de anno xliij'".
[Ministers' Accotmts, 1068/4.]
1
The entries in brackets show the passages in the Roll which have apparently been
corrected by the Auditor.
2
See above (c i and c ii).
3
This expense is allowed in other accounts of local bailiffs; but the accountant did not
reckon for the local audit referred to above (p. 95).
:) Accounts and Vouchers, Subsidiary to the above Account.
Memoranda concerning the Queen's dues (3842 Edward III).
kenham.
104 Select Formulas of
to
(i)
Feckenham.
Johannes de Hambury tenet diversa assarta de domina Regina
infra manerium de Feckenham pro quibus debet per annumxlvj s.
Idem Johannes debet de arreragio dictorum assartorum per v
annos a retroxj /. x s.
Idem Johannes per extractas Henrici de Kerseye, locum tenentis
Seneschalli Regine, pro quodam assarto vocato Lovelyndexiiij /.
xiij s. iiij d.
Idem Johannes debet de quodam fine facto coram dicto Henrico
pro bonis et catallis Johannis Ernald forisfactislj s.
Pro quibus denariis Johannes Spelby ballivus libertatis domine
Regine manerii sui de Feckenham et cepit districtiones de dicto
Johanne de Hambury videlicet xxxvj vaccas et boviculos, una vice, et
xvj boves alia vice, et eos inparcavit infra manerium predictum quos
omnes dictus Johannes de Hambury die Sabbati proxima ante festum
Sancti Dionisii anno Regis nunc xxxiij
01
, fracto hostio dicti parci,
violenter abduxit; unde dicta Regina, per ballivum suum, petit
remedium. Done mesme celui John Hambury sourvynt e les vaches
e bovecles a un foiz an chacea e altre foiz, e'est asavoir le samadi
prochein devant la feste Seint Dionis derrein passe, la porte du dit
Park debruse e les boefs en chacea a force la dite Reigne par son
dit Bailiff prie remedie
2
.
[Ministers' Accounts, 1294/2 (12).]
Memorandum quod Maculinus Musard, filius et heres Johannis
Musard, debet domine Regine xvj s. viij d. de redditu xl acrarum
assarti in foresta de Feckenham, que fuerunt Nicholai Whishawe apud
Gersham pro anno xxix
no
que summa allocatur Johanni Spelly, nuper
ballivo libertatum Regine ibidem, in pede ultimi compoti sui, videlicet,
de anno xxiij. Et dictus Maculinus debet Regine de redditu pre-
dicto de annis xxxiiij
10
, xxxv
t0
, et xxxvj
t0
, de tempore Johannis
Rydewale, ballivi libertatum ibidem, qui non computavit 1 s., videlicet
per annum xvj s. viij d.
Summa totalis dicti debiti pro iiij
or
annis predictislxvj s. viij d.
que quidem summa per assensum consilii Regine astallatur dicto
Maculino xx die Junii anno regni nunc xl
mo
, ad solvendum vj s. viij d.
per annum ad festum Sancti Michaelis quousque [etc.'] una cum annali
redditu assarti predicti.
[Ministers' Accounts, Gen. Ser., 1068/3.]
(ii) Vouchers for official imprests and salaries (42 Edward III).
Hec indentura testatur quod Johannes de Leycestre, ballivus
libertatis et collector reddituum et assartorum domine Regine in
1
There are several cancellations and interlineations in the M S.
2
The bottom of the MS. has been cut off, but cf. above the Latin version.
Royal Accounts 105
comitatu Wygornie liberavit Ricardo de Lenche, supervisori operum
manerii de Fekenham, decimo die mensis Julii anno xlij
0
, pro operibus
predictis, vj /. In cujus rei testimonium, partes predicte [indenture
sigilla sua]
1
alternatim apposuerunt. Data die et anno [supradictis]
1
.
Expense Johannis de Blockeleye auditoris compotorum domine
Regine facte apud Fekenham, existentis ibidem per tres dies^.-diebus
Augusti anno xlij, pro manerio et operibus supervidendis [et pro]
1
compotis ministrorum ibidem audiendis [scilicet Johannis de Leicestre]
1
ballivi libertatis domine Regine in comitatu Wygornie, ix s. v d.
[Ministers' Accounts, 1294/2 (6).]
(iii) Journal or Wages-bill for works at Feckenham (43 Edward III).
Contrarotulus
2
operum reparationis et emendationis defectuum
stagni manerii domini Regis de Feckenham ac clausure parci et
haiarum, necnon cooperture logee ibidem in locis necessariis, visus et
testificatus perRicardumGrevenore,rangeatorem foreste de Feckenham,
ad hoc assignatum per commissionem domini Regis, cujus datum est
apud Westmonasterium xv die Januarii, anno regni sui quadragesimo
tercio, videlicet inter xj diem Februarii [anno xliv
to
] et viij diem Maii,
anno xlv
to
.
Incipiendo (sic).
Incipiens die Lune, xj die Februarii, anno regni supradicti Regis
quadragesimo quarto. In stipendiis Stephani Lilie, Willelmi Gilbart,
Thome Lilie, Simonis Shepherde, Willelmi Fletcher, et Thome Ros,
operariorum, prosternentium spinas et existentium super emendatione
defectuum clausure novi parci ibidem per vj dies, cuilibet per diem
iij d. ob., xs. vjd. Et in stipendio j hominis cariantis spinas pro
clausura predicta per predictos vj dies, cum carecta sua, captis
per diem viij d., iiij s. Et in stipendio alterius hominis cariantis
spinas cum carecta sua ad idem per v dies, captis per diem, ut supra,
iii s. iiij d.
Summa istius septimane xvii s. x d. Probatur.
Summa totalis ipsorum iiij
or
rotulorum lvj /. xv s. iij d. ob. Probatur.
\_Exch. K. R. Accounts (Forests), 463/15.]
(d) Enrolment of the above Account at the Exchequer (43
Edward III).
Wygornia. Compotus Johannis de Leycestria, custodis omnium
feodorum et libertatum regalium Philippe Regine Anglie in comitatu
Wygornia et in foresta de Feckenham, ad omnia debita ipsius Regine
1
The MS. is mutilated.
2
The duplicate counter-roll is preserved in Exch. Accts. K.R. 543/37 under the head
of works, cf. Foreign Accounts (Works), 4950 Edw. III.
106 Select Formulas of
de feodis et libertatibus predictis et omnia debita Regis levanda et
recipienda constituti, et ad acquietancias debitas inde faciendas, et
etiam ad omnimodas executiones brevium et mandatorum ipsius
Regis et plenum retornum vicecomitis comitatus predicti facienda et
ex(s)equenda. Ita quod predictus Johannes tam de debitis predicti
Regis quam de debitis ipsius Regine ad Scaccarium suum responderet,
prout in commissione prefate Regine dicto ballivo inde facta, data
xviij
0
die Februarii, anno xxxviij
0
plenius continetur; a xviij die
Februarii, anno xlij usque festum Assumptionis Beate Marie anno
xliij, quo die prefata Regina obiit, et a quo die vicecomes comitatus
predicti respondebit Regi de proficuis ad istam ballivam pertinentibus.
Recepta. Idem reddit compotum de vj/. vs., receptis de redditu
assartorum, vastorum, et purpresturarum in dicta foresta de Fecken-
ham de termino Sancti Michaelis anno xlij accidente, infra tempus
hujus compoti, unacum j d. de incremento redditus Ade Mensk' pro
tribus partibus unius virgate terre ad idem festum, et j d. de novo
redditu Willelmi Gynnour, ob. de novo redditu Walteri Fesant, j d.
de novo redditu Walteri Musard, et ob. de novo redditu Nicholai
Dusbert ad dictum festum, pro purpresturis eis arentatis in foresta
predicta, sicut continetur in rotulo de particulis in thesauro liberate
Summa totalis Recepte-vj /. v s.
Expensa. Idem computat in feodo suo, quasi pro uno anno integro
tempore hujus compoti LJ. , prout allocatur Johanni Spelly et aliis
ballivis in compotis annorum precedentium, sicut continetur ibidem.
Et computat liberatum Ricardo de Ravensere, receptori denariorum
ipsius Regine, per unam talliam levatam xij die Februarii anno xliij
xls., sicut continetur ibidem. Summa expense, iiij/. its. Et debet
lix s. ij d. ob. Et reddit in rotulo xliij in Wygornia
1
.
[L.T.R. Misc. Enrolled Accts. 17.]
(e) Summons of the Pipe, Worcestershire (26 Henry VI).
Henricus, Dei gratia Rex Anglie et Francie et Dominus Hibernie,
vicecomiti Wygornie, Salutem. Vide, sicut teipsum et omnia tua
diligis, quod sis coram Thesaurario et Baronibus de Scaccario nostro
apud Westmonasterium ad crastinum clausi Pasche proximo futurum;
et habeas ibi tecum quicquid nobis debitum de novis et veteribus
firmis, omnia debita subscripta, et hanc summonitionem de pipa,
videlicet... :
De Henrico Wybbe, de custodia unius messuagii, vj acrarum terre,
et unius acre prati, cum pertinenciis, in villa de Feckenham que
fuerunt Johannis Jay, utlagati pro felonia ad sectam domini Edwardi
nuper Regis Anglie tertii, anno regni sui xlix
n0
, in manibus Regis
occasione ejusdem utlagarie existentibus, per manus Willelmi Wylne-
ford de comitatu Wygornie et Willelmi Norton de eodem comitatu,
ij s....[Other entries follow].
Teste venerabili patre Marmaduco, episcopo Karliolensi, Thesau-
rario nostro, apud Westmonasterium, xxij
do
die Februarii, anno regni
1
i.e. in the Pipe Roll (below g).
Royal Accounts 107
nostri vicesimo sexto. Et remittatur ista summonitio ad crastinum
Clausi Pasche proximo futurum, pro aliis debitis in eadem inserendis.
[These are entered on the back ; after which follows the attestation:]
Teste venerabili Marmaduco [as above\ xvj die Julii [same year\
Et remittatur ista summonitio ad crastinum Sancti Michaelis [as
above].
[Exch. K. R., Summons of the Pipe, Bundle /.]
(_/") Proceedings at the Exchequer in connexion with the Audit of
the Account of the Sheriff of Worcestershire (43 Edward
III).
Adventus vicecomitum et eschaetorum ad Scaccarium in crastino
Sancti Michaelis anno quadragesimo tertio Regis Edwardi
Tercii.
Wygornia. Vicecomes, videlicet Edmundus de Brugges, venit in
propria persona Libertas Philippe, Regine Anglie, non venit.
Adventus vicecomitum [etc.] in crastino clausi Pasche anno xliij
Regis Edwardi Tercii.
Wygornia. Vicecomes, videlicet Edmundus de Brugges, venit per
Johannem Moraunt attornatum suum et nil tulit nisi brevia
Libertas Philippe, Regine Anglie, est in manu Regis, sicut continetur
alibi in hiis Memorandis, inter Precepta de termino Sancti Hillarii.
Dies dati vicecomitibus ad computandum post profrum.
Wygornia. Hilarii. Vicecomes habet diem ad computandum in
xv
a
Hillarii. Computavit.
Adhuc Comunia de termino Sancti Hillarii, anno xliij Regis Edwardi
Tercii post Conquestum : adhuc Presentaciones, Attornatus, Dies
et Respectus.
Wygornia. De attornatu. Edmundus de Brugge, subvicecomes,
ponit loco suo Ricardum de Temedebury, Thomam de Brugge,
Johannem Moraunt, conjunctim et divisim, ad profrum suum facien-
dum in crastino Clausi Pasche, necnon omnia alia facienda que
predictus subvicecomes faceret ac si personaliter interesset. In pleno
Scaccario.
Wygornia. De attornatu. Edmundus de Brugge, subvicecomes,
ponit loco suo Ricardum de Temedebury ad compotum suum facien-
108 Select Formulas of
dum in quindena Sancti Hillarii, necnon omnia alia faciendum que
idem subvicecomes faceret, ac si personaliter interesset.
Per Thesaurarium.
Adhuc Brevia retornabilia de termino Sancti Michaelis anno xliij
0
Regis Edwardi tercii.
Wygornia. Vicecomes Wygornie, videlicet Edmundus de Brugge,
in xv Hillarii; ad quern diem predictus vicecomes non retornavit
breve, set idem vicecomes venit et computat sicut continetur alibi in
hiis Memorandis inter Precepta de termino Hillarii. Ideo hoc breve
cess[avit].
Adhuc Precepta de termino Sancti Hillarii anno xliij
0
Regis Edwardi
tercii.
Wygornia. Precepta facta super compotum Edmundi de Brugge,
vicecomitis, computantis hie modo, a die Sancti Hillarii in xv dies, de
officio vicecomitatus predicti de toto anno xlij
do
presenti, in propria
persona sua.
Quia nullus venit super hunc compotum pro Philippa, Regina
Anglie, et civibus civitatis Wygornie ad respondendum Regi de
debitis Regis levabilibus infra libertates ipsarum Regine et civitatis
in comitatu predicto, preceptum est vicecomiti xxvj die Januarii,
hoc termino, quod non omittat, propter libertates predictas, quin eas
[etc.]; et levari faciat debita Regis predicta ; ita quod ea habeat hie de
tempore in tempus prout ea levaverit. Et decetero non faciat retorna
summonitionum ballivis libertatum predictarum pro aliquibus debitis
Regis levandis infra libertates predictas donee aliud [etc.], Postea,
videlicet, xj die Februarii hoc termino, Thomas de Clifton venit coram
Baronibus et fecit finem pro prefatis civibus Wygornie pro libertate
dicte civitatis rehabenda, sicut continetur alibi in hiis Memorandis
inter Fines de hoc termino. Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod
dictam libertatem prefatis civibus restituat habendum ut prius [etc.].
Et libertas dicte Regine remaneat in manu Regis.
Adhuc Status et Visus de termino Sancti Michaelis, anno xliij
0
Regis
Edwardi tercii.
Wygornia. Facto visu compoti Edmundi de Brugge, vicecomitis
Wigornie, de ultimo dimidio anno xlij
do
Regis nunc, onerat se de
xlij s. vj d. de veteri incremento firme comitatus predicti. Et de lxvij s.
ij d. ob. de minutis firmis. Item, onerat se de xx marcis per ipsum
levatis de debitis pluribus per tempus predictum unde summa com-
munis xviij /. xvj s. iiij d. ob. De quibus respectuantur ei usque
alias Et sic summa respectus excedit summam oneris per vij s.
vij d. ob.
[L. T. R. Memoranda Roll, 43 Edward III.]
Royal Accounts 109
(g) Audit of the same Sheriff's Account as recorded in the
Pipe Roll (43 Edward III).
Thomas de Bello Campo, filius et heres Guidonis de Bello Campo,
nuper Comitis Warewici, vicecomes de feodo, sicut continetur in
rotulo quinto. Edmundus de Brugge, subvicecomes, pro eo, de hoc
anno xliij non reddit de aliquo remanente firme comitatus post terras
datas, quia habet superplusagium de xij /. xiij s. qui non debent
allocari quia excrescunt per extensa maneriorum, sicut continetur in
rotulo secundo Regis patris.
Idem Thomas, vicecomes de feodo, de proficuo comitatus a x die
Decembris, anno quinto, sicut continetur in rotulo v
t0
. Idem subvice-
comes reddit compotum de xiij /. de veteri cremento pro uno somerio
et uno austurco, sicut continetur [etc.]. In thesauro, nichil. Et in
libertate Episcopi Wygorniensis [Liveries and fixed Alms follow\
xliij Regis Henrici. Et debet iiij /. v s. Et reddit infra. Idem sub-
vicecomes debet xxxiij s. iiij d. ob. de minutis particulis assartarum
terrarum et tenementorum arrentatis, sicut continetur [etc.]. De quibus
subvicecomes reddit infra.
Idem subvicecomes debet ix s. ij d. ob. per annum de vastis arren-
tatis in foresta de Feckenham, anno xxvj
t0
in hoc comitatu, sicut
continetur [etc.]. Et xvij /. ix s. x d. ob. de anno preterite Summa,
xvij /. xix s. j d. De quibus vicecomes reddit infra de xv d. Et debet
xvij /. xvj s. x d. Idem subvicecomes debet lxxij s. v d. ob. per annum
in festo Sancti Michaelis de vastis arrentatis in eadem foresta anno
ix, sicut continetur [etc.]. Et cxlj /. xiij s. iiij d. ob. de anno preterite
Summa, cxlv/. vs. xd. De quibus idem subvicecomes reddit infra de
viij s. ix d. Et debet cxliiij /. xvij s. j d.
Ballivus manerii de Fecham ixs. per annum de Ada Halnaked
de ilia virgata terre cum pertinentiis in Fech[en]am quam Walterus de
Aylesbury quondam tenuit ibidem a festo Sancti Michaelis anno xv
quamdiu Regi placuerit, reddendo ad festa Pasche et Sancti Michaelis
equaliter sicut continetur in rotulo xvij
0
Regis patris. Et xviij /.
xiij s. xjd. de anno preterito
Nova Oblata. Philippa Regina Anglie habuit villam de Fekenham
cum foresta et parco et aliis pertinentiis suis in hoc comitatu a primo
die Decembris anno quinto in dotem, sicut continetur in rotulo
quinto
Johannes de Leycestria, nuper ballivus libertatis Philippe Regine,
reddit compotum de lix s. ij d. ob. de diversis debitis ipsius Regine in
hoc comitatu levandis, receptis a xviij die Februarii anno xiij
0
, usque
festum Assumptionis Beate Marie anno xliij, sicut continetur in
compoto suo; inde reddit compotum de terris que fuerunt dicte
Regine. In thesauro liberavit. Et quietus est.
[Pipe Roll, 43 Edward III, Wygornia.]
no Select Formulas of
54. Documents connected with the A ccount of the King's Chamberlain
of London and Sandwich for Prize Wines, etc. (37~9 Henry III)
1
.
