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CONTENTS. 
 
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 Introduction 
 
 Calendar - • 
 
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 Appendix 
 
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 Index 
 
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INTEODUCTION. 
 
 Lord Middleton's MSS. are preserved, together with modern 
 legal papers, in a fireproof muniment room in the basement 
 of the south-western paviHon of WoUaton Hall, near 
 Nottingham, a famous specimen of Ehzabethan domestic 
 architecture, whose magnificence caused Camden to opine 
 that it had been built by Sir Francis Willoughby " in a fooUsh 
 display of his wealth." The papers are packed in large parcels 
 and boxes, the older MSS. being contained in some three 
 hundred of the former, in addition to a few boxes. The 
 collection is a very large one, and there is Uttle arrangement 
 of the older MSS. The parcels are numbered and placed on 
 shelves in accordance with an arrangement made in 1835. 
 The contents of the muniment room were roughly catalogued 
 in: 1784 and 1794. The cataloguers frequently describe the 
 older records as " bundles of old deeds, illegible " or " of no value." 
 The bundles were packed at random in the large parcels of the 
 1835 arrangement, but the older numeration of the bundles 
 was retained. These numbers are given where necessary in 
 this report within parentheses to distinguish them from the 
 numbers of the larger parcels. Occasionally only the old 
 bundle-number is thus given in cases where the bundles have 
 either never been included in the parcels or have become 
 detached. Thousands of undated early charters had no 
 obvious arrangement, and they have been now placed in 
 unnumbered parcels, and the dated ones have been similarly 
 brought together and placed in parcels, also unnumbered, 
 corresponding to the reigns from which they date. Many of 
 the more interesting papers have been taken out of their 
 bundles and placed, for convenience of reference, in a tin 
 box, numbered 24. The oldest charters and the household 
 books and inventories have been in like manner brought 
 together in separate tin boxes. Some of the books are not 
 kept in the mimiment room, and a few of them are at 
 Birdsall House, near Malton, his Lordship's Yorkshire seat. No 
 papers, we are informed, are now kept at Middleton Hall, 
 near Tamworth, from which the title of the peerage is derived. 
 The older arrangement in bundles was made by Francis 
 Willoughby, the famous natural philosopher, (1635-1672), 
 with some assistance from the celebrated John Ray, his 
 accompHshed friend and protegee, who hved with him, accom- 
 panied him on his extensive scientific travels in England 
 and abroad, and completed for Press his Ornithologia, published 
 at London in 1676, and his Historia Piscium, at Oxford in 
 1686. In the preface to the former he pays a noble tribute 
 to his dead patron, stating among other marks of the real 
 scholar that he was " ab ineunte aetate bonarum literarum 
 
VI 
 
 stvdiis deditus, adeoque temporis parens, ut ne minimam ejus 
 particulam vacuam elabi sineret." His extraordinary powers 
 of work are evidenced by the immense labour that he must 
 have devoted to vsrriting abstracts upon every paper, however 
 small, and upon every brief or other document, however 
 lengthy, relating to the numerous lawsuits of the sixteenth 
 and seventeenth centuries. These abstracts are the only 
 real clue to the contents of the older papers, but they are 
 (with the exception of the few dra-wn up by Ray) unfortunately 
 written in a ctiriously stragghng hand that is not very easily 
 to be read. During the progress of the work Francis 
 Willoughby drew up some notes upon diplomatics, which are, 
 as might be expected from his trained powers of observation, 
 creditable performances for the time (p. 269). 
 
 The principal part of the collection consists of an enormous 
 number of medieval and later deeds, charters, court roUs, 
 manorial accounts and the like relating to thirty counties. 
 A list of the places the deeds relate to is given at page 624, 
 and an inventory of the court rolls, manorial accounts, 
 terriers, etc., wiU be found at p. 285. 
 
 The history of the family, of which some accoimt is given 
 at p. 504 sqq., explains the wide area covered by these records. 
 The foimder of the family was Ralph Bugge, a Nottingham 
 merchant of the reign of John, whose descendants took up the 
 territorial names of Bingham and Willoughby from their 
 Nottinghamshire possessions. The manor of WoUaton was 
 acquired in the reign of Edward II. Marriages with the 
 De Greys, Freville of Tamworth, De Morteins and others 
 added to the power of the Willoughby family, and owing to 
 these alliances and other causes, the muniment room contains 
 portions of the records of the great feudal houses of the 
 De Greys of Codnor and elsewhere, De Montfort of Beldesert, 
 Zouch, Marmion, FiUiol, Leybum, Harley, Makeward, 
 Bracebridge, and others. The head of the family at the end 
 of the fifteenth century. Sir Henry Willoughby, was a very 
 influential man. Made a knight banneret on the field of Stoke 
 in 1487 (p. 508) and filling the post of knight of the Body to 
 Hemy VIII., he was in close contact with the court at an 
 interesting period of Enghsh history. He was engaged in 
 many military expeditions, being master of the ordnance 
 in the expedition to Spain in 1512 (p. 128), and shared in the 
 pageantry of Henry VIII., notably the Field of the Cloth of 
 Gold and at the meeting of Henry VIII. with Charles V. in 
 1520. We must regret the loss of the autograph letter written 
 to him by Henry VIII. (p. 512). A copy of a letter to him 
 from Queen Catherine of Arragon is preserved (p. 513). In 
 the reign of Edward IV. he was, according to Leland, severely 
 wounded in a fight between his retainers and those of Edward 
 Grey, Viscount Lisle, the brother of Queen EMzabeth Wood- 
 viUe's first husband. Some depositions connected with this 
 are printed (p. 115). Subsequently amity was established 
 
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 between the two families, and was cemented by the marriage 
 of Sir Henry's eldest son John, a knight of the Holy Sepulchre, 
 with a daughter of the viscount. This brought the Willoughbys 
 mto relationship with some of the leading famiHes of the time, 
 a sister of John's wife being the wife of Edmund Dudley, 
 the father of John Dudley, subsequently Duke of Norfolk 
 and father of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Queen 
 Elizabeth's favourite, who was the younger brother of the 
 husband of Lady Jane Grey, the great-granddaughter of 
 Elizabeth Woodville. Another sister of Sir John Willoughby's 
 wife married Arthur Plantagenet, natural son of Edward IV. 
 Further matrimonial relations thus instituted are set out 
 at p. 508. Sir Henry Willoughby's second son, Sir Edward, 
 by his marriage with the daughter of Sir WiUiam Filliol added 
 greatly to the family estates, and became connected with 
 the rising Seymour family, Sir Edward Seymour, subsequently 
 Duke of Somerset and Protector of England, having married 
 the other daughter of Sir WiUiam Filhol. This connexion 
 was probably the reason why Queen Jane Seymour, Sir Edward 
 Seymour's sister, wrote to Sir Edward Willoughby announcing 
 the birth of Edward the Sixth (p. 517). Sir Edward 
 Willoughby is mentioned with Seymour in the private 
 act in 22 Henry VIII., c. 19 {Statutes of the Realm, iii., p. 349) 
 that was necessitated to legalise the irregularities of the settle- 
 ments resulting from these marriages with the daughters of 
 a man of unsound mind. Sir Edward Willoughby's son, 
 Henry, who fell fighting against Ket's rebels at Norwich, 
 married Anne, daughter of Thomas Grey, Marquis of Dorset, 
 the grandson of Ehzabeth Woodville. This made him brother- 
 in-law to Henry Grey, subsequently Duke of Suffolk, the 
 father of Lady Jane Grey. This weak nobleman was guardian 
 of Francis Willoughby, Henry's son and heir, the builder of 
 Wollaton HaU. It is through this post that we obtain some 
 evidence of Grey's attempts to levy troops in Leicestershire 
 and Warwickshire by the aid of his ward's men (p. 414) in his 
 attempt to maintain his daughter upon the throne. The 
 sisterof Francis was attached to Princess Elizabeth during 
 ^Sl^i^ri-imprisonment at Hatfield under Queen Mary, and 
 was a member of EMzabeth's court after her accession to the 
 throne. It is not to be wondered at that under these circum- 
 stances Ehzabeth was weU acquainted with the great wealth 
 of Sir Francis Willoughby, which she knew "to be nothing 
 inferiour to the best " (p. 538), and that she intended to knight 
 him at the famous festivities at Kenilworth in 1566 (pp. 527-8), 
 had he not sUpped away. She expressed her intention of 
 staying at his house (apparently meaning Middleton' ) for two 
 
 1 She stayed at Kenilworth as the guest of Leicester for nineteen days 
 prior to 27 July, 1575, when she went to Lichfield for eight days. She seems 
 to have made excursions in its neighbourhood (John Nichols, The Progresses 
 and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, new edition, 1823, i, pp. 459, 467, 
 529). She announced her intention of staying with Sir Francis Willoughby on 
 the 21st and 22nd July (p. 538, below). 
 
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 nights in 1575, although he was still keeping out of her way 
 (p. 538). It may be mentioned that Sir Henry WUloughby 
 was the father of Sir Hugh Willoughby, the Arctic explorer, 
 and father-in-law to Anthony Fitzherbert, the well-known 
 legal writer. Besides the great queen, many famous historic 
 figures flit across the pages of the report. 
 
 The charters and deeds include three original charters of 
 Henry II. and numerous twelfth-century private deeds. There 
 are also three charters of Henry III. granting forfeited lands 
 of the supporters of Simon de Montfort to Roger de Leyburn 
 (pp. 71, 72), a stormy person who played a conspicuous part 
 in the Barons' War. Two of these have escaped enrolment 
 on the Charter Rolls. UnenroUed letters patent will be 
 found at pp. 93, 109. The muniments of the De Leyburn 
 family have supphed also the important agreement 
 between Prince Edward and the Earl of Gloucester on 
 14 March, 1259, in which the Earl, for himself and 
 his allies, agrees to support Edward and his friends, 
 among whom Roger de Leyburn is mentioned (p. 67). 
 This agreement is, no doubt, connected with the 
 first quarrel between Simon de Montfort and Gloucester in 
 the recess after the February parhament of 1259. Matthew of 
 Paris, who records this quarrel, does not fix the date beyond 
 this rough indication, and it is therefore impossible to 
 determine whether the agreement was a cause or a 
 consequence of the quarrel, in which Gloucester was 
 coerced by the barons. But the document is of 
 great importance as marking the gaining over by Edward's 
 diplomacy of Gloucester and his party, thus breaking 
 up the baronial phalanx that had ruled the country 
 since the Provisions of Oxford in the previous year. 
 Another interesting record of the Barons' Wars is 
 the order issued by Simon de Montfort and Hugh le 
 Despenser, the justiciary, to the Bishop of Coventry 
 and Roger de Leyburn to conduct personally Edmund 
 (Crouchback), the king's son, and the constable of 
 Dover Castle to that fortress in order to obtain its 
 dehvery to the Bishop of London in accordance with 
 the agreement between the king and the barons (p. 70). 
 The reference is not, as erroneously stated in the footnote at 
 p. 71 to the Mise of Lewes in 1264, but to the agreement that 
 the king was compelled to make with the Barons in the 
 previous summer for the settlement of the disputes that had 
 arisen regarding the provisions of Oxford. His assent was 
 published on 16th July.^ The document must be dated 
 between then and 18th July, when the kiag ordered his son 
 Edmund and the constable to deliver Dover Castle to the 
 Bishop of London, in which order he stated that the Barons 
 
 1 Calendar of Patent Rolls, lZSS-1266, p. 269. 
 
IX 
 
 would send them a safe-conduct.^ This is evidently the 
 present document. De Leyburn was at this time an adherent 
 of De Montfort's, and accordingly represented the barons in 
 this affair. It is not clear from what source came the letter 
 of Queen PhiHppa in 1332 acknowledging receipt of some 
 of her jewellery from Ida Lestrange, her " damoisele" (p. 90). 
 The letter of Thomas de Berkeley and Anthony de Lucy 
 relating to the movements of King David in Galloway, which 
 we have assigned to October, 1342, is a curious survival in 
 an unexpected quarter of a military or poHtical despatch of 
 this period (p. 95). The retainer by Edward the Black Prince 
 of Sir Baldwin de FreviUe in 1358 (p. 98) is undoubtedly in 
 its right place in this collection, which includes so many of 
 the Freville muniments. A similar remark may be made in 
 reference to the retainer by John of Gaunt of Ralph Brace- 
 bridge in 1385 (p. 99). The Filliol muniments have supplied 
 the letter of Cardinal Beaufort in 1415, which bears his 
 autograph signature (p. 102). In 1512 we have details of the 
 artillery taken to Spain in the expedition of the Marquis of 
 Dorset, in which Sir Henry Willoughby was master of the 
 ordnance (p. 128), and in which his son Edward participated 
 (p. 146). The depositions against Sir GUes Strangeways, in 
 or about 1539, allege serious interference with legal proceedings 
 in Dorset and coUusion with and protection of criminals (p. 142). 
 A petition of Sir Edward WiUoughby about the same date 
 sets forth his long and honourable services in war and hints 
 at some court intrigue against him (p. 146). A letter, 
 unfortunately undated, but assignable to some date between 
 1570 and 1583, to Sir Francis Willoughby from a former 
 servant of his, named Marmion, affords us a ghmpse of Mary, 
 Queen of Scots, during her imprisonment at Sheffield House, 
 and gives a hvely account of the domestic jars between the 
 Earl of Shrewsbury, her gaoler, and his wife, the famous 
 " Bess of Hardwick " (p. 152). There is an autograph letter 
 from this resolute lady to Sir Francis Willoughby, in which 
 she goes out of her way to oblige him financially (p. 161). 
 The brutahty of the time is exhibited in the pubUc beating 
 of two gentlewomen by the order of two London aldermen, 
 which the queen avenged by drastic punishment (pp. 158, 568). 
 A strange case of imposture practised upon John Darrel, the 
 crazy exorcist, in 1597, is illustrated by the " note " at p. 165, 
 which incidentally throws some light upon the manners and 
 customs of the time. There is a contemporary MS. of the 
 witty but bitterly sarcastic description of Scotland and its 
 people in 1617 from the point of view of an Enghsh courtier 
 
 1 Calendar of Patent Rolls, 12SS-1266, p. 270, Fcedera, i., 427. Edmund and 
 the constable had refused to deliver the castle to the Bishop, in accordance with 
 the king's order of 10 July {Calendar, p. 269) because they had no safe-conduct 
 and for other reasons stated in their letter dated 16 July {Anoient Corres- 
 pondence, P.R.O., iii, no. 74, printed in Fasdera, i, 427, with the unfortunate 
 error of "xxvj" for "xvj" in the date). The castle was committed to 
 Kiohard de Grey on the 26 July (GcAendar, p. 271). 
 
in the King's train, which led to the dismissal from office of 
 Sir Anthony Weldon (p. 184). There is also a contemporary- 
 copy of the strange political pamphlet purporting to be " Newes 
 from Spaine," which was printed and instantly suppressed 
 in 1620 (p. 187). At p. 193 is a contemporary account of the 
 first skirmish between the king's army and the Scots at the 
 outbreak of the Civil War in 1640 (p. 193). A letter of 
 Panhekoe, Sachem of the Mohican Indians, sets out the 
 grievances of his tribe for the information of Queen Anne's 
 council (p. 195). 
 
 Among documents of more special interest attention may 
 be drawn to the representative of an exceedingly rare class 
 of deed, so rare that this may possibly be unique — a written 
 agreement, drawn up in English, about the year 1425 by 
 villagers for the regulation of the cultivation of the common 
 fields of their village, to which the consent of the lords of the 
 manors is added in Latin (p. 106). Another tmcommon deed 
 is one from the year 1294, by which Richard de WiUoughby 
 and two other landowners in the village of Ruddington, Notts, 
 demise, in the name of the community of the village, to the 
 vicar upon his appointment all the houses built in the church- 
 yard, with the herbage of the churchyard, and with certain 
 fittings of the house (p. 82), which was evidently the vicarage 
 house. The parish church of Ruddington, it may be weU 
 to remark, was at some httle distance away in the lost village 
 of Flawford, the parish of which included parts of three other 
 villages besides Ruddington. About 1175 we have an instance 
 of a grant to a church being witnessed by the entire parish 
 (tota farrochia) (p. 12). A curious provision of a town house 
 in 1273 by Sir Philip Marmion wiU be found at p. 74. Several 
 later instances of the possession of residences in London by 
 great landowners occur in the report. The great traffic in 
 indulgences on the eve of the Reformation has left its mark 
 on this collection in the number of letters of fraternity with 
 religious houses, some of which confer sweeping indulgences. 
 So great was the demand that the resources of the printing 
 press had to be invoked, the Friars Carmehtes of England 
 issuing printed letters as early as 1512 (p. 127), while the 
 alderman and brethren of St. Mary's Guild in St. Botolph's 
 church, Boston, issued in 1519 a much more elaborate letter, 
 which was printed by Richard Pinson (p. 133). A French 
 instance of a printed letter of indulgence on parchment 
 bears the remarkablj' early date of 1454.^ The papal 
 indulgence granted in 1521 to Sir Henry WiUoughby and 
 others is drawn up, but apparently not expedited, in the forin 
 of a certified copy by a papal penitenciary (p. 137). Itis Avritten 
 in the curial minuscule of the time, and omits the pope's 
 initial before the clause " concessum ut petitur " (p. 139). 
 Otherwise it is drawn up in the usual form of a confessionale, 
 
 i Reeueil des Fac-aimilis d, I'usage de I'Ecole des Ghartea, plate 330, No. 7. 
 
XI 
 
 the class of document to which it belongs, setting out the 
 petition (supplicatio) of the persons- seeking the indulgences. * 
 The original letters of the guardian of the Observant Friars 
 of Mount Sion creating Sir John Willoughby a knight of the 
 Holy Sepulchre in consequence of his travels in the Holy Land, 
 dated 1521, may also be mentioned in this connexion (p. 140). 
 
 The situation of the Wollaton district on the outcrop of 
 the great Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire coalfield caused 
 it to be the scene of early coalmining, upon which considerable 
 light is thrown by the numerous papers concerned with this 
 industry. It is somewhat surprising to find that in 1316 
 the workings were already so deep that provision had to be 
 made in a demise of a pit for non-payment of the rent or 
 royalty in case the seven miners to whom the pit was let 
 were prevented from working by the " ventus, qui vacatur 
 le dampe " (p. 88 ; cf. p. 100). This carries the history of 
 fire-damp three centuries beyond the earliest quotation in 
 the New English Dictionary. Another interesting feature is 
 the record of the use at the end of Bhzabeth's reign of rails 
 for the conveyance of coals to the riverside for shipment 
 (pp. 169, 177). There are papers relating to a project for carrjdng 
 coal by the Trent to Hull for shipment to London a few years 
 later (p. 171), but the cost of conveying the coal to Newark 
 or Gainsborough, transhipping it there, and the freight from HuU 
 rendered this attempt to compete with the Newcastle supply 
 unprofitable. There is an elaborate plan of the same period 
 for pumping water out of the pits (p. 173), which shows the 
 great depth of the workings. The difficulty of draining the 
 pits is recognised three centuries earher (p. 88; cf. p. 100). 
 Incidentally many early mining terms are illustrated. The 
 sister-industry of the working of ironstone in this district 
 was carried on at least as early as the middle of the thirteenth 
 century (p. 75). There are papers of interest from a later 
 period concerning the forging of ironstone in this and other 
 districts. 
 
 Under the heading of books in general attention may be 
 called to the most interesting contribution to palaeography 
 contained in the collection, ten leaves of an early eighth-century 
 uncial copy of the Latin vulgate (pp. 196, 611). Another 
 leaf from the same magnificent codex was discovered at 
 Durham by Canon Greenwell in use as a cover for an eighteenth- 
 century account book, a similar fate to that undergone by 
 the WoUaton leaves. Canon Greenwell has ^uggested that 
 this codex was one of the three written by order of Abbot 
 Ceolfrid shortly after the year 700. One of these is 
 the Codex Amiatinus, the most famous codex of the 
 
 1 The handwriting agrees in general character with facsimiles 1, 3, and 4 
 given by Dr. Ludwig Schmitz-Kallenberg, Practica Cancellariae ApoatoUcae 
 SaeouU XV exeuntia, ein Handbuch fur den Verkehr mit der p'dpatldchen 
 Kanzlei, Mvinster (Westphalia), 1904, where the cost and method of obtaining 
 such indulgences from the papal of&cers are described. 
 
331 
 
 Vulgate, now in the Florence library. Thus these leaves 
 may represent one of the three oldest MS. books that 
 are known to have been written in England. Another 
 interesting MS. is recorded by the fragments of the Worcester 
 chartulary drawn up about the year 1000, which are printed 
 and described at p. 197 sqq. This is the oldest EngUsh 
 chartulary of which we have any trace. Four leaves from 
 this codex are preserved in the British Museum among the 
 Cottonian MSS., including the leaf that precedes and the one 
 that follows the complete leaf at WoUaton. This and the 
 Vulgate MS., the Greenwell leaf of which is now in the British 
 Museum, are curious instances of the vicissitudes of MSS., 
 and make us reahse what precious MSS. were sold as waste 
 paper at the dissolution of the monasteries. 
 
 Of more strictly historical interest is the register of Thomas 
 Field, abbot of Burton on Trent from 1472 to 1493 (p. 247 sqq\, in 
 which, besides an interesting medieval English version of the will 
 of Wulf ric Spott, the founder of the abbey (p. 253) , one of the most 
 valuable relics of the opening years of the eleventh century, 
 and a detailed account of the intrigues of the bishop of the 
 diocese and a local knight in connexion with the election of an 
 abbot in 1430-32 (p. 248 sg'g'.),there'are entered copies of important 
 public documents of the time. These include a copy (or rather 
 a translation) of a letter from the king's representative in the 
 papal curia in 1492, who can be identified with John de Gigliis, 
 subsequently bishop of Worcester (pp. 259, 612). In this 
 letter the king was informed of the faU of Granada and of 
 the discovery of a fragment of the Cross in a church at Rome, 
 besides news connected with the diplomatic moves of the 
 leading European monarchs. This letter is a welcome addition 
 to the scanty diplomatic records of Henry VII., and it was 
 so highly esteemed that the two pieces of news mentioned 
 above were proclaimed by the Lord Chancellor at a special 
 service in St. Paul's (p. 612). The register also contains a 
 good specimen of the prognostications in which the nation 
 from the king downwards took so great an interest (pp. 263, 613). 
 There is also preserved in this register a copy of a memorandum 
 concerning the erection of a staple for metals in 1492 
 (pp. 266, 613), an economic act that seems to have escaped 
 the attention of historians. 
 
 Of volumes of exclusively hterary interest the most note- 
 worthy is an early thirteenth-century MS. of French romances 
 and fabliaux, several of which are inedited, written in the 
 Picard dialect (p. 221), which introduces a new figure, that 
 of Master Heldris de Cornvalle, into the crowded gaUery of 
 the poets of the Arthurian cycle (p. 224). The thirteenth 
 century collection of Latin verses on subjects of grammar, 
 which, despite the bizarre nature of the selections, formed 
 part of the curriculum throughout Western Europe, contains 
 traces of schoolboy owners of the fourteenth and fifteenth 
 centuries, showing that even then the schoolboy sought relief 
 
XIU 
 
 from the monotony of the task of learning by spasmodic 
 scribbhngs (p. 212). And this iaevitable tedium must have 
 been needlessly increased for these students by the crabbed 
 and archaic handwriting and the violent abbreviations of the 
 words by contraction, by suspension, by special and by con- 
 ventional signs, and the other devices of the medieval book- 
 scribe. The other books call for no special notice here. 
 
 The household accounts, with the exception of one of Henry, 
 Lord Grey of Codnor, in 1304-5 (p. 324), relate only to the 
 sixteenth century. They illustrate, like the accounts in the 
 fourth volume of the Report on the MSS. of the Duke of 
 Rutland, with which they have many points in common, 
 the minute care with which the household expenditure was 
 recorded, and they consequently throw numerous side-hghts 
 upon the domestic life of the time. The accounts of travelling 
 expenses show the great trains which gentlemen were com- 
 pelled to take with them. A htter for a lady's use was not 
 in ordinary use, as we see from the payment for fetching a 
 borrowed one from a considerable distance (p. 425). There 
 are entries of the expenses of staying at court, of eating dinners 
 at the inns of court, and various other features of a gentleman's 
 life in the capital and at court. There are records of the 
 expenses incurred during hunting and other sports, losses at 
 cards and other games, and of the constant stream of gifts 
 and rewards to poor men, old soldiers, prisoners, and other 
 objects of compassion, to pardoners, hermits,' preachers, and 
 boy-bishops, to troops of players (who often came from great 
 distances), Cornish wrestlers, singers, harpers, waits, jugglers, 
 men travelling with strange beasts, such as apes, bears, and 
 camels, and to poor university scholars and travellers from 
 abroad. In 1573 there is an express record of the playing of 
 an interlude (p. 424). Mention is also made of the playing 
 of music before the master's door on New Year's Day, and 
 of the presents to him of " posies " by young maidens on 
 his setting forth from his house. His services as godfather 
 were in frequent request. A noteworthy feature in regard 
 to christenings is the use of Huntingdon as a Christian name, 
 which seems to be derived from the connexion of the family 
 with that of the Earl of Huntingdon. One bearer of this 
 Christian name, Huntingdon Shaw, is famous as the maker of 
 the beautiful • ironwork door-screens at Hampton Court. 
 Rewards are given to young maidens who act as the master's 
 valentine. Medical history is illustrated by payments for 
 medicines, the fetching of doctors from London, their fees, 
 costs of travelling, etc. There are numerous payments for 
 articles of clothing, male and female, some of which are still 
 preserved. Payments occur for school fees and school books 
 and for education at school and at Cambridge. The purchase 
 of books for the use of Sir Francis Willoughby, the builder of 
 WoUaton, as a boy show the wide range of the education 
 of a gentleman of high rank in the middle of the sixteenth 
 
XIV 
 
 century. His school curriculum included Latin, Greek, 
 Hebrew, music, and the gentlemanly accomplishments, such 
 as fencing. There are also details of the education of 
 Sir Hugh Willoughby, the Arctic explorer who perished in 
 Spitzbergen. The soldiers' costume of 1522 is recorded (p.345). 
 The ample hospitahty of the time is illustrated by the names 
 of persons, drawn from various social strata, who dined in 
 the Hall, which was a sort of open house for aU wayfarers. 
 The formal and stately ritual of the Hall is set out minutely 
 in Sir Francis Willoughby's regulations for his household 
 (p. 538). The practice of the numerous domestic industries 
 of the household and the great use made of fairs for the 
 purveyance of such things as were not produced on the estate 
 are recorded at ample length. The household fool duly 
 appears, and there is even a record of a female fool (p. 543). 
 The visit of Queen Anne, the wife of James I., to WoUaton 
 on her first arrival in England as queen is recorded in the 
 account at p. 463, and the names of the chambers at WoUaton 
 Hall occupied by her and her family preserved the memory 
 of her sojourn (pp. 463, 486). 
 
 The Household accounts and other papers have yielded a 
 rich crop of obsolete terms, some of which are unrecorded 
 in the New English Dictionary, and some still await explana- 
 tion. A list of these words will be found in the index under 
 the word " glossary." 
 
 The collection contains few specimens of a class of documents 
 that have, perhaps, the widest popular appeal — private letters. 
 They seem to have disappeared, with a few exceptions, in the 
 eighteenth century, when the Hall was stripped of its furniture 
 upon the death of the fourth Lord in 1781, or when the muni- 
 ment room was arranged. We have evidence that Sir Francis 
 Willoughby, the builder, a man of very methodical habits, 
 carefully preserved his correspondence (p. 538), and his son- 
 in-law and successor, Sir Percival Willoughby, seems to have 
 followed his example. Fortunately a descendant, Cassandra 
 Willoughby, Duchess of. Chandos, the daughter of Francis 
 Willoughby, the natural philosopher, has preserved the gist 
 and sometimes the text of many letters of the sixteenth century 
 in the history of the family which she drew up with considerable 
 abihty in 1702 (p. 504). The loss of the full text of some of these 
 letters is to be regretted, but still we obtain much information 
 from her work as to the life of the sixteenth century in its 
 many aspects. Some of these letters are interesting from 
 the point of view of style, being written when the English 
 language had reached its fullest perfection as a literary vehicle 
 and when every educated person seemed to be a natural 
 styhst. Lady Willoughby's letters show a directness and 
 forcibility of expression that is thoroughly EUzabethan 
 (pp. 568, 569). The love-letters of Percival Willoughby and 
 Griffin Markham are redolent of the literary atmosphere of 
 love in Shakespeare's time. The letters deal principally with 
 
XV 
 
 the unhappy domestic life of Sir Francis Willoughby, caused 
 by the hysterical nature of his wife and fomented by the 
 intrigues of the numerous body of gentlemen servants in his 
 household, the leader being a foreign adventurer (pp. 533, 
 560, 561-2). The plotters even went to the dangerous length 
 of accTising Sir Francis of comphcity with the Spaniards in 
 the year of the Great Armada (p. 567). The story winds up 
 with the quarrel of Sir Francis with his son-in-law Sir Percival, 
 and of his passionate dispatch of his steward to London to 
 find him a second wife (p. 574). The lady whom he thus 
 espoused in a fit of pique seems to have led him anything but 
 a quiet life and to have left him to die alone and uncared for 
 in London, and was even suspected by the family of having 
 poisoned him (p. 582). Sir Francis impoverished himsefi 
 by his building and land-purchases and by his attempts to 
 grow woad, to make iron and glass, and, partly owing to this 
 and to the portion left to his second wife, a mere shadow of 
 his estates passed to Sir Percival Willoughby, his son-in-law, 
 the grandson of Sir Edward Willoughby, who united the 
 families of Willoughby of WoUaton and of Willoughby 
 D'Eresby, through whom Lord Middleton comes to represent 
 the male Une of the great baronial family of Willoughby 
 D'Eresby. 
 
 The inspector would wish to tender to Lord and Lady 
 Middleton his most sincere thanks for their kindness, interest 
 and hospitality during the lengthy preparation of this report, 
 which has failed to exhaust their patience. 
 
 W. H. STEVENSON. 
 
THE MANUSCEIPTS 
 
 OP 
 
 LOED MIDDLETON, 
 
 PRESERVED AT 
 
 WOLLATON HALL, NOTTS. 
 
 I. CHARTERS, LETTERS, Etc. 
 
 [c. 1150.]— Grant by Aschetini [Ansketil] de Ridale [Rye- 
 dale, CO. York] and his wife Acilia to the nuns of Watton [co. 
 York] of land in Bridesale [Birdsall, co. York]. 
 
 Cunctis Christi fidelibus Aschetinus de Ridale et sponsa 
 ejus Acilia, salutem. 
 
 Notum sit vobis, quod nos et filii nostri Willelmus^ et 
 Walterus^ et cgteri heredes nostri concessimus et dedimus 
 sanctimoniaHbus de Wattona dimidiam carucatam terrg in 
 Bridesale, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis in pratis et pascuis 
 et cgteris adjacentiis quibuscumque* [qug] ad cam pertinent, 
 sive intra viUam aut extra viliam, videlicet illam, quam 
 Godefridus et Walterus tenuerunt, qug est de feudo Rodberti 
 de Ros,° insimul cum Matilda filia nostra, qug ibi habitum 
 religionis suscepit, in perpetuam elemosinam tam libere quam 
 liberius aHqua elemosina potest donari religiosis, sine omni 
 exactions et sine omni seculari servitio preter solum statu- 
 tum Danegeldum. Eapropter warantizabimus istam nostram 
 
 1 Cf. Anschetinus son of William son of Acohelin, in Walter Espec's 
 foundation deed of Rievaulx Abbey (Rievaulx Chartulary, Surtees Soc, p. 
 21), and the Aschetinus of an early 12th cent, charter in the Whitby Char- 
 tulary, Surtees Soc. p. 457, and Aschetil, Aschetin, Asketin de Hauchesgard 
 [Hawksker] of the same period in the same chartulary, pp. 132, 176, 179, etc. 
 
 2 A William son of Anschetil is mentioned under Yorkshire in 1164-5 
 (Pipe Boll, U Henry II., p. 52). In 1166 he held part of a knight's fee of 
 the fee of Warter, co. York (Red Booh of the Exchequer, i., p. 435 ; Liber 
 Niger, p. 328), and in 1167-8 (Pipe Roll, 14 Henry II., p. 89). 
 
 3 Walter son of Asketin, Asketil, is returned in 1166 as holding knights' 
 fees in co. York (Red Book, i., p. 419, 433 ; Liber Niger, pp. 309, 325). 
 
 * qumcunque, MS. 
 
 B Nephew of Walter Espec (ob. 1153), whose foundation deed of Rie- 
 vaulx Abbey he conflrmed (Report on MSS. of the Duke of Rutland, iv., p. 
 25 ; Rievaulx Chartulary, p. 21). He is mentioned in the Pipe Rolls from 
 1157-8 to 1162-3, about which time he died, perhaps during the latter year, 
 as nothing is entered against his name, and Everard de Ros (his son) is charged 
 in this and the two following years with debts. In 1165-6 William de Percy 
 fined in 400 marks in order to have (i.e. to marry) Robert's wife (Pipe Roll, 
 12 Henry II., p. 81, and following years). 
 
 M 1 
 
elemosinam per omnia et in omnibus et de omnibus rebus, 
 excepto Danegeldo jam dicto, istis sanctimonialibus. _Et 
 quia ista dimidia carucata terrg fuit mariagium jam dictg 
 Acilig sponsg meg, ego Aschetiixus dedi ei escambium tanti 
 redditus in Holm^ assensu et bona ejus voluntate. Et istg 
 sanctimoniales susceperunt me et banc sponsam meam Aciliam 
 et patrem ejus WiUelmum de Steinesgrife* et matrem ejus 
 Matildam in perpetuam fraternitatem et plenariam partici- 
 pationem orationum et beneficiorum totius ordinis sui. 
 
 His testibus : Capellano Sanetg Marig de Malt[ona] ; et 
 Magistro GUlb[erto] de Semppngeham]^ ; et Willelmo de 
 Vesci* ; Willelmo Latim[er] ; Seer de Quinci ; Galfrido de 
 Valoin[iis] ; Willelmo filio Walonis' ; Alardo de Crandala ; 
 Waltero Falconario ; et WiUelmo fratre ejus ; Rannulfo 
 clerico ; Willelmo clerico, nepote Aschetini ; Henrico decano ; 
 Magistro Stephano ; Alano filio Landrici ; Helia nepote 
 WiUelmi Latim[er] ; Waltero Engainn' ; Michaeli filio Alfred! ; 
 Warino de Vesci^ ; Alexandro'. 
 , Detached seal, hearing a lion coward, inscribed : Siqillvm 
 
 ASKETINI DE RiDALE. 
 
 [1155, January] — ^Charter of Henry II. confirming to Fvdk 
 de Luisuris [Lisores] his father's lands, with the forestries 
 of [North] Hants, Huntingdonshire, and Buckinghamshire. 
 
 H[enricus], Rex Angl[orum], et Dux Norm[annorum] et Aquit- 
 [anorum], et Comes And[egavorum], omnibus archiiepiscopis, 
 episcopis, comitibus, baronibus, justiciariis, vicecomitibus, 
 et omnibus fidelibus suis, Franc[is] et Angl[is], salutem. 
 
 1 ? Holme-on-the-Wolds, co. York. 
 
 2 Stonegrave, co. York. William de Steinesgrif witnessed Walter 
 Espec's foundation deed of Rievaulx Abbey, 1131-1136, (Rievaulx Char- 
 tulary, p. 21) and Robert de Ros's confirmation of it (see note 5, above), and 
 also charters c. 1150 in the Whitby Chartulary, pp. 205, 207. He is returned 
 in 1166 as holding part of a laiight's fee under Everard de Ros, Robert's son 
 {Red Book, i., p. 433 ; Liber Niger, p. 325). 
 
 3 The founder of the order of Sempringham, who died at a very 
 advanced age in 1189. 
 
 * William de Vesci was sheriH of Northumberland in 1156-7 and died 
 before 1184-5 (Botuli de Dominabus, pp. 5, 42). 
 
 5 William son of Galo witnesses a charter of William de Vesci between 
 1154 and 1181 in the Rievaulx Chartulary, p. 139. 
 
 8 Witnesses a charter of William de Vesci, 1154—1181, in the Rievaulx 
 Chartulary, p. 139. He is probably " Warin the Clerk, grandson of Eustace 
 son of John " of the charter at p. 4 below, as William de Vesci was the son 
 of this Eustace, who was killed in Wales in 1157 (Dugdale, Baronage, i., 
 p. 91b), 
 
 ' This deed is preserved, with the other early Birdsall deeds printed 
 below, in a small box in a large chest containing other Birdsall deeds, which 
 are of much later date. 
 
 * This charter is limited by the mention of Thomas [Beoket] as chan- 
 cellor to a date earlier than 3 June, 1162, when he was consecrated archbishop 
 of Canterbury. Henry was at Northampton in January, 1155 (Eyton, Court, 
 Household and Itinerary of Henry II,, p. 3), and in July, 1157 (ih. p. 25). As 
 Fulk accounts in 1155-6 under Northamptonshire for the census of the forests 
 in his custody (Pipe Roll, 2 Henry II., p. 42), it is clear that the present 
 charter must be referred to 1165, 
 
Soiatis me reddidisae et confirmasse Fulc[oni] de Luisuris, 
 in feodo et hereditate, sibi et heredibus suis, omnes terras 
 et teneuras patris sui, cum ministerio suo de forestariia 
 Hantesire'^ et Hundedwnescire et Buchingehamsire, sicut pater 
 suus ea tenuit melius tempore H[enrici] Regis, avi mei. 
 
 Quare volo et firmiter precipio, quod ipse et heredes sui 
 omnia predicta teneant bone et in pace, libere, quiete et 
 honorifice, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis in bosco et piano, 
 in yiis et semitis, pratis et pascuis, in aquis et molendinis, 
 et in omnibus rebus, cum omnibus consuetudinibus ad ea 
 pertinentibua, et cum libertatibus suis, sicut pater suus vel 
 avus liberius et melius tenuit tempore Regis H[enrici], avi 
 mei. 
 
 Testibus : Toma Cancellario ; Regpnaldo], Comite Com- 
 [ubie] ; H. de Essex', const[abulario] ; Ricardo de Hum[ez], 
 Const[abulario] ; Jocel[ino] de Baill[iolo]. 
 
 Apud North[antonam]. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1160] — Grant by AscUia or Aciria, late the wife of Asketin 
 [Ansketil] de Ridale, to the nunnery of Watton [co. York] 
 of land in Briddesale [BirdsaU, co. York]. 
 
 ^ Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego AsciMa,* que fui sponsa 
 Asketini de Ridale, concessi et de(S et hac mea carta con- 
 firmavi, in libera viduitate mea, coneessu et assensu Willelmi 
 et Walteri, filiorum meorum, et aliorum heredum meorum, 
 Deo et Beate Marie et sanctimonialibus de Watt[ona] et 
 fratnbus earum, clericis et laicis, unam carrucatam terre de 
 libero mariagio meo, que est de feudo Roberti de Ros in 
 territorio de Briddessale, cum omnibus pertinenciis suis infra 
 villam et extra,* in perpetuam possessionem tenendam de 
 me et heredibus meis ; reddendo mihi et heredibus meia 
 'annuatim viginti sohdos argenti, et ex iUa carrucata terre 
 faciendo mihi et heredibus meis et defendendo totum 
 forinsecum servicium ejusdem carrucate terre cum acciderit 
 et unius dimidie carrucate terre in eadem villa de Briddessale, 
 quam dimidiam carrucatam terre Asketinus, vir mens, prius 
 eis dederat et carta^ sua confirmaverat in perpetuam elemo- 
 sinam cum Matilda, filia sua et mea, que ibi habitum 
 religionis suscepit. Et quia dimidia carrucata terre erat de 
 libero mariagio meo, dedit mihi vir meua Aaketinus excambium 
 
 1 Northamptonshire. See preceding note and Pipe Bolls, 4 Henry 
 II., p. 143, and the succeeding rolls up to the 23rd year. In 1166 R. de Lisuriia 
 returns under Northants that he has the king's forestry of fee {Liber Niger 
 ScaccarU, ed. Heame, ed. 2, i., p. 215 ; Bed Book of the Exchequer, i. p. 333), 
 which has puzzled Dugdale (Baronage, i. p. 597), but it would seem, from the 
 evidence of the Pipe Rolls, that R. is a mistake for F. 
 
 2 There are two exemplars of this charteir, both in the same hand- 
 writing, but one of them written in larger letters. They are preserved in the 
 chest of Birdsall deeds (see page 2, note 7 above). The variant readings 
 are noted. 
 
 5 Aciria, B. 
 
 * viUam, add. B. 
 
 6 See page 1 above. 
 
in Holm ad valenciam tanti redditns. Ego vero et heredes 
 mei post me warantizabimus omnia predicta prefatis^ sancti- 
 monialibus et earum fratribus contra omnes homines de 
 calumpniis et omnibus rebus in perpetuum. 
 
 His testibus : Greggorio, priore de Bredlint[ona]i . 
 Ernisio, priore de Mart[ona]2 ; Willelmo de Vesci ; Willelmo 
 Latim[er]3 ; Symone de Staingrive* ; Warino clerico, nepote 
 Eustachii filii Johannis^ ; Adam de Gart[ona]« ; Stephano 
 de Killum' ; Magistro Stephano legista ; Nicholao, persona 
 de Hugate^ ; Alexandro de Sant[ona]9 ; Alexandre Came- 
 rario" ; Petro filio Willelmi de Cava" ; Willelmo fratre ejus^^ ; 
 Petro filio Alexandri de Sant[ona]. 
 
 Large elliptical seals, one (A) in red wax, the other (B) in 
 green, with central ornament ; inscription : + Sigillvm 
 AciKrE. 
 
 [c. 1170]— Grant by John de Arden to Amable, daughter 
 of WilUam Fund[wi] of land [in Kingsbury, co. Warwick]. 
 
 Sciant tam presentes quam futuri, quod ego Johannes 
 de Arden' dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta con- 
 fu-mavi Amable fihe Willelmi Fund' et heredibus suis 
 aliut dimidium prati, quod fuit Herberti de Kinesb[eri], 
 scilicet inter semitam et Stanstret', ei et heredibus siiis : 
 tenendum de me et heredibus meis libere, solute et quiete ; 
 reddendo annuatim michi et heredibus meis quasdam 
 cirotecas de Coventr[eia] ad festum Sancti Michaelis pro omni 
 servicio. 
 
 His testibus : Rogero decano, Thoma persona, Willelmo 
 Marescallo, Ricardo, fratre ejus, Willelmo, fratre Johannis, 
 Roberto, fratre ejus, Nicolao de Esbroc',^* Waltero de Plumton', 
 
 1 Bredlmgtona, B. Gregory, prior of Bridlington, witnesses deeds be- 
 tween 1154 and 1181 (Rievatdx Chartulary, pp. 138, 165, 173 ; Whitby Char- 
 tulary, pp. 39, 48, 57), between 1154 and 1167 and after 1181 (Guisbrough 
 Chartulary, ii., pp. 47, 83), and in 1175 (Rievaulx Chartulary, p. 82 j cf. 
 also ibid. p. 107). 
 
 2 Martona, B. Marton-in-the-Fojest, eo. York. Prior Hemiseus (mis- 
 printed Herviseo) witnessed a charter between 1154 and 1170 in the Whitby 
 Chartulary, p. 185. 
 
 3 Witnesses a charter between 1154 and 1181 (Rievaulx Chartulary, 
 
 * Witnesses charters between 1154 and 1181 (Rievaulx Chartulary, 
 pp. 24, 113) and in 1175 {Ibid. pp. 82, 83 ; cf. also ibid. p. 79). 
 
 6 Eustace son of John was killed in 1167. 
 
 8 Garton-on-the-Wolds, co. York. 
 
 '■ Stephen de KiOum [Kilham, co. York] is one of the knights mentioned 
 with William de Steingriva in a charter of about the date assigned to the 
 l^resent one (Rievaulx Chartulary, p. 112; cf. also ibid. p. 132). 
 
 8 Huggate, CO. York. 
 
 9 Santona, B. Sancton, co. York. 
 
 1" The Alexander the Chamberlain of the Rievaulx Chartulary, p. 232 
 note, Guisbrough Chartulary, ii., p. 6 note, is probably another person. 
 
 11 Petro de Cava, B. Cave, co. York. 
 
 12 Perhaps the William de Cava of the Guisbrough Chartulary, ii., p. 
 
 18 Esbroc was in the parish of Kingsbury (Dugdale, Warmckuhire, p. 
 761a). 
 
Hugone de Esbroc', Heminco filio Ricardi, Ricardo, qui 
 scripsit hanc cartam, et multis aliis. 
 Fragment of seal. 
 
 [c. 1170]— Grant by Robert de Cathorp [Caythorpe, parish 
 of Lowdham, co. Notts] to Godwin son of Alfwin de Eperstona 
 [Epperston, co. Notts] of land near the hedge between 
 Wdburc and Ludam [Woodborough and Lowdham, co. 
 Notts]. * 
 
 Sciant tarn presentes quam futuri, quod ego Robertas de 
 Cathorp dedi et concessi, et hac carta mea confirmavij 
 Godwino filio Alfwini de Eperstona terram meam, que est 
 inter vias ad divisam inter Wdburc et Ludam, sibi et 
 heredibus suis tenendum de me et heredibus meis ; reddendo 
 mihi annuatim vi. denarios ad festum Sancti Michaelis pro 
 omni servicio ad me pertinente. Pro hac vero donacione 
 dedit mihi predictus Godwinus iiij<" solidos. 
 
 Testibus istis : Roberto Cappellano ; Roberto de Habtot ; 
 Hasculfo, fratre suo ; Roberto de Birtonai ; Willelmo filio 
 suo ; Eha de Pasci ; Manfrido de Turgartona^ ; Radulfo 
 Prenloue ; Roberto fiHo Johannis ; Waltero de Colingham* ; 
 et multis aUis. 
 
 , Fragment of seal in white wax. . 
 
 [c. 1170]— Grant by William I, earl of Ferrers [1163-1173], to 
 Roger son of Reinfrid of the marsh of Hanworth [co. 
 Lincoln ?]. 
 
 Willelmus, Comes de Ferr[ariis], tam presentibus quam 
 futuris, salutem. 
 
 Sciatis, quod ego concessi et hac carta mea confirmavi 
 Rogero filio Reinfrai* et heredibus suis, ad tenendum de 
 Rogero de Inges et heredibus suis, mariscum de Hanewerda, 
 quod pertinet ad feudum predicti Rogeri de Inges, et quod 
 mariscum idem Rogerus [de] Inges dedit predicto Rogero 
 filio Reinfrai et heredibus suis, tenendum de eo et heredibus 
 suis, pro vj. denariis annuatim pro omni servitio. Et pro 
 hac concessione et confirmacione, predictus Rogerus filius 
 Reinfrai dedit mihi dimidiam marcam argenti et Comitisse 
 Sibille, uxori mee, unum bisanoium. 
 
 1 Burton Joyce, cx). Notts. Robert de Burton witnessed a deed of 
 about this date quoted by Thoroton (Antiqq. of Nottinghamshire, 228a) from 
 the burnt register of Lenton Priory. 
 
 2 Thurgarton, co. Notts. 
 
 3 Collingham, co. Notts. 
 
 * Boger son of Reinfrid was a justice in Eyre in 1176 (Benedict Abbas, 
 i., p. 107 ; Roger of Hoveden, ii., p. 87). He was one of the five aasociafed 
 with the bishop of Durham and the earl of Albemarle for the government 
 of the realm by Richard I. in 1189 (Hoveden, in., p. 16). He was excommuni- 
 cated in 1191 by Longchamps {Id. iii., p. 163). See Foss, Biographia 
 Juridica. 
 
Hiis testibus : Roberto de Aubini, et Roberto de Ferr[ariis], 
 fratre meo^ ; Henrico filio Walk[elini]2 ; Nicholao filio Pag- 
 [ani] ; Johanne de Croel ; Willelmo clerico ; Alano de 
 Thichehale^ ; Henrico de Stantona ; Rogero de Ardena ; 
 Willelmo de Arundell' ; Oseberto Noel ; Gileberto de 
 Chaent ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1170] — Grant by prior B. and the chapter of Newburgh 
 [co. York] to William de Stuteville that they will find a 
 chaplain to sing for his soul daily in the chapel of Gillingemora 
 [Gilling, CO. York]. 
 
 Universis sancte matris ecclesie filiis B.* prior et capitulum 
 ecclesie Sancte Marie de Novoburgo, salutem. Sciatis nos 
 concessisse et presenti carta confirmasse Willelmo de Stute- 
 villa^ et heredibus suis, pro devotione, quam habuit erga 
 ecclesiam nostram, quod nos inveniemus capellanum residentem 
 in capella de Gillingemora in perpetuum, qui ibi cotidie cantet 
 pro salute animg predicti Willelmi de Stutevilla et pro 
 animabus patris et matris ejus et omnium antecessorum 
 ejus. 
 
 Hiis testibus : WUlelmo clerico de Cothingeham,* Ricardp 
 clerico de Botshal,' Hugone capellano, Bartholomeo de 
 Stutevilla, ^ Roberto de Melsa,^ Benedicto de Sculecotes/" 
 
 1 Cf. Report on the Duke of Rutland' a MSS., iv., p. 31. 
 
 2 Cf. Id. p. 32. 
 
 3 Ticknall, co. Derby. 
 
 * Bernard, prior of Newbiirgh, was one of the three persons nominated 
 by the canons of York to the king for the vacant archbishopric in 1186 
 (Benedict Abbas, i., p. 352). He occurs in a deed of 1189-1199 (Rievaulx 
 Chartulary, p. 235), and in 1199 (Charters, etc., of Finchale Priory, Surtees 
 Soc, p. 13). But this is, perhaps, not the prior B. of the present charter, 
 for prior Richard occurs between 1180 and 1190 (Guisbrough Chartulary, 
 ii., p. 255 note 3). 
 
 6 William de Stuteville was made governor of Topcliff Castle, co. York, 
 in 1173-4 (Dugdale, Baronage, i., p. 456a) and died 1202 (Matt. Paris, 
 Chronica Majora ii., p. 480). He was alive on 7 July, 1202 (Rotuli lAtterarum 
 Patentium, p. 14a), but dead before 4 June, 1203 (Ibid, p. 30a). 
 
 6 Cottingham, co. York. 
 
 7 Bossall, CO. York. 
 
 8 Witnesses a charter of Robert de StuteviUe, father of William, who 
 died in or before 1186 (Eyton, Court, etc., of Henry II., p. 273) in the Rievaulx 
 Chartulary, Surtees Soc, p. 82. Bartholomew de Stuteville occurs in 1200 
 (Rotuli de Ohlatia, p. 111). 
 
 . 9 Robert son of John de Melsa [Meaux, parish of Wawne, co. York], 
 was a benefactor of Meaux Abbey between 1160 and 1182 (Chronica Monasterii 
 de Melsa, i., pp. 159, 168). 
 
 10 Sculcoats, in Kingston-upon-HuU. Benedict de Sculecote is returned 
 in 1166 as holding part of a knight's fee in Yorkshire (Red Book, ii., p. 414 ; 
 Liber Niger, p. 305, where it is wrongly printed Sculetont). He was a bene- 
 factor to Meaux Abbey between 1160 and 1182 (Chron. de Melsa, i., pp. 168-9). 
 See also Rievaulx Chartulary, pp. 84, 303. Benedict de Sculecote (a descen- 
 dant ?) is returned in 1210-12 as holding part of a knight's fee in co. York 
 (Red Book, ii., pp. 492, 495). 
 
Radulfo filio Paulini Eborac[ensi8], Adam de Staveleia,^' 
 Roberto filio Givonis,^ Johanne Burgenun, Martino de 
 Rothomago, Ricardo GoUe, Laurentio de Donecast[ria]. 
 
 Large seal in coloured wax, hearing a figure of the Virgin 
 and Child, and inscribed : " . . . Marie db Nevbve," 
 the Ne being a ligature. 
 
 [c. 1170] — Grant by William de Heriz to Robert de Auvers 
 of his land in Treberchis [? Thrybergh, co. York]. 
 
 Willelmus de Heriz* omnibus hominibus suis et amicis 
 suis, salutem. Sciatis me dedisse Roberto de Auvers* 
 totam terram meam de Treberchis, cum omnibus pertinenciis 
 suis, in feudo et in hereditate, ei et heredibus suis de me et 
 heredibus meis tenendam, pro omni servioio ad me pertinenti ; 
 reddendo singuMs annis quendam nisum sorum. Quare volo, 
 ut predictus Robertus teneat eandem terram bene et Ubere 
 sicut ego ipse, faciendo forense servicium. 
 
 Hiis testibus (sic) : Willelmus AveneP et Gervasius* frater 
 ejus, Simon filius Ricardi,' et Herebertus ejus frater, et 
 
 1 Staveley, co. York. Cf. BotuH de Finibus, pp. 207, 332. 
 
 - Givo witnesses a charter of Robert de Stuteville (probably the father 
 of the grantee of the present charter) in the Riveaulx Chartulary p. 62. A 
 Givo de Fademore witnesses at p. 131 of the same chartulary. 
 
 3 William de Heriz is returned in 1166 as holding knights' fees in cos. 
 Notts and Lincoln (Red Book of the Exchequer, i. pp. 342, 383 ; Liber Niger 
 Scaccarii, ed. Heame, ed. 2, pp. 224, 271). He is mentioned in the Pipe Rolls 
 under cos. Notts and Derby from 1168-9 to 1177-8 (15 to 24 Henry II.), and 
 in 1168-9 under Yorkshire. In 1178-9 his lands were in the Idng's hands by 
 reason of his death (Pipe RoU, 25 Henry II., ro. ^d.), and in 1179-80 Robert 
 de Heriz made a fine of lOOZ. to have the lands of his brother William (Pipe 
 RoU, 26 Henry II., ro. lOd). 
 
 * Robert de Alvers is returned in 1166 as a tenant in co. Warwick (Red 
 Book, i., p. 326 ; Liber Niger, p. 205). His name occurs in the long list of 
 gentry amerced in 1176 in cos. Notts and Derby (Pipe RoU, 22 Hen. II., 
 p. 96 ; 23 Hen. II., p. 60) as a result of the king's oppressive decision regard- 
 ing the forests at Nottingham in 1176 (Benedict Abbas, i. p. 94; Roger of 
 Hoveden ii., p. 79). He is mentioned as a security in the Pipe RoUs for Notts 
 and Derby for 1198-9 (1 John, ro. 15). He witnesses a Derbyshire charter of 
 the time of Hem^ II. (Rutland MSS., iv. p. 54). 
 
 5 Mentioned under co. Northampton in 1161-2, 1162-3, 1164-5, 1168-9 
 (Pipe RoUs 8, 9, 11, and 15 Henry II.). In 1175-6 he was one of the sur- 
 veyors of the building of the tower of Peak Castle, co. Derby (Pipe RoU, 
 22 Henry II., p. 90). See RuUcmd MSS., iv., p. 24. 
 
 6 Gervase Avenel answers for the land of Bassetlaw [co. Notts] in 1 155-6, 
 1156-7, and 1157-8 (Pipe RoU, 2 Henry II., p. 39 ; 3 Hen. II., p. 90, 4 Hen. 
 II., p. 153). In 1172-3 he was a surveyor of the works at Bolsover Castle 
 (Pipe RoU, 19 Hen. II., p. 177) and of the building of the tower of Peak Castle 
 in 1175-6 and 1176-7 (Pipe RoU, 22 Hen. II., p. 90, 23 Hen. II., p. 57). In 
 1179-80 the sheriff of Notts and Derby answers for the corn sold from his 
 lands (Pipe RoU, 26 Hen. II., ro. lOd.). 
 
 7 He was pardoned two marks in 1158-9 under cos. Notts and Derby 
 (Pipe RoU, 5 Henry II., p. 52), and was fined for trespass of the forest under 
 these counties in 1175-6 and 1176-7 (Pipe RoU, 22 Hen. II., p. 94, 23 Hen. 
 II p. 60). He is also mentioned in 1180-1 (27 Hen. II., ro. Id), in 1182-3 
 (29 Hen. II., ro. 8), and in 1197-8 (10 Rich. I., ro. 8). He died during the 
 latter year, for his widow Juetta fined for a writ of dower (ibid,). 
 
Willelmus f rater ipsius Roberti, et Hugo de Hedun/ Robertus 
 de Heriz,^ Petrus de Heriz, Philippus Uphtunie. 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1170]— Grant by Robert son of Walter and Amabilis, his 
 wife, to the nunnery of St. Edith, Polesworth [co. Warwick] 
 of the mill of Kinesberia [Kingsbury, co. Warwick]. 
 
 ^Domino et Patri suo Ricardo,* Dei Gracia, Coventrensi 
 Episcopo, et JUdmundo Archidiacono, et omnibus Sancte 
 Matris Ecclesie filiis, Robertus filius Walteri et Amabil[is], 
 uxor ipsius, salutem. 
 
 Sciant presentes omnes et posteri, quod ego Robertus _ et 
 Amabil[is], uxor mea, concessimus et dedimus ecclesie Dei et 
 Sancte Marie et Sancte Eadithe de Polesworda et sancti- 
 monialibus ibidem Deo servientibus, pro salute anime nos- 
 tre et pro salute omnium anteoessorum et successorum 
 nostrorum, molendinum de Kinesberia, cum tota secuta 
 ipsius molendini, et cum omnibus pertinenciis suis, et cum 
 omni libertate, in perpetuam elemosinam, absolutum, liberum 
 et quietum ab omni servicio et ab omni exaccione seculari, 
 cum corpore ipsius Amabil[is], excepta decima ejusdem 
 molendini, quam prius dedimus ecclesie de Kinesb[eria]. 
 
 Testibus : Rogero, priore Malvern[ie] ; Toma, priore de 
 Avecota"; Toma de Westmonasterio, monacho ; Serlone, 
 Petro, presbyteris ; et Magistro Widone ; Willelmo Fulesbi ; 
 Petro de Bracebrug'^ ; Willelmo de Hardredeshull'' ; Here- 
 berto ; Gileberto ; Rogero del Holt ; Alexandre ; Waltero 
 Pinel ; Nicholao ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 1 Hugh de Hedduna [Headon, co. Notts] owed Wl. in 1167-8 for relief 
 for land held of the honovir of Tickhill, under cos. Notts and Derby (Pipe 
 Boll, 14 Henry II., p. 92 ; cf. 15 Hen. II., p. 44, 16 Hen. II., p. 54). In 1175-6 
 he was fined in these counties for forest offences (Pipe Roll, 22 Henry II., 
 p. 92). In the following year he made fine to have the king's good will (Pipe 
 Roll, 23 Hen. II., p. 59, and 24 Hen. II., ro. 6d.). In 1194 he adhered to 
 John against Richard I., and made a fine of \0l. to have his lands again, 
 consisting of one knight's fee in Heddon (Pipe Roll, 6 Rich. I., ro. 6). 
 He answers for scutage in 1201-2, 1202-3, and 1203-4 (Pipe Rolls, 4 John, 
 ro. 14 ; 5 John, ro. 13 ; 6 John, ro. 13). 
 
 2 Robert de Heriz fined to have his brother's lands in 1179-80 (see note 
 3, page 7). In 1180-1 Ralph de CrumweU fined to hasten his right concerning 
 Widmerpool [co. Notts] against him (Pipe Roll, 27 Hen. II., ro. Id), and in 
 1188-9 (Pipe Roll, 1 Richard I., p. 155). Robert answered for scutage under 
 Notts and Derby in 1196-7 (Pipe RoU, 9 Richard I., ro. 10). In the following 
 year Ivo de Heriz, his son, made a fine for having Robert 's lands (Pipe Rolls, 
 10 Ric. I., ro. 8). See also Dugdale, Baronage, i., p. 684a, and Rotidi de Oblatis, 
 pp. 35, 188. The Robert de Heriz whose lands at Stapelford (Stapleford, 
 CO. Notts) seem to have been in the king's hands in 1176-7 (Pipe RoU, 23 Hen. 
 II., p. 63) belonged to another family, and is probably the Robert de Heriz 
 who was fined in cos. Notts and Derby for trespass of the forest in 1176—6 
 (Pipe Roll, 22 Henry II., p. 95 ; 23 Henry II., p. 60), since Stapleford was in 
 Sherwood Forest, and Widmerpool was far outside it. 
 
 8 This charter is cited by Dugdale, Warwickshire, p. 761a, from a 
 chartulary. 
 
 * Richard Pech6, consecrated in 1161, died 6 October, 1182. 
 
 6 Alvecote, parish of Shuttington, co. Warwick, a cell of Malvern Priory. 
 8 Bracebridge, co. Lincoln. 
 
 7 Hartshill, parish of Mancetter, oo. Warwick. 
 
9 
 
 [o. 1170] — Confirmation by Simon de Harcuria [Harcourt] 
 and Alice, his wife, of the preceding grant. 
 
 Domino et patri suo Ricardo, Dei gracia, Coventrensi 
 episoopo, et ^Edmundo Archidiacono, et omnibus Sancte 
 Matris Ecclesie filiis, Simon de Arcuria et Aelicia, uxor mea, 
 salutem. 
 
 Sciant presentes omnes et posted, quod ego Simon de 
 Harcuria et Aelicia, uxor mea, concessimus, et carta nostra 
 confirmavimus, Ecclesie Dei et Sancte Marie et Sancte 
 Eadithe de Polesworda et sanctimonialibus ibidem Deo ser- 
 vientibus, pro salute anime nostre et pro salute omnium 
 antecessorum et successorum nostrorum, donationem Roberti 
 filii Walteri et uxoris ejus Amabil[is], scilicet molendinum de 
 Kinesburia, cum tota secta ipsius molendini, et cum omnibus 
 pertinenciis suis, et cum omni libertate, in perpetuam 
 elemosinam, absolutum, liberum, et quietum ab omni servicio 
 et ab omni exactione seculari, salva decima ejusdem molendini, 
 que pertinet ad ecclesiam Sancti Petri de Kinesburia. 
 
 His testibus : Simeone de Sepeia^ et Petro de Kinesb[uria] 
 et Willelmo de Basterleia^, sacerdotibus ; et WiUelmo de 
 Spondon^ et Willelmo Canonico et Galfrido de Sepeia^ et 
 Willelmo de Contorn'*, clericis ; et Willelmo de Warda et 
 Radulfo filio Radulfi et Richero, fratre suo, et Galfrido filio 
 Alegaldi et Serlono (sic) de Sutunia^ et Ada de Welberca et 
 Willelmo de Witacra® et Roberto de Persita et Watero (sic) 
 Pinel et Rogero filio Jacobi et Roberto Malnevu et Herberto 
 et Godfrido de Sautlega' et Toma de Aseperc et filiis suis, 
 et multis aliis. 
 
 Fragments of seal sewed up in cloth bag. 
 
 [c. 1170] — Confirmation of the preceding grant and con- 
 firmation by Richard, bishop of Coventry. 
 
 Ricardus, Dei gracia, Coventrensis Episcopus, omnibus 
 Sancte Matris Ecclesie filiis, salutem in Domino. 
 
 Sciant omnes tam poster i quam presentes, quod nos, 
 presentis carte nostre auctoritate, donationem illam con- 
 firmamus, quam Robertus fihus Galteri et Amabil[is], uxor 
 ipsius, fecerunt ecclesie Dei et Sancte Marie et Sancte Edithe 
 de Pollisworda et sanctimonialibus ibidem Deo servientibus, 
 scilicet de molendino de Kinisbiria, quod ipsi, cum tota secta 
 ipsius molendini, et omnibus pertinentiis suis, et cum omni 
 libertate, in perpetuam elemosinam memoratis sanctimoni- 
 alibus, liberum et quietum ab omni seculari exactione et 
 servicio, dederunt. Preterea banc eandem donationem, quam 
 
 1 Sheepy, co. Leicester. 
 
 2 Baxterley, co. Warwick. 
 8 Spondon, co. Derby. 
 
 * Coundon, co. Warwick ? 
 
 ^ Sutton Coldfield, co. Warwick. 
 
 6 Whitacre, co. Warwick. 
 
 1 Saltloy, parish of Aston, co. Warwick. 
 
10 
 
 Simon de Harincuria et Aelicia, uxor ejus, ante-dicto 
 religioso loco concesserunt et carta sua confirmaverunt, juxta 
 illorum carte tenorem, similiter hujus scripti nostri testimonio 
 corroboramus. Siquis vero banc donationem in Deo factam 
 in irritum revocare et infirmare presumpserit, anathematis 
 vinculo ferimus eum. 
 
 His testibus : Eadmundo et Rogero et Radulfo, archi- 
 diaconis nostris ; Magistro Gaufrido de Lent[ona]^ ; Magistro 
 Roberto de Haia ; Nigello capellano ; Stephano, capeUano 
 de Cesterfeld ; Waltero de Tilisbiria ; Gaufrido Salvagio ; 
 Willelmo Burdet ; Waltero de Sumervilla et Rogero et 
 Roberto, fibis ejus ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1175] — Confirmation by John [de Lacy], Constable of 
 Chester, of the grant by Fulk de Mareis to Nicholas the clerk 
 of Marnaham [Marnham, co. Notts] of land in Stiresthorp 
 [Staythorpe, parish of Averham, co. Notts]. 
 
 Johannes, Constabularius Cestrie,^ omnibus hominibus suis, 
 Francis et Anglicis, clericis et laicis, presentibus et futuris, 
 salutem. 
 
 Sciatis Fulconem de Mareis coram me dedisse et concessisse 
 Nicholao clerico meo de Marnaham* et heredibus suis totam 
 terram suam de Stirestorp, que est de meo feodo, pro dimidia 
 marca argenti, quam predictus Nicholaus illi prenominato 
 Fulconi de Mareis dedit in principio pro terra prenominata, 
 Hbere et quiete et honorifice, tenendam de illo et de heredibus 
 suis, in tofto et crofto et in bosco, in pratis et in pasturis, 
 et in omnibus abis rebus, que ad predictam terram pertinent, 
 pro iij. solidis reddendo (sic) annuatim predicto Fulconi et 
 heredibus suis pro omnibus serviciis, que ad illos pertinent, 
 excepto servitio forinseco ; ad festum Sancti Michaelis xviijd. 
 debet reddere de ista firma, et in die Palmarum xviijd. 
 Hanc autem donationem et concessionem petitione predict! 
 Fulconis de Mareis Nicholao clerico predicto de Marnaham 
 et heredibus suis concessi et hac presenti carta mea con- 
 firmavi, ut terra predicta in feodo et hereditate Nicholao 
 clerico predicto et heredibus suis stabilis et rata permaneat. 
 
 1 The ' ' Magister Galfridus de Lenton ' ' who witnesses an undated 
 agreement between the monks of Bordsley and the church of St. Mary, War- 
 wick, printed by Madox, Formidare Anglicanum, 1702, p. 24, no. xlii. 
 
 2 John the Constable accounted in 1177—8 for 213Z. 6«. Sd. for a fine for 
 his mother 's lands, to be paid by 80 marks yearly, in co. Notts (Pipe Roll, 24 
 Henry II., ro. 6d.). He accompanied Richard to the Holy Land, and died 
 at Tyre in 1190 or 1191 (Benediotus Abbas, ii., p. 148 ; Roger de Hoveden, iii., 
 p. 88). See Diet. Nat. Biography, xxxi., p. 338 ; Dugdale, Baronage, i., p. 100a. 
 
 3 Marnham, co. Notts. John, Constable of Chester, is recorded to 
 have given the church of Marnham to the Knight Templars {Monasiicon, 
 vi., p. 825a). His foundation deed of Stanlow (later known as Whalley) abbey, 
 CO. Chester, which is dated 1178, is witnessed by " Nicholas, persona de 
 Marnham " {Monasticon, vi., p. 641a; corrupted to " Marisham " in the 
 copy in the Ooucher Book of Whalley Abbey (Chetham Soc, 1847), p. 5). 
 
11 
 
 His testibus : Roberto, saoerdote de Stoca^ ; Willelmo 
 Legato ; Silvestro de Suttona^ ; Galfrido, milite de Suttuna^^; 
 Galfrido Escrop ; Willelmo filio Gerardi ; Ricardo de Clifton ' ; 
 Ricardo de Awic ; Roberto clerico de Cliftona* ; Roberto de 
 Wadewr])a* ; Rogero de Normantona^ ; Richer de Scegebi* ; 
 Ricardo de Co {sic) de Cotintona' ; Nigello de Cliftona ; 
 Roberto fratre Nicholai ; Waltef de Marnaham ; Elia de 
 Pasci ; Adam de Duttun^ ; Rogero Burdun* ; Roberto filio 
 Rogeri* ; Adam Cytharista. 
 
 Fragment of large seal with equestrian figure. 
 
 [c. 1175] — Confirmation by Robert son of Philip [de 
 Baseford'] of his father's grant to Eustace de Brocolvestou 
 [Broxtow, CO. Notts] of land, etc., in Baseford [Basford, 
 CO. Notts] and at Essebia [Ashby Magna, co. Leicester ?]. 
 
 Robertus filius Philippi omnibus amicis et hominibus suis, 
 tam futuris quam presentibus, salutem. 
 
 Certum sit vobis, quod pater meus Philippus dedit et con- 
 cessit Eustachio de Brocolvestou, i" meo concessu, quatuor 
 bovatas terre et tres culturas et duo prata et sedem unam 
 molendini in feudo suo de Ba[se]ford, in liberum conjugium 
 cum sua fiUa, et etiam apud Magnam Essebiam unam 
 virgatam terre, de se ad tenendam et de herede suo sibi et 
 heredi suo quiete et Ubere, propter hominium suum et 
 propter servicium suum, scilicet equitandi cum eo vel cum 
 uxore sua de uno mansu (sic) ad alium mansum, scilicet de 
 Baseford ad Essebiam. Hoc donum eciam supradictum in 
 hac presenti carta do et confirmo nunc et inperpetuum sibi 
 et heredibus sviis de me et heredibus^i meis. 
 
 Hujus rei testes sunt isti : Gilebertus capellanua^^ ; Wil- 
 lelmus Hauselin^^ ; Adam Marescalcus et Hugo, frater ejus ; 
 
 1 East Stoke, co. Notts. 
 
 2 Sutton-on-Trent, co. Notts. Silvester de Sutton made a fine under 
 COS. Notts and Derby in 1179-80 for the pledge of one of his men (Pipe KoU, 
 26 Henry II., ro. lOd). and in 1180-1 (Pipe Boll, 27 Hen. TI., ro. Id). A 
 fine was levied in 1203 between Roland son of Silvester, demandant, and 
 Bobert de Lisures concerning land in Sternethorp, the Stiresthorp of this 
 deed (Feet of Fines, co. Notts, file 2, no. 21). 
 
 3 North or South Clifton, co. Notts. 
 
 * Wadworth, co. York, is mentioned as Wadewurth with Marnham 
 in 1204 {Bot. Chart, p. 133a) and in the Testa de Nevill, p. 226. 
 6 Normanton, near Mamham, co. Notts. 
 
 6 Skegby, parish of Mamham. 
 
 7 Coddington, co. Notts. 
 
 8 Witnesses the foundation deed of Stanlow Abbey (see note 3, p. 10, 
 above). 
 
 9 See Thoroton, Notts, p. 233a. 
 
 10 Eustace de Brokelestoua is mentioned in the Pipe Rolls for Notts 
 and Derby in 1181-2, 28 Henry II., ro. 2. Broxtowe is recorded simply by 
 Broxtowe HaU, now a farmhouse in the parish of Bilborough. 
 
 11 herededibits, MS. 
 
 12 eapellcmus, MS. 
 
 13 Written clearly " Hauselin," ( = Halselin, p. 32, below). Similarly 
 Ralph Hauaelm is clearly so written in the Pipe RoUs for 1193-4, 1196-7 
 (6 Richard I., ro. 6 ; 8 Richard I., ro. 54). 
 
12 
 
 Samson de Stretlei^ ; Robertus, frater ejus ; Adam do 
 Moreteun^ et Hugo, frater ejus ; Ricardus de Asple^ ; Ever- 
 ardus de Lentun* ; Raudulfus (sic) filius Gileberti ; Philippus 
 filius Philippi. Valete. 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1175] — Grant by Hugh son of Theodoric and Margaret, 
 his wife, to St. Peter's Church, Winterbum [Winterborne 
 Zelstone, co. Dorset] of land [in Winterborne] for the main- 
 tenance of a lamp in the church. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Hugo filius Theodorici* 
 et uxor mea Margareta donavimus gcclesig Sancti Petri de 
 Winterburnia,* in perpetuam elemosinam, duas acras terre 
 ad mortarium,' una in oriente proxima juxta divisas, altera 
 in valle juxta divisas proxima, in altera erpmerche del est de 
 Serdebege^ ubi marlere^ exstat, et altera proxima de la charere 
 del norh.^° 
 
 His testibus : Domino Ricardo,!^ arch[idiacono] Dorsete, 
 et toto capitulo Dorecestrie, et tota parrochia de Winter- 
 burnia. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 1 Sampson de Stradlega [Strelley, co. Notts] was amerced under Notts 
 and Derby for trespass of the forest in 1176 (Pipe Roll, 22 Henry II., p. 94 ; 
 cf. 23 Hen. II., p. 59). He witnessed the charter of John, earl of Mortain, 
 to the burgesses of Nottingham in 1189 or slightly later {Recorda of the Borough 
 of Nottingham, i., p. 10). In 1194 his chattels were seised into the king's 
 hands amont; those of others ' ' of the king 's enemies ' ' (Pipe Roll, 6 Richard 
 I., ro. 6). In 1194-5 he paid four marks under cos. Notts and Derby because 
 he had supported John in his rebellion (Pipe RoU, 7 Richard I., ro. 2). In 
 1197-8 Sampson de Stradleg' [his son] paid thirty marks under the said 
 counties to have seisin of his father's lands, which were still in the king's 
 hands because he had supported John (Pipe Roll, 10 Richard I., ro. 8). This 
 Sampson died before 1206-7, for in that year Walter de Stradleg owed a 
 falcon under the same counties for having seisin of his father's lands (Pipe 
 Roll, 9 John, ro. 11 ; Rotuli de Finibus, p. 377). 
 
 2 Adam de Moretonio [Mortain, Normandy, dep. of La Manche] was 
 amerced for trespass of the forest in 1176 under cos. Notts and Derby (Pipe 
 Roll, 22 Henry II., p. 94 ; cf. 23 Henry II., p. 59). In 1185-6 the sheriff of 
 these counties accounts for the form of Adam's lands (Pipe Roll, 32 Henry II., 
 ro. 8), which were in the king's hands, probably by reason of his death. 
 
 3 Aspley (Hall), parish of Radford (near Nottingham). 
 * Lenton, co. Notts. 
 
 6 Terricus (Old French Tierri = Theodoric ) de Bosco Herberti is re- 
 turned in 1166 as a tenant in Dorset {Red Book, i., p. 215 ; Liber Niger, p. 
 80). A Theodoricus de Bosco granted land in one of the Dorset Winter- 
 bournes before 1206 (Rotuli Chartarum, p. 163 ; Hutchins, Hist, of Dorset, 
 ed. 3. iv.,p. 7, note 6). Hugh son of Terricus paid half a mark in 1207 for a dis- 
 seisin in that county (Rotuli de Finibus, p. 404). Cf. also Thericus de Werdes- 
 ford, page 54, below. 
 
 8 The older dedication of the church of Winterborn Zelstone to St.. 
 Peter is mentioned in 1384^5 (Hutchins, i., p. 337, note d). 
 
 ■^ A lamp (Old French mortier), a meaning not recorded by Ducange. 
 Cf. Hutchins, iii., p. 7296, ' morterium vel lampaa. ' i 
 
 8 ' The earth-boundary [ridge of earth ?] to the east of Serdebege,' the 
 latter seemingly meaning the old parish of Charborough, now in the parish 
 of Morden. 
 
 9 ' marl-pit, ' Old French marliere, modern French marniire. 
 1" 'to the cartroad (Old French charriere) on the north.' 
 
 11 An addition to the list of archdeacons in Le Neve's Fasti Ecclesim 
 Anglicanw. 
 
13 
 
 [c. 1175]— Grant by Nicholas son of William de Trowella 
 [Trowell, co. Notts] to the church of Sempringham [abbey, 
 CO. Lincoln] of a moiety of a mill in Trowell. 
 
 Omnibus Christi fideUbus Nicholausi filius Willelmi de 
 Trowella, salutem. 
 
 Sciatis me dedisse et hac carta mea confirmasse, assensu 
 heredum meorum, in puram elemosinam et perpetuam poss- 
 essionem Deo et ecclesie Sancte Marie et moniaUbus de 
 Sempingham et fratribus earum, clericis et laicis, ibidem Deo 
 servientibus medietatem molendini super Yrewis,^ que est de 
 feudo meo, cum mediet[ate] del Holm^ quod est circum- 
 fossatum in territorio de Trowella, solutam et quietam ab 
 omni servicio et exactione, et cum omni lib.ertate et con- 
 suetudine, quam ego habui super idem molendinum, videhcet, 
 ut ego et homines mei veniamus ad predictum molendinum 
 ad molendum omnia blada, que habemus molere. Hanc vero 
 elemosinam ego et heredes mei erga omnes homines de 
 universis calumpniis et serviciis in perpetuum illis warant- 
 izabimus. 
 
 His testibus : Thoma, capellano de Sempingham ; Samsone 
 de Stretleie ; Helya de Bramc[ote«] ; Gill[ebert]o, Hugone 
 Bugghe, Radulfo, clericis de Sempingham ; Roberto Musteile^ ; 
 Hugone Spien ; Jacobo ; Galfrido Puinnant ; Ulf ; Galfrido 
 de Co]jestoche* ; WiUelmo Pranceis ; Willelmo Brekedure'. 
 
 Endorsed in same hand : ' De Nicholac' ' De Beam- 
 ch[o]te.' 
 
 Large seal with equestrian figure, inscribed : + Sigillv . . 
 . . Ai DE Trowellb. 
 
 [c. 1175] — Confirmation by Godfrey de Stanford and 
 Maud, his wife, to the monks of Sempringham [co. Lincoln] 
 of a grant to them by Nicholas de Trowella of land in 
 Trowell. 
 
 Notum sit universis Christi fidehbus, quod ego Godefridus 
 de Stanford^ et uxor mea Matill[is] et heredes mei con- 
 cessimus, et hac carta mea confirmavimus, Deo et Sancte 
 Marie et monialibus de Sepingham et fratribus earum, clericis 
 et laicis, totam donationem, quam Nicolaus de Trowella 
 dedit eifi in eadem villa, scilicet de sex bovatis terre de demenio 
 suo, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis, prout carta ipsius Nicolai 
 testatur. Hanc vero donacionem affidavimus inperpetuum 
 
 1 Nicholas de Trowella is mentioned in 1165-6 and 1166-7 (Pipe Roll 
 12 Hen. II., pp. 54, 58 ; 13 Hen. 11., p. 137). 
 
 2 The river Ere wash. 
 
 3 'Island.' 
 
 * Bramcote, oo. Notts. 
 
 6 Robert Mustel answers in 1176-7 for a default in Kent (Pipe Roll, 23 
 Hen. II., p. 205). He is clearly the Robert M[er]steile {read M[u8]steile 1) 
 of the Rutland MSS., iv., p. 54, of a charter of the reign of Henry IT. 
 A Roger Mustel or Musteile answers in 1175-6 in co. Lincoln for a forest 
 offence (Pipe Roll, 22 Henry II., p. 86). 
 
 6 Cotterstock, co. Northampton. 
 
 7 William Brechedore witnesses the charter cited in note 6. 
 
 8 Stanford-on-Soar, co. Notts. Cf. Thoroton, Notts, p. 36. 
 
14 
 
 tenendam in manu Roberti filii Brien, et uxor mea Matillps] 
 in manu Hawise, uxoris Roberti de Stanford, coram Regi- 
 naldo, sacerdote de Stanford, et coram Alicia, sorore mea. 
 
 His testibus : Radulfoi, capellano de Sempingham ; Adam 
 de Morton' ; Samsone de Stratlee ; Eustachio de Brokolestowe ; 
 Roberto filio Brien ; Willelmo, Waltero, Jordano, fratribus 
 ejus ; Roberto Malrewad (sic) ; Petro de Osebernebi,^ famulo 
 regis ; Roberto Mustela ; Willelmo Franceis ; Ulf Stabulario ; 
 Willelmo Brekedure ; Galfrido Puintrant (sic) ; Pagano Cemen- 
 tario de Pointona^ ; Hugone Cementario de Binnebroc* ; 
 Alano Cementario de Billesbi^ ; Magistro Gervasio de Burch ; 
 AchUle, Stephano, filiis suis ; Adam filio Mauricii Clerici de 
 Lochtona^ ; Hugone Tegulario. 
 
 Seed with armed figure on horseback, carrying a lance with 
 a long double-tailed pennon. Inscription: + Sigii-lvm 
 
 GODEPBIDI DE StANFOET. 
 
 [c. 1175] — Confirmation of preceding grants by Philip de 
 Kyme. 
 
 Omnibus Sancte Matris Ecclesie filiis, Philippus de Kym',' 
 salutem. 
 
 Notum sit vobis me concessisse et hac carta mea confir- 
 masse Sanctimonialibus de Sempingham et conventui quatuor 
 bovatas terre et unum toftum de quatuor acris terre in ter- 
 ritorio de Trowella et medietatem molendini de Irewis, cum 
 omnibus pertinenciis suis, scilicet, donacionem Nicholai de 
 Trowella, sicut carte sue confirmant et testantur, salvo forin- 
 seco servicio. 
 
 Testibus : Priore de Kym'^ ; Rogero filio meo, canonico ; 
 Sym[one], Willelmo, et Phihppo, filiis meis ; Ricardo de 
 Ormesb[i]* ; Ricardo de Sancto Petro ; Johanne clerico 
 meo ; Godefrido de Stanford. 
 
 Large seal with armed figure on horseback. Inscription : 
 [Sig]illvm .... 
 
 [c. 1180] — Grant by John de Bracebruge to Godfrey son 
 of Esegar of land [in Kingsbury, co. Warwick ?]. Written in 
 the same hand as the two charters of Godfrey son of Ingrid 
 de Hurnlee to John de Bracebrugge (p. 21 below) and the 
 charter of WilHam son of Godfrey de Hurnle to the said 
 John, p. 22 below). 
 
 1 Badusfo, MS. 
 
 2 Osbournby, co. Lincoln. 
 
 5 Pointon, with Sempringham, co. Lincoln. 
 < Binbrooke, co. Lincoln. 
 
 B Bilsby, CO. Lincoln. 
 
 6 Lutton, CO. Lincoln. 
 
 "! Philip de Kyme (co. Lincoln) was sheriff of Lincoln from 1167 to 1170. 
 Richard I. acquired in 1189 Philip's service in Lincolnshire from the bishop 
 of Durham in exchange (Roger of Hoveden, iii., p. 14). He died shortly 
 after this date (of. Dugdale, Baronage, i., p. 620). 
 
 8 The Augustinian priory of Kyme, co. Lincoln, founded by Philin de 
 Kyme. 
 
 9 Richard de Ormesbi made fine in co. Lincoln to have a recognition of 
 land ajgainst Simon son of Robert in 1176-7 (Pipe Roll, 23 Henry U.,p. 112). 
 
15 
 
 Omnibus, ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit, Johannes 
 de Bracebr[uge], salutem. 
 
 Noveritis me dedisse et concessisse et hao presenti mea 
 carta mea confirmasse Godefrido filio Esegar et heredibus sins, 
 pro omagio et servicio suo, vi. acras terre ; scilicet, unam 
 acram, que jacet contra crucem et terram ecclesie, quam 
 Decanus tenet ; et ii. acras, que se extendunt apud Aldithe- 
 holm ; et i. acram in Sidenhale ; et ii. acras juxta Rodhale, 
 que se extendunt ad Blakemor ; et ii. b[uta]s, que se extendunt 
 ad le Portwei ad implementum predictarum acrarum, cum 
 crofto et mesuagio, quod fuit Esegar, patris predicti Gode- 
 fr[idi], et cum crofto et mesuagio, quod fuit Walteri filii 
 Gregorii, et cum crofto Willelmi Spillemort, et cum prato 
 quod fuit Ade Thedris, et cum prato quod fuit Rogeri Gori : 
 tenendas de me et heredibus meis, Hbere et quiete, in boscho, 
 in piano, in pratis, in pascuis, et in omnibus libertatibus ; 
 reddendo annuatim ipse et heredes sui michi et heredibus 
 meis, pro omni servicio et exaccione, quatuor solidos argenti 
 et [vi. denajrios ad duos terminos, scilicet ad festum Sancte 
 Marie in Marcio ii. solidos et iii. obolos, et ad festum Sancti 
 Michaelis ii. solidos et iii. obolos. Pro hac autem donatione 
 et [concessionje et confirmatione, dedit mihi sepedictus Gode- 
 fr[idus] tres marcas argenti et i. dtibler^. 
 
 Hiis testibus^ : Radulfo capeUano ; Roberto fratre Domini 
 Johannis ; Laurencio de Merst'^ ; Nicholao de Esbroc ; 
 H . . . . ; Waltero Fundi ; Petro, fratre ejus ; 
 Radulfo de Wlputl' ; Johanne filio Ingrid ; Rogero Bagod ; 
 Rogero de Henle* ; Willelmo Nigro ; Ricardo filio ejus ; 
 Roberto deMakest[oke]^ ; Rogero de Blacgr[eve]* ; Simone 
 de Brockel[eye] ; .... de Blacgr[eve] ; Ada de 
 Makest[oke] ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Large seal in white wax with equestrian figure, much worn, 
 with faint traces of inscription. 
 
 [c. 1180] — Grant by John de Bracebrugge to the nunnery 
 of St. Edith, Polesworth [co. Warwick], of the miUs of Kines- 
 buri [Kingsbury, co. Warwick] and of Hurlea [Hurley, parish 
 of Kingsbury]. 
 
 'Omnibus Sancte Matris Ecclesie filiis presentibus et futuris, 
 Johannes de Bracebrugge, salutem. 
 
 Noverit universitas vestra, quod ego concessi et hac carta 
 confirmavi, pro salute anime mee et patris mei et matris mee 
 
 1 Old French diM(i)er meant a dish, a hquid meaaure, a napkin, sack, 
 etc. See New English Dictionary, s.v. ' Doubler, 1. ' 
 
 2 The witnesses' names are added in a lighter coloured ink in the 
 same hand, the deed as far as Hiis testibus having obviously been prepared 
 before the names of the witnesses were known. 
 
 3 Marston, co. Warwick. 
 
 * Henley-in-Arden, co. Warwick. 
 5 Maxtoke, co. Warwick. 
 
 8 Blackgreaves Farm, parish of Lea Marston, co. Warwick. 
 7 This charter is cited from an Inspeximus of 21 Bichard II. by Dugdale. 
 Warvnekshire, p. 7616. 
 
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 et omnium antecessorum meorum, molendina de Kinesburi 
 Deo et Sancte Marie et Ecolesie Sanote EadiSe de PoleswrSe 
 et monialibus ibidem Deo servientibus, cum Mulnecroft et 
 Whetholm, et una acra prati ad Bradeford', et quodam prato, 
 et quadam mora, que est inter aquam molendini et calcetam, 
 que est juxta pratum Herberti, et inter duas foveas, et insula, 
 que est juxta stagnum molendini : tenenda ' in puram et 
 perpetuam elemosinam liberam et quietam ab omnibus 
 secularibus exactionibus. Preterea, concessi eis et con- 
 lirmavi piscarias in exclusis predictorum molendinorum et in 
 circuitu molendini, terram ad cespites capiendas (sic), quantum 
 opus fuerit, ad reficiendum ipsum molendinum et stagnuna 
 molendini ubique, nisi in prato et in blado. Heo eis concessi 
 et confirmavi, cum secta et cum omnibus suis pertinenciis 
 et libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus, in bosco et piano, 
 in pratis et pascuis, in semitis et viis, et omnibus aliis 
 eisiamentis. Et cum eisdem libertatibus et eisiamentis 
 concessi eis et confirmavi molendinum de Hurlea cum secta 
 et pertinenciis suis, ut hec omnia supradicta perpetuo coquine 
 earundem monialium permaneant donata. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Simone, abbate Persorensi^ ; Magistro 
 Roberto de Salopesb[uri] ; Thoma, persona de Kinesb[uri] ; 
 Willelmo Mareschallo ; Roberto de Bromcote" ; Simone de 
 Echeles^ ; Rogero de Erdintona* ; Roberto de Langedona ; 
 Maneser de Witacre^ ; Mcholao de Essebroc ; Willelmo 
 Fundu ; Godefrido de Hurlee ; Radulfo de Wlfputtele6 ; 
 Jordano fratre suo ; Robin de Bracebrugge ; Waltero 
 Fundu ; Hugone de Essebroc ; Hamone filio Sefare ; Hen- 
 rico, clerico de Estona,' qui banc cartam scripsit in ecclesia 
 de Kinesbire, et aliis. 
 
 Seal in white wax with equestrian figure. 
 
 [c. 1180] — Grant by John son of Peter de Bracebruge to 
 William the Farrier (Marescallo) of land [in Kingsbury, co. 
 Warwick ?] 
 
 Sciant tam presentes quam futuri, quod ego Johannes 
 filius Petri de Bracebruge dedi et concessi et hac presenti 
 carta mea confirmavi, in feudo et hereditate, Willelmo 
 Marescallo et heredibus suis, tenendam de me et heredibus 
 meis, pro homagio suo et servitio, terram que fuit Hacun 
 de Hurlee', et terram que fuit Roberti Kinebald, et terram 
 que fuit Ricardi de Havekesford, et terram que fuit Alani 
 filii Hacun, et terram que fuit Godefridi de Sudlee, et terram 
 
 1 Simon became abbot in 1175 (Annales de Theokeaheria, in Annalea 
 Monaatiei, i., p. 51), and died in 1198 (lb., i., p. 56 ; Annalea Winton., ii., p. 
 67). 
 
 2 Bramcote [Hall], parish of Polesworth. 
 
 3 Nechells, parish of Aston, oo. Warwick. 
 
 4 Erdington, parish of Aston, co. Warwick. 
 6 Whitaore, co. Warwick. 
 
 s Aston, CO. Warwick. 
 
 ' Hurley, parish of Kingsbiiry, co. Warwick. 
 
17 
 
 que fuit Rannulfi fabri ad Pontem de Sudlee, et terram que 
 fuit Willelmi de Gledenhurst, cum omnibus pertinentiis pre- 
 dictarum terrarum, libera et quiets et honorifice, in pasouis, 
 in yiis, in semitis, in aquis, in pratis, in stangnis, in sUvis, 
 et in omnibus aliis locis, et quietatione de pasnagio et de 
 tolneto, et husbote et heibote in bosco meo rationabiliter ; 
 reddendo annuatim michi et heredibua meis ipse et heredes 
 sui unum nisum sorum vel xijd. pro omni seculari servitio 
 et exactione apud Kinesberi, scilicet ad Vincula Sancti 
 Petri. 
 
 His testibus : Waltero de Plumtun, Nicbolao filio Liulfi, 
 Milone Barba April[i], Willelmo Fundu, Nicholao de Haisbroc, 
 Roberto de Suttona^, Viello de FolkeshuP, Radulfo de 
 Wlfputelee, Roberto clerico, Godefrido de Hurlee^, Roberto 
 de Plumtona, Waltero Fundu, Serlone, et multis aliis. 
 
 Equestrian seal, same as affixed to the two preceding deeds, 
 with most of the inscription worn away. 
 
 [c. 1180] — Grant by Alice de Kinesbire [Kingsbury, 
 Warwick] to the nunnery of St. Edith at Polesworde [Poles- 
 worth, CO. Warwick] of the mills at Kinesbire and at Hurlega 
 [Hurley, parish of Kingsbury].* 
 
 Omnibus Sancte Matris Ecclesie filiis, ad quos littere pre- 
 sentes pervenerint, Aliz de Kinesbire, fiha Hosberti de 
 Arderne, salutem. 
 
 Noverit universitas vestra, me, pro salute anime mee et 
 matris mee et aliorum antecessorum et successorum meorum, 
 concessisse, et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse, Deo et 
 Sancte Marie et Sancte Eadijie de Polesworde et monialibus 
 ibidem Deo servientibus molendinum de Kinesbire et molen- 
 dinum de Hurlega, cum secta et omnibus aliis pertinenciis et 
 libertatibus suis libere, pacifice, quiete, in puram elemosinam 
 et liberam ab omnibus secularibus exactionibus, salva decima, 
 que pertinet ad ecclesiam de Kinesbire. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Simone Basset^ ; Willelmo de Fuletebi* ; 
 Roberto filio Radulfi ; Roberto de Grendona' ; Nicholao de 
 Hessebroc^ ; Willelmo Fundu ; Galfrido, Willelmo, Siwardo, 
 sacerdotibus ; Adam, Henrico, Nicholao, clericis ; Roberto 
 filio Pagani ; et aliis; 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1180] — Confijrmation by Roger Pite of grant to Ywan 
 le Breton of land in Willhebi [Willoughby-on-the-Wolds, co. 
 Notts]. 
 
 1 Sutton Coldfield, co. Warwick. 
 
 2 Foleshill, co. Warwick. 
 
 3 Hurley, parish of Kingsbury. 
 
 * This charter is cited from a chartulary ( ' ex Cod, MS. ' ), not the 
 original, by Dugdale, Warwickshire, p. 761a. 
 
 5 See MSS. of the Duke of Rutland, vol. iv., p. 22. 
 
 6 Fulletby, co. Lincoln. See Rutland MSS., iv., p. 23. 
 
 7 Grendon, co. Warwick. 
 
 8 Esbroe, see page 4, note 13, above. 
 
 M 2 
 
18 
 
 Sciant tarn presentes quam futuri, quod ego Eogerus Pitei 
 dedi et hac mea carta cohfirmavi Ywano le Breton^ et heredibus 
 suis ii/^ bovatas terre in Willhebi, scilicet illas, quas Leviva 
 tenuit, cum toftoet crofto et omnibus pertinenciis infra villain 
 et extra villam : tenendas de me et de heredibus meis in 
 feudo et in hereditate ; reddendo mihi et heredibus meis 
 annuatim una calcaria (sic) deargentata vel iiii.""^ nummos 
 infra octabas Pasche pro omni servicio, quod ad me et ad 
 heredes meos pertinet, salvo forinseco servicio et salva firma 
 de Thikehil, pro qua scilicet firma reddet mihi annuatim 
 sex denarios tantum duobus terminis, tres scilicet ad festum 
 Beati Michaelis et tres ad Pascha Floridum. Et pro hac 
 donatione et concessione, predictus Ywanus dedit mihi v. 
 marcas argenti de gersum. 
 
 His testibus : WiUelmo de Leke ; Hugone de Till' ; 
 Reginaldo de Insula ; Rand[ulfo] de Wandesl[ee]2 . Reginaldo 
 de Aneslee^ ; Radulfo de Aneslee ; Roberto A[n]geuin ; 
 Roberto de Boves* ; Nicholao le Angeuin ; WiUelmo Pite ; 
 Waltero del Hulmo ; Galfrido de Insula ; Henrico cliente 
 de Plumtre^ ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal in green wax ivith bird {peacock ?). Inscription : 
 
 -{- SiGILLVM ROGERI. 
 
 [c. 1180] — Grant by Simon son of Simon [de Kyme] to 
 Richard de Gaitune of land in Billeburg [Bilborough, co. Notts]. 
 
 Notum sit omnibus hominibus tam presentibus quam 
 futuris, me Symonem filium Symonis dedisse et concessisse 
 et hac mea carta confirmasse Ricardo de Gaitune^ et heredi- 
 bus suis duas bovetas {sic) terre in Billeburg, cum omnibus 
 pertinentiis et aisamentis ejusdem terre : tenendas de me et 
 heredibus meis in feudo et hereditate, libere et quiete et 
 honorifice, pro omni servicio mihi et heredibus meis pertinenti, 
 xii. denariis reddendis per anniim ad festum Sancti Martini. 
 Illas, scilicet, bovetas do predicto Rica[r]do et heredibus suis, que 
 fuerunt Randulfi de Prestwald, ita libere sicut predictum est. 
 
 His testibus : Roberto Beket ; Randulfo, fratre meo ; 
 Sanson' de Stratleie ; Eustacio de Brocholvestoue ; Roberto 
 de Mammetun ; Nicholao' armigero ; Ricardo Coco ; Alexandro 
 
 1 Ywain le BreUui witnesses Notts charters about the date assigned 
 to this charter, and in the early part of the thirteenth century (Thoroton, 
 Notts, pp. 249a, 255a, 265a ; see also p. 78a). 
 
 2 Randulph de Wandeslea [Wandesley, parish of Annesley, co. Notts] 
 paid a fine for a forest trespass in 1175-G (Pipe Roll, 22 Henry 11., p. 61). 
 Cf. Pipe Roll, 23 Henry II., p. 95. 
 
 3 Reginald de Annesley made a like fine in the same roll. In 1184-5 
 he was fined for a purpresture (Pipe Roll, 31 Henry II., ro. 8). 
 
 * Boves, Picardy, canton of Sains, arrondissement of Amiens, depart, 
 of the Somme. 
 
 5 Plumtree, co. Notts. 
 
 6 In 1202 William de Gaiton released by fine to Walter de Ribof (see 
 below, page 39) and Isabel, his wife (see Thoroton, Notts, p. 4486) three 
 bovates of land in Bileburg, and they by the same fine granted to him two 
 of these bovates, to wit those that Walter de Prestwalt held {Feet oj Fines, 
 CO. Notts, file 2, no. 14), probably the two conveyed by the present charter. 
 
 7 Nicholaco, MS. 
 
19 
 
 de Norfouo ; Acero de Billeburg ; Willelmo Hurtefrunt ; 
 Alberto Molendinario ; Roberto de Waldeshilf i. 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [o. 1180]— Grant by Richard son of Jotlein (Jollan) de 
 Ristunia to Idonia, wife of Sir Helto de Boisdele, of land in 
 Ristunia [Reston, co. Lincoln]. 
 
 Notum sit tarn presentibus quam futuris, quod ego 
 Ricardus filius Jotlein de Ristunia dedi et concessi Idonie, 
 uxori Domini Heltonis de Boisdel'.^ et suis heredibus, terciam 
 pa,rtem quatuor bovetarum (sic), quas teneo de feudo Rogeri 
 filii Ranulfi, scilicet unam bovatam terre et terciam partem 
 uniusbovate in Ristunia, cum omnibus pertinentiis eidem 
 terre in nemore, in piano, in pratis, in pasturis, in aquis, in 
 viis, in exitu, in feudum et hereditatem ; et illam terram 
 a, me et heredibus meis ilia et heredes sui solute et quiete et 
 libere tenebunt, salvo servicio regis. Et pro eadem terra 
 reddet Idonea mihi vel heredes sui singulis annis xii. denarios. 
 Et de^ terra ista faciat Idonia vel heredes sui voluntatem 
 suam, salvo servicio meo. 
 
 Hujus rei testes sunt : Dominus Helto de Boisdel' ; Ricardus 
 de Hahc ; Radulfus, presbiter de Hacham* ; Petrus de 
 Becherinc^ ; Hogo (sic) filio Heltonis ; Ranulfus de Meirembout ; 
 Gilbertus de Wella ; Alanus de Boisdel' ; Andreas de Wella ; 
 Johannes de Boisdel'; Robertus clericus ; Radulfus, sacerdos 
 de Lincolne. 
 
 Seal in white wax bearing a bull (?) passant with head 
 turned backwards, inscribed : * [Sig]illv[m Ricab]di Filii 
 
 lOSSLANI. 
 
 [c. 1180] — Grant by William Pite to Bartholomew son of 
 Ulf de Notingeham of land in Wilghebi [WiUoughby-on-the- 
 Wolds, CO. Notts]. 
 
 Sciant omnes presentes et futuri, quod ego Willelmus Pite,* 
 
 1 Waldershelf, near Bolterstone, parish of Bradfield co. York. 
 
 2 Written here and below ' Boisdl ' with a stroke through the upper 
 part of the /. Helte, Heltus, or Heude (see page 43 below) de Boisdele, 
 Boidele, Boidela is mentioned in connexion with lands in Lincolnshire 
 in 1169-70, 1170-1, 1174-7, 1175-6 and 1176-7 (Pipe RoUs of the 16, 
 17, 21, 22 and 23 Henry II.). His surname is derived from a wood 
 on the river Elle in Normandy, in the department of La Manche, recorded 
 in the two hamlets of Bois d'Elle, in the canton of St. Clair, arrondisse- 
 ment of St. L6, in the communes of Cerisy-la-Foret and Saint Georges d'Elle 
 respectively. 
 
 3 The words et de are written twice in the original. 
 
 * Haugham, co. Lincoln. 
 
 5 Beckering, parish of Holton, co. Lincoln. 
 
 * William Pietas (Old French Pit^) and Roger, his brother (the Roger 
 Pit6 of this deed), witnessed a deed of William de Heriz, brother of- Robert 
 de Heriz, executed during the shrievalty of Robert (son of Randulph), who 
 was sheriff of Notts and Derby from 1166 to 1170 (Thoroton, Notts, p. 40a) 
 In 1 194-5 William made fine for being in Nottingham Castle [when besieged by 
 King Richard in 1194J (Pipe Roll, 7 Richard I., ro. 2, Notts and Derby). He 
 levied a fine in 1198 concerning lands in Hucknall [Torkard] and Lamb- 
 cote, CO. Notts, to Geoffrey Torcaz and his wife {Pedes ft'niuTO, Pipe Roll Soc, 
 p. 140 ; Thoroton, p. 2366). A grant by him of land in Willoughby-on-the- 
 Wolds is noticed by Thoroton, p. 255o. 
 
20 
 
 consensu* et voluntate Robert! de Heriz/ domini fundi, con- 
 cessi et dedi et hac mea carta confirmavi Bartholomeo^ filio 
 Ulf de Notingeham, pro homagio suo, quatuor bovatas terre 
 in Wilghebi, duas scilicet bovatas, quas Picot tenuit in eadem 
 villa, cum tofto et crofto ad easdem bovatas pertinentibus, 
 et duas bovatas, quas Ricardus Palmarius tenuit ibidem, 
 cum toftb et crofto ad illas pertinentibus : tenendas sibi et 
 heredibus suis in feodo et hereditate de me et heredibus meis 
 libere, honorifice et quiete, plenarie et integre, cum omnibus 
 pertinenciis et libertatibus et aisiamentis suis infra viUam 
 et extra, pro una libra cimini annuatim mihi infra octavas 
 Sancti Martini reddenda pro omni servicio, quod ad me 
 pertinet. Ego vero et heredes mei adquietabimus predictas 
 bovatas terre de firma, que pertinet ad Castellum de Tikehul',^ 
 et ego et heredes mei warantizabimus predictam terram 
 Bartholomeo et heredibus suis. Et pro hac donacione dedit 
 mihi prefatus Bartholomeus sex marcas argenti de gersum. 
 
 Hujus donationis sunt hii testes : PhUippus de Belmeis ; 
 Samson de Stretlega ; Rogerus Pite ; Ricardus de Wiverton* ; 
 Bernardus de Stokes ; Hugo de Sumervill' ^ ; Robertus 
 Andegav[ensis]^ ; Willelmus filius Baldewini' ; Hellas de 
 Sancta Maria' ; Reginaldus' et Germanus, fratres^" ejus ; 
 Adam filius [U]lf ; Orm^^ ; Willelmus Malnevu ; Simon 
 - Aurifaber^^ ; Radulfus filius Wlvive ; Ricardus filius Hersant ; 
 Willelmus Win ter ^^ ; Magister Silvester i* ; Robertus Folet ; 
 
 ^ See page 8, note 2, above. 
 
 2 No doubt the Bartholomew who was overseer with Orm the Reevo 
 of the gaol at Nottingham in 1176-7 (Pipe Boll, 23 Henry II., p. 57). 
 
 8 Tickhill Castle, oo. York. 
 
 * Wiverton (Hall), near Tithby, co. Notts. Richard [de Wiverton] 
 confirmed (in 1179) a grant of his father Richard son of Gervase de Barnes- 
 ton (Thoroton, p. 81a). He died before 1201-2, when Gervase de Wiverton, 
 his son (Pipe Roll, 11 John, ro. 10), answered for scutage of his fees (Pipe 
 Roll, 4 John, ro. 4). 
 
 6 See Thoroton, p. 43a. 
 
 6 See Thoroton, pp. 437, 255a. 
 
 ' William son of Baldwin was a supervisor of works at Nottingham 
 castle in 1193-4 (Pipe Roll, 6 Richard I., ro. 0). In 1200-1 he fined to have 
 a writ (Pipe Roll, 3 John, ro. 8), and became a surety with other men of 
 CO. Notts. (Roluli de Oblatis, p. 51). 
 
 8 Helias de Sancta Maria was one of the surveyors of works upon the 
 King's Hall at Nottingham in 1180-1 and 1181-2 (Pipe Roll, 27 Henry II., 
 ro. Id., 28 Hem'y II., ro. 2), and, under the name of Helias the Parson in 
 1183-4, 1184-5, 1185-6, 1186-7, (Pipe Roll, 30 Henry II., ro 7 ; 31 Henry 11 
 ro. 8 ; 32 Henry II., ro. 8 ; 33 Henry II., ro. 12), and 1193-4 (6 Richard I.! 
 ro. 6). 
 
 9 Reginald de Sancta Maria was one of the supervisors of works at 
 Nottingham and Clipstone in 1178-9 (Pipe Roll, 25 Henry II., ro. 7d.), and 
 at Nottingham Castle in 1185-6, when he is described as Reginald brother 
 of Hehas [the Parson] (Pipe RoU, 32 Henry II., ro. 8). 
 
 1" fratribus, MS. 
 
 11 Orm the Baker, probably the Orm the Reeve of note 2 above, was 
 one of the surveyors of works at Nottingham gaol in 1180-1 (Pipe Roll 
 27 Henry II., ro. Id.). ' 
 
 12 He made fine with other Nottingham men in 1200 (RotuU de Oblatis 
 p. 75). 
 
 18 WiUiam de Winter was one of the supervisor of works at Notting- 
 ham gaol in 1180-1 and 1185-6 (Pipe Roll, 27 Henry II., ro. \d : 32 Henrv 
 II., ro. 8). ^ 
 
 1* Probably the Master Silvester of Nottingham who witnesses a deed 
 of about this date in Thoroton, Notts, p. 265o, and another one at p. 41 
 below. ' 
 
21 
 
 Petrus le Beli ; Anketil filius Anketi (sic) ; Ricardus filius 
 Radulfi ; Gervasius filius Herberti ; Willelmus Ernwi ; 
 Willelmus filius Tedric' ; Thomas de Graham^ ; et multi 
 alii. 
 
 Seal in green ^vax, with a large bird, and inscription : 
 
 + SiGILL . . . WiLLEMI PlTE. 
 
 [c. 1180]— Grant by Godfrey son of the Lady Ingrid de 
 Hurnlee [Hurley, parish of Kingsbury, co. Warwick] to John 
 de Bracebrugge of land in Hurnlee. Of this charter there 
 are two exemplars written in the same hand (as to which 
 see charter of John de Bracebruge to Godfrey son of Esegar 
 (p. 14, above), which are here distinguished as A and B. 
 Words, etc., from the latter are given in the text within 
 round brackets, and the variant readings are given at the 
 foot of the page. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Godefridus filius 
 (domine) Ingrid de Hurnl(ee) dedi, concessi, et hac presenti 
 carta mea confirmavi^ Johanni de Bracebrugg(e) et heredibus 
 suis duas cultiu-as dominii mei in Hurnl(ee) ; scilicet, Gun- 
 nildecrouft, que jacet inter terram Thome de Basterlee* et 
 terram Galfridi Hulfketel in latitudine, et que extendit (in 
 longitudine) a terra Thome de Hodhurst= usque ad viam, 
 que descendit apud Basterlee a domo predicti G. Hu]fket(el) ; 
 et curtura,^ que jacet inter ortum Petri Fabri et pomerium, 
 quod fuit G. Hulfket[el]' in latitudine, et que extendit in 
 longitudine a domo G. Hulfket[el] usque ad regiam stratam^ 
 ante domum predicti G. filii Ingrid : et quietas clamavi a 
 me et heredibus meis ipsi et heredibus (suis) imperpetuum. 
 Ego vero warantizabo has prefatas culturas contra omnes 
 gentes.' Pro hac autem donatione et quieta clamatione 
 dedit michi prefatus J. de Bracebr[ugg'] duas marcas argenti. 
 Et ut ista donatio et quieta clamatio futuris temporibus robur 
 firmitatis obtineat, earn sigilli mei appositione dignum duxi 
 c orr ob or andum . 
 
 Hiis testibus : Thoma de Estlee'" ; Waltero filio ejus^" ; 
 Johanne Basset; Hugone de Esbroc^^ ; Willelmo Basset ^ " ; 
 Willelmo de Bracebr[ugg'] ; Roberto de Bracebr[ugg'] ; 
 Simone Basset" ; Thoma fratre suo^" ; Hanr[ico] de Lilleburn^^ . 
 Seher de Stokes ; Adam de Brocg(reve) ; Waltero Fundu ; 
 Serlone de Witint[un] ; Roberto filio Simonis ; Roberto de 
 Cliuei" ; Roberto de Plumt(un) ; Simone de Brockel[ee]i3 ; 
 Roberto Brun'" ; Roberto Walensi^^ ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal of A missing ; that of B, which is in white wax, hears 
 a fleur-de-lys. The inscription is illegible. 
 
 1 Peter le Bel was amerced in 1199-1200 (Pipe Roll, 2 John, ro. 1, 
 Notts and Derby.) 
 
 2 Grantham, co. Lincoln. 
 
 3 confirmasse. * Baisterlee (Baxterley, co. Warwick). 6 Odhurst. 
 6 cultura. 7 Hulk'. • 8 viam. 
 
 9 The warranty clause is omitted in B. 
 10 Omitted, B. n Asbr', B. 
 
 12 LiUebr', A. 13 Simone de Blagueuero, B, 
 
22 
 
 [c. 1180]— Confirmation of the preceding grant of two 
 " culture dominii patris mei " by William son of Godfrey 
 de Hurnl[ee], in the same handwriting as the preceding and 
 with the same witnesses as A. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1180]— Confirmation by Godfrey de Hurnlee to Walter 
 de Ardena of the grant by his mother of land in Hurnlee. 
 This charter is written in the same hand as the two preceding 
 ones. 
 
 Omnibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit, Godefridus 
 de Hurnl[ee], salutem. Sciatis me concessisse et hac pre- 
 senti carta mea confirmasse Waltero de Ardena concessionem 
 et confirmationem matris mee Yngrid de Hurnlee de dimidia 
 karuata teiTe in Hurnl[ee], cum omnibus pertinenciis et 
 libertatibus, sicud continetur in carta predicte Yngrid. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Waltero Fundu, Serlone de Witintun', Alano 
 de Morkot', WiUelmo de Tikebr[oc], Roberto Walensi, Will- 
 elmo de Kullee, Radulfo capellano, et aliis. 
 
 Seal in white wax ; the device is worn off. 
 
 [c. 1180]— Grant by WiUiam son of Hugh de Bridessale 
 [Birdsall, co. York] to the convent of Watton [co. York] 
 of land in Birdsall. 
 
 ^Omnibus Sancte Matris Ecclesie filiis presentibus et futuris, 
 Willelmus filius Hugonis de Bridssale,^ salutem. 
 
 Sciatis me dedisse et hac carta mea confirmasse, consensu 
 et assensu JuUane, sponse mee, et WUlelmi, heredis mei, 
 et aliorum heredum meorum, Deo et Beate Marie et conventui 
 de Wattun, in hberam et quietam et perpetuam elemosinam, 
 duas bovatas terre in territorio de Bridessale sine tofto, cum 
 pastura et omnibus pertinentiis, illas videlicet bovatas, que 
 sunt de feudo Herberti filii Herberti, et jacent propinquiores 
 terre eorum, quam habent de feudo Patricii de Ridale^ ; 
 faciendo michi vel heredibus meis liberum f orinsecum servitium 
 tantummodo quantum pertinet ad terram illam, cum accident, 
 de feudo unde sex carrucate terre faciunt servitium unius 
 militis. Et ego et heredes mei warantizabimus banc pre- 
 dictam terram prefato conventui contra omnes homines pef 
 predictum servicium de omnibus rebus in perpetuum. 
 
 His testibus : Rogero de Bavent* ; Waltero de Bovintun^ ; 
 
 1 There are two exemplars, which we distinguish as A and B, written 
 in the same hand. They are preserved in the Birdsall chest (see page 2, note 
 8, above). 
 
 2 Bridessale, B. 
 
 3 See the charters at pp. 1, 3, above. Patrick de Ridale is mentioned 
 under co. York in 1175-6 and 1176-7 (Pipe Rolls, 22 Henry II., p. 108, 23 
 Hen. II., p. 73). Cf. Rievaulx Chartulary, p. 289. 
 
 4 Under-sheriff of York from 1193-1194 to 1197-8, guardian of the 
 archbishopric of York in 1199 (Hoveden, iv., p. 92). He witnesses a charter 
 of the time of Henry II. (Rievaulx Chartulary, p. 40 ; cf. ibid. pp. 87, 101). 
 
 6 Boynton, co. York. He occurs in the Guisbrough Chartulary in 
 1197, p. 234, etc., and as a surety in 1200 (Rot. de Oblatia, pp. 106, 107, 109). 
 See also Chronica de Melsa, Rolls Series, i., p. 222. 
 
23 
 
 Gileberto de Bridessalei ; Waltero de Grimest[un]2 ; Willelmo 
 de Berevilla* ; Ricardo de Helperthorp* ; Radulfo Wacelin ; 
 Roberto de Helperthorp ; Thoma filio Joleni ; Godefrido 
 Talun ; Willelmo de Thorgrlmthorps ; Paulino de Bozhale.* 
 Seal with armed figure on horseback. Inscription : + Sigillvm 
 
 WiLLBLMI DE BrIDESAL. 
 
 [1180-1183]—' Charter of King Henry II. confirming, at the 
 request of William de Tankarvilla, the Chamberlain, to 
 William de Mara and Lecia (Lettice), his wife, land in 
 Estedam [Ashtead, co. Surrey] and in Mucheham [Mitoham, 
 CO. Surrey], and in Herlavestona [Harlaxton, co. Lincoln] 
 and Londenetorp [Londonthorpe, co. Lincoln] in [the soke 
 of] Graham [Grantham, co. Lincoln]. 
 
 H[enricus], Dei gratia, Rex Angl[orum] et Dux Norm- 
 [annorum] et Aquit[anorum] et Comes And[egavorum], archie- 
 piscopis, episcopis, abbatibus, comitibus, baronibus, justiciariis, 
 vicecomitibus, et omnibus baiUivis et fidelibus suis, Francis et 
 Angl[is], totius Anglie, salutem. 
 
 Sciatis me, ad petitionem WiUelmi Camerarii de Tankar- 
 villa, concessisse et presenti carta mea confirmasse Willelmo 
 de Mara et Lecie, uxori sue, Estedam, ^ quam ipse reddidit 
 eis et concessit, silai et heredibus suis hereditarie, tenendam 
 in feod[i] firma, de ipso et de heredibus suis, ita libere et 
 honorifice et in pace sicut Laurentius de Sancto Sepulcro 
 eam tenuit de Willelmo Camerario, avo prefati WiUelmi 
 Camerarii, et sicut Radulfus filius Roberti et Maria, uxor 
 sua, fiha predicti Laurentii, eam melius tenuerunt de patre 
 supradioti Willelmi Camerarii, per servitium vj. librarum 
 singulis annis inde reddendarum, pro omnibus servitiis, sicut 
 supradicti eam tenuerunt, et secundum quod carta prefati 
 Willelmi Camerarii testatur. 
 
 Preterea, ad petitionem ejusdem Camerarii, concedo et 
 confirmo eidem Willelmo de Mara et Lecie, uxori sue, et 
 heredibus suis Mucheham,^ quam pater ejusdem Camerarii 
 
 1 Mentioned under Yorkshire in 1175-6, 1176-7 (Pipe Rolls, 22 Henry 
 II., p. 116, 23 Henry II., 76). He witnesses a deed between 1154 and 1181 
 (Rievaulx Chartulary, p. 139 ; cf. also ibid pp. 50, 110). 
 
 2 Grimston [North ?], co. York. See Rievaulx Chartulary, pp. 34, 74 ; 
 Chron. de Melea, i., p. 167. 
 
 3 William de Berville is returned in 1166 as holding part of a knight's 
 fee {Red Book, i., p. 421 ; Liber Niger, p. 312). He (or a descendant of the 
 same name) is similarly returned in 1201-2 {Red Book, p. 170). Cf. Rotuli 
 de Oblatis, p. 145. 
 
 * Helperthorpe, co. York. 
 
 5 Torgrimthorp. B. Thornthorp, parish of Burythorp, co. York. 
 
 6 Bossall, CO. York. 
 
 7 This charter is later than Midsummer, 1180, after which date the king 
 granted to William de Hvmtiet his father's office of constable (Byton, Court, 
 Household and Itinerary of Henry II., p. 233), in which capacity William 
 witnesses this charter. It is earlier than 15 December, 1184, the date of 
 the death of Bartholomew, bishop of Exeter, one of the witnesses. The king 
 was at Caen in June, 1180, probably in the summer of 1181, and at Christ- 
 mas, 1183 (Eyton, pp. 233, 240, 249). 
 
 8 Ashtead, co. Surrey. 
 
 9 Mitcham, co. Surrey. 
 
24 
 
 dedit Radulfo filio Roberti et Marie, uxori sue, pro servitio 
 suo, quam idem Camerarius reddidit eis et concessit, tenendam 
 de eo et de heredibus suis, bene et in pace et libere et honori- 
 fice, per illud idem servitium, quod predictus Radulfus inde 
 fecit patri ipsius Camerarii, sicut carta ejus testatur. 
 
 Concedo etiam eis et confirmo, ad petitionem ipsius 
 Camerarii, terram suam de Graham, videlicet Herlauestonam 
 et Londenetorp,! quam idem Camerarius eis reddidit sicut 
 rectam hereditatem eorum et concessit eis et heredibus suis, 
 hbere et quiete tenendam de ipso et de heredibus suis, sicut 
 Laurentius de Sancto Sej^ulcro et Radulfus filius Roberti 
 et Maria, uxor sua, filia predicti Laurentii, earn tenuerunt, 
 per illud idem servitium faciendum, quod fecerunt predicti 
 antecessoribus Camerarii, sicut idem Camerarius carta sua 
 eis confirmavit. 
 
 Quare volo et firmiter precipio, quod WiUelmus de Mara 
 et Lecia, uxor sua, et heredes sui omnia predicta habeant 
 et teneant de supradicto Willelmo Camerario et de heredibus 
 suis, bene et in pace, libere et quiete, integre et plenarie et 
 honorifice, cum omnibus pertinentiis et libertatibus et liberis 
 consuetudinibus suis, sicut sepedictus Camerarius eis con- 
 cessit et carta sua confirmavit. 
 
 Testibus : G. Ehensi, B. Exoniensi, Henrico Baioc[ensi] 
 Episcopis ; Willelmo de Hum[ez], Constabulario ; Seher[o] 
 de Quenci ; WiUelmo filio Radulfi ; Ricardo Giff[ard] ; 
 Gilleberto Pipard. Apud Cadomum. 
 
 Fine impression of great seal. 
 
 [1184-1204]— Grant by Waleran, Earl of Warwick, to Alfred 
 the Carpenter and Gamel Blund of Witsahe [Wishaw, co. 
 Warwick], of land [in Wishaw ?]. 
 
 Waleranus,^ Comes War[rewick'], omnibus hominibus suis 
 et amicis, tam futuris quam presentibus, salutem. 
 
 Notum sit vobis omnibus me concessisse et dedisse et hac 
 mea presenti cartha {sic) confirmasse Alvredo carpentario de 
 Witsahe et Gamel Blundo de Witsahe, et heredibus eorum, 
 tres acras terre et dimidiam juxta terram Osberti de Moxhul'^ 
 et terram Galfridi filii Radulfi : habendas et tenendas de me 
 et de heredibus meis ipsi et heredes eorum bene, in pace, 
 libere, quiete ab omni servicio mihi et heredibus meis per- 
 tinente ; reddendo inde annuatim mihi et heredibus meis 
 septem denarios ad duos terminos per annum, scilicet ad 
 festum Sancti Micahelis iij. denarios et obolum et ad festum 
 Sancte Marie iij. denarios et obolum. Et pro hac conces- 
 sione et donacione dederunt mihi predicti homines Alvredus 
 
 1 Harlaxton and Londonthorpe, in the soke of Gpantham, here called 
 Cfraham (a common Anglo-Norman form of the name), co. Lincoln. 
 
 2 His brother and predecessor, William, died in the Holy Land in 1184 
 (Benedict Abbas, i., p. 320 ; Roger of Hoveden, ii., p. 289) on 15 November, 
 according to John Rous (Dugdale, Baronage, i., p. 71a). Waleran died 
 before 12 January, 1205 {Rot. Litt. Patent., p. 48a). 
 
 3 Moxhall, parish of Wishaw, co. Warwick. 
 
25 
 
 et Gamel quatuor marcas argenti in recognicione et Alicie 
 Comitisse dimidiami marcam. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Willelmo de Arden', tunc Sen[escal]o] ; 
 Rogero de Castell[o] ; Henrico Reuel ; Roberto filio Yvonis ; 
 Ham[one] de Wicsah ; Raenaldo de Witsah ; Radulfo filiiis 
 ejus ; Willelmo de Mum'; Henrico de Munnewrth^ ; et aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1190] — Grant by Roger Pite to Eudo son of William Brito 
 of land in Wilghebi [Willoughby-on-the-Wolds, co. Notts]. 
 
 Sciant omnes presentes et futuri, quod ego Rogerus Pite 
 concessi et hac mea carta confirmavi Eudoni filio Willelmi 
 Britonis sex bovatas et octo acras terre in Wilghebi, quas 
 Willelmus de Martingni^ dedit prefato Eudoni in liberum 
 maritagium cum Rosa filia ejus : tenendum {sic) sibi et 
 heredibus suis in feodo et hereditate de me et heredibus meis 
 libere, honorifice et quiete, plenarie et integre, cum omnibus 
 pertinenciis suis infra viUam et extra et in omnibus locis et 
 in omnibus rebus ; reddendo inde annuatim infra octabas 
 Sancti Martini unam libram cimini et dimidiam pro omni 
 servicib, quod ad me vel heredes meos pertinet, salvo forinseco 
 servicio et salvo servicio de Tikehil xviij. den[ariorum] per 
 annum, scilicet ad festum Sancti Michaelis ixd. et ad mediam 
 Quadragesimam ixd. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Magistro Lisiardo* ; Ivo[ne] Sacerdote ; 
 Roberto Angeuin ; Mcholao filio ejus^ ; Simone de Aselacton'* ; 
 Willelmo de Folevfil' ; Ricardo de ColeviU' ; Willelmo de 
 la Valeie ; Galfrido de Heriz ; Adam de Uffeton' ; Willelmo 
 filio Baudewini ; Gervasio filio Herberti ; Reginaldo 
 Britone ; et multis aUis. 
 
 Seal in green wax, bearing a peacock (?), Inscription : + 
 
 SiGILLVM ROGERI. 
 
 [c. 1190] — Sale by Bartholomew son of Bartholomew de 
 
 1 dimim., MS. 
 
 2 Minworth, parish of Curdworth, co. Warwick. 
 ^ See the conJBrmation to him at page 33 below. 
 
 * This is, no doubt, the Lisiardus the Canon mentioned in the Notts 
 and Derby Pipe Roll, 3 John (Rotulua Cancellarii, 3 John, p. 321). " Magister 
 Lisiardus," a canon of York, witnesses a charter of the prior and convent 
 of Hexham between 1189 and 1194 {Memorials of Hexham, ii., p. 88, vSurtees 
 Soc), and a deed of the prior and convent of Guisborough between 1191 
 and 1207 and another one in company with Simon [de ApuUa], dean of York 
 from 1194 (Raine, Historians of York, iii., p. 92, RoUs Series) to 1214, when 
 Simon was consecrated bishop of Exeter {Guisbrough Chartulary, ii., pp. 56, 
 126, Surtees Soc). 
 
 5 Nicholas Langewin {i.e., I'Angevin) was fined with other Notts men 
 in 1200 {Rot. de Ohlatis, p. 75). 
 
 * Aslocton, CO. Notts. 
 
 ' Adam de Uffet[on] witnesses a charter of William I., earl of Ferrers, 
 1163-1173 (Rutland MSS., iv., p. 32; cf. charter 2 [A] on that page for 
 date). From the charters there given at pp. 35-8, 54, it is obvious that 
 this Uffeton is the Ufientune, co. Derby, of the Domesday Survey, i., p. 277, 
 col. 2, a berewick of Crich, recorded in Ufton Fields, in the jjarish of South 
 Wingfield. Adam de Offeton is mentioned as a security in 1198-9 imder 
 Notts and Derby (Pipe Roll, 1 John, ro. 15). 
 
26 
 
 Notingeham to Godfrey Mauduit of land in Wilghebi 
 [Willoughby-on-the-Wolds, co. Notts.] 
 
 Sciant omnes presentes et futuri, quod ego Bartholomeus 
 filius Bartholomeii de Notingeham vendidi et quietum clamayi 
 Godefrido Mauduit et heredibus suis de me et heredibus meis 
 in perpetuum quatuor bovatas terre in Wilghebi, cum 
 omnibus pertinenciis suis, quas pater meus tenuit ibidera 
 de Willelmo Pite, et ego post ilium, pro sex marcis argenti 
 et dimidiam, quas Godefridus mihi dedit. 
 
 His testibus : Roberto de Heriz ; Ivone, filio ejus ; 
 Willelmo Pite ; Rogero, fratre ejus ; Willelmo Britone ; 
 Galfrido fiho Odonis ; Roberto Andegav[ensi] ; Willelmo de 
 Leca^ ; Willelmo fiho Baldewini ; Adam fiho UK ; Heha de 
 Sancta Maria ; Reginaldo et Germano, fratribus ejus ; 
 Magistro Silvestro ; Johanne fiho Walkel[ini] ; Ambrosio ; 
 Aki de Notingeham ; Osberto de Wileford'^ ; Ricardo Luterel ; 
 Galf[rido] fratre ejus* ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Small oval seal in green wax, inscribed : Stgillvm 
 
 [c. 1190] — Confirmation by WilUam Pite of the preceding 
 sale. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego WiUelmus Pite con- 
 cessi et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi Godefrido Maldut 
 quatuor bovatas terre in territorio de Wileby, cum duobus 
 toftis et croftis et cum omnibus pertinentiis suis, pro hum- 
 magio et servicio suo, scilicet illas quatuor bovatas, quas 
 Bartholomeus filius Bartholomei de Notingeham de me 
 tenuit, et quas predictus Godefridus emit de predicto 
 Bartholomeo. Quare volo, quod predictus Godefridus et 
 heredes sui post ipsum habeant et teneant predictas quatuor 
 bovatas, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis, de me et heredibus 
 meis jure hereditario, libere et quiete, honorifice et pacifice, 
 infra villam et extra, et in omnibus locis ; reddendo inde 
 mihi annuatim unam libram cumini infra octabas Sancti 
 Martini pro omni servicio ad me vel ad heredes meos per- 
 tinente, salvo forinseco servicio. Et ego WiUelmus Pite et 
 
 1 See above, p. 19, for grant of this land to Bartholomew's father. 
 
 2 Leake, co. Notts. William de Leche is mentioned as a surety in 
 the Notts and Derby Pipe RoUs for 1184-5 (31 Henry II., ro. 8). He was 
 deputy-sheriff for these counties in 1200-1201, 1201-2, and 1203-4. In 
 1218—19 John son of William de Lech answered in cos. Notts and Derby for 
 a fine for the trespass charged against his father for his autumn justiciary 
 when the king was in Ireland, and for his father 's debts, and for concealment 
 of the king's money (Pipe Roll, 3 Henry III., ro. 8 ; Madox, Hist, of the 
 Exchequer, i., p. 500, note C). 
 
 8 Wilford, CO. Notts. 
 
 * Geoffrey Luterel witnessed the charter of John, earl of Mortain, to the 
 burgesses of Nottingham in or shortly after 1189 {Records of the Borough of 
 Nottingham, i., p. 10) and he Is mentioned under cos. Notts and Derby in 
 1188-9 (Pipe Roll, 1 Richards I., p. 158). His lands were taken into the 
 king 's hands in 1 194 for adhering to John in his rebellion (Pipe Roll, 6 Richard 
 I., ro. 6 ; 7 Ric. L, ro. 2 ; cf. 1 John, ro. 15). He died before 5 March, 1218, 
 when John granted to Philip Marc that he might have Geoffrey's son and 
 heir to marry to his daughter {Rot. Litterarum Olausarum, i., p. 353a ; cf. 
 Excerpta e Rotulia Finium, i., p. 9). See further Dugdale, Baronage, i., p. 
 7246 ; Thoroton, Nottt, p. 626. 
 
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 heredes mei post me adquietabimus predictum Codefridum 
 et heredes suos de omni servicio unde predicts quatuor bovate 
 debent respondere ad Honorem de Tikehill', et ego et 
 heredes mei debemus warantizare sepedicto Codefrido et 
 heredibus suis predictas quatuor bovatas, cum omnibus 
 pertinentiis suis, contra omnes homines. Et ut hec concessio 
 rata et inconcussa permaneat, illam sigillo meo corroboravi. 
 
 His testibus : Roberto de Heriz ; Caufrido de Jorz^ ; 
 Radulfo fiho Ricardi ; Henrico de Sicoavilla ; Willelmo de 
 Rotomago ; Willelmo de Leke ; Caufrido Luterel ; Willelmo 
 le Bruton ; Roberto le Angevin ; Rogerio Pite ; Humfrido 
 le Porter ; Roberto filio Hu[gonis] de Titheby^ ; Caufrido 
 filio Hodonis ; Ricardo et Eustachio, clericis ; et [multis 
 alijis. 
 
 Torn at end. Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1190] — Grant by Godfrey Mauduit to Maud, daughter of 
 G«rvase, the parson of Clifton, of the land confirmed to him 
 by the preceding. 
 
 Sciant omnes tam presentes quam futuri, quod ego 
 Godefridus Mauduit dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta 
 mea confirmavi Matildi de CHftun,^ filie Gervasii, persone de 
 Cliftun, pro servitio suo, dimidiam carucatam terre, quam 
 teneo de Willelmo Pite in Wilgebi, quam emi de Bartholomeo 
 filio Bartholomei de Notingham, per tale servicium quale teneo 
 terram predictam de domino meo, scilicet, pro j. libra cimini 
 pro omnibus serviciis. Et cum ilia terra ego Godefridus 
 dedi prefate Matildi dimidiam marcam redditus, quam emi 
 a Ricardo Magistro de Langare,* quam Willelmus filius Hugonis 
 de me tenet, pro j. libra cimini pro omnibus servitiis, salvo 
 forinseco servitio. Et preter hec, ego Godefridus dedi 
 Matildi predicte ij. solidos redditus in Hustorp,^ quos Robertus 
 de Chniwetun* mihi debet ; et in villa de Notingham j. toftum, 
 quod fuit Ricardi de Stantun, et j. toftum, quod fuit Ivonis 
 Sarezini. Has vero terras ilU dedi liberas et quietas, tenendas 
 de me et de heredibus meis Uli et heredibus suis, per idem 
 servicium quale facio dominis meis, prout carte mee testi- 
 ficantur. 
 
 1 Geoffrey de Jorz, Georz, whose surname (derived from Jort, in Nor- 
 mandy, in the canton of Morteaux-Couliboeuf, arrondissement of Falaise, 
 department of La Manche) is recorded in Burton Joyce, formerly Jorz, co. 
 Notts, witnessed a deed executed at Nottingham in 1175 (Rievaulx Chartu- 
 lary, p. 82). He was amerced in Notts in 1187-8 and 1188-89 (Pipe Rolls, 
 34 Henry II., ro. lid; 1 Richard I., p. 158), and he witnessed the charter 
 of John, earl of Mortain, to the burgesses of Nottingham (Records of the 
 Borough of Nottingham, i., p. 10), which was probably made in 1189. He 
 made fine in 1207 for offences in regard to the forest in Notts, which was 
 in his custody (Rot. de Finibus. p. 396 ; Pipe Roll, 9 John, ro. 11). In 1208-9 
 Agnes, his widow, made fine to have the wardship of his lands and heir (Pipe 
 BoU, 11 John, ro. 10). 
 
 2 Tithby, co. Notts. 
 
 3 Clifton, (on Trent), co. Notts. Gervase the cleric of Clifton made fine in 
 1 185-6 to have Cudale at ferm (Pipe Roll, 32 Henry II., ro. 8, Notts and Derby). 
 
 * Langar, co. Notts. 
 
 6 Owthorpe, co. Notts ? 
 
 * Kniveton, oo. Notts. 
 
28 • 
 
 Hiis testibus : Rogero de Cressi^ ; Ada de Bertilimunt ; 
 Rogero de Hayr ; Willelmo de Cressi^ ; Rogero et Hugone, 
 fratribus suis ; Reginaldo de Colewic^ ; Willelmo de Ruding- 
 tun* ; Ricardo Barjonas^ ; Galfrido de Cliftun ; Ada de 
 Nortfolc ; Gervasio de Cliftun^ ; Nicholao fratre suo ; Ricardo 
 de Colewic ; Gerbodo et Willelmo fratribus suis ; Henrico 
 Cleric o ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1190] — Grant by Simon son of Simon [de Kyme] to 
 Bernard of land in Bileburg (Bilborough, co. Notts). 
 
 Symon iilius Symonis' omnibus amicis suis et hominibus, 
 salutem. Notum sit vobis me dedisse et present! carta con- 
 firmasse Bernardo et heredibus suis, hereditario tenendum 
 de me et de heredibus meis, duas bovatas terra in Bileburg', 
 que fuerunt Radulfi Veiron, cum omnibus pertinenciis suis, 
 in bosco et piano, et in omnibus rebus ; annuatim reddendo 
 pro omni servicio, quod ad me pertinet, duos solidos, ad 
 festum Sancti Martini xijd., ad Pentecosten xijd. Unde 
 volo, quod pro servicio, quod fecit patri meo et pro humagio 
 suo, istam terram teneat, bene et in pace, libere et quiete, 
 
 1 In 1200 Cecily, late the wife of Roger de Cresai, made fine to have 
 dower of his lands in co. Notts (Pipe Boll, 3 John, ro. 8 ; Rotuli de Oblatis, 
 p. 82). Cf. Feet of Fines, co. Notts, file 2, no. 36, A.D. 1204. 
 
 2 Son of the said Roger. See Thoroton, Notts, p. 4676. He answers 
 for scutage under Notts and Derbyshire in 1201-2 and 1202-3 (Pipe Rolls, 
 4 John, ro. 14; 5 John, ro. 13) and 1213-14 (16 John, ro. 15). Sej also 
 note 1, below. He was one of the commissioners to take perambulation 
 of the forests in Notts in 1227 (Rotuli lAtterarum Clausarum, ii., p. 208o). 
 
 3 Colwick, CO. Notts. Reginald de Colewik, who died in 1252 (Excerpta 
 e Rotulis Finium, ii., p. 133), leaving as heir Philip, his son, then aged forty 
 and more (Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem (1904), i,, p. 60, no. 42), was 
 alleged by a jury in 1277-8 to have lived a hundred years (Thoroton, p. 278a). 
 In 1195-6 he made fine for having his land of Colewic and his serjeantry 
 (Pipe Roll, 8 Richard I., ro. 24, and following rolls). In 1201-2 he was fined 
 for narrowing the Trent (Pipe Roll, 4 John, ro. 14). He was one of the 
 knights who perambulated the forests in Notts in 1227 (Rot. Litt. Glaus., 
 ii., p. 208o). 
 
 * Ruddington, co. Notts. 
 
 5 This surname seems to represent Barjona (St. Matt, xvi., 17). 
 Richard Barjonas was dead before 1203-4, 5 John (Thoroton, Notts, p. 54o). 
 
 6 In 1200 Cecily, daughter of Gervase de CUfton, was claiming against 
 William Creissi land and dower that he held by courtesy of England (Pipe 
 Roll, 3 John, ro. 8 ; Madox, Hist, of Exchequer, i., p. 428, note 2 ; Rotuli de 
 Oblatis, p. 101). In the same Pipe Roll she also made fine to have dower in 
 the lands of Roger de Cressi, her husband. Gervase de Clifton 's name occurs 
 in the Pipe Rolls throughout John's reign. In 1220 the king notified to 
 the sheriff of Nottingham that he had granted to Gervase de Cliftun that 
 Gervase, his son, whom PhiUp de Ulecotes had caused to be arrested for an 
 alleged robbery at London, should be released vipon finding sureties (Rotuli 
 Litterarum Patentium, p. 4406). 
 
 '' Simon son of Simon [de Kyme], died before Michaelmas term 1199, 
 when Petronilla, his daughter (Rot. Gurim Regis, p. 437), late the wife of 
 Stej)hen de Faukenberg, released to Walter de Riebof (see below, p. 39) 
 and his wife (her sister) all the land that belonged to Simon son of Simon 
 in cos. Notts and Derby (Id. ii. pp. 68-9) ; Thoroton, pp. 2316, 4486). The 
 lands mcluded a sixth of a knight's fee in Bilborough (Rot. de Oblatis, p. 7). 
 •In the reign of John, Simon de Kime produced a charter of Henry II. con- 
 firming to his grandfather Simon son of Wilham all the lands that he held 
 in chief in Bileburoh (Thoroton, Notts, p. 2326). 
 
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 et ita plenarie, ut predictus Radulfus illam tenuit pro 
 predicto servitio. 
 
 His testibus : Philippo de Kym' ; Rogero de Benigwrd'^ ; 
 Thoma filio Willelmi ; Stephano Camerario^ ; Samsone de 
 Streleia ; Eustachio de Brogcholvestowe^ ; Rogero de Stret- 
 leia ; Gocelino de Punz ; Ricardo de Gaitona^ ; Alberto 
 molinario ; Roberto de Marisco ; Vin[centio] de Suabi.^ 
 
 Seal in green wax, hearing triangidar shield (1). Inscribed: 
 + S. Walteri [de RJtbyph. 
 
 [c. 1190]— Grant by Richard Pite to Ralph de Ketlebi of 
 land in Whilebi [Willoughby on-the-Wolds, co. Notts], to be 
 held of the church of that village. 
 
 Omnibus Sancte Matris Ecclesie filiis Ricardus Piete, 
 salutem. 
 
 Sciatis me dedisse et hac mea carta confirmasse Radulfo 
 de Ketleb[i]^ et heredibus suis duas acras terre in campo 
 orientali de Whileb[i], apud Grenehou iij. selliones, ad capud 
 Stodfolddale ij. selliones, de subtus' Stodfolddale iiij.'"' 
 sel[liones], Uli scilicet et heredibus suis tenendas hereditarie, 
 libera, et quiete de Deo et Sancta Maria et de ecclesia 
 Omnium Sanctorum de Whileb[i] ; reddendo annuatim pro 
 omnibus secularibus serviciis et exaccionibus unum denarium 
 ad lumen prenominate ecclesie, et alterum denarium ad 
 Fra[t]riam Sancte Domus Hospitalis Jerusalem,* pro salute 
 mea et heredum meorum. Et ego et heredes mei waran- 
 tizabimus predictas duas acras terre predicto Radulfo et 
 heredibus suis contra omnes homines. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Magistro Alano de Bollishovre^ ; Rogero, 
 capellano de Whileb[i] ; WUlelmo Piete ; Galfrido filio Hode ; 
 Iwehein le Bret(un)' ; Helya de Marteni ; Rogero clerico ; et 
 multis aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 1 Benniworth, co. Lincoln. 
 
 2 Stephen the Chamberlain is mentioned in connexion with lands in 
 Lincolnshire from 1165-6 to 1176-7 (Pipe Rolls 12th to 23rd Henry IL). 
 In 1166 he is returned as holding knights' fees in cos. Lincoln and York 
 (Red Book, i., pp. 385, 425 ; Liher Niger, pp. 273, 31i)). He renders scutage 
 in Lincolnshire in 1189-90 (Red Book, i., p. 76). 
 
 3 Broxtow. See page 11, note 10, above. 
 ^ Gayton, co. Lincoln. 
 
 5 Swaby, co. Lincoln. 
 
 6 Abkettleby, co. Leicester. 
 "^ suphis MS. 
 
 8 Thoroton, p. 346, cites a confirmation ' ex chart. Fran. WiUughby, 
 Ar. ' (i.e., Francis, the naturalist) by Robert de Heritz of a grant by 
 Richard son of Gervase of lands in Willoughby to the Knight Hospitallers. 
 This charter has not been met with during the inspection of the existing 
 coDection of MSS. 
 
 9 In 1199-1200 Master Alan do Bolesovres [Bolsover, co. Derby] paid 
 30 marks for confirmation of charters (Pipe Roll, 2 John, r.i. 1). In the 
 following year he received, as Master Alan de Bulesovres, grant of land (terre 
 date) of the yearly value of 75s. 3d. in the soke of Oswardesbech [Osward- 
 beok, CO. Notts], an entry continued yearly until 1218-19 (Pipe Roll, 3 Henry 
 III., ro. 8). His name "occurs several times in the Pipe Rolls for 1203-4, 
 1206-7, 1208-9, and 1209-10 in connexion with scutages, etc., under cos. 
 Notts and Derby. He was the brother and heir of Henry Norreis (Thoroton, 
 Notts, p. 4066).' 
 
S6 
 
 [c. 1190]— Grant by Geoffrey Malreward to William de Petra 
 of land in Winterborne [Winterborne Maureward, now 
 Winterborne Zelston, alias Marwood, co. Dorset^]. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Galfridus Malreward^ 
 dedi et concessi Willelmo de Petra totam illam terram, quam 
 Duning tenuit de me, in manerio meo de Winterborn, pro 
 servicio et homagio suo. Preterea concessi ei Ix. oves cum 
 meis ovibus, et iiii. boves cum meis bobus, et iii. vaccas et v. 
 porcos cum meis vaccis et porcis, et i. equum in pastura, illi 
 et heredibus suis tenendam de me et heredibus meis, libere 
 et quiete ab omni servicio preter a regali ; reddendo singulis 
 annis ii. solidos, ad Natale xiid. et ad Nativitatem Sancti 
 Johannis Baptiste xiid. Ut hec donacio stabilis et iirma 
 permaneat, eam sigillo meo confirmavi. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Willelmo archidiacono,* Waltero capellano 
 archid[iaconi], Simone de Mariscis, Waltero de Sancto Quintino, 
 Andrea de Winterborn', Willelmo de Kersington', Willelmo filio 
 Acelini, Roberto de Cirecestria, Waltero Drakegild, et multis 
 aliis. 
 
 SpjiI missing. 
 
 [c. 1190] — Grant by William de Reigate, chaplain, to the 
 house of St. Leonard, Wilchuswede [Wilkswood, parish of 
 Langton Matravers, co. Dorset] of land in Werthe [Worth 
 Matravers, Isle of Purbeck, co. Dorset], part of which adjoins 
 the marble quarry. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Willelmus de Reigate, 
 capellanus, dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta mea con- 
 firmavi, pro salute anime mee et animabus omnium benefac- 
 torum meorum, Domui Beati Leonardi de Wilchuswede* et 
 fratribus, qui ibidem in perpetuum Deo deservire debent, in 
 puram et perpetuam elemosinam, totam illam terram, quam 
 emi de Waltero filio Ricardi de BayviUe, quam habeo in 
 campis de Werjie, et unam acram terre juxta terram Ricardi 
 Canceville versus orientem, que se extendit super quareriam 
 marmoris, et pasturam sexaginta bidentum cum una affra 
 ubique in pastura mea dominica et etiam in communi, cum 
 libero ingressu et egressu : habendam et tenendam in per- 
 petuum libere et quiete et pacifice, secundum quod carta inter 
 Walterum de Baywille et me facta testatur ; red[d]endo 
 inde annuatim dicto Waltero et heredibus suis unam hbram 
 piperis ad festum Sancti Michahelis pro omni servicio 
 seculari, exactione et demanda, salvo^ servicio Domini Regis 
 quantum pertinet tante terre in eodem feudo. Ut autem 
 
 1 See Hutchins, Dorset, i., p. 336. 
 
 2 Mentioned in 1175-6 and 1176-7 (Pipe Rolls, 22 and 23 Henry II.) 
 under Dorset. 
 
 3 Occurs in 1190 (Le Neve, Fasti, ii., p. 637). 
 
 * The free-chapel, chantry, or priory of Wilkswood, in Langton Wallis, 
 parish of Langton Matravers, co. Dorset. The present deed was, no doubt, 
 one of the muniments of the chapel delivered by the warden in 3 Henry V. 
 to William Filiol. See Hutchins Dorset, ed. 3.. i., p. 641 ; iii., p. 729. 
 
 6 Salmo MS. 
 
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 hec mea donacio et concessio rata sit et stabilis, presentem 
 cartam sigilli mei apposicione roboravi. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Domino Ricardo de Seles, [Domino] 
 Willelmo de Wodegete.i militibus ; Willelmo de Linchln' ; 
 Ricardo, fratre suo ; Henrico, rectore ecclesie de Acford 
 Alfredis ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1190]— Grant by Avicia de Blokeswrthe to Hugh de 
 Blokeswrthe of land in Blokeswrthe [Bloxworth, co. Dorset] 
 (left margin partly gnawed away). 
 
 [Sciant] omnes tarn presentes quam futuri, quod ego Avicia* 
 de Blokeswrjje, filia Henrici filii Lud, assensu et [consensu 
 her]edum meorum, dedi et concessi Hugoni de Blokeswrjje 
 et heredibus suis, pro servitio et humagio suo et humagio 
 [heredum suorum], unam dimidiam virgatam terre in 
 Blokeswrjje, cum quodam mesuagio quod Wlvricus Mark- 
 
 ere tenuit, et cum et prati,- quod jacet 
 
 juxta pratum ejusdem Hugonis in prato de Frome, videlicet 
 octo acras in campo occidentah [et octo in c]ampo orientali : 
 in campo occidentali has, sub curtillo Hamelini unam acram, 
 super CanceliereshuUe unam [acram, super Scojrtelande 
 duas acras cum pertinentiis, in Voxleagete unam dimidiam 
 acram, Bieste pere dune*^ unam dimidiam acram, .... 
 lange hielue, Binor]>e Waterlea unam acram, que terminatur 
 super Dreuam, Binor]ie Weterlea unam acram, que .... 
 super montes, in Blakefurlang' unam acram : in campo 
 orientali has : in loco, qui appeUatur ' WrJ)e,' unam acram 
 • . . e Eldmannabotme unam acram, versus sut^ de 
 Waterlea ex transverse vall[is] duas acras. Item versus sut 
 sub Wa[terlea?] tres acras super RiedhuH'. Item super 
 Weodhulle unam acram. Hanc predictam terrara et hoc 
 tenementum cum omnibus perti[nentiis suis] tenebit prefatus 
 Hugo et heredes sui de me et heredibus meis jure hereditario, 
 libere et quiete ab omnibus servitiis, . . . . is et con- 
 suetudinibus, salvo regali servitio ; reddendo inde annuatim 
 duos solidos ad iiij" terminos anni, scilicet ad [Nativita]terh 
 Domini sex denarios, ad Pascha vjd. ad festum Sancti 
 Johannis Baptiste vjd. ad festum Sancti Michaelis vjd. 
 [Pro hac don]atione habenda et tenenda, dedit predictus 
 Hugo mihi tres marcas argenti et dimidiam et filio meo duos 
 . . . donationem firmiter et sine fraude tenendam 
 affidavi ; et si predictam terram prefato Hugoni vel here- 
 dibus [suis] warantizare non possem, aliam dimidiam vir- 
 gatam terre eque bonam in eadem villa et eodem feudo 
 secundum . . . vicinorum eis dabo in escambiam. 
 
 1 See below, page 54, note 2. 
 
 2 Okeford Fitzpain, co. Dorset (Hutchins, iv., p. 327). 
 
 3 An Avicia de Dun was the demandant in a fine levied in 1201 con- 
 cerning common of pasture in Bloxworth (Fines, sive Pedes Finium, ii., 79). 
 
 * That is ' to the east of the down. ' 
 6 ' South. ' 
 
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 Et ut hec mea donatio in posterum rata et inconcussa per- 
 raaneat, hano [cartam testimjonii sigilli mei appositione 
 clignum duxi roborandam. 
 
 His testibus : Henrico de Stokes ^ ; Radulfo Huese 
 .... [Winjterburn' et Waltero et Roberto filiis ejus ; 
 Roberto filio Thome, et Thoma et Ricardo filiis ejus ; 
 Thoma filio Thome .... Philippo filio ejus ; Waltero 
 Camerario^ ; Willelmo de Jergente^ ; Roberto Bukerel ; Adam 
 Freinel ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1190]— Grant by William Francais to John de Alnetho 
 of land in Staintun [Stainton-le-Vale, co. Lincoln]. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Willelmus Francais* 
 dedi et concessi et presenti carta mea confirmavi Johanni de 
 Alnetho unam mansuram et unam bovatam terre in 
 Staintun, cum omnibus pertinenciis suig, sibi et heredibus 
 suis : tenendum de me et de heredibus meis in feodo et 
 hereditate ; reddendo mihi et heredibus meis annuatim unam 
 libram piperis infra octabas Sancti Botulphi pro omnibus 
 serviciis mihi pertinentibus et faciendo foraneum servitium. 
 Ego vero et heredes mei warantizabimus predicto Johanni 
 et heredibus suis predictam ter[ra]m contra omnes homines 
 pro xlv. solidos, quos predictus Johannes mihi inde dedit. 
 
 His testibus : Osb[erto] Luvel ; Willelmo Halselin^ ; Henrico 
 filio Nigelli ; Petro de Castillun ; Gilleberto de Turonia ; 
 Roberto de Baioc[is] ; Roberto Wacehn ; Roberto de 
 Otebi^ ; Hugone de Grainesbi' ; Radulfo de Crochesbi" ; 
 R[oberto ?] Becket ; Willelmo Berner ; Jurdano de Otebi ; 
 Matheo de Turgrimbi ^; Thoma fratre suo ; Adam Perce- 
 haie ; Radulfo . . . selini" ; Radulfo de Urticis ; Will- 
 elmo filio Galfridi ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal in white wax inscribed : Sigillvm Wilelmi le Fran(?)cs. 
 
 [c. 1190] — Confirmation by Robert de Heriz to William de 
 Martigni of Roger Pite's grant, and grant of service in 
 Wilghebi [Willoughby-on-the-Wolds, co. Notts.]. 
 
 J Henry de Stokes received confirmation by the king of certain grants 
 to him from other men of lands in Dorset in 1207 {Rot. Chart., p. 163a). He 
 was acting-sheriff of Dorset in 1198-9 and 1199-1200. See Hutchins, Dorset, 
 i., p. 411. 
 
 2 Probably the Walter the Chamberlain who is mentioned in a Dorset 
 Fine of 1204 {Fines, sive Pedes Finium, ii., p. 94). 
 
 3 Girgenti ? 
 
 * William li Francies was one of the force of Hugh, earl of Chester, 
 that surrendered to Henry II. at Dol in 1173 (Roger of Hoveden, ii., p. 53). 
 William Franceis, a royal officer, occurs in the Pipe Roll for 1179 {Eyton, 
 Court, etc. of Henry II., p. 226), and is probably the person mentioned 
 in a fine of 1180-3 {Pedes Finium, Pipe Roll Soc. p. 2). In the Pipe Roll 
 1 Richard I., p. 104, the sheriff of Northamptonshire answers for lands that 
 had belonged to William le Franceis (cf. RotuH de Oblatis, p. 130). 
 
 5 See Rutland MSS., iv., p. 65. 
 
 •5 Otby, parish of Walesby, co. Lincoln. 
 
 ' Grainsby, co. Lincoln. 
 
 * Croxby, co. Lincoln. 
 
 9 Thorganby, co. Lincoln. 
 10 Halselin ? Cf. Rutland MSS., iv., p. 65. 
 
33 
 
 Robertus de Heriz omnibus hominibus et amicis suis, 
 presentibus et futuris, salutem. 
 
 Sciatis, me concessisse et hac carta mea confirmasse 
 Willelmo de Martigni concessionem et donationem,'^ quam 
 Rogerus Pite ei fecit et sigillo suo confirmavit, liberam, 
 solutam et quietam, sicut carta Rogeri de donatione terre in 
 Wilghebi, quam iade habet, testatur. Et preterea concessi 
 et dedi eidem, pro homagio et servicio suo, servicium Ambrosii 
 hominis mei de terra, quam de me tenuit in Wilghebi, salvo 
 servicio de Tikehul', quod Ambrosius inde faciet. 
 
 His testibus: Hugone de Lecchelade, Vic' 2; Simone filio 
 Ricardi ; Sansone de Stretlega ; Gaufrido de Jorz ; Radulfo 
 de Weldeboefs ; Reginaldo de Insula ; Randulfo de Wandeslega ; 
 Rogero de Aincurt ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1190] — Grant by Gilbert de Houbi [Hoby, co. Leicester] 
 to William Brito of land in Wdehus [? Annesley Woodhouse, 
 CO. Notts]. 
 
 Gillebertus de Houbi omnibus hominibus presentibus et 
 futuris, salutem. 
 
 Sciatis me concessisse et dedisse et hac mea carta con- 
 firmasse Willelmo* Britoni illas tres bovatas terre in Wdehus, 
 quas disracionavi versus Reginaldum de Anisleia et versus 
 ipsum Willelmum : tenendum sibi et heredibus suis in feodo 
 et hereditate de me et heredibus meis libere, honorifice et 
 quiets, plenarie et integre, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis, 
 eisdem divisis et metis sicut peralate^ fuerunt per juramentum 
 proborum et legalium hominum, pro xij."™d. an[n]uatim mihi 
 infra octabas Sancti Martini reddendis pro omni servicio, 
 quod ad me pertinet, salvo forinseco servicio. Et pro hac 
 concessione et donacione, dedit mihi prefatus Willelmus 
 yjj tem marcas argenti et unum equum, precii x'*™ marcarum, 
 in gersum. 
 
 1 Probably the land in Willoughby granted by William de Martigny 
 to Eudo eon of William Brito, page 25, above. 
 
 2 Possibly for ' Vicecomite. ' His name does not occur among the 
 sheriffs. At p. 56, below, a deputy-sheriff or sheriff's clerk is described as 
 ' ' Vicecomes. ' ' 
 
 3 Ralph de WeUebuef is mentioned in 1171-2 (Pipe Roll, 18 Henry II., 
 p. 7) as supervising works at Clipstone, co. Notts, a position filled by Henry de 
 Welle Buef in the roU for the 23rd year, p. 57. Ralph de WeUebuef 's name 
 occurs in 1200 among other Notts men making fines with the king {Rot. 
 de Oblaiis, p. 75). His goods were taken into the hands of Richard among 
 those of other his enemies in co. Notts upon the king's return in 1194 (Pipe 
 Roll, 6 Rich. I., ro. 6 ; 7 Rich. I., ro. 2 ; 9 Rich. I., ro. 10 ; 10 Rich. I., ro. 
 8). He was a surveyor of works at Horeston Caatle (Horsley, co. Derby) 
 in 1199-1200 (Pipe Roll, 2 John, ro. 1). In 1202 he levied a fine to William 
 de Paries concerning land in Erdburg' (Feet of Fines, co. Notts, file 2, no. 
 17), which seems to be Erdeburg, now Burrough-on-the-Hill, co. Leicester 
 (Nichols, Leicestershire, ii., p. 524), some twelve miles from Willoughby- 
 on-the-Wolds. In 1199-1200 and 1202-3 he was supervisor of works at 
 Harestan castle [in Horsley, co. Derby] (Pipe Rolls, 2 John, ro. 1; 5 John, 
 ro. 13). OHver de WeUebuef is mentioned in the Pipe Roll 3 John in con- 
 nexion with lands in Notts {Rot. Oancellarii, pp. 306, 317). 
 
 * Wvllo, MS. 
 
 5 ' Perambulated, ' from Old French paraller. 
 
 M3 
 
34 
 
 His testibus : Reginaldo de Anisleia, domino fundi ; Sam- 
 sone de Stretlia ; Waltero filio ejus ; Galfrido Barrel ; 
 Radulfo de Weldeboef ; Rannulf o de Wandesleia ; Roberto 
 de Stapelford ; Henrico Britone de Hukenhal'* ; Ernaldo 
 Schirmissur ; et pluribus. 
 
 Seal inscribed : + Sigill' Gilbbeeti de Hobi. 
 
 [c. 1190]— Confirmation by Godfrey de Wellebef to John de 
 Hemenal' of the grant of his father, Henry de Wellebef, of 
 land in Holou [in Bilborough, co. Notts]. 
 
 Notum sit omnibus tarn presentibus quam futuris, quod ego 
 Godefridus de Wellebef concessi et hac carta mea presenti 
 confirmavi Johanni de Hemenal' donacionem et concessionem 
 et confirmacionem Henrici de Wellebef,* patris mei, scilicet, 
 de dimidia bovata terre in Holou, et de uno crofto cum tofto, 
 et de una acra prati cum omnibus pertinenciis, sicut carta 
 patris mei testatur. Et ut donacio Hem-ici de Wellebef, 
 patris mei, rata et inconcussa perseveret in posterum pre- 
 dicto Johanni de Hemenal' et heredibus suis, sigUli mei 
 munimine eam corroboravi. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Ricardo de Laxton'* ; Roberto fratre ejus ; 
 Willelmo de Anseleia^ ; Galfrido filio Galfridi de Karleton'* ; 
 WiUelmo fratre ejus ; Waltero Dispens[atore] ; WiUelmo 
 nepote Domini ; Serlone clerico hujus carte compositore ; 
 et multis ahis. 
 
 Seal illegible. 
 
 [c. 1190] — Grant by Isabel, lady of Gressighehalia [Gressen- 
 hall, CO. Norfolk] to Roger de Frivilla, her brother, of her 
 holding in UueHngheham [WeUingham, co. Norfolk]. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Ysabel, Domina de 
 Gressighehalia, dedi et concessi et hac mea carta presenti 
 confirmavi Rogero de Frivilla, fratri meo, et heredibus suis, 
 si eos de uxore sua desponsata habiierit, et non aliis, omne 
 
 1 Geoffrey Barr6 is returned in 1166 as holding two knights' fees in co. 
 Notts {Red Booh of the Exchequer, i., p. 344; Liber Niger, i., p. 226). He 
 was fined for Forest offences in Notts and Derby in 1176-7 (Pipe Roll, 
 23 Henry II., p. 59). 
 
 2 in 1202-3 Henry Brito of Hukenhal' fined to have the custody of 
 the land that had belonged to William son of Costus and the marriage of his 
 heirs (Pipe Koll, 5 John, ro. 13). 
 
 3 Occurs as Henry Oil de Buef in 1177-8, when he was surveyor of 
 works at CKpstone, co. Notts (Pipe Roll, 24 Henry II., ro. 6d., Notts and 
 Derby), and as Heru-y de WeUebuef in 1176, when he filled the same office 
 (Pipe RoU, 23 Henry II., ro. 4). 
 
 * Laxton, alias Lexington, co. Notts. Richard de Leissinton' 
 [= Lexington] had the custody of Leissinton' in 1203-4 (Pipe Roll, 6 John, 
 ro. 13), and is mentioned in 1207-8 in the Hot. de Finibus, pp. 392, 437. He 
 was one of the keepers of the Forest in co. Notts, and answered in 1204-5 
 for the land of Maud de Calz in Lessington (Pipe Roll, 7 John, ro. 19 ; 
 Thoroton, Notts, p. 375a). Robert, his son (afterwards a distinguished 
 judge. Diet, of National Biography, xxxiii., p. 203) answered for him in 1205-6 
 (Pipe Roll, 8 John, to. 13) and in 1206-7 (Thoroton, p. 374a). On 16 
 January, 1216, Richard made fine with John in a hundred marks and two 
 palfreys to have his peace {Eotuli de Finibvs, p. 570). 
 
 6 Annesley, co. Notts. 
 
 * Carlton, co. Notts. 
 
35 
 
 tenementum quod teneo in Uuelingheham de feudo Micaelis 
 Capre,! cum omnibus pertinentiis : tenendum de me et de 
 heredibus meis hereditarie, bene et in pace, honorifice, quiete, 
 et libere ab omnibus consuetudinibus et ex {sic) omni seoulari 
 exactione ; reddendo inde annuatim mihi et heredibus meis 
 V. solidos ad duos terminos, scilicet ad festum Sancti Johannis 
 Baptiste ij. sol. et vjd., et ad festum Sancti Micaelis ij. sol. 
 et vjd. Propter banc donacionem et concessionem fecit mihi 
 prefatus Rogerus de FriviUa, frater meus, homagium suum. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Willelmo filio Comitis Varennie* ; Nicolao 
 de Sana ; Reginaldo de Bosoo ; Willelmo, senescallo de 
 Gressighehalia ; Willelmo capellano filio Walteri ; WiUelmo 
 de Taverham^ ; Augustino de Cogham* ; Rogero de Frivilla ; 
 Waltero de Kevervilla ; Rodberto de Verli ; Waltero de 
 Hoe6; Godfrido de Hirmighelond ; Radulfo filio suo ; Huberto 
 venatore ; Henrico filio W. ; Huberto fratre suo ; David de 
 Ueligheham ; Reginaldo de Alto Bosco« ; Johanne de 
 Wltertune' ; Rogero filio Alani de Ueseham^ ; Johanne fiUo 
 senescaUi. 
 
 Elliptical seal in red wax, with figure of a woman in centre 
 holding in her left hand a fleur de lys Ci). Inscription : + Sigill' 
 Isa[bel] de Gkesnala. 
 
 [c. 1190] — Grant by Henry de Monte Forti to Hugh, his 
 brother, of his lands of Pychavilla, Goutevilla, and Clevilla 
 [? PickweU, CO. Leicester]. 
 
 Henricus de Monte Forti^ omnibus hoSninibus suis et amicis, 
 Francis et Anglicis, clericis et laicis, tam futuris quam 
 presentibus, salutem. 
 
 Ad universorum notitiam referatur, me dedisse et con- 
 cessisse et hac mea present! carta confirmasse Hugoni de 
 Monte Forti, fratri meo, et heredibus suis totas terras meas 
 de Pychavilla et de Goutevilla et de Clevilla, cum omnibus 
 eisdem terris pertinenciis et hbertatibus : ad tenendum here- 
 ditarie de me et de heredibus meis ; reddendo annuatim mihi 
 et heredibus meis duo calcaria deaurata pro omnibus serviciis 
 mihi et heredibus meis pertinentibus. 
 
 Quare volo et firmiter precipio, quatinus predictus Hugo 
 et heredes ejus post ilium habeant et teneant totas pre- 
 nominatas terras de me et de heredibus meis hbere et quiete 
 
 1 Michael Capra is returned in 1166 as holding knights' fees in co. 
 Essex {Red Book, i., p. 347 ; Liier Niger, p. 230). 
 
 2 On 12 May, 1202, John issued orders for delivery to William, son of 
 Hamelin, earl Warenne, of his father 's lands, having taking his homage upon 
 hearing of his father's death {Rotuli Liiierarum Patentium, p. 106). 
 
 3 Taverham, co. Norfolk. 
 
 * Congham, co. Norfolk ? 
 6 Hoo, CO. Norfolk. 
 
 * Hautbois, co. Norfolk. 
 "! Wolterton, co. Norfolk. 
 
 8 Weasenham, co. Norfolk. 
 
 9 Henry de Honte Forti succeeded before the death of Henry II. in 
 1189 (Dugdale, Baronage, i, p. 407b, quoting Pipe Boll 2 Richard I.). He 
 was a surety to the king in 1207-8 (Rot. de Finwua, p. 460). He was dead 
 by 1207-8 (Dugdale. Baronage, i, p. 408a). 
 
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 et honorifice, cum omnibus libertatibus et liberis consue- 
 tudinibus, in bosco, in piano, in foro et extra, in pra,tis, in 
 pascuis, in piscariis, in stangnis, in molendinis, in aquis, in viis, 
 in semitis, in exitibus, et in omnibus aliis loois prefatis terris 
 pertinentibus per prefatum servicium. 
 
 His testibus : Aytrop Hasteng^ ; Willelmo et Waltero de 
 Monte Forti ; Ricardo capellano ; Willelmo de Hulehale^ ; 
 Roberto filio Nicholai ; Clare de Beldesert^ ; WiUelmo de 
 Rameham* ; Johanne Brusle ; Rand[ulfo] et Reimbaldo, 
 fratre suo ; Gileberto de Brahal ; Adam filio Lamberti ; 
 Roberto filio Henrici ; Aytrop de Boilest[un]5 ; Petro clerico, 
 qui banc cartam scripsit; et aliis multis. 
 
 Valete ! 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [1192-8] — Grant by Robert de Sutton to Robert de Leiburn* 
 [Leybourne, co. Kent] of his lands, etc., in I.eitun, Camarwelle 
 [? Camberwell, co. Surrey] and his marsh of Scapaie [Sheppy, 
 CO. Kent] in exchange for the land of Bures [Bowers Giffard, 
 CO. Essex ?]. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Robertus de Suttun' 
 concessi et hac carta mea confirmavi Roberto de Leib[urn] 
 et heredibus suis totam terram meam de Leitun',' cum per- 
 tinenciis, et xx. solidos in terra et redditu meo de Redhe,^ et 
 totam partem meam de Camarwelle pro v. solidis, et Her- 
 woldilande pro v. solidis, et partem meam maresci mei de 
 Scapaie, quod vocatuij ' Nesse ' ; in excambium terre sue de 
 Bures, cum pertinenciis, quam idem Robertus de Leib[urn] 
 concessit mihi et heredibus meis, tenendam de eo et heredibus 
 suis pro quarta parte feodi unius militis, salvo servicio militum 
 ad tenementumilludpertinencium, quod idem Robertus de Lei- 
 b[urn] in manu sua retinet. Ego vero Robertus de Suttun' et 
 heredes mei warantizabimus predicto Roberto de Leib[urn] et 
 heredibus suis predictas terras cum predictis redditibus contra 
 omnes homines et feminas. Et ut hec concessio perpetuam 
 obtineat firmitatem, eam sigilli mei munimine et subscrip- 
 torum virorum testimonio roboravi. 
 
 His testibus : Rseginaldo de Cornhull', tunc Vicecomite^ ; 
 Werresio de Valunn[iis] ; Willelmo de Chirintun' ; Roberto 
 de Champann[ia] ; Guarino filio Fulcher[ii] ; Willelmo de 
 Sancto Lupo ; Nicholao Walensi ; Jacobo Salvage ; Hendrico 
 de Chobeh[am] ; Henrico de Somes ; Johanne de Silingeholde ; 
 
 1 The wife of Aitropua Hasteng made fine witii tlie king in 1205 for 
 having seisin of land in co. Warwick (Rot. de Finibus, p. 258). 
 
 2 UUenhall, parish of Wooton Wawen, co. Warwick. 
 
 3 Beaudesert, co. Warwick, the seat of the Montforts. 
 * Remenham, co. Berlcs. 
 
 5 Boylestone, co. Derby. 
 
 6 Robert de Leyburn was alive on 28 April, 1197, and dead before 
 Michaelmas, 1198 (Pipe Roll 10 Ric. I., in Diigdale, Baronage, ii, p. 13a, 
 Archaeologia Cantiana, v., pp. 158, 191, note 42). 
 
 7 Leyton, co. Essex, or Loyton, now Leacon, parish of Westwell, 
 CO. Kent ? 
 
 S Reed, parish of Mardon, or Rede, parish of Bridge, co. Kent ? 
 9 Reginald de Cornhill was sheriff of Kent from 1192 to 1214. 
 
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 Godfrido de la Dene ; Ricardo de la Bere ; Waltero fratre ejus ; 
 et multis aliis. 
 Seal missing. 
 
 1199, August 24.— Charter of King John, granting to William 
 de Stutevill a weekly market in Cotingham [Cottingham, co. 
 York]. 
 
 Johannes, Dei graoia, rex Anglie, dominus Hibernie, dux 
 Normannie, Aquitanie, comes Andegavie, archiepiscopis, 
 episcopis, abbatibus, comitibus, baronibus, vicecomitibus, et 
 omnibus baUivis et fideUbus suis, salutem. 
 
 Sciatis, nos dedisse et concessisse et hac presenti carta nostra 
 confirmasse dilecto nostro Willelmo de Stutevill' et heredibua 
 suis unum mereatum in villa de Cotingham per unum diem 
 in quahbet septimana, scilicet diem Jovis. Et ideo volumus 
 et firmiter precipimus, quod idem Willelmus et heredes sui 
 post eum habeant et teneant bene et in pace mereatum illud, 
 cum omnibus libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus ad 
 hujusmodi mereatum pertinentibus. 
 
 Hiis testibus : E. EUensi episcopo, W. comite Arundell', 
 W. Marescall', comite de Penbroc. 
 
 Dat[a] per manum H. Cantuariensis archiepiscopi, cancellarii 
 nostri, apud Rothomagum, xxiiij. die Augusti, regni nostri 
 anno primo. 
 
 Portion of great seal in green wax. 
 
 Enrolled on Charter Roll, p. 12b. 
 
 A transcript in handwriting of John Ray is attached. 
 
 [c. 1200] — Grant by Robert de Diva, prior of the Knight 
 Hospitallers in England, to Robert son of Hugh de Blokes- 
 worth [Bloxworth, CO. Dorset] of a mill in Mordon [Morden, 
 CO. Dorset]. 
 
 Universis Christi fidelibus, ad quos presens scriptum per- 
 venerit, Frater Robertus de Diva,^ Fratrum Hospitalis 
 Jerusalem humilis prior in Anglia, salutem in Domino. 
 
 Noverit universitas vestra, nos, de communi consilio et 
 assensu fratrum capituli nostri, concessisse et hac presenti 
 
 1 According to the Latin list of priors of the Hospital of St. John of 
 Jerusalem in England in Xewcourt's Repertorium, i., p. 669, from vphich the 
 list in the Monasticon, vi.,p. 799, is derived, a Ralph de Dyna (sic) succeeded 
 Richard de Turk as prior. The latter 's predecessor, Garnier de Neapoli, 
 (Nabliis in Syria), was, according to this list, prior before 1162, but he first 
 first appears in April, 1185, and became Grand Master of the Order in 
 1190 (see Round, " Garnier de Nablous," in Archceologia, Iviii., pp. 364-7), 
 when he was succeeded as prior in England by Alan de Sancta C'ruce (lb., p. 
 388), who was consecrated bishop of Bangor on 16 April, 1195. In the 
 Latin list Ralph de Dyna is made to precede Richard Turk and to succeed 
 Alan, but he seems really to have been prior before Garnier de Nablus (see 
 J. Delaville Le Roulx, Cartulaire general de VOrdre des Hospitallers de S. 
 Jean de Jerusalem, Paris, 1894 sqq., i., p. 210, no. 28, where Harley Charter 
 44 H. 53 is assigned to 1160-1180). M. Delaville Le Roulx, i., p. 685, 
 assigns 1200-1204 for the office of Richard Turk {Tyrcus), but the earlier 
 date may be taken back to 1195, since the original charter of Prior Alan 
 dated September 1199 (i., p. 681), upon whicli it is based, contains an error 
 in date, probably for 1190 (Round, p. 388). In September, 1207, Roger 
 de Vere was prior (Cartulaire general, ii., p. 74, no. 1269). The Robert de Diva 
 
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 carta nostra con&masse Roberto filio Hugonis de Blokeswurth 
 molendinum nostrum de Mordon', quod habemus de 'dono 
 Willelmi de ClauillV cum pertinenciis suis : tenendum et 
 habendum sibi et heredibus suis; reddendo inde annuatim 
 domui nostre viginti solidos ad quatuor anni terminos, vide- 
 licet ad festum Sancti Michaelis qu[i]ncque (sic) solidos, et 
 ad Natale Domini quincque solidos, et ad Pascba quincque 
 solidos, et ad festum Sancti Johannis Baptiste quincque solidos, 
 pro omni servicio ad nos inde spectante ; ita tamen, quod in 
 obitu suo, similiter et heredum suorum, quadraginta solidi pro 
 tercia parte catallorum suorum domui nostre quieti remanebunt. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Fratre Ricardo de Runfug[erei], Fratre WiUelmo 
 de Haliwell', Fratre Johanne de Hildesdon', capellanis ; 
 Fratre Radulfo de Crindham, Fratre Ada de Sancto Laurencio, 
 militibus ; Fratre Rogero de Upton' ; Fratre Willelmo de 
 Camera ; Fratre Gilberto ; et aUis. 
 
 Seal missing, 
 
 [c. 1200]— Grant by William Spicfat of Cattorp [Caythorpe, 
 parish of Lowdham, co. Notts] to John, the Chaplain of 
 Ludham [Lowdham]. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Willelmus Spicfat," de 
 Cattorp, concessi et dedi et hac presenti carta mea confirm- 
 avi Johanni Capellano de Ludham, pro servicio suo et honore 
 sepius mihi coUato, et pro quinque soKdis argenti, quos mihi 
 dedit in necessitate mea, unam dimidiam acram prati, que 
 jacet in curto prato inter pratum Henrici de Marcham et 
 pratum Regenaldi, fratris mei, quod de me tenet : habendam 
 et tenendam de me et de heredibus meis sibi et quibuscunque 
 illam assignare voluerit, et assignatis eorum, libere et quiete, 
 solute et hereditarie ; reddendo inde annuatim mihi vel 
 heredibus meis unum obolum ad Natale Domini pro omni 
 servicio, exaccione et demanda. Ego vero predictus WiUelmus 
 et heredes mei predictam dimidiam acram prati predicto 
 Johanni et assignatis suis in perpetuum contra omnes 
 homines warentizabimus. 
 
 of the present charter does not occur in the Cartulaire. He is pos- 
 sibly the prior E. of a charter of 18 May, 1204 (Delaville Le Roiilx in 
 M&cmges de archiologie et d'hiatoire of the French School at Rome, 1881, p. 
 375), and is to be identified with Robert the Treasurer, who occurs as prior 
 about 1206 {Cartulaire, ii., p. 55, no. 1229 ; Macray, Charters of Salisbury, 
 Rolls Series, p. 71), and executed a charter at Ossington [co. Notts] dated 
 13 January, 1205 (Cartulaire gSniral, ii., p. 57, no. 1233 ; facsimile in 
 Palaeographical Society's publications. Series II., pi. 117). The latter is 
 witnessed by a " Frater Ric[ardus] de Rotund[o] Fulger[eto], " who is ob- 
 viously the " Frater Ricardus de Runfug' " of the present charter, whose 
 surname is therefore derived from Ronfeugeray in the department of the 
 Orne (canton of Athis, arrondissement of Domfront). 
 
 1 His widow appears in 1196 as tenant in Morden {Fines, sive Pedes 
 Finium, ii., p. 72 = Feet of Fines, Pipe RoU Soc, p. 120). 
 
 2 William Spichfat occurs in the Pipe Rolls for cos. Notts and Derby 
 for 1199-1200 (2 John, ro. 1) and 1200-1 as owing amercements {Rot. Can- 
 cellarii, 3 John, p. 314). He is also mentioned in 1218-19, 1219-20, and 
 1220-1 (Pipe Rolls, 3 Henry III,, ro. 8 ; 4 Henry III., ro. 11 ; 5 Henry III., 
 ro. 6). The surname is a compound, unrecorded in Old English, of spic 
 ' bacon ' and fcett ' fat ' (adj.), corresponding exactly to German speckfett 
 ' very fat.' 
 
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 Hiis testibus : Eust[achio] de Ludham,, cleriooi ; Waltero 
 fiho suo; Ricardo filio Willelmi de Birtun'^; Gilberto de 
 Ludham, clerico^ ; Willelmo de Sibetorp* ; Roberto filio 
 sacerdotis ; Roberto de Ravenigham ; Thoma filio Robert! ; 
 Andrea filio Rogeri ; Henrico de Marcham.^ ; Roberto fratre 
 ejus ; WiUelmo de Ulvestorps ; et multis aliis. 
 
 A duplicate of this charter exists, written in the same hand, 
 and with the same witnesses, except Richard son of WilHam 
 de Birtun, Gilbert de Ludham, Robertus filius sacerdotis, 
 Robert, brother of Henry de Marcham, but adding Robert son 
 of Robert (= Robert filius sacerdotis ?), Roger de Beufou, Roger 
 son of Robert de Uulvestorp, and Reginald de Cattorp. 
 
 Fragment of seal. 
 
 [c. 1200]— Grant by Walter de Ribof to Simon son of Bernard 
 de Bileburc of the tenement in Bileburc [Bilborough, co. 
 Notts] that his father held of Simon son of Simon and after- 
 wards of Walter. 
 
 Walterus de Ribof omnibus hominibus presentibus et 
 futuris, salutem. 
 
 Noverit universitas vestra, me concessisse et hac present! 
 carta mea confirmasse Symoni filio Bernardi de BUeburc 
 totum tenementum quod Bemardus,^ pater ejus, tenuit 
 primo de Symone fiho Symonis et post de me in Bileburc, cum 
 omnibus pertinenciis suis : tenendum sibi et heredibus suis 
 in feodo et hereditate de me et heredibus meis Ubere, honorifice 
 et quiete, plenarie, perfecte et integre, cum omnibus per- 
 tinenciis suis et aisiamentis suis infra villam et extra, in bosco 
 et piano, in omnibus locis et in omnibus rebus ; reddendo inde 
 armuatim duos sohdos, scihcet ad Pentecosten xij. denarios 
 et ad festum Sancti Martini xij. denarios pro omni servicio, 
 quod ad me pertinet. Pro hac vero concessione et confir- 
 macione, dedit mihi predictus Symon xxx. sohdos argenti 
 de gersum. 
 
 l A fine conceming land in Lamoote (parish of Holme Pierrepont, 
 CO. Notts) was levied on 20 November, 1208, between Thomas son of GeofErey, 
 demandant, and Eustace the clerk of Ludham (Feet of Fines, co. Notts, 
 file 2, no. 43). Eustace de Ludham (Lowdham, co. Notts) was deputy- 
 sheriS for cos. Notts and Derby in 1213-14 (of. Testa de Nevill, p. 19o), and 
 acted as custoa of Yorkshire in 9 Henry III. (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1216- 
 1225, p. 524) and in 10 Henry III. as a justice of the Forest, etc. In 1206-7 
 Eustace, parson of Ludenham, made fine for making a ditch like a deerleap 
 at Ludenham (Pipe Roll, 7 John, ro. 7 ; in Madox, Hist, of the Exchequer, 
 i., p. 499, note «.). 
 
 2 Bm-ton Joyce, co. Notts. The holding of Richard son of William 
 there is recorded in the Testa de Nevill, p. 20o. 
 
 » See Thoroton, Notts, p. 290a. 
 
 * Sibthorpe, co. Notts. WiUiam de Sibetorp answered for scutage in 
 1204-5 (Pipe Roll, 7 John, ro. 19, Notts and Derbyshire). Cf. Testa de 
 Nevill, p. 14a. 
 
 6 Markham, co. Notts. 
 
 « Woolsthorpe, parish of Lowdham (Thoroton, Antiqq. of Notts, p. 288), 
 now disappeared. 
 
 1 Walter de Ribof [R^boeuf, near Dieppe, Seine-Inf^rieure] acquired 
 lands in Bilborough in 1202 (see above, page 18, note 6). 
 