{a) Appointment of fohn de Gisors as Chamberlain (i March,
37 Henry III).
Rex omnibus [etc.], Salutem. Sciatis quod constituimus dilectum
et fidelem nostrum Johannem de Gisorciis, civem nostrum Londonie,
ad prisas vinorum faciendas ad opus nostrum, et ad omnia alia facienda
que ad officium Camerarii pertinent in civitate nostra Londonie et
Sandwyco, quamdiu nobis placuerit. Et ideo vobis mandamus quod
eidem Johanni, in omnibus que ad officium Camerarii pertinent, in-
tendentes sitis et respondentes, sicut predictum est. In cujus [etc.].
Teste [Rege primo die Marcii]. Per Regem et senescallum.
[Patent Roll, 37 Henry III, m. 16 {Cal. p. 180).]
(b) Mandate to the King's Chamberlain for the' taking and buying'
of wines (16 September, 38 Henry III).
Mandatum est Johanni de Gisorcis quod vina ilia que ab eo Rex
nuper capi precepit, capiat a Wasconiis
2
, ad melius forum quod poterit,
gratis eorum, prout Regi magis expedire viderit; prestans eisdem
securitatem ex parte Regis et ex parte Ricardi comitis Cornubie,
necnon et sua, quod inde bene pacabuntur citra instans festum
Omnium Sanctorum. Et de vinis illis cum festinacione muniat
celaria Regis que inde Rex muniri precepit. Et hoc non omittat.
Teste Ricardo comite Cornubie, apud Radin'ges, xvj die Septembris
[38 Henry III]. Per Ricardum comitem.
[Close Roll, 38 Henry III, m. 2.]
(c) Official Bond given to a wine-merchant by the Chamberlain
(6 March, 39 Henry III).
Rex omnibus [etc.]. Sciatis nos teneri Elye Barbe, civi nostro
Burdagalie, in lxxviij /. xv s. sterlingorum pro xlv doliis vini captis ab
eo, ad opus nostrum, per Johannem de Somersete apud Whitsand,
computato quolibet dolio ad xxxv-f. Quam quidem pecuniam ei
solvere promittimus a die Pasche in unum mensem, anno xxxix, apud
Westmonasterium. In cujus rei [etc.]. [Teste Rege, apud West-
monasterium, vj die Marcii.]
Consimiles litteras habet idem Elyas Barbe de ex /. sterlingorum
pro L doliis vini captis ad opus Regis per Johannem de Gysorz,
computato unoquoque dolio de xlviij doliis ad XIVJ., et computatis
1
Certain documents which would presumably have been executed in connexion with this
Account, but which are no longer preserved, have been supplied here from later Records
connected with the Butlerage of Wines (No. 54e,f, i,j).
2
Cf. Pat. 38 Hen. I l l , m. 1.
Royal Accounts 111
duobus doliis ad justam prisam, videlicet, utroque ad xxs.; Reymund
Makayn de c et L/. xs. sterlingorum pro lxviij doliis vini captis ab
eodem ad opus Regis per eundem Johannem, computato unoquoque
dolio de lxvj doliis ad xlv s. et computatis duobus doliis ad justam
prisam, videlicet, utroque ad xx s. Solvendum eisdem Elye et Rey-
mundo a die Pasche in unum mensem, anno xxxix, apud Westmonas-
terium. In cujus rei [etc.]. Teste ut supra.
[Patent Roll, 39 Henry lll,pt. 2, m. 13 (Cal.p. 402).]
(d) Precept to the Sheriffs of London for the carriage of wines
taken by the Chamberlain for the King's use (15 September,
38 Henry III).
Rex, vicecomitibus Londonie, Salutem. Precipimus vobis quod de
lxviij doliis vini que Johannes de Gisorciis, camerarius noster Londonie,
capiet ad opus nostrum et vobis, per preceptum nostrum, liberabit
Londonie, cariari faciatis usque Westmonasterium xl dolia, usque
Keniton vj dolia, usque Windesores xx dolia, et usque Sutton
Hospitalariorum duo dolia, ponenda in celariis nostris locorum pre-
dictorum. Et certum [etc.] compotum [etc.]. Teste Ricardo comite
Cornubie, apud Walingeford, xv die Septembris [38 Henry III],
Eodem modo mandatum est vicecomiti Kancie quod de v doliis
vini que idem Johannes ei liberabit apud Londoniam, cariari faciat
usque Cantuariam tria dolia, et usque Roffam duo dolia, ponenda in
celariis nostris locorum predictorum. Et certum [etc.] compotum [etc.].
Teste ut supra.
Et mandatum est Johanni de Gisorciis quod vina ilia capiat et
eisdem vicecomitibus liberet sicut predictum est
1
.
[Liberate Roll, 38 Henry III, No. 30, m. 2.]
(e) Indenture certifying the Expenses incurred by a Sheriff of
London in the carriage of Wines taken by the King's
Butler for his use
2
(35 Edward I).
Mise et expense facte per Simonem Bolet, unum vicomitum
Londonie, per visum Willelmi de Trente, pincerne domini Regis,
circa cariagium vinorum domini Regis a Londonia usque Norhampton
et Langele, per carectas, juxta mandatum domini Regis per unum
breve de Scaccario vicecomitibus Londonie directum.
In primis pro viginti carectis conductis in Londoniam, pro viginti
doliis vini cariandis usque Langele, ad opus domini principis, \xs.,
videlicet, pro qualibet carecta iij s. Et pro barmanagio, vs., videlicet,
pro quolibet dolio iij s. Et pro circulis et dowellis, ij s. iij d. Et pro
quinque vallettis custodientibus dicta vina per quinque vices, ij s. vj d.,
videlicet pro quolibet valletto vj d., unde summa ascendit ad lxix.v. ixd.
1
Cf. above, No. 54 {/>).
2
See above, p. n o n.
112 Select Formulas of
Et pro lx carectis conductis in Londoniam, pro lx doliis vini cariandis
usque Norhamptonam ad opus liberorum domini Regis, xxix/. \)s.
Item, pro barmanagio et cariagio eorundem vinorum et pro circulis et
dowellis ad eadem dolia emptis, cum cuperagio; et pro custagio
Davidis clerici, pro carectis capiendis extra villam; et etiam pro
custagio diversorum garcionum cum dictis vinis euntium per diversas
vices ad eadem vina custodienda; prout patet per particulas penes
prefatum Willelmum de Trente residentes, lxiiijj. vjd.; unde summa
ascendit in universo ad xxxv /. xvj s. iij d. In cujus rei testimonium,
partes predicte huic Indenture sigilla sua alternatim apposuerunt.
Data Londonie, die Lune proxima post festum Purification is Beate
Marie, anno regni Regis Edwardi tricesimo quinto.
[Exch. Accounts, Bdle 77, No. 15 (5).]
(f) Indenture of Receipt by the King's bailiff of Henley (c.o.
Surrey) of Wines for the King's use (18 Edward I)
1
.
Memorandum quod die Jovis xxviij die Marcii, anno regni Regis
Edwardi, filii Regis Edwardi, decimo octavo, apud Henle juxta Guide-
ford, Walterus le Ladde, ballivus ejusdem manerii de Henle, recepit de
Jacobo Beauflor, locum tenente Stephani de Abyndon, duo dolia vini
novi rubei, plena, absque ullo defectu, ad opus ipsius domini Regis
salvo custodienda.
In cujus rei testimonium, predictus Walterus le Ladde huic Inden-
ture, penes eundem Jacobum remanenti, sigillum suum apposuit.
[Endorsed] de ii doleis vini.
[Exck. Accounts, Bdle yy, No. 30.]
(g) Petition of the King's Chamberlain for payment of Wines
taken from foreign merchants (c. December, 38 Henry III).
Viro venerabili et discreto, domino suo et amico carissimo, domino
Willelmo de Kilkenny, Cancellario domini Regis, suus Johannes de
Gisorciis, civis Londonie, salutem et paratam ad obsequia voluntatem.
Noverit discretio vestra me cepisse, per preceptum domini Regis,
ad festum Sancti Edwardi proximo preteriti, tot dolia vini sub-
scripta, scilicet, de quodam Gasconico, nomine Pelerino, decem dolia,
quodlibet dolium pro triginta et duobus solidis. Item, de Petro de
Bourg, quinque dolia, quodlibet dolium pro triginta solidis. Item, de
Petro de Berg, decem dolia, quodlibet pro duabus marcis et dimidia.
Item, de Bernardo de Puteo, sedecim dolia, quodlibet pro triginta
solidis. Item, de familia Bertrami de Palacio, tredecim dolia, quod-
libet pro duabus marcis et dimidia. Item, de Petro de Cermez, septem
dolia, quodlibet pro duabus marcis et dimidia. Item, de Ernaldo de
Gaylac, sex dolia, quodlibet pro triginta solidis. Summa doliorum,
per totum, octo et sexaginta dolia; summa custi, centum et octo
1
See above, p. no n.
Royal Accounts 113
libre et tres solidi quatuor denarii; et septem denarii ad Deum.
Hinc est quod vestram precor discretionem quatenus Liberate de
vinis istis directum domino Philippo Lovell, Thesaurario domini Regis,
mihi per latorem presentium transmittere velitis, ut ilia summa
pecunie eisdem mercatoribus pacetur; quia dominus Thesaurarius
aliquid inde facere non proponit, nisi Liberate inde possideat. Et si
quid erga me velitis, si placet jubeatis, quod diligenter perducerem ad
effectum. Valete in Domino.
[Chanc. Anc. Corr. VI. 169 {Letters Illustrative of the reign of Hen. Ill
{Rolls Ser.) II. 100).]
{h) The Writ of Liberate in favour of the above merchants
(6 December, 38 Henry III).
Rex [Thesaurario et Camerariis suis de Scaccario], Salutem.
Liberate de Thesauro nostro Pelerino Gascon[ico] xvj /., pro x doliis
vini ab eo captis, ad opus nostrum, per manus Johannis de Gisorciis,
Camerarii nostri Londonie, anno [etc.] xxxviij. Liberate etiam Petro
de Burgo vij /. x s., pro v doliis vini ab eo captis ad opus nostrum, per
manum ipsius Johannis, anno eodem. Liberate etiam Petro de Berg
xxv marcas, pro decem doliis ab eo captis ad opus nostrum, per
manum predicti Johannis, anno eodem. Liberate etiam Bernardo de
Puteo xxiiij libras pro xvj doliis vini ab eo captis ad opus nostrum.
Et Bertramo de Palacio xxv marcas pro xiiij doliis vini ab eo captis
ad opus nostrum. Et Petro de Germer xvij marcas et dimidiam pro
vij doliis vini ab eo captis ad opus nostrum. Et Ernaldo de Gailac ix /.
pro vj doliis vini ab eo captis ad opus nostrum, per manus ipsius
Johannis, anno predicto. Teste Ricardo comiti Cornubie, apud
Osprenge, vj die Decembris [39 Henry III],
[Liberate Roll, 39 Henry III, No. 31, M. 13.]
{i) Acquittance by a foreign wine-merchant for payment received
through a Sheriff of London (35 Edward I)
1
.
Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presentes littere pervenerint,
Bartholomeus de Vendynes salutem in Domino sempiterno. Noverit
universitas vestra me recepisse et habuisse, die confectionis presentium,
de Simone Bolet uno vicecomitum Londonie, viginti quatuor libras,
tresdecim solidos, et quatuor denarios sterlingorum pro vinis ab eodem
emptis ad opus domini Regis. De quibus vero viginti quatuor libris,
tresdecim solidis, et quatuor denariis fateor me fore pacatum, et ipsum
Simonem, per presentes, inde voco quietum. In cujus rei testimonium
presentibus litteris sigillum meum apposui. Data Londonie, die Martis
proxima post crastinum Clausi Pasche, anno regni Regis Edwardi,
filii Regis Henrici, tricesimo quinto.
[Exch. K. R. Accounts, Bdle 77, No. 15 (3).]
1
See above, p. 110 n.
H. F. II. 8
U4 Select Formulas of
(_/) A bstract of the Account of the King's Butler (8 Edward II)\
Compotus Waited Waldeshef, pincerne domini Edwardi illustris
Regis Anglie, a primo die Decembris anno ejusdem Regis octavo,
usque festum Translationis beati Thome Martiris anno eodem finiente.
Recepta
[De] Garderoba. Eidem, per Garderobam apud Westmonasterium,
xxv die Aprilis, c marcas, per manus diversorum, pro ix doliis vini
emptis per Hurle in itinere Regis, solutum per Garderobam mense
Junii anno presenti, xxiiij/. ii)s. ni)d.
XX
Summa recepte de Scaccario et Garderoba, Dcciiij.vj /. xiiij s. viij d.
Probatur.
Summa totalis recepte, Ml.ccclxvj /. xvj d. Probatur.
Exitus denariorum.
London. De Bartholomeo de Vendines, xiij dolia, pretium dolii
xlj-., deficientibus xvj sextariis, pro xs. viij d., pretium sextarii, viij d.
Summa, xxv /. ix s. iiij d.
Probatur.
[Exch. K. R. Accounts, Bdle TJ, No. 18.]
(k) Enrolment of the A ccount of fohn de Gisors, chamberlain of
London, etc. at the Exchequer (39 Henry III).
Compotus Johannis de Gysors de Cameraria Londonie et Sandwici,
a primo die Marcii anno xxxvij, sicut continetur in Originali ejusdem
8
,
usque ad xxj diem Aprilis anno xl, scilicet per tres annos et septem
septimanas.
[He is charged with certain Prize wines taken but is allowed for wines
bought.']
Et pro mille et ix doliis vini diversimode emptis per totum
predictum tempus, MMxlv/. xvji\ et viij d. Et in eisdem vinis
carcandis, discarcandis, circulandis, hospitandis, tarn apud Sandwicum
quam apud Londoniam, et aliis minutis expensis, cxvjj. i]d. Summa
XX
misarum, MMcccxij/. xijj. xd. Et habet de superplus MMciiij.xv/.
vij s. x d., quod totum debetur diversis mercatoribus per diversa brevia
de Liberate.
[Pipe Roll, 39 Henry III {Post Kanciam)^
1
See above, p. n o n.
2
i.e. in the Estreat of his commission (No. 54 (a)).
Royal Accounts 115
55. Documents connected with the Accounts of the Hanaper of the
Chancery (13 5 81844).
(i) The mediaeval practice of accounting.
(a) Commission to Richard de Ravenser as Keeper or Clerk of
the Hanaper (31 Edward III).
Rex, omnibus ad quos [etc.], Salutem. Sciatis quod commisimus
dilecto clerico nostro Ricardo de Ravensere officium Hanaperii Can-
cellarie nostre, habendum et exercendum quamdiu nobis placuerit.
Ita quod de exitibus inde provenientibus nobis respondeat ad Scac-
carium nostrum, percipiendo et faciendo in officio illo prout alii
clerici qui officium illud prius habuerunt in eodem percipere et facere
consueverunt. In cujus [etc.]. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium,
primo die Septembris [31 Edward III].
[Originalia Roll, 31 Edw. Ill, rot. 8.]
(b) Particulars of the Account of the Hanaper (42-3 Ed-
ward III).
Compotus domini Ricardi de Ravenser, Custodis Hanaperii, a
primo die Octobris, anno regni Regis Edwardi, tercii post conquestum,
xlij
0
, usque ad primum diem Octobris, anno ejusdem domini Regis xliij
0
.
Die dominica, primo die Octobris, non consigillavit quia
Nichil.
Die lune, secundo die Octobris, de brevi consigillato apud
Retherhythe iij J. vj d.
Eodem die de quadam Patente \]s. [Other entries of fees
received follow^]
Summa totalis Recepte, MMclviij/. xvij s. viij d.
Liberata per brevia de Privato Sigillo, quia nichil.
De carta Johannis de Beverle de concessione sibi et heredibus.
[Other names follow^]
Inde, Ernaldo Southerman, vj die Novembris, pro cccc, quarterio,
iij libris cere polane ab eo emptis, pretii centene, lxvj s. Unde in toto
xiiij /. ij s. [Other entries follow^
Summa, xlj /. xvij s. ij d.
Item, Johanni de Kendale, uni parchminariorum Lincolnie, secundo
XX
die Octobris, pro iiij duodenis pergameni tarn pro cursu quam pro rotulo,
pretium duodene ij s. vj d.; unde in toto x /. [Other entries follow^]
Summa, xl /. xv s. x d.
In roba domini Ricardi de Ravenser, custodis Hanaperii, pro
tempore yemali, xxvj s. viij d. [Other entries follow^]
Summa, vj /. viij d.
Item, in vadiis domini Ricardi de Ravenser, custodis Hanaperii,
per annum, captis per diem vj d.ix /. ij s. vj d. [Other entries follow.]
Summa, xxix /. xiij s. j d. ob.
116 Select Formulas of
In ferrura et marescalcia summarii portantis rotulos Cancellarie,
frenis, capistris, cingulis, supercingulis, et emendatione celle et aliis
materiis factis circa predictos rotulos per annum, ut patet per quamdam
cedulam huic rotulo consutam
1
, xxxiij s. xd.
Item, in ferrura et marscalcia (sic) summarii portantis Hanaperia,
ceram et pergamenum; frenis, capistris, cingulis, supercingulis, emenda-
tione selle, et aliis materiis factis predicto equo, per annum xvs.
Summa, xlviij s. x d.
Item, in focali empto apud Londoniam et alibi ad calefaciendam
ceram et in viridi grecia, per annum, xj s.
Item, in viridi grecia, turmentyn et rosyn, pro brevibus de Com-
muni Banco, per annum, xvs.
Item, in una bursa ad imponendum sigillum Cancellarii domini
Regis, vjj.
Item, liberatum domino Cancellario pro feodo suo consueto; pro
expensis clericorum Cancellarie ad mensam domini Regis et pro robis
eorundem, per annum, D /.
Summa totalis expensarum, Dcxxij /. vij s. vij d. ob. Et debet
MDxxxvj/. xs. ob.
\Exch. K. R. Accounts, Bdle 212, No. 12 (1).]
(c) Vouchers subsidiary to the above Account.
Edward, par la grace de Dieu, Roi d'Engleterre, Seigneur d'Irlande
e d'Aquitaigne, [a] nostre ame clerc Richard de Ravensere, wardein
del Hanaper de nostre Chancellerie, Saluz. Nous vous mandons que
noz Lettres Patentes, esteantes en vostre garde en dit Hanaper, par
queles nous avons grantez a nostre ame Esquier Johan de Beverle q'il,
pour lui e pour ses heirs, eit a touz jours franche garenne en toutes ses
demesnes terres appertenantes a son manoir de Penkrych; si bien
deinz nostre foreste illoeques come dehors, lui facez liverer quites du fee
de nostre Grant Seal que a nous ent appartient. Et volons que par
cestes vous en eiez due allouance en vostre aconte. Donez souz nostre
Prive Seal, a Westminster, le xxx jour d'Octobre l'an de nostre regne
quarante second.
\Exch. Q. R., Bdle 212, No. 12 (2).]
Imprimis in quatuor lagenis incausti, xiij s. iiij d.
Item, in ferrura equi et pro remotione ejusdem, per annum, ij s. x d.
Item, in allocatione duorum hakneiorum ad Eltham, et expensis
eorundem hakneiorum, et sigillatione commissionum, ij s.
Item, in emendatione baggarum et emptione canvacii, iij s. viij d.
Item, in carriatione rotulorum ad Turrim Londonie et retro, per
sex vices, vj s.
Item, in uno freno, et j pole, et flokkes pro sella, vs.
Item, in filo et acubus, xij d.
Summa, xxxiij s. x d.
\Exch. K. R. Accounts, Bdle 212, No. 12 (1) in cedula.]
1
See below (c).
Royal Accounts 117
(d) Enrolment of the above Account at the Exchequer.
Compotus Ricardi de Ravensere, custodis Hanaperii Magni Sigilli
Regis in Cancellaria sua, per breve Regis de Magno Sigillo patens
datum primo die Septembris anno xxxj, penes ipsum Ricardum
remanens, et Johannis de Wythornwyke, attornati predicti Ricardi,
per breve Regis de Magno Sigillo datum xij die Novembris,
anno xliij Thesaurario et Baronibus hujus Scaccarii, directum, quod
est inter Communia de termino Sancti Michaelis anno xliiij
to
, de exitibus
ejusdem Sigilli et Sigilli Regis in utroque Banco a festo Sancti Michaelis
anno xlij finiente, ante quod festum idem Ricardus inde computavit,
rotulo xlij
do
rotuli compotorum, usque festum Sancti Michaelis proximo
sequens, videlicet de anno xliij
0
. De quo quidem festo idem Ricardus
est alias inde computaturus.
Recepta.
Idem reddit compotum de Dccxxij /. ij s. vj d. de proficuis pro-
venientibus de brevibus, tarn Clausis quam Patentibus, in dicta
Cancellaria consignatis per predictum tempus hujus compoti, sicut
continetur in rotulo de particulis in Thesauro liberato. Et de xxx /.
vj s. viij d. de iiij
or
Cartis de magno feodo in dicta Cancellaria con-
signatis, per idem tempus, videlicet, de qualibet Carta, vij /. xj J. viij d.,
XX
sicut continetur ibidem. Et de cccx /. vj s. viij d. de ccciiij Cartis de
parvo feodo in eadem Cancellaria similiter consignatis, per idem
tempus, videlicet, de qualibet Carta, xvj s. iiij d., sicut continetur
ibidem. De feodo ejusdem Sigilli pro xviij Cartis de magno feodo,
unde summa se extendit ad cxxxvj/. xs. et lxvij Cartis de parvo
feodo, unde summa se extendit ad liiij /. xiiij s. iiij d. in eadem Cancel-
laria consignatis per idem tempus, non reddit, per lxvij brevia de
Privato Sigillo per que Rex mandavit eidem custodi quod Cartas
supradictas liberaret de feodo dicti Sigilli ad ipsum Regem pertinente
quietas, sicut continetur ibidem.
Et de x /. x s. de feodo dicti Sigilli pro restitutione temporalium
archiepiscopatus Cantuariensis, iiij
or
episcopatuum, iiij abbatiarum et
prioratus de Mertone facta per tempus predictum, videlicet, de predicto
archiepiscopatu x\s., de quolibet predictorum episcopatuum et abba-
tiarum xx s., et de predicto prioratu x s., sicut continetur ibidem. Et
Dccxlix /. xiiij s. iiij d. de finibus diversorum hominum in eadem Can-
cellaria per idem tempus factis, quorum hominum nomina annotantur in
predicto rotulo de particulis. Et de cccxxxv /. xvij s. vj d. de exitibus
Sigilli Regis de brevibus judicialibus tarn in Banco Regis quam in
Banco Communi, per idem tempus, sicut continetur ibidem.
Summa recepte, MMclviij/. xviji
1
. viij <aT. De quibus:
Expensa.
Idem computat solutum Cancellario Regis [etc.], D /., sicut
continetur in dicto rotulo de particulis. Et in cera empta [etc.],
XX
iiij.ij /. xiij s., sicut continetur ibidem. Et eidem custodi dicti Hanaperii
pro vadiis suis [etc.], xxix /. xiij s. j d. ob. videlicet, dicto custodi vj d. [etc.]
per diem, sicut continetur ibidem et sicut hujusmodi vadia allocantur
n 8 Select Formulas of
eidem custodi et aliis premissis in compoto ejusdem custodis de exiti-
bus dicti Sigilli, rotulo xl, rotuli compotorum
1
. Et eidem custodi, tam
pro robis suis yemalibus [etc.] per idem tempus, vj /. viij d., dicto custodi
pro robis suis, xlvj s. viij d. [etc.] per annum, sicut continetur ibidem et
sicut hujusmodi robe allocantur eidem custodi et aliis premissis in
compoto ejusdem custodis, rotulo xl, rotulo compotorum. Et in filo,
incausto, et aliis minutis necessariis emptis unacum ferrura dicti equi
[etc.] infra dictum tempus hujus compoti, xxxiij s. x d., sicut con-
tinetur ibidem. Et in frenis [etc.]; ac etiam in focali pro cera cale-
facienda, viridi grecia, rosino et termentino, similiter emptis pro
diversis brevibus judicialibus consignatis in Communi Banco, necnon
una bursa empta pro Sigillo dicte Cancellarie imponendo, per predictum
tempus hujus compoti, xlvij s., sicut continetur ibidem.
Summa expensorum, Dcxxij /. vij s. vij d. ob.
Et debet MDxxxvj /. x s. ob.
In thesauro cccxliij /. xij s. xj d. in xv talliis. [Otherpayments into
the Treasury follow^] Et Johanni de Tameworth cui Rex xx die
Februarii anno xxiiij
to
concessit viginti libras percipiendas singulis
annis ad totam vitam suam per manus custodis dicti Hanaperii qui pro
tempore fuerit ad terminos Pasche et Sancti Michaelis per equales
porciones xx /.; de terminis Pasche et Sancti Michaelis hoc anno xliij,
per breve Regis irrotulatum in Memorandis de anno xliiij
to
Regis hujus
termini Michaelis et litteras patentes dicti Johannis de recepta. [Other
official allowances follow.]
Et quietus est.
[L. T. R. Foreign Accts, 43 Edw. Ill, rot. E.]
Annape-
rium Can-
cellarie.
Intratur
in officio
Rememo-
ratoris
Regis per
Hall.
Intratur
ex parte
Rememo-
ratoris
The-
saurarii
videlicet
Status et
Visus
compoto-
rum de
termino
Sancti
Michaelis
anno xxiij
Regis
Caroli
Secundi.
(ii) The official practice of Accounting from 1485 to 1828
2
.
(a) Declared Account of the Hanaper (16691670).
Compotus Henrici Seymour Armigeri Custodis sive Clerici An-
naperii predicti cui Precellentissimus Dominus Carolus primus per
Litteras suas Patentes sub magno sigillo suo Anglie confectas gerentes
datum xxiij
to
die Septembris anno regni sui decimo nono dedit et
concessit officium Custodis sive Clerici Annaperii curie Cancellarie
predicte Habendum et tenendum dictum officium pro termino vite sue
una cum omnibus vadiis, feodis, robis et regardis quibuscumque dicto
officio spectantibus in tam amplis modo et forma prout Thomas
Cromwell, quondam vel nuper Comes Essexie, aut Ricardus Sadler
[other predecessors in office mentioned] aut eorum aliquis aut aliquis
alius Custos sive Clericus Annaperii predicti pro tempore existens aut
predicti officii Custodes sive Clerici Annaperii predicti habuit
et percepit, prout per dictas Litteras Patentes in compoto de
anno duodecimo Caroli Secundi nunc Regis verbatim recitatas
plenius liquet et apparet. Videlicet computavit de exitibus et reven-
cionibus Annaperii predicti a festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli anno
1
This is a reference to the Pipe Roll on which such Accounts were enrolled prior to the
42nd year of Edward III.
2
There are no Enrolled or Declared Accounts of the Hanaper between 1485 and 1550.
Royal Accounts 119
regni Regis predict)' xxj, scilicet per spacium unius anni integri,
continentis ccclxv dies, tune finiti. Qui quidem compotus declaratus
fuit coram Christophero Turnor milite uno Baronum Curie Scaccarii
domini Regis xxj
mo
die Junii, anno regni Regis Caroli Secundi xxij
do
annoque Domini 1670.
Arreragia. Idem oneratur super compotum de ccxlij/. v')s. \\)d. pro
denariis respectuatis diversis personis in pede ultimi compoti hujus
computantis, existentibus pro uno anno integro finito ad festum
Sancti Michaelis Archangeli anno xx Regis Caroli Secundi, prout in
pede ejusdem compoti plenius apparet.
m c
Sed de iiij.vij.xxvj /. xiiij s. vj d. de arreragiis pendentibus in
pede ultimi compoti predicti super prenobilem Jacobum comitem
Newburgh firmarium omnium brevium, commissionum [etc.], hie non
oneratur eo quod dicta summa [etc.] exoneratur per dictum nunc
Regem Carolum Secundum, virtute brevis sub Sigillo suo Privato
gerentis datum apud Westmonasterium xxiij die Decembris anno
regni suo xxj
mo
mencionati in duobus scriptis (vocatis Quietus est)
signatis per Robertum Croke militem, clericum Pipe, datis xxiiij
0
die
Martii 1669 et irrotulatis coram Auditoribus Annaperii.
Summa, xlij /. vj s. iij d.
Receptum denariorum. Dictus computans oneratur super compotum
de xxxj /. per ipsum receptis de exitibus et proficuis cccx
m
Chartarum
sive Litterarum Patentium vocatorum Parve Patentes sub predicto
sigillo Curie Cancellarie infra tempus hujus compoti consignatarum et
deliberatarum, juxta ratam \}s. pro qualibet earundem, sicut con-
tinetur tarn in quodam rotulo dicti computantis continente septem
folia scripta quam in Libro Contra-rotulamenti Annaperii predicti con-
tinente xviij
im
folia, manu Mathei Pindar Armigeri contra-rotulatoris
Annaperii predicti signato, super hunc Compotum ostenso, examinato,
me
et remanens paret. [Other fees of the Seal follow.] Summa, Vij.iij /.
ij J. x d.
Summa totalis oneris cum Arreragiis predictis, v
m
.iiij
c
.xlv/.
xiiij s. j d. De quibus:
Superplusagium ultimi compoti. Idem computat in denariis dicto
computanti allocatis pro tantis denariis in quibus remansit in Super-
plusagio super determinacionem ultimi compoti de anno proximo
precedenti, prout in pede ejusdem compoti patet cxlj /. iiij s. ix d.
Summa, cxlj /. iiij s. ix d.
Feoda, vadia dicte Robe, et Liberature cum aliis Allocacionibus.
Et in denariis per predictum computantem infra tempus hujus compoti
solutis prenobili viro Orlando Bridgman militi et baronetto, domino
Custodi Magni Sigilli Anglie, pro dieta sua, clericorum et ministrorum
Cancellarie predicte, ad xxiij s. per diem, per spatium ccclxv dierum
c
finitorum xxviij die Septembris 1669, iiij.xix/. XVJ. AC pro robis
suis tarn hiemalibus quam estivalibus per tempus hujus compoti, xl /.
Pro annuitate sua, ad ccc /. per annum, debita infra tempus hujus
compoti, ccc /.; ac etiam pro attendentia sua extraordinaria, ad L /.
per terminum, debita pro iiij
or
terminis infra tempus hujus compoti
120 Select Formulas of
cc /.; attingentes in toto et sic allocati virtute Litterarum Patentium
domini nunc Caroli secundi gerentium datum xiiij
to
die Septembris,
anno regni sui xix, prout per dictas Litteras Patentes et acquitancias
c
dicti domini Custodis paret, usque ad summam ix.lix/. xvs.
[Other entries follow.']
XX
Summa, MMCiiij.ix/. xvijj. ixd. ob.
Solutiones per Warranta. Et in denariis per predictum compu-
tantem infra tempus hujus compoti solutis Willelmo Smith extra-
ordinario nuncio attendenti super Magnum Sigillum Anglie, pro
servitio et observantia suis super dominum Custodem Magni Sigilli
Anglie, per spacium ccclxvj dierum, inceptorum xxx
mo
die Junii anno
regni Regis nunc Caroli secundi xx
mo
et finitos xxx die Junii, anno
regni ejusdem domini Regis xxxj
mo
, juxta ratam iij s. pro quolibet die,
videlicet in allocatione hujusmodi per tria separalia Warranta pre-
honorabilis viri Orlandi Bridgman, militis Baronetti, domini Custodis
Magni Sigilli Anglie, prout per Warranta predicta et acquietancias
suas remanentes apparere poterit, liiij /. xviij s.
[Other entries follow.']
Summa, MMv
c
.lxxvj/. vs. ixd. ob.
Soluciones denariorum per Talleam, nomine Regardi. Et in
denariis per predictum Computantem solutis honorabili viro Har-
bottello Grimston, barronet, magistro Rotulorum Curie Cancellarie
et Clerico Parve Bage, propter labores et solicitudinem circa scripturas
et examinacionem extractarum Originalium in Cancellaria, pro anno
finito ad festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli, anno regni Regis Caroli
Secundi xxj
mo
, ad x /. per annum, per talliam levatam vj
t0
die
Novembris, anno regni ejusdem Regis xxj
mo
, prout per dictam
talliam unacum certificacione clerici Pellium patet, xl. [Another entry
follows.]
Summa, xxxvij /. iiij s. vij d.
Summa totalis Allocacionum et Solucionum predictorum,
me c
iiij.ix.xliiij/. x\)s. x]d. Et remanet ultra Allocaciones [etc.] V.j/. xii\)d.
De quibus respectuantur ei cc /. iiij s. xj d. provenientes et cres-
centes de exitibus et proficuis diversarum Chartarum, sive Litterarum
Patentium, Commissionum, Brevium et aliarum scripturarum infra
tempus singulorum computorum hujus officii precedentium in Curia
Cancellarie predicta, cum predicto Magno Sigillo consignatarum et
deliberatarum, videlicet a festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli, 1650,
usque xj diem Julii 1660, prout per separalia compota facta infra tempus
predictum plenius liquet et apparet. [Other entries follow^] Eo quod
dicte separales Charte remanebant in Annaperio predicto et nemo
prosecutus fuit pro illis, nee feodum debitum pro sigillacione eorundem
persolvit; et nunc deliberate sunt et remanent in Officiis duorum
Auditorum Annaperii predicti. Ideo hie respectuacione posite, ut
supra, quousque feoda inde debita domino Regi sint soluta.
Summa Respectuacionum predictarum ccxlvj /. xix s. vij d.
Et tune remanet sed ecliiij /. xix s.
Super Willelmum Adderley, firmarium omnium brevium et com-
Royal Accounts 121
missionum vulgariter vocatorum vj
d
Writts premencionatatorum,
pro uno anno integro finito ad festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli,
c
1669, de parte Miiij /. pro redditu dicte firme pro dicto anno, ultra
MC/. solutas huic computanti, cc/.
Ipsum computantem super determinationem hujus compoti,
existentis pro uno anno integro, finito ad festum Sancti Michaelis
anno regni Regis nunc Caroli secundi xxj
mo
, liiij /. xix s.
Declaratur xxj die Junii, 1670, cor am me, Chr. Tumor.
[Pipe Office, Declared Accounts, No. 1693.]
(b) Sub-Account (Comptrolment Book) of the Hanaper (i66g
1670).
Liber Comptrorotulamenti Hannaperii in Curia Cancellarie pro
anno a festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli, millesimo sexcentesimo
sexagesimo nono, annoque regni Regis Caroli Secundi nunc Regis
Anglie etc. vicesimo primo usque ad festum Sancti Michaelis Arch-
angeli anno regni sui vicesimo secundo, annoque Domini millesimo
sexcentesimo septuagesimo.
Lune, xj die Octobris, 1669. In Patentibus, j .
De Carta Johanni Seymor armigero, de concessione licentie
specialis pro termino quadraginta et unius annorumiiij /. iij s.
iiij d.
De Carta de dispensacione pro Roberto Grove clerico xxi .
iiij d.
De consimili pro Edwardo Herbert clericoxx s. iiij d.
De Carta Thome Cumber clerico, de concessione presentandi ad
rectoriam de Stonegrave in comitatu etdiocesi EboracensiXXJ. m]d.
De Carta de denizacione pro Isaacco de la Saulxxx s. iiij d.
De consimili pro Phillippo Foussierxx s. iiij d.
[Other entries follow^
Examinaturper Edw. Abney.
{Audit Office Accounts, Various, 6y$,fol 1 etc.]
(c) ' State' of the above Account abstracted at the Exchequer.
Status Magnorum Computorum, anno xxiij Regis Caroli secundi
et deinceps.
Annaperium Cancellarie.
Henricus Seymour armiger, custos siye clericus Annaperii venit
xx
jmo die Junii, anno xxij
do
Regis Caroli secundi et, ass[idente] Wood,
computavit eisdem die et anno de exitibus et revencionibus Annaperii
a festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli, anno Regis predicti xx
mo
, usque
dictum festum Sancti Michaelis, anno xxj
m0
Regis predicti, scilicet
per spacium unius anni integri continentis ccclxv dies tune finitos.