 8 See the grant to him, p. 28 above. 
 
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 Hiis testibus : Samsone de Stretle ; Willelmo de Leke ; 
 Roberto de Boves ; Rannulfo de Wandeleia (sic) ; Gilberto 
 de Brocolvestoue ; Roberto de Passeis^ ; Ricardo, clerico 
 Vicecomitis ; Roberto Andegavensi ; Henrico, clerico de 
 Hukenale ; Willelmo filio Coste^ ; Galfrido Luterel ; WiUelmo 
 le Corner 3 ; Elya filio Elye ; Swano de Derbi et Astino filio 
 ejus ; Hugone, persona de Bileburc ; Rogero de Sancta 
 Maria ; Germano filio Willelmi ; Willelmo Baldewini filio ; 
 Waltero serviente Walteri de Ribof ; et pluribus aliis. 
 
 Circular seal inscribed : -|- Sigill . . . . br . . _ . 
 IBEVF, bearing a shield with a chevron between two roundels in 
 chief, and, possibly, another charge in the base. 
 
 [c. 1200] — Grant by Hugh de Insula to Geoffrey son of 
 Gilbert de Broculvestowe [Broxtowe, co. Notts] of the lands 
 that Geoffrey's father held in Thorp [Algarthorpe, parish 
 of Basford, co. Notts] and in Basford. 
 
 Omnibus Sancte Matris Ecclesie filiis, Hugo de Insula,* 
 salutem. 
 
 Noverit universitas vestra, me concessisse et presenti carta 
 confirmasse Gaufrido filio Gilbert! de Broculvestowe ^ et 
 heredibus suis omnes terras et omnia tenementa, que pater 
 suus Gilbert tenuit de antecessoribus meis die et anno, quo 
 mortuus fuit, unde habet cartas antecessorum meorum, 
 scilicet, quatuor bovatas terre in territorio de Thorp, inter 
 aquam, que dicitur Liene,* et Beescwde,' cum omnibus per- 
 
 1 Robert de Passeis (Passais, arrond. of Domfront, in the department 
 of the Orne) answers for scutage in cos. Notts and Derby in 1202-3 and 
 1203-4 (Pipe Rolls, 5 John, ro. 13 ; 6 John, ro. 13). 
 
 2 The Costus the Falconer who had a grant of lands worth 100s. yearly 
 in Hucknall (Hochenhala), for which allowance for half a, year was made 
 to the sheriff in 1159-60 (Pipe RoU, 6 Henry II., p. 43) and for the whole 
 year in the following roll (p. 31). In the next roll (p. 32) the grant is raised 
 to 61. lOs. Od. by the addition of lands in Kirkby, an entry that is repeated 
 many years subsequently. He was excused 5s. in 1180—1 under cos. Notts 
 and Derby (Pipe Roll, 27 Henry II., ro. Id.). In 1202-3 Hugh Brito of 
 Hukenhal' made fine to have the wardship of the land of William son of 
 Cost', and the marriage of his heir (Pipe Roll, 5 John, ro. 13). William's 
 serjeantry is entered in the Testa de Nevill, p. 226 ; cf. 18a. Cf. Rot. 
 Litterarum Claiiearwm, i., pp. 1186, 123a. 
 
 3 William le Comer, senior and junior, were amerced in 1206-7 (Pipe 
 Rolls, 9 John, ro. 11, Notts and Derby). William Cornarpus] was super- 
 visor of carpenters in Nottingham castle in 1213-14 (Pipe Roll, 16 John, 
 ro. 15), and of building operations there in 1218-19 (Pipe RoU, 3 Henry III., 
 ro. 8). See Nottingham Borough Records, i., pp. 18, 50. 
 
 * Hugh de Insula pays scutage under cos. Notts and Derby in 1197-8 
 (Pipe RoU, 10 Richard I., ro. 8), and in 1198-9 (Pipe RoU, 1 John, ro. 15 ; 
 Red Book, i., p. 122), and in 1209-10 (Pipe RoU, 12 John, ro. 12 ; Red Booh 
 p. 180). He died before 1210-11, in which year Thomas Despenser with 
 Hugh's daughter and heiress held his lands (Red Booh, ii., p. 584 ; cf. Rot. 
 Litterarum Glausarum, i., pp. 1186, 174). 
 
 6 GUbert de Broculvestowe was amerced for a forest offence under 
 COS. Notts and Derby in 1186-7 and 1187-8 (Pipe RoU, 33 iLen^y II., ro. 12 ; 
 34 Henry II., ro. 14d.). He was the son of Eustace (Thoroton, Notts, p. 
 232a). Geoffrey de Broculvestowe 's holding in Broo[ulvestowe] is recorded 
 in an inquisition taken in 1213-14 (the year of office of Eustace [de Lude- 
 ham], who is mentioned at p. 19a) in the Testa de Nevill, p. 18a. 
 
 6 The river Leen. 
 
 1 Bestwood [Park], co. Notts. 
 
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 tinenciis suis ; in Baseford' unum molendinum cum seota 
 et omnibus aliis pertinenciis suis, tres acras terre ad capud 
 unius culture sue versus Brooulvestowe : tenenda et habenda 
 sibi et heredibus suis de me et heredibus meis libere et quiete, 
 plenarie, integre et honorifice in omnibus locis, cum omnibus 
 libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus, per servicium unius 
 marce ex una parte et duorum solidorum ex alia parte, mihi 
 et heredibus meis an[n]uatim solvendorum ad duos terminos, 
 ad festum Candelarum vij. sol. et viijd. et ad Sanctum 
 Michaelem tantundem, pro omni servicio ad me pertinente. 
 Hanc autem concessionem et confirmacionem feci predicto Gau- 
 frido pro homagio suo et rationabili relavio, quoddeillorecepi. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Priore et Conventu de Novo Loco ; Philippo 
 Priore de Baseford' ; Samsone de Stratl[eia] ; Waltero de 
 Ribeof ; Simone de Baseford ; Patricio de Rosel^ ; Thomas 
 de Rosel ; Costo sacerdote ; Gervasio de Ernhal'^ ; Radulfo 
 de Broculvest[owe] ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal in green wax with quatrefoil, inscribed . . gonis d . . 
 
 [c. 1200] — Grant by Robert son of Herbert de Bramcote 
 [Bramcote, co. Notts] to Silvester son of Robert the chaplain 
 of Bestona [Beeston, co. Notts], of land [in Bramcote]. 
 
 Sciant omnes presentes et futuri, quod ego Robertus filius 
 Hereberti de Brancote^ dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta 
 mea confirmavi Silvestro fiHo Roberti Capellani de Bestona 
 unam acram terre in Viuicrof t : tenendam de me et heredibus 
 meis sibi et heredibus suis libere et quiete et honorifice ; 
 reddendo inde annuatim mihi et heredibus meis ille et heredes 
 sui unam libram cimini ad festum Sancti Martini pro omni 
 servitio ad me vel heredibus meis pertinente. Preterea, 
 concessi ei communionem cum heredibus meis in pratis, in 
 pascuis, in viis et in semitis, et ubicunque fuerit communio 
 omnium meorum. Pro hac itaque concessione habenda, dedit 
 mihi prefatus Silvester dua talenta in gersumam. 
 
 His testibus : Magistro Silvestro de Notinch[eham]* ; Silvestro 
 filio ejus, persona de Radefort^ ; Roberto, persona de 
 Adigburc® ; Ricardo, capeUano de Brancote ; Pascasio 
 de Estweit ; Waltero de Estweit' ; Henrico clerico de 
 
 1 Rosel, Normandy, canton of Creully, arrond. of Caen, depart, of the 
 Calvados. 
 
 2 Arnold, co. Notts. Gervase de Arnehale witnesses a deed c. 1221 
 relating to Nottingham (Records of the Borough of Nottingham, i., p. 14). 
 
 3 Herbert de Brampcote [Bramcot, co. Notts] was a benefactor of 
 Lenton Priory (Thoroton, Notts, p. 2096). Robert de Brancote was one of 
 the supervisojs of works at Harestan and Bolsover castles in 1208-9 (Pipe 
 Roll, 11 John, ro. 10). 
 
 * See page 20, note 14, above. 
 
 6 Radford [now included in the city of Nottingham]. 
 
 6 Attenborough, co. Notts. 
 
 '^ Walter de Estwait is mentioned under cos. Notts and Derby in 
 1165-6 and 1166-7 (Pipe Rolls, 12 Henry 11., p. 52; 13 Henry II., p. 139). 
 Walter de Estweit made » fine, with other Notts men, in 1200 {Rotuli de 
 Ohlatia, p. 75) and was fined for a forest offence in 1209-10 (Pipe Roll, 12 
 John, ro. 12, Notts and Derby). He is described as sheriff of Nottingham- 
 shire in 1225 (Records of the Borough of Nottingham, i., p. 20), meaning, no 
 doubt, deputy to Ralph son of Nicholas, the sherifi. 
 
42 
 
 Huchenal'i ; Reginaldo de Brancote" ; Galfredo de Brancote ; 
 Johanne et Rogero, filiis Robert! de Boston, et Bartholomeo 
 fratre suo ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal in green wax, with floriated ornament in centre. Inscrip- 
 tion : -\-8igiul' RoBERTi Fnj' Hebberti. 
 
 [c. 1200] — Grant by Hugh son of Thomas de Cozale to 
 Alexander son of Huctred [Ughtred] de Hemdeshill [Hemps- 
 hall (HaU), parish of Nuthall, co. Notts], of land in Cozale 
 [Cossal, CO. Notts]. 
 
 Sciant omnes presentes et futuri, quod ego Hugo fihus 
 Thome de Cozale dedi et concessi et hac present! carta mea 
 confirmavi Alexandro fiho Huctredi de Hemdeshil,* pro humagio 
 et servicio suo, meam acram prat! in prato de Cozale, que 
 vocatur " magna acra " : tenendam et habendam sib! et 
 heredibus suis de me et heredibus meis libere, honorifice, et 
 quiete ; reddendo inde annuatim michi et heredibus meis 
 sex denarios ad festum Sancti Martini pro omni servicio michi 
 et heredibus meis pertinent!. Ego vero Hugo et heredes me! 
 garantizabimus predicto Alexandro et heredibus suis acram 
 predictam contra omnes homines. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Symone de Wattenhou,* Symone de 
 BiLeburc,8 Hugone de Nutehale,^ Hugone de Temes, 
 Symone fiHo Juete, Symone de Basefort,' Johanne clerico de 
 Kinemarle," et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal with fleur-de-lys and the inscription : Sigill' Htjgonis 
 FiLi Tomb. 
 
 [c. 1200]— Release by Christiana, prioress of Wilberfoss [co. 
 York] of right in land [in Wilberfoss 1], subject to a yearly 
 payment, which is to be given to three nuns, sisters of Muriel, 
 wife of Simon Sakespee, during their Uves. 
 
 Omnibus Christ! fidehbus has litteras visuris vel audituris, 
 Christiana, priorissa de Wilberfosse, et totus ejusdem loci 
 Conventus, salutem in Domino. 
 
 Noverit universitas vestra, nos nichil juris clamare in terra 
 Ula, que fuit Simonis Sakespee et Murielis, sponse sue, juxta 
 ecclesiam Sancti Dionisii, vel ejus pertinenciis, preter dimidiam 
 marcam argent! annuam, quam prefata Muriel dedit nobis 
 pro salute anime sue et Simonis, sponsi sui, annuatim percip- 
 iendam de prefata terra de Ysaac et Roberto, fratribus ipsius 
 Muriehs, scilicet, medietatem de uno et medietatem de altero, in 
 tota vita ipsius Roberti. Post mortem vero Roberti, Ysaac et 
 
 1 Hucknall, co. Notts. 
 
 2 Mentioned in the Pipe Roll for 1210-11 (13 John, ro. 2, Notts and 
 Derby). 
 
 3 The " Hameasel " of Domesday Book, i., p. 288, col. 1. It appears in 
 1209-10 as Hindeshull, where it answers with Bulwell for wast« (Pipe Roll 
 12 John, ro. 12). 
 
 * Watnall, parish of Greasley, co. Notts, 
 
 5 Bilborough, co. Notts. 
 
 6 NuthaU, CO. Notts. 
 
 7 Basford, oo. Notts. 
 
 8 Kimberiey, oo. Notts. 
 
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 heredes sui de corpore suo exituri, quibus prefata Muriel dedit 
 totam terrain iUam hereditarie, reddent nobis annuatim de tota 
 terra ilia predictam dimidiam marcam annuam, medietatem 
 ad festum Sancti Martini et medietatem ad Pentecosten. Si 
 vero Ysaac moriatur sine herede de corpore suo, Thomas 
 filius Turgisii et heredes sui tenebunt in perpetuum totam 
 predictam terram ; reddendo inde nobis annuatim predictam 
 dimidiam marcam annuam ad prefatos terminos. Alicia vero 
 et Emma et Juliana, sorores Muriehs, moniales nostre, habe- 
 bunt in tota vita earum predictam dimidiam marcam ad 
 adjutorium vestitus sui. Et ne plus juris supra dimidiam 
 marcam annuam in terra ilia in perpetuum vendicare possimus, 
 illud presenti carta nostra et sigiUi nostri appositione robor- 
 avimus. 
 
 Hiis testibus : GiU[eberto] et Radulfo capellanis ; Johanne 
 Distefald' ; Laurencio, fratre domus nostre ; Thoma Palmer ; 
 Nicholao fratre ejus ; Thoma filio Turgisii ; Nicholao de 
 Bretegate ; Thoma filio Roberti ; Adam Verdenel, et multis 
 aliis. 
 
 Oval shaped seal ivith dove displayed bearing in its mouth 
 a twig, surrounded loith the inscription : Sigill' [PJeioeesa 
 
 (sic) DE WiLBVRF . . . 
 
 [c. 1200] — Ratification by the prior and convent of Bulintun 
 [Bullington, parish of Goltho, co. Lincoln] of the final concord 
 made between them and Alan de Bosdeele, son of Helto de 
 Bosdeele, concerning the latter's grant to the prior and con- 
 vent and an exchange between Alan and them. 
 
 Cunctis Christi fidelibus, ad quorum notitiam presens carta 
 pervenerit. Prior et Conventus de Bulint[un], salutem. 
 
 Sciatis, quod finalis concordia inter nos et Alanum de 
 Bosdeele hoc modo facta est, et omnis hs et controversia hoc 
 fine sopita : Ipse Alanus concessit et carta sua nobis con- 
 firmavit totam donacionem patris sui et matris sue, secundum 
 tenorem carte eorum, ad quam appensum est sigillum 
 CapituU Lincolnpensis] ecclesie et sigillum Heute,i patris sui, 
 in puram et perpetuam elemosinam, istis tribus rebus exceptis, 
 videUcet, Gippetoft et pastura de Gosholm et de Bistede ; 
 pro quibus tribus rebus prenominatus Alanus dedit nobis 
 in excambiis duas acras prati in MUdehale propinquiores 
 prato Simonis de Kim'. Nos vero, sciKcet Prior et Conventus 
 de Bidint[\m], omne jus, quod in tribus rebus prefatis 
 habuimus, illi in Oapitulo Lincol[niensis] ecclesie quietum 
 clamavimus, nee per aliquam cartam vel scriptum de hiis 
 tribus rebus prenominatis aliquid clamabimus adversus eum 
 vel heredes ejus in perpetuum. Ut autem hec omnia, que 
 inter nos scripta sunt, firma et iUibata permaneant, tarn 
 sigiUi nostri appensione quam sigilli Capituh Lincoln[iensis] 
 ecclesie testimonio, in quo hec acta sunt, corroborantur. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Rogero,* Decano Lincoln[ien8is] ecclesie ; 
 
 1 Helto(of which Hettte is the Old French form) deBoisdl' of p. 19,above. 
 
 2 Boger ds Bolveston. 1195-1223 (Le Neve, ii., 30). 
 
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 Magistro Willelmoi Precentore ; Ricardo de Kim',^ Waltero 
 Blundo, Rogero Scoto, Andrea, Canonicis Lincolii[iensis] 
 ecclesie ; Simone de Kim'^ ; Magistro Henrico; Philippo de 
 Beaumis ; Rogero Arsic ; Petro de Bekering* ; . . . a 
 filio ejus ; Ranulfo de Midlei ; Simone de Sidetun". 
 Seals missing. 
 
 [c. 1200] — Grant by Peter de Mellento to the House of St. 
 Leonard, Ristun [Tarrant Rushton, co. Dorset] of an acre 
 of land to be tilled yearly (changing with the cultivation 
 and fallowing in a two-course system of cultivation), for the 
 maintenance of a light in that house. 
 
 Universis Sancte Matris Ecclesie filiis, Petrus de Melle[n]to, 
 salutem in vero Salutari. 
 
 Noverit universitas vestra, me, caritatis intuitu, dedisse 
 et concessis^e Deo et Sancte Marie et Ecclesie Sancti 
 Leonardi de Ristune,* et fratribus ibideln Deo servientibus, 
 pro anima mea et pro anima uxoris mee M., et patrum 
 matrumque nostrorum, et puerorum et antecessorum, et pro 
 fraternitate habenda ejusdem loci, unam acram terre quolibet 
 anno colendam, scilicet acram propinquiorem terre, que data 
 est in elemosinam ecclesie de Cnoltune' ad lumen ejusdem 
 ecclesie, et anno sequenti ex altera parte jam dicte terra 
 ejusdem ecclesie de Cnoltune unam acram. ^ Hano vero 
 donationem et concessionem feci pro anima filii mei Willelmi, 
 ut perpetue annuatim obsequium anniversarii illius in 
 ecclesia ilia celebretur ut pro fratre ejusdem loci. Et ut 
 hec donatio firma sit in perpetuum, sigilli mei impressione 
 confirmavi. 
 
 His testibus : Helya capeUano ; Galfrido clerico ; Radulf o 
 filio Domini ; Hugone, cognato ejus ; Rogero filio Hugonis ; 
 cum omnibus fratribus Sancti Leonardi de Ristune. 
 
 Seul missing. 
 
 1 William, appointed precentor in 1196, was consecrated bishop in 1203 
 (Id., pp. 37, 82). 
 
 2 Wrongly called ' de Kim ' in Le Neve, p. 121. The other Canons are 
 not mentioned by Le Neve. 
 
 3 Simon de Kime died shortly before 27 January, 1220 (Excerpia 
 e Rotulis JPinium, i., pp. 42, 44). 
 
 * Beckering (Holton cum), co. Lincoln. 
 
 5 Syston, 00. Lincoln. 
 
 6 The religious house or hospital of St. Leonard in the parish of Tarrant 
 Rushton, CO. Dorset. See Hutehins, History of Dorset, ed. 3, iii., p. 463. It 
 is called the house of St. Leonard, Risshton by Palmeresbrigge in the Cal. 
 Patent Rolls, 7 Ed. III., pp. 417, 420, and the chapel of Russhton in the same 
 Calendar 5 Ed. III., pp. 84, 86, 159 where is not identified. This Rush- 
 ton appears to be the Riston of Domesday Book, i., 83 col. 2, 836 col. 2 
 (=Exon. D.B., 53), 84 col. 2, which Eyton has confused with Rushton in 
 East Stoke (D.B., 83 col. 2 ; 846 col. 1). 
 
 7 Knowlton, a deserted village now in the parish of Horton, co. Dorset. 
 See Hutehins, iii., p. 150, where a grant of land by Peter de Meulent {i.e., 
 Meulan, arrondissement of Versailles, department of the Seine-et-Oise], the 
 donor of this deed, is recorded. 
 
 8 That is, they shall have an acre on one side of the land given to 
 Cnoltune one year, and an acre on the other side of the said land the follow- 
 ing year, and so alternately. 
 
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 [c. 1200]— Sale by Robert le Westreys to Maud, daughter 
 of Geoffrey de Trowall [Trowell, co. Notts], of land in Stanton' 
 [Stanton-by-Dale, co. Derby]. 
 
 Sciant omnes tarn presentes quam futuri, quod ego 
 Robertus le Westreys, assensu et voluntate WillelmiS filii 
 et heredis mei, vendidi et quietas clamavi de me et de 
 heredibus meis Matild[i], filie Gaufridi de Trowall', ^ et cui 
 vel quibus assingnare voluerit, et eorum heredibus, duas 
 bovatas terre in territorio de Stanton', cum tofto et crofto 
 et edificiis, et cum omnibus Ubertatibus et pertinenciis suis, 
 tam Mberas sicut eas unquam hberius tenui, excepto tofto 
 juxta toftum Walteri filii Achardi de latitudine viginti pedum 
 et longitudine quadraginta pedum versus viam, et exceptis 
 tribus rodis juxta Grenehul : faciendo inde servicium Domine 
 Ydonee et heredibus suis, scilicet quatuor soHdos annuatim, 
 pro omni servicio ad earn et ad heredes suos pertinente, salvo 
 forinseco servicio, duos solidos ad Nativitatem Beati Johannis 
 Baptiste et duos solidos ad festum Beati Thome Apostoli 
 ante Natale. Pro hac autem vendicione et quieta clamacione, 
 dedit mihi predicta Matild[is] sex marcas argenti. Ego vero 
 Robertus le Westreys et heredes mei has duas bovatas terre 
 cum pertinenciis prenominatis predicte Matild[i], et cui vel 
 quibus assingnare voluerit, contra omnes homines warentiz- 
 abimus. Ut igitur presens scriptum robur optineat in pos- 
 terum, Ulud sigilM mei apposicione' confirmavi. 
 
 His testibus : WUlelmo de Musch[amp],3 Arch[idiacono] 
 Derb[ie] ; Petro filio Willelmi de I)erb[ia] ; Matheo 
 Thuscheyt ; Petro de Sandiacria* ; Roberto de Salto (sic) 
 CaprioM ; Waltero de Hestweyt^ ; Rogero de Brunesleya* ; 
 Roberto de Musch[amp]' et Hugone et Willelmo, fratribus 
 
 1 William Westrensis (' the westerner ') was amerced under cos. Notts 
 and Derby in 1199-1200 (Pipe Roll, 2 John, ro. 1). 
 
 2 Trowell, co. Notts, adjoins Stanton-by-Dale, co. Derby. Geoffrey 
 de TroweU' answers for scutage in 1203-4 (Pipe Roll, 6 John, ro. 13). In 
 1212-13 and 1214 Roger son of Geoffrey de Trouuel made fine for having 
 the lands that had belonged to his father in TroweU and Brinsley (Pipe RoU, 
 15 John, ro. 18 ; Hot. de Finibus, p. 544). 
 
 8 Died 1231 (Annalea de Dunstaplia, in Annales Monastici, iii., p. 127). 
 
 * Sandiaere, co. Derby. Peter de Sandiacre (who appears frequently 
 by a strange Frenchification as Peter de Seint Diacre) succeeded about 1194^5, 
 when Beatrice de Halun fined to have her dower of the land of Peter de 
 Sandiacra, her first husband (Pipe Roll, 7 Richard I., ro. 2). Peter de Seint 
 Diacre paid lOOl. in 1197-8 to have seisin of Horsleg' [Horsley, co. DerbyJ 
 of his inheritance, as he alleged (Pipe Roll, 10 Richard I., ro. 8). Peter de 
 Sandiacra made fine in 1201 to avoid crossing the sea on military service 
 (Rot. de Ohlatis, p. 127). He is mentioned as a surety in 1207 {Rot. de Finibus, 
 p. 333). His name frequently occurs in the Notts and Derby Pipe Rolls 
 of John's time in connexion with scutages (of. Madox, Hist, of Exchequer. 
 i., p. 638, note k), etc. He died in or before 1218-19 when his heirs are 
 charged with a debt of his, and his Christian name is underlined for de- 
 letion, with Richard written over it (Pipe Roll, 3 Henry III., ro. 8). 
 
 s Eastwood, co. Notts. See page 41, note 7, above. 
 
 6 Brinsley, co. Notts. 
 
 7 Robert de Muscamp' [Muskham, co. Notts] makes fine in 1201 in order 
 that he may not cross the sea (Rot. de Oblatis, p. 127). In 1203-4 he fined to 
 be released from keeping Harestan castle (Pipe Roll, 6 John, ro. 13). In 
 1213, his son-in-law, Ralph de Gresel[eye] makes fine for having the lands 
 that had belonged to Robert (Bot. de Finibus, p. 507 ; Pipe Roll, 16 John, ro. 
 5 ; cf. Excerpta e Rotidis Finium, i., p. 34). 
 
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 suis ; Thoma de Henoveri . Waltero le Soot ; Hugo de Aim ; 
 Roberto de Brunesl[eya] ; Henrico de Greseleya* ; et multis 
 aliis. 
 
 Seal with a fleur-de-lys and the inscription : + Sigill Roberti 
 LB Westein. 
 
 [c, 1200]— Confirmation of the preceding grant by William 
 le Westreys, son and heir of Robert le Westreys, witnessed 
 by the same persons. 
 
 Seal with a fleur-de-lys and the inscription : + Sigill' 
 
 WiLLELMI LE WeSTERES. 
 
 [c. 1200]— Grant by Eustace son of Hugh to Walter de 
 Estweit of the homage and service of Hugh son of Robert 
 de Wilgheby for land in Wilgheby [WiUoughby-on-the- 
 Wolds, CO. Notts]. 
 
 Omnibus, qui hoc scriptum viderint vel audierint, Eusta- 
 chius fiUus Hugonis, salutem. 
 
 Sciatis me dedisse et concessisse et hao presenti carta mea 
 confirmasse Waltero de Estweit, pro homagio et servitio suo, 
 homagium et servitium Hugonis filii Roberti de Wilgheby, et 
 heredum suorum, de quatuor bovatis terre, quas idem Hugo 
 tenuit de me in eadem viUa : tenenda et haljenda ipsi Waltero 
 et heredibus suis de me et heredibus meis, cum omnibus eorum 
 pertinentiis, inperpetuum Ubere et quiete et pacifice ; reddendo 
 inde mihi et heredibus meis singulis annis duos denarios ad 
 festum Sancti Martini pro omni servitio mihi et heredibus 
 meis inde percipiendo. ^ 
 
 Hiis testibus : Ricardo, abbate de WeUebec* ; Henrico de 
 Gray ; Sansone de Stretl[eia] ; Willelmo de Leke ; Galfrido 
 de Jorz ; Stephano filio Hugonis ; Paschasio de Estweit ; 
 Willelmo de Munjai^ ; James de Bachepuz ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal with a floriated ornament and the inscription : ■-{- Sigill' 
 EvsTAci riLn Hvgonis. 
 
 [c. 1200] — Grant by Alan son of Humphrey de Eddriceston 
 to Robert de Nemore of land in Eddricheston [Atherstone-on- 
 Stour, CO. Warwick]. 
 
 1 Heanor, co. Derby. 
 
 2 Greasley, co. Notts. 
 
 3 percipiente, MS. 
 
 * Richard, abbot of Welbeck, was demandant in a fine levied in the 
 quinzaine of Michaelmas, 1203, against Alexander, prior of Shelford, con- 
 cerning the advowson of Kelum (KeUiam) church (Feet of Fines, co. Notts, 
 file 2, no. 29). He was also demandant in a fine levied at the octave of Holy 
 Trinity, 6 John {lb., no. 37), and in another levied in three weeks of St. 
 Hilary, 12 John {lb., no. 60). On 7 July, 1215, he delivered to the king 
 certain royal jewels that had been deposited in the abbey (Bot. Litt. Pat. 
 p. 1486). 
 
 6 WiUiam de Mungay made fine, with other Notts men, in 1200 {Rotuli 
 de Ohlatia, p. 75). His name occurs as tenant in a fine levied in 1203 between 
 him and Alexander, prior of Shelford, concerning lands in Lambecote (Feet 
 of Fines, co. Notts, file 2, no. 26). He was one of the knights and free tenants 
 who made perambulation of the forest of Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Forest) 
 in 1218 (Bundle " De Antiquis Forestis," no. 3, Pub. Rec. Office ; Robert 
 White, Dukery Records, 1904, p. 396). 
 
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 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Alanus films Hunfredi 
 de Eddriceston' dedi et concessi et hac mea present! carta 
 confirmavi Roberto de Nemore et heredibus suis, pro homagio 
 et servicio suo, unam acram terre in Eddricheston' cum 
 pertinentiis, scilicet illam quam Ketelbern tenuit ei et heredibus 
 suis : habendam et tenendam de me et heredibus meis libere 
 et quiete et honorifice, cum omnibus libertatibus in bosco, 
 in piano, in pratis, in pascuis, in viis, in semitis et exitibus ; 
 reddendo inde michi et heredibus meis ille et heredes sui iij. 
 denarios annuatim pro omni servicio mihi pertinente, scUicet 
 iij. obolos ad festum Sancti Michaelis et iij. obolos ad festum 
 Sancte Marie in Marcio. Et ego Alanus et heredes mei 
 prenominatam acram terre Roberto de Nemore et heredibus 
 suis contra omnes gentes warantizabimus. 
 
 His testibus : WiUelmo de Eddriceston' ; Alano de 
 Bladis ; Bemerio de Nemore ; Elia de Logeleia ; Mcholao 
 de Burleia ; et aliis. 
 
 Seal in white wax, with fleur-de-lys (?). Inscription: + SiG 
 
 .... AliAJJI ITLl' HUNF. 
 
 [c. 1200] — Grant by Hugh de Essebroc to EUas the lead- 
 smith of Essebroc [in the lordship of Kingsbury, co. Warwick], 
 of land near Hugh's park of Kinesberi [Kingsbury]. 
 
 Sciant omnes presentes et futuri, quod ego Hugo de 
 Essebroc dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi 
 Helye Plumbifabro de Essebroc, et heredibus suis, pro 
 homagio et servitio suo, septem acras et unam rodam terre 
 in meo novo sarto, que jacent juxta parcum de Kinesberi, 
 cum omnibus pertinentiis suis : habendas et tenendas de 
 me et heredibus meis sibi et heredibus suis jure hereditario, 
 libere et qui[e]te et honorifice, cum omnibus libertatibus, 
 communis, et aisiamentis ; reddendo inde annuatim michi 
 et heredibus meis Ule et heredes sui octodecim denarios ad 
 duos terminos anni, scilicet ad festum Sancti Johannis 
 Baptiste novem denarios et ad festum Sancti Michaelis novem 
 denarios pro omni servitio, exactione, rebus et demandis 
 michi et heredibus meis pertinentibus inperpetuum. Et 
 totam predictam terram poterit predictus Helyas claudere et 
 fossare, prout melius sibi viderit expedire. Ego vero et 
 heredes mei totam prefatam terram cum omnibus pertinentiis 
 suis warantizabimus prefato Helye et heredibus suis contra 
 omnes homines et omnes feminas et calumpnias inperpetuum. 
 Pro hac autem donatione et concessione et warantizatione 
 dedit michi predictus Helyas Plumbifaber pre manibus duas 
 marcas argenti. Et ut hec mea donatio et concessio prescripta 
 rata, stabiMs et inconvulsa permaneat, sigilli mei appositione 
 corroboravi. 
 
 His testibus : Waltero Funwi, Roberto de Plum tun', Ada 
 de Broggrave, Simone pincerna, Johanne de Kingesford', 
 Rob erto de Benethley,^ WiUelmo filio Godefridi de Hurl ey, ^ 
 
 1 Bentley, co. Warwick. 
 
 2 Hurley, parish of Kingsbury, co. Warwick. 
 
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 Toma Alio Ade de Essebi, Willelmo le Waleys, et multis aliis. 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [o. 1200]— Grant by John de Bracebruge to Simon de 
 Blackgrave [Blackgreave, parish of Lea Marston, co. Warwick] 
 of the lands granted by his ancestors to Simon's in le 
 Bromicroft [Broomy Croft, parish of Kingsbury, co. Warwick]. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Johannes de Brace- 
 bruge concessi et hac present! karta confirmavi Simoni de 
 Blacgrave, pro homagio et servicio suo, totam terram quam 
 antecessores mei suis antecessoribus dederunt, scilicet totum 
 le Bromicroft, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis, et duodecim 
 acras prati sub dive ad predictum croftum pertinentes, et 
 unam holmam infra aquas contentam ad idem croftum per- 
 tinentem ; illi et heredibus suis tenendum et habendum de 
 me et heredibus meis inperpetuum, libere et quiete, pacifice 
 et honorifiee, cum omnibus aisiamentis ad prenominatam 
 terram pertinentibus ; reddendo inde annuatim ille et heredes 
 sui michi et heredibus meis pro omni servicio et seculari 
 exactione ad me et ad heredes meos pertinente tres solidos 
 ad duos terminos, scilicet ad festum Sancte Marie in Marcio 
 octodecim denarios, ad festum Sancti MichaeUs octodecim 
 denarios. Et ut hec mea concessio et confirmacio rata et 
 inconcussa permaneat, eam presentis scripti testimonio et 
 sigilli mei impressione munivi. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Hugone de Essebroc, Roberto de Pluntun, 
 Walter o Fundu, Willelmo de Hurnlee, Roberto de Brace- 
 bruge, Willelmo de Insula, Johanne de Blacgrave, Johanne 
 filio Ingrit, Godefrei de Kinisbiris, et multis aliis. 
 
 Equestrian seal in ivhite wax ; inscription worn away. 
 
 [c. 1200] — Grant by Hugh de Essebroc to Simon de Blaggreve 
 in marriage with the donor's sister of land in Blochkeley 
 [? in Kingsbury or Lea Marston, co. Warwick]. 
 
 Sciant omnes presentes et futuri, quod ego Hugo de 
 Essebroch dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi 
 Symoni de Blaggreve cum Felicia, sorore mea, in maritagium 
 triginta acras terre in Blochkeley, cum omnilsus pertinentiis 
 suis, scilicet illas quas Willelmus, pater predicti Symonis, 
 tenuit de me. Preterea dedi eidem Symoni illam croftam cum 
 mora, quam WiUelmus filius Swein tenuit de me. Habendas et 
 tenendas libere et quiete, bene et pacifice de me et heredibus 
 meis sibi et herecfibus suis, quos de predicta sorore mea 
 Felicia habiturus est ; reddendo inde annuatim michi et 
 heredibus meis Ule et heredes sui octo solidos ad tres terminos, 
 scilicet ad festum Sancti Michaelis triginta duos denarios, et 
 ad festum Beate Marie in Marcio triginta duos denarios, et 
 ad festum Sancti Johannis Baptiste triginta duos denarios, 
 pro omnibus servitiis ad me vel ad heredes meos pertinentibus, 
 salvo forinseco servitio. Hanc autem donationem et con- 
 firmacionem ego et heredes mei warantizabimus predicto 
 Simoni et heredibus suis contra omnes homines et omnea 
 
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 calumpnias inperpetuum. Et ut hec omnia predicta rata et 
 inconcussa permaneant, ea sigilli mei inpressione signavi. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Radvdfo filio Radulfi, Johanne de Langedon, 
 Adam de CruddewT:thie,i Roberto fratre ejusdem, Rogero de 
 Kotes, Roberto de Clive, et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1200] — Grant by John de Bracebruge to Peter son of 
 William the Reeve, in free marriage with Agnes, daughter 
 of Ralph the Chaplain of Sutton [Coldfield, co. Warwick], 
 of land in Holtto [Holt, in Whateley, parish of Kingsbury, 
 CO. Warwick]. 
 
 Sciant omnes tarn presentes quam futuri, quod ego 
 Johannes de Bracebruge dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta 
 mea confirmavi Petro filio Willelmi propositi, in liberum 
 maritagium cum Agnete fiha Radulfi capellani de Suttone, 
 pro homagio et servicio suo, unam virgatam terre in Holtto, 
 cum omnibus pertinentiis suis, iUam scilicet quam Levewinus 
 de Holtto ibidem tenuit, et unam acram prati, cum omnibus 
 pertinentiis suis, in prato de Bradeford, illam videlicet quam 
 Rogerus de eodem Holtto tenuit : habendas et tenendas 
 cum omnibus pertinentiis suis et cum omnibus libertatibus 
 in bosco et piano, in viis et semitis, in aquis, et in omnibus 
 locis et ad capiendum in bosco meo necessaria ad hushote 
 et ad haihote sibi et heredibus suis de me et heredibus meis 
 jure hereditario, bene, pacifice, honorifice, et integre, hbere 
 et quiete in perpetuum ; reddendo inde annuatim duos 
 sohdos esterhngorum ipsi et heredes eorum in perpetuum 
 abbatie et monachis de Miravalle^ ad lumen ecclesie ad duos 
 terminos, scilicet ad festum Sancti MichaeHs duodecim 
 denarios et ad Annunciationem Beate Marie duodecim 
 denarios, pro omnibus rebus et demandis, salvo forinseco 
 servicio. Et ego et heredes mei warantizabimus omnia 
 prenominata predictis Petro et Agneti et heredibus eorum in 
 perpetuum contra omnes homines et omnes calumpnias. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Willelmo de Hardrideshul,^ Roberto filio 
 ejus, Radulfo fiHo Radulfi, Waltero Fuwdwi, Hugone de 
 Essebroc, Roberto de Plumtone, Radulfo capellano, Magistro 
 Symone* de Blacgreve, et multis aliis. 
 
 Equestrian seal in white wax, much worn. 
 
 [c. 1200] — Grant by Adam son of Alan de Wesehamtorpe 
 to Roger de Frevile, of Wehngham [Wellingham, co. Norfolk], 
 of land in Weseham [Weaseriham, co. Norfolk]. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Adam filius Alani de 
 Weseham torpe dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta mea 
 confirmavi Rogero de Frevile^, de Welingham, quatuor acras 
 
 1 Curdworth, near Kingsbury, co. Warwick. 
 
 2 Merevale abbey, co. Warwick. 
 
 2 Hartshill, parish of Mancetter, co. Warwick. 
 
 * Symone, repeated in original. 
 
 5 Roger de Frievill brought an assize of novel disseisin in 1225 against 
 Earl Waremie concerning a tenement in Wynebodesham [Wimbotsham], co. 
 Norfolk (Rot. Liu. Pat., p. 79a). 
 
 M 4 
 
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 terre in campia de Weseham : scilicet, ij. acras que jacent 
 in Cranedele, inter terram Rogeri filii Mathei at terram 
 Ascilie vidua ; at j. acram at dimidiam parcatam ad Assies 
 Crundel, qua jaeant inter terram predicta Ascilie et terram 
 Elfnoth ; et iij. percatas et dimidiam percatam_ super 
 Qvarnaulond, qua jaeant inter feudum Hamonis Biuirt et 
 feudum Rogeri filii Ernive ; illi et heredibus suis, vel 
 cuicunque dare vel assingnare voluerit, ad tenendum de me 
 et heredibus meis in feudo et hareditate libere et quiete et 
 per liberum servicium ; inde reddendo annuatim mihi et 
 heredibus mais unum denarium, scilicet ad Pentecosten, et 
 ad scutagium Domini Regis quando vanarit ad xx. solidos 
 unum obolum, et ad plus plus, et ad minus minus, pro 
 omnibus sarviciis et consuetudinibus et exactionibus. Et 
 pro hac autem donatione at concessione et carte mee 
 confirmationa, pradictus Rogarus devenit affidatus mens et 
 dedit mihi xx. sohdos in gersum[a]. Et ego predictus Adam 
 et heredes mai warantizabimus pradictam terram predicto 
 Rogaro et heredibus suis per predictum servicium contra 
 omnes homines. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Radulf o Extraneo ; Mathao de Greinestun ; 
 Roberto de Sallei ; Roger da (sic) filio Ascilie de Weseham ; 
 Rogero filio Ernive ; Alan fiUo Sagrim ; Johanna filio 
 Lamberti ; Rogero fiUo Mathei ; Osberto fiho Ade ; Alano 
 filio Fulcher ; Hugona filio Maira ; et multis aliis. 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1200]— Grant by Malcolm da Harleia [Harley, co. Salop] 
 to Robert Malherbe of a messuage in Wonlochia [Much 
 Wanlock, co. Salop]. 
 
 Sciant qui sunt at qui futuri sunt, quod ago Malcolmus de 
 Harleia, 2 consensu et assansu uxoris mea et omnium heredum 
 meorum, dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta mea cum 
 sigillo meo confirmavi Roberto Malherbe, ^ pro homagio et 
 servicio suo, masuagium meum in Wonlochia, quod est inter 
 domum Edijja pualla et murum ab[b]acie, cum pertinentiis et 
 hbertatibus suis, sibi et heredibus suis, tenendum de ma et 
 de heredibus meis in faudo et hareditate, libere et quiete 
 de omni exactione, in pace et honorifice, pro omni servitio 
 annuatim inde reddendo michi et heredibus meis ad festum 
 Sancti Michaehs xij. danarios. Ut autem ad hanc here- 
 ditariam pervenirat donationam, jam dictus Robertus dedit 
 michi duas marcas argenti. Ego etiam Malcolmus et 
 haradas mei warantizabimus predicto Roberto et heredibus 
 suis predictum masuagium contra omnes homines et feminas. 
 Preterea ego et heredes mei concessimus sepedicto Roberto 
 
 1 SaU, CO. Norfolk. 
 
 '^ Malcolm de Harley occurs between 1180 and 1209 (Eyton, Shrop- 
 shire, iii., p. 294). He was succeeded as lord of Harley by William de Harley, 
 f on and heir of Robert Malherve (the Bobert Malherbe of this charter) before 
 
 1221, in which year William was vouched to warrant to John eon of 
 
 a messuage in Wenlock (probably the one conveyed by this charter) that 
 had been granted to John by the said Robert (Eyton, vi., p. 233). 
 
 3 See preceding note. 
 
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 omnes assias suas in boseo meo de Harleia et heredibus 
 suis, scilicet pascuam omnium generum animalium suorum, 
 et vj. porcos quietos de pannagio. Si autem major fuerit 
 Humerus, dabit michi pro porcis supra vj. predictis sicut 
 ceteri liberi homines mei. Concessimus insuper ligna ei de 
 bosco meo quantum indiget ad focum suum. Ut autem hec 
 donatio mea rata sit et inconcussa, banc presentis scripti 
 et sigilli mei munimine roboravi. 
 
 His testibus : Warino de Burwardesl[eia], i Willelmo filio 
 ejus, Warnerio de Wilileia,^ Rogero de Becgeshowre,' 
 Stephano filio ejus, Hugonis de Lega, Menone de Dudit[ona],* 
 Rogero Baret, Waltero de Prestedene, Idnardo Janitore, 
 Brutone, et multis aliis. 
 
 Good impression of the equestrian seal of the donor, with the 
 inscription : Sigillvm Malcolm[i de HarlJbe. 
 
 [1201, March 2J— = Charter of King John granting to WiUiam 
 de Stutevill licence to enclose and fortify his houses at 
 Cotyngeham and Buttercram [Cottingham and Butter 
 Crambe, co. York]. 
 
 Johannes, Dei gracia, rex Angl[ie], dominus Hibernie, dux 
 Norm[annie], Aquit[anie], comes Andeg[avie], archiepiscopis, 
 episcopis, abbatibus, comitibus, baronibus, justiciis, vice- 
 comitibus, prepositis, ministris, et omnibus ballivis et 
 fidelibus suis, salutem. 
 
 Sciatis, quod nos dedimus et concessimus Willelmo de 
 Estuteviir licenciam claudendi et firmandi domoa suas de 
 Cotjmg'ham et de Buttercram, prohibentes ne quia eum super 
 hoc disturbet. 
 
 Testibua : Willelmo, comite Sarisbyr', G. filio Petri, 
 comite Essex[ie], Hugone Bardulf, Petro de Pratell[is], 
 Symone de Pat«shull'. 
 
 Dat[a] per manum Symonis archidiaconi Wellensis. Apud 
 Eboracum, ij. die Martii, anno regni nostri secundo. 
 
 Fragment of great seal in green wax. 
 
 [Enrolled on Charter Roll, p. 89a, where the former name 
 appears as Totyngham.] 
 
 [c. 1220] — Grant by Brian de Inaula* to William Basset of 
 100s. yearly from the miU of Duffeld [Duffield, co. Derby], 
 doing therefor the sixtieth part of a knight'a fee. 
 
 Witnesses: Geoffrey de Nevill, the king's chamberlain,' John de 
 
 1 Broseley, co. Salop. 
 
 2 Willey, CO. Salop. 
 
 3 Badger, co. Salop. 
 
 * Dodington {? parish of Cleobury Mortimer, co. Salop). 
 
 5 This grant is referred to by Roger of Hoveden, iv., p. 117, under the 
 year 1200. 
 
 6 Brian de Insula, an important official of King John, survived until 
 1234 {Close Bolls, p. 512). He was Keeper of Sherwood forest. 
 
 7 Geoffrey de Neville was chamberlain as early as 1207 (Rot. Litterarum 
 Clausarum, i. p. 90a). He is referred to as living on 8 December, 1225 (lb. 
 ii. 87b), but as dead on 27 of that month (lb. ii. 90b). See Diet, of Nat. 
 Biography, xli. p. 251. 
 
6t 
 
 Nevill,^ his son, Master Alexander de Dorset', " Robert Lupus,', 
 Henry de Monte Alto, John de Ken, Raimbald de Moritibus, 
 Walter {Gu[a\ltero) de Castellis, Master Roger de Essex', 
 John de Essex', William de Gilling', John de Walkingham, 
 Richard de Monte Alto, Thomas de Scoteny, Walter de 
 Termes, Robert de Bailloil, Geoffrey Pincerna. 
 
 Seal in green wax, with inscription and shield bearing a 
 canton, a crescent in the sinister chief and another one in base. 
 
 [c. 1210] — Grant by Dionisius, abbot, and the convent of 
 Cerne [co. Dorset] to Robert son of Hugh de Blockesworth 
 of land, etc., in Blockesworth [Blocksworth, co. Dorset]. 
 
 Omnibus Christi iidelibus, ad quos presens scriptum per- 
 venerit, Dionisius, Dei gracia, abbas Cernel[ensis],* et ejus- 
 dem loci conventus, salutem in Domino. 
 
 Noverit universitas vestra, nos unanimi consilio con- 
 cessisse et dedisse Roberto filio Hugonis de Blockesworth' 
 et heredibus suis, pro homagio et servicio suo, mesuagium 
 et curtillagium cum dimidia virgata terre, quam (sic) Sampson 
 capellanus tenuit, in villa de Blockesworth', scilicet in uno 
 campo octo acras et dimidiam, et in alio campo octo acras : 
 habenda et tenenda sibi et heredibus suis jure hereditario, 
 cum omnibus pertinenciis suis et libertatibus et liberis 
 consuetudinibus, libere et quiete, de nobis et successoribus 
 nostris ; reddendo inde annuatim nobis et successoribus 
 nostris duos solidos sterUnggorum pro omni servicio et 
 exaccione, salvo servicio domini regis, ad quatuor anni 
 terminos, scilicet ad Natale Domini sex denarios, ad ter- 
 minum Pasche sex denarios, ad festum Sancti Petri ad 
 Vincula sex denarios, ad festum Sancti Michaelis sex denarios, 
 et conventui ad festum Sancti Nicholai duodecim denarios. 
 Et ut hec donacio et concessio rata et inconcussa permaneat, 
 sigillorum nostrorum duximus munimine confirmanda. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Andrea de Winterborn', Roberto filio 
 Thome, Henrico de Litleton', Waltero de Stok', Thoma filio 
 Thome, Roberto filio Willelmi, Radulfo de Hungerford', Ada 
 
 1 John de Nevill made fine with the king in 1216 arid also had a charter 
 of faithful service [Rot. de Finibus, p. 571). 
 
 2 Alexander de Dorset was joint-keeper with Brian de Insula in 1205 
 of land taken into the king's hands for waste of the forest {Rot. de Finibus, 
 p. 317), and was with the king in 1216 {Id., p. 371). He appears as an ex- 
 chequer ofl&cial early in the reign of Henry III. (Madox, Hist, of Exchequer, 
 i, pp. 389, note g, 707, note h, ii, p. 134, note r). He died in or before March, 
 1233 {Excerpta e Rotulis Finium, i, p. 239). 
 
 3 Robert Lupus made fine in 1201 for having scutage in co. Notts 
 (Rot. de Oblatis, p. 153), and was a surety in 1205 and 1207 (Id., pp. 241, 
 401). In 1213 Ralph de Greseley makes fine that he may marry his sister- 
 in-law to Robert Lupus (Id., p. 507 ; Pipe RoU, 16 John, ro. 15). 
 
 * An undated release by Abbot Dionisius and the Convent of Ceme is 
 enrolled in 1206 (Rot. Lift. Pat., 646), and the abbot is mentioned in 1207 
 (Rot. Chart., p. 1706). He also occurs in two fines of 6 John {Fines sive 
 Pedes Finium, ii., 94). In 1208-9 he answered for the ferm of the two 
 hundreds of Modbere and Totecumbe under Somerset and Dorset (Pipe Roll, 
 11 John, ro. 9). He resigned before 12 February, 1220 (Monaaticon, ii,. 
 "p. 623). 
 
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 le Frere, Hugone Dagun, Roberto Pinc[erna], Henrico clerico, 
 Roberto clerico, et multis aliis. 
 Seal missing, 
 
 [c. 1210]— Grant by the same to Robert de Blockesworth of 
 two acres in Blockesworth in exchange. 
 
 Notum sit omnibus, ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit, 
 quod ego Dionisius, divina miseracione, abbas de Cern', et 
 ejusdem loci conventus dedimus et concessimus, et hac carta 
 nostra confirmavimus Roberto de Blockesworth' et heredibus 
 suis duas acras de dominico nostro in Blockesworth' simul 
 jacentes in cultura, que vocatur ' La Wortha,' in eschambium 
 pro una acra jacente juxta Bernardesleg' in parte boriali. 
 Et ut hoc perpetue firmitatis robur optineat, huic scripto 
 sigUla nostra apposuimus. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Magistro Waltero de Well' ; Roberto filio 
 Thome ; Thoma filio Thome ; Radulfo de Hungerford' ; 
 Ricardo Pincerna ; Adam Freynell' ; Henrico clerico ; et 
 multis aUis. 
 
 Seed missing. 
 
 [c. 1210] — Grant by the same to the same of land in Riston 
 [Tarrant Rushton, co. Dorset]. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Dion[y8ius], abbas 
 Cern', et ejusdem loci conventus dedimus et concessimus 
 Roberto de Blok[eswurd], pro homagio et servicio suo, duas 
 acras prati et unum ham^ in Riston de feodo Agnetis le 
 Sauvage : habendas et tenendas sibi et heredibus suis 
 imperpetuum libere et quiete ab omni servicio et exactione, 
 salvo regali et forinseco ; reddendo inde annuatim Conventui 
 Cern' unam Hbram cumini in festo Sancti Michaehs. Et ut 
 hec nostra donacio et concessio firma sit et stabiUs, eam 
 presenti carta et sigillis nostris confirmavimus. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Henrico de Heddon' ; Magistro Alvredo de 
 Symon' ; Radulfo de Hunger[ford] ; Ricardo pincerna ; 
 Hugone Dagun ; Malgero de Balun ; et aliis multis. 
 
 [c. 1210] — Deed of exchange by Robert Belet, son of WiUiam 
 Belet, with Ralph Belet, his uncle, of land in Winterbome 
 [Winterbome Steepleton, formerly Winterbome Belet, co. 
 Dorset"]. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Rodbertus Belet, 
 fihus Willelmi Belet, quoddam feci esscambium Raddulfo 
 Belet, advunculo^ meo, de duabus acris prati, que appellantur 
 ' Leureiacres,' et jacent in orientah parte de Cheterhulbrigge, 
 inter pratum regis et La dreve, propter duas acras terre 
 excolende, quas Raddulfus Belet, advunculus mens, dedit 
 mihi in esscambium predictarum acrarum prati de terra sua 
 in Winterbome, illas scihcet super montem viciniores terre 
 prioris de Fromton'* in eadem Winterborn' versus orientem, 
 
 1 A meadow. See New English Dictionary, s.v. ' Ham, 2. ' 
 
 2 See Hutchins, Dorset, iii., p. 337. 
 
 3 Adwmyulo, MS. 
 
 * The alien priory of Frampton, oo. Dorget, 
 
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 et tendentes ex uno capite super terram Willelmi Lude. Ego 
 vero dictus Rodbertus Belet et heredes mei predicto Rad- 
 dulfo Belet et heredibus suis predictas acras prati contra 
 omnes homines et contra omnes feminas warantizare debemus. 
 Propter hoc esscambium dedit mihi sepe dictus R[addulfus], 
 advunculus meus, x. solidos sterhngorum. Et in hujus 
 esscambii testimonium, sigilli mei corroboracionem presenti 
 scripto apposui. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Alwredo de Nichol'^ ; Rogero MarteP ; 
 Willelmo de Wodeghete^ ; Therico de Werdesford'* ; Phihppo 
 German' ; Willelmo Lude ; Nicholao de Ponsot^ ; et multis 
 aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1210] — Grant by Godfrey Angevin to Fulk de Ludham of 
 land [? in Lowdham, co. Notts]. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Godefridus Angevin^ 
 dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi Fulconi 
 de Ludham,' pro homagio suo et servitio, totum illud pratum 
 quod jacet in kerra* juxta pratum canonicorum de Seleford,* 
 quod Simon de Horsepol de me aliquando tenuit : tenendum 
 de me et de heredibus meis sibi et heredibus suis libere et 
 quiete et hereditarie ; reddendo inde annuatim michi et 
 heredibus meis pro omni servitio et exactione et demanda 
 duos soUdos, scilicet ad Inventionem Sancte Crucis duo- 
 decim denarios et ad festum Sancti Martini duodecim 
 denarios. Et ego et heredes mei predictum pratum predicto 
 Fulconi et heredibus suis contra omnes homines waran- 
 tizabimus. Pro hac donatione mea et concessione dedit 
 
 1 Lincoln. 
 
 2 Geoffrey Martel returned in 1166 that he had given to Roger, his 
 brother, a quarter of a knight's fee in Dorset (Red Book, i., p. 217 ; Liber 
 Niger, p. 82). 
 
 3 Woodyates, co. Dorset. William de Wudiet, Wodeiate, Wudiahate, 
 rendered scutage for one knight's fee under Somerset and Dorset in 1201-2 
 (Pipe RoUs, 3 John, ro. 5 ; Red Book, i., p. 154), and made fine in that year to 
 have scutage in that county (RotuU de Ohlatis, p. 160). In 1166 Walter de 
 Wodiectune, Wodiettune (an erroneous extension of Wodief in the original 
 returns ?) held a knight's fee of Alvred de Lincoln in the said county (Red 
 Book, i., p. 215 ; Liber Niger, p. 80). 
 
 * Woodsford, co. Dorset, in which Robert Belet held in 1209-10, 1210- 
 11 one knight's fee (Red Book, ii., p. 545). 
 
 6 Robert de Punsholte is returned in 1166 as holding knights' fees in 
 Somerset (Red Book, i., p. 234 ; Liber Niger, p. 101). Nicholas de Ponsoud 
 (printed Ponsont) and his wife Sibyl confirmed a grant of and to the church 
 of Mappowder, co. Dorset (Hutchins, Dorset, iii., p. 729), and Nicholas de 
 Ponsout was concerned in a suit relating to land at Mappeldr' [Mappowder] 
 in 1220-1 (Pipe RoUs, 5 Hen. III., ro. 5, Somerset and Dorset). Nicholas de 
 Punsot (printed Punsoc) held lands in Wilts in 1229 (Patent Rolls, 1225- 
 1232, p. 303). 
 
 8 Renders account for pannage and for scutage in Pipe RoU for Notts 
 and Derby in 1213-14, and 1218-19 and 1220-1, 16 John, ro. 15, 3 Henry IIL, 
 ro. 8, and 5 Henry III., ro. 5. 
 
 ^ Lowdham, co. Notts. 
 
 * ' Car,' a term applied to the low-lying meadows by the Trent. Cf. 
 Wright's Dialect Dictionary, ' Car ' sb. 1. The ' Ker ' at Gunthorpe is men- 
 tioned in a deed temp. Henry II. in Thoroton, p. 288o, which is possibly 
 the same Car as the one mentioned in this deed. 
 
 9 ^heUord, co. Notts. 
 
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 michi Fulco predictus sex capones in gersumam. Et ut hec 
 donatio mea firma permaneat, illam sigilli mei munimine 
 roboravi. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Eustachio de Ludham,i Waltero filio ejus, 
 Roberto de Raveningham, Roberto filio sacerdotis, Willelmo 
 de Sibethorp,^ Thoma filio Roberti, Hugone de Hulvestorp,^ 
 WiUelmo fratre ejus, Andrea filio MatSUde, GUeberto filio 
 Winemer de Gunolvestune,* et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal with fleur-de-lys ; inscription illegible. 
 
 [c. 1210] — Confirmation by Nicholas de Derleton to John 
 the Chaplain of Ludham of the sale to John made by Alice, 
 daughter of Thurstan, of her inheritance [? in Darlton or 
 Lowdham, co. Notts] in order to marry Nicholas. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod Nicolaus de Derleton, ^ 
 juramento prestito et carte mee compositione cum sigilli mei 
 appositions, ratificavi et confirmavi Johanni Capellano de 
 Ludham et heredibus suis et suis [assignatis] totam ven- 
 dicionem, quam Alicia filia Turstani, ad se mihi marita[n]dam, 
 de hereditate sua dioto Johanni fecit, et sub eadem obligacione 
 juramenti et carte mee confirmacione ego dictus Nicolaus 
 et heredes mei totam venditionem suam de terra, que fuit 
 Turstani, patris sui, et Alicie, matris [sue], dicto Johanni et 
 heredibus suis et suis assignatis contra omnes homines imper- 
 petuum warantizabimus. Et ut hec warantizacio et con- 
 firmatio stabilis permaneat, presentem cartam sigilli mei 
 appoticione roboravi. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Domino Waltero de Ludham, milite ; 
 Johanne fiho ejus ; Willelmo de Sybetorp ; Ricardo de 
 Kuitona* ; Willelmo filio Roberti de Ravenigham ; Andrea 
 fratre suo ; H[enr]ico de Marcam' ; Roberto filio Martini ; 
 Rogero filio Duranni^ ; Roberto Pinzard ; Alano Pisscatore ; 
 et aliis. 
 
 Small round seal. 
 
 [1213-14] — Grant by prior R. and the convent of Lenton 
 to Alan son of Robert del Wal of land in Sutton [Sutton 
 Passeys,* co. Notts]. 
 
 Universis, ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit, Frater R., 
 prior de Lenton, et ejusdem loci conventus, salutem in 
 Domino. 
 
 Noverit universitas vestra, nos unanimi assensu et com- 
 muni voluntate concessisse et presenti carta nostra con- 
 firmasse Alano fiUo Roberti del Wal' quatuor acras terre 
 
 ■1 Under-sheriff of Notts and Derby in 1213-14. See above 
 39, note 1. 
 
 2 Sibthorpe, co. Notts. 
 
 3 Woolsthorpe, parish of Lowdham. See page :3i), note 0, above. 
 * Gonalstone, co. Notts. 
 6 Darlton, co. Notts. 
 
 6 For Kniuetona (Kjiiveton) ? 
 
 7 Markham, oo. Notts. 
 
 8 For Durcmdi. 
 
 9 A vanished village, mainly within the present VVoUaton Park. 
 
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 Cum pertinenciis in Sutton', illas scilicet quas Magister 
 Radulfus, persona de Lindeby, ei dedit de feodo nostro : 
 habendum et tenendum dicto Alano et heredibus suis vel 
 suis assignatis et eorum heredibus secundum tenorem carte, 
 quam habet de dicto Radtilfo. Ut hec autein concessio 
 et confirmacio perpetuitatis robur obtineat, presens scriptum 
 sigillo nostro et sigillo capituli nostri confirmavimus. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Eustachio de Ludeham, tunc Vicecomite 
 Notingham'i ; Rogero Britone, tunc Constabulario^ ; Philippo 
 de Stretleg'^ ; Hugone de Stretleg' ; Roberto le Vavasur ; 
 Hugone de Stapilford ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1215] — Grant by Roger de Plesele [Pleasley, co. Derby] 
 to Elias de Martini* of all his land in Wilhebi [Willoughby-on- 
 the-Wolds, CO. Notts]. 
 
 Sciant omnes presentes et futuri, quod ego Rogerus de 
 Plesele dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi 
 Helye de Martini, pro humagio suo et servicio, totam 
 terram meam de Wilhebi, cum omnibus pertinenciis et liber- 
 tatibus eidem terra pertinentibus in eadem villa, sciHcet 
 duodecim bovatas terre : habendas et tenendas illi et 
 heredibus suis in feodo et hereditate de me et heredibus meis 
 libere, honorifice et quiete ; reddendo inde annuatim michi 
 et heredibus meis unam marcam argenti ad festum Sancti 
 Martini pro omni servicio ad me vel ad heredes meos per- 
 tinente, salvo forisseco {sic) servicio. Et pro donacione hac 
 et confirmacione, dedit michi memoratus Helyas octo marcas 
 argenti de gersum. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Philippo Marco, vicecomite, ^ Johanne 
 Deincurt, Henrico de Strettona, Roberto Britone, Willelmo 
 de Menil, Willelmo Pite, Waltero de Estueit, Eustachio de 
 Mortein, Willelmo de Habetot, Willelmo de Strettona, et 
 multis aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1215] — Grant by Adam de Molesworth to Sir Richard 
 de Bello Campo of a messuage in Stapelho [Stapelhoe, parish 
 of Eaton Socon, co. Bedford]. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod Ada de Molesworth con- 
 cessi et quietum clamavi Domino Ricardo de Bello Campo 
 mesagium iUud cum crofto, quod Domina Cecilia tenuit in 
 Stapelho : tenendum et habendum sibi, vel cui assignare 
 
 1 Eustace de Ludeham (see page 39, note 1, above) was acting Sheriff 
 under PhiUp Marc in 1213-14 (10 John). 
 
 2 Evidently deputy-Constable of Nottingham castle. Philip Mgro, 
 the sheriff, was then constable. 
 
 3 Philip de Stradleg' was granted 49«. from the mills of Burg', under 
 cos. Notts and Derby in 1196-7 (Pipe Roll, 9 Richard I., ro. 10). 
 
 ■* EUas de Marteny made fine in 1204 to have seisin of his lands in 
 Wilts and Notts of which he had been disseised by reason of [the war in] 
 Normandy {Rotuli de Finibits, p. 204). He was amerced in 1219-20 (Pipe 
 Roll, 4 Henry III., ro. 11, Notts and Derby). 
 
 6 Philip Marc was Sheriff of Nottingham and Derby from 1209-10 to 
 1223-4. 
 
57 
 
 voluerit, libere et quiete inperpetuum. Pro hac autem 
 quieta clamancia dedit mihi predictus Ricardus xv. solidos 
 sterlingorum. Et ut hec quieta clamancia rata sit et stabilis, 
 presens scriptum sigilli mei apposicione co[r]oboravi. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Willelmo de Chauton' ; Galfrido de 
 Newenton ; Roberto Hardi ; Henrico Pigun ; Ricardo filio 
 Persone ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1215] — Grant by Geo£frey son of John de Levedale to 
 William son of Stephen de Levedale of land in Levedale 
 [Levedale, parish of Penkridge, co, Stafford], 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Galfridus filius 
 Johannis de Levedale dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta 
 mea confirmavi Willelmo fiUo Stephani de Levedale et 
 heredibus suis, vel cui assignare voluerit, pro homagio et 
 servicio suo, sex acras terre et unum pratum in Levedale ; 
 videUcet, unam acram terre ad Brademor, et unam dimidiam 
 acram terre super Walisingfordesforlang, et unam dimidiam 
 [acram] terre super Cleyhul apud Mutton*, et unam dimidiam 
 acram terre super Cleyhul apud Preston^, et unam dimidiam 
 acram terre, que extendit en Westem(er), et unam dimidiam 
 acram ter[r]e super le Sutthedis, et unam dimidiam acram 
 terre super Adelaweforlange, et unam dimidiam acram terre 
 super Ruecrofte, et unum phither" juxta Adelawehet, et unum 
 phither super Croeneste, et unam dimidiam acram terre 
 super Holmum, et unam dimidiam acram terre super le 
 Burie, et unam acram terre dimidiam super le Wideforlang, 
 et unam dimidiam waram prati juxta le He* : tenendas et 
 habendas libere, integre, quiete et honorifice in omnibus 
 libertatibus et communi[bu]s aisiamentis predicte terre per- 
 tinentibus ; reddendo inde annuatim predicto Galfrido et 
 heredibus suis tres denarios ad duos terminos ad festum 
 Sancti MichaeUs iii. ob., ad festum Beate Marie in Marcio 
 iii. ob., pro omni servicio et demanda, salvo forinseco 
 servicio. Pro hac autem donatione habenda dedit predictus 
 WUlelmus predicto Galfrido xi. solidos argenti ad ingressum. 
 Et predictus Galfridus et heredes sui warentizabunt pre- 
 dictam donationem predicto Willelmo et cui assignare voluerit 
 contra omnes homines et feminas. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Hugone in Cimiterio ; Roberto filio 
 Hugonis ; Roberto filio Matild[e] ; Ricardo filio Rioardi ; 
 Henrico persona ; et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1220] — Grant from Laurence,* prior of Selford [Shelford, 
 CO. Notts], and the convent of the same to Geoffrey, the 
 
 1 Mitton, parish of Penkridge. 
 
 2 Preston, parish of Penkridge. 
 
 3 A green-balk between the ridges of a ploughed field, marking a 
 division in the open field, or a small ' land ' (sehon) in the field. Cf. English 
 Dialect Dictionary, o. vv. 'Feather, 10', Fither.' 
 
 * Probably for e, ' stream ' (AS. ea). 
 
 6 An addition to the list of priors in the Monatticon, 
 
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 stepson of Helias the Clerk, of the toft that Wlvric Horn 
 held in Selford, and of two acres of arable land in the 
 territorium of the same, to wit half an acre between the 
 street {strata) and the path near the land of Roger the miller ; 
 a ' land ' {sdlionem'] upon Eadmundewong, the one, to wit, that 
 the priory had of the gift of Geoffrey ad Stanbrigg' ; two 
 roods in Pesecroft, one between the land of William the 
 prior's brother and the land of Gilbert Fax, and the other 
 near the land of Ralph the cook ; a rood at Stancrossegate 
 on the upper side ; a rood on Prestinghill' near the land of 
 the said William the prior's brother ; a rood upon Foxinghill' 
 near the land of Robert son of the Lady (Domine) ; ren- 
 dering therefor 3s. yearly. 
 
 Witnesses : Roger de Salicosa Mara^ ; Ralph de Cressi ; 
 Robert Vavassor ; Robert, son of the Lady ; William the 
 prior's brother ; Robert son of Geoffrey. 
 
 Seal missing, 
 
 [c. 1225]— Grant by WiUiam de Claville to Henry, son and 
 heir of Robert de Blockeswurth, in marriage with Amice, 
 his daughter, of bondmen and their holdings [? in Blox- 
 worth, CO. Dorset]. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Willelmus de 
 Claviir, assensu et voluntate Cecilie, uxoris mee, dedi et 
 concessi Henrico, filio et heredi Roberti de Blockeswurth', 
 in liberum maritagium cum Amicia, filia mea, subscripta 
 tenementa, cum hominibus et eorum serviciis ; scilicet 
 terram, quam Eustachius de la Welle tenuit, cum pertinenciis, 
 et eundem Eustachium cum sequela sua ; et terram cum 
 pertinenciis, quam Adam Pruillard tenuit, et eundem Adam 
 cum sequela sua ; et terram cum pertinenciis, quam Ricardus 
 Beorn tenuit, et eundem Ricardum cum sequela sua ; et 
 terram cum pertinenciis, quam Ricardus Spure tenuit ; et 
 terram cum pertinenciis, quam Henricus de Syreford tenuit, 
 et eundem Henricum cum sequela sua ; et terram cum 
 pertinenciis, quam Robertus de Syreford tenuit, et eundem 
 Robertum cum sequela sua ; et terram, quam Walterus Berte 
 tenuit cum pertinenciis, et eundem Walterum, salvis michi 
 et heredibus meis quinque filiis ejusdem Walteri, scilicet 
 Hugone, Alexandre, Willelmo White, Petro, Ricardo ; et 
 servicia Rogeri L'Enveysie et Ade Northovere, et quicquid 
 juris in eis et eorum tenementis habui, vel habere potui ; 
 et duodecim acras terre cum pertinenciis in Gheldelegh', quas 
 Henricus Preke tenuit ; et terram, que fuit Willelmi Tut- 
 sainz cum pertinenciis ; et Willelmum Bacheler cum sequela 
 sua ; habenda et tenenda eidem Henrico et heredibus suis, 
 qui ex predicta Amicia fuerint procreati, libere, quiete et 
 hereditarie, salvo servicio regali quantum ad predictam 
 terram pertinet. Et si forte contigerit, quod dicta 
 
 1 Roger de Saucusemar (Sausseuzemare-en-Caux, Normandy, canton 
 of GoderviUe, arrond. of Havre, dep. of the Sein6-Inf6rieure) witnesses an 
 undated deed of about this date cited in Thoroton, Notts, p. 94'6, 
 
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 Amioia sine herede decesserit — quod Deus avertat ! — omnia 
 predicta tenementa cum hominibus et pertinenciis ad me vel 
 ad heredes meos revertentur. Et ut hec mea donacio rata 
 et stabilis permaneat, earn present! scripto et sigilli mei 
 apposicione confirmavi. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Domino Ricardo, abbate de Cern' ; Henrico 
 de Stokes ; Waltero de Winterborn' ; Roberto de Clavill' ; 
 Waltero de la Fordlane ; Rogero de la Mora ; Roberto de 
 Mordon et Mathia de Winterborn', capellanis ; Willelmo, 
 persona de Cereberge^ ; Philippo de Clavill' ; Petro de Win- 
 born' ; et multis aMis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1225 ?] — Grant by Aucherius, son of William son of 
 Frone de Boneye,'' to God and the hospital of St. Anthony 
 at Lenton', in frankalmoin, of three roods of meadow in 
 the territory of Boneye, lying in a meadow called " Longe- 
 dicdole " between a meadow that belonged to William ChoUe 
 and a meadow that belonged to Hugh son of William, with a 
 turbary adjoining, " tenendas et habendas adeo libere, quiete, 
 et solute sicut aliqua elemosina liberius, quiecius et solucius 
 potest dari." 
 
 Witnesses : Sir Peter de Stanford, Sampson de Leyc, John 
 de Leyc, Robert de Rempeston,^ Martin de Boneye, Thomas 
 son of Fabian, Nicholas le Hayward, William son of Lijiolf. 
 
 Seal in white wax, with a fleur-de-lys. Inscription much 
 worn. 
 
 [c. 1225 ?]—* Grant by William ' filius Dreu de Harum'» 
 to the convent of Wattona of 14 bovates of land that they 
 have of his fee in Briddesal' [Birdsall, co. York]. 
 
 Witnesses : John son of Sir Gilebert de Briddesal' ; Walter 
 Wacelyn ; Richard de Bernevile ; Thomas Wacelyn ; 
 Thomas the chaplain of Hahwrd ; William Wacelyn ; 
 William de Bergtorpe* ; Richard son of Alice de Briddesal' ; 
 William de Boketona' ; John de Maltona ; Ralph the Clerk. 
 
 Seal in red wax with a running hare with floriated back 
 ground. Inscription : + S' Will'i de Harvm. 
 
 [c. 1225 ?]— Grant by Basilia, daughter of Simon Albus of 
 Len' [Ljom co. of Norfolk] to Eudo son of Adam de Len' of her 
 rent from the land and buildings in Len' in Wyngate, lying 
 between the land that belonged to Peter son of Swethman and 
 
 1 Charborough, now merged in the parish of Morden, co. Dorset. 
 
 2 Bunney, co. Notts. 
 
 3 Rempston. co. Notts. 
 
 * This deed is in the chest of Birdsall evidences (see above, page 2, 
 note 8). 
 
 * Harome, co. York. There are several men bearing the name of 
 Drogo (Drew) de Hairum in the Bievaulx Chartulary in the twelfth and 
 thirteenth centuries. One of them held a knight's fee in Yorkshire in 1166 
 imder Everard de Ros {Bed Book, i., p. 432 ; Liber Niger, p. 324). William 
 de Harum is mentioned in the Testa de Nevill, p. 364, 
 
 * Barthorpe, parish of East Acklam. co. York. 
 7 Bocton, CO. York. 
 
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 the land that belonged to Herbert de Bynetre, in breadth and 
 length from the said street to " magna ripa." 
 
 Witnesses : Bartholomew de Belvaco, then mayor of Len', 
 Hugh Lambert, Deodatus de Wyngate, Thomas the Young 
 (Juvene), Geoffrey, his son, John Lemerlay, John de Bedeford, 
 Gilbert Vernun, Richard Lambert, Reginald Lupus. 
 
 There are two other deeds relating to this land. 
 
 [c. 1225]— Grant by Robert de Mainil to Walter de Turgilisbi 
 [Thirkleby, East Riding of co. York] of land in Swavetorp 
 [Swajrthorpe, parish of Kilham, co. York]. 
 
 Omnibus visuris vel audituris cartam istam, Robertus de 
 Mainil,^ salutem. 
 
 Noveritis me concessisse, dediase et hac presenti carta mea 
 confirmasse Waltero de TurgUisbi," filio Thome«de Turgelisbi, 
 et heredibus suis, vel cui assignare voluerit, pro homagio et 
 servicio suo, duas carucatas terre in Swavetorp, cum toftis 
 et croftis, et cum omnibus pertinentiis et libertatibus ev 
 aisiamentis suis, infra viUam et extra, sine uUo retenemento, 
 illas, videlicet, quas Walterus filius Walteri de Torp mihi 
 dedit et carta sua confirmavit pro homagio et servicio meo : 
 tenendas et habendas de me et [heredibus] meis ilh et suis, 
 ita libere et quiete ab omni servicio seculari et exactione sicut 
 ego predictam terram tenui, videlicet, faciendo tantummodo 
 forinsecum servicium quantum pertinet ad duas carucatas 
 terre, unde quindecim carucate terre faciunt feudum unius 
 militis. Et ego et heredes mei warantizabimus predicto 
 Waltero et heredibus suis, vel assignatis ejus, predictam 
 terram cum pertinentiis contra omnes homines in per- 
 petuum. 
 
 Hiis testibus : R. prior[e] de Kyrkeham^ ; RaduUo de 
 
 1 This can hardly be the Robert de Mesnill (Maisnill, Mednill, etc.) 
 who occurs in 1201 (see the note in the Guisbrough Chartulary, Surtees 
 Soc, ii., p. 79), a tenant of the archbishop of Canterbury, to whom the ward- 
 ship of his lands and heirs was granted in 1217 (Rotuli Ghartarum, p. 1736 ; 
 Rot. Liu. Glaus., i., pp. 77. 936). His son was stm a minor in 1219 (Memo- 
 randa Roll, 3 Henry II., cited in Guisbrough Chartulary, Surtees Soc, ii., 
 p. 80 note ; cf. Bot. Lift. Glaus., i., p. 389a). Another Robert de Mesnill 
 returned to the king's allegiance in 1217, and had restitution of his lands 
 {Rot. Litt. Glaus., i., p. 301o, 6) by order to the sheriff of York (Ibid., p. 3756). 
 He was probably the Robert de Mesnill who owned the castle of Huervelton 
 [Whorlton-in-Craven, co. York], which was ordered to be delivered to Hugh 
 de Balliol in 1216 (Rot. Litt. Pat., p. 1646). Robert de MaynUl witnessed 
 a deed in 1227 (Register of Ahp. Qray, Surtees Soc, p. 225, note t)- In 1228 
 an assize of novel disseisin was brought against Robert de Mesnyl concern- 
 ing a tenement in Heninton [co. York ?] (Patent Rolls 1225-1232, p. 280). 
 He was outlawed in 1229 in co. York with other men for killing a man (Glose 
 Rolls 1227-1231, p. 207). His lands in co. Derby were handed over to 
 Matthew de Havereseche LHathersage], the chief lord, in 1230 (Ibid., p. 416), 
 who was a kinsman of an Isabel de Mednill (Excerpta e Rot. Finium, i., p- 
 176). In 1230 Robert de Mednill had letters of protection because he was 
 going in the king's service to parts beyond the sea (Patent Rolls 1225-1232, 
 p. 361). Robert de Menil, son of John de Menil of East Rounton, co. York, 
 was a party to a fine levied in 1257 (Guisborough Chartulary, ii., p. 68). 
 
 2 Cf. Whitby Chartulary, Surtees Soc, pp. 205, 228. 
 
 3 Not mentioned in the list of priors in the Monasticon, vi., p. 207. 
 A prior Richard is mentioned, without any indication of date, in the Bievaul^ 
 Chartulary, pp. 238, 299, 404. 
 
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 Fribii; Thoma de Lutton'*; Thoma de Heselertun^ ; 
 Alano Bonifaz ; Galefrido clerico Gartone* ; Gerardo de 
 Turgelesbi ; Roberto Burser ; Waltero de Wartria^ ; Johanne 
 de Risses* ; et aliis. 
 
 1231. — Agreement between abbot Richard, and the convent 
 of Cerne and Robert de Blockeswrd' concerning rights of 
 common, etc., in Blockeswrd [Bloxworth, co. Dorset]. 
 
 Anno ab Incarnacione Domini M^CC^-XXXI" facta fuit 
 hee conventio inter Ricardum, abbatem de Cern', et ejusdeni 
 loci conventum, ex una parte, et Robertum de Blockeswrd', 
 ex altera parte, super variis querelis inter eos metis, videlicet, 
 quod predicti abbas et conventus concesserunt dicto Roberto 
 et heredibus suis imperpetuum racionabile estuverium suum 
 sine wasto in Goare' et Beorhtlea, per visum servientis vel 
 prepositi de Block[eswrd'] abbatis, ita quod si neuter eorum 
 vocatus adesse voluerit, predictus Robertus capiet racionabile 
 estuverium suum sine wasto, et habebit communam pasture 
 et drovam* in bosco ' de Waterlea cum abbate per totum 
 annum, et nichil aliud ibi habebit. Et postquam fenum 
 abbatis remotum fuerit a pratis de Blockeswrd', habebit 
 communam in Ulis, et ante si abbas sua averia ibi posuerit. 
 Similiter in stipula postquam bladum asportatum fuerit. Et 
 habebit chiminum versus MarecnoUe ad sarclandum et 
 metendum et videndum bladum suum. Et predicti abbas 
 et conventus remiserunt et quietum clamaverunt omne 
 cariagium et scutagium dicto Roberto et heredibus suis 
 Remiserunt etiam omnem calumpniam factam de assarto 
 juxta Waterlea versus austrum, et de particulis acrarum in 
 campo, et de muro et porta et domibus suis, et placea clausa 
 ad austrum domtis sue, salvo abbati et suis chimino soli to. 
 Et tenentes Robert! in villa de Blockeswrd' habebunt com- 
 munam pasture cum hominibus abbatis. Et quando abbas 
 accipit pannagium et herbagium de hominibus suis^ 
 Robertus et heredes sui accipient de suis. Et dictus 
 Robertus remisit et quietam clamavit, pro se et heredibus 
 suis, dictis abbati et conventui totam terram Bruere, quam 
 dicti abbas et conventus recuperaverunt super Robertum de 
 Portun', salva Roberto et heredibus suis communa in eadem 
 Bruera in turbis et bruera et pastura. Et pro hac remissione 
 et quieta clamancia dicti abbas et conventus dederunt 
 dicto Roberto viginti et quinque solidos. Et dictus Robertus 
 reddidit dictis abbati et conventui cartam, quam habuit de 
 illis de eadem bruera. Remisit etiam predictus Robertus, 
 
 1 Firby, oo. York (East Riding). 
 
 2 Lutton, parish of Weaverthorpe, co. York (East Biding). 
 8 Heslerton, co. York (East Riding). 
 
 * Garton-on-the-Wolds, co. York (East Riding). 
 
 6 Warter, co.> York (East Riding). Walter do Wartre witnesses u, 
 charter in 1232 (Whitby Chartulary, Surtees Soc, p. 141, note 7). 
 
 « Rise, CO. York (East Riding). 
 
 7 Gore Fields and Heath, parish of Morden, 
 
 8 The right of (Iriving cattle, 
 
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 pro se et heredibus suis, dictis abbati et conventui totum 
 jus quod habuit, vel habere potuit, in placea ubi Lhoge' site 
 erant tempore gwerre, quas antecessores dicti Roberti 
 levaverunt, et assartum de Bernardeslea. Et ut hec pre- 
 dicta rata sint et firma, abbas et conventus apposuerunt sigilla 
 sua parti cyrographi remanenti dictis Roberto et heredibus 
 suis ; et dictus Robertus apposuit sigillum suum parti cyro- 
 graphi remanenti dictis abbati et conventui. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Alyredo de Nichol' ; Henrico filio Nicholai, 
 tunc Constabulario de Corf ; Jordano Oliver' ; Willelmo de 
 Wudiete ; Thoma le Brutun' ; Galfrido de Nich[or] ; 
 Roberto de la Stana ; Waltero de Winterburn' ; et multis 
 aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1240] — Grant from William son of Osbert the Red 
 (Ruffus), of Notingham to Ralph son of Sewall'^ of Not- 
 tingham, of a piece of land in the French Borough (in Burgo 
 Gallico) of Notingham, Ijang between le Bereworde Gate and 
 the messuage that the donor sold to Walter de Radeclive, 
 his brother in law (sororius), which land measures in 
 breadth in front towards the great street (strata) 20 feet, 
 and the end measures 16 feet in breadth, and containing in 
 length from the great street on (versus) the market as far as 
 to the house that the donor sold to Amiot the Jew^ ; ren- 
 dering therefore 3d. yearly to the king at the terms of the 
 king's ferm. 
 
 Witnesses : Robert Bugge and A[u]gustin son of Goffe, 
 then Reeves (Prepositi) of the French Borough of Not- 
 tingham ; Ralph Bugge ; Ralph* and Richard,* his sons ; 
 A[u]gustin Godard ; Walter Bonde ; Henry le Arch[er] ; 
 Henry le Waite ; William Botild ; Thomas de Willeford. 
 
 Small red seal. 
 
 [o. 1240] — Confirmation by Ivo son of Ivo le Bretun to 
 Ralph Bugge, of Nottingham, and Margery, his wife, of six 
 bovates of land in Wilweby, together with the grantee's chief 
 messuage, and a rent of 6d. from two bovates of land ; 
 rendering therefor 4s. Qd. yearly for all service, etc. 
 
 Witnesses : Sir Amaury (Amarico) de Nuers, Sir Richard 
 de Wiverton, Hugh de Rempiston, Robert de Rutinton, 
 
 1 ' Lodges,' encampment. 
 
 2 See Records of the Borough of Nottingham, i, p. 364. 
 
 8 Amiot ben David, a Jew of Nottingham, made a general release to 
 a de Normanville of all claims up to 15 Henry III. (1230-1), and, as Amiot 
 ben David Lumbard of Nottingham, released Thomas Brien of Badcliffe- 
 on-Soar fco. Notts] from all claims up to Midsummer, 1255 {Shetaroth, Hebrew 
 Deeds of English Jews, ed. M. D. Davis, London, 1888, Publications of the 
 Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, no. 96, p. 221, no. Ill, p. 239). In 
 1242-3 as Amiot son of David the Jew of Nottingham he made fine in 200 
 marks to have quittance of his father's debts to the king and to have his 
 father's lands, pledges and chattels (Excerpta e Rotulis Finium, i, p. 380 ; 
 Pipe Roll, 27 Henry III , Notts and Derby). 
 
 i See Calendar of Patent Bolls J247-J2S8, pp. 23, 186, 411. 
 
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 William Poyne, Richard Pite, Gerbod de Crouill, Stephen de 
 Brocton', Geoffrey Jurdon, Geoffrey Bugge. '^ 
 
 Green seal with eagle displayed, and the inscription : 
 + Sigill' Iwonis LE B[RET]V]Sr. 
 
 [c. 1240?]— Grant by Sibyl de Belle Campo, late the wife of 
 Henry Puterel, of Thurmunston [Thrumpton, co. Notts], to 
 Henry de Matloc, of a bondman in Beston [Beeston, co. Notts]. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Sibilla de Bello 
 Campo, quondam uxor Henrici Puterel de Thurmunstun, ex 
 consensu et bona voluntate filii mei Henrici Puterel de 
 Bestun, vendidi et quietum clamavi et hac present! carta 
 mea confirmavi Henrico de Matloc Johannem filium Roberti 
 in Angulo de Bestun, quondam nativum meum, et catalla 
 sua, cum tota sequela sua, et jus et clamium, quod in eo et in 
 catallis suis cum tota sequela sua habui vel habere potui : 
 tenendum et habendum dictum Johannem et tota catalla 
 sua cum tota sequela sua, absque ulla calumnia, dicto 
 Henrico et heredibus suis de me et heredibus meis quiete 
 in perpetuum, ita quod predictus Johannes cum omnibus 
 catallis suis et cum tota sequela liber sit apud me et apud 
 omnes alios homines amodo in perpetuum. Ego vero Sibilla 
 predicta de Bello Campo et filius mens Henricus et heredes 
 nostri quietam clamanciam corporis predict! Johannis et 
 sequele sue dicto Henrico et heredibus suis contra omnes 
 homines et feminas warantizabimus in perpetuum. Pro hac 
 autem vendicione et quieta clamacione et presentis carte mee 
 confirmacione, dedit michi predictus Henricus unam dimidiam 
 marcam. Ut hec autem vendicio et quieta clamacio et 
 presentis carte confirmacio rate et stabiles permaneant, huic 
 scripto inpressionem sigilli mei una cum inpressione sigilli 
 filii mei Henrici feci ap[p]onere (sic) in testimonium. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Galfrido le (sic) Vildebef i de Chilvellia^, Roberto 
 Aucupe de Hadinbur^, Willelmo de Mamecestre, Radulfo filio 
 Silvestri de Bestun, Gervasio fratre ejus, Rogero clerico de 
 Bestun, Roberto de Stretleyhe*, Hugone Chinee de Bestun, 
 et multis aliis. 
 
 Green seal, with figure of a woman in a long cloak bearing 
 a hawk on her right wrist, inscribed : Sigill' Sibille de 
 Bello Campo. The other seal is smaller, and has the device 
 of a fleur-de-lys and the inscription : S' Henrici Pvterel. 
 
 [c. 1250 ?] — Confirmation by Robert de Ros, son and heir 
 of Sir William de Ros, to the convent of Watton' of 12 
 bovates of land [i.e., a carucate and a half]^ in Bridesale 
 [Birdsall, co. York]. 
 
 Witnesses : Sir Alexander de Kirketon, knt. ; Sir Thomas 
 de Heselerton, knt. ; Sir Geoffrey AgUun, knt. ; Geoffrey 
 
 1 Cf. Testa de Nevill, p. 13b ; Thoroton. Notts, p. 95a. 
 
 2 Chilwell, 00. Notts. 
 
 3 Attenborough, co. Notts. 
 * Strelley, co. Notts. 
 
 6 See the charters at pp. 1, 3 above. 
 
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 de Holbech ; Peter de Santon ; Richard de Bemevile ; John 
 de London' ; Adam Daniel ; William Amald, of Hoton.i 
 
 [c. 1250] — Release by Henry son of Henry Puterel of 
 Thurmunton [Thrumpton, co. Notts] to Roger son of Ralph 
 de Beston, of " Johannem iilium Roberti de Beston cum tota 
 sequela sua et cum omnibus catallis suis Uberum hominem 
 solutum et quietum ab omni naivagio servitutis in perpetuum, 
 ita quod nee ego nee heredes mei nee ullus per nos nee pro 
 nobis in predicto Johanne nee in sequela sua nee in cattaUis 
 suis de cetero vendicare nee exigere poterimus, non obstante 
 legis vel regis remedio." For this demission and release Roger 
 has paid him 28s. beforehand, Henry and his heirs shall 
 warrant John with all his offspring and chattels to Roger [as] 
 a free man and quit of all bondage service. 
 
 Witnesses : Geoffrey de Wildebef , Robert le Osilyur, William 
 de Mamecestre, Ranulph son of Achard, Gervase son of 
 Selvester, Robert his brother, and others. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1250 ?] — Grant by brother Hugh, prior of Lenton, and the 
 convent of the same, to Serlo their cook, son of Richard the 
 Cook, of the toft that belonged to Alice de Bilburg in their 
 town of Lenton, for 2s. of yearly ferm ; and two acres of 
 land between Laverkedale^ and Athelwelle,^ which his father 
 held, with IJ acres of meadow amongst the meadows of their 
 men of Lenton, for 2&d. of yearly ferm ; and three acres 
 that Laurence de Athelwelle held for 2s. of yearly ferm ; to 
 be rendered with the aforesaid ferms at Martinmas. 
 
 Witnesses : Robert de Kirketon, Alan the gatekeeper, 
 Geoffrey son of William, Robert son of Herbert, Ralph 
 Fuket. 
 
 [c. 1250] — Grant by Alan'* son of Robert Passeys of 
 Suttone, with the assent of Ahce, his wife, to Master Philip 
 de Norhamptone, vicar of St. Mary's, Notingham, of 5 acres 
 and a rood of land in the field of Sutton Passeys (including 
 land on Nethergosdic abutting upon " le havedlond Moke 
 vidue " and land between Hugh de Stapilford " et Moke 
 viduam "). Four out the five separate acres adjoin lands of 
 Richard Becok. 
 
 Witnesses : Sir Roger, vicar of Baseford ; Sir Hugh, vicar 
 of Lenton ; Sir Hugh de Stapilford ; Master Henry de 
 Karleton ; William Maynard of Notingham ; Ralph le Bere, 
 Adam le Paumer, Richard Bekoc, and John le Paumer, of 
 the same. 
 
 Seal in white wax, hearing a fleur-de-lys. 
 
 1 Hutton [High or Low ?], oo. York. 
 
 2 Larkdale, in Nottingham. See Records of the Borough of Notting- 
 ham, iii, p. 473. 
 
 8 The name of a spring in Nottingham. See Records of the Borough 
 of Nottingham, i, p. 427. 
 
 * Cf. Teata de Nevill, p. 16o. 
 
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 [c. 1250]— Grant by Walter, prior of Worksop, and the 
 convent, to Richard Bugge of the right to have a free 
 chantry in his chapel within his court at Wylgeby [Wil- 
 loughby-on-the-Wolds, co. Notts]. 
 
 Omnibus Christi fidelibus hoc scriptum visuris vel audituris 
 frater Walterus, prior de Wyxkesop', et ejusdem loci con- 
 ventus, salutem in Domino sempiternam. Noverit univer- 
 sitas vestra nos concessisse Ricardo Bugge de Notingham' et 
 heredibus suis, quod possint habere Ubere cantariam in 
 capella sua sita in curia sua de Wylgeby imperpetuum, ita 
 quod capellani ibidem residentes, priusquam in capella 
 celebrent divina, ad matricem ecclesiam personaHter accedant, 
 et ibi corporale prestent^ sacramentum, quod libertates 
 matricis ecclesie pro viribus suis observabunt, eamque in 
 omnibus conservabunt indempnem. Si contingat processu 
 temporis ecclesiam de Wylgeby in proprios nostros usus 
 converti, nolumus per istam concessionem nobis parari pre- 
 judicium quo minus^ dictam capellam possimus suspendere, 
 si nobis viderimus expedire. Incujus rei testimonium presenti 
 scripto sigUlum capituli nostri apposuimus. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 [c. 1250] — Grant from Baldwin de Frevile, with the con- 
 sent of Maud, his wife, and of Alexander, his son and heir, 
 to Robert son of Walter le Bufle of Worcester of all the 
 lands that the said Baldwin had of him on the eastern side of 
 the Severn in the city of Worcester or without ; to wit, all the 
 field called ' Bernesleye,' and all the land called ' Sparu- 
 croft,' and all the field called ' Berefeld,' and an acre called 
 ' Gollingesacre,' and all the meadow called ' The French 
 Meadow ' (Pratum Franciscum) ; and all rents, etc., within 
 or without the city ; rendering therefore yearly a garland 
 of fennel (unam garlondam feniculi.) 
 
 Witnesses : WiUiam Roculf and Adam son of Peter, then 
 Reeves of Worcester ; Dom. Peter Colle ; Richard Cumin ; 
 Richard son of Adam the Steward ; WiUiam the French- 
 man ; William Pet. 
 
 1256, June 14.— Grant by Matthew, vicar of St. John's 
 [in Bedwardine County, in the city of] Worcester, to Maud de 
 Frivilla, late the wife of Sir B[aldwin] de Frivilla, of per- 
 mission to have a chantry in her chapel of Crowenest [Crown- 
 east, parish of St. John in Bedwardine County]. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod, anno Domini millesimo 
 ducentesimo 1» sexto, die Mercurii^ proxima post festum 
 Sancti Barnabe Apostoh, ego perpetuus vicarius ecclesie 
 Sancti Johannis Wygorniensis Matheus concessi et permisi 
 Domine Matildi de Frivilla, quondam uxor[i] Domini B. de 
 Frivilla, quod possit habere cantariam in capella sua de 
 
 1 prestant, MS. 
 
 2 comimis, MS. 
 8 Mercurri, MS. 
 
 MS 
 
Crowenest per ydoneum capellanum quando ipsa Matildps] 
 ibidem fuerit, salvis in omnibus jure et dignitate Domini 
 episcopi et prioris et conventus Wygorniensis et jure paro- 
 chiali in omnibus et per omnia ecclesie Sancti Johannis, sine 
 omni subtractione^ et diminucione predialium vel personalium 
 decimarum quocunque jure vel consuetudine ecclesiam 
 parochialem contingencium^ ; ita quod, antequam capellanus 
 ibidem ministret, presentabitur officiali Domini episcopi, et 
 cum ab ipso admissus fuerit, faciet fidelitatem mihi de omni- 
 moda indempnitate Vicar[ii] Sancti Johannis, jurando quod 
 sibi nichil retinebit, nee sciet ab aliquo retineri, de aliquo 
 jure parochiali nee de oblacionibus aut proventibus ibidem 
 factis, aut faciendis, quin illud mihi revelet, et totum pro 
 posse restituet vel restitui faciat. Et cum ibi fuerit dicta 
 M[atildis] et ejus familia confessiones et omnia sacramenta 
 ecclesiastica per me vel per meos capellanos recipiant,^ nisi 
 per me fuerint licenciati quod ab alio predicta possit per- 
 cipere sacramenta. NuUus autem parochianus Sancti Johannis 
 audiet ibi divina in festis diebus preter Dominam M[atildem] 
 et liberam familiam suam et hospites ejus. Ceteri autem 
 accedant* ad suam matricem ecclesiam Sancti Johannis ad 
 omnia sacramenta voluntaria et necessaria recipienda et 
 oblationes debitas et consuetas faciendas. Tenetur autem 
 dicta M[atildis] invenire suis sumptibus omnia necessaria ad 
 ministrandum in predicta capella. Post decessum vero 
 dicte M[atildis] dicta cantaria in predicta capella penitus sus- 
 pendatur ; ita quod heredes ejusdem M[atildis] vel successores 
 sui ex hac concessione ad possessorium vel petitorium non 
 habent jus vel accionem, nisi de voluntate mea vel mei 
 successoris et etiam diocesani plenius reformetur. Tenetur 
 autem dicta M[atildis] ac ejus familia ad generales predicationes 
 in ecclesia Sancti Johannis faciendas venire, nisi fuerint aUqua 
 racionabili causa prepediti. Providebit autem dicta M[atildis], 
 quod nichil indecens vel inhonestum in dicta capeUa aliquo 
 tempore reponatur ; ita quod clavis ejusdem capelle in cus- 
 todia mei vel successoris mei, qui pro tempore fuerit, dum- 
 modo ipsa absens fuerit, remaneat. Quod si predicta M[atildis] 
 vel capeUanus suus vel aliquis nomine suo temere venerit 
 contra prescriptam formam et hoc coram episcopo vel ejus 
 officiali eciam sine stepitu fuerit ostensum, vult et concedit 
 dicta Matildps], quod cantaria in dicta capella necnon et capel- 
 lanus suus, qui pro tempore fuerit, suspendatur, donee mihi 
 vel successori meo satisfactum fuerit competenter. Super 
 his autem omnibus et singulis fideliter observandis, predicta 
 Matild[is], pro se et pro capellanis suis in predicta capeUa minis- 
 traturis et pro aliis de familia sua, jurisdictioni mee et suc- 
 cessoris mei et vicarii Sancti Helene se sponte supposuit, omni 
 appellacione et contradicione remotis. Et ad majorem hujus 
 rei securitatem, prefatus ego Matheus, perpetuus vicarius 
 Sancti Johannis, huic instrumento de sciencia venerabilis 
 
 1 suhtraxione, MS. 3 recipient, MS. 
 
 8 contingensium, MS. * acoedent, MS. 
 
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 patris W. de Cantelup', Wigorniensis episoopi, signum meum 
 apposui. Actum anno Domini M''CO''L''VI'°, apud Wigorniam. 
 
 1257, April 17. — ^Deed of A. the prior and the convent of 
 Stodleg [Studley, co. Warwick] binding themselves to admit 
 at the presentation of Sir Peter de Monte Forti and his heirs 
 a person as canon of their house to celebrate for the souls 
 of Sir Peter and his heirs for ever. 
 
 Universis Christi fidehbus Frater A., prior de Stodleg', 
 et ejusdem loci conventus salutem in Domino. 
 
 Noveritis nos, de voluntate et assensu venerabilis patris 
 W. de Cantilup', Wygorniensis episcopi, promisisse fideliter 
 et teneri nobiU viro Domino Petro de Monte Forti, et 
 heredibus suis, quod ad presentacionem ipsius Domini 
 Petri et heredum suorum successive admittemus idoneam 
 personam in domo nostra in canonicum et in fratrem, qui 
 pro animabus eorum et antecessorum illorum divina celebret. 
 Ipso vero canonico mortuo, tenemur admittere loco ipsius, ad 
 presentacionem predicti Domini Petri et heredum suorum, 
 personam aliam idoneam in canonicum et in fratrem, et sic 
 de canonico in canonicum post mortem cujuslibet eorundem 
 in perpetuum successive. Tempore vero medio, scilicet donee 
 post mortem cujusHbet ahus admittatur et in presbiterum 
 ordinetur et ad celebrandum sit habilis, tenemur aliquem 
 canonicum de nostris celebraturum cotidie loco ejusdem 
 specialiter deputare. Et si super idoneitate persone presen- 
 tande, vel de aliis hoc contingentibus, oriatur contencio, 
 episcopus Wigorniensis, qui pro tempore fuerit, vel ejus 
 officialis, vel archidiaconus Wigornensis, sede vacante, vel, 
 ipsis ordinariis forsitan negligentibus in hac parte, judex 
 ahus ecclesiasticus quicunque, quem prefatus Petrus et 
 heredes sui voluerint eligere, cujus jurisdiccioni nos et succes- 
 sores nostros jam sponte et absolute subicimus, in premissis 
 decemendi et diffiniendi omnes contenciones hujusmodi per 
 cohercionem quamlibet ecclesiasticam habent potestatem. 
 Ad hec autem firmiter observanda, nos dictus prior et sub- 
 prior de Stodleg' corporaliter in verbo Dei, pro nobis et con- 
 ventu nostro, prestitimus sacramentum. Et priores et sub- 
 priores singuli loci ejusdem in creacione eorum eodem modo 
 prestabunt, se, pro ipsis et conventu, predicta fideliter 
 servaturos. 
 
 In cujus rei testimonium presens scriptum sigillo communi 
 capituli nostri fecimus communiri. Datum die Martis 
 proximapost Clausum Pascha, anno Domini M^CC^L" septimo.^ 
 
 1259, March 14. — Letter of Richard, earl of Gloucester, 
 agreeing to counsel and support Edward, the king's son, and 
 his alhes. 
 
 A tuz les feus Deu a ki ceste lettre vendra, Richard de 
 Clare, Cunte de Gloucestre et de Hertteford', saluz. 
 
 1 There are two exemplars of this deed. 
 
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 Sachez nus estre tenuz par nostre serement, ke fet avuns 
 sur Seynz Ewangiles, a nostre cher Seignur Sire Edward', 
 fiz eynez le Rei d'Engletere, ke nus leaument aideruns, a 
 tut nostre poer, a I'avant dit Sire Edward' en bone fei cuntre 
 tuz a dreit, e le conseilleruns en tutes ses bosoignes ke li 
 tuchent e tucherunt, e nomeement en ces articles ; c'eat a 
 saver, ke nus mettrun[s] leaument nostre poer en bone fei ke 
 I'avant dit Sire Edward' eit hastifment ses chastens e ses 
 terres en sa main e en sun poer, e ke ses chartres ke le rey 
 li ad fetes, ausi ben celes ke tuchent ses bosoignes dela la 
 mer cum de cea, soent tenues e parfurnies, solun la tenur 
 de meime celes chartres. 
 
 Derichef, nus sumes tenuz par nostre serement, e leaument 
 promettuns, ke nus les amis e les aliez I'avant dit Sire 
 Edward — c'est a saver. Sire Henri le fiz le Rei d'Alemaine, 
 Sire Johan', Cunte de Warenn', Baudewyn de L'Isle, Phelipp' 
 Basset, Esteven' Lungespee, Robert Walerand, Roger de 
 Clifford, Roger de Leiburn, Johan' de Vans, Warin de 
 Bassingburn', Hamon le Estraunge, e William' la Zuch — 
 aiderun[s] e meyntendrun[s] leaument en bone fei en lur 
 bosoignes, dreit fesant e dreit pernant. 
 
 E I'avant dit Sire Edward, par sun serement e par ses 
 lettres, ke nus avun[s] devers nus, est tenu a meime ceo fere 
 a nos amis e a nos aliez — c'est a saver. Sire Roger le Bigod, 
 Cunte de Norfolk' e de Suffolk' e MarescaU' d'Engletere, Sire 
 William' de Porz, Cunte de Abemarl', Hue le Bigod, dune 
 Justise d'EngleteiTe, Henri de Perci, Roger de Sumery, Robert 
 de Brus, Richard de Munfichet, William' de Say, William' de 
 Breus', et Johan' D'Eyvill'. 
 
 E si par [aventure] aveneit,— ke ja Deu ne voille !— k'en 
 nul de ces articles avant nomez descorde sursit entre nus 
 e I'avant dit Sire Edward, e cunue chose ne fut de quel part 
 le tort seri'eit, nus sumes obliges par eest nostre escrit, e 
 voluns e grauntuns, ke nus de cele chose esterrun a I'agard 
 de dous prodeshomes, c'est a saver. Sire Henri le fiz le Rei 
 d'Alemaigne, de par Sire Edward', e Sire Hue le Bigod, de 
 par nus, e lur agard en ceo tendruns e parfurniruns. E s'il 
 aveneit, ke ces dous ne pussent u ne se vosissent de ceo entre- 
 mettre, nus e I'avant dit Sire Edward' sumes tenuz par nos 
 seremenz a eslire autre dous des avant-nomez amis, dunt 
 I'un seit de par nus e I'autre de par lui, e lur agard en ceo 
 tendruns e [par]fumiruns. E si [par] aventure aveneit, ke ces 
 dous ne se pussent asentir en eel agard', nus voluns e grauntuns, 
 ke ces dous de lur poer ehsent le terz ke seit des avant-nomez, 
 tel cum il verrunt, ke meuz e plus leaument se vodra entre- 
 mettre pur I'un e I'autre partie, e ceo ke ces treis, u la grey- 
 nure partie de eus, agardera en cele destance leaument ten- 
 druns e parfurniruns ; e meime ceste chose ad I'avant dit Sire 
 Edward' graunte en dreit[e] fei,^ e s'est oblige par sun escrit, ke 
 nus avuns de vers nus. 
 
 I sei, MS, 
 
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 E si [par] aventure aveneit, — ke ja Deu ne pleise!— ke nus 
 flechissuns u cuntrealissuns a nul de ces articles, u des pre- 
 messes cuntenuz en cest nostra esciit, nus voluns e grauntuns, 
 e priuns trestnz nos amis e nos aliez nomez en cest nostre 
 escrit, ke a I'avant dit Sire Edward' e a ses amis e a ses aliez 
 seent conseillant e aidant, a tut lur poer e tut lur efforz, a 
 justiser nus e destreindre a tenir les articles e les premesses 
 avant nomez e a garder en tutes choses. E s'il aveneit, — 
 ke ja Deu ne pleise ! — ke I'avant dit Sire Edward' se flechesit 
 u cuntrealast a nul des articles u des premesses k'il nus deit 
 [parjfurnir, il graunte e vot e prie ensement trestuz ses amiz e 
 ses aliez nomez en cest escrit, k'il a nus e a nos amis e a nos 
 aliez seent conseillant e aidant, a tut lur poer e tut lur 
 efforz, a justiser lui e destreindre a tenir les articles e les 
 premesses avant nomez, e a garder en totes choses, si cum il 
 est cuntenu en ses lettres ke nus avu[n]s [de]vers nus. E a 
 ceo sunt tenuz les aHez en cest escrit nomez d'un part e d' autre 
 par lur serement ke fet unt. 
 
 E a greinure seurte de tutes cestes choses avant dites 
 fermement tenir e gardir sanz tricherie, malice, u nule manere 
 de fraude, enaenblement od nostre serement, a cest escrit 
 avuns mis nostre seel, sauve tuz jurz la fei le Rei d'Engletere 
 e le cumun serement ke fet avuns as Baruns ke tel est : 
 'A I'honur de Deu, e a la fei le Rey, e al pru del regne.^' 
 
 E solement a greinur tesmonage de ceste chose Sire Henri 
 le Fiz le Rei d'Alemaine, e Sire Johan', Cunte de Warenn', 
 a cest escrit unt mis lur seaus, ensenblement od le nostre. 
 
 Ceste lettre fu fete a Lundres, le quatorzime jur de Marz, 
 Fan del regne le Rei Henri, le fiz le Rei Johan', quarante 
 terz. 24. 
 
 Seals in white wax of Richard de Clare, Henry of Almain, 
 and the Earl of Warenne. 
 
 1259, August 1. — Deed of sale by Coste son of Hugh de 
 Rutintona [Ruddington, co. Notts] to Richard son of Ralph 
 Bugge of a sack of wool from Rutintona, or in default of 
 delivery, a bovate of land in that town. 
 
 Omnibus hoc scriptum visuris vel audituris Coste, filius 
 Hugonis de Rutintona, salutem in Domino. 
 
 Noveritis me, anno regni Regis Henrici, filii Regis 
 Johannis, quadragesimo tercio, in festo Beati Petri ad 
 Vincula, vendidisse Ricardo filio Radulfi Bugg' unum saccum 
 lane pacabiUs mercator[ie] de territorio de Rutintona, vel 
 de lana equivalenti, sine cod et gard nigra et grisa, et sine 
 vili vellere, pro quadam summa pecunie, quam dictus 
 Ricardus mihi plenarie pre manibus pacavit ; quem quidem 
 saccum lane persolvere debeo dicto Ricardo vel suis certis 
 asignatis infra octabas Sancte Trinitatis in anno proximo 
 sequenti predictum festum Sancti Petri per pondus de 
 
 1 The oath taken by the earl, in accordance with the Provisions of 
 Oxford, as one of the twelve coiinciUors elected by the barons to govern the 
 realm jointly with twelve elected by the king {Annalea de Burton, in Annalea 
 Monaetici, i, p. 448 ; Stubbs, Select Ohartere, ed. 8, p. 388). 
 
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 Notingham sine ulteriori dilacione ; ita scilicet, quod si con- 
 tingat, quod dictam lanam ad predictum terminum predicto 
 Eicardo, sicut predictum est, non solvero, concedo, pro me 
 et heredibus meis, quod una bovata terre cum pertinenciis 
 in Rutintona de duabus bovatis terre, quas Hugo, pater 
 mens, tenuit de Galfrido Maukunti in Rutintona, videlicet 
 bovata propinquior versus solem, remaneat quieta de me et 
 heredibus meis dicto Ricardo et heredibus suis, vel assig- 
 natis suis, inperpetuum, sicut carta feffamenti testatur, 
 quam dicto Ricardo inde feci, et de qua bovata tradidi dicto 
 Ricardo saysinam usque ad terminum solucionis dicta lane, 
 cum omnibus fructibus, quos inde receperit. Et si dicta lana 
 eidem persolvero, predicta bovata revertatur mihi et here- 
 dibus meis, cum fructibus, quos inde receperit, vel valentia 
 fructuum. Ad istam autem convencionem fideliter tenendam 
 affidavi et juravi, et ad majorem securitatem huic scripto 
 sigillum meum apposui. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Willelmo Poyne ; Roberto de Thorp ; 
 Willelmo Fabro ; Roberto de Rebe[r]cy' ; et aliis. 
 
 [c. 1260] — Grant from William son of William the Parson 
 of Lenton [co. Notts] to William Gargat^, janitor of the 
 priory of Lenton, of four feet of land near his gate (jjorta) 
 of the land upon which the donor's solarium is bmlt, so that 
 he may have ingress with his cart. 
 
 Witnesses : Richard de Redinges^ ; Robert son of Geoffrey ; 
 WiUiam son of Serlo^ ; William de Rodes^ ; William son of 
 Geoffrey^ ; Laurence Hamund^. 
 
 1260, September 20. — Charter of King Henry III. granting 
 to WiUiam de Bray, of Wollaveston, a market on Tuesday 
 in every week at his manor of Wollaveston' [WoUaston], co. 
 Northampton, and of a fair there of three days annually, 
 to wit, on the eve, the day, and the morrow of Saint 
 [Michajel. 
 
 Witnesses : Humphrey de Boum, earl of Hereford and 
 Essex ; John de Plessetis, earl of Warrewyk ; Henry, son of 
 the King of Almain, the king's nephew ; John Maunsel, 
 treasurer of York ; Eudo la Zhuche ; Humphrey de Boum, 
 the younger ; Robert de Twenge ; Imbert Pugeys ; Hugh 
 de Dyve ; William de Trubelvill' ; and others. At Marle- 
 berg'. 
 
 Fragment of great seal in green wax. 
 
 [Enrolled on Charter Roll (Calendar, p. 28).] 
 
 [1264]. — Order by Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, and 
 Hugh le Despenser, justiciary of England, to the bishop of 
 Coventry and Roger de Leiburn, to conduct in person Sir 
 Edmund, the king's son, and the constable of Dover castle 
 
 1 Cf. Thoroton, Notts, p. 54a ; Testa de Nevill, p. 19b. The name is 
 to be read Rebercy not Reberti, as in Rotuli de Oblatis, p. 75, as it derived 
 from Ruberoy in Normandy, canton of Tr^viferes, arrond. of Bayeux, depart, 
 of the Calvados. 
 
 ? See Records of the Borough of Nottingham, i, p. 365, No. IX. 
 
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 for the purpose of delivering that castle to the bishop of 
 London, in accordance with the articles agreed upon between 
 the king and his barons. ^ 
 
 Venerabili in Christo patri R., Dei gracia, Conventr[ensi] 
 et Lich[efeldensi] episcopo et dilecto sibi Rogero de Leiburn, 
 S. de Monte Forti, comes Leycestr[ie], et Hugo le Dispenser, 
 justiciarius Anglie, salutem. 
 
 Ex parte domini regis et baronum suorum vobis mandamus, 
 quod in personis vestris propriis salvum et securum conductum 
 faoiatis dilecto nobis domino Edmundo, filio ejusdem domini 
 regis, et Roberto de Glaston', constabulario castri Dovor[ie], 
 quibus idem dominus rex dedit in mandatis quod castrum 
 predictum liberent venerabili patri H. Londoniensi episcopo, 
 custodiendum in forma inter dominum regem et barones 
 suos provisa, ita etiam, quod hii, qui cum predictis domino 
 Edmundo et Roberto sunt in castro predioto salvum habeant 
 exitum et conductum cum equis, armis et aliis rebus suis. 
 Proviso, quod alienigeni, qui ibi sunt, exinde ad propria sine 
 dampno sibi inferendo in pace revertantur et securitatem 
 habeant auram prosperam expectandi, qua ad partes suas 
 transfretare possint ; et quod predictis domino Edmundo 
 et Roberto una cum hiis, quos secum ducent, nulla in per- 
 sona vel rebus injuria inferatur, dampnum aut gravamen. 
 
 Small round seal in green wax, hearing a shield with a lion 
 rampant queue fourchee. Inscription : -{- S' . . . . de 
 MoNTEFDRTi. The other seal is missing. Both were attached 
 to strips of the parchment, formed by horizontal cuts at the bottom 
 of the document. 24. 
 
 1265, October 26. — Charter of King Henry III. granting to 
 Roger de Leyburn', son of Roger de Leyburn', the manor of 
 Losham,^ and all the lands that belonged to Henry son of 
 Thomas Aucher, and all the lands in England that belonged 
 to Ralph de Sandwyco and Stephen Soadan, whose lands 
 were forfeited on account of their participation in the 
 rebeUion of Simon de Montfort. If the lands exceed the 
 value of 100?. yearly, the excess is to revert to the king. 
 
 Witnesses : W., Bishop of Bath and Wells ; PhiUp 
 Basset ; Hugh le Bigod ; Roger de Mortuo Mari ; Roger 
 de CUfford ; John de Gray ; Robert Walleraund ; Robert 
 Aguillun ; William Relet ; Walter de Burges ; Geoffrey de 
 Percy ; Bartholomew le Bigod. At Canterbury. 
 
 Good impression of great seal in green wax. 
 
 [Enrolled on Charter Roll, Calendar, p. 57.] 
 
 1265, November 29. — Charter of King Henry III. granting 
 to Philip Marmiun all the lands in the counties of Lincoln 
 
 1 This is evidently one of the orders issued by Earl Simon after the 
 battle of Lewes on 14 May, 1264, when the king was compelled to 
 surrender his castles to the victorious barons. See Stubbs, OonaHtutional 
 History, ii, p. 98, Select Charters, eighth ed., p. 409. 
 
 2 liOBsenham, parish of Newenden, co. Kent (Hasted, iii, p, 83} 
 
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 and Northampton that belonged to William Aungevyn; 
 all the lands in Warwickshire that belonged to Giles son 
 of Nicholas ; all the lands in Leicestershire that belonged 
 to WiUiam le Waleys ; all the lands in the counties of 
 Lincoln, Nottingham, and Derby that belonged to Hugh 
 Duket ; all the lands in Warwickshire that belonged to 
 Thomas de Endesovr' ; all the lands in Lincolnshire that 
 belonged to William de Honyenby ; all the lands in the same 
 county that belonged to Robert Hotes ; all the lands in Cotes 
 in the same county that belonged to John de Nevill ; all the 
 lands in Leicestershire that belonged to Robert de Overton ; 
 all the lands and tenements in Lincolnshire that belonged to 
 John de la Lade : whose lands were forfeited on account 
 of their adherence to Simon de Montf ort. If the lands exceed 
 the value of 200Z. yearly, the excess shall revert to the king. 
 
 Witnesses : W., bishop of Bath and Wells ; John de 
 Warenn', earl of Surrey ; Hugh le Bygod ; Roger de 
 Mortuo Mari ; Roger de Leyburn ; Robert WaUeraund ; 
 Roger de Clifford ; Robert AguiUun ; WiUiam de Aete ; 
 William Belet ; Walter de Burges ; Bartholomew le Bygod. 
 At Westminster. 
 
 Good impression of great seal. 
 
 [Not enrolled on Charter Boll.] 
 
 1265, November 29. — Charter from Henry III, granting to 
 Philip Marmyun all the lands of Stephen de Lund' in cos. 
 Lincoln, York, and Nottingham ; and all the lands of 
 William Aungevyn in cos. Lincoln and Northampton ; and 
 all the lands of Theobald de Trikyngham in co. Lincoln ; 
 all the lands of Hugh Duket in the same county ; all the 
 lands of WiUiam le Waleis in co. Leicester ; all the lands 
 of Ralph le Chamberleng in the same county ; all the lands 
 of Thomas de Endesor' in co. Warwick ; all the lands of 
 Giles son of Nicholas in the same county, enemies and rebels, 
 who adhered to Simon de Monte Forti, sometime earl of 
 Leicester ; provided that the lands are not of the demesnes 
 of the crown. It is provided that if the value of the lands 
 exceed 2001. of land yearly, the excess shall revert to the 
 king. 
 
 Witnesses : W. bishop of Bath and WeUs ; John de 
 Warenna, earl of Surrey ; Hugh le Bygod ; Roger de Mortuo 
 Mari ; Roger de Leyburn ; Robert Walrand ; Roger de 
 Clifford ; Robert Aguylun ; WilUam de Aete ; WiUiam 
 Belet ; Walter de Burges ; Bartholomew le Bygod. At 
 Westminster. 
 
 Good impression of great seal. 
 
 [Not enrolled on Charter Roll.] 
 
 1268, August 16. — Letters patent of King Henry III. 
 granting to Roger de Leyburn the manor of Bradeleye. 
 
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 H[enricus], Dei gracia, rex Anglie, dominus Hibernle, et 
 dux Aquitanie, omnibus, ad quos presentes littere per- 
 venerint, salutem. 
 
 Sciatis, quod in partem recompensacionis debitorum, in 
 quibus tenemur dilecto et fideli nostro Rogero de Leyburn', 
 dedimus et concessimus eidem Rogero, quantum in nobis 
 est, manerium de Bradeleye, cum pertinentiis, quod fuit 
 Roberti Russel, capti et in prisona nostra detenti pro morte 
 cujusdam hominis, quern interfecit, ut dicitur, si ipsum 
 Robertum super felonia ilia sibi imposita convinci contingat 
 et manerium illud nobis accidere occasione felonie prediote : 
 habendum et tenendum eidem Rogero et heredibus suis 
 imperpetuum, faciendo servicia inde debita et consueta ; ita 
 tamen, quod tantum decidat eidem Rogero in debitis pre- 
 dictis quantum predictum manerium valet per extentam 
 inde faciendam per tales, quos ad hoc duxerimus depu- 
 tandos. 
 
 In cujus rei testimonium has litteras nostras fieri fecimus 
 patentes. Teste meipso apud Lincolniam, xvj. die Augusti, 
 anno regni nostri 1. secundo. 
 
 Fragment of great seal in white wax attached to tongue of 
 the 'parchment. 
 
 [1269-70] — Deed of sale by Ralph de Donjon, canon of 
 London, to Sir Phihp Marmion of his land in St. Swithun's 
 Street, London. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego Radulphus de Donion, 
 canonicus London', ^ vendidi et quietam clamavi et foris- 
 affidavi extra me et heredes meos, et presenti carta mea con- 
 firmavi nobih viro domino Philippo Marmion totam terram 
 meam, cum domibus, redditibus, gardinis, et omnibus suis 
 pertinentiis suis integre, quam habui in civitate London' 
 in vico Sancti Swithuni ex parte aquUonari et Candelwicr- 
 strate et in eadem parochia, de feodo domini Roberti 
 Aguyllon, scilicet quicquid ibidem habui et habere debui in 
 terris, edificiis, redditibus, et gardinis, lignis et lapidibus, in 
 longitudine et latitudine, et in rebus cunctis, sine ahquo 
 retenemento, sicut melius distinguitur et plenius in cartis, 
 quas inde [de] dicto domino Roberto Walterus de Standon 
 habuit et ego predictus Radulphus de predicto Waltero ; 
 qu[as] q[uidem ca]rtas cum presenti carta et cum plenaria 
 seisina dicto domino Phihppo liberavi : habendam et tenen- 
 dam eidem domino Philippo et cuicumque vel quibuscumque 
 et quando dare, dimittere, vendere, legare, vel quocumque 
 alio modo assignare voluerit, et heredibus eorum, libere, 
 quiete, bene^ et in pace, extra me et heredes meos in hberam 
 et perpetuam et finalem vendicionem et quietam clamacionem 
 inperpetuum ; reddendo inde annuatim predicto domino 
 Roberto et heredibus suis debita servicia, que continentur in 
 
 1 Prebendary of Jslington (Neweourt, Beperiorium, p. 166 ; Hennessy, 
 Novum Bepertorium, p. 32). 
 
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 predictis cartis, quas dicto domino Philippo liberavi. Et 
 sciendum est, quod ego predictus Radulphus et heredes mei, 
 sive aJiquis per nos vel pro nobis, nullo modo poterimus nee 
 debemus decetero habere jus vel clamium in predicta terra cum 
 domibus, redditibus, gardinis, et pertinenciis, nee aliquid 
 inde exigere nee reclamare inperpetuum. [Pro h]ac autem 
 mea finali vendicione, quieta clamacione et forisaffidacione, 
 dedit michi predictus dominus PhUippus centum et sexaginta 
 marchas argenti. Et ut hec mea finalis vendicio, quieta 
 clamacio et forisaffidacio rata et stabUis inperpetuum per- 
 maneat, presentem cartam sigUli mei impressione roboravi. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Domino Hugone filio Otonis, tunc con- 
 stabulario Turris ; Roberto de Cornhulle, Thoma de Basinges, 
 tunc vicecomitibus London' ; Matheo Boquerel, tunc alder- 
 manno illius warde ; Waltero Hereui ; Willelmo de Dureaume ; 
 Edwardo le Blont ; Johanne Gouarre, et multis aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 1269, June 23. — ^Acknowledgment by Brother Stephen de 
 Fuleburn, treasurer of the Hospital of Jerusalem in England, 
 of receipt in the conventual church of St. Bartholomew, 
 London, from Sir John de Grey, son of Richard de Grey, of 
 500 marks for the use of Sir Roger de Leybum for part of John's 
 ransom for his lands, setting out Roger's letters patent, dated 
 at London, on Tuesday after SS. Peter and Paul, 52 Henry 
 III, appointing the said Stephen, preceptor of St. John's 
 Hospital, London, his attorney to receive and keep in deposit 
 aU the money due to Roger from certain debtors, to be paid 
 to Stephen at that house. Sealed by Brother Roger de Veer, 
 prior of the Hospital in England, and by Stephen. 
 
 Small round seal in black wax with a shield bearing three six- 
 foils, two and one ; inscription : -\- [Si]gillvm : fe[a]tris : 
 eog[e]ki : DE : Ver. 
 
 1273, May 3. — Demise by Sir Philip Marmion to Master 
 Roland de Sene [Siena], advocate, of his house in the parish 
 of St. Swithun, London, reserving to Sir Philip the right 
 of residing therein when he comes to London. 
 
 Notum sit omnibus presens scriptum visuris vel audituris, 
 quod inter Dominum Philippum Marmiun, miUtem, ex parte 
 una, et Magistrum Rolandum de Sene, advocatum, ex 
 altera, ita convenit : videlicet, quod dictus Dominus Philippus 
 dimisit prefato Rolando domos suas positas Lond[oniis] in 
 parochia Sancti Swithuni, in quibus dictus Dominus Philippus 
 consuevit habitare, usque ad festum Sancti MichaeUs proximo 
 venturum ; ita quod liceat Domino Rolando inhabitare 
 dictas domos in absencia Domini Philippi prefati. Cum 
 vero idem Dominus Philippus venerit Lond[onias], sibi liceat 
 habitare et habere liberam aulam prefate domus et majorem 
 cameram inferiorem, et aleam^ parvam inferiorem, necnon et 
 celarium et stabulum totum, et coquinam, et solarium ultra 
 
 1 An alley or passage. 
 
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 portam liceat sibi totaliter habere : prefatus vero Rolandus 
 retinebit duas cameras superiores liberas et expeditas, necnon 
 et locum lardarii positum ante aulam. Et propterea dictu3 
 Rolandus dabit dicto Domino Philippo iiij. marcas sterl[in- 
 goruni], et restituet domos elapso termino supradicto in eo 
 statu, in quo recepit eas, et id quod idem Rolandus proba- 
 biliter expendit (sic) pro reparacione domorum predictarum, 
 allocabitur sibi in supradictis iiij. marcis. 
 
 In oujus rei testimonium duo scripta unius tenoris ex inde 
 sunt confecta : quorum unum residet penes pref atum Dominum 
 Philippum sigillatum sigillo dicti Rolandi, et aliud penes 
 eundem Rolandum sigillatum sigillo Domini Philippi pre- 
 dict! . 
 
 Actum Lond[oniis], die Mercurii proxima post festum 
 Sancti Johannis ante Portam Latinam, anno Domini 
 M.CC.LXXIII. 
 
 1274, May 20. — Grant by Cristiana, prioress of St. Bartho- 
 lomew, Newcastle-on-Tjme, with the consent of the chapter, 
 to Sir Gwyschard de Charun and Isabel, his wife, of four 
 ' lands ' {seliones) of arable land next his land on the north 
 side of Nunneburn' ; and of all the toft and garden formerly 
 held by Robert the Skinner (Pdliparius), lying between land 
 of the late William de Boldum and land of the late Walter 
 the Mason (cementarius) ; rendering therefor 10s. annually. 
 They also grant him licence to take stone for the repair of 
 his wall. 
 
 Witnesses : Nicholas le Scot, Mayor ; Adam de Blakeden' ; 
 Henry de Burnet' ; Adam de Pinipedun ; Hugh de Merthing- 
 leya, then Bailiffs ; Thomas de Carl[iolo] ; John son of Roger ; 
 Henry le Scot ; Richard de la Haye ; Robert de Mitf ord ; 
 John le Flemeng ; Thomas son of Henry de Carl[iolo] ; Robert 
 de Stokesley ; John de Heton' ; Henry the Clerk. 
 
 Attached are a fragment of the Prioresses [?] seal and the seal 
 of the community of Newcastle, with inscription : " -(- 
 CoM[M]viirE Sigill' Novi [CJastri . . . ," and the device 
 of a gateway and tower. 
 
 [c. 1275] — Grant by Adam son of Robert de Coshale [Cossall, 
 CO. Notts] to Henry son of Perot of Coshale of five ' lands ' 
 [seliones) of land in Stenen Rydyng, between Adam's land and 
 the land of Roger Everard, abutting upon the Crokede Dyk 
 and upon Brockeshale Yerd, and of a plot of land in which 
 ironstone was formerly dug {unam placiam terre in qua 
 lapides ferri quondam fod\i]ebantur), lying between Adam's 
 land .and that of the aforesaid Henry and abutting upon 
 the Erode Fildynggate and upon Brokeshale Yerd, in ex- 
 change for the heads of four ' lands ' lying near the Eildy[n]g- 
 gate and abutting upon Brokeshale Milne Brok, which heads 
 Adam has caused to inclosed in his court of Brokeshale 
 
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 Witnesses : William the Clerk of Ryngesdon^, William the 
 Chamberlain of Cossale, Robert son of Hugh of the same, 
 Eustace the Reeve, Adam son of Nicholas Everard of the 
 Marsh. 
 
 1276, June 10 — ^^i^greement between Dame Juliana Bauzeyn, 
 abbess of St. Edward's, Shaftesbury, and the convent of 
 the same, of the one part, and Richard de Gouyz, Hawysia, 
 his wife, and Eudo Martel, of the other part, tenants of 
 the tenement that was held by Eudo Martel and Margery, 
 his wife, in Mapelderton [Mapperton, parish of West 
 Aimer, co. Dorset], which they have of the gift of the said 
 Margery, for the settlement of arrears claimed by the abbess 
 and convent, viz., i.Ol. arrears of a certain fine and 75 quarters 
 of wheat of the arrears of the ferm of the said vill of Mapel- 
 derton for 52 years, at the rate of 12 bushels yearly, which 
 the parties of the second part claim to have rendered by the 
 measures (modios) contained in the old charter of feoffment. 
 The abbess and convent release aU claims for arrears in con- 
 sideration of the payment to them of 40 marks, and the 
 tenants agree to render them in future the rents and services 
 contained in a fine made at Westminster in a month from 
 Easter, 8 Henry III., between Amicia, abbess of St. Edward's, 
 demandant, and Eudo Martel and Margery, his wife, defor- 
 ciants, which is set out in full. 
 
 Witnesses : Sir Ralph de Albaniaco, knt. ; Sir William 
 de St. Martin, knt. ; Sir Richard de Maneston,^ knt. ; 
 Sir Ralph de Gorges, knt. ; Bartholomew de Brug' ; Hamo 
 de Hacche ; Roger de Purbik* ; Roger Anketil ; Henry de 
 St. Barba. 
 
 [c. 1280] — Grant from Maud de Brydone, abbess of Tar- 
 rant (de Loco Begine super Tarente) and the convent of the 
 same to Walter de Mustirs of a virgate of land in Wynter- 
 burne Mustirs,^ which Richard le Man held, together with 
 the house and curtilage pertaining to the same, and with 
 the said Richard, his chattels and sequela and messuage ; 
 rendering therefor 3s. annually and the service due from 
 the said land. 
 
 Witnesses : Sir Eudo de Rochford, knt. ; Peter . . ; 
 . . . . de Chaumppayne, knt. ; Ralph Bardolf ; Robert 
 de Crofte ; John PydeUvere ; William Quintin ; Walter de 
 
 Wilton ; ; Thomas Mautravers ; Henry de 
 
 Blockesworth ; Henry de Rochford. 
 
 Seal with figure of abbess and inscription : Sigill ' Abbatisse 
 [L]oci Bbnedci. 
 
 1 Kingstone, parish of Bippingale, co. Lincoln ? 
 
 2 This deed is cited from the Shaftesbury Chartulary in Hutchins, 
 Dorset, ed. 3, iii., 495. 
 
 3 Mansion, co. Dorset. 
 
 * Isle of Purbeck, co. Dorset. 
 
 5 l^ow Winterbome Turberville, parish of Bere Regis, co, Dorset, 
 
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 [c. 1280] — Demise at fee-ferm by Master Richard Turkety 
 to Roger the Wheelwright (rotario), called 'of BotHsford,' 
 and to Gonnilda, liis wife, of a toft with appurtenances, houses 
 and btiildings thereon constructed, in the Bakers' Street^ 
 {in vico pistorum), Notingham, in which William Witheved 
 sometime dwelt, lying between the toft of Jouce the Carter 
 {le Caretter) on the west and the toft of Simon the Cook 
 (coxi) on the east. 
 
 Witnesses : William le Hunte, Roger the Miller (le mouner), 
 then bailiffs of the French borough of Notingham ; Richard 
 Becok the elder, Stephen de Watton, Jouce the Carter {le 
 caretter), Hugh de SueU' [Southwell], Richard Caudebeck, 
 Robert Hamund, William Clappinsale, William Jaumbes, 
 Laurence Hamund, clerk. 
 
 1283, May 2.— Grant by Philip Marmyun to William de 
 Crouebyrihal, chaplain, of the Hospital of St. James, Tam- 
 worth, to be held until he shall found his proposed Premon- 
 stratensian house by Tamworth.^ 
 
 Universis Christi fidelibus, ad quos presens scriptum per- 
 venerit, Philippus Marmyun, dominus Castri de Thame- 
 worth, salutem in Domino sempiternam. 
 
 Noverit universitas vestra, quod cum, in honore Dei et 
 Genetricis ejusdem, omniumque Sanctorum, in primis invocata 
 humiliter Spiritus Sancti gracia, unam domum religionis 
 secus villam de Thameworth de ordine Premonstratensi con- 
 st[r]uere ordino et affecto, ad cujus sustentacionem inter 
 cetera Hospitale Sancti Jacobi dicte ville assingnaverim, 
 tam de voto proprio quam ceterorum prudentum consiUo, 
 dilecto mihi in Christo Willelmo de Crouebjrrihal', capellano, 
 premissum Hospitale cum suis pertinenciis, una cum pastura 
 in Asscheland ad quatuor boves et duos equos, qui pro 
 salute anime mee et predecessorum meorum et successorum, 
 omniumque fidelium defunctorum, ibidem personaliter resi- 
 dendo divina celebrabit, libere duxi concedendum ad tempus, 
 videhcet donee viros religiosos dicti ordinis seu capellanos 
 seculares ibidem duxerim ponendos. Hec siquidem sit obser- 
 vata condicio, quod dictus WiUelmus ipsum Hospitale, cum 
 omnibus suis pertinenciis et pastura predicta, dictis religiosis 
 seu michi seu aliis secularibus capellanis, quos ibidem morari 
 ordinavero, singnum clipei' super se bajulaturis, sine contra- 
 diccione qualibet, retenimento seu clamio integre reddere 
 teneatur, cum eosdem religiosos seu alios seculares presbiteros 
 ex ordinacione mea vel heredum meorum illic mansuros 
 advenire contigerit et singnum clipei super se portaverint ; 
 ita siquidem quod ipsi religiosi seu capellani seculares ipsum 
 WUlelmum predictum tunc recipient in canonicum seu 
 fratrem, v[e]l [s]altem in victu et vestitu tamquam uni canonico 
 
 1 Baxtergate, now known as Wheelergate. 
 
 2 The effect of this deed is given by Tanner, Notitia Monaatica, p. 
 502, from ' CoUect. MS, D. Thornton. ' 
 
 3 Marmion 's arms, as appears by his seal affixed to other deeds. 
 
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 eidem providebunt. Et si contigerit dictos religiosos seu 
 presbiteros seculares ibidem moraturos singnum clipei non 
 posse super se deferre, volo quod habeam potestatem alios 
 vel eosdem sine clipei, singno ponendi in prefato Hospitali 
 sine eontradiccione aliqua predicti Willelmi, hoc adjecto 
 expresse et intellecto, quod si contingat dictum Willelmum 
 super incontinencia notari seu divina ibidem celebrare negli- 
 genter omittere, quod (sic) li[cebit] mihi eundem Willelmum a 
 dicto Hospitali amovere et omnia bona sua ad usus dicti 
 HospitaHs reservare. Et si dictus Willelmus in dicto Hos- 
 pitali decesserit, omnia bona sua dicto Hospitali integre 
 remanebunt. Ego vero dictus Philippus et beredes mei 
 predictum Hospitale cum omnibus suis pertinenciis et pastura 
 predicta memorato Willelmo usque ad terminum predictum 
 in scema prenotata contra omnes gentes warantizabimus, 
 adquietabimus et defendemus. 
 
 In cujus rei testimonium sigillum meum huic scripto cyro- 
 graphato duxi apponendum. Datum apud Midd[elton], in 
 crastino Apostolorum Philippi et Jacobi, anno Domini 
 MoCC" octagesimo tertio. 
 
 Hiis testibus : Dominis Johanne de Clinton, Henrico de 
 Sheldon, militibus ; Magistro Michaele de Ermesby ; Waltero 
 de Hertrugge ; Eicardo de Sheldon ; Galfrido Coket ; Galfrido 
 ad Crucem de Tham[eworth] ; Willelmo Warmon, de eadem ; 
 et aliis. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 1287, August 10. — ^Deed of emancipation by John Venator 
 [Le Hunte] of William son of Walter de la More from all 
 bondage. 
 
 Omnibus Christi fidehbus, ad quos presens scrip turn per- 
 venerit, Johannes Venator eternam in Domino salutem. 
 
 Noveritis me relaxasse et penitus, pro me et heredibus 
 meis vel assingnatis, quietum clamasse omnem exaccionem 
 servitutis et nayvitatis et demandam, quas, vel que, habui 
 vel habere potui aliquo modo in Willelmo filio Walteri de 
 la More, vel in catallis suis, seu in sequelis, racione concessionis 
 vel vendicionis, que Dominus Philippus Marmyun michi et ■ 
 assingnatis meis per scriptum suum de predicto Willelmo, 
 quondam nativo suo, de cataUis et sequelis suis, condidit, pro 
 quadam pecunie summa per me predicto Domino Philippo 
 data^ ; ita siquidem, quod nee ego Johannes nee heredes 
 mei, nee aliquis per me seu nomine meo, in predicto Willelmo 
 vel in catallis sive in sequehs aliquam exaccionem vel 
 demandam racione nayvitatis vel alicujus servitutis con- 
 cessionis vel vendicionis possimus vendicare [vel] exigere 
 in perpetuum. Et pro omnibus premissis predictus Willelmus 
 in tota vita sua michi et heredibus meis dabit unum par ciro- 
 tecarum die Sancte Edithe Virginis quolibet anno in tota 
 vita sua, pro omnibus rebus in perpetuum. 
 
 1 Thi3 grant, of the same date, is also preserved. The consideration 
 was 18«. 
 
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 In cujus rei testimonium huic present! scripto sigillum 
 meum apposui. Hiis testibus : Anketino de Insula ; Ricardo 
 Cissore ; Normonno de Midelton^ ; Rogero de Coningesby ; 
 Roberto filio Hugonis ; Hanr[ico] de la Mere ; Domino 
 WiUelmo, capellano de Midelton ; et aliis. 
 
 Datum apud Midelton, die Dominica in festo Sancti 
 Laurencii, anno regni^ Regis Edwardi filii Regis Hanrici 
 quintodecimo. 
 
 [c. 1290] — Grant from Agnes, daughter of the late Richard 
 Bugge, of Notingham, to William de le Ker of a plot of land 
 and the buildings thereon, together with two underground 
 cellars at the end of the said land on the north, lying in the 
 Great Marsh of Notingham opposite the Friars Minor, 
 between the tenements of Hugh de Vilers and of Isolda Dun- 
 nyng, extending in length to the tenement formerly owned 
 by her father ; reserving to her the garden (herbarium) beyond 
 the two cellars ; rendering therefor 6d. yearly to the king, 
 and 12d. yearly to the House of the Holy Trinity of Lenton, 
 and to her and her heirs a clove gillyflower (clavum gariophili). 
 
 Witnesses : Richard Becok, mayor of Notingham ; Richard 
 le Cupper 3 and Michael le Orfevre*, bailiffs of the same ; 
 Benedict Hunte ; Ralph le Taverner ; Hugh de Vilers ; 
 Robert le Teynturer ; Robert de Spondon ; Thomas Dun- 
 nyng ; Hugh the Clerk. 
 
 [1292.'| — Copy of partition of lands [in Middleton, co. 
 Warwick] between Joan de Ludelowe [daughter and co- 
 heiress of Sir Philip Marmion],^ and Sir Alexander de 
 Fryvill [husband of Joan, grand-daughter of Philip]. 
 
 Ltidelowe. — To the purparty of dame Joan de Ludelowe 
 are assigned 2J acres in le Oversoken on the north ; 3| 
 acres of the portion by right measure in the same field near 
 the spring ; in the field called " Fyveacre " an acre in the 
 
 1 Middleton, co. Warwick. 
 
 2 rengni, MS. 
 
 8 Mayor of Nottingham, 1301-2 {Records of the Borough of Notting- 
 ham, i, p. 422). 
 
 * Mayor of Nottingham, 1297-8. 
 
 6 The date of this partition is probably shortly after the death of Sir 
 Philip Marmion in 1291 or 1292 {Calendarium Inquisitionum post Mortem, 
 20 Edw. I., no. 36, i., p. 109), for his lands in Middleton were divided between 
 his daughter Joan, wife of Thomas de Lodelowe, and Sir Alexander de Freville, 
 the persons who receive purparties by this document. Dower was assigned 
 to Philip's widow in 1292 {Calendar of Close Rolls 1288-1296, p. 269), and in 
 the same year Alexander demanded his purparty of Philip's lands (Ibid. p. 
 262). Joan's purparty was retained in the king's hands until 1299 by reason 
 of her minority {Calendar of Close Rolls 1296-1X02, pp. 272, 273). That the 
 lands mentioned in this partition were in Middleton appears by comparison 
 with the partition between the same parties in 1315 of the land that Mary, 
 widow of Philip Marmion, held in dower until her death {Calendar of Patent 
 Rolls 1313-18, pp. 176, 177), for many of the names of tenants and of the 
 local features there recur. The present document is a copy drawn up, in all 
 probability, some little time after 1315, for most of the tenants holding in 
 1315 are described as late tenants, the tenet of the original having been 
 apparently altered to tenuit. 
 
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 middle of the field, and half an acre in the corner towards 
 the " mor "' of W. de Berf[ord] on the south ; m the 
 Brokyate-ruyding an acre and a rood near the Wodelone ; 
 in the Holwokruyding an acre and a rood near the Holwok- 
 ridingyate ; in Bradeleye 1^- acres l3dng in the Neepruyding ; 
 in Mangre an acre lying near the land of Ralph le BotiUer 
 on the west ; in the Parkfeld 2J acres and a third of a rood 
 near the park of the dower ; in the Hethfeld 1-| acres 
 nearest the park ; in the Barremor an acre and a third of 
 a rood in the middle of the field ; in Colfeld an acre nearest 
 the land of Roger de Coningesby ; in the field of Turteley 
 IJ acres in the Oversponne near Dryebrokesheved, which 
 IJ acres Richard Molden lately held ; in the Hevedwod an 
 acre and a rood of land, which John Rowe lately held ; in 
 the Marefold 1 J acres, which Thomas Neel lately held ; a 
 rood of land that John Hemery lately held in the same field ; 
 half an acre of land that Adam de Yrelond lately held in 
 the Marefold ; an acre of land in Turteley that John le fiz 
 Adam de Yrelond lately held ; an acre and a rood on 
 Turteley that Ahce Bate lately held near the Pryursty ; an 
 acre that Gilbert del Onheld lately held in the same field ; 
 1^ acres that Henry le fiz Gilbert lately held in the same 
 field ; half an acre that Gilbert le fiz Gilbert lately held in 
 the Bircheles ; in the Revefeld 3J roods, 18f perches of 
 arable land in the cultura (coture) near the Morhous near the 
 moor of Gilbert Bate ; 1 acre and a third of a furlong and 
 of a rood in the field near Smal Medowe near the land of John 
 Sibily ; in the Milnemedowe an acre of meadow towards the 
 meadow of Robert de la Sale ; in the Brodemedowe an acre 
 of meadow near the inheritance of Sir Ralph le Botiller ; 
 in the meadow that Jaket de la Hyde lately held near the 
 Birchenholt half an acre and a third of a rood lying near 
 the meadow of John Sybily ; in the " hale " near the More 
 of Wilham de Blakgreve IJ roods of meadow near the 
 meadow of Henry le fiz Gilbert ; in Smalemedowe a third 
 of a rood of meadow near the meadow of Roger de Coningesby ; 
 in the Brokriding two thirds of an acre of several pasture 
 next the Polesheved ; in the Poel below Aschecroft a third 
 of an acre lying next the meadow of Robert le Templer ; in 
 Leefeld 5 acres and a third of a rood next the highway 
 between Colleshull and Tamworth ; in the Monkesmire 6 
 acres next the inheritance of Sir Ralph le Botiller on the 
 south ; in Driebrokesheved 4 acres and a rood of covert and 
 of waste next the land that Richard Molden held near Drie- 
 brokesheved ; on the heath of Turteley 2J acres of waste 
 next the inheritance of Sir Ralph le Botiller ; in the Lindes 
 1| acres of covert next the Poleshevedway ; 3 roods of 
 covert in the Lyndes next the assart of William le Cunger 
 near the Poleshevedway ; in the Lyndesclos 2| acres next 
 the Holwokruyding. 
 
 Fryvill. There are assigned to the part of Sir Alexander 
 de Fryvill 2i acres in the Oversoken in the middle of the 
 
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 field where the marlpit {marler) is ; 3| in the same field near 
 the Lydeyateway ; in the field called " Fyve Acre " IJ acres 
 near the land of Robert le Templer ; in the Brokyateruyding 
 an acre and a rood in the middle of the field ; an acre and 
 a rood in the Holwokruyding near the Lyndesclos ; in 
 Bradeley 1| acres near the inheritance of Ralph le BotiUer ; 
 in Mangre an acre in the middle of the cultura {coture) 
 towards the Park ; 2^ acres and a third of a rood in the 
 middle of the Parkfeld ; IJ acres in the Hethfeld near the 
 land of Greoffrey Attehyde ; in Barremor half an acre and 
 a third of a rood near the close of William de Berford ; half 
 an acre that William le Venour lately held in Leefeld ; an 
 acre of land in Colfeld in the middle of that field ; an acre 
 and a rood on Turteley in the Oversponne near the assart 
 of AMce Bate, which acre and rood Richard Molden lately 
 held ; a rood that Nicholas le Hare lately held ia the Over- 
 feld of Turteley ; in the Hevedwode an acre that William 
 le Cunger lately held near the land of John Rowe ; in the 
 Marefold IJ acres that Robert le Hare lately held near the 
 land of Adam the Smith {le Fevre) ; half an acre in the 
 Marefold that John Hemery lately held ; 1 J acres on Turteley 
 that Adam de Yrelond lately held near the land of Alice 
 Bate ; an acre and a rood on Turteley that Richard Osbern 
 lately held in the same field ; an acre that Henry Osbern 
 lately held in the same field near the land of Swein atte 
 Asches ; 3 roods that Richard Molden lately held in the 
 same field ; 3 roods on Turteley that Alice Bate lately held 
 near the land that Richard Molden lately held ; half an acre 
 that Richard Osbern lately held in the same field near the 
 land of Swein atte Asches ; 3 J roods and 18f perches Ijdng 
 in the Revefeld in the middle of the cultura (coture) towards 
 the Morhous ; an acre and a third of a quarter of a rood in 
 the field near Smalmedow next the meadow of Smalmedowe ; 
 in the Milnemedowe an acre of meadow in the middle of the 
 meadow ; in the middle of the Brodemedowe an acre of 
 meadow near the Birchenholt ; haK an acre and a third of 
 a rood next the meadow of Robert le Gjrnur ; in the " hale " 
 near the " more " of William de Blakgreve IJ roods lying 
 in the middle of this " hale " ; in Smalmedow the third of 
 a rood near the meadow that formerly belonged to Richard 
 de Scheldon ; in the Brokruyding two thirds of an acre of 
 several pastiu-e near the Oxheye of the inheritance of Joan 
 de Ludelowe ; in the Poel below Aschecroft a third of an 
 acre Ijring near the Brok ; in Leefeld 5 acres and a third of 
 a rood in the middle of Leefeld of the purparty of the dower ; 
 in the Monkesmire 5 acres in the middle of the three portions 
 there measured ; in Driebrokesheved 4 acres and a rood 
 of covert and of waste lying next the Rondy-tre ; on the 
 heath of Turteleye 2J acres of waste next the Barrewayes- 
 ende ; in the Lindes 1^ acres of covert lying next the 
 Barreway ; three roods of covert in the Lyndes between 
 
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 the inheritance of Sir Ralph le Botiller and the Lyndes-clos ; 
 in the Lyndes-clos 2J acres in the middle of the Lyndes- 
 clos. 
 
 [1294] — Demise by the community of the township of 
 Ruddington [co. Notts] to the -vicar of Ruddington of the 
 vicarage houses in the churchyard, herbage of churchyard, 
 household furniture, etc. 
 
 Pateat universis hoc scriptum visuris vel audituris, nos 
 Ricardum de Pavelly, militem, Ricardum de Wyleby, Ricar- 
 dum Martel, Robertum Payne, nomine communitatis viUate 
 de Rotington', dimisisse, concessisse, et hoc presenti scripto 
 nostro cyrograffato confirmasse Domino Willelmo de Rade- 
 clive, perpetuo vicario de Rotington',^ omnes domos edificatas 
 in cymiterio Capelle Beate Marie Virginis ejusdem villa, quas 
 Willelmus de Hemmingford, quondam vicarius et predecessor 
 predicti Willelmi de Radeclive, de nobis et communitate 
 predicta tenuit in eadem villa, cum toto herbagio crescente 
 in cymiterio predicto, et cum duobus plumbis in fornesio^, et 
 cum una mensa et duobus trestellis eisdem domibus spect- 
 antibus, et omnibus aliis aysiamentis suis infra villam et 
 extra : tenendas et habendas de nobis et heredibus nostris 
 et de communitate predicta predicto Willelmo in tota vita 
 sua plene, in pace, et honorifice ; reddendo inde annuatim 
 communitati predicte sex solidos argenti ad quatuor anni 
 terminos, videlicet ad Pascha octodecim denarios, et ad 
 festum Apostolorum Petri et PauH octodecim denarios, et 
 ad festum Omnium Sanctorum octodecim denarios, et ad 
 Natale Domini octodecim denarios, pro omnibus serviciis 
 secularibus, exaccionibus, et demandis : ita scilicet, quod 
 predictus Willelmus omnes predictas domos cum muris et 
 portis inclusas^ adeo bono statu, vel mehori, quo eas recepit, 
 bene per totum sumptibus suis propriis cooperabit et 
 sustentabit, et predictas domos in predicto statu, nisi igne 
 alieno comburantur*, seu casu guwerre vel-fractionis meremii 
 corruantur, predicte communitati restituat^ Et si ita forte 
 contingat, quod predictus Willelmus in solucione annul red- 
 ditus predicti in parte vel in toto ad terminos predictos defe- 
 cerit, Ucebit extunc predicte communitati conjunctim vel 
 divisim predictas domos cum cymiterio intrare, saysire, et 
 retinere, sicut jus suum, sine dissaysina vel injuria seu 
 calumpnia predicto Willelmo facienda, quousque de pre- 
 dicta firma predicte communitati plenarie satisfecerit. • 
 
 In cujus rei testimonium presenti scripto in modum cyro- 
 graffi confecto, utraque pars scriptum alterius suo signavit 
 sigillo. Hiis testibus : Domino Ricardo de Bingham, milite ; 
 
 1 William de Radcliffe was instituted vicar of Buddington on 5 July, 
 1294 (Godfrey, Churches of Nottinghamshire, 1887, p. 79). 
 
 2 Leaden vats ('leads') fixed over 'furnaces' or firegrates. See 
 Records of the Borough of Nottingham, iii, p. 493. 
 
 ^ includes, MS. 
 * comburentur, MS. 
 5 restittiet, MS, 
 
83 
 
 Galfrido fratre suo ; Willelmo Marischallo, de Radeclive 
 super Trente^ ; Thomas Basilie, de eadem ; Ricardo Barri, 
 de Thorlaxton^ ; Gervasio filio Ysabelle de Keword^ ; 
 Johanne filio Elie de Brademare* ; Willelmo Clerioo ; et 
 aliis. 
 
 1295, February 2. — Release by Richard son of Richard 
 Bugge of Wyluby of Robert son of Robert de Strelley 
 and Elizabeth, his wife, from rendering an account of the 
 lands held by the said Richard in sokage in Wyluby on the 
 Wolds (super Waldos), of which they had the custody during 
 his minority, and concerning which account he had impleaded 
 them in the king's Court, in consideration of the payment by 
 them to him of seven marks. 
 
 Witnesses : Sir Roger de Morteyn ; Sir Ranulph de 
 Wandesleys ; Robert de Kynmarley* ; Adam de Coscale'' ; 
 WiUiam de Bella Aqua ; Robert de Aldesword'" ; Robert 
 de Ryseley.* 
 
 [1304.] — Probate of will of Robert de Bingham, of co. 
 Dorset. 
 
 In Dei nomine, amen. Ego Robertus [de B]ingham facio 
 testamentum meum in hunc modum : In primis do, lego 
 animam meam Deo, Qui me creavit, redemit et glorificabit, 
 et corpus meum sepeHendum in cymeterio Beati Andree 
 de Tolr'^" ex parte australi cancelli ejusdem ecclesie, juxta 
 tumbam Nichole de Tomay, uxoris mee ; et ante corpus 
 meum unum bovem. Item in expensis funeris in die 
 sepulture mee, sex marcas. Item do, lego quinque marcas 
 ad unum annuale celebrandum pro anima mea et pro 
 animabus duarum uxorum mearum defunctarum. Item ad 
 fabricam ecclesie de Tolr', ijs. Item ad fabricam ecclesie 
 Sar[esburiensis], ijs. Item do, lego Fratribus Minoribus de 
 Dorsetre,^^ dimidiammarcam. Item capeUe mee de Staford,^^ 
 iiij.soKdos. Item do, lego ecclesie de West Cumton,^^ xijd. 
 Item do, lego Ricardo de Bingham, nepoti et her[e]di meo, 
 unam mazeram, que vocatur ' Gladewyne.' Item do, lego 
 Johanne, uxori mee, unum ciphum argenti cum pede. Item 
 do, lego Radulpho de Bingham, filio meo, unam peciam 
 argenti. Item Domino Johanni de Bingham, filio meo, xs. 
 Item Johanni filio meo, dimidiam marcam. Item do, lego 
 Johanne Terry unam dimidiam marcam. Item Johanni Juel, 
 
 1 KatclifEe-on-Trent, co. Notts. 
 
 2 ToUerton, co. Notts. 
 
 3 Keyworth, co. Notts. 
 * Bradmore, co. Notts. 
 
 5 Wandesley, parish of Annesley, co. Notts. 
 
 6 Kimberley, co. Notts. 
 
 7 Cossall, CO. Notts. 
 
 8 Awsworth, CO. Notts. 
 
 9 Risley (Breaston St. Michael with), co. Derby. 
 
 10 Toller, co. Dorset. 
 
 1 1 Dorchester. 
 
 12 West Stafford, co. Dorset. 
 
 13 Compton Abbas (oKos West Compton), near Dorchester, co. Dorset. 
 
84 
 
 iijs. Item Thome Coco, ijs. Item do, lego cuilibet de 
 familia, qui mecum stabit tempore mortis mee, vjd. Item 
 Johanne, uxori mee, majorem ollam meam heream^- Et 
 Ricardo de Bingham unam ollam minorem. Item do, lego 
 Radulpho, fiHo meo, unam ollam eream, que est apud Staford. 
 Item do, lego in subsidium Terre Sancte ijs., ita quod niehil 
 ampHus quacunque occasione in subsidium ejusdem Terre 
 Sancte vendicari possit de bonis meis. Item Hobekino^, filio 
 Ricardi* de Bingham, unam vaccam. Item Hobekino, filio 
 Radulphi de Bingham, unam vaccam. Item do, lego Henrico, 
 rectori ecclesie de Tolr', iiij. coclearia argenti. Item Domino 
 Johanni de Bingham, filio meo, ij. coclearia argenti. Et 
 Radulfo, filio meo, iiij. coclearia argenti. Et Willelmo de 
 Ringwode, de Staford, iiijs. Item do, lego Johanne*, uxori 
 mee, unum annulum (sic) aureum cum lapide zaphiri. Item 
 Johanne Terry, unum anulum auri. Item Margarete, uxori 
 Radulphi de Bingham, unum anulum aureum. Item do, 
 lego Henrico, rectori ecclesie de Tolr', unam marcam argenti. 
 Et Radulpho de Bingham unam marcam argenti. Et prop- 
 terea cetera bona partem meam contingencia, que non sunt 
 speciahter legata, volo quod vendantur, et quod distribuantur 
 pro anima mea juxta disposicionem executorum meorum. 
 Item do, lego Radulpho de Bingham unam mazeram cum 
 pede. Et sunt executores mei Henricus, rector ecclesie de 
 Tolr', Radulphus de Bingham, fihus meus, et Johanna de 
 Raleghe, uxor mea. 
 
 [Endorsed :] Istud testamentum probatum fuit coram 
 nobis, ofiiciah Domini archdiaconi Dors[et'], in ecclesia Beate 
 Marie de Brideport, quinto kalendas Mali, anno gracie 
 M°CCC'^ tercio ; et pro eo pronunciamus et commisimus 
 administracionem bonorum Henrico, rectori ecclesie de Tolr', 
 et Radulpho de Byngham, executoribus infra-scriptis, in 
 forma juris, Johannam de Raleghe, propter sui debihtatem, 
 ab honere administracionis presentis testamenti absolventes. 
 
 1308, September 9. — Probate of wiU of Henry, Lord Grey 
 of Codnor [co. Derby]. 
 
 En le noun du Pere e du Fiz e du Seint Esperit, amen. 
 Jeo Henri de Grey, Seygnour de Codenore, faz mon testament 
 en mon maner de Codenore, le Lundy en lendemeyn de la 
 Nativite nostre Dame, le an del Incarnacion nostre Seygnour 
 mil e treis centz e utyme. A deprimes, jeo devis ma alme 
 a Dieu e a nostre Dame e a touz ses seintz, e mon corps a 
 gesir as Freres du Carme de Eylesford. ^ E jeo devis a 
 meimes ceus Freres quaraunte livres en amendement de 
 
 1 heream=seream. 
 
 '^ Hobekin, a pet-form of Robert, " Hobekinus filius Radulphi de 
 Bingham ' ' is the Robert de Bingeham, son and heir of Ralph de Bineeham, 
 of 1334 (p. 93, below). 
 
 3 Ricardo, MS. 
 
 * Johanni, .MS. 
 
 6 Aylesford, co. Kent, a friary founded by Heiuy 's grandfather, Richard, 
 Lord Grey of Codnor, about 1240. 
 
85 
 
 lur moster e de lur mesons, e le graunt piole destrer pur aler 
 davaunt mon corps, e ke mon corps seit enterre honorable- 
 ment sicom apent a mon estat, solum le ordeinement de mes 
 exsecutours. E jeo devis a Richard de Grey, mon fiz, ma 
 bone croiz, ove ma beneizoim ; e a Nichole de Grey, mon 
 fiz, le dyamaunt ke Sire Richard de Saundiacre me devisa, e 
 touz mes biens e mes chatels ke sunt en mon maner de 
 Barton' 1 le jour desus nome. E a Luce de Somery, ma fiUe, 
 une emeraude ke Monsieur Paen Tibetot me dona, e ma 
 beneizoun. E a Dame Johanne, ma fiUe, nonein de Acorne- 
 bury,2 cent souz. E a Johanne, ma femme, le graunt picher 
 de argent e le hanap a pe, ove les glans sus le covercle, e 
 I'autre hanap a pe blaunc o un emal en my lu, e un picher 
 a ewe, e sis esqueles, e sis sausers de argent des mees, saunz 
 les sowes demeyne, e ma blaunche perle. E les aneaus ke 
 jeo penk entour mon col seent a Richard, mon fiz. E a 
 Johanne, ma fille, la compaygne Richard de Grey, mon petit 
 ruby. E jeo devis a Monsieur Roberd de Schirlaunde mon 
 neir destrer pur son bon servise pur deners ke jeo ly dey. 
 E a [Monjsieur Willeam le fiz Willeam un bon rouncyn de 
 vint mars ou de dis livres. E a Monsieur Thomas de Wokin- 
 den' le sor rounc5m de Estaumford.^ E a Monsieur Roberd 
 Saufcheverel dous hanaps de argent platz. E a Margaret de 
 Cromwell' le petit picher de argent au vin, e un hanap. plat ; 
 e a Johanne, sa soer, un hanap de argent plat. E a Alienor 
 de Chaumflor quaraunte hvres. E jeo devis as Freres Menours 
 de Notingham quarante souz. E as Freres du Carme de 
 Notingham deus marcs. E a autres Freres par eyllours soli*m 
 le ordeinement de mes exsecutors. E al ovraygne del egHse 
 de Lichfeld vint souz. E al ovraygne de la mere eglise de 
 Everwik demy marc. E al ovraygne de la mere eglise de 
 Nichole* demy marc. E a Roberd de Sallowe^ le polein 
 ferraunt e le petit polein bay. E a Roberd des Vans le fer- 
 raunt destrer de Fraunce. E a Ernaud de Monteny cent 
 souz. E a Arondel ke ses dettes seent p[a]eez pur sa femme. 
 E a Johan de Schirfeld cent souz. E jeo veoil ke touz mes 
 gentz de oifice e touz autres ke me unt servy cent lur servise 
 e seent regardez solum lur estat e solum ceo ke mes biens 
 soffisent. E jeo devis a Thomas e a Henri, mes fiz, mes 
 mesons de Loundres pur eyder a lur avauncement. E jeo 
 veoil ke Margaret' de Cromwell' e Johanne, sa soer, eent 
 touz les moebles de Cromwell' pur totes maneres de dettes. 
 E jeo veoil ke la dame eit sa chaumbre e ceo ke y apent. 
 E jeo devis a Hugh de Rislep le ferraunt rouncjm ky est apele 
 ' Dycoun ' e le bay rouncyn de Estaumford. E jeo veoil ke 
 totes mes dettes seent paeez plenerement avaunt ceo ke riens 
 seit fet de mon devis avauntdit, sauve mon enterrement. 
 
 ' Barton-le-Street, oo. York (Dugdale, Baronage, i, p. 710a). 
 
 ^ Aconbury, co. Hereford. 
 
 ^ Stamford, co. Lincoln. 
 
 * Lincoln. 
 
 ^ Sawley, co. Derby. 
 
86 
 
 E a cest testament leaument pursure e porfere, jeo ordeyne 
 e faz mes exsecutors Richard de Grey, mon fiz, e Roberd de 
 Sallowe, Roberd des Vaus, Alienor de Chaumflour, e Hughe 
 de Rislep. 
 
 En tesmoygnaunce de q[uele ch]ose a cest testament jeo 
 ay mys mon seel. 
 
 [Endorsed Avith probates before R. de Reddeswell, arch- 
 deacon of Chester, vicar of W., bishop of Coventry and Lich- 
 field, extra dyocesim suam agente, on 16 September, 1308; 
 acceptance of preceding probate by Thomas de Renes, seques- 
 trator of W., archbishop of York, at Nottingham, September 
 19 ; acceptance of same by the official of Rochester, October 
 15 ; probate before Ralph, bishop of London, October 15 ; 
 and probate before the bishop of Lincoln, October 22.] 
 
 1310, March 8. — Grant by Philip le Hunte, of Middilton, 
 to Wiiham de Blakegreve of all his lands in Middilton 
 [Middleton, co. Warwick], together -with the reversion of all 
 the lands, etc., that Maud, mother of the said Philip, and 
 Margery Norman hold in dower. 
 
 Witnesses : Roger de Conyngesby ; AnketiU de Lyle ; 
 Anketm de Bracebrigg' ; Ralph Osberne ; Geoffrey atte Hide ; 
 Roger de la Bache ; John de Oxton, clerk. 
 
 " Et quia dictus PMlippus non habuit sigiUum, sigillum 
 Henrici, filii GaMridi Gamyl, mutuatum fuit." 
 
 1310, June 10. — Grant from Brother William de Tothale, 
 " Sancte Domus HospitaUs Sancti Johannis Jerusalem Prior 
 humihs in Anglia," with the assent of the brethren of the 
 chapter, to William de Staundon, clerk, and Joan, his wife, 
 of three acres of land in a field called " Stanberewe," between 
 the land of John de Renesleye on both sides, in the town of 
 Staundon', 1 extending eastward to the way from Staundone 
 to the manor of Plessy,^ and westward to the land of Thomas 
 de Gardino, held at will of the said chapter by Nicholas de 
 la Leye. 
 
 Witnesses : Brother Robert de Somerdeby ; Brother 
 Nicholas de Accumbe ; Brother Humphrey de Wykham ; 
 Brother Henry de Basynges ; Brother John de Messyngham ; 
 Brother John de London ; Brother William Cosyn, then 
 Preceptor of Staundon. Dated at Melcheboum,' " in cele- 
 bracione Capituh nostri ibidem." 
 
 Seal of the Chapter, with counterseal of William de Tothale. 
 
 1311, May 23. — Grant from Simon de Lega, " nuncius 
 quondam Celebris memorie Domine Alianore, Regine Anghe," 
 to Gilbert de Wygeton clerk, of all his lands, etc., in the 
 parish of [All Hallows], Berkingchurche, London, in Sjrvethen- 
 
 1 Standon, oo. Hertford. 
 ^ Flashes, in Standon. 
 .8 Melchboume, co. Bedford. 
 
87 
 
 strate/ between the tenement of Richard de Gray on the 
 south and " ci[miterium Sancti Olavi] versus Turrim 
 London' " on the north. 
 
 Witnesses : Richer de Refham, mayor ; Simon Corp and 
 Peter de Blakeneye, sheriffs ; William de Combe-Martin, 
 alderman of that ward ; Roger de Frowyk ; Gilbert le Hurer ; 
 John de Stratford ; William de Finchingfeld ; Robert le 
 Maderman ; John de Rameseye ; John Priour ; Benedict de 
 la More ; Thomas le Coupere ; Simon Tourgys ; Ralph the 
 Clerk. 
 
 1311, September 5. — Grant from Monsieur Robert de 
 Mohaut, steward of Chester, to Sir John de Bracebrugge, 
 knight, of lOl. of yearly rent in Walton, co. Derby. In con- 
 sideration of this grant, Sir John " a done et graunte affaire 
 son leal servise de chivalerie a I'avantdit Sire Robert a toute 
 sa vie pour la rente avantdit, aussi bien en temps de pees 
 come de guerre, et en touz lieus ou il besoignera de son 
 serviz, par la ou la presence I'avauntdit Sire Robert serra, 
 et en toutes terres et en touz regions, hors pris la Terre 
 Seynte, quant des foiz et quel hoiire que il serra de lui coven- 
 ablement garni et maunde, a la mounture et a les robes et a 
 les propres custages I'avantdit Sire Robert resonablement 
 sicome il affiert a chivalier estre trove de son seigneur, et 
 restor des chivaus, de palefroi, de somer, et de rouncyn, son 
 vadlet, son hakeney, et son somer en temps de guerre, solum 
 resonable pris par I'avantdit Sire Robert prisie." 
 
 Small seal with shield hearing a lion rampant. 
 
 1312, March 12. — Demise from Roger de Morteyn, knt., 
 for the term of his life, to Richard de Wyluby, the younger, 
 of his manor of Cossale,^ with " housbote " and " haybote " 
 by the view of his " wodeward " in his wood of Cossale Lount, 
 and appurtenances, excepting his coalmine {minero carbonum), 
 wood, and court of free men and the heriots and ransoms 
 for the lands of the freemen and bondmen (nativi), at an 
 annual rent of 4Z. 
 
 Witnesses : Adam de Cossale ; Robert his son ; Roger de 
 Bruimesleye' ; Richard Martel, of Chilwell* ; John de Aldes- 
 worthe.^ 
 
 1314, November 4. — Letters patent of Edward II. granting 
 licence for Roger de Mortejm to assign to Richard de 
 Wylgheby, senior, 80 acres of wood in Wolaton and the 
 advowson of the churches of Wolaton and Cosshale, held by 
 him of the king in capite of the Honour of Peverel. 
 
 [Calendar of Patent Bolls 1313-17, p. 197.] 
 
 1 Seething Lane. 
 
 2 Cossall, 00. Notts. 
 
 3 Brinsley, co. Notts. 
 * CJhilwell, CO. Notts. 
 
 ^ Awsworth, CO. Notts, 
 
1316, May 1.— Demise by Richard de Willoughby to 
 Adam son of Nicholas and to eight other men of Cossale 
 [Cossall, CO. Notts] of his mine of sea coal [in CossaU ?], with 
 exemption from payment of rent when hindered from 
 working by firedamp. 
 
 Hec est convencio facta inter Ricardum de Wilwebi, 
 Dominumi ^q Cossal', ex nna parte, et Adam filium 
 NicoUai, Adam le Moner, Johamiem Everard, Henricum 
 filium Bate, Galfridum filium Heiu-ici Everard, Evera[r]dum 
 filium NicoUai, Henricum de Kidisley, de Cossale, ex a,ltera, 
 videlicet quod dictus Ricardus concessit et ad firmam dimisit 
 predictis Ade et sociis suis minam suam de carbone marino 
 in una placea terre arrabilis, que vocatur ' le Vytestobbe ' ; 
 reddendo pro quolibet picoss[io]2 per septimanam duodecim 
 denarios quotienscumque operaverint, in parte vel in toto, 
 vel operare poterint, nisi impediti fuerint propter inundacionem 
 aque vel ventum,' qui vocatur ' le dampe,' tunc ilhs de 
 societate, qui impediti fuerint, allocentur quamdiu aqua vel 
 le damp' durent.* Et si contingat, quod operent^ per tres 
 dies, dabunt per diem duos .denarios et obolum pro quolibet* 
 piccos[io] ; si per quatuor dies in septimana, dabunt duodecim 
 denarios. Preterea predicti Adam et socii sui gutturam, 
 que dicitur " Ze sowe,"'' propriis suis sumtibus reparabunt. 
 Vult etiam et concedit dictus Ricardus, quod Adam filius 
 NicoUai et quiUbet sociorum suorum predictorum, tarn in 
 egritudine* quam in sanitate, pro voluntate sua partem suam 
 operis predicti vendere vel ad firmam dimittere vel aUcui 
 partem suam concedere possit, excepto Ricardo filio Loce : 
 ita tamen, quod dicto Ricardo de firma sua modo debito 
 respondeatur. Preterea concedit dictus Ricardus, quod nuUus 
 operarius ad operacionem' dicte mine sine voluntate et elec- 
 cione dictorum Ade [et] sociorum suorum uUo sensii admit- 
 tatur. Et ad omnia premissa observanda, quilibet dictorum, 
 pro se et heredibus suis et executoribus suis, obligat se et per 
 se in solucionem et principalem debitorem ad' omnia premissa 
 observanda et tenenda. Predictus Ricardus et heredes sui 
 predictam minam in forma prenotata dictis Ade et sociis suis 
 warantizabunt et presens pactum in omnibus suis articulis 
 observabunt sine fraude. 
 
 In cujus rei testimonium sigilla partium huic scripto inden- 
 tato alternatim sunt appensa. Datum apud Cossale, Calend[is] 
 Maii, anno regni Regis Edwardi, filii Regis Edwardi, nono. 
 
 Idem Adam et socii sui^° implebunt puteos propriis suis 
 sumtibus et reparabunt. [Cancelled.] 
 
 1 Dominus, MS. 
 
 2 Pickaxe (Old French picois). 
 
 * ventus, MS. 
 
 * durant, MS. 
 5 operant, MS. 
 
 * quilibet, MS. 
 
 ^ See Prof. Wright, English Dialect Dictionary, s.v. ' sough, 2. ' 
 
 8 egritale, MS. 
 
 * Repeated in MS. 
 l" sociis suis, MS. 
 
89 
 
 1319, October 8.— Letters patent of Edward II. granting 
 licence for William de Morteyn to enfeoff Richard de 
 Wylughby of the manor of Wollaton, excepting 26 mes- 
 suages, 20 acres, 17^ bovates of land, 4 acres of meadow, 
 and 80 acres of wood and the advowson of the church ; 
 which manor is held of the king in chief as of the Honour 
 of Peverel. 
 
 [Calendar of Patent Rolls 1317-1321, p. 393.] 
 
 1327, May 6.— Letters patent of Edward III. granting 
 licence for John of Watenowe to enfeoff John le Colier, of 
 Notingham, of 14 acres of land in Sutton Passeys, held in 
 chief. ^ 
 
 [Calendar of Patent Rolls 1327-1330, p. 100.] 
 
 1328, September 4.— Letters patent of Edward III. grant- 
 ing licence for Simon le Jorce, of Wymundeswold,^ to enfeoff 
 Richard de Wylughby and Isabel, his wife, of a messuage 
 and a carucate of land in Wymundeswold and Houton,* held 
 of the king in chief. * 188 
 
 [Calendar of Patent Rolls 1327-1330, p. 318.J 
 
 1331, November 11. — ^Agreement made at London, whereby 
 Estout de EstouteviUe, son and heir of Monsieur Nicholas de 
 Estoteville, agrees to enfeoff Monsieur Richard de Grey, lord 
 of Codenovre, of his manors of Barton-on-Trente* and 
 Brademere,^ co. Nottingham, and to recognize his right 
 thereto by a fine to be levied in the king's court at Westminster 
 in the quinzaine of Easter, 1332, and to make aU surety pos- 
 sible in the courts of France and of England. The said 
 Richard agrees to pay him therefor 800Z. 
 
 Witnesses : " Mons. Rauf, Counte D'Eu, Conestable de 
 Fraunce " ; Mons. Robert de Estoteville ; Mons. Henri de 
 Beaumont ; Mons. Raufe de Estoteville ; Mons. William de 
 Beseville ; Johan de Polteneye, Mayor of London ; Mons. 
 Richard de Lacy, John de Graham, and John Priour, " le 
 puysne cyteyns de Loundres." 
 
 French. 
 
 1332, March 26. — Agreement for the cancelling of a bond 
 in 100?., in which Mons. Baudewyne de Fryvill' is bound to 
 Philip de Hardeshull', upon condition that the said Baude- 
 wyne do, between the date of these presents and the feast 
 of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist next, enfeoff John, 
 his son, and Ehzabeth, daughter of Mons. John de Hardes- 
 huU, and John and Elizabeth's heirs of lands of the yearly 
 value of 30Z. ; and secure them lands of the yearly value of 
 51. of the land held by Dame Johane, mother of the said 
 Baudewyne, after her death ; and secme to them the castle 
 
 1 This occurs in the bundle of deeds of 1 Edward I. 
 
 2 Wimeswold, co. Leicester. 
 
 * Hoton, CO. Leicester. 
 
 * Barton-in-Fabis, oo. Notts. 
 B Bradmore, co. Notts. 
 
90 
 
 of Tamworth and appurtenances, together with the tene- 
 ments held by the said Johane in Middelton, after her death 
 and the death of Baudewyne and EHzabeth, his wife ; and 
 make aquittance to Phihp of 40 marks, in part payment of 
 250/., in which John de HardeshuU is bound to Baudewyne 
 for the marriage of the said John, son of Baudewyne, and 
 of Elizabeth, daughter of John de HardeshuU. 
 
 1332, April 15. — Letter of Queen PhUippa acknowledging 
 receipt from Ida Lestrange, her damsel, of certain crowns and 
 other jewels.^ 
 
 Ph[ilipp]e, par la grace de Dieu, Reyne d'Engleterre, Dame 
 d'Irlaunde, et Duchesse d'Aquitaine, a touz ceux qi cestes 
 lettres verrount, saluz. Sachez nous avoir receu devers 
 nous meismes en nostre chaumbre de nostre ch[ier]e 
 damoisele Ide Lestraunge les choses souzescrites queles ele 
 avoit de no[us] ... a garde[r], c'est assavoir, une 
 corone d'or od x. fleurs de ameraudes, une ruble en cheoun 
 fleur. Item une corone d'or od x. fleurs od emeraudes et 
 rubies od viij. perles, en chescune trosche une ruble en la 
 trosche, et d'autrepart une emeraude. Item une graunde 
 corone d'or od x. fleurs od emeraudes et rubies, od trosches 
 de perles, et en chescune trosche viij. perles et une grosse 
 perle en milieu. Item vme graunde corone d'or od viij. fleurs 
 de grosses emeraudes et grosses rubies, et une trosche de 
 xij. perles et une ruble dedeinz, et une autre trosche d'une 
 emeraude dedeinz, et chescune trosche od un saphir survo- 
 launt. Item une graunde corone d'or od grosses rubies, 
 emeraudes, diamauntz, et grosses perles, la quele ma dame 
 la Reyne Isabell nous d[ona] le jour de la . . . ienoef 
 I'an quart. Item une croiz d'or od grosses emeraudes, rubies, 
 et grosses perles. Item une ceynture d'orfaverie (sic) od emer- 
 audes, rubies et grosses perles. Des queux choses nous voloms 
 qe I'avantdit nostre damoisele seit deschargee et quites par 
 cestes noz lettres. 
 
 En tesmoignance de queu chose, nous avoms [fetes faire 
 cestes] lettres patentes. Don[eez] a Estaunford, le xv. jour 
 d'Averill, I'an du regne nostre treschere Seigneur le Roi 
 sisme. 
 
 1332, May 12. — Agreement by Estout de Estoutevill', son 
 and heir of Sir Nicholas de Estoutevill', to come over to 
 England at the charge of Richard de Grey, lord of Codenovre, 
 between the octaves of Michaelmas next to come and the 
 feast of All Saints to make such surety to Richard of the 
 manors of Barton and Brademere, of which he had enfeoffed 
 Richard by his charter enrolled in chancery, ^ as is ordained 
 in the indentures between him and Richard, as the counsel 
 
 1 These jewels do not occur iu the inventory of her plate, etc., taken 
 after 1369 {Archaeologia, xxxi., p. 377). 
 
 2 See Calendar of Close Bolls 13^0-1333, p. 563, and the deed of H 
 November, 1331, above. 
 
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 of the said Richard shall ordain. He also agrees to surrender 
 to him all the muniments of the said manors. 
 French. 
 
 1332, May 28.— Agreement between Henry, bishop of St. 
 Davids, and Richard le Wulf, of Putton in Gower (Gouheria), 
 whereby the bishop agrees to deliver Agnes Harald, of 
 Sweynese, to be married to John le Wolf, son and heir of 
 Richard; and Richard agrees to enfeoff Sir Philip de 
 Sweynese, rector of Penmayn,i and William de Clynton, as 
 feoffees of the said John and Agnes, of all his lands in 
 England and Wales, excepting a tenement that Macy, his 
 daughter, has of his gift in Kyngestrete, co. Dorset, reserving 
 to himself for his Ufe the manor of Putton and a caruoate of 
 land in Nydenench. Many provisions follow. 
 
 Witnesses : Sir John, abbot of Certeseye, and Sir John, 
 prior of the same ; Sir Philip Harald, of Sweynese ; Hugh 
 de Paunton ; Walter de Coumb ; Nicholas Drew. Dated at 
 Certeseye. 
 
 1332, July 25. — Grant from Mons. Richard de Grey, lord 
 of Codenovre, to his daughter Maud, who was the wife of 
 John de Gravesende, of iOl: of rent in his manor of Shiryngham,* 
 in exchange for the manor of Gravesende,^ which she grants 
 to him for the term of her life. A long hst of the free tenants 
 and " bondes " from whom the said rent is to be received 
 is given. 
 
 Witnesses : Mons. William de Herle, Mons. Richard de 
 Wilughby, Mons. Rich, de Lacy, knights ; Adam le Duyn ; 
 Walter de Enemere ; Robert de Brondissh, clerk ; Peter 
 de Belegrave. Dated at Westminster. 
 
 1332, September 20. — Grant from John de Brom and 
 Idonya, his wife, to Sir Richard de Wylughbye, knight, and 
 Nicholas, his son, of two plots (placeas) of meadow in 
 Carleton near Gedelyng,* which the said Idonya had of the 
 feoffment of William de Bazage, one of which is called 
 " Stondole " and the other " Segdale." 
 
 Witnesses : Richard Ingram, of Gedelyng ; Roger Duket, 
 of Carleton ; and Richard de la Bazage, of the same ; John 
 Broim, of Gedelyng ; John Moyngne, of Carleton. 
 
 1332, November 17. — Grant from Ralph de Camoys, 
 senior, knight, to Sir John Latymer, knight, son of Sir 
 William Latymer, of all the manor of Lasham, co. Southampton, 
 with the advowson of the church, and all his lands in 
 Berkham,^ in the parish of Bjmteworth. 
 
 1 Penmaen, co. Glamorgan. 
 
 2 Sheringham, co. Norfolk. 
 8 Gravesend, co. Kent. 
 
 * Carlton, near Gedling, co. Notts. 
 
 * Burkham, parish of Bentworth, co. Hants. 
 
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 • Witnesses : Sir Edward de Sancto Johanne, knt. ; Sir 
 Thomas Coudray, knt. ; Sir John de Roches, knt. ; John 
 de Gisorcio, Anketin de Gisorcio, Henry Wymund, Andrew 
 Aubry, Robert Swote, citizens* of London. Dated at 
 London. 
 
 1333, October 6. — Indenture between Richard de Wylughby, 
 justice of the King's Bench, and Adam de Stayngreve, clerk 
 of Geoffrey le Scrop, chief justice of the King's Bench, con- 
 cerning the deHvery to Richard of rolls and other memo- 
 randa of that court. 
 
 Memorandum, quod Dominus Rex mandavit dileeto et 
 fideU suo Galfrido le Scrop' breve suum clausum in hec 
 verba : 
 
 " Edwardus, Dei gratia. Rex Anglie, Dominus Hibernie, 
 et Dux Aquitanie, dileeto et fideU nostro Galfrido le Scrop', 
 Capitali Justitiario suo ad Placita coram nobis tenenda assig- 
 nato, salutem. Cum vos, de mandato nostro, ad partes 
 transmarinas in obsequium nostrum sitis proximo profecturus, 
 per quod volumus quod dilectus et fidelis noster Eicardus de 
 Wylughby, una cum aliis fidelibus nostris, placita ilia 
 teneat, dum vos in obsequio nostro sic esse contigerit ; vobis 
 mandamus, quod rotulos, recorda, processus, indictamenta, 
 et omnia alia memoranda dictum ofificium contingencia, 
 que in custodia vestra existunt, prefato Ricardo, per inden- 
 turam inde inter vos et ipsum modo debito coiSiciendam, 
 sine dilacione liberetis. Mandavimus enim prefato Ricardo, 
 quod rotulos, recorda, processus, indictamenta, et alia memo- 
 randa predicta a vobis recipiat et placita ilia teneat, sicut 
 predictum est. Teste me ipso, apud Shene, x. die Septembris, 
 anno regni nostri septimo." [Calendar of Close Bolls 1333- 
 1337, p. 77.] 
 