Et oneratur cum arreragio pro denariis respectuatis in pede ultimi
compoti ccxlij /. vj s. iij d.
122 Select Formulas of
Sed de iiij
ml
.vij
c
.xxvj /. xiiij s. vj d. de arreragiis pendentibus super
Jacobum comitem Newburgh, firmarium omnium brevium et com-
missionum vulgariter vocatorum vj
d
Writts non oneratur eo quod
dicta summa, existens pars de ix
ml
.ccl /. debita domino Regi pro
redditu ejusdem firme de m /. per annum pro novem annis finitis ad
festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli anno Regis predicti xxj
mo
et pro
parte dimidii anni finiti ad festum Natalis Domini anno predicto, ultra
M'M^Vc /. solutos ad dictum computantem, pro duobus annis et dimidii
anni finiti ad festum Natalis Domini anno Regis predicti xiiij
to
, ex-
oneratur per dictum dominum Regem nunc virtute brevis de Privato
Sigillo gerentis datum apud Westmonasterium xviij
0
die Decembris
anno regni sui xxj
m0
, mencionati in duobus scriptis vocatis Quietus est
et signatis per clericum Pipe.
Et pro denariis receptis de summa V
ml
.cciij /. vij s. x d.
Summa totalis oneris cum arreragiis predictis V
m
/. iiij
c
.xlv /. xiij s.
j d. De quibus :
Allocatur pro surplusagio ultimi compoti, cxlj /. iiij s. ix d.
Pro feodis, vadiis, dieta, robis, liberaturis cum aliis allocationibus
XX
MMciiij.ix/. xvijj. ix d. ob.
Pro solucionibus per warrantum MMVclxxvj /. vs. had. ob.
Pro solucionibus denariorum per talliam, nomine Regardi, xxxvij /.
iiij s. vij d.
Summa totalis allocationum et solucionum predictarum
iiij
m
/. ix
c
.xliiij /. xij s. xj d.
Et remanent, ultra allocationes et soluciones predictas, Vcj /.
xiiij d.: De quibus respectuantur ccxlvi /. xix s. vii d. Et tune
remanet sed ecliv /. xix d.
Super Willelmum Adderley [as above] cc /.
Ipsum computantem liiij /. xix d.
[Exch. K. R. States of Accounts, No. 4, rot. 4.]
(iii) The official practice of Accounting from 18281857.
A State of the account of the Reverend Thomas Thurlow, Keeper
or Clerk of Her Majesty's Hanaper in Chancery, for one year ended
31st December, 1844. Exhibited by James Garden Seton, Esquire,
his Deputy.
The Account of the Reverend Thomas Thurlow, Keeper or Clerk
of Her Majesty's Hanaper in Chancery for one year ended 31st
December, 1844. Exhibited by James Garden Seton, Esquire, his
Deputy.
Charge.
Balance Indebted on 31st December, 1843.
Balance Indebted on the preceding Account for one year ended
31st December, 1843. 1,882. \^s. g\d.
Received from William Sargent, Esquire, Paymaster of Civil
Services on account of the expenses of the Hanaper Office for the
year 1843.
Royal Accounts 123
1844, January 22nd. Received from William Sargent, Esquire,
Paymaster of Civil Services on Account of the expenses of the
Hanaper Office for the year ended 31st December, 1843.
2,413. os. od.
Received from the Green Wax or Seal Office.
Received from His Grace the Duke of Grafton, Receiver of the
Green Wax or Seal Office out of the Fees and Profits arising by
Writs, Charters and other writings sealed with the Seals of the
Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, from 1st January to
31st December, 1844. 1,653.
I
4
S
- od.
Received from the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery.
From the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery being one
year's Interest or Dividends due 5th July, 1844, arising on the sum of
45 59- 13-s
1
- 9d. Bank Consolidated 3 per cent, annuities standing in
the name of the said Accountant General for the service of the
Hanaper Office, 3. igs. lod. being deducted for property tax.
132. 16s. od.
Fees and Profits arising by Letters Patent, Commissions and
other writings passed under the Great Seal in the High Court of
Chancery for one year ended 10th October, 1844.
Amount of Fees and Profits arising by Letters Patent, Com-
missions and other writings passed under the Great Seal of Great
Britain in the High Court of Chancery from the nt h October, 1843,
to 10th October, 1844. 733. 3s. 2d.
Amount of casual fees formerly payable to the Lord High Chan-
cellor for one year ended 10th October, 1844.
Amount of the annual fees formerly payable to the Lord High
Chancellor collected by the Accountant's Deputy from several officers
of the Court of Chancery upon Instruments passing the Great Seal
for one year ended 10th October, 1844, viz. 22. 10s. 8d., from which
is deducted 8, the usual allowance to the Deputy Clerk of the
Hanaper for collecting the same. 14. 10s. 8d.
Total Charge 6,829. 19^- 7\d-
Discharge.
Paid into the Bank of England the net amount of the Salaries and
Allowances formerly payable to the Lord High Chancellor of Great
Britain being for one year ended 5th January, 1844.
Paid into the Bank of England to the Credit of the ' Secretary of
Bankrupts Compensation Fund' the net amount of the Salaries,
Perquisites and Allowances formerly payable to the Lord High
Chancellor of Great Britain, being for one year ended 5th January,
1844 (10. \gs. 6d. being retained for Civil List Tax as usual).
1,085. igs. 6d.
Salaries and Allowances.
Payments for Fees, Diet, Robes and Allowances to the several
officers of the High Court of Chancery and others under special
124 Select Formulas of
authorities and for Fees and Allowances which have been sanctioned
by custom in preceding Accounts of this Revenue, vizt.
To eleven Masters in Chancery for their Winter Robes due at
Christmas, 1843, 40. 14s. od., and for their Summer Robes due at
Pentecost, 1844, 33. os. od. 73. 14s. od.
Deduct Civil List Tax and poundage ... ... 2. 14s. "jd.
70. igs. 5d.
To the following officers in Chancery their usual and increased
Allowance in lieu of Parchment, vizt.
The Accountant, as Clerk of the Hanaper, 3 Rolls and as Protho-
notary 2 Rolls, the Clerk of the Enrolments in Chancery, the Allowance
of 3 Rolls formerly payable to the Senior Six Clerk and Comptroller,
making together 8 Rolls at 30^. per Roll. [Otker allowances follow.]
In all ... ... ... 84. os. od.
Deduct Civil List Tax and poundage ... ... g. 6s. od.
74. 14s. od.
To Susanna Fennell for an embroidered Purse, a Velvet Bag and
a Box for the Great Seal delivered for the use of the Lord Chancellor
on 1st January, 1844 ... ... ... 70. os. od.
Deduct Civil List Tax and poundage 4. 4s. od.
6$. \6s. od.
David Drew Esquire, Clerk of Enrolments in Chancery, the
ancient and accustomed allowance for engrossing the Comptrolment
Book of the Hanaper in Chancery for one year ended 10th October,
1844, which allowance was formerly payable to the Comptroller and
Surveyor of the Hanaper ... ... ... ... ,13. 6s. &d.
Deduct Civil List Tax and poundage ... ... 16s. od.
12. 10s. Sd.
[Other allowances for goods, conveyance of writs andjourneys follow
r
.]
Retained by the Accountant for Civil List Tax and poundage
due to the Clerk of the Hanaper by usage upon various payments
made by him within the period of this account ... 216. 10s. 4d.
In all 3,808. 14s. od.
Undercharged by the Accountant in the preceding Account for
one year ended 31st December, 1843.
Undercharged by the Accountant in his preceding Account for
one year ended 31st December, 1843, in respect of his allowance as
Clerk of the Hanaper, in lieu of Parchment, to 10th October, 1843.
18s. od.
Total Discharge.
4,895. us. 6d.
The Accountant is indebted in the sum of one thousand, nine
hundred and thirty four pounds, eight shillings and one penny
farthing. 1,934. 8J. i\d.
Royal Accounts 125
The foregoing Account was audited by the Commissioners for
Auditing the Public Accounts on the 22nd of December, 1846.
Approved and allowed by the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury and directed to be prepared for Declaration by
their Warrant dated the 18th January, 1847.
And signed for Declaration pursuant to the said Warrant by the
Commissioners for Auditing the public Accounts on the 20th of
January, 1847.
W. L. Herries.
H. F. Luttrell.
Henry Arbuthnot.
Examined Tho
s
. Theod
r
. Campbell, Insp
r
.
No. 8, Declaratur die 16 Julii, 1847.
Charles Wood.
W. Gibson Craig.
H. Rich.
[Exchequer K. R. States of Accounts, No. 278.]
II. JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS
C. POLITICAL OR STATUTORY INQUISITIONS
(i) Administrative or Remedial Inquisitions
56. The Inquest of Sheriffs (1170).The interest of this measure
for the present purpose lies, first, in the appearance at a very early
date of certain Articles relating to ministerial misgovernment, which
are reproduced in the Chapters of the Eyre and the Hundred Roll
group of inquisitions, and, secondly, in the apparent survival of
some fragments of the Inquisition itself. It will be observed that
the first four Articles refer to separate Chapters of inquiry, a dis-
tinction which is emphasized in the last Article (13). Other Articles
(6, i i , 12) relate exclusively to Crown business including the certifica-
tion of homage (cf. Nos. 22 and 40) and even the state of the stock in
the royal domains.
The original Returns above referred to, which contain the Inquisi-
tion taken in several Norfolk baronies ' per terras baronum,' appear to
relate chiefly to the Inquisition under Article 2, though incidentally
information is received regarding another Article (6) concerning the
Marriage Aid of 1168. It is noticeable, however, that the Articles
as preserved make no reference to Scutage which is the chief subject
of these fragments.
This inquisition should be carefully compared with the ' fiscal'
articles of the Assize of Northampton (1176).
57. The Hundred Rolls.The origin and relationship of these
familiar inquisitions have not perhaps been clearly understood by
many students who have made use of the abundant constitutional
and economic information supplied by the Exchequer and Chancery
Records which are grouped under this title. Full particulars of the
existing Inquisitions will be found in Mr Scargill-Bird's Guide.
Select Formulas of Political Inquisitions 127
From the specimens printed below it will be observed (1) That there
are three distinct Inquisitions dated 1255, 1274, and 1279, respectively.
(2) That each of these is connected with a special Writ and Articles
of Inquisition, whilst traces of a Forma Inquisitionis and the names of
the Jurors may also be found. (3) That the information contained in
the Returns for individual Hundreds is frequently duplicated in the
verdicts of neighbouring Hundreds or Vills or Liberties. Thus the
returns relating to Brill given below (Nos. 57 (b) and (e)) should be
compared with the Returns printed on pp. 25 sq. and 46 of the
Rotuli Hundredorum. To take the case of a particular manor, the
notices of Swanbourne given below from pp. 21, 37 and 335 of the
Record may be supplemented by entries on pp. 27, 42, 45, 47 and
338. (4) It would be found that the existing Inquisitions are very
incomplete, particularly that for 1279. Thus we have no Return for
Brill or for the old Hundred of Ixhill in that year, and the related
entry given below is from the Return for the old Hundred of Mursley.
(5) It will also be noticed that each of the above Inquisitions, and
especially those of 1274 and 1279, is connected with further proceedings
against officials guilty of misconduct and lords who have encroached
upon the domains or regalities of the Crown by alienations or claims of
private franchizes. These proceedings, which are also connected with
special statutes
1
, were apparently carried out by means of supplemen-
tary Articles based upon the results of the Inquisitions of 1255, 1274
and 1279
2
. The connexion of the further judicial proceedings with the
Hundred Rolls is indicated by the specimens given below. (6) It will
be easily perceived that there is a general resemblance between the
Articles of the Hundred Rolls and those contained in the Chapters
of the Eyre printed below (No. 70) as well as with the special
Inquisitions relating to grievances (No. 61) and Escheats (No. 36).
With regard to the individual construction of the Inquisitions pre-
served in the Hundred Rolls it will be noticed that the Articles of
1255 may be reconstructed from the text preserved in the Annals of
Burton (p. 337), which it will be instructive to compare with the
actual Inquisition for Stafford printed at p. 114 of the second
volume of the Hundred Rolls. The variation in the number and
order of the Articles administered in the several Hundreds seems in
fact to have varied greatly. The return for Brill is fairly complete,
and although the Articles concerning purprestures and claims of
liberties are omitted here, they are supplied from the related Hun-
1
Ragman (1276) and Gloucester (1278).
2
For a fuller discussion of this subject, see Studies, p. 298 sq.
128 Select Formulas of
dreds. It would seem that the normal type of these Articles closed
with the enquiry respecting defaulters at the inquest. In some
counties, however, a number of supplementary Articles respecting
forest customs and other matters appear and these also may have
been relegated to a further inquisition De Ministris, which formed
part of the proceedings in 1258 (No. 61). These were clearly differ-
entiated after the next Inquisition of 1274 in the shape of Articles
' De transgressionibus (or excessibus) impositis ministris Regis ac
aliis' (No. 57 v) and this enquiry is heard of again during the State
Trials of 128993 (No. 63).
The Inquisitions of 1274 recorded in the Hundred Rolls are
practically a resumption of the incomplete proceedings of 1255 on a
still larger scale ; but if many repetitions and resemblances are found
there, the variations are also noticeable. It will be seen that the
Articles printed in the Rotuli Hundredorum (1. Intro.) as a Schedule
to the Writ of Inquisition omit a number of Articles respecting the
conduct of ministers which were administered in some of the Eyres
(e.g. Lincoln). The separate enquiry between 1274 and 1279 respect-
ing the ' ministers' has been referred to above and the proceedings
are partly preserved in the so-called ' Extract Roll, No. 4' and in
the contemporary Assize Rolls (No. 57 v). The Hundred Rolls
of 1279 are chiefly concerned with extents of rights and liberties
in every Hundred, and these in turn form the subject of judicial
proceedings recorded in the so-called Quo Warranto Rolls (No. 57 iv).
But as early as 1255 a special enquiry on this subject had been held
before the Justices Itinerant (No. 57 i (c)) and are commemorated in
several existing fragments.
Reference has been previously made to the enquiries relating to
the Abbot of Woburn's Manor of Swanbourne in the Hundred Rolls of
1255, 1274
a n
d
I 2
79
a s w e
^
a s m
*
ne
Q
uo
Warranto Rolls in which
however, as is so frequently the case, no definite result is recorded,
though a full report of the proceedings which ensued at a later date
will be found in the Chancery Rolls
1
.
58. Kirkby's Quest (1284-5).
Tne
history and sources of this im-
portant and obscure Inquisition are well described in the Prefaces to the
official edition {Feudal Aids I and iv); but besides the several stages
of the ministerial Inquisition {ae) the judicial proceedings conse-
quent thereon should also be noticed. These are contained in a
1
Close Roll, 14 Edw. I l l , Pt. 1, m. 18; Pat. Roll, 14 Edw. I l l , Pt. 3, m. 45; ibid.
Pt. 3, m. 31; ibid. Pt. 3, m. 17 d.
Political Inquisitions 129
fragment of a roll of the commissioners' ' Hearing Notes' (/ ), and in
the formal judicial pleadings during their Eyre {g). These isolated
documents are especially interesting as containing references to the
Tallies which were a special subject of the enquiry. It would seem
that these were entered in a separate Roll. The Articles of Inquisi-
tion vary considerably in the several versions that have survived as will
be seen from a comparison of the List for Dorset printed in Feudal
Aids, Vol. 1., with those preserved in the Peterborough Chronicle (b).
59. The Trial of the Pyx (1660).An assay of the coinage, for the
purpose of maintaining the standard, was practised at the Exchequer
in the 12th century and this official inspection was accompanied by
formalities which have been perpetuated in the well-known ceremony
that has survived to our own times. The procedure observed here is
not, however, recorded in any series of Exchequer documents before
the reign of James I. In the sequence given below it will be noticed
that the place of the mediaeval Writ or Letter is taken by a Treasury
Warrant, the return to which is in the form of an Inquisition or
' Verdict' whilst there is also a narrative Processus. Certain sub-
sidiary documents relating to the arrangements made for the Trial
will also be found, including Indentures for the custody of the ' Trial
Pieces' and Accounts of the expense of' working' the same.
These 17th century ' Trials' are preserved in a somewhat irregular
fashion, as a series of paper documents, which are usually duplicated
and which are also entered in books, amongst the Records of the
King's Remembrancer's Department. The Warrants, however, should
also be entered amongst the Treasury Records where other documents
might perhaps be found, and the same remark applies to the Records
of the Mint and the muniments of the Goldsmiths' Company. The
Accounts above referred to were probably once preserved in a
separate series and they are also stated to have been enrolled on the
Lord Treasurer's Memoranda Roll (/), but they are not now found
there though they are represented in another quarter by the ' Declared
Accounts' of the Mint.
(ii) Confiscatory or Punitive Inquisitions
60. Terrae Normannorum et Britonum (13th century).Inquisi-
tions of the lands of these and other foreigners, who were technically
the English King's enemies since the loss of Normandy in 1205, occur
at various dates in the Testa de Nevill and other Feodaries of the
13th century
1
, usually in the form of disconnected and undated lists.
1
Cf. M. Paris III. 288 and IV. 298.
H. F. II. 9
130 Select Formulas of
In the present instance a copy of the Writ of Inquisition is fortunately
prefixed to the Return.
61. The Inquisitions 0/1258.In spite of the constant attention
that has been bestowed upon the constitutional episode preserved in
the Provisions of Oxford and the related documents, no attempt
seems to have been made to discover the Inquisition of grievances
conceded by that measure. That the enquiry was of a very com-
prehensive nature we know from the Articles copied by Matthew
Paris, who has also preserved the original Writ for Hertfordshire {&).
Another specimen (presumably for Staffordshire) is given in the
Burton Annals.
No trace of the original Inquisitions can now be found with the
exception of a single notice of their preservation in the 14th century,
in a certain chest. This interesting entry (d) occurs in Bishop
Stapeldon's ' Kalendar' compiled about the year 1323. It will
be remembered that two further constitutional documents are con-
nected with this Inquisition, namely the Proclamation of October,
1258 {Formula Book I. No. 70), and the Ordinance of March, 1259
{Foedera, I. 381).
62. Inquisition De Rebellibus (1265-6).These Records are con-
nected with the settlement, following the Guerra or Turbatio Regni
of the years 126466, which was accomplished by the Dictum de
Kenilworth (c). The object of the present sequence is to show the
relationship between the Inquisitions of 1265 (a and b) which have
been recently arranged and classified amongst the ' Chancery
Miscellaneous Inquisitions,' and the well-known Record of the paci-
fication of loyalists and rebels alike by legal process which has
been published in the Rotuli Selecti (d and e). A complete com-
parison between the ministerial and judicial Inquisitions is difficult
owing to the imperfect state of both collections, but it will be seen
from the extracts of the two Inquisitions printed below (d and / )
that, in some cases at least, the later Inquisitions are merely based
upon those of the previous year.
63. The Trial of the Judges (128993).A good account of the
causes and method of this judicial enquiry will be found in the
Introduction to the cases edited by Professor Tout and Miss Hilda
Johnstone (Camden, 3rd ser. Vol. IX.).
Although the form of the Return is that of Judicial pleadings it
will be noticed that the Commissioners were properly Auditores
querelarum. For their status cf. Abbreviatio Placitorum, p. 287.
Political Inquisitions 131
64. Inquisition of Templars Corrodies (1309).This document is
taken from a Record which is substantially complete in itself though
it can be amplified from parallel sources. The ' process,' originated by
a commission of enquiry (a), includes the Pleadings in which certain
original documents are recited, and these, which constitute the Inqui-
sition taken for the purpose of verifying the date and nature of the
alleged corrody, can be recovered from the original Extents (b, c).
65. Inquisition of the Contrariants' Lands (1322).In this case
the Commission (a) and Writ of Inquisition (b) are not recited in
connexion with the Extent (c) and have been recovered from the
enrolments. There is a distinct Account (d) relating to the subject
of the Return, which is connected with an extensive series of originals
and enrolments.
66. Extent of A liens' Lands and Goods (1295).These Inquisitions
had the same object as the preceding, but are connected with the
French wars from the latter part of the 13th century. The title
usually applied to them, ' Accounts of Alien Priories,' is a misnomer,
since they refer to individuals and to laymen as well as to the foreign
houses of religion. Moreover their form is that of an Inquisition, the
Return to which merely serves the purpose of an Account. For their
connexion with Agrarian Surveys see No. 13.
67. Proceedings relating to the Statute of Labourers (1355).The
nature of these proceedings has been exhaustively described by Miss
B. H. Putnam in the monograph cited below. Apparently the
Record in most, if not in all of the cases recorded in the Assize Rolls,
has been preserved as a result of the process of Certiorari. In the
specimen given below the Record is made up as follows:
1. Opening of the proceedings. The Commission of the Justices
recited.
2. The summons of the Jury.
3. The presentments of the Jury.
4. The arraignment of the Defendants.
5. Their admission to fine and bail.
6. In many cases further proceedings on writs of Exigend or
Supersedeas will be found on the Record. The process of levying the
fines and other matters connected with the administration of the
statute are fully described in the work above cited.
68. Inquisitions of Depopulation (151718).The Act (a) of
1490 (4 Hen. VII, c. 19) penalizing the destruction or wilful decay of
dwelling houses and consequent conversion of tillage to pasture was
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132 Select Formulas of
the first of several measures directed against this social evil in the
course of the 16th century
1
. Offences against these statutes were
punished by the temporary forfeiture of half the profits of the soil.
Effect was given to the Acts of 1490 and 1515 by a Commission
issued in 1517 (b) by virtue of which an extensive Inquisition was
held (d) according to certain Articles of inquiry (c). Apparently,
however, the returns made to this Inquisition were in some cases
unsatisfactory, and a new Commission ( / ) was issued, after due
proclamation (e), in 1518, for certain counties, if not for all previously
visited. The original Returns {g) made to this Inquisition have
only been discovered for two counties (Northamptonshire and Bedford-
shire).
As soon as the Returns for each of these two Inquisitions were
received in the Chancery, Subpcena or other summons was at first
issued to require the appearance of the offenders. The usual pro-
cess however seems to have been a writ of Scire Facias (fi) return-
able by the Sheriff. On appearing, the defendants either made
Answer (1) admitting the facts found in the Inquisition and entering
into Recognizances to repair the decayed messuages
2
, or petitioned
for a stay of proceedings, or joined issue on the question of facts
3
.
In the former event, after due certification
4
of accomplishment, a writ
of Supersedeas (/) might be issued from the Exchequer, for stay of
proceedings either temporarily or finally, or the Statutory Pardon
5
might be invoked (k). In the case given below a characteristic
sequel is found in further proceedings instituted a few years later
The manuscript relations of this interesting group of Inquisitions
can now be more clearly elucidated from the sequence of documents
1
The commissions of 1517 and 1518 were apparently followed by further proceedings in
1526. A new commission was issued in 1548 and several ineffectual provisions were instituted
under Philip and Mary and Elizabeth previous to the great commission of 1607. For the
texts and description of these proceedings see I. S. Leadam in Transactions Ji. Hist. S.
N.S. Vols. vi . VIII. , and Domesday of Inclosures (1897); also a valuable commentary by
Prof. E. F. Gay in Transactions, Vol. XIV. p. 231 sq. and a description of the Inquisitions of
1605 in Vol. xvai . p. 195 sq. together with the essay by Miss E. M. Leonard in
Transactions, Vol. XIX. p. 101 sq. Since the publication of these treatises on the 1517
Inquisitions, further Records have been discovered.
2
The Recognizance entered into by Sir Richard Knightley has not been found on the
Close Roll, but Prof. Gay has pointed out that these were only enrolled in 1520 and 1526.
3
For a good instance of a case fought to a finish by recourse to the Common Law, see
K. R. Memo. Roll, No. 299, M. 8, and cf. Leadam, op. cit. pp. 13, 195.
4
This Certificate is cited here (/) but has not been traced amongst the Chancery Common
Law Proceedings.
6
For specimens of such Pardons, cf. Leadam, op. cit. pp. 426 and 478.
Political Inquisitions 133
printed below owing to the recent discovery of certain fragments of
missing Records. These have a special interest, since the Returns
of 1518 for two counties only (as we have seen) have been preserved.
Moreover the case selected here will not be found either in the
Inquisition of 1517, published by the Royal Historical Society, or in
the Original Returns of 1518 preserved in the Record Office. The
text of both these Inquisitions has been restored in this case from the
Exchequer Memoranda Roll, whilst the heading of the 1517 Inquisition
has been also restored from the Original Returns. The Commission
of 1518, which is not entered on the Patent Roll, has not before been
printed. The note of the further proceedings in 1526 has been dis-
covered amongst the membranes of the 1517 and 1518 Inquisitions.
For the Documents relating to the later Tudor Inquisitions, reference
should be made to the works of Prof. Gay and Mr Leadam and for
the Inquisition of 1607 to Dr Prothero's Documents (3rd ed.) p. 470.
(i) Administrative or Remedial Inquisitions
56. The Inquest of Sheriffs (A.D. I I 70).
(a) Writ of Inquisition (Narrative).
In primis exigent barones vadium et plegium ab omnibus vice-
comitibus qui fuerunt vicecomites postquam dominus Rex novissime
transfretavit in Normanniam, et ab omnibus qui fuerunt post terminum
ilium baillivi vel ministri eorum quicunque baillivam de eis habuerunt;
et ab omnibus illis qui post terminum ilium tenuerunt hundredos
baronum quos ipsi habent in comitatu, sive eos tenuerint ad firmam,
sive in custodia; quod erunt coram domino Rege die quern ipsi eis
constituerint, ad faciendum rectum et adreciandum ei et hominibus
suis quod adreciare debuerint. Et si vicecomites ante eos propter
infirmitatem venire non possunt, mittant loco suo qui pro eis
respondeant, et dent vadium et plegium sufficientem pro vicecomitibus
et pro se ipsis, quod coram domino Rege facient hoc quod vicecomites
facere debent ad diem constitutum.
Postea capient sacramentum ab omnibus baronibus et militibus et
liberis hominibus de comitatu, quod verum dicent de hoc [quod] ab
eis inquiretur ex parte domini Regis ; et quod non celabunt veritatem
pro amore alicujus vel odio vel pretio vel praemio vel timore vel
promissione vel pro ulla re.
(b) Articles of Inquisition,
Hie est modus Inquisitionis ;
(i) Inquiratur de vicecomitibus, imprimis, et baillivis eorum, quid
vel quantum acceperint de singulis hundredis et de singulis villatis, et
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de singulis hominibus, postquam dominus Rex transfretavit, unde
terra vel homines' gravati sint; et quid acceperint per judicium
comitatus vel hundredi, et quid sine judicio; et quid inquisierint
captum esse per judicium scribatur separatim, et quid sine judicio
scribatur separatim; et de omnibus prisis inquirent causam et
testimonium.
(ii) Similiter inquiratur de archiepiscopis, episcopis, abbatibus,
comitibus, baronibus et eorum senescallis et ministris, quid vel
quantum acceperint per terras suas post terminum predictum de
singulis hundredis suis et de singulis villatis suis, et de singulis
hominibus suis, per judicium vel sine judicio; et omnes prisas illas
scribant separatim et causas et occasiones earum.
(iii) Et similiter inquirant de hominibus illis qui post terminum
ilium habuerunt alias baillivas de domino Rege in custodia sive de
episcopatu, sive de abbatia, sive de baronia, sive de honore aliquo vel
eschaeta.
(iv) Et similiter inquiratur de baillivis Regis qui per terram suam
erraverunt pro negociis Regis faciendis, quid eis datum sit, et quid inde
inquisierint, scribant
(vi) Et inquiratur de auxiliis ad maritandam filiam Regis, quid
inde exierit de singulis hundredis et singulis villatis, sive in redditis
sive in perdonis, et cui illud traditum fuerit et liberatum
(xiii) Et postquam inquisiti fuerint, vicecomites mei et ministri
adhibeantur ad cetera negotia mea et jurent quod legaliter intendent
Inquisitioni faciende per terras baronum.
[MS. Bod/. Rawlinson C. 641 {Stubbs, S. C. (1895),/. 148).]
(c) The Return.
Baronia Roberti de Waliunes.
Postquam Rex novissime transfretavit in Normanniam et fecit
assisam suam, Walterus de Sapestuna fuit prepositus Roberti de
Valoniis apud Fagaham, et per malam custodiam ipsius periit fenum
domini, et ideo reddidit domino XIJ., per veredictum. Et postea
defecerunt ei ij marce argenti de computatione sua, et reddidit eas
domino per judicium. Similiter Godefridus Clericus minister ejus
fuit, et ei defecerunt iij marce de computatione sua, et reddidit eas
domino per judicium ; et pro purprestura terre domini sui apud ipsum
dirationata, dedit domino suo xvj s. et viij d. per judicium. Robertus
Pastor habuit ovile domini in custodia, et defecerunt ei xl et vj s. de
censu, et reddidit eos domino per judicium. Radulfus filius Luvedai
fuit minister domini, et defecerunt ei de computatione sua xxx s., et
reddidit eos domino per judicium. Brianus habuit nemus domini et
warennam in custodia sua, et pejoratio nemoris fuit appreciata, x x x i
et reddidit eos domino per judicium. Tota soca domini de Fagaham
intravit in dirationationem cujusdam pasture contra dominum suum,
quam non potuerunt dirationare; et ideo dederunt domino L et ij
Political Inquisitions 135
solidos per judicium. Gillebertus Nep habuit apes domini in custodia
et per malam custodiam ejus fuit dampnum domini appreciatum apud
eum ix solidis et viij denariis, et eos reddidit domino per judicium.
Hugo Pictor fuit porcarius domini, et fuit pejoratio porcorum
appreciatum in custodia v solidis, et reddidit eos domino per judicium.
Walterus Cobbe habuit claves grangie domini in custodia, et defecit
de computatione sua, unde dampnum fuit appreciatum xviij solidis et
iiij denariis, et eos reddidit domino per judicium. Lefwinus similiter
habuit claves grangie domini, et deficitur ei de exitu grangie unde
dampnum fuit appreciatum, xx et viij solidis ; et reddidit eos domino
per judicium.
Ad filiam domini Regis maritandam, homines de soca de Fagaham
dederunt domino suo iij marcas. Homines Roberti de Valuines de
Ruisse Wurde, xs. eidem Roberto, et j marcam ad exercitum Regis.
[Red Booiz of Exchequer (Rolls) II. cclxxvii, No. 46.]
57. The Hundred Rolls (12551279).
(i) The Inquisitions of 1255.
(a) The Writ of Inquisition.
Rex omnibus ballivis et fidelibus suis in comitatibus Norhamp-
tonesire, Bedefordsire, Bukinghamsire, Oxonie, Warwicsire, Leycestre-
sire, Salopesire et Staffordsire, Salutem. Sciatis quod assignavimus
dilectos et fideles nostros Philippum Luvel et Nicholaum de Hadlou ad
Inquisitiones faciendas de juribus et libertatibus nostris in comitatibus
predictis, et qui sectas debent ad comitatus illos et ad curias nostras
in eisdem comitatibus, et qui subtraxerunt se ab hujusmodi sectis
faciendis sine waranto; et ad inquirendum similiter de custodiis
castrorum nostrorum, et de omnibus ad castra ilia pertinentibus, et de
statu boscorum, parcorum, haiarum et forestarum nostrarum in comi-
tatibus predictis; et de omnibus aliis que utilitati nostre et regni nostri
magis viderint expedire; et ad extendendum predictos comitatus
et omnia maneria et dominicam nostram in eisdem comitatibus
et omnia proficua ad castra predicta pertinentia. Et ideo vobis
mandamus, in fide qua nobis tenemini, quod predictis fidelibus nostris,
cum ab eis requisiti fueritis, diligenter intendatis et assistatis ad ex-
peditionem omnium predictorum, prout vobis plenius injunxerint ex
parte nostra. Ita quod diligentiam vestram debeamus merito com-
mendare. In cujus [etc.]. Teste Rege, apud Wodest[oke] xxij die
Junii.
[Pat. Roll, 39 Henry III, Pt. II. M. 10 dors.]
(b) The Articles of Inquisition, Names of furors and their
Verdicts.
Bukinghamsira. Inquisitiones facte coram Justiciariis itinerantibus
in comitatu Bukinghamsire anno regni regis Henrici, filii regis
136 Select Formulas of
Johannis, xxxix
0
, de juribus et libertatibus et aliis ipsum Regem
contingentibus
Manerium de Brehull, comitatu Bukinghamsire.
Veredictum xij juratorum manerii domini Regis de Brehull de
capitulis eisdem liberatis, anno xxxix.
De capitulo quod dicitur 'De juribus et libertatibus; qui archi-
episcopi, episcopi, etc' nichil scimus.
' De sectis debitis, etc'
Item quedam terra in villa de Svvaneburne, quondam pertinens
dicto manerio, solebat reddere manerio de Brehull unam bollam mellis ;
et ipsam terram tenet dominus Abbas de Woburne, ut intelligimus, et
subtrahitur a coronacione domini Regis usque adhuc, anno xxxix
0
.
Et mensura bolle quid contineat ignoramus; ideo non ponimus
dampnum. \Other presentments precede and follow.]
Item de capitulo quod dicitur ' De extensionibus dominicorum
domini Regis.'Dicimus quod extenta manerii de Brehull est in xxx /.
xij s. et iij d. unde de hiis quinquaginta solidi extendebantur firmario
de Brehull pro bosco del Hutwod in propria custodia inde habendum,
sicut in pannagio, nucibus, husbote et heybote, et in aliis proficuis,
unde nichil habemus nee habuimus ab itineracione Roberti Passelewe,
qui nos ejecit de dicto bosco ; sed ante suam itineracionem habuimus
omnia predicta de dicto bosco et semper de anno in annum predictos
L solidos plenarie reddimus.
Item de capitulo quod dicitur ' De militibus et libere tenentibus,
etc'Dicimus quod...Nigellus Travers vendidit Alano de Tyngwic vj
acras terre quas Alanus de Tyngwic tenuit per xx annos et amplius,
quas Rogerus de Tyngwic filius suus modo tenet. {Other entries
follow^
Item, de statu forestarum hayarum, etc.Dicimus quod foreste et
haye bene custodiuntur.
Item, de parcis et vivariis et de castris domini Regis.Nichil
scimus.
Item, de capitulo quod dicitur ' De singulis hundredis in quolibet
comitatu, etc'Nichil scimus, nee quid vicecomites percipiunt per
annum de hundredo.
Item, de capitulo quod dicitur' De hiis qui habent retornum brevium
domini Regis.'Nichil scimus.
Item, de capitulo quod dicitur 'De Judeis et eorum catallis'; etde
capitulo quod dicitur 'De nameo vetito, et de visu franci plegii.'
Nichil.
Item, de capitulo quod dicitur ' De ecclesiis qui sunt et esse debent,
etc'Dicimus quod ecclesia de Brehull est de donacione domini Regis
et earn tenet Radulfus de Nortwico, et valet per annum xl marcas.
De capitulo quod dicitur ' De walectis et puellis et de dominabus
qui sunt et esse debent, etc'Nichil.
Item, de capitulo quod dicitur ' De serjanciis, etc'Dicimus quod
Johannes de Gray tenet ij hydas terre in villa de Lotegershal de
serjancia, ad observandum aves domini Regis, et alienatur de dicto
manerio. Et predicte hyde solebant reddere ad ecclesiam de Brehull,
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per annum, dimidium quarterium frumenti; et subtrahitur illud
frumentum a dicta ecclesia a coronacione domini Regis qui nunc est.