 Pretextu cujus brevis predictus Galfridus Uberavit prefato 
 Ricardo apud Eboracum per manus Ade de Stayngreve, clerici 
 ejusdem Galfridi, die Mercurii in Octabis Sancti Michaelis, 
 anno regni Regis Edwardi Tercii a Conquestu septimo, 
 rotulos, recorda, processus, indictamenta, et omnia aha 
 memoranda subscripta Bancum Domini Regis contingencia : 
 videlicet, rotulos placitorum, brevia, et recorda de toto anno 
 regni Regis Edwardi supra-dicti tercio ; et rotulos placitorum, 
 brevia, et recorda de toto anno ejusdem regis quarto ; et 
 rotulos placitorum, brevia et recorda de toto anno ejusdem 
 regis qiiinto ; et rotulos placitorum, brevia, recorda, essonia 
 et panella de toto anno ejusdem regis sexto ; et rotulos 
 placitorum, brevia, recorda, essonia, et panella de terminis 
 HiQarii, Pasche, et Trinitatis de anno ejusdem regis septimo ; 
 et rotulum placitorum de termino Hillaidi de aimo ejusdem 
 regis primo, et recorda ejusdem anni primi, et recorda de anno 
 ejusdem regis secundo ; et rotulum placitorum de termino 
 Pasche de anno regni Regis Edwardi, patris Domini Regis 
 nunc, nono ; et rotulos de Qvo Warranto de Itineribus 
 Comitatuum Norh[amptonie] et Bed[efordie] ; et unum par- 
 
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 vulum saculum cum diversis indiotamentis de Oomitatibus 
 Lincoln[ie] et Midd[elsexie], et cum appello Willelmi de 
 Wantyng et falsa moneta ; et bagam de Sancto Edmund o ; 
 et bagam Willelmi de Ros ; et unum parvulum saculum 
 cum sigillis contra-factisi de sulfure ; et unam bagam cum 
 quibusdam scriptis coram rege propositis et deductis. 
 
 In cujus rei testimonium huic indenture tam predictus 
 Ricardus quam predictus Adam de Stayngreve sigiUa sua 
 alternatim apposuerunt. Datum apud Eboracum, die et 
 anno supradictis. 
 
 1334, February 3. — Grant from Mary de Childecoumbe^ to 
 John de Childecoumbe, her son, and Anastasia, who was the 
 wife of Ralph de B3mgeham, of all her lands in Westaforde 
 Kny3tetone,^ which she had of the grant of Robert de 
 Byngeham, son and heir of Ralph de Byngeham. 
 
 Witnesses : Sir WilHam de Whitefeld, knight ; Sir Robert 
 de Novo Burgo, knight ; Sir Walter Harang, knight ; Walter 
 Baril ; Henry Schirard ; John de Warmwelle* ; Thomas 
 atte See. 
 
 1336, September 26. — Letters patent of Edward III. witness- 
 ing that whereas he lately granted to his yeoman WilUam de 
 Eland, for the term of kts hfe, the custody of the Castle of 
 Notyngham and the baihwick of the Honour of Peverel in 
 COS. Nottingham and Derby, together with the mills, 
 meadows, pastures, fisheries, rents, profits, etc., pertaining 
 to the same castle and baihwick, without rendering to him 
 anything therefor ; he now grants that William shall have 
 the bailiwick for ever to him and his heirs, on condition that 
 his heirs render to the king yearly 14 marks, which was 
 rendered to the king yearly for the said bailwick, as the king 
 finds by a certificate of the treasurer and barons of the 
 exchequer. [Not enrolled on Patent Rolls.] 24 (390.) 
 
 1336, July 8. — Renewal, at the request of the archbishop 
 of York, by the chapter of St. Mary's, Southwell, of their 
 inspeximus and confirmation, which had been destroyed 
 mahciously, of a charter of Master Simon de Curtemajori, 
 prebendary of Wodeburgh [Woodborough, co. Notts] in that 
 church, emancipating Henry son of William de Wodeburgh, 
 and granting to him the tenement that he held in bondage 
 of the prebend. 
 
 Universis Sancte Matris Ecclesie filiis, ad quorum noticiam 
 presentes httere pervenerint, Capitulum Ecclesie Beate Marie 
 Suthweir, salutem in Domino. 
 
 Noveritis nos discreti viri Magistri Simonis de Curtemajori, 
 dudum prebendarii prebende de Wodeburgh' in ecclesia nostra 
 
 1 contro-, MS. 
 
 2 Chileombe, co. Dorset. 
 
 3 West linighton, co. Dorset. 
 * Warmwell, co. Dorset 
 
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 Suthweir, cartam inspexisse Henrico filio Willelmi de Wode- 
 burgli' factam eo, qui sequitur, sub tenore : 
 
 " Omnibus Christi fidelibus, ad quos presens scriptum 
 pervenerit, Simon de Curtemajori, canonicus Suthwellensis 
 Ecclesie, salutem in Domino sempiternam. Noverit univer- 
 sitas vestra me, de consensu et voluntate . . capituli 
 ejusdem, manumisisse Henricum filium Willelmi de Wode- 
 burgh', et plenam libertatem eidem dedisse, concessisse et 
 hoc presenti scripto meo confirmasse, cum tota sequela sua 
 et cum omnibus catallis suis ; ita scilicet, quod nee ego nee 
 successores mei, nee aliquis nostro nomine, aliquid juris vel 
 clamei in corpore dicti Henrici vel in sequela sua seu in 
 catallis suis racione alicujus naivitatis vel servitutis de cetero 
 exigere vel vendicare poterimus. Concessi etiam et hoc 
 presenti scripto confirmavi eidem Henrico et heredibus suis 
 unum mesuagium et bovatam terre arabilis in villa et terri- 
 torio de Wodeburgh', que in naivitate sua de me tenuit : 
 habendum et tenendum predictum mesuagium et unam bova- 
 tam terre cum pertinenciis eidem Henrico et heredibus suis 
 de me et successoribus meis, canonicis de Wodeburgh', Ubere, 
 hereditarie in perpetuum ; reddendo inde annuatim michi 
 et heredibus meis tres solidos et sex denarios argenti, ad 
 festum videlicet Sancti Martini viginti unum denarios^ et ad 
 festum Invencionis Sancte Crucis viginti unum denarios,^ et 
 faciendo inde sectam ad curiam meam de Wodeburgh' ter 
 per annum dumtaxat. Et in testimonium premissorum 
 sigiUum meum presenti carte est appensum. Hiis testibus : 
 Magistris Johanne de Peniggeston',^ Benedicto de Halum^ ; 
 Domino Johanne de Grauncurt, Domino Ricardo de Upton, 
 Domino Ricardo de Halughton,* Domino Thoma de Nor- 
 manton',^ Petro in Venella de Muscham^ ; Ricardo de Nor- 
 manton, Roberto Brun de Halutton ; et aliis." 
 
 Cum nos igitur . . Capitulum Suthwellensis ecclesie 
 supradictum prefatam cartam et contenta in ea per htteras 
 nostras patentes nostro sigUlo signatas olim confirmassemus, 
 sicut fidedignorum testimonio legitime probatum extitit 
 coram nobis, hujusmodique littere con&macionis nostre 
 subdole sint subtracte, et per maliciam, quod pejus est, ut 
 dicitur, combuste et penitus annuUate, ipsas litteras con- 
 firmacionis nostre, ad rogatum venerabilis in Christo patris 
 et Domini, Domini Willelmi, Dei gratia, Eboracensis archie- 
 piscopi, Anglie Primatis, innovamus, ac ipsam cartam et con- 
 tenta in ea ratificamus in perpetuum per presentes, jure, 
 jurisdiccione, statu, dignitate et honore nostris et ecclesiarum 
 Eboracensis et nostre semper salvis. 
 
 In quorum omnium testimonium sigillum nostrum pre- 
 sentibus est appensum, presentibus Domino WiUelmo de 
 
 ^ denarium, MS. 
 
 2 Penistone, co. York. 
 
 * Halam, co. Notts. 
 
 * Halloughton, co. York. 
 
 6 Normanton, parish of Southwell, oo. Notts. 
 
 * Muskham, co. Notts. 
 
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 Berecotea, Magistris Johanne de Monte Claro, et Willelmo 
 de Bameby, Canonicis ; Dominis Henrico KetelP, Ada de 
 Neuton, presbiteris, et aliis. Datum in capitulo nostro Suth- 
 weir, die Lune proxima post festum Translationis Beati 
 Thome Martins, anno gracie millesimo 000'"° tricesimo 
 sexto. 
 
 1338, November 8.— Release by Nicholas, abbot of Hagh- 
 mon, and the convent of the same, to Sir John de Cherleton, 
 lord of Powys, and to his wife, Hawis, of a yearly rent 
 8s. from the tenement in Salopesburs (Shrewsbury) that 
 dame Isabella Borrey formerly held and inhabited. 
 
 Seal of abbey. 
 
 [1342], October 9. — ^Letter from Thomas de Berkelee and 
 Anthony de Lucy to [the Wardens of the East Marches ?] 
 giving an account of the movements of David de Bruce in 
 Galloway.' 
 
 Treschers Sires ! Nous avoms bien entendue voz lettres, 
 qe nous vindrent yceo Meskerdy a hour' de tircz. Et de 
 ceo, Sires, que vous nous maundetz qe nous duss[o]ms trer par 
 devers vous pur la venue de nos enemys d'Escoce vers voz 
 marches, voilletz savoir. Sires, que a la fesauntz de cestes 
 nous entendismes par certeynes gentz qe David de Bruys 
 od son host est vers les parties de Galwayth et Loghrynton, 
 et ceo q'Us bient a faire, nous ne savioms a la fesauntz de 
 cestes. Mes, Sires, ascunes gentz nous ount certifie q'ils 
 voiUont entrer nostre marche, et si ils tenennt lour purpos 
 a ceo faire, nous vous ferroms savoir hastivement. Et, Sires, 
 si ceo aveyng q'ils entrent vostre marche, voilletz savoir que 
 nous serroms prest de perfourmir voz maundementz, mes. 
 Sires, toutvoys, s'il vous plest, que nous seioms garnitz par 
 tenps. 
 
 1- The date of this letter falls between the return of liing David from 
 France on 2 June, 1341 (Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, i. p. clx) and his capture 
 at Neville's Cross on 17 October, 1346. Although he attacked the West 
 Marches shortly before the battle of Neville's Cross, this letter does not refer 
 to his movements in that year, for on 10 October of that year he captured 
 Caatleton in Liddesdale after five days' siege, whereas this letter shows that 
 on 9 October in the year when the letter was written the latest news at 
 CarUsle was that he was then in Galloway. Moreover, Anthony de Lucy 
 died in 1343 or 1344 (Calendar of Close Rolls 1343-1346, p. 257). Anthony, 
 who was constable of Carhsle Castle, was busily engaged in 1340 in protect- 
 ing the West Marches against the threatened inroads of the Soots (Roluli 
 Scocie, i. .'iSQa.b, 590a, 591, 594a, 596b, etc.) In 1 August, 1341, he was 
 appointed warden of the Marches of Cumberland and Westmoreland (Ibid. 
 i. p. 611a). He was engaged in the defence of this district in the following year 
 (Ibid, i., pp. 625b, 627b, 633a). DugdalejBaTOwajte.i., p. 357b, states that Thomas 
 de Bejrkeley was appointed Warden of the Marches of Scotland in 16 Edward 
 III. (1342-3), but the entry in the Rotuli Scocie (i. p. 627b) cited by him does 
 not justify the statement, but merely orders payment, on 2 July, 1342, to 
 Berkeley of wages for the troops that he had agreed to find for three months 
 to defend the Marches of Scotland, payment whereof is charged upon money 
 from wool in cos. Cumberland and Westmoreland. A like order was issued 
 on 20 August (Ibid, i., p. 631b.) and a peremptory order dated 26 September 
 for the payment to him of the wages states that he was staying in the 
 parts of Carlisle (Ibid, i., p. 633a). King Edward embarked for France on 4 
 or 5 October, 1342 (Fcedera, ii., p. 1212; Cat. of Close Rolls 1341-1343, p. 660). 
 
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 Treschers Sires, nostre Seigneur soit garde de vous ! 
 Escr[itez] a Kardoill', le ix™* jour d'Octobre. 
 
 Par Thomas de Berkelee et Antoyn de Lucy. 24. 
 
 1344, October 19. — Grant by Reginald de Cobham, admiral, 
 of permission for the ship called " Le Beggare" of Eylisford 
 [Aylesford, co. Kent], to make a voyage at the master's 
 pleasure, on condition that she return to her own port 
 by Whitsuntide. 
 
 A touz ceux qui cestes lettres verront ou orrent, Renaud 
 de Cobham, admyraill nostre seygnur le Roy, salutz en Dyeu. 
 
 Sachez nous avoir done conge al nef apelle " Le Beggare " 
 de EyUsford, dont Johan Martyn est mestre, d'aler verz 
 qeles parties que verra pur faire son proffit, issint qe soyt arere 
 a son port demesne al Pentecoste prochayn avenyr sanz 
 delay, [a] qele chose lyeument faire il nouz ad trove sufifisante 
 surte. 
 
 En tesmoynance de qele chose a cestez nos lettres avomz 
 mys nostre seal. Don[nes] a Londres, le dys et nofime jour 
 d'Octobre, I'an du regne nostre seygnur susdit d'Engleterre 
 dys et oytisme et de France quinte. 
 
 1344, October 20. — ^Grant from John le Colyer, of Noting- 
 ham, to Michael de Lyndeby, chaplain, to celebrate in the 
 chapel of St. Mary of Sutton' Passeys,^ for the souls of John 
 and of his late wife Agnes, etc., of a messuage, toft, and 
 5 bovates of land in Sutton' Passeys, which John had acquired 
 from divers men in the same town : to have and to hold 
 to the said Michael and his successors, chaplains there cele- 
 brating for the said souls ; provided that if he, or any of 
 his successors, cease to celebrate for eight days without 
 appointing a deputy, he so neglecting to celebrate shall be 
 amoved from the said chantry. The donor retains the right 
 of presentation during his life. After his death, the prior 
 of Lenton shall present upon each vacancy. If he fail to 
 present within twelve days, the presentation shall lapse to 
 the prior of Felleye. If he fail to present, the archbishop 
 of York shall present. 
 
 Witnesses : Robert de Strelleye, knight ; John de 
 Annes[leye], knight ; John de Cokfeld, knight ; John del 
 Ker ; William de Selston ; Geoffrey de Brunnesleye ; John, 
 son of Robert de Sutton ; Seyr de Brokestowe. 
 
 1344, November 23. — Deed of Brother Astorgius de Gorciis, 
 prior of Lenton, and the convent of the same, consenting to 
 the foundation of a chantry in the chapel of Sutton Passeys by 
 John le Colier. Dated at Lenton. 
 
 Seals of prior and priory. 
 
 1345, September 12.— Grant from Hugh le Tighler, of 
 Lincoln, and Cecily, his wife, to Ralph de Cockwell, of 
 
 1 Sutton Paaaeys, a vanished village in Wollaton Park. 
 
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 Notingham, and Emma, his wife, of a plot of land in the 
 Saturday Market, Notingham, between the tenement of 
 John de Widmerpoll on the east and the gate called "le 
 Chapelbarre " on the west, in breadth by the king's highway 
 81 feet, lying in length by the wall of Notingham from the 
 said gate to the end of the tenement of the said John de 
 Widmerpoll except room for a cart {preter iter unius carecte) 
 between the wall and the said plot on the west. 
 
 Witnesses : John de Tumby, Mayor of Notingham ; 
 Stephen le Taverner and Ralph Colier, Baihffs ; Ralph de 
 Wollaton; Richard de Toueton, Richard de Hilton, John 
 Davy, Robert de Brunneby, Hugh de Carlell, all of Notingham. 
 Dated at Notingham. 
 
 1351, April 25. — Grant by Robert son of Robert de Brunneby, 
 of Notyngham, to Sir Richard de Wylughby, senior, of a 
 messuage with shops in Notyngham near the lane called 
 "le Cowlane," formerly held by John de Perwych. 
 
 Witnesses : Hugh le Spicere of Notyngham, Mayor ; John 
 de Sutton and Thos. de Stafford, baihffs (and others). 
 
 1351, May 2. — ^Membrane giving contemporary copy of 
 agreement made at Bradford Peverell between Roger le 
 Walssh and Richard Peverell that Roger shall marry Joan, 
 daughter of Richard, receiving for her marriage 201., and 
 when he takes her home three robes or *" gwyd' and cot' " 
 and a palfrey and saddle, and three beds, two cloths {naps) 
 and a third of canvas, with towel and napkin (savernap), and 
 bacins and lavers for her chamber, and Roger shall enfeoff 
 feoffees of aU his lands in Chikerell and Stoke Coyllard to 
 re-enfeoff Roger and his wife. 
 
 French. 
 
 Copies of the feoffments and releases in connexion herewith 
 are given. 
 
 1352, March 23. — Grant by the abbot and convent of 
 Bordesleye^ to Sir Peter de Monteforti, lord of Beudesert,^ 
 of a yearly rent of lOOs. from their manor of Soungre,* co. 
 Warwick. 
 
 Witnesses : Sir Roger de Aylesbury, William atte Spyne, 
 John de Conyngesby, Hugh de Braundeston, WUliam 
 d'Oddyngseles, John Sparry, Philip de Budeford, Walter de 
 Hereford. Dated at Soungre. 
 
 1352, March 29. — Grant by the said Peter that the abbot 
 and convent shall be quit of the aforesaid rent on condition 
 that they assign a monk chaplain of ,their convent to chant 
 daily for ever divine service at All Saints' altar in their convent 
 church according to the manner of their order, principally 
 
 1 A garment, gown. See New Englieh Dictionary, s.v. ' Gite, 1. ' 
 
 2 Bordeley, parish of Tardebigge, co. Worcester. 
 
 3 Beaudesert, co. Warwick. 
 
 * Songar G-range, in Langley, parish of Claverdon, co. Warwick. 
 
 M7 
 
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 for the good estate of Peter during his life and for the souls 
 of Margaret, his wife, John de Mountfort, his father, Alice 
 de Mountfort, his mother, and John de Mountfort, his 
 brother, etc. Witnesses as above, with addition of Richard 
 de Budeford. Dated at Mounkespathe.^ 
 Good impressions of the abbey seal. 
 
 1358. — Contemporary copy of enrolment amongst the 
 Memoranda of the Exchequer, Hilary Term, 32 Edward 
 III., concerning the reHef due from Ralph son of Ralph le 
 BoutUler for his mother Maud's purparty of the lands of 
 Philip Marmioun, her father, giving details of the division 
 of his lands, which Philip held the town of Tamwrth, on the 
 confine of the counties of Stafford and Warwick, and the 
 manor of Scrivelby, co. Lincoln, as an entire barony (per 
 integram baroniam). 
 
 1358, August 8. — Retainer by Edward, prince of Wales, 
 of Sir Baldwin de Ereville. 
 
 Ceste endenture faite parentre lui nobles homme monsieur 
 Edward eisnez filz au noble roi d'Engleterre et de Fraunce, 
 prince de Gales, dues de Comewaille, et counte de Cestre, 
 d'une part, et Monsieur Baudewyn de Frevill, d'autre part, 
 tesmoigne que le dit Monsieur Baudewyn est pur terme de 
 sa vie demoree ove le dit prince, pemant pur son service 
 q'il ferra au dit prince annuelement quarrante Uvres a terme 
 de la vie le dit Monsieur Baudewyn des issues et profitz 
 surdantz du manoir de CheDlesmore, de la viUe de Coventree, 
 et de la feeferme de la priorie de Coventree, par les meyns 
 du receivour ou autre gardein le dit prince iUeoques, qi pur 
 le temps serra, a les termes de Seint Michiel et de Pasque 
 par oweles porcions. Et que a quele heure que le dit prince 
 irra pur la guerre, le dit monsieur Baudewyn prendra pur 
 tauntz des gentz come il amenera ove dit le prince ataunt 
 come autres de son estat prendront pur I'afferant des gentz 
 q'il amenera. 
 
 En tesmoignance de quele chose auxibien le dit prince come 
 le dit monsieur Baudewjm ount a ceste endenture entre- 
 chaungeablement mis lour seals. Donne a Londres, le viij. 
 jour d'Augst, I'an du regne le roi Edward Tierz apres le 
 Conquest d'Engleterre trentism secound et de Fraunce 
 disneofism. 
 
 1360, August 3. — Grant by Richard de WUughby, knight, 
 the elder, to Sir Richard de Stanford and Sir Thomas de 
 Eperston, chaplains celebrating in the chapel of St. Mary, 
 Sutton Passeys, for the souls of John Colier, Agnes, his wife, 
 and of their children, and for the souls of Sir Richard de 
 Wilughby, father of the grantor, and of Adam de Wellom, 
 formerly rector of Wolaton, and for the good estate of the 
 
 1 Monkspath (Hall). , 
 
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 grantor and Elizabeth, his wife, Richard Colier, and their 
 children, of 100s. of yearly rent from certain specified 
 tenements in Notingham. The presentation to both chantries 
 is reserved to the grantor and his heirs, and in default to 
 the archdeacon of Notingham, and in his default to the 
 archbishop of York. 
 
 Witnesses : Hugh le Spicer, mayor of Notingham ; John 
 Davy and John de Chastre, bailiffs ; Richard Samon, John 
 Salmon, Richard le Colier, John de Briggeford, John Loterell, 
 William Coher, William de Lancastre, Richard de PoUes- 
 worth, Roger de Gamelston, John Ingram. Dated at 
 Notingham. 
 
 1362. — Copies of inquisitions post mortem of Richard de 
 Wylughby, the elder, in the counties of Leicester, Lincoln, 
 and Derby. He died 14 March, 36 Edward III. Richard, 
 his son, is his next heir, and is aged 40 and more. 
 
 [Cf. Galendarium Inquisitionum post Mortem, ii., p. 256, 
 no. 81.] 
 
 1363, July 5. — Release by Joan, abbess of Shaston,i to 
 Edmund Fitz Herberd and Elizabeth Pitz Roger, tenants 
 of the manor of Mapelerton,^ of all arrears of the ferm up to 
 Michaelmas next. Dated at Henton. 
 
 Fine impression of seal. 
 
 1367, February 24. — Admission by John, bishop of Lincoln, 
 of John de Baggeworth, priest, to the chantry of St. Mary 
 of Sapecote,^ void by the resignation of Richard Basset, the 
 last chaplain thereof, on the presentation of Sir Richard 
 Basset, knight. Dated 1366, in the fourth year of the 
 bishop's consecration. 
 
 1385, April 4. — Retainer by John, duke of Lancaster, King 
 of Castile and Leon, of Ralph Bracebridge. 
 
 Ceste endenture fait parentre le puissant prince Johan, 
 roy de Castell et de Leon, due de Lancastre, d'une part, et 
 Mons[ieur] Rauf Braissebrugge, d'autre part, tesmoigne que 
 le dit Mons[ieur] Rauf est retenuz et demorez devers le dit 
 roy et due pur lui servir a terme de sa vie, tant en temps 
 de pees come de guerre, en manere que s'ensuyt, c'est assaveir 
 que le dit Mons[ieur] Rauf serra tenuz deservir meisme celuy 
 roy et due pur pees et pur guerre a terme de sa vie, et de 
 travailler ovesque lui as queles parties q'il plerra au dit roy 
 et due, bien et covenablement arraiez pur la guerre ; et serra 
 le dit Mons[ieur] Rauf en temps de pees as bouche et gages 
 de court pur lui meismes a ses diverses venues illoeques, quant 
 il serra envoiez par les letres du dit roy et due de son 
 
 1 Shaftesbury, co. Dorset. 
 
 2 Mapperton, co. Dorset. 
 
 3 Sapoote, CO. Leicester. 
 
100 
 
 mandement, ovesque un son esquier, qi serra tout soulement 
 a bouche de court. Et prendra le dit Mons[ieur] Rauf en 
 temps de guerre du dit roy et due au tieulx fees et gages pur 
 la guerre par an pur lui et pur son dit esquier come autres 
 bachelers de samblable estat et condicion prendront, par 
 les meines du tresorer du dit roy et due pur la guerre, qi pur 
 le temps serra. Et endroit des chivalx de guerre preises et 
 perduz en la service du dit roy et due, et del comencement 
 de son an de guerre, et des prisoneres et autres profitz de guerre 
 par lui ou nuU de ses gentz prisez ou gaignez ensemblement, 
 et de I'eskippeson pur lui, ses gentz, chivalx, et autres leur 
 hernoises, le dit roy et due ferra a lui come as autres 
 bachelers de son estat et condicion. 
 
 En tesmoignance de quele chose a ycestes endentures les 
 parties avantdites entrechangeablement ont mys leur sealx. 
 Don' a Leycestre, le quart jour d'Aprill, I'an du regne nostre 
 tresredoute seigneur le Roy Richard Seconde puis la Con- 
 queste 05rtisme. 
 
 Seals missing. 
 
 1390, March 12. — Demise for twenty-nine years from John 
 Dabrigecort, knight, to Robert Bay, of Cossall, "William 
 Gamam, and Nicholas Batell, of Trowell, of " tres partes 
 cujusHbet putei cujusdam minure (sic) carbonum " in the 
 places called " Morebrech " and " Wodebrech " in the fields 
 of Trowell, rendering therefor every week for a " pyk " 
 of hard coal 2s. Qd., and for a " pyk " weekly of " culm " 
 I2d. The lessees shall pay the whole ferm if they work three 
 days, and if they work only two days and a half, they shall 
 pay half the ferm. " Et predicti Robertus, Willelmus, et 
 Nicholaus operentur in predicta minura nichil eos impediente, 
 salvis semper eisdem Roberto, Willelmo, et Nicholao et 
 heredibus suis damp' et aqua. Et quod idem Johannes et 
 heredes sui allocabunt predictis Roberto, Willelmo, et 
 Nicholao, heredibus et assignatis suis, wateregates et heddryftes 
 durante termino predicto." Dated at WoUaton. 
 
 Witnesses : Thomas Tochet, Peter de Strellay, John 
 Hancok, chaplain. 
 
 1402, December 22. — Grant by Agnes Denteth, of Not- 
 yngham, relict of Henry Shypwryght, of Notyngham, to Sir 
 William Ode, chaplain, of Notyngham, of a rent of 2s. and 
 two hens yearly from a messuage with appurtenances and 
 buildings in Notyngham on the rock {super rupem), lying 
 between her tenement in which she now dwells and the 
 tenement formerly belonging to John Luterell, which John 
 de Hertyll now holds. 
 
 Witnesses : Thomas de Mapurley, mayor of Notyngham, 
 Thomas de Roley and John de Alastre, bailiffs ; John Samon ; 
 John de Plumptre ; John de Tannesley ; Henry de Plumptre. 
 
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 1402, December 25. — ^Manumission of a serf by Edmund 
 de Willoughby, with exemption from serving as bailiff of 
 the manor and from other servile obligations. 
 
 Pateat universis per presentes, quod ego Edmundus de 
 Weloghby, dominus de Dunnesby, manumisi et ab omni jugo 
 servitutis Uberavi Willelmum Large de Dunnesby, nativum 
 meum, cum omnibus bonis et catalUs suis et cum tota sequela 
 sua, procreata et procreanda. Insuper ego pref atus Edmundus 
 concessi predicto WUlelmo et heredibus suis, quod nunquam 
 fient baUivus meus ville nee curie, set ab omni jugo servitutis 
 ipsos deUberavi, ita vero quod nee ego predictus Edmundus 
 nee heredes nee assignati mei aUquid juris vel clamii racione 
 alicujus viU[e]inagii erga predictum Willelmum Large, seu 
 aliquo de sequela sua procreata vel procreanda, seu de bonis 
 vel cataUis ejusdem Willelmi de cetero exigere vel vendicare 
 poterimus in futurum, set ab omni accione premissa simus 
 exclusi imperpetuum per presentes. In cujus rei testimonium 
 huic presenti scripto meo sigUlum meum apposui. Data 
 apud Dunnesby, die Mercurii proxima ante festum Apos- 
 tolorum Simonis et Jude, anno regni regis Henrici Quarti a 
 Conquesto Anglie quarto. 
 
 1403, August 10. — Letters Patent of Henry IV. ordering 
 Hugh BurneU to defend the town of Shrewsbury against 
 Owen Glendower (Owinus de Gleyndouredy). 
 
 [Calendar of Patent Bolls, 1401-1405, p. 285.] 
 
 1404, November 18. — ^Probate of will of John Frome. 
 Body to be buried in the nave of St. Andrew's church, 
 Sonnyng [Sonning, co. Berks] before the cross. To the fabric 
 of Salisbury church, 20s. To the fabric of the church of 
 Wyntrebom Caam [Winterborne Came, co. Dorset], 40s. 
 To the fabric of the church of Horton [co. Dorset], 20s. 
 To the fabric of the church of Knolton [? Knowlton, co. 
 Dorset], lOs. To the fabric of the church of Bokyngham 
 [Buckingham], 20s. To the fabric of Castilmylbrigge, Bokyng- 
 ham, 20s. To the fabric of WeUendebrigge, Bokyngham, 20s. 
 To the two hermits of Bokyngham, 3s. id. each. To be 
 distributed amongst his villeins (natives) and those holding 
 in villeinage {native tenentes) in Borton, 100s. according to 
 the discretion of his executors. To the friars minor of Dor- 
 chestre 10^. to celebrate for his soul. To the abbot of Shirborn 
 [Sherborne, co. Dorset], a silver gilt chaUce. To the testator's 
 two daughters, two silver cups of one suite made in the manner 
 of a chalice. " Item IsabeUe, filie mee, aulam^ meam paiyd 
 de albo rubeo et viridi, cum toto apparatu. Item predicte 
 IsabeUe lectum meum de rubio et viridi, cum costeris^ et toto 
 apparatu, videHcet cum mairas et canavas et j. par linthia- 
 tninum, j. par de blanket'. Item Johanne, fihe mee, lectum 
 
 1 For aulceum ' hangings. ' 
 
 2 Curtains, bed-hangiags. 
 
102 
 
 meum de albo et rubeo cum costeris et toto apparatu. Item pre- 
 dicte Johamielectum meum magnum rubeum cum duobuslongis 
 costeris rubeis et toto apparatu, videlicet cum matras, canavas, 
 j. pari hlanlceV et j. pari linthiaminum, cum quysshons^ et 
 bankers'^. Item predicte IsabeUe, lectum meum apud London' 
 cum toto apparatu, et omnia alia utencilia domus existencia 
 ibidem. Item lego Willelmo, fratri meo, unum lectum rubeum 
 secundum meliorem, videlicet cum uno tester et dimidio celer',^ 
 cum iij. curteinis, j. canevas, j. matras, j. pari blanket', et 
 j. pari lintheaminum, et coopertorium cum tester operis de 
 Wynchestre, ultra omnia alia que modo habet, que etiam sibi 
 lego. Item Johanni Saydon unum lectum, videlicet coo- 
 pertorium cum uno tester operis de Wynchestre, j. canevas, 
 matras, j. pari de blanket', una pari de (sic) linthiaminum, 
 et ahum coopertorium sufficiens." To Thomasina Carpynter, 
 20s. To Sir Thomas, the testator's brother, a round bowl 
 (bollam) with a cover of silver. To Richard, his brother, a 
 silver piece (peciam) with a cover of silver. To Richard 
 Masun, 13s. 4d., in addition to the salary due to him. To 
 Janyn, 3s. 4d., beyond his salary. To Thomas Coke, 20s. 
 To Hugh, 6s. 8d. To WiUiam Kene, 20s. To Roger atte 
 Wode, 2s. To William Hoggys, 2s. To Richard atte Wode, 
 25. To Richard Ryver, 2s. To John Thurborn, 2s. To 
 Richard Willam, 2s. To Payn Pulter and his wife, 2s. If 
 his other goods not bequeathed are insufficient for the 
 payment of his debts, he wills that deduction {defalcazio) of 
 this testament shall be made at the discretion of his executors. 
 On the third day of his burial lOl. to be distributed for his 
 soul. Executors, WiUiam Fyloll and Richard Frome, the 
 testator's brother. 
 
 Armexed is the certificate of probate on 24 November, 
 1404, before John Perche, clerk, commissary of the arch- 
 bishop of Canterbury. 
 
 [1415,] July 6. — *Letter from H[enry Beaufort], bishop of 
 Winchester, to WUUam Filliol, requesting him to confer upon 
 the bishop's secretary the chapel of Wilkswood [parish of 
 Langton Matravers, co. Dorset]. 
 
 Treschier et tresentierement bien ame, nous vous salvoums 
 souvent et de tresentier coeur. Et vous esmercions tres- 
 acerces de vostre bon promis et de ce qu'U vous ad pleu, 
 par consideracion de nous, nous envoier responce sur noz 
 autres lettres, que vous vouldriez garder la chapelle de Wylch- 
 eswod pour nostre treschier et tresame clerc et secretaire 
 Richart Petteworth jusques au temps que vous et luy en 
 
 1 Cushions. 
 
 2 Bench coverings. 
 2 Canopy. 
 
 * The date is fixed by the fact that Richard Petworth, the person 
 in whose favour the letter is written, succeeded as prior or master of the 
 priory, chantry or chapel of Wilkswood in 3 Henry V (Hutchins, Dorset, 
 ed. 3, i., p. 641b), and that in the same year William Talbot, warden of the 
 chantry, delivered to William Filliol the muniments of the priory (Ibid.). 
 
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 eussiez parl6 ensemble plus au plain, a quelle temps mesme 
 nostre clerc averoit la dicte chapelle, comme nostre Men 
 ame serviteur John' Shirbourne nous reportast plainemenfc 
 de par vous a nostre singuler plaisur la vostre treschier 
 mercy. Si vous prioums tresentierement de vostre bonne 
 continuance envers nostre dit clerc touchant son encres a 
 la dite chapelle sanz lai en failler, que ne vouldrions en null 
 manier, consideree que nous avons fait mesme nostre clerc 
 lesser autre sien benefice pour la cause suisdite, aiants en vous 
 ferme espoir et affiance que nous vous trouveroums le plus 
 favorable a nostre dit clerc par consideracion de nous, par 
 ainsi que a son venu devers vous pour la final conclusion de 
 vostre dit promis, vous ne vueiUez rien convoiter de nostre 
 dit clerc aultrement que raison et conscience ne demandent. 
 Sur quoy vous prioums outre ce que vous vous vueillez tiel- 
 lement acquiter en la dicte matier que nous soions tenuz de 
 faire pour vous de toute nostre poair comme pour chose faite 
 a mesme nostre personne. Et nostre Seigneur vous ait en 
 garde ! Escript a nostre palix a Wincestre, le vj. jour de 
 Juillett. 
 
 H.^ Evesque de Wincestre, 
 Chanceller d'Angleterre. 
 
 [Addressed ;] A nostre treschier et tresentierement bien ame 
 William Fillyoll, esquier. 24. 
 
 This letter is written on paper, and has been folded up in 
 a square shape. At the back cross lines have been roughly 
 drawn with red chalk or paint, and a very small seal, sur- 
 rounded with a twisted straw, has been affixed at the inter- 
 section of the four Hnes of the cross. The letter seems to 
 have been closed by a narrow strip of paper, parchment, or 
 thread beneath the seal, for there are two small cuts in the 
 paper under the seal and corresponding cuts in the other side 
 of the paper. 
 
 1416, January 12. — Contemporary copy of the will of 
 WiUiam FiloU. His body to be buried in his parish church 
 of St. Wulfilda, Horton [co. Dorset]. To the fabric of the 
 cathedral church of Salisbury, 20s. To the fabric of the 
 church of Horton, 135. id. To Joan, his sister, 405. To 
 Roger WilHam, 205. To John Hendy of Wynterborn Belet, 
 carter, 20s. To John Cartere of Wynterbome Heryng [Win- 
 terborne Herringston, co. Dorset], 205. To Simon Talbot, 
 his black gown (jupa) of liyre. To Thomas Boteler, his 
 pantlerer, his gown (jupa) of green and mustervilers. To 
 John Burton his gown (jupc^ of " mottele." To John 
 Batell his gown (jupa) of green of Fryse. To John Reson 
 his gown (jupa) of green and " forstnithemede "^ and his huke 
 (hucum) of green double. To Stephen Wychynore, 61. To 
 Richard Edward, 13s. Id. To Richard William, 13s. 4d. To 
 John Hendy of Wodeland [Woodlands, co. Dorset], 13s. 4d. 
 
 1 The initial H is a bold and elaborate letter, 
 
 2 Not in New English Dictionary, 
 
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 To John Bussell, his fermor of Langeton Heryng [Langton 
 Herring, co. Dorset], his striped single gown {jupam meam 
 stragyl' sengle). To Roger atte Wode, his green gown (jupa). 
 To John TrenchefoiU, his furred striped gown {jupa). To 
 Nicholas Arney, 53s. 4d., which he owes to the testator, and 
 two doublets of black worsted. To Ralph Walssh, his long 
 sword called " Percy." To Robert Derby, his baselard with 
 knife. To Nicholas Arney, his short sword sheathed. To 
 Ralph Walssh, his short sword, which he had of the said 
 Ralph's gift. To John Reson, his short sword not sheathed. 
 To Robert Derby, his black horse. To Ralph Walssh, his 
 bay horse. To Simon Talbot, a pair of white " plates," with 
 the " pauns, vauntbrases, et rirebraces, greves, et quysshews ad 
 eosdem plates competentibus." To Nicholas Arney, a pair of 
 black plates and his bascinet. To Alice Drayton, 6s. 8(i. 
 To Ahce Cowhurd, 3s. 4ci. To Richard Peaworth, his hood 
 of scarlet. To John Parker, of Blakedon, 13s. 4d. and his 
 hood of black of Lyre. To John Wodeham, 106s. M., which 
 he owes to the testator. To John Drapere, 13s. 4d. The 
 rest of his treasure found in his chests and in the hands of 
 his debtors shall be disposed for his burial, and shall be 
 distributed among the priests and the poor for the health 
 of his soul, by the hands of John Wodeham and Simon Talbot, 
 his executors. To Joan, his wife, and to his children, to be 
 found and governed by her, aU the residue of his goods and 
 chattels. Executors, his wife and the said John and Simon. 
 Supervisor, Robert Darby. 
 
 1420, March 31.— Will of Jane, late the wife of Sir Richard 
 Arches, and of Sir WilUam Cheyne, Chief Justice of the King's 
 Bench, formerly the wife of William Fillol. 
 
 Copia ultime voluntatis domine Johanne, que fuit uxor 
 Willelmi Cheyne, mUitis, CapitaUs Justiciarii de Banco Domini 
 Regis, et quondam uxoris WUlelmi Kloll, de comitatu 
 Dors[etie], armigeri, facte in pura viduetate sua post mortem 
 Richardi Arches, nuhtis, similiter viri ejusdem Johanne, prout 
 scribitur in Anglicis manu Simonis Talbot in quodam scripto 
 indentato et sigillato per eandem Johannam super statum 
 factum Nicholao Arney, Simoni Talbot, et ahis per eandem 
 Johannam de manerio suo de Wynterboume Belet et aliis 
 terris et tenementis cum suis pertinenciis de hereditate ejus- 
 dem Johanne in comitatu predicto, prout monstratum et 
 recordatum fuit per predictos Nicholaum et Simonem in 
 canceUaria Domini regis virtute brevis ejusdem Domini regis 
 eisdem Nicholao et Simoni directi, et primo die Junii, anno 
 regni regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum xxj™° returnati 
 coram Magistro Johanne Stafford, episcopo Bathoniensi et 
 WeUensi, adtunc cancellario predicti Domini regis, sequitur 
 in hec verba : 
 
 Be hyt y-knowe to all maner men that shale hure or see 
 thys Bcrite endentid that the wiUe and the entente of me 
 
106 
 
 Johane, late wyfe of Sir Richard Arches, knyght, ys pleinely 
 and fully as hyt ys y-write here after sewyng, that ys for 
 to wyte that there as Robert Derby, esquier, Nicholl' Arney, 
 and Simon Talbot beth y-feffid and y-seisid yn all my maner 
 of Wynterboume Relet and yn all my londys and tenementz, 
 rentys, servises, reversions and comunes of pasture wyth the 
 appurtinaunces yn Wynterbourne Relet, Wynterboume Houn- 
 dyngton, Staford, Kyugston Mawreward, and Wynterboume 
 Kyngeston yn the shire of Dors[et] ; and also there as the 
 forseide Robert Derby, Robert Rempston, Nicholl' Arney, and 
 Simon Talbot buth y-feffid and y-seisid yn all my maner of 
 Wodelond and Knolton wyth the appurtinaunces yn the 
 foreside shire, as by diverse dedys endentid to hem thereof 
 y-made openly hyt ys declarid, that the forseide Robert 
 Derby, Robert Rempston, Nicholl' and Simon shale fynde 
 and susteyne and do marie Avice, Isabele, and Alianore, my 
 doghtres, wyth the profites and the issues that shale come 
 of the forseide maners, londes, and tenementz wyth the appur- 
 tinaunces, and yn cas that y dye, Johan Filoll, my sone, 
 beyng of full age of xxj. wynter and more, that thenne the 
 forseide Robert Derby, Robert Rempston, Nicholl' and Simon 
 shale yeve and graunte all the forseide maneres, londes and 
 tenementz wyth the appurtinaunces fuUy as hyt ys compre- 
 hendid jm the dedys to hem thereof y-made of my yefte and 
 my graunte to the forseide Johan Filoll and hys heires for 
 evermore. And yn cas the forseide Johann FiloU die aftyr 
 the decese of me or [=before] he be of full age, thenne I wole 
 that the foreseide Robert Derby, Robert Rempston, Nicholl' 
 and Simon shall 3eve and graunte all the forseide maners, 
 londys and tenementz wyth the appurtenaunces to Avice, 
 Isabele, and Ahanore, my doghtrys forseide, whenne hy cometh 
 to here full age, and to here heyres for evermore. And yn 
 caas that the forseide Avice, Isabele, and Alianore dye after 
 my decesse, or the forseide johan, my sone, come to hys full 
 age, thenne y wole that all the profytes and issues that shale 
 come of the forseide maneres, londys, and tenementz wyth 
 the appurtinaunces yn the mene tyme shale be ordeined and 
 disposed for the hele and the profite of my soule and the 
 soule of Williem FiloU, that some tyme was myne housebonde, 
 aftyr the discrescion of the forseide Robert Derby, Robert 
 Rempston, Nicholl and Simon. And yn caas that Johan 
 FiloU forseide dye or he come to hys fuU age, Avice, Isabele, 
 and Alianore, my doghtres forseide beyng wythynne here fuU 
 age, thenne y wole that aU the profites and issues as hit ys 
 forseide that shale come of the forseide maneres, londys, and 
 tenementz wyth appurtinaunces yn the mene tyme or 
 [^ before] hy [= they] come to here fuU age shale be do for 
 my soule and for the sowle of WiUiam FUolI as hyt ys byfore 
 declarid. In wytnesse of wheche wrytyng above y-wryte, to 
 that other part of this scrite endentid remeynyng wyth the 
 forseide Robert Derby, Robert Rempston, Nicholl' and Simon 
 y the forseide Johane have sette my seale, and to that other 
 
106 
 
 parte of the same scrite endentid remeyning wyth me, the 
 forseide Johane, Robert Derby, Robert Rempston, Nicholl' 
 and Simon forseide haveth sette here seales. Thys scryte 
 was y-wryte ate Wodelond, on the Soneday next comyng 
 aftyr the feste of the Annunciacion of Owre Lady Seinte 
 Marie, the viij. yere of the regnjmg of Kyng Harry the 
 Fifthe." 
 
 In cujus rei testimonium predicti Nicholaus Arney et Simon 
 Talbot presentibus sigUla sua apposuerunt. Datum apud 
 Wodelond, in comitatu predicto, quarto die mensis JuUi, 
 anno regni regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum vicesimo 
 primo. 
 
 [c. 1425.] — ^Agreement made by the township of Wymund- 
 wold [Wimeswould, co. Leicester], with the assent of the 
 lords of the manors in the township, for the regulation of 
 the common fields thereof ; with interlineations and cancelled 
 clauses in a different hand and ink, probably as a revision 
 at a somewhat later time. Partly decayed by damp. 
 
 Statut[um] de Wymundwold. 
 
 For nejth^ pastur we orden Orrow and Breches, Woldsyke, 
 and Wylougby-broke,^ for to be broken on Crowchemesseday,* 
 and qwoso breke thise, everiche man schall pay for ich a beste 
 that may [be] taken in any other severeU pastur a peny to 
 the kjTke, therfor to go a seveny^tday.^ 
 
 Also, for the ne5t pastur, after that be eten, all the qwete" 
 feld, scilicet Hardacre-feld namly, save Strete Havedes' 
 ther OS thei may not go for stroynge of korn; thise for to 
 endure another seveny3t[da]y, under the peyn befor 
 seyde. 
 
 Also, on Holy Thursday even we orden the comyns of the 
 Pesefeld for horsses to be broken, an[d] non [o]ther bestes 
 to com therinne. For if ther be any man that have any horsse 
 that is febull and may not do his werke for faute of mete 
 [and this m]ay resonably be knowen, lete hym releve of his 
 owen, so that he save his ney5tbur8 for harme, for and any 
 
 1 Although the day upon which these regulations were framed is given 
 there is unfortunately no record of the year. The document is written 
 upon parchment in a hand of the early part of the fifteenth century. The 
 only indications of the date afforded are the names of Sir John Nevill, Hugh 
 de Willoughby, and the proctor of the abbot and convent of Beauchief (oo. 
 Derby), before whom the regulations were made. The three manors in 
 Wimeswould were held by Nevill, Willoughby, and the abbey and convent 
 (Nichols, Leicestershire, iii., pt. 1, p. 502a). Sir John NeviU of Wimeswould 
 occurs as a witness to a deed in 1388-9, 12 Richard II. (Ibid. p.504a.) In 
 1432 his lands in this village were in the hands of his heir {Galendarium 
 Inquisitionum post Mortem, iv., p. 146a). Sir Hugh Willoughby, whoso 
 father died before 1415 (Testamenta Eboracensia, i., 381), survived until 
 1448 (Ibid, ii., p. 134). 
 
 2 ' neat ' (cattle). 
 
 3 The brook flowing through Willoughby-on-the-Wolds, co. Notts. 
 * The feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, September 14. 
 
 s ' to last for a week ' (se 'night). 
 
 6 • wheat. ' 
 
 7 ' headlands. * 
 
 8 ' neighbour. ' 
 
107 
 
 man may [q]wilke bestes lose in korn or in 
 
 gresse, he schall for ich a best pay a peny to the kyrke, and 
 make amendes to his [ney^tbur]. 
 
 Also, on Qwysson even^ everUke man breke his severyll 
 gresse os hym lykes, and no man tye his horsse on other 
 
 [h]isse owen ^for to be severyll to 
 
 Lammes, ich man to ete his owen, under^ the peyn beforseyd. 
 
 Forthermor, if any [man] [plo]gh oxen for 
 
 to be releved on his severyll gresse, let hym tye hem on hisse 
 best maner ^or hold hem inne,^ os other men don ther 
 hors[ses] .... [o]n non other mannes gresse goyng to 
 ne fro on brode,* os thei will pay for iche a best a peny to' the 
 kyrke, and make [amendes] .... to hym that have 
 the harm. 
 
 Also, if any man tye hyse horss ^ or reche ^ on any 
 havedes or be syk' sydes in to any mannes korn, [he schall] 
 make amendes to hym that hasse the harme, and for ich a 
 fote that iss withinne the korn pay a peny to the kyrke. 
 
 Also, if any man [shall be] taken on nyjtturtale ' to stroye other 
 korn or gresse, he schall be punysched os the lawe wyll, and 
 pay fowr penyse to the kyrke. 
 
 [Also,] all maner of men that have any pese in the feld 
 qwen coddyng* tyme comes, lett [them] codde in their owen 
 landes* and in none other mannes [landes]. And other men or 
 wymmen that have non peyse of their owen growyng, lett 
 hem gedur hem twyse in the weke on Wennessday and on 
 Friday, resonably goyng in the land forowes^" and gederynge 
 with their handes and with no sykulse, ones befor none and 
 no more, for if any man or womman other that haves any peyse 
 of his owen and go in to any other, for ilke a tyme pay a peny 
 to the kyrke and lese his coddes, and the that han none and 
 gone ofter then it is forseyd, with sykull or withoute, schall 
 lese the vessell thei gedur hem in and the coddes, and a peny 
 to the kyrke. 
 
 Also, no man with comyn herd ne with sched^^ herd com 
 on the wold after gresse be mowen to it [be] maked a^nd led 
 away, '%ot on his owe[n],^^ and then lat hem go all togedur 
 on Goddes name, and if thei done, ilke a man pay for hisse 
 quantite of hise bestes a serten^^to the kyrke, that is for to 
 sey a peny for ilke a best. 
 
 I ' Whitsun Eve. ' 
 
 2-2 These words have been subsequently run through with a pen. 
 
 3-3 Interlined. 
 
 * on brode = abroad. 
 
 6-6 Interlined. 
 
 « ' brook, ditch ' (AS. Uc). 
 
 7 ' in the night-time ' (adaptation of Old Norse d ndttar-]>eli, ' in the 
 middle of the night '). 
 
 8 ' time for taking the peas out of the cod or husk.* 
 
 9 ' lands ' or ridges of the ploughed field. 
 
 10 'furrows between the "lands " or ridges.' 
 
 II Apparently meaning a separate (i.e. private) herd (from Old English 
 Bceddan, Middle English schede ' to divide, separate '). 
 
 12-12 Interlined. 
 
 13 'a certain, i.e. fixed sum.' from the law Latin certttm. 
 
108 
 
 Also, if ther be any man that throwesi in any scheves on 
 any land for to tye on hisse horsses, he sohall make a large 
 amendes to hem that hane the harm, and for ich a fote pay 
 a peny to the k3n'ke, ^bot on his owen.^ Forthermor, if any 
 man tye his horse in any stubbuU and it be mowen in resonable 
 time, schull pay the forseyd peyn. 
 
 Also, if any man may be taken on nyjtturtale in the feld 
 with kart or with berynge of any other karyage in unresonable 
 tyme %etwene bell and beU^, pay fow[r]ty pens to the kyrke, 
 *save OS thus, if any man in peyse harvest, he and his 
 meyne,^ in fortherynge of his werke and savyng of his korn, 
 bynd a momynge or to® f it ] be mone schyne, all other werkes 
 on nyjtturtale except, save this.* 
 
 Also, aU maner laborers that wonnen' in the town and 
 have comyns amonges hus schull wyrke hervest werke and 
 other werkes for ther h3rre resonable os custum is, and not 
 to go to other townes, bot if thei hane* no werke or elles no 
 man speke to hem so that they may be excused, for if the 
 don, thei schall be chastesed os the law will. 
 
 Also, no man ne wommen that wyrkes hervest werke here 
 hom' no scheves of no mannes ^"bot if thei be gyven hem 
 well and truly, i" for and it may be wyst, for iche a scheffe that 
 thei here homm ^"withoute leffe^" schuU pay a peny to the 
 kyrke. 
 
 Also, no man ne wymmen glene no maner of korn that 
 ys abull to wyrke for is mete and to penys on the day at the 
 lest to help to save his ney^tbur' kom ; ne none other gleyners 
 that may not wyrke gleyn on no kjmnesse wysse^^ amonge no 
 scheves, for and^^ thei do, thei schull lese the kom [an]d a 
 peny to the kyrke for ilke a bur don. 
 
 Also nother comyn herd ne sched herd com' in the qwyte 
 corn feld to^^ the korn [be l]ad awey, ne in the pesse com 
 feld on the same wyse to the pese be lad away, and the comyn 
 herd and sched herd may go togedur os thei schuld do, in 
 peyn of ich a best a peny to the kyrke. 
 
 Also, that no man take away his bestes fro the comyn 
 herd fro Mischels tydeto jole^^togo in the qwete feld to lese 
 the qwete, for and any man may take any best therin, thei 
 
 I The meaning of this sentence is obscure, but it probably means 
 that no man shall throw down (place temporarily) upon any ' land " (that 
 is any ridge in the ploughed lands) in the occupation of another man sheaves 
 from his own ' land ' or ' lands ' in order to pack them on the backs of his 
 horses for transport from the open field. 
 
 2-2 Interlined. 
 
 8-3 Interlined. 
 
 *-* These words have been struck out. 
 
 6 ' servants. ' 
 
 6 ' until.' 
 
 7 -dwell.' 
 
 8 'have' (contraction of 'haven'). 
 » 'home.' 
 
 10-10 These words have been struck out. 
 
 II ' in no sort of way. ' 
 
 12 -an, if.' 
 
 13 •imta.' 
 
 1* ' Yule, Christmas.' 
 
109 
 
 schall pay for iche a best a peny to the kyrke als often aa thei 
 may [be] taken stroyng the kom, ^and the hyrd his hire.^ 
 
 *Also, if our heyward pyn a flokke of ne3t of the contre, he 
 schall [take] syx penys, for a floke of schep four penys, and 
 for ich a horsse a peny.^ 
 
 And that our wold be leyd in severyll at Kandelmesse, for 
 if any hjnde let his bestes com ther on after, pay for ilk a 
 tyme four penyse to the kyrke. 
 
 Also, qwo simiever base any leyse' within the cornes, mi 
 lord or any man elles, let gar hom* to dele hem oute and 
 take a profit of them on Goddus half, and qwo so trespas, 
 let make amendes. 
 
 Memorandum, quod statutum erat apud Wymundwold die 
 Martis proxima ante festum Sancti Dunstani episcopi coram 
 Johanne Nevyll, milite, Hugone de Wyloughby, Willdmo de 
 Ratteclyff, procuratore abhatis et conventus de Bello Capite, 
 et communi assensu tocius villate, quod omnia infra scripta 
 statuta teneantur et svb pena predicta cvstodiantur. 24. 
 
 1428, 15 June. — Agreement between Thomas Beaumounte, 
 lord of Bakevyle, and WiUiam Rychmount of Leycestre, 
 ' sclater,' whereby the latter undertakes to roof and cover all 
 the houses and buildings covered with slates {sdaV) within the 
 manors of Overton and Gowteby for the term of twenty 
 years, receiving therefore 20s. yearly for his stipend. Thomas 
 shall give him a gown {toga) of the suit [secta) of his yeomen 
 when he shall give gowns to his yeomen, and shaU find 
 WiUiam and his servants victuals and beds when they are 
 working on the said buildings. William agrees to remedy 
 all defects in the roofs within a week after notice have been 
 given to him, laying aside for this purpose all his other occu- 
 pations. In ca^e Thomas remove any houses or buildings 
 within the manors to any other places or erect new buildings, 
 he shall give WUUam a salary [solarium) for the same to be 
 agreed upon between them. 
 
 Witnesses : John Danet ; Thomas Hardewyn ; Wilham 
 Saunson. 
 
 1428, June 25. — Letters patent of Henry VI. granting to 
 WiUiam FiloU, by the mainprise of John Jurdon and Robert 
 Rempston, of co. Dorset, the custody for twelve years of a 
 messuage with curtilage in Baggeruggestrete, in the said 
 county, which are in the king's hands by the felony of John 
 Cambat, and of a messuage and eight acres of land in the 
 same town that belonged to Henry Trybald, lately in the 
 king's hands by reason of the minority of Henry's heir, and 
 of 1 4 acres of land in the same town, which are in the king's 
 hands by reason of Richard Wolf's trespass in acquiring them 
 
 1-1 Interlined. 
 
 2-2 Struck out. 
 
 » ■ meadow, leasow. ' 
 
 * ' make, cause them. ' 
 
110 
 
 without the king's licence from William White and William 
 Trybald, and of that part of a sarjeantry in the same town in 
 the hundred of Knolton for which the sheriff of the county 
 was wont to render 5s. yearly : rendering therefor 20s. 
 yearly. Waker[ing]. 
 
 By bill of the treasurer. 
 Duplicated by the roll. 
 
 [Not enrolled on Patent Roll.] 
 
 Endorsed : Fiant consimiles litere patentes Johanne, que 
 fuit uxor WiUelmi FUoU infrascripti, de custodia infraiscripta 
 habenda a festo Sancti Michaehs ultimo preterito usque ad 
 finem viginti annorum proximo sequencium plenarie com- 
 pletorum, reddendo inde viginti soKdos, prout predictus 
 WiUelmus reddidit, et tres sohdos et quatuor denarios ultra 
 de incremento per annum ad scaccarium regis ad terminos 
 infrascriptos, et sustentando domos, etc., per manucapcionem 
 Roberti Veell et Johannis Wodeham, amborum de oomitatu 
 Dorset. Per Thesaurarium Anglie. 
 
 Domino CanceUario. 
 
 1430, April 16. — Demise by WiUiam Alayn, Robert 
 Alayn, and WUHam Retheley, of Derteford, co. Kent, to 
 Robert Cheseman, of Eltham, and John Lalleford, of Est- 
 grenewych, in the same county, of aU profits, etc., of the 
 ferry (la veriage) over Thames from Pountfreyt,^ co. Mid- 
 lesex, to Estgrenewych for seven years, at a yearly rent of 
 26s. 8d. The said Robert and John shall maintain all bridges, 
 wharves (wharf) and other necessaries pertaining to the 
 ferry. William Alayn and Robert Alayn and their men shall 
 be quit and free in going and returning of ferry-charges (pro 
 hatellagio) pertaining to the said ferry. 
 
 1430, June 6. — Letters patent of Katherine, queen of 
 England, daughter of Charles, king of France, mother of 
 the king of England and of France, and lady of Ireland, 
 appointing WUliam Trowtbek, her esquire, constable of 
 Rothelan (Rhuddlan, co. Flint) castle during her hfe, in 
 place of Nicholas Saxton, esquire, appointed by the late king, 
 as she understands that Nicholas wishes to resign that office. 
 Written at her manor of Maideston. French. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 1430, July 22. — Indenture recording a gift by Sir Hugh 
 WUloughby of a service-book to the church of Tiddeswall 
 [TidesweU, co. Derby]. 
 
 " This endentur beres wittnes that Hug' of Wiloby, knyght, 
 has dehverd a booke caled " portewos " to the vicar of Tid- 
 deswall, Richard of Lytton, WiUiam Bradshagh, John of 
 More, Robert Wodroff, John of Nedham, forsters, Robert of 
 Bagshagh, Robert of Peek, Nicholas Martyn, John Hoylele, 
 
 1 Pontefraot, a manor in the parish of Stepney, co. Middlesex. 
 
Ill 
 
 Richard Aleyn, and William of Bagshagh, in this form, that 
 the forseyd book may be abyding in the qwer of the kyrc of 
 Tiddeswall for evermore so that Roger Foljam and his wyff 
 and hor' [=^ their] children and Hug' of Wyloby, knyght, 
 and his wyfE and hor' children mey be preyd for specials 
 everi Sonnenday in the forseyd kyrc at the pulpitt and in 
 all other gude preyers in that kyrc don for evermore. In 
 wittnes of this thing Hug' of Wyloby, knyght, for his parte, 
 OS the twelfe befornamed men for their partes, Ukon for hym 
 selfe, has put to his seal. Mad' at Tiddeswall, in the fest 
 of Mare Mowdleyn, the jere of owr Lorde a thowsand iiij. 
 hunderd and xxx." 24. 
 
 1439, August 7. — WiU of WiUiam Loudham, esquire, made 
 within the monastery of St. John's, Colchester. Body to be 
 buried in church of St. Giles, Colchester. The will contains 
 several bequests of wearing apparel, etc. An inventory of 
 the testator's goods and chattels, made by him on the 
 aforesaid day, is attached by the seal fillet. 179. 
 
 1442, January 29. — Probate of will of John Hede, of 
 Mapurley [co. Derby]. His body to be buried in the church- 
 yard of All Saints, K5n-khalam [Kirk Hallam, co. Derby]. 
 His best beast for his " principal." One pound of wax to 
 burn about his body on the day of his biu'ial. He leaves 
 40d. to the assembly of his friends on that day. Residue 
 to Alice, his wife and executrix, who shall ordain for his soul 
 and children as she shall deem fit. Supervisor, Sir Richard, 
 rector of the church of Westhalam [West Hallam, co. Derby]. 
 
 Witnesses : Sir Richard, rector of All Saints, Westhalam ; 
 Sir Thomas Wodehall, chaplain ; John Wynster, " parkere " 
 of the same. 
 
 1443, September 15. — Testament of Sir Hugh WiUughby, 
 noticeable for amount of plate bequeathed. It is printed 
 from the York registers, in Testamenta Ehoracensia, ii., p. 130. 
 The following schedule is pinned to it : 
 
 " Thyse ben the parcellys that John Brewod had of Maister 
 Byngham. 
 
 In primis the scheriffez of Coventre hath a stondyng cupp 
 of sylver and gylt. Item a salt seller, the wrethis gilt. Item 
 xj. sponys of sylver. Item left at Notyngham at the Grey 
 Freris a basyn of sylver, a charger of sylver, ii. pottygerz 
 [=: porringers] of sylver. Item a cuppe of sylver and gylt. 
 Item j. peyr scheitz of fyne holandez. Item v. napkynz of 
 diaper werk. Item Robert Broun, of Leycetir, mercer, had 
 of the same John vj. platerz of sylver, vj. dyschys of sylver, 
 iiij. sawserz of sylver, iiij. flat pesys of sylver. The somme 
 of iiij^=' ouncez weight, which were sold for ijs. \d. the 
 ouncez {sic). The which I schuld have the some of x. Ii., 
 there of the said John resceved x. marc ; of the which x. marc 
 the said scheriffez have xxxiijs. iiijd. in golde. 
 
112 
 
 Item a sadill and bridill with the hames, price xs. 
 
 Item a swerde, price iijs. injd. Item a dowblet of fens cost 
 cost (sic) xxxs. ]5at was boght of Roberi; Broun his broyer.^ 
 of LeycetjT. Item a Frenche hat, price iijs. iiijd. Item a 
 peir tabyls with the case, price ijs. Item a ryng of golde 
 with a crapot,^ price xliijs. iii]d. Item Prestwod of Leyceter 
 brake away fro my gyrdiU a dager, price iijs. m]d. Item he 
 brake a purse with a spone of sylver and xxs. of money, iij. 
 ryngez of golde, price xiiijs. Item a clokfe price vs. iiijd. 
 Johri Blakwyn, of Leyceter, goldesmyth, had a pott of 
 sylver, the price vj. marc and a pece of silver, price of ij. mark 
 or ids. : of the which I receved xxxiijs. mjd. in mony and the 
 ring of golde with the grapot^ for xliijs. m]d. 
 
 Item the goldsmyth be the Cokk in Leycetyr had ij. 
 sawsers of sylver and ij. flatt pece of sylver. the price xls., of 
 the which xls. I boght a doubelet, the price iijs. . . . 
 peyr schetz Ipe price vjs. viijrf., a Sprewse cofer, price iiijs., 
 the which is left with Robert Broun [his] brodir of Leyceter. 
 Item left a pair of schetz in my chamber at Notyngham, Ipe 
 price iijs. Item I boght a gown the which I have apon, 
 ])e price . . . Item left at the Gray Frerys a syde gown 
 furryd with blak lambe, a gren gown, a wodknyf, a schert 
 and kerchyf." 24. 
 
 1445, September 9. — WiU of John la Zouche, knight with 
 bequests of annuities to his servants. All issues of his lands 
 to his wife Margaret for her'life. " Item volo, quod sepulcrum 
 meum fiat cum lapide marmorio altitudinis competenter, in- 
 serto cum duabus ymagiuibus de laton', ima videhcet de uno 
 milite armato et alia de una domina, et arcus fiat super idem 
 sepulcrum de maeremio, secundum ordinacionem et disposi- 
 cionem mei predicti Johannis. Item ordino et dispono unum 
 hbrum missale, unum portoforium Usus Sarisburiensis, unum 
 vestimentum dominicale et ahud vestimentum feriale cum 
 cahce pro celebracione divinorum in capeUa Sancti Petri 
 infra ecclesiam collegiatam Beate Marie de Southwell. Item 
 volo, quod die sepulture mee coUacio fiat de cibis et potubus 
 servientibus et tenentibus meis tantum, secundum ordina- 
 cionem et disposicionem executorum predictorum." Execu- 
 tors referred to as being named in his testament. ^ Several 
 requests to his feoffees regarding bequests, disposition of his 
 lands, etc. On a schedule attached to the will by the seal- 
 fillet occur the following : 
 
 " Item I bequethe to WiUiam Chaworth a hole armure, 
 the whiche is att Notyngham, and an armynge swyrde. 
 
 Item I bequethe to John Dedyk a pavuse* of meyll, a brace° 
 
 1 That is, ' brother. ' 
 
 - A precious stone. See New English Dictionary, s.v. ' crapaud.' 
 
 " See pp. 113, 114. 
 
 ' pavis,' O. French pavoia, a kind of shield. 
 
 « 
 
 5 Armour for the arm. 
 
113 
 
 of meyll, ij. cussuesi of meyll, a pyson" of meyll in the suyte 
 oi the pavuse, and a swerde. 
 
 Item I bequethe to Sir Richard Hill an haburgen of Melen 
 [—Milan] calde a gesorant,* and a palett, a pyson of 
 meyll, an axe, and a swerde. 
 
 Item I bequethe to my wiffe a bevere furre, the whiche 
 IS m my syde goune, with all the remelantz* of furres in all 
 my cotes. 
 
 Item I bequethe to John Dedyk my grene goune with the 
 furre. 
 
 Item I bequethe to Sir Richard Hille my sangwyn goune 
 withe the furre and the seide syde goune. 
 
 Item I bequethe to Elizabeth Chaworth my scarlett goune 
 with the furre and a gilte pece callyd ' the rose,' the whiche 
 was gyffen unto her moder atte her maryage. 
 
 Item I bequethe unto my wyffe the pece whiche I drynke 
 off. 
 
 Item I bequethe unto Richard Byngham a rose pece, the 
 which Sir Thomas Chaworth gaffe to me. 
 
 Item I bequethe to myn auter [= altar] in the collegeall 
 kyrke of Suthwell ij. fyallz of sylver with a paxbreyde of 
 syJver, a messall and a portowos, the whiche the Lorde Zouche 
 gaffe me. 
 
 Item I bequethe a portowos » to the chapell of Seynt 
 Antony withinne the manor of Kyrkelyngton.^ 
 
 Item I wille that my ij. greyles' be solde and that with the 
 money commynge thereof be boght a missall and that giffen 
 to the seyde chapeU of Seynt Antony, there to abyde for 
 evermore. 
 
 Item I bequethe to John Melljmge a goune of russett. 
 Item I bequethe to Rafe Judde a frysed goune. 
 Item I bequethe to the kyrke of Haryngworthe^ xiijs. m]d. 
 Item I bequethe to Rafe Barre a goune of russett." 
 [Here follows a request to his wife to permit his feoffees 
 to carry out his directions concerning the issues of the lands 
 in COS. Hertford, Suffolk, Kent, Hants and Wilts that they 
 have of his feoffment, as she had joint estate with him in 
 the said lands]. 
 
 " Writen in the feste of Sejmt Laurence, the xxiiij. yere of 
 Kynge Henry the Sexte, kjmge of Englond." 
 
 There isialso preserved the draught of Zouche 's testament, 
 dated on Tuesday after Michaelmas, 1433 [altered to 9 
 September, 1445] leaving his body to be buried in the colle- 
 giate church of Sothwell in the place agreed upon between 
 him and the canons. His best horse and armour for his 
 
 1 Armour for the thighs. 
 
 2 A gorget. See New English Diet. s.v. ' pisane. ' 
 
 2 A coat of mail. See New English Dictionary, s.v. ' jazerant. ' 
 
 * Kemnatits. 
 
 ^ A portiforium or breviary. 
 
 8 Kirklington, co. Notts. 
 
 "^ Qrails, gradalia, the service book so called, 
 
 " Harringworth, Northants. 
 
 Ms 
 
114 
 
 " principal." Twelve torches to be burned about his body 
 on the day of his burial, which are to be held by twelve of 
 his servants on the outside (exteriiis) [altered to twelve 
 servants called " hynes]," each of whom shall receive I2d. 
 To each priest of the college and chantry present at his 
 exequies [altered to " who shall happen to be present at his 
 exequies "] 12d., and the hke sum to each Friar Minor and 
 Carmehte similarly present, and 6s. 8d. to the friar preaching 
 there. Executors : Sir Richard Hill, rector of Bylsthorp 
 [crossed out], Richard Byngham, [Richard Hill, clerk, added], 
 John Leeke of Halome [and John Martyn of Newerk, added]. 
 His wife Margaret supervisor of wUl [originally also brother 
 Roger Gomfrey]. 
 
 1446, Nov. 23. — Letters patent of Henry VI. committing 
 to John FiUol, by the mainprise, before the barons of the 
 exchequer, of William Frampton, of Bukland, co. Dorset, 
 gent., and of Thomas Bate of Foley, co. Warwick, gent., the 
 custody for ten years of a messuage in Baggeruggestrete,^ co. 
 Dorset, in the king's hands by the felony of John Cambat, 
 and of a messuage and eight acres in the same town that 
 belonged to Henry Tribald, in the king's hands by reason of 
 the minority of Henry's heir, and of 14 acres of land in the 
 same town in the king's hands because Richard Wolf 
 acquired them without royal Ucence from Wilham White and 
 Wilham Tribald, and also of that part of a serjeanty in the 
 same town in the hundred of Knolton, for which the sheriff 
 of the county was wont to render 55. yearly : rendering there- 
 for 235. 4d. yearly. Brigge. 
 By bill of the treasurer and of the date aforesaid. 
 By the authority of parliament. 
 
 1450, July 13.— Will of John Willoughby, esquire. 
 
 " In Dei nomine, amen. The xiij. day of July, the date of 
 oure Lorde M-'-CCCCL. I, John Willughby, sqwier, in gude mynde 
 hejng, seyng and felyng the fraylnes of mankynde, make and 
 ordeyn my testament in this maner of wyse. First, I beqweth 
 my saule to God Almyghti and to his moder oure Lady Saynt 
 Mary and to all the holy cumpany of Heven, and my body 
 where that it be plesyng to God. Also I beqweth all my guddes 
 wiche my fader beqweth to me be his lyve and all other, 
 meveabull and unmeabull, unto my lady my moder aftur 
 hir singuler disposession, except that I wUl that ix. of my 
 brether and systers iche on of hem have x. marc and my 
 brother Robert xx. marke of plate. Also I will that my 
 cosyn John Inggelby, son and ayer to Sir Wilham Inggelby, 
 kynght {sic), have my white horse and my jacke. Also my 
 felowe John Shipton for to have my dubbelet of mayell, my 
 stomager of mayell, and a salet.^ Also I make my worshipfuU 
 fader in lawe Richard Byngham, justys, and my brother Robert 
 
 1 Baggridge, parish of Horton. 
 * A ' salade,' an iron headpiece. 
 
115 
 
 of Willughby, sqwier, myn exeoutoures of this present 
 testament that thei dispose, execute, and perfourme all maner 
 of thynges therein contend to the pleasure of God Almyghti 
 and my saule hele." 
 
 1473, May 27.— WiU of Ralph Wenyngton [? of Basford, 
 CO. Nottingham]. His body to be buried where he shall die. 
 Executors : Robert Wyllughby, esquire, of co. Nottingham, 
 Henry Wyllughby, his son and heir, and Joan, the testator's 
 wife, who are requested to cause his debts to be paid, among 
 which are specified 10s. to Thomas Tu, rector of the church 
 of WoUoton, for the board (mensa) of his wife, 20s. to his 
 brother Christopher Wenyngton, il. to Sir John Mason, 
 rector of Normanton. For the payment of his debts and 
 expenses the tenement lately acquired by him in Baseford 
 shall be sold, if need be. The executors are to permit 
 Isabel, his wife's mother, to receive 13s. 8d. from Baseford 
 mill for hfe. He desires Robert and Henry Willughby to 
 be good masters to him and especially to his mother and 
 wife in aU things. He declares that 13s. are due to him 
 at this time from the said miU, and that Ralph Greene 
 owes him 4s. and Henry Mason owes him 8s. " Hiis testibus : 
 Domino Georgio, vicario ecclesie parochialis Sancti Dunstani in 
 Occidentali parte civitatis London', videlicet juxta Novum 
 Templum London', Johanne Ljmgard, in cujus hospicio in 
 infirmitate mea pro tempore nunc laboro, Henrico Wyllughby 
 predicto semper cum me tempore visitacionis mee predicte 
 existenti, et similiter Galfrido Staunton, capellano, tempore 
 scripti hujus presente." 24. 
 
 1473, November 24. — Indenture between John, lord Aude- 
 ley, knight, and William Fyllol, son and heir of John Fyllol, 
 and Margaret, late his wife, of covenants concerning a 
 marriage between the said WiUiam and EHzabeth, second 
 daughter of the said lord. Signed " J. Audeley." 
 
 [1477.]! — Answer of Dame Margaret Byngham, widow, 
 Herry Willugh[by], esq., Thomas Barre and others com- 
 prised in the bill of complaint of Edward Gray, knt.. Lord 
 Lisle, concerning an alleged breach of the park of Drayton 
 [Drayton Bassett, co. Stafford] by Thomas Barre and other 
 servants of the said Dame Margaret and Sir Herry Willughby, 
 which they deny. As to the hunting and chasing in the 
 ground that the said Lord calls " Banglay Chace " [Bangley, 
 parish of Tamworth, co. Stafford], Sir Henry says it is a great 
 waste ground called in the country " Drayton Owtewodes," 
 and he claims that it is adjoining to the manor of Middelton 
 
 1 Undated. A draught of it is also preserved, which refers the assault 
 to Wednesday before Michaelmas in the seventeenth year [of Edward IV.]. 
 According to the seventeenth century endorsement the date is 1 Henry 
 VII. Edward Gray was created Lord Lisle in 1475, Viscount Lisle in 1483 , 
 and' died in 1492. The fight is placed at Weoford Bridge [co. Stafford], 
 by Leland, Itinerary, iv, p. 115. 
 
116 
 
 [Middleton, co. Warwick], of which the said Dame Margaret 
 is seised. He alleges that his servants chased game in the 
 manor of Middelton by licence of Dame Margaret and that 
 they followed a deer out of the said lordship into the waste 
 ground called " Drayton Owtewodes " : this is the alleged 
 breaking of Lord Lisle's chace. He denies that Lord Lisle 
 has a chace in the said waste ground or any other chace in 
 the County of Warwick called " Bangley Chace." 
 
 " And more over, to 1?e iii'^® and iiii'*- article, they seyn 
 J^at [y>e] said Herry WUlughby and oj'er his servauntz in 
 jf>e noumbre of Ix. persones beyng singly arrayed, y>e Wednes- 
 day in ]?e said bill surmysed^ hunted in Sutton^ Chace in 
 any office oj'er called >e Hilwod by ]>e lycens of William 
 Barklay, esquiere, fan Master of >e game in ]>e said Chace, 
 havyng with theym Tpe keper of fe seid office, not purposyng 
 or thirikyng to ony person maUce or eviil will, but be lycens 
 of Tpe said Master and Keper takyng hede of fe sporte and 
 game ; the seid Lorde Lisle, sette in malicius purpos ayenst 
 Tf>e seid Herry Willughby, ]?e same day at Drayton Basset 
 aforseid assembled, raysed, and gedered to hym dyvers and 
 mony rioturs and eviU disposid persons to ye noumbre of an 
 hundreth and moo, and at Tomworth^ caused Tpe belles of 
 y>e cherche to be rungen owkeward,* to y>e entent to arays 
 moo people, ayenst ]>e kynges lawes and peace, to distroye 
 ye said Herry and his servauntz, the which mysdowers and 
 ofer people soo arrayed as ryotures and brekers of fe 
 kynges pease arrayed in maner of warre, ysd, es to say with 
 Jakes, dobelettes of defence, brigonderes, salettes, bowes, 
 arrowes, swerdes, billes and oj'er wappans and abilimentz 
 of warre, by )>e comaundement, supporte, excite and com- 
 fort of Tpe seid Lorde Lysle, purposyng to slee, murdre, and 
 utterly to distroy Tpe said Herry Willughby and his said 
 servauntz in maner and forme aboveseid, the seide Wednes- 
 day come of fote frome Drayton aforsaid ayenst Tpe evyn tyde 
 to a place nygh to Hilwodde aboveseid and in a long lane 
 fast by Canwell^ layd theim in dyvers busshementez* to Tpe 
 intent ]?at on Tpe nyghtertale' in ]?e sa^me lane in goyng home 
 of Tpe said Herry, for so muche as it was his hyeway home, 
 they myght than and Tper have sette uppon hym to execute 
 and complusshe^ J'er seid malicious and cruell purpos. And 
 ayen, ye evyn of Tpe same day, when Tpe said Herry and his 
 servauntz had drenked and refresshed theym at Canwall, 
 not knoyng nor thynkyng of any such ymagynacion or purpos 
 of hes distruccion, and ij. of his said servauntz, weryed for 
 
 1 Wednesday before Michaelmas, in the 17th year [of Edward IV.], 
 that is 24 September, 1477, according to the draught. 
 
 2 Sutton Coldfield, co. Warwick. 
 
 3 Tamworth, co. Stafford. 
 
 * ' awkwardly,' in an irregular manner. 
 
 6 Canwell, co. Stafford. 
 
 * ' ambushes. ' 
 
 7 ' at night.' 
 
 8 ' accomplish. ' 
 
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 labor, toke ther jornay to goo afor tham Tpe said mysdoers 
 assued oute uppon theym and shotte arrees [read arroes] 
 fast at thame and drofe thaym bake with arrowes unto j'ei 
 come to >e said Herry, >er Master, the said mysdoers than 
 cryeng and shoutyng with a grete voce uppon them ' thei 
 flee,' and >e said Henry, understondyng hym selfe bisette 
 on every sied, stode with his servauntz and deffended hym 
 selfe ; never lf>e leesse the seid mysdoers than and )?ere soore 
 horted and wondyd dyvers of his servauntz, and on Thomas 
 Pymne, on' of J>e same his said servauntz, than and )?er 
 felonsly slewe, and had not bene Tpe grace of God, thei had 
 bene slane and distroyed everyche one. And if any harme 
 than fell unto any of pe servauntz of fe saide Lorde Lysle, 
 it was of yev awn grete and greves assent and in fe deffence 
 of ye seid Herry and o^er as farforth as thai cowde savyug 
 theire lyves, wyth out )?ai warre^ gylty of any felony " 236. 
 
 1479, April 4. — Letter of fraternity of the Friars Minor, 
 Nottingham. 
 
 In Christo sibi karissimis^ Thome of the Hede et Margerie, 
 consorti sue, frater Johannes, Fratrum Minorum Notinghamie 
 gardianus et servus, salutem et per presentis vite merita 
 regna celestia provideri. 
 
 Cum sanctissimus in Christo pater et dominus, dominus 
 Sixtus, divina providencia, papa Quartus, non [solum] fratri- 
 bus et sororibus nostri ordinis, sed et confratribus et con- 
 sororibus ejusdem, litteras suffragiales habentibus, de benig- 
 nitate apostolica graciose concesserit, quod quilibet eorum 
 possit sibi elegere (sic) idoneum confessorem, qui ipsos et 
 ipsorum quemlibet ab omnibus et singulis criminibus, exces- 
 sibus et peccatis in singulis sedi apostohce reservatis casibus 
 semel dumtaxat hoc anno, a pubhoacione litterarum papaHum 
 computando, videlicet a quarto die mensis ApriHs, et semel 
 in mortis articulo, ab aliis vero tociens quociens opus fuerit 
 absolvere et penitenciam salutarem injungere possit, idemque 
 vel alius confessor plenariam omnium peccatorum eorundem 
 remissionem in vero mortis articulo valeret elargiri, per lit- 
 teras su£is apostolicas benigne indu]c[erit]. Idcirco, vestre devo- 
 cionis,quam ob Christi reverenciam ad nostrum habetis ordinem, 
 sincere considerans affectum et acceptans, vos in confratrem 
 et consororem, et ad universa et singula fratrum adminis- 
 tracionis Anglicane suffragia recipio tenore presencium, in 
 vita pariter et in morte, ut dictis apostolicis privilegiis 
 omniumque bonorum spirituahum beneficiis, secundum 
 formam et effectum eorundem, perfruamini, animarum ves- 
 trarum ad salutem ; adiciens nichilominus, ut cum post obitus 
 vestros presencium facta fuerit exhibicio litterarum in nostro 
 provinciali capitulo, eadem pro vobis fiet recommendacio, 
 
 1 ' without their being. ' 
 
 2 The names are written in difierent ink from the rest of the docu- 
 ment, which was evidently drawn up with blank spaces for the names. 
 
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 quam pro fratribus nostris defunctis ibidem fieri consuevit. 
 Valete in Christo Jesu ! 
 
 Datum Notinghamie, iiij.*° die AprUis, anno Domini mil- 
 lesimo CCCC"'° Ixxix". 24. 
 
 Another letter of same date to the Hke effect in favour 
 of Richard Hede. 24. 
 
 [c. 1480.] — ^Depositions regarding riotous conduct of Edward 
 Gray, Lord Lisle. 
 
 " Testes producti per Dominum Henricum Willughby. 
 
 Richard Gascon', of WoUaton, 1. yere, sworne and 
 examened, seith that about August last past, what dey he 
 knoweth not, he was at Not[ingham], when and wher he se 
 the Lourd Gray entre in to Not[ingham] with the nowmbur 
 of a C. personnes arraied in defensible wise, s{ciKcet] jakkes, 
 briganders, trussyng cotes, about 1. of them, to what entent 
 this deponent knoweth not ; nevertheles the dey befor this 
 deponent se and herd a servaunt of the Lourd Gray, callid 
 W. Ci'oker, come to WoUaton and seid, in the name of the 
 Lourd Gray, to Sir Herre Willoby that the Lourd Gray send 
 hym to Sir [Herre] Willouby to warne hym not to come to 
 Not[ingham] to the Sessions, for if he did, he shuld com' on 
 his own ieper[die]. Also oon Richard Wodborn, servaunt 
 to the Lourd Gray, come, about Estre or Lent last passed, 
 come [sic) to WoUaton on horsbak, with a longe speyr' in 
 his hand and oon man with hym, and inquired for Sir Herre 
 WiUoby to have spoken with hym, seyinge thies wordes to 
 Richard Cursun : ' If he be with in, bid hym come out and 
 speyk with me.' And when he understond that he was not 
 with in, he departed, and rode to Bramcot Hilles,! wher ley 
 a bushment^ of his company to the nowmber of xl. or 1. ; 
 and all this he sei, and for fere of this My Lady Moder toke 
 such sekenes that she is not lik to recover. More of this bille 
 this deponent knoweth. And also he seith that John 
 StriUey, Thomas Thurlond, and Richard Cursone wer not at 
 Tauton^ the xxv. day of February last past, for StriUey and 
 Cursone were with My Lady WUloby that dey, and Thurlond 
 was at his own place, as he herd sey. More he knoweth. 
 
 John HUterston, of Not[ingham], marchant, sworne and 
 examened, seith that about February last past he was at 
 WoUaton, when he se a servaunt of the Lourd Gray come to 
 Sir Herre WiUoby, and, as the comen rumor in that hous 
 was, that then the Lord Gray send hym word that he shuld 
 not come at Not[ingham] apon his own perell. And also he 
 se when Wodborne come to WoUaton sith* Cristemas and 
 enquired for Sir Herre WiUoby to have spoken with hym, 
 and when he understod his absence, he departed and rode 
 
 1 Bramcote Hill, adjoining WoUaton, oo. Notts. 
 
 2 ' ambush.' 
 
 3 Toton, parish of Attenborough, co. Notts. 
 * ' since, after. ' 
 
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 towerd Bramcote Hilles, wher, that the comen rumor was 
 in all that toun, ley a grete bushment of his company about 
 a C. persons in hemes. Also he seith that about Lent last 
 past he se when the Sheref of Not[ingham] yef possession 
 in possible wise to Wodborn and Sharpels, servauntes to 
 the Lourd Gray, in his name, of the howsis that longeth to 
 a chaunterie of the fundacion of Richard Willoby. Mor he 
 knoweth not. 
 
 Herre Sye, of WoUaton, husbondmon, tenaunt of Sir Herre 
 Willoby, sworn and examend, seith that he was at WoUaton 
 when, as the comen rumor was in the hous of Sir Harre, that 
 a servaunt of the Lourd Gray come to Sir Herre, and warned 
 hym not to come at Not[ingham] at the Sessions appon his 
 own perell. Also he seith and agreith with Richard Gascon 
 apon the comynge of Wodborne to WoUaton, and his seyinge 
 ther, and his departynge in every thynge. Moreover, he 
 seith that now in late sith the enemete^ betwen the Lourd 
 Gray and Sir Herre Willoby, the same Lord Gray hath 
 comen to Not[ingham] at divers Sessions with grete[r] com- 
 pany then he was wonte oyer whUe, with a C. persons and 
 above, some hernesd and some without. Also he seith that, 
 as he herd say, Wodborn and o>er servauntes to fe Lord 
 Gray in his name enterd possession by force at Not[ingham] 
 of serten tenementes longynge to a chaunterie of the fun- 
 dacion of Sir Herre WiUoby. And also he seith that John 
 StreUey was with the Lade Lye on that tyme when the Lourd 
 Gray surmisid hym to have be at Towton, for this deponent 
 se hym ther then. And Thomas Thurlond, as he herd sey, 
 was at his owne place that dey, and also no)>er of them wer 
 at Maunsfeld as is surmisid in the bill of the Lourd Grey, for 
 they both that dey wer with the Lade Lye. More he 
 knoweth in that mater. 
 
 Syr Herre Belshaw, chaunterie preste of Sent Anton' at 
 WoUaton, sworn and examened, seith that bitwen Cristmes 
 and Candelmas at the last was twelmoneth, Robert Torlaton 
 and Roger, his son, servaunt to the Lord Gray, accompanyed 
 with ij . other persons with bUl, axe, staves breke open the 
 dore of ij. stabels and tenturs^ of xvjs. rent lyinge in 
 Not[ingham] and entered, and so continued by the mayn- 
 tenance of the Lourd Gray, the which stabels and tenters 
 longeth to the chaunterie of SenrAntonie. And after that 
 the seid Robert and Roger, sitheii Cristmas last, entered iij. 
 shoppes at Not[ingham] in the name of the Lourd Gray, 
 belongynge to the chaunterie of Sutton Passes, and, as he 
 herd sey, they entred with force, and so continue in posses- 
 sion. And also sithen the enemetei bitwen the Lourd Gray 
 and Sir Herre, the seid Lord Gray hath comen to the sessions 
 to Not[ingham] with grett[er] company then he was wont to 
 do, and arraied in jakkes, brigandir s, gestrons,^ as (sic) bowes, 
 
 1 emenete, MS. 
 
 2 ' tenements.' 
 
 8 Coats of mail. See New English Dictionary, s.v. jazerant. 
 
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 arowes as he herd say, to what entent he can not tell, never- 
 theles he herd his company report that if Sir Herre come 
 theder, he shuld come apon his own perell. Also he seith 
 that he was at Wolaton when, as hit was reported, ther 
 come a man fro the Lourd Gray, and seid to Sir Herry 
 Willoby that if he come to Not[ingham], he shuld come apon 
 his owen perell. And as for the comynge of Wodborne to 
 WoUaton, his wordes ther and maner of departyng, he agreith 
 with John Gaston by herynge sey. Also wher it is surmisid 
 by the Lourd Gray that Richard Cursone, John StriUey, 
 Thomas Thurland shuld have be at Tawton and Mauncefeld 
 with Sir Herre Willoby, he seith that the dey Cursone and 
 Strilley wer at WoUaton and Thomas Thurlond was at his 
 owen place as he herd sey. 
 
 John Sye, of Notpngham], yoman and burges, sworn and 
 examened, seith that a delyverance at Not[ingham] holden 
 about Lent last Lord Gray come to Not[ingham] with gretter 
 company then he was wont ; how they wer araid he can not 
 depose, nether to what entent, but as he thenketh for malace 
 of Sir Herre Willoby, and Herre Willoby breke ano]?er hedge 
 at Towton no)>er or (sic). Also he seith that Ashton ne]?er 
 Cursone nor StriUey wer nej'er at Towton nej'er at Mauncefeld 
 with Sir Herre Willoby, as is surmised by the Lourd Gray. 
 Also he seith that ther is no howse brenned^ in Horsley 2, ne J>er 
 broken in Mauncefeld, neyev hedges broken in Towton, for 
 this deponent sithen that hath be in all thies placez. More 
 this deponent knoweth not in this mater." 236. 
 
 1486, May 4. — Agreement between Dame Margaret Legh, 
 Henry WiUoughby and Richard Willoughby, esquires, her 
 sons, on the one part, and Sir John Babyngton, knt., William 
 Zowche and Rauf Saucheverell, esquires, on the other, wit- 
 nessing that whereas the said Richard Willoughby wrong- 
 fully took away and married Jane, late the wife of John 
 Saucheverell, against her will, as she says, she having made 
 a pre-contract with the said WilHam Zouche, as he and she 
 allege, it is agreed that if the said William or Jane will sue 
 in Court Spiritual before a competent judge against -the said 
 Richard to have a divorce according to the law of Holy Church 
 between him and the said Jane, Richard shall appear to shew 
 his interest in the premises and to obey the judgment without 
 appeal. Dame Margaret is thereupon to pay to WilUam 
 Zouche and Jane 201., and a further 23 marks at the feast 
 of the Ascension and 24 marks, to be paid in the chapel 
 of Our Lady within the monastery of the Holy Trinity, 
 Lenton. 236. 
 
 1486, October 2. — ^Agreement between Edward Grey, 
 knight, Viscount Lisle, and Elizabeth, his wife, on the one 
 part, and Henry Willoughby, esquire, of the other, for the 
 
 1 ' burnt.' 
 
 2 Horsley, co. Derby. 
 
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 marriage of John, son and heir of Henry, to Anne, daughter 
 of the viscount and Dame Elizabeth, with very lengthy and 
 numerous conditions. 
 
 1488, August 4. — Draught agreement between Dame Mar- 
 garet, late the wife of Sir Peter Legh, knight, and John 
 Marmeon, gent., and Thomas Wyldycotes, gent., concerning 
 the performance of several conditions about a marriage 
 between Dame Anne, Lady Clynton and Say, and Richard 
 Willughby, son of the said Dame Margaret. 236. 
 
 1489. — Grant of fraternity to Anne, Lady Clinton and Say, 
 and Richard Willoughby, her husband, with the Friars 
 Preachers of Derby. The capital letters of the deed are 
 picked out in red, and there is a somewhat elaborate initial. 
 
 Devotis et in Christo Jesu sibi dilectis domine Aime 
 Cljmton et Say et Ricardo Wyloghby, armigero, viro ejus. 
 Prater Robertus Jacsone, prior conventus Ordinis Fratrum 
 Predicatorum Derbei, salutem et augmentum continuum 
 celestium graciarum. 
 
 Exigenti vestre devocionis effectu, quem ad nostrum 
 habetis ordinem et conventum, vobis omnium missarum, 
 oracionum, predicacionum, jejuniorum, abstinenciarum, vigili- 
 arum labore, ceterorumque bonorum, que pre[dicti] fratres 
 nostri conventus dominiis (sic), fieri dederit (sic), universos (sic) 
 participacionem concede tenore presencium specialem, in vita 
 pariter et in morte. Volo insuper et ordino, ut, post decessus 
 vestros, anime vestre fratrum tocius conventus oracionibus re- 
 com[m]endentur in nostro conventuaU capitulo, si vestri ibidem 
 obitus fuerint nunciati, et injungantur pro ipsis misse et 
 oraciones, sicut pro fratribus nostris defunctis fieri con- 
 suevit. 
 
 In cujus rei testimonium sigiUum officii mei presentibus 
 est appensum. Data Derbei, anno Domini millesimo CCCC ""• 
 octuagesimo nono. 24. 
 
 Seal missing. 
 
 1489, January 2. — Copy of will of John Alfegh, concerning 
 his lands in Kent. 179. 
 
 1489, April 2.— Will of Sir Henry Wyllowghby, knt. His 
 lordships of Gownthorpe, Lowdam, and the profits of the 
 " colpyttis " of the lordship of Wolaton, in the county of 
 Nottingham, to be charged with the sum of 1,000 marks for 
 the marriages of his three daughters, " Marg[ar]et, Jane, and 
 Dorathe." To his son Edward his lands, etc., in Nottingham, 
 Lenton, and Radford, and also all the land purchased by 
 the testator in Myddelton and Dunesby, after the decease of 
 the testator's wife " Marget," for the term of the said 
 Edward's life ; the surplus over the cost of the " fy[n]dyng " 
 
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 of the said Edward to remain in the " Abbe " of Lenton 
 in a coffer under four locks until he come of age. All lands 
 that the testator had of the feoffment of " my lady my graunt 
 dame Marget Byngham " to remain in the hands of the 
 feoffees of his will, except the lordship abovenamed, to the 
 use and " fy[n]d3nig " of his said " grauntdame," for the term 
 of her life so long " as sche kepeth her soir,"i and [of] John 
 Marmeon until the testator's son John come to the age of 
 20 years. The lands held by his mother " Dame Marget 
 Lethg', " for term of her life are to be charged, after her death, 
 for the performing of this will. The rents of bis lands to 
 be equally divided between his sons John and Edward when 
 they attain the age of 20. An annuity of 51. out of the lord- 
 ship of Wyken to his brother Richard Willughby and " my 
 lady is wyffe," for their lives. An annuity of 40s. out of 
 the lands of Whitnasshe to his " cossyn " John Marmeon, for 
 his hfe, " with that, as my truste is lf>a,t my seyd cossyn be 
 loffyng and kynde unto my wyffe and scheldyr' and indever 
 hym to see my will performyd and execute." Money accru- 
 ing to testator from Lord Lysle by reason of the marriage of 
 testator's son John to go to the performing of this will. The 
 sum of 901. owing by " my aunte Sherley " by reason of the 
 ward of Thomas- Walley to go to the performing of this will. 
 Also the 25 marks owing to him by " my lorde of Duddele[y]." 
 Executors ; " Marget Wylloghby " his wife, John Styrley 
 [=: Strelley], his brother. Sir John Paxson, " Sexten of the 
 Clows of Lychefeld," John Marmeon, and Thomas Slade. 
 Supervisors : George, earl of Shrewsbury ; Edward, viscount 
 Lisle ; and his father in law, Robert Marlam [sic]. 236. 
 
 1491, September 19. — Agreement between Sir Thomas 
 Burgh, knt.. Sir Edward Burgh, knt., his son, and Thomas 
 Burgh, esq., his brother, on the one part, and Sir Harre Wil- 
 lughby, knt., on the other, whereby Sir Harre agrees to 
 marry Elizabeth, Lady Fitzhugh, daughter of the said Sir 
 Thomas Burgh, before the feast of the Nativity of Our 
 Lord ; in consideration of which Sir Harre agrees to settle 
 upon her as jointure lands in the counties of Lincoln or 
 Nottingham to the yearly value of 100 marks. He also agrees 
 to settle lands now purchased or to be purchased in the coun- 
 ties of Lincoln, Nottingham, Leicester, Northumberland, 
 Warwick, Derby, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Norfolk, Suffolk, 
 Hertford, Essex, Stafford, Buckingham, or Rutland to the 
 annual value of lOOL in the hands of trustees for her to 
 receive a moiety thereof after his death for the term of her 
 life, the other moiety to go to the performance of his will 
 until such times as their heirs attain the age of 21. 236. 
 
 1491, November 26. — Copy of inquisition post mortem of 
 Gervase Clifton, knt., who died 12 May, 1491. Robert 
 
 I' ' sole,' uumairied. 
 
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 Clifton, clerk, son and heir, aged 30 years and more. Manor 
 of Clifton, Notts., value 201. yearly. Manor of Wilford, 
 Notts, value 201. yearly. Manor and soke of Hoddesake, 
 Notts, value 40?. yearly. 236. 
 
 [Calertdar of Inquisitions post Mortem, Henry VII., i. p. 
 299, no. 714.] 
 
 1492, September 10. — Agreement (part and counterpart) 
 between Jane, " Viscountas Lisle, late the wife of Edward 
 Grey, Viscount Lisle," and executrix of his will, and Sir 
 Henry Willoughby, knight, concerning the jointure of Anne, 
 the viscount's daughter, lately married to John Willoughby, 
 son and heir of Sir Henry. 236. 
 
 [1493]. — " In the name of the most blessed Fader, Son and 
 Holy Gost, I Henry Willughby, knyght, purposyng," by the 
 grace of Almyghty God, to goo with the Kyng my Soveraign 
 Lord on his roiall viage in to the parties of Scotland, and 
 for almoch (sic) that hit hath been oftetymes seen that gret 
 inconveniencise and troble hath been betwixe frendes aftur 
 the decesse of thair ancestres and frendes for defaute and 
 not makyng of thaire last wiUes, I therfore the seid Henry 
 do ordeigne and make this my last wUle in maner and 
 fourme folowyng. First I besette my sowle to Almyghty 
 God and to his Blessed Moder Saynt Mary and to all Sayntes 
 of Heven, and my body to be buried in Cristen manys buriall 
 wher hit shall please God. Forthermore I will J'at after my 
 decesse there shal be goyng yerely v. colepittes beside the 
 levell pitte in the lordship of WoUaton duryng the nonage 
 of my son and heir, wherof I will that my executouris shall 
 perseyve and take the profettes duryng the seid nonage of 
 my seid son and heire to the performance of this my will." 
 His executors to receive the revenues of all the lands of which 
 he has enfeoffed them until his heir come of age, when they 
 are to make an estate of the same to him, excepting the lands 
 and tenements purchased by him in Lichefeld, Middelton, 
 Donnesby, Torlaton, Lowdam, and Haconby, of which they 
 are to stand enfeoffed for the use of his son Edward. His 
 daughter Margaret to have for her marriage 500 marks clearly, 
 besides her " fyndyng." His daughter Dorothe to have for 
 her marriage 400 marks clearly besides her " fyndyng." To 
 Margaret Nuthall, " servaunt to my lady my Graunt Dame," 
 an annuity of 10s. from his lands in Coventry. His executors 
 to pay yearly 371. to " Johan', Vicountes Lisle," according to 
 indentures made between her and the testator dated Sep- 
 tember 10 " in the yere aforesaid " [8 Henry VII.], out of 
 the revenues of the manors of Wymondeswold, Cosyngton, 
 Broughton, and Cropwell, co. Leicester, and Wyllughby and 
 Bradmere, co. Nottingham. His executors shall " sufficiently 
 fynd " his son and heir John and Anne, his wife, out of the 
 said manors until he come to the age of eighteen. [Imper- 
 fect.] 236. 
 
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 1494, January 2. — Copy of will of John Trenchard, esquire, 
 made " eo quod propono peregrinari, gracia Dei juvante, ad 
 lerusalem et alia loca peregrinacionis." Manors of Wolveton, 
 ColwaUys, Dorchester, Pordyngton, Bere, Bestwalle, Stoburgh, 
 Holcombe, Deverellescombe, Fyfehede Quyntyn, Childokef orde 
 and Wymborne Myiaster, co. Dorset, Suthtauton, co. Devon, 
 manors and lands in Normanton, Ambesbury, Lake, Cotes, 
 and Swalclyf, co. Wilts, Hordhull, Walop', Pifhede, Gorleton, 
 Wolhampton, Milton, Sople, Avene, and Milforde, co. 
 Southants, Walrend Trencharde, Sharnhill, Chesthill, Caris- 
 broke, Nuport, Sutton, Horyngforde, and Atherfylde, Isle 
 of Wight. Feoffees and supervisors of wUl : Henry Strang- 
 ways, William Fyloll, William Martyn, John Wyke, and 
 Thos. Moleyns. 236. 
 
 1494, April 8. — Letters Patent appointing Robert Rede, 
 Serjeant at Law, to be one of the King's Serjeants at Law. 
 
 236. 
 
 1497, April 26.— Will of Thomas Thurland, esquire, of 
 Gamston. In English. [Abstract in Testamenta Eboracensia, 
 iii, p. 185. note]. 24. 
 
 1498, November 17. — Grant from John Hylston, Prior of 
 the Monastery of the Holy Trinity of Lenton, and the con- 
 vent of the same to Henry WUloughby, knight, and John 
 Willoughby, his son and heir apparent, of the office of 
 steward of their manor and fairs of Lenton ; to hold the 
 same for the term of their hves after the death of Thomas 
 Lovell, knt., and John Babyngton, knight, who have a grant 
 of the same for the term of their lives. The prior and con- 
 vent agree to pay to the grantees 40s. yearly for the 
 execution of the said office. 
 
 Fine impression of seal of Lenton Priory. 
 
 1500, September 18. — Grant by Brother John, abbot of 
 Qteaux, in the diocese of Chalons, to Sir Henry Willouby, 
 knight, and the Lady EUzabeth, his wife, of participation in 
 the prayers, etc., of the order, in consideration of their 
 affection for the order and especially of their love for and 
 services to the abbot and monastery of Fountains, in the 
 diocese of York. 24. 
 
 1501, April 18. — Probate of the will of Roger Bagshawe, 
 of Pentrych [co. Derby], containing bequests of tenements. 
 
 In Dei nomine, amen. Anno domini M'™° quingentesimo 
 primo, videlicet xviij°. die mensis Aprilis, ego Rogerus Bag- 
 shawe de Pentrych, compos mentis et sane memorie, eger 
 tamen in corpore, condo testamentum meum in hunc 
 modum. In primis lego animam meam Deo Patri omni- 
 potenti, Beate Marie et omnibus Sanctis, corpusque vero 
 meum ad sepeliendum ubi Deus disponit. Item lego nomine 
 
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 principalis mei meum optimum animal. Item do et lego 
 tenementum meum in Pentryoh, cum omnibus pertinenciis^ 
 suis, abbathie de Derlegh post mortem Helene, uxoris 
 mee, imperpetuum. Item do et lego tenementum meum in 
 Mappurley, cum omnibus pertinenciis^ suis Helene, uxori 
 mee, et quatuor pueris meis, ut vendatur, et precium inde 
 receptum inter omnes eos racionabiliter dividendum. Resi- 
 duum vero bonorum meorum superius non legatorum do et 
 lego uxori mee et pueris meis. Item ordino et constituo Radul- 
 phum Calton et Helenam, uxorem meam, meos veros executores, 
 et Nicholaum Shyrley meum supervisorem, ut ipsi ordinent 
 et disponant pro salute anime mee prout ipsis melius vide- 
 bitur expedire. Hiis testibus, vicario de Pentryche, Hum- 
 frido Halle, vicario de Bolsover, Henrico Hall, et multis aliis. 
 [Proved before Philip Agard, doctor of canon law {decretorum 
 doctor), commissary-general and principal sequestrator of John, 
 bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, in St. Werburgh's church, 
 Derby, 10 May, 1502.] 
 
 1505. — Letter of fraternity of Thomas Honyter, master or 
 warden of the chapel and hospital of Holy Trinity, Walsokyn, 
 in the diocese of Norwich and the brethren and sisters of the 
 same, in favour of Mr. John Wyllughby and Anne, his wife. 
 The letter is printed on parchment in black letter, with 
 occasional paragraphs in red, and with a woodcut in red 
 representing Christ crucified between the two thieves. 24. 
 
 1506. — Letter of fraternity of Thomas Norton, knight, 
 master of Burton St. Lazars of Jerusalem in England, and 
 the brethren of the same in favour of Edward Whyte. 24. 
 
 1506, May 12. — Acknowledgment by Thomas Hobbys, clerk, 
 of the receipt from John Wylloughby, of co. Nottingham, 
 esquire, of the sum of 51., " in parte payment of his fine made 
 and yeven to the kinges grace for his pardon to be releasid 
 from th'ordre of knighthod of the Bath at the creation of 
 my Lord Prince Henry." 236. 
 
 1506, November 3. — Similar receipt for a further sum of 5l. 
 
 236, 
 
 1507, May 1. — Similar receipt for 51. in full payment of fine. 
 
 236. 
 1507, August 25. — Agreement between Sir Henry Wyllough- 
 by, knt., and Anthony Fitzherbert, gent., whereby Sir Henry 
 agrees that his daughter Dorothe shall marry the said Anthony 
 before Michaelmas, and he agrees to make a sufficient estate 
 in law to Henry Fytzherbert, Anthony Babyngton and William 
 Wymondesold, as feoffees for the use of the said Anthony 
 Fitzherbert and Dorothy, of the manors of Carleton upon Trent. 
 Carleton neigh Gedling, and Carcolston, co. Nottingham, 
 
 1 perten-, MS. 
 
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 and of his lands in Sutton-upon-Trent, South Marneham, 
 North Marneham, Normanton upon Trent, and Estwayte 
 [Eastwood], together with the ferry-boat, water, and fishing 
 at Carlton upon Trent and Gedling, Notts. [Two copies.] 
 
 236, 
 1508, June 23.— Will of Sir Henry Willoughby, knt., in 
 English on paper with alterations, and signature of testator. 
 Executors : His son, John WUloughby ; his son in law, 
 Anthony Fitzherbert ; and John Marmyon and Sir Thomas 
 Southron, priest. Overseer of will : Edmund Dudley, esquire, 
 councillor to the King. 236. 
 
 [1511], September 8. — Letters of the signet of Henry 
 VIII. to Sir Henry Willoughby, ordering him to prepare for 
 war as many men as possible on his lands, and to certify 
 the king's secretary of their number. 
 
 " Henry R. By the king. 
 
 Trusty and welbUoved, we grete you welle. And allbeit 
 that we nowe of late, by th'advice of oure counceU, directed 
 oure speciall commissions for mustres to be made in all and 
 every the shyres and contreys of this oure realme, entending 
 therby to putt oure subgiettes in good arredynes of warre 
 for the defence of oure said royalme when the caas should 
 require, yet nowe we perceyve by credyble reapporte that 
 by those meanys of mustres we cannot be so speedely and 
 sufficiently provyded of so many hable men well harnessed, 
 ne so assuerdly certyfied of the nombre of theym as by 
 special certificate to be made unto us by you and others of 
 this oure realme, to whom we have directed oure semblable 
 lettres, of suche and as many as by you and they me severally 
 shalbe put in arredinesse within oure awne landys, auctorities, 
 rowmes and offices. In consideracion wherof, we wol and 
 desyre you that, with as convenient diligence as goodly maye 
 be done, ye not only prepayre and put in suche arredines 
 for the warre as many able men as maye be had, wel harnessed, 
 within youre said landes, auctorities, rowmes and offices, but 
 also make certificate to the right reverend fader in God oure 
 right (sic) counsayllour the bishop of Duresme, our secretary in 
 the specialtie, of suche nombre as by you shalbe prepayred 
 and provyded by the furst daye of Novembre next commyng ; 
 f orseing alweyes that ye nether prepayre ne take any personnes 
 for the warre but oonly suche as bee your awne tenauntes or 
 inhabitauntes within any office that ye have of oure graunt 
 or of the graunt of any other person or personnes or com- 
 mynaltie, not being tenauntes or officers, to any other person 
 or personnes havyng semblable commaundment, havyng 
 auctoritie by oure like lettres according to the pourport and 
 tenour of the same. Ascertaynyng you that by thes oure 
 lettres we entendjmg not to revoke the auctoritie yeven unto 
 oure commissioners for the takyng of musters, but that the 
 commissions hertofore passed and herafter to passe for that 
 
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 pourpose shalbe put in effectuell execusion accordingly, thes 
 oure lettres notwithstanding. 
 
 Yeven undre our signet at our castell of Warwik, the 
 viij"> day of Septembre. 
 
 [Addressed .■] To oure trusty and welbiloved knyght for 
 oure body Sir Henry Willughby"." 24. 
 
 1512. — Letter of fraternity in favour of Sir Henry Wil- 
 loughby and his wife, granted by the prior provincial of the 
 Carmelites in England, printed in black letter on paper, with 
 an engraved border and initial representing the Virgin Mary 
 with the infant Saviour in her arms. The words here printed 
 in Italics are written in ink. 
 
 Frater Robertus, fratrum ordinis Beate Marie genetricis 
 Dei de Monte Carmeli in provincia Anglie commorantium 
 Prior provincialis et servus, dilectis nobis in Christo Domino 
 Henrico Wyllow^iy et Domina (sic) Helena (sic), uxori sue, 
 salutem et per orationum suffragia regna celestia promereri. 
 
 Devotionem sinceram, quam ad nostrum habetis ordinem, ob 
 Christi reverentiam et gloriose Virginis Marie matris Ejus, 
 cujus titulo idem ordo noster specialiter insignitur, diligentius 
 attendentes et in Domino commendantes, quo ad ea precipue, 
 que salutem continent animarum, quantum cum Deo possumus, 
 vobis vicem cupimus refundere salutarem. Sciant cuncti 
 Christi fideles, quod sanctissimi in Christo patres et domini 
 Adrianus Secundus, Stephanus Quintus, Sergius Tertius, 
 Johannes Decimus, Johannes tJndecimus, Sergius Quintus, et 
 Innocentius Quartus divina providentia, ob reverentiam Beate 
 et gloriose Virginis Marie, Carmelitarum ordinis specialis 
 protectricis et patrone, omnibus Christi fidelibus vere penit- 
 entibus, confessi et contritis, litteras confraternitatum predicti 
 ordinis recipientibus, tertiam partem omnium peccatorum in 
 Domino misericorditer relaxarunt. Insuper, et Julius Secundus 
 singulas indulgentias a suis predecessoribus Romanis ponti- 
 ficibus dicto ordini nostro concessas confirmavit, approbavit 
 et innovavit, ac de novo omnibus Christi fidelibus vere 
 penitentibus, contritis et confessis, litteras ejusdem ordinis 
 nostri recipientibus triginta annos et totidem quadragenas de 
 injunctis eis penitentiis misericorditer in Domino relaxavit. 
 Nos itaque, vestram singularem devotionem pensantes, omnium 
 missarum, orationum, jejuniorum, vigiliarum, predicationum, 
 abstinentiarum, indulgentiarum, laborum, ceterorumque bono- 
 rum omnium, que per fratres nostros in dicta provincia con- 
 stitutos misericorditer operari dignabitur dementia Salvatoris, 
 tarn in vita quam post mortem, participationem perpetuam 
 vobis concedimus per presentes. Adjicientes nichilominus et 
 de special! gratia concedentes, ut cum obituum vestrorum 
 memoria in nostro provincial! capitulo fuerit recitata, idem 
 pro vobis fiet quo ad universa et singula quod pro fratribus 
 nostri ordinis defunctis communiter ibidem fieri consuevit. 
 
128 
 
 In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostri provincialatus officii 
 presentibus est impressum. Datum in conventu Goventrie, 
 anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo xij. 
 
 Per me Fratrem Th. Vicars. 
 Summa indulgentiarum a diversis Romane 
 pontificibus confratribus et sororibus pariter et 
 benefactoribus Sancti ordinis de Carmelo litteras 
 recipientibus concessarum ascendit ad numerum 
 quinque millium et viginti trium annorum et 
 octuaginta dierum. 24. 
 
 Traces of seal at foot. 
 
 1512, March 27.— Copy of will of Sir Henry Willoughby, 
 knt., (repeating to a large extent his will of 23 June, 1508). 
 
 236. 
 
 1512, April 30. — Indenture made between Eong Henry 
 VIII. and Sir Henry Willoughby, "Knight for hys Body," 
 whereby the said Sir Henry is retained to do the king service 
 of war in the company and under the rule and conduct of 
 Thomas, Marquis of Dorset, the Lieutenant-General of the 
 army to be sent to the Duchies of Gascoyne and Guyen, the 
 said Sir Henry to be Master of the Ordnance and Artillery. 
 Sir Henry covenants to have in his retinue for the said service 
 836 able men, including himself, defensibly arrayed, for whom 
 he is to receive pay as appointed in the indentures, dated 
 May 1, 1512, between the king and the marquis of Dorset. 
 Sir Henry is to have for his retinue lieutenants and " peti- 
 capitanes " under him, wages, money for coats, conduct money 
 from their houses to the seaside, shipping and re-shipping. 
 He is to make his " moustres, vyeues, and revyeues." 236. 
 
 1512, July 6. — Indenture made at Fountraby, witnessing 
 that Thomas Marvyn, " Porser of a shippe called ' the John 
 Avangellist,' prested for the portage of Ixxiiij. tonns and 
 charged frome London with the kynges ordenaunce for the 
 behoffe of his armee hether prepared and sent " under the 
 command of Thomas, Marquis of Dorset, has delivered to 
 Sir Henry Willoughby, knt., Master of the Ordnance, aU the 
 ordnance according to the said purser's indentures. For the 
 ordnance so delivered, he has received from Sir William 
 Sandes, knt., treasurer of the wars for the said Army, one 
 whole month's wages, victuals and " tundage," accounted from 
 June 10th to July 7th, the sum of 12?. 7s. 2d., " lyke as was 
 prested and payd for other twoo monthes byfore." Signed 
 by " Thomas Brod, Master," and " Thomas Marvyn, Porser." 
 
 Another indenture of same date witnessing that Richard 
 Nycols, " Purser of a ship of Plymmouth callyd ' the James 
 Ilcombe' prested for the portage of 1111^== tonnes " for the 
 same purpose as the preceding, has similarly delivered the 
 ordnance in his charge and has received a month's wages, 
 victuals and " tundage " for the same period amounting to 
 121. Us. 2d. 
 
129 
 
 M' ix" Ixxxxiiij. 
 xxxiij. 
 '.'. xl. 
 cc. 
 
 Ordenaunce and Artyllary reoeyved out of the James 
 Ilcombe, of Plymmouth, at Pountraby 
 In primis in bylles 
 Item chestes of bowes 
 Item chestes of arowes 
 Item oon baryll of owyll [=oil] 
 Item in stones for curtalles^ 
 Item xviij. bareU' of gonpowdir . 
 Item marespykes [= marlingsptkes] 
 Item oon short coflfer with boltes and pynes of iron 
 Item oon hoggyshed of talough 
 Item oon hoggyshed of cresset lyghtes . . 
 
 Item iij. sowes of lead . . ' 
 
 Item hakbusshes [= arquebuses] x. 
 
 Item oon hundreth pellotes [= bullets] for )?e same 
 
 Item ij. barelles of candelles 
 
 Item iij. payr of lymmars^ . . 
 
 Item iij. curtowes^ with their cartes 
 
 Item iij. serpentynes with their cartes . . 
 
 Item cartwhelles . . . . . . . . . , xxviij. 
 
 Item axelltrees . . . . . . . . . . . xv. 
 
 [Added in another hand :] 
 Here affter foleweth suche arttelary as was delyveryd onto 
 Master Marlon [= Morland] att Hamton. 
 Item yn chestys of bowes . . . . . . . . v. 
 
 Item yn chestys of arroys . . 
 Item yn barryUys of gonpoder 
 Item iij. fawconys 
 Item in hacbossys 
 Item a barryll of bowstrynges 
 Item delyveryd unto Master Dycby a sow of lede 
 and a mole [= mould] for gonys." 
 " Ordenaunce and Artillary receyved at Fountraby out of 
 the James of Suffold [= Southwoldj. 
 In primis hakbusshes . . 
 Item chestes of arowes 
 Item chestes ,of bowes 
 Item marespykes [= marhngspikes] 
 Spades and shovylles 
 Item pykeaxes. . 
 Item in scowpes 
 Item crowes of iron 
 Item heggeyixgbylles 
 Item hewyng axes 
 Item long bylles 
 Item iij" pellotes of lead 
 Item oon barell' of bowstrenges 
 
 1 Short-barrelled cannons. See New English Dictionary, a.v. ' Cur- 
 tal,' 11. 
 
 2 ' limbers, ' detachable fore-parts of the carriage of a field gun. See 
 New English Dictionary, a.v. ' Limber, sb. 1. ' 
 
 M9 
 
 XVI]. 
 
 vj- 
 
 V]- 
 
 cxhj. 
 
 vj- 
 
 cxxv. 
 
 cc. 
 
 xlvij. 
 
 xxvij. 
 
 XX. 
 
 c. 
 xxix. 
 
 vij" xxij. 
 iij" 
 
130 
 
 Item viij. payre of cartewhelles 
 Item half a bareU' of gonpowdir . . 
 
 ArtyUary receyved out of the same ship at passage : 
 Item spades and shovylles . . . . . . . . c. 
 
 Item pykaxes . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. " 
 
 Similar indenture of same date witnessing that Adlard 
 Donaby, " purser of a ship called ' the George ' of Lyne, 
 prested for the portage of Ix. tonnes," has delivered the 
 ordnance committed to his charge, and has received for a 
 month's wages, victuals, and " tundage," as above, the sum 
 of 8i!. 19s. 2rf. Signed by Donaby. 
 
 " Deljrvered by me Adlard Donaby, Porss[er] of J>e George 
 of Lyne, unto ye handes of Edmond Westcot fro Tpe xxij. day 
 of Juyne unto the xxx. day of J>e same month as apery th 
 herafter : 
 In primis in horsse hamnys . . . . . . clxxxvj. 
 
 Item in gonpowder . . . . v last and ix. barelles. 
 
 Item in cart whelles . . . . . . . . . . xx*' 
 
 Item a cheste with boltes and lynchpyns for cartes 
 Item bodyes of cartes . . . . . . . . iij. 
 
 Item in horsshawmes [= horse-hames, collars] . . xviij. 
 
 Item y>e crow with all th'apparyll 
 
 Item ]?e gret crane, wyantinge iij. peces that is in 
 
 the Jamys of SothwoUd 
 Item a chest with yerne wyark for lf>e same 
 Item XX. bylles fat wyas delyverd out of Tf>e Mary 
 
 Wy alley ngJiam at Southamton . . 
 Item lanterns . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiiij. 
 
 Item a sake [^sack] with nay lies and iiij. cressettes. 
 Item a chest with bowes and a noder of arowes 
 whyche wyas delyverd out of l^e John 
 Evangelyst at Southamton 
 Item lewars [^ levers] . . . . . . . . xx*' 
 
 Item V. sowes [= pigs] of lead 
 
 Delyverd to Sir Morys Barkley ij. barylles gonpowder at 
 Sowthamton at Tpe commandment of Master Morland, J'e xxj. 
 day of May. Item more to Master Morland ij. b[areU]es gon- 
 powder. Item delyverd to My Lord Marcos, ye xxiiij. day 
 of May, ij. cressets. Item, ye same day, to Master Decby v. 
 pesses tembar [= timber] for a pavyUon. 
 
 Per me Adlard Downaby, Porss[er] of the George of Lyne. ' ' 
 
 236. 
 
 1513, June 2.— WiU of Sir Henry WUloughby, knt. 236. 
 
 1513, November 10. — Agreement between William Grey, 
 of Woode Bevyngton, co. Warwick, gent., and Thomas Corfe, 
 of Erdyngton Halle, in the same county, yoman, Robert 
 Corfe, his son, and Alianore, wife of the said Robert, for the 
 marriage of Laurence, son of the said William Grey, by the 
 advise and oversight of Edward Capull, esquire, and William 
 Wallys, of Ledbury, gent., with Anne, the daughter and 
 heiress of the said William Wallys. (Much faded.) 236, 
 
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 1516, February 11.— Will of John Bragebridge, of Kyn- 
 nesbury, esquire; Executors : Mr. Thomas Wenloke, Vicar 
 of Kynnesbury ; and Henry Karyngton ; " Seear " John 
 Wyllughby, esq. Separate will attached regarding the dis- 
 position of his lands. [Prob. at Lambeth [blank] day of 
 September, 1516.] 236. 
 
 1517, August 22.— Will of Simon Dygby, of the county of 
 Warrewyk. Body to be buried in the chancel of the church 
 of ColshuU "under neth the Sepulcre." Executors: Row- 
 lande Dygby and Alice, wife of testator. [Proved at 
 Lambeth, April 19, 1520.] 236, 
 
 [1518], August 25. — Letters of the signet of Henry 
 VIII. to Sir Henry Willoughby appointing him a captain to 
 raise and equip soldiers, notwithstanding the Statute of 
 Retainers. 
 
 " H.R. By the king. 
 
 Trusty and welbiloved, we grete you well. And albeit that 
 by our grete studie, labour and policie, we have peax and 
 amitie with all outwarde princes, by reason wherof this our 
 reame and subgiettes of the. same bee establisshed not oonly 
 in quiete and welthy condicion, but also in good ordre, yet 
 forasmoche as to good policie it apperteigneth in tyme of 
 peax to provide and forsee remedies against warre whan the 
 same shall fortune ; we therfor, entending the conservacion 
 and contynuance of our said reame in semblable restfulnes 
 and good peax, for our honour and the suertie of us and of 
 all our subgiettes of the same, have, by th'advis of our 
 counsaill, thought right, expedient and necessarie to depute 
 and assigne a good nombre of hable captans, our subgiettes, 
 and to licence the same, by our lettres of placard auctorised 
 by act of parliament last holden at our paloys of Westminster, 
 to retaigne a good and competent nombre of our subgiettes 
 and the same to put in aredynesse, conveniently horsed and 
 harneissed, to doo unto us service as wel within this our reame 
 as eUiswhere at our wages, whansoever and as often as we 
 shall require and commaunde thaym soo to doo, without 
 daungier or penaltie of any statutes or ordenaunces heretofore 
 made against retaynours in that behalf. In consideracion 
 wherof we, having assured trust and confidence in your 
 fidelitie and true mjmd towardes us, have elected and chosen 
 you to bee oon of thoes whom we entende to licence to 
 retayne in fourme above specifiede : wherfor we wol and 
 desir yow t'ascertaigne our secretary by your writing, by 
 Alhalowtyde next commyng, what nombre of hable men, horsed 
 and harneissed, to doo unto us service whan the caas shal re- 
 quire as above, ye maye and wol provide and put in aredjmesse 
 and also endent with us for. Upon knowleage wherof we 
 shall not oonly graunte unto you our sufficient licence by 
 our lettres of placarde to retaigne the said nombre without 
 daungier or periU to ensue, either to you or to the personnes 
 
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 soo by you to be retaigned, but also endent with you for 
 the same accordingly. Willing and desiring you in suche 
 wise t'ordre yourself in the premisses as we maye therby 
 perceyve the towardly mynde ye have to doo unto us 
 acceptable service. 
 
 Yeven undre our signet, at our manour of Grenewiche, the 
 XXV. day of August. 
 
 [Addressed :] To oure trusty and welbiloved knight for our 
 body Sir Henry Willoughby." 24. 
 
 1518, February 22. — Letters of signet of Henry VIII. 
 for safe-conduct for John Willoughby during pilgrimage to 
 Compostella, etc. 
 
 " Henry, by the grace of God, King of England and of 
 Fraunce and Lord of Irland, to almaner our officers, ministres, 
 and subgiettes, as well within this our reame and at our 
 towne and merehes of Calays as eUeswher under our 
 domynyon and obeissaunce, thies our lettres hering or seing, 
 greting. 
 
 We late you wite that by thies presentes we have licenced 
 our trusty and welbeloved John' Willoughby, squier, to departe 
 at this tyme oute of this our said reame unto Saint James 
 and other holye places in the parties of beyonde the see, for 
 the performaunce of certain his advowes and pylgremages 
 ther : wherfor we wol and commaunde you and every of you 
 to whome in this caace it shall apperteigne to permytte and 
 suffre the said John' Willoughby, with fyve servauntes and 
 six horses ambeling or trotting in his companye, to passe 
 by you with almaner his and their bagages and necessaries 
 liefuir, without any your unlawfulj' serche, lett or inter- 
 rupcion to the contrarye, as ye and every of you tender our 
 pleasere. 
 
 Yeven under our signet at our Castell' of Wyndesore, the 
 xxij. daye of February, the ix"* yere of oure reigne." 236. 
 
 1518, October 11. — Copy of inquisition post Mortem of 
 Guicherd Harbotell, late of Proudowe, [Prudhoe, parish of 
 Ovingham, co. Northumberland], esquire, who died 9 Sept., 
 1513. His son George, of the age of 10 years and over, is 
 his heir. 236. 
 
 [1518 ?]— Petition from Sk Henry WiUoughby, knt., to 
 the king praying for, a grant of the wardship of the lands, 
 etc., of the late Guychard Harbotell, of Beamysshe, co. 
 Northumberland, esq., and of his heir, George Harbotell. 
 
 236. 
 
 [1518 ?J — Agreement between Margaret, Lady Ogle, and 
 Sir Henry Wylloughby, knt., concerning the wardship of 
 George Harbottell, with signatures of the two parties. 236. 
 
 1518- 19. — Estreats . of the Sessions of the Peace at 
 Warwick. 271. 
 
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 1519-20.— The like. 271. 
 
 1519-20.— Estreats of the Court held before the Justices 
 of the Peace at Leicester. 2?]. 
 
 1519, January 27.— A letter of fraternity of the Guild of 
 St. Mary in the Church of St. Botulph, Boston/ printed by 
 Richard Pinson in black letter oh parchment. The initial 
 letter encloses an engraving of the Virgin Mary with the infant 
 Christ in her arms. The parts -written in ink in this letter 
 are here printed in Italics. The orthography of the 
 original is preserved. 
 
 Universis et singulis Cristi fidelibus presentes litteras 
 inspecturis, nos Aldermannus et Camerarii Glide seu Con- 
 fraternitatis in honore Dive Marie Virginis in Ecclesia 
 Sancti Botulphi de Boston, Lincoln, diocesis, institute, salutem 
 in Omnium Salvatore. 
 
 Universitati vestre innotescat, quod felicis record ationis 
 Nicolaus Quintus, Pius Secundus, Sixtus Quartus, Innocentius 
 VIII., Julius Secmidus, necnon sanctissimus in Cristo pater 
 et dominus noster, Dominus Leo hujus nominis Decimus, 
 divina providentia, Papa modernus, plures veras et notabiles 
 indulgentias utriusque sexus dicte Confratemitatis sive Gilde 
 confratribus, presentibus et futuris, ad quos onus susten- 
 tationis septem sacerdotum et xij. puerorum divina officia 
 in dicta ecclesia quotidie celebrantium et administrantium, 
 necnon xiij. pauperum, ahorumque nonnullorum onerum 
 quotidie accidentium spectat, misericorditer et gratiose con- 
 cesserunt, prout in Apostolicis ipsorum Uteris, ad quas nos 
 referimus, plene cpntinetur. 
 
 In primis, quod omnes utriusque sexus confratres dicte 
 Glide, presentes et futuri, sibi presbiterum idoneum, — id est, 
 per interpretationem Leonis X. Pape modemi, rite promotum, 
 nnUis censuris ecclesiasticis publice irretitum^ — secularem vel 
 regidarem in eorum possint, et quilibet eorum possit, ehgere 
 confessorem, qui, vita eis comite, in casibus Sedi Apostolice 
 reservatis semel in vita et in mortis articulo, in aliis vero 
 quotiens oportunum fuerit, confessionibus eorum diligenter 
 auditis, pro commissis eis debitam absolutionem impendere et 
 injungere penitentiam salutarem ; quodque idem, vel alius 
 confessor ydoneus, quem ducerent eligendum, omnium pecca- 
 torum suorum, de quibus corde contriti et ore confessi fuerint, 
 etiam semel in vita et tarn in vero mortis articulo, quam 
 etiam quando de eorum morte hesitari contigerit, etiam si 
 tunc mors non subsequatur, plenariam remissionem concedere ; 
 ecclesiasticos etiam, qui per impotentiam, negligentiam, 
 
 1 It may be noted that an imperfect printed broadside of dispensation 
 and privileges in English of the Guild of Our Lady of Scala CaeU in the same 
 church, about 1505-10, is preserved in the Sandars Collection at Cambridge 
 (C. E. Sayle, Early English Printed Books in the University Library, Cam- 
 bridge, i., p. 62). 
 
 ' pubUe cirretitum, original. 
 
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 oblivionem, et corporis debilitatem, vel librorum defectum 
 aut alias, de injunctis eis penitentiis ac diyinis offitiis, vel 
 horis canonicis quicquam omiserint, ab hujusmodi excessibus 
 et delictis, quotiens oportunum foret, absolvere ; ac juramenta 
 quecunque, sine alicui juris prejuditio relaxare ; et vota 
 quecunque ultra marina ^ liminum Beatorum Apostolorum 
 Petri et Pauli, ac Sancti Jacobi in Compostella necnon, castitatis 
 et religionis votis dumtaxat exceptis, in alia pietatis opera 
 leviora commutare ; necnon super quacunque irregularitate a 
 sententia canonis vel hominis eontracta, preterquam ratione 
 bigamie vel homicidii voluntarii, in foro conscientie dum- 
 taxat, dispensare possit et valeat. 
 
 Item quod quilibet confrater super altare portatUi, in locis 
 etiam non sacris ac etiam ordinaria auctoritate interdictis, 
 per se ipsos qui presbiteri sint, et tarn ipsi quam ceteri non 
 presbiteri per alium presbiterum ydoneum secularem vel 
 regularem in eorum et cujuslibet ipsorum ac familiarum 
 suorum domesticorum presentia, etiam antequam illucescat 
 dies, circa tamen diurnam lucem — id est, per interpretationem 
 Leonis Decimi, statim post horam tertiam medie noctis — 
 [divina] celebrare seu celebrari facere, illaque audire, et eis 
 interesse, necnon tempore interdicti hujusmodi Eucbaristiam 
 ac omnia et singula alia sacramenta ecclesiastica, etiam in 
 locis interdictis hujusmodi, sine alicujus prejuditio, recipere 
 et administrare ; et si eos, aut eorum aliquem, tempore hujus- 
 modi interdicti ab hac luce migrare contigerit, dummodo hujus- 
 modi interdicto causam non dederint, corpora eorum eccles- 
 iastice sepulture sine funerali pompa tradi hbere et hcite 
 possint ; nee cuiquam confratrum, quacunque morte moriatur, 
 ecclesiastica sepultura hujusmodi denegari valeat. 
 
 Item idem sanctissimus pater Leo X. decernit (sic) et 
 declaravit, omnes et singulos utriusque sexus Cristi fideles, 
 qui in singulis quartis et sextis feriis et diebus Sabbati totius 
 anni, vel in earundem feriarum aut dierum aliqua, non solum 
 predictam Sancte Marie, sed etiam aliquam aliam capellam 
 seu ecclesiam, ubi eos moram trahere contigerit, quam eorum 
 qtiihbet pro tempore duxerit eligendam, devote visitaverint, 
 et semel Orationem Dominicam cum salutatione angelica ac 
 Simbolo Apostolorum orando recitaverint, vel missas i [sic) 
 Beate Marie, etiam si illam pro tempore ampliorem seu 
 latiorem fieri contigerit, aut alia capella seu ecclesia eHgenda, 
 hujusmodi superaltari vel altaribus ad hoc tunc ordinatis, 
 seu ordinandis, per seipsos, si presbiteri fuerint, vel alios 
 presbiteros pro eis et aliis vivis, aut etiam per modum 
 suffragii pro animabus defunctorum in purgatorio existentium, 
 qui per caritatem Cristi unite ab hac luce decesserint, cele- 
 brari fecerint, et pro manutentione et sustentatione dictorum 
 et aliorum eidem Confraternitati incumbentium onerum 
 manus adjutrices porrexerint, quotiens id fecerint, non solum 
 ipsas indulgentias et peccatorum remissiones prefatam CapeUam 
 
 1 marino, original. 
 
135 
 
 *' Scalam Cell " nuncupatam, sed etiam Ecclesiam Sancti 
 Johannis Latranensis de dicta urbe, quando ibi stationes 
 prefate celebrantur, visitantibus et in illis celebrantibus et 
 celebrari facientibus pro vivis aut mortuis concessas con- 
 sequi, necnon eisdem defunctis in purgatorio existentibus 
 ipsa plenissima indulgentia concessa celebrantibus seu cele- 
 brari facientibus, ut prefertur, per modum suffragii pro 
 plenaria pecoatorum expiatione et penarum relaxatione 
 suffragari, ac plenariam peccatorum remissionem, quam 
 capellam predictam Beate Marie Virginis in Assumptionis 
 et Nativitatis Beate Marie devote visitantibus, et ad 
 supportationem onerum predictorum, juxta eorum devot- 
 ionem, manus adjutricea porrigentibus, ut prefertur, concessit 
 ab omni prorsus pena et culpa fuisse et intelligi debere esse 
 concessam. 
 
 Item quod omnes et singuli confratres predicti utriusque 
 sexus, presentes et futuri, qui quamcunque ecclesiam sive 
 capellam, in locis ubi eos residere contigerit, in Resurrectionis 
 sacramenti corporis Christi, Pentecostes, et Sancti Michaelis 
 Archangeli ia mense Septembris festivitatibus, in prima 
 Dominica Quadragesime, ac ipsarum festivitatum, et prime 
 Dominice octavis, devote visitaverint, et ibi Orationem 
 Dominicam cum salutatione angelica hujusmodi recitaverint, 
 vel si absentes a civitate vel diocesi Lincolniensi fuerint, et 
 elemosinas erogaverint, vel Orationem Dominicam cum salu- 
 tatione hujusmodi recitaverint, quotiens id fecerint, ut pre- 
 mittitur, omnium et singulorum peccatorum suorum remis- 
 sionem consequentur {sic). 
 
 Item quod omnes et singuli confratres et consorores, et 
 eorum parentes defuncti, qui cum caritate decesserunt, in 
 omnibus precibus, sufEragiis, elemosinis, jejuniis, orationibus, 
 missis, horis canonicis, disciplinis, peregrinationibus, et ceteris 
 omnibus bonis qui fiunt, et fieri poterunt, in tota universaU 
 ecclesia nulitanti et omnibus membris ejusdem, participes 
 sint et efficiantur. 
 
 Item quod predicti confratres et consorores Quadragesi- 
 malibus et aliis jbjuniorum temporibus seu diebus, quibus 
 esus lacticiniorum de jure vel consuetudine est prohibitus, 
 ovis, caseo, butiro, lacte, et aliis lacticiniis libere et absque 
 conscientie scrupulo, carnibus vero de consilio utriusque 
 medici, uti et vesci possint. 
 
 Item quod omnes et singuli Cristi fideles, cujuscunque dig- 
 nitatis, status, aut ordinis fuerint, qui Camerarios prefatos, 
 aut eorum substitutos, ad premissa adjuvarent, Cristique 
 fideles ad porrigendas manus adjutrices diote Confraternitati 
 et ut se in ilia conscribi faciant induxerint, quotiens id 
 fecerint, quingentos annos indulgencie consequantur. 
 
 Item quod indulgentie, peccatorum remissiones, facultates, 
 et indulta predicta sub quibusvis suspentionibus vel revoca- 
 tionibus quarumcunque indulgentiarum facultatum, privi- 
 legiorum indultorum per Sedem predictam, etiam in favore 
 
136 
 
 Basilice principis Apostolorum de Urbe aut Cruciate contra 
 infideles, aut ecclesiarum domorum fratrum ordinis here- 
 mitarum Sancti Augustini in dicto regno Anglie existentium, 
 et pro reparatione earum hactenus quomodolibet factis, vel 
 faciendis, nullatenus comprehendantur, sed ab Ulis semper 
 excepte ; et quotiens illas et ilia revocari, suspend!, modificari, 
 restringi, seu reduci contigerit, totiens in pristinum et eum 
 statim sicuti nunc sint reposita, restituta, et reintegrata 
 censeantur et existant. 
 
 Item mandatum est, auctoritate Apostolica, universis et 
 singulis reverendissimis ac reverendis patribus archiepiscopis, 
 episcopis, ac eorum officialibus quibuscunque, necnonrectoribus, 
 vicariis, capeUanis, et aKis quarumcunque ecclesiarum 
 ministris quibuscunque, ut Aldermanis [et] Camerariis dicte 
 Confraternitatis pro tempore existentibus, seu eorum depu- 
 tatis, circa collectionem annuam debiti supradicti a con- 
 fratribus dicte Confraternitatis, ac receptionem novorum 
 confratrum opem et auxilium prebeant. 
 
 Item quod quilibet confrater omnium et singulorum 
 indultorum, privilegiorum, indulgentiarum, et concessionum 
 dicte Confraternitati sive Gilde concessorum particeps 
 imperpetuum efficiatur. 
 
 Nos igitur Aldermannus et Camerarii antedicti, quibus hec 
 faciendi tributa et commissa est potestas, dilectum nobis in 
 Christo Thornam Willughby, armigerum, et, Brigittam uxorem 
 ejus intra nostrorum confratrum numerum elegimus, aggre- 
 gamus, et admittimus, indultorumque ac concessionum, necnon 
 omnium suffragiorum et bonorum operum spiritualium nos- 
 trorum participes semper fore et esse volumus ac innotescimus 
 per presentes. 
 
 In quorum omnium et singulorum testimonium, sigillum 
 commune dicte Gilde presentibus appendi fecimus. 
 
 Data Boston', xxvij.° die mensis Janiutrii, anno Domini 
 M. CCCCC. xviij. 
 
 Per me Johannem Sixtinum, u[triusque] j[uris] doctorem. 
 
 Per me Petrum Potkyn, legum doctorem. 
 
 Impressum per me Ricardum Pynson, Regis Impressorem. 
 
 Written at Foot : Admissus per Willelmum Temper, Camer- 
 arium, et solvit v]s. viijtZ. ; et sic debet solvere annuatim 
 quousque xxvjs. viijd. sint plenarie persoluti, et sic • esse 
 quietum sine ulterori solutione. 
 
 Fragment of seal, with figure of the Virgin Mary crowned and 
 Child. 24. 
 
 1520, October 6. — Will of John WyUoughby, esquire, in 
 his own writing, " purpasyng, with the grace of God, to goo 
 to Rome of pylgramag', dredyng soden chansus, perels and 
 jeoperdes in my journey." Anthony Fitzherbert, his brother 
 [in law], sole executor. " To my cosyn his wyffe my corall' 
 beydes with gawdes of gold." My brother Zowch. My sister 
 Ales. My brother Hew. My cousin Cumberforth. My 
 
13? 
 
 I neyvy" Henry Wyllughby. My brother Edward's wife. 
 " To the new beydhowse at WoUaton a soheylett [= skillet], 
 a posnett, a chafur, a peyr tonges and a fyr' ern." " Item to 
 Mastres Wyluowr' the boke that schew hath of myn. Item 
 to Sir Robert Scheypert the boke that he hath of myn. 
 Item to WoUaton Chyrch' a corporas with a case. Item to 
 Wyllughby Chyrch a corporas case. Item to my cosyn Cecily 
 Curson ij. of my best Ynglysch' bokes. Item to my cosyn 
 Mar' hyr syster an other Ynglysch boke." My sister Dudley. 
 Richard Smyth, parson. 236. 
 
 1521. — Papal indulgence granted to Henry Willoughby and 
 others. 
 
 Ut animarum saluti devotorum oratorum vestrorum 
 Henrici Wyllooghby, Eduardi Bellnappe {sic), Johannis Oche, 
 Johannis Markan, Eduardi Feres, Johannis Birron, Johannis 
 Dygby, Johannis Ulloghby,i Eduardi UUoghby, Anthonii 
 Phytheherberd,2 Guiliermi Alston, Johannis Melford, Thome 
 Cheleram, GuiUermi More, Guiliermi Bue, Rogeri Necham, 
 Thome Lymdem, Johannis Dauton, Francisci Cyroneau, et HeUe 
 Breul, conjugatorumque vestrorum (sic), ac eorum utriusque 
 sexus liberorum, pravintie (sic) Cantu[a]riensis et Pictavensis, 
 vel alterius dioceseos, salubrius consulatur, supplicant 
 humiliter sanctitati vestre dicti oratores, q[uatenus ei]s et 
 eorum cuihbet specialem gratiam facientes, ut confessor idoneus 
 secularis vel cujusvis ordinis regularis presbyter, quem qui- 
 hbet ipsorum duxerit eligendum, ipsos et eorum quemlibet 
 a quibusvis excommunicationis, suspensionis, et interdicti, 
 ahisque ecclesiasticis sentenciis, censuris et penis a jure vel 
 ab homine quavis occasione vel causa latis, ac votorum 
 quorumcunque et ecclesie mandatorum transgressionibus, per- 
 juriorum et homicidii casualis vel mentaMs reatibus, manuum 
 violentarum in quasvis personas ecclesiasticas, non tamen 
 prelatos, de preterite injectionibus, jejuniorum, horarumque^ 
 canonicarum ac divinorum officiorum et penitentiarum injunc- 
 tarum in toto vel in parte omissionibus ; Necnon ab omnibus 
 et singulis eorum peccatis, criminibus, et delictis quantun- 
 cunque gravibus et enormibus, de quibus corde contriti et 
 ore confessi fuerint, etiam si talia forent propter que sedes 
 apostolica merito foret consulenda, de reservatis, exceptis 
 contentis in buUa "Cena Domini," semel in anno et in mortis 
 articulo, et quotiens de illo dubitabitur, etiam si tunc mors 
 non subsequatur, de aliis vero eidem sedi non reservatis casibus 
 tociens quotiens opus fuerit absolvere, et pro commissis peni- 
 tentiam salutarem injungere, vota vero quecunque ultramarine 
 visitationis liminum apostolorum Petri et Pauli de Urbe ac 
 Jacobi in ComposteUa, religionis et castitatis votis duntaxat 
 
 1 Willoughby. 
 
 2 Fitzherbert. 
 
 * haranim,, MS. 
 
138 
 
 exceptis, in alia pietatis opera commutare et juramenta que- 
 cunque sine juris alieni prejuditio relaxare ; ac semel in anno 
 et in mortis articulo et quotiens de morte dubitabitur, licet 
 tunc mors non subsequatur, plenariam omnium peccatorum 
 suorum remissionem et absolutionem auctoritate apostolica 
 impendere _valeat ; liceatque eis et eorum cuilibet habere 
 altare portatUe cum debitis reverentia et honore, super quo 
 in locis ad hoc congruentibus et honestis, etiam non sacris 
 et ecclesiastico interdicto ordinaria auctoritate seu apostolica 
 suppositis, dummodo causam non dederint hujusmodi inter- 
 dicto et fecerint quantum in eis fuerit quod ea, propter que 
 appositum fuit apostolicum interdictum, executioni debite 
 demandentur, etiam antequam elucescat dies, circa tamen 
 diumam lucem, in sua et famiharum suorum domesticorum 
 presentia missas et alia divina officia celebrare seu celebrari 
 facere, ac tempore interdicti hujusmodi divinis interesse, ac 
 eucharistiam et alia ecclesiastica sacramenta a quocunque 
 presbytero quando, ubi et quotiens videbitur, etiam in Pascate, 
 et sine licentia rectoris parrochialis ecclesie, absque tamen 
 ejus prejuditio, recipere, et decedentium eorundem oratorum 
 corpora cum funerali pompa ecclesiastice tradi __ possint 
 sepulture ; et insuper unam vel duas ecclesias aut duo vel 
 tria altaria in partibus ubi singulos oratores pro tempore resi- 
 dere contigerit, Quadragesimalibus et aliis diebus stationum 
 urbis Rome visitando, tot et similes indulgentias ac pecca- 
 torum remissiones consequantur, quas consequerentiu" si singulis 
 diebus eisdem singulas dicte urbis et extra cam ecclesias propter 
 stationes hujusmodi deputatas ac citra plenarias Beate Marie 
 de Populo, de Pace, et de Loreto, ac basilicarum Sancti 
 Joharmis Later anensis et Beate Marie Ma j oris de Urbe ac si 
 personaliter visitaret ; preterea eisdem Quadragesimalibus 
 et aliis temporibus prohibitis, unacum eorum familiaribus con- 
 tinuis commensalibus et ad eorum mensam pro tempore 
 discumbentibus, ovis, butiro, caseo, et aHis lacticiniis, camibus 
 vero de utriusque medici consilio, uti et frui ; ceterum, 
 ut singule oratrices vmacum quatuor aUis honestis mulieribus 
 quater in anno quecunque monasteria monialium cujusvis, 
 etiam Sancte Clare ordinis, de licentia inibi presidentium 
 ingredi ac cum eisdem monialibus conversari, dummodo 
 ibidem non pernoctent ; Necnon quod Terram Dominicam 
 et totiens AngeHcam orationes singulis diebus in sonitu cam- 
 pane post Completorium dictum Ave Maria devote recitando 
 quinquaginta dies indulgentiarum consequi possint et valeant, 
 concedere et indulgere dignemini de gratia speciali, non 
 obstantibus constitutionibus et ordinationibus apostolicis ac 
 cancellarie apostohce regulis necnon quibusvis revocationibus 
 et suspensionibus quarumvis simiUum vel dissimilium, s[e]u 
 etiam in favorem fabrice basihce principis apostolorum Sancti 
 Petri de Urbe ac Sancte Cruciate concessis forsan hactenus 
 seu imposterum concedendis, ceterisque contrariis quibuscun- 
 que, cum clausis oportunis et consuetis. 
 
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 Et de reservatis semel in anno et in mortis articulo, 
 etc., premissis exceptis ut supra 
 
 Et de non reservatis sedi predicte casibus, tociens 
 quotiens opus fuerit, ut premittitur 
 
 Et de commutatione votorum et relaxatione jura- 
 mentorum ut supra, et de plenaria remissione et absolutione 
 semel in anno et in mortis articulo a pena et culpa ac 
 aliis, modo et forma premissis 
 
 Et de altari portatili cum clausa " ante diem " et 
 " in locis interdictis," ut premittitur 
 
 Et quod tempore interdict! corpora oratorum eccles- 
 iastice tradi possint sepulture, ut prefertur 
 
 Et de indulgentiis stationum Urbis, visitando ecclesias 
 vel altaria, ut supra 
 
 Et de esu ovorum, butiri, casei, et aliorum lacti- 
 ciniorum ac carnium, ut supra 
 
 Et de ingrediendo monasteria monialium pro 
 mulieribus, ut supra 
 
 Et de indulgentia quinquaginta dierum in sonitum 
 campane post completorium 
 
 Et quod presens indultum duret ad vitam singu- 
 lorum oratorum, nee comprebendatur sub quibusvis 
 revocationibus necnon derogationibus et suspensionibus, 
 etc., modo et forma premissis ; et quod presentium tran- 
 sumptis manu notarii publici subscriptis et sigillo alicujus 
 persone in dignitate eccesiastica constitute munitis, fides 
 detur : Que simul vel ad partem pro quolibet oratore 
 aliis omissis, etiam exprimendo nomina et cognomina, 
 qualitates eorum ac uxorum et liberorum, fieri possint ; 
 Et quod presentis supplicationis sola signatura sufiiciat 
 absque aliarum expedltione litterarum 
 
 Concessum ut petitur, in presentia Domini 
 nostri pape : F. Cardinalis Ursinus. 
 
 Jidianus de Datis, Dei et apostolice sedis gratia, episcopus 
 Sancti Leonis, sanctissimi in Christo Patris et Domini nostri 
 domini Leonis, divina providentia, pape Decimi, in basilica 
 principis apostolorum de Urbe minor penitenciarius, universis 
 et singuHs presentes litteras inspecturis salutem in Domino 
 sempitemam. Notum facimus et attestamur, quod litteras 
 originales confessionalis, quarum copia preinseritur, vidimus, 
 tenuimus et diligenter inspeximus, easque manu reverend- 
 issimi in Christo patris et domini domini Franciotti, misera- 
 tione divina, Sancti Georgii sacrosancte Romane ecclesie 
 diaconi cardinalis de Ursinis, in domini nostri pape prefati 
 presentia signatas fuisse et esse reperimus : idcirco, pro parte 
 venerabilis viri domini Guillermi Alston, monachi ordinis 
 Sancti Benedicti, Coventrensis dioceseos, principalis in pre- 
 insertis litteris inter ceteros oratores principaliter nominati, 
 debita cum instantia requisiti, ipsas transumi, exemplari, 
 transcribi, et in hanc publicam transumpti formam redigi, ac 
 per notarium publicum infrascriptum subscribi et publicari 
 
140 
 
 mandavimus ; decementes huic present! transumpto in 
 judicio et extra tantam fidem debere adhiberi qualis et quanta 
 dictis originalibus litteris data est et adbibita, dareturque et 
 adhiberetur si in medium producerentur, quibus omnibus 
 premissis sic per nos re factis auctoritatem nostram inter- 
 posuimus et interponimus presentium per tenorem pariter et 
 decretum. 
 
 In quorum fidem sigillum nostrum presentibus duximus 
 
 apponendum. Datum et actum Rome in do[mo ?] m 
 
 residentie, sub anno a Nativitate Domini millesimo quin- 
 gentesimo vigesimo primo, Indictione nona, die vero [blanh] 
 mensis [blank], pontificatus prelibati domini nostri domini 
 Leonis pape Decimi anno nono, presentibus ibidem vener- 
 abilibus viris dominis Johanne Andrea de Zoellis, archidiacono 
 Britonoriensi et [incomplete]. 24. 
 
 1521, August 1. — Letter of the Guardian of the Observant 
 Friars of Mount Sion creating Sir John Willoughby a Knight 
 of the Holy Sepulchre. 
 
 In Dei Omnipotentis nomine, Amen. Notum sit omnibus 
 presentes nostras litteras inspecturis, qualiter, hoc anno 
 Salutis nostre M. D. XXI., generosus ac nobUis vir Dominus 
 Johannes Villughby, de Angha, nuper ad sacratissima terre 
 sancte mysteria visitanda, magno devotionis affectu, se con- 
 tulerit, Deoque opitulante, multis transactis periculis, loca 
 sanctissima petierit et in primis ardentissimo sanctum 
 Dominicum Sepulchrum visitavit, sanctissimosque Calvarie, 
 Syon et Oliveti montes, Virginisque intemerate sepulchrum 
 in medio vallis Josaphat, nativitatis quoque et presepii 
 Salvatoris nostri in Bethleem Juda, fluentaque Jordanis et 
 Quarantani montes, et omnia aha a modernis Christi fidelibus 
 perigrinis visitari solita, non modico labore, et, ob locorum 
 anfractus, maximo discrimine et^ expensis plurimis circuivit, 
 atque iteratis precibus devote personaUter adoravit, et, 
 ostendens veram Christiani nominis professionem, omnia 
 adversa magnanimiter pertulit. 
 
 Idcirco, ego Frater Zenobius Masius, de Florentia, Ordinis 
 Minorum regularis obs[ervancie] sacri Conventus Montis 
 Syon guar[dianus] ceterorumque locorum Terre Sancte com- 
 miss[arius] (hcet immeritus), animadvertens ejusdem Domini 
 stemmata, ceterasque ejus virtutes, quibus SanctissimiSepulchri 
 MUites dotati esse tenentur, motu proprio impulsus, ob immen- 
 sam ejusdem Domini Johannis devotionem in hec sacrosancta 
 mysteria, et singulares zelus in totius religionis augmentum, 
 et erga seraphici Patris nostri Franci[sci] ordinem, prefatum 
 Dominum Johannem, auctoritate apostolica mihi in hac parte 
 cum plenitudine potestatis commissa singulari privilegio et 
 gratia, Sanctissimi Sepulchri jam dicti MUitem institui, ordinavj, 
 et benedixi, ac per presentes institutum, ordinatum, et bene- 
 dictum super Gloriosissimo Domini Sepulchro denuncio ; 
 decemens insuper, eundem posse deferre Sancte Crucis, 
 
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 Sanctissimi Sepulchri seu Sancti Georgii insignia publice vel 
 secrete, prout sibi placuerit ; dotans ipsum omnibus gratiis, 
 priyUegiis ac muneribus hujus Sancte Militie, quibus uti omnibus 
 locis gaudereque sine aliqua interpellatione possit et debeat, 
 quibus ceteri MUites Sanctissimi Sepulchri uti et frui con- 
 suevere. 
 
 In quorum omnium fidem ac robur tutissimum presentes 
 fieri jussi ac sigUlo Sanctissimi Selpulchri consueto muniri 
 ac roborari feci, manuque propria me subscripsi. 
 
 Datum Hierosolimis, in arce Syon cenaculo Christi sanc- 
 tissimo, anno, quo supra. Die Mercurii, prima Augusti. 
 
 Frater Zenobius subscripsi manu propria me, F.Z. 
 
 [1525,] August 6. — Commission under the signet to Sir 
 Henry WUloughby to repress riot in Coventry, i 
 
 " Henry R. By the king. 
 
 Trusty and welbeloved, we grete you wel. And forasmuche 
 as we understahde that on Lammas day last passed a grete 
 ryot and unlafull assemble with other enormytes wer com- 
 mytted in and nere unto our cite of Coventry by diverse light 
 and evil disposed personnes of the same, and that it is to 
 us yet unknowen whether the said enormytes be repressed 
 or not : we, not willing the same to contynue or passe 
 unpunyshed, for the daunger and evil exemple that may 
 ensue therof, have by our other lettres instructed our right 
 entierly beloved cousin the Marques Dorset the maner and 
 fourme howe we wol that he, with your assistence, power 
 and strength, or otherwise as he shal thynke good, shal 
 procede to the repressing and due correccion of the said 
 offendours. Wherfore we, trusting in your perfitt fidelities, 
 wol and desire you that, according to suche ordre as our said 
 cousin shal geve unto you in that behalf, ye, with suche 
 persons as ye may make, if he require the same, do geve your 
 attendance and assistence unto our said cousin in execucion 
 of the premisses, as weU for repressing of the said offendours, 
 if the same be not alredy don, as for inquire to be made upon 
 the offence, by vertue of suche commission as we have sent 
 to our said cousin and other for that porpose, and that with 
 al effect, spede and good endevour as we trust yow and as 
 ye tender our pleasur, willing yow furthermorre that in al 
 suche thinges as our said cousin shal shewe unto you in the 
 premisses, ye wol geve unto hym ferme credence as shal 
 appartain. 
 
 Yeven under our signet, at our maner of [Grenejweche 
 (?), the vj"* day of Auguste. 
 
 [Addressed :] To our trusty and welbiloved servaunt Sir 
 Henry WiUoughbe, knight." 
 
 1 The letter of the Marquis of Dorset and Sir Henry Willoughby, dated 
 12 August, 1525, giving an account of their proceedings by virtue of this 
 commission is noticed in the Calendar of State Papers 1S25, no. 1568. Se^ 
 also no. 1743, 
 
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 Signet seal {shield of royal arms and crown surrounded by 
 collar of SS) impressed upon paper-covered wax. 24. 
 
 [1539 ?] — " Informacions agaynst Sir Gylles Strangways, 
 knyght, of certajoie his mysdemeanors done in Dorsetshire 
 as hereafter folowyth. 
 
 Furst it is too be sertefyed that certayne of the housold 
 servauntes of Sir Gylles Strangways, too the nomber of thre 
 or iiij"^, that were nere aboute hym, parte of theym watyng 
 apon hym in his chamber, of late yeres were accused too 
 robe poore men in the cuntre, as well in theyc housis as by 
 the heyghway, and when the parties that were robed dyd sett 
 forth ther accusement agajoist his said servauntes afore ther 
 faces and in the presens of ther master afore the justices 
 syttyng apon the benche, the poore men then avouyng that 
 they the servauntes of the said Sir Gylles had robbed theym at 
 certayne tyme and place by theym then named, yet the said 
 Master Sir Gylles dyd soo here theym his said servauntes in 
 ther evyll doyng, havyng suche persons impanelled too inquere 
 of the same felonyes as were assured frendes too the same 
 Sir Gylles, and suche as dyd long to him, that notwyth- 
 standyng good evydence was gyffen by the parties that were 
 robed afore the justices, sayng ' thes ar the persons in presens 
 that dyd robe us,' yet noo indyctament culd be found in 
 the same shire at no assisses nor sessions agaynst his said 
 servauntes, wiche said felonyes was aleged and set forth for 
 the moste parte at every sessions by the space of one holle 
 yere too gather. And when certajme nobyllmen and other 
 gentylmen and pore men dyd perceve suche berjmg and per- 
 jurye used in that shire by the supporting of the same Sir 
 Gylles, then the same men dyd complayne at London too the 
 kynges councell, allegyng the unlawfuU beryng of the said 
 Sir Gylles and the fellonyes commytted by his said servauntes. 
 At wiche tyme the said councell, havyng afore theym emonges 
 other one of the said Sir Gylles servauntes named Jamys 
 Ferror in examinacion, the same Jamys Ferror confessed 
 parte of the same felonyes agaynst hym by the pore men 
 alleged too be trew, the same Jamys then watyng upon the 
 same Sir Gylles in ... . shier, whiche confession the 
 same Jamys Ferror beyng assigned by the said councell too 
 suffer deth for his demeryttes. Sir Gylles Strangways dyd 
 optayne of the kynges Grace his pardon, and the other ij. or 
 iij. servauntes too the said Sir Gylles, because the wold not 
 confesse ther faultes as the said Jamys Ferror dyd, they 
 contynewed styll in the service of ther sayd master wythout 
 any punyshement. 
 
 Item, at another tyme two other of the howshold servauntes 
 of the same Sir Gylles commytted other felonyes, and one 
 of theym named Brynabell dyd robe his said master Sir Gylles, 
 apon the wiche robere Sir Gylles caused hym to be indycted, 
 and after, when the felonie was araned, Sir Gylles, havyng big 
 
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 good restored, absentyd hymsellfe owte of the hall, and wold 
 gyfe no evydence, and soo the felony was acquite. 
 
 Also one Wylliam Sampson, not a yere passyd, was indyted 
 v"^ tymes of sundry felonies, and flede apon the same fel- 
 lonyes, and the good stoUen restored to the partyes that 
 ought it, and after the same Wylliam Sampson was by the 
 meanes of the same Sir Gylles accquite, and after that acquitt- 
 all the same Wylliam Sampson named hymsellfe to be the 
 sarvaunte of the same Syr Gyles Strangways, besydes dyvers 
 other mo fellonies by his sarvauntes and other persons com- 
 myttyd, wyche be cloked and advoyded wythout any re- 
 fEormacion, in wyche so doyng the same Sir Gylles doyth 
 not only appere to be a gret berer agaynst the kjmges lawys, 
 but also doyth cause miche perjurie to be commyttyd and 
 used in that shire. 
 
 Also to prove the same Sir GyUes to be a gret berer in the 
 courte, the same Sir Gylles within thys ij. yeres last passyd, 
 after that a pore man had taken the peace of hys neyghbor 
 named John Roke, he causyd the pore man to contynew the 
 askyng of the peace agaynst the sayd John Roke, where the 
 pore man wolde have releasyd the same peace, but that Sir 
 Gylles dyd advyse the pore man to the contrari, wherby he 
 causyd dyscencion to contynew betwxyt ij. neyghbers for the 
 mahce that the same Sir Gylles hade to one of them, for by 
 the procurement of the same Sir Gylls the same John Roke, 
 agajmst whome the peace was askyd, afterward was indyted 
 of f orceable entre and ryott wrongfully for kepyng of hys owne 
 house and grounde, wherin the sayd John Roke hade bene 
 in peasabyll possession by the space of xij. yeres and more. 
 And for farther prove thereof, when the ij. pore men were 
 agreed in the same matter, then the same Sir GyUes dyd 
 take dysplesure therwith, and rebuked theym that they dyd 
 . make the awarde and agrement betwyxt the sayd ij. pore 
 man (sic), wherby appered that Sir Gylles was not contentyd 
 that unite and peace shuUe be betwyx the sayd ij. pore men 
 being neyghbors, for malyce that he dyd bere to the sayd 
 John Roke, bejmg tenant to Sir Edward Wyllughby. 
 
 Other articles to prove that Syr Gylls Strangways ys a 
 procurer to breke the kynges peace and a dysturber of the 
 kynges people, as well at the tyme of the asSisses when the 
 juges were ther as at the tyme of Quarter Sessions at sunderey 
 tymes as hereafter folowyth. 
 
 Item where ther was certayn riotiuse persons at Wynburne 
 during the tyme of a fayre ther holden, wyth swordes, byUes, 
 and other wapens, sekyng the sarvauntes of Syr Edward 
 Wyllughby to feyght wyth them, and at the laste fyndyng 
 one of the husbande men of the seid Syr Edward and a prest 
 togathers in a company, then and ther dyd stryke downe 
 unto the grounde the sarvaunt of the said Sir Edwarde, 
 suposyng that they had kylled hym, and then assautyd the 
 prest, thrustyng ther daggers and swordes at hym and thorow 
 
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 his gowne, th3nik3mg also to have kylled hym, whereapon he 
 slypped owt of his gowne and flede into the churche yarde, 
 wyche ryotuose persons after that they hade serched and 
 inquered thorrow all the towne of Wynburne to feyght wyth 
 Sir Edward WyUughby servauntes, then they the said ryotuose 
 persons dyd stryke and hurte dyvers other of the kynges sub- 
 jectes in ther rage, to the nomber of xxuij" persons, and so 
 walkyd wyth ther wapons draune thorrowowt the towne, 
 strykyng alway abowt them that they causyd all the kynges 
 people ther bejmg in the fayre and market to trusse upp 
 ther marohandyes and to forsake the s'ayd market for fere 
 of the sayd ryotuose persons, whereapon the justyces next 
 adjonyng causyd a sessions to sytt and inquere apon the sayd 
 ryott, and when Syr Gylls Strangways and his frendes per- 
 cevyng a sessions to be appoyntyd to inquere of the sayd ryott 
 commyttyd by the servauntes of Sir Thomas Lyne and hys 
 frendes, then the same Sir GyUs comyng thether to Wynburne, 
 bryngjmg wyth hym certa5ni gentyUmen, beyng under his 
 riulle and commanddement, to be impanuUyd of the grete 
 inquest to the intent that the sayd ryot shud not be founde 
 agaynst his frendes ; by reason of wyche beryng of the sayd 
 Sir Gylls agajmst the kyng this riott coulde not be by no 
 jure then and ther founde, whereapon the sayd ryott was 
 afterwarde complajmed of in the Ster Chamber affore the 
 kynges councell, and ther by good wytnessys provyd, as ap- 
 peryth of recorde there, and afterwarde the sayd ryotuosse 
 persons appon prosses agaynst theym made was proclaymed 
 trators and rebelleus, and parte of them flede the contre for 
 fere of punysshement. Whereby apperyth the power and 
 auctoryte and the unlaufull beryng of the sayd Sir Gylls in 
 that shjTe, wher no matters wylbe founde nor passe by 
 vardyt contrari to his pleasure. 
 
 Item, at another tyme Syr Gylls Strangways wyth the 
 nombre of iij. score or iiij. score persons, wyth all maner of 
 wapons in forceable maner vyolentlie dyd come to Blanforde, 
 and they dyd fysshe the water in dyspyte of Syr John Rogers 
 and all hys power, wyche Sjrr John raysed an C. persons to 
 wythstande the sayd Syr Gylls, but that assemble notwyth- 
 standjrng, S3T Gylls being appoyntyd to come wythe his nettes 
 in cartes, bryngyng wyth hym suche an unlaufuU and 
 ryottous company and assemble, wyth force dyd fysshe ther, 
 and Syr John Rogers wyth force was compeUyd to suiBfer 
 hym to fysshe in hys water and durste not deffend him for 
 fere of morder and manslawter, wyche ryot and unlaufull 
 assemble was never founde nor presentyd in that schere, 
 whare nothyng canne be founde contrary to the mynde of the 
 sayd Syr GyUs. 
 
 Also certa3Tie other articles ther be too prove the same 
 Sir Gylles a supportor and mayntener of frays and breker of 
 the kynges peace as folowyth. 
 
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 Furst, where that Sir Edward Wyllughby was at a sessions 
 at Dorchester, servyng the kyng as his dewty was and is, 
 Master Henry Strangways, the son of the same Sir Gylles, in 
 the sessions tyme, when the justices was syttyng, the sayd 
 Sir Edward and Sir John Rogers was walkyng toogathers 
 frome the benche of the sessions arme in arme, the said Master 
 Henry Strangways not only appoyntyng certayne persons 
 too the nomber of xl" too be redy in the strett with bylls 
 and swordes redy too mete and feight with the sayd Sir 
 Edward at his commyng owt of the hall by the appoyntement 
 of the sayd Master Strangways, but also he the same Master 
 Henry Strangways dyd sodenly stryke at the said Sir 
 Edward, havyng Sir John Rogers by the arme, and with a 
 naked sworde cute his cheyne frome aboute his neke, wiche 
 ryott was nor never culde be founde in that schyr by reason 
 of the berjmg of the same Sir Gylles, notwithstondyng the 
 said ryot was commytted duryng the tyme that the justices 
 was syttyng at the sessions hall' at Dorchestre in the syght 
 of the same justices, wyche ryot and fray was afterward 
 by the said Sir Edward complayned of in the Ster Chamber, 
 and ther proved by good wytnes as apereth therof of record 
 at this day. 
 
 At another tyme also, when the justices of the assise dyd 
 syt at Dorchester, on Foway, servant to the same Sir Gyles, 
 in an evenjmg, without any discension or cause of gruge, 
 sodenly without warnyng dyd stryke on Richard Dooll, ser- 
 vant to Sir Edward WyUughby, with a naked swerd apon the 
 face and heed that he the same Foway at the same stroke 
 had ner kylled the same Doll, strykyng hym to the grownd, 
 and then the same Foway therapon advoyded and wold not 
 be knowen of the fray or hurt that it schuld be hys dede, nor 
 the justices of assise apon inquere cold not kno who duryng 
 the assises tyme had done that ded, and yet that notwith- 
 stondyng the same Sir Gyles dyd and doth continually kepe 
 the same Foway styll in his service without commonicacion 
 or punyshement or answer made to the same Doll, who dyd 
 lye at surgery by the space of viij. wekes, wherby apereth 
 the unlawfull mentenance of the same Sir Gyles. 
 
 Also the same Sir Gylles, at the last sessyons holden at 
 Sherborne, the xxx" yere of oure soverayne Lorde the 
 kyng that now is, havyng gruge and malyce in hes mynde to 
 the seide Sir Edwarde, then and ther at the seid sessyons 
 syttjmge apon the benche, havyng no respecte to the service 
 that he and aU the other was bownden to do to the kyng at 
 that tyme duryng the sessyons, butt rather procuryng 
 dycencyon and morder ther too be comytted and don, sayd 
 to the seid Sir Edward thes worddes : " I do deflye the, and 
 nott only I deffy the betwene the and me, butt also I doo 
 deffye the in all this awdyence," and therapon the same Sir 
 Gylles spekyng to hes sone prively, hes seid sone did arisse 
 from the benche, beyng onne of the justyces of the p[e]ace, 
 
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 and dyd feche hes fatheres servauntes and hes owne, and 
 furthwith brought them into the place wheras the 
 sessyons was, purposly to avenge hes malycyus intent, butt 
 that the same Sir Edward wolde make hym no answere nor 
 further precede in worddes with the seid Sir Gylles, the tyme 
 and the place of the sessyons to the same Sir Edward con- 
 sidered." 24. 
 
 [c. 1540]. — Draught petition of Sir Edward WiUoughby to 
 King Henry VIII. setting forth his services in war, and 
 praying that credence may not be given to certain slanderous 
 statements. 
 
 " Too the kyng our soverayng Lorde. In moste humble 
 wise shewyth and complayneth unto your Highnes your trew 
 and faithfuU servaunt Edward WyUughby, knyght, that 
 where your said servant at aU tymes passed sythens that 
 he was of th' age of xxj*' yeres untoo this day, by the space 
 of xxix" yeres, frome tyme to tyme hath done unto your 
 Grace sutche service as haith bene in his power, as weU in 
 your Grace's warres byyonde the see as other ways within this 
 realme, furst in Hey Spayne, the thryd yer of your Grace's 
 reigne, your said servaunt hymselfe dyd fornishe with a hun- 
 dreth men too doo your Grace service in your warres, under 
 the Lorde Darsye, then arryvyug at Scalys MaUys, and then 
 the next yere folowyng, the fourth yer of your Grace's raigne, 
 hymself also dyd fornishe with another hundreth men, over 
 and besydes CCCC. men fornished by his father Sir Henry 
 Wyllughby, appoynted to doo your Grace service in the warres 
 then arrjrvyng in another parte of Spayne nere Founterabye,^ 
 under the ledyng of the Right HonorabyU Lorde Marques 
 Dorsett, your said servant havyng then under his father the 
 gydyng and charge of your Grace's ordinance ; also the same 
 tyme gyffyng attendance too the honorabyU Lorde now Duke 
 of Norfolke in too Naverre. And the thryde yere then next 
 also folowjmg, the v. yer of your Grace's raigne, your said 
 servaunt, a convefnyent nomber too hym appoynted, served 
 your Grace lykewise in your warres in the northe cuntre under 
 the ledyng of the honorabyU the olde Lorde Duke of Norfoike, 
 at wiche battelP the kyng of Scotland was then ther kylled, ■ 
 and at the same felde your sayd servaunt doyng his bounden 
 and dew service too your Grace, beyng hurte and wounded, 
 was taken prysoner by the Scottes, and after ransomed hym- 
 selfe too his great charge owte of the Scottes handes withowte 
 ayde or redrese of your Grace or of any other. Also another 
 yere sythens that tyme your sayd servaunt dyd your Grace 
 lyke service in your warres in France with another hundreth 
 men under the ledyng of the honorebyU Lorde the Duke of 
 Norfoike that now is, at wiche tyme your said servaunt 
 unworthy therto was made knight by the said Duke in con- 
 
 1 Fuenterrabia (Guipiizooa). 
 
 2 The Battle of Plodden, A.D. 151-3, 
 
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 sideraoion of his said service done too your Grace. Alsoo at 
 this laste insurreccion in the Northe parties* your said ser- 
 vaunt Edward Wyllughby lykewysse dyd your Grace service 
 with another hundreth men furnyshed redy for the warrea 
 commyng and conve[in]g them owt of Dorsettshire too 
 Dankester, wiche is viij'^^ myles, ledyng and conveyng theym 
 to his great charge, wiche service and charges considered 
 that notwithstondjmg your said servaunt haith nother office 
 nor fee of your Grace, dojmg your Grace yerly and contenually 
 service in the cuntre where he dothe dwell in all your com- 
 missions and commandementes, as he is bounden of dewty 
 too doo. For wiche consideracions your said servaunt humble 
 requireth your Grace too lycence and pardon hym in the 
 rehersyng of his said service bownden and dew, wiche he is 
 compelled too doo for causys folowyng by reason that he 
 cannot cumme to your Grace's speche too make trew defence 
 and answere too the sclanderous and evyll reporte of one 
 WyUiam Auberey, one of your Grace's servauntes, wiche said 
 WyUiam Auberey in sondry places makyth his avaunte that 
 he haith done the errant unto your Grace agaynst your said 
 servaunt Edward Wyllughby, that your Grace by reason of 
 his said erraunt and complaynt schold say unto the said 
 Wylham Au[b]erey that apon suche suytes as your said ser- 
 vaunt Edward Wyllughby haith or su3^h for by the order 
 of your lawes that your Grace's pleasor is that your said 
 servaunt shal not obtejmge nor injoye the same his suyte 
 although the right of your Grace's lawes be with hym therin, 
 wiche lawes jonr Grace hetherto never refused at any tyme 
 too any of your servauntes or subyettes : Wherefor your 
 sayd besecher and servaunt Edward Wyllughby humble 
 besychyth your Grace too remember the trew and dew service 
 not onely done too your Grace hytherto by hymself, but also 
 by his father Sir Henry Wyllughby and other the brethren of 
 your said servaunt, wiche said service they and every of theym 
 intend too doo and to contynew duryng thejT naturall lyfif 
 as theyr dewtys is ; trustyng also that your Grace dothe 
 accepte the doj^iges and service of every of your Grace's ser- 
 vauntes accordyng too ther deserttes, without gyffyng credence 
 unto the untrew reporte of the said WyUiam Auberey or of 
 any such scklanderous persons. And your said orater and 
 servaunt shall dayly pray too God for the long and prosperous 
 contenuance of your riaU and nobyU estate long too endure. 
 
 Also plaise it your noble Grace to be further asertened that 
 wer certayn of your Grace's subgettes named Thomas Frost, 
 WyUiam Towneshend, and other wer bownden by obUgacion 
 in certayn summes to WyUiam Au[b]erey to your Grace's 
 use, the same WyUiam Au[b]erey hath not only extorciously 
 taken money of your said pore subgettes to his owne use in 
 parte of payment of the said obUgacion, but also fraudelently 
 and decevably the same WyUiam Au[b]erey hath com- 
 
 1 The Pilgrimage of Grace, A.D. 1537. 
 
148 
 
 pownded with your said Grace's pore subgettes Thomas Frost 
 and other above-named for a further summa betwyxt hym and 
 them agreed to be payd in severall dayes, and hath promised 
 your said subgettes the redelyvere of ther said obhgacion, 
 wyche was on of your Grace's specialtyes taken and made to 
 your Grace's use : wherby apereth the decet and untrouth 
 of the said WylUam Au[b]erey done and commytted to your 
 Grace, wych mater your said servaunt is redy to prove."" 
 
 [c. 1540.] — EUzabeth Smethwick to Sir John Willotjghby. 
 
 " Ryght worschjrpfull cosyn. I hertely commende me unto 
 yow, beyng glayd to here of yower welfare, thankjoig yow 
 ever of yowre grett kyndness. Hyt ys not unknowen unto 
 yow how that I have beyn handellet now of layte, and 
 therfore I muste make my frendys to do sumwhat for me. 
 I have caused my nej^ew Wilham Pulteney for to take panys 
 on hym to go to London for me and my syster Dame 
 Elyzabeth Smythwyke for to gett us a lycens to goo owte of 
 the place of Henwod, for we are gretly afraed that yf we 
 tary ther we schalbe poyssynnet or ellys summe other 
 thynge to make us away. Therfore we bo3ythe Dame Elysa- 
 beth and I desyer yow that yow will doo soo muche for us 
 as to delyver to my foreseyde neyfew William Pulteney 
 vli. xs. wher yow wer wonte to sende hyt me by Huge Large, 
 and my ne3^ew schall brjmg yow acquytans from us bogyth 
 from the begynyng of the worlde unto the day of the makjmg 
 of the acquytans. Yf yow do not now helpe us, we ar bo'^yth 
 undoyn, for we have nothynge to helpe us withall, as "yow 
 know well, for hyt ys not unknowen how we . . . layf 
 . moer to yow, but Jhesu have yow in hys keepyng. 
 [Yowre . . . ] cosyn and beydwoman, 
 
 Dam Elesabet Smethewyke [written 
 badly in a very shaky hand]. 
 [Addressed :] To my ryght worschypfuU cosyn Sir John 
 Willybe, knyght, be thys delyvered. " 24. 
 
 1545, May 10. — Agreement between Sir John Willoughby, 
 of Wollourton, knight, and Henry Willoughby, esquire, cousin 
 and heir apparent of the said Sir John, and Sir Nicholas Strelley, 
 of Bilbrughe, knight, " concerninge the digginge and gettinge 
 of see coolies within the lordshipp of Bilbrughe." Sir 
 Nicholas is unable to get the coals in the said lordship 
 conveniently " by reason of the superfluous abundance of 
 water " without the help of Sir John, and it is therefore agreed 
 that " of all thoos cooUez lyinge withyn certen closurez within 
 the said lordship of Bylbrughe called ' the HoUuez,' now in the 
 tenure and occupacion of Henry Marmyon, gent., from the 
 pale of Wollourton Parke of the southe unto the hedge of 
 the said closures adjonynge to Bylburghe feld by northe," 
 Sir John shah have three parts in four and Sir Nicholas 
 shall have the fourth part, the cost of getting the coals to be 
 
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 borne by the parties in the same proportions. In case Sir 
 John die before the work in Wollaton Park " be thjnrled^ 
 thoroo into the grounds " of Sir Nicholas, it is agreed that 
 if the said Henry disagre and will not suffer the " thyrlynge " 
 of the said work, these articles shall be void. The parties 
 shall cause all such coalpits as shall hereafter be " clene 
 wrought out and gottyn " to be " caste in and stopped." 24. 
 
 1548, December 20.— Will of Sir John Willoughby, of 
 Wollaton, knight. Proved at London, before the Com- 
 missary of the Canterbury Prerogative Court, January 22, 
 1548-9. [North Country Wills, p, 200, Surtees Society.] 
 
 179(193). 
 
 [1549.] — Account of lands, etc., of which Sir John 
 Wylloghby, knt., late of Myddelton, died seized, which 
 descended to Henry Wylloghby, " squyer, his cosyn and heire, 
 thatt ys to say, son of Sir Edward Wylloghby, knyght, brother 
 unto the said Sir John WyUoghby." 179. 
 
 1549, April 13. — Copy of inquisitio post mortem of Sir John 
 Wylloughbye, knight, concerning his lands in Warwickshire. 
 The jurors say that he died 10 January, 1549, and that Henry 
 Willoughby, son of his brother Edward Willoughby, is his 
 nearest heir ; which Henry was aged 31 years and more at 
 
 •the time of the death of Sir John. . 179 (193). 
 
 1549, July 15. — WiU of Henry Willoughby, esquire, in 
 EngHsh. The will is very lengthy. He ordains that his 
 executors (his brother-in-law, George Medley, esquire, and 
 Gabriel Barwyck, gent., Henry Marmyon, gent., and John 
 Hall, his three trusty servants) shall, within eight years of 
 his decease, " make or cause to be made at Wolaton aforesayd 
 a newe soughe^ for gettyng of cole within the same lordshypp, 
 and to bestow theruppon the some of on thowsande poundes, 
 or more or lesse, as nede shall requere." Supervisors : 
 Henry, Marquis of Dorset, and Sir John Markham, knight, 
 the testator's cousin. 24. 
 
 1549, July 15. — Draught on paper of preceding (in hand- 
 writing of Sir Francis Willoughby). Endorsed : " Coppy of 
 my father's wyll, with the articles of his owne hand writing." 
 There is also another copy. 179 (193). 
 
 1549, November 13. — Copy of inquisitio post mortem oi Henry 
 Willoughby, esquire, taken at Nottingham concerning his 
 lands in the County of Nottingham. The jurors say that 
 he died on 27 August, 1549, and that Thomas Willoughby is 
 his son and heir, who was of the age of eight years at the 
 time of Henry's death. 179 (193). 
 
 1 ' bored ' (O.E. ^lyrlian pierce). 
 
 2 • drain. ' 
 
150 
 
 1550, March 24. — Copy of Inquisitio post mortem of Henry 
 Willoughby, esquire, taken at Nottingham, concerning his 
 lands in the county of Nottingham. 179 (193). 
 
 Circa 1550. — Plan of the Lordship of Cosington, co. 
 Leicester. 163. 
 
 [c. 1550]. — Draught of will of Bridgett WUlughby, widow. 
 Her body to be buried in her chapel of Chedingston in the same 
 tomb wherein her first husband Sir Thomas Knyght is buried, 
 or near it, " without any maner of pompe or otther eery- 
 monies of old tyme used." Executors : Her son, Robert Wil- 
 lughby, and her son-in-law, Humphrey Walrond, esquire. 
 She bequeaths the lands in Chedingston, Penshurst, Lye, Hever, 
 Cowden, Sundrysshe, Chevining, and Sevnocke that she 
 inherited from her father Sir Robert Rede to her eldest son 
 Robert WiUughby, charging them with an annuity of 20 
 marks for her son, Christopher WUlughby, and with \Ql. 
 yearly for Thomas WiUughby, eldest son of the said Robert. 
 These lands are settled upon the said Robert and his son 
 Thomas in tail male, with remainder over to Henry WUloughby, 
 younger brother of the said Thomas. Endorsed : " My Ladis 
 mynd is that Mr. CarriU or sum otther lemed man do correct 
 this wUl." 179 (193). 
 
 1553, February 13. — Decree of WUliam Cook, LL.D., Dean 
 of Shoreham, -pronouncing a divorce between Robert WU- 
 loughby, esquire, of Sondriche, in the Deanery of Shoreham, 
 and Dorothy WiUoughby, his wife, on account of her 
 adultery with James Rogers, esquire, which she confessed in 
 Court. 179 (193). 
 
 1555, November 1. — Probate of wiU of Robert WyUoughbye. 
 His body to be buried in the chapel of Chidingstone [co. 
 Kent] " without onye maner of charges as morning blakes 
 or any other maner of pomps." Proved 16 May, 1556. Two 
 copies. 163 (207). 
 
 1558, August 11. — Probate of wUl of Bridget WUlughby, of 
 the parish of Chedyngstone, co. Kent, widow (of Sir Thomas 
 WUlughby). Proved August 18, 1558. Two copies. 163 (207). 
 
 0. 1560. — Liformation against the rector of WoUaton for 
 gambling, etc. 
 
 " To Mr. Walter Jonez, Commysarye of the Checker at Yorke. 
 
 Pleaseth your Mastershippe to understande that one 
 WUliam Underne, late parson of WoUaton, in the Countye of 
 Nottingham, and from the same deposed, is an eviU man in 
 his conversacion and lyving, as many of his neyghbours will 
 testifye, for within the towne of Nottyngham, wythin the xij. 
 dayes of Christmas w[a]s three yeres laste paste, did the 
 said Under[n]e leese at the dyce and cardes aU the money in 
 his purse, and gaiged his horse for five marks, and loste aUe 
 
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 the said money the same tyme, and also a gold rynge of his 
 he loste the same tyme. Also in Lent laste paste, wythe in 
 the said towne of Nottingham, the said Underne cam thether 
 to make provysion for his wyfes chircheinge, but or he wente 
 out of the said towne he loste agayne all his money in his 
 purse and two horses that he and his boye rode uppon, and 
 borowed xvjs. more wythin the said towne, and loste all the 
 same at dyce and cardes ; and then comynge home to his 
 parsonage in Wollaton, on Sonday then next foloweinge, 
 before his parishoners wythin the chu[r]che at the servyce 
 there, he dyd petyously lament his wicked lyfe, and said 
 he wolde never do so agayne. But nottwythstandynge, the 
 same day that he was deposed from his said parsonage, he 
 wente streyght waies to Lowdam, and there, contrary to his 
 faythfull promyse wyth his said parishoners, fell to the dyce 
 agayne with one Sanderson of the same towne, who he dayly 
 still occupiethe gamynge with all. And also, aboute Myd- 
 somer laste paste, the said Underne came to one William 
 Weste, of Wollaton aforsaid, aboute the hower of eleven of 
 the clocke at nyght, and desired hym to lende hym his mare 
 and his sadle and bridle, whiche the said Weste dyd lende 
 him, but he never as yet did delyver the same againe, nor 
 make any recompence to hym therefore : wythe many more 
 evill practyses that he hathe donne, and still practyseth the 
 same, to the great anoyaunce of many honeste men there- 
 aboute, who wyshethe a redres and spedye remedye 
 therein." 24. 
 
 1560, April 30. — Presentments against the vicar of Wol- 
 laton. 
 
 " Ultimo Aprilis anno 1560. Wollaton, Dominus Willdmus 
 Underne, Rector ibidem. Hugo Hvdson, Thomas Calton, 
 Gardiani. 
 
 Prcesentant, that WiUiam Underne, pa[rson 
 
 servid and said in the church his devyn he 
 
 oughte to have donne as in the .... Sonday and 
 dyverse other dayes, but hathe gone away at his pleysour, 
 and his parysshe hathe bene unserved. And for the lacke 
 of a preste, WiUiam Chamberlayne had two children that 
 died unchristned ; and, forther, there hathe bene diverse 
 dead, and theire frendes hathe bene constreyned to get other 
 prestes in the cuntrye to burye them, or els they muste have 
 bene unburyed to longe, and for christeninge of children in 
 lykewyse. 
 
 Item they do present the said William Underne to be a 
 commen gamster at the alehowse, nyght and daye, many 
 tymes this laste wynter ; and satt upp all the nyght at the 
 same. 
 
 Also he hathe used other evill pastymes at the alehowse, 
 as in canvasinge a yonge mayde of xiiij. or xv. yeares olde 
 
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 in a blankett and wyndowe clothe^ at mydnyght, which is 
 unprestly, wyth other lyke usages. 
 
 Item they do present that on St. Andrewes day laste the 
 said William Underne dyd breake his faste wyth a puddinge 
 or two or ever he did say his servyce. 
 
 Item they do present, that the said William Underne, 
 theire parson, had a woman in theire churche which he had 
 brought from London ; which woman he had at Bingham, 
 and said she was his wyf. 
 
 [Item the]y do present, that the said WilUam Underne 
 browght to Mr. Elton's, of Cossall, a payre of tables, and 
 shewed him that he had browght a pastye of venyson, and 
 kept game there ij. or uj. dayes together at them. More- 
 over the neyghboures there were longe in comminge to the 
 Communion, and he willed them to make more haste, or ells 
 he wolde gett hym to the tables." 
 
 (Other charges of obtaining horses from parishioners and 
 not paying for them as promised follow. Some verses on 
 this subject are included in the bundle). 24. 
 
 1572, March 21. — Bundle of bonds to observe the fast of 
 Lent, etc., taken before Thomas Willoughby, J.P., in the 
 county of Kent. 271. 
 
 1572. — Papers concerning musters in co. Kent. 177. 
 
 1573. — Papers concerning musters in co. Notts. 177. 
 
 1573-4. — Acquittance of the Pipe of Thomas Willoughby, 
 esquire, as sheriff of Kent. 271. 
 
 1574, June 19, Newark Castle. — E[dward], earl of Rutland, 
 Sir G. Clyfton, and T. Stanhope to the bailiff of the 
 Hundred of Broxtowe Weapentake. 
 
 Order to repair to the houses of the persons named at foot, 
 and warn them to bring before the aforesaid persons at 
 Newark on July 12 next, by 10 o'clock in the forenoon, so 
 many demilances, horses, and geldings for light horsemen 
 with men on their backs and fuU furniture for man and horse 
 as they are bound to find. Broxtowe Hundreth : Sir Anthony 
 Strelley ij ; Mr. Fraunces Willughby ij ; Mr. John Byron ij ; 
 Mr. Fraunces Moleneux j ; Mr. Frances Brensley j ; Mr. 
 Anthony Sawmon j. 177. 
 
 [1570-83.] — ^Makmyon, servant of EUzabeth, countess of 
 Shrewsbury (" Bess of Hardwick "), to Sir Francis Willoughby 
 concerning quarrels between the countess and her husband, 
 and referring to imprisonment of Mary, Queen of Scots. 
 
 ■' Right worshipful!, my spechall emest desyre hathe bene a 
 longe tyme that once I might be dissolved and bestow myself 
 
 1 That is, a winnowing cloth. 
 
153 
 
 altogether at WoUaton, which soyle and the soyles master I 
 have alwaies unfaynedly loved. At last, I prayse God, I have 
 my desjnre fully satisfyed, for cyvill warres will entertaigne 
 Sheffield House and Skottyshe regiment unlesse Marmyon 
 be removed. I am sorie with all my harte to see my Lady 
 in suche daunger and that she takethe my departure in so 
 ill sorte. That howse is a hell, and her Ladyship beinge 
 furnished with few, or rather not one, about her which fayth- 
 fuUy love and honor her in deede, the sequeale is in doubt 
 to breede afterclappes, and she suspectes no lesse. 
 
 I tould your worship at your being last at Haddon of a 
 broyle or kynd of tragedy betwixt my Lord and Lady of 
 late, wherin, as alwayes in maner hertofore, my Lord hathe 
 made me playe a parte, so I thinke the tragedy would not 
 hould if I be lefte out. I now perceave by her Lady the 
 fallinge out was excedinge and Uckly to be perillous, if she 
 take not her seconde counsells and square the accyon by 
 wisdome. His Lordship chargethe her and me to be devysors 
 for the disablyng of his sarvice to Her Majestie ; that we are 
 advertysers against him ; and weere the only cawse that 
 abatement was made of his allowance for the Lady of 
 Skottlandes dyat ; that she makes me her right hand as it 
 weere, whome he cannot abide, and knowing that I hate him. 
 Wherupon he made surely a very .honorable conclusion that 
 if she would not remove me, he could never be brought to 
 thinke that she loved him, nejrther would he ever take her 
 for his wyfe, but he would remove me and shutt her Lady- 
 ship up without suffring any sarvauntes about her than of 
 his owne placing, with dyvers other ydle wordes tending 
 muche to noughty purposes. My Lady desyred him to send 
 for me, and charge me himself, but that was as bittar as gall, 
 and no waye but she must dispatche me. 
 
 Yet or ever I departe, his Lordship shall well perseyve that 
 I dare bouldly take my leave, and answer the unjust and 
 most vyle accusacion, which, I warrant yow, will kindle 
 coales. Notwithstanding, I am sure his Lordship will ende 
 most quyetly with me, and not suffer my departure, but by 
 his leave I will strayne curtesie. 
 
 The lease my Lady gave me must goe thoroughe my Lordes 
 handes if I will have a parfecte state, and I may as well seeke 
 to remove the Towar of London as compas eny suche goodnes ; 
 so as it hathe pleased her Ladyship to bestowe of a yearely 
 anuety of xlK. a yeare, to be had out of Mr. William 
 Cavendyshe^' landes, and he to be my paymaster, whereof I 
 lyke well. 
 
 Yf I would goe to the Innes of Courte or sarve eyther my 
 Lord Treasurer or my Lord of Leycester, she will otherwayes 
 be benefycyall to me. I answered that I am warned to clyme 
 no more upon the hills, wher the wyndes blowe often roughe, 
 but will bestow myself in some quyet dale. Very emest she 
 was to know my intencion, which would not be gotten forthe, 
 
154 
 
 but referred all as it would best lyke my father to bestow 
 me. She offers to take what counsell I will chewse for the 
 makinge of my anuety, onely a proviso must be that I must 
 not sell it, and she is well pleased that I bestow myself 
 whersoever I best lyke, and that she is in good fajrthe with 
 no man in England but onely with Sir Francis Willoughby, 
 and soe shall she knowe before I departe. Yt is good that 
 your worship take heede how yow suffer me to sett one futt 
 within your howshould, for before God yow shall have muche 
 adoe to remove me from yow. I fynd me able to do yow 
 good sarvice : and this I trust you will hould yourself assured 
 that I wilbe to the last day of my lyfe a most faythefull man 
 towardes yow and all your cawses. And thoughe I speake 
 it, methinkes Wollaton Howse should not be without a 
 Marmyon. 
 
 And now, Sir, my humble sute is not onely for enter- 
 taignement, but having fully assured myself of your goodnes 
 towardes me by somme good turne towardes the better 
 inabling me to live, I am to beseche your worship to bestow 
 of me a lease in revercion of Harry Averye's farme and Smawle's 
 tenement in Carleton, which tenement I sould yow upon my 
 arrerages in account unto your worship. Boothe being layde 
 together will make a prety livinge. Ther be vj. vij. or 
 viij. yeares to expyre, and than if it might stand with your 
 pleasure to thinke me worthy thereof, I and all my pore 
 frendes must think ourselves specyaUy bound to rest with all 
 dutyfull sarvice most faythfully at your worship's dsvocion. 
 
 Yt wilbe iij. weekes before I shall dispatche from hence, 
 which tyme yow shall receyve from my Lady a letter of the 
 manner of my departure, and see moreover the assurance 
 of her honorable dealing with me. And if I might be setled 
 with your worship, and have this lease made me before my 
 goinge to my f ather-in-lawe, it would be suche a comfort to 
 theim, as he will stand the rather my good father whan he 
 seethe I am setled to Uve. He is a man not lickly to lyve 
 longe, and my possibility of great part of his living and welthe 
 is very great. I hope before vij. or eight yeares be ended, 
 yow will think my request well bestowed. I beseche your 
 worship lett me heare by this bearer somewhat of your deter- 
 mynacion, whome I send over to father wherby to acqu[a]ynt 
 him how this matter fallethe out, and to make my request 
 unto him for somme money to discharge dettes before my 
 departure. 
 
 My Lady promisethe to countenance his cawse against 
 Browne by aU the meanes she may. I will know whether she 
 be mynded to procede for PevereU fee. 
 
 My Lady goethe not to SheflEleld before Saterday next, 
 which I think a long tyme untill I feele my Lordes pulses. 
 I will seeke and doubt not to obtayne his favor and good 
 opinyon. Before God ther is great murmuring bothe here 
 and at Sheffield about my goinge away, and every one thinkes 
 
166 
 
 becawse they have knowne as great disquyetnes heretofore 
 sundry tymes betwixt us, that this wilbe in lyke maner over- 
 blowne. But they wilbe deceaved, for I take my Ladyes 
 offer and her setting me at Uberty to sarve wher I please to 
 be a doble benefitt. And in deeds, aU thinges considered, it 
 may weU be thought inconvenyent that she kepe me longer, 
 my Lordes frantick speches fully considred. Yt is the best 
 happ that ever yette hathe bene offred me since I came to the 
 state of a man. 
 
 I beseche your worship's good consideracion of my humble 
 sute, and not to refuse Marmyon, who never wilhngly 
 departed from yow, but is most joyfull if he may in this sort 
 retume unto yow. I am in hast and therfore trust yow will 
 pardon this rude and tedious letter. 
 
 I pray God kepe yow in helthe. 
 
 Chattsworthe, the xxiiij"' of October. 
 
 God send me good luck ! My Lord makes men beleve 
 that he will feight with me in his owne parson, but use makes 
 his feight terrible parfecte. I dare gage my lyie whan it 
 commethe to serching, he will not suffer my departure. But 
 I wUbe found resolute. 
 
 My man should have bene with your worship iiii' dayes agoe, 
 but I altred my mynd untill we came to Sheffield. Sir, I 
 reckon me one of yours. 
 
 Sheffield, the xxviij''' of October. 
 
 [Addressed : ] To the right worshipfull Sir Francis Wil- 
 loughby, knight." 24. 
 
 [c. 1575.] — A foolscap sheet of paper, endorsed (in hand- 
 writing of Sir Francis Willoughby) : " Janians Epitafe in 
 obitum patris " [i.e., Henry Willoughby, slain by the Norfolk 
 rebels in 1549]. It commences with a Hebrew epitaph, 
 followed by these : 
 
 On Mossair Heathe^ did bitted deathe 
 
 In Kinges warres take awaye 
 This worthie wight. Esquire by righte, 
 
 Whose fame will not decay. 
 
 Bothe good and base are in this case 
 
 They must retourne to duste, 
 The worlde is vayne, welthe is but payne, 
 
 And aU that is man's luste. 
 
 E/3/5t/co9^ fi-ev 6 ^OvpcKievs^ '0\t/3e£oy* avuKTOi 
 
 'Ev TToXe/uLOii idavev, Kr/Sea Xvypa irdQiDV, 
 Ety TO yap einrpaTTeiv, /Sao-tX^i' Te Koi TrarpiS avrov, 
 
 ' AvOpunro^ ipiieTai, xp^l'^tfia (pS>s (j)epwv. 
 ^Sjfiari (Toj/x' avTou KeiTai, S' ava yijv fiaXa OaWet, 
 
 AfA \ ) V fie/ i rf n » ^ 
 
 o^a, Tifirj T aperri, tout eirer avopc ew. 
 
 1 Monsehold Heath, Norwich, the site of the rebels' camp. 
 
 2 ' ' Henry. ' ' Tho gross errors in these Greek lines are reproduced. 
 » " Of Warwiok(shire). " 
 
 4 "Willoughby." 
 
156 
 
 ^The worthie Henrie Willoughbie in Kinges warres saw his 
 
 death, 
 Esquire he was of Warwickeshire, and died on Mossall Heath. 
 Man is not borne all to him sehe, to Prince he must do good 
 And to his cuntree, tho' it be with sheddinge of his bloode. 
 Tho' that in grave his corpes doth lie, his fame doth florishe 
 
 still ; 
 His vertue, prayse and fortitude shall never come to ill. 
 
 ^Armiger hie diris stratiotes regius armis 
 
 Lsesus obit mortem : cui monumenta vides. 
 
 Pro patria est perdulce mori, pro rege intimidum. 
 Lsethum igitur laetum, et sors sua Iseta fuit. 
 
 Ossa tegit tumulus, virtus sua sydera scandit. 
 
 Laus sua non moritur, sed vivet atque viget. 24. 
 
 1577. — Papers concerning musters in co. Warwick. 177. 
 
 1577-1594. — Commissions, orders, etc., relating to musters 
 in cos. Kent, Warwick and Nottingham, 1577, 1589, 1591, 
 1594, including muster-roUs for co. Kent, lengthy instructions 
 for the guidance of officers in warfare, etc., and a book, circ. 
 1600, of the names of men fit for war and of those unfit, with 
 valuation of their goods, in various villages in co. Warwick. 
 
 177. 
 
 1577, August 20. — Grant from Thomas Gebbons, esquire, 
 " Gardianus viUse regise de Sutton in Colfilde, in Com. Warr., 
 et Societas ejusdem " to Richard Barlowe, of Sutton in 
 Colfilde, in consideration of " two stonyd horses " and one 
 mare deUvered to them before the execution of this deed 
 " ac modo pro commoditate et utihtate omnium inhabitantium 
 hbertatis de Sutton in Colfilde praedictae in parco nostro 
 existentium," of a parcel of land called " Bracebrydge Poole " 
 within " pasturam nostram vocatam ' le Parke,' " to dig up 
 and dam and to make a pond (stagnum) there and to erect 
 " moUendinum scytheaticum^ vel fullaticum vulgariter voca- 
 tum ' a blademylle or a fullynge mylle.' " James NichoUes 
 and Richard Houghe, Sergeants at Mace and officers of the 
 Court, are appointed attorneys to put the said Barlowe in 
 seisin of the premises. Dated in " le Mote Hawle " at Sutton in 
 Colfilde. Twenty persons, including the " Gardianus," witness 
 the delivery of this indenture on November 2. 236. 
 
 1580, March 16. — Copy of commissions and instructions 
 for the musters in co. Kent. 177. 
 
 1580. — ^Papers concerning musters in co. Warwick. 177. 
 
 1 This is a free translation of the preceding. 
 
 2 This epitaph, containing a reference to his monument, proves that 
 these epitaphs were written for Sir Francis Willoughby, the builder of 
 Wollaton Hall, and intended to be engraved upon the monument erected 
 by him to his fatlier in Wollaton Church. The epitaph actually engraved 
 on this monument is given in Thoroton, Antiquities of Notts, p. 226. 
 
 3 An adjective formed from the English Scythe. 
 
157 
 
 1584, July 24. — Sir Francis Willotjghby to Thomas 
 WiLLOUGHBY, Ms brotKer-in-law. 
 
 " I have at this present, being the last tyme of asking, sett 
 downe to Mr. Vicechamberlaine my price and daies for 
 Langton Walles in this sort, videlicet presently 500li., Alholl- 
 outyde lOOOfo'., Candelmas 500K., at Midsomer terme lOOOK. 
 Gyving thes daies and lyngering the tyme hath hindered 
 me borrowing the mony uppon interest CCCK. Yett am I thus 
 contented if he will in this sort proceede, or els to give his 
 absolute answer (as he hath already) of refusaU before my 
 cosin Markham and Mr. Fyssher. If it please hym to pro- 
 ceede, yow are to receave 500li. to my use, wherof yow must 
 pay CCxli. to the goldsmith abowt the xiij'° of August, and 
 the residu for yom: seKe, due by me to yow ; the old mony 
 shalbe paid yow ere it be longe. Yow must make hym a quit- 
 tance for the receite therof, if it be required. If this mony 
 wUl not be hadd of hym refusing the bargen, then have I 
 written my letter and sent my band to Mr. Huitt, draper, 
 dwelling in Candelwick Strete, desiring hym to lend me CCli, 
 to answer this turne. 
 
 Mr. Huitt hath offered me 5500li. for my land in Kent, so 
 that he might have generall warantie ; my answer is that I 
 wUl not abate one penny of QOOOli., and the warrantie to 
 extend no farther then against me and my heires. I thinke 
 he wyU come to my price, and I may enlarge the warrantie 
 against the heires of my father and my grandfather, which, 
 I suppose, wyll content hym. Uppon Mr. Vizchamberlain's 
 refusaU, try this sale with expedicion. Ther is one Mr. Wilford 
 abowt Rie (as I take itt) that hath byn heretofore very ernest 
 for my land in Kent. Geve hym knoledge hereof, and take 
 the best chapman, ether for this or Essex. 
 
 I have byn in some talke for the mariage of my daughters, 
 and like enough to conclude for the one, if lyking shall grow 
 betwixt the parties, withowt the which I wyll never presse 
 them. 
 
 For thes other reportes of gyving over my howse, etc., and 
 for receiving my wife being now reconsiled, for this last part 
 ther is no such determinacion that I am pryve of as yett. 
 What other know of my determinacion more then my selfe, 
 I leave to yow to judge, nether hath ther byn any motion 
 more then by the same gentleman I told yow of at your last 
 being with me ; and for the other in truth my charge groweth 
 so greate by this meanes that I must be dryven to do itt, and 
 to discharg some of my unnessary {sic) servandes, yett meane 
 that Persyvall at the Chawntry (a howse bigg enough for 
 hym his purpose) shall make tryall of such proporcion as I 
 can be content to allow hym and the children, while I go abroade 
 to make sale of some lande if thes bargens do not take place. 
 
 Thus in hast I do committ yow to the Almightie. 
 
 Wullaton. xxiiij"^" of July, 1584. 
 
 Yowr brother-in-law to use, 
 
 Fra. Wyllughby. 
 
158 
 
 [Addressed :] To his loving brother-in-law, Thomas Wyl- 
 lughby, esquier, geve thes." 24. 
 
 1585. — ^Letters concerning musters in oo. Kent. 177. 
 
 1587. — Papers concerning musters in co- Nottingham. 177. 
 
 1587-8. — Letters concerning musters in co. Kent. 177. 
 
 1588, Aug. 2. — Names of two hundred men of the Hundred 
 of Sutton at Hone, co. Kent. 177. 
 
 1588, August 31. — John Adams to Percival Willotjghby, 
 esquire, his brother-in-law. 
 
 " Brother Percivall. My wyfe and I geive yow great thankes 
 that vow vouchsauve us that favor, as to be a meanes and 
 wittnesse of that outward regeneration, whereby inward 
 grace is signifyed to that wiche God will blesse us withall, 
 male or female. Wherefore we wilbe glad to make requitt- 
 all of this curtesy as of manny other in what we shalbe in 
 any wyse able. But we ar sory that herein yow tume our 
 request not only to your truble, but also to your charge. 
 
 My wyfe goes about Cricle Cricle, very great. She is 
 underlayd not with a Frenche fardingale, wiche strottethe 
 out by the sydes, but withe an English bumbaste, wiche 
 beareth out before, and she lookethe every day for a hue and 
 cry, and there is a poste and an asse ready to make pursuite. 
 
 I am sory Sir Frauncis is made shiryf this yeare. Let his 
 under-shiryfe take heed for his yeare to come. All the judges 
 of the Comon Plees have taken order to oversee all the 
 offences of undershirifes to be duely and severely pimished 
 and also hathe appointed on to followe the informations 
 againste them. Lett him therefore beware. 
 
 But I am more sory that Mr. Catcher the Friday next after 
 this terme was fined for the whipping of Mrs. Newnam and 
 Mrs. Nevill in BrideweU to the queene GCCCC.li. and CC.li. 
 to the ij. gentelweomen, on hundred li. apeece, and his fellow 
 Skinner to on thowsand markes to the queene and CCCC.li, 
 to the two gentelweoman, so that of a sodaine the too gen- 
 t[elweomen] ar becom good manages. They have besydes as 
 parte of theyre judgment iij. monthes imprisonment, and to 
 aske the gent[elweomen's] forgivenesse at theyre house, at 
 the Counter and at Bridewell. Theyre offence was for 
 whipping of gent[elweomen], wiche by theyre commission they 
 cannot doe, for theyre letters pattentes weare examined and 
 they had not power to doe it. It was malliciously prose- 
 quuted by Skinner, and Mr. Catcher simply thruste into it, 
 wiche made Skinner's fyne the greater. But the cyrcum- 
 stances did aggravat the offence, first the punishment without 
 any fault, in specially (sic) the hasty proceeding, the whipping 
 
169 
 
 of weomen, maryed gent[elweomen] withe child, crying on 
 there knees for mercy, wipte by a man in the sight of men, 
 and rejoyseing, whereby proceeded untymely chyld birthe 
 (and the chyld, as they sayd, borne alive died), and this chanced 
 within X. weekes after. But we hoape that Mr. Catcher's 
 fine shalbe moderated and mittigated. The man is sory, and his 
 wife sadd, and had bene very sicke, but now a litteH amendyd. 
 We have used the best comforte to them bothe we could, 
 and I hope he shall come out erst it be long. 
 
 Yowr sister Rosse was at London to have gone to the 
 countesse of Warwicke, and she must stay till after 
 Christmas, and so she is now at home at Boare Place. 
 
 We ar all here very well, and yowr father's wyfe usethe 
 us aU very kindely and farr better then ever. I would I 
 weare with yow this Crismas, but I am tyed by the legg, as 
 once I remember yow wrote you weare tyed to a broken maste. 
 
 My Lady WUlughby was dead and in a mortale sound^ by 
 the space of j. hower fuU, and could not be revived. There 
 weare none in here chamber but here mayde, and a jentelman's 
 man wiche lay over here, hereing the mayde to cry out, came 
 downe and helped to rubb and recover the good lady, and 
 soe in the end thereof recovered here. But now I heare she 
 is well. But aske Nedd, I pray yow, of a circumstance that 
 hapned then. 
 
 And thus with our harty commendations to yow and to 
 my sister yowr wyfe, and to my good partener and cosen 
 Win, God send here and that quickly ! And thus I leave 
 yow to God, who blesse yow and my sister, I beseche him, 
 with a pretty boy and that quickley. 
 
 Boare Place, 31 Au. (?), 1588. 
 
 Yowr loveing brother-in-law, 
 
 John Adams. 
 
 [Addressed :] To the right worshipfuU and my very loveing 
 brother-in-law Percivall Willughby, esquier, at New hawle 
 give theis." 24. 
 
 1588-9. — Acquittance of the Pipe of Francis Willoughby, 
 knt., as sheriff of Nottingham. 271. 
 
 1589. — Letters concerning musters in co. Kent. 24; 177. 
 
 1590. — Letters concerning musters in co. Kent. 177. 
 
 1590.— The like in co. Notts. 177. 
 
 1590-1. — ^Acquittance of the Pipe of Thomas WiUoughby, 
 esquire, as sheriff of Kent. 271. 
 
 1591, April. — Account of Sir John Leveson for money 
 received in the Lathe of Sutton-at-Hone towards the 
 furnishing of 36 men. — A note of money laid out by the 
 constable and Portreeve of Gravesend for certain soldiers. 
 
 177. 
 
160 
 
 1591, Jnly 29. — List of " Armour lent to be delyvered 
 agayne." — List of " mony receved of soldiers and sutche as 
 do fynd armor for the muster Mr., his intertaynment and 
 wagis." 177. 
 
 1591, November 12, London. — Lord Cobham to Sir John 
 LBVESOSr, knight, one of his Deputy-Lieutenants. 
 
 He has received a letter from the queen requiring him to 
 cause 100 men for pioneers to be speedily levied in Kent, 
 and to cause them to be impressed with such sums of money 
 as are usually due for such a service, and to cause them to 
 have frieze coats, the charges whereof shall be answered by 
 order from the Lord Treasurer, according to the rate of 4s. 
 for every coat, and that the pioneers should be ready to be 
 brought to Dover within an hour's warning, and there 
 delivered on shipboard. These are to pray Sir John to cause 
 40 of this number to be levied out of the two Lathes in his 
 charge, and that they be brought to Dover by the constables 
 of the hundreds and places where they shall be taken by the 
 19th inst. For more expedition, he has thought meet to have 
 their coats bought and provided in London and sent down 
 to Dover. As the charges of every coat will come to 2s. more 
 than is allowed by the queen, besides their carriage to 
 Dover, Sir John is to cause the overplus to be taxed and levied 
 in the county in some reasonable rate, and to take order that 
 the same may be paid to such as he shall appoint to receive 
 it at the time of the delivery of the coats. 177. 
 
 1591, November 12, London, — Sir John Leveson to the 
 High Sheriff and Justices of Kent. 
 
 Enclosing copy of Lord Lieutenant's letter signifying the 
 queen's pleasure for the levying of 100 pioneers iij Kent, and 
 praying that twenty of them be levied within the Lathe of 
 Sutton-at-Hone, to be sent to Dover according to his 
 Lordship's directions. He has taken order that there shall 
 be one at Dover to deliver their coats to such persons as they 
 shall send with the pioneers. 177. 
 
 1592, October 20. — Commission to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 
 the High Sheriff of Nottingham, Sir Thomas Stanhope, Sir 
 Francis Willughby, Sir John Bjn'on, knights, Thomas Markham 
 and Peter Roose, esquires, to administer the oath of 
 supremacy within the County of Nottingham. 271. 
 
 1592. — Papers relating to musters in co. Kent. 24; 177. 
 
 1593. — Papers relating to musters in bo. Kent. 24; 177. 
 
 1593-4. — Acquittance of the Pipe of Francis Willowghbye, 
 knight, as sheriff of Nottingham. 271. 
 
 1594. — Papers relating to musters in co. Kent. 177. 
 
161 
 
 1594, May 8.— Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury 
 (" Bess of Hardwick ") to Sir Francis Willoughby. 
 
 " Good cosin, in respect of the good will I beare you, I made 
 offer to my cosin Henry Willughby for the disbursment of 
 three or foure thousand poundes, in such sort as he hath 
 signifyed to you. And thoughe of late I have had very good 
 offers made me of land to be sold, yet, in respect of my 
 former promis, I have not gyven eare therto. The land you 
 offer in morgage, uppon further lookinge into the matter, I 
 fynd to be threescore pound rackt rent and threescore 
 poundes of old rent, and of the old rent some in lease for 
 lyves, and your manor of Willoughby, the principall thinge, 
 besydes that some part of it is in lease for lyfe, the whole is 
 in joynture to My Lady Willoughby. So that for so great 
 a somme I think it not a convenient porcion. I know where 
 for less then half this money you assured far more land, yet 
 have I told my cosin this bearer that there shalbe three 
 thousand pound presently disbursed uppon this land, and 
 yf you be to use any more, uppon further assurance there 
 shalbe more redy for you. I hope you doe assure yourself 
 that I look not for any thinge but for the security of them 
 that are to disburse this money. Your land I do not desyre. 
 Yf I could be assured of your lyff, there should not nede 
 any mortgage at all to be made, but the yongest and health- 
 fullest are subject to chaunge. My cosin Henry Willoughby 
 will shoe you my mynd at more length. 
 
 And so praying God to send you longe lyffe and happy 
 health, I ceass. 
 
 From Chatsworth, this viij''' of Male, 1594. 
 
 Your lovinge cosin and assured frend, 
 
 E. Shrouesbury. 
 
 [Addressed :] To the right worshipfull my very good cosin 
 and frend Sir Frances Willoughby, knight, at WoUaton." 24. 
 
 1595. — Papers relating to musters in co. Kent. 177. 
 
 [c. 1595.] November 15. — Richard Hill to Sir Francis 
 Willoughby. 
 
 " My duty humbly remenbred (sic) to your Worshipe. This 
 is to certefie your Worship that I have caused the uper pittes 
 in the parke to be filled, acordinge to your Worshipes 
 comandment. AUso this is to certefie your Worship that we 
 may sett up a water-pitt at the Chrowood end, which will 
 draw the water wich liethe aboute the coUe, the which water 
 is twyse as bigge as that wich liethe in the cole, and that 
 water must be drawne to the soughe^ in Dofcote Close. 
 And the water that must drive the weell must run above the 
 ground, because if the water whiche toms the weell should 
 faUe into the sough, the sough weare not able to receve it 
 
 1 A drain. See page 88, note 7, above. 
 
 M 11 
 
162 
 
 becaus of the narownes therof. This wilbe doone with reson- 
 able charges, and the other will be unresonable, for that it 
 is in lengthe viij. acrey [sic] and x. skore yardes at xj. skore 
 yardes the ackre' ; werof your Worship myght withe les 
 charge make a new soughe then inlarge the ould. 
 
 Thus I commit your Woorship to Alhnightie God. 
 
 From Woollaton, the xv"" day of Novembre. 
 
 Your poore servant to command, 
 
 Richard HUl. 
 
 [Addressed ;] To the right worshiple (sic) and my good master, 
 Syr Frauncis Willoughbe, knyght, dehver this." 24. 
 
 1596. — Papers relating to musters in co. Kent. 177. 
 
 1596, April 10, Dartford, " in haist at one of the clocke." 
 Sir Thomas Walshstgham to Samson Lennard, Thomas 
 Wflloughby, and Thomas Potter, esquires. 
 
 Having this day at 12 o'clock at noon received letters from 
 the Lord-Lieutenant of this county for the present discharging 
 of such men as now are in readiness for Her Majesty's service, 
 these are to require them to discharge all such men within 
 their division to depart home with their arms and furnitures 
 until such time as further order be given for a new supply. 
 
 Endorsed " For Her Majestie's afiaiers " ; " Haist, haist, 
 haist for lyffe, for lyfe haist ! " 177. 
 
 1596, May 22.— Richard Hill to Sir Francis Willotjghby. 
 
 " Ryght worshiple, my dewtj- ryght humbhe remembered. I 
 have greate cause to repent me of the late bonds, wherinto I 
 entred for my abideing out of servis with any mann ; for 
 surehe yf the same weare to doo, I would nott abide and 
 remene heare untyll Michellmas for halfe the valure of the 
 bonde, seeing and heareing styll dayHe the workeing and evell 
 pretents of myne adversaries, purposeing my utter over- 
 throwe, which is a discomfort to my wife and chilldren and 
 discoriageing of my friends. Yf your worship and the good 
 ladies geve styll creditt to theire made tales, I shalbe full 
 bought and sould amongst them before the day of heareing 
 come. They nowe, feareing that T shall have my matters 
 hard^ with indiflerenci, knowing that theire discreditt will 
 ryse therby and all theire laboure then in wast, have devised 
 suche villenie to laye against me as, yf ytt should be true, I 
 weare nott worthie to leve upon th'earthe. Wherefore I 
 humbly beseeche your worshipp geve no credit fc to theire say- 
 ings or wrytings at the fyrst seight ; butt after good and 
 just prosses thereof made, yf I be fownd guiUtie, for mercie 
 I will never crave nor hope, butt wilbe eonntented to abyde 
 
 1 The acre as a measure of length. See New English Dictionary. 
 
 2 ' heard.' 
 
163 
 
 any torment, be ytt never so tyrrible, knoweing that cause- 
 lesse cruelltie will never scape without revenge, which by 
 them is to be feared ; for yf, please God, I may come to my 
 purgacion, these theire cruellties I doubt nott will bewraye 
 theire one dealeing. Untyll then I will rest with patience 
 to beare these heavie injuries. 
 
 The baylyffe att my coming home demaunded my connesence 
 and my sonn's by a warant which he saithe he hathe from 
 your worship, and hath allso dryven and impounded my 
 catle forthe of DobsnoUe and Redfeeld, which I hope as yett 
 be no parte of your mynde ; and allso saithe the warrant 
 which I have from your worship is a countterfait and is nott 
 your hand. Wherfore I humbly beseeche your worshipp that 
 you wiU eertefie him, and that I maye have those two closes 
 untyU my cawses be hard.i at which tyme I hope you shall 
 nott repent you of any kyndeness you showe me. 
 
 The new hmpe^ at Oossall is geven over for what cause I 
 knowe nott. The cole is good and reasonable thicke, and 
 the water nott unreasonable. I am unwilling to medle in 
 anything untyU I have cleared myself e, butt yf ytt please 
 you to comaund my sonn in your letre to sett ytt forward, 
 God wiUing, ytt shalbe plyed to your lykeing. 
 
 Thus verry humbly I take my leave, comitting you to the 
 tuition of th' Allmyghty. 
 
 Woollarton, this xxij"" of May, 1596. 
 
 Youre servant whUest lyfe, 
 
 Ric. Hyll. 
 
 Postscript. The beiliffe and CaUver have charged the 
 workmen for coming to my house for any drincke, as they saye 
 by your worship's comandment, which yf [ytt] be so, I am 
 much sorie that you should take suche maner of greeffe against 
 me. 
 
 [Addressed .■] To the right worshiple and his verey good 
 master Sir Francis Willughbey, knyght, att the queenes 
 coutchmaker's in Sm3d;hfeeld, geve these." 24. 
 
 [c. 1596.] — " A note of the unjuste dealinges of Richard Hill 
 with Sir Frauncis WUlughbie, his maister, and his workemen, 
 knoT^en to and to be justified by Allexandre Shawe, George 
 Wagge, Robert Shawe, Thomas Bunney, John Cottam, 
 Richard Fowler, or some one of them, with others. 
 
 Inprimis, George Wagge and Allexandre Shawe are to 
 depose that the said Richard Hill did threten to banishe the 
 said Allexandre the towne and feUde for declaringe the truthe 
 to Sir Frauncis in saying that Richard Hill had deceyved 
 his maister of xviij. lodes of coles in the Hollows, which 
 the Ladie Stannoppe had to Nottingham by the space of 
 
 1 ' heard.' 
 
 2 Not in the New English Dictionary. 
 
164 
 
 X. yeres since, and unjustlie by dales men^ caste him in the 
 damage of xx"^ nobles. 
 
 ^ ****** 
 
 Item the said Allexandre and Thomas Bunneye are tp 
 depose that the said Richard HUl deceyved the lord of xviij. 
 rookes of coles at Shawe pitt in Bretland, which he caried 
 moste of them to Nottingham, and parte to his owne howse. 
 
 ****** 
 
 Item the said Robert Shawe delivered xxxj. roo[b;es] dim. 
 of coles to John Foxe of Nottingham, the saltpeter-man, 
 which money he falsehe deceyved Sir Frauncis of, and had 
 it to his owne use, which he paid in parte of his fine of his 
 howse at Bilborowe at Nottingham, which Thomas Buney is 
 
 to manifeste. 
 
 * * * • * * . 
 
 Item Robert Shawe is to depose that Richard Hill com- 
 maunded him to keepe the gifter-money^ of their cariages 
 whatsoever it was, more or lesse, and bringe it to him, and 
 then hee did geve them againe what he thoughte good of 
 it, wherby hee had the moste parte of that the pore men 
 
 wrought for. 
 
 ♦ + ***• 
 
 Item Robert Shawe and Thomas StUhngton, with others, 
 are to depose that Richard Hill suffred the workemen to goe 
 so nighe the Hollowes in- Bretland that they stroke throughe 
 and lett in the water and overthrewe the worke to great 
 hindrance of the lorde and his workemen. 
 
 Item John Cottom is to sale that he caste a gobbinge' betwixte 
 worke and worke, soe that noe moe but that pitt meane 
 should be acquainted with the overthrowinge of the worke. 
 
 Item the said Richard HiU caused a paine to be sett in the 
 courte that one man should not come into another's workes, 
 which was to conceale his ignorance. 
 
 Item the pore workemen, havinge wroughte aU the winter 
 and gotten a great stacke of coles, then Hill would sett up 
 the pitt to the lord's great hindrance, and had the sale at 
 
 his appoyntment to himself or some one for him. 
 
 ****** 
 
 Item at the HolUe pitt in the Highe FeUd HUl, havinge the 
 rule of it, caused a thurle* to be driven to a pitt in the 
 Hollows of xl. elne, where hee led them up and downe till 
 there were above j. hundreth elne driven, and in the nfeane 
 whyle gott coles at the benke to the value of xl. or xxx. rookes 
 a weeke, and not passing viij. or x. rookes were entered in 
 the name of hed coles, at which thurle beinge so long in 
 dryvinge Mr. Blythe, keepinge the booke, found faulte, and 
 demaunded when the pitt should be put in the Chantre, and 
 then when the pitt were more than half donne, then he put 
 
 1 Arbitrators. See New English Dictionary, s.v. ' Daysman. ' 
 
 * A compound of ' giftur, ' gift, and ' money. ' Not in New English 
 Dictionary. 
 
 '■^ See New English Dictionary, s.v. ' gob, sb. 4. ' 
 
 * Shaft or tunnel. 
 
165 
 
 it in, which action to make answere for those that knewe it 
 once justified it to Sir Frauncis before Hill in the presence 
 of Mr. Kindersley and others." 24. 
 
 1597, November 5.—" ^A note of the sighte in Nottingham 
 by one possessed, the v*'' of November, 1597, according to 
 our rememberaunces. 
 
 1. Firste he shewed to our sighte the sinne of mockinge 
 and mowinge and flowtinge, with coimtenaunces thereto 
 belonginge. 
 
 2. Was shewed the deceipte of taylers in theire manners. 
 
 3. Was shewed the manners of the anticke dauncers, 
 with clappinge of handes and other antickes accordinge to 
 their fassions. 
 
 4. Was shewed upon his foreheade with his handes the 
 forme of a payre of homes. 
 
 5. Was shewed the vice of quarreling and brawlinge with 
 fighttinge and swearinge, manner of their fighte with sworde 
 and dagger and rapier and dagger. 
 
 6. Was shewed the vayne pastimes of unlawfuU games 
 of dicing and cardinge. 
 
 7. Was shewed dawncinge with aU the toyes therto 
 belonginge. 
 
 8. Was shewed the sinnfuU and horrible acte of theeving 
 and robbinge by the highe wayes, with crueU murthers 
 enswinge sutche deedes, and the cuninge convayinge awaye 
 of himselfe for beinge espyed, with puUinge one his boottes 
 and spurres, and makinge as thoughe hee gotte upon his • 
 horse to escape or ryde awaye. 
 
 9. Was shewed the crafte of shewmakers, with the manner 
 of sowinge and beatinge'^ of their shwes. 
 
 10. Was shewed the abuse of violes and other instrumentes. 
 
 11. Was shewed the filthye and horrible sinnes of whordome, 
 both of the woman and the man. 
 
 12. Was shewd the deadlye sinnes of pride, shewinge their 
 sterched ruflfes and rebaters, with the manner of clappinge 
 them and settinge them, with the settinge stycke of there 
 farthingales and hewgnes of their friselled heare, the lengthe 
 of their buskes, shewinge with their handes the lengthe of 
 theim from the breste to the loweste parte, the openinge of 
 theire breste, and beholding them seKes in the glasse, and yf 
 anythinge weare amisse, then as yt weare to amende yt ; 
 their neclasses, chaynes, ringes, shewinge the manner of 
 them by actions befyttinge sutche shewes, with the bringinge 
 up of ruffes and cuffes. 
 
 1 These memoranda are connected with the imposture played by 
 William Sormners upon John Darrel, the exorcist, which excited great interest 
 at the time and led to legal proceedings and a war of pamphlets. See Diet, 
 of Nat. Biography, xiv, p. 67, and John Blackner, History of Nottingham, 
 1815, p. 364 (abridging Dr Hutchinson's Historical Essay concerning Witch- 
 craft, Bury St. Edmunds, 1718). 
 
 8 That is ' mending, ' from O.E. betcm. 
 
166 
 
 13. Was shewed the abuse of longe heare lyinge upon 
 their shoulders, and the pryde and glorie they tooke in 
 wearinge of yt, the abuse of barbars, with their trickes in 
 clappinge and showinge and tryminge up of the heare of the 
 upper lippe, and twyrlinge the lyttle pycke under the lippe, 
 and strokinge the longe and broade bearde, with castinge 
 of sweete water, and the delighte he tooke in smeUinge at 
 yt with drawing up his brethe at his nose, and the annointinge 
 of the eyebrees with the sweete balle, and the lookeinge in 
 the glasse to amende the loose and stragUnge hears with 
 pickinge of the hears oute of the nose, and dressinge the 
 eares, with other. 
 
 14. Was shewed the sluggeshnes when we come to the 
 churche, howe faynedly we take the booke to looke upon yt, 
 and straightewaye faule asleep, with snoringe and snurtinge, 
 and then agen makinge as though we wolde geve attentyve 
 heede, yeet straightewaye faules asleepe agen, with shewes 
 of snortinge and snoringe so lowde as yt was harde of the 
 beholders. 
 
 15. Seeminge to awake oute of sleepe, he said " God be 
 thanked ! " in a scoffinge sorte, " Lorde, increase my faithe ! " 
 Then sayd the minister, Mr. DarreU, " Looke upon me chere- 
 fullye, William." And when he begane to looke upon the 
 minister, replyed : "I feare yt be not WilHam that 
 speaketh." Then the possessed fell owte into a greate lawghter 
 that hee hade thoughte he had deceaved the minister. 
 
 16. Was shewed the deadlye sinne of drunckennes, with 
 their quaffinge and caroosinge, the fruites that came thereof, 
 as brawlinge, fightinge, and kyllinge, and their contynuinge 
 in their drunckennes tyUe they vomyted and staggerd and 
 spued, and in the ende fallinge downe to shewe that they 
 muste needes sleepe after that beastlie acte. 
 
 17. Was shewed the sinne of gluttonye, sett downe by 
 his eatinge so mutche that he fell of spuinge and vomyting 
 after yt. 
 
 18. Was shewed also, as the comon sorte judge by his 
 writinge, the horrible and spitefull lybeles that have byn cast 
 abroad in this towne of Nottingham. 
 
 19. Was shewed the pride in corckeshewes, showinge first 
 his foote the fynesse of yt, and measuringe by his handes 
 howe hye the corcke of the heele eomonly ys used, and lyke 
 wise the use of wearing of the hose ungarthered and the 
 bottes in wrinckles. 
 
 20. Was shewed the slighty in pickinge of pursses, with 
 puttinge the one hand into the other so sleely as though he 
 woulde not be espyed, and when he had picked the money 
 oute of the pursse, then dyd he put yt secretlye into his 
 mouth, and when he should be pursued, then wolde he shewe 
 his pocket as yf he should saye " Serche mee my dublet and 
 all partes aboute mee," and shewe yt more lyvely then any 
 cutpursse or pyke-purse in the wourlde coulde shewe yt, 
 
167 
 
 with fayned lookes as thoughe he would crye and lament for 
 greefe that he shoulde be chardged wrongfuUye, heavinge 
 up his handes to heaven in wyttnes that he had no money 
 aboute him, but when they were gone rejoyced as yf he were 
 glade that he had so escaped. 
 
 21. Was shewed the arte of the pursse-cutters, howe 
 nimblye he coulde dooe the deede and with what agihtie, but 
 in the ende he shewed he broughte them all to the gaUowes. 
 
 22. Was shewed burglarye as breakeing of howses, wyn- 
 dowes, wals, and other places to gett in to steale and then 
 to hide what he hade stolne, and in the ende to hyde himselfe 
 as beinge afreayde to be cawghte. 
 
 23. Was shewed the sinne of covetousnes by scraping 
 togeather with his handes and hydeinge the same in the 
 earthe, but afterwardes beinge provoked, he made as thoughe 
 he fetchte jt from the earthe, and put yt into his pocket, 
 and afterwardes wente roundlye to the dyce, and in the ende 
 lost all that he tooke, and afterwardes returninge to his whorde 
 [=hoard] agen, tooke as before for the maintenaunce of his 
 playe, but throughe harde fortune loste all, and then fell 
 into greate sorrowe, as yt weare cursinge and baninge himselfe 
 for the losse of his money. 
 
 24. He shewed the drawinge of the bowe; and righte 
 stroke of the drum. 
 
 The possessed beinge deafe, dum, and blinde all the whill 
 hee played theis tryckes." 24, 
 
 1598, March 31.—" Sutton Coldefild.— A HaU holdon the 
 laste daye of Marche, anno regni regince Elisabethce xl'^". 
 
 * Symon Veysey, gent., Warden. 
 
 * George Pudsey, arm. 
 
 * Thomas Gybons, arm. 
 
 * RaphaeU Massey, gent. 
 
 * RaphaeU Symondes, gent. 
 
 * RaphaeU Sedgwycke, gent. 
 
 * WyUiam Gybbons, gent. 
 WyUiam Hauxford, gent. 
 
 * George Heathe, gent. 
 
 * Jhon Blackeham, gent. 
 
 * Richard Barlowe. 
 
 * Jhon Tumor. 
 Jhon HaU, absent. 
 WyUiam Sheppard. 
 
 * Henry Sherratt. 
 
 * Thomas Yardley. 
 
 * Kenelme Yardley. 
 Thomas Brookes, absent. 
 Henry Turnor, absent. 
 
 * Jhon Heathe, gent. 
 
 * Rychard Sharpe. 
 
 * Thomas Taylor. 
 Robarte Fylde. 
 
168 
 
 * Henry Sedgwycke. 
 E.a£Ee Cowper. 
 All these that^ are pricked, beynge xviij. in noumbre, have 
 consentid that yf Mr. Per[cival] WyUughbye, esquyer. can 
 procure the good wyU of the most parte of the free holders, 
 that then hit shalbe leafull for hym to make too, three, fore, 
 or fyve pole heades (so that he make not the water to reatche 
 to Tomworthe waye) in Swarsdale, paynge for every heade 
 vjs. viijd." 236. 
 
 1598, August 7. — List of members of the household [at 
 Wollaton]. 
 
 " A Checkrolle of the number of persones in houshold the 
 7 of Auguste, 1598. 
 My M[aste]r. 
 My M[est]res. 
 Mres. Theadoce. 
 Mr. Thomas. 
 
 Mr. Edward WiUughby. 
 Mres. WiUughby. 
 Mres. Elezebeth WiUughby 
 Mr. Harry WiUughby. 
 
 Mres. Margry Shelton. 
 Mres. WiUughbe's mayde. 
 
 Mr. Doctar. 
 
 Mr. Rugley. 
 
 Mr. Bettnam. 
 
 Mr. Farren. 
 
 Mr. Broune. 
 
 Artor. 
 
 Gorge Tewoke. 
 
 Edward Beaman. 
 
 Wattares : 
 
 Edward MeadcaUe. 
 John Jackson, 
 WiUiam Tumor. 
 John Robarts. 
 John Smaly. 
 Richard Goldsmyth. 
 Antony. 
 Old Bassett. 
 
 In the Buttre : 
 
 Lancaster Gebones. 
 
 thar, MS. 
 
169 
 
 In the Ketchen : 
 Robert Redhyll. 
 Richard Vohone. 
 
 Symon Setter, the Slaughter man. 
 The Ketchen boye. 
 
 In the Brewhouse : 
 BeUper. 
 Frances Becke. 
 
 In the Stable : 
 
 Olever Perckenes. 
 Edward Edney. 
 
 Edward Hancockes, the gardener 
 Nichlas Boldon, the myUer. 
 Richard the Fawckner. 
 Deffe Thorn. 
 Homfrey Right. 
 Thomas HyU [cancelled]. 
 
 In the Dayre House, iij. maydes. 
 
 Mr. Ed. Willughby his man. 
 Mr. Doctare his boye. 
 Total number is 46 persones." * 236 
 
 1598 [wrongly written 1698]. — Statement of the charge 
 receipt, and delivery of coals at Wollaton week by week from 
 October [1597] to October [1598]. "The wholl gettes this 
 yere 13264 rookes^, 1 quarter. The wholl sale and deliverie 
 to aU persons, railes, and bridges : 13271 rookes, 2 quarters. 
 Particular receiptes of money from Gainsborow, Newarke, and 
 the Bridges tMs yere : from Gainsborow ll. 3s. ; from 
 Newark, 135Z. 19«. ; from the Bridges, 381. 13s. 3d. The 
 totaU charge is 2,977?. 6s. Id. The totaU receipt is 
 2,696Z. Is. 6d. . . ." 24. 
 
 Circa 1600. — A map of Gibsmere, Bleasby, and Gorton, co. 
 Nottingham, on paper. 169. 
 
 [c. 1600.] — Rules to be observed by miners in the coalpits. 
 " The stevers' (sic) charges. 
 
 This is our master's comandment that all you stovers of 
 the feild shaUe make your just acount unto your undermen 
 everye nowne and every nyght what you have gett and sould. 
 For every tyme that you do mys, you must losse iijs. iiijd. 
 
 And for every bourdenne of coUes that you do sowfer to 
 be borne from the feild, you must losse xij^. 
 
 I A definition of a ' rooke ' is given at p. 175, below. Cf. also the 
 report on the MSS. of the Duke of RvMand, iv., p. 484. 
 
170 
 
 And for everye bordenne of wood the like xijti. 
 
 And that you shale make just messeures betwene the 
 lord and the countre, to make to every halfe rooke^ ix. cor- 
 fulle/ and to every three quarters xiij. cor-fuUe, and to every 
 whole rooke xviij. cor-fuU of just and good messeure without 
 fraud, deseate or guile, as you will answere at your perUle. 
 
 And if aney one be takene with aney of the pit candels 
 bearjnge whome to his house, iijs. m]d. 
 
 And if ane one be takene withe ane of the pit towles 
 [=:tools] in his howse, to losse iijs. vi]d. 
 
 And if aney one be taken cuttinge of aney of the pit rowpes 
 or withe aney in his howse. to lowse vjs. Yn]d. 
 
 And if aney one be taken knotinge^ in of ane worke, it is 
 fellonie ; the must b[e] used at the lordes plesure. 
 
 And for every of these defaultes whosoever he is, it must 
 be taken up of his wages the next Seterday after. 
 
 More, if aney mann do take ane of the lordes money 
 without the comand of him or his offe[ce]res, to losse xs.. 
 and so to departte the towne and the feyld." 24. 
 
 1600, May 14, Mansfield. — Moktagu Wood "to the wor- 
 shipful! my approved good sister-in-lawe, Mrs. Abigall 
 WiLLUGHBY at Sutton Cofilde," complaining of the evil 
 behaviour of her sister Frances, "who hathe acquainted 
 herselfe with a coople of gentlemen, both strangers to her 
 before now and to me, bothe unmarried men and of notorious 
 fame, and hathe yelded soe mutche to her pleasures as she 
 hathe not refused to goo to taverns to sitt with them." 
 
 1600, July 11, Mansfield. — Same to same, on the same 
 subject. 
 
 1604, February 22. — Contemporary copy of petition to the 
 king from Capt. William Wasshebourne, " late one of your 
 Majesties pentioners of Barwicke," being the farmer of a 
 fair to the held yearly on November 11 at Lenton, co. 
 Nottingham, at a yearly rent of 26K. 13s. id. due to the 
 exchequer, praying that, whereas the king by letters from 
 the Council ordered that the said fair should not be held 
 " for the avoydinge suche daunger of infection as might ensue 
 by the concourse of Londoners and other subjectes to the 
 said faier," which order was executed by the petitioner. 
 " readie to prostrate at yoiu' Majesties feete bothe lyfe and 
 Jivinge," nevertheless he, long before he had received such 
 order, had repaired thither, being 220 miles from his habi- 
 tation, and had made ready his booths and other necessaries, 
 at the cost of [blank], besides the loss of the profit of the fair, 
 which was his principal means and stay of living, and has 
 paid into the exchequer the said rent, for which he has 
 
 1 Soo page 109, note 1, above. 
 
 2 The contents of a ' corf ' or mining basliet. See New English 
 Dictionary, s.v. ' Corf,' 2. 
 
 3 ' Knocking,' beating down ? 
 
171 
 
 received no benefit ; he therefore prays that the king will, 
 in recompense for his loss, grant him another fair to be held 
 there yearly upon the Monday in Whitsun Week, at a yearly 
 rent of [blank]. 
 
 The king directs the Attorney- General to cause a writ of 
 ad quod damnum to be granted, and if it be found that the 
 proposed fair is beneficial to the country, he is to draw up a 
 book accordingly for the king's signature. 38. 
 
 [c. 1605.] — " Proposals for carrying coal [from Nottingham] 
 to London by sea via Hull and for supplying the king 
 therewith. 
 
 " In prymes, to deUiver all the coalles beneath the bridge 
 out of the shipp into the lighteares, and theare to be dis- 
 charged of them. 
 
 Item, I desyear to be freed of coUemettinge^ or any othear 
 charge to be imposed uppon the feweUe, or the shipp that 
 bringes the same. 
 
 Item, that the customars at HoUe nor hear [at] London 
 shall not have anything to doe for any cocate^ for the coalles. 
 
 Item, that I may be sartaine whear I may fynd a mane to 
 receive the coalles when they doe come, that the shipp be 
 not forced to stay at thear charge, and to take the wayghte 
 of the said colles. 
 
 Item, that thear might be ordear takene that we may have 
 presente paymente out of the custome house for all the 
 coaUes that we shall dellivear unto His Majesties ofEecer 
 appointed for the receapte of them soe sowne as they be 
 dellivered. 
 
 Item, that it may please His Majestic to geave ordear that 
 noe mane whatsoever shall make any warre^, bredges or any 
 othear ingeine uppone the river of Trente betwene Notingame 
 Bredges and Mamame* ferry that may distorbe mee in 
 bringinge downe of the said coaUes. 
 
 Alsoe, yf any sand-bead or gravell shall happen to grow 
 in the sayd river of Trente in any parte betwene Notingame 
 Bredges and Marname ferry, that uppone complainte maid 
 unto the lord of that ground whear any such sand-bead or 
 gravell shall heppen {sic) to growe that it myght be 
 presently amended that the boates may have four foote watter 
 to passe, to the end that the cominge downe of the coalles 
 bee not theareby hindered, ortherwayes (sic) the river may 
 be stoped that we shall have noe meanes for wante of watter 
 be (sic) able to bringe downe the coalles to searve His 
 Majestic. 
 
 Alsoe, yf it shall happene, and the kinges Majestic sear- 
 vysse shall soe requier, that yt may be lawful! for Hugh 
 Lentone to take any othear boates to bring the coalles, 
 
 1 A charge for measuring coal 
 
 2 Cocket, or warrant. 
 
 3 
 
 weir. 
 
 * Marnham, co. Notts. 
 
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 payinge them as formarly hath bine accustomed from 
 
 Notmgame Bridge unto Gajmsseborowe. 
 
 The prysses of all the coaUes from Notingame to Londone, 
 
 with all charges as foUoweth : 
 
 The first price at Notingame Bredge is vjs., 
 besydes I keepe two sarvantes, which hath SOU. 
 a yeare, to receive the coalles and dellivear 
 them, besydes the rente of my wharfle and 
 warrehouse 20li. a yeare theare . . . . vjs. m]d. 
 
 For the carredge of everie tonne from Notingame 
 
 Bredge to Gaynseborow . . . . . . n]s. 
 
 The charges uppone everie tone at Gaynseborowe 
 is Gd., which is for . . . roome and ware- 
 house and sarvantes wages theare . . . . vjd. 
 
 Prom Gaynseborowe they are carried in keeleg^ 
 to Hull, which cost 2s. uppone everie tone for 
 shippinge of them, 4d. which they wast in 
 everie place . . . . . . . . . . ijs. iiijc?. 
 
 From Hull to Londone the ordinary rate uppone 
 
 everie tonne is viijs., and soe hath usually bine viijs. 
 
 . . Some aU : xxs. ijd." 24. 
 
 1609, June 15. — ^Articles of agreement between Sir Percival 
 WiUoughby, knight, and Robert Fosbrooke, of Trent 
 Bridges, within the county of the town of Nottingham, 
 yeoman, "his poore servant." Sir Percival covenants to set, 
 stack, or " rooke " yearly, during the ensuing seven years, 
 " at Wollerton lane end at the new rayles end " 3,000 
 " rookes " of new drawn and for the most part hard coals, 
 well and sufficiently stacked or " rooked," by the measure 
 now used at the Strelley pits, and of StreUey or Wollerton 
 coals, to be stacked to the number of seventy " rookes " 
 weekly, so that the carriage of Fosbrooke shall have weekly 
 such number there in readiness to fetch and carry away thence 
 to the Trent Bridges.^ Sir Percival is to erect by Christmas 
 next two " bayes of building " for one to dwell in, and to 
 appoint one to see to the safe-keeping of the coals at the 
 rail end. Sir Percival is to assign sufficient house-room, 
 barns, and stable room to Fosbrooke for laying in of his hay 
 and dry keeping of his cattle kept for the carriage of the coals, 
 in a suitable place within the lordship of WoUerton. Sir 
 Percival agrees to let to Fosbrooke the land in WoUerton now 
 in the occupation of Samuel Bishop for the term aforesaid 
 Sir Percival also agrees to let to Fosbrooke for the said 
 term " all those the barges, boates, or keeles " now or late 
 in the possession or use of Sir Percival and Himtingdon 
 Beaumont, esquire, which they lately bought of John Bate, 
 of London, merchant. Sir Percival also agrees to grant to 
 Fosbrooke the dwelling-house of the said Fosbrooke and aU 
 the grounds, etc., about the Bridges, which Sir Percival lately 
 
 1 barges. 
 
 2 At Nottingham. 
 
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 took to ferm of John Bate, and also another houae at Newark 
 where the coals are now laid. 
 
 Fosbrooke agrees to fetch the coal from the lane end at 
 the rate of 3,000 rookes yearly during the said term, and to 
 convey them thence to the Trent Bridge to the coalyard, 
 and to sell them there or by water, and to pay for the same 
 to Sir Percival five shillings and sixpence for every rooke, and 
 to pay lOOli. beforehand. Fosbrooke is to maintain the 
 boats in good repair, except the keele that John Jervys works 
 and " the Bartholemew." 
 
 " The names of the boates belonging to Sir Percivall : 
 The John ; The Wilham ; The Constance ; The Anne ; 
 The Trinitie ; The Grace of God ; The Speedwell ; The 
 Bartholmew ; the keele in John Jervis' hands ; The Henry 
 Maria." 24. 
 
 1609, Sept. 20. — Lease for 21 years from Henry Handley, 
 of Brampcote, co. Nottingham, gent., to Sir Percival 
 Willoughbie, of WoUaton, co. Nottingham, knt., of " all the 
 cooles, colemynes, and vejmes and delfes of cooles lyinge 
 and beinge in the wastes, moores, and common groundes " 
 of the said Henry in Brampcote, with ingress and egress to 
 and from the said wastes, etc., " there to search for and get 
 cooles and to digg, delve and make pitt and pittes, soughe 
 and soughes for the gettinge of cooles there, and wood and 
 timber to be used in or about any pitt or pittes, or other- 
 wise for or aboute the gettinge of cooles to lay in or upon any 
 parte of the premisses, and the cooles there gotten to worke, 
 stacke, and laye in places conveynient within the said wastes, 
 moores, and common groundes," at an annual rent of 205., 
 and upon delivery of four " rookes " of coal annually to the 
 said Henry at WoUaton Pittes or Trowell Pittes, and subject 
 to delivery of 40 " rookes " of coal for every year that he 
 shall get coal from the premises. The lessee is to deliver 
 up at the expiration of the term " such and soe many pitt 
 and pittes open and chandrable^ and fitt for gettinge of cooles 
 therein as shall be wrought and cooles gotten in at any time 
 within three yeares next before th'end and expiracion of the 
 said terme." 24. 
 
 [c. 1610.] — ^An inventor's proposal for improved pumping 
 machine for use in coal-pits. 
 
 " An ingin to be made that shall drawe fifteene tunne of 
 water in one bower's space at one hundred fadam depth, with 
 this heUpe onlye of two able menne ; if the depth be but 
 fiftie fadam, one manne shall draw the haulfe of fifteen tunne 
 of an hower. And for a cleare proofe that this may and 
 win be fully effected, the partie desiring of such an ingin 
 shall have a modell of it made, by which it shall be clearly 
 manifested unto him that it will carrie or dryve the water 
 
 1 In working order ? Not in New English Dictionary 
 
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 to any height whatsoever wheare a pipe may be fixed, below, 
 right up or sloape. 
 
 The works or ingin to be lett downe into the myne or pitt 
 shall not be above three footte square and six footte high, to be 
 taken in peeces and sett together agayne in two bower's tyme. 
 
 Theare is a modell aUredie made of wood, by which it will 
 be made manifeste that the greate frame, no bigger yet then 
 as aforesayed, shall worke the effect above mentioned. 
 
 Theare is demaunded for the greate worke for his device 
 and paynes only one hundred pounds after the ingin is founde 
 to worke the promised effect, conditionally that the inginere 
 may keepe the key of the worke himselfe, only that no other 
 may know the secretes of it ; which after it is fully fynisht, 
 hee will mayntayne at his owne charge, beinge yearly payed 
 fiftye pound at Michellmas and Our Lady Day by equall 
 porcions. 
 
 The charge of the greate worke at first to the partie that 
 will sett the inginer on worke will be fortie pound, the pypes 
 excepted, which are presumed to be in any goinge worke 
 aUredie. 
 
 It is mutche wished and desired that suche an ingein may 
 be scene in worcke, as weU for the good of a (sic) comon 
 wealthe as his benefitt that shaU or can continuwe it. 
 
 But smale modles often fayle and soune prove defective when 
 they cume to worcke upon heavye and continuaU weightes 
 in greater proportions, and a smale weight to be drawne a 
 hundered fadam will growe heavye before it be wrought up 
 and worke many wheeles, which can nott be as it is supposed 
 of any solide contineuaunce, beside many unexpected acci- 
 dentes both for men and frames, which in such a depthe 
 usuaUye and daylye happen. 
 
 Theare are at WoDaton neare Nottingham colle-pitts all- 
 redye suncke, and mutch tyme, charge and traveU imployed 
 in tryinge manye conclusions for raysinge and avoydinge of 
 watter, yett in fiftye yeardes [read yeares] past there is now 
 founde to reste and relye upon the oulde and usuall cheaine 
 pumpe, sutche as ar now used in London to force the Teames 
 water to serve there houses. 
 
 There ar nowe at WoUaton three pitts with cheaine pumpes 
 onlye imployed for drawinge of water, the bore or hoUowe of 
 these piimps ar fower inches over, and all or two in continuaU 
 worke, and the height that the drawe the water is under 
 fifteene fadam, a fair lesse proportion for the depthe in which 
 men may with better ease both accomadate themselves and 
 there frames, wiche will every hower requyre both repayre 
 and attendance. 
 
 Hee that ows these pitts at WoUaton, after the water is 
 gott out and his coUyers have wrought sixe dayes in the 
 workes, wUl weekly pay every Satardaye fortye shiUinges, 
 soe long as the water may be drawne or kept with any ingin 
 whatsoever, that his men may worcke an^ gett coUes. Other 
 worckes and mynes not farr of may daylye mend and increase 
 
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 his profett that can performe such an ingin, and at WoUaton, 
 to further any reasonable project, ther are models to be seene 
 of all the water-workes that are of any worth or valewe in 
 Italye, Garmanye or the Low Contryes. 
 
 [Note at the foot of the page .•] To inquier in Drewry Lane for 
 Mr. Rookes house." 24. 
 
 [c. 1610.] — Propositions from Robert Fosbrooke for the 
 sale of coals, either by himself or in conjunction with Mr. 
 Beamont. " Articles to be performed by Mr. Beamont. 
 For this monye there is expected to be had att the pittes 
 2,608 rookes, 2 quarters of coles, which is after iijs. yid. the 
 rooke, new drawen coales, wherof everie week 60 rookes or 
 more to be delivered. Everie rooke to conteyne in measure 
 2 yeardes one quarter hye, and one yeard square, close 
 stacked. . . Coales to be sold att Newarke for ixs. i\d. the 
 rooke and not above, withowt Mr. Beamont's licence. . ." 24. 
 
 1610, January 20. — Robert Fosbrooke to Sir Percival 
 
 WrLLOTJGHBY. 
 
 " Right worshipful. I have for the most part, with 
 Tsocrates, held ytt better tacere quam loqui. Butt where I 
 am accused, I am forced to mainteyne the contrary, for ytt 
 is an Englishe maxime that silence maketh guiltie. To avoyd 
 the same I must needes speake, and will therfore sale the 
 truthe, for Veritas non querit angulos ; and the rather 
 bycause I perceave your worship nott rashlie credulous, butt 
 as befitteth justice inclined audire alteram partem, for which 
 I praise God, and humbly thanke your worship. In your 
 last lettre to me save one your worship exhibited a compleynt 
 made by Mr. Beaumontes agent agenst Burton Goodwyn 
 and myseKe : of hym for his often absence in his place, of 
 me for making no use of your boates. For Burton Goodwyn's 
 parte I dare avouche, partly by myne owne knowledg, partly 
 by other indifferent men's reportes, that he hath bene and is 
 very carefull to supply his place to his owne creditt, your 
 contentment and according to your reposed trust, and seldom 
 absent butt when any emest occasion either of your's or his 
 owne might provoke hym. To clere myself, I beseeche you 
 lett myne owne report prevaile till further tryall, which I 
 wishe, for I speak nothing butt truthe. After you graunted 
 me your boates, I presentlie traveled one of them to Gains- 
 borough loaden with coales three weekes together, and 
 refraighted with London goodes for Lenton faire, and ever 
 since weeklie to Newark with coales. Th'other boat, being 
 leakye and altogether untackled, save her mast-poll, I was 
 forced to lett stand till theis defectes were supplyed, and 
 in the meane tyme either Hentworth or some of his people 
 did use her to fetche gorse without my consent or knowledg, 
 and soone after she was caste on Newark weare, from whence 
 no help cold gett her of withowt daunger of her hTirt, tiU an 
 hye water came, by which meanes I was both hyndred of 
 
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 her travell to my losse and payd money for help to gett her 
 of agen, and besydes beholden to many, and all this by their 
 meanes, and yett I am compleyned on without cause. And 
 further, Hentworth tooke her mast-poll from her, and used 
 ytt to his owne boates a great while withowt leave, tiU I urged 
 hym to restore ytt. In jSne, Sir, they speake me faire, butt 
 as the proverbe is habent mel in ore el fel in corde. Butt 
 theis wronges male shortly be requited with your worship's 
 leave and pleasure. 
 
 Towching our sale of coles, we have solde more by many 
 then Hentworth hathe. Butt Hentworth male well overgoe 
 us in cariadg of more coles to Newark, bycause he nether 
 payeth for coles nor cariadg till he have sold them, and we 
 paie beforehand, so that we are nott able to have great 
 stackes standing by us for wante of stock^, as he maie. Butt 
 yf ytt pleased your worship to afford us a competent somme 
 of money upon sufficient securitie and for interest, or coles 
 upon securitie to paie for them when we have sold them, then 
 we wold cary more then he can, and can sooner sell them. 
 To which end I beseeche you lett us have your furtheraunce. 
 
 Sir, there is now great hope of infinit store of coles to be 
 gotten att Strelley, as I heare by Burton Goodwyn, and four 
 pittes now going, the getts greatlie exceeding the charges 
 alredy, and Ukly daihe more to increase. The truthe of all 
 which I leave to Bmton Goodwyn to certefie, who better 
 knoweth, for unus oculatus testis valet mille auritos.^ 
 
 Mr. Huntington is to have StreUey agen, paying 3,300K. 
 within one yeare and six moneths next ; his entrance is now. 
 He hopeth of 1,500K. gayne from Bedlington pittes this yeare 
 for his parte, and 500K. from Strelley for his part towardes 
 the payment aforesaid, butt I pray God this adage be nott 
 trew in this case parturiunt monies, nascetur ridiculus 
 
 mus^ 
 
 Your worship's ever at comandement, 
 
 Rob. Fosbr[ooke]. 
 
 [Addressed .•] To the right worshipfull Sir PercivaU 
 Willoughbye, knight, att Carlile Howse in Lambeth Mershe, 
 over agenst Westminster." 24. 
 
 1610, May 1. — Robert Fosbbookb to Sir Percival Wil- 
 
 LOTJGHBY. 
 
 " Right worshipfull. In the beginning of my preparacion 
 for cariadg and purposed imployment of your boates for the 
 furtheraunce of your sale of coles by water, which Mr. Hynd 
 knowes I have indevored to effect in the best manner I yett 
 can, and he with me, I have bene crossed, partly, I feare, of 
 envye and partly of otherwyse. For I was cast in prizon by 
 
 1 Capital. 
 
 2 Plautus, Truoulentua, ii. 6, 8, ' pluris est oculatus testis unus quam 
 auriti decern,' which is quoted by Erasmus, Adagia, Chil. Sec. Centuria 
 Sexta 54. 
 
 3 Horace, Ars Poetica, 139. 
 
177 
 
 Mr. Gyles, one of Mr. Huntingdon Beaumonte's freindes, 
 and within four dayes after John Henworth (I being in 
 prizon) went downe to Newark, and tooke from our men 
 the boat which Mr. Hynd and I had ordered to be wrought 
 in your name. I caused one of them to be brought up to 
 the bridges, meaning presently to imploy her, and John 
 Henworth saith (as I am informed) he will fetche that back 
 agen to Newark and tye her to Mr. Huntingdon Beamonte's 
 yard, — butt that he shall nott, — ^which falleth owt to my 
 great discreditt, hjoidraunce, and the crosse of your wor- 
 ship's appojmtment. ... Sir Thomas Beamont was with 
 me, and in myld manner att the first told me his brother 
 Mr. Huntingdon did greatly compleyne of me, and many 
 for my eviU behaviour in my place, and therfore he was sory 
 to do ytt, butt yett he did wishe me to make provision for 
 some other stay. ... I beseeche you take order with 
 Sir Thomas that we male have libertie to bring coales downe 
 the rayles by wagen, for our caridages onely, and we will 
 bring them downe by raile ourselves, for Strelley cartway 
 
 is so fowle as few cariadges can passe 
 
 Your worship's in all dewtifuU service, ever att comandement 
 
 Rob. Fosbr[ooke]." 
 
 [Addressed to Sir Percival Willoughby at Carhle House 
 in Lambeth Mershe.] 24. 
 
 1614. — ^Papers concerning musters in co. Nottingham. 177. 
 
 1613-14. — " An abstract of this last yeres reckoning for the 
 receipt, deUverie, sale, losse and remainders of coles att the 
 Bridges from the 4th of October last, 1613, till the 3rd of 
 October succeeding, 1614. 
 
 October 4, 1613, the remainder was 122 roo[kes] 2 quarters. 
 
 Receved since 3,145 roo[kes]. 
 
 Delivered to Newark 2,111 roo[kes] 1 quarter. 
 
 Sold 508 roo[kes] 2 quarters. 
 
 Lost 20 roo[kes] 1 quarter. 
 
 October 3, 1614, the remainder was 626 roo[kes] 2 quarters. 
 
 Hereby appereth the former remainder and receipt since 
 to amount to the some of 3,267 roo[kes] 2 quarters. And the 
 deliverie, sale, losse and remainder that now is to be 3,266 
 roo[kes] 2 quarters. Wherby maie be perceived the dif- 
 ference onelie of one rooke in the totall during the wholl 
 yere. 
 
 The sale att the railes for the yeare precedent is 1,600 
 roo[kes] and better. 
 
 The sale att Newark, as I lerne, 2,500 rookes and odd. 
 
 So that the totall sale att the Bridges, railes, and Newark 
 for this yeare past amountes to the some of 4,608 rookes 
 et supra. 
 
 The sale att Strelley I do nott yett know. 
 
 M13 
 
178 
 
 I beseeche your worship — remember to intreat for me for 
 some good part of the upfr[eigh]tes and all the wharfage, till 
 better fortunes fall." 24. 
 
 1614, Sept. 24. — ^Disclaimer by Richard St. George, 
 Norroy King at Arms. 
 
 " A Disclamacion. Endorsed : To the Chief-Constables to 
 see effectually disclaymed in open markett, and to be sett 
 upon the poast to be read by all men, as you will aunswer 
 the contrary at your perill. 
 
 The kinges most excellent Majestie, being desirous that 
 the nobUUty and gentry of this his realme should be pre- 
 served in every degree as aperteyneth as well in honour as in 
 worship, and that every person and persons, bodies poUtique 
 corporeat and others be knowen in their estates and mis- 
 teries without confusion and disorder, hath therefore 
 authorized me Richard St. George, Norroy King of Armes 
 of the north partes of this realme of England, not onely to 
 visitt all the said province to peruse and take knowledge, 
 survay and view all manner of armes, cognisances, creastes, 
 and other like devices, with the notes of the discentes, 
 pedegrees, and mariages of all the nobillity and gentry therein 
 throughout contayned, but allso to reprove, comptroU and 
 make infamous by proclamacion all such as unlawfully and 
 without just authority, vocacion or due calling doe or have 
 done or shall usurp or take upon him or them any name or 
 t3rtle of honour or dignity as Esquyre or Gentleman or other, 
 as by his Highnesses letters patent and commissions under 
 the great scale of England more plainely doth apeare. 
 
 Know ye that I the said R. St. George, Norroy King of 
 Armes, for the accomplishment of his Majesties desjrre, and 
 fiuiiherance of -his service that way, at this present making 
 my survay within the Wapent[akes,] etc., within the County 
 of Nottingham, have found these persons whose names are 
 underwritten presumptuously without good ground or 
 authority to have usurped the name and tj^tle of Gentlemen, 
 contrary to all right and to the most antient custome of this 
 land and the usage of the law of armes, which name and 
 tytle they are by me admonished no more from henceforth 
 to use or take upon them, upon such further payne and perill 
 as by the Earle Marshall of England is to be inflicted. And 
 for that purpose the Shiriffes and Clerkes of the Assises and 
 of the Peace of this County are by me to be admonished to 
 forbeare hereafter to wryte or call them by that name and 
 tytle. Whereof also, as my commission bindeth me, I thought 
 good hereby to advertise all other his Majesties good and 
 loving subjecttes of this County that, as they tender his 
 Highnes pleasure and desyre in this behalf, they from hence- 
 forth shuix and avoyd the lyke and forbeare to use in any 
 wryting or otherwise the addicion of Esquyer or Gentleman, 
 
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 unlesse they be able to stand unto and justefye the same 
 by the law of armes and the law of the realme. 
 
 Given at Nottingham, the xxiiij*^ of September, 1614, 
 under the seale of mine office. 
 
 Rio. St. Gbobgb, 
 
 Norroy King of Armes. 
 ^At Nottngham. 
 Robert Porter, of Byngham. i 
 Thomas Shipman, of Soarington. 
 Hugh Kirchiver, of Orston. 
 Joell Barnard, of East Bridgford. 
 Francis Kilboume, of Stanford. 
 WiUiam Rice, of Coshall. 
 Nicholas Strey, of Beeston. 
 Henry Brock, of Broxtow. 
 Geoffi-ay Brock, of Basford. 
 George Harstaflfe, of Eastwood. 
 Henry Pinnere, of CMUwell. 
 Ralph Somershall, of Mansfield. 
 
 At Newark. 
 George Foxe, [of] Carleton. 
 Henry Mather, of Earleshall. 
 Luke Williamson, of Rolston. 
 George Wise, of the same. 
 WiUiam GiU, of the same. 
 William Sturtevaunt, of Carlton. 
 WiUiam Kjlhmen, of Normanton. 
 John Bristoll, of Maplebeck. 
 WiUiam Sturtevant, of Norwell. 
 Michael Grundy, of Thurgarton. 
 WiUiam Reason, of Skegby. 
 John Truman, of Stoke. 
 WUHam Pocklington, of South Scarle. 
 
 At Retford. 
 Henry BromweU, of North Wheat[ley]. 
 John Boothe, of the same. 
 Phihp CoUy, of West Retford. 
 John Brock, of Bole. 
 Alexander Jessop, of Haydon. 
 Richard Brigges. 
 Charles White, of Sturton. 
 James Bacon, of Wellhaw. 
 George Dunston, of Edwinstow. 
 Roger Nettleship, of Beckingham. 
 Henry Wright, of Egmanton. 
 GUbert Apleby, of Rampton. 
 Thomas Langley, of Wirksop. 
 WiUiam Wood, of Blithe." 24. 
 
 1 The list of those disclaimed at Nottingham is printed, from Harl, 
 MS., at the end of the Visitations of NottinghamsMre, 1569 and 1614, Harleian 
 Society, 1871, p. 190. 
 
180 
 
 [c. 1615], February 8. — Bridget Willotjghby to Sir 
 Percival WiLLorrGHBY, her husband, concerning the behaviour 
 of their daughters. 
 
 " I thought it good to let you understand your dater Storlie 
 cam to me yesterday, and toulde me she did not Uke to put 
 awaye her maids, being as well able to give them wages as 
 she had beene and that she should never have sutche againe, 
 and that she would not put them away for your plesur, and 
 you had given her very hard speeches upon noe occasion, and 
 she meant not to goe to London nor she knowes not how 
 you will loke upon her when she is there, and she is soe gret 
 with Mr. Candishes^ son that she is fullie minded to have 
 him. Your goodwill must be asked in this bisines ; but 
 whether you like it ore noe, it must goe forwards and be a 
 matche. Mr. Masons (sic) djmed here yesterday, and desiered 
 to specke with me, and then desiered my liking in it, for if 
 you woulde loke to the making the assurances it woulde do 
 well, bothe for a present estate and a greter after Mr. 
 Candishes tim. I toulde him it woulde a done he had com 
 to you afore your goinge, and mad you acquainted with his 
 speeches. He assured me my Lord Candishe woulde talke 
 with you in London about it, and assure you what he should 
 have, and he did not thincke but it would be to your likinge, 
 which if it be not, you must presenthe determine what you 
 will doe, for her (sic) is everie day sending to her, and she 
 going thether, and to dayes agoe he cam hether for her with 
 my Ladies carrouche^ and four fotemen to attend her, besides 
 horsemen. But my Ladies horses toke a flinging while the 
 stayd for your dater's triming, and brocke my Ladies caroche,^ 
 overthrew the man, and to of the horses rane to Nottinggam, 
 and to the [were] catched in the connyber^ with mutche adoe. 
 Yet this visious gentlewoman with like maide went forwarde 
 afote, and ther staid teU darke night, and then cam hether 
 againe in another carroche with my Ladies gentlewemen and 
 grete atendance. And it were not amise if you coulde spare 
 som to dayes to com downe and safe all om- credites, which 
 she hath lost, and it may be you may in presence mend that, 
 or save that, which otherwise never wiH be. And now you 
 may beleeve her maide will not away tell she have mad her 
 profit by her, and your daugheter Mynors went from hence 
 with a good doble fomytur, which I thought should a carryed 
 her whom, but I here sence she was bravelie furnytured and 
 set upone a stone horse single, and one was faine to lead him 
 by the hed and finely clokeed (sic) and savegarded, yet she saide 
 she had not halfe those thinges she sent for, and exspectes 
 mutche to be sent her. And now Nottinggam begines to 
 talke one him, and it were not a mise they that have taken 
 
 1 Cavendish. 
 
 2 Coach. 
 
 3 Rabbit-warren. 
 
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 all this care for her, would now doe so mutch as to com paye 
 the mony he hase borrowed in divers places. 
 
 Grase Yerlies husband Bodd is dead. 
 
 And thus hoping onse to be freede of this fransie company 
 and to be at some beter quyet, I rest, Februarie this 8, 
 
 Yours, B. W. 
 
 Let me here you have receved this letter. 
 
 [Addressed .] To the Right Worshipfull Sir Percivall 
 Wyllughby, knight, neere Lambith at Carlile House give 
 these. Speede." 24. 
 
 [c. 1615], February 11. — Bridget Willotjghby to her hus- 
 band, Sir Percival Willoitghby, concerning the marriage of 
 their daughter with Mr. Cavendish. 
 
 " I have sent you a troncke yesterday by the carriar of 
 Nottinggam, and a rounde basket without a hd with ij. 
 rownds of brawne and iij. toungs in it. Dowting you would 
 be com away afore the carrier had delyvered it makes me 
 remember you that som body may be bed* put them in sowse 
 drincke. For here is grete forwardnes, and you had neede 
 make som hast downe, to know what shall be assured, other- 
 wise they will be maried, and after assurances will com but 
 slow. And now Mr. Mason seemes to perswade your daughter 
 to goe up with me, but her maid, who knows all, saith she 
 dar lay anything she will not, and if it fall out that she will, 
 I am siu:e he wiU com up to with her, and the riding, flawning, 
 roysting, and flortting by the way will be sutche as every 
 ostelor will talke of it. He is every day here and in her 
 chamber, and Mr. Resell and Mr. Mason, and banketes in 
 her chamber. If you can com, make a end of it ; which 
 being done one the soden, you may satife cost, which other- 
 wise she meanes to put one you, for she talkes of many nue 
 gownes which she intends to have of riche stufe. And sence 
 it must be a matche whether we will or noe, methinkes all 
 things considered, it were best ended at Mr. Candyshes house, 
 and it is a good riddance a sutche a gentlewoman, who saithe 
 your harde speeches to her hathe mad her make mor hast 
 then otherwise she woulde have done. If I did know whether 
 you would com or noe, I wold brue som iij. hougheds of here, 
 for her is but v. hougheds left. Februarie the xj. 
 
 Yours, B. W. 
 
 Your daughter Jell is with her mother-in-law. She went 
 a Wensday last. 
 
 [Addressed :] To my lovinge husbande. Sir Percyvall 
 Wyllughby, knight, give thise." 24. 
 
 1615, Jxme 15. — ^Robert Fosbeooke to Sir Pbboival 
 
 WlLLOUGHBY. 
 
 " Sir, as I do nott cease daihe to praie to God for the helthe 
 and happines of your worship and all yours (according to 
 
 i Bidden. 
 
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 my bounden dewtie), so longeth my heart to imbrace those 
 meahes wherby my loyall service might bring wished profittes 
 to your contentment, and give powerfull comfortes to my 
 present weaknes. The hopefull helpes and Ukehe meanes to 
 produce theis effectes (Deo non obstante) are your colemynes 
 and misterie of glassemakinge. God hasten the convoye of 
 them bothe within your lordship of Wollerton, for then I 
 feare nott to you [Deo favente) a pecuniall contentacion, and 
 to your poore servant (dignitate tua jvbente) a competent 
 satisfaccion. Of theis I humbly praie for speedie and good 
 tydinges, and wished progresse. And for th'one, to my 
 comfort, I understand your purposed proceedinges by your 
 clearing of your soughes, which I weeklie frequent, wher by 
 ToU et socios I am informed of the desired succes and eminencie 
 therof . And for th'other att this present there is come downe 
 a proclamacion prohibiting the making of any more glasse 
 with wood ; by the which I conjecture a likelihood of the 
 re-estabhshing of the former comission, and so by consequence 
 a hopefull meane to settle some workes therof within your 
 lordship here, wherof I beseeche you be myndfull, for ytt 
 wilbe for your great good. . . . 
 
 And humbly desiring to heare of your worship whether 
 there be hopefull newes of the glasse-making here, bycause 
 ytt wold comfort me and make me looke to be better pre- 
 pared for the ma[kiag] therof. These fornesses will cost more 
 for building then . . . estimate by muche. Et sic Deus 
 Opt. Max. tuam dignitatem [con]servet incolumem et super- 
 stitem reddat ! 
 
 Your worship's ever att comandement, 
 
 Rob. Fosb[rooke.J 
 
 Post scriptum. — Old Lady Manners is dead." 
 
 Addressed to Sir Percival WiUoughby at CarUle House in 
 Lambeth Marshe. 
 
 This letter refers to the valuation (" extending ") of the 
 coalmiues at the suit of certain merchants, creditors of the 
 Beaumonts, by a jury at Mansfield, and states that " upon 
 the 6 of June was likewise intended an inquisition att the 
 iron-mfiles, butt there beiag no iron in the warehowse, saving 
 a stock thought worth 500K., which lay all upon my Lord 
 of Huntington's grownd, they made there no further adoe, 
 as I thinke bycause first they wiU talke with the erle of 
 Huntington." 24. 
 
 [c. 1615.] — Huntingdon Beaumont [to Sir Pbeoivaij 
 Willoughby]. 
 
 " Good Sir, whereas you write unto me to pay unto Sir Philip 
 40 or 50li., some parte thereof he hath had, and sholde have 
 had all yf I had it, but he seeth plainhe that my receites, as 
 this yeare faUeth out, wiU but pay the weekelie charge, and 
 in verie truthe the coolemines for ought that I can see can 
 
183 
 
 not answere their owne charges. Yet you knowe that I must 
 pay one thousande markes to Sir John and him, besides 
 usurie, which biteth to the verie boone, and the continuall 
 charge of removinge cooles to the bridges, everie loade whereof 
 I doe hier to be done, and pay weekelie the same. Yf you 
 please but to consider theise thinges, you may well thinke 
 that I have much adoe for monie, and so I have as ever I 
 had in my hfe ; neither knowe indeede which way to turne 
 me, our sale beinge so bad as it is. This yeare will prove 
 worse unto us bie one thousande poundes then ever any mortall 
 man cold have imagined, in respect of the unseasonable 
 weather, which hath greatelie diminished our sale, and much 
 encreased our charge, so that as you write unto me that it 
 rayneth continuaUie upon you (which is no small griefe for 
 me to heare), so may I most tndie say that it poureth downe 
 upon me, I feare to the verie drowninge of me. . . . 
 
 I pray you sende for Mr. Bate to come [to] you, and sounde 
 him thoroughlie what they intende, for though Trente be 
 almost continuaUie banke fuU and bootes might goe downe 
 at pleasure, and they mighte have sente downe three or foure 
 hundred poundes worthe of cooles and made us some retome 
 that way, they will doe nothinge at all, not one booote 
 styrrethe or one boote moveth, but lay a heavie loade upon 
 my back, and will not put to their little finger to it to ease 
 the same 
 
 You have fiu-ther written unto me to enter into two thou- 
 sande pounde bounde to Sir John HoUis and to Mr. Zacheverell. 
 . . . You knowe. Sir, that I am alreadie bounde for above 
 three thousande poundes for you, and that yet I could never 
 bie any possible meanes get out of any one bounde that ever 
 I entred into. Thinges have gone so crosse with us both, 
 and yf Mr. Bate doe but faile us in renewinge our boundes 
 in November next (which I much feare), then am I sure to 
 be clapped up too, and then what will become of theise 
 businesses ? I pray you therefore, good Sir, first let us 
 endevour to get out of the old boundes, and then I shalbe 
 readie to enter into new as far as you please, for I doe assure 
 you that I am alreadie so far in boundes aboute theise 
 businesses as were they to begin againe, all the coole-mines 
 in Englande sholde [stand] alone for me before I wold 
 adventure so far for them all. . . . 
 
 Touchinge the wharfe, I can not advise you to deale in it, 
 for here is neither monie, neither knowe we whether ever 
 the busines will come into our handes, but I have acquainted 
 Lenton with all, and yet have no answere. 
 
 And this with my Mndest salutations to yourselfe, to my 
 good ladie, and aU yours, I take my leave. 
 
 Wollaton, the vj. of August. 
 
 Your verie assured lovinge frende, 
 
 Huntingdon Beaumont." 24. 
 
184 
 
 [1617]. — Description of the people and country of Scot- 
 land, and of the reception of James I. in that country.^ 
 
 " First for the country, T must confesse it is too good for 
 those that inhabit it, and too bad for others to be at the 
 charge of conqueringe it. The ayre might be wholesome 
 but for the stinkeinge people that lyve in it, and the ground 
 might be made fruitfull had they witt to manure it. Theire 
 beastes generallye are smale (women only excepted), of which 
 sorte there are noe greater in the world. There is greate 
 stoare of foweU, as foule houses, fowle lynnen, fowle dishes 
 and pottes, fowle trenchers and napkjms, fowle sheetes and 
 shirtes, with which sorte of fowle wee had liked to fare as 
 the children of Israeli did with theire fowle in the wHdemes. 
 They have greate store of fish too and good for those that 
 can eat it rawe, but if it come once into theire hands, it is 
 presently three days oulde. For theire butter and cheese^ 
 I'le not meddle with it att this tyme, nor noe man at anye 
 tyme that loves his lyfe. They have Ukewise greate store 
 of deere, but they are so farre from the places where I have 
 yett beene as I had rather beleeve it then goe to. disprove it : 
 I confesse all the deere I mett with was deere lodgeinge, 
 deare horsemeate, deare tobacco and EngUsh beere. As for 
 fruite, for theire grandam Eve's sake they never planted 
 anye. And for ther trees, had Christ beene betrayed in this 
 countrey, as doubtles he should have beene had he come as 
 a straunger amongest them, Judas had sooner founde the 
 grace of repentaunce then a tree to hang him selfe on. They 
 have many hills wherein they teU men there is much treasure, 
 but they shew none of it. Natvire hath only discovered 
 unto them some mynes of coales to shew to what end shee 
 created them. I see little grasse but in theire pottage, and 
 noe flowers but such as modestye forbidds me name. The 
 thistle was not given them for noughte, for it is the fairest 
 flower in theire garland. The word ' hay ' is heathen 
 Greeke to them, neither man nor beast knows what it 
 meanes. Come is reasonable plentiful! at this tyme, for 
 since they harde of the king's comeinge, it hath beene as 
 unlawfuH for the comon people to eate wheate as it was of 
 old for anye but the priestes to eate of the shoebreade. They 
 
 1 This scathing description of the Scotch was printed under the title of 
 ' ' A perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland. London, 
 printed for J. S. 1659," 12 mo., 21 pp. It is reprinted in the ' Secret History 
 of the Court of James the First,' Edinburgh, 1811, ii. 75, and in Nicholls 
 ' Progresses of King James I.' iii. 338. (From information supplied by 
 Professor Firth.) See also ' Calendar of State Papers, Domestic,' 1623-5, 
 p. 550. The present text is in many cases superior to that already printed, 
 and has the merit of being derived from a contemporary MS., which seems 
 to have been addressed to some Nottinghamshire gentleman, judging from 
 the reference to WallingweUs (page 186, note 1), which puzzled the printers of 
 the 1659 text. The letter is ascribed to Sir Anthony WeUdon, author of the 
 ' ' Court and Character of King James, ' ' and is said to have been written 
 during the king's visit to Scotland in 1617. " The piece having been found 
 wrapped up in one of the records of the Board of Green Cloth, was traced 
 to Sir Anthony Welldon, and led to his dismissal from Court ' ' {Secret History, 
 ii. 75). The passages in brackets are supplied from the printied text. 
 
186 
 
 prayed much for his comeinge, and long fasted for his welfare. * 
 All his followers weere welcome but the guarde ; those they 
 say looke lyke Pharaoh's leane kyne and threatten a dearth 
 where ere they come. They would perswade the footemen 
 that oaten cakes will make them long-winded, and the chil- 
 dren of the Chappell they have brought to eate of them for 
 the maintenaunce of theire voices. They say our cookes are 
 too sawcye, and for groomes and coachmen, they wish them 
 to give theire horses noe worse then they should be contented 
 to eate themselves. They comende the brave mindes of the 
 pentioners and gentlemen of the chamber, who choose rather 
 to goe to tavernes then to be always eateinge of the kinges 
 provision. They likewise comende the yeomen and pages 
 of the buttrye and seller for theire retirednes and silence, in 
 that they will heare twentye knock before they answere one. 
 They perswade the trumpeters that fasteinge is good for men 
 of theire quaUitye, for emptines, say they, causeth winde, 
 and winde makes a trumpet sounde sweetelye. The bringinge 
 of heralds they say was a needeles charge, for they all know 
 his pedegree well enogh, and the herbingers might have beene 
 spared, since the[y] brought so many bedes alonge with them 
 and of twoe evQls, since the lesser is to be chosen, they wishe 
 the bedes may remaine with them and the poore herbingers 
 keepe their places and doe their office as they returne. His 
 hangeinges they Hkewise desire should remaine theire as 
 rehques allwaies to putt them in minde of His Majestie, and 
 they promis to dispence with the woven ymages therein, but 
 for the graven images in his new beautified chappell, they 
 threaten to puU them downe soone after his departure and 
 make of them a burnt offeringe to appease the indignation 
 they imagin is conceived againste them in the brest of the 
 Allmighty for sufferinge such idolatrie to enter their king- 
 dome. The organs, I thinke, will find mercye, because, as 
 they sale, there is some affinity betwixte them and the bagge- 
 pipes. The skipper that brought the singinge men with their 
 papisticall vestmentes complaines that hee hath beene much 
 troubled with a strange singinge in his head ever since they 
 came aboarde his shippe, for remedie whereof the pastor of 
 the parishe hath perswaded him to sell the profaned vessell 
 and distribute the money amongst the faithfull brethren. 
 
 For His Majesties entertainement I must confesse ingen- 
 iously hee was received into the parishe of Edenborrowe, 
 for a cittie I cannot call it, with greate shoutes of joye but 
 noe shewes of charge, for pageantes they hould them idolatrous 
 thinges and not fitt to be used in so reformed a place. From 
 the Castle they gave him some peeces of ordinance, which 
 surely hee gave the Castle since hee was kinge of Englande, 
 and att the entrance of the towne the[y] presented him with 
 a goulden bason, which was carried before him on men's 
 
 1 The printed text here adds " but in the more plainer sense that he 
 might fare the better. ' ' 
 
186 
 
 shoulders to his place, the place, I thinke, indeede from 
 whence it came. They protested that ji Christ had come 
 from heaven, Hee could [not] have beene more wellcome : I 
 beleeve it, for His Majestie came but to sommon them to 
 a Parliament, and Christ would hove sommoned them to 
 judgment, which they love not to heare of. He was conveyed 
 by the yonkers of the towne (which were some C. holbdeeres, 
 deerely shall they rue it, in respect of the charges) to the 
 Crosse, and soe to the High Church, where the onely bell 
 they had stood on tiptoe to behoulde his faire face ; where 
 I must intreate you to spare him for an houre, since I confesse 
 there I left him. 
 
 In the meane time to report the speeches of the people con- 
 cerninge his never sampled intertainement, were to make 
 this discourse too tedious unto you, as the sermon seemed to 
 those that [were] constrained to indure it. After the preach- 
 ment, hee was conducted by the same holbdeeres unto his 
 palace, of the which I forbeare to speake, because it is a place 
 sanctified by his divine Majestie, onely I wishe it had been 
 Wallinge WeUs* for my frendes sakes that waited on him. 
 
 ^To bringe the Major backe to his lodginge, who all this 
 while accompanied His Majestie, were to much to amplifye 
 my storye, because the gentleman lodges three stories high. 
 
 I will onelye breifly and faithfully speake of the people, 
 according to their degrees and quahtyes. 
 
 For the Lordes Spirituall they may well be called soe, for 
 indeede they are neither fishe nor fleshe, but what it shall 
 please their earthly God the Kinge to make them. Obedience 
 they houlde better thenn sacrifice, and therefore they make 
 a mockerye at martyrdome, sayinge that Christ was to dye 
 for them and not they for Him. They wiU rather subscribe 
 then surrender, and rather dispence with smalle thinges then 
 trouble themselves with greate disputacions. They will 
 rather acknowledge the kinge to be there head then want 
 wherewith to pamper their bodies. They have taken greate 
 paines and travaUe to compasse their bishoprickes and they 
 win not lose [them] for a trifle. 
 
 For the poore deacons whose desertes will not lift them up 
 to dignities, aU their study is to disgrace them that have 
 gott the least degree before them, and because they cannot 
 wr3rte bishop, the[y] proclaime they never read of any. The 
 scripture, say they, speakes of deacons and ellders, but not 
 a worde of deanes or bishops ; their discourse is full of 
 detraction, their sermons nothinge but realinge, and theire 
 conclusions either heresie or treason ; for that rehgion they 
 have I confesse it is above my reache, and, God wUlinge, 
 
 1 The printed text reads " better walls," but the reference is to 
 Wallingwells, in the manor of Carlton-in-Lindrick, co. Notts. In 1612 the 
 possessions of Wallingwells priory were held by Humphrey Pype, but Sir 
 Gervase Clifton, who held the manor of Carlton, had also possessions in 
 Wallingwells. See Thoroton, Notts, 466b, 467. 
 
 2 The whole of this paragraph is omitted in the printed text. 
 
187 
 
 I will never stretche for it. They christen without the crosse, 
 marrye without a ringe, receive the sacrament without 
 reverence, dye without repentance, and bury without divine 
 service. They keepe no holydaies nor acknowledge any 
 Sainct but Sainct Andrew, who they said gott that honor 
 by presentinge Christ with an oaten cake after His 40tie 
 daies fast. Tliey saie Ukewise he that translated our English 
 bible was the sonne of some maulster, because hee speakes 
 of a miracle done with barley loaves, whereas they sweare 
 they were oaten cakes, and no other bread of that quantity 
 coiJd have satisfyed so many thowsand people. They use 
 no praier att all, for they saie it is needeles, God knowes their 
 wantes without their pratlinge, and what hee does, hee loves 
 to doe freelye. Their Sabboth daies exercise is preachinge 
 in the mominge, and persecutinge their backbiters after 
 dynner. They goe to church in the forenoone to heare the 
 lawe and to the cragges and mountaines [in the] afternoon 
 to louse them.i "Phey hould their nose yf you talke of 
 b[earbaiting], and they stoppe their eares yf you speake of 
 a plea[y]. Fomicacion they hould but a pastime, wherein 
 man's abihtye is aproved and the act[iv]itye or fertilitye of 
 women discovered. Adultery they [shake their heads at]. Theft 
 they reale att, murder they wincke at and blassphemy they 
 laugh att. [They think it impossible to lose the way to 
 Heaven if they can but leave Rome behind them.]" 24. 
 
 1618. — Papers concerning musters in co. Nottingham. 177. 
 
 1618. — Portion of a news-letter, giving an account of 
 the proceedings in Spain on the return of Gondomar from 
 his embassy to England. The letter is rather carelessly 
 copied, and has clearly not been compared with original 
 before being despatched. 
 
 " Newes from Spaine. 
 
 His CathoUque Magestie had given commandement presently 
 upone the retoume of Seignior Gondomar, his Leiger 
 Embassador from England^ (1618) [to holde] a speciall 
 metting of all the princip[all] states of Spaine whoe where 
 of his counsell, together with the presidents of the counsell 
 of CastUie, of Arragon, of Italy, of Portugal!, of the 
 Indies, of the Treasure of warre, and especially of the 
 Holy Inquisition should be held att Mawson" in Arragon, the 
 Duke of Lerma'* being apoynted President, who should make 
 declaration of His Magistie's pleasure, take accompt of the 
 
 1 ' ' themselves, ' ' printed text. 
 
 2 Sarmiento, created Count of Gondomar in April, 1617, left London 
 for Spain on 16 July, 1618, and set out on his return journey on 21 Novem- 
 ber, 1619 (Gardiner, Prince Charles and the Spanish Match, i., pp. 135, 301). 
 
 ^ An error for Manson, i.e., Manchones ? 
 
 * The power of the Duke of Lerma, the favourite and Prime Minister 
 of Philip III., came to an end in October, 1618 (Mariana, Historia de Eapaha, 
 lib. xvi., p. 621). 
 
188 
 
 Embassador's service, and consult longeing the estate and 
 religion respectively, to give satisfaction to His Holines Nuntio, 
 who was desired to make one in this assembly concerning 
 certayne overtures of peace and amyty with the English and 
 other CathoHque projects which . might ingender susspicion 
 and jelousie betwixt the pope and His Magestie if the mistery 
 were not unfolded and the ground of those counseUs dis- 
 covered afore hand. 
 
 This made aU men expect the embassador's return with a 
 kind of longing that they might behold the issue of this meeting 
 and see what good for the cathoUque cause the embassador's 
 imployment had effected in England answerable to the 
 general! opinion conceeved of his wisdome, and what further 
 project would be sett on foote to become matter for pubUque 
 discourse. 
 
 At lenght he arived and had present notice given him from 
 his Magistie that before he came to court he should give up 
 his accompt to this assembly, which command he gladly 
 receeved as an ernest of his acceaptable service, and gave 
 thanks that for his honour he might pubHsh himselfe in soe 
 juditious a presence. 
 
 He came first upone the daye apointed to the counseU 
 chamber (except the secratarye) not long after all the counsell 
 of state and the presidents meet ; ther wanted only the Duke 
 of Lerma and the pope's Nuntio, who were the head and 
 feete of all the assembly. These two stayed long away 
 for divers respects, the [Nuntio] that he might expresse the 
 greatnes of his Master and loose the sea of Rome noe respect 
 by his oversight, but that the benches might be full to 
 observe him at his aproache, the Duke of Lerma, to 
 expresse the authority and dignity of his owne persone, and 
 to shewe how a servant put in place of his master exacts 
 more service of his fellow-servants then the master himseKe. 
 These two stayed tell aU the rest were wery of wayting, but 
 at lenght the Nuntio, supposing all the counseU sett, lanched 
 forth and came to road in the councell chamber, where (after 
 mutuaU dischard[ge] of duty from the company and blessing 
 upon itt from him) he sate downe in solempne silence, greiving 
 att his oversight when he saw the Duke of Lerma absente, 
 with whome he strove as a competitor for pompe and glory. 
 
 The Duke had sente before and understood of the Nuntio's 
 being there, and stayed something the longer that his boldnes 
 might be observed, wherin he had his desire, for the Nuntio 
 having a while patiently driven away the time with several! 
 complements to several! persormes, had now allmost runne 
 his cour[t]ship out of breath, but the Duke of Villa Hermosa, 
 president of the counsell of Arragon, fead his humor by 
 the discharg of his owne disconten[t]ments upon occasion 
 of the Duke of Lerma his absence, and beckoned Seignior 
 Gondomar to him, using this speach in the hearing of the 
 
 1 or, MS. 
 
189 
 
 Nuntio after a sporting manner : ' How unhappy are the 
 people were you have bene, first for ther soules, being 
 heriticka, then for their estats, where the name of a favorite 
 is soe famiUor. How happy is our estate, where the kies of 
 Ufe and death are soe easily come by (pojmting at the 
 Nuntio), hanging att every rehgious girdle, and where the 
 doore of justice and mercy stand equally open to all men, 
 without any respect of personnes.' The embassador knew 
 this ironicall stroke to be intended as a by blowe at the 
 Nuntio, but fully att the Duke of Lerma (whose greatnes 
 beganne now to waxe heavy towards declension), and ther- 
 fore he retourned this answere : ' Your excellency knoweth 
 the estate is happie where wisse (sic) favorits governe kings, 
 if the kings themselves be foolish, or where wise kings are 
 who, having favorits, whether foolish or of the wisser 
 sorte, will not be governed by them. The state of England, 
 howsoever you heare of it in Spajme or Rome, is two happy 
 in the last kinde. They nead not much care what the 
 favorits be (though ^ for the most part he be such as prevents 
 all susspicion in that kinde, being rather chossen as a schoUer 
 to be taught and trayned up then as a tutor to teach). Of 
 this they are sure, noe prince exceads theirs in personall 
 abihtys, soe that nothing could be added to him in any wish^ 
 but this one that he were our vassaile and a cathohque.' 
 
 With that the noyse without gave notice of the Duke of 
 Lermaes enterance, at whose first approch the whole house 
 arose, though some latter then other as [if] envy had hung 
 plummitts one them to keepe them downe. The Nuntio 
 onely sat unmoved. The Duke cherished the observance of 
 the rest with a famiher kind of cariag to hie for curtesie, as 
 one not neglecting ther demeners but expecting it, and after 
 a fiUicoU [for filial] obeysance to the pope his Nuntio, sat 
 downe as president under the cloth of state but somewhat 
 lower. Then, after a space given for admiration, preparation, 
 and attention, he beganne to speake in this maner : ' The 
 king my master, holding it more honorable to doe then to 
 discourse, to take from you the expectation of oratory, used 
 rather in schoUs and puUpitts then in counsells, hath apointed 
 me president in this holy, wise, learned and noble assembly ; 
 a man naturally of a slow speach and not desirous to quicken 
 it by art or industry, as holding action only proper to a 
 Spaynard, as I am by birth, to a souldier, as I am by pro- 
 fession, to a kinge, as I am by representation. Take this, 
 therefore, breefly for declaration, both of the cause of this 
 meeting and my master his further pleasure. There hath 
 benne in all tymes from the world's foundation one cheefe 
 commander or monarch upon the earth ; this neads no further 
 proofe then a back-looking into our owne memorys and 
 historys of the world, nether now is ther any question (except 
 
 1 thought, MS. So throughout. 
 
 2 'wise.' 
 
190 
 
 with infidells and hereticks) of that one cheefe commander 
 in speritualls, in the unity of whose person the members of 
 the visible church are included. But ther is some doubt 
 of the cheefe comander in temperalls, who (as the moone to 
 the sunne) might goveme by night as this by day, and by 
 the sword of justice compelle to come in, or cutt of such as 
 infring the authorytie of the keyes. This hath bene soe well 
 understood long sence by the infalible chaire as that therby 
 upon the declension of the Roman emperors and [the] increase 
 of Rome's sperituall splendor (who (sic) though it [is] unnaturall 
 that the sunne should be sublunorye) our nation was by the 
 bishop of Rome selected before other peoples to conquer and 
 rule the nationes with a rodd of iron. And our king to that 
 end adorned with the title of catholique kinge, as a name 
 above all names under the suime, which is under God's vicar- 
 generall himselfe, the catholique bishopp of soules. To instant 
 this poynt by comparasone, looke first upon the Grand Seignior, 
 the great Turke, who hath a larg title but not universall, 
 for besids that he is an infidle, his command is confined within 
 his owne territoryes, and he [is] stUed not emperour of the 
 world but of the Turks and ther vassails only. Among Cris- 
 tians the Defender of the Faith was a glorious stile whilest 
 the king to whom it was given by His Holines continued 
 worthy of it, but he stood not in the truth, nether yet those 
 that succeeded him, and besids it was no great thing to be 
 called what every Cristian ought to be ' defender of the faith ' ; 
 no more then to be stiled with France ' the Most Christian 
 King,' wherin he hath the greatest part of his title common 
 with most Cristians. The emperour of Russia, Rome, and 
 Jermany extend not their Umitts further then their title, 
 which are locall. Onely my master, the Most Cathohque King, 
 is for dominion of bodys as the universall bishop for dominion 
 of soules over all that part of the world we call America 
 (except where the Enghsh intruders usurp) and the greatest 
 part of Europe, with some part of Asia and Africa by actuall 
 possession, and over all the rest by reaU and indubitable 
 right, yet acknowledgeth this right to be derived from the 
 free and fatherly donation of His Holines, who, as the sunn 
 to the moone, lends luster by the refiection to this kingdome, 
 to this king, to this king of kmgs my master. What, therefore, 
 he hath, howsoever gotten, he may keep and hold ; what 
 he can gett from any other king or comander by any strata- 
 geme of warr or pretence of peace [he may take], for it is 
 theirs only by usurpation, except they hold it of him 
 from whome aU civill power is derived as ecclesiasticaU from 
 His Holines. What the ignorant call treason, if it be one 
 his behalfe is truth, and what they call truth, if it be against 
 him is treason. And thus all our peace, our warre, our trea- 
 tises, our mariages, and whatsoever intendment else of ours 
 ames at this principal! end, to gett the whole possession of 
 the world and to reduce all to unity under one^temperaU head 
 
 1 our, MS. 
 
191 
 
 that our king may be what he is stiled, the catholique and 
 
 universall king. As faith ia therefore universall and the 
 
 church universall, yet soe as it is under one head, the Pope, 
 
 whose seat is and [must] necessarily be at Rome, where St. 
 
 Peter sate, soe must all men be subject to our and the 
 
 catholique king, whose particular seat is heare in Spayne, his 
 
 universall everywhere. This poynt of state, or^ rather 
 
 of fayth, wee see the Roman catholique rehgion hath taught 
 
 everywhere and all most maid naturall, soe that by a keye 
 
 of gold, by intelligence, or by way of confession my master 
 
 is able to unlocke the secretes of every prince, and to 
 
 withdrawe the[ir] subjects aUegance, as if they Imew themselves 
 
 rather my master his subjects in truth then theirs whom 
 
 ther birth hath taught to miscall soveraine. Wee see this 
 
 in France and in England especially, where at once they 
 
 leame to obey the church of Rome as their mother, to 
 
 acknowledge the^ cathohque king as their father and to hate 
 
 their owne king as an heritique and an usurper. Soe we 
 
 see religion and the state coupled together, laugh and weepe, 
 
 florish and fade, and participate of ether's fortune as growing 
 
 upone one stocke of policy. I speake this the more boldly 
 
 in this presence because I speake before none but native 
 
 personnes, who are partakers both in themselves and issues 
 
 of these triumphs above all those of ancient Rome, and 
 
 therfore such (as besids their oathes) it concernes to be 
 
 secreet ; nether nead we restraine this freedome of speach 
 
 from the Nuntio his presence because that (sic) besids that he 
 
 is a Spaniard by birth, he is allsoe a Jesuitt by profession, an 
 
 order raysed by the providence of God's vicar to accomplish 
 
 this monarchy the better, all of them being appropriate 
 
 therunto and as publique agents and privy councellors to 
 
 this end, wherin the wisdome of this state is to be beheld 
 
 with admiration that as in temperall [warre] it implies^ or at 
 
 least trust[s] none but natives in Castile, Portugall, or Arragon, 
 
 soe in speritualls it implys^ none but the Jesuitts, and soe 
 
 implies' them that they are generally reputed how remote 
 
 soever they be from us, how much soever obliged to others, 
 
 stiU to be ours and still to be of the Spanish faction, though 
 
 they be Polonians, English, French, and residing in those 
 
 contrys and courtes. The penitents, therfore, and all with 
 
 whom they deale and converse in theire sperituall traffique 
 
 must neads be soe too. And soe owe catholique king must 
 
 neads have an invisible kingdome, and an unknowen number 
 
 of subjects in all dominiones who will shew themselves and 
 
 ther faithes* by ther works of disobediene whensoever we 
 
 shall : have occasion to use that Jesuiticall [virtue] of 
 
 theirs. 
 
 1 of, MS. 
 
 2 ther, MS. 
 
 3 ' employs. ' 
 ^ « fathers, MS. 
 
192 
 
 ' This, therf ore, being the principall end of all our councells 
 according to those to those (sic) holy directions of our late 
 pious king Philip the 2 to his sonne, now reining,^ to advance 
 the catholike Roman religion and the cathohque Spanish 
 dominion together, we are now mett together by his Magisties 
 command to take account of you, Seignior Gondomar, whoe 
 have bene embassador for England, to see what good you 
 have effected their towards the advancement of this worke, 
 and what further project shall be thought fitt to be sett one 
 foote to this end. And this is breefly the occasion of our 
 metting.' 
 
 Then the embassador, who attended bareheaded all the 
 time, with a low abeysance, began thus : ' This most 
 laudable custume of [our] kings in bringing all ofifice[r]8 to such 
 an accompt, where a review and a notice is taken of of (sic) 
 go[o]d or bad service upone the determinatione of ther imploy- 
 ment, resembles those Romish triumphes appointed for the 
 souldiers, and as in them it provoked to coiu-age, soe in us 
 it stirs up to diligence. Our master co[nverse]th by his 
 agents with all the world, yet with none of more regard then 
 the English, where matter of such diversity is often pre- 
 sented through the severall humors of the state and those 
 of our religion and faction that no instructions can be suffi- 
 cient for such negotiationes, but much must be leaft in trust 
 to the discretion, judgment and diligence of the incombent. I 
 speake not this for my owne glory, I having bene restrayned, 
 and therfore deserved meanly ; but to forwame one the behalfe 
 of others that there may be more scope allowed them to deale 
 in as occasion shall require. Breefly, this rule delivered by 
 his Excellency was the card and compasse by which I sailed 
 to make profitt of all humors and by all meanes to advance 
 the state of the Romish faith and the Spanish faction together 
 upon all advantages, either of oaths or the breach of them, 
 for this is an old observation, but true, that for our piety 
 to Rome His Holines did not onely give but blesse us in the 
 conquest of the Newe World, and thus in our pyous per- 
 severance we hope still to be conquerours of the Old, and to 
 this end, wheras His Excellency in his excellent discourse, 
 seemes to extend our outward [forces and private armes 
 onely against the heretiques]." 24. 
 
 This is part (6J pages) of a newsletter of 24 J pages printed 
 under the title : " Vox Populi. Or Nevves from Spayne, 
 translated according to the Spanish coppie. Which may serve 
 to forewarn both England and the Vnited Provinces how farre 
 to trust to Spanish pretences. Imprinted in the year 1620," 
 without mention of the place of publication. It was written 
 by Thomas Scott, B.D., and was suppressed. See Diet, of 
 Nat. Biography, h, p. 68. 
 
 [c. 1620] — Recipe for prevention of danger from coal damp. 
 
 1 reinining, MS. 
 
193 
 
 " For the dampe. 
 Take a bushell of unslaict lyme, and lett hyme send yt 
 downe and sett yt in the places as neare as the workmen 
 wyll, and let yt contenewally remayne tell suohe tyme as 
 the moystnes of the dampe beg3rne to sleake the lyme, and 
 then let hyme renewe yt contenewaUy. Yt wyll all somer 
 last. Let them take hyd that the do not let any watter come 
 to yt. Yf the dampe be very stronge, let hyme put to the 
 lyme i]d. of camphyre ; yt wyU drawe yt awaye the soner. 
 
 Wyllyam Poole." 24. 
 
 1627-8. — Papers concerning musters in co. Nottingham. 177. 
 
 1640. — " Newes and relation after the Scottyshe and 
 Englysh skirmyshe neare Newcastle uppon Tyne. 
 
 On Fryday, the 28th of Awgust, 1640, the Scottes army 
 encamped at a litell vyllage called Newborne uppon the ryver 
 of Tyne sixe myles from Newcastle. My Lord Conwaye 
 marched out of Newcastle with 3,000 foote and 2,000 horse 
 that day in the afternoone ; he caused 2 workes to be made 
 which weare to keepe the Scottes from foordynge over the 
 ryver. Aboute 4 a'clocke in the afternoone, after some fewe 
 muskettes shott, the Scottes ^ mownted some ordinance on 
 the steeple of the church of that vyllage, which commaunded 
 our workes and battered them soe muche that they that 
 weare in one of them fied and f orsooke the worke ; the other 
 stayed makynge a lyttle resistance, but not long after 
 lykwyse fled. 
 
 Theare army consists of 2,300 foote and 4,000 horse. 
 After this there horse would have foorded over, but one 
 Captayne George Vane chardged them with his troope, which 
 behaved themselfes soe bravely that he caused them to 
 retjrre, his owne horse beynge kylled under hym, and came 
 of with much honor. But the Scottes attempted the passage 
 the second tyrae and kylled 300 of our foote ymmediately. 
 Our commaunder of horse chardged them bravely, but there 
 troopes for the most parte ran awaye. Those persons of 
 quallytye of our syde that are myssinge are these : Collonell 
 Willmott, the Lord Wylmottes only sonne, whoe was scene 
 to kyll 3 men with his owne handes after he had receved a 
 pistoU shott in his face ; he chardged them alone where his 
 troope was left ingaged that it is conceaved that he is rather 
 slayne then taken ; Sir John Dygby and Serj ant-Major 
 Danyell Oneale weare scene to chardge the enemy and weare 
 lykewyse lost, it is uncerteyne whether these are taken or 
 sleyne ; Mr. Charles Porter was scene [to] fall dead from his 
 horse, he was Comett to my Lord Newport ; Mr. Rychard 
 Nevell chardged the troope which was led by Wyllyam 
 Dougles, Shreife of Tividale, and in the heade of h[is] troope 
 valiantly fyghtyng with hym hand to hand slewe hym. Of 
 
 I ' ' The Scottes ' ' written twice. 
 
 M13 
 
194 
 
 . . . wee doe not heare of any other persons of noate 
 that are want3mge. 
 
 But it is soe that there are more persons of qualljrty lost 
 on thea[re syde] then of ours. Had our men followed there 
 leaders and not fled, the[y h]ad gotten the honour of the 
 victorye. My Lord Conwey retyred t[hat] nyght with twoe 
 thowsand to Newcastle. 
 
 Theare came a post this momynge that brynges word that 
 they have taken Newcastle, which, if we could have hjmdred 
 there passage over the r3rver, they could never have don, it 
 being so well fortyfied on that syde, and so easy to be taken 
 on this side." 24. 
 
 1649-50. — Acquittance of the Pipe of Francis Willoughby, 
 knt., as Sheriff of Warwick, and papers relating to his 
 shrievalty. 271. 
 
 1664, January 12. — Diploma of the matriculation of Francis 
 Willoughby in the University of Padua. Endorsed : " My 
 admission into the University of Padoa." 24. 
 
 1664^5, February 7. — Articles of agreement between Sir 
 Francis Wiloughbie, knt., and Francis WUoughbie, esquire, 
 on the one part, and WilHam Le Hunt, esquire, on the other, 
 for the sale by the said WiUiam to them of Middleton 
 New Park, co. Warwick, in consideration of the sum of 
 4,000Z. 236. 
 
 1666 [-7], March 3.— "A poule bill for the towne of WoUaton, 
 etc." The total is 11. lis. Od. at Is. a head, except 
 " Mr. John Reanor, gent.," who is assessed at ll., Henry 
 Raworth at 5s., Joseph Walker at 3s., and Edward Dovy 
 at 4s., in addition to the assessments for their wives 
 and children. " Assessores : Henry Raworth his marke ; 
 Huntingdon Shawe,^ (H) his marke, Henry (A) Archer." 
 The latter evidently signed with the mark A. Endorsed with 
 receipt, dated 13 April, 1667, by John Boawre, head 
 collector. 24. 
 
 1670-1. — ^Acquittance of the Pipe of Francis Willoughby, 
 esquire, as sheriff of Warwick. 271. 
 
 1703, July 14. — Copy of letter of Paithekoe, Sachem of 
 the Mohegan Indians, to Nicholas Hallam. 
 
 " Letter of instruction from Panhekoe, Lachem {sic) of the 
 Mohegan Indians, in New England, dated the 14th July, 
 1703. 
 
 1 Well-known aa the maker of the beautiful wrought iron gate-screens 
 at Hampton Court Palace. 
 
193 
 
 To Mr. Nicholas Hallam, of Connectitut {sic), in the Indian 
 language. 
 
 Tbe interpretation is as follows : 
 
 ' My loving neighbour, Mr. Nicholas HaUam. 
 
 ' I am inform'd you are bound for Old England. Lett 
 me request you to make me and my condition known to the 
 Great Q. Anne and to her noble Council : first of our here- 
 ditary right to the soyU and royaUtys of our dominion and 
 territorys before the English came into the country, inso- 
 much that all due loyallty and obedience by our people is 
 not conferr'd on us by the English, but by the Gods, who gave 
 us a token as an earnest and pledge of our happy reign here, 
 and also (as our old seers construed) a more ample reign in 
 the ofche[r] region : wherefore the Gods had sent to that 
 royall family one of their own tobacco pipes, which strange 
 wonderment was taken upon the beach at Seabrook or there- 
 abouts, it being like ivory with two stemms and the boll in 
 the middle. This strange pipe, not made by man, is kept 
 choicer than gold from generation to generation. It animates 
 all the royall society with a full perswasion that the said token 
 is sufficient evidence that they shall sitt amongst the Gods 
 in the Long Huntinghouse and there smoak tobacco, as the 
 highest point of honor and dignity, and where there will be 
 great feasting of fatt bear, deer, and moose, all joy and myrth 
 to wellcom their entertainment, etc. Allso in the reign of 
 King Charles the Second of Blessed memory, his Majesty 
 sent us a token, vizt., a bible and a sword, which present 
 we thankfully accepted and keep them in the Treasury as 
 choice as we do the aforesaid God's Pipe, hoping it may be 
 a safeguard and a shield to defend us, and we in process of 
 time may reap great benefitt thereby, and attain to the know- 
 ledg of the true and living God. But of late I meet with 
 great descouragements and know not what will become of 
 our people by reason of oppression. The Court of Hertford, 
 I understand, have given aU my planting and hunting land 
 away to Colchester and to New London ; so that if I obtained 
 not relief from the Great Queen's Majesty, my people will 
 be in temptation to scatter from me and flee to the eastward 
 Indians, the French's friends, and the Enghsh's enimys. 
 Pray, Sir, remember my love and service to ye Great Queen- 
 Anne and he[r] noble Council. 
 
 July 14, 1703. 
 
 Panhekoe [dramng of crested bird] his marck.' 
 
 The true interpretation of Panhekoe's grievance and 
 narration, by me John Stanton, Interpreter Generall." 
 
196 
 
 MANUSCRIPT BOOKS. 
 
 The oldest MSS. in the collection are some fragments of 
 what must have been a magnificent MS. of the Latin bible 
 (? in Jerome's version). The existing leaves are written 
 in bold uncials of the latter part of the seventh or early part 
 of the eighth century, in double columns, each column 
 measuring 4 J inches by 14J inches, with very wide margins, 
 written forty-four hues to a column. They are rubricated 
 in red, and certain verses are also written in that colour. The 
 text is written stichometrically. The leaves bear in size, 
 handwriting and arrangement a strong resemblance to the 
 famous Codex Amiatinus of the Latin bible (Palaeogra- 
 phical Society, Series II, plate 65), which was intended for 
 presentation to the pope by Ceolfred, abbot of Jarrow, 
 690-716. (See, however, the appendix to this report.) 
 
 The leaves have been used to form covers to chartularies 
 of the various WiUoughby estates, which were drawn up in 
 the early part of the sixteenth century, but which were bound 
 at a later time, as the same binding occurs in the Cossal volume, 
 which includes deeds of the reign of Edward VI. in the same 
 hand as the rest of the volume. 
 
 As the other fragments of an early MS. that were also 
 used for binding purposes undoubtedly came from Worcester 
 cathedral, as shown in the next notice, it is probable that 
 these fragments also came from there. It is worthy of note 
 that the monastery of Worcester possessed a Latin bible 
 (hibliotheca) that had been given to it by King Offa, of which 
 we possess a description in a forged or interpolated Worcester 
 charter assigned to him.* A more trustworthy description 
 of this bible of Offa is preserved in a letter of Senatus, prior 
 of Worcester, 1 189-1 196^, of which an autograph copy is 
 preserved at Cambridge.* The prior collated this bible, 
 which, he states, was written at Rome, but such quotations 
 as he gives are derived from the New Testament, whereas 
 the WoUaton fragments are portions of the Old Testament. 
 The Countess Godiva also gave a hibliotheca, divided into 
 two parts, to the monks of Worcester.* 
 
 The following are the volumes in which these leaves are 
 preserved : 
 
 Chartulary of WiUoughby lands in Middleton, Cossington, 
 and Wigtoft, bound in leaves containing (pp. 1, 2) the Book 
 of Kings, IV, i, 6 to end, ii, 1 to 16; and (pp. 3, 4) III, 
 xxii, 24 to end, and IV, i to 6. 204(279). 
 
 Chartulary of WiUoughby lands in Lenton, Radford, Gun- 
 thorp, Lowdham, and Sutton (Passeys), containing Kings 
 
 1 Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum, i, p. 328 ; Heming, Chartularium 
 Ecclesiae Wigorniensis, ed. Heame, p. 95. 
 
 2 Printed in Martfene and Durand, Thesaurus Novorum Anecdotorum, 
 i, p. 486, from a MS. of Conches, in Normandy. 
 
 3 MS. C.C.C. 48, noticed in Catalogue of MSS. preserved in the Chapter 
 Library of Worcester Cathedral, by J. K. Floyer and Sidney G. Hamilton, p. 
 165 (Worcestershire Historical Society, 1906). 
 
 * Homing, p. 263. 
 
197 
 
 IV, ii, 16 to iii, 25. Pages 3, 4 contain Kings, III, xxi, 
 17 to xxii, 24. 204 (283). 
 
 Chartulary of Willoughby lands in Sutton Passeys and 
 WoUaton, bound in stamped leather. The inside covers 
 consist of leaves of the bible, one side of each being pasted to 
 the cover. There is also an unpasted leaf of the bible at each 
 end. The first cover contains Kings, IV, xvi, 20 to xvii, 
 15. The inside unpasted leaf contains Kings IV, xv, 12 to xvi, 6. 
 The unpasted inside at the end contains Kings IV, xxi, 6 to xxii, 
 13. The end-cover is IV., xviii., 36 to xix., 31. Enclosed 
 in this volume is a letter, dated Matlock, 1 September, 1803, 
 from Adam Wolley, the Derbyshire antiquary, addressed to 
 " Thomas Webb Edge, esq., Strelley, Notts, per favor of 
 M. Sanders," requesting him to use his influence with Lord 
 Middleton to obtain for the writer the loan for a few weeks of 
 " the register book of Lenton Priory, which I understand is 
 in the possession of Lord Middleton." There is no register 
 of lands of Lenton priory among Lord Middleton's papers, and 
 it would seem that the register of Willoughby estates in Len- 
 ton had been mistaken for a priory register, which was then 
 identified with the present volume, as proved by the insertion 
 into it of Wooley's letter. 204. 
 
 Chartulary of Willoughby lands in Cossal and TroweU. The 
 covers contain (pp. 1, 2) Kings IV, ix, 26 to x, 19, and 
 (pp. 3, 4) Kings, IV, viii, 27 to ix, 25. 204 (280). 
 
 The next most ancient MS. in the collection undoubtedly 
 came from the monastery of Worcester, and was intended 
 for similar purposes to which the preceding leaves of parch- 
 ment were applied. The " Colpyt Booke from the Natyvytie 
 of Our Lorde in anno regni Regis Edwardi Sexti secundo," com- 
 prising a few sheets of foolscap, was found to have as guards to 
 prevent the threads cutting through the paper two narrow strips 
 of parchment, measuring 15 inches by f of an inch, bearing 
 Anglo-Saxon writing of about the year 1000. Eventually 
 a single leaf, cut in two across the middle and bearing 
 traces of its being used as a cover, of the same MS. was found 
 in bundle 168. It was probably rescued by Francis WiUoughby, 
 the naturaHst, for in his notebook he refers to grants of 
 Kings Offa and Canulfus to monasteries,^ a description 
 evidently based upon this leaf. He has written upon one 
 half of the leaf " Grants from Saxon Kings," and upon the 
 other " Grants from Offa, etc." The leaf, which measures 
 17^ inches in length by 12 inches in breadth, the latter having 
 been cut down, was evidently cut in two and used as book 
 covers, before it came to the hands of this great scholar. 
 The leaf and strips are written in a bold Worcester hand 
 
 1 See p. 269, below. The reference is at p. 5: " vlide] among the 
 settlements old grants from Saxon kings. Offa, Canulfus, Kings of Mercia, 
 etc., to monasteries." 
 
198 
 
 of the latter part of the tenth or early part of the eleventh 
 century. The leaf gives copies of seven charters relating 
 to the bishop and monastery of Worcester, and the strips 
 form portions of three demises by Oswald, bishop of 
 Worcester from 961 until his death in 992, who held also the 
 archbishopric of York from 972. The leaf and strips formed 
 part of a Worcester chartulary, which was probably com- 
 menced by his orders, for he seems to have introduced con- 
 tinental usages either in tenure or in legal documents.-' 
 This Worcester chartulary, whether due to Oswald or not, is 
 by far the earhest English chartulary of which we have any 
 trace, and is therefore of considerable interest. 
 
 From the date of the paper book to which the strips were 
 attached, it would seem that part of this ancient chartu- 
 lary had come into the hands of the Willoughby family, 
 to be used for the purposes of brown paper, soon after 
 the dissolution of Worcester priory, on 18 January, 1540, 
 when the monks were ejected {Monasticon, i, p. 581a). 
 Four leaves of this chartulary fortunately came at a later 
 time into he hands of Sir Robert Cotton, and were bound 
 up by him in Nero E. 1, part 2, folios 181 to 184, which are 
 now preserved among his MSS. at the British Museum. 
 Cotton's leaves have been cut down 1^ inches in length and 
 1 inch in breadth. The WoUaton leaf came originally in 
 the chartulary between folios 182 and 183 of the Nero MS., 
 and accordingly the beginning of No. VI. and the end of 
 No. VII. in the following texts have been suppUed from the 
 latter MS. The texts are here printed in chronological 
 order, but in the WoUaton leaf they follow in this order : 
 VI, I, II, V, IV, III, VII. It is noticeable that the order 
 of documents in this chartulary agrees with that followed 
 in the later and better known Worcester collection, which 
 was compiled by the monk Heming by order of Bishop 
 Wulfstan, who died in 1095. The texts of the charters given 
 below have been collated with the MS. of Heming (Cotton. 
 Tiberius A. 13). The latest text in Nero E. 1 in the original 
 hand is a demise for three lives by King Mthehed of land 
 " set Ofre " to the episcopal see at Dewies Stow (St. Davids), 
 dated 1005, which does not appear in Heming and has been 
 overlooked by Kemble. It is, however, printed by Hearne 
 at the end of his edition of. Heming, p. 479, followed by the 
 list of benefactors to Worcester drawn up in Anglo-Saxon 
 that follows ^theh-ed's demise in the Nero MS. (fo. 183). If 
 this demise was the latest entry in the original hand, as seems 
 probable from the great space left blank and then fiUed up 
 by the Anglo-Saxon Ust, it would seem that the chartulary 
 was completed in the year 1005. The collations with Heming 
 shew that his texts are frequently longer than those in the 
 earlier chartulary, and that he gives immunity clauses that 
 
 1 See Maitland, Domesday and Beyond, p. 312. Cf. p. 305 for Oswald's 
 care to record his demises. 
 
199 
 
 do not occur in it. As the text of the original of No. 1 has 
 come down to us, and as it agrees with Heming against 
 the older chartulary, it is clear that the differences between 
 the texts of the latter and of Heming are due to abbreviation 
 in the earlier chartulary and not to expansions by Heming. 
 It was probably the omission of the immunity clauses that 
 decided Bishop Wulfstan to order the compilation of a new 
 chartulary within a century or less of the completion of this 
 earlier one. The collations also show that Heming adhered 
 much more closely to the orthography of the Anglo-Saxon 
 words in the original texts than did the compilers of the earlier 
 chartulary, and that he has preserved many archaic and 
 dialectal forms that were modernised in the work of his pre- 
 decessor. The latter omitted the crosses and Christian 
 monogram (the chrismon) at the commencement of the texts, 
 but they are reproduced by Heming. In the case of the 
 strips the missing part of the texts as printed below have 
 been supplied from Heming's texts. 
 
 [691-2.]— Grant by ^fieh-ed, King of Mercia, to Oftfor,i 
 bishop [of Worcester], of the estate called Flsedanburh (Flad- 
 bury, CO. Worcester), consisting of forty-four hides. 
 
 This charter has been printed by Smith in the appendix 
 to his edition of Beda's Historia Ecclesiastica, Cambridge, 1722, 
 p. 764, from the original, which, he states, was lately in the 
 possession of Lord Somers, in whose collection it was seen 
 ' hy Wanley, Gatalogus, printed in Hickes, Thesaurus Linguarum 
 Septentrionalium, iii, p. 301, no. 1 (published in 1705). It 
 was at Worcester when Dugdale catalogued the early charters 
 in 1643 (Ibid, p. 299, no. 3). It has been printed from Smith's 
 text and the entry in Heming's Worcester chartulary by 
 Heame in his edition of this chartulary, Oxford, 1723, p. 21, 
 by Kemble, Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici, i, p. 36, no. 33 
 (cf. Haddan and Stubbs, Councils, iii, p. 280), and Birch, 
 Cartularium Saxonicum, i., p. 110, no. 76. 
 
 FL^DAN BYRIG. 
 
 Apostolus Paulus de extremo judicio Domini manifestissime 
 loquens ita refert : ' Omnes enim stabimus ante tribunal 
 Christi, ut recipiat unus quisque prout gessit, sive bonum, 
 sive malum, '^ 
 
 1 Oftfor was consecrated bishop of Worcester in 691 or 692 (Beda, 
 Hist. Eccl. iv., c. 23). According to Florence of Worcester he was conse- 
 crated in 691 (following Beda) and died in 692. 
 
 2 Smith and Heming here add : — ' ' Quid autem sit, quod apostolus 
 pro meritis suis quosque peroepturos adfirmat, Ipse Dominus in euuangelio 
 (sic) suo manifestat, dicens : ' Ibant impii in supplicium setemum, justi 
 autem in vitam setemam. ' Hoc sane tremendtim ac terribile omnipotentis 
 Domini judicium ego Aethiked, Christo largiente, Rex, tota cordis formidine," 
 etc., as above. 
 
200 
 
 Qua propter ego iEjjelred, Christo largiente, Rex totius 
 cordis formidine sine cessatione perhorresco/ ut ibidem 
 veniam merear per Dominum adipisci, pro absolutione 
 criminum^ meorum vel conjugis-^ meg Os))ry]5g/ terrain, 
 qug dicitur ' Flsedanburh '^ .XL. ini°'^ cas[satas]« Oftforb 
 episcopo in possessionem tradidi' sempiternam. 
 
 Si quis autem pertinacium contra banc donationem frac- 
 toris animo inire^ temptaverit, eamque infringerit,^ sciat se 
 sub tremendo examine penas debitas luiturum. 
 
 ^ Ego iEJjelraed/" propriam donationem corroborans, 
 titulo sanctg crucis subsoripsi. 
 »j(iiEgo Torhtwald comes. * Ego Cille. 
 ^ Ego EcgfriS.i2 ,5, Ego Guthlac.i» 
 
 i5< Ego Folchere. (J* Ego Hasdda^* episcopus. 
 
 ^ Ego Eadwald. i^ Ego OsfriS. 
 
 ^ Ego Tuddul. ^ Ego Sigewald. 
 
 ^ Ego Berbtred.i^ ti< Ego Oftfor episcopus don- 
 
 ationem, quam a rege accepi, propria manu subnoto.^^ 
 
 II. 
 
 [c. 693-717]. — Copy of endorsement on tbe preceding 
 charter by Ecgwine, bishop [of Worcester], whereby he grants 
 the monastery of Flsedanburh (Fladbury) to Adelhard," his 
 prince, in exchange for twenty hides at Strsetford (Stratford- 
 on-Avon, co. Warwick). 
 
 This is printed as above by Smith, p. 765, and from Hem- 
 ing by Dugdale, Monasticon, ed. 1, i, p. 121a, second ed. i,* 
 p. 585b, Hearne, p. 23 (in part only), Kemble, p. 37, no. 33, 
 Birch, i, p. Ill, no. 76. 
 
 1 Smith and Heming here add : ' ' quapropter ut ibidem sub prae- 
 sentia [ahni judicis omitted in Heming] veniam merear adipisci pro abso- 
 lutione," etc., as above. 
 
 2 Smith and Heming add vel. 
 
 ^ Smith and Heming add quondam. 
 
 * OsWrySe, Heming. 
 
 6 Fledan-, Smith and Heming. 
 
 ^ casaatorum capacem, Smith and Heming. 
 
 ' Smith and Heming have here in addition : " ut quemadmodum 
 primitus tradita fuerat, rursus per iUius dUigentiam monachorum in ea sub 
 abbate degentium honestissima conversatio recuperetur " [converaafior 
 cxuperetur. Homing.] 
 
 * venire. Smith and Heming. 
 
 8 infringere conatua sit. Smith and Heming. 
 
 10 JElSilred, Smith; ASSelred, Heming. 
 
 11 The witnesses' names are arranged differently in Smith and Heming. 
 Smith adds consenai et auhscripsi after each witness's name; Heming gives 
 conaensi only. 
 
 12 EcfriiS, Smith and Heming. 
 
 13 OuVlac, Smith and Heming. 
 
 1* Haeadda, Smith; Headda, Heming. 
 1 S Berhttred, Smith ; Berehtred, Heming. 
 18 confirmana svhnotavi. Smith, Heming. 
 
 1' jEthelheard, son of Oshere, liing of the Hwiocas {Gart. Sax. i, p. 120 , 
 no. 85 ; cf. 193, a spurious Evesham charter). 
 
201 
 
 FL^DAN BYRIG. 
 
 Reverentissime^ memorie pontificis Oftfori ego Ecgwine,^ 
 Deo dispensante, successor^ existo. Monasterium autem, cui 
 nomen est ' Flsedanburh,'* quod in hac eadem kartula^ ex 
 altera ejus parte eidem predicto predecessori meo sub- 
 scriptione regali traditum asseratur, huic venerabili nostro 
 secundum seculum principi Adelhardo/ quantum id a me 
 fieri potest, in possessionem' concedo, ea tamen condicione, 
 ut semper ibi* cenobialis vite statuta serventur. Pro 
 recomparatione vero hujus nostrg donationis in loco qui 
 dicitur'' cet Strcetjorde^^ .xx. cas[satarum]^i terram^^ in jus 
 ycclesiasticum ab eo^^ accepi. Sciendum tamen, me ration- 
 abili qiiadam causa compulsum id voluisse facere, ut ei 
 .XLiiii. man[entium]^* terram pro .xx. man[entium]i^ darem, 
 id est ea condicione, ut, post diem ejus, terra ista sine contra- 
 dictione alicujus ad Wigornensem'^* ecclesiam in jus epis- 
 copaU sedi sit donata mihi et^' antecessor! meo Oftforo" 
 in elemosinam sempiternam. 
 
 Pax servantibus et confirmantibus ;^® minuentibus vero 
 vel contradicentibus dispersio veniat^' sempiterna ! 
 
 ^ ^Jjelric. iEJ)elward.2o ^Jjelbriht.^i Omuling^a abbas. 
 Hi sunt confirmatores et testes hujusce donationis. ^^ 
 
 III. 
 
 780. — Grant by Offa, King of Mercia, to the monastery at 
 Breodun (Bredon, co. Worcester) of thirty-five hides in 
 Teotingtun (Teddington, co. Worcester) near the River Cserent 
 (Carant Brook, co. Gloucester), Wasseburne (Washbourne, 
 CO. Gloucester), at CoddeswseUan in Mons Hwicciorum, 
 and at Nor Stun by the River Tjn-l (the Tirle Brook, co. 
 Gloucester). 
 
 1 Smith and Heming add eemper. 
 
 2 Ecguine, Smith ; Ecuuine, Heming. 
 
 8 in episcopatum, add. Smith ; in episcopatu, Heming. 
 
 * Fledan-, Smith, Heming. 
 
 5 cartula. Smith, Heming. 
 
 6 /^]>hilhaeardae, Smith ; MSelhearde, Heming. 
 ' possione (sic), Heming. 
 
 8 inibi, Smith ; inhibi, Heming. 
 
 8 qui diciiurl cujus nomen est. Smith, ; cui nomen eat, Heming. 
 
 1 Stretfordae, Smith ; Siretforda, Heming. 
 
 11 cassatorum, Smith, Heming. 
 
 12 Smith, Heming add ab eo, 
 
 13 a6 eo] omitted Smith, Heming (see preceding note). 
 1* manentium, in fiiU, Smith, Heming. 
 
 15 manentis (sic), Heming. 
 
 1 ' Uuegernensem, Smith ; Uueogernensem, Heming. 
 
 17.17 {Hi Oftforo {que Smith) meo antecessori, Smith, 'Heming. 
 
 1 8 confirmantibus atque servantibus. Smith, Heming. 
 
 19 perveniat. Smith, Heming. 
 
 2 ^e eluueard. Smith ; ^\>elweard, Heming. 
 
 21 ^e elberht. Smith; M\ielberht, Heming. 
 
 22 Omulingc, Smith, Heming. 
 
 23 hujusce donationis] omitted, Smith, Heming. 
 
202 
 
 This charter has been printed from Heming's chartulary by 
 Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, first ed. i, p. 122b, second 
 edition, i, p. 586, Heame, pp. 26 (in part), 456, Kemble, i, 
 p. 169, no. 140, Birch, i, p. 329. 
 
 BREODUN. 
 
 In nomine omriipotentis Dei et Domini nostri Jesu 
 Christi, Qui vivit et regnat in secula^ ! 
 
 Ego 0£Ea,2 Rex Merc[ensium] simulque in circuitu nationum, 
 ^pro meg sahite perpetua animg do terram^ septies quinos 
 tributariorum* continentem ad monasterium, quod nominatur 
 ' Breodun ' in provincia Hwicciorum ad gcclesiam Beati 
 Petri principis^ Apostolorum, qug ibidem* sita est, quam 
 Eanulfus,' avus mens, erexit ad laudem* Dei omnipotentis' 
 in secula. Est autem rus predictumi" in iin°' villulas^^ 
 separatum, hoc est Teotingtun,'^^ qui situs est juxta 
 fiuvium,!^ quod [sic) vocatur^* 'Caerent,' v. manent[ium]; 
 huic adjacet viculus, qui nominatur ' set Wassebume,'i^ 
 qui habet ab oriente vadum, quod^* dicitur ' set^' Geolwan- 
 forde,''^* et ab occidente fontanum, qui^® nominatur ' Gyting- 
 broc,' X. cass[atorum] ; tertius viculus est in monte qui dicitur^" 
 ' Mons Huuicciorum ' cet Codes wcellan^'^ eque^^ man- 
 s[iones]^^ ; 2*quartus viculus^^ est NorStun x. manentium 
 juxta rivulum, qui^* muncupatur 'Tyrl.' Ista ergo consue- 
 tudine^' firmiter atque stabiliter composita,''^ quatinus ad 
 
 ' Amen add. Hem. 
 
 - Dei gratia concedente add. Hem. 
 
 •'"•' For this Hem. reads: " sciens certe, quod oimt'ta que humanis 
 cousijicimitur oculis transitoria esse, et que conspici non possunt aeteriia 
 fieri, et quod cum his transitoriis aeterna mercari posse, idooque pro mea 
 meorumque ijropinquorum perpetua animae salute dabo terram. ' ' 
 
 * jugera, add. Hem. 
 
 5 pfincipe (sic), Hem. 
 
 " in ioco, add. Hem. 
 
 ^ Eanuul/us, Hem. 
 
 8 et gloriam. Hem. 
 
 9 viventis. Hem. 
 1" praedictus. Hem. 
 
 11 villulia. Hem. 
 
 12 Altered from ' Tidingtun.' TeoUingtun, Hem. 
 I'' rivulum, Hem. 
 
 1* nuncupatur. Hem. 
 
 16 Wassanburnan, Hem. 
 1® qui. Hem. 
 
 17 Om. Hem. 
 
 18 Oeolwaford, Hem. 
 
 19 quod, Hem. 
 
 2 gticTO nominant'incola {sic). Hem. 
 
 21 uuellan. Hem. Codeswelle is also mentioned in 855 (Cart. Sax. 
 ii, p. 92, where it is impossibly identified with CodsaU, co. Stafford) 
 •^•^ X. add. Hem. " 
 
 23 mansionum. Hem. 
 
 24 e« add. Hem. 
 
 26 hoc add. Hem. 
 2 6 quAjd, Hem. 
 
 27 conditione. Hem. 
 
 28 conpoaita, Hem. 
 
203 
 
 monasterium prenominatutni terra ilia et ad prefatam 
 goolesiam Sancti Petri in jus gcclesiasticg libertatis per- 
 dono.2 Libera^ sit ab omni exaotione regum et principum,* 
 tarn in agrorum donationibus vel terrarum positionibus, 
 in Omnipotentis Dei nomine preoipimus, quamdiu^ fides 
 Christiana in Brittannia perdurat sub dominio ao potestate 
 parentelg* meg atque cognationi rite per successiones 
 heredum juste succedentium permaneat in eternum. 
 
 Conscripta est' haec donatfio] telluris a me et a^principibus 
 meis, quorum infra signa et nomina notantur" cet Brsegent- 
 forda/" anno Dominicg Incarnationis^i .DOC." LXXX.", 
 indictione .III., die^^ passionis Thebe.^^ 
 
 f^ Ego Ofifa^* Rex hoc meum^* donum^^ signo*' crucis 
 Christii' munio. 
 
 ^ Ego KyneSryS,!^ Dei gratia, Regina Mercensium^' 
 
 consensi. 
 ^ Ego lohanbertus archi- (^ Ego Eadberhtus episcopus^" 
 
 episcopus^" 
 ij« Ego Ceolwulfus epis- >^ Ego Tilhere*^ episcopus^^ 
 
 copus.21 
 * Signum manus Brordan >^ Signum^* Berhtwudi"^ ducis. 
 
 principis. 
 ii< Signum^* Eadboldi^s ij, Signum"* Eadboldi^a ducia. 
 
 principis. 
 
 IV. 
 
 [798-821].— Grant by Cenulf, King of Mercia, to Bishop 
 Deneberht and the monastery at Worcester of thirty hides 
 in Plsedanburh (Fladbury, co. Worcester). 
 
 This charter has been printed from Heming by Hearne, 
 p. 25, Kemble, i, p. 271, no. 215, and Birch, i, p. 507, no. 368. 
 
 1 antenominatum, Hem. 
 
 2 perdonabo. Hem. 
 
 3 liberata. Hem. 
 
 * ac subditorum, ipnorum, add. Hem. 
 5 tamdiu. Hem. 
 
 8 parentillcB, Hem. 
 
 ' autem add. Hem. 
 
 * ab epiacopo ac principibus. Hem. 
 ' adnotaho, Hem..- 
 
 10 Brentford, co. Middlesex. 
 
 11 Ohristi, add. Hem. 
 
 12-12 dig^ qjio pasaio Sancti Mauricii a fidelibus celebrat\_ur , first minim 
 of u being still legible], Hem. 
 13 Dei dono, add. Hem. 
 1* meam. Hem. 
 1^ donationem. Hem. 
 18 sancte, add. Hem. 
 1' Hem. omits. 
 18 Cyne-, Hem. 
 1" huic donationi regis, add. Hem. 
 
 20 cs' {= consensi) add. H. 
 
 21 consensi, Hem. 
 
 22 Tilherus, Hem. 
 
 2 3 cons ( = consensi), add. Hem. 
 2* maniis, add. Hem. 
 2 5 Berhtuudi, Hem. 
 28 Eadbaldi, Hem. 
 
204 
 
 PLEDEBYRIG. 
 
 Ego etiam Cenulf^ rex Merc[iorum] eodem honorabili epis- 
 copo Deneberhto et ejus familig Weogornensis^ gcclesig post 
 vitae^ meg [spatium] do* terrain .xxx. tributariorum in loco, 
 qui vocatur ' Flaedan burh,'^ propter traditionem istius 
 prenominatg terrg, ut perpetualiter perfruantur* et dimidiam 
 partem hujus agri possessionis precipio ut cum illo ad pre- 
 dictam gcclesiam reddatur, que illis diebus illic set Flsedan- 
 burh' (sic) habeatur. Libero^ quoque terram istam sub testi- 
 monio illorum, quorum nomina prescripta liquescunt, ab 
 omnibus secularibus rebus,' duris ac levibus,^" exceptis'^^ 
 arcis et pontis constructione et expeditions et singulars pretium 
 foras adversum aliud, ad penam vero neque quadrantem^^ 
 foras resolvat. 
 
 Si quis autem hoc servare vel annuere^^ voluerit, sit bene- 
 dictus a Deo cgli omnium possessori. Si vero — quod non 
 optamus — aliquis^* hoc in aliquo frangere vel minuere temp- 
 taverit, sciat se alienatum^^ a Deo in die magno, nisi ante hie 
 correctus cum satisfactions emendaverit^® et ad dignam 
 penitentiam venerit. 
 
 V. 
 
 814, December 26. — Grant by Coenwulf, King of Mercia, 
 to (Bishop) Deneberht and the monastery at Worcester of 
 the pastus of twelve men pertaining to that city, in con- 
 sideration of their grant to him of the monastery known as 
 Bitueonseum and of ten hides on the west of the River 
 Severn. 
 
 Printed from Heming's chartulary by Hearne, p. 23, Kemble, 
 i., p. 256, no. 203, Birch, i, p. 488, no. 350. 
 
 CENULFES FREOLS. 
 
 In nomine Dei excelsi, Qui est spes omnium finium terre 
 et in mari longe ! 
 
 Ego Coenulfi' ejus meUiflua gratia largiente rex Merc[iorurii], 
 cum consilio et consensu optimatum meorum, quorum infra 
 carraxata sunt vocabula, meo fideU^^ Denebertoi' atque ejus 
 
 1 Altered from Conulf (see page 205, note 23) ; Coenuulf, Hem. 
 
 2 Uueogernensis, Hem. 
 8 Hem. omits. 
 
 * post spatium, dierum meorum dabo, Hem. 
 6 Fledanhurh, Hem. 
 
 8 Hem. adds : ' in evum. ' 
 ' cet Fledanhyrig, Hem. 
 
 * liberdbo. Hem. 
 
 8 seculariarum, rerum honeribus. Hem. 
 
 10 leviis, Hem. 
 
 1 1 Hem. adds : ' his. ' 
 
 12 Hem. adds: ' minutam. ' 
 
 13 adnuere, Hem. 
 
 1"^ In Hem. aliquis follows vei'o. 
 15 anathematum, Hem. 
 ifi Hem. ends here. 
 1^ Goenuidf, Hem. 
 
 1 8 Hem. adds : ' atque venerabili episoopo. ' 
 
 19 Deneberhto, Hem. 
 
206 
 
 familig, que sita est in Wigornensi^ oivitate, illorum xii. 
 hominum pastuni, qui rite ad illam pertinent civitatem^ et 
 ad alia qug sub ejus sunt potestate monasteria constituta 
 liberaliter^ concedo, quia ille episcopus et ejus familia* mihi in 
 perpetuam hereditatem .xiii. man[entes] tradiderunt,^ mon- 
 asterium quod vocatur^ ' Bitueonseum '' .iii, man[entes] et 
 in occidentali plaga fluminis Ssebrine^ .x., etsic firmam pacem 
 atque placationem inter nos omnium undique discussis con- 
 vitiorum obstaculis constituti sumus. 
 
 Acta est' hgc donatio anno dominic^^^" Incarnationis^" 
 DCCC." .XIIII., indictione .vii., in vico^^ qui dicitur ' Tom- 
 weorSin,'^'^ die .vii. Kal. Jan[uarii], regni autem nostri a 
 Deo concessi .x°viii°." 
 
 Si quis^* banc nostram^^ donationem^^ et^^ libertatem^^ 
 servare et^' augere voluerit, augeat Dominus^^ omnipotens 
 dies suos^' hie et in eternum.^" Si quis autem hoc in aliquo 
 frangere vel minuere temptaverit, sciat se separatum ^^ a Deo 
 et ab^* omnibus Sanctis in die tremendi examinis, nisi ante 
 hie cum satisfactione emendaverit. 
 
 ^ Hanc libertatem^^ ego Cenulf^' rex Mercporum] cruce 
 Christi signo. 
 ^ Ego Wlfred^* archiepis- ^ Ego Mlipry^ regina.^* 
 
 copus.^^ 
 ^ Ego^' AlduK episcopus. ^ Ego Werenberht episcopus ^^ 
 ^ Ego Deneberht epis- ^ Ego Wulf heard episcopus^' 
 
 copus.^' 
 
 1 Weogernensi, Hem. 
 
 2 civitatem pertinent. Hem. 
 
 3 Hem. adds : ' perenne. " 
 * Hem. adds : 
 
 5 Hem. adds : 
 
 6 nominatur, Hem. 
 ' Bituinceum, Hem. 
 8 Sabrine, Hem. 
 
 8 Hem. adds : ' autem. ' 
 
 10 Hem. omits. 
 
 11 Hem. adds: ' celeberrimo. ' 
 
 12 TomoworSig, Hem. 
 
 1 ^ Hem. adds : ' anno. ' 
 1* Hem. adds: ' autom.' 
 
 15 Hem. omits. 
 
 1 6 Hem. adds : ' nostram. ' 
 1' vel. Hem. 
 
 1** Hem. omits. 
 18 suas. Hem. 
 
 2 sempiternum. Hem. 
 
 2 1 Hem. adds : ' alienatum atque anathematum atque. ' 
 
 22 libertatis donationem dominicae Incarnationis anno [blank] ^ Ego 
 Coenuulf rex Merciorum cum virtuie sanctae crucia scribendo conrohoravi. 
 Hem. 
 
 23 In the MS. the e of this name has been altered from o. The scribe 
 had, no doubt, the form Goen- before him, as at the beginning of the charter, 
 which he started to copy and then changed the spelling into that current in 
 his time, i.e.. Gen. Heming copies the older form correctly as Coenuulf. 
 
 2* Uulfred, Hem. 
 
 2 5 consenei, add. Hem. 
 
 2 6 regine fsic] conroboravi {cr'), Hem. 
 
 2 7 Ealdulf episcopus conroboravi ct aubscripai (cr' est si), Ham, 
 
 2 8 conroboravi (cr'), add. Hem. 
 
 29 conr', altered from cons', add. Hem. 
 
 ' civitati[s] Uueogernensis. 
 ' hoc est. ' 
 
206 
 
 >^ Ego^ Heaberht dux. ^ Ego BeomoS dux. 
 
 ^ Ego Dynna dux. iji Ego Ceolberht dux. 
 
 )5E< Ego Mucel dux. •$< Ego Ceolfwulf^ (sic) con- 
 
 sensi.^ 
 
 VI. 
 
 [821-823]. — Account of the confirmation by Ceolulf, King 
 of Mercia, of land at Intebeorgan (Inkberrow, co. Worcester) 
 to the monastery [of Worcester], although desired by Wulf- 
 heard, in exchange for Bremesgraf (Bromsgrove, co. Worcester), 
 endorsed on a charter of Bishop .Deneberht witnessing that 
 Inkberrow had been confirmed to Worcester in 803 by 
 Wulfheard {Cart. Sax. i, p. 427, no. 308). 
 
 Printed by Hickes, i, p. 172, from original (his transcript 
 is in Harl. MS. 4660, f. 7) ; the original was seen at Worcester 
 in 1643 by Dugdale (Hickes, iii, p. 300, note 8). It was printed 
 from Hickes in the Monasticon, second ed., i, p. 588a, and 
 from Heming by Hearne, p. 21, and from Heame, Hickes' 
 transcript and Cott. Nero E 1, fo. 388b, (now 182d.), which 
 preserves the first seventeen words (see p. 198, above), by 
 Kemble, i, p. 222, no. 183, Birch, i, p. 428, no. 308, Earle, 
 p. 69, and, with a translation, by Thorpe, Diflomatarium 
 Anglicum, p. 47. 
 
 [BREMESGRAF. 
 
 Ceolulf rex wilnade jjses landes set Beemergeafan {sic) to 
 Heaberhte hiscope ond to his hirede,* ond pa. sende] he his 
 Eerendgewrit^ to Wulfhearde" to Intebeorgan,' ond het^ pirt 
 he come' to him ond to Jjsem hirede.^" J)a dyde^^^ he swa. pn, 
 higi^ him to sprsecon se hiscop^^ ond his witan^* ymb pcet land, 
 pcet he his him geu)3e pcet he mihte^* jjone freodom bigiten ;"* 
 ond pa wses he eadmodlice'' ondetta'^ J)3et he swa^" wolde,^" 
 ond to him wihuende^^ wses Jiset hi^^ him funden swylce-^ 
 londare swylce^* he mid arum on beon mihte,^* ond his wic 
 
 1 
 
 Heardberht conroboravi {cr'). Hem. 
 
 
 2 
 
 Ceolumlf, Hem. 
 
 
 3 
 
 Hem. omits. 
 
 
 i 
 
 higiin, Heming ; blank in Hickes. 
 
 
 6 
 
 erendwreocan, Hickes ; cerendwreoc. 
 
 Heming. 
 
 6 
 
 Wulfheard, Hickes. 
 
 
 7 
 
 Intanheorgum, Hickes, Heming. 
 
 
 8 
 
 heht, Hickes, Heming. 
 
 
 9 
 
 cuome, Hickes, Heming. 
 
 
 10 
 
 higum, Hickes, Heming. 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 dede, Hickes. 
 
 
 12 
 
 hio, Hickes ; hco, Heming. 
 
 
 13 
 
 bisceop, Heming. 
 
 
 14 
 
 weotan, Hickes, Heming. 
 
 
 15 
 
 hio meahten, Hicl^es ; heo mehian, 
 
 Homing. 
 
 16 
 
 hegeotan, Hickes, Heming. 
 
 
 17 
 
 eapmodlic, Hickes. 
 
 
 18 
 
 ondeta, Hickes, Heming. 
 
 
 19 
 
 suce, Hickes. 
 
 
 20 
 
 wulde, Hickes ; walde, Heming. 
 
 
 21 
 
 wilnende, Hickes. 
 
 
 22 
 
 >£B«e Mo, Hickes ; ])CB«e heo, Heming. 
 
 23 
 
 swelce, Hickes. 
 
 
 84 
 
 maehte, Hickes ; mehte, Heming. 
 
 
207 
 
 Jjser^ on byri^ beon mihte* on his life, pa, sende he monn 
 to ])am* axcehiscope^ ond to Eadberhte ond to Dynne, ond 
 him heht ssecgan* Ipcet he wihiade Jjses landes' aet Inte- 
 beorgan.^ ])a se arcebisc[o]p' om? Eadberht hit wseron*" 
 semdiende'^^ to kininge^^. ]>& com^' Dynne to gelserde ])one 
 king,^* ])cet he his no gejjsef wses. J)a wses higen ond hlaforde 
 lond unbefliten' eghwses/^ ond sy])|)ani' a oj) his daga ende, 
 Gode gefultmiendum.i' 
 
 VII. 
 
 840, March 28.— Record of grant by Berhtwulf, King of 
 Mercia, to the monastery of Worcester of land in Stoltun 
 (Stoulton, CO. Worcester), Wassaburnan (Washbourne, co. 
 Gloucester), Kineburhgingtun, Tateringtun, and Codeswsella, 
 which he had previously taken away from them unjustly. 
 
 This is printed from Heming by Heame, p. 26, Kemble, 
 ii, p. 7, no. 245, Thorpe, Diplomatarium, p. 90, and Birch, ii, 
 p. 4, no. 30, who notices that the last eight witnesses occur 
 in Cott. MS. Nero E 1, fo. 183, which was in the original 
 chartulary the leaf immediately following the Wollaton one 
 here printed (see p. 198, above). 
 
 STOLTUN ond WASSABURNA ond 
 
 KINEBURH[GING]TUN ond 
 
 TATERINGTUN ond 
 
 CODESW^L. 
 
 Alto et agio^^ Deo nostro ac sanctg ac" gloriose Trinitati 
 virtus, honor et potestas sit in evum^" ! 
 
 Anno^i ab Incamatione^^ Domini nostri DCCG". XL"., indic- 
 tione .m., contigit,^^ quod Berhtulfus^* Rex^s tuht^" a nobis'" 
 
 1 ]>CEre, Hickes. 
 
 2 hyrig, Hickes, Heming. 
 ^ heon mihte, om. Hickes. 
 * ]!CBm, Hickes, Heming. 
 
 s cercdnscope, Hickes ; arcebisceope, Heming. 
 
 6 secgcgan, Hickes. 
 
 ' londe, followed by blank, Hickes. 
 
 8 Intanbeorgan, Hickes, Heming. 
 
 ® (Brcebisceopf Hickes, Heming. 
 
 1" woeran, Heming. 
 
 11 emdiende, Hickes. 
 
 12 cyninge, Hickes, Heming. 
 18 cuom, Hickes, Heming. 
 1* cyning, Hickes, Hem i ng. 
 1^ oeghucBS, Hickes. 
 
 16 sioSSan, Hickes; seoSSan, Heming. 
 
 17 The two last words are omitted by Hickes and Heming. 
 
 18 e< Omnipoteniiseimo, add. Hem. 
 
 19 et, Hem. 
 
 20 ^ perpetuum. Amen, Hem. 
 
 21 autem, add. Hem. _ 
 
 2 2 ejiisdem Dei et Domini noatri Ihesu Ohristi, add. Hem. 
 
 28 autem, add. Hem. 
 
 24 BerhtwiUf, Hem. 
 
 26 Merc[ensium], add. Hem. 
 
 2 8 tollerat. Hem. 
 
 2 7 «t tradidit, add. Heca. 
 
208 
 
 terrain nostram,! qug jure firma donatione concessa est^ ad 
 episcopalem sedem,^ id est ad Weogornensem^ ecclesiam*, ^et 
 suis hominibus donavit instigatione Dei inimicorum^ ; hoc 
 est Stoltun, Uuassaburna,'' Kineburhgingtun, ' Tateringtun/ 
 Codes weella". 
 
 i"Heaberhtus tunc episcopus cum suis amicis in Pascha 
 ad TomweorSin perrexit/" libertates et kartulas^^ prenomi- 
 natarum^^ terrarum secum habens,^^ et ibi coram Regei* 
 ejusque proceribus^^ fuerunt allecta. Et ibi Merciorum 
 optimates judicaverunt,'^ ^'quod injustg despoliati^' suo 
 prbprio essent,i* I'et terrg illis redditg sunt. Iterum EpSX 
 cum venit ad Welesburnan, venit ad eum episcopus, et donavit 
 ei .nn°^ caballos bene electos,^' et unum anulum in 
 .xxx.^" mancusis, et discum argenteum^" in .m. libris^i 
 et .II. alba cornua^^ jn .nn.""^ libris ; ^ajj^ging quoque^* 
 dedit .11.^^ equos^* ^^ond iwegen steapas on .11. pundum, 
 ond .1. cuppan ofergylde on .rt. pundum. ^^ ^^ Et Rex 
 cum testimonio coram principibus, quorum nomina infra 
 notantur, terras predictas episcopo in perpetuam libertatem 
 concessit.^* 
 
 . Si quis vero^' banc nostram elemosinam et libertatem 
 ^^diabolica deceptus avaritia^' frangere vel minuere temp- 
 
 I'l qtwd recte ac jure sub propria (sic) potestate ac libera possessione cum 
 firma donatione tradita est et concessa et firmata. Hem. 
 
 2 sedem episcopalem. Hem. 
 
 ^ Vueogernensem, Hem. 
 
 * aecclesiam. Hem. 
 
 5-5 rex praefatus suobiis (sic) propriis hominihiis condonavit, sicut se 
 inimici homines docuerunt, Hem. 
 
 " Uuassan-, Hem. 
 
 ' Gyneburgingctun, Hem. 
 
 8 Tateringctun, Hem. 
 
 9 Codeswelle, Hem. 
 
 10.10 Tunc perrexit ille episcopus Heaberht, cum aids secum senioribus, 
 in Pascha, ad TomeworSie et suas, Hera. 
 
 11 cartulas. Hem. 
 
 12 ante nominatorum (sic), Hem. 
 
 13 habentes. Hem. 
 1* ante regem. Hem. 
 1^ proceres. Hem. 
 
 18 dejudicaverunt illi. Hem. 
 
 17-17 fit male ac injuste dispoliati esaent in, Hem. 
 
 18 Om. Hem. 
 
 19-19 Tunc illis terra sua reddita eat cum pace, et simul etiam ille episcopus 
 hanc donativum regem predonavit iterum in Welesburnan, hoc est Illlor 
 caballos bene electos, Hem. 
 
 2 fabrcfactum. Hem. 
 
 21 tribtis pundis, Hem. 
 
 22 alhaa cornaa, Hem. 
 
 23-23 ;Et ille regina (sic), Hem. 
 
 2^ bonoa, add. Hem. 
 
 26-25 gi duas steapas in twtem pundum, et unam cuppam deauratam in 
 duobus pundis. Hem. 
 
 2 6-2 6 Et tunc Bex cum testimonio has terras firmiier liberavit sibi in aevum 
 coram suis archontis uniuscujuaque necesaitatis et auatulionis et illud etiam cum 
 aignaculo aanctae crucia Ohristi sua manu flrmiter roborando acripait et munivit. 
 Hem. 
 
 2 7 rex aut princeps, vel alicujus gradus homo. Hem. 
 
 28-28 ,pp,- diabolicam ctvaritiam deceptus ait, ut, Hem. 
 
209 
 
 taverit, sciat se segregatum^ a consortio ^oninium Chris- 
 tianorum et^ sanctorum ^ in die magni* examinis'* ante 
 tribunal Christi, nisi hie Deo et hominibus cum bona satis- 
 factione emendaverit.* 
 
 5< Ego Berhtulf banc meam Monationem signo munio 
 Christi. 8 
 
 ^ Ego SaeJjryS^ regina.i" ^ Ego KineferSii episcopus. i" 
 tji Ego Heaberht episcopus^" i5< Ego Berhtred^^ episcopus." 
 ii< Ego CuSwulf episcopus." ^ Ego Eanmund^^ abbod.^* 
 ^ Ego Hunberht dux. ^ Ego ASelhard^^ dux. 
 
 * Ego Mucel dux. ^ Ego Dudda dux. 
 
 ^ Ego Kineberht^^ dux. ^ Ego Sigered dux. 
 
 [MS. Nero E. 1, fo. 183, continues the list of witnesses 
 as f oUows : 
 
 •it Ego AeJ»elhuni' d„x. ^ Ego Mucel dux, 
 
 iji Ego Eadulf. ij( Ego Alfred minister, i^ 
 
 ^ Ego Wiega minister. ^^ ^ Ego Hwithyse minister, i* 
 
 ^ Ego Eadulf minister. 18 ^ Ego Aldberht minister, i^] 
 
 VIII. 
 
 963. — Demise by Oswald, bishop of Worcester, to his thane 
 ^thelnoth for life of a hide in Heortford. 
 
 This has been printed from Heming by Hearne, p. 130, 
 Kemble, ii, p. 399, no. 509 (boundaries at iii, p. 462), and 
 Birch, iii, p. 338, no. 1105. 
 
 [^DELJNADE. 
 
 [Ego Oswold ergo, Christi crismate prae]sul,i° dominic§ 
 In[camationis anno DCCCCLXIII., annuenjte Rege Anglorum 
 [Eadgaro, ^Elfereque Merciorum comjite^" quandam ru[ris 
 particulam, unam videlicet mansam in loco, qui celebri a 
 soliculis nuncupatur] set Heortford [vocabulo, cuidam ministro 
 meo nomine iE])]elno5 perpetua [largitus hereditate et post 
 
 I BRparatwm, Hem. 
 2-2 Om. Hem. 
 
 3 Dei, add. Hem. 
 * magna. Hem. 
 
 5 jtcdicii. Hem. 
 
 6 Et hii testes adjuerant, qui hoc consenserunt et scripserunt, quorum 
 hie nomina in altera plaga eartulae flavescunt, add. Hem. 
 
 ^ Berhtumlf, Rex Merclensiuni], Hem. 
 
 "•8 libertatem, et donationem cum vexillo sanctae crucis munio, ut fixa 
 permaneat in evum. Hem. 
 9 SceSryS, Hem. 
 1" consensi, add. Hem 
 
 II Oynefer^, Hem. 
 
 12 Berehtred, Hem. 
 
 13 Eammmnd, Hem. 
 1* abbud. Hem. 
 
 15 j^elheard. Hem 
 18 Cyneberht, Hem. 
 
 17 ^JSelwulf, Hem. 
 
 18 Om., Hem. 
 
 19 judicatus. Hem. 
 
 '0 Heming adds : ' necnon et familiae Wiogornensis aecclesiae.' 
 
 M 14 
 
210 
 
 vitae suae] terminum II. tan[tum heredibus immunem dere- 
 linquat, qu]ibus defunctis, g[cclesiae Dei in Weogorna 
 ceastre restitua]tur. 
 
 ]jis sjTid ])a ifandgemaero Joere are hidse into Heo]rtfordaB : 
 of St[anforda up on Mseres slsed ; of Mseres slaede upon Sa 
 csesteilo easteweardre ; of t5an csestello on Colomores sic 
 neoSeweardre ; of Colomores sice up on burghsema weg ; 
 ondlang Ipses weges] on ))on[ei litlan beorh ; fonne swa and- 
 lang furu J)set on J)a healdan stige ; ondlang stige Jjset forS 
 on jElfrices gemsero ; ))onne andlang hricweges on ]>& ea eet 
 ])3ere ealdan mylne ; andlang ea eft on Stanford (&c.)]. 
 
 IX. 
 
 984. — Demise by Oswald, [bishop of Worcester, and] 
 archbishop [of York], with the consent of the monastery of 
 Worcester, to his knight ^thelward for three lives of land at 
 Biscopes Stoc (Stoke Bishop, in Westbury-on-Trym, co. Glouc). 
 
 This has been printed from Heming by Hearne, p. 121, and 
 Kemble, iii, p. 207, no. 646. The original was seen at 
 Worcester by Dugdale in 1643 (Wanley, in Hickes, iii, p. 
 299, no. 50). 
 
 .... NDANGE . . . 
 
 . . . STOCE JBDEL[WARD]. 
 
 [Alma] et individ[ua ubique inlocahter regnante Trinitate] 
 necne ^fielre[do allubescente ac favente per omniparentis 
 nutum^ totius Albionis basileo, JSlfrico M]erciorum comite 
 c[onsentiente, ego Oswaldus, largiflua] Dei dementia, ar[chi- 
 praesul, quandam ruruscuh partem, tres s]cilicet mansas, in 
 [loco qui vocatur " set Bisceopes Stoce" libe]nti concedo an[imo, 
 cum omnibus ad eam utUitatibus rite pertinentibus, cum con- 
 sultu atque] consensu^ ven[erabilis Weogernensium famihae] 
 ^Jjelwardo* meo [videlicet militi", pro ejus humiU subjectione 
 atque famulat]u, ut vita com[ite illo feUciter perfruatur absque 
 uUius] refragatione, [duobusque quibuscumque decreverit post 
 met]am proprii evi' cler[onomis' relinquat, finitoque Ulorum 
 vit]g curriculo a[d usum primatis in Weogornaceastre r]edeat 
 inmuni[s aecclesiae]. 
 
 [Anno dominicae Incarnati]oms DCCCC. LXX[XIIII.o 
 scripta est cartula ista, his testibus] adstipulant[ibus, quorum 
 nomina infra caraxata cernuntur]. 
 
 Dis sjoidon* ])[a landgemsero J)sera Jjreora hida set] Bisc- 
 [o]pes Stoke* : [serest on Ipses heges hyrnan be Westan] 
 stoce ; of Jjsem^" [on Jia ealdan die on haran msere nor]S- 
 
 1 This is the last line of the strip. 
 
 2 Notum, Hem. 
 
 ® permissione. Hem. 
 
 * jM]>elwerdo, Hem. 
 
 5 milito, Hem. 
 
 8 aevi. Hem. 
 
 ^ clero nommia. Hem. 
 
 8 synd. Hem. 
 
 » Stoce, Hem. 
 
 10 ]>am. Hem. 
 
211 
 
 warde^ ; Jjonon [innan Filidleage norSwarde ; of Filidleage 
 norSw]ard on^ fone h[o]an broc ; of J)3em holan broce innan 
 Sweoperlan st]ream ; ^jjonon [on Dinningcgrafes wyrt 
 truman ; *)jon]on all swa seo^ d[ic sceot on Esnig msedwge 
 wearde ; of Esnig msedwan eal" Jionon al]lswa Ipset ealda' 
 r[i8ig sceot up on Jjone ealdan h]earpa8 ; ^ swa» u[p on Ipa, 
 healdan die wi5 Stoces weard ; of Jjaere ealdan die i°to Jjsem 
 hege ; J)on]on all swa hiti" [seeot be Stoce westan eft on ])eea 
 hjeges hyrnan. 
 
 [* Ego Oswa]ld, Christi largition[e, archipontifex, cum 
 caraotere sanctae crucis corroboravi. ^ Ego Wynsfge] pres- 
 byter. ^ Ego r^jjelstan presbyter. * Ego iElfsige presbyter, 
 
 * Ego .^Jjelsige presbyter. * Ego Eadgar presbyter. 
 ^ Ego Wist]an presbyter. ^ Ego [^Jjelstan presbyter. 
 
 * Ego Eadward] presbyter. ^ Ego [Godingc diaconus. 
 
 * Ego Leofstan diaconus. >^ Ego Wulfwejard diaconus. 
 
 * Eg[o MpeMc diaconus. ^ Ego Cyne]])eiga.^'^ clericus. 
 ^ Eg[o Wulfgar clericus. •$< Ego Leofw]ine monachus. 
 
 * Ego [Wulfric clericus. ^ Ego J]]J)elwold clericus. 
 
 * Ego WulnoS clericus. ^ Ego Wulfwine clericus]. 
 
 X. 
 
 990.— Demise by Archbishop Oswald, with the consent of 
 the monastery at Worcester, to his man iEthelmser for three 
 lives of land at Cumtune (Compton, co. Worcester) at Mersc. 
 . This has been printed from Heming by Hearne, p. 129, and 
 Kemble, iii, p. 255, no. 675. 
 
 [.EDE]LM[^R]. 
 
 [In usses Drihtnes no]man! ^^Ic [Oswald arcebisceop, mid ge])af- 
 unge and leafe] Jjaes a[rwor5an hyredes on Wiogernaceastre, 
 ge iunges ge ealdes, gebocjige sum[ne deel landes minan 
 holdan and getriowan men jje^^ is ^|je]lmgerhattei*o[n twam 
 stowum twega hida landes on] III. manna da[eg, ane hide 
 on Cumtune on his ha]mstalle,i5 and halfi*[]Jonewudu Jjserto, 
 and opxe on Mer]sce, for his ead[modre hyrsumnysse and for 
 his licwe]or5umi'feo, jjset i[8 twa pund mere hwites seolfres 
 
 1 norSwardre ; of haran mcere. Hem. 
 
 2 in. Hem. 
 
 8 of Sweoperlan streame, add. Hem. 
 
 * of Dynningcgrafea wyrt truman call, add. Hem. 
 ^ se, Hem. 
 
 * of Esnig mcedwan eal seemB to have been omitted from the Wollaton 
 MS., to judge by the space occupied by the other missing half lines. 
 
 ' ealde. Hem. 
 
 * of poem, ealdan hearpaSe up, add. Hem. 
 
 9 Om. Hem. 
 
 10-10 eal swa se hege. Hem. 
 
 11 Cyne]>egn, Hem. 
 
 12 hcelendes Oristes, add. Hem. 
 
 13 ])CBm, Hem. 
 1* nama. Hem. 
 
 15 hamatealle, Hem. 
 
 18 healf. Hem. 
 
 IV licweor^cm, Hem. 
 
212 
 
 and XX ]x eowna,i mid h[iora lambum, and iiii. oxan, and twa 
 cy and an h]ors ; Jjset is Ipset he^ ha[ebbe and wel bruce his 
 dseg, and sefter hi]s dsege II. erfn[uman^ J)am Ipe him 
 leofost sy, and him to geeamian wylle, and hio hit hjebben 
 to frion selces ])inges butan] wall geweorce* [and brygo gewe- 
 orce and ferdsoone]. 
 
 [Bis sjmd Ipaere anre hid]e land gemser[u on Mersce : serest 
 of ^Jjelstanes gem]sere to Jjam wyll[e on Biles hamme ; 
 Ipoime ut to J)a]m middel gema[ere].^ 
 
 [])is wses gedon Ipy geare pe wjses agan fram [Cristes 
 gebyrdtide nigon hund wintra and hund nigontig wintjra, 
 on Jiara* ge[witnysse Ipe hiora naman her beneoS]an'' 
 standaS. 
 
 [^ Ic^ Oswald arcebisceop mid Cristes rode tacne J)as sylene 
 gefsestnode. ^] Ic Aejjelstan [primus, ^ Ic J51fsige pres- 
 byter. ^] Ic Eadgar [presbyter. ^ Wistan presbyter. 
 ^ jUJjelsige presbyter, iji] Ic ^Ifsi. [ ^ JiJSelstan presbyter. 
 i5( ] Ic Goding' [diaconus. t^ Leofstan diaconus. ^] Ic 
 Wulfward [diaconus. ii< ^Selric diaconus. ^] Ic CynetSen*" 
 [clericus. )J( Wulfgar clericus. ^] Ic Leofwine [monachus. 
 •^ Wulfric clericus. ^ WuIfnoS clericus. ^] Ic Wulfwine 
 [clericus]. 
 
 [^ And ic gean him Jjses wJorSiges aet Bry[nes hamme 
 8e ^])elm ahte, and J>]ses croftes J)ser[to be eastan J)sere 
 strsete] on Ipsst ilce gera[d ]je J)is ojier is. ^ ^^pses gen bee 
 hyraS into Wincescumbe.] 24. 
 