Item, de capitulo quod dicitur ' De viris religiosis, etc'Dicimus
quod fratres de Sutyngefeld apud Lotegershal tenent iij hydas terre
de dono domini Regis Henrici, avi istius Regis, in puram et perpetuam
elemosinam. [Other entries follow.]
Item, de capitulo quod dicitur 'Si qui forestarii, etc'Dicimus quod
Johannes films Nigelli est forestarius de feodo, et habuit cablicium
usque ad ix quercus, si per unum diem et per unam noctem cecidissent.
Et si plures essent ultra ix quercus, quod dominus Rex omnes quercus
haberet, ut intelligimus. {Other entries follow.]
Item, de capitulo quod dicitur ' Si quis forestarius habeat capras,
etc'Dicimus quod idem Johannes capras habet una cum hominibus
provincie et per longum tempus habuerunt. [Two chapters concerning
furnaces follow.]
Item, de capitulo quod dicitur ' De custumariis cum caretta.'
Dicimus quod vidimus carettas et equos ducentes boscum et summagia,
sed nescimus quot. Sed quando carette vel summagia vadunt cum
mortuo bosco vel cum cablicio, quiete vadunt, que pertinent ad ballivam
dicti Johannis. Et quando carette vel summagia custumariorum
attachiata sunt de viridi, tune presentantur et implacitantur in swani-
moto domini Regis ad opus dicti Johannis ballivi de feodo.
Item, de capitulo ' Qui fuerunt venditores, etc'Nichil scimus.
Item, de capitulo quod dicitur ' Infra forestam, de dampno lepo-
rariorum vel de venacione.'Nichil scimus.
Nomina xij juratorum manerii domini Regis de Brehull. [The
names follow.']
[Hundred Rolls, Chapter House Ser., Nos. 1 and 5 (ed. Record Com.,
Vol. I, pp. 2022).]
{c) Presentment made before the fustices Itinerant of the value of
services withheld from the Crown (1255).
Manerium de Brehull.
Priorissa de Stodlega subtraxit se tribus annis elapsis de secta
Curie de Brehulle de terra de Esse, unde Rex dampnificatus est de iij
solidis, scilicet per annum xij denariis.
Item, Johannes de Esse subtraxit se per idem tempus de eadem
secta, unde Rex dampnificatus de iij solidis, scilicet per annum xij
denariis.
Item, Eustachius de Greinvil subtraxit se de eadem secta per v
annos, unde Rex dampnificatus in v solidos, videlicet per annum xij
denarios; et sciendum quod idem Eustachius reddit ibidem domino
Regi, per annum, dimidium quarterium frumenti et j obolum.
Item, Johannes de Grey subtraxit se de eadem secta per j annum
et dimidium, unde Rex dampnificatus est de xviij denariis.
Item, Robertus de Bellocampo subtraxit se de eadem secta per iij
annos, unde Rex dampnificatus est de xviij denariis, scilicet per
annum, vj denariis.
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Item, Sybilla de Burmingeham subtraxit se de eadem secta per iij
annos, unde Rex dampnificatus de xviij denariis.
Item, Willelmus nlius Elye subtraxit se de eadem secta per iij
annos, unde Rex dampnificatus de xviij denariis.
Item, Johannes de Grey tenet ij hidas terre, quas Ricardus de
Caus tenuit de eodem manerio, unde dictus Ricardus subtraxit se de
secta ejusdem Curie per iij annos et de visu franci plegii et assisa
mensurarum, unde Rex dampnificatus est per idem tempus de dimidia
marca. Et Johannes de Grey subtraxit se de eodem per iij annos,
unde Rex dampnificatus est per idem tempus de dimidia marca.
Item, Johannes de Traili subtraxit se de pannagio dando in dicto
manerio per iij annos, unde Rex dampnificatus de vj solidis.
Item, Abbas de Wuburne subtraxit j bollam mellis pro terra de
Swaneburne a coronacione domini Regis usque nunc, unde dampnifi-
catio non estimatur.
Item, Willelmus filius Elye appropriavit sibi unum pratum de
dominico parco domini Regis xx annis jam elapsis, unde Rex
dampnificatus est per idem tempus de xx solidis.
Item, idem Willelmus subtraxit se reddendo ibi unam herciam
xx
tj
annis elapsis, unde Rex dampnificatus de ix solidis, videlicet per
idem tempus.
[Miscellanea of the Exchequer, 1/2$, M. 2.]
(ii) The Inquisitions of 1274.
(d) The Writ of Inquisition
1
.
Rex dilectis et fidelibus suis, , Salutem. Sciatis quod
assignavimus vos ad inquirendum, per sacramentum proborum
et legalium hominum de comitatu [Bukinghamsire] per quos [etc.'],
de quibusdam juribus libertatibus et rebus aliis nos et statum
nostrum necnon et statum communitatis comitatus predicti con-
tingentibus; et insuper de factis et gestibus vicecomitum et bal-
livorum quorumcumque in comitatu predicto, prout in Articulis,
quos vobis inde tradidimus, plenius continetur. Et ideo vobis man-
damus quod ad certos dies et loca, quos ad hoc provideritis, Inquisi-
ciones illas faciatis juxta continenciam Articulorum predictorum. Et
eas distincte et aperte factas nobis, sub sigillis vestris et sigillis eorum
per quos facte fuerint, sine dilatione mittatis et hoc breve. Manda-
vimus enim vicecomitibus nostris comitatuum predictorum quod ad
certos dies et loca, quos eis scire facietis, tot et tales probos et legales
homines de ballivis suis coram vobis venire faciant, per quos rei
veritas in premissis melius sciri poterit et inquiri. In cujus, etc. Teste
Rege, apud Turrim Londonie, xj die Octobris [2 Edward I].
[Rot. Pat. 2 Edw. I, M. 6 (Cat. p. 59) (Hundred Rolls, Vol. I. p. (13)).]
1
There is no writ for Bucks, on the Patent Roll.
Political Inquisitions 139
(e) The Articles of Inquisition, names of the furors and their
Verdicts.
Inquisitiones facte per preceptum domini Regis in comitatu
Bukinghamsire de juribus et libertatibus domini Regis subtractis et
excessibus vicecomitum, coronatorum escaetorum et aliorum balli-
vorum domini Regis [et] quorumcumque aliorum ballivorum quoquo-
modo dominum Regem spectantibus, anno regni Regis Edwardi tercio.
Hundredum de Brehull
1
, comitatu Bukingeham.
Veredictum duodecim juratores de Brehull secundum Capitula eos
tangencia, videlicet, Johannes Ferbraz [etc.]. Qui dicunt, per eorum
sacramentum, coram domino Sampson Foliot [et] domino Edmundo
de Caldicote, justiciariis, apud Eylesberia, in octabis Sancti Martini
anno regni Regis Edwardi tercio.
' Quot et que maneria dominus Rex habet in manu sua, etc'
Manerium de Brehull et nov[ies] viginti acras terre et sex acras et
dimidiam et unam rodam de minori mensura, et quindecim acras
prati et dimidiam in suo dominico. [Other presentments follow]
' De feodis etiam domini Regis et tenentibus ejus, etc'Dicunt
quod Johannes, filius Willelmi, tenet in capite de domino Regi
dimidiam acram edificatam pro xv d. ob. et duos dies de consuetudine.
Preterea[Other holdings follow]
' De terris etiam tenencium de antiquo dominico corone, etc'
Dicunt quod Henricus Rex senior feffavit Gerardum de Cauz de
duabus hidis terre in villa de Lotegersale, per serjantiam ad obser-
vandum aves domini Regis, et solebant (sic) facere sectam curie domini
Regis de Brehull et reddere de eodem manerio xl.r. per annum et
regale et pannagium; quas hidas terre Willelmus Toluse modo tenet
2
et tenuit per decem annis elapsis, et totum hoc subtractum est; set
nescimus quo waranto. [Other entries follow.]
' De firma hundredorum, wappentakarum, trytinghorum, etc'
Nihil.
' De hundredis, wappentakis, et trytinghis que nunc sunt in manu
domini Regis, etc.'Nihil.
' De sectis, antiquis consuetudinibus serviciis et aliis rebus sub-
tractis, etc'Dicunt quod Petrus de Chaluns, miles, subtraxit sectam
curie domini Regis de Brehull, et subtra[hi]tur a dicta curia viij annis
elapsis ; et predecessores sui subtraxerunt v annis elapsis, unde secta
valet per annum xij d.; set nessimus quo waranto. [Other entries
follow]
' Qui etiam clamant habere retornium vel extractas brevium, etc'
Magister Johannes de Sancto Homerio, rector ecclesie de Brehull,
habet assisam panis et cervisie de suis tenentibus, sed nescimus quo
waranto. [Another presentment follows.]
' De hiis etiam qui habent libertates per Regem Anglie concessas,
etc'Dicunt quod Johannes filius Nigelli tenet la Derhyde cum balliva
foreste de Bernwode in feodo de domino Rege pro L s., unde reddit ad
1
There is another Inquisition for the Villata in Rotuli Hundredorum I. 46.
2
The text is corrupt in Rot. Hundred.
140 Select Formulas of
Scaccarium domini Regis, ubi capit de carecta, per annum, iij s., ubi
capere non deberet nisi iiij d.; et de summa cavalli cepit, xij d., ubi
capere non deberet nisi duos denarios. [Another entry.]
' De libertatibus concessis que inpediunt communem justiciam,
etc.'Nihil.
' De hiis etiam qui appropriaverunt sibi liberas chascias, etc'
Nihil.
' Item, qui etiam domini aut eorum senescalli seu ballivi quicumque
seu etiam domini Regis ministri non sustinuerint execucionem
mandatorum domini Regis fieri, etc'Nihil.
' Item, de omnibus perpresturis quibuscunque factis subter dominum
Regem vel regalem dignitatem, etc'Dicunt quod Radulfus de
Norwico, quondam rector ecclesie de Brehull, elongavit curiam suam
in Acley de communi via in latitudine sexdecim pedibus et in longi-
tudine quadraginta pedibus, xv annis elapsis ; et modo tenet magister
Johannes de Sancto Homerio, et tenuit per tres annos; sed nessimus
quo waranto. [A nother entry'.]
' De feodis militaribus cujuscunque feodi et terris et tenementis
datis vel venditis, etc'
Preterea dicunt quod Abbas de Woubourne tenet unam hydam
terre in villa de Swanebourn quondam pertinentem dicto manerio, et
solebat reddere eodem manerio unam bollam mellis continentem ix
gallones et dimidium, et sectam curie solebat [facere] ad forsiandam
curiam; et subtractum est, nessimus a quo tempore nee a quo
warranto. \Other presentments precede and follow'.]
' Item, de vicecomitibus capientibus munera ut concensiant ad
concelandum felonias, etc'Nihil.
' De vicecomitibus et ballivis aliis quibuscunque capientibus munera
pro requisicionibus amovendis, etc'Nihil.
' De vicecomitibus et aliis ballivis quibuscunque qui amerciaverint
illos qui summoniti fuerunt ad inquisiciones faciendas, etc'Nihil.
Item, ' De vicecomitibus qui tradiderint ballivis extorsoribus
gravantibus populum, etc'Nihil.
' Cum vicecomites non debeant facere turnum suum nisi bis in
anno, etc.'Nihil.
Item,' Cum fines pro redisseisinis
1
et purprestura factis per terram,
etc.'Nihil.
Item, ' Qui per potestatem officii sui aliquos maliciose occasion-
averint, etc'Nihil.
' Qui ceperint mandata domini Regis aut ejus debita solvenda,
etc.'Nihil
2
.
' Qui receperint debita Regis vel partem debitorum, et debitores
illos non acquietaverint. etc'Dicunt quod Henricus Trone tune vice-
comes Bukinghamsire, recepit sexdecim solidos per allocacionem ad
Scaccarium domini Regis, quos solvere debuisset diversis operatoribus
operacioni domini Regis de Brehull, et non solvit.
1
redemptionis in MS.
2
' Hundred Buk' is inserted here as a heading. For the extension of these later Articles,
see Rot. Hundred, 1. 6768.
Political Inquisitions 141
' Qui summonierint aliquos ut fierent milites, etc.'Nihil.
' Si vicecomites aut ballivi aliqui cujuscunque libertatis non fecerint
summoneri debito modo, etc'Nihil.
' De hiis qui habuerunt probatores imprisonatos, etc'Nihil.
' Item qui habuerint felones imprisonatos, et eos pro pecunia abire
et a prisona evadere, etc.'Nihil.
' Item qui dona vel lucrum aliqua receperint pro officio suo
excercendo, etc'Nihil.
' Qui vicecomites vel custodes castrorum vel maneriorum, etc'
Nihil.
Item, ' De eschaetoribus et subeschaetoribus, etc'Nihil.
Item, ' De eisdem qui occasione hujusmodi seisinarum, etc'Nihil.
Item, ' De eisdem qui ceperint munera a quibuscunque pro officio
suo excercendo vel non excercendo, etc'Nihil.
Item, ' De eisdem qui minus sufficienter extenderint terras alicujus,
etc.'Nihil,
Item,' De eisdem qui prece vel precio vel favore, etc'Nihil.
Item, ' De eisdem qui procuraverint, concenserint, vel consulerint
quod juratores inquisicionum factarum, etc'Nihil.
Item, ' De eisdem qui reservaverint ad opus suum proprium
custodia vel maritagia, etc'Nihil.
Item, ' Cujusmodi terras seysierunt, etc'Nihil.
Item, ' De terris captis in manu domini Regis, etc'Nihil.
Preterea dicunt quod Willelmus prepositus de Grendon emit de
Willelmo de Colden [and four others], tenentibus domini Regis,
duodecim acras terre et duodecim solidos de redditu assiso; et
Willelmus predictus prepositus dedit Rogero de Acindone et alienata
sunt in villa de Elesberia
1
.
[Hundred Rolls, Chapter Ho. Ser. No. 4 (ed, Rec. Com. I. pp. 3537).]
(iii) The Inquisitions of 1279.
(f) The Writ and Form of Inquisition
2
.
Rex, dilectis et fidelibus suis,
3
, Salutem. Quia per diversas
occupaciones super nos et super alios, tarn divites quam pauperes in
regno nostro tarn in dominicis feodis, feodalibus et libertatibus,
quam rebus aliis, diversimodo factas, nos et alii homines nonnulli
jacturam sustinuimus et sustinemus: ut nobis de hoc quod nostrum est
et nostrum esse debet, et aliis quod suum est et suum esse debet
constare valeat in futuro, assignavimus vos, una cum hiis quos vobis
associetis, ad videndum omnes civitates, burgos et villas mercatorias
in [comitatu Bukinghamsire]
3
, tarn infra libertates quam extra, quorum-
cunque virorum fuerit sive fuerint, divitum sive pauperum ; et ad inqui-
rendum tarn de dominicis nostris, feodis, feodalibus, escaetis, libertatibus
ac rebus cunctis feoda et tenementa contingentibus, quam aliorum
quorumcunque, et qui ea tenent, scilicet in dominico ut in dominico, in
1
This postscript probably refers to Article 3.
3
Forma Inquirendi de feodis et feodalibus, etc.
3
The Commissioners for the several counties and their eyres are not specified in the Roll.
142 Select Formulas of
villanis ut in villanis, in servis ut in servis, in cotariis ut in cotariis, et
postmodum in liberis tenentibus ut in liberis tenentibus, et in boscis, in
parcis, in chaciis, in warrennis, in aquis, ripariis, libertatibus, feriis,
mercatis et aliis tenuris quibuscunque, et quocunque modo, et de
quibus, sive de mediis sive de aliis, et de quibus feodis et aliis tenuris
scutagium dari consuevit et dari debet, et quantum de feodis honorum
quorumcumque, et qui feodalia ilia tenent et qualiter et quomodo. Ita
quod singule ville, hameletta et alie tenure, quocumque nomine
censeantur, distincte et aperte conscribantur in libris quos nobis
per vos super hoc liberari volumus ; et ita quod nemini in aliquo
parcatur, et quod nobis et aliis constare possit ad plenum de premissis.
Et ideo vobis mandamus quod ad certos dies et loca, etc. ad omnia et
singula loca [comitatus predicti] personaliter accedatis et per sacra-
mentum tarn militum, etc. de [comitatu illo] et eciam per fidelem
examinacionem quorumcunque de tenura et feodis suis, premissa
faciatis in forma predicta. Et ita fideliter [etc.]. Mandavimus enim
[etc.]. Teste Rege [apud Wodestoke, xij die Marcii 7 Edward I].
(g) Form of the Inquisitors' Oath.
Vos enquerrors jurrez qe bien e leaument servirez le Roy en le
office qe vos est enjoint, e a tel office diligentement ea leaument
entenderez, e leaument le freez pur le Roy e pur touz autres a vostre
poer. Et ceo ne lerrez pur povre, ne pur riche, ne pur hautesce, ne
pur haine, ne pur favor, ne pur poer, ne pur estat de nuli personne, ne
pur bien fet, doun, ne premesse de nulli qe fet vos seit ou vos purra
estre let, ne par art ne par engin ne lerrez qe les driez le Roy leau-
ment ne enquerrez ea leaument freez escrivre et liverer al Roy si com
il vos ad enjoint. E qe benefice de Seint Eglise, ne pensiun, ne autre
bien fet ne receverez saunz conge le Rey. Si Deu vos aid e li Seinz.
[Rot. Pat. 7 Edw. I,M.2id (Cal. p. 343) {Rot. Hundred. II. ix.).]
(h) Form of Inquisition and extract from the Return for Bucks.
Inquisitiones capte ex parte domini Regis in comitatu Bukingham-
sire, anno regni Regis Edwardi primi septimo, tam de dominicis
domini Regis et feodis, feodalibus, eschaetis, libertatibus ac rebus
cunctis feoda et tenementa domini Regis contingentibus, quam
aliorum quorumcumque, et qui ea tenent in dominico ut in dominico,
in villanis ut in villanis, in servis ut in servis, in cotariis ut in cotariis,
et postmodum in liberis tenentibus ut in liberis tenentibus, et in
boscis et in parcis, in chaciis et in warennis, in aquis, in ripariis et
omnibus libertatibus et feriis, mercatis et aliis tenuris quibuscumque
et quocunque modo et de quibus, sive de mediis, sive de aliis, et de
quibus feodis et aliis tenuris scutagium dari consuevit et dari debet, et
quantum de feodis honorum quorumcumque, et qui feoda ilia tenent,
qualiter, et quomodo, et a quo tempore.