 An imperfect 12th century MS., containing 38 folios, 
 measuring 8| inches by 12| inches, written in double columns, 
 commencing : " et kartas comparavi ab eis, qui in illo tem- 
 pore scriptores erant, et scripsi omnia que passa est beatissima 
 Margareta. Lectio Secunda. Fratres, omnes aures habentes 
 corde inteUigite, viri, mulieres, virgines, tenere puelle, ut 
 requiem sempitemam viri et mulieres cum justis a Domino 
 coronati percipiatis. Beatissima autem Margareta erat Theo- 
 d[o]sii filia," etc. Short lections on other Saints foUow, 
 interspersed with musical notation. 
 
 A small volume, measuring 8 J inches by 6 inches, written 
 in early 13th century hands, bound in oak boards covered 
 with white leather. This book has evidently been used in 
 the 14th and 15th centuries by schoolboys, as there are rough 
 sketches and words scribbled in it in various places. The 
 
 I euvma. Hem. 
 ~ Om. Hem. 
 
 ^ erfeweardan, Hem. 
 * weal gewerce, Hem. 
 6 geare, Hem. 
 6 brOSra, add. Hem. 
 ' awritene, add. Hem. 
 
 8 The word Ic is omitted in all the following instances in Hem. 
 
 9 Oodingc, Hem. 
 
 10 Cyne]ien, Hem. 
 
 II This paragraph does not appear to have been copied into the Wol- 
 aton MS. 
 
213 
 
 following names occur : /' Raf Savag'," foil. 91, 92, etc. ; 
 " R . . . . Warner," fo. 104v ; " Iste liber constat 
 Johanni Wapplode," fo. 138?; ; " WUlelmus Cayso est pravus 
 puer " ; " Johannes Kerne, Willelmus Kerne," fo. 152 ; 
 " Bythan," fo. 156?; ; " WiU. Hasilwode," fo. 159 ; and, at 
 the end, " Iste liber constat Johanni Cole, de Wodyl' " ; 
 " Iste liber constat Radulfe (sic) Sava[ge]," " Iste Uber constat 
 Savage, bonus puer " ; " Winnington." There is also a note 
 at the end, in a 15th cent, hand : " Precium hujus voluminis, 
 xijd." At fo. 137 the following is written and partly erased : 
 " Half .... I am sent ; I herd tel awndjn: [= a 
 
 wonder] tale rwas went. Me ys set a corn(?) 
 
 sale." At fo. U3v in a 15th cent, hand : " Hop we all 
 that God is bothe God and man, and tat he is hower' hall', 
 ij. come er' a messinger' forto tel wen now ye Kync is 
 ad . . . don a grete mischef, and her' ade{?) slauu(?), 
 the Lord is here al this rein." Above is written "Hop sa, 
 down la," which occurs several times in the volume. At 
 fo. 146?; in a 14th century hand : — " Honour we alle ];at ywe 
 scyld that W." At fo. 149, in an early 14th cent, hand : 
 " Wan ye reyn reynit, sliperit [= becomes slippery] ye 
 
 weye .... thriste [= thrust] quando 
 
 pluvia pluit viam labilitat pessimus tepor, et tu inimicem pun- 
 gnet.'" These Enghsh sentences are in a northern dialect 
 (Yorkshire ?). The volume seems to have been drawn up for 
 school use, as it contains some of the poetical and grammatical 
 works used in the medieval school curriculum. The volume 
 has, apparently, lost some pages at the commencement. The 
 present first page lacks the lower part. 
 
 I- — Polios 1 to 28u. Extracts with interhnear and marginal 
 glosses from the Graecismus of Everard of Bethune, one of 
 the most celebrated grammatical works of the Middle Ages. 
 The extracts commence as follows (= c. XIV, 95, Eberhardi 
 Bethuniensis Graecismus, ed. J. Wrobel, Wratislaw, 1887) : 
 " Hie est articulus et pro quidam reperitur, 
 Ut si quis dicat : ' hominum stant hii, resident hii.' 
 Hie quoque multotiens pro talis ponitur, ut si 
 Tu dicas : ' hec [h]erba meo revirescit in [h]orto.' 
 Hie quoque demonstrat, quod sepe potest reperiri. 
 Derivativis est significatio duplex. 
 Nam possessoris intrin[secus]i persona vocatur, 
 Ast extrinsecus hinc possessio significatur. " 
 It finishes, fo. 28?;, as under (=c. XXVII. end) : 
 
 " Verbaque cum motu sibi jungunt diptota -turn, -tu. 
 Explicit Ebrardi Grecismus nomine Christi, 
 Qui dedit Alpha vel o [^= f^ ]. Sit laus et gloria Christo. 
 Explicit hie scriptus, qui scripsit sit benedictus." 
 
 II. — Folios 29 to 31, in a somewhat later and larger hand. 
 The first has the contemporary numeration: "Ixij"'-" 
 
 The letters secits are wntten over the line as a gloss. 
 
214 
 
 They contain a poem in 115 lines De Penitentia, with full 
 marginal commentary in a different hand. The author's name 
 is not mentioned. The poem is assigned in several MSS. to 
 John de Garlandia, a famous English scholar settled in 
 France, but it is also ascribed to other writers, and the author- 
 ship is doubtful. 1 It commences : 
 
 " [PJeniteas cito peccator, cum sit miserator 
 Judex ; et sunt hec^ quinque tenenda tibi : 
 Spes venie, cor contritum, confessio culpe, 
 _ Pena satisfaciens, et fuga nequitie." 
 The end is as foUows : 
 
 " Ad dominum sunt hec festinanti tibi causa : 
 Ignis purificans, mors, egritudo, ruborque, 
 Et cure gratuitas et consuetudo ruine. 
 Sit scriptor sanus, sit benedicta manus. 
 Explicit Hber de modo penitentie. Amen." 
 III. — Fol. 32-75. An anonymous grammatical treatise 
 commencing with the following Unes, which are written as 
 prose : 
 
 " Scribere clericulis paro doctrinale novellis, 
 Pluraque doctorum sociabo scrip ta meorum, 
 Jamque legent pueri pro nugis Maxim[i]ani." 
 This is the famous Doctrinale of Alexander de Ville 
 Dieu,* one of the most widely used works on grammar 
 from the thirteenth century until the Reformation. The 
 MS. is provided with interlinear and marginal Latin glosses. 
 " Qui veteres socu[s] nolebant pandere caris 
 5. Presens huic operi sit gracia neupmatis [=pneumatis] 
 almi. 
 Me juvet et faciat implere quod utile fiat. 
 Si pueri primo nequeant attendere plene, 
 Hie tamen attendet, qui doctoris vice fungens 
 Atque legens pueris layca Hngua reserabit, 
 10. Et pueris etiam pars maxima plana patebit. 
 
 24. Quamvis hec non est doctrina satis generahs, 
 
 Proderit ipsa tamen plus nugis Maxim[i]ani. 
 
 Post Alphabetum [glossed Donatum] minus hec doc- 
 trina legetur ; 
 
 Inde leget majus [glossed alphabetum, id est Priscianus], 
 mea qui documenta sequetur ; 
 
 Iste fere totus Hber est extractus ab Ulo " [glossed 
 Prisciano]. 
 
 1 See M. [B.] Haur^au, ' Notice sur les CEuvres authentiques ou sup- 
 poshes de Jean de Garlaade,' in Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la 
 BibliotMque Nationale, vol. xxvii., part 2, p. 10 sqq., Paris, 1879. See also 
 Bale, Index Britanniae Scriptorum, ed. Poole and Bateson, p. 207. 
 
 2 ' haec et sunt,' Haur^au. 
 
 8 Ed. by Prof. Dietrich Reichling, Das Doctrinale des Alexanders de 
 Villa Dei, Berlin, 1893, in Monumenta Oermaniae Paedagogica, vol. xii. Cf. 
 Haur^au, ' Notices et Extraits de divers Manuscripts latins, pour servir 
 a I'Histoire des Doctrines grammaticales au Moyen Age,' in Notices et 
 Extraits des MSS., xzii. part 2, pp. 28, 98 (Paris 1868). 
 
215 
 
 Conclusion (= Reichling, 2640-45) : 
 
 " Doctrinale, Dei virtute juvante, peregi, 
 Nil reor assertum quod non licet esse tenendum, 
 Pluraque signavi, que non debent imitari. 
 Grates reddo tibi, genitor Deus, et tibi, Christe, 
 Nate Dei Deus, atque tibi, Deus [hjalitus alme ; 
 Quas tres personas in idem credo Deitatis. 
 Explicit hie scriptus, qui scripsit sit benedictus. 
 Explicit expliceat, ludere scriptor eat." 
 IV.— Polios 75v to 18v. A Latin poem by Serlo treating 
 of Latin synonyms. It is printed in full by Haureau, 
 Notices sur les Melanges poetiques d'Hildebert de Lavar- 
 din," in Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits, xxviii, part 2, 
 p. 429. The author of this poem, which is sometimes entitled 
 " Differentie " and sometimes " De Partibus Orationis," is 
 identified with Serlo de Wilton, an EngKsh monk settled in 
 France and a friend of Walter Map and Giraldus Cambrensis, 
 by Haureau, " Notice sur un Manuscrit de la Reine Christine," 
 in Notices et Extraits, xxix., 2, p. 233, sqq. Cf. xxvii, 2, p. 44. 
 " DactUe, quid latitas ? exi ; quid pubhca vitas ? 
 Quis vetat audiri que fas nee inutile sciri ? 
 Non [ahos^] cura nisi, qui norunt tua jura. 
 Ergo versifico ; die cuivis que tibi dico. 
 Accipe quas dic[h]ronas partes in carmine ponas, 
 Que confusa sono distincta vocabula pono. 
 In me Serlonem non respice, set racionem. 
 Si bene stat, sic sit ; si non, qms non male dixit ? 
 Si placeo nulli, quid nuUo carius uUi ? 
 
 [De A.l 
 Unam semper amo, cujus non solvar ab hamo? 
 Dicitur arbor acer, vir fortis et improbus acer. 
 Forma senilis anus, pars quedam corporis anus. 
 Mel defertur afi cum ros descendit ab a-pi.''^ 
 It ends as follows (differing from Haureau's text in arrange- 
 ment of Knes and in omission of ten Unes at the end) : 
 
 " Me terret quod humor, non terret quod sonat humor. 
 Serlo docetur uti, non doctus, amoris uti. 
 Si transire velis maris undas, utere velis. 
 Ante fruere vadis, per aquas si dux mihi vadis. 
 ver quando venis, trahis eterna thima venis." 
 In the margin are written in the same (?) hand glosses in 
 Anglo-French, commencing : " Amo, -as, verbum ; hie 
 hamus, hami, i. crok, croker. Hec acer, acri, arable ; hie acer, 
 hec acer, hoc acre, egre. Hec anus, -ui, vel vetule ; hie anus, 
 ani, extrema pars corporis. Hec apes, apis, ees ; hie apis, 
 -pis, -pi, muntayne. Hec ara [^hara], are, porcherie; hec ara, 
 are, auter. Alo, alis, nurir ; hec ala, ale, ele. Aro, aras, arat, 
 arrer; areo, ares, i[d est] siccare, sechir." 
 
 1 This word, supplied from Notices et Extraits, is erased. 
 
 2 Cf. Wilhelm Meyer, Gesammelie Abhandlungen zur mittellateiniechen 
 Bythmik, Berlin, 1905, i, p. 83. 
 
216 
 
 V. — Fo. 78?;. to 80i>. A similar poem, beginning : 
 " Ut medias dic[h]ronas edoctus merce reponas, 
 Hec, lector, cura Radulfi tradita cura. 
 Nomen habens arator, fuerat dominus Arator. 
 Presbiter est agamus, pariter nos sic et agamus." 
 It ends at foot of page as under : 
 
 " Dicito ' care, vale, quia procumbit latro valle. 
 Te nolebat ana nexisse nuncius anna.' " 
 Ralph de Longo Campo, an Englishman or Frenchman, 
 wrote, in the early part of the thirteenth century, a work 
 called " Distinctiones," besides other educational books. M. 
 B. Haureau (Notices et Extraits, xxxiii, pt. 1, p. 280) states 
 that he had never met with a MS. of this work under Ralph's 
 name. This may possibly be a copy of the Distinctiones. 
 
 VT. — Folios 81 (numbered in an early hand "Iviij"'") 
 to 90, written in a somewhat later hand, without glosses, 
 contain an anonymous poem on Latin synonyms. This was 
 ascribed to John de Garlandia by John Boston of Bury in the 
 fifteenth century, and by Bale, Index Britanniae Scriptorum, 
 p. 207, but this ascription is rejected on the grounds of style 
 by M. Haureau, " Notice sur les QEuvres authentiques ou sup- 
 posees de Jean de Garlande," in Notices et Exiraits des MSS., 
 xxYii, part 2, p. 56 sqq. ; cf. also vol. xxxii, part 2, p. 84 sq. 
 He assigns the authorship to Matthew de Vendome or to 
 Geoffrey de Vinesauf, his disciple. An edition of it has been 
 pubUshed under the title of Die Synonyma des Johannes von 
 Garlandia, by Prof. M. Kurz, Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, 
 no. 47, Vienna, 1885. It was printed from a poor MS. by 
 Polycarp Leyser, Historia Poetarum et Poematum Medii Aevi, 
 Halae, 1721, p. 312. 
 
 " Ad mare ne videar latices deferre, camino 
 Ingniculum, densis vel frondes addere sUvis, 
 Hospitibusque pira Calabris dare,i vina Lieo^ 
 Aut Gereri fruges, apibus mel, vel thima pratis, 
 Poma vel Alcineo^, vel moUi[a] tura Sabeo : 
 Nil veterum tritis euro superaddere dictis, 
 Sed dare lac pueris, proponens parva pusUlis, 
 Quos solum dicant materne munera Hngue. 
 Sermonis tribuo pueris elementa Latini, 
 Quorum multiphcem, lector, preconcipe fructum. 
 Quisquis abundare cupit in sermone Latino 
 Atque reservare, que mens scito lubrica fundit, 
 EHgit e multis hinc mutatoria vocum, 
 Ut diversimode rem sign[ific]abit eandem. 
 Edocet equivocis opus hoc, sinonima jungens 
 Versibus et rithimis, ut vocum copia detur. 
 ExempUs variis brevis et producta docetur. 
 
 1 Hor. Ep. i, 7, 14 : ' Non, quo more piris vesci Calaber jubet hospes.' 
 
 2 " Lyaeo. " 
 
 * ' ' Aloinoo. ' ' Ovid, Pont., iv, 2, 10. 
 
217 
 
 Sub multis plures unam rem voce sub una, 
 Que fieri semper, quod fit plerumque, putamus. 
 Fallimus hinc alios, et ab ipsis fallimur ipsi. 
 Est opus idcirco congnoscere, qualiter et quo 
 Equivocis et ab u[n]ivocis sinonima distant." 
 
 Conclusion (= 704, Leyser, 494 Kurz) : 
 
 Alvus, et alviolus, est venter, i ventriculusque, ^ 
 Additur bus uterus prengnantibus appropriatus, 
 
 Followed by these lines (=Kurz, 850) : 
 
 Virginis est alvus, et sic ab alendo vocata. 
 Ex utero dicti ge[r]mani sunt uterini. 
 
 Laus^ tibi sit, Christe, quia codix (sic) scribitur iste. 
 Explicit expHciat, ludere scriptor eat." 
 
 VII. — ^Folios 91i; to 103u. A poem (without glosses) treat- 
 ing of Latin " sequivoca " or homonyms. It is printed by 
 Leyser, p. 338. It is found in MSS. following the preceding 
 poem, and has been ascribed to the author thereof by M. 
 Haureau, Notices et Extraits, xxvii, part 2, p. 58. But the 
 present MS. shows that the author's name was Henry, who 
 must, if M. Haureau is correct in connecting this poem with 
 the preceding one on the grounds of subject and style, be 
 also the author of the preceding poem. 
 
 Equivoca hoc ordiae triplici disponere destinavimus : 
 primo quidem, ut ponantur per se quotquot incipiunt ab a ; 
 secundo, que a 6 ; tertio, que a c ; et sic deinceps secundum 
 ordinem alphabeti. Secundo, ut in hiis, que incipiunt a dyp- 
 
 tongo. Demum, que a simphci vocali De 
 
 preposicionibus hie nihil interserimus, quia pro majori parte 
 preposiciones tarn Grece quam Latine equivoce, et ideo de 
 iUis separatum tractatum tradendum decrevimus. Eursus 
 dic[h]ronas partes fere omnes omittimus, et maxime dissiUybas 
 propter Serlonicos versus. TrisUlyba et in mediis dic[h]rona 
 nota. Que deinceps diversos accentus tarn in recto quam in 
 obhquis habentia hinc segregamus. De hiis enim aUas 
 dicemus. 
 
 Augustus, -ti, -to, Cesar vel mensis habeto. 
 Augustus, -tus, -tui, vult divinacio dici. 
 Mobile cum fiat Augustus, nobile signat : 
 Augeo dat primum, dat gustus aw'sque secundum. 
 Aura favor, splendor, flatus dicatur et aer. 
 Est abacus mensa, metrum(?) capitale columpne." 
 It ends as follows : 
 
 ' ' Equivoca hec legi, que metri lege coegi, 
 Et licebit ista legi pueris, quibus ipsa peregi, 
 Atque libet dici lector, quicunque fuisti. 
 In capud Henrici veniat benediccio Christi. 
 Explicet (sic) expliceat." 
 
 1 neuter, MS. 
 
 2 neutrir-, MS. 
 ' laiux, MS. 
 
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 VIII. — ^Folios 105 to llOv. A collection of apopthegms in 
 verse without the name of the author, but which can be iden- 
 tified as the Disticha bearing the name of Cato, a favourite 
 medieval schoolbook, with the later prose introduction, which 
 is ascribed to the time of Charles the Great by Emil Baehrens, 
 Poetae Latini Minores, iii., p. 205, Leipsig (Teubner), 1881, 
 and which is partly repeated by Everard of Bethune in his 
 Oraecismus. The text has interlinear and marginal glosses. 
 
 ' ' Cum animadverterem, quam plurimos homines graviter 
 errare in via morum, succurrendum opinion! eorum et con- 
 sulendum fore existimavi, maxime ut gloriose viverent et 
 honorem contingerent. Nunc te, fih karissime, docebo, quo 
 pacto tui animi mores componas. Igitur mea precepta ita 
 legito, ut [an erasure] intelhgas : legere enim et non intelligere, 
 idem est neghgere^. Itaque Deo suppUca, parentes ama, 
 cognatos cole," etc. 
 
 [Liber Primus.] 
 
 1. " Si Deus est animus, nobis ut carmina dicunt, 
 Hie tibi precipue sit pura mente colendus. 
 
 2. Plus vigila semper, ne[u] sompno deditus esto ; 
 Nam diuturna quies viciis ahmenta ministrat." 
 
 IX. — Pohos llOu to lllv. An anonymous eclogue of 36 
 lines, with glosses, commencing : 
 
 " Ethiopum terras jam fervida torruit estas. 
 In cancro sohs dum volvitur aureus axis ; 
 Compuleratque suas tilie sub amena capellas 
 Natus ab Athenis pastor, cognomine Pseustis : 
 Pellis pant[h]ere cui corpus^ texit utrimque 
 Discolor," [etc.]. 
 
 This is from the work of Theodulus, of whom nothing is 
 known beyond his name. See G. L. Hamilton, in Modern 
 Philology, vii, p. 169, Chicago, 1909, His eclogue, which 
 contains 352 hnes, was last pubhshed in 1902 (Theoduli Ecloga, 
 ed. by J. Osternacher, Linz, 1902). Cf. Thurot, Notices et 
 Extraits des MSS., xxii., part 2, p. 452, for the metre 
 (' consonantia '). 
 
 X. — FoMos lllv to 116v. Seventy-seven more lines of 
 
 Theodulus, with glosses. 
 
 [Pseustis.] "Primus Creteis Saturnus venit ab oris,^ 
 Aurea per cunctas disponens secwla terras. 
 NuUus ei genitor, nee quisquam tempore major 
 Ipso gaudet avo superum generosa propago." 
 
 [Alithia.] " Incola primus homo fuit in viridi pardiso 
 Conjuge [v]iperium donee suadente venenum 
 Hausit, eo cunctis miscendo pocula mortis 
 Sentit adhuc proles quod commisere* parentes." 
 
 1 neggligere, MS. 
 
 2 corpus cui, Baelirens. 
 
 3 Altered from horia. 
 
 * Altered by erasure from commiBoere. 
 
219 
 
 Concludes (= 341, Osternaoher) : 
 
 " Treicius vates commovit pectine manes, 
 Te moveant lacrime, jam toUit cornua Phebe. 
 Sol petit occasum, frigus snecedit opacum,^ 
 Desine quod restat, ne disperatio ledat. Explicit." 
 XI. — Polios 116 verso to 128. Here follow, without any 
 title, the fables of Avienus, with a few glosses, beginning [ed. 
 Baehrens, Poetae Latini Minores, v., p. 35] : 
 " Rustioa deflenti parvo juraverat ohm 
 ' Ni taceas, rabido^ quod foret esca lupo.' 
 Credulus hano vocem lupus audit et manet ipsas 
 Pervigil ante fores, irrita vota gerens," etc. 
 
 It ends with the fable of the wolf and the goat, beginning 
 [= Baehrens, p. 69] : 
 
 " Forte lupum meUor cursu deluserat [h]edus 
 Proxima vicinis dum petit arva casis." 
 
 " Sic quotiens duphci subdicuntur tristia casu, 
 Expedit insignem promeruisse necem. 
 Explicit." 
 
 XII.— Fohos 128 to 139 v. The elegies of Maximian, partly 
 glossed in Latin and French, commencing : 
 
 " Emula quid cessas finem properare senectus 
 Cura et in hoc fesso corpore tarda vends ? 
 Solve, precor, miseram de tali carcere vitam." 
 Conclusion : 
 
 " Ergo exactum quodque est vitabile nuUi, 
 Festino gressu vincere prestat iter 
 Infelix ; ceu jam defuncto corpore surgit 
 Hac me defunctum vivere parte puto. 
 Exphcit liber Maximiani." 
 [Edited by Baehrens, Poetae Latini Minores, v., p. 317 ; 
 Maximiani Elegiae ad fidem Oodicis Etonensis recensuit et 
 emendavit M. Petschenig (Berliner Stvdien fur Klassische 
 Philohgie und Archaeologie, xi., Heft. 2 (1890).] 
 
 XIII.— Folios 140 to 159. The AchilUis of Statius, 
 beginning (= i. 1) : 
 
 " Magnanimum Eaciden formidatamque Tonanti 
 Progeniem [et] patrio vetitam sucoedere celo, 
 Diva, refer," etc. 
 Conclusion (=ii. 166) : 
 
 " Hactenus annorum, comites, elementa meorum 
 Et memini meminisse juvatque : scit cetera mater. 
 Exphcit Stacius Achilleidos." 
 
 XIV. — FoUos 159 to the end of volume. A portion of 
 Claudian, De Baptu Proserpinae, without any title. It 
 commences (= praefatio) : 
 
 1 oppagv/m, MS. 
 
 2 rapido, MS. 
 
220 
 
 " Inventa secuit qui primus nave profundum 
 Et rudibus remis sollicitavit aquas. 
 Qui dubiis ausus committere flafcibus alnum, 
 Quas natura negat, prebuit arte vias." 
 
 Conclusion (^ii. 51) : 
 
 " Crisfcatum radiis: primo dementi or evo 
 Fingitur et tenerum vagitu, despuit ignem." 
 
 An imperfect volume, without covers, consisting of 102 
 folios, measuring 7^ by lOJ inches, written in an early 
 thirteenth century hand in double columns. It is a portion 
 of the work of Robert de Gretham entitled Miroir or Evangiles 
 des Dome.es, and has not yet been printed. See Grober, 
 Gnmdriss der romanischen Philologie, ii., part 1, p. 747. It 
 commences : 
 
 Grant joie funt trestut de gre 
 
 Tut cil ke Jesus ad salve, 
 
 E nus seignurs pur Deu amur 
 
 Hastum de fere bon retur 
 
 Ke pussum faire as seinz leesce 
 
 Ke dolent sunt de nostre paresce 
 
 Ke pussum dire en lur regn6 
 
 Ben ait ki vent el nun de De. 
 
 Ce est la secunde dompne de V Advent. 
 In illo tempore dixit Jesus discipulis suis ' erunt signa in 
 sole et luna et stellis,' etc." 
 
 The last rubric is that of the eleventh Sunday after Trinity, 
 Conclusion : 
 
 Mes ore avum brefment tuche 
 
 Del orguil de cest farise, 
 
 Ore oiim de cest publicant 
 
 Qui esteit verrai repentant. 
 
 Pubhcan est qui hunte pert 
 E par itant peche en uvert. 
 Qui pecche tut uvertement 
 En out nuli chastiement. 
 
 A small volume, measuring 7 inches by lOJ inches, without 
 covers and lacking the commencement, written in double 
 columns, containing forty-two lines each, in a thirteenth 
 century hand. It is a copy of the Manuel des Pechies of 
 Wilham de Wadington, whose name here appears as 
 Wuldingdune. It has been edited from other MSS. by Dr. 
 Furnivall in Robert of Brunne's Handlyng Synne, Roxburghe 
 Club, 1862, and for the Early English Text Society, 1901. 
 Commences : 
 
 U par alcune affinite (2182) 
 
 A femme ke dust espuser 
 E en matrimoygne celebrer. 
 
221 
 
 Conclusion (fo. 56. col. 2) : 
 
 Del Franceis ne del rimeyer (12,736) 
 
 Ne nae deit nul home blamer 
 
 Kar en Engleterre esteie n6 
 
 E nurri illoc e orden6. 
 
 D'une vilette suy num6 
 
 Ke n'est burc ne cite. 
 
 De Deu seit beneit chescun home 
 
 ■Ri prie pur Willam Wuldingdune ; 
 
 Ki pur altre prie e hure 
 
 Pur sei meismes bien labure. 
 
 En Deu finisse cest escrit 
 
 En Pere, en Filz, en Seint Esperit. 
 Explicit. 
 Followed (fo. 57) by a copy in the same hand of Robert 
 of Gretham's Miroir or Evangiles des Domees (see above). 
 Commences : 
 
 A sa trechere dame Aline 
 
 Saluz en la vertu divine. 
 
 Ma dame, bien I'ai oi dire 
 
 Ke mult amez oir e lire 
 
 Chancon de geste e d'estoire 
 
 E mult i metez la memoire, 
 
 Mais bien voil que vus sach^z 
 
 Que CO est plus de vanitez. 
 Conclusion (fo. 171) : 
 
 Ici finisent les domees 
 
 Brefment espuns e enditees. 
 
 Ore pri tuz ki I'oent e dient 
 
 K'il'pur Robert de Gretham prient, 
 
 Ki Deus meintenge si sa vie 
 
 Ke par lui seit en sa bailb'e. Amen. 
 
 Ici termine le mireur 
 
 Des omelies la dulcur. 
 
 A 13th century copy of the Vulgate, written in two 
 columns in a very beautiful and minute hand on thin parch- 
 ment leaves, measuring 6 inches by 9i inches, with finely 
 executed illuminated initials. On the first page is written, 
 in an early 15th century hand, " Liber Sancti Cuthberti de 
 Dunelmia." 
 
 A stout volume, measuring about eight inches by twelve, 
 written in an early thirteenth century French hand, with 
 illuminated initials containing figures of knights, etc., in the 
 costume of the time. The first cover is missing, the other 
 one is of oak, covered with scarlet leather. It contains a 
 considerable number of romances and fabKaux written in 
 the Picard dialect. The texts of those that have appeared 
 in print are in most cases superior to the MSS. used for the 
 
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 printed texts. This is especially true of the fabliaux, etc., 
 that were obviously written originally in the Picard dialect. 
 They add much to the knowledge of the works of the author 
 of " Conebert," a well-known fabliau, prove that he was 
 Gau tiers le Leus, and afford strong evidence that he was a 
 Picard. The only record of the history of the volume is the 
 name " John' Bertrem, de Thorp Kilton " (Thorpe, in Kilton, 
 parish of Brotton, near Guisborough, co. York) in a fifteenth 
 century hand, at fo. 347 verso. In the MS. two or three 
 words are frequently written as one ; in the following quotations 
 they are separated. 
 
 I. (Fo. 1.) — A poem with no title ; it is the Romance 
 of Troy of Benoit de Sainte Maure (ed. by A. Joly, Benoit 
 de Sainte More et le Roman de Troie, Paris, 1870, and by 
 Leopold Constans, Le Roman de Troie, par Benoit de Sainte 
 Maure, Paris, 1904-8, Societe des AnCiens Textes Fran9ais). 
 The first nine pages and nineteen lines have been supplied 
 in a later (fourteenth century) hand. They commence : 
 
 [S]alemons nos ensoigne et dit 
 
 Et si trovommes en escrit 
 
 Que nus ne doit lo san celer, 
 
 Aincois le doit si demostrer. 
 This later hand ends (Une 953 of Constans' text) : 
 
 [Q]ant vint contre le tans novel 
 
 Que ducement chantent oisel. 
 
 Que la flors est frasche et leale 
 
 Et I'arbe est varz et renovale. 
 After an interval of a blank column and a half the early 
 hand begins a quire with folio 2 : 
 
 Quant U vergie[r] sont gent flori (956) 
 
 Et de lor fuelles ravesti. 
 Conclusion (fo. 157, col. 1) : 
 
 Ichi fenist la mioldre estorie 
 
 Qui onques fust mise en memorie. 
 The authorship is recorded in the later hand as follows : 
 124 Ceste estoire n'est pes {sic) husee 
 
 Ne gaires soinz ne est trovee, (130) 
 
 Jai retraite ne fust encore, 
 
 Mais Benoiz de Sainte More 
 
 L'ai reteniie et faite a {sic) dite 
 
 Et a ses maines tretoste esorite. 
 
 II. (Fo. 158 recto.) — A poem of about 6000 lines, without 
 title. It is the poem of Gautier d' Arras known as " lUe et 
 Galeron," printed from the " unique " Paris MS. by E. Loseth, 
 (Euvres de Gautier d' Arras, vol. ii (Paris, E. Bouillon, 1890, in 
 the " Bibliotheque Fran9aise du Moyen Age "), and by 
 Wendelin Forster as No. 7 of his Romanische Bibliothek, Halle, 
 Niemeyer, 1891. The present text, which is superior in 
 language and apparently in age, has an additional thirty 
 lines at the end, which prove that the poem was written after 
 
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 Gautier's " Eracles," a conclusion arrived at by Forster on 
 internal evidence. He assigns the date of its composition 
 to 1167. It is to be distinguished from the later Galerant 
 (ire Roman de Galerent, comte de Bretagne, par le Trovire 
 Benault, publie pour la premiere fois d'apres le M8. unique 
 de la Bibliotheque Nationale par Anatole Boucherie, Mont- 
 pelHer-Paris, 1888, Societe pour I'Etude des Langues Eomanes), 
 which is partly founded upon it. The four lines at the com- 
 mencement are written as prose. 
 
 Commencement : 
 
 1 [A]ie Dex, Sains Esperis ! (1) 
 
 Qu'a la mellor emperre[r]is 
 Qui onques fust, si con jo pins, 
 Otroi mon service et mon sens. (4) 
 
 5 Les plusors fausent en la fin, (17) 
 
 Mais la u Dex mist tant de fin 
 Come en remperre[r]is de Rome. 
 
 72 Car a s'onor voel faire j. lai, 
 
 De Galeron, seror le due (133) 
 
 Et d'nie, le fil Eliduc. 
 
 Madame,^ ij. Bretegnes sunt, 
 
 Et gens diverses y estunt. 
 
 Li Englois sont en la gregnor,^ 
 
 Mais li Norman en sont segnor. 
 
 En la menor sont li Breton. 
 80 Uns dus I'ot ja, Conains ot non, (140) 
 
 Et Galerons sa suer estoit. 
 Conclusion : 
 
 De Rome est Y[lles] emperere (6553) 
 
 Et rois et sire et commandere. 
 
 iij. fix ot puis de sa molHer (6570) 
 
 Et une fiUe mult tres bele. 
 
 Acarras entent la novele, 
 
 Et Garsions, li ainsnes frere ; 
 
 A Rome vienent a lor pere 
 
 Et a lor freres qui i sont, (6575) 
 
 Qui mervellose joie en font. 
 
 Li uns des trois freres Romains 
 
 A non Morins, I'autres Gormains, 
 
 Li tiers a non Oriades. 
 
 Cist firent puis proece ad^s. (6580) 
 
 Et lor suer Ydone a a non 
 
 Et I'altre Ydonie ont li Breton. 
 
 Des ij. enfans son bon segnor (6582) 
 
 Fait Ganors joie mult gregnor 
 
 Qu'ele ne fait des siens demainne, 
 
 Li pere mult grant joie mainne. 
 
 1 Aadame, MS. (through error of rubricator). 
 3 m^nor, MS, 
 
224 
 
 Mult furent puis de halte afaire, (6585) 
 
 Mais n'en vuel plus lone conte faire 
 Ne CO n'ataint pas ci a dire. 
 Ganor vesqui puis li sire 
 A joie tans dis con Dex volt. 
 Ne en I'estorie plus n'en ot, (6590) 
 
 Ne plus n'en a, ne plus n'i mist 
 Galtres d'Arras, qui s'entremist (6592) 
 
 D'Eracle ains qu'il fesist ceste uevre. 
 Gil Dex, vers cui nus ne se cuevre, 
 Doinst bien la bone Beatris, 
 Qui est de Rome empereris, 
 Cele est la meldre qui soit nee, 
 En vie se rest mult penee, 
 Et gart le bon Conte Tiebaut ; 
 Cist dui me sont et Uet et baut. 
 Cestui de menconge a prover 
 Que le ne puet son per trover 
 Pur parler mels qui nus ne fait, 
 Pur faire mels qu'U parle n'ait. 
 Et tot ce vigne en cell 
 Pur ce m'eslonge plus de li, 
 Qui por rien c'onques me feist. 
 Cuidies se il ne me feist 
 Et ele ausi que jel deisse, 
 Ne en tel painne me meisse, 
 Mais I'uevre est mult bien emploie 
 Au quel d'ax qu'el soit envoie. 
 Plus d'onor a I'uns de ces deus 
 Qui de ceste uevre n'a nus deus, 
 Por qant por li le commencai 
 Et por le conte le final. 
 L'uevre n'iert ja en lui contee 
 Que d'eax ne soit plus amontee 
 Que il ne doivent par li estre. 
 Ne mais ce dient li ancestre 
 Que bon ami mostrer estuet 
 Tant d'amor veals con faire puet. 
 Explicit. 
 
 III. (Fo. 189.) — A poem of about six thousand five 
 hundi'ed octosyllabic lines of the Arthurian cycle, evidently 
 based upon Geoffrey of Monmouth. As appears from the first 
 line the author was a Master Heldris (=Hildric, Heudri) de 
 ComvaUe, a name hitherto unknown. 
 
 [MJaistres Heldris de Cornvalle 
 
 Escrist ces viers trestolt a talle, 
 
 A eals qui sunt conmande et rueve. 
 
 El commencier de suns qu'il trouve. 
 
 Que cis qi savra, ains les arge, 
 
 Que il a tels gens les esparge, 
 
 Que qant il oent un bon conte 
 
225 
 
 Ne sevent preu a qoi il monte; 
 Ne violt qu'espars soient per gent 
 Qui proisent mains honor d'argenfc, 
 N'a gent qi tolt voellent oir 
 Et si n'ont soing con puist i oir 
 De gueredon qu'il voellent rendre. 
 Uns clers poroit lone tans aprendre 
 Per rime trover et por viers, 
 Tant par est cis sieoles diviers 
 Q'ancois poroit rime trover 
 Qui peust en cest mont trover. * 
 
 After a lengthy prologue on morals, etc., it proceeds : 
 Ebans fu ja rois d'Engletiere, 
 Si maintint bien en pais la terre ; 
 Fors solement le rei Artu 
 N'i ot ainc rien de sa vertu 
 Ens le roiame des Englois. 
 Li siens conmans n'ert pas i Englois, 
 Car n'avoit home ens el roiame 
 De Wincestre trosque Durame, 
 S'il osast son conmant enfraindre, 
 Ne'l fesist en sa carcre enpaindre : 
 Par tel covant n'a droit n'a tort 
 N'en issist point trosque la mort. 
 
 Among the characters are Gui de Calmont, " Rogiers nes 
 de Bialmont," and Hyebles de Castel Landon. 
 Conclusion (Fo. 224, col. 1) : 
 
 Grant joie en out cho est a droit. 
 
 Maistre Heldris dist chi endroit 
 
 Con doit plus bone feme amer 
 
 Que hair malvaise u blasmer. 
 
 Mais efforcier plus de bien faire 
 Chi voel a fin mon conte traire. 
 Beneois soit qui je vos conte 
 Beneois soit qui fist le conte ; 
 A cials, a celes qui I'oirent 
 Otroit Jhesus cho qu'il desirent. 
 Ex'plicit. 
 
 IV. (Fo. 224.) — About four thousand lines (Alexandrines), 
 entitled in a rough, contemporary hand, " Gest Aahxandre." 
 This is part of the great Alexander Romance of Lambert li 
 Tors, a Picard poet, and Alexander de Bernay, which was 
 edited in the Bibliothek des literarischen Vereins in Stuttgart, 
 vol. xiii, by Heinrich Michelant, in 1846. It commences 
 abruptly with the account of the siege of Tyre (z= Michelant, 
 p. 93, from whose text it differs considerably) as follows : 
 Devant les murs de Tyr la dedens en la mer, 
 Li rois de Macedonie fist j. castiel fremer. 
 Mult fut riche la tors; s'ot en tor maint piler. 
 
 M15 
 
226 
 
 La facon del castiel ne vus sai deviser. 
 De la porte vers tiere lor volt le port veer 
 Qu' a la cite ne puisscent venir ne retomer 
 Barges, nes ne galies, ne isseir ne entrer. 
 Li rois i comanda de sa gent a aler, 
 Armes e garisons i fait ass6s porter. 
 Conclusion, fo. 245 verso (cf. Michelant, p. 211, lines 14, 15) : 
 Mairiens en voient querre ens es selves plenieres 
 Por faire des grans lus les perieres manieres. 
 V. (Fo. 246 verso.) — A poem entitled " Gest d'laumont 
 et d'Agoulant," in rhymed decasyllabics. This is the 
 Charlemagne Chanson de Geste known as Aspremont (edited 
 by Immanuel Bekker, in the introduction to Der Soman von 
 Fierabras, Berlin, 1829, p. 53, and by Guessard and Gautier, 
 Paris, 1855. Cf. Grober's Grundriss der romanischen Philologie. 
 ii, part 1, p. 540). , 
 
 Commencement : 
 
 Plaist vos oir bone cancon valiant 
 De Carlemainne le rice roi poiscant, 
 Del duo Namlon, qui li rois ama tant, 
 Tel conseUier n'orent onques li Franc. 
 
 11 Or vos dirai d'Aumont e d'Agolant, 
 Et d' Aspremont, u U camp furent grant. 
 Si con lI rois i adoba Rollant 
 E il h cainst al coste I'orie brant, 
 Cho dist la gieste Durendal le trencant. 
 C'est la premiere dont il onques fist sane, 
 Aumont ocist, qui fu fix Agolant. 
 Or escotes des ici en avant, 
 Se le vos plaist, bone cancon vus cant. 
 Conclusion (fo. 305 verso) : 
 
 Cante vos ai d'Agol[ant] e de Alm[ont] 
 De Karlemainne a la fiere facon, 
 Et de Gir[art] le fil au due Beuson, 
 De la batalle qui fut en Aspremon. 
 
 Cil Damerdex, qui sofri passion 
 Et suscita de mort S. Lasaron, 
 D'aus e de nos aies merci par non. 
 D'or en avant en remaint la cancon. 
 Ici fenist que ja plus ne diron. 
 Explicit. 
 
 ■ VI. (Fo. 306.) — ^A poem in rhymed octosyllables entitled 
 " Del Koi Artut." This is the poem known as Messire 
 Gauvain, ou la Vengeance de Baguidel, par le trov^re Raoul, 
 . . . publie par G. Hippeau, Paris, 1862, octavo (in the 
 " Collection des Poetes frangais du Moyen Age "), from a 
 " unique " MS. in London {Le Bel Inconnu, ed. Hippeau. 
 
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 Paris, 1860, p. xxv), and by Mathias Fried wagner, La Vengeance 
 Baguidel, as vol. ii of "Raoul von Houdenc Samtliche 
 Werke," Halle, 1909. The present MS. is superior in age and 
 in language. 
 Commencement : • 
 
 [C]e fut el novel tans d'este 
 
 Que li rois Artus ot est6 
 
 Tot le quareme a Rouelent, 
 
 Et vint a grant plenty de gent 
 
 A Pasques por sa cort tenir, 
 
 A Carlion, car maintenir 
 
 Volt li rois la costume lors. 
 
 O lui fu li rois Engenors. 
 
 Si i fu li rois Aguisait. 
 
 Mais ja de prince qu'il i ait 
 
 Ne vos tenrai en cest point conte. 
 
 Issi, con la matere conte, 
 
 Li rois tint cort a Carlion, 
 
 Tuit li prince et tuit li baron 
 
 Furent a la cort asambl6. 
 
 It concludes abruptly at fo. 337 verso (omitting the ninety 
 following Unes of Friedwagner's text) : 
 
 Se vos volrons tant d'anor faire 
 Que tot ensanle o vos iron 
 A la cort et garant seron (6090) 
 
 Que Ragidau est bien vengies." 
 "Jo ne vuel pas que i vegni6s." 
 VII. (Fo. 338). — A foHo or more are missing, fo. 338 com- 
 mencing abruptly with 191 lines of an inedited fabliau, the 
 beginning of which is lacking, on the famiUar theme of the 
 wish granted to the good man (here by angels in the form of 
 birds) and the three wishes (here with the alternative of male- 
 dictions) that bring ruin upon the covetous man, to whom 
 they are in this story given by fallen angels in the form of 
 black birds larger than ravens. Their appearance is described 
 in two lines (94, 95) " Quant il vit venir une torbe. Qui mult 
 estoit hisdeuse et torbe " that recur with a slight change in 
 XII. 167, 168 " Apres lui venoit une torbe. Qui mult estoit 
 hisdeuse et torbe," which suggests that the author of this 
 fabhau is also Gauters li Leus. 
 Commencement : 
 
 Deseur le roit s'est estendus. 
 Cil laiens parolent a lui : 
 " Amis, ne nos faites anui. 
 Ne somes pas oisel terestre, 
 5 Ancois somes angle celestre. 
 Oste te roit, lai nos aler, 
 Ni poomes plus demorer. 
 Tu en aras tel gerredon 
 Que Dex te fera vrai pardon. 
 
228 
 
 10 Et si aras si grant avoir 
 
 Que tu onques volras avoir ' 
 
 Por sohaidier a une fie." 
 Li prodom, qui en Deu se fie, 
 Qui n'estoit mie covoiteus 
 15 Et del rover estoit honteus. 
 
 Dist : " Je ne vuel ne plus ne mains 
 Q'autant qe mes frere Germains, 
 Mais que je I'aie sans pecciet." 
 The covetous man is the brother, Tiebaus, of " li pro- 
 dom ", and is envious of the latter's sudden prosperity : 
 60 Car vilains, qui plains est d'envie, 
 Ne volroit ja tote sa vie, 
 Que nus horn qui montast a lui 
 Devenist plus riques de lui." 
 After a ■wrangle with his wife, he is obUged to surrender 
 to her two of the three wishes. The first, which is uttered 
 by her, resembles that of the mother in the Appendix to 
 Phaedrus, no. 3, is the motiveless one that her infant son may 
 have a beard : 
 
 170 " Je vos sohaide, sire fils, 
 Por ce que estes si pius. 
 Que vos aies plus longue barbe 
 Que soit H loiens d'une garbe." 
 Et il I'eut maintenant en oire, 
 175 Mais ele fu et blance et noire. 
 Dist U vilains : " Sohaide miels, 
 Male goute te criet les iels ! " 
 Cele respont : "voire lea vos." 
 The three wishes thus lead to their loss of sight. 
 Conclusion : 
 
 184 Fortune, qui les ot haucies, 
 Les a, laidement abascies. 
 Poruec est drois que que nus die 
 Que Damerdex celui maudie 
 Qui ases a et trop golose, 
 Si con fist li rois de Tolose, 
 190 Qui trai sa seror Germainne 
 Por avoir le roi Karlem[ainne]. 
 VIII. (Fo. 339).— An inedited fabhau, with the title " Del 
 fol Vilain." It is of a gross nature, as befits its author Gauters 
 li Leus, whom we are able to identify by the aid of No. 
 XI with the hitherto unidentified Gautier who wrote the 
 obscene " Conebert " (No. XIII). The text of the present 
 fabliau extends to 375 lines. It relates a ridiculous trick 
 played upon the villein by the lover of his bride on the bridal 
 night. It mentions Robuedin li Laron (28), Hellines and 
 Godfrois, sons of Mehaut (31), Englebert le Cort of Walecort 
 (50), " Le Segnor Baud[ouins] de Soire " (56), Guinant, 
 "provos de Dinant " (87), Robins de Fellui (140), Gautelos 
 and Roimondins (141), the son of Godefroit Bondins (142), 
 
229 
 
 Mainsens, the bride (188), Robers, her lover (189), Ermenfrois 
 barbe lee (214), Gonduins, Godeberg, Warenbaus and 
 Warenbers (215, 216), the ford of Martin son of Herbert, and, 
 as a distant point contrasted with the site of an incident in 
 the story, Meulens (Meulan, in the Department of the 
 Seine-et-Oise). The mentions of Walecort (Walcourt, in 
 Flemish Hainault) is due to the local knowledge of the 
 author (cf. No. XI.). 
 Commencement : 
 
 " [P]uis qu'il vient a vos tos a bel 
 Dire me covient i. fablel, 
 Qtii n'est de contes ne de rois, 
 De garnemens ne de conrois, 
 5 Mais d'un grant vilain malostrut, 
 Non eut Evrars U fils Tietrut. 
 Cille Tietrus fu tote lorde, 
 Et si refu et borgne et sorde. 
 Ses barons ot non Gonderres ; 
 10 Onques ne fu tondus ne res, 
 Gros eut le cief, les ceviax ros, 
 Et nes de cat et hure dors. 
 Evrars ses fius fu ausi fais. 
 De se matere et de ses fais 
 15 Vos volrai ja un poi retraire." 
 Conclusion : 
 
 370 " Si ferai co que faire doi." 
 A tant s'en vont dormir andoi. 
 Gauters li Leus a tant le lait 
 Le conte del fol vilain lait. 
 De quanque il fisent puis ce di 
 375 Je n'en sai plus ne plus n'en di." 
 
 IX. (Fo. 340 verso, col. 2). — A fabliau entitled " Li Provance 
 de Femme." This is the fabliau printed under the name of " La 
 Veuve," by Gautier le Long (^i Leus ?), in A. de Montaiglon 
 and G. Raynaud, Recueil general et complet des Fabliaux, Paris, 
 1872-1890, ii, 197, from two MSS. in Turin and Paris. 
 Commencement : 
 
 [SJegnor, je vos vuel castoier. 
 
 Tuit devons aler ostoier 
 
 En I'ost dont nus om ne retorne. 
 
 Saves comment on les atorne, 
 
 Caus qui en cele ost sont semons ? 
 
 On les Meve sor ij. limons. 
 
 Puis Ten porte on barbe sovine 
 
 Vers le mostier de grant ravine, 
 
 Et sa moUiers le siut apres. 
 Conclusion (Fo. 343 verso) : 
 
 Je n'i vuel parler plus parfont. 
 
 Feme fait bien que faire doit, 
 
 Li romans faut, drecies le doit. 
 The two last Unes are not in Montaiglon and Raynaud. 
 
230 
 
 X. (Fo. 343 verso, col. 1). — A fabliau entitled " De 
 I'aventure d'Arderene " (the forest of the Ardennes). This 
 is printed under the title of " Du sot chevalier " by 
 Montaiglon and Raynaud i, p. 220. From No. XI. it appears 
 that this fabliau was also written by Gauters le Leus. 
 
 Commencement : 
 
 [P]uis que je me vuel apoier 
 
 A conter ne a fabloier, 
 
 Je vous doi bien faire savoir, 
 
 Se li leus^ a tant de savoir 
 
 Con doive autorissier ses dis, 
 
 D'une aventure qui jadis 
 
 Avint en la terre d'Ardane, 
 
 A quatre hues pres d'Andane. 
 Conclusion (Fo. 345) : 
 
 Li cus Walon en fu vermaus, 
 
 Et Pieres en eut une trace, 
 
 Dont h sans remest en la place, 
 
 Et li SOS eut apris a foutre. 
 
 A cest mot est li fabliaus oltre. 
 
 XI. (Fo. 345, col. 2).— An inedited fabliau, entitled " De 
 ij. Vilains," by Gauters li Leus, consisting of ISO hnes, in 
 addition to two cancelled lines (69, 70), which occur in their 
 proper context in No. VIII., 135, 136. The story is of a gross 
 nature, relating to the mistake made by one of the villeins 
 in the night during their stay in the inn. It mentions 
 Erasce (Arras ?) and La Thierasche, a district in Haute 
 Picardie (Department of the Aisne), the return of the villeins 
 into Ostrevant (now in the Department of the Nord) (169), St. 
 Amand, Marchiennes, and Valenciennes, all in the Department 
 of the Nord (173, 174), which was evidently the locaUty in 
 which the author Uved. In the final quotation he tells us 
 that this is the eleventh fabhau written by him. The 
 personal names mentioned are Rogiers de le Porte, father 
 of one of the villeins (74), Robert lo Part, or Lopart, (objective 
 case, 112), Mainsent, the host's wife (140). 
 
 Commencement : 
 
 [G]autiers, qui fist de Conebert 
 
 Et del sot chevaler Robiert, 
 
 Nos aconte d'une aventure 
 
 Qu'il a fait metre en escriture, 
 5 Qu'il avint deus vilains d'Erasce, 
 
 Qui s'en alevent en Tierasce. 
 
 Lev6 furent a la jornee. 
 
 Mult fisent eel jor grant jornee, 
 
 Qant il furent a ostel trait 
 10 Mult furent lasset et estrait. 
 Conclusion : 
 
 Et cil qui eurent pris congiet 
 
 Sont revenu en Ostrevant, 
 
 1 Apparently a reference to the author. 
 
231 
 
 170 La dont il furent mut devant, 
 
 Sacies de fit que li goulius 
 
 Le raconta ent a mains lius 
 
 A S. Amant et a Marcienes. 
 
 Qns bacelers de Valenoienes, 
 175 Qui avoit est6 ens el leu, 
 
 Le raconta Gauter le Leu, 
 
 Et il mist le fablel en rime. 
 
 X. en a fait, v^s ci I'onsime. 
 
 Car fuscent or si atomies 
 180 Totes les dames mestorn^es, 
 
 Qui ont les maris bons et beax, 
 
 Ses honisoent par lor lembeax. 
 
 XII. (Fo. 346, col. 1).— An inedited fabliau, with thejidded 
 title '' De Dieu et dou Pesoour ", consisting of 240 lines, in 
 addition to two cancelled lines (177, 178), which recur in 
 their proper context in No. XI, 28, 29. The story relates the 
 failure of Judas, St. Peter and ultimately of Our Saviour to 
 obtain fish from the fisherman, an obstinate and didactic 
 person, the appearance of an awe-inspiring troop of figures, 
 headed by Death, who points out other figures bearing the 
 various fevers, etc. 
 Commencement : 
 
 [G]auters nos dist une proverbe 
 Del Segnor qui fait croistre I'erbe, 
 Si con il prist anontion 
 Et il sui porcession, 
 5 Et il ala con horn carnaus 
 ses apostles conmunaus. 
 Si con I'estorie nos aconte 
 Dont nos avons estrait cest conte 
 Que Dex estoit a Tabarie,^ 
 10 S'ert repairies de sa forie, 
 lui estoient si menistre. 
 Apostle et evangehstre, 
 Judas, qui plus fu emparles, 
 Li sist a son senestre les. 
 15 Se li a dit par grant dangier 
 " Sire, nos covenroit mangier, 
 Nos ne menjames tres iemuit. 
 En ne cuidies qu'il nos anuit ? " 
 Conclusion : 
 
 231 " Envie," fait il, " je t'otroi 
 Tant con ensanle en ierent troi, 
 Que tu seras tostans li qars. 
 De ce ne soies pas coars, 
 235 Envie, tu durras tos dis, 
 Mais ja n'iras en paradis." 
 Ens[i] ceste aventure avint 
 
 1 Tiberias. 
 
232 
 
 Que Dex sans piscons s'en revint, 
 Et s'en fu estrais et lasses, 
 240 Et li mbrille en eut asses. 
 
 XIII. (Fo. 347 verso). — An imperfect fabliau, consisting 
 of 84 lines, with the scribbled title " De Prestre ki pardi 
 l[es coljles." This appears under the correct name " De 
 Connebert " (cf. No. XI above) in Montaiglon and Raynaud, 
 V, p. 160, where it extends to 314 lines. 
 Commencement : 
 
 [G]autiers, qui fist del prestre taint, 
 A tant caciet qu'il a ataint 
 D'une autre prestre le matire. 
 Qui n'eut mie le coUe entire 
 5 Qant il departi de celui 
 Qui li ot fait honte et anui. 
 
 21 Li prestres ot a non Ricars, 
 Qui mult estoit fols et musars, 
 Et si fu nes de Colencestre,i 
 Et il et trestot si ancestre. 
 
 The following occur in a loose quire at the commence- 
 ment of the volume : 
 
 XIV. — A fabhau of 679 lines, the first two columns of 
 which have been partly obhterated by the wear and tear of 
 the outside leaf upon which they are written. This 
 is the fabhau pubUshed under the title " De la Dame 
 escoUiee " in Montaiglon and Raynaud, vi, p. 95, where 
 it extends only to 618 hnes. The WoUaton text has the hne 
 
 " Welcome ! " crie tot en haut. 
 instead of (p. 109, line 18) 
 
 " Bien viegnoiz ! " dit il tot en halt. 
 The first section of the third column commence^ : 
 
 [A] tant li sires s'entorna, 
 
 Et U cuens apres lui ala, 
 
 Si le salue hautement : 
 
 " Dex saut le segnor et sa gent ! " 
 5 " Sire cuens, Dex vos beneie 
 
 Et vostre gente conpagnie ! " (120) 
 
 Li cuens a dit " herbergies nos." 
 
 "No ferai foi que je doi vos," 
 
 Faifc h sire " que ne volrai 
 10 Ne ja ne m'en entremetrai." 
 
 "Si feres par vostre francisse." (125) 
 
 "No ferai voir en nule guisse." 
 
 " Avoi ! beax sire, par amor 
 
 Nos herbergies desci qu'al jor." 
 15 " No ferai en nule maniere, 
 
 Ne par amor ne par proiere." (130) 
 
 1 This is curiously explained by Montaiglon and Raynaud as " Gloster." 
 
233 
 
 La dame I'ot et vient avant, 
 Qui ja fera le sien conmant 
 " Sire cuens, bien soies venus ! 
 Liement seres retenus. 
 Descendes ! " Tost il descendirent. 
 
 XV. — A fabliau with the scribbled title " Des iij. Coman- 
 deraens." It is printed under the title " Des Putains et des 
 Lecheors " in Montaiglon and Raynaud, iii, p. 175, and in 
 Wright, Anecdota Literaria, p. 64. The four lines at the 
 beginning are not in the printed texts. 
 Commencement : 
 
 1 [U]n fablel veritable et cort, 
 Cortois pur recovrer en cort, 
 Vos conterai, si I'escoutes, 
 Car mult doit bien estre escoltes. 
 5 Qant Dex ot estor6 le monde. 
 Si con il est a la roonde, 
 Et qanque il covins dedens 
 Trois ordenes esgarda de gens, 
 Qu'il fist el siecle demorans, 
 10 Chevalers, clers, et laborans. 
 Conclusion : 
 
 En tel gent sont bien emploie 
 
 Des rentes, des dimes li bien, (105) 
 
 Car cest conmant gardent il bien 
 
 Deseur tos les autres et font. 
 
 S[i] cis fableaux dist voir, done sont 
 
 De cest conmant li clerc sauve 
 
 Et tuit h chevaler danne. 
 
 XVI.^ — A poem of 127 lines, with the title scribbled in the 
 margin in a thirteenth century hand " Li Dis Raoul de 
 Hosdaing. " The poem is an addition to the works of this 
 able poet. The portion from Hne 11 to the end appears, with 
 considerable alterations, omissions, etc., and with a prologue 
 of the jongleur, in " Le Borjois Borjon," printed from a Berne 
 MS. by Thomas Wright in his Anecdota Literaria, London, 
 1844, p. 57. The text in the WoUaton MS. commences : 
 [EJncontre le dole tans qui vient 
 Me plaist, por ce qu'il m'en sovient, 
 Que je die un fablel novel. 
 J'ai tort qant je fablel I'apel, 
 5 Car ce n'est mie fabliaus : non, 
 II n'a de fablel fors le non, 
 Ca,T ]i dit en sont veritable, 
 Por tant I'apel fablel sans fable, 
 Que Raols de Hosdaing conmence, 
 10 Et si nos dist en sa sentence 
 Q'onors deciet et honte avive, 
 Ja nus qui de demander vive 
 Por beax mos ne por bel parler, 
 
234 
 
 Por solas ne por vxeler, 
 15 Por deduit ne por rien qu'il die 
 
 N'enconterra mais cortesie." 
 Conclusion : 
 
 120 Onques nul borjois ne conui 
 
 Qui povre chevaler amast, 
 
 Ne qui volontiers s'acostast 
 
 De leceor a povre robe. 
 
 Borjois n'ainme ome s'H nel robe, 
 125 Ja tant n'iert sages ne cortois, 
 
 Un tel borjon ont U borjois." 
 
 XVII.— A fabliau with the scribbled title " De I'Arme ki 
 wagna (?) Paradis par plait." This is the fabliau " Du Vilain 
 qui conquist Paradis par Plait," printed by Montaiglon and 
 Raynaud, iii, p. 209. 
 Commencement : 
 
 [N]os trovomes en escriture 
 
 Une mervellose aventure, 
 
 Qui jadis avint d'un vilain. 
 
 Mors fu par un Venresdi main. 
 
 Tels aventure li avint 
 
 Q'angles ne deables ne vint. 
 Conclusion : 
 
 Noreture vaint mais nature, 
 
 Fausetes amorte droiture, 
 
 Tors va avant et drois a orce, 
 
 Mels valt engiens que ne fait force. (180) 
 
 XVIII. — Fifteen Hues, finishing with the last page of the 
 quire, of a fabliau, with the scribbled title " De le Cugnie," 
 as follows : 
 
 [U]ns fevres fist une cuigni6 
 Dure, trencant et bien forgie 
 Mais onques ne s'en peut aidier 
 Ne rien n'en pooit detrencier 
 5 Devant qu'ele fust enmancie, 
 Adont fu bien apareUie. 
 El bos ala por demander 
 A cascun fust qu'il pot trover 
 Au quel il U loent entendre, 
 10 Dont il peust j. mance prendre. 
 Li fust ont ensanle parle, 
 Conmunement li ont 166 
 Que il prenge la noire espine, 
 Neis I'escorce et la racine, 
 15 En est mult dure a depecier. 
 This is the commencement of Marie de France's .^sopian 
 fable " De Fabro et Securi " (ed. by Karl Warhke, Die 
 Fabeln der Marie de France, Halle, 1898, p. 168, in Hermann 
 Suchier's Bibliotheca Normannica, vol. VI). 
 
235 
 
 A volume of 76 folios, measuring 9^ inches by 12J, written 
 in double columns in a French book-hand of about the 
 middle of the thirteenth century, containing a portion of 
 " Le Petit Saint Graal", which is known also as the " Roman 
 de Joseph d'Arimathie ", a portion of the great "Saint 
 Graal " of Robert de Borron (Le Saint-Graal, ou Le Joseph 
 d'Arimathie, . . pvi>lie . . par Eugene Hucher, three 
 vols, Le Mans, 1875-1878). 
 
 Commences (:= Huchet, ii, 466) : 
 
 " Molt durerent longuement cil arbres en tel color e 
 en tel beaut6 com vos avez oi deviser el conte, ne onques 
 ne vieUi ne ne chanja ne ne secha, ne de nul rien n'en- 
 poira, fors de tant seulement qu'il ne porta puis icele 
 heure que H Sans Abealx [Abel the son of Adam and Eve] fu 
 desot espanduz ne flors ne fruit." 
 
 The title of the pretended story cited by Borron appears 
 at fol. 121;, col. 2 : " Cist contes, qui est apelez ' Le Conte del 
 Saint Graal,' devise que quant li home h roi Label orent pris 
 Celydoine," etc. (=Hucher, ii. 533). 
 
 Conclusion : " Ceste aventure fu nonciee par le pais, e 
 tant que li chevaler i venoient tuit, e povre e riche, si tost 
 com U estoient navre, e garisioint maintenant. Un jour avint 
 que par devant la tonbe passoit j. lion, e aloit chacant j. cerf, 
 qu'il a consiui iluec devant ; si le prist e occist, e en ce qu'il 
 le voloit mangier, si vint d'autre part j. autres Uons geuns e 
 fameDleus, qui le voloit la proie tohr." . . . (= Hucher, 
 iii, p. 306). 
 
 " Si se test ore li contes de totes les Ugniees qui de Celydoine 
 oissirent, e retorne a une autre estoire de Merhn, qu'il covient 
 ajoster ensenble que fine force avec I'estoire del Saint Graal, 
 porce que branche en est e i apartient, e comence mes Sires," 
 which is followed by part of the initial " R[obert de Borron 
 le branche en tel manier]," (This passage is found in Hucher, 
 iii, p. 307). The MS. is incomplete, for half the page is torn away, 
 and the whole of the back of the half -page is left blank. The 
 last sentence appears as "Si commence Merlin Roberts de 
 Borron en tel maniere " in the MS. described in Notices et 
 Extraits des MS8., xxxiv, p. 166. 
 
 The MS. contains jottings here and there in a shghtly later 
 French hand, and also (fo. 75) : " Hie est numerus ordei, 
 frumenti et fabarum, que habeo penes Jametam (?) Lamenza 
 . (?) in villa de Plesseiaco." There is also the com- 
 mencement of a deed : "A toux ceus qi cestes lettres ver- 
 
 rount ou orrunt, Roger , evesque de Coventr' 
 
 et de Lycheffeld," etc., probably referring to Roger de 
 Northburgh, 1322-1359, the latest bishop who bore the 
 Christian name of Roger. 
 
 Six leaves, measuring 8J inches by 6 inches, of a legal work 
 in an early fourteenth century hand, beginning : " Et sic 
 adnichilatur processus habitus in ipso comitatu, quia hie non 
 
236 
 
 habet comitatus recordum. Hinc autem perhimitur pro- 
 cessus inde habitus et stat breve. Petens autem quicunque'^ 
 fuerit moderata gracia semper potest habere pone. Sup- 
 ponendum est enim, quod procrastinacio peticionis non pre- 
 judicat occupanti, verbi gracia : si peterem a te fundum hodie 
 mihi restitui quod me procurante defertur," etc. Con- 
 clusion : " Quot autem fuerunt deforciantes nominati in brevi, 
 tociens repetatur cape." This is part of Ralph Hengham's 
 Summa Magna, c. 4 (pp. 9-16 of Selden's text, from which it 
 varies occasionally). 24 
 
 A foUo MS., measuring 15J indhes by 10|, of John Gower's 
 " Confessio Amantis," in EngUsh and French, of the early 
 part of the fifteenth century. It is of value for textual 
 purposes, and has been described by Professor G. C. 
 Macaulay in his edition of the poet's works, vol. ii, p. clvi. 
 
 Large folio service book, formerly belonging to the church 
 of WoUaton, with richly illuminated borders and initials, on 
 parchment, in a fifteenth century hand, rubricated in red. 
 On a blank page preceding the calendar, which occurs about 
 the middle of the volume, is written : 
 
 " Orate pro anima Willelmi Husse, quondam rectoris istius 
 ecclesie de Wollaton, cujus bonorum ministratores istum 
 librum pro decem marcis emerunt, et ilium Hbrum pro divino 
 servicio ibidem celebrando imperpetuum dicte ecclesie dederunt. 
 Insuper alienanti anathema sit." 
 
 The preceding fohos contain copies of receipts for payments 
 of subsidies for Wollaton and Sutton Passeys on 12 May, 4 
 Henry VIII, 2 October, 6 Henry VIII, and 13 Henry VII. 
 
 The calendar has the following entries, in different hands, 
 of obits : 
 
 " Januarii v Idus [Jan. 9]. Obitus Domine Margarete Legh, 
 anno Domini millesimo CCCC">° LXXXX™", httera 
 Dominicali B." 
 
 "Januarii xvij. kal. [Jan. 16]. Obitus Domini Johannis 
 Yngulby, capellani, anno Domini Millesimo CCCC™" 
 LXXX™° quinto, littera Dominicalis A." 
 
 " Mail V. Non. [May 3]. Obitus Henrici Smyth, patris 
 Ricardi Smyth, quondam Rectoris de Wollaton, anno Domini 
 MiUesimo CCCCC° XIIJ", cujus anime propicietur Deus. 
 Amen. " 
 
 "Mali iij. Non. [May 5]. Obitus Domini Wilhelmi Cowper, 
 capellani, anno Domini Millesimo CCCC""" LXX""" quinto, 
 littera Dominicah A." 
 
 "Mali V. Idus. [May 11]. Obitus Domini Henrici Wyl- 
 lughby, militis, anno Domini Millesimo CCCCG° XXVIIJ", 
 littera Domim'cali D. Et sepultus est isto die apud Wollaton, 
 anno predicto." [This latter sentence is written against 
 
 1 quiscunque, MS. 
 
237 
 
 "iij. Id. Mali, [D]edicacio ecclesie de Wollaton. Principale 
 festum."] 
 
 "Mali iiij. Id. [May 12]. Obitus. Johanne Smyth, uxoris 
 predict! Henrici et matris predict! Ricardi, anno Domini 
 Millesimo CCCCC" XXX", littera Dominicali B, cujus anime 
 propicietur Deus. Amen." 
 
 "Julii vj. Non. [July 2]. Obitus Robert! Wyloghby, 
 armigeri." 
 
 " August! xij. kal. [Aug. 21]. Obitus Johannis Ilkston, 
 fratris Robert! Ilkston, quondam Rectoris ecclesie de Wol- 
 laton, anno Domini Millesimo CCCC'"'' octuagessimo octavo, 
 littera Dominicali E." 
 
 " August! xvj. kal. [July 17]. Obitus Robert! Lawrans, 
 quondam Rectoris de WoUaton et Averham, anno Domini 
 Millesimo D. XVIJ°, littera Domincalis D, cujus anime, etc." 
 
 " Septembris xv. kal. [Sept. I'7]. Obitus Domini Willemi 
 Husse, quondam Rectoris hujus ecclesie, anno Domini M. 
 CCCC" LXo." 
 
 '' Octobris Nonas [Oct. 7]. Obitus Ricardi Wyloghby, 
 armigeri." 
 
 " Octobris viij. Id. TOct. 8]. Obitus Elizabeth Hardwy." 
 
 "Octobris ix. kal. [Oct. 24]. Obitus Anne Wyllughby, 
 anno Domini Millesimo CCCCC XIIIJ", httera Dominicahs. A." 
 
 Among the illuminations occur the following arms, which 
 are connected with the Notts family of Chaworth of Wiverton, 
 
 1. Quarterly one and four, az. two chevrons or (Alfreton, 
 later Chaworth) ; two and three, arg. an inescutcheon within 
 an orle of cinquefoils sable (Caltofte, cf . Thoroton, Antiquities 
 of Notts, p. 107). Crest ; A tower proper with arg. a mass 
 of feathers (?) issuing from it. 
 
 2. No. 1 impaling quarterly one ana four, az. a cross 
 arg. (Aylesbury) ; two and three, or three palets gu., on a 
 bordure az. thirteen bezants or (Basset of Weldon). Crest : 
 a buU sa. armed or. 
 
 3. Gu., a fesse dancetty, between eight billets or, four 
 and four (Brett of Wiverton, cf. Thoroton, p. 107). Crest : A 
 man's head gu., garlanded arg. 
 
 4. Quarterly one and four, az. two chevrons or (Alfreton) ; 
 two and three, arg. two Uons passant gu. (Randolph ; cf. Thoroton, 
 p. 108b). 
 
 5. Quarterly AKreton and barry of six, arg. and gu., three 
 martlets sa. (Chaworth; cf Pari. Writs, i, p. 420a). 
 
 6. Quarterly arg. two lions passant gu., and Alfreton. 
 Crest : a lion's (?) head, sa. langued gu. 
 
 7. Quarterly Alfreton and Brett (as in No. 3). 
 
 8. Aylesbury (as in No. 2) and Basset of Weldon (as in 
 No. 2). Crest : a dragon's (or bird's ?) head or, langaed gu. 
 
 A thick volume, in gatherings of ten folios, of about 
 •demi-octavo size, written on parchment in a bold, fifteenth 
 century hand, rubricated in red, in original bindings 
 
238 
 
 containing homilies in English verse. This is the work entitled 
 " Speculum Vitae," ascribed to William of Nassington, which 
 has not yet been printed. Some extracts from it, derived 
 from other MSS., are given by Ullman in Englische Stvdien, 
 vol. vii, p. 468 sqq. 
 Commencement : 
 
 Almyghty God in Trinite, 
 In whom onely ben persones thre, 
 Fader and sone and Holy Gost, 
 Jjat ben on God, as we trow most, 
 Spede us now at J)is begynnjmg, 
 And graunt us alle good endyng, 
 And 3if me grace suche wordes to say 
 ])at may be most god to pay, 
 And to Ipo fende schame and schenschip 
 And to God lovyng and worschip, 
 And to you J»at heres me also 
 Hele of soule, and to aUe J)oo 
 ]5at have nede of good counsail, 
 And mede to me for my travail. 
 Preyeth alle nowe for charite 
 Specialy ))at it so be. 
 And ))er to J)at eche man with good wille 
 BiddeJ) a pater noster stille. 
 The following interesting passage occurs at fo. 1 verso : 
 I warne '^ou first at Jio bigynnyng 
 I wol make no veyn karpyng 
 Of dedes of armes ne of amours. 
 As don mynstrales and jestours, 
 ])at maken karpynge in many place 
 Of Octavyan and Ysambrace, 
 And of many ofer gestes. 
 Namely when J)ei come to festes, 
 Ne of J)e lyf of Bevys of Hampton' 
 Ipat was a knyght of gret renoun, 
 Ne of Sir Gy of Warwyk, 
 Al ^if it myght somme men lyk, 
 I Jjenke my karpyng schal not be. 
 For I hold Jjat noght bot vanite. 
 Bot ])is schal be my karpyng. 
 To karpe of most nedeful Jjyng 
 )3at sikerest is for soule and lif 
 To man, womman, mayde, and wif. 
 ]jerfore, gode men pat ben here, 
 LysteneJ) to me and ^e may here 
 How -^e schal her' rewle your lif 
 And governe wel jour' wittes fif. 
 How je schul folowe God's wille, 
 And knowe boJ)e gode and ille. 
 And what je schal chese, and what forsake, 
 And what wei ^e schal to Hevene take, 
 
239 
 
 In Engsysch tonge I schal ';ou telle,- 
 5if 56 so longe with me wil'dwelle, 
 Ne Latyn wil I speke ne waste, 
 Bot Englysch Jien usen maste, 
 ;?or ])at is 50111' kynde langage 
 3at ^e have most her' of usage, 
 )at kan eche man understonde 
 )at is boren in Engelonde, 
 '.^OT J)at langage is most sohewed 
 As wel among lered as lewed. 
 Latyn, as I trowe, can nane 
 Bo.t ]300 ])at have it at scole tane. 
 Somme kan Frensch and no Latyn 
 J)at used have court and dwelled Ipei'm, 
 And somme kan of Latyn a party 
 J)at kan French ful febelly. 
 And sdmme understonden Englysch 
 Jiat kan noujjer Latyn ne Frensch. 
 Bot lered and lewed, olde and 3onge, 
 Alle understonden Englysch tonge. 
 J)erefore I hold it most siker J)an 
 To schewe Ipo langage ))at eche man kan. 
 And for lewede men namely 
 ))at can no maner of clergy 
 To ken hem wer' most nede, 
 For clerkus kan bojie se and rede 
 In dyverse bokes of Holy Writ 
 How Jjei schul lif %ji Ipei loke it. 
 Jjerfore I wol me hoUy halde 
 To J)at langage Jjat Englysch is kalde. 
 The rubrics are : " De dignitate Orationis Dominice ; 
 
 Decem precepta ; De xij. articulis Fidei ; De humilitate in 
 
 corde ; De humilitate in ore ; De humilitate in opere ; 
 
 De septem virtutibus ; De vita activa ; De vita contemplativa ; 
 
 De superbia ; De humilitate ; De invidia ; De amicitia ; 
 
 De ira ; De equitate ; De accidia ; De virtute probitatis ; 
 
 De confessione ; Peccata cordis ; Peccata oris ; Peccata 
 
 opens ; Peccata omissionis ; De confessione ; Bellum Mundi ; 
 
 BeUum Diaboli ; De avaritia ; De latrocinio ; De predonibus ; 
 
 De calumpnia ; De sacrilegio ; De symonia ; De malignitate ; 
 
 De falsis mercatoribus ; De ludo temerario ; De officio 
 
 temerario ; De misericordia ; Opera misericordie spiritualia ; 
 
 De elemosina ; De dono intellectus ; De luxuria ; De castitate ; 
 
 De statu virginum et corruptorum ; De statu conjugatorum ; 
 
 De statu viduetatis ; De statu virginitatis ; De statu cleri- 
 
 corum ; De statu religiosorum ; De dong sapientie ; De gula ; 
 
 De gula in tabema ; Peccatum male hngue ; De perfectione ; 
 
 De sobrietate et temperantia ; De Beatitudinibus." 
 Conclusion : 
 
 To whiche bhsse He bringe aUe, our Lord 
 God almyghty. Ame[n]. Jesus est amor mev,s. 
 
240 
 
 A large folio MS., measuring 22|- inches by 15|, in fifteenth 
 century writing, with richly illuminated initials, borders, etc., 
 containing the English version, which was completed at 
 Berkeley on 6 February, 6 Richard II (1383), of Bartholomew 
 (GlanvUle) " De Proprietatibus Rerum." At the end is 
 written : " Explicit Tract[at]us, qui vocatur ' Bartholomeus 
 de Proprietatibus Rerum,' Chaworth." It is followed by 
 " The Abbay of pe Holy Gost." 
 
 A very large and thick octavo service book, in a fifteenth 
 century hand, with richly illuminated initials, commencing, 
 after the calendar, with " Omnibus dominicis per annum 
 post Primam et capitulum fiat benedictio fealis et aque ad 
 gradum chori capa serica sacerdote cum ahis vestibus induto 
 sacerdotalibus, hoc modo incipiente " (part of the Gradale). 
 
 A 15th century MS. bound in beech. boards covered with 
 stamped leather, with richly illuminated initials. The pages 
 measure 12 inches by 8. It is a volume of prayers, com- 
 mencing : " Summe sacerdos et vere pontifex qui te optuhsti 
 Deo patri hostiam pufam et immaculatam in ara crucis pro 
 nobis miseris peccatoribus." It ends with " De angdis oratio. 
 Obsecro vos, angelici Spiritus, quibus ego ad providendum 
 et custodiendum commissus sum, ut custodiatis et protegatis 
 me in corpore et anima ab omni hostih incursu," etc. 
 
 A thick volume in original binding, measuring 7 J inches 
 by lOi inches, containing English translations of the Statutes 
 from i Edward III to 20 Henry VI. At the end of the 
 Statutes for 18 Hemy VI is written, in a contemporary hand : 
 " Iste Uber constat Willelmo Coote, de Conyngesby, legi 
 periti " {sic). 
 
 A quarto volume of parchment in covers of the same, 
 containing English translations of documents relating to 
 Sherwood Forest and the Forest Laws, written in a hand 
 that the inspector recognises as that of William Easingwold, 
 Town Clerk of Nottingham from about 1478 to about 1506 
 (see Records of the Borough of Nottingham, iii, p. ix.). It is 
 a translation of the official Forest book, and agrees largely 
 with the Sherwood Forest Book in the Public Record Of&ce 
 (Exchequer, Treasury of Receipt, Miscellaneous Books, 
 No. 76), which is written for the greater part in an early 
 fifteenth century hand. The contents are mainly taken from 
 the rolls of justices in Eyre for pleas of the Forest in Notts in 
 15 Edward I and 8 Edward III (Exchequer, Treasury of Receipt, 
 Forest Proceedings, Nos. 127, 132). References are appended 
 to sixteenth century translations in Robert White's Dukery 
 Records, Worksop, 1902. The contents are as follows : 
 
 Forest charter of Henry III [Statutes of the Realm, i, 
 ' Charters of Liberties,' p. 20], 
 
241 
 
 1253, May 13. — Curse pronounced against breakers of 
 Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest by the archbishop 
 of Canterbury and other bishops by consent of the king and 
 his nobles (fo. A 2 verso). [Fcedera, i, p. 289 ; Stubbs, Select 
 Charters, eighth edition, p. 373; White, p. 404.] 
 
 1227, February 9. Writ (described in error as xx Henry 
 III instead of xj) to the " rewarders " of Shirewod Forest, no- 
 tifying them that the king has pardoned "the walkers" (i.e. 
 perambidators) of the forest their error in the perambulation 
 (fo. A 3). [Patent Bolls of Henry III, 1225-1232, p. 109; 
 White, p. 405.] 
 
 [c. 1189]. Grant by John, " Erie of Morton," to " Rauff 
 the sonne of Stevyn and Maude Caux, his wyffe," of the 
 custody, etc., of the Forest of cos. Nottingham and Derby 
 (fo. A 3 verso). [Eyre RoU No. 132, ro. 31, 33d ; White, p. 405.] 
 
 1252, July 4. Inquisition taken at St. John's Hospital, 
 Nottingham, concerning all the ministers of the aforesaid 
 forest and concerning the estate of Robert Everyngham, 
 Forester in Fee of the same, which describes the divisions, 
 etc., of the Forest. [White, p. 406.] 
 
 1232, July 16. Letters Patent of Henry III, confirming 
 and reciting the perambulation of the Forest made by Hugh 
 Nevell and " Brian of the He ", whereby the part of Not- 
 tinghamshire called " The Cley " and the part called " Hat- 
 feld " are disafforested (fo. A 4 verso). [Calendar of Charter 
 Rolls, 1226-1257, p. 165 ; White, p. 406.] 
 
 Undated. Boundaries of the Hays and woods of the afore- 
 said Forest, to wit Lyndeby Haye, Welley Haye, Beske- 
 wod Parke, [Bestwood Park], Clypston Parke, Bilhagh 
 and Brikland [Birkland] Haye, Fiilwode Wode [parish of 
 Hucknall-under-Huthwaite], the wood of Owthesland [Osland 
 Wood, near Thoresby, parish of Perlethorpe], the wood of 
 Clumber, Carberton Wode, Kyngeshagh [Eangshaugh, parish 
 of Darlton], Bulwell Ryse, ArnaU [Arnold] woods and 
 demesnes, the woods of the Hye Forest, Lyndehurst Wode, 
 the wastes of KygyU and Ravenshead,i the township of Edyn- 
 stowe [Edwinstowe], the lordship of Chpston outside the Park, 
 the demesnes of Mamsfeld Wodehouse (fo. A 5). [White, p. 408.] 
 
 [1146-1148]. Grant by Gilbert Gaunt, earl of Lincoln, 
 to the monks of Reyvall (Rievaulx, co. York) of the manor 
 and town of Rufford [co. Notts] ^ " to make an abbey of the 
 order of Cistemensis [i.e., the Cistercian order] in the honour 
 of Seint Marie the Virgyn" (fo. A 9). [White, pp. 214, 408.] 
 
 1 Cf. Dugdale, Monasticon, vi. p. 474, no. II. 
 
 2 Cf. Rievaulx Ghartvlary, p. 252, Surtees Society (where it is erron- 
 eously identified with Rufforth, co. York) and Monaatieon, v, p. 618, No. 1. 
 
 M 16 
 
242 
 
 [1146-1154]. Confirmation of the preceding by King 
 Stephen. [White, pp. 214, 410.] 
 
 [1 1 55-1 1 62]. Confirmation of the same by Henry II. [Calen- 
 dar of Charter Bolls, iii, p. 293 ; White, p. 215.] 
 
 1304, July 7. Writ of Ad quod Dampnum, dated at 
 Mitjmley [misreading of 'Striuelyn,' i.e. Stirhng] to enquire 
 whether it would be to the king's damage if he were to grant 
 to the abbot of Rufford licence to fell, sell, or do what he 
 will with 40 acres of his wood within the aforesaid Forest 
 (fo. A 10). [Chancery Inquisitions ad Quod Damnum, file 45, 
 no. 2 ; White, pp. 215, 410.] 
 
 1304. Inquisition taken in accordance with the said writ 
 at Edynstowe (Edwinstow, co. Notts), 32 Edward I. 
 [Ibid.] 
 
 1304, Sept. 16. Writ of Privy Seal of Edward [I], dated at 
 Tynemouth, to his chancellor, ordering him to make a grant 
 of the preceding to the abbot and convent under the great 
 seal (A 10 verso). [Cf. Calendar of Patent Bolls, 1301-1307, 
 p. 258; White, p. 410.] 
 
 1304, Sept. 16. Writ to Robert Chfford, " justice of his 
 Forest a this side Trent," ordering him to permit the said 
 abbot to dispose of the wood aforesaid as above in accord- 
 ance with the king's grant by letters patent. 
 
 [1304]. Copy of return by the ministers of the Forest of 
 the acres delivered in pursuance of the preceding grant. 
 "First, there be assigned iij. acres and an half, conteynyng 
 xv.C. okes in Northwode, solde to Walter Bunkes for 
 IxixZi. xviijs. viijc?. ; also at WulfcUff was oon acre assigned 
 that conteyneth ix.'^" okes, sold to John of Lyndeby for 
 ixZi. xs. ; also there be assigned at the Crossyd Oke iiij. 
 acres, the whiche conteyneth a M.CCC. okes, sold to Frere 
 Robert for IxijZ*. xjs. v\i]d. ; also in the Forsworne Wode 
 is assigned oon acre, etc., sold to Richard of Clifton for 
 xvK. ; also in Beskall is assigned oon acre, etc., sold to John 
 Bythewater of Edenstowe, Roger the sonne of RaufE of the 
 same towne, and to Gilbert of Hyll of Clipston for sli. And 
 non more is had in this boke for the bljmdenes [i.e. illegi- 
 bility] of the first copy, etc." (fo. A 11). 
 
 1287, January 14. Pleas of the Forest held at 
 Notyngham, before William Vessy, Thomas Normanvyle, and 
 Richard Gryppyng, justices in e3nre for pleas of the Forest, 
 on the morrow of St. Hilary, 15 Edward III {rectius Edward 
 I), concerning the taking of trees and underwood by the 
 abbots of Rufford from the 47 Henry III. to 15 Edward III 
 (rectius Edward I), the trees being taken by virtue of charters 
 of the abbey. [Eyre Roll No. 127, ro. 7, 8, 9.] 
 
243 
 
 [o. 1300.] Bounds of the woods and wastes of Southwell, 
 the property of the archbishop of York of the " baronry of 
 Sothwell," within the forest of Sherwood "in the tjrme of 
 John Roman, archebisshop of York" (fo. All verso). [White, 
 p. 409.] 
 
 [c. 1300.] Bounds of a wood called " Haywode,^' " som- 
 tyme Rauff Bugge's of Notyngham and after Richard 
 Byngham's, knight, and hit apperteyneth to the towns of 
 Byngham " [Haywood Oaks, near Bhdworth.] (fo. A 1 2). [Ibid.] 
 
 [c. 1232]. The bounds of the woods and wastes of the 
 abbey of Rufford within the forest, " remajrajnig after the 
 jomay [= eyre] of Hugh Nevyll and after the departyng 
 out of the forest of diverse land in the counte of Notyngham 
 by the same Hugh Nevyll, justice of the Forest, etc." [refer- 
 ring to the Perambulation of 1232, Calendar of Patent Rolls, 
 Henry III, p. 165] (fo. A. 11 verso). [Ibid.] 
 
 1297, May 30 {rectius 28). " A writte to make the reward, 
 and the maner of the makyng of the reward, in the tyme of 
 kjnig Edward, the sonne of kjmg Henry, afore the comm3mg 
 of the justices of the forest," being letters Close of Edward 
 I., dated at Cravenbroke, May 30, anno 25, and the capitula 
 of the regard (fo. A 13). [Calendar of Close Bolls, 1296-1302, 
 p. 110]. 
 
 [c. 1230.] Writ of Hugh Nevill, justice of the forest, to 
 the sheriff to cause jurors to come to enquire into the state 
 of the forest (fo. A 14). 
 
 1301, February 29. Writ of Edward I., dated at Lincoln, 
 granting, in consideration of the fifteenth granted to him by 
 the commonalty of the realm, that the perambulation made 
 by John of Lithegrejmys and his fellows in the forest in the 
 county of Nottingham shaU be observed, and copy of the 
 perambulation, which was made on Friday after St. Barnabas, 
 29 Edward I. (fo. A 14 verso). 
 
 [1272-1307]. Assise of the forest of Edward I. (fo. A 15 
 verso). [An ampHfication of the Assize of Woodstock, 1184.] 
 
 1287, January 20. " Oder estatutes of the forest ordeigned 
 by William Vessye and his felowes, justices of the forest 
 goyng [i.e. in eyre] to hold the plees of the forest at Notyng- 
 ham, etc." in the octaves of St. Hilary, 15 Edward [I], (fo. 
 B 2). [Eyre RoU No. 127, ro. lOd.] 
 
 1305-6. New statutes of the Forest made by Edward I. 
 in the 34th year of his reign (fo. B 2 verso). [Statutes of the 
 Realm, i, p. 147.] 
 
 [1311-12]. Other statutes made by the same {sic) king, com- 
 mencing " Pur ceo que common fame est ovesque ceo, etc." 
 
244 
 
 (fo. B 3 verso). (Pages left blank for insertion of English 
 version of these statutes.) [' New Ordinances,' 5 Edward 11, 
 c. 18, Statutes of the Bealm, i, p. 160.] 
 
 Undated. " Diverse writtes ordeigned for the forest, and 
 the first writte is a venire facias agajoi the commyng of the 
 Justices of the forest into their jorney, etc." (fo. B 5). 
 
 Undated. The articles to be enquired before the justices 
 of the forest in eyre (fo. B 5 verso). 
 
 1357, July 3. Regard of Sherwood Forest begun the fifth 
 Nones of July, 31 Edward III., giving an account of the old 
 and of the new assarts, the old and the new purprestures, 
 the wastes of the woods that are not the demesnes of knights 
 and others in the regard, the wastes of the woods and hays 
 of the king, and the number of the stocks taken out of the 
 demesne woods, and of " blittrons "^ aad the " hynderyng " 
 of branch-wood after the last regard, the names of those that 
 have taken stubs, stocks, "blittrons,"^ and cartloads of branch- 
 wood out of the demesne woods to sell, presented in this 
 regard (fo. B 8 verso). 
 
 Undated. The measures of acres and roods of arable land 
 and meadow without the covert of the forest, of the king's 
 hays and demesne woods, and the measure of acres and roods 
 in forests and in the king's hays and demesne woods and 
 wastes, after the assize of the Forest made in the time of 
 Edward I. (fo. C. 3 verso). 
 
 [1289], April 8. Writ of Edward III. [rectius I.] to WiUiam 
 Vescy, justice of the Forest beyond Trent, ordering him to 
 certify the king concerning the bailiwick that Robert 
 Everingham, deceased, had in Sherwood forest, which was 
 taken into the king's hands by WilHam and his fellows for a 
 trespass committed by the said Robert, and copy of the 
 inquisition (fo. C. 4 verso). [Calendar of Inquisitions post 
 Mortem, ii. p. 393 ; Eyre Roll No. 132, ro. 9d.] 
 
 1298, May 28. Letters Patent of Edward [I], dated at 
 York, appointing Harstulph (sic) of Cleseby and Richard 
 Oyzell, to arrent the wastes of the king's soil and of the soil of 
 others in forests, parks, woods and hays on this side Trent, 
 and to sell wood, etc. [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1292-1301, 
 p. 352], and copy of the arrentation made by Oyzell in ex- 
 ecution of the said order (fo. 0. 5 verso). [Eyre RoU No. 132, 
 ro. 24.] 
 
 1272-3. Extracts from the first [Pipe] roll of Edward I. 
 concerning rents of wastes, etc. (fo. C. 6 verso). [Ibid.] 
 
 [1298]. Copies of the bills sent to the chancellor by Oyzell 
 to make charters for the wastes arrented by him. (fo. C 7 verso). 
 
 1 Branches, sprouts, etc. (Old French hleteron). 
 
245 
 
 [1272-3]. Extracts from the great roll [of the Pipe] of 
 1 Edward I. concerning rents of wastes, etc., " in the residue 
 of Notyngham and Derby" (fo. C. 8). 
 
 1304, May 20. Copy of the enrolment of letters Patent 
 of Edward I., dated at Stirling, May 20, anno 32, granting to 
 the prior and convent of Newstead 180 acres of waste within 
 Sherwood Forest, arrented by Oyzell (fo. 0. 9 verso). [Calen- 
 dar of Patent Rolls, 1301-1307, p. 205.] 
 
 1304, July 7. Copy of enrolment of Letters Patent of 
 Edward I., dated at Stirhng, granting to Thomas of the Haye 
 38 acres of waste in Sherwood Forest, arrented to him by 
 OyzeU (fo. C 10). [Ihid., p. 206.] 
 
 1305, February 2. Copy of the enrolment of letters Patent 
 of Edward I., dated at Walsingham, granting to John Colyer 
 of Lyndeby 30 acres of waste in the said forest, arrented to him 
 by Oyzell (fo. C. 10 verso). [Ihid., p. 310.] 
 
 1430-1. Extracts from the Memoranda Rolls L.T.R. Mich- 
 aelmas, 9 Henry VI, containing extracts from the great roll of 
 the Pipe, 9 Henry VI, relating to small parcels of the forest 
 aforesaid (fo. C 11). 
 
 1253-4. Like extracts from the Pipe roll 28 [read 38] 
 Henry III. [Eyre RoU No. 132, ro. 23]. 
 
 1289-90. Like extracts from the Pipe RoU 17 Edward I. 
 
 1446-7. Accoimt of Geoffrey Kneton, constable of Not- 
 tingham castle and clerk of the forest, 25 Henry VI., relating 
 to the towns and hamlets in the forest of the king's ancient 
 demesne, and of their rents, and of divers assarts, and of 
 the said castle (fo. C 14). [Deering, Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova, 
 1751, p. 172.] 
 
 [1216-1272.] Grant by Henry III. to the abbot of Rufford 
 of Hcence to enclose their ground called "Beskall" and 40 
 acres of land adjoining the abbey (fo. D 2). 
 
 1287, January 14. Plea of the forest, before Sir WiUiam 
 Vescy, Thomas FurnyTrall, and Richard Grippyng, at Not- 
 tingham, on the morrow of St. Hilary, 15 Edward III. 
 {rectius Edward I.), between the men of Clipston and 
 Edynstow, and the abbot of Rufford, the men complaining 
 that the abbot's forester, " Frere WiUiam," had prevented 
 them from pulling and gathering " lynge, gorste, herbe, and 
 leffe " in the abbot's wood of Rufford, which they aUege that 
 they had been wont to do from time out of mind, but it is 
 found that they did so by the grace of the abbot only 
 (fo. D 2 verso). [Eyre RoU No. 127, ro. 16d; White, 
 p. 225.] 
 
246 
 
 [1204, May 4]. Copy of the charter of king John, granting 
 to Hugh Nevyll the manor of Blakston [near OUerton, co. 
 Notts] and 20 acres of assart in that manor quit of regard 
 and view of foresters, and the manor of Arnehall [Arnold, co. 
 Nottingham], and 90 acres of assart in the same manor quit 
 of regard and view (fo. D 3). [Rot. Chartarum, 5 John, mem. 
 5, p. 128.] 
 
 1307, March 13. Customal of the tenants of the manor 
 of Arnall [Arnold], presented on the Monday after St. 
 Gregory the Pope, 35 Edward I. and 1 Edward II. (fo. 3 
 verso). 
 
 1334. Copy of proceedings in a plea of Qmo Warranto 
 against WilHam Melton, archbishop of York, concerning 
 the holding by him of pleas of trespass of vert committed in 
 his woods and in his soil within the forest of Sherwood after 
 the time of the disafforesting of the Cley [the Clay division 
 of the Wapentake of Bassetlaw, co. Nottingham] (fo. D. 6). 
 [Eyre RoU No. 132, ro. 25.] 
 
 1334. Copy of proceedings in Quo Warranto against the 
 abbot of Welbeck, concerning the enclosing of 40 acres of wood 
 in Rumwood with Carberton Storth (fo. D. 9). [Ibid. ro. 25d.] 
 
 1334. Copy of proceedings in Qmo Warranto against the 
 the prior of Worksop, concerning the taking by him of two 
 cartloads of ling daily in Rumwod [^Roomwood in Wel- 
 beck Park] and Outheslond [Osland Wood, parish of Pearl- 
 thorpe. Both in Sherwood Forest] (fo. D. 9). [Ibid. ro. 25.] 
 
 1303. Copy of proceedings in the eyre of the Forest, 
 before WUUam Vescy and his fellows, 31 Edward I, against 
 the prior of Worksop on the presentment of the regarders that 
 the prior had usurped upon the king 13 acres of waste and 
 wood under pretext of assarting 40 acres in the wood of Rum- 
 wode (fo. D 11, 9 verso). [Ibid. ro. 25.] 
 
 [1287.] Extract from the rolls of the eyre relating to the 
 to the amoval from office by the justices of Robert Everyngham, 
 chief forester of the forest of Sherwood, because the books 
 of attachments of the said forest contained numerous 
 erasures (fo. D Jl). [Eyre Roll No. 127, ro. 5d; No. 132, ro. 
 9d.] 
 
 Undated. The oath of the foresters, and the oath of the 
 woodwards (fo. D. 12). 
 
 There are added, in a hand of the middle of the sixteenth 
 century, copies of inquisitions, the assize of the forest, etc. 
 The book is continued in hands of this period from fo. D. 12 
 verso, with the oath of the bow-bearer ; the oath of the 
 ' swanymote,' the perambulations of the forest, 21 Henry 
 VII., and 30 Henry VIII. [White, p. 401] ; the customs of 
 
247 
 
 the manors of Horeston, Bollesover [co. Derby], Southwell 
 and Warsop [co. Notts.] ; 6 April, 1564, articles for the reforma- 
 tion of sundry disorders in the forests, etc., of the queen on the 
 north side of the Trent to be put into execution by the justice 
 of the forest there ; the customal of Mansfield ; and the custo- 
 mal of Edwinstow. _ 204 (293). 
 
 1339. — Outer leaves of a quire of a Year Book, Michaelmas 
 Term, 13 Edward III., commencing : " acceptaunt que le plee 
 y avoit enter nous de la prise de mesme lez bestez, auxi com 
 nous conucamus, quel prise se covent par lei esse entendu 
 devaunt le temps de bref purchase," etc. The names mentioned 
 are Shardelowe and Aldeburgh [justices], and Pole and Gayn- 
 [ford], covmsel. The next case is a Quare Impedit brought by 
 Walter de Elingham against John, bishop of Exeter (1327-1369), 
 and Thomas de Stapelton. The counsel are Stouf[ord], Par- 
 vyng, Shar[schulle], Herle, Wilbi. The other leaf com- 
 mences : " et covient que le bref comprent que la matere et 
 la cause (?) de la proprete fuist par force d'un tiel fraunchise 
 par taunt ne cherra pas le fraunchis en triement par cestui 
 bref," etc. The names mentioned are Shar[schuUe], Derworth, 
 Aldebjurgh], Wodestok, Stou[ford], Parvyng, R. Thorp. The 
 case is a claim of estray by an abbot (of Glastonbury, cf. 
 Pyke, Tear Book, 13 and 14 Edward III, p. 135). It is 
 followed by an action for ravishment of ward by Henry 
 Fitzhugh of Ramneswath against Elizabeth [Spring] (cf. 
 Pyke, p. 146, where " of Ravensworth " is supplied from 
 the record), and an action for dower in a tenement in 
 Butterwik. 24. 
 
 1474-1492. — Register of the Abbey of Burton-on-Trent, 
 compiled by Thomas Felde, the abbot. 
 
 A large foUo-sized volume, measuring 24 inches by 18^ 
 inches, containing 55 folios, bound in a portion of a fifteenth 
 century service book, with a richly illuminated initial. The 
 volume is entitled : " Hie incipit liber vocatus ' Regestarius,' 
 tam de cartis et evidenciis, inquisicionibus, de juris decimarum 
 et forma coUacionis decimarum, taxacione prebendarum, 
 juramentis vic[ecomitum ?], notis placitorum spirituaUum 
 et temporalium, forma acquietancti[arum], quam de 
 libertatibus et privHegiis manerii de Burtone super Tren- 
 tam, brevibus et ceteris scriptis, cert[is] balivis et offi- 
 c[iariis] ejusdem deliberat[is] mon[asterio] de Burton predicta 
 pertinentibus, factus per Thomam Felde, abbatem monasterii 
 predicti, anno Domini millesimo CCCC'"" LXX""> IIIJ"> et 
 ejusdem abbatis IJ°." 
 
 It contains copies of inquisitions concerning tithes, etc., 
 as stated in the above title, and of the following documents. 
 The copies have been made by a careless scribe, who 
 occasionally omits words or writes down inadvertently words 
 resembling in form those that he was copying, and falls into 
 other errors. 
 
248 
 
 [Fo. 5, verso.] 
 
 1430-32. — Proceedings relating to the contested election 
 of the abbot of Burton-on-Trent. 
 
 " In Dei nomine non amen, sed in omni modo sinistro. 
 Feria quarta, vicesimo [septimo^] die mensis Septembris, anno 
 Domini millesimo quadringentesimo tricesimo, abbacia monas- 
 terii de Burton super Trentam, Couventrensis et Lich[felden8is] 
 diocesis, per liberam cessionem sive resignacionem Dompni 
 Willelmi Mathew, nuper abbatis ejusdem, vacante,^ con- 
 venerunt iUuc Magister Thomas Chesterfeld, consistorii domini, 
 Dei gracia, Couventrensis et Lich[feldensis] episcopi exami- 
 nator, et Magister Johannes Bryde, notarius, commorant[es] 
 in hospicio cum predicto domino episcopo, ac etiam Dominus 
 Ricardus Vernon, miles, latenter procurat[or] ad novam 
 eleccionem ibidem confundendam magis quam juste et 
 canonice perficiendam. 
 
 Qui quidem Magister Thomas Chesturfeld et Frater WU- 
 elmus Bromley, monachus ejusdem domus, eadem nocte adi- 
 erunt predictum Dompnum Willelmum Mathew, nuper abba- 
 tem, valida infirmitate decubantem, ac ilium assidue procur- 
 abant, ut assensum suum preberet ad eligendum quendam 
 Robertum Ownesby, monachum commorantem in hospicio 
 cum predicto domino episcopo, sciencia sacre scripture valde 
 edoctus,' qui diu negando, licet respondisset, minis tamen 
 et blandiciis eorum superatus, ad ultimum concessit ; unde 
 postea condolens reatum suum sepius amare confitebatur, ita 
 quod infra quindenam proximam sequentem vitam consum- 
 mavit. 
 
 In crastino vero, videlicet feria quinta, vicesimo octavo die 
 mensis predicti, congregatis omnibus in domo capitulari hora 
 consueta, cunctisque peractis, ut moris est, que in hujusmodi 
 actu fieri consueverunt, processerunt ad novam eleccionem 
 per modum scrutinii fiendam : ad quod fideliter peragendum 
 electi erant Frater Ricardus Lythum, Frater Robertus Cleyden, 
 precentor, et Frater Thomas Norton, monachi monasterii 
 predicti, ac Domiaus Thomas Marche et Dominus Thomas 
 Sapurton, capellani, ad testimonium inde perhibendum. Qui 
 quidem scrutatores et testes predicti, insimul sedentes cum 
 predicto Magistro Thoma et aliis sue perversitatis consociis, 
 audierunt vota quorundam ex senioribus monachis monasterii 
 predicti. Inter quos Frater Johannes Yoxhale, latens dolum 
 comperiens, dixit, quod in juste et contra formam eleccionis 
 agebant. Propter quod predictus Magister Thomas, qui se 
 gubernatorem eleccionis pretendebat, iratus continuo surrexit 
 et exivit capitulo ; sed iUuc denuo* reductus, iterum sedens, 
 
 1 As the ■ morrow ' is called the 28th below, the word " septimo ' is 
 required here. 
 
 2 vocante, MS. 
 
 * idictum,, MS. 
 
 * dedmo, MS. 
 
N 249 
 
 audivit vota aliorum certorum monachorum, et senciens eos 
 nullo modo ad eligendum prediotum Robertumi iterum suir- 
 exit et exivit. 
 
 Post Nonam vero iterum venit et audivit vota paucorum 
 ex residuis, et senciens ut supra, iterum surrexit et Prater 
 Ricardus Lythum cum eo, transientes in ecclesiam ad 
 Dominum Ricardum Vernon antedictum, et ibi penes eum 
 institerunt, ut^ ipse procuraret monachos prediotos ad eli- 
 gendum Robertum predictum. Qui quidem Dominus Ricardus 
 misit pro Fratre Roberto Cleydon, precentore, rogans' eum, 
 coram predicto Magistro Thoma, quatinus predictum Robertum 
 eligeret, sicut pro eo aliquid umquam faceret : qui respondit, 
 quod pro quingentis marcis hoc facere nollet, quia inde 
 Dominum et suam conscienciara graviter offenderet, et addidit, 
 quod ipse inique agebat taliter aliquem procurando. 
 
 Post quem misit pro Fratre Gylberto Moston, promittens 
 sibi et amicis suis dominium* et com[m]odum magnum [si] 
 sibi consentiret, et contrarium si negaret : qui respondit, quod 
 quando tempus adveniret talem sibi eligeret* quaKs Deo 
 complaceret. Unde pater ejus territus venit ad ilium, dicens 
 quod nisi predicto Domino consentiret, ipse in patria diutius 
 morari non posset. Qui respondit consulens quod alibi ^ tunc 
 sibi provideret, quoniam pro nullo vivente Dominum et suam 
 conscienciam offendere nollet. Inde misit pro Fratre Bernardo 
 et Fratre Willelmo Stapunhull', promittens eis ut supra. 
 At ilU indignacionem ejus metuentes juncti[m] concenserunt ; 
 qui inde mox valde merentes contestati sunt, dicentes quod 
 illo die contra consciencias suas facerent. Similiter et Frater 
 Ricardus Lythum, prior, spiritu erroris deceptus, predictum 
 Fratrem Gylbertum et Fratrem Walterum et quam plures alios 
 procurabat, rogans eos quatinus predictum Robertum eUgeret* : 
 cui omnes contradixerunf, dicentes Ulum esse excommuni- 
 catum taliter eos procurando. Deinde predictus Frater Ricar- 
 dus et Magister Thomas Chesturfelde miserunt pro Fratre 
 Nicholao Warde, in quem major et sanior pars consensit^, 
 procurantes ut ipse juri suo' renunciaret, dicentes quod epis- 
 copus mallet perdere mUle marcas cioius quam predictus 
 Robertus non fieret abbas, eo quod cunctis generosis narrasset 
 sic esse fiendum. Quibus predictus Nicholaus respondit, quod 
 licet predictus dominus episcopus pro eo mille marcas vellet 
 expendere, illud de jure non posset optinere. Et sic advespera- 
 scente jam die ab invicem discesserunt. 
 
 1 The verb is omitted. 
 
 2 ei, MS. 
 
 3 rogans. MS. 
 
 * dominum, MS. 
 6 elUgeret, MS. 
 
 6 alvhi, MS. 
 
 7 contradicerunt, MS. 
 
 8 concensit, MS. 
 
 * jus awwm, MS. 
 
250 
 
 In crastino vero, videlicet feria sexta, vicesimo nono die 
 mensis predicti, iterum venerunt ad capitulum ad audiendum 
 
 [Fo. 6.] 
 vota ceterorum ex monachis antedictis ; qui, videntes eos 
 non consentire ad eligendum, faciebat excepciones contra 
 quosdam illorum, ponentes verba sua inordinate, et sic se 
 fingentes justam habere eleccionem ad oontendendum et 
 inplacitandum minabantur. Similiter et Dominus Ricardus 
 Vernon per illos procuratus predictum Fratrem Nicholaum 
 minabatur, dicens, quod si iUud suscepisset^, nihil inde gauderet 
 ipso vivente. Quapropter predictus Frater Nicholaus misit 
 pro predicto Magistro Thoma, petens ab eo, ut eleccio^ cassaretur 
 ex utraque parte et transirent ad novam electionem. Cui 
 Ule respondit, promittens super librum corporaliter jurando 
 coram Fratre Roberto Cleyden et Fratre Thoma Norton, quod, 
 si ipse juri suo' renunciasset, idem Magister Thomas predicto 
 domino episcopo tocius rei veritatem certificaret ; quo cog- 
 noscente certus erat, quod transiret ad novam eleccionem. 
 Et sic sub ista condicione predictus Frater Nicholaus solo 
 rudis Anglicis verbis renunciavit, et non in scriptis nee in 
 forma juris positis (sic). Quibus compertis, Frater Johannes 
 Yoxhale, Frater Robertus Brouhton, Frater Johannes Walton, 
 Frater WiUelmus Bronston, Frater Radulphus Heynley, 
 Frater Walterus Qwelar, Frater Gylbertus Moston, Frater 
 Johannes Combar, Frater Johannes Worcetur, et Frater 
 Henricus Mylner, confestim exeuntes, arripuerunt* viam versus 
 Lich[feld] ad conquerendum domino episcopo de injuria per 
 clericos suos^ ipsis Ulata. Post quorum egressum, Frater 
 Ricardus, prior, et ceteri supradicti cameram abbatis irrump- 
 entes* clavem abbatis de sigUlo communi inde asportaverunt ; 
 cum quo sigillo sine consensu' conventus diversas cartas sigil- 
 laverunt, de quibus una erat nuda et inscripta. 
 
 In crastino vero, videUcet tricesimo die mensis predicti, 
 convenientibus omnibus coram predicto domino episcopo apud 
 Lich[feld], pecierunt monachi predicti et Frater Robertus 
 Cleyden, precentor, cum eis novam eleccionem, sicut superius 
 promissum erat, asserentes ex parte predicti Roberti, secun- 
 dum rei veritatem, nuUam* esse eleccionem nee de jure debere 
 fore. Sed predictus dominus episcopus, consiUo predicti 
 Magistri Thome sermonibus blandis illos demulcens, remisit 
 vacuos, dicens se eis optime facturum, si desideriis ejus vellent 
 adquiescere. Et sic illi, non habentes ibidem consilium neque 
 expensas ad rectum suum prosequendum, merentes siluerunt, 
 expectantes donee visitaret oriens ex alto." 
 
 1 suscipiaaet, MS. 
 
 2 elleccio, MS. 
 
 ^ jus euimt, MS. 
 
 * occipttenwi, MS. 
 
 5 OTtog et, MS. 
 
 8 irrumptia, MS. 
 
 ' conoensu, MS. 
 
 8 nidlum, MS. 
 
251 
 
 1432, March 29. — Notarial instrument executed " in 
 quadam alta camera infra monasterium de Burton-super- 
 Trent, Conventren[si] et Lich[efeldensi] dioc[esi], situata 
 vulgariter nuncupata ' Coventz Hostry,' " by William Wetherby 
 called " Derby," notary of that diocese, testifying that Brothers 
 Robert Cleyden, John Yoxehale, Robert Broughton, Nicholas 
 Warde, Thomas Norton, John Walton, William Bronston, 
 Ralph Heynley, Gilbert Moston, John Wurcetur, John Burton, 
 Walter Qwelar, John Combar, and Henry Mylner, monks of 
 the abbey of Burton, appeared in person and acknowledged 
 iprofessi) an appeal (provocacionem) and petition to the pope 
 written on paper (in quadam papiri cedula), which the said 
 Nicholas made, read and testified (interposuit ac protestatus 
 fuit) in the name and by order of the said brethren for the 
 protection of the monastery and its goods, etc. 
 
 [Fo. 7.] 
 1432, November 10. — Notarial instrument executed in St. 
 Mary's chapel in the aforesaid monastery by Wilham Dernton, 
 notary, of the diocese of Durham, witnessing that the afore- 
 said monks and Bernard Tutbury, another monk of the same 
 abbey, have appointed William Fynders and Henry Daukyns, 
 " in decretis bacalarios " (sic), their proctors to prosecute their 
 appeal against the election of Brother Robert Ownesby as 
 abbot. 
 
 [Fo. 7 verso.] 
 
 1432, November 15. — Appeal to the Court of Canterbury 
 by the said Henry Daukyns against the delay of the bishop 
 in cancelling the alleged election, by notarial instrument 
 executed by the said William Dernton in St. Mary's church. 
 Nottingham. 
 
 [Fo. 8.] 
 1432 [-3], January 24. — Resignation of the abbacy by 
 Robert Ownesby. 
 
 1432 [-3], January 28. — ^Acceptance of this resignation by 
 the bishop. 
 
 [Fo. 9.] 
 
 1432 [-3], January 30.— Petition to the king for licence to 
 elect a successor. 
 
 1433, January 29.— The king's licence to elect. 
 
 1432 [-3], February 8. — Letter from the convent to the king, 
 announcing the election of Brother Ralph Henley as abbot. 
 
 [Fo. 9 verso.] 
 1433, February 12. — Notice from the king to the bishop of 
 his acceptance of the election. 
 
252 
 
 1432 [-3], February 12. — Order from the bishop to his official, 
 Thomas, prior of Stone, and the archdeacon of Stafford to 
 institute the abbot elect, if they be satisfied as to his character 
 and the legitimacy of his election. 
 
 [Fo. 10.] 
 1432 [-3], February 23. — Order from the official to the 
 chaplain of the parish church of Burton-upon-Trent to cite all 
 persons interested in the election to appear before the official, 
 
 1432 [-3J, March 2. — Letter from Thomas Marche, chaplain 
 of the said parish church, to the official, signifying his execution 
 of preceding mandate. 
 
 [Fo. 10 verso.] 
 1432 [-3], February 8.— Letter of Brother Richard Lythum, 
 prior of Burton, and the convent of the same, appointing 
 Brothers Robert Cleyden and Nicholas Warde, of the said 
 monastery, their proctors to present the abbot elect to the 
 bishop, etc. 
 
 1432 [-3], February 7, 8. — Notification from the prior and 
 convent to the bishop of the election of the said Brother Ralph 
 Henley by Richard Lythom, the prior, and Brothers William 
 Bromley, Robert Cleyden, Bernard Tutbyry, John Yoxhale, 
 Robert Brouhton, John Wyncturmaster, Nicholas Warde, 
 Thomas Nortone, John Walton, John Burton, William 
 Bronston, Ralph Henley, Wilham Stapunhull, Walter Qweler, 
 Gilbert Moston, John Combar, John Wurcetur, and Henry 
 Hum ; the election was made in the chapter house of the 
 monastery " propositoque verbo Dei Sancti Spiritus, graciam 
 per decantacionem ympni Anghci ' Veni, Creator Spiritus, ' 
 invocavimus." 
 
 [Fo. 11 verso.] 
 1432 [-3], March 5.— Letter from the official and Thomas 
 Helygeve, prior of Stone, to the bishop, notifying that they 
 have admitted the said Ralph Henley as abbot of Burton. 
 
 [Fo. 12.] 
 1432 [-3], March 8. — Letter from the bishop to the king, 
 notifying his confirmation of the said election, etc. 
 
 1433, March 10. — -Letters patent of the king to the tenants 
 of the abbey, notifying that he has received the fealty of the 
 said abbot by the prior of Repindon and that he has restored 
 the temporalities to the abbot. 
 
 [Fo. 12 verso.] 
 1433, March 10. — Commission from the king to the prior of 
 Repindon to receive the fealty of the abbot. 
 
253 
 
 Here follow the forms of the oath : 
 
 " Jeo serra foial et loial, et foie et loalt6 portera a nostre 
 Seigneur le Roy Henry, et a sez heirs, Eoys d'Englaterre, de 
 vie et de membre et de terien honour, a vivre et murrir countre 
 toutez gens, et dihgeament serra entendant as busoignes nostre 
 Seigneur le Roy, solonque mon scien et poair, et le conseile 
 nostre Seigneur le Roy celera, et loialment conusera et fra les 
 services duez des temporaltees de ma abbacie de Burton-sur- 
 Trent, les queux jeo cleyme tenir de nostre dit seigneur le roy 
 et les queux il me rent, et a luy et a sez^ maundementz que a 
 moy atteint pur mez temporaltees serra obeisant, si Dieu m'aide 
 et sez santtz. 
 
 " I schal be trewe and faithfull' and faith and trowth I 
 schal here to our' Lorde Kyng Edwarde (sic) and to his heires, 
 Kynges of Ynglond, of life and lymme and of erthele worschipe, 
 and to Hf and to dye agains all' peple, and diHgently I schal 
 be endentent (sic) to the nedes of our' Lorde Kyng aftjrr my 
 connyng and my power, and the consaill of our' Lorde 
 [Kyng] I schall' kepe prevey, and truly I schall knowlage and 
 do the servyce duez of the temperaltees of myn abbey of 
 Burton sur Trent, the whylke I clayme to hold of our said 
 Lorde Kyng and the qwylke heyeldith to me, and to hym and 
 to his maunndementz in as much as longes to me for my saide 
 temperaltees I schal be obedient. So God me help and his 
 Seints." 
 
 "Ego prefatus prior Domino regi respondeo, quod .die 
 Dominica in tercia septim[ana] Quadragesime ultimo elapsa, 
 in prioratu Sancte Trinitatis de Repjnidon predicto,in Comitatu 
 Derbey, cepi fidehtatem Radulphi Henley, abbatis monasterii 
 de Burton super Trent infra nominati, pro temporalibus abbacie 
 predicte Domino Regi debitis, secundum formam cujusdam 
 cedule in isto brevi intercluse^, prout breve in se exigit et 
 requirit. Et ulterius ego prefatus prior Domino regi certifico, 
 quod omnes htteras patentes ac brevia Domini regis pro 
 temporalibus predictis michi per latorem presencium Uberata 
 prefato' abbati liberari feci, secundum tenorem istius brevis." 
 
 The next fifteen fohos contain copies of deeds, commissions, 
 etc. 
 
 [Fo. 28 verso.] 
 
 " Taxacio bonorum temporalium infra arch[idiaconatum] 
 Staff[ordie], secundum regestrum in scaccario Domini Regis 
 residens." This extends to foUo 34. 
 
 [Fo. 35 verso.] 
 
 [1004*]. — Translation of the will of Wulfric Spott, founder 
 of the abbey of Burton-upon-Trent, composed in Anglo-Saxon. 
 
 1 fez, MS. 
 
 2 intercluso, MS. 
 
 3 prefaU, MS. 
 
 * Gj. Cod. Dipl. iii. p. 333 ; Annales de Burton, in Annales Monastiei, 
 i, p. 183. 
 
254 
 
 A facsimile of the quasi-original, which is written in a very late 
 eleventh century hand, is given in the Ordnance Survey Fac- 
 similes of Anglo-Saxon Charters, vol. iii. Marquis of Anglesea's 
 collection, plate ii. It is printed from the Burton chartulary 
 (see Register of Burton Abbey, William Salt Society, vol. v., part 1, 
 p. 6), in Dugdale's Monasticon, iii, p. 37, Kemble, Codex Diplo- 
 maticus Mvi Saxonici, vi, p. 147, Thorpe, Diplomatarium 
 Anglicanum, p. 543, and Earle, Land Charters, p. 218. An 
 annotated translation by W. H. Duignan and W. F. Carter 
 was pubhshed in the " Midland Antiquary," iv, p. 99 sqq. 
 
 It is clear from the errors arising from ignorance of Anglo- 
 Saxon flexional forms that the version was made without the 
 assistance of any Latin version of intermediate date. It 
 preserves traces of superior readings to the quasi-original and 
 the chartulary in othire Dumeltan, Tp. 254:, Athelwaldeston,i>. 255, 
 Longforde, p. 256, and Wulfgat, p. 255. 
 
 " Here begynnyth the testament of Wulfrike Pott, founder 
 of the Monastery of Burton, which' dyed in the tyme of 
 Kyng Etheldred (sic). 
 
 " In Nomine Domini. Here shewith WuKrike his wel- 
 belovede Lorde his testament and all' his fredome^ that is 
 furst, I graunt my Lorde Kyng cc. marke^ of golde, and 
 ij. swerdes with sylv}^' hyltes, and iiij. horses and ij. new 
 sadels^ and the harnes* that therto belongis. 
 
 And I graunt to Alkwyn^ Bysshope v. handfull* of golde, 
 and to the too archebysshopes eythyr of them x. handfull 
 of golde. 
 
 And I graunt to Alkwyn^ reUgiouse' monke a pound of 
 golde^ ; and to every abbot and abbes v. handfull* of golde. 
 
 And I gyve to Alfrik Archebysshoppe the landes* at 
 Dumelton^" with the othire Dumeltan for my soule, with that 
 that he be frende and better helper to the place that I have 
 foundede. 
 
 And I graunt to Elfelme and Wulf age tho landes® betwene 
 RybeU and Marse,iiand that they depart hem betwene them 
 as evyn as they may.^^ 
 
 1 Bead ' friends ' (freondon, dat. plur). 
 
 2 Bead ' mancusses. ' 
 
 3 Should be ' four horses, two saddled and two unsaddled. ' 
 
 * Read ' weapons. ' 
 
 6 Read ' each ' (mlcmm). 
 
 * Read " mancusses. ' 
 
 ' Read " rule ' (mumie-regole), i.e., order of monks. 
 8 The words ' of golde ' are an addition. 
 
 * Misunderstanding of the genitive singular landes, the case required by 
 the verb geunnan ' to grant. ' 
 
 10 Dumbleton, oo. Gloucester. Cf. Chronicon Monaaterii de Ahvngdon, 
 i, pp. 411, 413. The ' othire ' Dumeltan is not mentioned in the other texts. 
 
 1 1 The rivers Ribble and Mersey. The original adds and on Wirhatum 
 ' and in Wirral,' the peninsula of Wirrall, co. Chester. 
 
 12 The version omits ' unless either of them wiU have his own, on this 
 condition that when it is the season of shad, each of them shall deliver three 
 thousands of shad to the place [i.e., monastery] at Burton.' 
 
265 
 
 And I graunt to Alfelme Rolston^ and Horlaston*. 
 
 And I gyve Wulfage the landes* at Borleston* and at 
 Marchenton.8 
 
 And I gyve Alfelme the landes* at Consburghe*, with that 
 that' he gyve the monkes the thyrde parte of the fysshes, and 
 he to have the too partes. 
 
 And I graunt to Wulfage the landes^ at Athelwaldeston.^ 
 
 AndIgyvetoWulfgatnhelandes»at Norton on that entent 
 that he be frende and better helper unto the place at Burton. 
 
 And I gyve to my fursti" doughter the landes^ at ElKord" 
 and the landes ^ at Aclee, i« with all that longyth therto the whill' 
 that she l3rvyth and aftyre here day go they into the place 
 at Burton, and she in no wyse hurte the landes but kepe and 
 mayntein them all' the whyll' she may, i* for it was mv god- 
 fader's gyfte. And I wyll' that Alfelme^* have the landes at 
 Shyrmunde^^ and at Tomworth, withoute any maner of serv- 
 age, he to be chefe lorde.^* 
 
 And I graunt Wulgare my knyght the landes ^ at Baltrys" 
 evyn as his fader hit helde.is And I bequeith' to Morkar the 
 lande at Walshall',i9and that at Thegenthorp,2o and that at 
 Whytwyke,2i and at Clune^^ and at Barleburghe^s and at 
 Dukmanston^* and at Moresburghe^s and at Egyngton^* and 
 at Becton^' and Doncestere'^^ and at Morlegton.^s 
 
 1 Rolleston, eo. Stafford. 
 
 2 Harlaston, parish of Clifton Campville, co. Stafford. 
 
 3 Misunderstanding ot the genitive singular landes, the case required by 
 the verb geiinnan ' to grant. ' 
 
 * Barlaaton, co. Stafford. 
 
 5 Marchington, parish of Hanbury, co. Stafford. 
 
 ^ Conisborough, co. York. 
 
 ' ' With that that ' is a too Uteral rendering of wifS Son Se, ' on con- 
 dition that. ' 
 
 8 Alewaldestune, orig. Elvaston, co. Derby, or Alvaston, parish of St. 
 Michael, Derby, two adjoining villages which occur in Domesday i. 276b, col. 
 2, as .(El woldestune and Aleuuoldestune. 
 
 * Ufegeat in the original. 
 
 10 ' Furst ' is a mistranslation of ' poor ' (earman). 
 
 11 Elford, CO. Stafford. 
 
 12 Oakley, near Elford, in co. Stafford, but in the parish of Croxall, co. 
 Derby. 
 
 13 Add ■ she may deserve it, and let it revert afterwards to the place at 
 Burton. ' 
 
 1* Bead " that Alfhelm shall be the protector of her and of the land. ' 
 
 15 A blunder for ' be her protection ' (ey hire mund). 
 
 18 Bead ' without any of the services and without any of the bom men, 
 
 except that she shall have the chief power (ealdordom). ' 
 
 17 Baltri/Seleage, orig. Balterley, parish of Barthomley, co. Stafford. 
 
 18 Bead ' acquired ' {begeat). 
 
 19 Waleaho, dat. sing., orig. WalsaU, co. Stafford ? 
 2 ])eogende]>orpe, orig. Unknown. 
 
 21 Hwitewylle, orig. Whitwell, co. Derby. 
 
 22 Clown, CO. Derby. 
 
 23 Barlborough, co. Derby. 
 
 2* Duckmanton (Sutton-cum-), co. Derby. 
 
 26 Mosborough, parish of Eckington, co. Derby. 
 
 2 6 Eckington, oo. Derby. 
 
 2 7 Beighton. co, Derby. 
 
 2 8 Doncaster, co. York. 
 
 29 Morlmgtun, orig. Unknown. 
 
256 
 
 And I graunt his wife Aldestre^ evyn as hit standis with 
 grounded and man. 
 
 And I graunt Alfelm my cosyn the lande at Palterton.' 
 
 And I graunt Athelryke the lande at Wibtofte* and at 
 Tonge^ all' his day, and aftur his lyffe go that lande 
 for my sowle and for his moder's and for his* into Burton. 
 
 And thes be the landes that I gyve into Burton, that is 
 furst Burton ther as the monastery standes, and Stretton',' and 
 Bromley,^ and Bedyngton,^ and Gageley,!" and Wyteston,i^ 
 and Longforde,^^ and Styrley.^^ and Newton and Therwyke,^* 
 and Waddon,!^ and the lytyll' land that I called er^* Newton, 
 and WynshuU',!' and Sutton," and Tykenhall',i' and at Shen- 
 ton, 20 and at Wygeston', 21 and that at Halen, 22 and Remmesle, ^3 
 and at St3rpley,2* and at Sutton,25and at Atton^s and aftur 
 too mennys day b3rforesayde,2' Thorlaston^* and all' that 
 longith' therto, that is Rudgare^* and my lytuU' land at Cote- 
 walton,^" and a bede^i with all' that longeth therto, and a 
 cofere^^ with the stuff therin.^^ And the landes at Hum and 
 
 1 Aldulfestreo orig. Austrey, co. Warwick. 
 
 2 mid mete orig., ' with meat ' (i.e., food, live stock). 
 
 3 Palterton, parish of Bolsover, co. Derby. Add ' and the [land] 
 that Scegth bequeathed to me. ' 
 
 * Wibtoft, parish of Claybrooke, co. Warwick. 
 
 " jEt Twongan, orig. Tonge, co. Salop (Ttuinge in Domesday, i. 253b, 
 col. 2). 
 
 * minre ' mine,' orig. 
 
 ^ Stretton, parish of Burton-on-Trent, co. Stafford. 
 
 * Abbots IBromley co. Stafford. 
 
 * Beddington, now Pillatonhall, parish of Penkridge, co. Stafford. 
 1" Gailey, parish of Penkridge, co. Stafford. 
 
 11 Whiston, parish of Penkridge, co. Stafford. 
 
 12 Laganford, orig., which has Langanford in the Latin text. Cf. Cod. 
 Dipt., iii, p. 333. Longford, co. Stafford. 
 
 !•' Styrcleage, orig. Stirchley, co. Salop. 
 
 1 * Misunderstanding of wt iScere ivic ' at the wich, ' which here prob- 
 ably means a salt-spring (of. Cart. Sax. iii, p. 653). Newton-by-Middlewioh, 
 00. Chester ? 
 
 15 Wcedediin, orig. Unknown. 
 
 1 6 Read ' that I own in another Newton. ' 
 1^ WinshiU, parish of Burton-on-Trent. 
 
 18 Sutton-on-the-HiU, co. Derby. Cf. Domesday, i., 273 col. 2. 
 
 19 Ticknall, co. Derby. 
 
 20 Shangton, co. Leicester, (Nichols, Leicestershire, ii., p. 790). 
 
 21 Little Wigston, parish of Claybrooke, co. Leicester. 
 
 2 2 Kirk HaUam or West Hallam, co. Derby, called Halen in Domesday, 
 i, p. 277b. col. 2 (=A.S. cet Healum). 
 
 23 The Ramealege, co. Warwick, of Domesday, i, p. 239, col. 2, now 
 Romsley, parish of Alveley, Salop. 
 
 2* Sciplea, orig. Probably Shipley, parish of Claverley, co. Salop. 
 
 2 6 Sutton j^Scarsdale), parish of Sutton-oum-Duckmanton, co. Derby. 
 
 26 Actune, orig. Perhaps one of the Staffordshire Actons. 
 
 2 7 The original grants Acton for ' two men's day [i.e., lives], as the 
 agreement (foreword) specifies. ' 
 
 28 Deorlafestun, orig. Darlaston, near Stone, co. Stafford. 
 
 2 9 Budegeard, orig. Rudyard, parish of Leek, co. Stafford. 
 
 3 Cotwalton, in ModdershaU, parish of Stone, co. Stafford. 
 81 Lege, orig. Leigh, co. Stafford. 
 
 32 Read ' Acofere (^co/re). Okeover, co. Stafford. 
 3 3 Read ' with those that thereto pertain.' 
 
257 
 
 Chelfdon,! and Catesthurn,^ and pe hyrede' lande at Sutton 
 and Morley* and Bradeshall',^ Morton* with all' fredom' that 
 longith therto, and the lande at Fyllege,^ and Oggeston,* and 
 Wynfelde.i" and Snowdeswyke^i into Morton,!^ and that at 
 Tathwyir,'^ and that land at Appulby^* the which' I boght 
 with my money, and at Weston ^^ and Burton, and the hyde 
 lande at Shernforde^" into Wygeston,i' and at Harlburghe- 
 bryge,^' and Aldesworth,i^ and all' Fredyngton,^" and Eccles- 
 hall',21 and Waddon,^^ and an hyde at Stone. ^3 
 
 And I graunt to the Covent at Tomworth' the lande at 
 Langton^* aftur the cownant byfore made,^^ that they have 
 halfe and halfe the monkes of Burton, with gode^" and catell' 
 and man for evyr,^' with all' thyng longyng Ipevto. 
 
 And the Bysshopp fong to his land at Bobandon,^^ and 
 aftur to the monkes at Burton and with that land is gyvyn 
 man and all' thyng longyng therto.^' 
 
 And I will that the Kyng be lorde and foundered" of the 
 monasterys that I have foundede and they to have^^ the 
 landys that I have bequeythyd to hem for to loove^^ Gode 
 and for my Lorde Kjmges soule and myn ; and Alfrike Arch- 
 bysshop and Alfelm, my brother, that the be frendes and 
 defensours of the monastery at Burton ayenst all manere of 
 
 1 Read ' that is Hilmn and Celfdun. ' Ham and Cauldon, oo. Stafford. 
 
 2 Casteme, parish of Bam. 
 
 3 Read ' heriotland. ' 
 
 * Morley, co. Derby. 
 
 5 Breadsall, co. Derby. 
 
 6 Morton, co. Derby. 
 '^ Read ' soke. ' 
 
 8 Pillesleage, oiig. ( Tf iff esZeaje in the printed texts. ) Pilsley, in North 
 Winfield, co. Derby. 
 
 * Oggodestun, orig. Ogston (Hall), in Brackenfield, parish of Morton, 
 CO. Derby. 
 
 10 Winfield (North ?), co. Derby. 
 
 1 1 Snodeswic, orig. The Esnotrewic of DB. i. 276, col. 2, in Scarsdale 
 Hundred, co. Derby ? 
 
 12 Morton, CO. Derby. 
 
 13 Tathwell, co. Lincoln. 
 
 1 * Great Appleby, cos. Leicester and Derby. 
 15 Weston-on-Trent, co. Derby. 
 
 18 Shamford, co. Leicester. 
 
 17 Little Wigston, oo. Leicester. 
 
 18 Hereburgebyrig, orig. Harbury, co. Warwick. 
 18 Awsworth, CO. Notts. 
 
 20 ^Ifredingtune, orig. Alfreton, co. Derby. 
 
 21 Eccleshall, co. Stafford. 
 
 22 Long Whatton, co. Leicester (Nichols, Leices/erafeVe, iii, p. 1103). 
 
 23 Sceon, orig. Sheen, co. Stafford. 
 
 2* Lcmgandim, orig. Longdon, co. Stafford. 
 
 2 5 Literally 'in the same manner as they let it to me previously.' 
 26 Apparently a misunderstanding of ge on (' as well in'). 
 
 2 7 The words ' for ever ' are an addition to the original. 
 
 2 8 Btibandwne, orig. Bupton, parish of Longford, co. Derby. 
 
 29 Read ' and the monks at Burton shall receive what is on the land, 
 both in food [=cattle ?] and in men, and in all things, and the land to the 
 bishop at the plough (?).' 
 
 30 The words ' and foundere ' are an addition. ' Monasterys' is a mis- 
 understanding of the gen. sing, mynstrea. 
 
 81 Read 'and [lord] of the estates in land that I have bequeathed. ' 
 8 2 Read 'glory' (lofe). 
 
 M17 
 
258 
 
 men, non othyr to dwell' therin of religious but Saynt Benettes 
 order. ^ 
 
 And I gyve my goddoghters Morcarse and Elgith^ the land 
 at Stretton^ and the bole* that was ther^ aldermoder's. 
 
 And I graunt into the monastery of Burton a hundjn^th 
 wilde horse and syxten teme rothyrn,' and therto all' that I 
 have alyve, except that the which I have before queythyde. 
 And Gode Almyghty kepe hit from all' Cristen mennes domi- 
 nacion but only my Lorde Kynges'; and I hope that he wyll' 
 be goode and lovyng and in no wyse hyndyr hit, nothyr suffur 
 non othyr to do. Valete in Christo ! 
 
 [Foil. 36, 37.] 
 " Chapiturs of Excheytours," in English. 
 
 [Fo. 38 verso.] 
 
 1490, August 31. — " Hunston Grange. ^ The examinacion 
 of diverse meires [= boundaries] at Hunston. 
 
 Firste Mottelow.* John' Alsope saith that it streches downe 
 to the lower hegh way and gothe up agayne to the close of 
 Hunston' called ' the Burrowes,' and it lieth also opon the 
 northside to the Flattes. 
 
 Also the saide John' Alsope saith that Stanlowi" lieth from 
 the slade next Mottelow opon' the southside unto the Lord- 
 shippe of Tyssyngton^i called " Sharpelow,"'^ folowyng the 
 hegh way that commeth from Ascheburne^^ to Bukstones^* 
 called " Alsope'^ Way " ; the which Stanlow parte of it is 
 sawen with corne, etc. 
 
 Also the said John' Alsope saith that Ravynswall' lieth in 
 the saide hegh way that Stanlow buttes opon at Newton^* 
 Croftehede, etc. 
 
 Also the said John' saith that the lyme pyttes lieth next 
 Stanlow betwene the said Stanlow and a parcell of grounde 
 called ' Warderose,' etc. 
 
 Also the said John Alsope saith that the Warderose lieth 
 betwene the lyme pyttes and Depedalehede and betwene 
 Tyssyngton' More and Mottelow abuf saide, etc. 
 
 Also the saide John saith that Granlowe lieth betwene 
 
 1 Literally to be ' to them the propejty of none but the order of St. 
 Benedict.' 
 
 2 Bead ' goddaughter, [the daughter] of Morcar and Elgith ' 
 Ealdgy^). 
 
 3 Stretton, parish of North Wingfield, co. Derby. 
 
 * ' Ornament ' {bule = Latin bulla). 
 5 Read ' her.' 
 
 * Read ' stallions ' (hencgestas). 
 
 7 Literally ' And may Almighty God deprive him who shall contravene 
 this of all God 's bliss and of the intercourse of all Christians, unless he be my 
 own sovereign lord.' 
 
 8 Hanston Grange, parish of Thorpe, co. Derby. 
 
 9 Moatlow, in Newton Grange, parish of Thorpe. 
 
 10 Standlow, in Newton Grange. 
 
 11 Tissington, co. Derby. 
 
 12 Sharplow, parish of Tissington. 
 
 18 Ashbourne, co. Derby. 
 1* Buxton, 00. Derby. 
 
 16 Alsop-en-le-Dale, co. Derby. 
 
 19 Newton Grange, parish of Thorpe 
 
259 
 
 Warderose on one partie and a close called ' Burrowes ' opon 
 ane othir partie, and the Waterstone Crosseway opon the 
 thirds partie, etc. 
 
 Item William Smyth saith in manor and fournie as John' 
 Alsope saith towchyng all the saide meires, and forthermore 
 he saith that he knew in his yonge age, he kepyng shape at 
 Hunstone, that the abbot of Burton' hade the occupacion of 
 the groundez a buf saide called ' Warderose ' and ' Granelowe ' 
 at such tyme as Thomas Basforth was fermour of Newton 
 Grange, and so continued xiiij. yere kepyng shepe ther' in 
 peaseabuir possession the same William Smyth, etc. 
 
 Item William Honte saith that he knew the said William 
 Smyth kepyng shepe opon the saide groundez called ' War- 
 derose ' and ' Granlowe,' like as the saide William Smyth 
 hath saide before, etc. 
 
 This examinacion was hade at Hunstone opon the said 
 grounde called ' Warderose ' befor' William Basset, squier, 
 Sir Raufe Cantrell, Deane of Alton and Leeke, Thomas Oker', 
 Rauffe Walker, Thomas Welles, and mony oyer the Tewisday 
 next after the fest of Saynt Bartilmew the AppostuU, the 
 yer' of the reigne of King Henry the VIJ"" the sext. And in 
 wittenes wherof thay have putte to this presens yaire signe 
 manuelles, etc." 
 
 [Fo. 39.] 
 
 ' The promisse of matrimony,' an English translation of 
 the letter of Louis XI. of France, dated 29 August, 1475, for 
 the marriage of his son Charles to Eh'zabeth, daughter of Edward 
 IV. of England (the " Appunctuamenta de Amicitia " printed 
 in Rymer, Fcedera, xii. p. 19). 
 
 " The lettre of annuell porte " of Louis XL of the same 
 date (a translation of " litter ae annul census " printed in Rymer, 
 xii. p. 20) for the annual payment to Edward IV. of 50,000 
 " scutes of golde, every scute beyng of the valoure of 
 xxxiii]'" grete blankes." 
 
 [Fo. 39 verso.] 
 " The obligation of nisi," a translation of a public instru- 
 ment, dated 30 August, 1475, whereby King Louis submitted 
 himself to the spiritual court of Amiens (' Amyas ') for securing 
 payment of the preceding annuity to the King of England. 
 
 [Fo. 40 sqq.] 
 [c. 1480.] — Copy of petition from WilUara Dethyk, of New- 
 hall, CO. Derby, to the king, complaining of an assault by 
 the servants of the abbot of Burton upon one Peres Glasier, 
 his servant, on Thursday before the feast of St. George last 
 past " in the xx" yer' of youre reigne ; " that the abbot's 
 servants lay in ambush to murder the petitioner ; and that 
 the abbot forbade the tenants and servants of the petitioner 
 to come to the common market of Burton, " for if thay so 
 dyde, thay shulde be nevir' able to helpe yaim selfe, to yaire 
 grete hurtes." 
 
 [1492.]— Letter from the king's agent in the papal court, 
 
260 
 
 giving an account of his proceedings there, of affairs on the 
 continent, and news of the capture of the city of Granada 
 by Ferdinand and Isabella. (See Appendix.) 
 
 " The copy of the kjmges letters of grete tythjmges. 
 
 My moste redowted Sover[a]igne Lorde, please it you to 
 understande, that ther ar' no grete novelteys to write unto 
 youre Grace, save onely in this cuntray of Ytayle is goode 
 pease, and that betwene the pope's holynes and the kyng of 
 Naples is concludet a fyniall' pease under this forme, that aU' 
 maner' of offensis done in tyme passed shalbe forgeven, except 
 for yaim that ar' banysshed owte of the realme of Naples. 
 And the pope at this tyme has hade of the said king 1. thousand 
 ducates ; and also he is bounden to defende the pope in all 
 his nedes with a certen noumbre of men, and also to fynde ij. 
 galeys at his charge to kepe the see so that vetaile may surely 
 come to the Courte of Rome, and after' the decesse of the 
 saide kyng his son, beyng the duke of Calabre, shall succede 
 hym in the same realme and be infeffed therof by the pope, 
 and if the said duke dy afor the decesse of his fader', then 
 the saide duke son shall' succeede hym, and so heire after 
 heire. 
 
 Also the duke of Milliane hath renewed his alliaunnce with 
 the Frensh kyng, and hath made grete triUmphe therof, bot, 
 as I understande, it is in dowte wheyer the Veneciance^ will 
 enter in the same alliaunce or not ; neverthelesse sum thynke 
 ye and sum nay, bot hereafter I shall' have more certente therof, 
 etc. Et revelabo vestre grade. 
 
 And for the Frensh ambassatour, ther' is no grete noyse of 
 any thjmg that yai doo, nor yai be not gretely besy bot abowte 
 ther' owne particuler' matters. I understand many dayes 
 passed that ther shulde come anoder ambassatour fro the 
 Frensh kyng that shulde knaw all his mynde, bot as yett 
 non venit. And as for the new mariage betwene the saide J'rensh 
 king and the duches of Bretayne, thay ax no dispensacion, bot 
 yai say the mariage betwene the kyng of Romans and the 
 said duches was not lawful!' because yai ar' the iij"^® or iiij"^ 
 degre in consanguinite, as yai say. And also yai say that the 
 said contract was made opon certen condicions that were not 
 performed by the said king of Romans, and yai ofte tymes 
 make grete bost, as yai have ever to be {sic) accustomed to doo, 
 bot yai ar' aunswered to the purposse, etc. Also hit hath 
 ben saide her', bot ther' is no certente therof, that the duke 
 Philip of Burgone shulde wedde the duke's George of Barbere* 
 doughter, which is a myghty prince in Almayne and ever hath 
 bene a grete enmy to the House of Ostricc',* etc. ; and if this 
 be true, hit shalbe a grete cause to sett Almayne at a finiall 
 rest and pease, bot by the which shall' growe grete favoure to 
 the kyng of Romans. And syn' it hath ben saide that the 
 kyng of Romans shulde have this mariage, bot yett ther' i s 
 
 1 Reneciance, MS. 
 
 2 The daughter of George of Bavaria, duke of Landshut, married Philip, 
 Elector Palatine. (See Appendix.) 
 
 3 Austria. 
 
261 
 
 no certente therof.. Also I have spoken with diverse ambas- 
 satonrs of Almayn that ben here and thay say that ther hath 
 been such cominicacion in Almayn. 
 
 Also in meane tyme of this writing I receyved lettres from 
 youre Grace direct to the pope's holynes concernjTig the manere 
 of your hyghnes and the promocion of the chirches of Baythe 
 and Chester, and also for the chesyng of youre proctur', the 
 which youre hyghnes has remytted unto me for to chese 
 one of the iij. the which be named by your Grace, of which I 
 have chosen my Lorde Cardinall' of Seen',i which, at instaunnce 
 of youre said Grace, has accept the same. As for the oyer ij., 
 viz., my Lorde Cardinall of Saynt Peter ad Vincula andAskaneus, 
 as the worlde goeth now me thynketh yai ar' not convenient, 
 for my Lorde of Saynt Peter ad Vincula has diverse gret bene- 
 fices in Fraunnce and the Legate of Avynyon, be reason 
 wherof it is to be thought that he shulde have yaim in favoure. 
 Also my Lorde of Askeneus (sic) he is the duke of MiUian's uncle 
 and the Lorde Lodewyke's broyer, which governeth holy the 
 said duke, and, as it is before wrettyn, the alliaunnce betwene 
 the Prensh kyng and the duke of Milliane is renewed with 
 grete triumph and festes. Wherfor' me semeth noder of thes 
 twoo so indifferent to do youre Grace service as my Lord of 
 Seen'i is. And as for the lettres concernyng youre Grace yai 
 ar' deUvered to the pope, and hit is concludet that the next 
 consistorye thay shalbe redde befor' the holy collage of car^ 
 dinaUes ; and the pope is well' content with youre Grace, and 
 knawes well' ye be compelled to take this interprice agaynes the 
 Frensh kjmg and have folowed well' all' meanes possible to 
 have peace, your right saved, etc. And as for the Frensh 
 men the pope is not well' content with yaim, for he thynketh 
 yai ar' to proude and wolde rewle all the worlde. And as for 
 the mariage of the duches of Bretayne, he sayes playnely it 
 is [an] abhominable dede, for the which he shall have no dis- 
 pensacion of hym, bot wilbe redy to shew the lawe and 
 justiciam to eyther partie, if yai will sewe therfor. And as 
 for the church of Bayth, it shalbe proposed in the next con- 
 sistorye, after shall' have gode expedicion therof. As for 
 the chirch of Chestr', hit is ane harde matter, for it towcheth 
 all' the officers in the courte ; neverthelesse it shalbe purposed 
 in the next consistorye agayne, and all that is possible to be 
 done shalbe, etc. The pope in this mater is not content, 
 because one Phihppus de Venia, marchaunt of Florens, shalbe 
 trowbulled for this matter' because hit shulde be reported that 
 he shulde lette the expedicion therof. And it is so that it 
 was reported to me of diverse othur' that yai saide^ that 
 Philippus wolde have spede it for the hole tax, if the had not 
 be letted be Sebastiane, my cosyn. 
 
 Also in the chirch of Saynt Crucis of Jerusalem in Rome in 
 an olde wall' is founde a MtiH' chest covered with lede, and 
 above the chest a stone wher opon was wretten Titulus Crucis, 
 
 1 Siena. 
 
 2 gavde, MS. 
 
262 
 
 and within the same chest ther' is a horde which is carved in 
 Ebrew, Greke, and Latyn Jesus Nazarenus, hot Bex Judeorum 
 can not be redde be cause the horde is broken, and so it is 
 varely thought that it is the .same titull' that was sett by Pylate 
 opon the Crosse a hove oure Lordes hede Tempore passionis, 
 and so it is thought rather it is so be cause yai fynde by olde 
 bokes that it shulde be in the same church. 
 
 Also ther' is certen tythynges commen to the pope that the 
 kyng of Spayne hath goten Garnado,i for the which ther hath 
 be made here grete triumphis and justynges and mony othir 
 ryaltes, with general! procession, and opon Sonday, the v'' 
 day of Februar , the pope, with the holy collage of cardinaUes 
 and yaire holy courte, went to the church of James here in 
 Rome, which is the Spaynardes' church, and ther' was songen 
 te Deum laudamus, with a solempe masse, with a sermon con- 
 venient for the same. And the saide cetie Garnado was yeldet 
 by appoyntment made betwene the nobuU' kyng of Spajme 
 and the Sarasyns' cheif captens and hedes men of the same 
 cetie. Wherfor all Gristen men ar' bounde to thanke God, 
 consideryng how stronge a cetie it is, and also how longe it 
 hase conteyn[u]ed in the wronge faith, for sen' the tyme it 
 was recovered {sic) fro the mysbeleve it is vij .c. yer', or nygh ther 
 aboute, and full sure and stronge hade yai made it, to yaire 
 thynkyng never lyke to have loste it agayne, for in the same 
 cety was ther ix. stronge wardes, and every warde was from 
 oyer a large myle weU vetayled and reparelled for warr', and 
 this xl." jBTQ passed the said kyng off Spayne and his pre- 
 decessors have continued warre agaynes the same cety and 
 couth never opteyn victory unto now, Gracia Dei, and the grete 
 meanes and labur' of the moste nobull' redowted his welbeloved 
 wyffe the quene, the which is repute the moste goodely, witty 
 and nobuir princes under the cope of Heven, both in 
 devysyng of sutteltes and fetes of warr' and othirwyse, for "she 
 is redy and prest in every felde and bataile lightly that he 
 gose to, and is ever more in the first brounte of yair' men, 
 confortyng and cheryshjTig yaim, as it is reported, etc. This 
 same cetie was yeldet to the kyng of Spayne under apoyntment 
 the f urst day of Januarii last passed, in the which appoyntment 
 it was graunted that every Sarasyn shulde have asmuch of 
 his owne godes as he couth here away opon hym at ones if 
 he so mych had, except of golde and silver, harnes and wep- 
 pyn, wherof yai shulde have none, etc. Item when the 
 Gristen men entred the cetie yai fande ther xxx" thousande 
 breganders, wherof vj. thousande were covered with cloth of 
 golde and oyer sylkes with gylt nayles. Item ther were founde 
 iiij. thousand of white harnes complete. Also yai fande ther 
 xxij*^' thowsande crosbowes, with all yair' apparell' ther unto 
 appertenyng. Also ther were founde ther xxiiij" thousande 
 swerdes, wherof x. thousande were gilte and gamysshed with 
 silver that every one of yaim were worth Is. Also ther were 
 in the same cetie at the tyme of yeldyng iiij^^ thousande 
 
 1 Granada. 
 
263 
 
 and X. M'- peopuU' betwene the ages of xij. and iij" yeres, 
 beside yong childer and olde men and women. Also in the 
 cheif tempuU of the same cetie were founde iij. thousand lampes 
 of golde and silver, the worste valowed xxiiijK. sterhng. Also 
 ther where founde iiij. chaers of golde and xxij.'' chaers of 
 silver for seytes of the king, the qwhene, and oyer hey then 
 lordes. Also ther was founde abundaunnce of golde and 
 silver coyned, which the kyng of Spayne left ther to make with 
 a new church. Also in one of the castelles where in the kyiig 
 and the queue were loged of Garnado, the walles of the hall' 
 and chambers wer' of marbull', cristall and jasper and sett 
 in mony sendry places with preciouse stones. And over this 
 ther were founde grete and unnumerable ryches. Also or 
 thay that were in the cetie wolde yelde up the cety for lac^ 
 of vytaile, thay ete yair' horses and houndes and cattell' and 
 ij. hundreth Cristen men, the Avhich were presoners ther' the 
 same tyme, etc. 
 
 [Fo. 41.] 
 
 " The prenostacion (sic) of Alfons Frysaunn[c]e, clerke of 
 Mayster Skalgaynes, astrologe to the Grete Turke, resydent 
 in the grete town Dary in Alexander. 
 
 When that I Alfons Frysaunnoe, of Aysia, come to the 
 age of man [I] receyved my baptyme at the Rodes,^ and this 
 revelacion that I have I hade of God and of my Mayster 
 Skalgajms, and not of my selfe ; which tyme [I] was in the 
 courte and service of the Turke, the yer' of our' Lorde a 
 thousand CCCC. and XV. And I was the same man that 
 saved the life of Duke John' of Burgone^ (on whose soule God 
 have mercy !), the which duke the Turke delivered to be put 
 to deth, as he dyd mony moo Cristen men, saying to the 
 Turke : ' In no wise put hym to deth, for why thrugh his 
 cause and his heyres to the iiij'^degre of hym shall distroye 
 moo CMsten men than ther bene on lyve in any realme, and 
 the secunde heire* of hym shalbe the grettest persecutor with 
 swerde opon Cristen men and with the swerde he shalbe 
 slayne, and of hym shall byde a doughter^ of his blode, the 
 which a grete prince* of Esteurope shall' marry, and be hir 
 he shall have a childe the whiche shalbe a grete persecutor 
 of Cristente and Sarasyns that this ij. hundreth yere was 
 none such, and sayes he shall conquer' Jerusalem as dyd God- 
 fray BuUen and shall' dehver Costantine the nobull'' owte 
 of the heythen men's handes, and it shalbe thrugh the help 
 of a king of Englande.' 
 
 Also he says in the yer' of oure Lorde a M'- CCCC. IIIJ^^ 
 and XII. shall end the prosperite of the king of Floure de 
 Lice/ and he shalbe mesured with the same mesure that he 
 
 1 lot, MS, 
 
 2 Rhodes. 
 
 3 John sanft Peur, 1404-18, captured afc Nicopolis 28 September, 1396. 
 * Charles the Bold, 1467-77. 
 
 5 Mary of Burgundy. 
 
 8 The Emperor Maximilian I. 
 
 ^ Constantinople. 
 
 8 France, 
 
264 
 
 hase mesured oder, for the which ther shall come to the kyng 
 of Floure de Lice grete devicion be traytours, as well' on 
 the spirituair men as the seculares. And sone after shall' the 
 pope of Rome dye, and then' shall' come mony noveltees, 
 for why then the Turke shall' mych prosper in Cristendome. 
 Also he sayes that when the kyng of Eloure de Lice have 
 done grete tribulacion in Westeurope, he shall enter' into a 
 realme the which is now a Ducher'^ and make grete warr', 
 and then shall the kyng with grete and stronge armes ayde 
 the same, and or then all' be done he shall' suffer' grete trayvell' 
 or he retorne ; bot then shall the son of man^ also with grete 
 peopuir ayde the saide Ducher', the which was sumtyme a 
 realme of the which the duke at that tyme shalbe dede with 
 oute heire male, for the which shall ryse grete warr'. 
 
 And afore that tyme the kyng with strong armes^ shall 
 have grete anxcie[tie]s with the hey then men of Gamado* 
 and of Barber', 5 and yet that yer' of [oure] Lorde a thousand 
 OCCC. IIII."^ and XII. he shall' have Gamado and Barbere 
 at hys will', and he shalbe counsell' of the pope, which shall' 
 die in the yer' of oure Lord a thousand CCCC. IIII.^^ and 
 XIII. te. 6 by t]jg (jet]^ of whome Gristen men shall lese no 
 thyng, for whye one shall reigne after hym that shalbe right 
 true to Cristendome, bot he shall' not reigne long, bot the 
 space of iij. yer' or ther' aboute. ' 
 
 And in that tyme or sone after shall the lyfe of the kyng 
 with the close crowne a bowve* be lost, which hath bene a 
 right covetus man ; and this done shal begynne a grete warr' 
 noyfull to Cristendome as agaynes thaim of Esteurope. 
 
 And Westeurope shall' have mych to doo, for within that 
 tyme the Son of Man, which is the kyng of Englande, shall 
 demaynde (sic) his right of the crowne of Floure de Lice, the 
 which he shall have sone after. Neverthelesse he shall have grete 
 trayvell', bot it shall not indure bot one yere, and litill more. 
 And then shall' be a bysshope of a cety name Agrippa or 
 Colyn'' that shall commense warr', by the which he shall 
 drawe to hym mony grete lordes ; the which shalbe the last 
 warr' that shalbe made a grete alliaunce emonge Cristen 
 peopull in Cristendom, whereof diverse shalbe bounde and 
 sworne agayne the Turkes, the which shalbe mych profite 
 to Cristendom, and shalbe to yaim mych at doo, for whye the 
 Tiu-kes of Aysya that tyme shall' make yair allians to come 
 to and aprese to Rome ; and that shalbe the grete warr' 
 aforsaide, for whye agayne yaim shalbe made bot litull' 
 
 1 The dukedom of Brittany. Francis II. of Britanny died on 9 
 September, 1488, leaving two daughters, Anne, who married Charles VIII. 
 of France in 1491, and Isabel, who died in 1490. 
 
 2 The King of England, as explained below. 
 
 3 Ferdinand of Aragon. 
 
 * The Kingdom of Granada. 
 
 6 Barbery. 
 
 6 Innocent VIII. died 25 July, 1492. 
 
 ' Alexander VI. occupied the papal throne from 11 August, 1492 to 
 18 August, 1503. 
 
 8 The Emperor Frederick III. died on 19 August, 1493. 
 
 " Cologne (Colonia Agrippa). 
 
265 
 
 recistens, for by yaim shalbe goten townes and castels that 
 yett ar' Cristen. And that tyme the son of man of Westeurope, 
 that is of Englande, shalbe crowned Kyng of Fraunnce and 
 shalbe [the] furst that shall' cause pease to be publisshed in 
 Cristendome, and he shalbe a grete justiciar' to yaim that be 
 under hym, and he shalbe a grete enmy to traytours. In 
 the tyme of that kyng shalbe sene mony thynges at the com- 
 mensement of his realme, for all treson then shalbe discoverd, 
 and shall cost yaim mony of yaire lyves as to grete lordes 
 and nobuir men. And in the yer' of oure Lorde a thousand 
 CCCC. 1111^=^ and XII. the kyng of England shall enter' the 
 lande of the Floure de Lice,^ with a grete pusaunnce,^ without 
 departyng thens unto the tyme that he shalbe crowned, and 
 that coronacion and victory shall' come to hym bye yaim of 
 Esteurope, which shall' com to hym for socoure. And the 
 peopull' of the Ploure de Lice shall have that yer' strongly 
 to do and suffer, and [it] shall cost the life of mony a man 
 or ever it be doone, for the treson shalbe so mych and so 
 grete that the realme of the Floure de Lice wilbe glade to be 
 quyte of yaire king. Notwithstandyng the lordes of the 
 same realme shall' recyst with gode wyll', bot the parties 
 shalbe so mych that yai may not remedy it, and the advcrsite 
 for the Floure de Lice shall com be water' and be lande. 
 
 And grete tyme after shalbe pease in Esteurope, bot before 
 this ther' shalbe grete parties, for yai shalbe includet and 
 intryket^ with the synne of lechery and of pryde, bot yai shalbe 
 gode almusmen, and if yai be not, yai shall suffer' and have 
 the promys of the profyte. 
 
 And that same tyme shall the king of Naples and the Romayns 
 suffer mych for yaire synnes, the which dayly commyth, for 
 yai leve not after Goddes lawes. And in that tyme shalbe 
 crowned the Son of Man the Kyng of Floure de Lice, and then 
 shalbe sene mony strange thynges as sterus with tayles and 
 grete fyre in hem, and principally grete lyghtnyng towarde 
 the son rysyng. And of the tokyns shall have as well the 
 infidelles as the Cristen, for why yai shall fortefy ther' walles 
 and fortrasis that yai shall' thynke yaimselffe ingeonabuU. * 
 Bot I Alfons Frisaunce certefy you that if yai make thaym 
 of yren or of stele, it shall availe yaim nothyng when' the 
 Cristen men shall' come opon yaim. Afore that day shall' 
 the Cristen suffer', that is to say unto the tyme of the yer' 
 of oure Lorde cum to XV.C, and whoo that lyve unto that 
 yere shall' see Jerusalem Cristen, and ther' thay shall' fynde 
 the bokes of my Maister Skalgayns afore the bokes of the 
 Prophet Enok that leved before the Crucifying of Oure Lorde, 
 and after the which [he] prophesyed to the generacions of 
 Jerusalem yair' destruccion. 
 
 And afore that tyme shall' Cristendome have mych payne as 
 of warr' and himger and mortaHte, for why in the yer' of 
 
 1 Henry VII. invaded France in October, 1492. 
 
 2 ' puissance,' power. 
 
 3 ' Intricate,' involved in (Latin wirifCatua). 
 
 * Impregnable, apparently ' engine-able.' Not in Ntw English Diet, 
 
266 
 
 oure Lorde XV. C. when the son commes and enters to his 
 strenth, shall come in Europe a rayne and wynde, in such 
 wise that in some place the iij"*" person shall' not be leved 
 on lyve, and the same wynde and rayne shall' cum owte of 
 the northest, that mony that be on lyve on the even hole shalbe 
 dede on the morrowe. And to the tyme of oure Lorde XV. C. 
 yere shalbe no goode tyme of vetailes nor marchaundes thrugh 
 the most parte of Cristendome. 
 
 And I Alfons Frysaunnce say that this that this (sic) yong 
 childe shalbe borne of the blode of the presoner' Duke John' 
 of Burgone, of the which I have spoken of before, and that 
 the laste heires male shulde dye on a swerde, of the which 
 shulde be leved hot one doughter, and of the same doughter 
 shulde be borne Jje same childe abowte the ver' of our Lorde 
 a thousand CCCC. TTI^^ and XVIII. / the which childe shall' 
 reigne all' his life in goodenes and prosperite, and all infydelles 
 and Cristens shall' hym fere that never sawe hym, for he 
 shalbe a grete persecutor of the heythen and gitte a grete partie 
 of the cuntrey of the Sarasyns and conquer'. And then the 
 holy Saynt Peter' that then shall reigne shall goo with hym 
 in propur person, the which holy Saynt Peter shalbe betrayed 
 and .poysonned, and that shalbe grete damage to all' Cris- 
 tendome. And I have saide to you before who that lyves in 
 the yer' of oure Lord XV. C shall' se Jerusalem redemed in 
 to Cristendome and Costantine nobull', the which were sum- 
 tyme Cristen. And I Alfons Frysaunnce say to you agayne 
 mony oder' thynges of this childe, the which shalbe grete 
 profyte to Cristendome, and shall do more then I can say, 
 bot who that lyve shall see mor, etc. 
 
 I Alfons Frysaunnce was borne in the yer' of oure Lord a 
 thousand [C]CC. IIIJ"" and X. in Maye, and know well' that 
 my dayes shall' ende at the age of a hundreth and x. yere, 
 yett I had lever' aU the goode that I am worth that I myght 
 se the childe, bot it is not possible. And I say who that may 
 lyve the yer' of oure Lorde XV. C. shall se more than he that 
 lyved CCC. yer' befor'. And it shalbe profyte to all Cristendome 
 to amende yaire lyves that yai may receyve the promysses 
 of God. 
 
 Wretten at the Roodes, the yer' of oure Lorde a M' CCCC. 
 and XXXI." 
 
 [Fo. 42.] 
 
 [1492.] Copy of king's commission regarding the lately 
 ordained staple of metals, dwelling upon the advantages of 
 finding employment for the people, etc. The deputies of the 
 mayor of the staple are for London John Bracebrige or 
 John Bradman, for the West Country the prior of Plumton, 
 and others at Bristol, Leicester, West Chestre, York, and New- 
 castle-on-Tyne. It begins : " Thesf' articles folowyng con- 
 teyne and shewe a grete parte of the commodites and pro- 
 fettes that may growe by the staple of mettalles late 
 ordeigned and estabUsshed by the kyng and sover[a]gne 
 
 1 The Emperor Charles V. was bom on 24 February, 1500. 
 
267 
 
 lorde, under his lettres patenfces sealed with his grete seale 
 of Englande, with the grete avayle also lyke to growe of 
 silver mynes, th'estabhsshing and ordinaunce of which 
 staples shalbe both honour and profett to the kinges highnes 
 and to the universall wele and incresse of all his subjettes 
 lyke herafter it may evydently appere." (<See Appendix.) 
 
 [Fo. 43.] 
 
 [1492.] — List of the king's retinue into France/ whereof a 
 fourth of his archers are to be on horseback and the others 
 on foot at his wages. It includes seven earls, twelve lords, 
 sixty-four knights, beginning with Sir Henry Verdon, and 
 giving the number of spearmen and archers contributed by 
 each one, the bishops and chaplains. The total is given as 
 12,680. 
 
 The outer cover has written upon it the following curious 
 alphabetical poem, which is illegible in places owing to the 
 rubbing away of the parchment. The letter E is not represented. 
 
 Alas ! what rulythe the brydle rayne ? 
 
 Alas ! that I lovyd so concupyscence. 
 
 Alas ! tyme past maye not returne agayne. 
 
 Alas ! that I lost it by neglygence. 
 
 Alas ! to lernjmg I had no dilligence. 
 
 Alas ! that ever I lovyd unhappynes. 
 
 Alas ! I bannysshyd reason and sadnes. 
 
 Beware, thou youthe, evermore of idlenes, 
 
 Beware of pryde and deadly synne, 
 
 Beware of wraythe, be rulyd by mekenes, 
 
 Beware right well of proude presumption. 
 
 Beware and reyse (?) of false rebellion. 
 
 Covet measure for thy bodily wealth. 
 
 Covet the way of thy soules healthe. 
 
 Covet [re]pentaunco for thy wretchednes. 
 
 Covet the company of Dame Fidelitie. 
 
 Covet heven with deedes of charytie. 
 
 Dread then God above all thing, 
 
 Dread lykewayes thy soveraigne kyng. 
 
 Dread to do thy neighbour an ne[wes]aunce. 
 
 Dread above other thy selfe to advaunce. 
 
 FoUowe the trace of truethe and rightuosnes. 
 
 Followe mekenes and also lowlynes. 
 
 FoUowe justyce without corruption. 
 
 Follow conscience at everie season. 
 
 Gladly be rulyd by counsell pnident. 
 
 Gladly to learne be thou myche dilligent. 
 
 Gladly serve God and thy prynce also. 
 
 Gladly be pacyent in trouble and woe. 
 
 Have God in thy m3md for evermore. 
 
 Have mercie and pit tie allwaies on the pore. 
 
 Have s . . ant confidence in Goddes grete goodne[s]. 
 
 Have thou no trust in wordly ryches. 
 
 1 Cf, I^mer, I'aedera, xii., p. 477. 
 
268 
 
 I knew no thing in youthe what I was. 
 I thought full httle so sure it woulde passe. 
 I was (?) subdued ear that I was wa[re] 
 I dyd never think of myne after year (?). 
 
 Know fyrst God .... selfe st . . es 
 Know weU . . . thy neighbour .... 
 
 Know well 
 
 Know 
 
 Love God, feare God above all thing. 
 Love no riat nor backereckening. 
 Love thy neighbour and chearishe thy wife. 
 Love to be pacient and flye from stiyfe. 
 
 Muche myschyffe commyth of great debate. 
 Muche sorrowe commythe of envy and hate. 
 Moche jo[i]e is groundyd in peace and unytye. 
 Moche harme dothe growe of instabilitie. 
 
 No thing is sweter then the dew of grace. 
 No man without charitie maye heven purchase. 
 No man without labour science can have. 
 No thing is better then pacience to crave. 
 
 mortaU man ! ryse owt of deadly synne ! 
 unkind man ! to amend the begynne ! 
 man ! remember how God gyveth grace ! 
 man ! remember thy tyme and thy space ! 
 
 Please God thy maker, kepe his commaundment. 
 Please weU thy prince and be thou obedient. 
 Please God with pacience and perfect charitie. 
 Please not the devyll throughe pride and envy. 
 
 Quare Deo fui sic contrarivs ? 
 Quare, heu ! non ipsum amavi ? 
 Quare, ve ! sic semper peccavi ? 
 Quare mundum frequentavi ? 
 
 Right grevously I have God offendyd. 
 Right little I thought for to be amendyd. 
 
 Support not wrong to right contrary. 
 Support Justice with all thy diligence. 
 Support not thy servaunt to do any viUanye. 
 Support non man when he dothe offend. 
 
 Truethe maye be bould in every place. 
 Truethe is well tried in tyme and space. 
 
 Yiri infor[tu]nati procul amici. 
 
 Wo worthe the love that breaketh faythe ! 
 
 Wo worthe the love that hat[h] no shame ! 
 
 Wo worth the tongue that contrary sayth ! 
 
 Wo worth those wittes that suche can frame ! 204 (282). 
 
 An octavo volume in a late fifteenth century hand, contain- 
 ing S. Augustine De Conflictu Viiiorum. 
 
269 
 
 c. 1500. — Chartulary of Willoughby lands in Gunthorpe 
 and Lowdham, in large folio volume.^ 204 (294). 
 
 c. 1500. — ^A like volume relating to Risley and WoUaton. * 
 
 204 (281). 
 
 [c. 1520]. — -A MS. book containing forms of writs, etc., 
 precedents of actions, statutes, and other legal matter, 
 including " Lectura Spylman sur I'estatut de Quo Warranto 
 novo tempore Quadragesimali, anno 10 Henrici Octavi." In 
 all sixteen of Spylman's lectures, all in Law-French, are given. 
 The book was afterwards used for the entry of various house- 
 hold and agricultural accounts, inventories, etc. 204. 
 
 Building accounts of Wollaton Hall, 1582-3, 1584-5, 1586, 
 1587, 1588. These consist of books of the payments of wages 
 week by week and of other payments by the clerk charged 
 wdth the payment of wages, and of statements of receipts and 
 expenditure. They give very little information beyond the 
 names and rates of pay of the workmen engaged upon the 
 building. There are payments for " hewing " ashlar at 
 Ancaster, and several payments to Smithson as imprest for 
 task-work, but there is nothing to shew that he acted as 
 " architector " in the modem sense, as he has been said to 
 have done on the authority of his epitaph in Wollaton church. 
 There is, however, nothing in the accounts to disprove that 
 he held this position. In 1587 the payment to him is said 
 to be " to paye owte for taske worke". In September of this 
 year there is a payment for " making a cesprey'-' for tiu-ning 
 the water to the new howse, xixd." In November of the 
 same year there is an entry of " paid to the joynour of Darby 
 by myself in parte of payment for seeling the dyning parlour, 
 being 180 foote of measured weynskot at ijs. le foote, rli.; 
 paid to him by my master at twoo severall tymes for the 
 same worke, xiijfo'." 
 
 Small 4to paper volume bound in black leather, containing 
 the notes made by Franeis Willoughby, the natural 
 philosopher, as the result of the examination and arrange- 
 ment of the family papers by him and his friend John Ray. 
 It is entitled by Willoughby : " Memoirs and observations 
 taken out of old muniments, videlicet deeds, fines, accounts, 
 court roles [space for addition of other classes of records], and 
 all sorts of old writings which were found the most of them 
 either at Wollaton or Middleton [line and a half left blank] 
 cheifly concerning pedigrees, marriages, titles of land, pur- 
 chases and sales, sutes in all courts [line and a half left blank] 
 of the familie of the Willughbies." 
 
 After a reference to the grants from King Offa and King 
 Kenulf of Mercia^ (p. 5), he gives notes on the manner of 
 drawing up fines, stating that before the time of Henry III 
 they began thus " Henricus, rex Anghae,* etc. Sciatis, 
 
 1 See page 196, above. 
 
 2 That is a conduit-pipe, from the French soitpirail, Latin auspiraculum. 
 
 3 See page 197, above. 
 * So in MS. 
 
270 
 
 quod Robertus Marmion et Gaufridus, patruus suus, fecerunt 
 finem coram me hoc modo, etc. Vide Hen. 2.," and that in 
 " other bargains not made before the king : ' Hsec est con- 
 ventio facta inter, etc' Vide writings in Hen. I. time. In 
 Henre the 3d's time the forme was much the same as it is 
 now, onely impedientes instead of de.forciantes " (p. 11). He 
 then gives brief abstracts of early deeds under each king's 
 reign. The earliest one is : " Woodborough, com. Not. 4 
 WiUiam 2d. (sic) The will of John Perrot of Woodborough. 
 His brother John, etc. his executors," followed by, " La Boxe, 
 Wiken, 11 et 14 Hen. 1. WiUiam Little sells to Jordan 
 Ohver lands in La Boxe. Jordan Oliver and Rosamund 
 agree that Hen[ry] and his sons will doe the service William 
 was wont to doe."i The next, " Mordun. 5 of King Stephen. 
 Walterus de Clavilla to the Knights Hospitallers, a mill in Mor- 
 dun" (p. 15)is based uponafifteenth century copy dated"1140." 
 At p. 21 the charter of Henry II to Fulk de Lusoriis (p. 2 above) 
 is dated " between the 1 and 8 Hen. 2." The confirmation 
 by " Richard Peck," bishop of Coventry, to the monastery 
 of Poulesworth of the grant of Robert son of Galfrid and 
 Amabilla his wife of the mills of Kingsburie (p. 9, above) 
 is assigned to 9 Henry II. The charter of this king to 
 Wilham de Mora and Letia, his wife (p. 23 above) is noted, 
 but no date is assigned to it. There are notes of the 
 following charters that have not been found during the 
 inspection : 
 
 " Com. Dor[set], Knolton. Hen. 2d. grants the hundred 
 of Knolton to Nic. de Mol : " 
 
 " Hen[ry] 2. The king confirmes to Robert son of Richard 
 Hawis, the daughter of Richard Foliat, with all the lands 
 which were her father's in England and Wales, which lands 
 WiUiam, E[arl] of Glocester, confirmed to the said Ric: 
 Poliat. This Wm. was son of Robert, Earle of Glocester, that 
 assisted Maud the Empresse." 
 
 " Hen[ry] 2. Marmion. A fine before the king between 
 Robert Marmion and Gaufridus, his unkle. Robert grants to 
 his unkle Gaufridus Avon, Dichelmeston, the Honnour of 
 Landstephan, which were his grandfather's Roger's ; and 
 Gaufridus grants his nephew Robertus all his right in 
 Wintringham and Scrivelby and in the fee of Mannaser 
 Marmion, and releases all suites and actions." 
 
 " Between 1 and 6 Hen[ry] 2. Marmion. Robert son of 
 Robert Marmion and Milicent confirme to the monasterie of 
 Polesworth the mannour of Walton, forbidding them to assart 
 the woods hee had given them and reserving to himselfe 
 hunting. Hee desires this may bee confirmed by the 
 authoritie of the king and bisshops of Canterbury and 
 Chester." 
 
 Page 23. " 32 H[enry] 2. Willughby. The prior of the 
 Knights Hospitallers of Jerusalem to Peter son of Ralph 
 and AtheUtia, lands which came from Richard son of Gervas 
 
 1 There is an undated release and an agreement dated 14 Henry [II]. 
 
271 
 
 in Willughby. Robert de Heritz confirmes the grant of 
 Richard son of Gervas. Peter to pay 0. 4. and ^ of all goods 
 for a mortuary." 
 
 There are no charters assigned to Richard I. Under the 
 reign of John he notices the grants to William de Estutevilla 
 of license to fortify his houses " de Coteringham " (sic for 
 Cotingham ; see p. 51, above) and of a market in that town 
 (p. 36, above) ; the charter of Walergne (sic), earl of Warwick, 
 to Alured Carpenter of Wissall and Gamell Blunt (p. 24, 
 above, where it is assigned to an earlier date) ; and that of 
 " William, earle of Ferrers, to Roger son of Humfrie [of] a 
 marsh in the fee of Engl' for J m[ark]. Sibill, his countesse, 
 is one of the witnesses." 
 
 Under Henry III he begins to arrange the abstracts under 
 counties and manors or towns. At p. 47 to 61 he gives a 
 history of the Marmions (see p. 506, below). He continues this 
 arrangement, with occasional genealogical notes, to the end 
 of the reign of Edward III. From Richard II to Edward 
 IV the abstracts are neatly written, in what seems to be the 
 hand of John Ray, under the names of the counties, which 
 are arranged in alphabetical order, and the names of the 
 manors, etc. The abstracts are continued until the end of the 
 reign of Henry VII in an oblique, scratchy hand. 
 
 Miscellaneous Rolls, Books and Papers. 
 1262 — A parchment roll, imperfect at beginning. It bears 
 the headings : " Redditus et servicia, que Dominus Henricus 
 de Apeldrefeud habet de empto suo in viUa de Sunderesse " 
 [Sundridge, co. Kent] ; — " De redditibus et serviciis de 
 perquisitu Domini de Priore et Conventu de Merthone in 
 Sunderesse." There is also another imperfect roll, which 
 seems to be a portion of the above. It has the headings ; 
 " Rotulus de redditibus gallinarum de Sunderesse att[ermi- 
 natis] ante Natale Domini, anno XL° septimo incipiente " ; 
 " Redditus quondam Abbatis de Boxle in Sundr' " ; and 
 " Redditus gallinarum de perquisitu Domini in villa de 
 Sunderesse." 
 
 [c. 1300.] — Roll giving list of possessions of villeins (?) in 
 Linintone and Barmling [Linton and Barming, co. Kent]. 38. 
 
 A roll of thirteen rolls in an early fourteenth century hand, 
 endorsed " Propria irrotulamenta de Termino Pasche anno 
 viij" et deinceps," containing transcripts of enrolments in the 
 rolls of the king's Bench(?)i of the seventh to the eleventh 
 years of the reign [of Edward II]. Each is prefaced by a 
 heading as to its legal importance. The first is Hilary term, 
 anno septimo, " Memorandum, de bona narracione, quam 
 Dominus de Bereford narravit, videUcet qualiter quidam 
 Dominus WiUelmus de Paries, ^ miles, in quodam comitatu^ 
 
 1 The references are, inter alia, "anno x ( ?), rot. ccccxxiij," Trin. co. Not. 
 rot. 90," " Hil. anno xi, rot. 130." 
 
 2 Cf. Inquisitiones post Mortem, i, pp. 68, 69, 70 ; Calendar of Close 
 Rolls, 1279-1288, p. 2. 
 
 3 County Court, shiremoot. 
 
272 
 
 sedens, manifeste et stulte dixit cuidam homini, qui ei 
 transgressus fuerat, quod ei redderet pro loco et tempore. 
 Postea contigit quod idem vir, de quodam quondam suo 
 garcione sibi malivolo insidiatus, ipso die incedendo de illo 
 comitatu per viam, fuit interfectus. Unde de inquisicione 
 coram coronatore capta, non inveniebatur aliquis cui 
 inputabatur dicta felonia, nisi dictus Willelmus miles minas 
 fecit eidem interfecto. Per quod idem miles indictatus et 
 in judicio productus, se posuit in inquisicionem patrie, cujus 
 veredictum ipsum reddidit culpabilem, et fuit suspensus. 
 Postmodum terre et tenementa sua fuerunt seisita in manu 
 domini regis, et quondam (sic) manerium suum, scilicet Hones- 
 worth^ in comitatu StafEordie, cum aliis tenementis suis fuerunt 
 seisita in manu domini regis, et dictus rex illud manerium 
 commisit domine regine," etc. This was probably prepared 
 by or for Sir Richard Willoughby, Chief Justice of the King's 
 Bench in the early years of Edward III. 24. 
 
 1332-3. — ^A roll of thirteen rolls containing the proceedings 
 before Richard de Grey, Henry de Grey, John Darcy "le 
 neveu," Nicholas de Langeford, John de Twyford, and Richard 
 de la Pole, appointed by letters patent dated at Westminster, 
 23 March, 6 Edward III [cf. Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1330- 
 1334, p. 295], keepers of the peace and justices of oyer and 
 terminer in co. Derby, and before Richard de Grey, Darcy, and 
 Robert de Perpount and WiUiam de Gotham, appointed by like 
 commission for co. Nottingham (roll 7). The roU contains the 
 presentments of the jurors of the towns of Derby and 
 Nottingham and of the wapentakes of the two counties. 
 The offences presented are theft, burglary, murder, harbour- 
 ing of felons. Most of these crimes seem to have been com- 
 mitted by one band of outlaws under the leadership of James 
 Coterel. The same offences are presented by the jurors of 
 several wapentakes, with slight differences in wording occa- 
 sionally. 
 
 The jurors of Derby present that James Coterel, Nicholas 
 and John, his brothers, Roger le Sauvage, Stephen de 
 Edenesovere, Nicholas de Calton, Walter the servant of James 
 Coterel, William de Bucstones [Buxton, co. Derby], Thomas 
 de Bucstones, William de Eyom, and Henry Ody with others 
 unknown slew Thomas Ithel and WiUiam de Pare in the 
 town of Asshebourn [Ashborne, co. Derby], on the night of 
 Tuesday in Easter week, 5 Edward III, and burgled the 
 house of Geoffrey le Wright there, and there robbed Roger 
 de Wandesleye of armour and other goods to the value of 
 lOOs., and robbed William de Pare of armour and other goods 
 to the value of 50s., and robbed Thomas Ithel of armour, 
 etc., to the value of 60«. They also present that Robert 
 Bernard, Hugh le Procuratour of BaukeweU [BakeweU, co. 
 Derby], and Henry Ivessone harboured the aforesaid felons 
 at BaukeweU in 5 and 6 Edward III, after the commission 
 
 1 Cf. Inq. post Mortem, i, p. 696. 
 
273 
 
 * 
 
 of the said felonies and knowing that they were outlawed in 
 CO. Nottingham. And that John de Bradbourn and WilUam, 
 his brother, Henry de Sheyle, Eustace de Poleville, Walter 
 and Laurence, his brothers, "maintained" the said James 
 Coterel and the others, knowing that they were outlawed, 
 by riding armed with them when needed and by aiding them 
 in the commission of the felonies aforesaid. And that John 
 Lovet, Walter de Foleville, and Nicholas de Eton slew WilUam 
 de Longeforde and John de Tyssyngton at the Frereyate in 
 Derby about midnight on Wednesday after ' St. Gregory, 
 6 Edward III. And that James Coterel, Henry Ody of Asshe- 
 burn, William de Eyom, Nicholas Coterel, Stephen de 
 Edenesovere, and Walter, servant of James Coterel, slew 
 WiUiam de Knyveton, knight, and John Matkynsone at 
 Bradeleye [Bradley, co. Derby] on Tuesday after St. Barnabas, 
 4 Edward III. And that WUliam Hodsonei (hanged, sus'), 
 late the servant of WiUiam Sylcok of Derby, broke by night 
 the house of Maud de Barewe of Bolton [Boulton, in Derby] 
 at Bolton, and robbed her of 6O5. in money and of goods 
 value 20s. in the fifth year of the reign. 
 
 The jurors of the wapentake of Repingdon [Repton, co. 
 Derby] present, amongst other things, that Roger de 
 Wendesleye, WiUiam Pare, Thomas Ithel, and Walter de 
 Perton slew Laurence Coterel and John Derleye at the 
 Annunciation, 4 Edward III. 
 
 The jurors of the wapentake of Wyrkesworth and Appeltre 
 [co. Derby] present that James Coterel, Nicholas, his brother, 
 Walter, servant of James, and WiUiam de Eyom slew 
 WiUiam Pare and Thomas Ithel (as above), and that Roger 
 le Sauvage, Nicholas de la Forde, Richard de Slepe, Thomas 
 son of Thomas de Bukstones, John de Berde, Yevan le 
 Raggede, John de Bradbourn, and William, his brother, 
 Henry Hody, and John Sire were present and aiding. And 
 that WUliam son of Henry le Porter slew Walter Tyste at 
 Brasyngton [Brassington, co. Derby] on Thursday after the 
 Purification, 6 Edward III, and that John Coterel was there 
 aiding him, and that Nicholas son of Hugh le Boler is a 
 groom of the said John Coterel, and helped him in the com- 
 mission of the said felony and served him after sentence of 
 outlawry had been pronounced against the said John. 
 
 The jurors of the wapentake of Morleyston and Lychirch 
 [Morleston and Litchurch Hundred, co. Derby] present that 
 WiUiam de Aune, knight, is a receiver and maintainer of 
 Roger le Sauvage, who was outlawed in co. Nottingham for 
 felony, and received him at Steynesby [Stainsby, pariah of 
 Ault Hucknall, co. Derby]. 
 
 The jurors of the wapentake of Scarvesdale [Scarsdale, co. 
 Derby] and of the town of Chestrefeld present Henry son of 
 Ivo of Tatyngton [Taddington, co. Derby], and WUliam 
 Alisaundre of Tyddeswelle [Tideswell, cc. Derby] as main- 
 tainers of James Coterel and his fellows, outlaws, by sending 
 
 1 Called ' William son of John Hoddemon (and Huddemon) of Bolton ' by 
 the jurors of Morleyston and Lychirch wapentake. 
 
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 them food when desired at Blacwell [Blackwell, co. Derby] 
 and elsewhere in the county, 6 Edward III.. And that Walter 
 de Aune is of the society of the said James and of Roger 
 Sauvage, consenting to all the felonies above presented against 
 them. And that William son of Roger de Uston and Walter, 
 servant of Walter de Uston, robbed Roger son of John le 
 Mazoun of Chestrefeld at Bromleye* of a coat (collobio), price 
 2s., and of a sword, price 12d., on Thursday before the 
 Exaltation, 4 Edward III, and that they there bound him. 
 And that William de Uston is a maintainer of WiDiam 
 Bustlard, Walter, servant of Walter de Uston, and Roger 
 le Sauvage, outlaws. And that Nicholas, brother of the 
 said William [de Uston], received the said Walter, Roger and 
 Nicholas (sic), and that he received William Bustlard, out- 
 lawed in CO. Derby for the death of Richard Cotel of Chestre- 
 feld and Alan Stotard of the same, and that he is a common 
 maintainer and receiver of such malefactors. And that Robert 
 Bernard^ [dericus convictus), vicar of BaukeweU, Hugh Pro- 
 curatour, ^ and Nicholas atte Forde were maintainers of John 
 Coterel and his fellows at Baukewell and in the Peak (Pecko) 
 and elsewhere in the county about St. Peter in Cathedra, 6 
 Edward III. And that Thomas son of Thomas le Procuratour 
 is of the society of the said James, riding armed with him to 
 the disturbance of the peace before and after he [James] was 
 outlawed, receiving and maintaining him at Bauquell. 
 
 The jurors of the first inquest of Baukwell present that 
 James Coterel, Nicholas Coterel, John Coterel, Roger le 
 Sauvage, Walter and Adam, servants of the said James, 
 Stephen de Edenesovere, William de Eyom, Thomas de 
 Bukstones, William, his brother, John son of John Folejaumbe 
 of Berde [Beard, parish of New Mills, co. Derby], Henry son 
 of Hugh Taup of Asshebourn, WilHam Shyrard of co. Stafford, 
 Richard, his brother, Nicholas Shyrard of Forde, Thomas de 
 Rodeyerde, Thomas de Greneweye, John de Rodeyerde, 
 WiUiam le Shavaldour, Henry le Palfreyman, Walter de Staf- 
 ford, Henry de Nedham, Nicholas son of Roger de (sic) 
 Melner, and Simon, brother of the said Nicholas, slew Thomas 
 Ithel and William Pare at Asshebourn on Wednesday in 
 Easter week, 5 Edward III. And that Hugh de Goneston, 
 Robert Bernard, vicar, Thomas de Rysbergh, Giles, servant 
 of John de Berde, Thomas son of Leticia de Weston, John 
 atte Grene of Bukstanes, Walter Scot, Henry de Marketon, 
 chaplain, John de Gloucestria of Castelton, Robert de Eyom 
 of Bobenhulle [BubneU, parish of Baslow St. Anne, co. Derby], 
 John de Boudone, Yevan le Raggede, Henry son of Ivo de 
 Tadyngton, Simon le Croudere,^ Nicholas del Forde, William 
 de Chetelton, knight, John de Leghe, knight, Robert de Legh, 
 John de Grymmesby of Lincoln, Adam de Berde of Hayfeld 
 
 1 Probably Bramley, in Marshlane, parish of Eckington. There is a 
 Bramley Vale in GlapweU, parish of Bolsover, also in the wapentake of 
 Scarsdale. 
 
 2 C(. Calendar of Patent Bolk, 3330 1334, p. 291. 
 
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 [Hayfield, co. Derby], Thomas de Melton, Thomas Folejaumbe 
 of Berde, William Fegge of Assheforde, Robert, brother of 
 Henry de Nedham, William le Porter of Caldelowe [Callow, 
 parish of Wirksworth], Nicholas Daniel, William Faber de 
 CapeUa [Chapel-en-le-Frith, co. Derby], William Sparwe, 
 Henry Cay of Prestclyve [Priestcliffe, parish of Taddington] 
 and John, his brother, Richard son of Ivo de Tadyngton, 
 Eustace de Folevyle, Laurence and Walter, his brothers, 
 Nicholas Syward of Cheylmardon [Chelmorton, co. Derby], 
 Nicholas Fox, Richard le Heyward, William Crowe, John de 
 Fyndryn, Richard le Webbester, Hugh, vicar of the church 
 of Yolgreve [Youlgreave, co. Derby], Joan, wife of Nicholas 
 de Rydware, Nicholas Froward^ of W3rrkesworth, William 
 de Mappelton of Asshebourn, Ralph de Spayne, bailiff of 
 the High Peak, John del Halle of Castelton [Castleton, co. 
 Derby], Robert de Calfvovere [Calver, parish of Curbar, co. 
 Derby] of Bobinhulle, Robert son of Richard Folejaumbe of 
 Borouhull, John son of Thomas de Beleye, William son of 
 Hugh Lukesone, chaplain, Thomas de Cheylmardon, chaplain, 
 Nicholas de Calton, Philip de Turvyle,^ John de Kynardesleye,^ 
 John Clarel,^ Nicholas Teynterel,^ Richard de Haveryngg,^ 
 and WiUiam de Leycestria,^ canons of Lichefeld, maintained 
 and received at Bauquell and Mackeworth [Mackworth, co. 
 Derby] about St. Peter in Cathedra, in the 6th year of the 
 reign, the said James and the others before-named after the 
 commission of the felony aforesaid. And that Adam de 
 Assheby received Finianus de Standon, outlawed for felony. 
 And that John de Bradbourn, Richard and William, his 
 brothers, maintained, received and sustained James Coterel 
 and other outlaws at Bradebotirn [Bradbourne, co. Derby], 
 and elsewhere about the feast of St. Valentine, 6 Edward III. 
 And that Hugh son of Peter de Hardyngbothe of co. Stafford 
 carried victuals to James and his fellows at the park of 
 Marketon [Markeaton, parish of Mackworth] after they were 
 outlawed, and that he is of their society. And that William 
 de Hetcote^ of Tydiswell and WilHam Alessandre maintained 
 and received James and other outlaws at Tiddeswell about 
 the feast of St. Gregory, 6 Edward III. And that John 
 Bozoun,* the younger, maintained and received James and 
 other outlaws, and rode with them with armed power in co. 
 Derby after their outlawry, to wit from Christmas, in the fifth 
 year, untU the first Sunday of Lent following, and that he 
 fed them at the hermitage of Leyes and received them 
 there. 
 
 The jurors of the second inquest of the town of Baukwell 
 present, amongst other things, that James Coterel and other 
 outlaws were received at Medeweplot, at Blacwell [Blackwell, 
 
 1 Cf. Calendar of Close Bolls, 1330-1333, p. 508. 
 
 -2 Cf. Calendar of Close Rolls, 1330-1333, p. 603. 
 
 3 1 Heathcote, in Biggin, parish of Wirksworth, co. Derby, 
 
 * Cf. Calendar of Patent Bolls, 1330-1334, p. 291, 
 
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 CO. Derby], at Moldrikgraunge [Mouldridge Grange, in Bras- 
 sington, parish of Bradbourne], and at Grenelowe [Grindlow, 
 parish of Bradwell, co. Derby]. 
 
 The jurors of the town of Assheboum present, amongst 
 other things, that William de Chetelton, knight, John de 
 Lye, knight, Robert, his brother, Thomas de Bucstones, 
 dwelling in BaukweU, William, his brother, dwelling in Eyom 
 [Eyam, co. Derby], Thomas le Procuratour, Thomas de Rys- 
 bergh, Eustace de Folevyle, Robert, his brother, John de 
 Gloucestria, and John de Grymmesby are aiders of the said 
 James Coterel and received him at Bauquell about the feast 
 of St. Scholastica, in the 6th year. 
 
 The jurors of the first inquest of the Peak present that 
 James Coterel, Nicholas Coterel, John Coterel, Stephen de 
 Edenesovere, William de Eyom, William de Bucstones, Thomas 
 de Bucstones, Nicholas Syward, the younger, Richard atte 
 Yate of BaukweU, Henry Ody of Asshebourn, Walter, the 
 servant of James Coterel, and John Polejaumbe of Berde, who 
 are outlawed for divers felonies, wander about the country, 
 and draw to themselves in their company Richard Botlyn, 
 William Russel, Giles Suclyng, Henry Bolderston, John de 
 Boudon, John Yonwan, William son of John le Archer, 
 Richard Niddesone, Robert son of Henry de Eyom, John de 
 Gloucestria, Robert son of Robert le TaiUour of Castelton, 
 Adam de Irton, Simon le Croudere, Walter de Cotesbache, 
 William de Chetelton, knight, John de Rodyerd, Thomas de 
 Rodyerd, Thomas de Rysbergh, Richard Shjo-ard, William 
 Shyrard, Thomas le (sic) Greneweye, Walter de Stafford, 
 John de Lye, knight, Robert de Lye, Roger le Sauvage, John 
 de Grymmesby of Lincoln, Walter de Aune and John de 
 Cheworth, who are common malefactors and coadjutors and 
 maintainers of the said James and other outlaws. 
 
 The jurors of the second inquisition of the Peak present, 
 amongst other things, that Nicholas son of John de Tad- 
 yngton frequently bought victuals at BaukweU and else- 
 where in the county for the use of James Coterel and other 
 outlawi', and carried the same to them at Shakelowe [recorded 
 in Great Shacklow Wood, in Sheldon, parish of BakeweU] and 
 elsewhere when desired, and he thus maintained, received and 
 sustained them. 
 
 The jurors of the first inquest of the county of Derby 
 present that Eustace de Folevill,i Laurence de FolevUl, Walter 
 de Folevill, Robert de Folevill, and Richard de FoleviU, parson 
 of the church of Ty[Teigh, co. Rutland], ^ received and had for 
 their part about the Purification, in the 6th year, by the hands 
 of malefactors unknown, 300 marks in the park of Marketon 
 from the moneys of Richard de Wylugheby, knowing of, and 
 consenting to, the robbery thereof. And that James Coterel, 
 
 1 Cf. Calendar of Close Rolls, 1327-1330, p. 416, where Eustace de Folevill 
 is described as of Ty, and Calendar of Close Rolls, 1333-1337, p. 128. 
 
 2 This rector of Teigh captured Richard de Willoughby, the justice, near 
 Grantham after Christinas, 1332 (Kynghton's Chronicle, p. 460). 
 
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 Nicholas Coterel, John Coterel, John de Bradeburn and 
 VVilham de Bradeburn had 40 marks for their part of the 
 robbery. And that Robert Tochet, lord of Marketon, 
 Edmund Tochet, parson of the church of Makworth, Robert 
 Bernard and Hugh de Gunston,i proctors of the church of 
 Baukewell, received and maintained James Coterel and Eustace 
 de Eolevill, outlaws, at Baukewell, Mackeworth, and Marke- 
 ton about the feast of St. Valentine, in the 6th year. And 
 that James Coterel, Nicholas and John, his brothers, Roger 
 Sauvage, Stephen de Edenesovere, Walter and Adam, servants 
 of James, Eustace de FolevUl, Laurence, Walter and Robert, 
 his brothers, Robert de Griseleve, Edmund and Roger, his 
 brothers, William Corbet of Tasseleye [Tasley, co. Salop], 
 Nicholas de Eton, John de Dunston of Walton (co. Derby), 
 Wilham de la Warde, the younger, Robert son of Richard Fole- 
 jaumbe, Nicholas de la Forde, Robert son of Matthew deVylers, 
 Nicholas de Sparham and Waiter Comyn ride with armed force 
 secretly and openly, and are maintainers and receivers of Ralph 
 son of Geoffrey de Repyndon, Roger le Megre, and Reginald de 
 la More, notorious thieves, outlawed in that county, and that 
 they received them at Denewalehay- in the second week of 
 Lent, in the sixth year. And that Geoffrey le Wodeward of 
 Marketon is a maintainer and receiver of Eustace de Folevill 
 and other outlawed malefactors, carrying to them victuals 
 in the park of Marketon for the use of Eustace, James Coterel 
 and others, and that he had 'part of the money stolen from 
 Richard de Wylughby, to wit 100s. 
 
 The jurors of the second inquisition of the Peak present 
 that Gilbert de la Bruere,^ supplying the place of the dean 
 of Lichfield, Philip de TurvUl, John Clarel, and William de 
 Leycestria, canons of the church of Lichfield, are common 
 receivers of James Coterel, Nicholas Coterel, Roger Sauvage, 
 and Walter Jamesman and other outlawed malefactors, and 
 that they received them at Baukwell in their houses, before 
 and after their outlawry, in the fifth and sixth years of the 
 reign. And that Hugh de Lekeburn, vicar of the church of 
 Yolgreve, gave the said James Coterel 40s. for his main- 
 tenance, on Saturday before the Annunciation, in the 6th 
 year. [Several presentments for receiving the said James and 
 others ; among those presented is Alice Folejaumbe,* lady 
 of Elton, CO. Derby.] 
 
 The jurors of the town of Derby present that James 
 Coterel, Nicholas and John, his brothers, Roger le Sauvage, 
 Stephen de Edenesovere, Nicholas de Calton, Walter, servant 
 of James Coterel, William de Bukestones, Thomas de Buke- 
 stones, William de Eyom, and Henry Ody are common male- 
 
 1 " Hugh le FrocuTSitour" in Calendar of Patent Bolls, 13301334, p. 291. 
 
 2 A wood in Repton, co. Derby. See I. H. Jeayes, Descriptive Catalogue 
 of Derbyshire Charters, London, 1906, nos. 1958, 1980 ; Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1338-1340, 
 p. 2. 
 
 3 Of. Calendar of Close Rolls, 1330-1333, p. 603. 
 1 Cf. Calendar of Close Rolls, 1330-1333, p. 601. 
 
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 factors and disturbers of the peace, drawing to themselves 
 unlawful assemblies in public and private places, and that 
 they beat men in fairs and markets, and extort intolerable 
 ransoms. And that Henry Ody and Walter, servant of 
 James Coterel, beat, wounded and maimed John de Knyveton 
 at Chestrefeld on Tuesday the Invention of the Cross, in the 
 fifth year of the reign. And that Eustace de Folevill and 
 Laurence, his brother, riding with an armed force against the 
 king's peace, threatened Robert Foucher of Osmundeston 
 [Osmaston, co. Derby] that they would slay him, so that he 
 could pass on no side for fear of death until he made fine 
 with them in 100s., which he paid to them at Makworth. And 
 that Eustace and Laurence took in like manner 60s. from 
 John Parys, a brother of Burton St. Lazars [oo. Leicester], 
 at Spondon [co. Derby]. And that James Coterel, Nicholas 
 and John, his brothers, and Walter, his servant, riding with 
 armed force threatened Ralph Murimouth of Baukwell, so 
 that he made fine with them in 100s. for fear of death, which 
 he paid to them at BaukweU. And that Eustace de Folevill, 
 Walter and Laurence, his brothers, took 10 marks in the same 
 way from WiUiam son of Walter le Clerk of Marketon, chaplain, 
 which he paid them at Marketon. And that the said Eustace, 
 Walter and Laurence are of the household of Robert Tochet, 
 lord of Marketon, and of Edmund, his brother, wearing their 
 robes and dwelling with them, and that Robert and Edmund 
 know of the ransoms and fines Aaken by Eustace, Walter and 
 Laurence, and consent with them. 
 
 The jurors of the wapentake of Wirk[sworth] and Appeltre 
 present that James Coterel, Nicholas and John, his brothers, 
 Roger le Sauvage (and others) came with force and arms to 
 BaukweU church on St. Stephen's day, 2 Edward III., and 
 entered the church, and they threw down {deposuerunt) 
 Walter Can, vicar of the church, and took 10s. from the 
 offerings ; and they say that James and the others are main- 
 tained by the dean and chapter of Lichfield in all the tres- 
 passes committed by them against the church of Baukwell. 
 
 The jurors of the first inquisition of Baukwelle present 
 that James Coterel, Nicholas and John Coterel, Roger Sauvage, 
 Walter and Adam, servants of James, Stephen de Edenesovere, 
 WilHam de Eyom, Thomas de Bukestones, WHUam de Buke- 
 stones, John son of John Folejaumbe of Berd, Henry son of 
 Hugh Taup of Assheburn, Eustace de Folevill, Laurence 
 and Walter, his brothers, Nicholas Syward of Cheylmardon 
 [Chelmorton, co. Derby], Nicholas Fox, William de Chetelton, 
 knight, John de Lye, knight, Robert de Lye, John de Brade- 
 bourn and Richard and William, his brothers, rode armed in 
 CO. Derby publicly and secretly, and sent letters under the 
 royal stile (sub stilo regio) to William de Birchovere for 201., 
 which they had, and to Thomas Cort of Edenesovere [Edensor, 
 CO. Derby] for 40*., of which they had' 20s., in the fifth and 
 sixth years of the reign. 
 
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 The jurors of the second inquest of Baukwell present that the 
 aforesaid men rode armed in manner of war by day and by night, 
 and sent letters to divers men of the country for money, to 
 wit to Ralph Stolp for 40s., to Thomas Cort for 20s., to Henry de 
 Padleye for 20s., which they had, and so to many men of the 
 same county, in the fifth and sixth years of the reign. 
 
 The jurors of the first inquisition of the High Peak present 
 that James Coterel, Nicholas Coterel, Stephen de Edenesovere, 
 Roger le Sauvage, and Nicholas de la Forde and others 
 unknown, in the fifth year of the reign, took John de Stanclyf 
 in his house at Mapelton [Mapleton, co. Derby], and carried 
 him away at Le Malcave [Malcolf, parish of Ghapel-en-le- 
 Frith], and there imprisoned him, and detained him in the 
 house of Nicholas de la Forde for one week until he took an 
 oath that he would never be against them, and besides this 
 they took from him a bond for 201., to be paid if he opposed 
 them. And that Godfrey Folejaumbe retained divers male- 
 factors for the sake of taking money from men by extortion, 
 and that he thus took 205. from the vicar of Yolgreve. 
 
 Ro. 7. The jurors of the town of Nottingham present that 
 John vSherewynd, servant of Nicholas Coterel, adheres to and 
 serves James Coterel and Nicholas Coterel, outlawed for divers 
 felonies, being their spy (exploraior) at Nottingham and else- 
 where in CO. Nottingham, in the fifth and sixth years of the 
 reign. And that William de Dunesby adhered to and served 
 fifteen days William Pymme, outlawed in co. Nottingham, 
 and that he carried letters from him to William, the chaplain 
 of Bonyngton [Sutton Bonnington, co. Notts], for money to 
 send to William Pymme. And that Henry de Wynkeburn 
 caused a letter to be made and sent to William de Amyas^ 
 at Nottingham by an unknown man, containing that William 
 should send 20Z. to the society of " gentz savages," to be 
 paid at Nottingham to a man bearing an indented bill, the 
 second part whereof came to William with the letter, under 
 grievous threats of burning everything that he had outside 
 the town, and Henry afterwards came to Nottingham with 
 the other part of the indenture and demanded the said 201. 
 for the use of the society aforesaid. 
 
 The jurors of the wapentake of Brokelestowe [Bfoxtowe, 
 CO. Notts] present that Henry de Wynkeburn maliciously sent 
 a letter of credence to WilUam de Amyas of Nottingham to 
 obtain money under threat. And that William de Aune and 
 William de Uston ride armed and take royal prises without 
 warrant and without making payment in the wapentake of 
 Brokelstowe and elsewhere in the county, taking corn and 
 other victuals from Robert le Colyer and other men in the 
 same county to the value of 20 marks and more, in the fifth 
 and sixth years. 
 
 The jurors of the town of Newerk present that Henry de 
 Wynkeburn is the bearer of letters sent by James Coterel, Roger 
 
 I A wealthy merchant of Nottingham and one of the jurors. 
 
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 Sauvage and William Pymme to William Amyas of Not- 
 tingham to extort money from him. And that Lecia Pymme 
 of Bonyngton carried a letter to the parson of Cortlyngstok 
 [Cortlingstook, co. Notts] and Robert de Barton to extort 
 money from them, directed to them by William Pymme, her 
 son, grievously threatening them. 
 
 The jurors of Bingham [co. Notts] present that Henry de 
 Wynkeburn carried a letter to Geoffrey Loterel that he should 
 deliver to him 40/. for the use of James Cotere) and other outlaws. 
 
 The jurors of the wapentake of Brokelstowe present that 
 William son of John de Uston with others unknown robbed 
 Walter le Carpenter of Mamesfeld [Mansfield, co. Notts] and 
 John son of Thomas de Mamesfeld in the field of Mamesfeld 
 on Tuesday before Christmas, 5 Edward III, of goods and 
 chattels, to wit woollen and linen cloth and silver in pennies, 
 to the value of half a mark, and that he is a common thief. 
 And that William de Aune, knight, knowingly received James 
 Coterel and Roger Sauvage in his manor of Grineleye [Gring- 
 ley, CO. Notts] after their outlawry. And that William de 
 Aune and William de Uston are maintainors of James Coterel 
 and Roger le Sauvage, outlawed for felonies, and that they 
 are maintainers of many other malefactors, robbers, and 
 senders of letters under the royal stile to obtain and extort 
 money from divers men of the country. And that WiUiam 
 de Uston made and forged (fabricavit) false money in the 
 likeness of the king's money at Rodmerthwejrt [Radman- 
 thwaite, parish of Mansfield] on Monday after the Purification, 
 1 Edward III, continuing for the four following years until 
 he enfeoffed William Trussebut, knight, of the manor of 
 Rodmerthweyt, to the deceit of the people, etc., because such 
 money was used in place of lawful money in public and private 
 places in the county for the said time, to wit at Redmerthweit 
 and elsewhere in the wapentake of Brokelstowe. 
 
 The jurors of the wapentake of Neuwerk and Ryseclyve 
 [Rushcliffe, co. Notts] present that William Moycok of Bony- 
 ton [Sutton Bonnington, co. Notts] and William de Duimesby 
 are grooms of William Pymme, outlawed for felony, leading 
 him through divers places in the country and seeking victuals 
 for him, and that they received him with his society at 
 Bonyton about Christmas, 5 Edward III, and afterwards 
 on various occasions. And that William son of Gilbert de 
 Gotham and Thomas de Bolewyk, bailiff, together with the 
 said William Moycok, are receivers and helpers of the said 
 William Pymme, and that they received him at Bonyngton 
 and Kyuston [Kingston-on-Soar, co. Notts], in the fifth year 
 of the reign. 
 
 Ro. 9. Inquisition taken at Cesterfeld. The jurors of 
 [the wapentake of] Scarvesdale present that William de Aune, 
 knight, received at the manor of Steynesby, on Thursday 
 after St. Chad, 6 Edward III, Roger Sauvage, James Coterel, 
 Nicholas Coterel, John Coterel, and John de Grymmesby of 
 
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 Lincoln, knowing them to be outlawed, and that he sustained 
 and daily sustains them out of his goods and chattels. And 
 that William son of Hugh del Hethe came, on Thursday the 
 feast of St. Stephen, in the fifth year of the reign, to 
 the house of Robert Praxmceys at Hertestoft [Hardstoft, 
 parish of Ault Hucknall] as an envoy of Roger Sauvage 
 to demand 40s. from Robert by means of threats, by 
 reason of which threats Robert left his house and durst 
 not dwell therein for a long time. And that Roger le Sauvage, 
 WiUiani de Uston, John Hare, WUham son of Hugh del Hethe, 
 William le Couper of Steynesby, and Henry Ody of Asshe- 
 bourn took Henry son of Albredus del Heth, a free man, and 
 imprisoned him at Steynesby on Monday after St. Dunstan, 
 in the fifth year of the reign, and detained him there for a 
 month, and took and drove away and sold his goods and 
 chattels, to wit four oxen, three cows, five stirks {stirkett'), 
 and 40 sheep. 
 
 Ro. 10. Gaol deUvery at Nottingham on Wednesday after 
 St. Matthew, 6 Edward III, made by the same justices. 
 WiUiam de Chetelton, knight, John de Leye, knight, and 
 Robert, his brother, indicted for breaking the manor of Sibyl 
 de Furneux at Carleton in Lyndryk, co. Nottingham, and 
 beating Thomas de Fumeux, John de BothemeshuU, Robert 
 de Hykelton, Robert de BothemeshuU, chaplain, William de 
 Chernok, Henry the cook, and John de Brompton, her servants, 
 breaking the closed door of her chamber and endeavouring 
 to ravish Joan, late the wife of John de Horreby, knight, 
 produced pardons of the king for the outlawry pronounced 
 against them in this behalf. 
 
 Henry de Wynkeboum, indicted for sending a letter to 
 William de Amyas demanding money for the society called 
 " la compaignie sauvage," and for carrying a similar letter 
 to GeofErey Luterell, knight, acknowledged the charges, and 
 is remitted to prison until the court be further advised. 
 
 William^ son of Roger de Uston sentenced to be hanged for 
 a robbery in the field of Mammesfeld, after conviction. 
 
 Richard le Shepherd, taken at Nottingham at the suit of 
 Ivetta, daughter of Henry le Clerk, by appeal of robbery 
 before John Rosel, coroner, for stealing fifty-seven sheep, 
 price 505., from her at Blitheworth [Blidworth], co. Not- 
 tingham, is sentenced to be hanged, after conviction. 
 
 Nicholas de Holm, dwelling in Gunthorp [co. Notts], and 
 Andrew de Eaiyveton, taken at the suit of Agnes Alex[andri ?] 
 de Hoveryngham, servant of Thomas de Goushtill, by appeal 
 of robbery before John Rosel, one of the coroners, for sheep- 
 stealing, are convicted by the jury, and Andrew is sentenced 
 to be hanged and Nicholas is handed over to the ordinary (John, 
 rector of Colwyk, dean of Nottingham) as a convicted clerk. 
 
 Stephen le Taverner of Nottingham, indicted for the rape 
 of Joan, wife of Thomas de Normanton of Nottingham, on 
 
 1 Cf. Calendar of Gloae Bolls, 1330-1333, p. 603. 
 
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 Thursday before the Circumcision, 15 Edward II, and for 
 beating Henry Whithe Honne of Nottingham to death with 
 a staff outside the Chapelbarre of Nottingham on the hill 
 near the Cross, on Wednesday the feast of St. James, 3 
 Edward III, is acquitted by the jury. 
 
 Roger le Orfevre of Nottingham, indicted for beating 
 Matilda de Cotegrave at Nottingham, breaking her legs and 
 maiming her, in the second year of the reign, and for beating 
 Margery la Lystere and Matilda de CrophuU at Nottingham, 
 19 Edward II, and for being confederated with Stephen le 
 Taverner of Nottingham and other malefactors in the town 
 of Nottingham to maintain one another in aU their suits and 
 prises, just or unjust, and for threatening William Norre, so 
 that for fear of death he made fine with him in 205., and for 
 taking 20s. in like manner from William Fykeys, 40s. from 
 Wilham Godeynogh, and from others, and for beating William 
 de Wylughby, rector of St. Peter's, Nottingham, William de 
 Skeggeby, and Hugh Stoile, and for being a common male- 
 factor, confesses and prays to be admitted to make fine with 
 the king. He is admitted to a fine of half a mark, in con- 
 sideration of his long imprisonment and of his estate, and 
 his pledges mainpern for his good behaviour hereafter. 
 
 Stephen le Taverner of Nottingham, indicted for beating 
 Gilbert de Hoveryngham, Robert de Halton, baker, William 
 de Whatton, tailor, Goda, hand-maiden of Maya la Norys, 
 and Roger le Orfevre at Nottingham, in the third year of the 
 reign, and for confederating with Richard le Taverner and 
 other malefactors of the town of Nottingham, who are con- 
 victed, that one should maintain the other in all their suits 
 and prises, just and unjust, and for being accustomed to 
 coerce by threats parties pleading in the court of Nottingham 
 to take days of agreement (dies amoris) and to agree out of 
 fear against their will, and for taking by such threats fines 
 from certain men for his own use, to wit 40s. from John de 
 Bredon upon one occasion and half a mark upon another, 
 half a mark from Robert de Haliton, half a mark from Robert 
 de Derby, 5s. 4d. from Peter de Carliolo, and so from others, 
 and for threatening the jurors of inquisitions so that they 
 durst not say the truth, etc., confesses, and is admitted to a fine 
 of half a mark in consideration of his long imprisonment, etc. 
 
 Payn le Draper and Simon de Chestre, baihffs of the town 
 of Derby, are in mercy because they did not come before the 
 said justices at Nottingham concerning the gaol delivery, as 
 they had been summoned by the sheriff. The amercements 
 are aSeered by the justices at half a mark. 
 
 Many of the adherents of Coterel are acquitted by the 
 juries, whilst others are remanded before the king's Bench, 
 in accordance with a writ, dated 26 November, 6 Edward III 
 [Calendar of Close Rolls, 1330-1333, p. 616 ; cf. also p. 425], 
 to send the indictments, etc., into that court [roll 8d.]. From 
 roll 9 it appears that James Coterel and others (unnamed) 
 
283 
 
 were outlawed in the last eyre of William de Herle in co. Derby 
 and Nottingham, that is in 1330 [Calendar of Close Rolls, 
 1330-1333, pp. 34, 43, 56, 58, 59, 124, 129, 233, 252]. 179. 
 
 1334, May 12. — Roll (preserved among the deeds) entitled : 
 " Lassham. Latymer. Recogn[iciones] tam hberorum quam 
 nativorum facte in plena Curia " [Lasham, co. Hants ?]. 
 
 1391, September. — Parchment Roll giving particulars of 
 dower assigned to Dame Joan, the late wife of Sir Ralph 
 Basset of Draton, in the counties of Lincoln, Nottingham. 
 and Leicester. 271 
 
 1418, February.— Subsidy roll of a Fifteenth of "le Upland 
 de Borgh de Sondressh ' in australi parte " [Sundridge, co. 
 Kent]. 271 
 
 [1437]. — Book containing copy in English, in a hand of circ. 
 1500, of the foundation statutes of the almshouse at Euelme 
 [Ewelme, co. Oxford] founded by William Delapole, duke of 
 Suffolk, and Alice, his wife. " 179 
 
 1490-1.— A bundle of papers relating to suit in Chancery 
 between John Jernyngham, esquire, and Isabel, his wife, 
 daughter' and heiress of Sir Gervase Clifton, knight, and 
 daughter of Isabel Scot, widow, the executrix of Sir William 
 Scott, knight, on the one part, and John Forster, son of Agnes 
 Forster, and Anne, his w&e, concerning the manors of Selling 
 [SelUnge] and Haryng [Harringe, parish of SeUinge, co. 
 Kent], and papers relating to the manors. In petition 
 to the Privy Council the plaintiffs state that Isabel Scott 
 was married to Sir Gervase at the instance of Cardinal 
 Kempe. Inquisition taken after the death of Agnes Morton, 
 widow (daughter of Agnes Forster), at Stortford, co. Hert- 
 ford, and at Dertford, co. Kent, on 18 June, 1517. Surveys 
 and rentals of manor of SeUyng near Horton Monachorum, 
 CO. Kent. Papers in an action of trespass, Michaelmas, 1487, 
 by Agnes Morton, widow, against John Jernjmgham, late of 
 London, esquire, Isabel, his wife, Robert Vagge, late of 
 Smethe, co. Kent, yeoman, William Heyre, of London, gent., 
 and William May, late of Broke, co. Kent, gent., concerning 
 lands in Sellyng, Lymen [Lympne], Ostrynghanger [Osten- 
 hangor, parish of Stanford], Horton Monachorum [Monks 
 Horton], Burghmersshe [Burmarsh], Westhythe [West Hythe], 
 and Demechyrche [Dymchurch], co. Kent, whereof Jernyngham 
 and his wife claimed that she had disseised them. Judgment 
 for plaintiff. 166 
 
 [1500-1600]. — Copies in sixteenth century handwriting of 
 grants, etc., relating to the hermitage of St. Leonard in Wilche- 
 wode [Wilkswood, parish of Langton Matravers, co. Dorset]. 174 
 
 [c. 1530].- — Small folio book giving amount parish by parish 
 of the goods of inhabitants, number of able men, children 
 and unable men in the county of Warwick. 177 
 
284 
 
 [1548]. — ^Large bundle of draught surveys of chantries in 
 CO. Notts. [Certificates of Chantries, Notts, No. 37, PubUc 
 Record Office.] 169b 
 
 1576, July 2. — Subsidy roll, about 20 feet long, for the 
 Hundred of Hemlingford, co. Warwick. Sir William Deveroux, 
 knt., and Edward Aglionbie, esquire, Commissioners, Thomas 
 Bracebridge, esq., High Collector appointed by the said Com- 
 missioners. 220 
 
 [c. 1580]. — Papers, estreats, etc., relating to the office of 
 sheriff of Notts ; charges by Sir Francis Willoughby as justice 
 at the Quarter Sessions, noticeable for their Latin quotations 
 and for their sententious style ; examinations of witnesses, etc. ; 
 notes of readings on various subjects. 20 
 
 1585, November 26. — Contemporary copy of release by 
 Sir Frauds Willughbie to Sir Christopher Hatton, knight, 
 captain of the Queen's guard, of the manor of Langton Wallis 
 alias Langton Welshe within the He of Purbecke, co. Dorset. 
 
 166(217) 
 
 1590, Sept. 16.— EoU of " The second band of twofe hundred 
 soldiers of the lower division of the Lathe of Sutton at Hoane 
 trayned before Sir John Leveson at Sevenoke." Thomas 
 Wyllughby, esquire, captain. 177 
 
 1611-31. — A bundle of papers connected with the New- 
 foundland venture described in the following journal, including 
 letters from Sir Percival Willoughby to John Guy, merchant 
 of Bristol ; letters from Bartholomew Pearson and 'Thomas 
 Will from Newfoundland, and from Thomas Rowley of Bristol, 
 1619 ; John Brown from Harewood, 1617-20 ; John Slaney ; 
 estimates for fitting out the ship, inventories of stores, etc., 
 and much other information of interest. The ship left Bristol 
 on Sunday, 7 April, 1616, and arrived at Coper's Cove in 
 Newfoundland on 8 May, 1616. The papers include an inven- 
 tory of goods left with Mr. Thomas WiUoughby and his com- 
 pany " in the Newefoundelande, the 4 of August, 16 — ," the 
 third and fourth figures of the year [1616 ?] being omitted. 24 
 
 1612-13. — A journal of 35 folio pages, entitled " [A] journall 
 from the first of September [1612] un[til] the last of Aprill, 
 
 1613, in C[a]pe where the colonie 
 
 is kept." It really extends to May 13, 1613. It gives a full 
 account of the voyage, of the country of Newfoundland, the 
 contour of its coast-lines as visited by the ship, etc. 24 
 
285 
 Manorial Records (Court Rolls, AccoTJiirTS, Rentals, 
 
 ETC.). 
 
 1257-8. — Rental of the manor of Sunderesse [Sundridge, 
 CO. Kent] and of another manor (heading torn away), 42 
 Henry III. 170 
 
 1289-90.— RoUs of the Hundred of Hoo [co. Kent]. One 
 court is called " Hundredum de Lagedey," i.e., Lawday. 174 
 
 1293-4. — Court Rolls (pleas, assizes of bread, etc.) of Eyles- 
 ford [Aylesford, co. Kent], consisting of seven rolls, decayed 
 at commencement, 22 Edward I. (292) 
 
 1294-5, 1295-6.— Court Rolls of the manor of Toueton, 
 Thoutton [Towton, co. Notts], 23, 24 Edward I. (in an un- 
 numbered bundle). 
 
 1296-7, 1297-8.— Court RoUs (pleas of debts), six roUs, in 
 excellent condition, of Burgham [Burham], co. Kent, 25, 26 
 Edward I. (292) 
 
 1296-7. — Court Rolls (pleas, assize of bread, etc.) of Eyles- 
 ford [Aylesford, co. Kent], four rolls, 25 Edward I. (292) 
 
 1297-8. — Court Roll (pleas, assizes of bread, etc.) of Eyles- 
 ford [Aylesford, co. Kent], consisting of nine rolls, in good 
 preservation, 26 Edward I. (292) 
 
 1302-3.— Account of baiUff of Feme [The Vern, parish of 
 Bodenham, co. Hereford], 30 Edward I. 205 
 
 1302-3.— Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton [co. Warwick], 
 31 Edward I. 194 
 
 1305-6. — Court Rolls (pleas, assize of bread, etc.) "in Burgo 
 de Eylesford et Hundredo de Larkefeud " [Aylesford and 
 Larkfield Hundred, co. Kent], eight rolls, 34 Edward I. (292) 
 
 1305-6. — Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton [co. 
 Warwick], 34 Edward I. 194 
 
 1307-8. — Court Rolls (pleas, assize of bread, etc.) of Eylesford 
 [Aylesford, co. Kent], one roll, 1 Edward II. (292) 
 
 1307-8 to 1310-11.— Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton 
 [co. Warwick], 1 to 4 Edward II. 194 
 
 1311-12, 1312-13. — Court Rolls {curia et Lagheday, etc.) 
 of Eylesford [Avlesford, co. Kent], nine rolls, 5, 6 Edward II. 
 
 (292) 
 
 1312-13. — Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton [co. 
 Warwick], 6 Edward II, 194 
 
286 
 
 1315-16 to 1317-18.— Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton 
 [CO. Warwick], 9 to 11 Edward II. 194 
 
 1317-18 to 1321-2.— Court Rolls of Tamworth Castle, 11 
 to 15 Edward II. 197 
 
 [c. 1325.]. — Rental of Hever Brocas and Hever Cobham 
 [CO. Kent]. 174 
 
 1326-7.— Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton [co. War- 
 wick], 20 Edward II. 194 
 
 [1327-1377]. — Rental of the manor of Carlton-on-Trent 
 [CO. Notts], temf. Edward III. 170 
 
 1327-8 to 1330-1.— Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton 
 [CO. Warwick], 1 to 4 Edward III. 194 
 
 1328-9, 1329-30.— Court Rolls of the manors of Opton 
 [Upton Gray, co. Hants] and Toneworth [Tunworth, co. 
 Hants], Richard de Grey, 2, 3 Edward III. 173 (123) 
 
 1329-30, 1330-1.— Court Rolls of the manor of Ernhale 
 [Arnold, co. Notts], 3, 4 Edward III. (278) 
 
 1331-2.^ — Court Rolls of the manor of Ryseley [Risley, co. 
 Derby], 5 Edward III., name of lord not given. 169 
 
 1332-3 to 1338-9.— Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton 
 [co. Warwick], 10 to 12 Edward III. 194 
 
 1340-1, 1341-2.— Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton [co. 
 Warwick], 14-15 Edward III. 194 
 
 1340-1, 1343-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Calverton [co. 
 Notts], 14, 17 Edward III. 220 
 
 1343-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Ryseley [Risley, co. 
 Derby], 17 Edward III. 169 
 
 1345-6, 1346-7. — Bailiif's account of the manor of Fern 
 [The Vern, parish of Bodenham, co. Hereford], Baldwin de 
 Frevill, 19, 20 Edward III. 166 (217) 
 
 1346-7.— Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton [co. War- 
 wick], 20 Edward III. 194 
 
 1347-8.— Court Rolls of the manors of Chetulton [Cheddle- 
 ton, CO. Stafford] and Forde [Ford, co. Stafford], 21 Edward 
 III. (276) 
 
 1349-50. — Court Rolls of the manor of Bradmere [Bradmore, 
 CO. Notts], 23 Edward III. (290) 
 
 1351-2. — Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton [co. War- 
 wick], 25 Edward III. 194 
 
287 
 
 1353-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Crownest [co.Worcester], 
 Bartholomew de Frevill, 27 Edward III. 173 (123) 
 
 1353-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Brianeston[Bryanston, 
 CO. Dorset], 27 Edward III. 173 (123) 
 
 1355-6, 1356-7.— Court Rolls of the manor of Wodelond 
 [CO. Dorset], 29, 30 Edward III. 164 
 
 1358-9. — Manorial account of La Perne [The Vern, parish 
 of Bodenham, co. Hereford], Freville family, 32 Edward 
 III. 170 
 
 1359-60. — Court Rolls of the manor of Bradmere [Bradmore, 
 CO. Notts], Sir Richard de Wilughby, 33 Edward III. (290) 
 
 1361-2. — Visus Compoti of baiUff of Sir Baldwin de Frevill 
 for his manor of Feren [The Vern, co. Hereford], from 
 Michaelmas, 35 Edward III, until St. Ambrose following. 
 
 205 
 
 1363-4. — Court Roll of the manor of Middleton [co. Warwick], 
 
 37 Edward III. 194 
 
 1364r-5. — Court Rolls of the manor of Bradmere [co. Notts], 
 
 38 Edward III. (290) 
 
 1366-7, 1367-8.^Court Rolls of the manor of Kirtelington 
 [Kirklington, co. Notts], John do Bella Aqua, 40, 41 Edward 
 III. 173 (123) 
 
 1368-9. — Court Rolls of the manor of Marnham [co. Notts], 
 42 Edward III. ' (278) 
 
 1368-9. — Court Rolls of the manors of Bradeford and La 
 Feme [The Vern, co. Hereford], 42 Edward III. 173 (123) 
 
 1368-9, 1369-70. — Court Roll of the manor of Crownest 
 [CO. Worcester], Baldwin Frevill, 42, 43 Edward III. 173 (123) 
 
 1370-1, 1371-2. — Court Rolls of the manors of Bradeford 
 and La Feme [The Vern, co. Hereford], 44, 45 Edward 
 in. 173 (123) 
 
 1370-1, 1372-3. — Court Rolls of the manor of Toueton 
 [Towton, CO. Notts], 44, 46 Edward HI. (in an unnumbered 
 bundle). 
 
 1371-2. — Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton [co. 
 Warwick]. 45 Edward III. 194 
 
 1372-3 Sept. 30 to Sept. 30.— Account of Robert Tibben, 
 Reeve of Middleton [co. Warwick]. 236 
 
288 
 
 1375-6 1376-7. — Court Eolls of the manor of Barton [co. 
 Notts] 49-50 Edward III. 185 
 
 1376-7. — Court Rolls of the manor of Smallwood [Cheshire] 
 50 Edward III. 169b 
 
 1376-7. — Account of John Dibbene, bailiff of Midilton [co. 
 Warwick]. 220 
 
 1376-7 1377-8.— Court Rolls of the manor of Willoughby- 
 on-the Wolds [co. Notts.] 50, 51 Edward III. 177 (175) 
 
 1377. — Court RoUs of the manor of Staunton, Schelton 
 [Shelton], and Thurverton [Thoroton, all co. Notts], Prior of 
 Haverholm, 51 Edward III. 173 (123) 
 
 1377-8 1378-9.— Court Rolls of the manor of Willoughby- 
 on-the- Wolds [co. Notts], 1, 2 Richard II. 177 (175) 
 
 1377-8 to 1399. — Court Rolls of the manors of Wambroke, 
 Wynterborn Kyngeston, Wynterborn Selston, Bloxworth, 
 Mapelerton, Longton Walysh, and Wodelond [co. Dorset] 
 for various years of the reign of Richard II. 179 
 
 1377-8 to 1412-13.— Court RoUs of the manor of Wyverton 
 (Sir John Leek, Knt., et socii), including fines of CrophuU 
 Bishop and CrophuU Boteler, Tytheby, Berneston, Langar, 
 Colston Basset, and Bingham [co. Notts], for divers years of 
 the reigns of Richard II. and Henry IV. 176 
 
 1378-9 Michaelmas to Michaelmas. — Account of John Colet, 
 reeve of Middilton [co. Warwick]. 220 
 
 1378-9. — Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton [co. 
 Warwick], 2 Richard II. 194 
 
 1380-1. — Court Rolls of the manor of Barton [co. Notts], 
 4 Richard II. 185 
 
 1380-1, 1382-3, 1385-6, 1387-8 to 1389-90, 1391-2, 1393-4, 
 1394-5. — Court Rolls of the manor of Toueton [Towton, co. 
 Notts], 4, 6, 9, 11 to 13, 15, 17, 18 Richard II. (in an 
 unnumbered bundle). 
 
 1381-2. — Court Rolls of the manor of Willoughby-on-the- 
 Wolds [co. Notts], 5 Richard II. 177 (175) 
 
 1382-3, 1383-4.— Court Rolls of the manors of Bayvill 
 [Bayvill, co. Pembroke] and Moldgrove [Moylgrove, co. 
 Pembroke], 6, 7 Richard II. 173 (123) 
 
 1382-3 to 1391-2.— Court RoUs of the manor of Wynterborne 
 Kyngeston [co. Dorset], 6 to 15 Richard II. 166 (218) 
 
289 
 
 1383-4. — Court Rolls of the manors of Staunton, Shelton, 
 and Thurverton [Thoroton, all co Notts], prior of Haverholm, 
 7 Richard II. 173 (123) 
 
 1384-5. — Court RoUs of the manor of Winterborne Kingston 
 [co. Dorset], 8 Richard II. 166 (217) 
 
 1385-6. — Court Rolls of the manor of Willoughby-on-the- 
 Wolds [co. Notts], 9 Richard II. 177 (175) 
 
 1385-6. — Court RoUs of Sir Hugh de Wyllughby's manor 
 of Ryseley [Risley, co. Derby], 9 Richard II. 169 
 
 1385-6 to 1387-8.— Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton 
 [co. Warwick], 9-11 Richard II. 194 
 
 1386-7, 1387-8.— Court Rolls of the manor of Barton [co. 
 Notts], 10, 11 Richard II. 185 
 
 1387-8.— Court RoUs of Sir Hugh de Willughby's manor of 
 Risley [co. Derby], 11 Richard II. 169 
 
 1389-90. — ^Account of Thomas de Stainforth, bailiff of the 
 manor of Sir John de Lowdham, knt., at Riby [co. Lincoln], 
 from Michaelmas to Michaelmas. 220 
 
 1389-90. — Court RoUs of the manor of SmaUwood [co. 
 Chester], 13 Richard II. 169b 
 
 1389-90.— Court RoUs of the manor of Willoughby-on-the- 
 Wolds [co. Notts], 17 Richard II. 177 (175) 
 
 1389-90, 1390-1.— Court RoUs of Sir Hugh WiUughby's 
 manor of Risley [co. Derby], 13, 14 Richard II. 169 
 
 1390. — Rental of the manor of Wodelond [co. Dorset]. 174 
 
 1390-1. — Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton [co. 
 Warwick], 14 Richard II. 194 
 
 1390-1, 1391-2. — Court RoUs of the manor of Barton [co. 
 Notts], 14, 15 Richard II. 185 
 
 1390-1, 1391-2, 1392-3, 1393-4, Sept. 30 to Sept. 30.— 
 Accounts of Dame Joan de Bracebrugge of receipts and 
 expenditure from Kynnesbury [Kingsbury, co. Warwick], 
 Wraby [Wrawby, co. Lincoln], Beseling Thorp [Buslingthorpe, 
 CO. Lincoln], Wehgovere, [Wellingore, co. Lincoln], Brace- 
 brugg [Bracebridge, co. Lincoln], Wylmyncote [WUncote, co. 
 Warwick], Newton, Walshelond, Barleye, [cf. Calendarium 
 Inquisitionum post Mortem, iii., p. 261, no, 32J. 220 
 
 n 19 
 
290 
 
 1391. — Eental of Wynterborne Belet [co. Dorset]. 174 
 
 1392-3. — Account of Robert Prowre, reeve of Wodeland [co. 
 Dorset]. 220 
 
 1392-3. — Account of William Jones, reeve of Middulton 
 [co. Warwick]. 220 
 
 1392-3. — Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton [co. 
 Warwick], 16 Richard II. 194 
 
 1392-3, 1393-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Winterborne 
 Kingston [co. Dorset], 16, 17 Richard II. 166 (217) 
 
 1393-4.— Court Roll of Cossall [co. Notts], 17 Richard 
 II. 220 
 
 1393-4. — Court RoUs of the manor of Wynterbourne Muster- 
 ton alias Musterton [co. Dorset], 17 Richard II. 166 (217) 
 
 1393-4. — Account of John Elys of Mydulton [co. Warwick], 
 collector there. 220 
 
 1393-4, 1397-8. — Court Rolls of the manor of Barton 
 [co. Notts], 17-21 Richard II. 185 
 
 1394-5. — Grange account {Exitus Orangii) for Marston and 
 Lee [CO. Warwick]. 220 
 
 1394-5, 1395-6, Michaelmas to Michaelmas. — Account of 
 Thomas de Lee, bailiff of Marston and Le Lee [co. Warwick]. 
 
 220 
 
 1 395-6. — Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton [co. Warwick], 
 19 Richard II. 194 
 
 1395-6. — Court Roll of the Hundred of Knolton [co. Dorset], 
 19 Richard II. 164 
 
 1395-6, 1396-7, 1397-8.— Court Rolls of the manor of Wil- 
 loughby-on-the-Wolds [co. Notts], 19, 20, 21 Richard II. 
 
 177(175) 
 
 1395-6 to 1399-1400.— Court Rolls of the manor of Wyn- 
 terborne Musterton alias Musterton [co. Dorset], 19 Richard 
 II. to 1 Henry IV. 166 (217) 
 
 1396-7. — Court Rolls of the manor of Stawell, 20 Richard 
 IL 173 (123) 
 
 1396-7. — Roll of paper of the " Magna Curia " of James 
 Foljaumbe at Northecarleton [North Carlton, co. Notts], 20 
 Richard II, 169 
 
291 
 
 1396-7. — Aocounb of Geoffrey Monelond, reeve of Dame Joan 
 de Basset, of the third part of the manor of Taustok, including 
 ferm of the fishery of (the River) Taw [Tawstock, co. 
 Devon]. 220 
 
 1396-7, Michaelmas to Michaelmas. — Account of John 
 Provour, reeve of Wodelond [co. Dorset]. 220 
 
 1397-8. — Account of William Jones, reeve of Middulton 
 [co. Warwick]. 220 
 
 1397-8. — Account of Thomas de le Lee, rent-collector of 
 Middelton, Marston, and La Lee [co. Warwick]. 220 
 
 1398-9. — Account of William Jones, reeve of Middulton [co. 
 Warwick]. 220 
 
 1398-9. — Court Roll of the manors of Dunham, Drayton, 
 Markham, Gr3ainelay [Gringley], and Thrumpston [Thrumpton, 
 aU CO. Notts], John le Scrop, 22 Richard II. 173 (123) 
 
 1399-1400. — Account of John Cowper, reeve of Middulton 
 [CO. Warwick]. 220 
 
 1399-1400 to 1410-11. — Court Rolls of the manor of Small- 
 wood [co. Chester], 1 to 12 Henry IV. 169b 
 
 1399-1440 to 1412-13. — Manorial accounts of Midddton 
 [co. Warwick] for various years of the reign of Henry IV. 170 
 
 1399 to 1413. — ^Manorial account of Woodland [co. Dorset], 
 for various years of the reign of Henry IV. 170 
 
 1399-1400 to 1412-13. — Court Rolls of the manor of Cos- 
 sington [co. Leicester], for various years of the reign of 
 Henry IV. 17fi 
 
 1399-1400 to 1483. — Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton 
 [co. Warwick] for various years of the reigns of Henry IV., 
 V. and VI. and Edward IV. 194 
 
 1400 to 1600. — Terriers of Knolton [co. Dorset], in the 15th 
 and 16th centuries. 174 
 
 1400-1. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wynterborn Seleston 
 [Winterborne Zelston, co. Dorset], 2 Henry V., William 
 FiUol. 166 (214) 
 
 1401-2. — Rental of Wynterborne Relet [Winterborne 
 Steepleton, co. Dorset]. 174 
 
 1400-1. — Court Rolls of the manor of Barton [co. Notts], 
 2 Henry IV. 185 
 
292 
 
 1400-1, 1402-3.— Court EoUs of the Hundred of Upwym- 
 boume, Wymboume Plecy, and Wymbourne Gyles [co. Dorset], 
 2, 4 Henry IV. 174 
 
 1401-2. — Court Rolls of the manor of Bradmere [co. Notts], 
 3 Henry IV. (290) 
 
 1401-2.— Court Rolls of Toueton [Toton, co. Notts], 3 
 Henry IV. 170 
 
 1401-2. — Court RoUs of the manor of Kyngeston[co. Dorset], 
 John Govys, 3 Henry IV. 166 (214) 
 
 1402-3. — ^Manorial account of Longeton [Long Eaton, co. 
 Derby], 4 Henry IV. 170 
 
 1402-3, 1404-5.— Court Rolls of the manor of Toueton 
 [Toton, CO. Notts], 4 to 6 Henry IV. (in an unnumbered 
 bundle). 
 
 1402-3, 1404-5.— Court Rolls of Sir HughWillughby's manor 
 of Risley [co. Derby], 4-6 Henry IV. 169 
 
 1403-4, 1404-5.— Court Rolls of the manor of Willoughby- 
 on-the-Wolds [co. Notts], 4-6 Henry IV. 177 (175) 
 
 1404-5 — Court Rolls of the manor of Mapurley [Mapperley, 
 parish of Kirk Hallam, co. Derby], 6 Henry IV. 173 (123) 
 
 1404r-5. — Court Roll of the manor of Kyngeston[co. Dorset], 
 John Govys, 6 Henry IV. 166 (214) 
 
 1404-5 to 1431-2. — Court rolls of the manor of Wynterborne 
 Relet [Winterborne Steepleton, co. Dorset], William Filol and 
 Joan, his wife, daughter and heiress of John Frome (in earlier 
 rolls), 6 Heiuy IV. to 10 Henxy VI. 166 (214) 
 
 1405-6. — Court RoUs of the manor of Chetulton [Cheddleton, 
 CO. Stafford], 7 Henry IV. (276) 
 
 1405-6. — Court Rolls of the manor of Winterborne King- 
 ston [co. Dorset], 7 Henry IV. 166 (217) 
 
 1406-7. — Manorial account of Willoughby, Bradmer and 
 Carlton near Nottingham [all co. Notts] 8 Henry IV. 170 
 
 1406-7. — Court RoUs of Sir Hugh de Willughby's manor of 
 Risley [co. Derby], 8 Henry IV. 169 
 
 1406-7 to 1410-11.— Court Rolls of the manor of Barton 
 [co. Notts], 8 to 12 Henry IV. 185 
 
293 
 
 1407-8.— Court Rolls of the manor of Bradmere [co. Notts], 
 9 Henry IV. (290) 
 
 1407-8. — ^Manorial account of Marnham [co. Notts], 9 
 Henry IV. 170 
 
 1407-8 to 1409-10.— Court Rolls of the manor of Winter- 
 borne Musterton [co. Dorset], 9 to 11 Henry IV. 166 (217) 
 
 1408. — Rental of Kingston Lacy [co. Dorset]. 174 
 
 1408-9, 1409-10.— Court Rolls of the manor of Blokkes- 
 worth [co. Dorset], John Wodeham, 10, 11 Henry IV. 166(214) 
 
 1408-9 to 1410-11.— Court Rolls of the manor of Chetulton 
 [Cheddleton, co. Stafford], 10 to 12 Henry IV. (276) 
 
 1409-10. — ^Manorial account of Marketoverton [co. Rutland], 
 11 Henry IV. 170 
 
 1409-10 to 1412-13.— Court Rolls of the manor of Wodelond 
 [CO. Dorset], 11 to 14 Henry IV. . 164 
 
 1410-11 to 1426-7.— Court RoUs of the Hundred of Knolton 
 [CO. Dorset], 12 to 14 Henry IV., 1 to 5 Henry V. 164 
 
 1411-12. — Court Rolls of the manor of Sutton Coldfield [co. 
 Warwick], 13 Henry IV. 194 (230) 
 
 1411-12, 1412-13.— Court Rolls of the manor of Willoughby- 
 on-the-Wolds [co. Notts], 13, 14 Henry IV. 177 (185) 
 
 1412-13. — Court RoUs of the manorof Winterborne Kingston 
 [co. Dorset], John Moigne, knight, William FiUo], and four 
 others, 14 Henry IV. 166 (217) 
 
 1413-14. — Court RoUs of Erdyngton[Erdington,co.Warwick], 
 Countess of Warwick, 1 Henry V. (291) 
 
 1413-14 to 1419-20. — Court Rolls of the manor of Toueton 
 [Towton, CO. Notts], 1 to 7 Henry V. (in an unnumbered 
 bundle). 
 
 1413-14 to 1471. — Court RoUs of the manor of Gunthorpe 
 and Loudham [co. Notts], for various years of the reigns of 
 Henry V. and VI. 176 
 
 1414-15. — Court Rolls of the manor of Dunsby [co. Lincoln], 
 2 Henry V. 176 
 
 1414-15. — Court Rolls of the manor of Blokkesworth [co. 
 Dorset], 2 Henry V. 166 (214) 
 
294 
 
 1414-15 to 1416-17.— Court Rolls of the manor of Sutton 
 Coldfield [CO. Warwick], 3 to 4 Henry V. 194 (230) 
 
 1416-17. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wynterborne Seleston 
 [co. Dorset], 4 Henry V. 166 (214) 
 
 1416-17. — Court Rolls of the manor of Barton [co. Notts], 
 4 Henry V. 185 
 
 1416-17, 1417-18.— Court Rolls of the manor of Willoughby- 
 on-the-Wolds [co. Notts], 4, 5 Henry V. 177 (175) 
 
 1416-17 to 1421-2.— Court Rolls of the manor of Wodelond 
 [co. Dorset], 4 to 9 Henry V. 164 
 
 1417-18.— Court Rolls of the manor of Erdington [co. 
 Warwick], Countess of Warwick, 5 Henry V. (291) 
 
 1417-18. — Court Rolls of the manor of Blokkesworth [co. 
 Dorset], 5 Henry V. 166 (214) 
 
 1417-18, 1418-19.— Account of Notts estates of Willoughby 
 family, 5, 6 Henry V. 220 
 
 1418-19 to 1421-2. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wynterborne 
 Seleston [co. Dorset], 6 to 9 Henry V. 166 (214) 
 
 1419.— Roll containing extents of the castles, manors and 
 lands of the heir of Baldwin Frevyll, knight, made at Tham- 
 worth by six men appointed for this purpose by Thomas Ferres 
 and Elizabeth, his wife, Baldwin's eldest sister and co-heiresa, 
 Roger de Aston, knight, guardian of Robert, son and heir 
 of Joyce (Jocosa), sister of the said Elizabeth, and Hugh 
 Wyllughby and Margery, his wife, the third heiress. 
 Lengthy particulars are given of land, etc., in Tam worth, 
 Waverton (Warton), StipreshuU [co. Warwick], Yatesbury 
 [co. Wilts], Middelton [co. Warwick], Gunthorp, Cathorp, and 
 Loudham [co. Notts]. 
 
 1419-20. — Court Rolls of the manor of Kyngeston Wynter- 
 bourn [co. Dorset], William Bydyk, 7 Henry V. 166 (214) 
 
 1419-20, 1420-1.— Rentals of Sondresshe [Sundridge], co. 
 Kent, 7, 8 Henry V., with two or three undated sixteenth 
 century accounts of that manor. 163 
 
 1419-20. — Court Rolls of the manor of Blokkesworth [co. 
 Dorset], 7 Henry V. 166 (214) 
 
 [c. 1420]. — Long rental (beginning lost) of Waverton (Warton). 
 Middelton, Heneley [co. Warwick] and Gunthorp [co. Notts]. 
 According to a sixteenth century endorsement it is " A terri- 
 
295 
 
 torye of all Sir Baldwyn Frevyll's lands . . . dated 15 
 (sic) Henrici Quinti." 
 
 1420-1.— Court Rolls of Eylesford [Aylesford, co. Kent], 
 Richard de Grey, 8 Henry V. (292) 
 
 1420-1. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wodelond [oo. Dorset], 
 8 Henry V. 164 
 
 1421-2. — Court Rolls of the manor of Winterborne Turber- 
 vileston [co. Dorset], 9 Henry V. 166 (217) 
 
 1421-2 to 1425-6.— Court Rolls of the Hundred [Hundredum 
 legale) of Knolton [co. Dorset], and (occasionally) view of 
 frankpledge there, 9, 10 Henry V., 1 to 4 Henry VI. 164 
 
 1421-2. — Court Rolls of the Hundred of E^nolton [co. Dorset], 
 9-10 Henry V. 
 
 1421-2 to 1422-3.— Court Rolls of the manor of Erdington 
 [co. Warwick], Countess of Warwick, 9 Henry V, 1 Henrv 
 VI. - (291) 
 
 1422. — Court Roll of the manors of Dunham, Drayton, 
 Markham, Grynnelay, and Thrumpston [all co. Notts], 10 
 Henry V. 173(123) 
 
 1422-3. — ^Manorial account of Dunesby [co. Lincoln], 1, 2 
 Henry VI. 170 
 
 1422-3. — Court Rolls of the manor of Erdington [co. Warwick], 
 Countess of Warwick, 3 Henry VI. (291) 
 
 1422-3. — Court Rolls of the manors of Braundon [Brandon, 
 parish of Wolston, co. Warwick], with the tithings of Thur- 
 laston [parish of Dunchurch, co. Warwick], Bretford [parish 
 of Wolston, CO. Warwick], and Calcott [Calcutt, parish of 
 Grandborough, co. Warwick], 1 Henry VI. 194 (228) 
 
 1422-1423. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wodelond [co. 
 Dorset], 10 Henry V., 1 Henry VI. 164 
 
 1422-3, 1423-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Winterborne 
 Musterton [co. Dorset], 1, 2 Henry VI. 166 (217) 
 
 1422-3 to 1424-5.— Court Rolls of the manor of Blokkes- 
 worth [co. Dorset], 1-3 Henry VI. 166 (214) 
 
 1422-3 to 1428-9. — Court Rolls of the manor of Langton 
 Walysshe [Lang ton Wallis, parish of Langton Matravers, co. 
 Dorset], 1 to 7 Henry V. 166 (217) 
 
S96 
 
 1422-3 to 1428-9.— Court Rolls of the manor of Sutton 
 Coldfield [co. Warwick], 1 to 7 Henry VI. 194 (230) 
 
 1422-3 to 1432-3.— Court Rolls of the manor of Wodelond 
 [CO. Dorset], 1 to 11 Henry VI. 164 
 
 1422-3 to 1436-7.— Court Rolls of the manor of Wynterborne 
 Seleston [co. Dorset], 1 to 15 Henry VI., including a rental 
 for 1433-4. The manor is called Wynterbourne Mawreward 
 alias Wynterbourne Seleston in the rolls for the 13th, 14th 
 and 15th years. ■ 166 (214) 
 
 1422-3 to 1471. — Manorial accounts of Towton [co. Notts] 
 for various years of the reign of Henry VI. 170 
 
 1422-3 to 1471. — Court Rolls for the manors of Wambroke, 
 Wynterborn Kyngeston, Wynterborn Seleston, Mapelerton, 
 Langton Walysh, and Wodelond [co. Dorset] for various years 
 of the reign of Henry VI. 179 
 
 1422-3 to 1471. — ^Manorial accounts of Winterborne Selston, 
 Winterborne Kingston, Mapelerton, East and West Mordon, 
 Bloxworth, Stocle, Winterborne Musterston alias Winterborne 
 Turbervyle, Whitchurch, Doddyngbyre, Lychet Minster, South- 
 combe, Lytelheryngeston, Winterborne Belet, Winterborne 
 Heryngeston, Langeton Herynge, Westchekerell, Wambroke, 
 Kingston Lacy, Knolton Hundred, Langeton Walyssh, and 
 Wodelond [all co. Dorset], for various years of Henry VI. 170 
 
 1422 to 1471. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wimeswold [co. 
 Leicester] for various years of the reign of Henry VI. 176 
 
 1422-3 to 1471, 1485 to 1509. — Manorial accounts of various 
 years tempp. Henry VI. and VII. of Knolton Hundred, and 
 Winterborne Mawreward alias Selston, Mapelerton Gonevyle 
 and Fillol, Woodland, Bloxworth, Hadyngton, Langton 
 Herring, East and West Morden, Mustereston, Doddyngbyre, 
 West Chikerell, Lychet Mynstre, Fayrewode, Kingston juxta 
 Byre, Whytchirche, Bredsale [all co. Dorset]. 
 
 1422-3 to 1471. — Manorial accounts of Middleton [co. 
 Warwick] for various years of the reign of Henry VI. 170 
 
 1422-3 to 1471. — Manorial accounts of Middleton [co. 
 Warwick] for various years of the reign of Henry IV. 170 
 
 1422-3 to 1603. — Summary of bailiffs' accounts for the 
 manors, etc., of Nottingham, Radford, Gunthorpe, Lowdham, 
 Woodborough, WoUaton, Cossall, Bilborough, Estwood, 
 Willoughby-on-the-Wolds, and Bradmore [all co. Notts] ; 
 Middleton, Wykyn, and Wylmecote [co. Warwick]; Dunysbye, 
 Wygtof t [co. Lincoln] ; Coddenor, Langley, Heynor [co. Derby] ; 
 
297 
 
 Cosyngton, Wymyswold [co. Leicester], for various years of 
 the reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., Henry VII. and VIII., 
 Edward VI., Philip and Mary, and Elizabeth. 170 
 
 1424r-5. — Court Rolls of the manor of Dunsby [co. Lincoln], 
 3 Henry VI. 176 
 
 l424r-5. — Court Rolls of the manors of Dunham, Drayton, 
 Markham, Grynnelay, and Thrumpston [all co. Notts], " Curia 
 Henrici Percy Dathell [= Atholl], mUitis," 3 Henry VI. 173 (123) 
 
 1424r-5.— Court Rolls of the manor of Barton [co. Notts], 
 
 3 Henry VI. 185 
 
 1425-6.— Court Rolls of the manor of Ightham [co. Kent], 
 
 4 Henry VI. 174 
 
 1425-6 to 1426-7.— Court Rolls of the manor of Winterborne 
 Musterton [co. Dorset], 4, 5 Henry VI. 166 (217) 
 
 1426-7. — ^Manorial account for Swaneseye [co. Glamorgan] 
 
 5 Henry VI. 170 
 
 1426-7. — Court Rolls of the manor of Blokkesworth [co. 
 Dorset]. 166 (214) 
 
 1427-8. — Court Roll of the manor of " Marshalls apud le 
 Haycros, " belonging to Henry Barton, citizen and alderman 
 of London," 6 Henry VI. 173 (123) 
 
 1427-8 to 1430-1.— Court Rolls of the Hundred of Knolton 
 [co. Dorset] and (occasionally) of the view of frankpledge 
 there, 6 to 9 Henry VI. 164 
 
 1428-9.— BaiHffs' account for Medilton, 6 Henry VI. 205 
 
 1428-9 to 1438-9.— Court Rolls of the manor of Langeton 
 Heryng [co. Dorset], 7 to 17 Henry VI. 166 (218) 
 
 1429-30 to 1431-2. — ^Manorial accounts of Dunesby [co. 
 Lincohi], 8, 9, 10 Henry VI. 170 
 
 , 1430-1. — Rental of the abbey of Burnham in the towns of 
 Bumham, Bakenesfelde [Beaconsfield], Westonne, Tappelewe, 
 Dorney, Boveney [parish of Burnham], Eton Wyke, Estburn- 
 ham and Cyppenham [parish of Burnham, all co. Bucks], 
 9 Henry VI. 170 
 
 1430-1. — Court RoUs of the manors of Dunham, Drayton 
 Markham, Grynnelay, and Thrumpston [all co. Notts], 
 " Curia Henrici Percy Dathell, militis," 9 Henry VI. 173 (123) 
 
 1430-1. — Court Rolls of the manor of Erdington [co. Warwick], 
 Countess of Warwick, 9 Henry VI. (291) 
 
298 
 
 1430-1. — Court Rolls of the manor of Winterborne Muster- 
 ton [CO. Dorset], 9 Henry VI. 166 (217) 
 
 1431-2. — Rental of the manor of Kinsbury [Kingsbury, co. 
 Warwick], 10 Henry VI. 197 
 
 1431-2. — Account of Richard Thornett, receiver of 
 Elizabeth, lady de Grey [of Codnor],i of all her lordships, from 
 30 October, 10 Henry VI, for one year. Receipts from 
 bailiffs, etc., of Benyfeld [Benefield, co. Northampton] ; 
 Castelbitham [co. Lincoln], Swynsted [Swinstead, co. Lincoln], 
 Corby [co. Lincoln], South Withom [co. Lincoln], Cheylehalle 
 [Cheal, parish of Gosberton, co. Lincoln]; Wafeld; Sapcote 
 and Stanton [co. Leicester], Langwath [Langwith, co. Derby], 
 Metyngham [Metheringham, co. Lincoln], Chedell [co. 
 Stafford], amounting in all to 108^. 5s. O^d. 205 
 
 1431-2 to 1432-3. — Bailiff's accounts of the manors of Lange- 
 ton Heryng, Westchykerell and Podyngton [Putton, parish of 
 West Chickerell], Stokle, Lytelheryngeston, Wambroke, Fayre- 
 wode [all co. Dorset], 10, 11 Henry VI. 166 (217) 
 
 1432-3 to 1433-4. — Fermors' accounts for the manors of 
 Blokkesworth, Estmorden, Mustereston, Southecombe, Mapel- 
 erton, Westmorden, Lychett Mynstre, Doddyngbyre, Lange- 
 ton Heryng, Westchykerell, Stokle, Fayrewode, Kyngeston 
 juxta Byre, Wynterborne Seleston and Knolton Hundred [all 
 CO. Dorset], Sir William Cheyne, Chief Justice of the King's 
 Bench, 11, 12 Henry VI. 166 (217) 
 
 1432-3 to 1433-4.— Court Rolls of the manor of Sutton 
 Coldfield [co. Warwick], 11, 12 Henry .VI. 194 (230) 
 
 1432-3 to 1433-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Winterborne 
 Musterton [co. Dorset], 11, 12 Henry VI. 166 (217) 
 
 1432-3 to 1436-7. Court Roll of the manor ofWodelond [co. 
 Dorset], bailiff's account of the same, and Court Roll of the 
 Hundred of Knolton [co. Dorset], 11 to 15 Henry VI. 166 (217) 
 
 1432-3 to 1436-7.— Court Roll of the manor of Wynterborne 
 Belet [Winterborne Steepleton, co. Dorset], 11 to 15 Henry VI. 
 
 166 (214) 
 
 1432-3 to 1437-8.— Court Rolls of the Hundred of Knolton 
 [co. Dorset] and (occasionally) of the view of frankpledge there, 
 11 to 16 Henry VI. 164 
 
 1433-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Erdington [co. 
 Warwick], 12 Henry VI. (291) 
 
 1433-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Carleton-upon-Trent 
 [CO. Notts], 12 Henry VI. 169 
 
 1 See Dugdale, Baronage, i, pp. 382 b, 711b. 
 
299 
 
 1433-4. — Bailiffs' accounts of the manors of Langeton 
 Heryng, Westchykerell and Podyngton [Putton, parish of 
 West Chickerell], Stokle, Lytelheryngeston, Wambroke, and 
 Fajrrewode [all .co. Dorset], John Fillol, 12, 13 Henry 
 VI. 166 (217) 
 
 1433-4. — Bailiff's accounts of the manors of Blokkesworth, 
 Seleston, Estmorden, Mustereston [Winterborne Musterton, 
 parish of Bere Regis], Southecombe, Mapelerton, Westmorden, 
 Lychett Mynstre, Doddyngbyre [all co. Dorset], John Fillol, 
 12, 13 Henry VI. 166 (217) 
 
 1434-5. — Manorial account of Perjrton (Periton, parish of 
 Minehead, co. Somerset], 13 Henry VI. Endorsed in slightly 
 later hand with a long list of tenants in divers villages in 
 CO. Leicester. 170 
 
 1434-5 — Rental of Dunnesby [Dunsby, co. Lincoln], Sir 
 Hugh Wyllughby, Knt., 13 Henry VI. 220 
 
 1434-5. — Rentals of John Fillol's estates in co. Dorset. 174 
 
 1434-5. — Court RoU of Aylesford [co. Kent], Sir Richard de 
 Grey, 13 Henry VI. (292) 
 
 1434-5 to 1435-6. — Manorial account of Evynton [Evington, 
 CO. Leicester], 13, 14 Henry VI. 170 
 
 1434^5 to 1435-6. — BaiH£E's account of the manor of Wode- 
 lond [Woodlands, co. Dorset], 13, 14 Henry VI. 166 (217) 
 
 1434^5. — Court RoUs of the manor of Mapelerton [Mapper- 
 ton, CO. Dorset], John FiloU, esquire, 13 Henry VI. 166 (214) 
 
 1434-5, 1435-6. — Bailiff's account of the manor of Langeton 
 Walysshe [co. Dorset], 13, 14 Henry VI. 166 (217) 
 
 1434-5 to 1438-9. — Court Rolls of the manor of Bloxworth 
 [CO. Dorset], John FiUol, 13 to 17 Henry VI. 166 (218) 
 
 1435-6.— Court Rolls of the manor of Kinsbury [Kingsbury, 
 CO. Warwick], 13 Henry VI. 197 
 
 1435-6 to 1452-3.— Court Rolls of the Hundred of Upwym- 
 bourne [co. Dorset], 14 to 31 Henry VI. 174 
 
 1435-6.— Manorial account of Middleton [co. Warwick], 
 21 Henry VI. 220 
 
 1436-7, 1437-8.— Manorial account of Dunesby [co. Lincoln], 
 15, 16 Henry VI. 170 
 
300 
 
 1437-8 to 1439-40.— Court Rolls of the manor of Wynter- 
 borne Seleston alias Wynterbourne Mawreward [Winterborne 
 Zelston, CO. Dorset], 16 to 18 Henry VI. 164 
 
 1438-9, 1439-40.— Court Rolls of the manor of Willoughby- 
 on-the-Wolds [co. Notts], 17, 18 Henry VI. 177 (175) 
 
 1438-9, 1439-40.— Court Rolls of the manor of Wynter- 
 borne Belet [co. Dorset], 17, 18 Henry VI. 166 (214) 
 
 1438-9 to 1440. — Accounts of feoffees of Thomas, late 
 Lord de Roos, 17, 18, 19 Henry VI. 170 
 
 1439-40, 1440-1.— Court Rolls of the manor of Stawell, 
 18, 19 Henry VI. 173 (123) 
 
 1439-40, 1440-1.— Court Rolls of the manor of Chedyngton 
 Burghershe [co. Kent], 18, 19 Henry VI. 174 
 
 1439-40 to 1441-2.— Court Rolls of the manor of Mapeler- 
 ton [Mapperton, co. Dorset], John Fillol, esquire, 18 to 20 
 Henry VI. 166 (214) 
 
 1439-40 to 1449-50.— Court Rolls of the Hundred of Knolton 
 [co. Dorset] and (occasionally) of the view of frankpledge 
 there. 164 
 
 1440, November. — Rental of the lands of Dame Margaret 
 Wylughby in Lenton and Radford [co. Notts]. 38 
 
 . 1440-1 to 1447-8. — Court Rolls of themanor of Bloxworth 
 [co. Dorset], 19 to 26 Henry VI. 166 (218) 
 
 1441-2 to 1446-7. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wynterborne 
 Belet [co. Dorset], 20 to 25 Henry VI. 166 (214) 
 
 1441-2 to 1447-8, 1451-2.— Court Rolls of the manor of 
 South Chfton [co. Notts], 20-26, 30 Henry VI. (290) 
 
 1441-2 to 1453-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wynterborne 
 Seleston alias Wynterbourne Mawreward [Winterborne Zel- 
 ston, CO. Dorset], 20 to 32 Henry VI. 164 
 
 1442-3.— Court Rolls of the manor of Sondresshe [Sundridge, 
 CO. Kent], 21 Henry VI. 174 
 
 1443. — Rental of John Feld at Staundon, co. Hertford, 
 Michaelmas, 22 Henry VI. 166 
 
 1443-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Mapelerton[co. Dorset], 
 22 Henry VI. 166 (214) 
 
 1445-6. — Court Rolls of the manor of Mapelerton[oo. Dorset] 
 24 Henry VI. 166 (214) 
 
301 
 
 1445-6, 1446-7.— Court Rolls of the manor of Langeton 
 Heryng [co. Dorset], feoffees of John Fyllol, 24, 25 Henry 
 VI. 166 (218) 
 
 1447-8.— Court Rolls of the manor of Staunton [co. Notts], 
 26 Henry VI. 173 (123) 
 
 1447-8.— Court Rolls of the manor of Bradmere [oo. Notts], 
 26 Henry VI. (290) 
 
 1447-8.— Court Roll of the manor of Kinsbury [Kingsbury, 
 CO. Warwick], 26 Henry VI. (197) 
 
 1447-8 to 1449-50.— Court Rolls of the manor of Mapelerton 
 [CO. Dorset], 26 to 28 Henry VI. 166(214) 
 
 1448-9.— Court Rolls of the manor of Stawell, 27 Henry 
 VI. 173 (123) 
 
 1449-50 to 1452-3.— Court Rolls of the manor of Bloxworth 
 [CO. Dorset], 28 to 31 Henry VI. 166 (218) 
 
 1449-50 to 1452-3.— Court Rolls of the manor of Wynter- 
 borne Relet [co. Dorset], 28 to 31 Henry VI. " Confeoffees " 
 of John Fillol. 166 (214) 
 
 1450-1 to 1453-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Mapelerton 
 [Mapperton, co. Dorset], feoffees of John Fillol, 29 to 82 
 Henry VI. 166 (213) 
 
 1450-1 to 1453-4, 1458-9.— Court Rolls of the manor of 
 Mamham [co. Notts], 29 to 32, 37 Henry VI. (278) 
 
 1451-2. — Court Rolls of the manor of Sutton-upon-Trent 
 [co. Notts], Bartram Herbottell, 30 Henry VI. (290) 
 
 1451-2. — Bailiff's account of the manors of Mapelerton 
 Gonevyle and Fillol [co. Dorset], 30-31 Henry VI. 166(217) 
 
 1451-2, 1452-3. — Bailiff's accounts of the manors of Blokkes- 
 worth, Estmorden, Westmorden, Lychett M3Tistre, Doddyng- 
 byre, Westchykerell and Podjmgton, Stokle, Lytelheryngeston, 
 Fayrewode, Kyngeston juxta Bjrre, Wynterborne Heryng, 
 WynterborneBelet, Mottecombe and Gylyngham,Whytchurche, 
 Wynterborne Mustereston alias Wynterborne Turbervyleston 
 [all 00. Dorset], John FiUol, 30-31 Henry VI. 166 (217) 
 
 1451-2 to 1453-4.— Court Rolls of the Hundred of Knolton 
 [co. Dorset] and (occasionally) of the view of frankpledge 
 there, 30 to 32 Henry VI. 164 
 
 1451-2 to 1454-5. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wodelond 
 [CO. Dorset], 30 to 33 Henry VI. 164 
 
302 
 
 1451-2 to 1459-60. — Court Rolls of the manor of Langton 
 Walysshe [co. Dorset], " confeoffees " of John Fillol, 30 to 
 38 Henry V. 166 (217) 
 
 1452-3. — ^Manorial account of Renneslegh [Reinsleigh, 
 parish of Penshurst, co. Kent], 31 Henry VI. 170 
 
 1452-3. — ^Manorial account of Gaddesby [co. Leicester], 
 31 Henry VI. ■ 170 
 
 1452-3, 1453-4. — Accounts of " divers fermors," etc., of 
 the manors of Shaston [Shaston St. Rumbold, parish of Cann, 
 CO. Dorset], Stoure Prewes [Stower Provost], Cowegrove [Cow- 
 grove, parish of Wimbome], Bradford Bryan and Bemardesle 
 [Barnsley, parish of Wimbome], Holtleigh, Stourmynster 
 Marchall and Newton, Lytchet Mynstre and Lytchet Mau- 
 travers, Wymborne Mynstre, Leighe, and of a quarter of 
 Lousebarugh [Loosebarrow] Hundred, [all co. Dorset], lately 
 belonging to Ohver Anketyll, esquire, 31, 32 Henry VI. 166 (217) 
 
 1452-3 to 1483. — Court Rolls and manorial accounts of the 
 manor of Rendeslegh [Reinsleigh, parish of Penshurst, co. 
 Kent], 32 to 37 Henry VI. 174 
 
 1452-3 to 1460-1.— Court Rolls of the manor of Blokkes- 
 worth [co. Dorset], " confeoffees " of John Fillol, 31 to 39 
 Henry VI. 166 (214) 
 
 1453-4. — Manorial account of Houby and Gaddesby [co. 
 Leicester], 32 Henry VI. 170 
 
 1454-5. — Rental of the manor of Middleton [co. Warwick], 
 
 33 Henry VI. 194 
 
 1455-6. — Court Rolls of the Hundred of Knolton [co. Dorset], 
 
 34 Henry VI. 164 
 
 1455-6. — Manorial accounts of Evynton [Evington, co. 
 Leicester], 34 Henry VI. 170 
 
 1455-6 to 1460-1.— Court Rolls of the manor of Wodelond 
 [CO. Dorset], 34 to 39 Henry VI. 164 
 
 1456-7. — Manorial accounts of Gyppesmere, Bleseby and 
 Gourton [Gibsmere, Bleasby and Goverton, co. Notts], 35 
 Henry VI. 170 
 
 1458-9 to 1464-5. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wynterborn 
 Kyngeston [co. Dorset], 37 Henry VI. to 4 Edward IV. 
 
 166 (218) 
 
303 
 
 1460-1.— Court Rolls of the manor of South Qifton Fco. 
 Notts], 39 Henry VI. (290) 
 
 1460-1.— Court Roll of the Hundred of Knolton [oo. Dorset], 
 39 Henry VI. 164 
 
 1460-1. — Court Rolls of the manor of Stawell, 39 Henry 
 VI. 173 (123) 
 
 1460-1 to 1464-5. — Court Rolls of the manor of Mapelerton 
 [CO. Dorset,] " confeoffees " of John FiUol, 39 Henry VI. to 
 4 Edward IV. 166 (214) 
 
 1461-2 to 1464^5. — Accounts for the manor of Stawell, 1 
 to 4 Edward IV. 173 (123) 
 
 1461-2, 1464^5. — Court Rolls of the manor of Marnham [co, 
 Notts], 1, 4 Edward IV. (278) 
 
 1461-2 to 1466-7.— Court Rolls of the manor of Wodelond 
 [co. Dorset], 1 to 6 Edward IV. 164 
 
 1461-2 to 1467-8.— Court RoUs of the manor of Stawell, 1 
 to 7 Edward IV. 173 (123) 
 
 1461-2 to 1464^5, 1466-7, 1474^5, 1475-6.— Court Rolls of 
 the manor of Ightham [co. Kent], 1 to 4, 6, 14, 15 Edward 
 IV. 174 
 
 1461-2 to 1483. — Court Rolls of the manors of Wambroke, 
 Wynterborn Kyngeston, Wynterborn Seleston, Bloxworth, 
 Mapelerton, Langton Walysh, and Wodelond [co. Dorset] 
 for various years of the reign of Edward IV. 179 
 
 1462-3, 1463-4, 1465-6 to 1467-8, 1470-1, 1471-2, 1476-7 
 to 1482-3. — Court RoUs and manorial accounts of the manor of 
 Rendeslegh [Reinsley, parish of Penshurst, co. Kent], 2, 3, 
 5, 6, 7, 16 to 22 Edward IV., 1 Edward V. 174 
 
 1463-4, 1464-5. — Court Rolls of the manor of Ermyngewell 
 [Armswell, parish of Buckland Newton], feoffees of John 
 Fillol, 3, 4 Edward IV. 173 (123) 
 
 1464-5. — Court Rolls for the manor of Maxtoke [co. Warwick], 
 4 Edward IV. 169b 
 
 1464-5, 1465-6. — Court Rolls of the manor of Hamerden [co. 
 Sussex], 4, 5 Edward IV. 173 (123) 
 
 1464-5 to 1476-7. — Court Rolls of the manor of Sellyng 
 [Sellinge co. Kent], 4 to 16 Edward IV. 174 
 
304 
 
 1465-6. — Court Rolls of the manors of Kylvyngton, Alverton 
 [parish of Kilvington], Plawburgh [all co. Notts], Richard- 
 Willughbv, in right of Anne, his wife, daughter and co-heiress 
 of Simon Leeke, 5 Edward IV. 173 (123) 
 
 1466-7. — Court Rolls of the manor of Braundon, with the 
 tithings of Thurlaston, Bretford, and Calcott [co. Warwick], 
 6 Edward IV. 194 (228) 
 
 1467-8. — Court RoUs of the manor of Sutton Coldfield [co. 
 Warwick], 7 Edward IV. 194 (230) 
 
 1469-70. — Court Rolls of the manor of Sutton-upon-Trent 
 [CO. Notts], 9 Edward IV. (290) 
 
 1469-70, 1470-1, 1473-4.— Court Rolls of the Hundred of 
 Knolton and Upwymboum [co. Dorset], 9, 10, 13 Edward 
 IV. 174 
 
 1469-70 to 1502-3.— Manorial account of Newbold [co. 
 Chester], 9 Edward IV. to 18 Henry VII. 170 
 
 [c. 1470 ?]. — Terrier of the lands that belonged to John de 
 Clynton, knight, deceased, in Chydyngston, Sondresshe, Hever, 
 Brasted and Pensherst [co. Kent], and partition between his 
 sons Sir William, Richard, Thomas and Edward. 174 
 
 1470-1. — Court Rolls of the manor of Ightham [co. Kent], 
 49 Henry VI. 174 
 
 1470-1. — Court Rolls of the manor of Braundon, with the 
 tithings of Thurlaston, Bretford and Calcott [co. Warwick], 
 
 10 Edward IV. 194 (228) 
 
 1471-2. — Court Rolls of the manor of Maxtoke [co. Warwick], 
 
 11 Edward IV. 169b 
 
 1472-3 to 1474^5, 147S-9 to 1484-5.— Court Rolls of the 
 manor of Langton Walyssh [co. Dorset], 12 to 14, 18 to 23 
 Edward IV., 1, 2 Richard III. 174 
 
 1473-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Maxtoke [co. 
 Warwick], 13 Edward IV. 169b 
 
 1473-4 to 1485-6.— Court Rolls of the manor of Wodelond 
 [CO. Dorset], 13 to 23 Edward IV., 1 and 2 Richard III., 1 
 Henry VII. 164 
 
 1474-5 to 1476-7. — Court Rolls of the manor of Braundon 
 with the tithings of Thurlaston, Bretford, and Calcott [co. 
 Warwick], 10 Edward IV. 194 (228) 
 
 [c. 1475]. — Late 15th century "survey of lands in Knolton 
 Feilde," co. Dorset. 174 
 
305 
 
 1475-6, 1476-7,— Court Roll for the manor of Maxtoke [oo. 
 Warwick], 15, 16 Edward IV. 169b 
 
 1479-80. — Court Rolls of the manor of Maxtoke [co. Warwick], 
 19 Edward IV. 169b 
 
 1479-80 to- 1482-3.— Court Rolls for the manor of Tyshou 
 [Tysoe, co. Warwick], 19-22 Edward IV. 169b 
 
 1479-80, 1480-1.— Court Rolls of the manor of Sheldon, 
 [CO. Warwick], 19, 20 Edward IV. 194 (228) 
 
 1481-2. — Court Roll of the manor of Kinsbury [Kingsbury, 
 CO. Warwick], 21 Edward IV. 197 
 
 1481-2, 1482-3.— Court Rolls of the manor of Maxtoke [co. 
 Warwick], 21, 22 Edward IV. • 169b 
 
 1482, 1489.— Rental of Chedyngstone Burgherssh [Ched- 
 dingstone, co. Kent], with several undated sixteenth century 
 rentals of same. 163 
 
 1483-4. — Court Rolls of the Hundred of Knolton[co. Dorset], 
 1 Richard III. 164 
 
 1483-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Braundon, with the 
 tithings of Thurlaston, Bretford and Calcott [co. Warwick], 
 1 Richard III. 194 (228) 
 
 1484-5. — Court Rolls of the manor of Chetulton [Cheddle- 
 ton, CO. Stafford], 2 Richard III. (276) 
 
 1484^5 to 1487-8.— Court Rolls of the Hundreds of Knolton 
 and Upwymbourn [co. Dorset], 2, 3 Richard III., 1 to 3 Henry 
 VII. 174 
 
 1485-6. — Court RoUs of the manor of Chetulton [Cheddleton, 
 CO. Stafford], 1 Henry VII. (276) 
 
 1485-6. — Rental of Hurle, Slately and Clj^, in Kynnysbery 
 [Hurley, Slateley and Cliff, parish of Kingsbury, co. Warwick], 
 1 Henry VII. ^ 197 
 
 1485-6, 1486-7. — Court Rolls of the manor of Langton 
 Walyssh [co. Dorset]. 174 
 
 1485-6, 1488-9, 1490-1, 1494-5, 1496-7, 1498-9, 1500-1 
 to 1502-3, 1505-6 to 1507-8. — Court Rolls of the manor of 
 Kinsbury [Kingsbury, co. Warwick], 1, 4, 6, 10, 12, 14, 16 
 to 18, 21 to 24 Henry VII. 197 
 
 1485-6 to 1546-7. — Manorial accounts of Winterborne 
 Selaton, Winterborne Kingston, Mapelerton, Est and West 
 
 M20 
 
306 
 
 Morden, Bloxworth, Stockle, Winterborne Musterston alias 
 Winterborne Turbervj'le, Whitchurch, Doddyngbyre, Lychet 
 Minster, Southcombe, Lytelheryngeston, Winterborne Belet, 
 Winterborne Heryngeston, Langeton Herynge, Westohekerell, 
 Wambroke, Kingston Lacy, Knolton Hundred, Langeton 
 Walyssh, and Wodelond [all co. Dorset], for various years of 
 the reigns of Henry VTI. and VIII. 170 
 
 1485-6 to 1546-7. — Court Rolls of the manors of Wambroke, 
 Wynterbom Kyngeston, Wynterborn Seleston, Bloxworth, 
 Mapelerton, Langton Walysh, and Wodelond [co. Dorset], for 
 various years of the reigns of Henry VII. and VIII. 179 
 
 1485-6 to 1546-7. — Court RoUs of the manors of Gunthorpe 
 and Loudham [co. Notts] for divers years of the reigns of 
 Henry VII. and VIII. 176 
 
 1486-7, 1488-9.— Court Rolls of the manor of SeUyng 
 [Sellinge, co. Kent], 2, 4 Henry VII. 174 
 
 1488-9. — Court Rolls of the manor of Mapelerton [co. 
 Dorset], William Fillol, 4 Henry VII. 166 (214) 
 
 1488-9. — Court Rolls of the manor of Winterborne Selston 
 [co. Dorset], 4 Henry VII. 166 (214) 
 
 ] 488-9. — Court Rolls of the manor of Langeton Heryng [co. 
 Dorset], with rental, feoffees of William Pyllol, 4 Henry VII. 
 
 166 (218) 
 
 1489.— Rental of Winterborn Selston [co. Dorset]. 174 
 
 1489-90. — Court Rolls of the manors of Langton Heryng, 
 Sowthcombe, Winterborne Selston, Wodelond [all co. Dorset], 
 5 Henry VII. 166 (217) 
 
 1490-91 to 1500-1, 1503-4 to 1507-8.— Court Rolls of the 
 manor of Ightham [co. Kent], 6 to 16, 19 to 23 Henry VII. 
 
 174 
 
 1492-3. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wynterborne Kynge- 
 ston [CO. Dorset], 8 Henry VII. 166 (218) 
 
 1492-3.— Court Rolls of the manor of Braundon, with the 
 tithings of Thurlaston, Bretford and Calcott [co. Warwick], 
 8 Henry VII. 194 (228) 
 
 1493-4, 1494^5.— Court Rolls of the manor of Sutton Cold- 
 field [CO. Warwick], 9, 10 Henry VII. 194 (230) 
 
 1494-5, 1495-6. — Manorial account of Ravenswath [Ravens- 
 worth, parish of Kirkby Ravensworth, co. York], 10, 11 
 Henry VII. 170 
 
307 
 
 1495-6, 1496--7.— Bailiff's account of the manors of Lange- 
 ton Heryng, Westchykerell and Podyngton, Stokle, Lytel- 
 heryngeston, Wambroke, Fayrewode, Kyngeston juxta Byre, 
 Wynterborne Heryng, Wynterborne Belet, Mottecombe and 
 Gylyngham, Wynterborne Mustereston alias Wynterborne 
 Turbervyleston [all co. Dorset], 11, 12 Henry VII. 166(217) 
 
 1495-6. — Court Rolls of the manors of Wodelond andWlnter- 
 bome Selston [co. Dorset], 11 Henry VII. 166 (214) 
 
 1495-6, 1497-8. — Court Rolls of the manors of Langton 
 Heryng, Wodelond, Langeton Walyssh, Wynterborne Seleston, 
 Sowthecombe [all co. Dorset], 11, 13 Henry VII. 164 
 
 1495-6 to 1500-1, 1502-3 to 1 506-7. —Court Rolls of the 
 Hundred of Knolton and Upwymbourn [co. Dorset], 11 to 
 16, 18 to 22 Henry VII. 174 
 
 1496-7. — Manorial accounts for Ravenswath [Ravensworth, 
 parish of Kirkby Ravensworth], Richmond, Fremyngham, 
 Hyrtyngdon, Hyrryngton, and Codderston [Cotherstone, 
 parish of Romald Kirk], Mekylton [Mickleton, in Laithkirk, 
 parish of Romald Kirk], Cleseby and Clowbek, " Partes 
 Boreales, Compoti Ministrorum Henrici Willoughby, militis, 
 ibidem," 12 Henry VII. 169b 
 
 1497-8 to 1499-1500.— Court Rolls of the manor of Sutton 
 Coldfield [co. Warwick], 13-15 Henry VII. 194 (230) 
 
 1497-8. — Baihffs' accounts for Medelton (Thomas Porter, 
 bailiff), from Michaelmas, 13 Henry VII., for one year ; of 
 same accountant for Mowne and Feme [co. Hereford], and 
 Bradmer (read Bradford, co. Hereford) ; Wyken, Wytnasche 
 [both CO. Warwick] ; of John Wystow, receiver, of Hamerden 
 [co. Sussex], Fylsham [Felsham, parish of Bexhill], Cortysley 
 [Cortsey, parishes of Guestling, Icklesham, Beckley, St. 
 Michael Hastings, and HoUington, co. Sussex], and Morley 
 [parish of Shermanbury, co. Sussex], for same period ; of 
 Richard Glasson, bailiff, for Wolaton (including rents at 
 Brokystow and CoshaUe, and 214:1. 9s. 2d. from sea-coal, and 
 2s. for a pair of gilt spurs received for the manor of 
 Hawgulthepp [Algarthorpe, parish of Basford, co. Not- 
 tingham]) ; of Thomas Perot, baihff, for Gownthorp and 
 Lowdam [co. Notingham] ; of Hugh Thomys, baihff for 
 Notingham, Radford, Edwalton, and Lenton [all co. Not- 
 tingham] ; of John Marmeon, collector, for Carcolstone, 
 Byngham, Carlton besyd Notingham, and Geddelyng [all co. 
 Nottingham] ; of Richard Bradbent, baihff, for Downysby, 
 Hawkynbe [Haconby], Wygtofte [all co. Lincoln] ; of Thomas 
 
308 
 
 Pox, bailiff, for Wyllughby (including Bradmer [co. Not- 
 tingham], Cossjnigton [co. Leicester], Browchton [Upper 
 Brougton, co. Nottingham], Wymondesolde [co. Leicester]) , 
 of Arnold Gee, baiUff, for Sutton-super-Trent [co. Notting- 
 ham] (including Carlton and Sowth Marnam) ; and of Sir 
 Robert Laram, chaplain, (including 5631. 5s. 6d. from John 
 Marmeon, the receiver, 821. is. lOd. from divers receipts, 
 1821. 12s. Od. received from Henry Belschawe, chaplain, 
 " de proficuis carbonum maretim[orum] ; " total of receipts 
 94:4:1. 8s. 9d. ; craves allowance for 66^. 4s. Id. " pro stipendiis 
 et vadiis serviencium domini de hospicio " for the year, and 
 for sum (torn off) paid to Thomas Kendall, steward of the 
 lord's household). 205 
 
 1498-9, 1499-1500.— Court Rolls of the manor of Colbrok, 
 Simon Digby. 173 (123) 
 
 1499-1500, 1500-1.— Manorial account of Barton [co. Notts], 
 Henry, Lord Grey, 15, 16 Henry VII. 170 
 
 1499-1500. — Bailiffs' account from Michaelmas, 15 Henry 
 VII, for one year for Medelton, Wolaton (John Marmeon, 
 bailiff), Colshalle, Gownthorpe and Lowdam [all co. Notting- 
 ham] ; Downysby [co. Lincoln] ; Wymondisolde [co. 
 Leicester] ; Wyllughbye, Bradmer [co. Nottingham) ; Cos- 
 syngton [co. Leicester], Browghton, Carcolston, Byngham, 
 Carlton besyd Notyngham, and Gedelyng [all co. Nottingham] ; 
 Mowne, Feme and Bradforde [co. Hereford] ; Wycken [co. 
 Warwick] ; Fylsham, Morley, Courtysley [all co. Sussex] ; 
 Notingham, Radforde, and Edwalton, Sutton super Trent, 
 Carlton, Sowth Marnam [all co. Nottingham]. 205 
 
 1500 to 1600. — Sixteenth century surveys, etc., of the 
 manor of Woodland, co. Dorset. 174 
 
 1500 to 1600.— Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton [co. 
 Warwick] for various years in the 16th century. 212 
 
 1500-1. — Manorial account of Sutton-in-Colfield [co. 
 Warwick], 16 Henry VII. 170 
 
 1500-1. — Manorial account of Toueton [Towton, co. Notts], 
 16 Henry VII. 170 
 
 1501-2. — Court Rolls of the manor of Sutton Coldfield [co. 
 Warwick], 17 Henry VII. 194 (230) 
 
 1502-3. — Summary of accounts of bailiffs and rent-collectors, 
 from Michaelmas tc Michaelmas, for the manors, etc., of 
 Medelton [co. Warwick] ; Downingsby, Wygtofte [both co. 
 
309 
 
 Lincoln], Wolaton (profits of sea coal, 283/. I65.), Cossale, 
 Sutton [on TrentJ, Carlton, South Marnam [all 00. Notts]; 
 Mowne Feme and Bradford [co. Hereford] ; Wycke [co. 
 Warwick] ; Gownthorp and Lowdam, Notinghara, Radford, 
 Edwalton and Lenton, Carcolstone, Byngham, Carlton and 
 Gedelyng [all co. Notts] ; Hanierden, Filsham, Courtysby, 
 Morley [all co. Sussex ; see 1497-8], Colde Etton [Coldeaton, 
 in Alsop-en-le-Dale, parish of Ashborne, co. Derby]. 236 
 
 1502-3.— Extracts of the sheriff's court for co. Notts, 19 
 Henry VII. (290) 
 
 1503-4, 1504-5. — Bailiff's account of the manors of Wyn- 
 terborne Belette,Wynterborne Heryngeston and Lytelhernyges- 
 ton [CO. Dorset], 19, 20 Henry VII. 166 (217) 
 
 1505-6. — Rental of the manor of Stondon [Standon, co. 
 Herts], 21 Henry VII. 173 (123) 
 
 1505-6. — Accounts of all the Willoughby estates, 21 Henry 
 VII. 220 
 
 1506-7. — Court Rolls of the manors of Mapelerton [Mapper- 
 ton], Bloxworth, Sowthecombe, Wynterborne Kyngeston, and 
 Langeton Walyssh [all co. Dorset], William Pillol, 23 
 Henry VII. 166 (218) 
 
 . 1506-7.— Court Rolls of the Hundred of Knolton [co. 
 Dorset], 22 Henry VII. 164 
 
 1508-9. — Court Rolls of the manors of Langton Walysshe, 
 Bloxworth, Winterborne Kingston, Mapelerton, Wodelond 
 [all CO. Dorset], William Fillol, knight, 13, 14 Henry VIII. 
 
 166 (217) 
 
 1509-10. — Court Rolls of the manor of Shustoke [co. 
 Warwick], Clinton, 1 Henry VIII. 197 
 
 1509-10. — Court Rolls of the manors of Langton Walysshe, 
 Bloxworth, Winterborne Kingston, Mapelerton, Winterborne 
 Selston, and Winterborne Kingston, Wambroke, Langeton 
 Herynge, Wodelond [all co. Dorset], William Fillol, knight, 
 1 Henry VIII. 166 (217) 
 
 1509-10 to 1553.— Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton 
 [co. Warwick] for various years of the reigns of Henry VIII. 
 and Edward VI. 194 
 
 1510-11, — Court Rolls of the manors of Mapelerton and 
 Wodelond [co. Dorset], 2 Henry VIII. 166 (217) 
 
310 
 
 1510-11, 1511-12. — Court Rolls of the manors of Langton 
 Walyssh, Wodelond, Wambroke, Langeton Heryng, Winter- 
 borne Seleston, Mapelerton, Winterbo'rne Kingston, and 
 Bloxworth [CO. Dorset], 2, 3 Henry VIII. 164 
 
 1511-12. — Court Rolls of the manor of Pyrybar [Perrybar, 
 CO. Stafford], 3 Henry VIII. 173 (123) 
 
 1511-12, 1512-13.— Court Rolls of the manor of Shustoke 
 [CO. Warwick], 3, 4 Henry VIII. 197 
 
 1511-12, 1512-13.— Court Rolls of the manors of Wynter- 
 borne Kyngeston, Wynterborne Selston, Mapelerton, Bloxce- 
 worth, Langton Walysche, Wambroke, Langton Herynge, 
 Wodelond, and Wodemancote [co. Dorset], 3, 4 Henry VIII. 
 
 166 (214) 
 
 1511-12 to 1515-16. — Court Rolls of the manor of Braun- 
 don, with the tithings of Thurlaston, Bretford and Calcott 
 [CO. Warwick], 3-7 Henry VIII. 194 (228) 
 
 1512-13. — Manorial account of Chedyngstone [co. Kent], 
 4 Henry VIII. 170 
 
 1513-14, 1514-15. — Manorial accounts of Sellyng [Sellinge, 
 CO. Kent] and Harryng [Harringe, parish of Sellinge, co. 
 Kent], 5, 6 Henry VIII. 170 
 
 1512-13, 1514-15, 1516-17 to 1519-20.— Court Rolls and 
 accounts of the manor of Sellyng [Sellinge, co. Kent], 4, 6, 8 
 to 11 and 16 Henry VIII. 174 
 
 1513-14, 1514-15. — Court rolls of the manor of Pyrybar 
 [Perrybar, co. Stafford], 5, 6 Henry VIII. 173 (123) 
 
 1514, October 18. — Rental of William Bonde, gent., and 
 Agnes, his wife, one of the daughters of Mr. Awfill, esq. [co. 
 Kent]. 163 
 
 1514^15 to 1516-17. — Court Rolls of the manor of Shustoke 
 [co. Warwick], 6-8 Henry VIII. 197 
 
 1515-16. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wambroke [co. 
 Dorset], 7 Henry VIII. 166 (218) 
 
 1515-16, 1516-17. — Court Rolls of the manor of Langeton 
 Heryng [co. Dorset], 7, 8 Henry VIII. 166 (218) 
 
 1516-17, 1517-18. — Manorial account of Bore Place [parish 
 of Chiddingston], co. Kent, 8, 9 Henry VIII. 170 
 
 1516-17, 1517-18.— Court Rolls of the manors of Wambroke, 
 Bloxworth, Langton Walysh, Maperton, Wynterborne Kynge- 
 
311 
 
 ston, Wynterborn Selston, and Wodeland [all co. Dorset], 8, 
 
 9 Henry VIII. 166 (218) 
 
 1516-17 to 1518-19.— Court Rolls of the manor of Sutton 
 Coldfield [co. Warwick], 8-10 Henry VIII. 194 (230) 
 
 1517-18.— Court Rolls of the manor of Sellyng [Sellinge, co. 
 Kent], 9 Henry VIII. 164 
 
 [1518-19]. — Manorial account of SeUyng and Harryng [co. 
 Kent], 10 Henry VIII. 170 
 
 1518-19. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wodeland [co. 
 Dorset], 10 Henry VIII. 164 
 
 1518-19. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wyken [co. War- 
 wick], 10 Henry VIII. 194 (228) 
 
 1518-19. — Court Rolls of the manor of Braundon, with the 
 tithings of Tiiurlaston, Bretford, and Calcott, [co. Warwick], 
 
 10 Henry VIII. 194 (228) 
 
 1518-19 to 1522-3.— Cj3urt Rolls of the manor of Shustoke 
 [co. Warwick]. 197 
 
 1518-19, 1521-2 to 1523-4, 1525-6, 1526-7.— Court RoUs ot 
 the Hundred of Knolton and Upwymbourn [co. Dorset], 10, 
 13 to 15, 17. 18 Henry VIII. 174 
 
 1519-20. — Court Rolls of the manor of Smallwood [co. 
 Chester], 11 Henry VIII. 169b 
 
 1519-20, 1520-1. — Court RoUs of the manors of Wynterborne 
 Kyngeston, Wynterborne Selston, Mapelerton, Bloxceworth, 
 Langton Walysche, and Wambroke [co. Dorset], William 
 FyUol, knight. 166 (214) 
 
 1519-20, 152.0-1. — Manorial account for Woodlands [co. 
 Dorset], 11, 12 Henry VIII. 169b 
 
 1519-20 to 1534-5. — Summaries of bailiffs' accounts for the 
 manors of Wollaton, Sutton Passeys, Wollaton coal-pits, 
 Cossall, Cropwell, BUborough, Gunthorpe, Loudham, Bingham, 
 Willoughby-on-the- Wolds, Bradmere and Broughton [all co. 
 Notts], Dunsby, Swineshead, Wigtoft [all co. Lincoln] ; 
 Marston, Middleton, Wyken, Wilmcott [co. Warwick] ; Cos- 
 sington and Wymeswold [co. Leicester] ; Dudley [co. Wor- 
 cester] ; Purybar [co. Stafford], 11, 12, 14, 18, 23, 25, 26 
 Henry VIII. 169b 
 
 1520-1. — Manorial account for Middleton [co. Warwick], 
 12 Henry VIII. 169b 
 
312 
 
 1520-1. — Court Rolls of the manors of Wynterborne Kynge- 
 ston, Wynterborne Selston, Mapelerton, Bloxceworth, Langton 
 Walysche, Wambroke, and Langeton Herynge [all co. Dorset], 
 12 Henry VIII. 166 (214) 
 
 1520-1.— Court Rolls of the manor of Braundon, with the 
 tithings of Thurlaston, Bretford, and Calcott [co. Warwiokl, 
 12 Henry VIII. 194 (228) 
 
 1520-1 to 1522-3. — Manorial accounts for Braundon, 12, 13, 
 
 14 Henry VIII. 169b 
 
 1521-2, 1522-3.— Court Rolls of the manors of Langton 
 Walysshe, Mapelerton, Wambroke, Langton Herynge, and 
 Myddylbere fall co. Dorset], Thomas Trenchard and other 
 feoffees for the use of WUliam Fillol, 13, 14 Henry VIII. 
 
 166 (217) 
 
 1522-3. — Court Rolls of the manor of Mapelerton, Wynter- 
 borne Selston, Winterborne Kyngston, Bloxworth, Langton 
 Walshe, Langton Heryng, and Wambroke [aU co. Dorset]. 
 
 170 
 
 1523-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Smallwood [co. 
 Chester], 15 Henry VIII. 169b 
 
 1523-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Braundon, with the 
 tithings of Thurlaston, Bretford and Calcott [co. Warwick], 
 
 15 Hem-y VIII. 194 (228) 
 
 1523-4, 1524-5. — Court RoUs of the manors of Wambroke 
 [Wambrook, co. Dorset], Langton Heryng [Langton Herring], 
 Langton Walshe [Langton Wallis, parish of Langton Mat- 
 ravers], Bloxceworth [Bloxworth], Wynterbourne Kyngeston, 
 Mapelerton [Mapperton], Wynterbourne Selston [all co. Dor- 
 set], Thomas Trenchard, knight, and other feoffees for the use 
 of William Fyllol, knight, 15, 16 Henry VIII. 166 (218) 
 
 1524-5. — Estreats of the court of the Castle of Nottingham. 
 
 271 
 
 1525-6. — Court Rolls for the manor of Whitacre Inferior 
 [co. Warwick], 17 Henry VIII. 169b 
 
 1525-6. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wodelond [co. 
 Dorset], 17 Henry VIII. 164 
 
 1525-6. — Rental of the manor of Bloxworth [co. Dorset], 
 17 Henry VIII. 164 
 
 1525-6, 1526-7. — Court Rolls of the manors of Langton 
 Walysshe, Bloxworth, Winterborne Kingston, Mapelerton, 
 Winterborne Selston, Wambroke, Langton Herynge [all co. 
 
313 
 
 Dorset], Thomas Trenchard and other feoffees for the use of 
 William Fillol, 17, 18 Henry VIII. 166 (217) 
 
 1526-7. — Manorial account for Willoughby-on-the- Wolds 
 [CO. Notts], 18 Henry VIII. 169b 
 
 1527-8 to 1530-1.— Court Rolls of the manors of Wambroke 
 [CO. Dorset], Thomas Trencharde, Thomas de la Lynde, John 
 Cayleway, knights, Henry Trencharde, esquire, and William 
 Honychurche, gentleman, feoffees for the completion of the 
 will of William Fyllol, knight, 19 to 22 Henry VIII. 166(218) 
 
 1530, April 7. — Issues of manor court {legalis manerii) of 
 Wodelond [co. Dorset]. 166 (217) 
 
 1530-1. — Court RoUs of the manor of Beausalle [Beausale, 
 parish of Hatton, co. Warwick], 22 Henry VIII. 173(123) 
 
 1531-2, 1532-3, 1537-8, 1546-7.— Manorial account of 
 Braimdon [co. Warwick], 23, 24, 29, 38 Henry VIII. 220 
 
 1531-2. — Court RoUs of the manor of Wittenasshe [Whit- 
 nash, CO. Warwick], 23 Henry VIII. 173 (123) 
 
 1531-2 to 1533-4.— Court RoUs of the Hundred of Knolton 
 [co. Dorset], 23 to 25 Henry VIII. 164 
 
 1532-3, 1533-4.— Court Rolls of the manors of Maplerton, 
 Wynterbome Seleston, and Wodelond [co. Dorset], 24, 25 
 Henry VIII. 164 
 
 1534-5. — Court RoUs of the manor of Lambley [co. Notts], 
 26 Henry VIII. 278 
 
 1535. — " A terrer made of my landes in Kingston Lacye 
 [parish of Wimborne Minster, co. Dorset], named ' the Great 
 Gawntz.' " 174 
 
 1535-6. — Court RoUs of the manor of Wryton, 27 Henry 
 VIII. 173 (123) 
 
 1535-6. — Bailiff's accounts for WoUaton and Sutton Passes 
 (Henry Marmion, baihff) from Michaelmas, 27 Henry VIII, 
 for one year (allowed 535. id. for payment to two priests or 
 chaplains of the chantry in the parish church of WoUaton of 
 their wages and stipends issuing out of the said manor of 
 Sutton ; for payment to the prior and convent of Lenton for 
 tithes of herbage of Sutton aforesaid, 40s., and for tithes of 
 the herbage of Wyllowholme, 30s. ; to the vicar of the 
 parish church of Radford for his part of the tithes 
 of Sutton Passes, 8s. ; to WiUiam Webster, chaplain, for the 
 food of two poor people of the lord's alms, 34s. 8d.) ; Wol- 
 
314 
 
 laton coal pits (John Lyvessey, accountant) from 27 December, 
 27 Henry VIII. until 1 January, in the 28th year (issues and 
 profits of " carbones terrestres " 628/!. 17s. l^d. ; wages of 
 pitmen 5Ql. I5s. S^d. ; costs of " synkyng " and wages of the 
 accountant and others in this connection, stores, necessaries, 
 etc. " ut patet per Hbrura suum de particuUs sol[ucionum] 
 eorundem denariorum vocatum ' le Syknynge Boke,' " 
 Sll. 17s. Id.) ; account of baihfEs of Gonthorp and Lowdham 
 [co. Nottingham] ; and of Mddleton [co. Warwick] ; of 
 Cossale [co. Nottingham] (Henry Marmion, bailiii) ; of 
 Wyken [co. Warwick] ; of Wyllughby Brodmer [co. Not- 
 tingham], Cosington [co. Leicester], Broughton [co. Not- 
 tingham], Wymsold [co. Leicester] ; and account of Robert 
 Perote, receiver of all the lands, etc., that. formerly belonged 
 to John Wylloughby, esquire, from 4 January, 27 Henry 
 VIII, to 1 January in the following year (total of receipts, 
 685?. 4s. lid. ; payments 596?. 3s. 8d.). 205 
 
 1536-7. — Court Rolls of the Hundred of Knolton and Up- 
 wymbourn [co. Dorset], 28 Henry VIII. 174 
 
 1537-8. — BaiUff's accounts from Michaelmas, 29 Henry 
 VIII, for one year for WoUaton and Sutton Passes (Henry 
 Marmyon, baiUff ; Wollaton coal pits (John Lyvesey, accoun- 
 tant) from 4 January, 29 Henry VIII., to 11 January, in the 
 30th year (receipts and profits of coal 477?. 5^. lOJc?. ; wages 
 and stipends 211. 195. S^d. ; cost of ' synking,' etc., 50?. 16s. 2j5.); 
 and of the bailiffs of the following from Michaelmas to 
 Michaelmas : Gonthorp and Lowdham ; Myddelton [co. War- 
 wick] ; Cossale [co. Nottingham] (Henry Marmyon, bailiff ; 
 Wyken [co. Warwick] ; Carleton juxta Trentham [Garlton- 
 upon-Trent] ; Wylloughby, Brodmer [co. Nottingham], Co- 
 sington [co. Leicester], Broughton [co. Nottingham], Wymsold 
 [Wimeswould, co. Leicester] ; and of Robert Perot, chaplain 
 and receiver of the lands, etc., of John Wylloughby, knt., 
 from 2 January, 29 Henry VIII, until 4 January, in the 
 following year. 205 
 
 1538, May. — Rental of Leuton, Radford and Nottingham. 
 
 38 
 
 1538-9. — Court Rolls of the manor of Carleton-upon-Trent 
 
 [CO. Notts], 30 Henry VIII. 169 
 
 1538-9. — Account of John Leceter for the lands in Notting- 
 ham (Nothm) from Christmas, 30 Henry VIII, for one year 
 (" Item to charge hym for vj landes [i.e., ridges of ploughed 
 land] wythout chappell barre, by yere ijs. viijc?. Item to 
 allowe hym for Thyrlandes Place, in Mastres [Isabel] Panelles 
 handes, iij?i. Item for cheffe rent to the kyng for Thyrlandes 
 Place, iijs. iiijd."). Signed " Henry Wyllughby." 205 
 
 1538-9. — Manorial account of Wambrok and Stockland 
 [co. Dorset], 30 Henry VIII. 220 
 
316 
 
 1539, July 13.— Court Roll of Sir John Willoughby's manor 
 of Carlecolston [co. Notts]. 169 
 
 1540-1. — Court Rolls of the manor of Braundon, with the 
 tithings of Thurlaston, Bretford, and Calcott [co. Warwick], 
 32 Henry VIII. 194 (228) 
 
 1540-1 to 1546-7. — Court Rolls of the manor of Winterborne 
 Selston [co. Dorset], 32 to 38 Henry VIII. 166 (214) 
 
 1541, June 8. — Court Roll of vSir John Willoughby's manor 
 of Carlecolston [co. Notts]. 169 
 
 1541-2. — Rental of the lands of John Poulet, esquire, and 
 the Lady Anne, his wife, daughter and heiress of William 
 Fyllol, knight, in right of the said Anne, late the wife of 
 Edward Willoughby, knight, deceased. 174 
 
 1542, Nov. 30. — Rental of Thomas Brabryge's lordship of 
 Kynsberie [Kingsbury, co. Warwick]. 212 
 
 1542-3. — Court Rolls of the manors of Kepsbroke, West- 
 hwerst and Esthwerst [West and East Ewhurst, parish of 
 Speldhurst, co. Kent], 34 Henry VIII. 174 
 
 1542-3. — Bailiff's account from Michaelmas, 34 Henry 
 VTII, for one year for WoUaton and Sutton Passes (Henry 
 Marmyon, baiUff) ; WoUatton coal pits (John Lyvesey, col- 
 lector) from 4 January, 34 Henry VIII, until 24 December, 
 35 Henry VIII. (receipts 5101. 9s. S^d. ; payments for wages 
 24Z. 9s. Id. ; costs of " synking " 151. Us. 6d.) ; and of the 
 baiUffs of the following, from Michaelmas to Michaelmas : 
 Gonthorp and Ludham ; Cossale (Henry Marmyon, baihff) ; 
 Myddylton ; Wyken ; Wylloughby ; Carleton juxta Trentham 
 (Marnam, Sutton, Carleton cum GedUng, Carcolston) ; and 
 of John Trussell, gent, and " serviens Domino," of money 
 received by him from 17 March, 34 Henry VIII, to 10 February, 
 
 35 Henry VIII. ; of Thomas Hydde, " serviens Domino," 
 for the like period (payments for divers stores (estuff') and 
 other necessaries and implements for the household, for wages 
 and stipends of laborers on divers matters of the lord and for 
 getting hay and com (garbarum), for hedging and ditching, 
 threshing, etc. 74?. 95. id. ; for payments for red and white 
 herrings {pro alaciis albis rub[e]is) and divers salt fish bought 
 in divers places, at Sturbrege fair and at Bosston, and for car- 
 riage and other expenses in connection therewith 29l.l3s. lOd. ; 
 and for ' freshacates ' [= purchases of household stores, etc.] 
 44Z. 55. SJrf.) ; of Robert Perott, chaplain and receiver, from 
 4 January, 34 Henry VIII, until 1 January following. 205 
 
 1544-6. — Court Rolls of the manor of Braundon, with the 
 tithings of Thurlaston, ~ Bretford, and Colcott [co. Warwick], 
 
 36 Henry VIII. 194 (282) 
 
316 
 
 1542-3, 1543-4. — Court Roll of the manor of Warn broke 
 [co. Dorset], Henry Wylloughby, esquire. 166 (214) 
 
 1544-5.— Bailiff's account from Michaelmas, 36 Henry 
 VIII, for one year for Wollatton and Buttons Passes (John 
 Lyvesey, bailiff) ; Wollatton coal-pits (John Lyvesey, col- 
 lector) from 4 January, 36 Henry VIII, to 24 December, 37 
 Henry VIII. (issues and profits of coal, 356^. 16s. Id. ; wages, 
 46Z. 8s. 4d. ; costs of ' synkyng,' 811. 12s. 8d.) ; baihffs' accounts 
 from Michaelmas to Michaelmas for the following : Gonthorp 
 and Ludham ; Carleton juxta Trentham ; Cossale (Crop well, 
 Bylbrough) ; Wylloughby (Brodmer, Broughton) ; Wyken ; 
 Myddelton ; and of Robert Parott, chaplain and receiver, 
 from 4 January, 36 Henry VIII., until 1 January, 37 Henry 
 VIII. ; and of Thomas Eton, " serviens Domino," from 24 
 December, 37 Henry VIII, until 20 March following (for 
 rewards given by his lord and wages and stipends of servants 
 and for money paid at divers times to Thomas Hyde, 126?. 
 9s. lOd.) ; and of Thomas Hyde, " serviens Domino," from the 
 last day of February, 36 Henry VIII, until 19 March, 37 
 Henry VIII. (payments for red and white herrings and for 
 salt-fish bought at Sturbrygge Fair and Bosston and for car- 
 riage, etc., thereof, 331. 2s. 9d. ; ' freshacat,' 611. 7s. llJcZ.) ; 
 and of John Lyveseye's wife in the 37 Henry VIII. (receipts 
 from lordships of Wollatton and Sutton Passes with Bram- 
 cote ; Carleton, with Marnam, Sutton, Carleton with Ged- 
 lynge and Carlcolston ; Cossale with Cropwell and Bylbrough) ; 
 account of executors of John Lyvesey from 4 January, 36 Henry 
 VIII, until 12 September following " for theyer hoUe receyttes, 
 deduccyons, synkeyng boke and levereys money," (" levereye 
 money " lQ9l. 4s. 3d.) ; account of Mr. Marmyon and John 
 Trussell for Wollatton coal-pits from 12 Sept., 37 Henry VIII, 
 until 25 September following (receipts 621. 5s. 3id.) ; " deduc- 
 cyons to be allowy[d]," 11. 9s. 9d. ; " sjmkynge boke to be 
 allowyd," 25Z. 8s. 4d. ; " leverey money payed by them," 
 221. 18s. 8id. 205 
 
 1546-7.— Baihff's account from Michaelmas, 38 Henry 
 VIII, for one year for Wollaton and Sutton Passes (John 
 Trussell, baihff) ; allowed 67s. 4d. for the lord's alms to three 
 men and three women, and for 13s. id. paid to John Bate, 
 chaplain, " pro docens {sic) pauperum puerorum datis sicut 
 elimozina Domini ") ; Cossale ; Wollaton coal-pits (John 
 Trussel, collector) from 4 January, 38 Henry VIII., until 24 
 December, 1 Edward VI. (receipts, 3651. 19s. 5d. ; wages, 
 48Z. Os. 5H. ; " synkynge boke," 90Z. 135. 3d.) ; of Robert 
 Perott, priest (time not specified) ; of Thomas Hydde, " ser- 
 viens Domino," from 24 January, 38 Henry VIII., until 22 
 February, 2 Edward VI. ; of Thomas Eyton, " serviens 
 Domino," from 22 January, 38 Henry VIII., until 22 
 February, 2 Edward VI. Prefixed is a hst of aimuities, 
 1 Edward, signed" John' Willughby," containing thirty-eight 
 
317 
 
 entries amounting to m. 6s. 8d. (Sir Hugh Wiloughby, 
 61 Us. 4d. ; Mastre Draycott, 31. 10s. Od. for half a year ; 
 Serjaunte Molynex, 26s. 8d. ; Baldwin Willoughby, U. 6s. 8d. ; 
 George Willoughby, 20s. ; Sir Anthony Nevell, 20s. ; Nicholas 
 Powtryell, 20s. ; Gabriel Barwicke, 53s. id. ; Henry 
 Marmyon, 51.) 205 
 
 1546-7. — Baihff's account for Braundon [co. Warwick] 
 from Michaelmas, 38 Henry VIII, to the same feast, 
 1 Edward VI. 205 
 
 1547-8, 1548-9, 1549-50.— Court Rolls of the manor of 
 Willoughby-on-the- Wolds [co. Notts], 1, 2, 3 Edward VI. 
 
 177 (175) 
 
 1547-8. — Bailiff's account of Braundon and Bretsforde [co. 
 Warwick], from Michaelmas, 1 Edward VI„ for one year, 
 with account of "the Wodesale of Braundon," 15 February, 
 1 Edward VI. 205 
 
 1549-50. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wyken [co. Warwick] 
 3 Edward VI. 194 (228) 
 
 1549-50 to 1562-3.— Court Rolls of the manor of Small- 
 wood [co. Chester], 3 Edward VI. to 5 Elizabeth. 169b 
 
 1549-50, 1550-1. — Court Rolls of the manor of Braundon, 
 with the tithings of Thurlaston, Bretford, and Calcott [co. 
 Warwick], 3, 4 Edward VI. 194 (228) 
 
 [c. 1550]. — Rental of lands in Lenton and Radford belong- 
 ing to the late monastery of Lenton [co. Notts]. 38 
 
 Temp. Elizabeth. — Accounts of Nottinghamshire manors. 
 
 205 
 
 1554-5 to 1557-8. — Court Rolls of the manor of Ightham 
 CO. Kent], 1 to 4 and 5 Philip and Mary. 174 
 
 1554-5 to 1603. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wimeswold 
 [co. Leicester] for various years of the reigns of Elizabeth 
 and James I. 176 
 
 1555. — Account of wood sales at Spondon, co. Derby, 
 Ylkeston, Sandyacre, [Bu]rrossheasche [Borrowash], Risley, 
 Stanton [all co. Derby], Bramcott, Clifton, Dale, Kyrke Halam, 
 Stapleforde, Brayson, and of expenditure over conversion into 
 timber, boards, laths, etc. 
 
 Entitled " Dale Wodes. The booke of reyceptes for wode 
 ther solde by John Bateman, begynnyng in May, in annis 
 regnorum regis Philippi et regine Marie prima et secundo," 
 rendered to the executors [of Henry Willoughby]. 205 
 
318 
 
 1558 to 1603. — Court Rolls of the manor of Duiisby [co. 
 Lincoln], for various years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 176 
 
 1558-1603.— Accounts of " Easter Tithing " at Middle- 
 ton for various years of the reign of Elizabeth. 169b 
 
 1558-1603.— Court Rolls of the manor of Wollaton [co. 
 Notts] for various years of the reign of Elizabeth. 176 
 
 1558-1603.— Court Rolls for the manor of Willoughby-on- 
 the-Wolds [co. Notts] for divers vears of the reign of 
 Elizabeth. * 176 
 
 1558-1603. — Court Rolls of the manor of Carlton-on-Trent 
 [co. Notts] for various years of the reign of Elizabeth. 176 
 
 1558 to 1603. — Court Rolls of the manor of Cossington [co. 
 Leicester] for various years of the reign of Elizabeth. 176 
 
 1558-9 to 1602-3.— Court Rolls of the manors of Wambroke, 
 Wynterborn Kyngeston, Wynterborn Seleston, Bloxworth, 
 Mapelerton, Langton Walysh, and Wodelond [co. Dorset], 
 for various years of the reign of Elizabeth. 179 
 
 1558 to 1625. — Papers relating to Smallwood, co. Chester, 
 and to suits concerning title thereto, tempp. Elizabeth and 
 James I. 187 
 
 1558-9 to 1648-9.— Court Rolls of the manor of Middelton 
 [co. Warwick] for various years of the reigns of Elizabeth, 
 James I. and Charles I. 194 
 
 1558-9, 1560-1, 1565-6.— Court Rolls of the manor of Igh- 
 tham [co. Kent], 1, 3, 8 Elizabeth. 174 
 
 c. 1560 ? — Terrier of Wishaue [Wishaw, co. Warwick], temp. 
 Elizabeth ? 170 
 
 1560-1. — Court Rolls of the Hundred (" Curia Treseptimana 
 Hundredi ") of Knolton and Upwymbourn [co. Dorset], 3 
 Elizabeth. 174 
 
 1560-1 to 1565-6.— Court Rolls of the manor of Willoughby- 
 on-the-Wolds [co. Notts], 3-8 Elizabeth. 177 (175) 
 
 1560-1, 1564^5, 1569-70.— Court Rolls of the manor of North 
 Carlton [co. Notts], 3, 7, 12 Elizabeth. 169 
 
 1562-3. — Accounts for Holeway [or Holy, parish of White 
 Staunton], Hull, Pounderford, Stapelgrove, Nayllysboume 
 [Nailsbourne, parish of Kingston St. Mary], Rympton 
 [Rimpton], Oterford [Otterford], Taunton Castle, Borough 
 and Liberty [all co. Somerset]. I69b 
 
319 
 
 1563, Oct. 5.— Court Rolls of Willoughby [co. Notts]. 169 
 
 1563, Oct. 6. — Court Rolls of Gunthorpe and Lowdham 
 [co. Notts]. 169 
 
 1563. Oct. 6. — Court Roll of Bradmejo-e [Bradmore, co. 
 Notts]. 169 
 
 1563, Oct. 7.— Court Roll of Cosyngton [co. Leicester]. 169 
 
 1563, Oct. 7. — Court Roll of Wymeswold [co. Leicester]. 
 
 169 
 
 1563.— " Tharbage books of the Town fielde at WoUaton 
 
 begynnenge the xviij"^ day of October," 5 EKzabeth. . 205 
 
 1563-4 to 1565-6. — Accounts of Dorset manors during the 
 minority of Francis Willoughby. 220 
 
 1564^5. — Court Rolls of the manors of Langton Wallis and 
 Langton Hering, and of Maplerton, Winterborn Selston, 
 Winterborn Kingston, Bloxworth, Wambroke, Woodlande, 
 and of Admiralty Court at Langton Hering, and of the Hundred 
 Court of Knolton and Upwimborne [all co. Dorset], 7 Eliza- 
 beth. 166 (217) 
 
 1564-5. — Surveys of manors of Garnethorpe [Grainthorpe], 
 Mablethorpe, and Yarborough, co. Lincoln, 7 Elizabeth. 
 
 173 (138) 
 
 1565. — " The parke booke of WoUaton, anno reginse Elizabeth 
 septimo," an account of beasts laid to, and taken from, 
 herbage. 205 
 
 1565-6. — " Visus compotorum " of all bailiffs, reeves, 
 bedels, fermors, collectors and other accountants of the lands, 
 etc., in CO. Dorset lately belonging to Edward Willughby, 
 knight, and now in the hands of the queen by reason of the 
 minority of Francis Willughby, esquire, frrom Michaelmas, 7 
 Elizabeth, for one year. Accounts for Wodelande ; Knolton 
 and Upwimborne Hundred ; Bloxworth ; Winterbome 
 Selston ; Estmorden, Westmorden and Southlychett ; Map- 
 lerton ; Wynterbome Kingeston ; Lancketon Herrynge ; 
 Lytleheryngston ; Winterborne Cribton, alias Cane Prome 
 Billet and Stafford ; Kingeston Lacy ; Wambroke ; Langton 
 Wallys ; Dorchester ; and of lands in Fordingbridge, co. 
 Southampton. 205 
 
 1565-6. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wodland [co. Dorset], 
 8 Elizabeth. 164 
 
 1566-7.— Court Rolls of the Hundred of Knolton and Up- 
 wymborne and of the manors of Wodland, Wambroke, Winter- 
 borne Selston, Lanckton Wallis, Bloxworth, Maplerton, Win- 
 
320 
 
 terborne Kingston, Langton Herring, and Whitechurch [all 
 CO. Dorset], 9 Elizabeth. 164 
 
 1567-8 to 1573-4.— A book containing terriers, copies of 
 Court rolls, manorial accounts, etc., relating to Woodland, 
 Bloxworth, South Lychett, Est and West Morden, Langton 
 Wallyshe, Langton Herryng, Wambroke, the Hundred of 
 Knolton, Winterborne Selston and Winterborne Kingston, 
 Maplerton [co. Dorset], and Bearewoode, Fordingbridge and 
 Burgate [co. Hants], 10 to 16 Elizabeth. 179 
 
 1568-9.— Court Rolls of the manor of Langton Wallis [co. 
 Dorset], 11 Elizabeth. 166 (217) 
 
 1569.— The book of cattle at WoUaton from 1 day of January, 
 11 Elizabeth, H. Averey, Wollaton. 205 
 
 1569-70.— Court Rolls of the manor of Willoughby-on-the- 
 Wolds [CO. Notts], 12 Elizabeth. 177 (175) 
 
 [1570]. — Bundle of papers, writs, etc., connected with Sir 
 Francis Willoughby's tenure of the office of sheriff of 
 Warwick. 169b 
 
 1572-3 to 1577-8.— Court Rolls of the manor of Bradmere 
 [CO. Notts], 15 to 20 Elizabeth. 290 
 
 1572-3 to 1577-8.— Court Rolls of the manor of Willoughby- 
 on-the-Wolds [co. Notts], 15-20 Elizabeth. 177 (175) 
 
 1573-4 to 1589-90, 1592-3, 1593-4.— Court Rolls of the 
 manor of Lambley [co. Notts], 16 to 32, 35, 36 Elizabeth. 
 
 (278) 
 
 1574-5, 1577-8, 1580-1, 1581-2, 1585-6, 1587-8 to 1590-91, 
 1598 to 1601-2. — Court Rolls of the manors of Bleasby, Gibs- 
 mere, and Gorton [Goverton] [co. Notts], 17, 20, 23, 24, 28, 
 30, 31, 33, 41 to 44 Elizabeth. (278) 
 
 1576-7, 1581-2, 1583-4, 1585-6.— Court Rolls of the manor 
 of Chedyngton Burghershe [Chiddingstone, co. Kent], 19, 
 24, 26, 28 Elizabeth. 174 
 
 1576-1582. — ^Account of John Tjirer, rendered 18 September, 
 1586, for moneys received during the aforesaid years to the 
 use of Sir Francis Willoughbie, knight, from the manor of 
 Midleton, for wood sold in divers places, profits of iron, sales 
 of cattle, the profits of coal got in Bedworth. 205 
 
 1576-1584-1585. Sept. — Account for the aforesaid years, 
 rendered in September, 1585, by Margaret Blunt, "adminis- 
 tratrix " of the last will of William Blund, her late husband, 
 of the sums received by him of the proffits of the " fermes " 
 
321 
 
 of Arnold, Carleton, Gorton, and Gibsmire, co. Nottingham, 
 to the use of Sir Francis Willoughbie, knight. 205 
 
 1578-9. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wyken [co.Warwick], 
 21 Elizabeth. 194 (228) 
 
 1578-9, 1579-80.— Court Rolls of the Hundred of Knolton 
 and Upwymbourn [co. Dorset], 21, 22 Elizabeth. 174 
 
 1579-80. — Court RoUs of the manor of Willoughby-on-the- 
 Wolds [CO. Notts], 24 Elizabeth. 177 (175) 
 
 1581-2. — Court Rolls of the manor of Ightham [co. Kent], 
 24 Elizabeth. 174 
 
 1581-2. — Court Rolls of the manor of Bradmere [co. Notts], 
 24 Elizabeth. (290) 
 
 1583-4 to 158&-7. — Court Rolls (extracts) of the manor of 
 Wodelond [co. Dorset], 26 to 29 EUzabeth. 164 
 
 1583-4. — Court RoUs of the manor of Willoughby-on-the- 
 Wolds [co. Notts], 26 Elizabeth. 177 (175) 
 
 1585-6. — Court Rolls of the manor of Willoughby-on-the 
 Wolds [co. Notts], 28 Elizabeth. 177 (175) 
 
 1585-6. — ^Account of WiUiam Barette for money received 
 from Michaelmas, 1585, for one year, from the " ferme " of 
 Gorton and Gibsmere, co. Nottingham. 205 
 
 1586. — Rental of the manor of Kingsbury [co. Warwick]. 
 
 197 
 
 1587-8, 1588-9. — Court Rolls of the manor of Willoughby- 
 on-the-Wolds [co. Notts], 30, 31 Elizabeth. 177 (175) 
 
 1588, March 25.— Rental of the manor of Kinsbury [Kings- 
 bury, CO. Warwick]. 236 
 
 1589-90. — Court Rolls of the manor of Braundon, with the 
 tithinss of Thurlaston, Bretford, and Calcott [co. Warwick], 
 32 Elizabeth. 194 (228) 
 
 1590-1, 1591-2.— Court Rolls of the manors of Willoughby- 
 on-the-Wolds [co. Nottingham], 33, 34 Elizabeth. 177 (175) 
 
 1591.— Rentals of "my lord's" house and tenements in 
 Holborne, (twelve tenements " on Staple Inne side," twelve 
 "on Barnardes Inne side," two "over the gate," five "jn 
 Holborne," and " Gerardes garden"), producing in all 
 591. 2s. 8d. yearly. Receipt signed by " W. Burglegh " [Lord 
 
 51 21 
 
322 
 
 Treasurer] for 25?. from Sir Francis Willoughby for a quarter's 
 rent of the Castell in Holborne. This Castell, which formerly 
 belonged to Malmesbury Abbey, was sold to Henry Willoughby 
 by John Beamont, who had it from the king. These facts 
 are recited in a copy of legal proceedings in 36 Henry VIII., 
 wherein Willoughby complains that he and not Beamont is 
 distrained by the king. Lease, dated 12 July, 1595, by 
 Thomas Willoughby, of Boreplace, co. Kent, esquire, to Thomas 
 Valence of Lincoln's Inn, co. Middlesex, esquire, for 21 years 
 of " the uppermost chambers and roomes in the highest storie 
 of that his messuage and tenement called ' Willoughby Howse ' 
 sett and being nere the grandge in Lincolnes Inne feeldes, 
 which are in these presentes hereafter mencioned, that is to 
 saye the uppermost chamber in the said howse called the Mttle 
 chamber with a chimney in it, and a closett or studye in the 
 same chamber, one other chamber without a chimney adjo5Ti- 
 inge to the said litle chamber," and a gallery with a chimney 
 in it, all of which are on one floor, and the use and occupation 
 of the turret of the same house, at a yearly rent of 41. 
 
 181 (202) 
 
 1594^5 to 1601-2. — Court Rolls of the manor of Braundon, 
 
 with the tithings of Thurlaston, Bretford, and Calcott [co. 
 
 Warwick], 37-44 Elizabeth. 194 (228) 
 
 1597-8. — Book containing rental of Willughby super 
 Woldes, the account of John Wealch for receipts and payments 
 there from the Annunciation, 1597, to Michaelmas, 1598. 
 
 205 
 
 1599-1600.— Court Rolls of the manor of Willoughby-on- 
 the-Wolds [CO. Notts], 42 Ehzabeth. 177 (175) 
 
 1602-3. — Court Rolls of the manor of WiUoughby-on-the- 
 Wolds [CO. Notts], 45 Elizabeth. 177 (175) 
 
 Terriers, etc., of WiUoughby-on-the-Wolds, tempp. Eliza- 
 beth and James I. 177 
 
 Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton [co. Warwick] in the 
 seventeenth century. 212 
 
 1603-4. — Court Rolls of the manor of Wnioughby-on-the- 
 Wolds [co. Notts], 1 James I. 177 (175) 
 
 1605-6.— Court Rolls of the manor of Braundon, with the 
 tithings of Thurlaston, Bretford, and Calcott [co. Warwick], 
 3 James I. 194 (228) 
 
 1605-6, 1606-7.— Court Rolls of the manors of Bleasby, Gibs- 
 mere and Gorton [co. Notts], 3, 4 James I. (278) 
 
 1607-8.->-Court Rolls of the manor of WiUoughby-on-the- 
 Wolds [co. Notts], 5 James I. 177 (175) 
 
323 
 
 1610-11, 1611-12.— Court RoUs of the manor of WUlougliby- 
 on-the-Wolds, [co. Notts], 8, 9 James I. 177 (175) 
 
 1614-15. — Court Rolls of the manor of Willoughby-on-the- 
 Wolds [co. Notts], 12 James I. 177 (175) 
 
 1656-9. — Coal accounts of WoUaton, Cossall and Trowell 
 [co. Notts]. ■ 205 
 
 1657.— Rental of Cossall [co. Notts]. 205 
 
 [c. 1660.] — " A Terryer of Sempringham landes and groundes 
 lyinge in the fields and closes of Bramcoate, the tithe whereof 
 one moity is due and has tyme out of m3nide bine paid to the 
 rectour of WoUaton." Details of " flatts," " leyes," " landes " 
 ("a great flatt on Stony Purlonge, butting on the Milker's 
 Path and Round Knoll Flat, 4 acres " ; " seaven lands called 
 ' RobinhiU Flat,' 2 acres " ; "a flatt of 10 lands, 3 acres " ; 
 " a flatt by Breeden Balke, 2 acres and a halfe " ; " Brinsley 
 Wonge buttinge on the Pikes, 3 acres "). 24 (390) 
 
 1660-1 to 1685.— Court Rolls of the manor of Middleton [co. 
 Warwick] for various years of the reign of Charles II. 194 
 
 1661-2.— Rental of WoUaton [co. Notts]. 205 
 
 1662. — Coal accounts of WoUaton, Cossall and TroweU 
 [co. Notts]. 205 
 
 1663-7.— Rental of CossaU [co. Notts]. 205 
 
 1665-69. — Coal accounts of WoUaton, Cossall and Trowell 
 [co. Notts]. 205 
 
 [c. 1670.] — Copy of bill, exhibited in the exchequer by 
 Samuel Kendall, clerk, rector of WoUarton, co. Nottingham, 
 complainant, against Robert Hardy alias Hardinge, esquire, 
 defendant, setting forth that he and his predecessors have been 
 wont from time out of mind to receive as a portion of tithes 
 due to them a moiety of the tithes of all corn, grain and hay 
 and of all other tithes growing, etc., within certain lands 
 caUed " Semperingham Lands," containing 500 acres, lying in 
 Bramcoate, co. Nottingham, and being without the said 
 parish or rectory. The defendant, being possessor of the 
 said lands, has of late years, in 1661 to 1668 in particular, 
 withheld payment of the said tithe, etc. 24 (390) 
 
 There are numerous other Court rolls, accounts, etc., of 
 the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 
 
324 
 
 Household Accounts, Etc. 
 1304-5. — Extracts from roll of household accounts of 
 [Henry, Lord de Grey of Codnor]. 
 
 [Endorsed .■]— Rotulus domus de expensis apud Codenover 
 [Codnor, co. Derby] a die Jovis proxima ante festum Sancti 
 Nieholai Episcopi [Thursday, 3 December, 1304], anno regni 
 regis Edwardi filii regis Henrici XXXIIJ°, usque .^ 
 
 Memorandum, quod die Jovis proxima ante festum Sancti 
 Nieholai, anno regni regis Edwardi xxxiij, venerunt 
 Dominus et Domina cum tota famUia apud Codenovere. 
 In pane furnito, xvj . quarteria f rumenti ; in cervisia braceata, 
 xxiLij. quarteria vj. buss[elli] brasei ordei ; j. pema de stauro ; 
 ij. carcos[ia] multonum de stauro ; in iiij. gallinis emptis, 
 Yjd. ; in prebenda Ij. equorum, ij. quart, vij. buss, et tercia 
 pars busseUi avene. Die Veneris sequenti, panis et cervisia 
 de stauro ; j. hemp [=barrel ?] allec[iorum] athameat' 
 [=broached, from Old French attamer] ; iiij. lenges de stauro ; 
 in codling empt[is], -^d. ; in lamperun' [=lampreys] empt[is], 
 uijs. iijd. ; in prebenda xxxvij. equorum ij. quart, j. buss, 
 et dim. et tercia pars avene. Die Sabbati sequenti, videlicet 
 in vigiha Sancti Nieholai, panis et cervisia de stauro, j. hemp'' 
 aUec[iorum] de stauro, vj. lenges de stauro ; in codling empt[is] 
 pro festo, ixs. ; in lamprun' empt[is], xs. ; in aUocacione 
 bariUorum pro eisdem cariandis, y]d. ; in anguUlis emptis, 
 iiiJ5. \]d. ; in congruo [= conger-eel] empto [erasure] ; in 
 sturgon' empt[is], vjs. ; in conduccione ij. equorum de 
 Lincolnia usque Lamel' [Lambley, co. Notts], ijs. ii]d. ; in 
 diversis cordis emptis, ii]d. ; in expensis dicti Thome circa 
 dictam providenciam faciendam, ijs. vjc^. per iij. dies ; in 
 prebenda Iiij. equorum, iij. quart, ij. buss, avene ; j. caseus 
 pond[erans] i. petram et v. libras ; alius caseus pond[erans] 
 ix. libras ; et tercius caseus de Rewann'^ pond[erans] 
 iiij. libras ; ij. hbre butiri ; in xl. libris candelarum emptarum 
 de Parys, vs. ; item in xij. libris candelarum de Parys, 
 xviijcZ. Summa [of preceding expenditure of money and stores]. 
 
 Die Dommica in festo Sancti Nieholai, panis et cervisia de 
 stauro ; iij. quarteria [carnis] bov[ine] de stauro ; viij. 
 carcos[ia] multonum de stauro ; j. porcus in -fressyng^ ; 
 j. aper de stauro; j. cingnus [^ cygnus] de stauro; viij. 
 porceHi de stauro ; xiiij. auce de stauro ; in xxxv. gallinis 
 pro coquina emptis, iiijs. in]d. ob. ; j. peck' frumenti pro 
 coquina ; in x. gaUinis pro falcon[ibus] emptis, xvd. ; in 
 iiij. panyers emptis, vijc?. ob.; in iiij. bollis et j. parapside 
 
 1 The last date mentioned is Wednesday after the Purification [3 February, 
 1305]. 
 
 2 According to Rogers, Hi«<or2/ of Prices, i, p. 17; ii, p. 180, rewannum 
 means aftermath. This is confirmed by the occurrence of rewayng, rewaine in 
 Roquefort's Glossaire, which are evidently Norman or Northern French forms 
 of the French regain For aftermath or winter cheeses, see the quotations in 
 the New English Dictionary, s. vv. " aftermath " and " eddish." 
 
 3 Not in the New English Dictionary or the glossaries. It can hardly be 
 the old French fresenge ( =Qerm. frischling) ' young (wild ?) boar.' 
 
325 
 
 pro coquina, xiijd. ; in iiij. oUis terreis pro eadem, ]d. ; in 
 pine' pro salsa, i]d. ob. ; in stramine empto ad ponendum 
 sub oUis in carett[a], ]d. ; in wastell[is] pro coquina, vjc?. ; 
 in iij. quarteriis et dimidia de oleo nucium^ (sic),ijs. viijcZ. ; inij. 
 lagenis et dim. cenapey,^ xd. ; in j. lagena gyngiberis 
 et ij. lagenis de galentyn [a kind of sauce], iiJ5. ; 
 in dimidia lagena de viride salso [= vertsauce], dim. lagena 
 [vini] acri et dim. lagena de viridi succo [i.e. verjuice], xijrf. ; 
 in c. pomis emptis, vjS. ; in cepis et aleis, vj(^. ; in ccc. ovis . . ob. ; 
 in portagio eorundem, iiijrf. ; in gentaculo careotar[iorum] 
 Domini et aliorum serviencium, iij^. ob. ; in vij. aucis silves- 
 tribus et viij. annatibus domesticis, v. annatibus silvestribus, 
 X. pluvers, xxix. cercell' [^teal, French sarcelh], Ij. minutis 
 avibus, xjs. vijci. ; in expensis Rogeri de Neuton circa dictam 
 providenciam faciendam in Notyngham per ij. dies, xiijcZ. ; 
 4iberat[i] Thome de Radeclyve pro oblacionibus die Sancti 
 Nicholai, xxd. ; item in donacionibus diversorum menestral- 
 lorum, vijs. iiijd. ; in oblacionibus in festo Sancti Nicholai 
 per dictum Thomam de Radeclyve, ijs. xjcZ., de quibus xxd. 
 per R. de Neuton ; liberati ad coquinam ij. casei pond[erantes] 
 j. petram et vij. hbras, vj. lagene lactis, et ij. lagene lactis 
 pro pueris ; in prebenda iiij^'^ viij. equorum, v. quarteria aven[e] ; 
 in farina facta pro coquina, j. quarterium aven[e]. Die Lune 
 sequenti, panis et cervisia de stauro ; ij. lenges de stauro ; 
 in ccc. et dim. ovorum, ijs. ijc?. ; in prebenda Ij. equorum, 
 ij. quarteria, v. buss, et dim. et ij. tercias aven[e]. Die Martis 
 sequenti, panis et cervisia de stauro, i. quarterium 
 bov[is] de stauro, iij. carcos[ia] multonum, iiij. auce de 
 stauro ; in iiij. gaUinis emptis, v]d. ; in volatilibus, iid. ; 
 in prebenda xxj. equorum, j. quarterium i. buss, et dim. et 
 ij. tercias aven[e]. Die Mercurii sequenti, panis et cervisia 
 de stauro ; in lamprun' emptis, xijd. ; alLec[ia] de stauro ; ij . lenges 
 de stauro ; in codling et in flundr' [= flounder] emptis, xij^. ; 
 in prebenda xxviij. equorum, j. quarterium et dim., j. buss, 
 et ij. tercias aven[e]. Die Jovis sequenti, panis et cervisia de 
 stauro ; in volatiibus emptis, i]d. ; j. gallina de stauro ; 
 in falcon[ibus], ij. gaUine de stauro ; in prebenda x. equorum, 
 iiij . bus. et dim. et tercia pars bus. aven[e]. Die Veneris sequenti 
 panis et cervisia de stauro, dim. kemp' allec[iorum] de stauro ; 
 j. piscis de stauro ; in prebenda xvij. equorum, vij. bus. et 
 dim. et ij. tercias aven[e]. Die Sabbati sequenti, panis et 
 cervisia de stauro ; j. piscis de stauro ; in codling et stolcfys 
 emptis, xvijd:. ; in lampron' emptis, xd. ; in anguiUis et pisce 
 frisco, vijcZ. ; iij. casei liberati ad panteriam, quorum ij. 
 ponderaverunt ij. libras et ij. petras, et j. de Rewann' 
 ponderavit iiij. libras ; in vj. libris candelarum Par[isiensium] 
 emptis, ixd. ; v. lagene et dim. lactis pro coquina ; et ij. 
 libre butyri ; in prebenda xxvj. equorum, j. quarterium et 
 
 1 Nut-oil, made from walnuts or hazel-nuts. 
 
 2 A preparation of mustard (Old French seneuei, Fr. sneu<?=Lat. *.t/)7a- 
 patum) ? 
 
 3 This entry is run through by the pen. 
 
326 
 
 iij. bus. et ij. tercias avene ; in liquiricia empta per Rogerum 
 de Neuton, ]d. 
 
 . . . Die Lune sequent! [festum Sancte Lucie] . . . 
 in carne pro faleon[ibus], ]d. . . . Die Martis sequenti 
 . . . j. porous in fressyng de stauro . . . Die Mercurii 
 . . . . ]". kympe allec[iorum] de stauro . . . Die Jo vis 
 in Vigilia Natalis Domini, in pane furnito vj. quarteria iij. 
 bus. frumenti ; cervisia de stauro ; iij. lenges de stauro ; in 
 codlinges et lamperunis emptis, iiijs. i]d. ; et xl. anguille venientes 
 de Toveton [Toton, parish of Attenborough, co. Notts] de 
 stauro ; in ovis emptis, xd. ; in xij. libris candelarum 
 Paris[iensium] emptis, xviijd. ; et iij. libre sepi de stauro in 
 alba candela facta (sic) . . . Die Dominica in festo 
 Sancti Johannis Evangeliste infra Natale Domini ... in 
 mustardo empto, iiijd!. ; in gingevere, vjd. ; in galatin, v\d. ; 
 
 . . . Die Lune sequenti ... in carne porc[ina] pro 
 f alcon[ibus] empta, \d. . . . Die Mercurii sequenti . . . 
 in mustardo empto, ijc^. ; in carne porc[ina] pro falcon[ibus] 
 empta, ]d. ; et iiij. gallinis de stauro in falcon[ibus] expenditis 
 . . . Die Sabbati sequenti ... in pisce aque dulcis, 
 vnid. ; in dimidia lagena mustardi, ijcZ. ; in dimidia lagena 
 de gengevere empta, vjc?. . . . Die Mercurii in festo 
 Epiphanie Domini . . . j. kempe allec[iorum], unde cc. et 
 dim. allec[ia] liberata cum Domino versus Toveton, una 
 cum iiij. lenges. . . . Die Veneris sequenti Dominus et 
 Domina recesserunt versus Toveton. . . . Die Dominica 
 proxima post festum Epiphanie Domini venit Domina de 
 Toveton apud Codenovere. . . . Die Mercurii sequenti 
 . . . in j. gallina empta pro falcon[ibus] Domini Ricardi 
 de Grey, iid. . . . Die Veneris sequenti . . . . j. 
 kempe alIec[iorum] attameat' de stauro. . . . Die Dominica 
 sequenti [festum conversionis Sancti Pauli] venit Dominus ; 
 . . . in cervisie empta apud Not[yngeham], xi]d. ; in Ix. 
 
 lagenis cervisie de villa empt[is], ijs. Y]d j. 
 
 capreolus de stauro 
 
 [Dorse.] 
 
 Inxliiij.pync'i [= pint-pots?] pro buteler[ia] emptis, xiiijtZ. 
 in vj^"" discis emptis pro coquina, xv^d. ; in iiij"^ parapsidibus 
 pro eadem emptis, xvjtZ. ; in v. duzeyns cyphorum emptorum 
 pro buteler[ia], xxcZ. ; in distribucione pauperum die Sancti 
 Nicholai per preceptum Domini, iiij. bus. frumenti et iiij. 
 quarteria sUiginis ; et ij. kympes allec[iorum] pro eadem ; in 
 faccione v. duzeyns carbonum, vs. . . . in iiij. Hbris sepi 
 ad albas candelas faciendas ; in furfure pro canibus, j. quar- 
 terium avene ; iij. libre uncti de stauro pro palef[ridis] Domini ; 
 in parcam[ena] empta, \\d. ; ... in sotularibus Radulfi 
 de coquina, Yd. ; iiij. libre sepi ad albas, candelas faciendas ; 
 in lumylyn^ empt[o], ]d. ; in cingulis et capistris emptis 
 
 1 The Promptorium Parvulorum gives pinca as a rendering of pycher, 
 
 2 Candle-wick (cf. French lumignon) ? 
 
327 
 
 pro palef[ridis] Domini, xviji. ; .... in oblacionibus 
 Domine et familie diebus Natalis Domini, Sancti Stephani, et 
 Sancti Johannis, iijs. m]d. ; ... in furfure faciendo pro 
 canibus in vigilia Natalis Domini, j. quarterium avene ; in 
 oblacionibus Domine et Lucie de Someri die Sancti Thome 
 Martyris, i]d. ; in gingevere, galatino et mustardo emptis et 
 liberatis cum Domino versus Lincolniam, xiiij«!. ; in expensis 
 H., capeUani, apud Burton et Lych[feld] sequentis episcopum 
 Cestrie per ij. dies pro negociis Domini, xd. . . . in j. 
 capistro empto pro le hakenay Domine, id. 24 
 
 [1509.]— Extracts from fragmentary account book, of which 
 the upper portion of the leaves has perished from damp. At 
 foil. 3, 10, Michaelmas, 1 Henry VIII. [1509], is mentioned 
 as falling within the date of the account. 
 
 [1509.] 
 [Fo. 3.] 
 
 Item to my Lorde Prince foUe [^ fool] , , . . ii\.\d. 
 
 Item for a gowne cloth to my Mr. of "London 
 
 russett xxxvjs. xd. 
 
 Item for a c. horiges [:= oranges] Yd. 
 
 Item to Robart a [= of] Stabul whan he went with 
 
 my Mr. gowne to the Courte . . . . . . Y]d. 
 
 Item to the taylar for making of a gowne of blake 
 
 velvyt to my Mr. . . . . . . . . . . ijs. i\\]d. 
 
 Item for alf a 3ard of velvyt to the same gown vs. v]d. 
 Item for iiij ^ardis of blake frysse to the same 
 
 gown iiijs. viijc?. 
 
 [Fo. 5.] 
 
 Item to my Mr. at WoUaton for the perdoner of 
 Burton Lazars [parish of Melton Mowbray, co. 
 Leicester] m^d. 
 
 Item at Nothingham to the Frears \ii\d. 
 
 Item for mendyng of a hie way in Asby [Ashby- 
 
 de-la-Zouche, co. Leicester] \\d. 
 
 [Fo. 6.] 
 
 Item on Thursday, the Ascencion Day, for iij . of my 
 
 Mr. servand dynners at Gresyn [=; Gray's Inn] vj(Z. 
 
 Item for my Mr. pension at Gresyn . . . . xxd. 
 
 [Fo. 7.] 
 
 Item for a horse hames for my Mr. and the 
 coveryng wyth blak when the kyng was 
 beryed^ iiij«. 
 
 Item for the copye of the proclamacion . . . . xxd. 
 
 1 Henry VII died 21 April, 1509, at Richmond, 
 
S28 
 
 [Fo. 8.] 
 
 Item for my Mr. servande dynner whan the kyng 
 
 remevyd to Westm[ynsterJ from the Towre . . vs. x<Z. 
 
 Item to Mr. Gartar [= Garter King at Arms] . . vjs. viijr^. 
 
 Item for makyng of my Mr. gowne of tynsill 
 satten iiij«- 
 
 Item for viij 3ardes of blake satyn for my Mr. 
 
 jakett nili. xijd. 
 
 [Fo. 9.] 
 Item to the skynner for furring of my mistres gowne [blank] 
 Item for nue fur for the same gowne of bodge 
 
 [= fur made of lambskin] xs. viijcZ. 
 
 [Fo. 10.] 
 
 Thies be the expenses made agaynst my Mr. marege. 
 
 In primis for vij elne of holand cloth for my Mr. xiiijs. 
 Item for a quarter of blak velvyt for my Mr. . . iijs. 
 
 Item for fure for my Mr. of ffunys^ iijs. m]d. 
 
 Item for vij. -^ardis of satyn for my Lady.. ..xvijs. vjd. 
 
 Item for a quarter of velvyt i]s. xd. 
 
 Item for iiij. jardis of whyt coton ijs. 
 
 Item for lynen cloth and aulettes^ iu]d. 
 
 Item for ij. rownlettes [= runlets, small barrels] 
 
 of sweit wyne xxjs. iiijd. 
 
 Item for my costes, Antony and the carear . . xiiijd. 
 
 Item for a garnych [= a set] of vesseU . . . . xxixs. vi]d. 
 
 Item for a chavyng [= chafing] disch iijs. m]d. 
 
 Item for a ladiU and a scomer xi]d. 
 
 Item for nett f ett and oalvys fett viijc?. 
 
 [Decayed portion.] 
 
 Item for my Lord of Shrowesbery mynstrell . . vs. 
 
 Item to Mr. Egerton mynstrel iijs. iiijrf. 
 
 Item to Mr. Greslay mynstrel xxd. 
 
 Item to My Lorde of Dudlai mynstrell . . . . xxd. 
 
 Item to Dr. Vaisy cosse iijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item to Mr. Egerton servand xxd. 
 
 Item to Anthony for his costes to Wolloton . . vii]d. 
 
 Item in almys ]d. 
 
 Item at Horslay [Horsley, co. Derby] for horse 
 
 meyt vjd. 
 
 Thies be the expenses made by Richard Berwyke at Myghelmas 
 terme, the reigne of Kyng Henry the VIIJ.'* the furst yere of 
 his reigne. 
 
 In primis for v yard of tawney for my Mr. cloke xxiiijs. 
 Item for a jarde of blake cloth for my Lady . . iiijs. 
 
 1 Fur of the beeoh-ipartin. See New English Diet. s.v. ' foyn,' «6. 1. 
 
 2 For agulet, an aglet, tag, tape, etc. (French aiguillette) 
 
\ 
 
 \ 
 
 i 
 
 329 
 
 Item for a ^ard and a dim. of blake velvyt for 
 gardyne f== ' guarding,' bordering] of my Mr. 
 cloke xvjs. 
 
 Item for vij . elne of holan cloth for my Mr. . . xiiijs. viijd. 
 
 Item for alf a grosse of blake sylke poyntes^ for 
 my Mr ijs. vj<?. 
 
 Item for a gyrdil of silke for my Mr iijs. i[iijd^.] 
 
 Item for a suard gerdil for my Mr iiij . . . 
 
 [Total of payments : 1021. 145. 10 |d.] 
 
 [Signed :] Henre Wyllu[ghby]. 205. 
 
 1516-17. — Extracts from account of " byeng of catell, of 
 whom, where, and of what price " (some " at the feyer of 
 Gravysende," " at Braksted [Brasted, co. Kent] Eeyer," 
 " the feyef of Cowden [co. Kent] " " at Wythyham [Wythy- 
 ham, CO. Sussex] Feyre ") ; of " sellyng of catell and grasse 
 to whom, where and of whate price " (fo. 2) ; of " necessaryes 
 for household " (fo. 3) ; of " necessaryes bought for hus- 
 bondry and reparations " (fo. 6) ; of " byeng of graynes, 
 of whom and of what price " (fo. 9) ; of " kyllyng of catell 
 for the household from the xxj. day of Septembre, anno 
 viij'^ Henrici VIIJ^" (fo. 9 verso). Endorsed with note of 
 allowance in the account of William Walker finishing 13 
 November, 9 Henry VIII. At the end is added in a cursive 
 hand : " Memorandum, that the sixt day of May, anno xj° 
 Henrici Octavi, ther ware goyng suche cattell as hereafter 
 ensuyeth in the landes of Th. Willughby." 
 
 [Fo. 3.] 
 
 Item for a stone of derezheyre for mendyng of 
 
 y \ \ the paksadelles vd. 
 
 ^ ^ \ Item for half a fote of leder for Jak Fole . . . . ixd. 
 
 Item for makyng of Jak Folez cote and hosys . . Yd. 
 
 [Fo. 3 verso.] 
 
 Item paied to Ryvers for Petur money rent of Myl- 
 
 brok and of the Bore Place [in Chiddingstone] jd. ob. 
 
 Item for a peyer of shoys for Jak Fole . . . . viijd. 
 
 Item for a pale of yeste jd. 
 
 Item for a peyer of shoys for Jak Fole . . . . vijd. 
 
 [Fo. 4 verso.] 
 Item to the parysshe clarke for his quarter wages 
 
 endyng at Mydsomer xijd. 
 
 Item for makyng of Jak Folys cote viijd. 
 
 Item gevyn to the fryer of Aylysford [Aylesford, 
 
 CO. Kent] iiij«^. 
 
 [Fo. 5.] 
 Item for lether for Jackes shoys viijrf. 
 
 1 Laces or tapes for securing the hose to the doublet. See New 
 English Dictionary, s.v. ' point ' B II 5 (p. 1-050). 
 
330 
 
 [Po. 7.] 
 
 Item to the same Edmund [Chapman] for plank- 
 yng of the pewys in the chapell at Chedyngstone 
 [Chiddingstone, co. Kent] viijd. 
 
 Item to Gourde for sawjmg of ccc fote of bourde at 
 Moreden [Morden, parish of Lewisham, co. Kent] iijs. 
 
 Item to the same Gourde for sawyng of dim. c 
 [= half a hundred] fote of bourde for plankyng 
 
 of the chapell at Chedyngstone vjc?. 
 
 205 
 
 1 520. —Account of "James Leche, gentylman, stuarde to 
 Ser Hary Wyllobe, Knygth," from 2 August to 7 December, 
 12 Henr^'^ VIII. ^ of purchases of food and household stores 
 (" frech a cates "), payments of labourers' wages, cost of 
 mowing and haymaking, necessaries (ironmongery, plaster, 
 horse-shoeing, cooperage, ' gryndyng of crabbys to make 
 verges ' [= verjuice], gathering the crabs), purchase of beasts, 
 rewards, purchases of malt and barley, and Midsummer 
 wages. Receipts : 133i. 10s. Gd. Signed by Henre Wyllughby. 
 " Summa totalis solucionum hujus libri : cxxxj?. xxijci." 205. 
 
 1520, December 4, to [27 December] 1521. — Extracts from 
 account of John Levlssey, [servant] of Sir Henry Willoughby, 
 Knight, of household expenditure, 12 Henry VIII. 
 
 [1520.J 
 [Fo. 3.] 
 
 Item for Hwght Large cosse and Clyftwnse to 
 Bremegam [Birmingham] the Saytwrday, the viij. 
 day off December, for a nyght and a day wen 
 thay went for Myster Bremygam servand . . xvjc?. 
 
 Item to WyUiams Clyftwn thatt he layd downe 
 off Hawle Hawlen [^All Hallows] nyght to the 
 ryngarse at Macstoke [Maxstoke, co. Warwick] 
 chyrche . . . . . . . . . . . . viiji. 
 
 Item to the ryngarse in the abb ay chyrche . . viijcZ. 
 
 Item to Myster Bawdwen [Willoughby] the same 
 day [December 16] wen he went to Lwndwn to 
 delyver to Mystrys Mare Harbotyll to pay her 
 gay re makyng, and the raysydewe to pwt in 
 her pwrse xls. 
 
 Item payd the Fryday, the xxj. day off Decem- 
 ber, for a payre off hose for Mrs. Alse [= Alice] u]d. 
 
 Item payd for vj. yerdes of yelow sylke to make 
 her hed lasws [= laces] . . . . . . . . Y]d. 
 
 1 This appears to be the date of the audit, Tlie second folio reads 
 " The yere and the reyne of Kyng [Henry] the VIIJ the xij ycre and the 
 vij daye of Decembur " (1520), 
 
331 
 
 [Po. 3.] 
 
 Item the same day, the xxij. day of December, 
 to the corwesar [ = ' corviser,' shoemaker ] of 
 Lechefeld for a dyscharge off a byll for chowse 
 [=: shoes] and bowts for my Master and hys 
 ohelder ixs. y]d. 
 
 Item the same day for a gely bage and a creme 
 clothe for the cowke . . . . . . . . . . xi]d'. 
 
 Item the Sunday, the xxiij. off December, for 
 jij. howpys for a lowme [= drinking vessel] in the 
 botere jij^. 
 
 Item the same day for chowryng [= scouring] 
 off the kechyn waysyll . . . . . . . . jd. 
 
 Item to my myster on Crystynmes day to play 
 at ye cards iiJ5. m]d. 
 
 Item off Sent Stewyn's day for a bwrdyn of 
 ryshews [^ rushes] . . . . . . . . . . jd. 
 
 Item to my Mr. the same day [December 27] to 
 play at the cardes at Mystrys Dygbese . . x\]d. 
 
 Item to my Mr. the same day [Sunday, Dec. 
 30] to play at the cardes . . . . . . . . xxd. 
 
 [1521.] 
 
 Item to my Mr. upon the Twelfte day to play 
 at the cardes . . 
 
 1]S. 
 
 [Fo. 4.] 
 
 Item alawd for chowyng [= shoeing] of the 
 blake nayge [=nag] the same tyme . . . . u]d. 
 
 Item payd to Mystres Eelsabeth the same day 
 [January 12] for nelne [=an ell] off lynyn clothe 
 to make her hose . . . . . . . . . . v']d. 
 
 [Fo. 5.] 
 
 Item for yowre reward to ij. mayddes that 
 gawe yow a powsay . . . . . . . . ijd. 
 
 Item the Munday, the xxj. day of Januari, to my 
 Mr. wen he was maryed, to lay on the bowke . . xxs. xxd. 
 
 Item for his ofer3Tig . . . . . . . . viijcZ. 
 
 Item the same day to my Mr. to play att the 
 cardys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxd. 
 
 Item to Nycolys that he layd downe afore that 
 tyme att CosseU to the armytt [ = hermit] off 
 Polsworth [Polesworth, co. Warwick] . . . . iiij(i. 
 
 Item for oferyng candyll on Oandylmes day for 
 yowre selfe and yowre servandes . . . . xvjcZ. 
 
 Item for yowre oferyng wyth yowre candyll . . iiijcZ. 
 
 Item for yowre pencyon at Greyse In.. .. iijs. iiijo!. 
 
 Item for yowre dener . . . . . . . . vii]d. 
 
 Item for yowre dener that ye were by hynd 
 the last yere . . . . . . . . . . . . viijcZ. 
 
332 
 
 Item in almys att Sent Lowese att Dunstable jd. 
 
 Item to a pyper att Bernaytt [Barnet, cos. 
 Herts and Midd.] • J^^- 
 
 Item for the prononstycacyonse [= prognosti- 
 cations] . . . . . . . • • • • • P- 
 
 [Fo. 6.] 
 
 Item for xij. maner of sedys for a garden . . xijd. 
 
 Item for yowre brotherhayd [= guild or religious 
 fraternity] att Lowdlowe . . . . . . • . xiji. 
 
 Item the Munday, the xxv. day of Faibrwari, 
 for yowre oferyng att Mr. Dygbyse obytt . . iiijcZ. 
 
 [Fo. 8.] 
 Item to Pernell for fastyng off Sent Katerse 
 
 iiij(i. 
 
 evyn 
 
 Item the Munday, the viij. day of Aperyll, for 
 ij. skayne of blake sylke . . . . . . . . iiijrf. 
 
 [Fo. 9.] 
 
 Item for Clyftun cosse [= costs] to seche the 
 hawkys off Swttun wen thay were stowlnc . . iiijci. 
 
 Item for yowre brother-hayd off Owre Lade's 
 gylde off Bostun xijcZ. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to ij. men that ga3rtherd 
 for Sent Jamys shapyll by syde My Lord off 
 Dwdlayse . . . . . . . . . . . . iiijc^. 
 
 [Fo. 10.] 
 
 Item the Sunday, the xix. day of Maye, to the 
 Wjrthefrayrse of Cowentre for yowre brother-hede xi]d. 
 
 Item payd to Brage for showtynge att the 
 bowttes . . . . . . . . . , . . i]d. 
 
 [Fo. 12.] 
 
 Item the Weddunseday, the iij. day of July, 
 fo[r] yowre reward to them that wachyd the stake 
 [=stag?]that ye send to the kyng .. .. ijs. 
 
 [Fo. 13.] 
 November. 
 
 Item to my Mr. of Awle Haloweday to play att 
 the cardys . . . . . . . . . . . . iijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item to a mayd that gawe yow a powsay . . ]d. 
 
 Item to Mystrys EsabeU wen she went to Lentun 
 fayre wyth my lady, by yowre commondment . . xxs. 
 
 Item to my Mr. the Thwrseday, the vij. day, to 
 play at the cardse wen the pryar of Macstoke 
 was at Mydylton . . , . . . . . . . iijs. m]d. 
 
333 
 
 Item to Dowltun for hys cosse to the weker 
 [= vicar] off Astun [Aston, co. Warwick] wytli 
 a fawkon . . . . , . . , . . . . in]d. 
 
 [Fo. 14.] 
 
 Item the Thwseday, the xxvj. day, to my Mr. 
 
 to playe att the cardes . . . . . . . . xxrf. 
 
 Item to my Mr., the xxx. day of November, 
 
 to playe at the cardse . . . . . . . . xxrf. 
 
 [Fo. 15.] 
 Frayche a hates at Mydyltun frome the xvij. day of Januari. 
 
 Item payd to Gaylyfe the same day for fyche 
 agaynste Mr. Fayghtarbard[=Fitzherbert]comyng 
 to Mydyltun . . . . . . . . . . iijs. viijd. 
 
 Item for ii" hosterse [= oysters] to Gaylyfe . . viijd. 
 
 Item for caryage . . . . . . . . i]d. 
 
 Item for a wodkoke the same day . . . . jd. 
 
 Item the Sunday, the x. day of Marche, payd 
 to the bakar off Cossoll for xviij. dowson of wettyn 
 [=wheaten] bred that was spende att yowre maryage xviij s. 
 
 Item for otte [^oat]kakys the same day .. ijd. 
 
 [Fo. 16.] 
 
 1520. 
 
 Freche akates at Macstoke from the v. day of December in 
 the xif''. yere off Kyng Henry the VIIJ. 
 
 [Fo. 17.] 
 Item for halfe a qwarter of branne for doge bred viijd. 
 
 [Fo. 19.] 
 1521. 
 Item for viij. off yowre serwandes dener att 
 Graysenn [= Gray's Inn] . . . . . . . . xixd. 
 
 Item in almys att Graysenn . . . . . . ]d. 
 
 [Fo. 23.] 
 
 Item in almys the Munday, the xvij. day of 
 June, to on' that gaytherd for the presonarse att 
 Notyngham . . . . . . . . • • • • ]d 
 
 Item for bred and ale att the bonefyre on 
 Mydsomer evyn . . . . . . . . . • viijcZ 
 
 Item the Thwseday, the xxiij. day of July, for 
 yowre reward to Gresbrowke's dowghter for a 
 powsay goyng to Lechefeld . . . . . . ]d 
 
334 
 
 [Fo. 28.] 
 Rewardys. 
 Item for yowre reward to Mr. Dygbyse nowrse 
 wen ye kjrrstynde [= christened] his shylde 
 [= child], the laste day of Awgwste . . . . xijrf. 
 
 1520. 
 
 Item to the armytt Egertun the same day 
 [Dec. 22] for reward ^^d■ 
 
 Item the Fryday, the xxviij. day of December, 
 for yowre reward to Hertt the gunnar wen he 
 com fwrthe off Yerelande iijs. m^d. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to hys faylase[^ fellows] xxrf. 
 
 Item the Sunday, the xxx. day of December, 
 for yowre reward to a mynstryll of the Fraynche 
 Kwenys . . . . . . . • • • ■ • ijs. 
 
 Item in almys the same day [December 31] 
 to a skolar . . . . . . . . . . ■ ■ ij^- 
 
 [Fo. 29.] 
 1521. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to a pore man that was 
 robyd by sy[de] Sir Edward Fayrysws [=Ferrers i] 
 the same day [Jan. 4] .. '^i\d. 
 
 Item in almys the same day [Jan. 16] to ij. 
 skolarse . . . . . . . . . • • • ij^' 
 
 Item the Thwseday, the xxij. day of Januari, 
 for yowre reward to ij. chalandse [= canons] and 
 the orgjm-playar of Macstoke Abbay . . . . iiijs. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to Myster Beltnopse 
 [=Belknapp's]^ playarse the same day .. .. vjs. \u]d. 
 
 Item the Thwrseday, the xxiiij. day of Januari, 
 for yowre reward to the dwke off Bowkyngam 
 playarse vjs. viijrf. 
 
 Item the Thwseday [= Tuesday], the xxix. day of 
 Januari, for yowre reward to ij. frayrse onn 
 Merydyne [Meriden, co. Warwick] haythe [= heath] iiijrf. 
 
 Item for the oferyng att owre Lady att Cowentre iiijrf. 
 
 Item the Waydwnesday for yowre reward to 
 ij. frayrys att Dunstable . . . . . . . . viijrf. 
 
 Item in almys to a man that lyse bedrydyn as 
 ye goo to Westmynster . . .... . . ]d. 
 
 Item the Fryday, the viij. day of Faybrwari, 
 for yowre reward to the prest that chorowve 
 [= shrove, shrived] yowe att Saywowe {^= the 
 Savoy] . . . . . . . . . . . • . . viijtZ. 
 
 1 Of Baddesley Clinton, co. Warwick. See Dugdale, Antiquities of 
 Warwickshire, p. 711b. 
 
 2 Sir Edward Belknap of Weston, co. Warwick. See Dugdale, Antigq. of 
 Warwickshire, p. 408b 
 
335 
 
 [Fo. 30.] 
 
 Item the Munday, the xj. day of Faybruari, 
 for yowre reward to the armytt Egerton . . m']d. 
 
 Item the Thwrseday, the x[i]iij. day of Februari, 
 fo[r] yowre reward to Mr. Worthe chylder wen 
 thay wentt to Swtton [Sutton Coldfield, co. War- 
 wick] to the skowle . . . . . . . . . . uijd. 
 
 Item the Munday, the xj. day of Marche, for 
 yowre reward to my Lady off Polseworth gentyl- 
 woman wen the chowtyng [= shooting] was ther ijs. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to Wyld off Tomworthe 
 the same day that the chowtyng was by twextt 
 Polseworthe men and yowrse . . . . . . xxd. 
 
 [Fo. 31.] 
 
 Item for yowre reward to a preste that browght 
 a letter from Myster John [Willoughby] frome 
 Rowme [= Rome] . . . . . . . . . . xxd. 
 
 Item the Thwrseday (sic), the ij. day of Aperyll to 
 the wemyn that gaytherd for Owre Lady's lyght 
 att Mydylton . . . . . . . . . . . . m]d. 
 
 Item Thwrseday, the iiij. day of Aperyll, for 
 yowre reward to the waytys off Notyngam . . sxd. 
 
 Item for yowre reward the same day to the 
 bowxe att Powlsseworthe that gajrtherd for Owre 
 Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . injd. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to the maydse off 
 Powlseworth . . . . . . . . . . . . ij<i. 
 
 Item for yowre oferyng att the rewde [=rood] 
 off Notyngam the same day . . . . . . iiijc?. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to ij . lytyll frayrys . . iiijd. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to the pryar . . . . xi]d. 
 
 Item to the wemyn of Wyllarton that gaytherd 
 for Owre Lady's lyght . . . . . . . . m]d. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to the frayrse att 
 Notyngham . . . . . . . . . . . . in]d. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to Sir Herre Sayche- 
 werylse [^= Sacheverel's] mynstryll . . . . . . xijti. 
 
 Item the Thwseday, the x[i]j. day of Marche, for 
 yowre reward to the wayttes of Laycjrtre . . xijrf. 
 
 Item the Fryday, the xij. day of Aperyll, for 
 yowre reward to ij. frayrse off Notyngam that 
 was goyng to Sent Mykylse Mowntt . . . . viijrf. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to my Lady off Powlse- 
 worth mynstryll . . . . . . . . . . m]d. 
 
 Item the Sunday, the xiiij. day off Aperyll, for 
 yowre reward to Mr. Cowmberfordse mynstryll . . Yiijd. 
 
336 
 
 [Fo. 32.] 
 
 Item the Sunday, the xv. (sic) of Aperyll, to Elys 
 that he layd downe to the men of Bremygeam 
 wen ye gawe them a doe, by yowre commond- 
 mentt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxcZ. 
 
 [Po. 33.] 
 
 Item for yowre reward the Thwseday, the xviii. 
 day off June, to the kolyarse that was senkyng a 
 pytt iiijc^. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to Mr. Storlayse [= Strel- 
 ley's] mynstryll . . . . . . . . . . viijd. 
 
 Item for yowre reward the Weddunseday, the 
 xix. day o£E June, to a frayre off Taykylle [= Tick- 
 hill, CO. York] goyng toward Oxford . . . . iiijd. 
 
 Item for yowre reward the [^to] a frayre off 
 Notyngam the Sunday, the xvj. day off June, 
 that praychyd att Wollartoun . . . . . . xijd. 
 
 Item the Thwseday, the xxv[i]j. day off June, 
 for yowre reward to ij. wemyn that^ wesshed 
 layd [=:lead] ore as ye went to Sent Anny's^ ij(?. 
 
 Item to wemyn that gajrtherd layd ore . . ]d. 
 
 Item for yowre reward the Fryday, the xxx. (sic) 
 day off June, to a woman that browght a botyll 
 of wyne from Lentune . . . . . . . . ]d. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to a mayde that gawe 
 yow a garland off Sent Peter's ewyn att the 
 bonefyre . . . . . . . . . . . . jd. 
 
 Item for ale att the bonefyre . . . . . . iiijd. 
 
 Item in almys to ij. clarkys the same day [July 
 15] i]d. 
 
 Item the Saytwrday, the vj. day off July, for 
 yowre reward to yowre serwandys that ranne in 
 the medowe . . . . . . . . . . . . ui]d. 
 
 Item to the foxe taker for takyng off ij. foxses ijs. 
 
 [Fo. 34.] 
 
 Item the Sunday, the vij. day off July, for 
 yowre re[ward] to a serwand off Mr. Mowmfordse 
 toward a nale [= an ale, feast] . . . . . . .... 
 
 Item in almys the same day to ij. pore men 
 that com frome Rowme . . . . . . . . i]d. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to the armytt of Bindon, 
 the xxiiij. day of July . . . . . . . . xxd. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to the kyngse myn- 
 strylse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iijs. m]d. 
 
 Item to a frayre that praychyd in the chapyll xxd. 
 
 1 the, MS. 
 
 2 St. Ann's Well, Buxton, co. Derby, 
 
337 
 
 [Fo. 35.] 
 Item for yowre reward to my Lorde Mowntt 
 Egle mynstryll, the xxvij. day off September . . viijd. 
 
 [Fo. 36.] 
 
 Item the Thwrseday (sic), the xvij. day, for yowre 
 reward to the armytt [= hermit] Mytton . . . . m]d. 
 