Hundredum de Mursele
Swaneburne Inferior. Idem Abbas tenet in Inferiori Swanebourne
Political Inquisitions 143
iiij hidas et dimidiam hidam de honore de Brehulle per medium
heredum Henrici de Braybrok qui tenent de heredibus H. de Clinton
et ipsi de Rege. De quibus, dictus Abbas feoffatus est de heredibus
dicti Henrici de Braybrok in puram et perpetuam elemosinam. De
quo etiam tenemento dictus Abbas tenet in dominico xj virgatas terre;
in vilenagio vj virgatas, quarum quelibet debet ei per annum vj solidos
vel opera ad valorem. Tenentes etiam illarum sunt servi de sanguine
suo emendo ad voluntatem domini, et ad alia facienda que ad servilem
condicionem pertinent
Swaneburne. Abbas de Woubourn habet in Swanebourne visum
francplegii et emendacionem panis et cervisie
[Hundred Rolls, Tower Ser. No. 1, M. I3 {Record Ed. II. pp. 334,
335 b, 338).]
(iv) Proceedings on Quo Warranto against the Abbot of Woburn
in respect of his manor of Swanbourne (14 Edward J).
Flacita de Quo Warranto de Comitatu Bukingehamsire, anno xiiij.
Memorandum, Abbas de Wouburne, tenens unam hydam terre in
Swaneburne, que solebat reddere domino Regi per annum unam
bolam mellis continentem novem galones et dimidium. Et ideo pre-
ceptum [est] vicecomiti quod distringat ipsum quod sit ad Scaccarium
die Lune proxima post Ascencionem Domini ad respondendum, etc.
Postea a die Sancti Michaelis anno quartodecimo venit predictus
Abbas, per attornatum suum, et dicit quod Johannes de Braybroke
ipsum acquietare debet de predicta bolla mellis versus dominum
Regem, et petit breve ad faciendum venire predictum Johannem ad
ipsum acquietandum. Et habet diem a die Paschein xv dies, etc. Et
petit breve vicecomiti Bedfordesire, etc. Postea a die Sancti Michaelis
in xv dies anno quintodecimo venit predictus Abbas, per attornatum
suum, et quia idem Johannes, quern vocat ad warrantum, non venit,
preceptum est vicecomiti quod faciat predictum Johannem venire, et
similiter Gerardum de Braybroke (ilium predicti Johannis qui tenet
terras et tenementa que fuerunt predicti Johannis que obligantur ad
acquietacionem predictam ; et idem Abbas diem a die Pasche in xv
dies, etc. Ad quem diem venit predictus Gerardus. Et de predicto
Johanne testatur vicecomes quod non habet terras nee tenementa in
balliva sua per quod potest attachiari. Et testatum est per predictum
Abbatem quod habet terras in comitatu Lincolnesire. Ideo preceptum
est vicecomiti Lincolnesire quod faciat venire predictum Johannem a
die Sancti Michaelis in xv dies ad acquietandum predictum Abbatem
de predicta bolla mellis simul cum predicto Gerardo. Idem dies datus
est predictis Abbati et Gerardo, etc. Ad quem diem predictus Abbas
venit, per attornatum suum, et predicti Johannes et Gerardus non
veniunt nee vicecomes misit breve. Ideo, sicut prius, preceptum est
vicecomiti Bedfordsire quod faciat venire predictos Johannem et
Gerardum a die Pasche in xv dies, etc. in Scaccario acquietandum
predictum Abbatem, etc. Ad quem diem venit predictus Abbas, per
144 Select Formulas of
attornatum suum. Et predicti Johannes et Gerardus non veniunt.
Et vicecomes returnavit quod predictus Johannes distrinctus est per
iiij boves et ij affros. Et quod predictus Gerardus manucaptus est per
Willelmum atte Watere et Robertum Passelewe. Ideo predicti
Willelmus et Robertus in misericordia. Et preceptum est vicecomiti
quod distringat eos per omnes terras et catalla, etc. Ita quod nee ipsi,
etc. Et quod de exitibus, etc. Et quod habeat corpora, etc. in Octabis
Sancti Michaelis in Scaccario ad acquietandum, etc. Idem dies datus
est predicto Abbati, per attornatum suum. Ad quern diem Vicecomes
Bedfordesire misit breve, et de Johanne de Braybrok mandavit quod
nichil habet in comitatu suo per quod potest distringi; et testatum est
in eadem curia quod habet terras et tenementa in balliva sua apud
Colmwrth et alibi per quern, etc. Ideo, sicut alias, preceptum est vice-
comiti Bedefordesire quod distringat, etc. per omnes terras, etc. et
quod de exitibus, etc. et quod habeat corpus ejus coram Baronibus de
Scaccario a die Pasche in xv dies. Et de predicto Gerardo mandavit
quod finem fecit, v solidis, de terris et catallis suis. Et quod Willel-
mus Passelewe {and three others\ manuceperunt eum. Ideo predicti
manucaptores in misericordia. Et preceptum est vicecomiti, sicut
alias, quod distringat predictum Gerardum per omnes terras, etc. Et
quod de exitibus, etc. Et quod habeat corpus ejus hie a die Pasche in
xv dies. Et vicecomes tune sit ibi ad audiendum judicium suum, etc.
Idem dies datus est predicto abbati, per attornatum suum, etc.
[Assize Roll, No. 64, rot. 5 in cedula {Placita de Quo Waranto, p. 94).]
Abbas de Wouburne summonitus fuit ad respondendum domino
Regi quo waranto clamat habere visum franci plegii in manerio suo
de Suaneburne qui ad ipsum, etc. sine licencia, etc.
Abbas, per Henricum Quytheved attornatum suum, venit et dicit
quod tercia pars predicte ville est de feodo suo et quod illam habuit
de dono Hugonis Malet. Et dicit quod tenet predictum visum semel
in anno et sine ballivo Regis, et nichil dat Regi pro visu habendo.
Dicit etiam quod habet tumberellum sed alia judicialia nequaquam.
Et dicit quod idem Hugo et antecessores sui et ipse et predecessores
sui semper usi sunt tenere predictum visum eodem modo sicut nunc
tenetur, et hoc a tempore quo non ex[s]tat memoria.
Et Gilbertus de Thorentone, qui sequitur pro Rege, dicit quod
visus franci plegii est quedam jurisdictio regalis, mere spectans ad
coronam et dignitatem Regis, et a Corona separari non potest sine
ipsius Regis vel predecessorum suorum voluntate; unde desicut
predictus Abbas nichil ostendit de regibus Anglie, petit judicium si ea
que dicta sunt pro predicto Abbate debent ei sufficiens esse warantum
in hac parte, que maxime cum abutitur predicto officio in eo quod
non tenet visum nisi semel per annum, cum consuetudo Anglie talis
sit quod visus franciplegii bis teneri debeat per annum pro pace Regis
observanda. Postea venit idem Abbas, per Henricum Quytheved
attornatum suum, et dicit quod non habet nisi eirciter quindecim
Political Inquisitions 145
tenentes de quibus habet visum predictum et petit quod possit arentare
predictum visum, et offert domino Regi duos solidos per annum.
Ideo loquendum est cum Thesaurario. Postea a die Sancti Michaelis
in xv dies anno quatuordecimo venit predictus Abbas per attornatum
suum. Et quia nescitur utrum dominus Rex vult arentare predictum
visum vel non, datus est dies ei a die Pasche in xv dies in Scaccario.
Ad quem diem venit predictus Abbas per attornatum suum. Et
quia judicium nondum factum est, datus est ei dies hie a die Sancti
Michaelis in xv dies, etc. Ad quem diem venit predictus Abbas per
attornatum suum. Et datus est ei dies hie a die Pasche in xv dies, etc.
Ad quem diem predictus Abbas venit, per attornatum suum, et datus
est ei dies a die Sancti Michaelis in xv dies. Deinde datus est ei
dies a die Pasche in xv dies. Deinde datus est dies in Octabis Sancti
Michaelis.
[Ibid. rot. 2d (Placita de Quo Waranto, p. 87^).]
v. Proceedings De Ministris against the Earl of Cornwall's
officers in Norfolk in pursuance of a presentment in the Hundred
Rolls.
(a) Presentment by the Hundred of Tunstead (1275)
1
.
Hundredum de Tunstede
' Qui domini vel senescalli eorum' [etc.].Dicunt quod Ricardus
Silver[ton], ballivus domini Regis, venit in villam de Wattone pro
mandato domini Regis ex[s]equendo et debitis domini Regis levandis,
et venerunt Adam de Bedingfeld, senescallus comitis Cornubie [etc.],
cum aliis ignotis, et vi et armis ipsum sequebantur de feodo comitis
Warenne usque ad domum Johannis de Gymingham in Hanyngham,
et fenestras solarii ejusdem Johannis fregerunt et intraverunt et
predictum ballivum ceperunt, exspoliaverunt, verberaverunt, et male
tractaverunt, et ipsum ligaverunt, et usque ad aulam de Baketone
duxerunt et ibi retinuerunt per tres dies. Et postea Petrus de
Bedingfeld [etc.], duxerunt predictum ballivum noctanter a villa de
Baketone in comitatu Norffolcie usque Eye in comitatu Suffolcie, et
ibi imprisonaverunt quousque finem fecit cum predicto senescallo per
xl s., et eos ei solvit Item, vicecomes misit Ricardum de Cotesford,
ballivum suum, ad aulam de Baketone pro deliberando tauro Johannis
de Gymingham quem Galfridus de Helpestone, senescallus dicti
comitis, et Johannes Benne capi fecerunt et retinuerunt, contra
vadium et plegium. Et Johannes Benne de Baketone [etc.], cum
toto homagio ejusdem comitis vi et armis eidem Ricardo de predicto
tauro vetitum fecerunt, et eum impediverunt; ita quod officium suum
exercere non potuit, sicut ex parte domini Regis sibi fuerat preceptum
1
.
[HundredRolls, Chapter House Ser. No. 12, M. 2 {ed. Rec. Com. I. 533 d).]
1
For another presentment, cf. Rot. Hundred. I. 507.
H. F. II. 10
146 Select Formulas of
(b) Special Presentments De Ministris connected with the above
Inquisition (12751278).
De ministris Norffolcie. Hundredum de Tunsted.
' Qui per potestatem officii sui' [etc.]. Dicunt quod ..Walranus
ballivus de Baketone, per preceptum senescalli comitis Cornubie, cum
Adam le Waren[ner] [etc!], cum aliis ignotis, extra feodum ejusdem
comitis in villa de Hanyngham super baroniam abbatis Sancti Bene-
dicti ceperunt averia homagii Johannis de Gymingham, et dicta
averia fugaverunt usque aulam de Baketone et ea retinuerunt contra
vadium et plegium, quia eadem homagia noluerunt venire ad letam
predicti comitis de Baketone, quam idem comes sibi male appropriavit,
ubi de jure venire non debent. Item, predictus Walranus per potes-
tatem officii sui fecit Anselmum, carucatorem predicti comitis Cornubie,
et Thomam Huket de Hanyngham capere de Rogero de Ponte v vaccas
in villa de Worthested super feodum predicti abbatis et adhuc sunt in
seisina de iij vaccis. Item, idem Walranus [etc.] per potestatem officii
sui venerunt ad domum Rogeri de Ponte de Hanyngham extra
feodum comitis predicti et eundem Rogerum quesiverunt
1
per domos
suas, ita quod idem Rogerus non fuit ausus accedere ad domum suam
quousque finem fecerat cum eodem ballivo de iiij J. occasione dicte
lete. Item, idem Walranus et Johannes Benne, ballivi de Baketone,
per potestatem officii sui venerunt in predictam villam de Hanyngham,
extra feodum ejusdem comitis, ad domum Thome Stampana (sic),
liberi hominis dicti Johannis de Gymingham et eum ceperunt et
ligaverunt et duxerunt usque aulam de Baketone et ibi eum incep-
paverunt et retinuerunt per tres septimanas et amplius, quousque occulte
evasit, et postea extorserunt de Claricia Stampe, matre ejusdem Thome,
pro evasione sua, ij s. Item, Johannes Benne, ballivus de Baketone
[and others], venerunt in villam de Crostweyt in via regia, extra feodum
predicti comitis, et ibi ceperunt de Adam Braunche j equum, et
retinuerunt quousque finem fecerat cum eis per xix d. Item, predictus
Johannes Benne et alii supradicti, in dicta villa, in via regia, eodem
die, extorserunt de Benedicto de Norgate iiij s. occasione lete supradicte.
Item,dicunt quod Ricardus le Warenner de Baketone venit in predictam
villam de Hanyngham, extra feodum ejusdem comitis, ut predictum est,
et cepit de Adam Braunch j jumentum, et illud retinuit quousque finem
fecerat cum eo per xviij d. occasione lete supradicte. Item, dicunt quod
fere omnes terre predicti Johannis de Gymyngham, de dominico suo,
et terre homagiorum suorum, jacuerunt inculte per biennium per
districtiones quas iidem ballivi eis fecerunt de veniendo ad predictam
letam.
Item, Robertus de Peche, ballivus, per potestatem officii sui mali-
ciose extorsit de Cecilia filia Marioti, xs. Item, Thomas Seym, per
preceptum Galfridi de Helpestun. senescalli ejusdem comitis, cepit
taurum Johannis Gymyngham et predictum taurum retinuerunt, contra
vadium et plegium, quousque fecerat cum eodem Galfrido finem per c s.
[Hundred Extract Rolls, No. 4, rot. i d.]
1
A correction of petierunt in MS.
Political Inquisitions 147
(c) Proceedings against the Earl of Cornivall's officers before the
Justices of Assize (5 Edward I).
Norffolcia. Johannes de Gymingham queritur de Galfrido de
Helpestone, quondam ballivo comitis Cornubie, Johanne Benne de
Baketone [etc.], quod predicti Galfridus, Johannes et alii simul cum
quibusdam ignotis, vi et armis venerunt usque Haninges in comitatu
Norffolcie, et ibidem ceperunt averia ipsius Johannis et villanorum
suorum de eadem ad valenciam xx librarum, et ea abduxerunt et
fugari fecerunt usque Eye in comitatu Suffolcie, et ea detinuerunt
donee ipse Johannes finem fecisset cum prefato Galfrido pro se et
villanis suis predictis per x marcas, quas ei solvit. Et unde predictus
Galfridus, Johannes Benne et alii adhuc ei detinent iiij vaccas, Lj
bidentes et xj porcos, de precio viij m. [etc.], et alia enormia ei
intulerunt, ad grave dampnum ipsius Johannis et contra pacem [etc.].
Unde preceptum fuit vicecomiti quod venire faceret predictos Gal-
fridum et alios apud Norwicum, die Mercurii in septimana Pasche, ad
respondendum [etc.]. Ad quern diem ipsi non venerunt, et vicecomes
testatus fuit quod non fuerunt inventi [etc.], set quod omnes preter
predictum Galfridum districti sunt per terras et catalla [etc.]. Ideo
preceptum est vicecomiti quod distringat eos per omnes terras et
catalla [etc.], ita quod habeat corpora eorum apud Sanctum Benedictum
coram Rege die Sabbatis [etc.]. Ad quem diem predictus Johannes
de Gymingham optulit se versus eos, et ipsi non venerunt. Et vice-
comes testatur quod districti sunt. Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod
distringat eos per omnes terras [etc.], ita quod de exitibus [etc.], et quod
habeat corpora eorum in crastino Ascensionis ubicunque [etc.]. Et de
predicto Galfrido testatur vicecomes quod manet in comitatu Suffolcie
et ibi habet terras [etc.], per que [etc.]. Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti
Suffolcie quod venire faciat eum [etc.], ad prefatum terminum [etc.].
Idem Johannes de Gymingham queritur de Petro de Bedingfeld,
Wille'lmo Turgys, et Roberto Bule quod ipsi, simul cum aliis ignotis,
vi et armis venerunt ad domum ipsius Johannis in Haningges,
et hostia et fenestras domus predicte fregerunt, et domum illam
intraverunt et bona et catalla ipsius Johannis ad valenciam dimidie
marce ceperunt et asportaverunt, ad grave dampnum ipsius Johannis
[etc.]. Unde preceptum fuit vicecomiti quod venire faceret eos coram
Rege apud Norwycum, die Mercurii in septimana Pasche, ad respon-
dendum prefato Johanni [etc.]. Ad quem diem predictus Johannes
optulit se versus eos de predieto placito. Et ipsi non venerunt. Et
vicecomes testatus fuit quod predicti Petrus et alii non fuerunt inventi
nee aliquid habent in balliva sua per quod possunt distringi, set quod
manentes sunt in comitatu Suffolcie et ibi habent terras et tenementa
per que [etc.],
Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti Suffolcie quod venire faciat eos
coram Rege ad prefatum terminum ubicunque [etc.] ad respondendum
prefato Johanni [etc.].
[Assize Roll, 1233, M. 5.]
148 Select Formulas of
58. Kirkbys Quest (1284-5).
(a) Provisions made in the Exchequer (1284).