 Item for yowre reward the same day [All Saints' 
 day] to Recheart Swebsun for brengyng of kwenses 
 [= quinces] . . . . . . . . . . . . viijd. 
 
 [Fo. 36.] 
 
 [Item for] yowre reward to a Welche prest that 
 "comme by [the] waye wen ye were of hwntynge iiijrf. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to the playarse of Tom- 
 worth of Sent Stewense day . . . . . . iijs. iiijd. 
 
 " Item to ij. pleye[r]se of Sent Thomas day . . iijs. iiijti. 
 
 Item to the playarse of Mydylton . . . . iJ5. 
 
 Item delyvered to my Lady on Good Friday . . vli. 
 
 Item delyvered to my Lady whan she went to 
 Lenton Fayre . . . . . . . . . . xli. 
 
 * Summa totalis infra hunc librum : cccli. viijs. 
 
 [Signed :] 
 
 Henre Wyllughby. John Levesey. 205. 
 
 1521. — " Receites be me Dame Alice Wyllughby from 
 the feste of the Anu[n]ciacion of Our Blessed Lade in Marche, 
 in [the] xij"' yere of Kyng Henry the VIIJ"' " Decayed 
 from damp. Contains payments of wages, accounts of money 
 paid' to the weaver and notes concerning cloth woven by him. 
 ■(In hand of Dame Ahce ?). 205. 
 
 1521-3. — Extracts from account of John Levissey, ' ser- 
 vaunte unto Syr Henry Wyllowghby, knyght,' commencing 
 28 December, 13 Henry VIII, [and ending 7 January, 1523]. 
 
 [Receipts : 3001. Is. lid. plus 6Z. 7s. U.'\ 
 
 [Fo. 3.] 
 Paymentes. 
 
 1521. 
 [December.] 
 
 In primis a pon Noweyer's Ewyn [= Eve] iri 
 reward to Rowfe Berlott sowne [=son] for 
 bryngyng of a capun for a praysand .. .. ijt/. 
 
 Item to the berber, the same day iiijd!. 
 
 1522. 
 
 [January.] 
 
 Item in rewarde to your offesars on Nweyerse Day 
 in the mornyng viijs. viijd. 
 
 M82 
 
338 
 
 Item for Shengleton cosse [= costs] to Ser Rysewpp 
 Thomas, the same tyme, to fayche yowre frese 
 yakyd [= jacket] xs. 
 
 Item in reward to the keper of Wallay Parke 
 [? Wooley, parish of Morton, co. Derby], the 
 same tyme, for bryngyng of a dowe iijs. m]d. 
 
 Item in reward to the playarse of Sylyoll [Solihull, 
 
 CO. Warwick], the ij. day of Januar[y] . . . . ijs. viijrf. 
 
 Item to WyUam Cokys, the viij. day of Januar[y], 
 wen ye sende [=sent] hym to mete Mr. John' 
 [Willoughby] wen he com home vjs. viijd. 
 
 Item in reward to a frayre, the same tyme . . m]d. 
 
 Item for on' of yowre serwantt cosse to Wyllogh- 
 
 ton [= WoUaton] viijd. 
 
 Item for a stryke of molte and a nother of berly, 
 the same day [11 January], for a horse that ye 
 send to Sir Rysewpp Thomas xxjd. 
 
 Item to a pernar [= pardoner] of Sent Antony 
 
 the xij. day of Januar[y] iiijtZ. 
 
 Item for pentyng the rowde [=: rood] in the chapell iijs. m]d. 
 
 Item in rewarde to ij. skolarse, the xx. day of 
 
 Januar[y] ijdi 
 
 Item for Hwght Large cosse and myne to Cowen- 
 tre, the same time [January 31], caryng a pray- 
 sand to Myster Gelynse vjrf« 
 
 Item payde for a commbe and a premer [= primer] 
 
 for my Mr., the same tyme vj(Z; 
 
 Item for a kjrrtwU of fwstyon and lynyng for 
 
 Mystrys Mare . . viijs. yn]d . 
 
 Item for lynyng a jakyd for my Mr., the same 
 
 tyme iijs. xd. 
 
 [Fo. 4.] 
 Sequitur Febrnarii. 
 
 Item for Shengleton cosse into Walse [= Wales] 
 •\vyth a horse that ye bowght of Mr. Edward 
 [Willoughby], the fyrste day of Faybruari . . vjs. V\i]d. 
 
 Item in rewarde wen ye went to kjrrston [= chris- 
 ten] Myster Crosby's chylde, the ij. day of Fay- 
 brwary .' . . . . X5. 
 
 Item for a pajnre of showse for Mystrys Mare, the 
 V. day viijd. 
 
 Item in almys, the same day [5 February] . . . . iijd. 
 
 Item delyver'd to Mr. Edward [Willoughby] by 
 yowre commondment, by the handes of Henry 
 Mermyon, wen he went to London xxs. 
 
 Item for a kyrchow clowthe for Mystrys Mare, the 
 
 ix. day of Faybruari, by yowre commondment xviijdi 
 
 Marche. 
 
 Item for my cosse to Wolloghton comyng and 
 g03mg, lyyng a nyghte by the way, the vj. day 
 of Marche viid. 
 
339 
 
 Item to the berber, the viij . day of Marche . . iiij(Z. 
 
 Item for wyne at Notyngam, the same day . . vjd. 
 
 Item paid to yowre almse men, the same day . . viijrf. 
 Item in reward to youre kowlyarse that was syngk- 
 
 yng a pytte, the same tyme iiijrf. 
 
 Item for yowre cosse att Maysam [Measham, co. 
 
 Derby], the xij. day of Marche iijs. ixd. 
 
 [Fo. 5.] 
 Item in reward to the payryche preste of the towne, 
 
 the same tyme [14 March], wen ye were shrewyn 
 
 [= shriven] '. . vu]d. 
 
 Item for yowre hontys [= huntsman's, from A.S. 
 
 hunta] cosse to Wylloghton [— Wollaton] wyth 
 
 the howndes, the same tyme vjc?. 
 
 Item for howlde hemes [= armour, war-gear] 
 
 that ye bowght at Kynsebayry [Kingsbury, co. 
 
 Warwick], the xvij. day of Marche xiijs. ni]d. 
 
 Item for bote cakys, the same tyme i]d. 
 
 Item in rewarde to Mr. Howlte serwant for bryng- 
 
 yng of a praysand, the same tyme iiij<^- 
 
 Item for a dowblett clowthe of worstyd for yowre 
 
 selfe ixs. ixd. 
 
 Item for a pwrse for yowre selfe, the same tyme ixrf. 
 
 Item in reward to Myster Thwrland servauntes, 
 
 the xxj. day of Marche, for laydyng^ of yowre 
 
 powlse [^ pools] vjs. Yu]d. 
 
 Item for yowre cosse to Werwyke wyth xxx horse, 
 
 lyyng forthe ij nyghtes, the xxij day of Marche xls. viijrf. 
 Item for cordcs for Myster Thwrland servauntes 
 
 and naylse wen thay laydwd^ yowre pyttes . . xd. 
 
 Item for cosse at Tomworth wen ye sat apon the 
 
 mwster, the xxv day of Marche ii]s. 
 
 Item for cosse at Bremygeam [Birmingham], the 
 
 xxix day of Marche, syttyng of the sayd mwster vjs. x]d. 
 Item payd for fygse and rayswnse, the same tyme xvijd 
 
 Item rewarde to the abbot of Merjrwall [Merevale. 
 
 CO. Warwick] servauntt, the same day [March 
 
 31], for brynggyn of a praysand iiijrf. 
 
 Item to Bayke for makyng of gayre that Mr. 
 
 Thwrland servauntt wroyght wygifi {sic) wyth v]d. 
 
 Aprell. 
 Item for yowre oferyng att Gary dyne [Garendon, 
 CO. Leicester] the iij . day iiijci. 
 
 [Fo. 6.] 
 Item for bred and ale att yowre braykefast there 
 [at Measham, co. Derby] att the lowgc, the iiij. 
 day of Aprill . . . . vjd . 
 
 1 ' Lading ' or drawing away of water. See New English Dictionary, s.v. 
 ' lade,' vh. II. 
 
340 
 
 Item in rewarde to My Lordes horse keper . . iiijd. 
 
 Item for cosse att Cosyngton [Cossington, eo. 
 
 Leicester], the same day viijd. 
 
 Item for yowre porrshon att yowre dener att 
 Notyngam, the v day of Aprill, syttyng of a 
 commycion vijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item in rewarde to the Frayrse [^Friars], the 
 
 same tyme vii]d. 
 
 Item for horse maytt [=meat, i.e., food] ther, 
 
 the same tyme Hjd. 
 
 Item to Lwse for hyr gyfter^ kowlse, the same tyme vjd. 
 
 Item to yowre bedmen [=bedemen, almsman] 
 the same tyme, for a monthe ijs. viijd. 
 
 Item for yowre oferryng att the bayryng [= bury- 
 ing] of yowre bedman, the vj day of ApriH . . iiijd. 
 
 Item for yowre porshon att yowre dener at Notyn- 
 gam, the viij day, syttyng of the commycion ixs. vd, ob. 
 
 Item in reward to on' of yowre colyarse, the same 
 tyme, that mad annale [=: an ale, a feast] . . m]d. 
 
 Item for dowgke [:= dog] kolerse and chense, the 
 
 same tyme xxjd. 
 
 Item to My Lady, by yowre commondment . . viijd. 
 
 Item for Ser John' Chowche[=;Zouche's] dowgh- 
 tter cosse lyyng seke at Dayvysws [= Davis's] a 
 day and a nyght, and vj wyth her i]5. viijd. 
 
 Item to Rowfe Kayghley wen he went to Mr. Sphy- 
 weyUiams [;= FitRwilliam's] to serves, by yowre 
 commondment xiijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item in reward to on' that browght yow ij houndes iiijd. 
 
 Item in reward to ij men that sarched yowre 
 powlse [= pools] in the horcheat [= orchard] 
 att WyUoghton viijci. 
 
 Item payde for viij cranse [=: cranes], the same 
 
 tyme - viijs. viijci. 
 
 Item for his cosse that brought the cranse . . . . ijs. 
 
 Item to Bayre, the xij day of Aprill, yowre almse 
 man iiijrf. 
 
 Item a lowde to Thomas Porter, the same day, that 
 he delyver'd to Hwght Large to bye fayche 
 [=fi8h] att Laychefeld [—Lichfield] .. .. xls. 
 
 [Fo. 7.] 
 
 Item payd to Mr. Larke at Loundon, the xxj day 
 of ApriU, for faychyng [^ fetching] of a playge 
 [= pledge] that was layde for the payment of 
 xxxli. for the sheryfwy'ke xxxU. 
 
 Item for Rowfe Baygelayse [= Baggaley's] cosse 
 
 and myne to Lwndon vijs. xd. 
 
 Item payd for ij combys for my Mr., the same 
 
 tyme Yu]d. 
 
 1 Coal received as a gift or allowance or perquisite. See New English 
 Dictionary, a.v. 'gifture.' 
 
341 
 
 Item payd for an nyglysi [=an English] bowke, 
 
 the same tyme" iii]"«i. 
 
 Item for John Hogswn cosse into the northe con- 
 
 tryth, the xxvj day of Aprill, to fayche mownay vjs. viijci. 
 Item in reward to yowre sowgearse [= soldiers] 
 
 of Wykyn [Wyken, co. Warwick] yn]d. 
 
 Item payd for faytheryng of vj shefe of arowse, 
 
 the same tyme [April 27] iiijs. vjd. 
 
 Item in reward to the sowgearse that Elys [Twrlay] 
 
 browght ijs, iiij(i. 
 
 Item payd to the flaychear [= fletcher] in parte ' 
 
 of payment for makyng of xij shefe of arowse ijs. 
 Item in reward to Mr. Langam the fycysyon, the 
 
 xxix day of Aprill xs. 
 
 Item to the fyrbyger [=furbisher] for mendyng 
 
 of hemes [= armour, etc.] \n]d. 
 
 Item to the baker for bred that was dowlte [== doled, 
 
 given as doles] on Good Fryday vs. 
 
 Item in reward to a pore man of Swtton [Sutton 
 
 Coldfield, CO. Warwick] the same tyme . . . . iiij<i. 
 
 Item for yowre oferyng at Sent Kaylamse 
 
 [=Kenelm's, i.e., Winchcombe Abbey, co. 
 
 Gloucester], the last day of Aprill iiijd. 
 
 Maye. 
 
 Item in reward to Mr. Cwmbwrford mynstryll, 
 the same day [May 1] viijrf. 
 
 Item payd for powlyng [=:; pulling] of lyng 
 [= heather] that was layde on the powle [= pool] 
 hayd [= ' head,' end], the same tyme . . . . i]s. vu]d. 
 
 Item in rewarde to yowre aowlgearse of Sowlyold 
 
 [Solihull, CO. Warwick], the xj of May . . . . iiijs. iiijrf. 
 
 Item for dressyng of a bownyt [= bonnet] for 
 yowre selfe, the same tyme i]d. 
 
 Item in reward to xij solgearse that Elys Twrlay 
 browght iiijs. 
 
 [Fo. 8.] 
 
 Item to Mr. Swenfen sowgear, the same tyme . . viijrf. 
 
 Item payd for vj shefe arowse, the same tyme. . vjs. 
 Item in reward to Powgyon sowgear, the same 
 
 tyme vujd. 
 
 Item in reward to yowre sowgearse of Cossell 
 
 [Cossall, Notts.] and Shestoke [Shustoke, co. 
 
 Warwick] ijs. 
 
 Item delyver'd to Wyllam Egerton, the same 
 
 tyme, to condyth [= conduct] yow[re] sowgearse 
 
 to Lwndon vK. 
 
 Item in reward to Mr. Graye sowgearse . . , . ijs. 
 
 1 This seems to be a Welsh spelling. 
 
342 
 
 Item for bred and ale att Hense [Henn's], the xvij 
 day, as yei wen[t] of hontyng to Happws Haye 
 [Hopwas Hay, co. Stafford, near Tamwortli] . . iu]d. 
 
 Item for a gyrdwU for my myster, the same tyme 
 
 [May 19] ni]d. 
 
 Item in reward to on' that wentt abowte wyth a 
 
 camell, the same tyme xxd. 
 
 Item in reward to a serwant of Sawygws 
 [:= Savage's] for bryngyng of a pyke from 
 Swtton Powle, the same tyme [May 25] . . . . iid. 
 
 Item for showyng of Mr. Woldryffe horse at SylyoU 
 
 [= SoUhuU] cowrte, the same tyme m]d. 
 
 Item in almys ther, the same tyme ]d. 
 
 Item payd for a jakyd clowthe for my Mr., the 
 
 same tyme xijs. xd. 
 
 Item for lynyng for yowre jakyd, the same tyme 
 [May 26] iiijs. 
 
 Item in reward to on' that browght a pyke frome 
 Hwght Hermwn and hys faylowse from Swtton 
 Powle in]d. 
 
 [Fo. 9.] 
 
 Item for John Haward cosse to Lwndon to cary 
 ewydense to Mr. Edward, the same tyme [May 
 28] iiijs. ixd. 
 
 June. 
 
 Item payd for a payre of knywys for my Mr., the 
 
 fyrste day of June iiijrf. 
 
 Item delyver'd to My Lady, the iij day of June, to 
 
 by gayre for Mysterys Mare Herbowtyll . . . . xiijs. iiijci. 
 
 Item payd to My Lady, the same day, that my Mr. 
 
 bowrowed of her to gyfe in a reward . . . . iijs. iiijc?. 
 
 Item a lowde to Hwght Aweray, the v day of June, 
 that Hwght Large bowrowed of hym wen he 
 bowght fyche att Lychefeld fayre xl.s. 
 
 Item for ale att Slade's as ye com frome hwntyng, 
 
 the vij day of June viijd. 
 
 Item for a qwyre of paper, the same day . . . . i]d. oh. 
 
 Item to the perdner of Sent John Frare [= Friary], 
 
 the ix day of June viijc?. 
 
 Item to Elys Twrnlay for yowre oferjoig att Owre 
 Lady of Downgcaster [Doncaster], the x day of 
 June m.]d. 
 
 Item in reward to play arse, the same day . . . . xvjd. 
 
 Item a lowde to Hwght Large for hys cosse to 
 
 Derby fayre, the same tyme [15 June] . . . . xvjd. 
 
 Item for yowre cosse to Werwyke, the xvj day of 
 June, and xij horse wyth yow, lyyng ther a 
 nyght' \xs.m]d.6b. 
 
 1 The words "lyyng ther a nyght " are run through 
 
343 
 
 Item for ale at Robert Yamsws as ye went of 
 
 hwntyng, the same tyme i]d. 
 
 Item for* ale as ye went of kwntyng, the same 
 
 tyme ji. 
 
 Item in rewarde to Mr. Kwernby of Mydsomer 
 
 Ewyn vjs. viijti. 
 
 Item r[eceywed] of my holfe yere wagews, the 
 
 same tyme xiijs. iiij«^. 
 
 [Fo. 10.] 
 
 Item in reward to a frayre [= friar] of Cowentre 
 
 that praychyd here, the same tyme iij.9. iiijrf. 
 
 Item in reward to Robert Jebse wen he was maryed, 
 
 the same tyme iijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item for strowba3n:ys, the same tyme }d. 
 
 Item payde to Ser John' Shortred, the xxv day of 
 June, toward the fynddyng [= maintenance] of 
 John' Germun's chylder xxs. 
 
 Item in rewarde to Mr. Worthe chylde wen ye 
 kjrrstwnde [= christened] ytt, the xxvj day of 
 June . . . . xs. 
 
 Item in rewarde to the norse xxd. 
 
 Item in almys there, the same tyme jd. 
 
 Item for horse maytt ther, the same tyme .... jd. 
 
 Item for a whytte bownytt [= bonnet] for Mestrys 
 
 Mare Herbowtyll, the xxviij day of June . . iijs. iiijri. 
 
 Item for yowre cosse to Bremygeam, the same 
 
 tyme, syttyng of a commycion iijs. vd. 
 
 Item in reward to the kyngse joglar, the sam§ day ijs. 
 
 July. 
 
 Item for yowre oferyng att the Holy Blowd of 
 Haylse [Hailes, co. Gloucester] and Sent Kay- 
 lamse [St. Kenelm's, Winchcombe Abbey, co. 
 Gloucester], caryed by Mr. John [WiUoughby], 
 the fyrst day of July viijt?. 
 
 Item for strowbayrys, the ij day of July . . . . ijrf. 
 
 Item for blow threde to make hawkes' nayttes 
 
 [= nets] viij<^. 
 
 Item for peskods [=pease], the iiij day of July ]d. 
 
 Item for strowbayrys, the v day of July .... jd. 
 
 Item for ale at Rowfe Bertlottes as ye wen[t] of 
 
 howntyng, the same day iiiH. 
 
 Item for strowbayrys, the same day ]d. 
 
 Item for a payre of bowtes [=boots] for my 
 Mr., the same tyme iijs. 
 
 Item for ij payre of showse for my Mr., the same 
 
 tyme xxc?. 
 
 Item to Mr. Edward att London, the xij day of 
 July, toward the payment of Hi. to the kyng 
 that Myster Haynyge [=Heneage] raysaywed. .xxxiiijZ*. 
 
S44 
 
 Item for a grose of pownttes [= points^] for my 
 
 Mr., the same tyme iiijs. ij^- 
 
 Item for a gyrdwU of sylke for Mystrys Mare . . xjd. 
 
 [Fo. 11.] 
 
 Item for a payre of showse for Mystrys Esabell, 
 
 the sam.e tym.e vja. 
 
 Item for ownttment [= ointment] to take fyche, 
 
 by yowre commondment viijrf. 
 
 Item to the caryar for caryage of halfe a lowde of 
 
 wyne, the same day [18 July] iijs. ^]d. 
 
 Item in rewarde to on' of yowre almese men at 
 
 WoUoghton niid. 
 
 Item in reward to my lorde of MerywoU [the abbot 
 
 of Merevale, co. Warwick] servaunt, the xx day 
 
 of July, for bryngyng of a stayge [= stag] that 
 
 was kylde there xij«i. 
 
 Item in reward to John Watson wen he went to Ser 
 
 John' Marcam to serwys, the xxiij day of July xxd. 
 
 Item in reward to the kyngse mayssengere that 
 
 browght a letter, the same tyme [26 July] . . ijs. 
 Item in reward to the kyrstnyng of Mr. Slade 
 
 chyld, the same tyme xs. 
 
 Item in reward to the norsse xijc?. 
 
 Item to Isbrand [Barnaby's] wyfe for ale wen ye 
 • went to mett Ser Wyllam Smyth att Tomworth viijd. 
 
 Item in reward to i] of yowre sowgearse . . . . xd. 
 
 Item for strowbajnrys, the same tyme [28 July] . . ]d. 
 
 Item for dyacwlwn [= diachylon] for yowre fowtt ijd. 
 
 Auguste. 
 
 Item payd for v shefe of arow heddes, the fyrste 
 
 day of Awgwste xxd. 
 
 Item in reward to iij. sowgearsse that Elys [Twrlay] 
 
 browght, the same tyme xd. 
 
 Item payd for xviij shefe of arow heddes, the 
 same tyme vj«. 
 
 [Fo. 12.] 
 
 Item for the carte[r]sse cosse to WoUoghton, the 
 same tyme, to fayche [= fetch] hemes [= armour, 
 etc.] xiiijti. 
 
 Item in reward to a sowgear of Tomworth, the 
 
 same tyme xijo!. 
 
 Item in reward to a xj men that comme wyth Elys iijs. vn]d. 
 
 Item in reward to a sowgear for a case of arowse . . xijd. 
 
 Item to Nycolys Uppejohn for a case for hys 
 
 arowse xijd. 
 
 Item payd for xiij arow casws, the same tyme . . ixs. ixd. 
 
 ^ See page 329, note 1, above. 
 
345 
 
 Item for yowre browther-hedde [= guild or frater- 
 nity] ofi John of Powlse [St. Paul's] . . . . iiiid. 
 
 Item payd to Wyott of Drayton [Drayton Basset, 
 CO. Stafford] for Ivj (sic) yerdes of whyte clowthe 
 to make sowgearse kotes, after vijcZ. db. {sic) 
 the yerde, the same tyme xxxvjs. u]d. (sic) 
 
 Item payd at Lechefeld, the same tyme, for as 
 
 myche whyte, by the hands of GefEeray Blow . . xxvjs. viijd. 
 
 Item payd for a yerde a qwerteme and a dim. 
 [= half] quarterne of redde clowthe to make 
 crowsws [= crosses] for yowre sowgearse . . . . iiijs. 1 id. 
 
 Item payd for whyte threde for the taylerse, the 
 
 same tyme, that sowde thayre whyte kotes . . ijs. ixd. 
 
 Item payd to the taylarse for thayr wagews . . xvjs. vijd. 
 
 Item to Henry Brasbryg by yowre commondment 
 wen he went wyth Mr. Edward [Willoughby] 
 ower the see, toward the byyng of a horse . . vjs. viijd. 
 
 Item payd to Wyllam Clyfton, the same tyme [4 
 August], of a byll of acompte payd to yowre 
 almse men and other paymenttes, by yowre 
 commondment . . ixs. vd. 
 
 Item for Shengleton cosse to Lundon wyth Mr. 
 
 Edward vj«. viijd. 
 
 Item for my Mr. cosse to Atherston [co. Warwick] 
 syttjmg of a commycion, the viij day of 
 Awgwste ija- iiij<^. 
 
 [Fo. 13.] 
 
 Item for the carter's cosse to Stretford wyth Mr. 
 
 Edward xiijd. 
 
 Item for yowre cosse to Cowentre, the x day of 
 Awgwste, X horsA^s wyth yow and Mr. Arthon 
 and vj horsws wyth hym, lyyng ther a nyght ixs. xd. 
 
 Item in reward to a frayre that praychyd at the 
 
 towne chyrche, the same tyme iijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item for ale at LytwU Swtton [Little Sutton, 
 parish of Sutton Coldfield, co. Warwick] as ye 
 wen[t] of huntyng, the same tyme iiijd. 
 
 Item for yowre dener at Rowgby [Rugby, co. 
 Warwick], the xvj day of Awgwst, and all the 
 commyssyners wyth yow x«. iiijrf. 
 
 Item in rewarde to my lorde of Kyllyngworth 
 [the abbot of Kenilworth's] ofesarse [= officers], 
 the same tyme [19 August] ijs. viijrf. 
 
 Item payd for a payre of howse lynyng for my Mr. 
 
 att Tomworthe, the same tyme iiijd. 
 
 Item a lowde to My Lady that wantyd [=was 
 wanting] of the hole sowme of the condyth 
 [= conduct] mownay, the xxij day of August, 
 that Mr. Edward [Willoughby] . send [— sent] v». 
 
346 
 
 Item in reward to the underkeper of Dratton 
 [=: Drayton Basset, co. Stafford] the same 
 tyme, for bryngy[ng] of a bowke [=: buck] . . xi]d. 
 
 Item in reward to the underkeper of Kynsbayry 
 [Kingsbury, co. Warwick] Parke wen yowre horses 
 was faychyd frome thense, the same tyme . . mjd. 
 
 Item for bred and ale and wyne and keshyn 
 [= kitchen charges] and horse mayt att Leche- 
 feld, the xxvij day of August, and xx horse 
 wyth yow vs. vjd. 
 
 Item for a kote clowthe for Mr. Henry Wyllowgh- 
 by, the same tyme iijs. 
 
 Item payd to a none of None Eton [Nuneaton, co. 
 Warwick], the xxviij day of August, for bowrd- 
 yng of John Gemnwn's chylder of Coshington 
 [Cossington, co. Leicester] xs. 
 
 [Fo. 14.] 
 
 Item in reward to Mr. Wolnawle for lowkyng uppe 
 of the shyryffe bowkes xs. 
 
 Item in reward to Mr. Laynard Slade vjs. Yu]d. 
 
 Item in rewarde to the bayshoppe of Lechefeld . . vjs. viije?. 
 
 Item in reward to Mr. Hwght and Mr. Worthe 
 chylder wen that (sic) went to Swtton [Sutton 
 Coldfield, CO. Warwick] to the skowle . . . . xi]d. 
 
 Item in reward to the waytes of Werweke . . . . xi]d. 
 
 Item in reward to ij mynstryles xi]d. 
 
 Item in reward to the armytt [= hermit] Egerton iii]d. 
 
 Item in reward to ij mynstrylse Yu]d. 
 
 Item in reward to Mr. Sphyherber [= Fitzherbert's] 
 
 mynstryll viijrf. 
 
 Item in reward to Mr. Trewelyon servaunt . . . . ijt^. 
 
 Item in reward to Ser RandwU of Browton myn- 
 stryll viijd. 
 
 Item in reward to Rycheart Hwght, the baker 
 
 of Tomworth, wen he was maryed xxd. 
 
 Item in reward to a frayre of Werweke . . . . viijd. 
 
 September. 
 
 Item in reward to Mr. Langam, the fycysion . . iijs. iiij<?. 
 
 Item payd for plowwerse [= plovers], the same 
 
 day [5 September] vjd. 
 
 Item in reward to on' that browght a bowke 
 [= buck] from Stonton Parke, the vj day of 
 Septembre xiid, 
 
 [Fo. 15.] 
 Item in reward to the keper of Powlay [Pooley, 
 parish of Polesworth, co. Warwick] Parke wen 
 
 , ye kyld a bowke ther ijs. viijc^. 
 
 Item for a pajrre of showse for Mr. Hwght . . . . viijrZ. 
 
 Item in reward to the keperse of Stonton Parke ijs. 
 
347 
 
 Item in reward to on' that gayther'd for a hye 
 
 waye, the same tyme iiijci. 
 
 Item in reward to the keper of Olderkar [? Alder- 
 car, near Pentrich, co. Derby], the vij day of 
 Septembre, wen yow kylde a bowke ther . . xxrf. 
 
 Item in reward to the kepers of Downyngton 
 [Castle Donington, co. Leicester] Parke, the x 
 day of Septembre vs. 
 
 Item in reward to the kepers of N<Jtyngam owtt 
 woddes, the xij day of Septembre iijs. iiij(i. 
 
 Item for bred and ale and shese [= cheese] ther, 
 
 the same tyme xijd. 
 
 Item in reward to on' of yowre solgearse that com 
 
 frome Mr. Bawdivyne Wyllwghby viijd. 
 
 Item in reward to Rowgear Layche [^Leech], the 
 xvj day of Septembre, wen he gawe yow sowe 
 [= salve] for yowre fowte xijd. 
 
 Item in reward to a sowgear of Mr. Saychewerell iiijd. 
 
 Item for* ale as ye went of hwntyng at Bowlwell 
 
 [Bulwell, CO. Notts] iiijd. 
 
 Item payd to yowre almse men, the xiij day . . vijd. 
 
 Item in reward to the keper of the owtwood, the • 
 
 xvj day, wen ye kylde a bowke [^buck] ther xxd. 
 
 Item payd for a bande for Mrs. Mare kyrtwU and 
 
 mendyug of hytt, the same tyme [20 September] iiijd. 
 
 Item for a Tpa,yTe of showse for Robert Swenf en . . xd. 
 
 Item for hawkysmaytt, the same day ]d. 
 
 Item for Mr. Kwernby cosse to Laycytre, the xxij 
 day of Septembre, to speke wyth the baycheope 
 of Lyncolne xijd. 
 
 [Fo. 16.] 
 
 Item for bayre [= beer] att Wedowsunse [= Wid- 
 dowson's], the same tyme ijd. 
 
 Item payd to My Lady, the xxvij day, for canmes 
 [= canves] to make on' of yowre almsemen a 
 materes xxd. 
 
 Item to Fowgard of Lenton [co. Notts.], the laste day 
 of September, for taychyng of Rycheart Browne 
 
 to knytt nettys xijd. 
 
 October. 
 
 Item in reward to Rowgear Layche, the fyrste day 
 of Octobre, for sowwe [—salve] for yowre 
 fowtte iijs- iiij«^- 
 
 Item for John' Hawward cosse to Pyngkaryge 
 [Penkridge, co. Stafford] fayre iij dayse, ij 
 horsws wyth hym xx"d. 
 
 Item to Ser Wyllam Webstar, the ij day of October, 
 to pay yow[re] almsemen for iij monthys . . . . vijs. 
 
 Item in reward to on' that browght a praysand. . ijd. 
 
 Item for yowre oferyng att the rowde [=rood] 
 
34S 
 
 of Garydyne [Garendon, co* Leicester] . . . . iii}d. 
 
 Item for hawkes mayte, the same day id. 
 
 Item in rewarde to My Lorde of Garydyne [the 
 
 abbot of Garendon, co. Leicester] ofesars . . viijc?. 
 
 Item in reward to Mr. Edward [Willoughby's] 
 
 chylder, the same tyme, att Powlsworth . . . . xiid. 
 
 Item in reward to on' that browght payrse 
 
 [— pears] iiijf^. 
 
 Item for lynyng for Mr. Hwght kote and Mr. 
 
 Kerry's iijs. 
 
 Item for ij payre of hose clowth for Mr. Hwght xi]d. 
 
 Item for a bownynytt [read bownytt = ' bonnet '] 
 
 for Mr. Hwght and Mr. Henry ijs. in]d. 
 
 [Fo. 17.] 
 
 Item for a mayd that browght rowchews [=rushes] ]d. 
 
 Item payd for paper, the same day [11 October] iiijd. 
 
 Item in reward to on' that caryed letters to Mr. 
 
 Edwarde, the xiiij day of Octobre xx"d. 
 
 Item in almys as ye went to Sylyold [= Solihull 
 
 •CO. Warwick], the xv day ijd. 
 
 Item payd for bowtes and showse for yowre selfe, 
 
 the same day vjs. 
 
 Item in reward to Alse Eoxe wen she went a way . . xx^'d. 
 
 Item for yowre oferyng at a preste syngyng, the xx 
 
 day of Octobre, at Mydwlton n]s. in]d. 
 
 Item for yowre gentyll wemyn oferyng . . . . xi]d. 
 
 Item to a perdner of Bwrton Laysarse [Burton 
 
 Lazars, parish of Melton Mowbray, co. Leicester] iiijd. 
 
 Item payd for a cotte clowthe for Mr. Hwght vs. ijd. 
 Item in reward to a blynde mynstryll . . . . ui]d. 
 
 Item in reward to Mr. Arthen servant for bryng- 
 
 yng of a praysand v]d. 
 
 Item payd for xij arow casws, the xxvj daye . . vijs. 
 Item in reward to a mynstryll, the same day . . xijcZ. 
 
 Item to the frayrsse of Lechefeld, the same day xvjs. viijci. 
 Item for a payre of hose for Mystrys Mare . . vijd. 
 
 Item in reward to a pore man of Badselay [Bad- 
 
 desley, co. Warwick] ijd. 
 
 Item in rewarde to ij. sawgearsse oflE My Lorde 
 
 Fayrys [Ferrers], the xxviij day of October . . viijd. 
 
 Item for a payre of knytt slewys for Mtrs. Mare vjcZ. 
 
 [Fo. 18.] 
 
 Item for heryng, the same tyme iiijrf. 
 
 Item in rewarde to on' that browght kwynses . . ijd. 
 
 Item to the browar for a bowle of now [= new] ale iiijd. 
 
 Item in reward to ij skowlarse . . ijrf. 
 
 Item for ale as ye went of hwntyng ijc?. 
 
 Item for heryng, the same tyme iiijd. 
 
349 
 
 Item in reward to ij of yowre sowgearse att thayre 
 
 com3aig home xvjd. 
 
 Item for yowre oferyng of Awle Halow day . . nijd. 
 
 Item for yowre gentylwemyn oferyng iiijd. 
 
 Item to the ryngarse of Awle Sawle nyght . . . . viijd. 
 
 Novembre. 
 Item in reward to Mr. Smythe sowgears, the iij 
 
 day of Novembre, as they com homward. . . . iiij(^. 
 
 Item in reward to yowre chyldern att Powlesworth 
 
 [Polesworth, co. Warwick] the same day . . . . xijd. 
 
 Item in reward to the ancrys [= female anchorite], 
 
 the same day viijd. 
 
 Item in reward to yowre sowgears of Powlsworth ija. 
 Item in reward to ij sowgears of Notyngamshyre xijd. 
 
 Item payd for v yerdes of l3Tiyng for a slefles 
 
 jakyd for my Mr., the v day of Novembre . . i]s. jd. 
 Item in reward to a sowgear of Mj' Lord Lylse 
 
 [=Lisle's] iii]d. 
 
 Item for John Hawward cosse to Lewenton(?) to 
 
 send Germund to Ser Edward to Lowndon . . vijd. 
 
 Item for Mystrys Mare cosse to Sent Kaylamse 
 
 [= Saint Kenelm's, Winchcombe abbey, co. 
 
 Gloucester] xijti. 
 
 Item in reward to My Lorde Soferycan [= suf- 
 
 ragan's]^ serwaunttes wen he halowed the belse 
 
 att Mydylton iijs. iiijrf. 
 
 [Fo. 19.] 
 
 Item in reward to yowre potter's wyfe, the same 
 
 tyme iiij^^. 
 
 Item in reward to a sowgear, the xiij day . . . . iiijd. 
 
 Item to Mr. Berweke, the same time, that ye send 
 
 [^= sent] hym wen the sekenes was in hys howse vjs. ynjd. 
 Item payd for iiij pesws of chemlett [^=camlet], 
 
 the same tyme [18 November] iiijW. vs. 
 
 Item payd for a nelne of worstyd, the same tyme vjs. viijd. 
 Item payd for v yerdes and a halfe of welwytt Ivs. 
 Item for a qwyfe [=coif] for my Mr., the same 
 
 tyme iijs. 
 
 Item payd for a bowgyd [= bucket ?], the same 
 
 tyme viij^- 
 
 Decembre. 
 
 Item for cosse to Mr. Grayslayse [= Gresley's], 
 the xiiij day of December, and raywarddes to the 
 kepers xjs. iiijd. 
 
 Item payd for a pwrse for my Mr., the xviij day 
 of Decembre xd. 
 
 1 William Sutton, consecrated bishop of Pavada ' in partibus ' for the 
 diocese of Coventry and Lichfield on 9 August, 1521 (StubbB, Regittrum 
 Sacrum, second ed., p. 202). 
 
350 
 
 Item payd for a hatband, the same tyme, for my Mr. vij^?. 
 Item payd for on' yerde of crane koler sernefct 
 
 [= sarcenet], the same tyme iiijs. viijd. 
 
 Item in claspys and kepers, the same tyme . . i]d. 
 Item payd for iij yerdes of chamlett, the same 
 
 tyme vjs. vjc?. 
 
 Item payd for ij ownaws of raybyn, the same 
 
 tyme ijs. jd. 
 
 Item payd for xxij yerdes of lynyng, the same day ixs. vijd. 
 Item payd for ij yerdes of canmes [= canvas], the 
 
 same [day] xd. 
 
 Item payd for ij yerdes and a holfe of bokeram xxijd. 
 Item payd for a pajTe of knytt sieves, the same 
 
 [day] yijd. 
 
 Item for a payre of howse for Mr. Hwght . . viijrf. 
 
 [Fo. 20.] 
 
 Item payd for xj elne of shert clowthe for my Mr. xviijs. m]d. 
 
 Item payd for fwrre for a dowblete iiijd. 
 
 Item in reward to a pore man that dwelse a Lyn- 
 
 drese Lowge^ the same tyme [20 December] .. iiijd. 
 
 Item to the berber of Cossell that he was by hynde iiijd. 
 
 Item payd to the flaychear for ij shefe of arowse ijs. viijd. 
 
 Item payd to Thakar for brydwlbyttes . . . . xxd. 
 
 Item to Mr. Hwght to bye shaftes [= arrows] . . i]d. 
 
 Item in reward to on' of Mr. Ewyrell Dygby ser- 
 
 vaunt xxd. 
 
 Item in reward to my Lady abbas [of Polesworth, 
 
 CO. Warwick] servaunt iiijrf. 
 
 Item for my holfe yere wagews on Crystynmes 
 
 Ewyii [= Eve] • xiijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item for yowre oferyng on Crystynmes Day . . iiijd. 
 
 Item for yowre gentyllwemyn oferyng ijc^. 
 
 Item to Mr. Swynf en servauntt that kepys hawkes, by 
 yowre commondment, to by him gayre [=gear] iiij,s. 
 
 Item a lowde to Wyllam Clyfton by j^owre com- 
 mondment that he layde downe for a jakyd for 
 owlde Glowwer [= Glover], yowre almse man iijs. iiijrf, 
 
 Item in reward to yowre sowgears of Sowlyold 
 [= SoMhuU] that went wyth Mr. Bowdwen 
 [Baldwin WiUoughby] iijs. in]d. 
 
 Item in reward to on' John Wryght of Stafford- 
 shyre that was of the kweste of the Hegerton 
 [Egerton] mater vs. 
 
 Item payd for holfe a dowsyn of dowgke cowpwls 
 
 [=dog-couples] of Sent Thomas day iiijd. 
 
 Item for menddyng of Mr. Hwght bowe . . . . ijrf. 
 
 Item in reward to the playars of Ganke [= Can- 
 nock, CO. Stafford] of Sent Thomas day in 
 Crystynmes xijd. 
 
 1 Lindridge Lodge in Sutton Coldfield Chase (Leland, Itinerary, iv, p. 109), 
 CO. Warwick. 
 
351 
 
 [Fo. 21.] 
 Item in reward to my Lorde Baycheoppe of Layche- 
 
 feld of Sent Thomas day in Crystynmes . . . . vj«. viijrf. 
 
 Item in reward to hys servaunttes xi]d. 
 
 Item payd for ij M. [= thousand] pynse, the 
 
 same tyme xijd. 
 
 Item to my Mr. to playe at the cardes iijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item to a mynstryll, the same tyme, that was a 
 
 servaunt of the dowke of Bowkyncom's . . . . iijs. m]d, 
 
 1523. 
 
 [January.] 
 
 Item in reward to yowre ofesars of Nowyer's day . . xjs. viijd. 
 Item to my Mr. to play att the cardes of Nowyer's 
 
 day iijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item to a pore man of Shesshyre iiijd. 
 
 Item for yowre reward to the playars of Mydwlton xxd. 
 
 Item to My Mr. to play att the cardes, the same 
 
 tyme iijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item a lowde to Crampton for redde clowthe that 
 
 he sowght at Cowentre wen yowre sowgears 
 
 wen[t], and for hys cosse thether iijs. ]d. 
 
 Item delyver'd to my Mr. by the handes of Gabrell 
 
 Berweke to play att the cardes ijs. iii]d. 
 
 Item payd to Myster Ser Edward as dothe a payre 
 
 by a byll for cosse at Lundon at Mykyllmes 
 
 terme xxxvijs. 
 
 Item payd for iij quyrs of papar for Mr. Awdyter viijd. 
 
 Summa totalis solucionum hujus libri ut patet : cclixZi. viijs. ]d. 
 
 [Signed in another hand :] Henre Wyllughby. 205. 
 
 1522, February 6 to [December]. —" The boke of WoUaton 
 made vj day of Februarii, in the xiij yere of the rengne of 
 K[yng] H[enre] VIII," bound in four folios of a late 12th 
 century service book. Accounts of payments for agricul- 
 tural expenses, necessaries for the household. 
 
 [Fo. 6.] 
 
 " StofEe boughte at Lechefylde Feyre, the v day of 
 Marche," being fish and expenses in connexion therewith ; 
 cost of " fresche accattes " to 12 October (fo. 22). 
 
 [Fo. 15.] 
 
 Item to Wilham Wod for goynge a pylgermage 
 [November 2] iiijs. 
 
 [Fo. 16.] 
 Item for my Lade's costes to WoUaton, the xxvj. 
 
 day of Auguste . , ijs- iiij<i. 
 
 Item paid to a man for makynge of iiij dossen of 
 
 charcoUe [31 August] vjs. viijd. 
 
352 
 
 [Fo. 33.] 
 
 Item paid for iiijK. of waxse agenste Estur for the 
 seypullcur tappurs iijs. 
 
 Item for makynge of the same i]d. oh. 
 
 Item paid at Darbe Fejrre, the xxvj day of Apprell, 
 for xxx" wethers iiijK. xjd. 
 
 [Fo. 34.] 
 Summa hujus libri : cxxvli. u]d. 205. 
 
 1523.— .Extracts from account of John Levissey, f ser- 
 vaunte unto Syr Henry Willughby, Knyght," from ■ 8 
 January, 14 Henry VIII. until [December 19]. 
 
 [Receipts: 154i. 13s. Id.] 
 
 1523. 
 
 [Fo. 3.] 
 
 [January.] 
 
 Item in reward to yowre fowlars of Lyngcolne- 
 shyre, the same tyme [1 1 January] xxs. 
 
 Item to Mr. Mowmford for Mr. Hwght bowrde, the 
 same tyme [18 January] xs. 
 
 Item del3rvrer'd to Mr. Ser Edward, the same tyme, 
 wen he went to Lowndon to a tende yowre 
 besynes vK, 
 
 Item to the skowle mr. of Swtton [Sutton Cold- 
 field, CO. Warwick] for Mr. Hwght [Hugh Wil- 
 loughby's] skowle hyre, the same tyme . . . . iijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to Mi. Sphyherberd [=: Fitzher- 
 
 bert's] mynstryU xijd. 
 
 Item to Pernell for fastyug Sent Katterne Ewen 
 [= Eve] for my mayster iiijrf. 
 
 Item payd to the caryar that caryed yowre hemes 
 trome Cales [= Calais] to Lomdon (sic) . . . . xxs, 
 
 Februari. 
 [Fo. 4.] 
 
 Item payd for iiij elnys of IjTiyn clowthe, the same 
 tyme [9 February], to make my myster nyght 
 kyrschowse [= kerchiefs] iujs. viijd. 
 
 Item payd for a horse hemes for my Mr. and a 
 payre of stowroppe [stirmp] laythers, the same 
 tyme iijs. \^d. 
 
 Item payd for a cape for my mayster, the same 
 
 tyme iijs. iiijrf. 
 
 Item payd for mendyng of a wache, the same 
 tyme xxd. 
 
 Item payd or a sett of counters ijrf. 
 
 Item payd to the werke men that clenssyd yowre 
 
 motte [= moat], the same day [21 February]., vjs. viijd. 
 
353 
 
 Item alowde to Hwght Large that he layd downe 
 by yowre coininondment to the berber iiijc^., to 
 Glowssopp for hys cosse to WoUoghton v]d., and 
 for yowre wolantyne [= valentine] iiijc? xiiijrf. 
 
 Item to my Mr. to play att the cardes, the xxiiij 
 
 day viijc?. 
 
 [Fo. 5.] 
 Marche. 
 
 Item payd for swgar cande i]d. 
 
 Item in rayward to a sawgear that come frome 
 
 Paygyon yn]d. 
 
 Item payd for coperws [= copperas], the x day 
 
 of Marche ". in]d. 
 
 Item for yowre cosse to Werweke, the xij day of 
 
 Marche, lyyng ther a nyght, ix hors xijs. x]d. 
 
 Item payd for a swger lowfe iiijs. ijd. 
 
 Item in reward to a sawgear viijtZ. 
 
 Item to Sawyge by yowre commondment for bryng- 
 
 yng of xxvj dowsyn of tenshyws [= tench] . . vjs. v]d. 
 Item payd for a bowke [== book] for Mr. Hwght xijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to a sowgear of Mr. Swenf en's . . xxd. 
 
 [Fo. 6.] 
 Item for Wyllam Nowtman cosse into Notyngam- 
 
 shyre for sawgears rydyng, the iiij dayse . . xv]d. 
 
 Item for iiij sawgears cosse to WoUowghton . . xv]d. 
 
 Item payd to on' of the prebenders of Tomworth 
 
 for kepyng of hys fwrste raysydens, the xxij day xls. 
 Item in rayward to the kynges pwrsywont, the 
 
 xxvj day of Marche ij«. 
 
 Item for yowre porsyon at yowre dener att Sowl- 
 
 yoll [Solihull, co. Warwick] at the makyng 
 
 [=: induction] of the weker [= vicar] of Aston. . xvs. 
 
 [Fo. 7.] 
 Item in rayward to a frajnre that praychyd att 
 
 WoUoghton on Polmsonday xijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to a servaunt of Mr. Grayse that 
 
 made a nale [= an ale, feast], the same day., ijs. 
 Item in rayward to a sawgear, the same tyme iiijrf. 
 
 Item in reward to ij frayre, the same tyme [31 
 
 March] viijd. 
 
 Apprell. 
 Item in rayward to on' Smythe for kepyng of 
 
 swanse xxd. 
 
 Item for yowre oferyng of Shyre Thursday . . iu]d. 
 
 Item for yowre gentyll wemmyn's oferyng . . . . ui]d. 
 
 Item in rayward to Mr. of the Gray Frayrse of 
 
 Leychefeld, the vj day of Apprell vjs. viijd. 
 
 M23 
 
354 
 
 Item in ray ward to the ch3n:che ale, the same 
 
 tyme .... xija. 
 
 Item in ray ward to the maydse of Mydylton toward 
 
 Sentt Gorge lyght ' u\\d. 
 
 Item in almys, the same tyme i}d. 
 
 [Po. 8.] 
 
 Item to the perdner [= pardoner] off Owre Lady 
 
 of Baydlam [= Bethlehem] iajd. 
 
 Item to Lawranse Wodnett, the same tyme [9 
 
 April], for raytaynyng of men of lawe in Shes- 
 
 shyre, as a payryth by a byll xxiijs. 
 
 Item* in rayward to a munke of Merywall [Merivale, 
 
 CO. Warwick] xij<^. 
 
 Item in almys to a nermytt [= a hermit] . . . . i]d. 
 
 Item for bred and ale a[t] Coventre, the same day 
 
 [11 April] ^y\d. 
 
 Item for kechyn ij«. i]d. 
 
 Item for horsse maytt xxijd. 
 
 Item for wyne xijd. 
 
 Item for yowre oferyng att Owre Lady of the 
 
 Towre }i\\d. 
 
 Item in almys ther iiijd. 
 
 Item for bred and ale att yowre lowgyng att 
 
 Dunscherche [Dunchurch, co. Warwick] . . . . xviji. 
 
 Item for kechyn, soper and brekefast xxiijd. 
 
 Item for horsse leyweray [= livery], the same 
 
 nyght V5. 
 
 Item for f3a'e iijd. 
 
 Item in almys jd. 
 
 [Charges for bread and ale, kitchen, horsemeat, and fire 
 at Wedon [Weedon, Northants], 1 1 April ; wine at Tawsyttwr 
 [Towcester, Northants] ; bread and ale, breakfast, kitchen, 
 horse-livery, fire, wine, mqnding a saddle, and alms at 
 Stonystretford [Stony Stratford, co. Buckingham] ; bread 
 and ale, kitchen, horsemeat, wine, fire, and reward to the 
 Friars at Dunstable [co. Bedford], 12 April ; bread and ale, 
 dinner and supper, kitchen, wine, fire, horsemeat, candle, 
 and alms at Sent Talbonse [= Saint Albans, co. Hertford] ; 
 bread and ale, kitchen, wine, fire, horsemeat at Bernett 
 [=Barnet, co. Hertford].] 
 
 Item for wyne at yowre soper at Stelse [= Steel's] yd. 
 
 Item to the berber iii]d. 
 
 Item payd for a quarter of befe, the xiiij day . . xs. vjd. 
 Item payd for a mwtton [= sheep], the same 
 
 tyme iij«. iiijd. 
 
 Item for yekynsei ixd. 
 
 Item payd for a showlder of mwtton to Stelse wife u]d. 
 
 1 
 
 Coupled with rabbits at p. 368. 
 
355 
 
 [Fo. 10.] 
 Item payd for [a] qwartwrne of wodde, the same 
 
 ^ tyme xvjcZ. 
 
 Item for halfe a stryke of salte xd. 
 
 Item payd for a lame [=lamb], the same tyme xxjrf. 
 
 Item in rayward to a frayre iiijei. 
 
 Item payd for iiij qwarter of sherkole [= charcoal] xx*'£?. 
 
 Item for bwtter, the same tyme \d. 
 
 Item payd for a kylderkyn of bayre [= beer] . . nichil. 
 
 Item payd for spyse, the same tyme iiijs. xd. 
 
 Item payd to the caryar for caryage of gajrre to 
 
 Lundon xvjd. 
 
 Item payd for a cypers,i the same tyme .. .. ixd. 
 Item payd for a payre of str3rpe hawse [=hose] 
 
 for my Mr. . . ' iiij5. 
 
 Item payd for a galand of wyne, dener and soper xvjc?. 
 
 Item payd for jj dowsyn of sylke pontys [= points] x>]d. 
 
 Item for bowthjrre then ijrf. 
 
 Item payd for fygse xijd!. 
 
 Item for iij dowsyn of pontes for my Mr xviijrf. 
 
 [Fo. 11.] 
 
 Item payd for a glasse to drynke in jjd. 
 
 Item for John' Hawward cosse goyng to gresse 
 
 wyth yowre horses i]d. 
 
 Item payd for a baroll of bayre iijs. vjd. 
 
 Item payd for iiij qwarter of kowlys ■and. 
 
 Item to my Mr. to pwtt in his pwrse iijs. ia.]d. 
 
 Item for a boxse of trayakwlP viijti. 
 
 Item for vij off yowre seryaunt dener wen ye went 
 
 to the Cowrtt, the xx day xixd. 
 
 Item for wyne att yowre soper m]d. 
 
 [Fo. 12.] 
 Item for yowre servaunt dener att the Cowrtte, 
 
 the same day xxijc^. 
 
 Item for a qwarte of wyne at Westmynster . . iiij«i. 
 
 Item for yowre servaunt a lowanse att the Cowrtte, 
 
 the xxiij day of Aprell xxd. 
 
 Item for horse maytt at the Cowrtte jcZ. 
 
 Item for a premer for youre selfe m\d. 
 
 Item for yowre servaunt dener at the Cowrtt, the 
 
 XXV day of Aprell ijs. viijd. 
 
 Item for wyne, the same day viijd. 
 
 1 Probably an article of attire made of the crape -like fabric known as 
 cypress. Cf. New English Dictionary, a.v. ' oyprees, 3, 2.' 
 
 2 Treacle, not molasses, to which the name has now been transferred, but 
 a medical preparation of some sixty drugs made up into a liquid electuary with 
 honey. It was used as a remedy for colic, fevers, small pox, measles, etc., 
 although originally invented as an antidote against poison. In French 
 thiriaque has replaced the older triacle, which is also derived from eijpta/cq. 
 
356 
 
 Item for yowre oferyng at Owre Lady of Runsy- 
 
 wold,* the same day ijd. 
 
 Item for grene gynger, the same day iiijd. 
 
 [Fo. 13.] 
 
 Item in ray ward to a clarke of the chonssry [= chan- 
 cery] for a copye of a panell in Lyncolne-sh3rre xi']d. 
 
 [Po. 14.] 
 [May.] 
 
 Item for yowre servaunt dener att the Cowrtte, the 
 
 same day [1 May] xxijrf. 
 
 Item payd for viij qwarter of charkole, the ij day of 
 May iijs. i]d. 
 
 Item for Ser Edward servaunt dener at the Cowrtte iiij^. 
 
 Item for yowre servaunt dener at the Cowrtte, the 
 
 iiij day of Maye xijc^. 
 
 [Fo. 15.] 
 
 Item for my mayster dener at the tabwrne, the 
 
 viij day of Maye v,i. xjd. 
 
 Item payd for a baskyd and a lowke [= fastener?] 
 
 for to carye swgar in vjc^. 
 
 Item for fryche fyche and bwtter and egse the (sic) 
 wen My Lowrde Awdlay swpped wyth yow . . xs. 
 
 Item for wyne att yowre soper, the same tyme. . ijs. viijd. 
 
 [Fo. 16.] 
 
 Item for yowre browther-hod at Owre Lady Gyld 
 
 were Rycheart Shether dwelse xijd. 
 
 Item for yowre pensyon at Grayse In, the xv day 
 
 of Maye vjs. viijd. 
 
 Item for yowre servaunt dener ther, the same tyme xijd. 
 
 Item in almys, the same day iiijd. 
 
 [Fo. 17.] 
 
 Item for wyne at yowre soper iiijd. 
 
 Item for appwls ^d. 
 
 Item for yowre servauntes dener att the Cowrtte, 
 
 the ixx [^ xix] day of Maye xijd. 
 
 Item payd for confedse [= cumfits] xvijd. 
 
 Item payd for golde and sylwer for the coke . . xxd. 
 
 [Fo. 21.] 
 
 June. 
 
 Item in rayward to a mynstryll, the iiij day of 
 June iiijd. 
 
 1 The fraternity of St. Mary Runcivall occupied the site of a cell of the 
 priory of Boncesvalles on the site of Northumberland Avenue and ad- 
 joining Scotland Yard. See Stow's History of London, ed. Kingsford, 
 ii, p. 100. 
 
357 
 
 Item for Bayglay's [= Baggaley's] cosse for kyllyng 
 
 a redd dayre a gaynste Mrs. Alys weddyng . , xijc/. 
 
 Item in rayward to My Lady of Powlseworthe ser- 
 
 vaunt for bryngyng of a praysand viijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to Mr. Trawelyon servaunt for 
 
 bryngyng of a dayre xijrf. 
 
 Item in rayward to a frayre that praychyd att Mid- 
 
 wlton, the vij day of June viijci. 
 
 Item in rayward to yowre hountte [= huntsman] m]d. 
 
 Item to the berber, the viij day of June . . . . iiijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to mynstrylse the same day 
 Mystrys Alse was maryed xxs. 
 
 Item for yowre of (sic) hoferyng at Mystrys Alse 
 
 weddyng iiijd. 
 
 Item for strowbayrys ijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to My Lord of Dowdlay ser- 
 vaunt for bryngyng of a da3nre ijs. 
 
 [Po. 22.] 
 
 Item in rayward to on' that browght konys [=conies, 
 
 rabbits] from WoUoghton xijrf. 
 
 Item in rajrward to the bowchear that helpyd the 
 cokes to kyll bewys [= beeves] and mowton 
 [= sheep] vid. 
 
 Item to on' of Lyncolneshyre for b'wtters [= bit- 
 terns] and cranse [= cranes] a gaynste Maystrys 
 Alyse weddyng vjs. viijc?. 
 
 Item for strowbayrys a[t] the same tyme . . . . vd. 
 
 Item in rayward to the Frayrs of Cowentre . . iiijc?. 
 
 Item for yowre oferyng at Owre Lady of the Towre iiijci. 
 
 [Po. 23.] 
 Item for yowre oferyng at Owre Lady of Brekell' 
 
 [= Great Brickhill, co. Buckingham], the same 
 
 day [13 June] iii}d. 
 
 Item in rayward to the ancres of Sent Talbonse 
 
 [= Saint' Albans] iiijd. 
 
 Item for wyne at yowre comyng to Lundon, the 
 
 same day [14 June] iiij<^. 
 
 [Po. 24.] 
 
 Item for stowfe to make yngke iijc?. 
 
 Item for ale at the Perlament chambwr .... ]d. 
 Item for yowre servaunt dener, the xix day, wen ye 
 
 went to dyne wyth on' of the sheryffe of London xxd. 
 
 Item for neldse [= needles] for yowre gentwlwemyn i]d. 
 
 [Fo. 25.] 
 Item for yowre cosse at the Cowrtte, the xxj day 
 
 of June iiijs- 
 
 Item for yowre dener at Grayse In [23 June] . . viijd. 
 
358 
 
 Item for cherys, the same day [24 June] . . . . m]d. 
 
 Item for bred and ale at the bonefjTe iiij^?- 
 
 Item for caryage of a nowfne [= an oven] home vjf^. 
 
 Item for wyne to the Sargans In [26 June] . . xv]d. 
 Item in rayward to a Rowme roner [= " Rome 
 
 runner "] jd]d. 
 
 Item for grene gynger injd. 
 
 [Fo. 26.] 
 
 Item for a payre of glowfse for My Lady . . . . iiijd?. 
 
 Item for cosse at the Cowrtt, the xxviij day . . xd. 
 
 Item for rabyds and yekynse x]d. 
 
 July- 
 Item for ale at the Parlament Howse i'iji^. 
 
 Item for aqwowyte [=aqua vitce] iiijd. 
 
 [Fo. 27.] 
 
 Item to the clarkes of the Comon Howse . . . . xxd. 
 Item to Stelse wyfe for howse rowme iij wekes xxs. 
 
 Item for wodde and fagottes iijs. in]d. 
 
 Item in rayward to Stelse chylder and servauntes xxd. 
 
 Item in ra3rward to the armytt xi]d. 
 
 Itepi in ij cappys for Mr Hwght and Mr Draycot iijs. viijd. 
 
 Item for a qwartwrne of golde xi 
 
 [Fo. 28.] 
 
 Item in rayward to a mynstryll viijd. 
 
 Item payd for a M. pynse vjd. 
 
 Item in rayward to a mayde for bryngyng of a 
 
 grene chese.for a praysand ij(i. 
 
 Item in rayward to the preseners of Notyngam, the 
 
 xvi] day iiijrf. 
 
 Item to on' that caryed a brase of grewyses 
 
 [= grouse] to Mydwlton iiijd. 
 
 [Fo. 29.] 
 Item in rajrward to a mynstryll, the same day 
 
 [25 July] ' iiijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to ij sawgears of Sowlyoll that 
 
 com owtte of Skowtland xijd. 
 
 [August.] 
 [Fo. 30.J 
 
 Item in rayward to the kepers of Beskewodd 
 [^Bestwood, CO. Notts] wen ye kylde a bowke 
 ther, the same day [3 August] ijs. 
 
 Item in raywarde to Mr. Stowrlay [=:Strelley's] 
 
 keper wen ye kylde a bowke ther xxd. 
 
 Item in rayward to Mayster Stowrlay norse, the 
 same day , vn]d. 
 
359 
 
 Item in ray ward to the kyngse jowgler, the same 
 day [10 August] xxd. 
 
 Item in rayward to a sawgear, the same day [11 
 
 August] xKd. 
 
 [Fo. 31.] 
 Item for yowre browtherhed to Sent Thomas . . iiij-i. 
 
 Item in raywarde to the kepers of Drayton, the 
 
 xvii day of Augwste, wen ye kylde a bowke ther iiijs. 
 Item in ray-ward to the keper of Banglay [Bangley 
 
 Chase, near Tamworth, co. StafiEord] for biyng- 
 
 yng of a dayre home xijd. 
 
 Item in rajrwardes to the kepers of Sherold 
 
 [Shirrall Hall, parish of Drayton Bassett, co. 
 
 Stafford], the xxij day, wen ye kylde a bowke ther ijs. iiijc?. 
 Item payd for v yerdes of saten in dypwrs for 
 
 lynyng for a jakyd for my Mr iij«. m]d. 
 
 [Fo. 32.] 
 
 Item for cosse at Bremygeam [= Birmingham], 
 the XXX day of Auguste i]s. 
 
 Item for yowre browther hede at the Yelde 
 
 [= Guild] of Bremygeam vjs. viijd. 
 
 Item payd to the skowle Mr. of Swtton for Mr. 
 
 Howe [= Hugh's] skowle-hyre vjs. yi\]d. 
 
 September. 
 
 Item for yowre oferyng at Sent Gylse at Canwoll 
 [CanweU priory, near Tamworth, co. Stafford], 
 the fyrste day of September iiijd. 
 
 Item delyver'd to My Lady Anne by yowre com- 
 mondment toward the byyng of a pelyon 
 [^pillion] vjs. viijrf. 
 
 Item for coss3 at Monsfeld [Mansfield, Notts] 
 the ix day of September, wen my Mr. rode to My 
 Lorde Stoward iiijs. xjci. 
 
 Item in rayward to a nolde serwaunt of My Lordes 
 that showt [= shot] in a crosbow ijs. 
 
 Item in rayward to a frayre of Lechefeld, the xiij 
 day of September viijrf. 
 
 [Fo. 33.] 
 
 Item in rayward to the keper of Dunyngton Parke 
 
 for kyUyng of a tayke' ther xi]d. 
 
 Item for my Mr. browther-hede of Sent John of 
 
 Baywerlay [= Beverley, co. York] iiijd. 
 
 Item payd for dowge tayryttes^ and cowpwls and 
 
 a shene [= chain] ijs. viijrf. 
 
 Item in rayward to a s^rvaunt of Mr. Thwrland 
 
 for bryngyng of ij swanse xi]d. 
 
 1 Query meaning. 
 
360 
 
 Item for yowre oferyng at Haylse [Hailes Abbey,. 
 
 CO. Gloucester] in]d. 
 
 Item in ray ward to a servaunt of Ser Ris ap Thomas 
 
 for bryng[yng] of a fres cote to my Mr., the xxv 
 
 day of September v]s. viijrf. 
 
 Item' in rayTvard to Mr. Bawd wen Wyllwghby wyfe, 
 
 the same day [27 September] xxs. 
 
 Item for her cosse fro me WoUoghton to MydwUton 
 
 and iij wyth her and myne, comyng and goyng xvd. 
 
 [Po. 34.] 
 Item in ray ward to a nale [= an ale, feast] for 
 Hayner [^ Heanor, co. Derby] cherche, the 
 xxviij day of September vjs. Yu]d. 
 
 October. 
 
 Item for my browtherhed of the Trenyte of 
 Notyngam xxd. 
 
 Item in rayward to a pore man toward the byyng 
 
 of halfe a rowke' of kolse vjrf. 
 
 Item in rajrward to a frayre of Laycytwr [= Leices- 
 ter] that praychyd at WoUoton, the xj day of 
 October . . . . xi]d. 
 
 Item for my Mr. oferyng at Glower weddyng, the 
 
 same day iiijrf. 
 
 Item in rayward to olde fayther Rawson wen he 
 
 went a way, the same tyme xx''c?. 
 
 Item in rayward to a serwyng man that was wyth 
 
 howtt a serwys, the same tyme iiijci. 
 
 Item for my Mr. browther-hede to the chapell of 
 
 the Gey, the xij day of October iiijd. 
 
 Item for my Mr. rayward to Glower wen he was 
 maryed, the same day ijs. 
 
 [Fo. 35.] 
 
 Item payed unto Cramp ton, the same tyme [24 
 October], for makyng of Maystrys Esabell Egerton 
 gayre by the space of ij yere, by my Mr. com- 
 mondment vjs. iiijd. 
 
 Item payd for a yerde of welwytt for my Mayster 
 gawberdyne [= gaberdine], the xxvj day of 
 October xs. 
 
 Item for vj yerdes of lynyng for his gawberdyne ijs. viijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to my Lorde of SwfEolke berward, 
 the xxviij day of October xijci. 
 
 Item to my Mayster to play at the cardes, the 
 
 XXX day iiijd. 
 
 Item a lowde to Rycheart Egerton and yowre 
 fawkner for iiij dayse hawkyng a bowtt BewoU 
 [Beauvale, parish of Greasley, co. Notts], by 
 yowre commondment xd. 
 
 1 For a ' rook ' of coalB, see page 169, note 1, above. 
 
361 
 
 Item a lowde to John Hauward, the last day of 
 October, for hys cosse to Pyngkeryge [Penkridge, 
 CO. Stafford] Fayre wyth ij horsus, and frome 
 Wolloghton to Coventre, goyng and comyng . . ijs. iiijc?. 
 
 Item for my Mr. oferyng of Alhalow Day . . . . in]d. 
 
 November. 
 
 Item for my mayster rayward to the ryngars of 
 
 Awle Sawle Day iu]d. 
 
 Item for ale at Notyngam for my Mr. as he comme 
 frome My Lady Bayryns [^Byron's], the iij day 
 of Novembre m]d. 
 
 Item for warnysshyng of my Mr. spowrs, the 
 same tyme i]d. 
 
 Item payd for horse bred for Mystrys Stanope 
 wen she was at Wolloghton, the xij day of 
 Novembre vjd. 
 
 [Fo. 36.] 
 Item in rayward to My Lord of Swffolk berward, 
 
 the same tyme [17 November] viijd. 
 
 Item for cosse at Assheby, the same tyme, lyyng 
 
 ther a neyght wyth xvj horsws xjs. iiijrf. 
 
 Item in rajrward to Ellys, Mr. Trawelyon servaunt, 
 
 wen he com frome Skowtland, the same tyme xijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to a servaunt of Henry Mer- 
 
 myon's for bryngyng of a letter fr[o]me WoUowgh- 
 
 ton the [read to] Mydwlton, the xx day of 
 
 Nowember viijd. 
 
 Item payd for a hatband for my mayster, the xxvj 
 
 day of November xijc?. 
 
 [December.] 
 
 Item to my Mr., the ij day of December, to play 
 
 at the cardes xi]d. 
 
 Item payd for viij skynse of huge and viij skynse 
 
 of lamme for my mayster gowne vijs. iiijc^. 
 
 Item payd for iiij yerdys of raybyn for Maystrys 
 
 Mare gowne, the same day [15 December] . . XY]d. 
 
 Item for a gyrdyU for Mrs. Mare, the same tyme xyjd. 
 
 Item for a payre of showse for Mrs. Mare . . . . vijd. 
 
 Item delyver'd to My Lady, the xvj day of Decem- 
 bre, by my Mr. commondment to the byyng of 
 a gowne for Mrs. Mare and lynyng therto . . xiijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item a lowde to Robert Swenfen for hys cosse 
 sechyng [= seeking] a hawke, by my Mr. com- 
 mondment vij«^. 
 
 [Fo. 37.] 
 Item payd for papeur at the awdytt and for the 
 ingrosshyng of the audytt bowkes . . . . . . "''jji*^- 
 
 Summa totalis solucionum hujus libri : cxlix li. vs. iijd. 
 [Signed :] Henre WyUughby. 205. 
 
362 
 
 1523. — Extracts from "The bowke of Wollatton made the 
 xvij day of Januarii, in the xiiij yer' of the rengn of Kynge 
 Henre the VIIJ* for the husholde," consisting of payments 
 for threshing, ploughing, mowing, " scherynge rye and whete," 
 and other agricultural expenses, repairs of buildings and 
 implements, purchase of stores, at WoUaton and at Wyllugh- 
 by ; (Fo. 20) fish bought at Sturburge \\l. 2s. 5d. and 
 travelling expenses thither and costs of carriage ; spices 
 bought at the same fair ; (Fo. 22) " fresche accates at Wil- 
 laton " (fish, including " conger and porposse," " rever fysche," 
 mussels, cockles, oysters, crabs and mustard, bread, honey, 
 raisins and figs, almonds, eggs, chickens, ' ' iij dossen sparowys," 
 vinegar, wine, ale, pigeons, capons, woodcocks, etc.), being 
 weekly accounts from 28 February to 14 November, amount- 
 ing in all to 121. 155. lOJrf. 
 
 [Fo. 2.] 
 
 March 29. 
 
 Item to the same Townysende for kepyng of corne 
 
 from the wylde gesse iiijd. 
 
 [Fo. 6.] 
 
 Item to a man for mak3Tige xix^^ kyddes [=: fag- 
 gots] of brome . . . . xxd. 
 
 [Fo. 8.] 
 For nesarys for the howsholde. 
 
 Item payd, the same day [3 August], for maw- 
 
 mysse [= Malmsey wine] for the prystes.. .. ijd. 
 
 Item for bred agenst My Lade's comynge 
 
 [August 31] ]d. 
 
 Item paid, the same day, to Sysle [ = Cecily] 
 Bawimfordde and hir syster for ij days gatherynge 
 barberys viijrf. 
 
 [Fo. 9.] 
 Item paid for a pecke of wottmeU [= oatmeal] Yd. 
 
 For the makynge of a dossen and dim[idiam] 
 charecolle vs. 
 
 [Fo. 11.] 
 
 For nessaris at Wollaton, 
 
 Item for mendynge of the logge in the parke . iiijei. 
 
 [Fo. 12.] 
 For warkmens wagges. 
 Item paid, the same day [4 October], to Swynscow 
 wyff for loggynge of straungera xiiijti. 
 
363 
 
 Item paid, the xvij day of October, for iij men 
 werkynge ij days and dim. at the quarell 
 [= quarry] xxijd. oh. 
 
 Item paid, the laste day of Octobre, for gettynge of 
 XX ladys [= loads] of stone at the quarell . . iiij,?. \]d. 
 
 [Fo. 16.] 
 
 Item paid to Spenser for dyckyug [= ditching] 
 abowtt the connynger [=: rabbit-warren], the 
 same day [3 April] viijd. 
 
 Item paid to Shaw son for hegeynge of the con- 
 
 nyngre, the xviij day of Apryll xxd. 
 
 [Fo. 17.] 
 
 Item paid for fysche for Ser Edwarde [Willoughby] 
 
 beynge here . . . . \]d. 
 
 Item paid for iij cheykyns at My Lade's oommynge 
 and for brede iiijei. 
 
 [Fo. 29.] 
 The xiij day of Marche, for My Lade^s costes to Wollaton. 
 
 Item for Mr costes to Meysamham {sic) [Measham, 
 
 CO. Derby] iijs. 
 
 Item, the same day, for drynkynge at Jamys 
 
 Brownys iiijd. 
 
 Item paid for My Lade's costes to Wollaton, the 
 
 XXV day of Junii iiija. yd. 
 
 Item for My Lade's costes att Nottyngham, the xvj 
 
 day of Septembir ijs. \d. 
 
 Item paid for My Lade's costes when sche lay at 
 
 Wysall CO. [Nottingham], the last day of 
 . September ijs. \]d. 
 
 1523-4. — ^^Extracts from account of John Lewyssay, 
 " servaunt to Ser Henry WyUwghby, knyght," from 20 Decem- 
 ber, 15 Henry VIII. until [December, 16 Henry VIII.]. 
 
 1524. 
 
 [Fo. 1.] 
 
 Item r[ay8aywyd] of Mr. Catysby, the xxvj day of 
 Octobre, for the halfe yere rente of a nowyte 
 [=an annuity] for the fyndyng of the chylder 
 of Mr. Catysby and Mr. Th[w]rlande . . . . fyfty s. 
 
 [Fo. 3.] 
 1523. 
 [December.] 
 Item payd to the pryorys of Nwnhetun [= Nun- 
 eaton], the XX day of Decembre, for the bowrde 
 of John' Germon chylder that she was behynde, 
 by the commondment of my Mr xa. 
 
364 
 
 Item in rayward to a frayre of Hatherston 
 [= Atherstone, co. Warwick] for praychyng at 
 Mydwlton, the xxj day of Decembre . . . . viijc^. 
 
 Item in rayward to Pernell for fastyng Sent 
 
 Catern's Ewyn for my maj^^ster, the same tyme iiijf^- 
 
 Item in ra3rward to Gelyonse of Faslay [=Faze- 
 ley, CO. Stafford], the xxiij day of Decembre, 
 wen he com home forthe of Fronse [France] xx''rf. 
 
 Item in rayward to a play of Sent John' Day in 
 
 Crestyumes xi]d. 
 
 Item for my mayster and (sic) rayward to the 
 playars of Sylyolle [= Solihull, co. Warwick] 
 of Sent Thomas Day iijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to the baychepe of Lechefeld, 
 
 the same day vijs. viijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to on' of yowre taynand sonse of 
 
 Mydwlton that wentt to the universyte . . . . xx''rf. 
 
 1524. 
 
 [January.] 
 
 Item in rayward to a frayre of Hatherston [Ather- 
 stone, CO. Warwick] that praychyd at Mydwlton 
 the V day of Januarii ijs. 
 
 Item for my Mr. rayward toward the makyng of 
 ij tapers at Mydwlton chyrche on the Twefite 
 Day ij5. ijd. 
 
 [Fo. 4.] 
 
 Item in rayward to a blynde mjmstryll, that was 
 the dowke of Bowkekyngam mynstryll, the xj 
 day of Januari xx*^. 
 
 Item for cosse at the bajnryng [:= burying] of 
 
 Maystrys E]saba3^h, the same day [27 January] vjs. vd. 
 
 Item in rayward to playars of Longkashjrre, the 
 
 XXX day of Januari xijrf. 
 
 Item in rayward to a frayre of Warwyke that 
 prayched at Mydwlton chyrche on Candelmes 
 Day viijd. 
 
 [Fo. 5.] 
 [February.] 
 
 Item in rayward to on' that browght a letter frome 
 Ser Edward Wyllwghby frome London, the 
 same tyme [5 February] vjrf. 
 
 Item in rayward to a showger [=; soldier], the vj 
 
 day of Faibruari viijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to viij wemyn that browght 
 bremme [=bream] frye frome Kyngeshorste 
 [Kingshurst HaU, parish of Coleshill, co. Warwick], 
 the viij day of Faibruari , xvjd. 
 
365 
 
 Item in rayward to my Mr. wolantyne of Sent 
 
 Wolantjme Day, the xiiij day of Faibruari . . m]d. 
 
 [Fo. 6.] 
 
 Item in rayward to the pore man of Lendryge 
 Loge, the xvij day of Faibruari, wen he went to 
 Sent Cornelys xijd. 
 
 Item payd for xij payre of baydes [= beads, 
 
 rosaries] for the chapell iiijd. 
 
 Marche. 
 
 Item payd for bowkes [= books] for Mr. Dray- 
 
 cott, the same tyme [2 March] ijs. vjrf. 
 
 Item payd for the prononstycations [= prognos- 
 tications], the same tyme ijci. 
 
 Item in rayward to a pore skoler, the v day of 
 
 Marche iiijrf. 
 
 Item in almys to ij skolers, the same day [12 
 
 March] i]d. 
 
 Item in rayward to Rycheart Browne for kyllyng 
 
 of a cormerant, the xiij day of Marche . . . . i]d. 
 
 Item for my Mr. oferyng on Sh3nrethwrsday . . ijrf. 
 
 Item for Mr. Draycott oferyng i]d. 
 
 [Fo. 7.] 
 
 Item for my Mr. browtherhed to Owre Lady of 
 
 Baydlem [= Bethlehem] m]d. 
 
 ApriU. 
 
 Item in rayward to a pore preste, the tyrste day 
 of ApreU iiijd. 
 
 Item to Maystrys Mare, by my Mr. commond- 
 ment, when she wentte to the kyrstnyng [= chris- 
 tening] of Wyllam Whythe Kystwll chylde . . xvjrf. 
 
 Item in rayward to the Whyet Fryeris of Cowen- 
 tre, the xvij day xijd. 
 
 Item to Lowys, the xxiij day of ApryU, by my Mr. 
 commondment, wen he wen[ti in to Walse 
 [= Wales] X5. 
 
 [Fo. 8.] 
 
 Item to the wardon of the Grayfrayrs of Lechefeld, 
 the same day, by my Mr. commondment, for 
 hys halfe yere fee [sum (Ss. 8d?) erased]. 
 
 Item in rayward to on' that made the pumpe, the 
 same tyme [25 April] vnjd. 
 
 Item for Rycheart Tyler cosse to fayche the 
 pumpe maker viijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to on' that browght my Mr. 
 worde were the redd dayre [=deer] le [=lay], 
 the xxvii] day of Appryll iiijc?. 
 
366 
 
 Item payd for iiij powtylls [= pottles] of wyne at 
 Bremygeam, the xxix day of Aprell . . , . ij«. vjd. 
 
 [May.] 
 Item payd for a potyU of howUe holyffe [== olive 
 
 oil] xvijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to a mynstryll Mr. Fytton's . . ijs. 
 Item for my Mr. brotherhed of Sent John Frare 
 
 [=Friary], the xvj day of Maye iiijrf. 
 
 [Fo. 9.] 
 
 Item to Mres. Mare, the xxv day of May, to by 
 her gayre at Coventre, by my Mr. commondment ijs. 
 
 June. 
 
 Item in rayward to on' that browght worde of the 
 fedyng of a redd dayrre by yonde Macstoke 
 [Maxstoke, co. Warwick], the iij. day of June iiijd. 
 
 Item in almys to iij pore skowlers, the same day iiijd. 
 
 Item for Basford cosse of huntyng of the hotter 
 
 and on' wyth hym, by the spase of on fortnytt xvijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to yowre browar, the iiij day of 
 
 June, for a bowle of now [=new] ale . . . . i]d. 
 
 Item for my Mr. brother hede to the procter of 
 
 Sent Caterne iiijrf. 
 
 Item payd for ij sett of cawllmen^, the vj day of 
 June ni]d. 
 
 [Fo. 10.] 
 
 Item for my Mr. cosse and raywardes at my Lorde 
 Marques [of Dorset's], lyjnig forthe on' nyght, 
 and xij horse wyth hym, the xv day . . ..vs. iijd. 
 
 Item payd for strowbajnys to make strowbayry 
 water ni]d. 
 
 Item in rayward to Robert Swenfen for wachyng a 
 dayre that was lawgyd by syde Swenfen, the xxj 
 day of June iiijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to Rycheart Broune for kylyng 
 of ij hosprayse [^ospreys] . . viijd. 
 
 Item for my Mr. hoferyng at Sent Jamse chapell 
 at Tomworth, the xxiiij day of June . . . . iiijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to a fraj^e that confeste my May- 
 ster and my Lady ther, the same tyme . . . . xijcJ. 
 
 Item for bred and ale ther, the same tyme . . xijd. 
 
 Item in almys ther, the same tyme ]d. 
 
 [Fo. 11.] 
 
 Item payd for vj glassus for Ser Wyllam . . . . xijd. 
 
 Item payd for a cape for Mr. Cattysby, the xxvij 
 day xiiijd. 
 
 1 Query meaning. 
 
367 
 
 Item in rayward to Mr. Worthe sone, my Mr. good- 
 son [= godson], the xxviij day vn]d. 
 
 Item for my Mr. hoieryng at Owre Lady of Wal- 
 shyngam [Walsingham, co. Norfolk], the same 
 tyme, caryed by the bryar [read pryar] of Mac- 
 stoke iiijd. 
 
 July. 
 
 Item for my Mr. rayward at the kyrstnyng of 
 
 Paygyon chylde, the ij day of July iijs. m]d. 
 
 Item in rayward to a servaunt of Mr. Cwrssun's for 
 
 bryngyng of a praysand, the x day of July . . viijd. 
 
 Item in rayward to on' Cokes, for bryngyng of 
 letters frome WossaU [Walsall, co. Stafford], the 
 xvij day of July Ynjd. 
 
 Item for my Mr. cosse at Notyngam at the syse 
 
 [= assize] and xxx persons wyth hym . . . . xs. ]d. 
 
 Item for cosse at Laysytwr at the syse and xvij 
 horsse wyth my Mr., and frome thense to Myd- 
 wlton, the xxviij day of July vijs. iiijd. 
 
 [Po. 12.] 
 
 [August.] 
 Item to Mrs Mare, by my Mr. commondment, the 
 the vj day of Auguste, to the kyrstynyng of 
 
 Isbrand [Bamaby's] chylde xx*'d. 
 
 Item to my Mr. browtherhed in the perdon of 
 Sent Thomas of Conterbayry, the vij day of 
 
 Awgwste ui]d. 
 
 Item for my Mr. hoferyng at a preste makyng, 
 the XV day of Awgwste xijd. 
 
 [September.] 
 
 Item for iiij of my Mr. serwauntes cosse home frome 
 Mr. Fytton to Mydwlton, the v day of September ij«. 
 
 Item in raywardes to Mr. Fytton hofesers, the 
 same tyme viijs. 
 
 Item for bred and ale and chese in Maqkesfeld 
 
 [= Macclesfield, Cheshire] forest, the same tyme ij«. xd. 
 
 Item for my Mr. raywardes to Ser Pajn-s [= Piers, 
 Peter] of Leye hofesers, the vj day of Septembre vjs. 
 
 Item for my Mr. cosse at Sent Anse of Bwcstone 
 [= Buxton, CO. Derby], the vij day of Sep- 
 tembre vijs, vjd. 
 
 Item for my Mr. cosse at Asshebwme [Ashbome, 
 CO. Derby], the same day iiij«. viijd. 
 
 Item for wjme at Notyngam, the viij day . . . . ixd. 
 
 Item [in] rayward to a pwrswante [■= pursuivant], 
 
 the same day, at WoUoghton xx"d. 
 
 Item in rayward to on' that hade hys howse 
 
 bwmde, the same tyme [10 September] . . . . iiijd. 
 
368 
 
 Item in rayward to the makyng of a hye way at 
 
 WoUoghton, the same day . . . . iiijd. 
 
 [Fo. 13.] 
 
 Item in raward to ij nunse of Derby, the xiij day 
 
 of September iijs. nijd. 
 
 Item payd for Robert Swenfeyn borde and John 
 Gosson at WoUoghton by the spase of on' weke 
 at the entryng of the hawkes, the xiiij day . . xxijd. 
 
 Item payd for ij molerdes [= mallards] to hayse 
 
 [== assay?] the hawkes vd. 
 
 Item for cosse of hawkyng, the same tyme [16 
 September] iiij(i. 
 
 Item for iij ponde of swgar to make conserwys of 
 berbayrys, the same tyme ijs. 
 
 Item for the hwntte's [= huntsman's] cosse from 
 Mydwlton to WoUoghton wyth the grounds 
 [=1= greyhounds] and honddes [= hounds] . . iiijrf. 
 
 Item in raywarde to on' that stopptte the fox 
 yerthys at NottoU Parke [NuthaU, Notts], the 
 same day [18 September] iiijtZ. 
 
 Item payd for iiij payre of hawkes belse, the same 
 tyme [20 September] xd. 
 
 Item in ray-warddes to my Lorde of Garydyne [the 
 abbot of Garendon, co. Leicester] hofesars, the 
 xxij day of Septembre . . . . xvjrf. 
 
 [Fo. 14.] 
 
 Item for John Hawward cosse to Payngkryge 
 [Penkridge, co. Stafford] Fayre, the same tyme 
 [30 September] xd. 
 
 [October.] 
 Item for my Mr. browtherhed to Owre Lady of 
 
 Baylam [= Bethlehem], the ij day of October iii]d. 
 
 Item in rajrwarde to a servaunt of Mr. Grayse for 
 
 brengyng of a crane vii]d. 
 
 Item to my Mr. to play at the cardes . . . . iiijd. 
 
 Item for my Mr. cosse at WossoU [= Walsall], the 
 
 xij day of October, at the cowrte ther . . . . iiijs. 
 
 [Fo. 15.] 
 
 Item in rayward to on' Welbwme, on' of the 
 crounars [= coroners] of Chesshjrre, the xviij 
 day of October vjs. viijd. 
 
 Item payd for a premer for my Mr. the laste day m]d. 
 
 [November.] 
 
 Item payd for ij crewyttes [= cruetts, for the altar], 
 
 the same tyme [1 November] for the chapell.. viijd. 
 
369 
 
 Item to my Mr. to play at the cardes of Hawle 
 
 Halow Ewyn iu]d. 
 
 Item for my Mr. hoferyng of Awle Halow' Day iiijc?. 
 
 Item for the chylder hoferyng ii]d. 
 
 Item to the ryngars at Mydwlton chyrche of All 
 
 Halow nyght ni]d. 
 
 Item to a pardner [= pardoner], the same tyme m]d. 
 
 Item for my Mr. cosse at Assheby, the iij day of 
 
 Novembre, wyth xvj horse lyyng ther on' nyght viijs. vjd. 
 Item for my Mr. hoferyng of 8aynt Laynerd's day 
 
 at Wolloghton iiij(i. 
 
 [Fo. 16. J 
 
 Item payd for a cape for Mr. Catysby at Lenton 
 Fayre [11 November] xviijd 
 
 Item for Robert Swynfen cosse frome Mydwlton to 
 
 Wolloghton wyth hys hawkes and spanyels . . vjd. 
 
 Item payd for halfe a yerde of saten in Brydges 
 [= satin of Bruges] for my Mr. pa[r]tleti, the 
 same tyme xij«Z. 
 
 Item for iij yerdes bokeram, the same tyme . . xiijd. oh. 
 
 Item payd for a saten cape for my Mr., the same 
 tyme ' iijs. 
 
 Item payd for a rayne [=ream] of paper, the 
 game tyme ijs. viijci. 
 
 Item a lowde Kayglay for hys halfe yere feye for 
 shawyng [= shaving] of my Mr., the x day of 
 November iijs. iiiji. 
 
 Item for my Mr. raywarde to the frayrse of Now- 
 warke [Newark, Notts] that praychyd at Wol- 
 loghton, the same tyme [14 November] .. .. iijs. iiijrf. 
 
 Item for my Mr. cosse of huntyng at Hassell- 
 worth Cleffe [Hazleford, between Flintham and 
 Bleasby, co. Nottingham], the xv day of 
 November - , iijs. xd. 
 
 Item in raywardes to my lorde of Chelforde [:= the 
 prior of SheKord, co. Notts] hofysers, lyyng ther 
 on' nyght, the same tyme ijs. 
 
 Item in raywarde to Mr. Langam the fycycion, the 
 xvj day of November xs. 
 
 Item in rayward to a sei'wantt of ray Lady Per- 
 ponttes for bryngyng of a praysand, the same 
 tyme iiijt^. 
 
 Item in raywarde to the skowlers of Wolloghton 
 
 towrde theyr dayner vn]d. 
 
 [Fo. 17.] 
 December. 
 Item for my Mr. cosse at WossoU [=: Walsall], 
 the xvij day of December, wyth Iij horse wyth 
 
 hym on nyghte Ijs. iu ]d. 
 
 1 Neck-apparel. See New English Dictionary. 
 
370 
 
 Item for ij chettes [= sheets] of parchement, the 
 
 same tyme viijc?. 
 
 Summa totalis allocacion[um] : iiij"-^??'. vs. Yijd. ob. 
 
 [Signed : ] Henre Wyllughby. 205. 
 
 1524. — Extracts from "The bocke of paymentes for freshe 
 accattes [at Myddulton Halle] ^ from the ix day of Januarii, 
 in the xv yere of of the rengn of Kyng Henre the VIIJ"* " 
 [to 10 December], and " from the xvij day of Decembir, in 
 the xvj yere of the renge of K[yng] H[enre] VIIJ"' " [to 
 31 December]. 
 
 [Fo. 5 verso.] 
 
 The ix day of October at the wedyng of M^rs.] Mare 
 Harbottell. [Payments for 44 geese, 9s. 2d. ; 32 capons, 
 lOs. M. ; three " pygges," \2d. ; a mallard and two teal, 
 M. ; eggs, %\d. ; 8 dozen and five chickens, 75. lid. ; six 
 capons, 3s. ; 2 " brettes " (^: turbot or brill,) \M. ; a fresh 
 salmon, 2s. id. ; two scate, 14d!. ; herrings, \Qd. ; plaices, 
 id.; roaches and a pickeril, 16c?.; eleven "pygges," 
 3s. Id. ; a galon of honey, 14c?. ; eggs, 9c?. ; a pickeril and 
 a " chevyn " (=chubb), 9c?.; butter, 4c?.; a capon, 7c?.; 
 four chickens, id. ; eggs, 20c?. ; neats' feet, 4c?. ; two 
 capons, 10c?. ; eleven " pyges," 3s. 6c?. ; fresh fish, 12c?. ; 
 three quarterns of almonds, 2ic?. ; a dozen and three snipe 
 and plovers, 10c?. ; the " catter " (=: caterer's) costs, 2c?. ; 
 two "pykkes," 3s. 8c?.; three teal and 10 snipe, &d. ; 
 four mallards, 8c?. ; four teal and seven snipe, 6c?. ; Ijutter, 
 4c?. ; twelve " pyges," 4s. ; six mallards, 12c?. ; four dozen 
 and three chickens, 3s. 5c?. ; 26 couple of " conys," 8s. 8c?. ; 
 payment "to men to turne broches " (:= spits), 2c?.; 
 "heme sewis " (young herons), 12c?. Total: 3?. 19s. lO^c?. 
 {read lie?.)]. 
 
 [Fo. 8 verso.] 
 At the comyng of Lorde Ferers [December 31.] [Details.] 
 
 [Po. 10 verso.] 
 
 The wages for the halfe yere at Myssomer, in the xvj yere of 
 the rengne of Kynge Henrre (sic) the VIIJ"'. 
 
 Item paid to Ser Richarde, the parushe pryst . . liijs. iiijc?. 
 
 Item to Ser William Webbe xxs. 
 
 Item to Henre Marmyon xxs. 
 
 Item to Richarde Etton xxs. 
 
 Item to William Egerton xxs. 
 
 Item to Henre Braseburge xxs. 
 
 Item to Gabrell Barwykk xxs. 
 
 Item to Richarde Egerton xxs. 
 
 1 Supplied from the contemporary title on the outer cover. 
 
371 
 
 Item to John Bellers xxxs. 
 
 Item to William Clyfton xxvjs. viijc?. 
 
 Item to [blank] 
 
 Item to Thomas Marten xiijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item to William Wodnett xiijs. iu]d. 
 
 Item to Hugh Large xiijs. 
 
 Item to John' Brendwod xxs. 
 
 Item to Isbrande [Barnabei] xxs. 
 
 Item to Nicholas up John xxs. 
 
 Item to Robert Wethens xvjs. rn]d. 
 
 Item to William Marlow xiijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item to Richarde Tokke xiijs. ni]d. 
 
 Item to Robert Baseforde xiijs. m]d. 
 
 Item to Geffrey Blew xiijs. w]d. 
 
 Item to John Adamysse xiijs. m]d. 
 
 Item to WiUiam Walker xs. 
 
 Item to William Nottman xiijs. iiijrf. 
 
 Item to Robert Swynfen xs. 
 
 Item to John Hawarde xs. 
 
 [Fo. 11. J 
 
 [Payments to nineteen " husbande men " and eight 
 " wemen."] 
 
 [Payments for shoeing horses, fo. 13.] 
 
 [Po. 13 verso.] 
 
 Memorandum, that I have rekenyd wyth John' a 
 Lane for makynge of waxe frome Crystenmasse, 
 in the xv yere of Kynge Henre the VIIJ"", unto 
 Mihellmas next folowynge that, and at [= that] 
 I have paid hym xiiijrf. 
 
 [Po. 14.] 
 [Payments for "iron ware" (= ironmongery).] 
 
 [Fo. 15.] 
 The xj day of Marehe. 
 
 Item, the same day, for knettynge of a tramelP ijs. vjrf. 
 Item paid to the pyper of Wyschaw [Wishaw, co. 
 
 Warwick] for leppe [= " leap," basket] roddes xvid. 
 
 Item paid for makyng of viij lepys [= baskets] ijs. viijc?.' 
 
 205. 
 
 1 From the Christmas list (fo. 11 verso), which has in addition "Laurence 
 Wodnett, 40«., Sir Henre, 20«., Thomas Apole, 10«., Lewys, 13s. id., " but 
 omits William Nottman. 
 
 2 A 'trammel,' a net for catching partridges, etc., or fish (Cotgrave, 
 s.Vi. 'tremaille'). 
 
372 
 
 1524. Extracts from " The booke of paymentes at Mydul- 
 ton Hall for nesseryrs {sic) for the households, from the ix 
 day of Januarii, in the xv yer of Kyng Henre the VIIJ*^," 
 to 23 December. Expenses about agriculture, etc., purchase 
 of malt and rye, workmen's wages, payment of rents and 
 tithes, etc. 
 
 [Fo. 2.] 
 
 Item paid to the golde smyth of Byrmyngham for 
 mendynge the keverynge of the salte, the vj 
 day of August x^^- 
 
 Item paid, the same day [6 September], to the 
 golde smyth of Byrmyngham for the makynge 
 of ix sponnys and for the mendynge of ij stond- 
 ynge coppys [=: cups] vjs. y]d. 
 
 Item paid to a caryare for bryng[yng] a tonne of 
 wyae from London xxs. 
 
 [Fo. 3.] 
 Item payd, the xxvij day of Septembir, for pottes 
 and goderdes [= drinking cups] agenst the 
 wedynge of Mastres Mare iijs. 
 
 [Fo. 4.] 
 
 Item paid, the same day [19 October], for pewtre 
 agenst the wedjoige iijs. 
 
 [Fo. 6 verso.] 
 Stoffe bowght at Lechefylde Feyre. the x day of Fehniarii, 
 in the xv yer aforeseid. 
 Item paid, the same day, for vj spruce elles 
 
 [= eels from Prussia ? ] vjs. 
 
 [Charges for fish, honey, oil, and expenses.] 
 
 [Fo. 7.] 
 
 The xvj day of Septembir. Stuffe bowght at Sturbicrge Feyre 
 [great ling, a hundred ; " lobbe fysche " [=; poUack], 1 J hun- 
 dreds ; " mattes, viijcZ." ; costs in connexion with the fair.] 
 
 Spyces bought at Lentton Feyre. 
 [Pepper, " Englysche safforun," maces, cloves, 
 " saundres," " senamunce " [= cinnamon], rice, 
 currants, " galyngall," sugar candy, almonds, 
 " aunys seddes," sugar loaves, ginger, " prunys," 
 "■torsaUe,^" " longe peper," nutmeg, wax, 
 '^calamus aramatyctis,^^' white soap] .. ..xli.xs. 
 
 1 Spelt iurnesell at fo. 10, representing French tournesol (a translation of 
 heliotropium), here meaning a vegetable colouring matter obtained from this 
 plant, which was used in cookery for staining viands. See Gerarde's Herbal, 
 p. 264. 
 
 2 An Arabian plant used medicinally. See Gerarde's Herbal, p. 9. 
 
373 
 
 [Fo. 9.] 
 For sadulls and nessaris to the same. 
 
 Item paid to a fewster [= maker of saddle-trees] 
 of Sheldon [co. Warwick], the xij day of 
 Januarii, for iij syde sadduU treis and a male 
 sadultres (sic) iiijs. v]d. 
 
 Item paid to the sadeler of ColshuU [Coleshill, co. 
 Warwick] for makynge a syde saduU, the xxviij 
 day of Februarii, for Mastres Harbottell . . . . ijs. vii]d. 
 
 Item paid, the xij day of June, to the saduUer for 
 the warkmanshyp of keverynge of the harnys 
 to my Lades saduU . . . . vjd. 
 
 Item for nalynge and synoynge^ of Mastres Alece 
 saduU v]d. 
 
 item for a felte to my Lades saduU vjd. 
 
 Item for canmasse [= canvas] to the same saduU yd. 
 
 Item for the warkemanshyp of keverynge of my 
 
 Lades saduU and Mastres Alice saduU . . . . ijs. vii]d. 
 
 Item for frynge [to] the same saduU and harnys xiiijc?. 
 
 Item for a panel! for M[astres] Alice sadull . . viijci. 
 
 Item for the gleythe^ to the harnys of my Lades 
 
 sadull xviijrf. 
 
 Item paid to the sadeler for makynge a velloett 
 harnesse at my Mr. rydjmge to Chestur and for 
 stoffe at [the] same tyme ; item for a new syde 
 saduU and the harnes and for a sadull for John 
 Burgesse : the price of all is xiiijs. xjcZ. 
 
 Item paid to the sadeler for his quarter wages at 
 Mihehnasse ijs. 
 
 [Fo. 10 verso.] 
 For spyces bought for the weddynge. [Cost 4Z. Is. 'Id.] 
 
 [Fo. 23.] 
 
 Item paid to Slade for makynge of furmys and 
 tressuUes and bedstedes at the wedynge . . . . ijs. 
 
 [Fo. 27.] 
 Rewardes at the wedyng. 
 
 Item to Mastur Fyzherbardes servant xijd. 
 
 Item to my Lade abbasse servant iiijd!. 
 
 Item to Mr. Repyngton's servant iiijd. 
 
 Item to Elis servant viijd. 
 
 Item to the prior of Sandwalles [Sandwell, parish 
 
 of West Bromwich, co. Stafford] servant.. .. \a.\d. 
 
 Item to Mr. Comberfordes servant viijc?. 
 
 Item to my Lorde of Dudley servant iijs. iiijrf. 
 
 Item to the bayle of Sutton's servant xijci. 
 
 1 Query ' sinewing' , stitching with sinews. 
 
 2 It is uncertain whether the initial is ? or a cancelled s. 
 
374 
 
 Item to my Lorde Markcase [of Dorset's] servant xijt?. 
 
 Item to Wodcokkes servant viijd. 
 
 Item to a man for bryngynge a barbyle . . . . iiij«^. 
 
 205. 
 
 1524.— Extracts from "The bokk of Wolatton made in 
 the XV yere of the rengn of Kyng Henre the VIIJ^'' for 
 accattes there, from the ix*" day of Januarii in the yere 
 aforesaid." Weekly accounts. 
 
 [Fo. 2.] 
 
 Item paid for brede at the comyng of Mr. Ser John, 
 
 the ix day of Januarii ijrf. 
 
 At my Mr. commyng the xvj day of Januarii. [Purchases 
 of beefs, hens, a goose, a " pyge," wine, spices, mustard, 
 vinegar, eggs, and three galons of ale : total 8s. \^d.~\ i 
 
 At the, comynge of Mr. Ser John'' to Wolatto[n], the v daij of 
 Februarii. [Details of expenditure.] 
 
 The ij day of Apprill at the comynge of Master Ser John W. 
 [Details.] 
 
 At the commyng of Mr. Ser John, the vij day of Mail. 
 [Details.] 
 
 [Payments for cheese, eggs and butter, in all 19^., 
 " for shep wescheynge, the xvij daye of June ; " and for 
 shearing 26 score sheep, " wyndynge of woUe," catching 
 sheep, ale, 4rf., " a pye, 2d.'"'\ 
 
 [Fo. 3.] 
 
 At my Lades comynge to Wolaton, the ix day of Julii. 
 [Details.] 
 
 [Fo. 4.] 
 
 At my Mr. commynge to Wollaton, the vj day of Septembir. 
 [Details.] 
 Item for egges for the fawkeners afore my Mr. 
 
 com i]d. 
 
 Item for barberis and vargis [= verjuice] makynge, 
 
 pykynge and straynynge xv]d. 
 
 [Fo. 5.] 
 
 The X day of Novembir at the comynge of my Mr. to Lenton 
 Feyre. [Details.] 
 
 [Fo. 6.] 
 
 Item paid for My Lades costes at Messom [Measham, 
 CO. Derby], the xviij day of Novembir, with xviij 
 
 persons with her iijs. ]d. 
 
 [Expenses of threshing, mowing, thatching, haymaking, 
 
 carrying coals (fo. 8. 9) ; ironmongery, etc. (fo. 9) ; tithe 
 
375 
 
 to the prior of Lenton and the vicar of Radforth for Sutton 
 Passys, payment to the parson of Wollaton and Sir Robert 
 Jacson (fo. 10) ; payments " for squarynge of tymbir at 
 Shypley Parke" [co. Derby] (fo. 11); for " men'dyng tlie 
 chappell," plastering it, etc. (fo. 11 verso); "paymentes for 
 the farme of Wylloughby," being rent of tithe-hay, getting 
 thereof, threshing barley, peas, etc. and various other 
 payments (fo. 12, 13) ; costs of making hay, etc. in Haly- 
 weU (fo. 14) ; " weythers bought at WoUatton by the 
 schapper[d] " (fo. 15) ; miscellaneous charges (fo. 16, 17) ; 
 payments for spices, etc. (fo. 19).] 
 
 [Fo. 17.] 
 
 Item paid, the same day [19 July], to Glossehopp 
 for his costes to Lyncolne shyer for swanys . . ijs. 
 
 Item paid for br3mg[yng]e a baken [= baked] 
 
 barbyll to a servant of Mr. Fyndurnys . . . . ii\]d. 
 
 Item paid for My Lades costes at Ashebe [Ashby- 
 de-la-Zouche, co. Leicester] wyth xvj persons 
 
 wyth her for ther baytt ther iiijs. iiijrf. 
 
 The furst day of August. 
 
 Item for my Lades costes lying at Ashebe a ny3ht 
 and for hur dyner on the morne and xviij per- 
 sons wyth her xjs. \d. 
 
 [Fo. 18.] 
 
 Item paid to Mr. Mellers for xiij galons of Mawse 
 
 [:= Malmsey wine], price xvs. ijrf. 
 
 Item paid, the xvj day of Novembir, for xix galons 
 
 and dim. of Ruriiney [wine], price xxijs. ixt?. 
 
 [Fo. 19.] 
 
 Item paid, the xiij day of Novembir, for ij pounde 
 
 of grett canduUs iijt^. 
 
 Item for the caryage of charcoUe vs. iiijc?. 
 
 Item for berynge of same y]d. 
 
 Item for makynge of the same charcole . . . . iijs. iiijrf. 
 
 205. 
 
 1524-5.— Extracts from the account of John Lewyssay, 
 " servaunt to Ser Henry Wyllwghby, knyght," from 25 
 December, 16 Henry VIII. [to 4 January, 17 Henry VIII.]. 
 
 [Fo. 2.] 
 
 1524. 
 
 [January.] 
 
 Item to Ser Edward Wyllwghby, the xxvij day of 
 Janvarii, by my Mr. commondment, to gyffe the 
 kynges atornay's wyfe in raywarde at hys goyng 
 to London xls. 
 
376 
 
 Item in rayward to Robert Swenfen at hys wed- 
 dyng, the same tyme [28 January] xij(i. 
 
 [February.] 
 
 Item payd to the kyng, the ij day of Faihruarii, 
 
 for preste mownay xu}li. vjs. viijd. 
 
 Item in raywarde to a mynstryll of my Lorde of 
 
 Derby's, the x day of Faihruarii xijd. 
 
 Item in rajrward to my Mr. wolantyne of Saynt 
 
 Wolantyn's day, the xiij day of [Faihruarii] . . m\d. 
 
 [Fo. 3.] 
 
 Marche. 
 Item for my Mr. raywarde to the kyrstnyng of 
 Robert Jelyfe chylde xxd 
 
 [Fo. 4.J 
 
 Item in raywarde to on' of Wolsoll that browght 
 the cowrtt rowlse to hawe the copye for 
 Rycheart Hylle lande, the xxix day of Marche xijrf. 
 
 [April.] 
 
 Item in raywarde to on that fonde a hare syttyng, 
 
 the same tyme m]d. 
 
 Item a lowde to Robert Basford that he layde 
 doune by my Mr. commondment for cosse at 
 serten tymse wen on' of Chesshyre kylde hottera 
 [= otters] in the rewer iijs. i\d. 
 
 Item payd for horyges [= oranges] and poundgar- 
 nyttes [= pomegranates] at Co ventre, the same 
 tyme xviijti. 
 
 [Fo. 5.] 
 
 Item in raywarde to Henry Pylkyngton, my Mr. 
 
 godson m.\d. 
 
 Item for my Mr. raywarde to the wemyn of the 
 
 toune for Houre Lades lyght ni\d. 
 
 Item in ray~warde to on' that browght my Mr. 
 
 worde of redde day re that lay by yonde Mery- 
 
 dyne [Meriden, co. Warwick] m]d. 
 
 [Fo. 6.] 
 
 [May.] 
 
 Item to my Lady, the iij day of Maye, by my 
 Mr. commondment, to bye Maystrys Jane gayre xxs. 
 
 Item for my Mr. hoferyng at Clyfton weddyng, 
 the xiiij day of Maye iiij(^. 
 
377 
 
 [Fo. 7.] 
 
 June. 
 
 Item send [= sent] of a tokon to Mrs. Fytton, 
 
 the same day iiijt^. 
 
 [July.] 
 [Fo. 10.] 
 Item for my Mr. servantt[es'] cosse, my Mr. 
 
 dynyng att my Lorde Cardnell, the same day 
 
 [6 July] xviiid. 
 
 Item for wyne and ale at the clowke [= clock] 
 
 liowse xiijd. 
 
 Item for cherys and payrs, the same day . . . . i]d. 
 
 Item for viij kylderkynse of ale [8 July] .. ..xxjs. iiijrf. 
 Item to the chondler for sawse and coppe^ and 
 
 trenchers ijs. yjd. 
 
 Item for howse roume by the spase of on' wekeviijs. y]d. 
 Item for wessheyng of my Mr. cherte [= shirt] jd. 
 
 Item for horse lajrweray by the space of on' weke xijs. iujd. 
 Item in raywardes to the chyldren and servaunttes 
 
 of the howse a[t] my Mr. comyng a way . . xxijd. 
 
 Item for baytt at Saynt Tawbunse [= Saint 
 
 Albans], the s[a]me [tyme] xxiijd. 
 
 Item for baytt at DunstabwU, the same day . . xii]d. 
 
 Item for bred and ale, wyne, kechyn, fyre, can- 
 
 dwll and horse-maytt at my Mr. lowgyng at 
 
 Stoue [Stow Nine Churches, Northants], the ix 
 
 day of July xs. ]d. 
 
 Item for bayt at Dayntre [Daventry, Northants] 
 
 the same day iijs, ijd. 
 
 Item in raywardes to my Lorde of Tome hofyserys, 
 
 the X day of July, my Mr. lyyug ther on nyght iijs. 
 
 Item for ale at Cossell, the same day n]d. 
 
 Item in raywardes to ij mjoistrylls of my Lorde 
 
 Lyles, the same day iijs. iiijd. 
 
 [Fo. 11.] 
 
 Item payd for golde for Mres. Alyce to worke^in 
 the stowle ijs. 
 
 Item for my Mr. cosse at Notyngam, lyyng ther 
 
 on' nyght and a day, wyth xvj persons . . . . xiijs. u]d. 
 
 [August.] 
 
 Item for my Mr. cosse at Astelay [=Astley, co. 
 Warwick], the xj day of Awgwste, beyng wyth 
 my Lorde Marqwes [of Dorset] ij dayae . . . . ijs. in]d. 
 
 Item in raywarde to the keper for kyllyng of a 
 boke ijs. 
 
 1 For " cups " ? 
 
378 
 
 Item for my Mr. cosse to Coventre, the xiiij day 
 of Awgwste, wyth my Lorde Marques, and vij"^ 
 wyth my Mr., syttyng of the kyng commycion xlvjs. v']d. 
 
 Item in raywarde to my I^ady abbas mayddes 
 [= the abbess of Polesworth's maids], the xviij 
 day of Augwste, wen Maystrys Alyce was faychyd 
 home frome Polseworthe xvjcZ. 
 
 Item for my Mr. cosse to Fayknam [Feckenham, 
 CO. Worcester] Fowryste wyth my Lorde of Kyl- 
 iyngworth [the prior of Kenilworth] and Ser 
 Edwarde Fayrys [^ Ferrers], the xxij day of 
 Augwste, and raywardes to the kepers . . . . xxxiiijs. vjci. 
 
 [Fo. 12.] 
 
 September. 
 
 Item delyver'd to my Lady to by gayre for Mrs. 
 
 Jane vj.s. viijrf. 
 
 October. 
 [Fo. 13.] 
 
 Item to Mr. Swynfayn, the xij day of October, 
 by my Mr. commondment for hys cosse to Lon- 
 don wyth hawkes to the kyng xs. 
 
 Item payd for fwrre to fwrre my Mr. goune, the 
 xvj day of October, at Bremygeam, and my 
 cosse xs. n]d. 
 
 Item for my Mr. raywarde to John Chepman wen 
 
 he was wedd xx*'d. 
 
 Item to the warden of the Gray Frayrs of Lechef elde, 
 the xxij day of October, by my Mr. commond- 
 ment, wen he praychyd at the toune . . . . x.s. viiid. 
 
 Item to Lewys appe John for hys cosse into Walse 
 
 [=: Wales], the xxvj day of October iijs. m.]d. 
 
 Novembre. 
 [Fo. 15.] 
 
 Item for my Mr. hoferyng at Wyllam Sladdes 
 
 weddyng, the xxvj day of Novembre . . . . iiij[ci.] 
 
 Item for my Mr. raywarde to Wyllam Slade wen he 
 was maryed ijs. 
 
 [Fo. 15.] 
 
 Decembre. 
 Item for my Mr. raywarde towrde the makyng of 
 
 a chalys for Wollaton chyrche xx"(?. 
 
 Item in raywarde to a servaunt of the dowke of 
 
 Swffokes that come wyth bayrs viiji. 
 
 Item for Chyngleton cosse to Laycytwr foryste to 
 
 fayche a doo [=; doe] at my Lorde Marqwes, 
 
 lyyng forthe iij dayse xxjd. 
 
379 
 
 [Po. 16.] 
 
 Item in ra3rwarde to the chylde baychoppe of 
 
 Lechefelde, the xxviij day of Decenibre . . . . vjs. viijrf. 
 Item in raywarde to the baychoppe servaunttes xxd. 
 
 Item in raywarde to the playars of Browton 
 
 [Upper Broughton, Notts.?] on Nowyer's Ewyn ijs. 
 Item in rayTvard to a play[ar] that comma frome 
 
 Lechefeld xv\d. 
 
 Item in raywarde to playars that was Mr. Belt- 
 
 noppe [= Belknapp's] servaunttes and Mr. 
 
 Lewsys iij5. iiij^. 
 
 1525. 
 
 [January.] 
 Item payd for ij M. pynse, the iij day of Januarii xd. 
 
 Item to my Mr. to play at the cardes xijd. 
 
 Item to my Mr. to play at the cardes, the iiij 
 
 day xixd. 
 
 Summa totalis : clxxxxjli. vijs. vd. 
 
 [Signed :] Henre Wyllughby. 
 
 205. 
 
 1526. — Extracts from household account of Sir Henry 
 Willoughby for Middleton Hall, from 11 January, 17 Henrv 
 VIII, to [December]. 
 
 [Page 1.] 
 
 January 11. Item paid for the caryage of a top- 
 nett 1 of fygges and nother of ressynges and ij .sugar- 
 lovys xviji. 
 
 Item paid to Thomas Slade for the halywatter 
 for iij. quart[ers] dew to hym at Our Lady Day 
 of Marche xi]d. 
 
 Item paid at Estur for bred and wyne to Mydul- 
 
 ton churche ixd. 
 
 Item for oyle and creme [=: chrysm] iiijd. 
 
 Item for francomesence ijd. 
 
 Item paid, the xv. day of Apprell, for sying 
 
 brede [= shew bread] and wyne ]d. 
 
 Item paid, the xvij. day of Apprell, for brede 
 
 and wyne at Estur to Drayton churche . . . . vjd. 
 
 Item for oyle and creme iiijd. 
 
 Item paid the same day to Sir William, the 
 parische pryste of Draytton, for his service and 
 burde [aboard] for iij. wekkes vjs. viiji. 
 
 [Page 2.] 
 
 April 29. Item paid for stuffe to make ynkee (sic) m]d. 
 
 Item for ale for the baners in the Crosse weke . . v]d. 
 
 1 Cf. tope in Rogers, History of Pricte, iv, p. 670. 
 
380 
 
 Item to the halwattur-clarke of Mydulton at 
 
 Myssomer for his halfe yere for this and pynns xd. 
 
 [Page 3.] 
 
 August 31. Item paid the same day for makynge 
 
 of verges [= verjuice] idxd. 
 
 Item paid to Richarde Dave for xij. stryke of 
 
 cravys [= crayfish] ijs. 
 
 Item paid the iij. day of Novembur for ij. ley^ 
 
 of weke [= wick] yarne vd. 
 
 Item for spy[n]inge of a ley of weke yarne the 
 
 same day ]d. 
 
 [Page 4.] 
 
 December 4, Item paid, the x. day of Decembir, 
 
 to a woman for a pere of knett slevys . . . . xjd. 
 
 [Accounts of expenditure on mowing and for other agri- 
 cultural purposes follow.] 
 
 [Page 19.] 
 
 For spyces bought at dy verse tymes. 
 
 Item for a loiie of sugur, weyinge viijZt., the xxix! 
 
 day of Apprell iiijs. i]d. 
 
 Item, paid, the vj. day of Septembre, for dy verse 
 spyces agenst the oomynge of My Lorde Marquis 
 [of Dorset] ixs. ixd. 
 
 [Page 20.1 
 
 For spyces bought at Coventre, the xxij day of Novembre. 
 
 [Amount to lOZ. 6s. 6d., including dates, prunes, almonds, 
 anniseed, rice, biscuits, sugar-loaves, liquorice, white soap, 
 paper, as well as spices in the modern sense of that word.] 
 
 [Page 22.] 
 
 Stuffe bought [at] Lechefylde feyre, the xiiij. day of 
 Februarii, in the xvij. yere of the rengn of kyng Henry VIII, 
 [comprising red and white herrings, sprats, " viij. elCs sprewuse 
 [= eels from Prussia ?] vjs. viijd," salmon, oil, honey, currants, 
 mussels, and carriage, and " for their costes that bought the 
 same stuffe iijs." Payments for ironmongery, gifts and rewards, 
 etc.]. 
 
 [Page 35.] 
 
 The byll f or makyng of wolen cloth from the xiij. of Febru- 
 ary, in the xvij. yere of the renge of King H. the VIII"'. 
 
 I See New English Dictionary, s.v. 'Lea' sb. 4. 
 
381 
 
 In primis, for spyn[yn]g of a brode whyte for 
 
 blankettes vijs. ixd. 
 
 Item for spyn[yn]g of xij yerdes of narow whyte ijs. iijrf. ob. 
 
 Item for spyn[yn]g of a weyt of lyst yarne . . iijd. 
 
 Item for spyn[yn]g of viij. brode clothis of 
 
 tawne [^^t&wny] ii]li. ixs. viijd. 
 
 Item for wey[v]inge of the brode whyte . . . . iiijs. 
 
 Item for weyvynge of the yardes of narow whyte xviij«Z. 
 
 Item for weyvinge of the viij . brode clothis of tawne Is. viijd. 
 
 Item for oyle to the same clothis xvs. vijt?. 
 
 Item for fuHyng of the brode whyte iiijs. 
 
 Item f or fuUyng of the xij. yardes of narow whyte xijd. 
 
 Item f or fuUyng of the viij. brode cloths of tawne Is. Yujd. 
 
 Item for madder for the same viij. clothes vK. ijs. ]d. 
 
 Item paid to William Dyer of Colshullfor xij. dais 
 werkynge with the dyer at coleryng of the same 
 clothis iiijs. 
 
 Item for ij. dyers' burd [== board] for the same 
 
 xij. days iiijs. 
 
 Item for other stoffe that there is occupyed . . xvd. 
 
 Item payd for spy[n]ing lyimon yarne .. .. mjs.vd.ob. 
 
 Item for weyvynge of xx. elles of flaxen cloth vjs. viijd. 
 
 205. 
 
 1526.—" The bocke of WoUaton, made the xiij day of Sep- 
 tembur, the xviij yere of the reign of K[yng] H[enry] the 
 VIII"'." Household expenses at WoUaton, on September 15, 
 23, 28, and October 3 and 7, 18 Henry VIII. 205 
 
 1526-7. Extracts from account of John Lewyssay, " ser- 
 vaunt to Sir Henry Wyllwghby, knyght," frome 6 January, 
 17 Henry VIII until [January — , 18 Henry VIII.]. 
 
 1526. 
 [January.] 
 [Fo. 2.] 
 Item to Mrs. Mare Fytton, by my Mr. commond- 
 
 ment, the viij day of Januarii vjs. viijrf. 
 
 Item in rayward to a narmytt [^ a hermit] of 
 
 PoLseworthe iiij<^« 
 
 Item to my Mr. to play at the cardes [22 January] iiijrf. 
 
 [Fo. 3.] 
 Februarii. 
 Item in raywarde to my Mr. wolantyne on Sent 
 
 Wolantynse day, the xiij day of Faibruarii . . m]d, 
 
 [Fo. 4.] 
 
 Item to Mrs. Alyce, the same day [21 February], 
 to gyffe in raywarde to the kyrstnynge of Howgh 
 Aweray chylde xx*'(i. 
 
382 
 
 [March.] 
 
 Item to Mr. Palmer servauntt for hys cosse frome 
 London and to London, bryngyng a letter of the 
 kynges, the ij day of Marche xiij5. iiijrf. 
 
 Item for Willam Notman cosse and myne to Ber- 
 wyke to spayke wyth Mr. Magnws,i the xxij 
 day of Marche xxs. 
 
 Item payd to Robert Jamse wyfe and Slades wyfe 
 for thayr cosse that wachyd wyth a presoner 
 that was hangyd at Basset Crosse [Basset, parish 
 of Peckleton, co. Leicester] iijs. xd. 
 
 [Po. 5.] 
 
 Item to a fryre of Lechefeld that was my Mr. 
 
 gostly father [on Shyre Thwrsday] xijrf. 
 
 Item payd for caryage of a tunne of wyne frome 
 
 Bewerlay, the same tyme vjs. 
 
 Apryll. 
 
 Item [in] raywarde to the yowng men of the toune 
 that gaytherde for the chyrche iiijcf. 
 
 Item for chaftes [= shafts, arrows] for Mr. Howgh 
 
 and the chyldwrn of the chapell iiijrf. 
 
 Item in rayTvard to the wemyn of the toune that 
 
 gathwrde for Saynt Stewyn iiijrf. 
 
 Item in ra3rwarde to on' that browght worde were 
 red dayre ley by syde Macstoke, the same day 
 [4 April] iiijrf. 
 
 [Fo. 6.] 
 Item for my Mr. raywarde to the kyrstnyng Cor- 
 
 ssor chylde, the xxvj day of Apryll xij</. 
 
 Item in raywarde to a frayre of Coventre that 
 
 browght aqwawyte [= aqua vitae], the same day xx*'d. 
 
 Item to on' of the chylder of the chapell wen he 
 
 went home to hys frendes xiid. 
 
 [Fo. 7.] 
 
 Item payd for aqwawyte [= aqua vitse], the 
 
 xxviij day of Apryll iiijd. 
 
 Item in raywarde to on' that browght horygns 
 [=: oranges] frome Bremygeam, the same day 
 [31 April] i]d. 
 
 Maye. 
 
 Item for ale at the chyrche for my Mr., the v 
 
 day of May ]d. 
 
 1 Dr. Thomas Magnus, founder of the grammar school at Newark -on -Trent, 
 was treasurer of the wars in the North of England, and at this time a mem- 
 ber of the Council of the Duke of Richmond at York. See Diet, of National 
 Biography, xxxv, p. 324, 
 
383 
 
 Item for my Mr. raywarde to a nalle [= an ale, 
 
 feast] at Leye [Lea Marston, co. Warwick] . . vii]d. 
 
 Item for my Mr. rayward to the chyrcheale at 
 Aston, the xxvj day of May xxd. 
 
 [Fo. 8.] 
 
 Item payd for vj yerdes of eayndoll [= Kendal 
 cloth] for a cottclothe [= cloth for a coat] 
 for Mr. Cattesby, the xxix day of May . . . . iijs. viijti. 
 
 Item in raywarde to the huntte [= huntsman] wen 
 
 he brake hys bowe viijc?. 
 
 Item for a pwrsywant [:= pursuivant] cosse lyyng 
 at Awerayre's (sic) vjd. 
 
 [June.] 
 
 Item payd for a halfe a yerd of blake clowthe for 
 
 bandes for the gentwlwemyn cyrtwlles . . . . vjrf. 
 
 Item for my cosse to Sothewell [Southwell, co. 
 Notts], the xj day of June, to cary Mr. Catesby 
 to the skowle xxd. 
 
 Item for chowyng [^ shoeing] of horsus . . . . m]d. 
 
 Item paid to the skowle Mr. for skowle hyre . . iiijs. iiijrf. 
 
 Item in raywarde to Rawfe Heberd and Lowkyd, 
 My Lord of Derby's mynstryU', the xiiij day of 
 June iijs. iiijd!. 
 
 Item for my Mr. hoferyng at Mr. Arthen's beryall iiijrf. 
 
 Item payd to Nycoles Cothett for makyng of a 
 
 song bowke for the chapell iiijs. viijcZ. 
 
 Item for a premer for Mr. Draycott iiijf^. 
 
 [Fo. 9.] 
 
 Item for bred and ale and wyne and kecheyn and 
 horsemett at Merydyne, the xxiij day of June, 
 XX horse wyth my Mr. to London viijs. yd. 
 
 [Fo. 10.] 
 Item payd for a pott for my Mr. chamber.. .. xiijrf. 
 
 July. 
 
 [Fo. 11.] 
 
 Item payd to Rowfe Dyall in fwll payment that 
 he layd doune for my Mr. cloke the v day 
 of July viijs. 
 
 Item for a pener [= pen-case] and a nynghorne 
 [=an inkhorn] for Mr. Hough [Hugh Wil- 
 loughby] iiijf^. 
 
 Item for ale at the Tempwll i]d. 
 
 Item for a skotwU to cary a gamysshe [= set] of 
 wessell iiij^r, 
 
384 
 
 [Fo. 12.] 
 
 Item for ij sylver baygse [= badges] ijd. 
 
 Item for a njTiglysshe [= English] bowke . . . . v'uid. 
 
 Item for howse rowme for on' fortnytt . . . . xxxs. 
 
 [Fo. 13.] 
 
 Item in raywarde to My Lorde CardnoU porter.. xi]d. 
 
 Item to Mr. Pryncypowll of StapuU In for ray- 
 ment for Mr. Hovvgh [= Hugh] and for his 
 bowrde xs. 
 
 Item to Mr. PryncypoU in rayward for hys payne vjs. viiid. 
 
 Item to Mr. Howgh to pwtt in hys pwrse . . . . x\]d. 
 
 [Fo. 14.] 
 
 Item for cosse at Elsebayry [= Aylesbury, co. 
 
 Bucks.], the xx day of July vjs. x]d. 
 
 Item for my Mr. browtherhed at yowre [sic) Lady 
 
 yeld at Alsebwry [= Aylesbury], the same day vjs. Yii]d. 
 
 Auguste. 
 
 Item for my Mr. hoferyng to Owre Lady of Wyssyter 
 [^Worcester] and Sent Kaylams [:=St. Kenelm's, 
 Winchcombe] Yu]d. 
 
 [Fo. 15.] 
 
 Item for my Mr. browtherhed to Sent Thomas of 
 
 Contwrbayry, the tiij day of Awgwste . . . . viiid. 
 
 Item in ray^vard to Chamberlayne and Laselse of 
 Notyngame for bryngyng of ij chylder for the 
 chapell, the r of Augwste xs. 
 
 Item in rayward to a notter [^ an otter] hunter, 
 
 the xix day of August xxd. 
 
 Item to Ser Wyllam that he layd doune for iiij 
 payre of chowse [= shoes] for iiij of the chylder 
 of the chapell , . . . . xxiij</. 
 
 Item in rayward to the ancres [= female anchorite] 
 
 at Polseworth, the same [day, 27 August] . . vii]d. 
 
 Item payd for iiij premers for the chyldern of the 
 
 chapell xd. 
 
 Septembre. 
 [Fo. 16. J 
 
 Item for Thomas Cokes cosse to Mr. Cowttes for 
 hayransus [= heronsews, young herons], the iij 
 day of September iii]d. 
 
 Item payd for payrs a gaynste my Lorde Marqwes 
 
 [of Dorset] comyng xxd. 
 
 Item to Towlle, the ix day of Septembre, by my 
 Mr. commondment wen he went of paylgramage 
 to the sweyt rowde [^ rood] of Garadyne [Garen- 
 don, CO. Leicester] xijd. 
 
385 
 
 Item in raywardes to my Lady of Polseworthe 
 hofeserse, the x day of September, lyyng ther on 
 nyght, wen my Mr. went fco my Lorde Marqwesij.?. iiijd!. 
 
 Item in rayward to my Lorde Marqwes horse- 
 
 kepers, the xij day of September xx"d. 
 
 Item in rayward to Mr. Gray servaunt for bryng- 
 yng of a praysand to WoUatun, the same day m]d. 
 
 Item for my Mr. hoferyng to Sent Annys [at Bux- 
 ton, CO. Derby] sent by Clyfton iiijrf. 
 
 Item for my Mr. hoferyng at the rowde of Notyngam, 
 
 the XXV day of September iiijc?. 
 
 Item in almys there, the same day iiijc?. 
 
 Item for ij yerdes of fwstyn for a dowblett for 
 
 Mr. Catysbe, the same day 2vjfZ. 
 
 Item for a payre of hawseclothe [=horsecloths] 
 
 for Mr. Catysbe xxd. 
 
 Item for a payre of hawseclothe for Mrs. Alyse 
 
 and Mrs. Jane, the same day xvjei. 
 
 Item for my Mr. brotherhed of Owre Lady of the 
 chapell of the Sey the last day of Sep- 
 [tembre] mid. 
 
 Item for my Mr. rayward to the Frayrse at 
 Notyngam, the laste day of September, wen 
 they made a nale [= an ale, feast] viijs. vn]d. 
 
 Item for my Mr. cosse ther, the same day . . . . xxijd!. 
 
 [Fo. 17.] 
 October. 
 
 Item payd for Mr. Catysbe bord for xv wekes and 
 
 skowlhyre and makyng of gayre, the fyrst day xxs. 
 Item for iiij yelse [=ells] of clothe for Mrs. Jane 
 
 for smowkes [= smocks], the ij day of October ijs. viijd. 
 Item to the blynd woman at WoUoton, the v day 
 
 of October, to by her a paytycott ijs. viijd. 
 
 Item to Roger Layche, the swrgeon, the same day xxd. 
 
 Item in rayward to Robert BertwU to hys 
 
 maryage, the vij day of October xxd. 
 
 Item payd for iij payre of chowse [=shoes] for the 
 
 chylder of the chappyll, the ix day of October xyii]d. 
 Item payd for bowkes and comse [= combs] for 
 
 the chyldwme of the chappell ixd. 
 
 Item a lowd to Ser Wyllam for swgar to make 
 
 conserwys, the x day of Octobre xijc?. 
 
 Item payd lynyngse and carsay and fwstyon for 
 
 Mr. Draycott and Mrs. Alice and the chylder of 
 
 the chapell, the xiij day of October, and cosse xiiijs. 
 Item in rayward to Mr. Worthe sone goyng to 
 
 Londun, the same tyme ijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item to Germon to hys weddyng, the same [tyme] xi]d. 
 
 M35 
 
386 
 
 Item payd for iij yelse [= ells] of clothe for Mrs. 
 
 Alice and Mrs. Jane for raylse^ iijs- xc?- 
 
 Item payd for halfe a dosen cappse for the chylder 
 
 of the chapell, the xx day vjs. 
 
 Item for vj pajrre of chowse for the chylder of the 
 
 chapell, the same day iij«- vijei. 
 
 [Fo. 18.] 
 
 Item in ray ward to My Lord Hastyngse mynstryll, 
 
 the xxj day of October xx'd. 
 
 Item payd for a yerd of fresse to mend on' of the 
 
 chyldwrne cottes of the chapell vjcZ. 
 
 [November.] 
 
 Item for my cosse and John' Hawward to Lenton 
 Fayre wyth iiij horsus, lyyng ther on' sennytt iijs. m]d. 
 
 [Fo. 19.] 
 
 Item in rayward to a pore man of Aston that 
 made a nale [= an ale, feast], the xij day of 
 November xx*'d. 
 
 Item in rayward to a servaunt of my Lorde of 
 Exiter's for bryngyng of a praysand, the xviij 
 day of [November] xx^'d. 
 
 December. 
 
 Item payd for the carter cosse to Bremygeam to 
 
 fayche a lode of wyne, the vj day of December xiid. 
 
 [Fo. 20.] 
 
 Item in rayward to ij men that gaytherd for 
 Fayslay [Fazeley, co. Stafford] Brege, the xxvj 
 day of December iiijf?- 
 
 Item in rayward to the chyld becheopp of Leche- 
 feld and to hys ofeserse, the xxviij day of 
 December ix5. iiiitZ. 
 
 Item in rayward to a play of Cheschyre, the 
 
 same day vj*. viijcZ. 
 
 Item in rayward to a, play that come frome My 
 Lord John Gray ij.s. 
 
 Item in rayward to ij men that gayther'd for 
 Owre Lady Brege at Tomworth, the xxix day 
 of December . . . . iiijrf. 
 
 [Fo. 21.] 
 Item to ij men that gaytherd for Bowbrege . . iii]d. 
 
 l Neck -coverings, See New English Dictionary, e.v, 'rail, sb 1,' 
 
387 
 
 1527. 
 [January.] 
 Item in raywardes to chylder on Newyarse Day 
 
 that browght praysanse iijs. 
 
 Item in rayward to a play ijs. 
 
 Item in rayward to on' that browght a praysand 
 
 frome Wyllam Gaybonse viijc^. 
 
 Summa totalis hujus libri : cxlixK. ixs. Vu\d. ob. 
 
 205. 
 1527.— Extracts from Household Accounts for Middleton, 
 18 Henry VIII. 
 
 " The bocke for nessaris for the husholde [at Mydulton Hall], 
 begyninge the furste day of Februarii, in the xviij yere of the 
 renge of K[yngJ Henre the VIIJ"^." 
 
 [Page 1.] 
 April 12. 
 
 Item paid the same tyme to Key's wyffe for a 
 
 weke makyng canduUes iiijc^. 
 
 Item paid, the xiiij. day of Aprell, for a peyre of 
 
 schowne [= shoes] for Lytyll John of the kechyn vjcZ. 
 
 Item for a pere of hossen for hym vjc^. 
 
 Item for a cape for hym the same day .... xd. 
 
 [Page 42.] 
 
 For stuffe bought at Lechefylde feyre, [consisting of fish, 
 honey, oil, figs, sugar-loaves, " a skemur" [ =:scummer], "vj.li. 
 of lymans conserva vs."] 
 
 [Page 46. Charges for spinning linen.] 
 
 [Page 49. — Charges for making wax.] 205. 
 
 1541. — " Thys booke made the xxix*"^ day of Aprell, in 
 the xxxiij*'' yere off the reyne off Our Sovereyn ' Lord Kyng 
 Henry the VIIJ"* for wedyng off corne, mowyng of gresse, 
 makyng off hey, sheyryng off corne, and mowyng off corne, 
 leydyng corne, workyng at Halywell, thresshyng off corne, 
 and for all other thynges pertejoiyng therunto." 205. 
 
 1542-3. — ^Account of expenditure on " fresshe accates " 
 from 28 February, 33 Henrv VIII, to 12 March, [34 Henry 
 VIII], amounting to 94Z. 19,s. S^d., including 221. 14s. Id. 
 for Hng, cod, stockfish, " a fyrkyn of oyle, viijs. riijd.," and 
 six mattes, bought at Sturbryge Fair, carriage thereof from 
 the fair to Wolaton by Myghell of Cossall, 15s., and costs of 
 Ysebrand Barnaby and Thomas Hyde at the fair, 12s. 9d., 
 and 111. 8s. 8d. for purchases at Boston, consisting of six 
 barrels of white herrings, eight " cades " of red herring, a 
 barrel of pitch, 9s., half a hundred of " alygraunte' fans (?)," 
 7s. 6d., "a topytte of fygges derte," 5s., boat-hire from Boston 
 
 1 Cf. New English Dictionary, s.v. 'Elegante, 1,' a dried fruit. 
 
388 
 
 to Brygend,^ carriage from Brygend to Grantam, 7s. 4d., 
 and from Grantam to Wolaton, 20s., and the costs of 
 Ysebrand Barnaby and Thomas Hyde " at the same jorney, 
 goyng and comyng," 15s. lOd. Signed in a very shaky hand : 
 " John' Willughby." [In bad condition from damp.] 205, 
 
 1542-3. Extracts from account by John Tmssell of 
 " the expences and charges layed downe by him in my 
 maister's rydyng forthe and otherwayes in rewardes sythe 
 [= since] the last haudet [= audit] that was on the iiij"" 
 day of Merche," 33 Henry VIII [to 25 February, 1543]. 
 
 [Fo. 1.] 
 1542. 
 
 " In primis, the xxiiij"* day of Merche, for your ser- 
 vanttes deyner at the essyes [= assize] in Nottynggam : _ 
 
 For M[ais]ter Gabriell and his servant . . . . vjd. 
 
 Item for M[ais]ter Mermeon i^]d. 
 
 Item for James Thurland iij*^- 
 
 Item for Henry Pylkyngton iij<^. 
 
 Item for Thomas Brasbryge uj«^- 
 
 Item for John Lyvsay iij/?- 
 
 Item for Olyver Holand \i\d. 
 
 Item for Thomas Boude ijj^- 
 
 Item for Merloue i}]/^- 
 
 Item for Chamberlavn ^^d. 
 
 Item for John Pooll \i]d. 
 
 Item for BrouneU iij*^- 
 
 Item for John TrusseU m]d. 
 
 Item for Urban Hall and his horssys vc?. 
 
 Item for Blewe ii]d. 
 
 Item to Robert Cookes wyffe for alle [= ale] to 
 
 your selph ij*^- 
 
 In expences at Not[tynggam] at the xvii"> day of 
 Aperyell, at the quarter sessyons. [Details of expenditure 
 with fourteen servants.] 
 
 In expences at your goyng to Medylton, the xviij* day 
 of Aperiell ; fyrst for your dener at Ashby. [Details.] 
 
 [Fo. 2.] 
 
 The month of Mey. 
 
 In primis, the fyrst day of Mey, to a pore man 
 of Stapilforthe [Stapleford, co. Notts] at the 
 churche dore ]d. 
 
 Item the xviij* day of May, at the dyrige for 
 
 my Maister's father to iiij prestes xvjtif. 
 
 1 The Brigge mentioned in connexion with Ropsley, near Orantham, eo. 
 Lincoln, as the termination of water carriage (bj' the Rivw Glen ?) from 
 Lynn in Rutlqnd MSS., iv, p. 481, 
 
389 
 
 Tke month oi Junii. 
 
 In {sic) the second day of June at Not[tynggamJ at the 
 syttyng for the loond [=loan] money, for your ser\rantes 
 deyner that where there. [Details.] 
 Item the thyrde day of June, I whent to 
 Not[tynggam] for to speke wyth Henry Moulde 
 and for the proclamation ther maid as touching 
 hawokes : expences \]d. 
 
 [Po. 3.] 
 [July.] 
 
 Item to the mynstrell and a boy that dawnssed viiji^. 
 
 The xxiij day of July in rydyng to Badsly [Baddesley, 
 CO. Warwick] at your gattes [ = gates] goyng furthe. 
 In primis to Merloo son and a nother mynstrell 
 
 wyth hym vii jcZ. 
 
 At Badsley : 
 
 Item to Roger that kepis the stell xijd. 
 
 Item to the cooke ya.\d. 
 
 Item to the grome of the chambers xijc?. 
 
 Item to the butler xijci. 
 
 Item to the ij horskepers vjci. 
 
 Item to the keper of the parcke iijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item to a pore man at the gattes ]d. 
 
 Item as ye rode by Coventre to the poore housys 
 
 ther iiijrf. 
 
 Item for your houndys ther by Badsley . . . . \\d. 
 Item for your hunttes' [= huntsmen's] drynck 
 
 over nyght and meyte in the momyng . . . . iiij<Z. 
 
 Item for your horsys all nyght i\d. 
 
 The xxvj. day of July at Mr. Smythes : 
 In primis to the jentilwoman that kepte the stell 
 
 and the chambers xij(f. 
 
 [Payments to butler, cook, and park-keeper.] 
 Item to a pore man at the gattes [= gates] that 
 
 was a hermytte i\d. 
 
 Item, the same day, at Haderston [= Atherstone, 
 
 CO. Warwick] for a galon of secke xijc?. 
 
 [Fo. 4.] 
 
 At Wichnor [co. Stafford], the xviij day of July. 
 
 [Payments to butler, cook, groom of the chambers, brewer, 
 porter, park-keeper.] 
 Item to ij men for caryeng your bucke fourthe 
 
 of Trent V]d. 
 
390 
 
 At Staunton XStaunton Harold, co. Leicester] and Ascheby 
 [Ashby-de-la-Zouch, co. Leicester,] the xix. 
 Item to a gentilwoman that kepte the chambers xijd. 
 
 [Payments to butler, cook, park-keeper, horse-keeper, the 
 keeper's man at the park gate.] 
 Item for viij of your servantes and your howndes 
 
 [struck out] at Ascheby, ther dryncke over nyght 
 
 and ther brecfast in the mornyng ijs. 
 
 Your howndes vljd. 
 
 [Charges for horse-shoeing and repairing saddlery.] 
 
 [Fo. 5.] 
 
 Reywardes for presantes at Medilton and in dimes. 
 
 Item, the same day [8 July], to Mr. Swynfyn's man 
 
 for grousse iiijt^- 
 
 Item to Mr. Lyle's man for brynging a capon and 
 
 a pecoke iiijd. 
 
 The moneth of August, at Wollaton. 
 
 Item, the x*'> day of August, for Thomas Bertlet and 
 myselph goyng to Medilton to se the bedyng for 
 my Lorde Merquis [of Dorset] set forth in chaum- 
 bers where thei wold apoynte them : in expences 
 ther , . . . xvjd. 
 
 [Fo. 6.] 
 
 [Account of wheat and corn consumed " at Medylton 
 when my Mr. lay ther."] 
 
 The eater's bill, the vij"' day of July, at Medilton. 
 [Details. Other accounts for 14, 22 and 27 July.] 
 
 [Fo. 8.] 
 
 The month of September. 
 Item, the xxvij"' day of September, to a servant 
 of Basfordes of Not[tynggam] for bryngyng of 
 the copie of a proclamation from my Lord of 
 Norf ocke, for his peyns ijd. 
 
 [Fo. 9.] 
 
 The moneth of October. 
 
 Item, the second day of October, for your men that 
 whent wyth you to the sessyons at Notyngam. 
 [Expenditure of Id. each on thirteen servants 
 and Zd. for the horses.] 
 
 The moneth of November. 
 
 At Notynggam, the xx"^ day, for your company 
 that whent wyth you to the New Sessyons. [Ten 
 servants \d. each, and the horses.] 
 Item, the same day, to Cochett wyffe, for ale tiiat 
 
 she sent into the haule to my maister, in reward iiijd. 
 
391 
 
 Item, the xxij" day of November, to too pore men 
 as you come from the churche, one of them was 
 of Bulwell [Notts] and th'other beyng lame .. ijd. 
 
 [Po. lO.J 
 
 1543. 
 
 The moneth of January. 
 Item, the viij"' day of January, for your ser- 
 vantes that whent with you to the quarter 
 sessions, for them that dyd drynck at Robert 
 Cooke's howsse, as you commandyd them to doo xni'jd. 
 
 Beywardes and almys. 
 
 Item, the same day of the sessions, to the ser- 
 geaunts of Nottyngam in reywarde at your 
 goyng to horsse xijd. 
 
 Item, the xv day of January, to a woman of 
 Lycetershyre that whent wyth a testymonyall 
 for burnyng of hyr howsse in]d. 
 
 Item, the xviij"" day of January, in reyward to 
 Richard Yerton [= Ireton], servaunt to M[ais]ter 
 Wjmfilde V5 
 
 Item, the xxv*' day of Januarii, to a clarcke goyng 
 
 for orders cauled John' Gleyden in almes . . iiijrf. 
 
 [Fo. 11.] 
 The moneth of Feybruari. 
 
 To one of the blacke garde cauled Perrs, the iiij"" 
 
 day of Feyhniarii, in reyward viijrf. 
 
 Item, the xij*'' day of Feyhruarii, to William 
 Tomson that dothe laye for to kyll rattes and 
 myesse in your howsse at WoUaton iijs. iiijrf. 
 
 Also, the xix*'' day of Feybruary, for your expences 
 of your servauntes in ther drynckeyng at 
 Notynggam at the sessyons ther holdyn [nine 
 servants \d. each]. 
 
 Item, the same day, to a pore man as you come 
 from thence without the Chapell Bar [at Not- 
 tingham] ]d. 
 
 Item, the xxv*' of Feyhruarii, to one of the 
 kynges pursyvaunttes cauled Adam Gayes- 
 
 quyen [= Gascoigne] in reyward iijs. iiijtZ. 
 
 205. 
 
 1542-3.— Extracts from "The boke of necessaryes for^he 
 howsehold, begynnyng the iiij''^ day of Merche, in the 
 xxxiijW' yere of the reign of our soveraign Lorde Kyng 
 Henre the VllJth," [to 10 March, 34 Henry VIII]. Agricul- 
 tural charges include " mowyng of brakyn " and " sheryng 
 and moying of come.' 
 
S52 
 
 1542. 
 
 [Fo. 4 verso.] 
 
 Item at Gosefeyr [= Goose Fair] at Not[ynghain] 
 for ij payre of treyses [entered before " the last 
 day of Septembre "] . . . . viijrf. 
 
 Item paid for xKij leyes of candyll weyke at iijd. the 
 
 leye, bought at Faresley Feyer xs. viijti. (sic). 
 
 [Fo. 6.] 
 1543. 
 
 The viij'* day of Januari. 
 Item payd to the parysshe clerke for his yeres wages xvjd. 
 
 [Fo. 8 verso.] 
 Pytche and terre bought by Robert Averey at Mawnsfelde 
 Feyre, as folowyth. [Details.] 
 
 [Fo. 12.] 
 
 1542. 
 
 The vij*'' day of Octobre for rollyng of pease and worch- 
 ynge [=: working] in the garden. [Details.] 
 
 [Fo. 17.] 
 The boke of wages by the yere for servynge men, hyndes and 
 
 other as folowyth : 
 
 Fjn-st, payd to gentylmen, yomen and ofEycers 
 thejo-e dim. [= half] yeres wages dewe at the 
 feaste of Saynt John' Baptyste laste, as more 
 pleynly dothe appere by a byll of particular 
 sommes therof maide xxxvjK. xvs, 
 
 [Fo. 18.] 
 
 Certen clothes for lyvereys bought at sOndrye tymes 
 for my Mr. servauntes as foloweth : [one piece of 
 25 yards at 4s. a yard ; another of 24| yards 
 at 35. lOflf. ; a third of 25J yards at 3s. Sd. ; 
 a fourth of 24 yards at 3s. Qd. ; a fifth of 26 
 yards at 3s. %d. ; a sixth of 24 yards at 3s. M. ; 
 a seventh of 26 yards at 3s. M. ; an eighth of 
 25^ yards at 3s. 4rf.] 
 
 Item payd to Mr. Smythe of Derby for iiij dosyns 
 of clothe for the hyndes [= agricultural labourers] 
 at ijs. iiijc?. the yarde : the price . . . . yU. xijs. 
 
 Item payd to Wylliam Day of Derby, clothyer, 
 the last day of November, one pece of clothe, 
 conteynynge xxv'<= yardes at ijs. xd. the yarde 
 
 iijZi. xs. viijrf. (sic) 
 SumrrM totalis : xlvii. ijs. xjd. 
 
d93 
 
 [Po. 19.] 
 
 The receytes for slaughter, hydes and skynnes to the use of 
 my Mr. as folowith : [Details.] 
 
 [Fo. 21.] 
 
 Stuff receyvd of Christopher StocJces of Not[yngham\, ire- 
 monger, from the [blank] day of [blank], in the xxxiij^ yere 
 of oure soveraign Lorde Kynge Henre the VIIJ^, as foloweth : 
 [No details given]. 
 
 [Fo. 23.] 
 
 Certen wedders to fede bought at sondrye tymes, as followith : 
 
 [Details.] 
 The fyrste day of June, hogges [= sheep] bought at 
 
 Adylton Fayre in the northe, as foloweth : [Details of 
 
 180 "hogges" bought.] 
 
 Item payd for passage of the sayd hogges at 
 Roderam [Rotheram, co. York], comynge 
 whomwarde^ 
 
 Item payd in rewardes to the pynders helpynge 
 to kepe the sayd hogges from the come as they 
 drove thorowe the feldes^ 
 
 [Fo. 23 verso.] 
 
 Certen heyffes, bathe oxen and hyne, bought by 
 Robert Averey, as folowelh : [Details, including 
 purchases of beasts at " Newark Fayer at the 
 Invencion of the Holye Crosse," and at " Byr- 
 myiam [Birmingham] Faver, on the Ascencion 
 Day laste," and (fo. 24) '" at Chesterfeld Feyre 
 laste."] 
 
 Summa^ : cccxxvU. xiiijs. rjd. 
 
 [Fo. 24 verso.] 
 
 [Weekly accounts of consumption of corn.] 
 
 205. 
 
 1547, September 29, to 1548, Sept. 29. " Chargez of the 
 howsholde for on' yere, whych ys from Mychellmas, in 
 the fyrst yere of Edvarde the Syxt, unto Mychelmas, 
 in the secunde yere of Kynge Edvard the Syxt, and spent 
 as here after foloyth : 
 
 Fyrst of wheat . . . . xxvj quarterz and a peck. 
 Item of mastlen 
 
 [= mixed corn] . . xxxv quarterz. 
 
 1 The margin containing the figures has been torn away. 
 
 2 Of the whole account in the book. 
 
394 
 
 Item of malt . . . . v^^ xiij quarterz and v stryk. 
 Item of bevys [= beeves] xxxij. 
 
 Of muttonz vj"xj. 
 
 The chargez of the howsholde as of frescates 
 [^ fresh acates, or purchases] of beyfes, mut- 
 tonz, bread and drynk, as apperythe rated by 
 
 thys book for thys yere ys viij^^ and vijii. 
 
 Butter receyved from the dayre [during the 
 
 time specified above] to the some of . . xxxviijs. i]d. 
 Chesez receyved from the dayre [for the same 
 time] to the some of fourtene skowre and fyvfe 
 
 chesez, valued to the somme xlviijs. vjti. 
 
 Item receyved from the day howse [during the 
 aforesaid time] : 
 
 Fyrst of porkettes . . xv, valusd to the some of xlvs. 
 Item of pygges . . . . x, valued to the some of iijs. iiij(i. 
 Item of lard swyne . . v, valued to the some of 
 
 xxxiijs. iiijo!. 
 Item of calves . . . . viij, valued to the some of xvjs." 
 
 The book gives minute tabular accounts day by day of the 
 receipt and consumption of articles of food. Notes are given 
 at the foot of the pages of the numbers of workmen who were, 
 apparently, fed, and of the following : 
 
 [1547.] 
 
 October 16. " Thys day my master rode towrdes London " 
 (cancelled). 
 
 October 21. " Thys day camme the Lorde Thomas Grey 
 and hys servandes." 
 
 November 4. " Thys day came to dener Mayster Rygley 
 and hys bedfeylow." 
 
 November 9. " Thys day were vj. caregez [as boon-works]." 
 
 November 26. " Thys day where maryed the wedoe." 
 
 November 27. " Thys day where at breykfast Warde and 
 hys companye." 
 
 November 28. "Thys day where iiij. carages of kyddes " 
 [= faggots]. 
 
 December 9. " Thys day came Mr. Wyngfyld, hes wyfE, 
 and ther iij. servanddes." 
 
 December 13. " Thys day came my mayster from Lon- 
 don." 
 
 December 25. " Thys day, beyng Chrystynmas day, my 
 mayster feastyd all the tenantes." 
 
 [1548.] 
 
 January 1. — " Thys day, beyng Newe yerez day, my 
 mayster had many strangerz." 
 
 January 3. " Thys day dyed my Lade."i 
 
 1 Anne, daughter of Tliomas Grey, J\[arqiiis of Dorpct, wife of Henry 
 Willoughby, esquire. In the monument in Wollaton church to her and her 
 husband the date of her death is given as 1546, that is 1547 New Style 
 (Thoroton, Antiquities of Notts., p. 226). 
 
395 
 
 January 3. " Thys day cam my Lord Marqueux,i my 
 Lord Thomas Grey, and my Lord John, and Mr. Tresoror and 
 hys servandes." 
 
 January 4. " Thys day cam Mr. Dygby and hes ser- 
 vandes." 
 
 January 5. " Thys day cam a docter and hys man." 
 
 January 7. " Thy day cam Mr. Aston and hys ij. ser- 
 vandes." 
 
 January 8. " Thys day rode my mayster towardes Brod- 
 gate."2 
 
 January 11. " Thys day cam maystres Dreycott and hyr 
 servantes." 
 
 January 16. " Thys day cam the Lord John Grey and my 
 mayster and ther servandes from Brodgate." 
 
 February 2. " Thys day rode my mayster, Mr. Wyngfyld, 
 hys bedfeylow, and ther servandes towardes Brodgate." 
 
 March 4. " Thys day cam Mr. Pynnock mayster." 
 
 March 6. " Thys day rode awey Mr. Wyngfyld, Mr. Neyll, 
 and ther servandes." 
 
 March 19. " Thys day came the Lorde Thomas Grey and 
 hes servantt." 
 
 March 22. " Thys day rode awey the Lorde Thomas Grey 
 and my mayster to Brodgate." 
 
 April 9. " Thys weyck came from Wolarton iij. caregcs 
 with vj. workmen." 
 
 April 16. "Thys day came Mr. Burdyt and hys iij. ser- 
 vandes." 
 
 April 19. " Thys day rode my mayster towrdes London." 
 
 May 16. " Thys day came my mayster from London." 
 
 May 23. " Thys day cam Sir Marmaduck Constable, Mr. 
 Burdet, Mr. Horton, and ther servandes." 
 
 May 28. " Thys day came Londone[r]z with other stran- 
 gerz." 
 
 June 1. " Thys day rode awey the Londonerz with other 
 strangerz." 
 
 June 6. "Thys day cam iiij. of the Frogmortonz [Throg- 
 mortonsj and ther servandes." 
 
 June 21. " Thys day came the Lorde Thomas Grey and 
 hes servandes." 
 
 June 26. " Thys day rode awey the Lorde Thomas Grey 
 and my mayster to Brodegate." 
 
 July 28. " Thys day where the prechyng at the Halt." 
 
 August 1. " Thys day rode my mayster towrdes Brod- 
 gate." 
 
 August 14. " Thys day came my mayster howme." 
 
 August 18. " Thys day came the Lorde Thomas Grey and 
 hys servant." 
 
 August 21. " Thys day came the Lorde Marquez with 
 other gentnmen and ther servandes." 
 
 1 Henry, Marquis of Dorset, brother of Anne, wife of Henry Willoughby. 
 
 2 Bradgate Park, co. Leicester, the seat of the Marquis of Dorset. 
 
396 
 
 August 24. "Thys day rode awey the Lorde Marques 
 with other gentilmen and ther servandes." 
 
 September 10. " Thys day came Mr. GryfEen and hys ser- 
 vandes." 
 
 September 12. " Thys day where maryed Darbye." 
 
 September 23. "Thys weycke where at the Hall Mr. 
 Marmyon, Mr. Barwyck, Trussell,i Mr. Dreycott, Brownell, 
 with other." 
 
 September 25. " Thys wycke where at the Hall vij. of the 
 hyndes of Wolarton." 205. 
 
 1549-50. — " The charges of the ynriyng of the corne and 
 hey, with all other charges of the howswold at WoUaton, 
 layde forth by John Trussell, the tenth day of August, beyng 
 the fyrst in the thyrde yere of Edwarde the Syxte [and 
 endj'nge the iiij""- yere abowte the Annunciacion of Our 
 Ladye]." 
 
 The words in brackets, are added in the same hand as the 
 following note : — " Nota, my brother WiUoughbye deceassed 
 xxvij° Augusti, E. VI. 3," referring to the death of Henry 
 Wiiloughby, who was slain by Rett's rebels. The hand- 
 writing appears to be that of George Medley, esquire, of 
 Tiltey, co. Essex, executor of the will of Henry WiUoughby. 
 At page 6 there is written in the same hand : — " Nota, that 
 in the myddest off this weake, viz. xxvij" Augusti, was my 
 brother WiUoughbye slayne at Norwyche." 205. 
 
 1549-1556. — " A breef declaracion of the severall accomptes 
 and reconynges as well of George Medley, esquyer, and 
 Gabriell Barwike and John Hall, gentyllmen, executors of 
 Henrye WiUughbie, esquyer, deceassed, as of all baylyffes 
 and other ministres of all and everye suche revenues, goodes, 
 cattail and other proffyttes that are appoynted towardes 
 the performaunce of the last will and testament of the saied 
 Henry WiUughbie, for vij hole yeres, ended the xviij"' daye 
 of Marche, annis regnorum re^is et regine Philippi et Marie 
 ij^o et iij"o." Summaries of accounts of all sorts. At fo. 
 63 verso is an inventory of household furniture and agricultural 
 implements at Myddleton and WuUerton, with notes that 
 certain items had been sent to Brodgate. 
 
 [Fo. 66 verso.] 
 
 " Thall [= the hall], the dyning chamber, the inner cham- 
 ber, the little chamber, the great and inner parlors, the mote 
 chamber, and parcell of the kynges chamber are seled with 
 waynescote and oke at Middleton," followed by list of 
 " selynge, waynskote, and stoore " at Myddleton and Wul- 
 lerton, comprising " peces of wayneskote," " sealynge 
 
 1 John Trussell, a servant of Henry Wiiloughby, who renders account in 
 this book of the personal expenses of his master, travelling expenses, etc. 
 
397 
 
 bourdes," " enterteisis,"i " standerds," "planckes," " bedd- 
 pillars turned," "bourdes of dyvers sortes," " bedd-sides," 
 '^'^ Flaunders tile," "rent [=riven] bourdes," " tubbe staves." 
 "leads," "panes of glasse for wyndowes," " cacementes." 
 Next are inventories of " chappell stuff," " th'armorur," 
 " necessariis for houshold " (including one screen, one virginal, 
 one clock). At fo. 69 verso is " A note of all the geldynges 
 belongyng to Mr. Henry Willoughbie at the day of his 
 death," giving names and particulars of twenty five horses 
 and one mule at Myddleton and of twenty horses, mares, 
 colts and fillies at Wullerton. 205. 
 
 1549 to 1562. — Extracts from account of George Medley . 
 of legal and other expenses as guardian of the children of 
 Henry WiUoughby, esquire. 
 
 " Ryding charges and other expences in London during the 
 tyme of myne abode in London abought the causes of my 
 brother Willoughbyes wyU, in anno tercio Edwardi Sexti 
 [1549-501." 
 
 [Page 17.] 
 
 1553. 
 
 Hilary term, 7 Edward VI. and 1 Mary, " Nota, this term 
 I hadd much busynez with Sir Hughe Wylloughbye, ^ as well 
 for the arreragez of an annuytye going out of his landes liable 
 to my brother WyUoughbyes wyll, as also to goe thoroughe 
 with hym for aU other matters in variaunce betwene us, 
 wherunto he promysed before my Lorde of Suffolke he woolde 
 shewe hymsefi confyrmable " 
 
 " Item, for my costes and chargez from Tyltey to WoUatton 
 and henc home agayne, rydyng theyther to dystrayne Sir 
 Huighe WyUoughbyes tenauntes for the annuytye going owt 
 of his landes, and for to take order with the tannere of 
 Nottingham, whoe denyed the payment of the barke money 
 in Aspley woode [Aspley, in New Radford, Nottingham], 
 and for the tyUage of the pasturez and demeanes of Wollatton 
 and Sutton Passus, according to the estatute, anno vj° E. 
 Sexti, and to appoynt with Lewes the plomer for his commyng 
 to WoUatton for the soughe^ there, iiijli. xjs. iiijd." 
 
 [Page 18.] 
 
 Easter and Trinity terms, in the same year : " . . . . 
 In rewarde to the counseU lamed for their advyse uppon Sir 
 Huighe WyUoughbies demaunde, when hee offered to seU 
 his landes to th'use of my nepveu Frauncis WiUoughbye 
 
 1 Horizontal pieces of wood connecting vertical pieces (here, apparently, 
 part of the wainscotting or ceiling). See New English Dictionary, a.v. 
 ' Interdice,' where the earliest quotation is 1S17. 
 
 2 The Arctic explorer, half brother of Sir John WiUoughby, the grand- 
 father of Medley's wards. 
 
 8 A ' sough ' or drain, a word still in use locally. 
 
398 
 
 better oheape then to any other, xxxiijs. iiijc? 
 
 Item, for my ryding chargez to and froe Tyltey to London at 
 too severall tymez, with horsemeate, xxvjs. viijcZ. Theise 
 twoe termez I was occasioned to ryde to London for Sir Huighe 
 Wylloughbye, whoe before his departing into Moscovia made 
 request to my Lorde of Suffolke to take somme order with 
 me and John Hall for the purchasse of his landes, which 
 after he solde ymmedyately to Mr. Whalley. 
 
 Memorandum also that Sir Huighe Wylloughbye theise twoe 
 termez made grete sute and labor by meanez of his frendes 
 to dissolve the injuncion which was served uppon hym in 
 Trinitie terme E. Sexti vj°., for the withstonding wherof T 
 ■ was dryven to geve greate attendaunce at my Lorde 
 Chauncellour's at dyvers tymez these twoe termez." 
 
 [Page 19.] 
 
 Michaelmas term, in the same year. "For my costes to 
 London this terme to attende my Lorde of Suffolke for the 
 redempcion of the wardship of my nepveu Thomas Wyllough- 
 bye, Mr. Marmyon and John Hall being made privye therto, 
 xjs. viij«^. ; for my abode at London xiiij. dayes, Ivjs. ; and 
 for my costes of retorne to Tyltey, xijs. ; for horssemete liijs. 
 iiijc^., viz. lytter and haye and provender ; and for shoing my 
 horsez, ryding to and froe, ijs. : vjK. xvs. . . . Item, 
 payde to my Lorde of Suffolke in partie payment of a M.K. 
 for the redempcion of the wardship and mariage of my sayd 
 cosyn, which Sir Foulke Grevyll woolde elles have bought 
 of my sayd Lord, exxvK." 
 
 [Page 21.] 
 
 " To the clarke of the signett for the chargez of wrj^ing 
 and the scale of lycence for my coosyn Thomas Wylloughbye 
 to goe over the seaez to the universitye of Parys to studye, 
 Marie R. primo, vjs. viij(i." 
 
 [Page 23.] 
 
 Hilary term, 2 Mary : " This terme I hadde to doe with 
 Gromewell and with Mr. George Wylloughbye, who demaunded 
 all the evidences of the Castell in Holbourne, which is intayled 
 by the last wyll of my brother Wylloughbye." 
 
 [Page 37.] 
 Trinity and Easter terms, 4 and 5 Philip and Mary : 
 " Item, for horssemeate all nyght in London at the Crowne, 
 with the meate of twoe horssez in the Mynnyrys, vijs. ijrf." 
 
 [Page 41.] 
 
 " For too socketes of brasse made by the advyce of Lewys 
 the plomer for the pomping of the water owte of the pyttes 
 at WoUatton, xlvs." 
 
399 
 
 [Page 46.] 
 1559. 
 
 Anno primo E[lizabethe] Regine. 
 
 " To my nepveu Thomas Wylloughbye, vij" Aprilis, toward 
 his better furnyture of his mynoritie, by th' appoyntment of 
 his father's executowrs, xii]U. vjs. viijcZ. Item, more to hym 
 in full payment of xxvjZi. xiijs. iiijci. for one quarter due to 
 hym by the sayd executours' appoyntment payd to th' handes 
 
 of William Rypington, 3" Junii, xn]li vjs. viijt^ 
 
 Item, to Phyllyp, my servaunt, for his chargez ryding to Horsse- 
 ley to the corte with Henry Medley, signifying to my Lord 
 John that my nepveu Thomas Wylloughbye was departed, 
 and for Frauncis wardship, xiijs. xd." 205. 
 
 1550-1558. — Account of George Medley, guardian of Francis 
 and Margaret Willoughby, of expenditure for their board, 
 clothing, education, etc. This account is endorsed " Mr. 
 Medeleis account." It is written in a beautifully regular 
 court hand, quite different from the writing of the notes to 
 the preceding account. 
 
 1550. 
 
 Memorandum that my nepvew Fraunces Wylloughbye and 
 my nece Margarett Wylloughby, his syster, came to Tyltey, 
 the xxj"" of Apryll, anno regni regis Edwardi Sexfi quarto, 
 in the after none, and with theym came theise persons 
 folowing : 
 
 Mystris Lenton 
 
 Elizabeth Helham 
 
 Thomas Eton 
 
 John HaU 
 
 Barthus. Wydowson 
 
 Yonge Style 
 
 Henley 
 
 Varneham 
 
 Mathewe Hynde 
 
 John Lecester 
 
 Merycoxe 
 
 Eton's man 
 
 They brought with theym xiij. geldinges, which remayned 
 at Tyltey and were kept in the house that space. 
 
 Item Bridge the caryer came at that tyme with their stuffe 
 with fyve horssez and twoe other men with theym, and 
 remayned with their horssez at Tyltey the fyrst nyght. 
 
 [Page 2.] 
 
 For my nece, April 26. 
 
 Item for syxe elles of lynnen cloth at xv]d. the ell, 
 viijs. ; for an ounce of blacke counterfet Spayn- 
 ysshe sylke, xviijrf ixs. vjd. 
 
 Theyse remayned at Tyl- 
 tey the sayd xxj"" daye 
 and the xxij"' daye after, 
 and upon the xxiij*'' daye 
 after brekefaste they de- 
 parted . 
 
400 
 
 Item for an ounce of blake Venyoe Spaynyshe 
 sylke . . ijs- iiud. 
 
 Item for ii. payre of shoez for Fraunces . . viijrf. 
 
 For a boke for the churche service for my neece, 
 iiijs. ; for a qujrre of paper for her, u]d iiijs. iiid. 
 
 Item for sope to washe their lynnen , . . . iijs. iiij^. 
 
 Item payde to Bridge, the caryer of Lester, for 
 cariyng to Tyltey of the chyldern's bedd, at the 
 second tyme, which bedd at the fyrst cariage was 
 lefte behynde at Brodegate xs. 
 
 Item, xix° Junii, for a payre of beUowes for 
 their chamber, vjc?. ; for almondes dim. a pounde 
 of theym, ii]d. ; for a quyre of paper for them, 
 iijd xi]d. 
 
 July 12. 
 
 For a byble for my neece Margaret xijs. ; for 
 three yardes of blacke russell for a kyrtell for her 
 at ijs. the yearde, vjs. ; for too yeardes of blacke 
 cotton for lynyng, xy]d. ; for one ounce of lace, 
 halfe rounde and halfe flate, xvjei. ; for bone lace 
 for her necke, xd. ; for blackerybond for gyrdells for 
 her, vjd. ; for an ell of fyne holland to worcke 
 in, ijs. y]d. ; for a thousand of pynnez, viij^i. ; for 
 a hundred of nedelles, viijcZ xxvs. xd. 
 
 [Page 3.] 
 
 For my nephew Fraunces for a payre of knytte 
 hosen, xi]d. ; for twoe yeardes of whyght fustyan 
 to make sloppes, xxijd. ; for a pounde of sugere 
 plate and greate comfettes to make hym larne 
 his booke, xxrf. ; for twoe absez [ABC's] jd. . . iiijs. vijd. 
 
 For halfe a pounde of counters for ray nece, 
 conteynyng in number xl", to learne to caste 
 with all viijrf. 
 
 July 26. 
 For F[rances] W[illoughby]. 
 
 Payde to the taylor of Walden for bockeram 
 for a fustyan dublett, v]d. ; for makyng a fustyan 
 dublett and a payre of sloppez, vjrf. ; for three 
 naylez of fustyan for the same, ij<i xiiijd. 
 
 Item for makyng a gowne, ijs. ; for a quarter 
 of russelP for the same, vd. ; for fustyan for the 
 bodyez, viijd. ; for halfe a yearde of cotton for 
 the plytez, iijrf. ; for claspez, jd iijs. yd. 
 
 September 9. 
 
 To Kyllymarche of Dunmowe, the joyner, for 
 a coffer for my nece Margarett viijs. 
 
 1 iVed-colour^d cloth. 
 
401 
 
 September 20. 
 For three quarters of red brode cloth for a pety- 
 cote for my nece, vs. ; for halfe a yearde of redde 
 russell for upper bodyez for the same, viij«i. . . vs. viijd, 
 
 [Page 4.J 
 
 For halfe a yearde of rattes color clothe for a 
 
 coate for Fraunces, iiijs. rn]d. ; for an ell of cotton 
 
 to lyne the same, ixd. ; for a yearde of whyte 
 
 fustyan for sloppez for hym, xijd. ; for a dozen 
 
 of buttons, iijd Yjs. ri]d.(sic). 
 
 Item for twoe yeardes of lynnen cloth to lyne 
 
 upper bodyez and dublettes xvjd. 
 
 To Grynfelde for his costes to bye att Walden 
 aU thys aforsayde stuffe vijd. 
 
 Mystres Lenton's byll payd xj°. of November eodem anno : 
 FjTste to William Gorton for twoe yeardes of 
 buckeram for my nece's vardingale, xv]d. ; to 
 Broune for three payere of glovez for the chyldren, 
 vd. ; to Peersez wyffe tor a payere of shoez for 
 Fraunces, vd. ; to John Gonne for a quarter of 
 whyghte thryde, xvii]d. ; to Proctour for a payre 
 of bellowez, vjd. ; for twoe erthen pannez and one 
 poot, vjd. ; for a pounde of watchyng candell, 
 ijd. ; for a payll, iiijd. ; to George Taylor for 
 covering my necez vardingale ^ and for reedd clothe 
 for the same, xd. ; to Johne Gonne for a penner and 
 inckehome for my nece Margarett, m]d. ; for 
 whyght thryde for here, xijd. ; to G[e]orge Taylor 
 for cuttyng Fraunces' grenne coate and for laying 
 buckeram in my nece's gowne, iiijt^. ; for a flaskett, 
 iiijrf. ; to Steven Brokeseed for clensyug the 
 seege [=petty], iiijc? viijs. iiij<i. 
 
 [Page 5.] 
 
 To Mother Ejmnever for twoe burthen of russhez, 
 i]d. ; for a payere of shoez for my neece Margarett, 
 vjd. ; for an iverye combe for her, xijd. ; for a 
 dossen of poyntes^ for my nepveu Fraunces, vu.]d. ; 
 for a payere of knytt hosez, vjd. ; for a payere of 
 knyvez, iiijd. ; to William Gorton in rewarde for 
 wayting on my nece Margarett to my Ladye Aud- 
 leyez house, xijd. ; for a payre of garters, i]d. ; to 
 George Tayllour for making a doblett and a payre 
 of sloppez for my nepveu Fraunces, vjd. ; to hym 
 for lynyng for the same, ixd. ; item for the makyng 
 of his taffyta coate, viijd. ; for a payre of shoez 
 for Mres. Margarett, vijd. ; for abces [ABC's], 
 
 1 Farthingale, a hooped petticoat. See New English Dictionary. 
 
 2 See page 329, note 1, above. 
 
 M 26 
 
402 
 
 ijrf. ; . . . . for two frose pastez/ iiijrf. ; for 
 corse thryde and a dosen of lether poyntes, i]d ; 
 for foure pounde of wooll for knyttyng hosen for 
 my nepveu Fraunces, iijs. iiijd 
 
 [Page 6.] 
 
 To Mystres Whytney for an ell of carsey [r=kersey] 
 to make my nece hossen, iiijs. iiijd. ; for an ell of 
 fustyan to make Fraunces slevez, xijd. ; . . . . 
 for a jugge for the chamber, n]d. ; to Mother 
 Ennyver for spynnyng a pounde of yearne, vd. ; 
 . . . . to Gorge Taylour for makjmg a damaske 
 coate and a pa3nre of sieves, xi]d. 
 
 November 12. 
 
 Payd to Dyxon upon his byU for three quarters 
 of brode cloth for a gowne for Fraunces Wylloughbye, 
 vjs. vu]d. ; item for three elles of holland for 
 shyrtes, iiijs. iijrf. ; item for a yeard and a halfe 
 of blacke cotton for the gowne, xij<^. . . . . xjs. x]d. 
 
 Item payde to William Taylor for three yeardes 
 of fryse for Hudson's coate at xiiijc^. the 
 yearde. iijs. vjd. 
 
 [Page 7.] 
 
 For vj. ellez of canvas for a pallett case for my 
 nece Margarett at ixd. the ell, iiijs. \}d. ; item for 
 a boke for my cosen Margarett covered with velvett 
 to hange at hir gerdell, xxd. ; item payde to Mr. 
 More for a phyrkyn of graye sope, xijs. ; item for the 
 cariyng of the sayde sope from London to Stan- 
 sted, xd. ; and for the caryage of the same from 
 thence to Tyltey, xd xixs. xd. 
 
 In theys same yeare for my nepveu Thomas 
 Wylloughbye'z borde when hee came fyrst to me, 
 which was the xxvij"" of Mayc, Ed. FP' quarto, 
 and taryed with me untyll the xj"' of June, which 
 is a f ortnyght, at xs. the weeke xxs. 
 
 For Dyxon his man for the sayd space at vs. 
 the weeke xs. 
 
 For my sayd nepveu's boarde from the 30 of 
 October next after untyll the xviij"' of Novem- 
 ber, xxs. ; and for his man that space at vs. the 
 weeke, xs xxxs. 
 
 1 " Paste " was the name of the ornamented pasteboard front of the 
 woman's headdress of the time (French paese). See New English Diet. s.v. 
 'paste, sb. 7.' The Chronicle of Queen Jane, Camden Soc., 1858, p. 58, 
 describes Jane Grey on the scaffold as divesting herself of her gown, her 
 "frose paast and neckerchief" (cf. frosecherchers, p. 406, below). This is 
 quoted from Foxe in the New English Diet. s.v. 'frouze,' a wig, which is not 
 connected. The age of Margaret Willoughby precludes the suggestion that 
 ■frowes mean " matron " given in the aforesaid chronicle. See also Machyn's 
 Diary, Camden Soc, 1848, pp. 240, 463. Cf. p. 573, below. 
 
403 
 
 For the borde of my nepveu Fraunces Wyl- 
 loughbye in this same yeare, beginnyng the xxiiij"* 
 daye of Apryll untyll the xxviij* of Januarye 
 next following, being xl*' weekez, at vs. the week. xxli. 
 
 For my neece Margarett Wylloughbye'z borde 
 by that tyme and space at the lyke rate and pryce xxli. 
 
 For Mystres Lenton's borde attendyng upon 
 theym that tyme and space at lyke rate . . . . xxK. 
 
 For the borde of their twoe servauntes that tyme 
 and space, at vs. the weeke a peace xxli 
 
 For their fuell to their chamberez all that whyele, 
 both woodd and coale, and for lyghtez to their 
 chambers, and for wasshing that tyme and space 
 for them all vU. 
 
 For and in consideracion of the boarde, the 
 wages, and lyvery of one whom I rete3rned for the 
 wryting and casting of the rekonynges of the 
 WyUoughbez xK. 
 
 Summa totalis hujus anni : cvijK. xjs. vivid. 
 
 [Page 8.] 
 
 1551. 
 
 Ed. Sexti quinto. 
 
 For a blacke velvett nyghtcappe for my nepveu 
 Fraunces, iijs. ; for an ell of whyght carsez at three 
 shylUnges iiijd. the yeard for upper stockez, 
 iiijs. ijd. ; for a yeard of whyte cotton, viijc?. ; 
 for three yeardes of flannell at xv]d. the yearde, 
 iiijs. ; for twoe thousand of pynnez for my nece, 
 xxd. ; for a standysshe* for her, xi]d. ; for an Eng- 
 lysshe dyaloge^ for Fraunces, ]d xiiijs. vi]d. 
 
 March 24. 
 
 Item for Uj. yeardes of dornyxe^ to hange my 
 necez and Fraunces' chamber withall, at xxd. the 
 yearde, iiijli. vjs. viijc?. ; for iiij" elles of canvas 
 to Ijme the upper edge at ixd. th'ell, iijs. ; item to 
 the boys that brought the sayd dornyxe to the 
 Mynerys,* i]d. ; for a yearde and halfe of marble 
 clothe for Hudsonez lyvery, xjs. v]d. . . . . cjs. iiijd. 
 
 Item for Hughe Halles lyvery a yearde of marble, 
 ixs. ijd. ; item for a phirliyn of graye sope bought 
 
 1 A " Btandish," a oa.9e for pen and ink, an inkstand. 
 
 2 Christopher St. Germans' " Doctor and Student," a handbook of Eng- 
 lish law, first published in Latin in 1523. Robert Wyer's edition circ. 1530 
 bears the title " The fyrste dyaloge in Englysshe betwyxt a Doctoure of 
 Dyvynyte and a Student in the Lawes of England . . . with newe 
 addyoyons." The second dialogue was published in English in 1531. 
 
 3 A silk, worsted, or woollen cloth, originally made at Dornick (the 
 Flemish form of Toumay). See Kew English Dictionarj/, s.v. ' Domiek.' 
 
 * The Minories, London, where George Medley resided. 
 
404 
 
 at Sturbrydge fayre, viijs. ; item for Hudson's 
 wynter lyvery three yeardes of fryse one quarter, 
 
 at xiijd. the yearde, iijs. vjd. xxs. viijd. 
 
 Payde to Mres. Lenton that shee payde 
 Burlez uppon his byll to Mres. Margarett, 
 dated xxvij". die Mail, eodem anno : 
 For makynge a damaske goune, vjs. ; for halfe 
 an ounce of whypped lace, -^d. ; for three quarters 
 and a halfe a quarter of a yearde of f ustyan, xd. ; 
 for three naylez of damaske, xx(?. ; for three naylez 
 of taffatey, xxrf. ; for a yearde of buckerham, ixd. ; 
 for cotton and claspez, vijci. ; for makyng a payre 
 of satten slevez and stytching sylcke, viijd. ; for 
 sarcenett, xij£?. ; for iiij."' yeardes of poynting 
 lace, xijrf. ; for iiij"' yeardes and dim. of redde 
 russeUfor a vardingale,^vijs. \d. ; for redde clothe 
 to bynde the same, xvijrf. ; for makyng and 
 lynyng to the same, ijs. ni]d. ; for makyng a 
 clooke garded with velvett, xvj^. ; for sylcke to 
 the same, m]d xxvijs. Y\d. 
 
 [Page 9.] 
 
 For my nepveu Thomas Wylloughbyez boorde 
 in this yeare for xx" weekez at Tyltey, when the 
 greate swett^ was in Cambrydge and other placez, 
 after the rate of xs. the weeke, from the xxiij* of 
 Maye to the tenth of October folowing . . . . xli. 
 
 For the borde of Dyxon and Hughe Hall attend- 
 ing upon hym all that tyme, at vs. the weeke a 
 peece 
 
 Summa totalis hujus anni : cxlviijK. xviijs. ]d. 
 
 xli. 
 
 [Page 10.] 
 
 1552. 
 
 Anno Sexto E. Sexti. 
 
 For a boxe of sope waying twelve poundes at 
 three pence the pounde, iijs. ; for a taffita hatt 
 
 for my nepvew Fraunces, vs 
 
 Item a lytle byble for my cosyn Margarett . . vjs. viijrf. 
 Payde Mystris Lenton upon hir byll dated 
 vicesimo Februarii, eodem anno. 
 To Mr. Fraunces to send to his nurce . . . . vjrf. 
 
 For a hede lace and veluper^ for Mris. Margarett xijd. 
 
 For poyntes and sugercandye vijrf. 
 
 For wormesede i]d. 
 
 1 Farthingale, a hooped petticoat. See New English Dictionary. 
 - That is an epidemic of sweating sickness. 
 3 A ' vohiper,' a woman's cap or bonnet. 
 
405 
 
 For a boxe of cipheos^ and a boxe of triakell^ 
 for Mr. Fraunces and for Mistris Margarett, to 
 preserve them in the evyll yeare iijs. 
 
 [Page U.J 
 
 For fyve skeynez of whyte thrid xd. 
 
 For mendyng Mris. Margaretes pyllyan, newe 
 stropez and gyrtes for the same pyllyan . . . . xvd. 
 
 For a puree for Mystris Margarett v]d 
 
 To a pedler for an ounce of lace xvjd. 
 
 To Hudson for a yearde of twyle to lyne hosen 
 for Mr. Fraunces, xvjd. ; for too elles of lynnen clothe 
 and a halfe to make Mr. Fraunces shyrtes, iijs. ixd. ; 
 ... to Grynefeldefor an ell of carsey to make Mris. 
 Margarett hosen, vs. ; to Elizabeth Ennyver for 
 knytting a payre of slevez, iiijd 
 
 [Page 12.] 
 To Mr. Frances to geve Hughe Hall for sending 
 
 hym a dagger YJd. 
 
 To Alyce, Mr. Medleye mayde, for three elles 
 of lynnen cloth to make Mris. Margett coushyn 
 clothez and hande towelles and to lyne her upper 
 bodyez ij«. ixd. 
 
 [Page 13.] 
 
 To Mistris Margett that she gave to the harvest 
 folkez, xijd. ; for ij. accidencee for Mr. Fraunces, 
 viijd 
 
 For a sylver thymble, xiiijd. ; for an ounce of 
 satten sylke for Mris. Margarett, ijs. i]d. ; for too 
 elles of hollan cloth for Mistris Margett to make 
 hir nyght rayelies [= gowns] and nyghtkerchers, 
 iiijs. ; . . . . for arrowez for Mr. Fraunces, 
 ]d. ; . . . . to Burlez, the tayloiu-, for makyng 
 a russell gowne garded with the same for Mris. 
 Margarett, iijs. iiijd. ; for claspez for the same, ]d. ; 
 for buckerham for the same, iiijd. ; for twoe yerdes 
 saving a quarter of fryse for the pleightes, xiiijfi?. ; 
 for caytching* sylke, iiijd. ; for poynting rybonde 
 for the same, xd. ; . . . . for a payer of brasse- 
 lettes for Mris. Margarett, bought by Grenefylde, 
 xijd. 
 
 1 Apparently representing the KV<potiSrig of Galen, a medical preparation 
 for liver complaints deriving its name from its resemblance in smell and 
 taste to the Egyptian kB^i, a species of incense. They appear to be identical 
 with the cyseos (for cyfeos=Kv<pios or KiKptws ?) of p. 407, and the dtheoe of 
 p. 411, below. 
 
 2 See page 355, note 2 above. 
 
 3 ' Catching,' evidently a technical term. 
 
406 
 
 [Page 14.] 
 
 For a skynne and a halfe to make Mr. Fraunces 
 a jerkyn, iijs. ; item for russating of the same, 
 v]d. ; item for the making of the same, viijd. ; for 
 a payre of shoez for Mris. Margarett Wylloughbye, 
 viijd. ; item for too elles of lynnen at iiijs. th'ell 
 for frosecherchers,^ slevez, and pertlettes,^ viijs. ; 
 . . . . for mouldes to make buttons in, jd. . . 
 