Rex, Thesaurario et Baronibus suis de Scaccario ac Camerariis suis,
Salutem. Ut indempnitati nostre et populi regni nostri, in aliquibus
que nos et populum predictum in Scaccario nostro contingunt, prospi-
ciatur; volumus et providimus quod non scribantur decetero corpora
comitatuum in rotulis
Item, volumus et providimus quod proclametur in singulis comita-
tibus, quod omnes illi qui habent tallias de Scaccario de debitis suis
vel antecessorum suorum ibidem hactenus solutis, nondum allocatas,
que adhuc veniunt in summonicionem Scaccarii, liberent hujusmodi
tallias vicecomitibus suis allocandas ad Scaccarium super compotos
suos; et predicti vicecomites faciant illis a quibus tallias sic receperint
scripturas suas, testificantes recepcionem talliarum illarum, summam
et occasionem debitorum; intersint eciam recepcioni talliarum pre-
dictarum duo milites fideles ad hoc deputandi, inter quos et prefatos
vicecomites riant cirographa de hujusmodi recepcione, sigillis eorum
alternatim munita. Prefati vero milites ad hoc deputandi, mittant ad
Scaccarium, ad terminum statuendum, partes suas cirographorum
predictorum in forma predicta, ut, per visum et testimonium eorundem,
dicte tallie, per vicecomites sic recepte, exhibeantur super compotos suos
et allocentur. Proclametur insuper, quod nisi illi qui habent hujusmodi
tallias, liberent eas vicecomitibus et militibus ut predictum est, extunc
distringentur pro toto debito, et quod tallie predicte pro non solutis
reputabuntur. Item, ut debita que adhuc veniunt in summonicionem
Scaccarii, unde debitores proferunt tallias contra diversos vicecomites,
depurentur et acquietentur, providemus quod aliqui ad hoc assignandi
ex parte nostra mittantur in singulis comitatibus qui habeant plenam
potestatem inquirendi de eisdem debitis, et eciam vocandi coram eis
tarn solventes quam vicecomites, heredes, assignatos, aut tenentes
terrarum eorum, si ipsi mortui fuerint qui hujusmodi debita receperint;
et insuper procedendi ad inquisicionem capiendam si necesse fuerit, sive
partes contra quas tallie predicte fuerint ostense venerint, sive non;
testificata tamen primo pervicecomitem summonicione eis racionabiliter
inde facta; et inquisita et discussa in presencia partium, si interesse
voluerint, super hiis veritate, faciant dicti inquisitores rotulos de om-
nibus debitis coram eis convictis vel confessis, et irrotulatis debitis
predictis, statim frangantur tallie eorundem. Vicecomites vero habeant
penes se, sub sigillis inquisitorum, transcripta rotulorum predictorum;
et supersedeant districtioni faciende pro debitis in eisdem contentis,
donee aliud inde a nobis habuerint in mandatis. Prefati quidem
inquisitores mittant ad Scaccarium sub sigillis suis rotulos suos pre-
dictos, ut ibi per scrutinium inde faciendum examinetur que debita
sunt in toto vel in parte soluta, et que non; et facta examinacione
predicta, onerentur vicecomites et acquietentur debitores, secundum
quod per eandem fuerit faciendum
In cujus rei [etc.], Teste me ipso, apud Rothelanum, die dominica
in media Quadragesime, anno regni nostri duodecimo,
[Statutes of the Realm, I. 69.]
Political Inquisitions 149
{b) Proceedings connected with the Northampton Eyre.
Anno Domini MCC octogesimo quarto.
Inquisiciones facte per dominum Regem super diversis articulis.
Item, hoc anno assignavit dominus Rex in quolibet comitatu tres
justiciaries ad inquirendum per sacramentum tarn militum quam
aliorum proborum et legalium hominum de comitatibus singulis, per
quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit et inquiri, quid et quantum diversi
vicecomites, quibus dominus Henricus Rex, pater domini Regis nunc,
et ipse postea tempore suo commiserunt comitatus predictos custo-
diendos, et clerici seu ballivi eorundem vicecomitum. predictorum
comitatuum, suis temporibus receperunt de debitis suis, que veniunt
in summonicionem Scaccarii domini Regis, et a quibus, et quantum a
quolibet, et quibus occasionibus. Et ad inquirendam plenius veritatem
in premissis, unde precepit cuilibet vicecomiti per breve suum, quod
publice proclamari faciat, quod omnes et singuli, seu eorum heredes,
qui aliqua debita domini Regis Henrici, seu Regis nunc, que tune
venerunt in summonicionem, solverunt prefatis vicecomitibus aut
eorum ballivis aut etiam ballivis libertatum temporibus retroactis ut
dictum est supra, coram prefatis justiciariis convenirent certis diebus
et locis, quos predicti justiciarii vicecomitibus scire facerent, cum
talliis seu aliis aquietanciis suis querelas coram eisdem ostensuri. Et
quod omnes illi qui vicecomites seu ballivi temporibus predictis exti-
terunt, vel heredes seu tenentes terras eorundem, si qui eorum mortui
fuerint, tune interessent querelis predictorum responsuri, si sibi viderint
expedire, et quod premunirent eos, quod sive venissent sive non, ad
hujusmodi inquisiciones procederetur. Et quod venire facerent coram
predictis de singulis hundredis tot et tales, tarn milites quam alios
probos et legales homines, qui nulla affinitate attingant, per quos rei
veritas melius sciri posset et inquiri. Et quod haberent ibidem tallias
de Scaccario de debitis suis vel antecessorum suorum solutis ibidem
nondum allocatas, ad faciendum quod eis dominus Rex injunxit.
Alioquin; tallie predicte pro non solutis reputarentur et pro debitis
in eis contentis, ac si ea non solvissent, distringerentur.
Item, proclamatum fuit quod omnes religiosi et alii quicumque, qui
per cartas predecessorum domini Regis nunc, vel alio modo clamant
habere diversas libertates, essent coram supradictis justiciariis cum
cartis et munimentis suis, ostensuri cujusmodi libertates clamant, et
quibus temporibus, et quomodo, et qualiter eis hactenus usi fuerunt.
Et preceptum fuit vicecomitibus quod venire facerent coram eis vice-
comites et ballivos libertatum et eorum bedellos, sive infra libertatem
sive extra, qui receperunt summonicionem sive extractas Scaccarii
predicti seu justiciariorum et aliorum ministrorum quorumcumque, ex
quacumque causa, cum predictis summonicionibus et extractis, tarn
veteribus quam novis, ad faciendum inde quod predicti justiciarii
duxissent providendum.
Item, dominus Rex assignavit eosdem justiciarios ad inquirendum
que et quot feoda tenentur de eo in capite in quolibet comitatu, et qui
feoda ilia tenuerunt, et in quibus villis et locis.
150 Select Formulas of
Ad dictas inquisiciones faciendas in comitatu Norhamtonie fuerunt
constituti per Regem domini Johannes de KerkebyThesaurarius domini
Regis, Ricardus de Stanford, et Galfridus Sandiacre, et venerunt apud
Burgum, die Lune proxima post exaltacionem Sancte Crucis, ad
inquirendum de libertatibus, feodis et tenementis abbatis de Burgo
Sancti Petri, secundum Articulos subscriptos, sub hac forma:
Anno Domini M.cc octogesimo quarto.
Hii sunt Articuli super quibus inquisiciones predicte facte fuerunt
per predictos justiciaries.
De corpore comitatuum. De proficuis comitatuum. De firma
hundredorum. De turno vicecomitum. De visu franci [plegii]. De
minutis firmis. De serjantiis. De assartis et purpresturis. De
peccunia quam vicecomites et ballivi receperunt. De prisonis contra
statuta. De villis et nominibus earum infra hundreda predicta. De
talliis contra diversos vicecomites. De talliis de Scaccario, quas
diversi habent penes se nondum allocatis. De libertatibus, quas
diversi clamant habere per cartas, et qualiter eis usi sunt, et quibus
usi non sunt, et de aliis libertatibus Regi debitis, et de quibus. De
feodis que tenentur de Rege in capite, et qui ea tenent, et in quibus
locis. De veteribus extractis. De summonicionibus Scaccarii tarn
infra libertates quam extra. De exitibus terrarum forestarum coram
justiciariis. Item, qui fuerunt geldati tempore Regis Henrici, et
qualiter status eorum mutatur.
\Chronicon Petroburgense (Camden Soc. 0. S. 47),/. 96 seqi\
(c) Writ <?/Supersedeas (1285).
Cum nuper Rex miserit dilectos et fideles suos Johannem de
Kirkeby, Johannem de Cobbeham et Nicholaum de Castello ad
comitatum predictum ad inquirendum, tarn de juribus et aliis articulis
Scaccarium contingentibus, quam de debitis Regis solutis diversis
vicecomitibus et ballivis, que adhuc veniunt in summonicionem Scac-
carii predicti; ac iidem fideles Regis de omnibus debitis sic solutis,
coram eis convictis et confessis, rotulos vicecomiti Suhantone
liberaverunt ex parte Regis, ei injungentes quod pro predictis debitis
nullam faceret districtionem donee aliud a Rege inde reciperet in
mandatis; Rex mandat eidem vicecomiti quod districtioni faciende
pro eisdem debitis, supersedeat in forma predicta. Et interim rotulos
suos per rotulos predictos ei liberatos, ita signet et punctet ut ex
inspectione eorumdem sciri possit super compotum suum proximo
ad idem Scaccarium reddendum in quibus originalibus dicta debita
inveniri debeant et acquietari. Proviso quod omnes tallias de eodem
Scaccario de debitis nostris ibidem solutis anno regni Regis Edwardi
duodecimo, penes ipsum vicecomitem, per visum duorum militum de
comitatu predicto ad hoc per eos quos dicte tallie contingunt electorum,
recipiat; inter quos et prefatum vicecomitem fiat scriptura, tallias pre-
dictas, nomina, summam debitorum et occasiones eorumdem in eisdem
Political Inquisitions 151
contenta testificans, et ipsas tallias habeat super compotum predictum
debito modo allocandas. Teste R. de Northwode [etc.], xxiij die Junii,
anno predicto.
{Memoranda RollExch. L. T.R. 13 Edw. I. Roll 60a, M. i\d, Feudal
A ids, I. Intro, p. xv.~\
(d) The Articles of Inquisition {Hasilor, co, Dorset).
Capitula. De extractis et summonicionibus Scaccarii, per quas
debita Regis in comitatu, tam infra libertates quam extra, et qui eas
receperunt a vicecomite et ballivis, et a quo tempore, et quando primo
inde seysinam habuerunt, et per quem, et si fideliter de debitis Regis
responderint vel non.
Item, quot ville in hundredo, et que sunt regales et que non; et si
status earum mutatur, per quos mutatur, et a quo tempore, et qui eas
modo tenet.
Item, de feodis militum que tenentur in capite de Rege; qui ea
tenent, et in quibus villis, et qui sunt tenentes sui, et ubi sunt; ut
sciatur ubi distringendum sit pro servicio Regis si a retro fuerit.
Item, quis annualis redditus debetur de singulis villis vicecomiti,
tam ad turnum vicecomitis quam ad visum franci plegii [vel] quocunque
alio modo qui pertinere debet ad firmam vicecomitis.
Item [quantum], quilibet hundredarii dant pro firma sui hundredi
nunc et quantum solebant [dare].
Item, de quibus rebus et redditibus seu perquisitis firma wapentagii
consistat seu levatur seu levari solebat.
Item, de religiosis et aliis qui dicunt se habere libertates per cartas
Regum quibus usi sunt et a quo tempore libertates sibi [etc.].
Item, de pecunia quam vicecomites receperint de prisonibus [etc.].
Item, si ballivi infra libertates vel extra veteribus extractis
utantur [etc.].
Item, de illis qui clamant habere libertates [etc.].
Item, quod omnes qui tallias habent de debito domini Regis [etc.].
Item, quod omnes qui querelam facere velint de vicecomitibus [etc.].
Quod illi qui tallias habent de Scaccario [etc.].
Item, si quis bis vel ter vel pluries debita domini Regis solvent [etc.].
Item, si aliquid fuerit domino Regi substractum de jure suo [etc.].
Item, si quid in wappentagiis predictis ad Regem pertinere debeant
unde seisitus non est.
[Feudal Aids, I. xii.]
(e) The Inquisition for Haselor.
Veredictum Hundredi de Haselore et Ryssemore. Juratores de
Hundredo predicto, Johannes de Clavyle de Morden [and ten other
jurors].
De extractis summonicionum Scaccarii [etc.]. Ad hoc respondent
juratores et dicunt, quod comes Gloucestrie est dominus hundredi de
Haselore et habet ballivum suum juratum vicecomiti, qui recipit
extracta et summoniciones a vicecomite pro debitis domini Regis
152 Select Formulas of
levandis et aliis que tangunt dominum Regem, et inde fideliter
respondet vicecomiti, et idem comes et predecessores sui inde habue-
runt seysinam a tempore quo duas partes predicti hundredi de
Henrico de Novo Burgo perquisiverunt, et idem Henricus et pre-
decessores sui inde habuerunt seysinam a tempore quo hominis non
extat memoria. [A nswers are returned to four more of the above
A rticles of Inquisition?]
[Ibid. II. 23.]
(f) Proceedings of the Commissioners. (Hearing Notes.)
Ab Homine.
Precepta liberata Willelmo de Moneketon, vicecomiti Cornubie, ad
exequendum judicio et justicia [etc.'].
Preceptum est Willelmo de Moneketon vicecomiti quod satisfaciat
Rogero Love de ipso querenti de precio unius equi quern ab eo injuste
cepit, unde convictus est per inquisitionem. Et quia prefatus Rogerus
queritur de Ada Scriptore de placito conventionis scripture cujusdam
portiforii, preceptum est vicecomiti [etc.]; faciat inde justiciam [etc.].
Et dictus vicecomes in misericordia quia non liberavit dictum equum
nee inde satisfecit eidem Rogero ad preceptum.
[Endorsed.]
Ab homine. Bodminn. Idem apud Ab homine.
Tallie de Scaccario liberate coram Thesaurario apud Lancaueton
et Ab homine per cyrographum.
De Henrico filio Henrici, de fine... ... ... XXXJ. iiij d.
De Henrico filio Henrici, de debito patris sui ... XIJ.
De Johanne Julien, de fine ... ... ... vs.
De Johanne Julien, de fine ... ... ... vs.
De Johanne Julien, de fine ... ..._ ... vs.
[Exch. L. T. R. Misc. Rolls 1/9.]
(g) Proceedings before the Commissioners. (The Cornish Eyre?)
Placita querelarum coram Johanne de Kirby et sociis suis. In
Cornubia anno regni Regis Edwardi tertiodecimo xiij. Apud
Lancaueton.
Trigchire.
Ricardus Love queritur de Ada Scriptore quod non tenuit ei
conventionem scripture cujusdam portiforii scribendi, ad dampnum
suum dimidie marce. Et predictus Adam super hoc convincitur. Ideo
consideratum quod dictus Adam teneatur predicte conventioni et
restituat ei dampnum predictum. Et sit in misericordia quia non
tenuit eidem conventionem predictam.
Tallie de Scaccario de hundredo de Triggshire
De Henrico filio Henrici, de fine ... ... XXXJ. iiijrf.
De Henrico filio Henrici, de debito patris sui ... x\s.
Transcribitur in rotulo.
[Assise Roll, 116.]
Political Inquisitions 153
59. Instruments connected with the Trial of the Pyx.
(a) Treasury Warrant to the Goldsmiths' Company for sum-
moning a fury for the Trial of the Pyx.
By the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. August the XI
th
1660.
Whereas the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have been
informed that the indented standard peices of gold & silver heretofore
made for the tryall of the coyne and plate of this Kingdome are most
necessary to bee changed in regard of" the inscriptions & prints which
are fixed & engraven thereon; and whereas their Lordshipps are
likewise informed that those standard peices of gold & silver which
were made in the raigne of King James are wrought out, soe that
there is an absolute necessity of makeing of others for the tryall of
the Coyne & plate of this Kingdome which shall bee from henceforth
made; their Lordshipps doe therefore will & require you to retorne to
them the names of such a number of persons as have bine heretofore
usuall in the like case, of the most able & best experiences in workes
of that nature, to appeare before them on Saturday next the 18
th
of
this instant August, at two of the clock in the afternoone, for the
effecting of the said worke in such manner as hath bine heretofore
accustomed; and hereof you are not to faile.
Ex
r
per Warwick.
To the Wardens of the Mistery of Goldsmiths of the city of
London.
(b) The Return made to the above Warrant.
The Wardens have retorned a Jury and caused them to bee
summoned [etc.].
Sir T. Vyner Kn* and Alderman.
(c) Proceedings at the Trial of the Pyx.
Upon w
ch
xviii
th
day of August 1660 the aforesaid persons, except
Ald'an Backwell & Sam. Bartlet who were out of towne, according to
the appointm
1
& summons aforesaid appeared before the Lds Com
rs
at
Whitehall & there they were sworne for the making of the severall
standard peices of gold & silver as in the order hereunder written is
mencioned, the tenor whereof followeth in theis words, vizt.
' By the Lords Commissioners of His Majestie's Treasury. Whereas
by Indenture beareing date the xx
t h
of July 1660, between the King's
most excellent Majestie of the one part & Sir Ralph Freeman
Knight of the other part, it is ordeyned that there shall bee three sorts
of moneys made by the said Sir Ralph Freeman, agreable to the severall
standards in the said Indenture expressed, viz', gold of the standard of
xxiii carrectts.
These are therefore to will and require you forthwith to prepaire
& make ready three severall indented tryall peices of the severall
154 Select Formulas of
standards aforesaid according to your best skill & knowledge, of such
quantities as you shall thinke fitt, soe that each of the said tryall peices
may be divided into six parts & each part to bee marked & stamped
as in & by the said indenture is expressed & then presented to us to
bee disposed of into the severall custodyes & keepings of the partyes
concerned, as by the said indenture is allsoe directed, and for soe
doeing this shall bee your Warrant. Dated at Whitehall, the 18
th
of
August, 1660.
Edward Hyde & C.
William Morice'
1
.
After the said persons had taken their oath before the said Lords
Commissioners sitting in the Councell Chamber at Whitehall the said
xviii
th
day of August &, as a Jury, had received their chardge to perfect
the said worke with as much expedicion as they could, the said Jury
were licenced to depart untill they should retorne to give up their
verdict together with the said severall indented standard peices of gold
& silver according to the tenor of their oathes taken in that behalfe,
who there upon departed accordingly.
The 7
th
day of 7
bre
1660 the Jury aforesaid resorted to Goldsmiths'
H all, and the better to enable them to proceed in the said worke it
was then agreed that M
r
Mason should receive soe much silver of
M
r
Alderman Backwell as would make 7
lb
w