 For a phirkyn of sope for my cosyn Margarett 
 Wylloughbye, xxviij°. Octobris xijs. vjd. 
 
 Item for a churche booke for hir of the newe 
 service, 4° Novembris vs. 
 
 Item for a Spaynyssh skynne for a jerkyn for 
 Mr. Fraunces Wylloughbye xjs. vjd. 
 
 For an ounce of whypped lace xxijd. 
 
 [Page 15.] 
 
 For a Greeke and a Hebrue gramer for my 
 
 nepveu Frances ijs. iiijd. 
 
 For a dosen of blacke cony skynez viijs. 
 
 [Page 16.] 
 Summa, totalis hujus anni : civ. li. vja. i]d. 
 
 1553.— 1 Mary. 
 
 [Page 19.] 
 
 Payde Mystris Lenton upon a byll dated 30 
 
 Decembris, anno Marice primo, of my cosyn 
 
 Margarette's chargez wrytten with her owne 
 
 hande as foloweth : 
 
 For twoe Frenche bookez, xxd. ; for lera Picra* 
 
 and lera Magna,* ijs. ; ... for a sechell [= 
 
 satchel] for my brother Fraunces bookez, m]d. ; 
 
 for a combe for hym, ijci!. ; for ij. yeardes and 
 
 three quarterez of blake fryse to make my brother 
 
 Fraunces a coate and hosen to ryde in, iijs. i]d. 6b. 
 
 [Page 19b.J 
 
 To Mystris Lenton for teaching and lokyng to 
 my brother Fraunces and me for a yere and a 
 halfe due to hir at Easter, m]li., accordyng as 
 myne uncle and John Hall promysed her 
 
 [Page 20.] 
 For a Rone skyne* to make my brother Fraunces 
 a jerkyn, ijs. iiijd. ; .... for halfe an ell 
 
 1 A compound o£ jrowes (see p. 402, note 1) and kerchers (kerchiefs), 
 miswritten (by anticipation) chercfiers ? 
 
 2 Neck-apparel. See New Engl. Diet. 
 
 ' Hiera Picra, an electuary compounded of aloes, etc. 
 
 * Another medical preparation bearing the name Hiera (lepa). 
 
 6 Roan leather. 
 
407 
 
 of cloth for ruffez for my brother Fraunoes and 
 me, xiijd. ; for a pounde of sugere for my brother 
 Fraunces, xiijd. ; for a pounde of almons for 
 hym, vjd. ; for meate for my brother, xijci. ; to 
 the potycarye for pyllez for hym, viijcZ. ; for a 
 leage of veaU to make jellye for hym, xijd. ; for 
 
 pollyng of hym, i]d for a panne 
 
 and flaxe seade to make a bath for my brother 
 Fraunces, ijd. ; for twoesalsagez [:= sausages] for 
 
 hym, i]d. ; to Hudson for v. 
 
 sackez of coalez, iiijs. x]d 
 
 [Page 21.] 
 
 To Albone in rewarde when hee brought me a 
 vellatt (sic) kyrtell that my Ladyez grace dy d gyve 
 to me, v«. ; . . . for a payer of vu-gynaUes for 
 me, xxvjs. viijrf. ; ... for bote hyere to 
 my Lorde of ArundeUes, iiijd 
 
 [Page 22.] 
 
 To Qarke for teaching me to playe upon the 
 virginalles, for one moneth ended xxvij" Maii, 
 vs. ; item to Mr. Horseley for an other moneth 
 ended xxv" Junii, vs. ; item to hym for the lycke 
 an other moneth ended xxviij" Jviii, vs.; . . . 
 for a boxe of cyseos^ for my brother Fraunces, 
 viijd 
 
 [Page 23.] 
 
 For a calle [= caul] for me, vijd. ; for volupez 
 and harlasez* for me, xiiijd 
 
 [Page 31] 
 Summa totalis Jiujus anni : cxxdjK. xviijs. iiijd. quad. 
 
 [Page 32.] 
 
 1554. 
 
 To my cosyn Margarett upon hir byll dated 
 xv° Decembris, anno 1554. 
 
 Fyrste for a crystall glasse, iiijs. ; for blue 
 syloke, ixd. ; for too yeardes of fustyan for a 
 cloake bagge, xvjrf. ; to a bargeman for caryage of 
 her stuffe from Keyo [Kew] to London when shee 
 dyd wayte upon my Ladyez grace, vijrf 
 
 1 For oyfeoa (p. 405, note 1) or cyceon (=kiik£wj'), a medical mixture ? 
 
 2 'Hair-laces.' For 'voluper.' see p. 404, note 3. 
 
408 
 
 [Page 32b.] 
 For Ecmaldi Oalli Conjabulationes^ for my nepveu 
 Fraunces iij*^- 
 
 [Page 33.] 
 
 For a bonegrace^ for her [Mistris Margett], 
 \s. Vn]d. ; for satten of Brydgez [= Bruges] to 
 lett downe hir crymsen damaske kyrtell, xxc?. ; 
 . . . . to the caryer of Tomworth for brjmg- 
 ing up a payer of virgynalles from Myddelton, xvjd. 
 
 [Page 34.] 
 
 For strynging Mr. Fraunces his virginalles a newe 
 dressyng theym, ijs. viijrf. ; to the Greeke for 
 makyng Mris. Margettes whoode [= hood], abyla- 
 mentes and muffelers, iijs. viijd 
 
 [Page 37.] 
 1555. 
 
 To Mr. Horsseley to teache Fraunces Wyllough- 
 bye to playe on the virginalles ijs. ■v]d. 
 
 Item to one that taught hym to dawnce at 
 severall tymez iiij«. y\d. 
 
 [Page 38.] 
 
 Payde to my nece Margarett upon her booke 
 dated xiiij°. die Maii, anno swpradicto. 
 
 [Page 39.] 
 For a dowsen of bedd stavez for me . . . . viijd 
 
 [Page 40.] 
 
 For an hower glasse for me \]d. 
 
 For a payer of knyvez for me ijs. vjd. 
 
 For a bytte and a payer of guyelt bossez . . vjs. iiijd. 
 For a payer of porchmowethez^ with guylte 
 
 buckelles viijd. 
 
 [Page 41.] 
 
 For a pounde of cruell for my cusshyn . . . . ijs. 
 Mistris Lenton's byll dated xx" die Aprilis, 
 anno swpradicto, anno 1555. 
 For loome lase to make Mistris Margarett and 
 [sic] a payer of ruffez ijs. 
 
 1 Evaldus Gallus, Pveriles Oonfahvlatiunculce. The preface is dated at 
 Weert (in Brabant), 1548. Several editions were published at Oxford and 
 London as late as the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the 
 eighteenth century. 
 
 2 A kind of veil worn in front of a woman's cap to protect her complexion. 
 See New English Dictionary, s.v. ' Bonegrace.' 
 
 * Apparently some article of saddlerj'. 
 
409 
 
 For poyntes and inkell' [= linen tape] to tye his 
 [Mr. Francis's] cosshyn when hee rode to Tyltey to 
 goe to schole at Walden iiijci. 
 
 [Page 47.] 
 
 For my nepveu Fraunces Wylloughbyez horde 
 going to schoole with Mr. Lyse at St. Anthoniez 
 in London, begonne the xviij"^ of January and 
 ended the xxxj"* of the same, being a fortnyght 
 at ija. -viijrf. the weeke vs. iiijd. 
 
 For his commons there three weekez ended xxj" 
 Fpirvarii viij«. 
 
 [Page 49.] 
 
 Fyrst to my Ladye Guyldefordes lackey for 
 commyng to Tyltey for my cosyn Margarett to 
 comme to my Lady Elsabeth's* grace xxd. 
 
 For horsemeate for the horsez that camme 
 from Tyltey for my cosyn Margarett standyng at 
 lyvery in London from the xxvj*'' of October to 
 the seconde daye of November, 1555, at vjd. the 
 daye and nyght for haye, with vijs. for lytter . . xxva. 
 
 For the chargez of my cosyn Margarett from 
 TVltey to London, and for chargez of horsemeate 
 of the geldinges commyng to London and retom- 
 yng agayne vs. 
 
 For the chargez of my cosyn Margarett and 
 those that dyd attende her to My Ladye Elsabethez 
 from London to Hatfeld, for the space of iiij°' 
 dayez, their owne chargez and the charges of vij. 
 geldinges xxjs. viijd. 
 
 More for horsebreade xviijd. 
 
 For the chargez of the sayd geldinges at London 
 when they were retorned from Hatfelde . . . . xijs. vjd. 
 
 Gyven to my cosyn Margett to putt in her purse 
 at her going to My Ladye Elsabethez grace, xxiij. 
 Decewbris, 1555° lx«. 
 
 For horsemeate of one gelding which was stayed 
 at London three dayez before Chrystmas for my 
 cosyn Margarett when shee wente to My Ladye 
 Elsabethez grace iij«. iiijd. 
 
 [Page 50,] 
 
 Payde to my cosjm Margarett upon her 
 booke, dated 28° Octdbris, anno Domini 
 1555, viz. : 
 For X. yeardes of goold edging for me . . vs. 
 For a sylver thymble for me xiijd. 
 
 1 Elizabeth, afterwards Queen, who was at this time living at Hatfield, 
 CO. Hertford, as appears below. 
 
410 
 
 To the Greake for an uper abylament, a nether 
 
 abylamen[t], and a crj^en^ xijs. vjd. 
 
 [Page 51.] 
 
 Item in rewarde to the gentlemen ushers at ye 
 
 takyng of my othe to My Ladeyz grace . . xs. 
 For eight conyskynez^ vs. 
 
 [Page 52.] 
 
 For halfe an ounce of Granadoe sylcke . . xiiijf^. 
 
 For makyng my cloth gorgett, vd. ; for a cony- 
 skyn fur the same, vd. ; for makyng my 
 Frenche kyrtell, xxd. ; . . . . for 
 caryng my stuffe to Hatfelde, vs. ; for bring- 
 yng yt to the in, viiid 
 
 [Page 53.] 
 1556. 
 
 To my cosyn Marye Dannett, 5° Januarii, that 
 she payde for the embroydring of my cosyn Mar- 
 garettes satten gowne xxxs. 
 
 Sent to my cosyn Margarett to Hatfeld, 1555°, 
 viij° Febrnarii xls. 
 
 For my cosyn Margettes costes, xxvij'' Septem- 
 bris, comyng from Hatfelde to Tyltey viijs. iijrf. 
 
 For her costes from Hatfelde to London, Termino 
 Hillarii, 1555° ixs. uijd. ob. 
 
 For her costes retornyng theyther vijs. vijc^. 
 
 Phylljrpez costes when hee went to Hatfelde to see 
 her, being sycke, and for Mithredatum^ which hee 
 caryed with hym to her, which cost vjd ijs. i\\d. 
 
 [Page 54.] 
 
 For lyttle Dyckez chargez when hee rode to 
 My Ladye Elsabethez grace for a geldyng that my 
 cosyn Margarett dyd borowe, vs. ; for his bayte 
 at Ware, vjd. 
 
 To Browne for ryding to Hatfelde to see my 
 cosyn Margett and whether shee lacked anythyng, 
 for his horsemeate for one nyght and halfe a daye, 
 xijd. ; for his supper at Hatfeld, iiijd. ; for his 
 
 bayte to Hadham, vijd xxiijti. 
 
 For his chargez there an other tyme . . . . xxijci. 
 
 For my nepveu Fraunces Wylloughbye at 
 aondrye tymez syth his commjoig to Wal- 
 den to the schole Mr. there, in anno 
 supradicto. 
 
 1 ' The crepin of a, French hood, guimple, guimpe, guimphe ' ; Cotgrave. 
 
 2 Rabbit-skins. 
 
 3 An electuary serving as a remedy or preservative against poison, com- 
 pounded of a great number of drugs. It was used extensively as m, cordial, 
 opiate, sudorific, etc. 
 
411 
 
 To the scholemayster of Walden for teaching 
 my nepveu Fraunces one quarter of a yeare ended 
 
 the xv"' daye of September, anno predicto . . n]a. iiijd. 
 
 More to hym in rewarde xxd. 
 
 To one that dyd teache hym to wryte . . xijd. 
 
 To hym selfe to putt in his purse . . . . ujd. 
 
 For a Terence for hym mjd. 
 
 For a Latten psaltere . . iijd. 
 
 [Page 55.] 
 
 To Mr. Corbett of Walden by the handes of 
 Gryphyn for necessaryes layde oute for my nepveu 
 Fraunces as foloweth : 
 
 For a wryting booke, ijd. ; for twoe dosen of 
 poyntes, ijd. ; ... for a glasse and yncke, 
 jd. ; .... for an incke home, i]d. ; for 
 halfe a quier of paper, jd. ob. ; . . . for a Cato^ 
 and dialoguez, vijd. ; . . . . 
 
 To Mr. Corbett, 15° Decembris, anno prcedicto, 
 for Tullies epistelez iij^^. 
 
 To the scholemaister of Walden for teaching 
 of hym ijg. vjd. 
 
 [Page 56.] 
 Item layde oute by Thomas Gonne at soundrye 
 
 tymez for my nepveu Fraunces, as appereth by 
 
 one of his bokez dated 3 Maii, viz. : 
 For arrowez and bowstringes, iiijd. ; 
 
 for bockerham for toweUes, xjd 
 
 [Page 57.] 
 
 For a purse for my nepveu Fraunces . . . . xvijd. 
 
 For Ciceroes epystelles for hym, with divers 
 commentariez viijs. 
 
 To Rycharde Bramley for teaching hym to synge vs. 
 
 For a felte hatte for workedayez ijs. 
 
 For wormeseade and aloes for my nepveu 
 Fraunces vjd. 
 
 For Athanasia^ and citheos^ for hym . . . . iiijs. ob. 
 
 For a dixionarie in Englysshe* xd. 
 
 For Colloquia Vivis^ xd. 
 
 For Colopine cum onomastico^ xvjs. 
 
 1 See page 218, above. 
 
 2 Athanasia (dOavaaia), a remedy for dysenteryand other disorders. 
 
 * See page 405, note 1, above. 
 
 * The Dictionary of Sir T. Eliot, knight, London, 1538, folio, a Latin and 
 English dictionary subfseqnently elaborated by Bishop Cooper. 
 
 B Exercitatio Linguce Latvnce Jo. Lud. Vivia (Vives), Basle, 1541, Lyons, 
 1543, 8vo. (in Opera, Basle, 1555, p. 13). 
 
 6 The rare Strasburg edition of 1537 of the famous Latin dictionary of 
 Ambrose Calepin contains an ' Onomasticon Latinogrecum,' a Latin-Greek 
 glossary (Gustaf Loewe, Prodromus Corporis Oloaaariorum LaHnorum, Leipsio, 
 1876, p. 194, and Oloaaae Nominum, Leipsio, 1884, p. 125). 
 
412 
 
 [Page 58.J 
 
 For borde [for Margarett] at the Minorisse, 
 begonne the xxiiij"' of October and ended the 
 xxx"* of the same vj». iijd. 
 
 Item for Hudson the sayde space . . . . iija. viijd. 
 
 Item for Kynton's borde that contynued at 
 London to attend her to my Ladye Elsabethez 
 grace iijs. viijci. 
 
 [Page 59.] 
 
 For one weekez borde for my cosyn Margarett 
 at the Minorisse ended the xx. Novembris, being 
 retorned from My Ladye Elizabethez grace because 
 of the deathe of one of her gentell woemen, which 
 dyed of the small pockez vs. 
 
 To Mistris Corbett for my nepveu Fraunces' 
 borde at Walden going to schole there, for one 
 quarter of a yere, begonne the xvj"^ daye of June, 
 Marice Secundo, and ended the xv*'^ of September 
 in this same yeare, Marice 3° xxvja. 
 
 [Page 60.] 
 Summa totalis hujus anni : Ixxxxli. xvija. jd. quad. 
 
 [Page 62.] 
 
 Item payde for my selfe and others at soundry 
 tymez for my nepveu Fraunces, 4° MaricB, for 
 paper for a songe booke for hym, xijci. ; item for a 
 booke byndyng for his songez, xd. ; for a Terence 
 wyth dyvers comentariez, viijs.; for a paper booke 
 for his lessons on the virginalles, XYd. .. .. xjs. ]d. 
 
 For a booke called ' Copia Erasmi '^ xvtZ, 
 
 For Epitome Adagiorum Erasmi^ xi]d. 
 
 For a permer and inckehorne vjd. 
 
 For the Actes of the Appostelles* in meter to 
 synge xijd. 
 
 For Corderius ' De corrupti Sermonis emen- 
 dacione '* ijs. viijd. 
 
 1 D. Erasmi de duplici Copia Rerum ac Verhorum Gommentarii duo, 
 Strassbui'g, 1513, 4 to. There were other editions published at various 
 places between 1513 and the date of the present account. 
 
 2 Adagiorum epitome post nomssimam D. Erasmi . . . exqnisiiam, 
 recognitionem per E. Tappium ad numerum adagiorum magni operis nunc 
 primum aueta, Antwerp, 1544, quarto. 
 
 8 The Actes of the Apostles, translated into Englysche Metre 
 by O. Tye . . . wyth notea to eche Chapter, to sytige and also to play 
 wpon the Imte, (etc.), in black-letter, London, 1553, octavo. 
 
 * Corderius, Maturis (Mathiu'in Cordier), tie Corrupti Sermonis Emen- 
 dacione et Latine loquendi Ratione liher unus, Lyons, 1538, octavo, and later 
 editions in 1641, 164o, etc. 
 
413 
 
 For Compendium Eligantiarum Valle,^mjd. ; and 
 for Terence plirasez,^ iiijd viijd. 
 
 For vj. yeardes of sackecloth to make hym a 
 gowne, vjs. ; for twoe foxeskynez and dim. to fase 
 the same, vs. ; for xxvj" whyte lambe skynez to lyne 
 the bodye and the sieve, vjs. v']d. ; for the furryng, 
 xviijd. ; .... to Rycharde of Thaxsted for 
 teaching hym to playe on the virginalles and to 
 sing, ijs. vjd 
 
 [Page 63.] 
 Summa, totalis hujus anni : Ivjli. xviijs. xd. oh, 
 
 [Page 65. J 
 1557. — Marie quinto. 
 
 For a booke to teache hym [Francis Willoughby] 
 to wrytte the ItaHan hande by vjd. 
 
 For a brusshe for hym and a booke of Sherez^ 
 fygueres in Englyshe viijd. 
 
 To Mr. Horseley for teaching hym arethmetick 
 and to playe on the virginalles, from the xxvij* 
 of Apryll untyll the xv* of Maye, viz., xviijtZ. 
 [sic] dayes at xvjd. the weeke iijs. mjd. 
 
 For the cariage of his virginalles from Mr. Horse- 
 leyez to the Minorisse jd. 
 
 [Page 66.] 
 
 Item for a paper booke to wrjrte his songgez 
 that hee lerned on the virginalles viijd. 
 
 [Page 67.] 
 Summa totalis hujus anni : Wli. xjd. oh. 
 
 [Page 68.] 
 
 1558. 
 
 Marice Regince vj.° 
 Layde forth by Thomas Gonne for my nepveu 
 
 Fraunces as appereth by his booke, 1558, Marice 
 
 5 et 6 °, for two payer of lyned shoez for hym . . xxjd. 
 
 For a loade of coalez for hym when hee went to 
 
 Cambridge to schole wyth Docketer Carre . . xviijs. 
 
 For twoe yeardes of rattes coler cloth to make 
 
 hym a gowne xvs. 
 
 1 The De Elegantia LingucB Latince of I.orenzo Valla, first published at 
 Rome in 1471, went through man3' editions. From the price given above 
 the Compendium would seem to have been an abridgment of this work. 
 
 2 Probably Flovres for Latine Spekynge selected and gathered out of Terence 
 and the same translated into Englysshe [by Nicholas Udall ?], London, 153.3, 
 1538, 1540, etc. There is an earlier Oxford publication [1483 ?] called 
 Vvlgaria quedam aha Terentio in Anglicam linguam traducta. See F. Madan, 
 Early Oxford Press, p. 3. 
 
 8 Bichard Sherry, A treatise o) the Figures of Qrammer and Rhetorike, 
 London, 1555, 16 mo. 
 
414 
 
 Gyven to my nepveu Fraunces to putt in his 
 
 purse xijd. 
 
 For a knytt cappe for hym xd. 
 
 For f urre to lyne hym a gowne . , iijs. iiijd. 
 
 To the furryer xij«^. 
 
 For furred glovez for hym . . . . vd. 
 
 Gyven to hym by Mr. Carre to playe withal] vjd. 
 
 For paper and to one that brushed his cloathez iiijd. 
 
 For Ceporius' gramer^ for hym xd. 
 
 For mending his virginalles xijd. 
 
 In reward to Mr. Carrez servauntes for their 
 
 attendyng upon hym whyle hee was there . . ijs, 
 
 [Page 69.] 
 Summa totalis hujus anni : xxuijZi. xvs. viijd. 
 
 [Page 70.] 
 
 Elizabeth primo. 
 
 For Henry Medley his chargez ryding to Hampton 
 Courte from Tyltey aboute the assurance of my 
 cosyn Margarettes joyenter xls. 
 
 [Page 71.] 
 
 For the borde of my nepveu Fraunces being at 
 Docketer Carrez in Cambridge, from the xvij"' of 
 October, Marim vj°, to the iyxst of Jule, Elizabeth 
 primo, being xxxvij. weekez lacking twoe dayez 
 at vs. the weeke ]xli. vs. 
 
 Summa totalis hujus anni : xxviij^i. xxiijd. ob. 
 
 Summa totalis expensarum, que in hoc libro continentur : 
 Dccccxxjii. ujs. x]d. quad. 
 
 1553-4. — Extracts from [John Halle's] account of "Execu- 
 tours' costes anno 7 E. VJ''. et primo Marie regine" 
 
 1553. 
 
 Firste for my costes to Brodgate [Bradgate, co. 
 Leicester] xj° Julii, and to Wollaton for to see 
 men in aredynes in that countrey,^ my charges 
 for iiij dayes vs. 
 
 Item my costes to Wyken to see men in aredynes 
 
 there xijd. 
 
 Item for my manes costes to Brodgate for my 
 
 Lordes lettres yd. 
 
 ' Jacobus Ceporinus (= Wiesendanger), Oompendium Orammaticm GrcBCCB 
 jam tertium ah authore castigatwm, Paris, 1529, 8vo. 
 
 2 This and the following entries clearly relate to the attempt of Henry 
 Grey, Duke of Suffolk and Marquis of Dorset, the father of Lady Jane 
 Grey (who was born at Bradgate, his Leicestershire seat), and the brother- 
 in-law of Henry Willoughby, to resist by arms Queen Mary's claim to the 
 throne, vacated by the death of Edward VI, proclaimed on 9 July, 1553. 
 
415 
 
 Item to Eauf Osbume and Averey Smythe for 
 
 carrying the harness to Brodgate ijs. viijd. 
 
 Item to Averey Blew for his costes ryding to 
 
 Wyken with a lettre vjd. 
 
 Item to him for ryding to Wollaton with my Lordes 
 
 lettres xd. 
 
 Item to Geffrey Blewe for ryding with my Lordes 
 
 lettre to Sir Robert Throgmorton xijrf. 
 
 Item his costes ridinge to Brodgate with Mr. Throg- 
 morton his lettre vjd. 
 
 Item to Halpeny his costes goinge [to] Wollaton to 
 Mr. Marmyon, and commynge home by Brod- 
 gate, for ij dales xijd. 
 
 Item to him for his costes to Wollaton to staye 
 
 the men with a lettre xiii]d. 
 
 Item for my mannes costes to Warwicke to Mr. 
 
 Hudson with my Lordes lettre xd. 
 
 Item my charges frome Midelton to Wollaton t 
 mete Sir Hugh Willughbie, xix° Aprili.s, and there 
 abydiiig thre dales vjs. 
 
 Item my costes frome Mydelton to London, xxiiij''' 
 of AprieU viijs. 
 
 Item my charges beinge there xviij dales .. . .xxxviijs. 
 
 Item for Henry Blewes charges frome Cambridge 
 
 and bringinge ij horses with him vs. vjrf. 
 
 Item for my man's costes at Brodgate, xj° 
 
 Novembris, when I was at my Lordes . . . . xv]d. oh. 
 
 Money paide by Mres. Lenton for Mr. Fraunces, Mres. 
 Margaret WiUoughbie, and her owne borde, with ij servauntes, 
 in the M3Tiories after the departinge of Mr. Medeley as here- 
 after foUoweth, videlicet : 
 
 1554. 
 
 First for there borde for one weeke, begonne the 
 xix* of Januarye and ended the xxv* of the 
 same, as appeareth by the dyvicion which was 
 
 drawen out of the howshold booke xxvjs. xd. 
 
 [Other charges for board, sacks of coals, billets, etc.] 
 
 Item delivered to Mres. Margaret WiUoughbie to 
 have in her purse to bie such thinges as she had 
 
 nead of at the same tyme vjs. viijf^. 
 
 [Payments of wages, annuities, etc.] 205. 
 
 1553-4. — " John Halls booke of paymentes annis Ediuardi 
 Sexti vij° et regine Marie prima et Phillipi regis et regine Marie 
 sectmdo." Accounts of wood sales, executors' costs, agri- 
 cultural charges, etc. 205. 
 
 1 Armour, war-gear. 
 
416 
 
 1555-6. — " Th' executores boke begynyng the xvj dey of 
 Maye, in annis regnorum regis PhUippi et regine Marie 
 primo et secundo, for receyptes and paymentes " for expenses 
 of agriculture, etc., with notes in the hand of George 
 Medley. 205. 
 
 1555-6. — " Jhon' Halles boke of payementes begune the 
 fyrste of October, annis regnorum Phillippi regis et regine 
 Marie if et iij°." 205. 
 
 1556-7. — "Jhon' Halles boke of payementes begurme the 
 fyrste day of October, annis regnorum Philippi regis et regine 
 Marie iif et iiif"." 205, 
 
 1557-8. — " Th'executores booke begynnyng the xxv. day 
 of Marche, in annis regnorum regis Philippi et regine Marie 
 tercio et quarto," with notes in the hand of George Medley 
 regarding wool-crop. 205. 
 
 1558. — "The boke of th'expences at the audet ther 
 [WoUaton], begynenge the xiiij"* day of Marche, at nyghte, 
 annis regnorum Philippi et Marie regis et regine quarto et 
 quinto." Daily accounts of receipt and expenditure of pro- 
 visions from Monday, 14 March, to the following Monday. 
 Signed by George Medeleye and Gabriell Barwyk. 205. 
 
 1558-9. — "Jhon Halles boke of receytes and payementes 
 begunne the fyrst daye of October, annis regnorum Philippi 
 regis et regine Marie quarto et quinto." Law and travelling 
 expenses, and wages. 205. 
 
 1561. — Book containing summaries of the accounts of 
 George Medleye, esquire, Gabriel Barwycke, esquire, and 
 John Hall, gent., executors of the will of Henry Willoughby, 
 for the thirteen years ending at Christmas, 1561. At p. 69 
 are seven yearly inventories ending in March, 1556, of 
 Middleton and Wollaton. At p. 81 the receipts from the 
 " Coole minez in WuUerton Parke " during the time of the 
 account amount to 4045Z. 5s. l^d., from wMch are subtracted 
 for " deduccions and ordinarye charges in allowances " 
 1353Z. 16«. lOd., and for " woode boughte to build the pittes, 
 with xlK. paide by Master Medleye," 82^. Is. Od. For the 
 six years ending at Christmas, 1561, the receipts for coal 
 from Wullerton Parke are given as 2681Z. 13s. 6d., and from 
 Bilboroughe HoUowes 112Z. 10s. O^d. (p. 135). The end 
 leaves of the volume consist of portions of four leaves of a 
 thirteenth century theological manuscript. 205. 
 
 1561-2.— Extracts from "WoUaton. Th'executors' booke, 
 begynnenge at the Natj'vete of Oure Lorde, in the forthe 
 yere of the reigne of our moste drede sovereigne Ladye, 
 Queue Elesabythe." Payments for expenses of agriculture, 
 travelling, the armourer, etc. 
 
417 
 
 [Fo. 10.] 
 Provision agaynste the audet, beynge apoynted to be kepte 
 at Wollaton, the xij* of Julye, by th'apoyntmente of the 
 ryghte honorable Sir Fraunces Knowelles. [details of food 
 spices, etc.] 
 
 [Fo. 12.] 
 The executors^ commaundmentes. 
 Paid, the xxj daye of Apriell, to Mr. Henry 
 Medleye, as by aquetance more playnely apear- 
 ythe, for the porchas of the chauntre howse in 
 Wollaton, beynge boughte of Rawfe Pynder, 
 grocer, of London, by Mr. George Medley, esquyre, 
 the some xxxiiijZi. xvs. 
 
 [Fo. 13.] 
 Yerne [= iron] worke. 
 Paid to the smythe for makynge a locke and a 
 
 keye for the plasterhowse dore ^d. 
 
 Paid to the smythe for makynge ij jarne [= iron] 
 boltes for ij wheles in a gyne^ and busshynge the 
 same wheles wythe iarne, the saied gyn beynge 
 made for the reyrjmge of the barne . . . . mjd. 
 
 Paied to the smythe for makynge and mendynge 
 a locke for the styUytary howse dore, and mak- 
 ynge a stable [= staple] for the same dore, and 
 for makjmge ij haspes and a stable for another 
 
 dore in my olde Mr. chambar vjd. 
 
 205. 
 
 1565. — " Howsholde charges begynenge the xxix of 
 Auguste tyU the vj of September, 1565." 
 
 [Fo. 1.] 
 
 Provesyon agaynste my Mr. comynge to Wollaton, begynenge 
 xxix of A[u]guste, 1565. [Details.] 
 
 [Fo. 3.] 
 
 Praysantes gyven to my Mr. [Details, including " by the 
 sheryffes of Not[yngham] a gallon wyne "]. 205. 
 
 1565. — Extracts from "The trew copye of the booke of 
 howsholde charges at my Mr. beynge at Wollaton, begynenge 
 the xxx"> of Marche, in anno rigni {sic) domine regine 
 Elesahithe septimo." Daily accounts of purchase of victuals, 
 etc., up to 10 April. 
 
 Thorsdy, the fyrste of Apriell. 
 
 1 A species of crane. See New English Dictionary a.v. 'gin,' sub. 1. 
 
 Ma7 
 
418 
 
 For my Mr. charges this daye at Not[yn]gham at 
 
 Thorlande Place, payd to th'andes of Pordy, 
 
 my Mr. man xjs. 
 
 Sonday, the viij* of Apriell. 
 
 This day at dynar Syr John' Beyron and also at dyner 
 and soper Ser Anthony Strylley and my Lady and two other 
 younge ladyes of Huntjmgton and to the numbar of fortye 
 other person, beynge straungars, over and besydes Mr. Treppes 
 of Chyllwell and his men. 
 
 Extraordenary charges at the same tyme. 
 For and in reywarde to Mrtes. Brasbrydge's man. 
 
 that broughte a sahnonde to my Mr xij(Z. 
 
 Item in reywarde to Ser Jarves Klyfton man that 
 
 broughte a pyke to my Mr ijs. 
 
 Item in reywarde to Mr. Barton man that brought 
 
 a salmonde to my Mr Y]d. 
 
 Item in reywarde to Ser John' Beyron man that 
 
 broughte fysshe to my Mr xijcZ. 
 
 Summa totallis, as well ordenarye as extraordenarye : 
 xxxZi. xvij,s. Yd. ob. 205. 
 
 1566. — Extracts from " Th'executors' booke of foren receptes 
 and paymentes, begynnenge the fyrste dale of Jamiarii in 
 th'eyghte yeare of the rigne of our moste gracious sovereigne 
 Ladye Queue Elezabithe." Accounts of sales of timber and 
 bark, agricultural expenses, etc. [Torn and imperfect.] 
 
 [Fo. 3.] 
 
 Item payd for two stone and dim. of picke 
 [=z pitch], the ix* of Faybruary, for to marke 
 the flockes at Arnalde, Basforde, and WoUaton 
 at xviijc^. the stone iijs. ix.d. 
 
 Item payd, the xiiij*'' of Marche, to Maryat of 
 ]SIot[yn]gham for his paynes tokylletwo foxes the 
 whiche dystroyed the lordes lammbes and other 
 shepe, and also for kyllynge a doge, a wylde 
 catte and other varmentes from the conyes, 
 payd in greyte [= great, i.e., as piece-work] .. vjs. 
 
 Item payd more to Henry Averey wyffe for board- 
 ynge of hym viij daies at takjmge the sayde 
 vermentes ijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item payd for redde hearynge to beyte his trappes 
 
 wythall iiijd. 
 
 [Inventory of sheep (fo. 5) : with Robert Raynor, shepherd 
 
 at Arnalde, sixteen score of wethers ; with Hugh Jarlande, 
 
 shepherd at Basforde, 16 score and 11 wethers; with Henry 
 
 Averey, shepherd of WoUaton, 418 sheep and 174 lambs.] 205. 
 
 1566. — "The booke of husbandrye chardges at WoUaton, 
 1565°, avno regni Elizahethe regine octavo, from the fyrst of 
 February, annis (sic) swpra dictis,'' Henry Averey, accountant. 
 
419 
 
 Includes among other entries accounts of expenditure on 
 " woodden chardges " (ploughs and other woodwork), 
 charges of coopery, " the chardges of eyndingei of oats owte 
 of Jwnson's close," " runtes^ and barennes bought " with 
 other cattle, " the chardges of moeng and eyndynge of 
 bracken," " for the dressing of chambers," " th'ynbroderer's 
 chardges " (William Averey, who is paid 4d. a day and 6d. 
 a week for his daughter's work). 205. 
 
 1566.— Extracts from " WoUaton. The boke of forene 
 receyptes and paymentes begynnynge the fyrst daye of 
 Januarii, anno regni domine Elizabethe regine octavo, 1565[-6]." 
 Bound in a portion of a large service book, written in a bold 
 hand of the fourteenth century with good illuminated 
 initials. 
 
 [Fo. 6.] 
 
 The boke of cattail, as in theire places hereafter following 
 shall appeere. 
 
 [Fo. 26.] 
 
 Reparacions and workes donne upon the manour and 
 demesnes. 
 
 [Fo. 55.] 
 
 The husbandrye chardges. [Include " the wodden chardges " 
 {i.e., carpentry), " chardges bestowed upon the gyfter^ 
 plowes " (refreshments to those doing ploughing), " the 
 chardges of moeng and eynding^ of otes owte of Junson's 
 close," " the chardges of moenge and eynding of bracken," 
 and other agricultural expenses and household repairs. 205. 
 
 1566. — " WoUaton. — The booke of provesyon for howsholde 
 charges, begynenge the xxvij"^ daye of Septembre at 
 nyghte in anno rigni (sic) domine regine Ele.zaheihe octavo." 
 Daily accounts of purchases of victuals up to 13 October. 
 
 [Fo. 3.] 
 Extraordenarij charges. 
 Fyrste for a hundrethe weyghte of hoppes for beare xxjs. 
 Item for a pynte of sallet oyle to scowre vessell 
 
 withall xd. 
 
 Item for \\li. of chawke for the same ijd. 
 
 1 Harvesting, stacking, etc. Cf. New English Dictionary, s.v. 'End, vb. 2. 
 
 2 Oxen or cows of a small breed; steers or heifers. See Prof. Wright, 
 English Dialect Dictionary. 
 
 3 See above, page 340, note. Here it seems to mean boon-ploughs, that 
 is the unpaid ploughing due from certain tenants to the lord incident to 
 their tenure. 
 
420 
 
 Item in reywarde to Mr. Wyllughby man of Rysley 
 [Risley, co. Derby] that broughte my Mr. a 
 dozen peyoimies [= pigeons] and a cowple 
 oapones xijrf. 
 
 Item to Syr Jerves Klyfton man that brought my 
 Mr. dim. a hundrethe of saltfysshe xs. 
 
 Item in reywarde to the mewsecyons of Darby, 
 the 4 of Octobre ijs. 
 
 Item more to Mr. Wyllughby man aforsed, the 5 
 of Octobre, that broughte my Mr. a trowte and 
 a dysshe of plommes vjrf. 
 
 [Fo. 5.] 
 
 Preysantes broughte to my Mr. the 7 oj Octobre. 
 By the farmer of Wyllughby a cowple capones, a 
 
 dysshe of peyownes [= pigeons], a fat goos and 
 
 two baskytes of apples. 
 By William Doughtye wyfEe of Westhalom [West 
 
 Hallam, co. Derby] a botell wyne and a dysshe 
 
 of aples. 
 
 The same day by the wyffes in WoUaton as foUowethe : 
 By Mrtes. Trussell thre yonge hennes. 
 
 [Presents from twenty-nine other married women of pullets, 
 chickens, hens, a young cock, dishes of apples, and of two 
 dozen larks.] 
 
 [Fo. 10.] 
 
 Praysantes gyven to my Mr. at WoUaton begynenge the 
 
 xxviij of Septemhre, 1566. [Details of presents by eleven men.] 
 
 Signed (fo. 4) : Fra. Wyllughby. 205. 
 
 1569. — "The boke of foreyne receiptes and paymentes 
 recejrved and paid by wekely recknjmges, begynnynge the 
 fyrst daye of January, anno regni regine Elizabethe duodecimo, 
 by the handes of William Blythe." 205. 
 
 [c. 1570.] — Household accounts, of which the first page, 
 which contained the date, has almost entirely disappeared. 
 It is bound in two leaves of a twelfth century MS. containing 
 commentary on parts of the book of Job, commencing : 
 " Numquid mittes fulgura, et ibunt, et revertentia dicent tibi : 
 ' asssumus ' [xxxviii, 35]. Fulgura quippe ex nubibus exeunt, 
 sicut mira opera eix Sanctis predicatoribus ostenduntur. 
 Qui, ut sepe diximus, iccirco nobis vocari solent, quia et 
 choruscant miracuUs et pluunt verbis." 205. 
 
 [c. 1570.] — WoUaton book of husbandry, etc., beginning 
 
 January Elizabeth (year torn away) in 
 
 same hand and of like nature as Henry Averey's account 
 for 1566. 205. 
 
421 
 
 1572 to 1575.— Extracts from book of receipts and ex- 
 penditure for the household from 8 November, 1572, to 
 February, 1575. The accountant was Thomas Shaw, as 
 appears at folios 6, and 8 verso, 12, 35, 36. Prom about the 
 middle of 1573 the accounts are entered weekly only. In 
 the extracts the weekly dates are given within brackets. 
 
 [Fo. 1.] 
 1572. 
 Mensis Novembris 1572. 
 The viij*^ of November payd to my Mrs. for her 
 
 quarteres allowance endinge at Myghellmas last 
 
 past X??, 
 
 The same day that Bartholomew Wyddoson payd 
 
 for a hat for my Mr xijs. 
 
 The same day for ij dd [= dozen] poyntinge 
 
 rebben at iijs. the dossyn vjs. 
 
 The is}^ of November to Borrowes, Mr. George 
 
 Willoughbie his man, in rewarde for presenting 
 
 my Mr. with vij dd. [= dozen] larkes, by his 
 
 commaundment iiijs. 
 
 For a pair of knyves for my Mrs ijs. 
 
 To Mr. Banyster that he payd for iiij bookes and 
 
 towe boxes for my maistres vs. 
 
 For y]11. of starche at vjrf. the pounde, payd by 
 
 Mrs. Ellyzabeth iijs. 
 
 The said daye that she paid for iiij oz. dim. [= half] 
 
 of Speneshe sylke at xxd. the oz vijs. vid. 
 
 For one pounde of Systers^ threed xjs., and for 
 
 viij oz. more of Systers threed bought by my 
 
 Mrs. xs. : in toto xxjs. 
 
 For vj. bewgle cheynes for the chyldren bought 
 
 by my Mrs \]s. 
 
 To the weates [== waits] of Lychefyelde, the same 
 
 day [November 10], in rewarde, by my Mr. his 
 
 commaundement ijs. 
 
 To Shawe that he paid, the same daye, for xl. 
 
 counters delyvered to my Mr ij,!?. 
 
 To George, the said daye, that he paid for ij boltes 
 
 of blacke threed viiJ5. viijti., whyte threed dim. 
 
 11. [=lb.] xiiijrf., brushes ij ijs. : in toto .. .. xjs. xd. 
 To Water Goulde Smythe for vj. oz. dim. of sylver 
 
 at iiijs. xd. the oz xxxjs. vd. 
 
 Paid more to hym for makinge of a suger boxe of 
 
 sylver cont[eyning] xxxj oz. at xv]d. the oz. . . xljs. uijd. 
 Paid more to hym for a playne bowUe of sylver 
 
 cont[eyning] vij oz. iij quarters at vs. viijd. the 
 
 oz xUijs. xjd. 
 
 1 Sewing thread of flax spun by Italian or Flemish nuns, and hence known 
 as ' nun's thread ' (cf. German Kloaterzmm), 
 
422 
 
 In rewarde, the same daye, to the ohristninge of 
 Hylles chylde at Wollaton vs. 
 
 The x"" of November, paid to Mr. Harmar, grocer, 
 of London, for spyces, videlicet Valence suger 
 vij loves, conteyninge 68 11. ij oz. at xijd. oh. the 
 pounde, \\\li. xjs. {sic) ; suger smalle loves iiij, 
 conteyninge 14 11. 10 oz. at xiijf?., xvjs. {sic) ; 
 suger, fyne, 4 loves conteyninge 58 11. j.oz. at 
 xj5. per U., liijs. n}d. ; kytchin suger 4 loves 
 conteyninge 50 11. j.oz. at xc?. per U., xlijs. \d. 
 (sic) ; case peper xvj 11. at iijs. ijd. per 11., 
 Is. viijrf. ; nut mygges, case, 4 li. at 45., 
 xviijs. vii]d. (sic) ; gynger vj. 11. at iiijs. per U., 
 xxiiijs. ; synamonde 12 11. at iiijs. Y]d: per 11., 
 liiijs. ; mases, large j U. xiijs. ; cloves, iij U. at 
 vjs. vjrf., xixs. v]d. ; dates viij 11. at xd. per 11., 
 vjs. vii]d. ; maces m..(sic) j 11., xs. ; proynes j quar- 
 ter c. at i]d. 6b. per 11., vs. xd. (sic) ; reasons 
 j pece conteyninge iij quarters viij 11. at u]d. ob. 
 per 11., xxiiijs. xd. ; currantes quarter c. at 
 ixd. per 11. xxjs. ; lyckares iiij 11. — xxd. ; torne- 
 salP ij U. vs. ; annessedes iiij 11., iijs. Yn\d. ; all- 
 mondes vj 11., iijs. ; ryce, vj 11., at \n\d. per H. 
 iijs. ; isinglass dim. 11. iijs. iiijfi. : in toto xxijK. viijs. xd. 
 
 And for tolle at Lenton haveinge iij horsses to carrye 
 
 the said spyces to Nottingham vjrf. 
 
 The same day, for vj yardes of tufte taliyta at 
 
 xijs. the yarde, bought by George Camme . . iijfo'. xijs. 
 
 To Mr. Banyster, the said [day], for manuschriste^ 
 and other nessaryes delyvered to my Mrs. in 
 the tyme of her sycknes xxxs. 
 
 The same daye [12 November] in rewarde to my 
 Lorde WiUoughbies musyssions, by my Mr. his 
 command viijrf. 
 
 [Po. 2.] 
 
 The said daye [14 November], payd for Scander- 
 bege upon the Turkeshe warres,^ xuijd. ; and 
 for Vegesias vppon the poUycie of the warres, xijc?. 
 delyvered to my Mr. : in toto ijs. i]d. 
 
 To my Mrs. that she gave to the chrystninge of a 
 poore man's chylde at Saint Maris [Nottingham] vs. 
 
 For a woodknyffe for my Mr. the said tyme [17 
 November], payd by my Mr xls. 
 
 1 See page 372, note 1, above. 
 
 2 A sort of cordial. See New English Diotionary, s.v. ' Manus.' 
 
 3 Perhaps Barletiu.s, Marinns, Hietoria de Vila et Oestis Scanderbegi, Epiro- 
 tarum Principis, Rome [1510 ?], folio. About 1560 John Daye published 
 at London Orations of Arsanes agaynst Philip . . . of Macedon ; 
 of the Embassadors of Venice against the Prince . . . , unth Scanderbeg 
 
 . , and of Scanderbeg. See C. E. Sayle, Early English Printed BooIm 
 in the University Library, Cambridge, no. 868. 
 
423 
 
 Item, the same daye [20 November], that my Mr. 
 gave to the prissoners in the jaele that was 
 bestowed in bread and dryncke xijd. 
 
 [Fo. 3.] 
 
 To Hugh Mercer that he paid for ij cawles for 
 the chyldren iijs. iiijd., and for ij combes and a 
 glase xijd. : in toto iiijs. iiij<i. 
 
 To Thomas Shaw that he paid for covering a 
 
 booke for my Mr., the iij"' of December . . iiijd. 
 
 Mensis Decemhris, 1572. 
 
 The same daye [4 December] for j queere of large 
 paper for my Mrs., vd., and for j queere of paper 
 iiijd., ; in toto ixd. 
 
 To Mr. Edmonson, the said daye [5 December], 
 for a hh. [=: hogshead] of clarid wyne iijK. xs., 
 and to Mr. Cooper for ij hh. of clared wyne 
 vjK. xiijs. iiijd. : in toto ydi. iijs. iiijd. 
 
 The vj"" of December, to the poore of Saynte 
 Maryes [Nottingham] for iij wekes at vjd. the 
 weeke xviijd. 
 
 To the weattes of Nottingham for there quarter's 
 wages endinge at Christmas iijs. iiijd. 
 
 [Fo. 4.] 
 
 Item to Mr. Sherbrooke, the xij** of December, 
 
 in rewarde for comynge to my Mrs. beinge sycke xs. 
 To my Mrs., the same daye, for her qua[r]ter's 
 
 allowans endinge at Christmas xli. 
 
 To hym [William Rice] for his horsemeate going 
 
 to Teersall [Teversall, Notts] for Mr. Sherbrooke iiijd. 
 
 The same daye [14 December], to John Penne 
 
 that he paid for xiiij stone juggs vjs. 
 
 [Fo. 5.] 
 
 The same daye [20 December] to Mr. Banyster 
 for oringes and other physsyck mynystred to 
 my Mrs. by my Mr. his comandement . . . . xls. 
 
 The same daye [25 December], to my Mrs. that she 
 lost at cardes at Colwyck [Notts], by th'ands of 
 Mrs. Ellyzabeth xs. 
 
 [Fo. 6.] 
 
 To John Greene, the xxix"" of December, for iiij 
 hyltes for swerdes and daggers for my Mr. to 
 lern to playe at fenche with, sent by Mr. Stan- 
 hope, viijs., and in reward to hym that brought 
 them xijd. : in toto ixs. 
 
424 
 
 To my Lorde of Woster's players, the last [day] 
 of December, in rewarde for playing before my 
 Mr. and Mr. Stanhope xxs. 
 
 To Towle, the same daye, for i]li. of cotten week 
 for candle, vs., and for the carridge of yt and 
 xxll. pounde (sic) of cotten candle ijs., frome 
 London to Nottingham : in toto vijs. 
 
 Physsyck.— To Mr. Banyster, the same day, viz. 
 a syrrope for my Mr., iijs. iu]d. ; iiijoz. of mace 
 oyle and the oyle of cloves myxed to gether for 
 ache, for my Mrs., xvjs. ; one plaster of a con- 
 sumption of the kydnes, iiis. iiijd. ; one oynetment 
 for payne in the back and heate of the kydnes, 
 xvid. : in toto xxiiijs. 
 
 1573. 
 
 The firste of Januarye, in reward to the musyssyons 
 for playing at my Mr. his chamber dore, paid 
 by Hughe Mercer ijs. 
 
 To Mr. Sterley [= StreUey], the same daye, for 
 
 vj''^ paving brycke for a harthe at Wollaton ijs. vjd. 
 
 To Arrowsmythe, the same daye [2 January], that 
 he paid for the carrydge of my Mr. his letters 
 to London, id]d., and that he gave to iij mussy 
 ssyons xijd. : in toto ijs. 
 
 To John Borrowes, the same daye, by my Mr. his 
 comaundement for presentinge my Mr. with a 
 Newe Yeres gyf te , , vs. 
 
 [Fo. 7.] 
 
 To George Rotherom's man, the thyrde of Janu- 
 arye, in rewarde for presentinge my Mrs. with 
 the pycture of the Queene for a New Yeres 
 gyfte xijd 
 
 The v"" of Januarye, to Blythe [that] he geve to 
 the poore at there howses throughe the towne of 
 Nottingham, by my Mr. his commaundement . . xls. 
 
 To a man of Willoughbye that brought my Mr. 
 worde that Mr. Armestronge^ was dead and 
 buryed in reward xijt?. 
 
 The same daye [12 January] in reward to the 
 weates of Nottingham for playinge before my Mr. 
 and the rest of the justysses ijs. 
 
 To my Mr. by the th'andes of Frauncis Lydleton 
 to playe at dyce with vjs. 
 
 To Blythe, the same daye [15 January], that he 
 paid to vj m[en] that played before my Mr. an 
 enterlewde iijs. iiijd. 
 
 1 Of Thorpe in the Glebe, Notts. See Thoroton, p. 39. 
 
426 
 
 To Mr. Bonnar, the xvij'* of Januarye, viz. j payr of 
 bootes viijs., iiij pair of corked^ shewes for my 
 Mrs. vs., a pair of pantofEelles^ for my Mr. ijs., 
 a payre of wynter shewes with iij soles for my 
 Mr. ijs., iiij pair of shewes for the chyldren ijs., 
 and one pair of shewes for Joan xiiijd., a peece 
 of corcke iiijd. : in toto xxs. vjd. 
 
 To Ryehard Greene, the same daye, that he paid 
 for the conveing a letter from Wyken to 
 Nottingham xxd. 
 
 To Hughe Mercer, the same daye, that he paid 
 for makinge viij pair of sockes for my Mr. . . vii]d. 
 
 To hym more, the same day, for xiij yardes of 
 
 bonelase for the chyldren iijs. u]d. 
 
 To hym [Roger the cater] more, the same daye [24 
 
 January], for an erthen pypkin jd. ob. 
 
 To Penne, the same daye, that he gave to a man 
 that brought a nape [= an ape] to playe before 
 my Mrs., by my Mrs. her commaundement . . ijs. 
 
 [Fo. 9.] 
 
 To Hughe Mercer, the xxvij* of Januarye, for 
 his charges to Darbye, being sent to Sir Frauncis 
 Leake to borrowe his horse-leeter [—-litter] for 
 my Mrs. to London viijd. 
 
 To Johan Beardmore, the same daye [31 January], 
 for her quarter's wages at her going to Lowdam 
 with the chyldren, by my Mrs. commaundement, 
 endinge at Our Ladye Daye vs. 
 
 [Fo. 9 verso.] 
 Mensis Febrvxirii 1572[-3]. 
 
 The second of Februarye in reward to Mrs. Anne 
 Pate at her departure frome my Mr., by my Mrs. 
 her commaundement xs. 
 
 The same daye [3 February] to Smallewoode at 
 his deperture frome my Mrs. ijs. ; to the too 
 weates [= waits] ijs. for playing before my 
 Mr. : in toto iiijs. 
 
 To the booke bynder, the same daye, for a paper 
 booke covered and bounde with parchement 
 for my Mr xjd. 
 
 [Fo. 10.] 
 To a poore woman, the iiij'"® of Februarye, for 
 
 knyttinge towe pair of hose for the chyldren . . vjd 
 
 1 Provided with high heels of cork. See New English Dictionary, e.v. 
 • Corked.' 
 ^ Slippers. See New English Dictionary. 
 
426 
 
 To Fraiincis Lyttleton, the v*'' of February, for his 
 quarter's wages at his departure frome my Mr., 
 xiijs. iiijd. ; Raphell Symons, xiijs. m]d. ; Wil- 
 liam Stockes, X5. ; Thomas Stockes, vjs. viijaf. ; 
 Wm. Bradshawe xiijs. iiijrf. ; Darby Gray, xxs. ; 
 Foxe, xs. ; Dune iiijs. ; Kettle, iijs. uijd. ; 
 John Mee, vjs. : in toto yU. 
 
 To Wm. Ryce, the same daye [7 February] that 
 
 he paid for on yard of russet taffyta saresnet vjs. vjtf. 
 
 The same daye to Laundesdale, James Heelaye 
 and John Wright for the carridge of vj lodes of 
 howsholde stuffe frome Nottingham to WoUaton, 
 at xijci. the loode vja. 
 
 To Hugh Leeis, the same daye, for the carridge of 
 ij loodes of stuf to Wollaton fromme Nottingham ijs. 
 
 To Roger Collyer, the same daye, for "vj str[ykes] 
 of charcolles, ijs. ; a pair of hose for Johan, 
 xiiijti. ; a pair of shewes for Johan, xvjrf. ; blew 
 poynting rebben for my Mrs., iiij. yardes, xijd. ; 
 rosen, i]d. ; paper [for] the cookes ij queere, 
 viijrf. ; a cheane and locke for the trunck, xi]d. ; 
 a brydell bjrtt for the stable, xiiijd. : in toto . . viijs. vj(Z. 
 
 Lever ies. — The same day that Shawe paid for fower 
 yardes of fryce for Roger Collyer his cote . . iiijs. viijcZ. 
 
 To my Mrs. at her goinge up to London as her 
 
 allowance, by my Mr. his comaunde. . . . xiijii. vjs. viijd!. 
 
 The same daye to John Wright and James Heelaye 
 for the carridge of ij lodes of woode to Notting- 
 ham, before my Mr. came frome thens . . . . ijs. 
 
 To Blunte, the same daye, that he paid to a poore 
 man as my Mr. came frome Leister, by my Mr. 
 his comaundement xijtZ. 
 
 [Fo. 10 verso.] 
 
 The viij*^ day of February, to Earths. Wyddoson 
 that he paid for ryding charges, viz. ferryla 
 [= ferry-charge] at Sawley, iiijS. ; in rewardes 
 at Mr. Staunforthe's his howse, iijs. ; at Breeme- 
 ]am [Birmingham] ij dayes, vijs. v]d. ; to my 
 Mr. in playe there, T'ijs. ; for horsemeat and 
 shewing there, xxs. viijrf. ; to the poore there, 
 vid. ; geven to the irenston getter, ijs. vjd. ; 
 at Lechefyeld for supper, fyer and wyne, xiijs. 
 Yiijd. ; breakfast the next daye there, vs. xa. ; 
 horsemeat there, smythe and sadler, xijs. mjd. ; 
 to the weates there, vjrf. ; to the poore fookes 
 there, vjc7..; to ij poore fokes by the waye, ijdi. ; 
 at Stone [co. Stafford] for supper, vjs. vii]d. ; 
 for breakfast there iiijs. viijcZ. ; horsemeat there, 
 xs. Yjd. ; to the weates there, v]d. ; at Leaton 
 
427 
 
 yate [Lawton Gate, parish of Church Lawton, 
 CO. Chester] supper, breakfast and fyer, xs. viijd. ; 
 horse meate there, ixs. v]d. ; to the smythe there, 
 iiijs. iiijd!. ; horse meate at Smallewoode [vSmall- 
 wood, parish of Astbury, co. Chester] 2 nightes 
 and 2 dayes, xxs. ; Harrye Myller and Watson 2 
 dayes there, ijs. ; more at Smallewoode for 
 charges there, xxxs. iiijrf. ; the charges of the 
 cowert there, xvijs. vd. ; in rewardes at Smalle- 
 wood, iijs. ; for supper and breakfast at New- 
 castle [under Lyme, co. Stafford] xvjs. ; horse- 
 meate there, xijs. Yiijd. ; the smythe there, 
 xxi]d. ; at Darby supper and breakfast, xvs. ; 
 horsemeat there, xs. viijVL ; the smythe ther, 
 xxd. ; geven to a fydler there xi]d. ; to the 
 pore there, u]d. : in toto xi]li. xiijs. i]d. 
 
 To Gabreell Woodnet, the same daye [10 Feb- 
 ruary], for iiij dayes bord wages for hym self 
 and his man at iiijrf. the daye ijs. viijt^. 
 
 To Mr. Corson of Nottingham for iiij yardes of 
 fryce for Baker his cote, by my Mr. his 
 comaundement jiijs. yiijd. 
 
 To Thomas Gardner for his bord wages the last 
 weeke, ijs. ; and to Thomas Belper for his bord 
 wages the same weeke, xvjd. : in toto . . . . iijs. iiijrf. 
 
 [Fo. 11.] 
 To Thorns Baye and Thoms Turpen of Codgrave 
 [Cotgrave, co. Notts] for getting of lymestone 
 
 there for my Mr xs. 
 
 To Breedon for v dayes takinge moles in Wynter- 
 
 syck and the garden at viijd. the daye . . . . iijs. iiijrf. 
 
 [Fo. 11 verso.] 
 To Mr. Atkinson, the same daye [16 February], 
 
 for ikU. hoppes at vd. the pounde iijs. ixd. 
 
 [Fo. 12.] 
 
 To Breedon, the same daye [21 February], for 
 takinge moldes vj dayes at viijc?. the daye, 
 fyndinge hym selffe, in HoUywell and by the 
 pooles iiijs. 
 
 To John Robson and his fella wes [21 February] 
 for stubbinge ij. lease [=leys] in the Black 
 Wombe, i being hyred by great xs. 
 
 To Ryce, the xxyj"" of February, that he paid for 
 ferrUa at Sawley, my Mr. beinge there, ii\d. ; 
 and to HoUand that he paid at Stoek Ferrye, my 
 Mr. ryding to Mr. Stanhop his howse, ijd. : 
 in toto Ycl. 
 
 1 Called more norreatly Blacks Wonge at fo. 13, 15, but elsewhere Blacke 
 Wombe in several places. 
 
428 
 
 [Fo. 12 verso.] 
 
 The same daye in reward to Mr. Stanhop his 
 connye keeper for taking connyes [= rabbits] 
 for my Mr iijs. mjd. 
 
 To Wrightlye, the same daye [28 February], for 
 V dayes worke gettinge wood for the connye 
 
 clappers at vd. the daye ijs. jd, 
 
 Mensis Martii, 1572[-3]. 
 
 To Cowper of Nottingham, the same dayer[3 
 March], for j. gallon of sack fatche [i= fetched] 
 by Hugh, ijs. viijd. ; and for ij quarters of muska- 
 dyne, nvjd. : in toto iiijs. 
 
 The same daye [5 March] to Atkinson for ij yardes 
 of bokarum to lyne my Mr. hia greene huse 
 [== hose] the streit lyninge xxijd. 
 
 [Fo. 13.] 
 The XX*'' of Marche to Mr. Harpam for a dynner of 
 fyshe and fleshe provyded for Sir John Zowche, 
 Mr. Stanhope, Mr. Bowne, Mr. Reppington, 
 which sate in commyssion of the offyce [i.e. inquisi- 
 tion post mortem] of Mr. Armestronge xls. xrf. 
 
 The same daye for horsemeate for Mr. Stanhop 
 his horsses, xiiijd., Mr. Whytmore, iiijrf., Mr. 
 Bowne, iijd., for others that weare on the jurye, 
 Tjd. : in toto ijs. ii]d, 
 
 [Fo. 13 verso.] 
 To Roger Steele for ferryla for his cart going to 
 Coleorton [Cole Orton, co. Leicester] for fyshe, 
 and backe agayne, the xxj* of Marche . . . . xrf. 
 
 To Mr. Bowne for drawinge the inquis[it]ion upon 
 the deathe of Mr. Armestronge xs. 
 
 [Fo. 14.] 
 
 Mensis Aprilis, 1573. 
 
 To Mr. Nyckes of Nottingham, the same day [4 
 April], for churche wages for one yere for my 
 Mi. his pew xv]d. 
 
 To Wrigley, the same daye [11 April], that he paid 
 
 for ix ounces of unnyon seede for the garden xij(?. 
 
 [Fo. 14 verso.] 
 The xiij"' of Apr ill to Wm. Ryce for his charges 
 at CoYentrye, beinge sent to Sir FoLke Grevle 
 with the stoned horse, videlicet for his horsemeat 
 for xvj dayes, xvs. vjrf. ; for his charges vij 
 dayes, vs. m]d. ; a horse clothe and a horse 
 combe, xxijd. ; for ij removes [reserve horse 
 shoes], ijd. ; for a stryke of otes at Wyken xd. : 
 in toto xxiiJ5. viijd. 
 
429 
 
 The same daye that he paid for ga^wles [= galls], 
 iiijd. ; gume, m]d. ; copperes, i]d. ; ferryla at 
 Wylford, being sent to Sir Jarvis [Clifton], ]d. : 
 in toto x\d. 
 
 To Sir John Herott, preest of Wollaton, for Ws 
 quarter's wages endinge at Our Ladye Daye 
 last past xlvs. 
 
 [Fo. 15 verso.] 
 
 Mensis Maye, 1573. 
 The v*!" of Maye in reward to a poore man that 
 came to seeke worke, by my Mr. his com- 
 maundement ijs. 
 
 [Po. 16 verso.] 
 
 To Eoger Collyer, the same daye [12 May], that he 
 payd to ux. [= wife] Blunte for the platt [= plan] 
 maker's bord that came frome London to measure 
 groundes, by my Mr. his comaundement, viij 
 dayes, iiijs. and one meale at Nottingham, vjd. iiijs. Yjd. 
 
 The xvj"" of Maye in rewarde to Thomas Gardner 
 at his going intoto [sic] Scottland, by my Mr. 
 his comaundement vjs. riijd. 
 
 [Fo. 17.] 
 
 To Thomas Butler, the xvij'" of Maye, that my 
 Mr. gave to Raphe Butler his wiffe, who was 
 sleane in the pytt in the Highefeeld, by my 
 Mr. his commaundement iijs. iu]d. 
 
 The same daye to Thomas Shawe for his chardges 
 ij Satterdayes being sent to gett gold for sylver xi]d. 
 
 To Blunte, the xAdj"' of Maye, that he paid for 
 ferryla going to Shelford, my Mr. beinge there, 
 iiijd. ; and to my Mr. by th'andes of Frances 
 Jackes to playe at cardes with xs. : in toto . . xs. iujd. 
 
 The same daye [17 May] in rewarde to Mr. Dreacotes 
 man for bringinge my Mr. a bucke hounde . . ijs. 
 
 The xix* of Maye in reward to a poore scoller that 
 came frome Heynor that went to Oxeforth, by 
 my Mr. his commaunde ijs. 
 
 [Fo. 17 verso.] 
 
 To ToMe, the same daye, for carreing of our 
 levereis frome London to Wollaton, conteyning 
 by weight — at — vjs, viijd. 
 
 [Fo. 18.] 
 
 To Ollyver Godbehere that he paid for my Mr 
 his charges frome London to Wollaton with iiij 
 men, viz. at Dunstable bread and beere, ijs., 
 
430 
 
 mutton, xvjd., ollyves, i]d., a capon, i]d., checkins, 
 xxd., frewt and cheese, viijti., wyne and sugar, 
 xxd., horsemeat, vjs., horse-shu[i]nge, in]d., the 
 Sadler, iiijrf^., butter and beere [for ?] the horses 
 Y]d. : in toto xvjs, viijd. 
 
 At Northamton dynner and horsemeat vs. mjd. 
 
 At Welforthe [Welford, co. Northampton] supper 
 
 and horsemeat viijs. viijd. 
 
 In reward to the poore by my Mr. his com[aunde- 
 
 ment] xxd. 
 
 To hym more, the same daye, for his charges being 
 sent to Formark [Foremark, co. Derby] at 
 Coleorton one night, iiijo!., and at Kegworth 
 [co. Leicester] comming home xd. 
 
 To Baker for his Mr. ryding charges into Lynck- 
 lenshyre (sic), viz., at Botsworth [Bottesford, co. 
 Leicester] for drynck, iijd. ; at Grantham for 
 paper and waxe, vjd. ; horsemeat and mansmeat 
 there, ixs. ixd. ; at his retorne one nightes 
 charges at Grantham, xiiijs. vjd. ; to the lackye 
 for his charges to Jackson the horse leeche, ijs. ; 
 for the carrige of fower paper bookes frome 
 London, xiiijd. : in toto xxviijs. ijd . 
 
 Mensis [June, 1573]. 
 
 The first of June to B.ydgeley for carry[ge] of towe 
 trunckes frome London to Wollaton cont[eyning] 
 by weighte v^^ x". at ob. quad, the pound . . vijs. 
 
 To Harrye Radforthe, the seconde of June, for my 
 Mr. his horsemeat and Mr. George WiUoughbyes 
 at Nottingham, being a comyssyoner for Mr. 
 Poole xv]d. 
 
 The same daye in reward to the weates [= waits] 
 
 of Nottingham by th'andes of Gr[iffith] Ryce. . xijd. 
 
 To the pryssoners of Nottingham by th'andes of 
 
 Barths. Weddoson, the same daye iiij<i. 
 
 The same daye by commaundement of my Mr. to 
 a man that sarveth Mr. Willoughbye of Kent ijs. 
 
 [Fo. 18 verso.] 
 
 To Randall and Gregorj'^e, the same day [6 June], 
 for three tymes crying a whether in Nottingham, 
 beinge taken and seased for my Mr Yd. 
 
 To Harpham of Nottingham, the xj"" of June, for 
 my Mr. his men, at which tyme the muster was 
 taken generally, being xx" xs. 
 
 And for horsemeate there, the same daye . . . . xijd. 
 
 [Fo. 19.] 
 
 The same daye [12 June] to x meades [^^ maids] 
 of Bradmore [co. Nottingham] that brought x 
 bordens of rysshes [= rushes] to Wollaton . . xxd. 
 
431 
 
 [Fo. 20.] 
 
 Mensis Augxist, 1573. 
 
 To Towlle, the xviij'" of August, for the caridge 
 of V packes frome London to Wollaton, at xij(i. the 
 paoke iijK. 
 
 To hym more, the same daye, for a horse for 
 Ellyzabethe from London to Wollaton and for 
 her charges xs. 
 
 And for his stayinge at London one daye hymself 
 
 and his horses ijs. vjd. 
 
 The same daye that Harry Myllner payd for butter 
 
 and ale for the coeche horses , vjd. 
 
 The same daye [19 August] to Thorns Tayler for 
 the charges of hymself and his horse one night 
 at Darby, being sent for a surgeon xi]d. 
 
 The xxiiij** of August to Nyxson for a dayes 
 work felling and squaring a tree for the poumpe, 
 vijd. ; and to Wm. Leece for doing the lyke, 
 vijd xiiijd. 
 
 The same daye to Rychard Atkinson for makinge 
 
 a pumpe xiijs. iiijd. 
 
 [Fo. 20 verso.] 
 
 To Sir Jarvis Clyfton his man for presenting my 
 
 Mrs. with ij baskets of peares [25 August] . . xijd. 
 
 To Mr. John Sterlei's [= Strelley's] man for pre- 
 senting my Mr. with store tenches c. cuples . . xijd. 
 
 [Fo. 21.] 
 Mensis Septemhris. 
 
 The first of September to Docter Smythe in rewarde 
 
 by th'andes of my Mr. for comming frome London 
 
 to Wollaton with my Mrs , . . . . xiijli. YJs. viijd!. 
 
 The seconde of September to Broxtall in reward by 
 
 my Mrs. for christinge his chylde, ys vs. 
 
 The same daye to my Ladye Stanhope her man 
 
 for presenting my Mrs. with plumes [= plums] xi]d. 
 
 The same day to my Lady Sterley [= Strelley] 
 
 her man for presenting my Mrs. with nuttes xijd. 
 
 [September 4.] 
 The same day to Wrigley for ij pottes for jylly 
 
 flowers xijd. 
 
 To Hill and his company for feinge [= " feying," 
 
 cleaning] the well for the pumpe xi]d. 
 
 To the gold smyth for setting on a sylver pott eare ijs. 
 To Thomas Cortnaye for makinge the irenwork 
 
 for the pumpe ij'^- 
 
 > And for the charges of ij horses of my Mrs. that 
 
 Docter Smyth and his man ryd to London . . xs. 
 
432 
 
 [September 5.] 
 
 To Richard Woodwas for iiij dayes work making 
 
 basketes, ijs. viijc?., and to his man, ijs. viijd. vs. iujd. 
 
 [Fo. 21 verso.] 
 [September 12.] 
 
 The same daye to Mr. Powdrell his man for pre- 
 senting my Mrs. with j. basket of peares . . xijd. 
 
 The same daye my Mrs. rydd [= rode] with Mrs. 
 Berin to Collwyck, in Nottingham to a pore 
 woman that gave my^Mrs. nuttes, YJd. : to the 
 pore there, xYii]d ijs. iiijd. 
 
 To John Tomlyn for the carridge of xvj o. stuffe 
 frome Sterb[r]edge [= Sturbridge Fair, Cam- 
 bridge] at ijs. the o xxxijs, 
 
 [Fo. 22.] 
 
 The same daye that George [Cam] payd for viij 
 
 dayes worke of a tayler to make the chyldren's 
 
 gownes ijs. 
 
 The same daye to L. Ryce that he paid for making 
 
 iij pair of sockes for my Mr vs. 
 
 To my Lorde Willoughby his musissions, by com- 
 
 [maimdement] of Earths. Widdoson ijs. vjd. 
 
 To my Mrs. by th'andes of Hughe Mercer to playe 
 
 at cardes with xxs. 
 
 To Mr. Stanhope his man for presenting my Mrs. 
 
 with cowcumbers and artychoekes vjd. 
 
 To Mr. Hollys man for presenting my Mr. with iiijdd. 
 
 [= dozen] knapes^ iijs. iiijrf. 
 
 [Fo. 22 verso.] 
 
 The same daye [13 September] to George Cam 
 for ij dd. [:::^ dozen] poyntes for my Mr ijs. 
 
 To hym for taffyta saresnet for cannyons for my 
 
 Mr> xxd. 
 
 For the pycture of my Mr.^ xs. 
 
 And for my Mrs. pycture* xxs. 
 
 [Fo. 23.] 
 
 [September 26.] 
 To Edward Edllin by my Mr. commaundement for 
 
 playing before he went to Uxbridge . . . . xls. 
 
 To Mr, Bullock, feodarye, for the note under his 
 
 seale xs. 
 
 1 Query ' bullfinches.' Cf. New English Dictionary, a.v. ' Nape ' sb. 1 
 
 2 See p. 436, note 2, below. 
 
 8 Probably the portrait of Sir Francis Willoughby now in the Saloon at 
 WoUaton HaU. A latter copy of it in the central hall (ascribed to Sibreeht^ 
 in Eamblea round Nottingham, 1856 p. 69) is dated 1573. 
 
 * Probablj' the portrait now in the Saloon. 
 
433 
 
 To Mr. Stanhopes weates, by my Mr. his oom- 
 [maundement] ijs. 
 
 To Mr. Sargant Pewtrell .1 xxs. 
 
 To Beck of Mydleton for bringeing nayles from 
 Brymejam [= Birmingham], by commaunde- 
 ment of Mr. George W[illoughby] ijs. 
 
 To Robert Joynes that he payd at Newsted for 
 
 lodginge and drynck, my Mrs. being there . . xi]d. 
 
 [Fo. 23 verso.] 
 [October 1.] 
 The same daye to Mr. Waringe a scoUer . . . . x\s. 
 
 [Po. 24.] 
 Mensis Octobris, 1573. 
 
 [October 1.] 
 
 The same daye to my Mrs. for her quarter's 
 
 allowaunce xiijli. y]s. viijd. 
 
 To Ollyver Godbehere for his charges iij. tymes 
 to London and back agayne xys. 
 
 To hym that he paid for mendinge my Mr. his 
 
 clock vjs. m]d. 
 
 • [Fo. 24 verso.] 
 
 To George Cam that he paid for suger candy for 
 
 my Mrs xv]d. 
 
 [October 10.] 
 
 To Rychard lackye for his charges iij dayes and 
 iij nightes, being sent for Jackson the horse 
 leeche xx]d. 
 
 To Mr. Harr[y] Willoughby his man for bookes xlvjs. viijrf. 
 
 [Fo. 25.] 
 [October 8.] 
 
 To Thomas Tayler that he gave Sir Anthone 
 Sterley [= Strelley] his gardner for aquavytey 
 [= aqua vitce] ijs. 
 
 To Mr. Sargant Powtrell for his whoUe yeres an- 
 newetie by th'andes of Wm. Doughtie . . . . xxs. 
 
 To Mr. Pate his man for presenting' my Mrs. with 
 ij. cheeses and a turkey ijs. 
 
 For iiij pair of gloves for the chyldren . . . . xvid. 
 
 [Fo. 25 verso.] 
 
 To Mr. Harry Willoughby at his departure forth of 
 the countrye to London, by my Mr. his com- 
 maund[ement] xls. 
 
 M28 
 
434 
 
 [Po. 26.] 
 
 The xyj'"^ of October to Mr. Atkinson for a paire 
 of garthers of Levant taffyta for my Mr. . . . vjs. 
 
 [Po. 26 verso.] 
 [October 24.] 
 To hym [Towlle] for the carrige of the vergenalles 
 and ij pyctures xs. 
 
 [Po. 27.] 
 
 To Roger that he paid for glasse for the musis- 
 
 sions chamber, v foote dim. ijs. ixd. 
 
 Knyves for the gent[el] wemen r]d. 
 
 Por ij bokes for the gent[el] wemen ijd!. 
 
 [Po. 27 verso.] 
 
 For a manecombe [comb for the mane] and sponge 
 
 for the coecheman ijs. vjd. 
 
 For a pair of pastrens [= shackles, hobbles] for 
 
 the coecheman xiiijci. 
 
 To John Warryner for his d3Tiner at Coleorton. . iiij^. 
 
 For mylke for his ferretes iiij weekes ending the 
 
 last of October xvjd. 
 
 To Mr. Poole's man of Dawby [= Dalby, co. 
 Leicester] for presenting my Mrs. with qujTices 
 and medlers , ijs. 
 
 [Po. 28.] 
 
 Mensis Novembris, 1573. 
 
 [November 1.] 
 
 Por iij torninge hookes for the joyner to make 
 
 bucklers with \ii]d. 
 
 For bandes and hookes for my Mr. studdy dore . . xijti. 
 
 For bandes for the dog kenelles dore i]d. 
 
 For steehng [= providing with a handle, AS. stela] 
 
 an axe for John Dune xijd. 
 
 To George Cam that he paid for iij yardes and j. 
 quarter of Myllyon [^ Milan] fustian for my 
 
 Mr ixs. ixd. 
 
 Por iij yardes homes^ fustian iiijs. 
 
 Por j yarde of saresnet vjs. iiiid. 
 
 Stytching sylke ixd, 
 
 iij dd. [== dozen] buttons ixd. 
 
 Canvas iij quarters Y\i]d. 
 
 Bumbaste , vjrf. 
 
 Por j dd. dim. crowne lace ijs. Y]d. 
 
 Por karzey iij quarters dim. for a paire of stock- '■ 
 
 inges for my Mr. at vjs. the yard vs. ii]d. 
 
 Por taffyta to face the same stockinges . . . . vjrf. 
 
 Por a skayne of sylke i]d. 
 
 1 Fustian made at Ulmin Germany. See New Mnglish Diet., s.v. 'Holmes.' 
 
436 
 
 [Fo. 28 verso.] 
 To Gabriell Woodnet his man for v dayes worke 
 in hewing stone and making a harth in the gallary 
 chamber xxd. 
 
 [November 7.] 
 To Holland that he payd for lybbinge [flopping] 
 
 V. beeches vjt^. 
 
 [Fo. 29.] 
 To Mr. John Sterley his.m^ for bringinge a nurse 
 
 to my Mrs., by her commaundement . . . . xijd. 
 
 To Shawe that he paid for a paire of knyt hose 
 
 for the kytchin boye xd. 
 
 For a paire of shewes xiijd. 
 
 For V yardes of fryce [= friese] for hym at viijd. 
 
 the yard iij5. iHjd. 
 
 [November 14.] 
 To George [Cam] that he paid for a standishe 
 
 [= inkstand] for my Mr xxd. 
 
 To hym [Richard Brownelawe] for spyccoktes 
 
 [^= spigots] and fawcetes xij {jd. 
 
 [Fo. 29 verso.] 
 [November 14.] 
 To Shawe that he paid for th'exchange of cxixli. vs. 
 
 in golde, by my Mr. his commaimdement . . vjs. 
 To a pumppe maker that came owt of Darbyshyre, 
 
 by th'andes of Stokes " . . xijd. 
 
 To Shawe for his charges v dayes being sent to 
 
 Lenton Fayre, his horse and hym selfe . . . . ijs. v]d. 
 
 [Fo. 30.] 
 
 To Thomas Cowertnaye, the xxvj*^ of November, 
 
 for iiij shewes for the sorrell colt xijd. 
 
 Baye Somers Mj shewes ixrf. 
 
 Whyte Cortall ij shewes Yjd. 
 
 The graye geldinge ij shewes vjcZ. 
 
 Dune Wilson j shewe iijd. 
 
 ij removes^ for the graye geldinge ijrf. 
 
 iuj removes for the stawkinge horse iiijd. 
 
 iij removes for Dune WUson iijd. 
 
 ij removes for whyte Cortall ijd. 
 
 ij drenches for whyte Saunders and my Mr. his 
 
 cortall xyjd. 
 
 ij shewes for Cortall foxe vjd. 
 
 To Thomas Woodshawe for his charges frome 
 
 Mydleton to Wollaton with iiij ewannes . . . xxd. 
 
 1 Old shoes used over again. See New English Dictionary, a. v. 'remove,' 
 ah. 2b. 
 
436 
 
 To Thomas Tayler for his charges to Leicester 
 
 beinge sent for oysters for my Mrs., and his 
 
 horse xxijd. 
 
 And for iiij c. oysters at xd. the c iijs. iiijd. 
 
 To George Camm for his charges to Newarke, beinge 
 
 there with my Mrs. gowne to forre [=fur] iij days iiijs. 
 To hym that he payd to a tayler for iij dayes woorke 
 
 making my Mr. his cote and hose xijd. 
 
 And to the same tayler for making my Mr. his 
 
 dublet ij dayes viijd. 
 
 For browne threed yd. 
 
 To George Cairn for his charges to Newarke to 
 
 bye my Mr. his cote clothe, lying there j night xxd. 
 
 For suger and penedyce^ for my Mrs. by George xx]d. 
 
 To a vergenall player by th'andes of B. Wedoson iijs. in]d. 
 To iij men that range for the coronacyon of the 
 
 queene, by Hugh Mercer vjd. 
 
 To my Lorde Tawbote [=; Talbot] his players., xx.9. 
 To Nyxe his sonne for presenting my Mrs. with 
 
 oysters, by th'andes of the cater xijd. 
 
 For iij queere of paper for merche panes^ . . . . xd. 
 
 For waste] s bought by James Jakes iii]d. 
 
 [Fo. 30 verso.] 
 
 'For makinge a jerkin, dublet and breeches for the 
 
 kitchin boye xv]d. 
 
 To George Gam that he paid for iij yardes and a 
 
 half of freers graye for my Mr. his cote and 
 
 gaskin* hose, at ixs. the yard xxxjs. YJd. 
 
 To hym for j yard dim. of bayes to lyne my Mr. 
 
 his cote and ij pair of canny ans* iijs. ixd. 
 
 For j yarde dim. of fustian to lyne the bodye of 
 
 the same cote xvd. 
 
 Buttons iij dd ixd. 
 
 For sylke for the same cote vjd. 
 
 For j oz. quarter of lace for my Mr. his hose . . ijs. iijd. 
 To hym more that he payd for ij elles of lawne 
 
 for my Mrs xxs. 
 
 To hym for iiij loome workes for the ge[ntel]- 
 
 wem[en] ixs. iujd. 
 
 And for v. loome workes xs. 
 
 For ij buttes of threed viijs. viijd. 
 
 For j li. of whyte threed iijs. viijci. 
 
 For a red skyn xi]d. 
 
 For a whyte skyn yjd. 
 
 1 Sticks of barley-sugar, used as a remedy for colds. See New English 
 
 2 The confection known as " marchpane." See New English Dictionary, 
 
 8.V. 
 
 3 See New English Dictionary, a.v. 'Gaakin,' 1. 
 
 * The external rolls at the lo%ver ends of breeches. See New English 
 Dictionary, s.v. ' canion,' 
 
437 
 
 For iij yardes of mockado^ vis. yrf. 
 
 For j U. of crewell^ ys. ajd. 
 
 For neales for cheares vs" 
 
 For dim. U. of ferret sylke . . . . . *. . viijs 
 
 For vj. quysshens \\ \\ .*."xxx«. 
 
 For vj more red skynnes vjs. 
 
 For a paire of whyte Frenche garthers for an 
 
 upper band yj^ 
 
 To the joyner for making a cheare for Mrs. Underlie 
 
 the last weeke xv\d. 
 
 [Fo. 31.] 
 [November 28.] 
 
 To Greene that he paid for booet hyer at Clyfton, 
 
 my Mr. beinge there '. .. xijrf. 
 
 To. the cater that he paid for the musission his 
 
 horsemeat at Nottingham, his horse being tyerd m^d. 
 
 To John Corson of Nottingham for vj^^xv yardes 
 
 of fryce, at xiiije^. the yard vijfo". xvijs. ixrf. 
 
 To George Cam that he paid for ij yardes 3 quarters 
 
 fryce for my Mr. his jerkin, at xxijti. the y[arde] ys. 
 Jene [= Genoa] fustion for the same jerkins {sic) xxijtZ. 
 
 Levent [= Levant] taffyta for the same jerkin . . xijrf! 
 
 For sylke and buttons xi\d. 
 
 To hym that he paid for vj sheepe skjoines for 
 
 quysheins ij5. 
 
 For browne threed and rybben for cortens . . ixd. 
 
 For a yard of stript canves for Mi-s. Bridget . . ijs. 
 For a vardingale [= farthingale] for Mrs. Wene- 
 
 fride ijs. yj(^ 
 
 To Atuell Woode for iiij dayes worke making a 
 
 gr[eat] cowle [= tub] for the stable, a gr[eat] 
 
 loome [= vessel], a forme and a tundishe for 
 
 the buttrye ijs. Ya]d. 
 
 To the vergenall player by th'andes of B. Wid- 
 
 doson vs. 
 
 To a mayd of Nottingham for presenting my 
 
 Mrs. with aples xijd. 
 
 [Fo. 31 verso.] 
 
 To Kighley by the handes of John Hall for christning 
 his childe in my Mr. his name iijs. iiijrf. 
 
 To Astell the vergenall player by th'andes of 
 Hughe Mercer xs. 
 
 To a poore man of Beesson [= Beeston, Notts] 
 for presenting my Mrs. with ij woodcookes . . vjd. 
 
 1 A kind of clotli. See New English Dictionary, s.v. 
 
 2 Tl-je yam so called. 
 
438 
 
 To Georg [Cam] for iij cawves [= calves'] skyrmes 
 for quysheins vs. 
 
 For j. thowzand gylt nayles xxd. 
 
 To the cater, viz. iiij pannes, Ivjs. ; chafing disshes 
 ij. — xiiijs. ; chamber pottes, ij. — ^ijs. Yn]d. ; 
 scomers, j. — ijs. ; collenders, j. — ^ijs. ; for the 
 change of Ivijfo'. of brasse, ixs. vid. ; ladle, 
 ij. — iijs. iiijcZ. ; for the exchaimge of a steeling^ 
 pott, iiijs. ; frying pannes, j. — i]s. iiijd!. ; for 
 the exchaunge of 77 li. of pewter at ijrf. ob. the 
 pounde, xvjs. ; vj. platters, xiij disshes and xij 
 sawcers, at viijrf. the pounde, xxxjs. ; candle 
 wyck, vjs. viijrf. ; .... a well rope, 
 ijs. vjrf. ; .... a rope for the clocke 
 and a trease [= trace], xiiid. ; 1 pair of treas 
 [= traces], iij,9. ; halters iij. — yjd. ; whyp corde, 
 ijd. ; cokshut^ corde, xijtZ. : in toto xiijs. mjd. 
 
 [Po. 32.] 
 
 Mensis Decembris, 1573. 
 
 [December 5.] 
 
 For ij longe swerde hyltes xxd. 
 
 For a throthenng* and a corke viijd. 
 
 For j. pair of malebraces* xxd. 
 
 To Robsou and his feUawe for iij dayes worke a 
 
 peece in cutting woode for charcoles xxd. 
 
 [Fo. 32 verm.] 
 
 [December 12.] 
 
 To Nyxe his sonne for oringes by th'and of Hugh 
 
 Mercer . . xi]d. 
 
 To John Cawrerd that he paid for a bill to George 
 
 Hethcot for a stoole for my Mrs xiiijd. 
 
 To John Barr for viij sheepe skynnes for Nead 
 
 the uppolster iiijs. 
 
 To a man for shavinges of homes for my Mrs. 
 
 Flowers that came frome London viijd. 
 
 To John Cawverd for vj c. settes for the Dayhowse 
 
 Closse ijs. 
 
 To Towlle for the carridge of a do to London . . vjs. viijd. 
 For ij c. xiiij li. carridge, viz., orringes v c. ; iij c. 
 
 lemans ; x realmes of paper and bookes for my 
 
 Mr xiiijs. 
 
 1 DistilUng ? 
 
 2 Cord for catching birds in a cockshoot. See New English Dictionary 
 under the latter word. 
 
 8 Query meaning. For 'throating' ? 
 
 * Braces or straps for meiils (travelling bags) ? 
 
43d 
 
 [Fo. 33.] 
 To George Cam that he paid for xj yardes of clothe 
 
 for the gent[el] wemen's gownes at ixs. the 
 
 yard iiijK. xixs. 
 
 To hym for iiij dd. rebben xjs. m]d. 
 
 For V yardes of mockado to lyne the sleeves . . ixs. ijd. 
 For announce and a quarter of greene sylke . . ijs. i\]d. 
 
 For V. oz. and a quarter of lace xs. viijd. 
 
 For a yard dim. of stamell frysado ixs. vjd. 
 
 For iij. quarte[r]s of mockado for the petyco 
 
 boddyes . . xvjrf. 
 
 For rebben to bynde the wastes Y]d. 
 
 For iiij. yardes dim. of fustian to make iiij. wast- 
 
 cotes iiijs. ]d. 
 
 For j. yard quarter of buckarome xrf. 
 
 For hookes and eis viijd. 
 
 For ij yardes of cotten for rowles xiiijd. 
 
 pFo. 33 verso.] 
 [December 19.] 
 The xix**" of December to the barber for trym- 
 
 ynge my Mr xijrf. 
 
 To a lackye that sought spyce, by my Mr. . . vjrf. 
 
 To the cater for iiij. saltes for the hall . . . . u]d. 
 
 For xvij. jugges viijs. m\d. 
 
 Waxe hghtes MjZi iijs. 
 
 For a pair of tables for the hall ijs. vj«i. 
 
 For ij. II. of glew to the joyner Yn]d. 
 
 For rysshes, paid by Ellyzabeth xviijci. 
 
 [Fo. 34.J 
 
 To Stringer for vj. dayes worke makinge a wheele 
 
 for the pumpe iiijs. 
 
 Wages paid at Christmas. 
 
 The xxv]""^ of December, my Mrs. xiijZt. vjs. Yu]d. ; 
 Mrs. Ellyzabeth, xxs. ; Johan Poker, xs. ; Johan 
 Beardmore, vs. and for her leeverey, vs. ; Ellyz. 
 Haye, vs. ; Ahce Launders, xs. ; Margerye 
 Gamer, vs. ; Margerye Parleby vjs. viijrf. ; 
 Harry WiUoughby, xxxiijs. ni]d. ; Wm. Blythe, 
 xiijs. mid. ; John Pen, xs. ; L. Ryce, xiijs. m.]d. ; 
 Hugh Mercer, xs. ; Gr. Ryce, xiijs. iijijd. ; Hol- 
 lande, xiijs. w.]d. ; George Cam, xxxs. ; Wm. 
 Bradshawe, xiijs. iiijd. ; Thomas Tayler, xs. ; 
 Thomas Belper, xiijs. iiijd. ; the coecheman, xvs. ; 
 Harry Radforth, xs. ; WiUiam Stoekes, xs. ; 
 John Dune, iiijs. ; John Borros, vjs. viijci. ; 
 Richard Lackye, vjs. viijd. ; Thomas Stoekes, 
 vjs. viijd. ; John Cawverd, xs. ; shepperd of 
 Arr[nold] xs. m]d. ; shepperd of Basford, 
 
440 
 
 xs. iiijrf. ; Leemyng, xs. ; John Boothe, 
 viijs. iiijd. ; William Carter, vjs. viijc?. ; John 
 Warryner, xiijs. iu]d. ; Thomas Shawe, xxs. ; 
 Roger CoUyer, xiijs. m]d. ; William Darby, xs. ; 
 John Scot, vjs. viijd. ; Robert Mason, viijs. m]d. ; 
 William Martyn, xxvs. ; Wrigley, xxs. ; James 
 Cooke, xiijs. ' iujd. ; John Ketle, iijs. iiijd. ; 
 John Mee, vjs. riijd. ; Sir John Herot, xlvs. ; 
 Foxe, xs. ; the musission, yU. ; the boye of the 
 kj^chin, iijs. iiijd. [amount struck out] : Mery- 
 cokes, the clarke of the churche, vs. ; and Mary 
 Scrowin, vs. : in toto xlvjM. ixs. viiji. 
 
 [Fo. 34 verso.] 
 
 To John Bennet that he paid for TycknaU [Tick- 
 nail, CO. Derby] potes ijs. njd. 
 
 And for the carridge of the same pottes . . . . xjd. 
 
 To a tayler for iiij dayes healping George [Cam] 
 
 to make the gent[el] wemen's gownes . . . . xvjd. 
 
 For a yard of russet fustion for pooketes . . . . xjd. 
 
 To Barr for xiij sheepe skynnes delivered to George 
 
 [Cam] for quyssheins [:= cushions] and cheares vs. vjd. 
 
 To Mr. Atkinson for xlv yardes of canvas at viijci. 
 
 ob. the yard for table clothes xxxjs. xd. 
 
 For gunpowdre ij U. delivered [to] Gr. Ryce . . ijs. vjd. 
 
 [Fo. 35.] 
 
 1574. 
 
 Mensis Januarii, 1573[-4]. 
 To Wm. Nyxe his sonne for presentinge my Mrs. 
 
 with a lombstare [= lobster ?] iiijd. 
 
 To Edlin, the musission, for playing at my Mr. his 
 
 chamber dore on Newyeres Daye vs. 
 
 To my Lorde of Woster's players xiijs. iiijd. 
 
 To Greene that he gave the Corneshe men by my 
 
 Mr. his comaundement xijd. 
 
 To Arnolde fydler, by commaundement of B. 
 
 Widd[oson] vjd. 
 
 To iij singers of Darby, by com[maundement] of 
 
 my Mr xijd. 
 
 To V. players that dyd not playe before my Mr. ijs. vjd. 
 To a harper by th'andes of Barths. Widdoson . . vjd. 
 
 To John Cawverd for xj c. fleake [=hurdle] nayles ijs. xd. 
 
 [Fo. 35 verso.] 
 
 To Harry Hunte of Lenton by th'andes of Blythe 
 for christninge his chylde in my Mr. his name iiijs. 
 
 To vij players that came frome HtiU . . . . . . iijs. iiijd. 
 
 To Hughe [Mercer] that he gave Norce Gune, vs. ; 
 Norce Mount, vs. ; Norce Gudwyne, vs. ; Mrs. 
 Undern, vs xxs. 
 
441 
 
 To a poore man that came forth of Irelande, by 
 
 my Mr. his comaundement vjd. 
 
 To the weates of Lester, by my Mr. his com- 
 
 [maundement] ijs. 
 
 To the cater for iij yardes of clothe for the mayd 
 
 to buck [=wash] with xxijd. 
 
 To Blythe that he paid for a whyte sylver bowle, 
 
 cont[eyiiing] v. oz. quarter dim. at vs. viijd. 
 
 the oz xxxs. Yd. oh. 
 
 For ij. sylver flagons, by th'andes of my Mr. xxixK. vjs. 
 To Wm. Steward for xij. dayes healping in the 
 
 kytchin this Christmas t5nne ijs. 
 
 To Attuell Wood for the lyke, xij. dayes .. .. xijci. 
 
 To TwyttcheU for xij dayes tornyng spyttes . . ijs. 
 
 To a boye for tornyng xij dayes ijs. 
 
 To Blunt for ix weekes lodging the musissions . . iijs. 
 
 [Fo. 36.] 
 To Staumforth, Mr. Stanhope's man, by th'andes 
 
 of B. Wedoson, for bringing ij flagons . . . . xijti. 
 
 And at Shelford by the same Earths., my Mr. 
 
 beinge there : viz. the buttler, ijs. ; the cooke, 
 
 ijs. ; the chamberUn, ijs. ; the horskeper, xijc?. ; 
 
 the pore, vjd. ; and for ferryla, Y\d. : in toto . . ixs. (sic) 
 To John Hunte of Nottingham for ij bottles of 
 
 muskadell [wine] that he presented to my Mrs iijs. uijd. 
 To Norce Mounte at her departure awaye frome 
 
 my Mrs vs. 
 
 To Hugh Mercer that he gave to a harper. ... vjd. 
 
 To Ellyzabeth that she paid for risshes . . . . vs. ijd. 
 To the cater for matche, ixd. ; for vijli. dim. of gune 
 
 powder delivered to Gr. Ryce at xvrf. the U. — 
 
 ixs. iiijd xs. jd. 
 
 [Fo. 36 verso.] 
 
 To a pore man that had his howse horned, by 
 
 th'andes of Hughe Mercer xijd. 
 
 To the weates of Nottingham, by Roger Cater . . xijd. 
 
 For lyne for the cockglode^ delivered the joyner. . xijd. 
 
 To the cater for mending a silver bowle . . . . xijd. 
 
 [Fo. 37.] 
 
 To Hugh Mercer that he paid for my Mr. his charges 
 at Newarke, viz. Mounday nighte supper forvj 
 
 men "^«' viijd. 
 
 Tewisdaye daynner (sic) for vj men iiijs. vjd. 
 
 For a lynck there vjd. 
 
 Tewisday supper vj. men : 7.^- 
 
 Wedinsday breakfast ij«. 
 
 Fyer there . . . . ij^- 
 
 1 A 'ooekglade,' or cockshoot (see p. 438, note 2). Cf. Duke of Rutland's 
 MSS., iv, pp. 466, 472, a.nANew English Diet., s.w. ' glade, sb. lb," glode, «6. 2.' 
 
442 
 
 Playing monye to my Mr ijs. 
 
 Boet hyer there vjd. 
 
 Horsmeat there in this said tyme xviijs. vjd. 
 
 To the poore there viijd. 
 
 [Po. 37 verso.] 
 
 To Fowler and Robson for dyking and plasheing 
 the Cowe Closse hedge, cont[a3aiing] xxxij acars, 
 at xijd. the acar^ xxxijs. 
 
 To the Comesheman for wrastlinge before my Mr. 
 and Mr. Stanhope ijs. 
 
 To Mr. Stanhoppes weates, by th'andes of Blythe ij«. 
 
 [Po. 38.] 
 
 Mensis February , 1573[-4]. 
 
 To hym [the cater] more for xxiiijK. of hoppes xs. vjd. 
 
 To hym for Systers threed xij(Z. oh. 
 
 To George Cam for a sheepskyn for pocketes for 
 
 my Mr -vd. 
 
 [Fo. 39.] 
 To Thomas Tayler for his charges to Leister, beinge 
 sent with a letter to my Ladye Humtington {sic), 
 lying forth j night xxiijd. 
 
 [Fo. 39 verso.] 
 
 For a sute of black net worke geven to my Lady 
 Stanhope xxijs. 
 
 For V. cutte worke ruffes geven to my L. 
 
 Stan[hope] xxiijs. m.\d. 
 
 For a boxe of starche for my Mr. his shertes . .viijs. vjd. 
 
 To a scoUer, by th'andes of Baker ijs. 
 
 To Mrs. Undeme's man for presentinge iuy Mrs. 
 with iij. myUyons [= melons], by th'andes of 
 Hugh Mercer iiijd. 
 
 To the bookebynder for brymyng [sic) mj Mr. his 
 bookes, by the handes of Blythe vjd. 
 
 To V. musissions that came with a playe, by th'andes 
 of Hughe [Mercer] ijs. 
 
 To a gerle that was my Mr. his vaUentyne . . xijd. 
 
 To Blythe that he paid for iiij. yardes of lace for 
 
 my Mr. his bookes xd. 
 
 To Wilson and his fella we for xvij. dayes work 
 a peece makinge charcoles at uijd. the daye, 
 beinge horded in the howse xjs. m.]d. 
 
 [Fo. 40.] 
 To Roger Tyler for one thowzand tyle . . . . xvjs. 
 
 1 The acre as a, measiire of length. See New English Dictionary. 
 
443 
 
 [Fo. 40 verso.] 
 Mensis Marche, 1574. 
 Proviseon at Hull. — To the cater for j. tonne dim. 
 
 of clarret wyne at xvZi. the tune . . . . xxi]7i. us. 
 
 Heringes, whyte, iiij. barrelles \li. xijd. 
 
 Red heringes, v. cades at xjs. vjtZ. the cade . .Ivij*. vjti. 
 
 SpratteSj ij. cades at xxijc?. the cade iijs. viijd. 
 
 Storgeon, j. fyrkm xxvjs.viijrf. 
 
 For custome iijs. 
 
 For owte gate xijd. 
 
 For portage vjd. 
 
 For spenege^ vjrf. 
 
 For ferryla [= ferry-charge] frome Hull to Barton 
 
 [-on-Humber, co. Lincoln] xd. 
 
 Geven to the keelemen [= bargemen] xijrf. 
 
 To Gayneesborro {sic) vjs. 
 
 For lodinge at Gaynesborro vid. 
 
 For the cater his charges and his horse x dais xxiiijs. vd. 
 
 And for frostinge vjd. 
 
 For the carridge of ij. tonne iij. quarters at xjs. 
 
 the ton xxxs. iijd. 
 
 For watchinge at Trent Brigges v\d. 
 
 Bydinge ch[arges]. — To Broome his charges and ij. 
 horses for bringing cogges and roundest frome 
 Mydleton xx<^. 
 
 To Gr. Ryce for his dynner and horse at Bever xcZ. 
 
 [Fo. 41.] 
 
 Nessessaries. — ^To Roger CoUyer for . . . iiij. 
 pair of shewes for the gent[el] wemen, ijs. Y]d. ; 
 lether for the pumpe, xij^. ; iij dd. bedstaves, 
 ij«. ; to the booke bynder for iij. queere of paper 
 ryall, iij«. ; and for byndinge and coveringe the 
 same, xi]d. ; and for one other booke of paper 
 for paymentes, ijs. : in toto vjs. 
 
 [Fo. 41 verso.] 
 
 To Hugh and v. others of my Mr. his men for 
 there dynners at Nottingham, my Mr. and my 
 Mrs. beinge bothe there at Mr. Markham's at 
 dynner vs. iiijrf. 
 
 To the pore there by Hugh xd. 
 
 To Raper and his fellawes for vij days castinge 
 
 connye clappers^ at vd. the daye ijs. x]d. 
 
 To James Dale for palinge xx" acres at ijs. the 
 acer* xls. 
 
 1 E«ad ' spoonage' or 'spooning.' Cf. p. 448. 
 
 2 Vessels and tubs. 
 
 * Rabbit burrows, etc. See New English Dictionary, 8. v. 'clapper,' sb. 2 
 
 * The acre as a measiu-e of length. See New English Dictionary. 
 
444 
 
 [Po. 42.] 
 
 To Water Tayler for viij washe^ of oysters and 
 
 for charges from Dunesbye vjs. viijcZ. 
 
 To my L[ord] Edward Seamer his man for bring- 
 ing letters frome the cowert [= court], by 
 th'andes of my Mr xxs. 
 
 To Mr. Scott for ciijK. dim. of iren at xiiijs. vrf., 
 for cijli. of iren xiiijs. ujd. for byndinge ij pair of 
 coeche wheeles xxviijs. viijd. 
 
 [Fo. 43.] 
 
 To the coecheman to bye his surpHs, by my Mrs. 
 
 commandement iijs. viijrf. 
 
 To George Cam for cloth to make my Mr. a pair 
 of stockes, vs. ; for sylke to stytche them, i]d. ; 
 for bockarome for the cannyons,- njd. ; for j yard 
 and j. quarter stript canves to make jorietes,^ 
 iijs. iiijrf. ; for cloth to lyne theym, xi]d. ; hookes 
 and eies, i]d. ; for greene karsey for vardingales, * 
 ijs. : in toto xjs. vjd. 
 
 [Fo. 43 verso.] 
 
 Mensis Aprilis, 1574. 
 
 To Norce Gune at her departure, by th'andes of 
 my Mrs xxs. 
 
 [Fo. 45.] 
 
 For a pair of knyt hose for my Mrs vjs. 
 
 For aquavitye [^ aqua vitce] yii]d. 
 
 To the cater for xlijM. hoppes, xvijs. v]d. ; for 
 j dd. mynnykyns,* iijs. ; inckle,* jd. ; sope, 
 vjd. ; bolter, iiijd. [etc.] 
 
 [Fo. 45 verso.] 
 
 To the keeper of Roben Hoodes well, by Hugh vs. 
 To Mr. Pates man for bringinge a horse for the 
 water pytt, per Baker xijd. 
 
 [Fo. 46 verso.] 
 
 To Mr. Astell the vergenaU player xs. 
 
 To Mr. Banyster for a plaster for my Mrs. syde iiijs. 
 A cordiall of losinges iijs. 
 
 1 A ' wash ' of oysters weighs 601b. See English Dialect Did. 
 
 2 See page 436, note 4, above. 
 
 3 Doublets (Old French jargot). 
 
 i Farthingales, hooped petticoats. 
 
 ^ Small pins. See New English Dictionary, s.v. ' Minikin.' 
 
 6 Tape. 
 
445 
 
 For a syrrop, xv]d. ; a noyntement of oyle of 
 macea, iiijs. ; a lectuary [ = electuary], iiijs. ; 
 ij. preparatives, vijs. v]d. ; a piirgacion for 
 Margery Parelby, ijs. vjd f xixs. iiijd. 
 
 A cordyall with mijske perle and ambergrece . . iiijs. 
 
 [Fo. 48.] 
 Mensis Maye, 1574. 
 To Mr. Banister for conserve rosemayrye flowers 
 
 and synamond comfyttes for my Mrs vjs. 
 
 To Ser Tarvis Clyfton's man for presenting my 
 Mrs. with iiij. herinsbawes [;= young herons], 
 by Borroes ij5, ^j^^. 
 
 [Po. 49 verso.] 
 To Helyot of ILston [= Ilkeston, co. Derby] for 
 the carridge of iiij. lodes of hordes frome Hallam 
 Wood to WoUaton viijs. 
 
 [Fo. 50.] 
 To Tole for bringinge a paire of virgenalls from 
 
 London xiij«. iiijcZ. 
 
 To Henry Draycotte that he paid at Higham to the 
 captaine, Y]d. ; to my Lordes melters of leade, 
 xijd. ; to my Mr. there, xijti. ; to a woman, ijs. ; 
 to ij men, Y]d. ; for candells, m.]d. ; to a boye, 
 \]d. ; to a pore man, \]d. ; to the horsekepers 
 
 at Chatsworthe, xijcZ vjs. viijd. 
 
 To Oliver Godebehere for the charges of my Mr. 
 and others to Buckstons [— Buxton, co. Derby] 
 and at Matlock xxvijs. m]d. 
 
 [Fo. 52 verso.] 
 Mensis June, 1574. 
 
 [Fo. 53.] 
 To John Tyrer for iij. cannon bittes^ viijs. 
 
 [Fo. 54 verso.] 
 
 To the captayne of the Corneshemen, by th'andes 
 of Hugh Mercer xxs. 
 
 To Mr. Markham's man by Blythe, by commands 
 of my Mrs., to his man to set up his oecupacion 
 in Nottingham ■ . . . . xs. 
 
 [Fo. 55 verso.] 
 
 Mensis Julii, anno 1574. 
 To the joyner his iij men for v daies worke a peece 
 in makinge a howse for the water pitt . . . . vs. 
 
 1 Smooth round bits for horses. See New English Diet., s.v. 'cannon,' s6. 4. 
 
446 
 [Fo. 59.] 
 
 To th'erle of Essex his players for playing twyce 
 before my Mr xxxs. 
 
 To uxw Belper by th'andes of Mrs. Margret for 
 christninge her ehylde vs. 
 
 To my Mr. by th'andes of Harry Dreacot to 
 playe . . xs. 
 
 To the keeper's wiffe of Sterley [= Strelley, co. 
 Notts] by Harry Willoughby for drinck, my 
 Mr. and my Mrs. beinge there ijs. 
 
 To my Mrs. by th'andes of Margery Parelby to 
 playe xls. 
 
 [Po. 60.] 
 
 To my Lord Mounteigle's players, by commande 
 of my Mr xs. 
 
 To my Mrs. by th'andes of my Mrs. EUyzabeth at 
 ther rydinge to my Lady Rutland xxs. 
 
 To Blunt that he paid for a hat for my Mr. . . xiiijs. 
 
 To Smales for a pair of bootes for my Mr., vjs. ; 
 and paid for a pair of pumpes, xiiijcZ. ; for iij 
 pair of chyldren shoes, xvjti. : in toto . . . . viijs. T]d. 
 
 To Greene that he paid for xxxvj dd. of blew lace 
 for our coetes at xxci. the dd iijK. 
 
 [Fo. 61 verso.] 
 
 Mensis Augusti, anno 1574. 
 
 To George Cam that he paid for my Mrs. being in 
 progres with my Ladye Rutland, viz. at Newark 
 viij horses j night, vjs. viijd. [Details of expen- 
 diture at Tuxforth, Worksope, Bakewell, and 
 Chesterfeeldj : in toto lixs. vd. 
 
 [Fo. 63.] 
 
 To Edward the coecheman for xviij dd. horsbread 
 bought for my Lord of Ruttland and the countis 
 of Huntington at there being at WoUaton . . xviijs. 
 
 To George Gam that he delivered my Mrs. to playe 
 at my Lord of Rutland his howse, xxs. ; in 
 reward there, xviijs. iiijcZ. [and other charges]. 
 
 To him [Blythe] more for his charges and Fen's at 
 Boston j. night, xviijc^. ; dynners and horsemeat 
 at Pynchebeck, xd. ; charges with the fowlers at 
 Crowland, r]d. ; ... for carridge of the fowle 
 frome Crowland to Spawldinge, Y]d. ; eles for 
 the fowlle there, iijd, , , vijs. 
 
447 
 
 [Fo. 65.] 
 Mensis Septemiris, 1574. 
 To my Lord of Sussex his players by comande- 
 
 ment of my Mr x«. 
 
 To iij pore sojors by th'andes of B. Wedoson .'." xijd. 
 
 To my Mrs. by th'andes of Baker to playe with xs. 
 
 [Po. 65 verso.] 
 To John Edhn that he payd for vj. knottes of 
 
 lute stringes x-v]d. 
 
 To Mother Gregory for santwary [= centaury] 
 
 for my Mrs. . . . . xij(i. 
 
 [Po. 66.] 
 
 To Mr. Pate that my Mr. lost at bowles by the 
 handes of Hugh vs. 
 
 To a man that playd with a nape [= an ape], by 
 
 command of my Mrs vjd!. 
 
 [Po. 68.] 
 Mensis Octobris, 1574. 
 
 Provissheon at Storbridge [details, including 
 " cotten weeke, iiijli. 3 quarters, vjs. iiijd.," 
 "Wadmole,! Ix yardes, xxxs." travelling ex- 
 penses of Poxe and Ryves, etc.] 
 
 To Thoms Tailer that he paid for his charges to 
 London, being sent for Docter Smythe, viz. at 
 Leister, xd. ; at Welford, xvjcZ. ; at Brickell, xd., 
 at Sant Tawbons [= Saint Albans], xvii]d. ; 
 ij dayes dim. at London, ijs. vjci!. ; iij dayes for 
 Docter Smyth his horse and other ij horses, 
 iiij.9. iii]d. ; for vij shewes for the Doctor's horse 
 and myne, xxiijd!. ; at Dunstable iij men and 
 iij horses, vs. uijd. ; at Northamton, ijs. viijii. ; 
 at Welforth, iiijs. viijd. ; at Leicester, ijs. vjd. ; 
 horshewing there, iifd. ; for the hyer of a horse 
 at Leister and a man to deliver hym back agajme, 
 iijs. : in toto xxxjs. viijrf, 
 
 [Po. 69 verso.] 
 
 To Mrs. Banyster for a swoninge water [= a remedy 
 against fainting] for my Mrs vs. 
 
 [Po. 71.] 
 
 To Thomas Cower tney for trymynge my Mrs. her 
 
 teethe, by th'andes of Mrs. Fryswith . . . . xijd. 
 
 I Coarse cloth. 
 
448 
 
 [Po. 71 verso.] 
 
 To Thoma Gardner for distyllinge Docter Stevens' 
 
 water, by command of my Mrs. iij5. iiijd. 
 
 [Fo. 72 verso.] 
 
 For the charges of a geldinge which Docter Smyth 
 ryd on to London, viz. at London iiij. dayes, 
 ijs., and to Wollaton, iiijs. viijtZ. : in toio . . vjs. -viijd. 
 
 To Leake for xxvj oz. of blew lace for our leveris, 
 
 at ijs. i]d. the oz lvj«. injd. 
 
 To a man of Sir Fowke Grevle's (sic) that brought 
 beares ijs. 
 
 [Fo, 73.] 
 
 To Roger Collyer that he paid for iij. hh. [= hogs- 
 heads] of clarred wyne, xijli. xvs. ; ij. barr[els], 
 xvs. ; tar, ij. barr[els], xvjs. ; sponenge^ the 
 wyne, v]d. ; geven at Hull by my Mr. xvnjd. ; 
 for openyng ij barr[els], i]d. : in toto . . xiiijK. viijs. i]d. 
 
 [Fo. 73 verso.] 
 
 Mensis Novembris, 1574. 
 
 To George Cam that he paid for xlv. yardes of 
 changable [^= shot] mockado at xxiijs. the yarde, 
 iiijM. vjs. ; xx" oz. iij qrs. byllyment^ lace for 
 the cheldren gownes, xljs. ^jd. ; for ij. oz. grene 
 sylke, iiijs. ; ni]dd. greene rebben, xijs. ; xxj. 
 yardes bockarome, xijs. viijt^. ; ij. yardes fustion 
 to Ijme the boddyes, xxijd. ; iij yardes dim. of 
 Levant taffyta, ixs. iiija. ; vij yardes cotten, 
 vs. n]d. ; j. yarde Pawmpelyon,^ iiijt^. ; j yarde 
 iij. qrs fryceado,^ viijs. ; iij qrs. red mockado, 
 xvjd. ; iij. qrs. fustion, viijd. ; iij. elles dim. 
 chaungable taffyta for Mrs. Elliz. gowne, xlijs. ; 
 j. ellne dim. of canvas for my Mr. his dublet, 
 iiijs. iijc^. ; iij qrs. cowers canvas, xjd. ; . . . 
 j. yard iij. qrs. callyco, iijs. viija!. ; . . . 
 dim. qr. greene velvet, ijs. v]d. ; j. butt black 
 threed, iiijs. viud. ; graye threed, vjd. ; to a 
 tayler that dyd healp George to worke, iiijs. ; 
 for his charges ix. dayes, beinge sent to London 
 to bye these parcelles, ixs. ; horsemeat, iiijs. xd. ; 
 for viij. arrow heades for my Mrs., 
 xiiijfi. ; for my Mr. his cloake, viz. velvet for 
 the' coUer, vjs. vjd. ; j. ellne of camebrick for 
 ruffes for my Mr., viijs. ; viij. yardes bonelace 
 
 1 Cf. ' spenage,' p. 443. 
 
 2 Habiliment. 
 
 ' Pampillon, a kind of fur. See New Engl. Diet. 
 * Frisadoe. 
 
449 
 
 for bed cortens, XY]d. ; . . . ij. yardes 
 dim. and dim. qr. Tiirkey coUer for my Mr. his 
 cloke at viijs. viijc?. the yard, xxijs. xd. (sic) ; 
 . . for iij. qrs. dim. of fyne karsey for 
 a pair of stokes for my Mr., iiijs. vii]d. ; . 
 to Margery Parelby that she paid for ix. shadowes^ 
 for the cheldren, vjs xr]li. xs. ]d. 
 
 [Fo. 74 verso.] 
 
 To Jesson for makinge Mrs. Ellizabeth her grave ii]d. 
 
 To the barber for trymmynge my Mr xijd. 
 
 To Mr. Dynmock his mussissions x\]d. 
 
 To Mr. Banyster for openynge Mrs. EUizabeth . . xs. 
 
 [Fo. 75 verso.] 
 
 To Mr. Banester for ij. graynes of muske, vjc^. ; 
 metredatum,^ vs. ; treakle,^ xy]d. ; anoyntement 
 for Mrs. Bridget, x\]d. ; for a plaster, xijd. ; 
 a lecktuary [^= electuary], xvi^^. ; a locatretryna,* 
 xxd. : in toto x]s. xd. 
 
 [Fo. 76 verso.] 
 
 Mensis Decembris, 1574. 
 
 Christmas wages. — To my Mrs. for her allowance, 
 xiijfo'. vJ5. Yn]d. ; Mrs. Meeringe, xxs. ; Johan 
 Poker, xs. ; Ellizabeth Hayes, vs. ; Margery 
 Parleby, vjs. viijc^. : Marye Scroin, v,9. ; Norce 
 Devis, XYS. ; Richard Willoughby, xxs. ; William 
 Blythe, xiijs. iiijd. ; Thorns Shawe, xxs. ; 
 Gr[iffith] Ryce], xiijs. m]d. ; L. Ryce, xiijs. iiij^. ; 
 John Pen, xs. ; Hugh Mercer, xs. ; Ollyver 
 Holland, xiijs. iiijcZ. ; George Cam, xxxs. ; 
 Thoms Tayler, xs. ; Ed. Overtheman, xvs. ; H. 
 Radforth, xs. ; Wm. Stoekes, xs. ; John Dune, 
 iiijs. ; John Borrowes, xjs. viijd. ; Rychard 
 Lackye, vjs. viijf^. ; Thoms Stokes, xs. ; John 
 Calverd, xs. ; shepperd, Arnolde, xs. iiijcZ. ; 
 shepperd, Basforth, xs. iiijrf. ; John Boeth, viijs. 
 iiijc?. ; Wm. Carter, viijs". iiijt^. ; John Smyth, 
 viijs. iiijt^. ; Thoms JBroghtin', viijs. mjd. ; 
 Aiigustyne, viijs. iiijc?. ; John Warryner, xiijs. 
 iiijd. ; Roger CoUyer, xiijs. iiijf^. ; Robert Mason, 
 viijs. iiijd^. ; Martyn, keeper, xvs. ; Richard 
 
 1 Toys or garments ? 
 
 2 Mithridatum. See page 410, note 4, above. 
 
 3 See page 355, note 2, above. 
 
 * For aloes Socotrina (Soootra aloes) ? 
 
 M29 
 
450 
 
 Wrigley, xxs. ; James Cooke, xiijs. m]d. ; John 
 Kettle, iijs. iiijcl. ; Robert Foxe, xs. ; ij boyes 
 of the kitchin, vjs. iiijd. ; Wm, Darby, xls. ; 
 Nyooles Bull, xs. ; Thomas wheelewright, viijs. 
 m]d. ; the olarke of the churche, vs. ; Harry 
 Ball, the myller, xxxs. ; Jeffrey Pheney, myller, 
 dim. qr., xijs. v]d. ; uxor Sprey for washeinge 
 kitchen clothe, xijc?. ; Thorns Belper, xxs. : 
 in toto — Wm. Baker, xvjs. viijci. . . xliijK. ijs. xi. (sic) 
 
 [Fo. 77.] 
 
 To Mr. Banyster, viz. oyles, xijc?. ; cordyall flowers, 
 xi]d. ; mayden heare and santwary, xijrf. ; a 
 jellope,! iijs. ; oyle of roses, xviijd. ; diacodi,^ 
 xijd. ; anepitathony, * ijs. vjrf. ; a plaster, viijs. ; 
 pylles, XY}d. : in toto xxs. ni]d. 
 
 To the Ducheman of Nottingham for dyinge x 
 yardes of stamell* for my Mrs. at vjs. the yarde, 
 ii]li. ; and to the walker [= fuller] for dressinge 
 the same cloth, iiijs. m]d. : in toto . . . . iijli. iiijs. nijd, 
 
 [Fo. 77 verso.] 
 
 To George Kam for Docter Smyth charges and to 
 his goinge towardes London, i;iV. at Lester j. 
 night, viijs. vjc^. ; at Northamton, xs. y]d. ; 
 back agajme at Leister, iijs. viijd. ; and at Sawley 
 [co. Derby], ijd. : in toto xxijs. xd. 
 
 To Docter Smythe in rewarde for his paynes, by 
 
 command of my Mr xiij?«. vjs. viijrf. 
 
 To the weates of Nottingham, by th'andes of 
 
 Blunt xijrf. 
 
 To V. players of Darby, by Wm. Blythe . . . . ijs. 
 
 To a harper the same tyme vjrf. 
 
 [Fo. 79.] 
 
 Mensis Januarye, 1574[-5]. 
 And for an almenack for my Mr., by Blythe . . \\\]d. 
 
 [Fo. 79 verso.] 
 
 To the mydwyffe, by th'andes of Norce Gune . . xls. 
 To Baker that he paid for my Mr. his charges 
 rydinge to my Lorde WiUoughbye his bowse 
 with iiij°'. men [details] Ivijs. ixtZ. 
 
 1 A preparation of jalap ! 
 
 2 Diacodium, an opiate prepared in the form of syrup from poppy-heads. 
 
 3 For hepaticon (a liver remedy) ? 
 * Coarse cloth. 
 
451 
 
 [Po. 81 verso.] 
 Mensis Februarye, 1574[-5]. 
 
 To players that came from Brystoe, at my Mres, 
 commaundement xs. 
 
 To the- churche wardeynes for Mres. Ehzab'ethes 
 
 buriall in the churche iijs. i\x^d. 
 
 To Wastneis the phisicion, by my Mres xxs, 
 
 [Fo. 82 verso.] 
 
 To the singing men of Derbie, by William Stokes xijc?. 
 
 To Sir Folke GreviUe's berewarde ^]d. 
 
 To Banester for a glyster [= clyster] and vyles 
 
 [=; vials] for Mrs. Anne vs. vj<^. 
 
 To two phesicions, by my Mr xxs. 
 
 To two children being valentynes to my Mr. and 
 
 Mrs xijV. 
 
 To ToU for carryage of two trunckes to London xxxs. 
 
 [Fo. 83.] 
 
 For a quarter of blew taffetey for my Mrs. boote 
 
 howse [= hose] ijs, vjrf. 
 
 For haK a yard of Jenes^ for lyning cannyanes^ 
 
 for my Mr vcZ. 
 
 205 
 
 1583-1585.— Imperfect statement in same hand as Thomas 
 Grasworth's' account for 1585, of account, in which the 
 accountant craves allowance, inter alia, for 587Z. lOs. IQd. 
 for building charges in 1583, for " forren paymentes at 
 Wollaton, 1583," 890Z. 4s. 5ld., for 1213Z. 2s. U. for pay- 
 ments in a book entitled " London chargez this yeire 1583," 
 including expenses of journey to London 13?. 4s. Od. " conteyned 
 in iiij<"^ pagynes in the beginninge of the saide booke [of 
 forren paimentes]," and "for charges remayninge at London 
 in houskeeping there xxiiij"^ dayes about Mrs. Bridgetes 
 mariage," 28L 5s. Id., " also in the jorney to Kent and 
 comminge from London xiiij'°" dayes xxvL vijs. Od., with 
 the charges of other gentlemen that came in company," for 
 law costs, etc. ; for payments for building charges in 1584 
 1114L 7s. \\d. ; for foreign payments at WoUaton in 1584 
 1847?. Is. ^d., at Midleton 377?. 3s. 5d. ; for riding charges 
 to London, remaining there and in Kent, apparel, etc., 
 623?. Is. Od. ; for 1585 for foreign payments at Wollaton 
 
 1 Jean, so called from Genes = Genoa. 
 
 2 See page 436, note 4, above. 
 
452 
 
 U28Z. 15s. 5d., for the like at Midleton 189?. I3s. 6d., for 
 land purchased 4737Z. 3s. 5d. Total of the payments " in 
 this booke expressed": 13,104Z. 16s. IJii. Signed by- 
 Geoffrey Ithell, auditor. 205. 
 
 1584. — Rough account book of receipts and expenditure 
 for household and other purposes. 205. 
 
 1585. — A similar account book. 205. 
 
 1585, February 14. — Account of Thomas Grassworth, 
 servant to Sir Francis Willoiighbie, knight, of money received 
 and disbursed towards the charge of building. He accounts 
 for 1584 from Sir Francis 151. ; for 1585 from Sir Francis 
 3711. 15s. Qd. (the last figure crossed out), from John Speid 
 329Z. 6s. id., Wilham Blythe 106L, Mr. Gedney by the hands 
 of Mr. Smithston 351. 6s. id., Geoffrey Fox 149Z. 19s. 4d., and 
 for other receipts from them 1091. 3s. id. : total (with other 
 items) 1192Z. 8s. 6d. (M'ciiij'^^ xijZi. viijs. vjci.) Payments to free 
 masons in 1584 iSl. 18s. 8d., in 1585 2571. 16s. 8d. ; to 
 carpenters in 1584 15?. 18s. lOd., 1585 Qll. 18s. Qd. ; to 
 joiners in 1584 181. 8s. 8d., in 1585 70L 8s. Ud. ; to 
 labourers in 1584 191. is. Oid., in 1585, Qll. Os. Id. ; to 
 plumbers in 1584 21l. 19s. Id., in 1585 111. 13s. 2d. ; to 
 sawyers in 1584 71. is. 3d., in 1685 181. Is. lid. ; for neces- 
 saries in 1584 31. 8s. lOd., in 1585 15Z. 6s. lOd. ; for 
 "lymeston" in 1584 495. 6d., in 1585 25s. 3d. ; to "layers 
 about the buildinge " in 1584 71. 13s. 9d., in 1585 3QI. 18s. Id. ; 
 to painters in 1585 191. 15s. lOd. ; for 22 strikes of charcoal 
 " for the fyninge of leade ashes " in 1585 7s. id., for carriage 
 thereof lOd., for hiring and carriage of a pair of bellows 5s. ; 
 to William Hill for making 199 "thousand" of bricks at 
 2s. 3d. the thousand 191. 5s. 3d., and "for castinge of earth '' 
 20s. ; payments to divers men, including Robert Smithston, 
 who received in 1584 4?., in 1585 731. 6s. 8d. Total pay- 
 ments : 1153Z. 10s. 6U. 205. 
 
 1586, 12 February. —Account of Geoffrey Fox, servant to 
 Sir Francis Willoughbie, knight, for divers sums received by 
 him, from 1583 to 1585. 205. 
 
 1587-8. — Extracts from Household Book. Weekly accounts 
 in tabular form of the consumption of victuals, with notes 
 of numbers of visitors who were entertained. One of the 
 tables is subjoined, and the notices as to visitors are also 
 given. 
 
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 This weke my Mr. came from London to Wolloton on 
 Tiwesday nighte with vj. men, etc. 
 
 March 11. Memorandum, spent of this 4 : 15 : by the 
 boone plowes^ soing barley and peaz at ChUwell [co. Notts], 
 etc., viz. : beer 1 hh. [=hogshead], 4s. ; howssold 48°, 
 4s. : 8s. 
 
 March 18. [Half a ' quarter ' of ' sallet oyle ' is charged 
 at 2s. the quarter, three carp 18d., and two tench 12d.] 
 " Memorandum, spent of this expen. 108s. lie?, by the boone 
 plowes soing barley and peaze at Lamley, etc., viz. : beere 
 1 hh. 45. ; howshold. 80= 65. 8d. : lOs. 8i." 
 
 March 25. [Three salt eels, 3s., four 'pigges,' 2s.J 
 " This weke my Mr. rydde to Myddleton uppon Wednesdaye 
 
 1 Household bread is meant. See October 8, below. 
 
 2 The boon works of tenants, the labour rendered by them grati?, at 
 which the lord found food and drink for them according to custom. 
 
454 
 
 after breakefast, to geather with Mr, Per[civalJ and Mr. 
 Roberte Willughbye, etc." 
 
 April 1. [Onions, 12d.] " This weke howshold only with 
 comers and goers, etc." 
 
 April 8. "This weke howshold with coiners and goers." 
 
 April 15. [Almonds, lib., 20d., figs, 3lb., 18d.] "This 
 weke my Mr. came to WoUaton on Wednesdaye in th'after 
 noone, and Mr. RafE Secheverelle, and ryd to wardes 
 Myddleton on Saturdaye after breakefaste, etc." 
 
 April 22. " This weke Mr. Repington came to WoUaton 
 on Monday with his two men, etc., and ryd from hence on 
 Wednesdaye after breakfast." 
 
 May 14. " This weke my Mr. came to WoUaton on 
 Monday in th'after noone ; with poole makers in the parke, 
 fatfield and pinges, etc." 
 
 May 20. " This weke my Mr. ryd to BeUvoyer castle on 
 Sondaye after dynner, and came back agayne to WoUaton 
 on Saturdaye morning; with colliers and poole makers at 
 a poole heade in Wayegate in the Townefilde, etc." 
 
 May 27. " This weke Mr. Per. Willughbye and Mr. George 
 Pud[s]y came to WoUaton on Frydaye in th'after noone ; with 
 boones and poole makers in the Townefilde gate and parke, etc. 
 
 June 3. " This weke Sir Thomas Stanhope came and 
 dynyd at the new HaU on Wednesdaye ; with boone plowes 
 and poole making in the Horse Close, etc." 
 
 June 10. [' Synamon ' 1 oz., lOd. ; two lings, 2s. 4:d.] 
 " This weeke Sir Georg Hastinges came on Sonday at supper, 
 and stayed untill Twysday dynner; with other comers and 
 goers." 
 
 June 17. [A goose, lid. ; six trout, Qd.] "This weeke on 
 Monday Sir Thomas Mannours dyned at the New HaU." 
 
 June 24. " This weeke my Mr. went on Twysday to 
 Dunnesby [Dunsby, co. Lincoln], and came agayne on Friday 
 at nighte in the same weeke." 
 
 July 1. [HaUe scate, 20d.] "This weeke Mr. PercyvaU 
 WyUughby and Mr. George Pudsie and his sonne came on 
 Monday at nighte; Mr. George Pudsie and his sonne went 
 away on Thursday morning, and Mr. Perc[yvall] stayed all the 
 weeke. And this weeke on Wednesday Sir Thomas Man- 
 nours dyned at the Chauntrey. With other coomers and goers." 
 
 July 8. " Whereof is to be deducted from th'expenses of 
 the howshold, which was spente upon boonors : Imprimis, 
 mutton iij'^, 12s. ; howsholde bread — ; beere ij h., 8s. 
 Bradmyre [Bradmore, co. Notts] boones, 19 persons." 
 
 July 15. [^ Mr. Aldridg, Thomas Atkynson, Ric. Wyl- 
 lughby, Bljrth, Thorpe, Jo. Atkynson, Gonaston, Tevery, 
 Leyster, Calver, Fr. Hollingworth, Jo. HoUyngworth, Bras- 
 bridg, Bussell, Gresworth, Glover, Hayes, Bunting, Home, 
 Dale, Gunner, Belper, Stoakes, Ogden, Lucas, Roberte of 
 
 1 According to the list given on July 22, these, mth tlie exception of 
 Richard Wyllughby and "the hammer man," formed the "ordinary Hows- 
 holde." 
 
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 the Stable, Wrigley, Campion, Fluellen, Roger Wylde, Ed. 
 Wylde, the hammer man, iii. boyes in the kitchin, Burro wes, 
 John Dmine, Godbeheer.] 
 
 July 15. [' Crevises ' (=crayfish, French ecrevisse), 2d. ; 
 cherries, 12d.] 
 
 July 22. " Marmalade, 2li. loz., 55. 3d. ; sucket. Hi., 
 2s. 6d. ; bisket bread, ^li., 9d. ; confectes, Hi., 2s. id. " 
 
 This weeke on Twysdaye the Earle of Rut[land] supped heere 
 at th'olde Hall, and dyned upon Wednesday with dyvers other 
 gent[lemen] of his company. 
 
 August 5. " This nexte weeke following my Mr. removed 
 to Nottingham to his howse there, where he expended as 
 followeth, John Atkynson being clarke of the kytchin there, 
 for the first fyve weekes next ensewing, wherewith he standeth 
 charged as well for the bwyeng of the acates as also for the 
 expending thereof, of whose bylles theis are true copies." 
 
 August 12. " Cla[ret] wyne 6 quarters and 1 py[nt], 45. 2d., 
 sack 1 pinte, 6d." 
 
 August 19. ''On Sonday this weeke my Mr. dyned at 
 WoUaton, and the tenauntes of Wyllughby and Bradmyre 
 booned and caried tymber, lyme, and brick to Thurland 
 Howse to [=at] Nottingham." " Acates bought by Ed. Glover 
 as followeth : Sonday dynner : one loyne of veale and j. legg 
 of mutton, 22c?." " Stoare : One mutton for the bonores, 
 is, ; 6 saltefishes for theim, 4s. 8d." 
 
 " My Mr. wente into Warwykshier and retourned from thence 
 to Nottingham on Thursday the vij"" of September, and 
 here foUowe the receipt and th'expen[ce] of that peece of 
 the weeke from Thursday untUl Satterday following." 
 
 September 16. " Carawayes, Id. ; peares, 2d. ; creame, 2d." 
 " This weeke Mr. Sacheverell and his twop soones-in-lawe 
 came to Nottingham upon Monday, and stayed untill 
 Wednesday morning, and Sir Thomas Stanhope, Sir Gervas 
 Clyfton, and Sir Roberte Constable dyned with my Mr. upon 
 Saterday. ' ' 
 
 September 23. " BarbeUes, 2, lid. ; lampernes, 7, 6d. ; 
 sewytt, S^lib., lid." "This weeke Sir Thomas Stanhopp and 
 Sir Gervas Clyfton dyned with my Mr. at Thurland howse 
 on Saterday;' with other straungers besydes and goers." 
 
 September 30. " Pickerill, 1, 7d. ; flownders, 2d. ; larkes, 
 rdoozin, 3d. ; mallardes, Jo. Gunner, 2 coople, 12d. ; plovers, 
 Jo. Gunner, 3d. ; larkes, Jo. Gunner, 2 doozin, id." 
 
 October 7. "Tripes and a neates foote, 3d." 
 
 October 21. " Dates, id. ; sowse, 3d." " This weeke Mr. 
 Spencer came to Thurland Howse on Thursday, and Mr. 
 Roberte Wyllughby, with twoo men a peece. And on Friday 
 came the Earle of Rutland, and lay there to the ende of the 
 weeke at my Mr.'s charges for his dyet. There came with 
 the Earle tenne persons." 
 
 October 28. " This weeke the Earle of Rutland and his 
 retynew had their dyet at my Mr.'s charges from the begynnyng 
 
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 of the weeke, being Saterday in the morning tylle Twysday 
 at supper, and then the Cowntesse came, and the Earle's 
 officers entered upon xxxij. hh. of beere remayning and upon 
 the remayndour of bread both howshold and cheate, and 
 other provision such as remayned that tyme. And my Mr. 
 had his dyet with my L[ord], excepte that now and then he 
 walked to Wollaton, where he spente as followeth." 
 
 November 11. " Mylke for custerdes, 12d. ; woodcockes, 
 4, 16d. ; plover, 4, 10^. ; snipes, 5, lOd. ; ale to seeth fishe 
 in, 2d. ; muske confectes Hi., 2s. 6d. ; bysketes, Hi., 20d." 
 
 " The xj"" day of November, being Saterday in Lenton Fayre 
 tyme, the Earle of Rutland and the Cowntysse, Sir Thomas 
 Manners and his Lady, Sir Gervas Clyfton and his Ladie, 
 Sir Anthony Strelley and his Ladie, with dyvers other 
 gentlemen, with their retynew, to the number of six score 
 persons, dyned at the new howse, where was spente at my 
 Mr.'s charges as followeth " [a total of 31. 8s. 4d.]. 
 
 " The xviij"" of November. Mr. Percy vail Wyllughby came 
 to Wollaton, my Mr. being at Notingham with my Lord, and 
 there was spente for him and his twoo men, viz. : inprimis a 
 quarter of mutton, IGd. ; for a peece of beife, 8d. ; for butter, 
 6d. ; for bread, 6d. ; for his supper the firste nighte, which 
 was sente for to Ellen Radfordes, 8d." 
 
 " The ix*" of December. My Lorde of Rutland, Mr. Roberte 
 Markham, and Mr. Fraunces Leeke of Sutton dyned with my 
 Mr. at the new howse : butter, 2s. 6d. ; egges, 20d. ; veale, 
 2s. 8d. ; sn5rpes, 6, 12^^. ; suger. Hi., 20d. ; , currauntes. Hi., 
 5d. ; mace, 1 oz., lOd., breade for the Halle, 4s. ; breade 
 for the kytchin to grate, 4d. ; Reynyshe wyne, 1 bottle, 18d. 
 Sunvma : 16s. Id." 
 
 December 12. " From this day untill the Monday follow- 
 ing 4 westerne men contynued at Wollaton with my Mr. in 
 dyet at the Chauntrey. To supper came Mr. Percyvalle 
 Wyllughby, whoe stayed tyll Friday following." 
 
 December 14. " Mr. Reppington came with twoo men." 
 
 December 17. " Mr. Roberte Spencer with twoo men, and 
 stayed tyll Twisday breakefaste." 
 
 " Upon Christmas day in the morning my Mr. wente to 
 my Lordes to Notingham, and there stayed tyll St. Steven's 
 day after djmner." 
 
 December 30. " This weeke on Saterday the Earle of 
 Rutland dyned with my Mr. at the Chawntrey, with eighte 
 of his men. And three boonours working with their drawghtes 
 at the pooles from Monday tyll Satterday following had theire 
 meate and drincke at the Chawntrey of my Mr.'s fyndyng." 
 
 1588. 
 
 January 6. " This weeke Mr. Gybbons, Mr. Lysle, and 
 Mr. Percyvalle Wyllughby contynued with my Mr. from 
 Monday at supper untyll Thursday breakefaste. And twoo 
 
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 boonours working with their draughtes at the pooles all the 
 weeke longe weare founde with the howshold charges." 
 
 January 13. "This weeke on Wednesday the Earle of 
 Rut[land], attended on with six men, dyned with my Mr. at 
 the Chawntrey." 
 
 January 27. " This weeke on Saterday the Earle of Rut- 
 l[and] came and dyned with my Mr. at the Chawntrey with 
 fyve men." 
 
 February 3. "This weeke, on Friday the ix'" of Feb- 
 ruary, my Mr. wente to Allthrop to Mr. Spencer, where he 
 oontjmewed the tyme of his coomyng home agayne until! 
 Sonday the xviij** of the same moneth, and then supped 
 at the Chawntrey." 
 
 April 6. " This weeke my Mr. oawsed all which weare at 
 borde wages to be called into the howse, and so beganne to 
 keepe howse at the Chawntrey." 
 
 April 13. " This weeke on Monday came to supper Sir 
 George Hastinges, and stayed all nighte, with fowre men, 
 and dyned the nexte daye, and so departed. The same nighte 
 also came Mr. Reppington with twoo men, and stayed heere 
 till Saterday following. This weeke allso there wroughte at 
 the poles moste parte of the weeke some tymes xx"*, some- 
 tymes xxx*''= persons, and more or lesse, which had their' 
 dynners every day at my Mr.'s charges, and some of theim 
 their suppers also. Besides comers and goers. 
 
 jMay 4. " This weeke Mr. Lysle and Mr. Gibbons and 
 Mr. Percyvalle Willughby stayed heere twoo dayes, with 
 poolers and coomers and goers." 
 
 May 11. "This weeke Mr. Rafe Sacheverell stayed heere 
 from Twysday at dynner untyll Friday at dynner following, 
 besides poolers and coomers and goers." 
 
 June 1. "This [weeke] there weare many workemen at the 
 pooles founde at my Mr. his charges, bysydes many coomer[s] 
 and goers." 
 
 June 8. " This weeke also there weare dyvers workemen 
 at the pooles founde at my Mr.'s charges." 
 
 June 18. " This weeke Bradmyre men booned all the 
 weeke longe, beinge xx"* persons with x. draughtes, at leading 
 kyddes [^faggots] and meanure." 
 
 June 22. " Muske, 2 granes, 8d. ; bowes and rushes, 
 16d." " This weeke on Sonday, beinge xvj"" of this instant, 
 the Archebysshop of Yorke, Sir Thomas Manners, Mr. Ed. 
 Stanhope, and dyvers other gent, with thir retynew dyned 
 with my. Mr. at Thurland Howse at Notingham. With many 
 coomers and goers." 
 
 June 29. " This weeke Mr. Rafe SachevereU lay at Wol- 
 laton from Saterday after dynner tyll Thursday breakfaste 
 following, with ij. men, and there weare then dyvers coomers 
 and goers." 
 
 July 6. " This weeke my Mr. rydd into War[wyk]3hier on 
 Twysday after dynner. And there weare boone carriages 
 
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 from Bradiii5rre v. dayes in this weeke, viz., xriij. persons, 
 and one car[riage] from Dunsby which brought wallnutree, 
 viz. iij. persons." 
 
 July 20. "This weeke upon Monday, being the xv"" of 
 this instant, my Mr. came home forth' of Warr[wyk]shier." 
 
 August 3. " This weeke on Monday Mr. Zowche, Mr. Phillip 
 Strelley, and the other young gent, dyned with my Mr., and 
 on Saterday at dynner came Mr. Roberte Spencer, and Mr. 
 Roberte WyUughby with v. men, and at supper Mr. Per. 
 Wyllughby and his brother Edward with iij. men." 
 
 August 17. " Upon Monday this weeke after breakefaste 
 Mr. Spencer, Mr. Perc. Wyllughby and Mr. Edward Wyllughby 
 wente awaye." 
 
 August 24. " This weeke on Friday Sir Thomas Manners 
 and his Ladie, twoo of their daughters, Sir Anthony Strelley, 
 Mr. Phillip Strelley, Mr. John Samon, Mr. Ogle, Mr. Sam. 
 Mason dyned with my Mr. at the olde howse, and there weare 
 of serving men and others v. messe in the Halle." 
 
 September 8. " This weeke upon Twysday my Mr. ryd 
 after dynner to Loughborow to Sir George Hastinges, and 
 came home on Thursday to supper. Mr. Powtrell dyned at 
 the Chawntrey on Saterday with twoo men." 
 
 September 14. " Mr. Rafe Sacheverell came hither this 
 weeke, on Thursday at dynner, and stayed tyll Saterday 
 breakefaste, Sir George Ghaworth, Mr. Zowche, Mr. Phillip 
 Strelley, etc., with iiij. messe in the hall supped at the olde 
 howse on Friday nighte. Mr. Hen. Wyllughby came on 
 Friday at dynner with ij. men. BaUe and iiij. Yrysh men, etc." 
 
 September 28. " This weeke upon Mondaye my Mr. wente 
 into Warr[wykshier] abowte a commission betweene him and 
 Mr. Tho. Brasbridge, and tooke but three howshold men with 
 him ; the rest contynued in commons." 
 
 October 5. " Gunnepowder for Jo. Gunner, IK., I8d." 
 "This weeke on Twysday to supper my Mr. retourned owte 
 of Warr[wyk]shier, and Sir George Hastinges, Mr. Edward 
 Hastinges, his sonne, and Mr. Palmer came the same nighte 
 to supper with sixe men, and contynued heere tyll Thursday 
 after dynner." 
 
 October 13. " This weeke upon Monday John Burrowes 
 mariage djoiner was kepte at the old halle; and twoo messe 
 of meate fuUy furnished at my Mr.'s table, besides other 
 extraordinarie men weare at niy Mr.'s charges." 
 
 October 19. "This weeke upon Monday Mr.- Roberte 
 Markham and two of his soonnes, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Fenton, 
 and Mr. Sturton supped with my Mr. at the Chawntrey, and 
 dyned there upon Twysday, and had with them x. men." 
 
 October 26. " This weeke upon Monday at nighte came 
 Mr. Per. WyUughby with ij. men, and Mr. Robert Wyllughby 
 with j. man. Mr. Roberte Wyllughbye stayed tyll Fryday, 
 Mr. Percy valle tyll Saterday." 
 
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 November 2. " This weeke my Mr. lay at Notingham from 
 Monday supper tyll Thursday supper, by reason of certeyne 
 bwysines with the receavour at the audit." 
 
 November 9. " This weeke upon Friday after dynner 
 worde was broughte that Su- George Hastinges and Mr. Agar 
 wolde have supped with my Mr. that nighte ; for whom 
 provision was made, but they came not." 
 
 November 23. " This weeke Sir Geo. Hastinges came to 
 WoUaton on Monday to supp, with v. men, and stayed tyll 
 Thursday d3mner. Mr. Percyvall Wyllughby, Mr. Raffe 
 SachevereU, etc." 
 
 The last account is December 14. 205 
 
 1591. — Extracts from book of extraordinary payments 
 at WoUaton, giving weekly accounts of boardwages, wages 
 of " hyneservauntes," husbandry charges, expense of " ode " 
 [=woad] culture, washing, etc. 
 
 May 8. "To Richard Gamble and his fellow for gettinge 
 60 ell of stonne at Lenton Abbie^ at 3d. the ell, xvs." 
 
 May 15. " Item to Luke Gonastonne rydinge charges for 
 carienge a letter to Mr. Robert Markham at Newarke, xiijd. 
 Item to John Calver ridinge charges for goinge to Mansfeld 
 for Mr. Band, xijc?. 
 
 May 22. " Item to Mr. HoUingworth for ridinge charges 
 from London, vijs. ixd." 
 
 June 19. " Item to WiUiam Rhodes for thackinge at the 
 Odehouse [=:Woad-house], vj. dayes at viijd. the day, iiijs. 
 Item to Agnes Burrowes for servinge the thacker at the Oade 
 house 6 dayes at 4d. the day, ijs." 
 
 September 18. " Item for 109 burden of hard rushes at 
 ]d. the burden ut per hillam, ixs. jd." 
 
 October 16. " Item to Robert Hill for emptieynge the said 
 lime Idllne one day, xd. Item paid to v. women for the like 
 worke one daye a peece at M., xvd." 
 
 October 30. " Item to [John] Mosse and 3 of his fellowes 
 for pressinge crabbes one daye at &d. a piece, ijs." 
 
 December 4. " Item paid to Boardman's wife for pickinge 
 crabbes for verges [ = verjuice] 4 dayes at M. the day, xijc?." 
 [The like to six other women for the same time.] 
 
 December 25. " Item paid for bringinge letters from 
 London, vjd." 205 
 
 1596. — Book of accounts bound in two leaves of a fifteenth 
 century service book, entitled " The booke of reconing 
 [beginning at the Annunciation] of Cure Lady, for one 
 [year] . . and other necessarye ch[ardges] " on the 
 
 first page, part of which is torn away. It contains engrossed 
 headings of the various classes of expenditure, but very few 
 entries have been made. The entries are evidently in the 
 
 1 There are many similar entries relating to stone from Lenton Abbey. 
 
460 
 
 handwriting of Sir Percival Willoughby, for at fo. 15 he refers 
 to Bore Place [co. Kent] as "my parke." On fo. 11 is an 
 entry "for 3 payres of specktackells, iijs." In 1671-2 the 
 book was used as a rough account book owing to the great 
 amount of blank paper it contained. 205. 
 
 1596, October 18, to September, 1600. — Book of receipts 
 and payments at WoUaton, containing numerous payments 
 for removing earth about the New Hall (at Wollaton) and 
 works and fittings at the same, and household accounts. 
 
 1597, December 25. — " Provition spent at Mydlton from 
 Cresmas even to the Sundaye aftar Twelfe daye, beinge the 
 8 of January, viz. : 
 
 Inprimis, in wheatt 2 quarters 1 stryke at 10s. 
 
 the strycke, 9 stryckee for manchet and 8 for the 
 
 pastrie and for bread to gratte 810 
 
 Item, in corne for houshold 3 quar. 4 str. at 9s. 
 
 the str 12 12 
 
 Item, in mault 46 str. at 7s. the strycke (beere 
 
 27 hogge[sheads] dim.) ". 16 2 
 
 Item, in beefle 7 carkes [^carcases] at 3li. 10s. 
 
 a pece, reserving the hiddes 2410 
 
 Item in motton 22 carkes and 4 joyntes at 
 
 8s. Qd. a carkes, reserving the skennes 9 12 
 
 Item, in porke 2 carkes at 16s. a pece . . . . 1 12 
 
 Item, in geese 39 at IQd. a pece 2 12 
 
 Item, in venson 6 dooes at 6s. 8d. a pece . . 1 18 
 
 Item, one gootte 10 
 
 Item, in rabettes 57 cople at 8d. a cople. . . . 1 18 
 
 Item, in branne by estimation 3 
 
 Item, in great lenge j. cople di. [=half] at 7s. 
 
 a cople 10 6 
 
 Item, in mydleinge lenge 8 cople at 3s. a cople 14 
 Item, in Habbardine [a sort of stockfish] xij. 
 
 cople at 14c^. a cople 16 4 
 
 Item, fatt capones 5 at 3s. id. a pece . . . . 16 8 
 
 Item, 3 capones of a second sort at 25. a pece 6 
 
 Item, poUettes 8 at 6d. a pece 4 
 
 86 13 6 
 
 Item rabettes 11 cople at lid. a cople .. .. 10 1 
 
 Item, in veale 4 carkes 3 quar. «,t severall pryses 2 12 
 
 Item, in egges 10 8 
 
 Item, in snipes 3 dossen and 1 snipes at sevrall 
 
 prises 072 
 
 Item, woodcockes 4 at sevrall pryses . . . . 1 10 
 
 Item, partrcchs 2 10 
 
 Item, in burdes 2 dosen and 5 burdes at sevrall 
 
 prises 012 
 
461 
 
 Item, scatt [=skate], place, and a pycke . . 2 
 In oystares 2 hundred 020 
 
 4 7 11 
 
 Item, veale 3 quart 090 
 
 Item, capones 12 at 6d. a pece 6 
 
 In poUettes 7 at 4d. a pece 2 4 
 
 In woodcockes 14 at id. a pece .. 4 8 
 
 1 2 
 Summa totallis : 92li. 3s. 5d. 
 
 For twoe suger loaves, th'one at xvd. the pound, 
 th'other at xiijd xxxijs. yjd. 
 
 For currance xxxZj xs. 
 
 For reasons xxxK xs. 
 
 For nutmegges ]li. vs. 
 
 For pepper iiijZt xviijs. 
 
 For mace, quarter of a pound iijs. v]d. 
 
 For cloves dim. pound iijs. vjrf. 
 
 For synament [= cinnamon] dim. pound.. .. iijs. iiijrf. 
 
 For prunes xxxK vijs. v]d. 
 
 For a tierce of claret wine and a rundlet of 
 sack vjZi. 
 
 For a kegg of sturgion xiiijs. vjrf. 
 
 Summa totallis : x]li. vijs. xd. 
 
 1397, December 19.—" Bought of Mr. Strelley, the gould- 
 smith, one white basoun and ewer of silver, wayinge 88oz. 
 dim. and quarter dim., after the rate of vs. vjcZ. the oz., which 
 cometh to xxiiijK. vijs. iiijd. : whereof paid xxli." 205 
 
 1598, April to March. — Day-book of receipts and expen- 
 diture of food. 
 
 August 18. "My Lord B[a]rtt]ett, Mr. Devres, and Mr. 
 Townesend came to super with xij. men, and bracke ther 
 faste." 205 
 
 1599, August to December. — Book of weekly payments for 
 food, etc. 205 
 
 1599-1600. — Day-book of receipts and expenditure of food. 
 
 August 12. "Many nigbores [sic] that came to see my 
 mistress dyned hear this day." 
 
 August 13. " XXX. W3rves of Wollaton that came to see 
 my mistres dyned hear this day." 
 
 August 14. "Mr. Robert Willughby and his wyfe came to 
 Wollaton one Fryday with my mistres, and went away this 
 day aftar breckefaste, attended with iiij. persones. Mr. Roger 
 
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 Mannares, Mr. Sterley [Strelley], Mr. Parpoynt, Mr. John 
 Berron [Byron], and many other gentelmen came to rem[ain], 
 attended with 40 persons." 
 
 August 15. "Mr. Roger Mannares and the reste of his 
 company went away this day aftar dener." 
 
 August 16. " Mres. Lyl [lisle] came to Wollarton with my 
 mistres, and went away this day aftar denner, with vj . persones 
 attendinge." 
 
 August 17. " Mr. Theenne [Thynne] and Mr. Pegett went 
 away after breckefast, with ij. men." 
 
 August 17. " Mr. Repington, Mr. Bothe, and yonge Mr. 
 Colmor came to super this night, with iiij. persones attend- 
 inge." 
 
 August 19. "Mr. Meare [Mayor] of Notingham and his 
 wyfe and viij. persons with them dyned. Mr. Bothe, Mr. 
 Colmor went away this day aftar dener." 
 
 August 20. " xiiij. wyves of Cossall cam to see my mistres, 
 and dyned hear this d[a]ye. Mr. Bothe and Mr. Colmor came 
 to super this night, and Mres. Lyl with them." 
 
 August 22. "Mres. Lyl, Mr. Repington, Mr. Bothe and 
 Mr. Colmor went away aftar breckefast«, with ix. persons 
 attendinge. Mr. Sowcheverell [Sacheverell] came to dener 
 with one man." 
 
 August 23. "Mr. Willughby of Reslie [Risley] and Mr. 
 Dyn' hear, with iiij. persons attendinge." 
 
 August 24. " Mr. Hurtt, Mr. Freman, Mr. Greves, Mr. 
 Tomlenson, Mr. Hyll, and ther wyves dyned hear." 
 
 August 26. " Mr. Sturle [Strelley] and Mr. Walker dyned 
 hear, with iij. persons attendinge." 
 
 August 27. " Yonge Mr. Willughby, Mr. Poudrell [Poutrell] 
 and Mr. Smyth dj^ned hear with vj. persons attendinge." 
 
 August 31. "The erlle of Ruttlande, Mr. Chaworth, Mr. 
 Vavaser, Mr. Aske, Mr. Askew, Mr. Sterle [Strelley], and 
 many other gentelmen came to denner with Ixx. persones 
 attendinge." 
 
 September 3. " My mistres towardes Mydelton, with Mres. 
 Wennefrett and Mres. AbegaJl, aftar breckefaste with [blank]." 
 
 September 7. " Mr. Jackson of Nottingham, Mr. Dark- 
 nolle, Mr. Ogle, Mr. Hill, Mr. Greves, Wm. Hinde dyned here, 
 with iiij. strangers in the hall." 
 
 September 8. " This night to supper came Mr. Colmer 
 of Leicester and his sonne, Mr. Booth, Mr. Orton, Mr. Smith, 
 with iiij. persons attendinge." 
 
 September 13. "Mr. Colmor and his sonne, Mr. Bothe, 
 Mr. Orton, and Mr. Smyth wente away aftar breckefaste." 
 
 September 20. " My mistres came to WoUatton to super." 
 
 September 21. " Mr. Sowcheverell, Mr. Henrie Willughby, 
 Mr. Aldxege, came to denner with ij. men." 
 
 September 24. " xvj. tennantes of Willughby came to 
 denner." 
 
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 September 25. " Mr. Perckines and his wyfe came to 
 denner with iiij. persons attending." 
 
 September 26. " Mr. Colmor came yestar night to super 
 and went away aftar breckfaste. Mr. Dartnall and Mr. Hanley 
 came to dener." 
 
 September 27. " Mr. Perpoynt and Mr. Willughby of 
 Rusley came to denner, with x. persones." 
 
 September 30. " Mr. Henrie Willughby came to super, 
 with j. man." 
 
 October 1. " Mr. Repington came to super with 2 men." 
 
 October 3. " Mr. Reptington [sic] and Mr. Henre Wil- 
 lughby went away aftar breckefaste." 
 
 October 4. " Mr. Repingeton and Mr. Henre Willughby 
 and his daughter came to super with iij. men. Mr. Hurtt 
 and Mr. Hacker came to denner." 
 
 October 5. " Mres. Jackson and her daughter of Notting- 
 ham, William Hind and his wyfe and Mres. Gresbrocke came 
 to dener." 
 
 October 7. " My Lord of Darbe's pleares and many cuntre 
 pepell came to dener." 
 
 December 27. " The tenauntes of Cossall dined here." 
 
 1600, March 2. " The judges dined." 205 
 
 1603, June 21. — " A bill or note of the particuler charges 
 and paymentes disbursed for or aboutes the provision at 
 WoUaton for the Queene's presence there, 21 Junii, anno regni 
 ■ Jacobi Begis, etc., primo, 1603, videlicet : 
 
 Paymentes of masons' and laborers' wages. 
 
 [William Hall is paid lOd. a day for 9 days, his man 8d. 
 a day for 7 days, three masons are paid 12d. a day for 9 days, 
 and their three men 8d. a day for the same period. Twenty- 
 six labourers are paid 6d. a day for 169 days in all. Six 
 " colliers sent by Mr. Beamond " receive 8d. a day each 
 for 33 days in all. There are other charges for labourers at 
 6d. a day. Total lOli. 2s. lid.] 
 
 Paymentes to Carpenters for wages. 
 
 [Five are paid 12d. a day each for 40 days in all, two are 
 paid lOd. a day for 7 days each, four are paid 8d. a day each 
 18 days in all.* Other payments for sawyers, I2d. and 18d. 
 a day for a pair of sawyers, felling trees, etc., bring up the 
 total to 5li. 2s. id.] 
 
 Paynters' hill, etc. 
 
 For 2 dozen of knobbs for bed hangings . . . . xij<i. 
 
 For 2 bookes of gold for guilding . . . . vjs. \\\]d. 
 
 For one booke of guilding silver xxd. 
 
 For painting rollers xijci. 
 
464 
 
 For 3 daies work, viz., guilding bedd knobbs, a 
 caneby knob, and guilding and painting baked 
 
 meates ijs. 
 
 Sum of the bill, xijs. iiijrf. 
 
 Provision bought at Nottingham by William Hynde, etc. 
 
 Fowre hogsheades of beere at 8s. the hogs- 
 
 heade xxxijs. 
 
 Eight loomes of ale at 2s. the loome . . . . xvjs. 
 
 For carriage of 2 of them viijc?. 
 
 For 6 dozen of spoones vjs. 
 
 For 3 dozen of glasses vs. 
 
 For 4 poundes of pepper xijs. 
 
 Sixe gallons of viniger at ijs. iiijti. the gallon xiiijs. 
 
 Eight greene fishes vjs. ajd. 
 
 Sixe capons vijs. m]d. 
 
 One dosen of chickins iijs. 
 
 Fowre pigges vjs. iiijd. 
 
 One quarte of oyle xxd. 
 
 Seaven poundes of chalke ujd. 
 
 Twoe poundes of CaUe [= Calais] sande . . . . i]d. 
 
 Swane quills iiijd. 
 
 To a mesenger for going to Worsope . . . . ijs. 
 
 For carr[y]ing 4 pigges i]d. 
 
 Fowre quiers of paper xv]d. 
 
 Twoe poundes of wyer xvjrf. 
 
 Three yardes of rybaning v]d. 
 
 Three skenes of sUke iijd. 
 
 Fowre poundes of sope xm]d. 
 
 One hundred of white pins xi]d. 
 
 For helping to lode bedding i]d. 
 
 Fore boulting clothe xx]d. 
 
 Three yardes of russet ribaning ixd. 
 
 Three yardes of white tinsell rybaning . . . . iijd!. 
 
 Twoe combrushes iijd. 
 
 For carriage of creme and flowers ijd. 
 
 Fowre yardes of boulting clothe iijs. iiijd. 
 
 FoAvre yardes of course boulting clothe . . . . ijs. 
 
 Fowre quieres of paper xvjd. 
 
 Sum total : vjK. viijs. ixd. 
 [The rest of the book appears to be an ordinary house- 
 hold account for the year.] 205 
 
 There are in addition many household accounts of the 
 seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and numerous accounts 
 of receipts and expenditure in connexion with agriculture in 
 the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 
 
465 
 
 Inventories op Household Goods, etc. 
 
 1355, July 20.— Inventory of goods and chattels of Sir 
 Baldwin, de FryviUe. 
 
 Ceux sount lez benz et lez chatels queux Monsieur Baudewyn 
 de FryvO ad done a Monsieur John' de Clynton, Monsieur 
 Fouke de Burmyncham, et Sire Baudewyn de Whyteneye, 
 den de Tomworthe, c'est a savoir Luyndy [sic] en la feste 
 de Seynt Margarete, en Pan de roy Edward Terce apres le 
 Conqueste xxix. 
 
 Ces furront les choses, c'est a savoir y]^Hi. en perles. Item 
 une cercle d'or ov nok.tt (?) et rubyes, pris Ixli. Item j. cercle 
 d'or ov rubies et emeraudes, pris xlK. Item j. autre cercle 
 d'or ov rubyes et emeraudes, pris xxxli. Item j. cercle 
 d'or ov rubies et emeraudes, pris xxli. Item j. cercle 
 d'or et de perre ov lupards, pris xxli. Item j. cercle 
 d'or et de perre, pris xli. Item j. cercle d'or et de perre, pris 
 xli. Item j. corowne d'or et de perre, pris xxxfo". Item j. 
 nouche d'or et de perre, pris xxxli. Item ij. nouches d'or et 
 de perre, pris x. marcs. Item ij. anels d'or et de perre, pris 
 C5. Item ij. pejrres de pater nostres de get ov gaudes de 
 rubie et de perles, pris cs. Item j. botoner de roses, pris 
 xls. Item j. botoner de wodewoses [:= elves, fauns, from 
 A.S. umdu-wdsa], pris cs. Item j. botouner de muge 
 [^ nutmeg, 0. French muge], pris x marcs. Item j. botoner 
 d'esteyles d'err', pris cs. Item j. botoner d'err' et de perles, 
 pris X. marcs. 
 
 Summa : iiijc. xijK. 
 
 Item j. lyt enter, ov lez curtyns palez, pris cs. Item, j. 
 lyt enter, j. sarch', iiij. tapyts d'oysels, et j. dim. seel, ov lez 
 rydels de rouge sendal, pris xxli. Item j. coverteur de gris, 
 pris cs. Item j. quylte poynte de sendal pale d'Ynde et de 
 jawne, pris xli. Item j. lyt pale ov j. sarge et iiij. tapyts 
 et j. dim. celur', pris cs. Item ij. lytes rouges enters, sarges 
 et tapyts, pris Ixs. Item j. lyt vert ov rydel, pris xls. Item 
 ij. lytz ov house et tapitz pur esquyers, pris Is. Item xvj. 
 lytz ov materass, pris xvjli. Item j. sel pour lez justes, ij. 
 helmes, j. escu, ij. meyne-de-fers, ov tous manner' autres 
 hemeys apurtenantz, pris xli. 
 
 Summa : IxxviijZt. xs. 
 
 Item en naperye, c'est a savoir xj. napes pur la haute table, 
 ov vij. longe towayUes et viij. courte towaylles et v. savenapes, 
 pris xi]li. Item vj. napes de drap longe, pris xxs. 
 
 Summa : xiijZt. 
 Item iij. corsetes furres de menyver, ov lez cotes de la sute, 
 pris xxli. Item en iiij. cotes furres de menyver, pris xx. 
 marcs. Item chaperounz ov rubans, pris iiij^j. Item ij. seeles 
 pur ma dame, pris xls. 
 
 Summa : xxxijli. xiijs. iiijcZ. 
 Item vj. esqueles, vj. sauters, et ij. chargours d'argent, 
 pris xxli. Item ij. bacynz, ij. ewers, et ij. potes d'argent. 
 pris xxli. Item iiij. holies ov lez covercles d'argent, pris xli. 
 
 M,go 
 
466 
 
 Item X. peces et j. ewer d'argent, pris xj. marcs et dim. Item 
 j. ewer d'orr, pris xls. Item j. coupe d'argent, ov le covercle, 
 pris xls. Item xiij. quylers d'argent et j. d'orr, pris xx«. 
 Summa : IxijK. xiijs. iiijc?. 
 [An inventory of the cattle in the manors of Waltones, 
 Middiltone [co. Warwick], Crownest [co. Worcester], World- 
 ende [co. Hereford], and Feme [co. Hereford], follows.] 24 
 
 1488[-9], March 12.— A roU about 11 feet long entitled "This 
 is the inventory of all the goodes and cateUys of John Alfegh, 
 Squyre, of Chedyngstone in the Counte of Kent, praysed by 
 WyUiam Maryner and Symon Hogan, cytezens of London 
 and praysers to the moste Reverende Fader in God John, 
 Archebysshop of Canterbury, the xij. day of Marche, the 
 XX yere of our Lorde Godm'cccciiij'^^viii, and in the iiij** yere 
 of the reign of Kyng Henry the VlJth." 
 
 A few extracts, representing every heading, are here given 
 from this interesting inventory. 
 
 " In the Hall. 
 
 In primis iiij. costeryngez [= curtains] of rede 
 
 say, price viijs. 
 
 Item ij. blakke bylles viijd. 
 
 Summa : viijs. viijc?. 
 
 In the Parlour. 
 
 Item a foldyng table of Englysshe makyng, 
 
 price vs. 
 
 Item iiij. cheyres turned, febyll', xi]d. 
 
 Item a peyer of pleying tables vd. 
 
 Item ij. carpettes, sore worne xijs. 
 
 In the Newe Chamber above. 
 
 Item iij. costeryngez of rede say bastard steyned, 
 with a border of scriptures, price xiijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item a sperver [= hangings of the tester of a 
 bed] of lawne party blewe and murrey, price . . xiijs. iii}d. 
 
 Item an olde counterpoynte of tappystery with 
 a man in harnes, febyll, price vijs. viijd. 
 
 In the withdraught [:= closet] next the same chamber. 
 Item a seler [= canopy of a bed] and tester 
 bastard steyned with a flouredelyse ijs. '\\i\d. 
 
 In the Newe Chamber beneth. 
 
 Item a sperver bastard steyned and vij. coster- 
 ynges bastard, steyned with vyndez [= vines], 
 fesauntes, and popynyayes, with the cope of the 
 sperver of boorde Alisaunder^ xiijs. iii}d. 
 
 Item a blewe coverlyd with white workes of 
 Norwyche makyng, brokyn Y]d. 
 
 Item a chamber basen of peuter vjd. 
 
 i 
 
 striped silk. See New English Dictionary, a. v.' Bord Alexander.' 
 
467 
 
 In the withdraught to the Newe Chamber. 
 
 Item a brokyn perlyng^ yd. 
 
 Item iiij. olde cusshyns of boorde Alisaunder 
 with a banker f= bench-covering] viijci. 
 
 In the Entre next the withdraught. 
 Item vj. costerynges of blakke say, brokyn .. xxij^i. 
 
 In the Warderope. 
 
 Item a flatte cheste joyned, price .. .. xxd. 
 
 Item vj. skeynes of lynyn yarne . . . . ij,?, Y]d. 
 
 Item i]li. wyke-yarne for candell' yd. 
 
 Item an olde clothe with Seynt John the Bap- 
 tyst steyiied viijc?. 
 
 Item iij. peyer of brekynders [= brigandines] 
 covered with fustyan xiijs. m]d. 
 
 Item a bycokett^ and a salet with a veser 
 [=visor] yd. 
 
 Item a peyer of splentes [= laminated armour] xvjd. 
 
 Item a peyer of slevys, j. peyer of gussettes, ij. 
 standerdes, and ij. -flankerdes^ of mayle . . . . vjs. yn]d. 
 
 Item an olde cote of fens [= fence, defence] and 
 a cusshyn for a pelyon [= pillion] ij,s. 
 
 Gownes, with other weryng stuffe. 
 
 Item j. gowne of russett furred with olde mar- 
 ternys,* price xxiijs. iiijcZ. 
 
 Item j. tawny gowne furred with foxe . . . . vijs. 
 
 Item a vyolet gowne furred with white bugge^ viijs. 
 
 Item a Musterdyvelys^ gowne furre with hlaSke 
 lambe xs. 
 
 Item a shorte gowne of Musterdyvelys lynyd 
 with blakke wollyn iiijs. 
 
 Item a shorte gowne of blewe lynyd with blakke 
 wollyn iiijs. uijd. 
 
 Item a shorte blakke gowne lynyd with blakke 
 woUen ijs. y]d. 
 
 Item a dim. gowne of grene lyned with blakke 
 wollen ijs. yii]d. 
 
 Item a blewe raye gowne furred with white 
 lambe, febyll vs. in]d. 
 
 Item a dowbelet of tawny damaske xiijs. iiijti. 
 
 Item a doubelet of blakke saten, sore worne . . vs. 
 
 Item a doubelet of blakke say ijs. iii]d. 
 
 Item ij. peyer of blakke hosen ijs. v]d. 
 
 1 Cf. ' pearling ' in New English Dictionary. 
 
 2 A peaked cap. See New English Dictionary, a.v. ' Hycoket.' 
 
 ' Armour for the thigh or for the protection of a horse's flanks. See 
 New English Dictionary, s.v. ' Flancard. ' 
 * Marten-skins. 
 
 5 " Budge," a fur made of lambskin with the wool dressed on the outside. 
 
 6 Cloth deriving its name from Montivilliers, formerly Mouster Villers, in 
 Nonnaudy (Seine-Infirieure). 
 
468 
 
 The Chamber over the Parlour. 
 
 Item a Ijrtell ship' cheste, febyll' viijti. 
 
 Item ij. cusshyns of tappystery with dim. 
 
 connyes Yn]d. 
 
 Item ij . olde trussyng cof ers xc?. 
 
 Item an awnderne [= andiron] and a ijre 
 
 forke ^^}d. 
 
 Item a water chafer of brasse xxijd. 
 
 In the withdraught to the same Chamber. 
 Item a coverlydde of Gaunte [= Ghent] makyng, 
 febyll' xiiij(i. 
 
 In the Chamber over the Botery. 
 Item V. olde cusshyns, the one syde covered 
 
 with lether, febyll xijd. 
 
 Item an olde russet mantell, motheten . . . . xvj(i. 
 
 Item an old Normandy byll 'm^d. 
 
 In the withdraught to the same Chamber. 
 Item a coverlydde of Gaunte makyng, brokyn viij<^. 
 
 Item a flatte cheste corved [sic) x<7. 
 
 In the Chamber next the ChapeW. 
 
 Item an olde cote of fense xxd. 
 
 Item an old batell-axe iiijd. 
 
 In the Chapeir. 
 
 Item ij. auter clothes of steyned worke . . . . xxrf. 
 
 Item ij . other auter clothes of tarturne paled and 
 
 leyed with double W ys. 
 
 Item a vestemente of grene ragmersshe^ with 
 
 the imperour vjs. viijd. 
 
 Item ij. curteynes of rede bokeram vjd. 
 
 Item a coi'poras of blakke clothe of tyssue . . ijs. 
 
 Item an other corporas of blewe sylke . . . . v]d. 
 
 Item ij. pryket candelstykes of laten . . . . XY]d. 
 
 Item a pej^er of cruettes of layed metell and a 
 
 sauns bell of laten vjcZ. 
 
 Item a holy water stopell' of laten xi]d. 
 
 Item a lytell flatte cheste iiijd. 
 
 Item a lytell tabelet of golde nedyll' worke . . vs. iiijrf. 
 
 Item ij. pax bredes i]d. 
 
 Item ij. lytell towelles iiijd. 
 
 In the pardose over the ChapeW. 
 Item ij. olde clothes bastard steyned . . . . xiiijrt!. 
 
 I A kind of cloth, See N(W English Dictionary, a.v, 'Bagraas. ' 
 
469 
 
 In the Freres Chamber. 
 
 Item an olde peynted clothe iijd. 
 
 Item ij. olde materes, i. peyer of blankettes, a 
 coverlydde, an [sic) dagswayne [= coverlet], an 
 {sic) bolster, and a pelowe V5. 
 
 In Wyharnys Chamber. 
 Item an olde materes and a bolster, a coveryng 
 of rede wollen, a dagswayne, a syler, and a tester 
 of blewe carde vjs. 
 
 In the Bedemannys Chamber. 
 Item an olde materes, a peyer of blankettes, and 
 an olde coverlydde of Yorke makyng xxci. 
 
 In the Laborers' Chamber. 
 
 Item a syler and tester of grene bokeram, a grene 
 coverlydde with white workes, j. Adam bell', a 
 rnateres and a bolster vs. v]d. 
 
 Item a lanterne vjrf. 
 
 In the Spynnyng Chamber. 
 
 Item a jakke covered with white fustyan . . iijs. iiijc?. 
 
 Item a styllitory of lede xxd. 
 
 Item a candell' molde yjd. 
 
 In the Chamber over the Stable. 
 
 Item ij. materes, ij. bolsters, ij. brokyn cover- 
 lyddes and an olde canvas cloth iijs. iiijrf. 
 
 In the Poorche Chamber. 
 
 Item a dim. seler of rede say and a hachement 
 
 steyned vj^i. 
 
 Item a ship' cheste with the marke of ij. . . iiijs. vii]d. 
 
 Item an other ship' cheste with the marke 
 
 of iij iijs. injd. 
 
 Item a flatte cheste . . . . xvjd. 
 
 Item a dim. lib. of coten yarne iiij<i. 
 
 Shetys. 
 Item a hede shete with the marke of ij . . . . iiijs. iiijrf, 
 
 Pleyne Clothes. 
 
 Item X. boorde clothes pleyne with the marke 
 
 of j xiijs. iiijrf. 
 
 Item ix. course table clothes with the marke 
 
 of ij vjb'. vn]d. 
 
 Item viij. napkyns pleyne with double milyngez xvjc^. 
 
 Item X. napkyns pleyne with sengle milyngez xijr?. 
 
 Item iij. ewry towelles xiiijci. 
 
 Item viij. course rollers xviijrf. 
 
 Item V. lytell hande towelles vjcZ. 
 
470 
 
 Dyaper Napry. 
 
 Item ij. of borde clothe of dyaper with the 
 
 marke of j xxvjs. viijci. 
 
 Item a towell of dyaper with the marke of j. iiijs. iiijd. 
 Item iiij. liteU napkyns of dyaper, febyll . . v]d. 
 
 In the Kechyn. 
 
 Item a brasse potte of Boleyne [= Boulogne] 
 
 fashon with the marke of iij. vs. 
 
 Item a frewter^ chafer of brasse ijs. \\d. 
 
 Item a lytell chafer withe a stele [= handle].. xiiijci. 
 
 Item a large skelet with a stele, febyll' . . . . vjd. 
 
 Item a water chafer of brasse ijs. 
 
 Item ij. cawdernys [^caldrons] unbounde . .xxiiij.s. 
 Item a full [■= set] of ketelles of brasse, brokyn . . xxd. 
 
 Item a ladyll and a skemer [=scummer] febyll yd. 
 
 Item a colender of laten xijd. 
 
 Item ij. drepyng pannys of ierne xijrf. 
 
 Stuff e of ierne in the Kechyn. 
 
 Item iij. trevettes of ierne va. 
 
 Item iij. gredeiernys, broke and hole . . . . xiiijd. 
 
 Item a peyer of rakkes of ierne vjs. 
 
 Item a peyer of cobbeiernys xiiijd. 
 
 Item a pott hangle, ij. pot rakkes, and iij. peyer 
 pot-hokys, a peyer of handyll hokys, and a flesshe 
 hoke ijs. Y\d. 
 
 Item iij. standerde spjrttes and iij. lyteU spyttes . . viijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item a water laver of laten xijd. 
 
 Item a lytell musterd querne xijd. 
 
 Item a brede grate [= grater] and a pepyr 
 querne ijd. 
 
 Pewter. 
 Item a garnysshe lakkyng a charger, poiz 
 
 IxiiijK. xvjs. 
 
 Item a sa,use boteU of ley^ [= pewter] metell' ijd. 
 
 In the Chamber over the Larder. 
 
 Item iij. large woUen combys iijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item vj. hachellys [instruments for combing 
 flax] grete and smale iijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item a pryket candelstykke, with ij. nosez, and 
 viij. other candelstykkes of dy verse soortes, grete 
 and smale . . . . iijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item in flexe unwrought ijs. 
 
 Item iij. barelles, a basket, ij. pannyers, withe 
 other lumber xijd. 
 
 Item a hangyng almery in the larder, with other 
 lumber viijd. 
 
 1 A fruit-dish (Old French /ruiiier). 
 
 2 See New English Dictionary, s.v. ' Lay, eb. 6.' 
 
471 
 
 In the Brewe House. 
 
 Item a masshe fatt, iiij. yelyng^ tubbys, viij. 
 kymlynnes,2 xiij. ale stondys, vj. payles, and iij. 
 corne trayes _ xxs. 
 
 In the Maltehouse and in the Yarde. 
 
 Item a pype, iiij. tubbys, ij. cowlys, withe other 
 l^^iber jij5_ iiij^ 
 
 In the lofte over the Maltehouse. 
 
 Item xij. lib. of roughe hempe xijci. 
 
 Item a lytell dragge-net and an olde shove- 
 ^^^ \s. m]d. 
 
 In the Botery. 
 
 Item ij. candelstykkys of laten of the newe 
 tume jj5 
 
 Item ij. bell candelstykkys xyjd. 
 
 Item ij. gyspynnes [leathern pots or cups] of 
 lether ^^ 
 
 Item ij. karvyng knyves with white haftes . . iijs. iiijd. 
 Item a wode knyfe and a bokeler sworde . . vjs. viijd. 
 
 Plate with other Jewellys. 
 
 Item a paxbrede graven with a crucifix, Mary 
 and John, dim. gylte, pond. iij. ounz dim. et dim. 
 quarter, le ounz iijs. vd xijs. m]d. oh. quad. 
 
 Item a Paryse boU, with a cover chased codde 
 rounde parcell gylte, pond. xvij. ounz and iij. 
 quart., le ounz iijs. i^d . . Ivjs. i\d. oh. 
 
 Item xxij. sylver sponys with cutte endys, 
 pond. xxj. ounz and iij. qvnrt., le ounz iijs. ]d. n]U. vijs. oh. quad. 
 
 Item ij. sponys withe dyamonde poyntes, po'nd. 
 j. ounz, quart, and dim., le ounz iijs. \d. iiijs. \\d. oh. quad. 
 
 Item a basen and an ewer parceU gylte, chased 
 with a Sonne in the botome and greyved with a 
 skotchyn in armis of iij. borys hedes, pond. I. ounz, 
 iij«- iij<^ viijH. ijs. \\d. 
 
 Item a chales with a paten gylte, pond. viij. 
 ounz and dim. quart., le ounz iijs. \\\\d xxvijs. \d. 
 
 Item in redy money nombyrd at the tyme of the 
 decesse of the seyd John' Alfegh . . . . xlvjK. xs. iijd. 
 
 In Catell. 
 Item Ij. mylche kene [=kine, cows] olde and 
 yonge, le pese vjs. xyU. vjs. 
 
 1 Tubs in which the wort was left to ferment. See New English Dictionary, 
 8.V. 'Gyle.' 
 
 2 Small tubs. See New English Dictionary, s.v. 'Kimnel.' 
 
472 
 
 Item XX. steris and heffords [= heifers] of iij. 
 yere age, le pese vs vK. 
 
 Item XX of ij jereljmgezjepese iijs. viijcZ. . . iijZ*. xiijs. iiijci. 
 
 Item XV. weyneUes/ le pece ijs. viijci xls. 
 
 Item X. yonge hogges called " shetys," le pese 
 xui]d xjs. viijd. 
 
 Item a white horse ambeljmg, a donne horse 
 trottyng, a bay horse ambelyng, olde and crokyd xxvjs. vii]d. 
 
 Item iiij. olde hakeney sadylles, with the 
 brydyUes vjs. viijd. 
 
 Item ij. Waynes, th'one for corne, th'other for 
 wode, with the tyghtez [= traces]. Item a ploughe, 
 with ij. sharez and ij. coultyrs, with the tyghtes. 
 
 Item iij. harowys armyd with ierne . . . .xxvjs. viijd. 
 
 Corne. 
 Item xij. quarters of white otys, le quarter xxd. xxs. 
 
 In the Gountyng House. 
 
 Item a caskett xiiijrf. 
 
 Item a lytyll' olde gardevyan^ xi]d. 
 
 Item viij. pursez of sylke, sore worne .. .. iijs. iiijd. 
 
 Item a hamper of wykars i]d. 
 
 In the Store House. 
 
 Item ij. axes, an hachett, ij. heggyng bylles, ij. 
 mattokes a shodde shelve, a donge forke of ierne, 
 a grjmdestone, iiij. algoris [= augers], ij. cheselles, 
 ij. wegges [= wedges] of ierne, a stubbe sithe, 
 ij. peersers, a pecheforke vs. iiijci. 
 
 Sperat [= recoverable] Dettes. 
 
 (Four items amounting to 155^ 19s. ll^d.) 
 
 Summa of all' the preysed godes, redy money and sperat 
 dettes : ccc. xlli. vs. i]d. 
 
 Desperate Dettes. 
 (Four items amounting to 19Z. 13s. 4(i.) 
 
 Dettes that the said testatour oweght atte tyme of hys decesse 
 [26 entries]. 
 
 Item to Nicholas Castell', Richard Thorpe, 
 Herry Blysse, John Haveryng, Thomas Wyldebore, 
 Edward WeUes, Symonde Euerherst, Amy Myles, 
 Mergery Newbegyn, Johanna Wasnasch, servauntes 
 of the seid testatour, for their severall wages to 
 theym dewe by the testatour, to this some, iiijK. xvijs. xd. 
 
 1 Weanlings. 
 
 2 A meat-safe or » chest generally. See New English Dictionary, s.v. 
 ' Garde -viauce.' 
 
473 
 
 Fewnerall Exspenses. 
 
 Item paid to prestes, clerkes, ryngyng of belles, 
 
 his leystowe,^ lynnyn and woUyn cloth, brede, ale, 
 
 wyne, wexe, flessh, fyssh, spices, with other neces- 
 
 sarys, and yevyng in almese to poure people xlvjM. xijs. ob. 
 
 The probate of the testament, with all other 
 
 thynges that longeth therto vijK. xiijs. iiijd. 
 
 236. 
 
 1541, March 12. — Inventory of the goods, chattels, and 
 debts of Sir Edward Willoughby, knight, late of Woodlande, 
 CO. Dorset, including the following : 
 
 " Funerell expensis. 
 
 In primis, to the parson for his grave in the 
 chansell xs. 
 
 Item his W3Tidd3mg sheytte and his cheste 
 [= coffin], wythe a stone of marble xxs. 
 
 Item dolte [= dole] to pore men iijli. 
 
 Item for tapers of wexe xxs. 
 
 Item for torchis xs. 
 
 Item for blacke cotton of the herse xs. 
 
 Item to prestes and olarkes for masse and dirige xxs. 
 
 Item for masse pens xxd. 
 
 Summa : vijli. vjs. viijd. 
 
 Expenses at the monethes mynd. 
 
 In primis for the herrode [= herald] orderyng 
 the names xxs. 
 
 Item to Mr. Wryght, the kinges paynter . .x^rli. 
 
 Item to prystes and clerkes \i]li. 
 
 Item to poore men xiijK. xiijs. i\d. 
 
 Item for vestymentes borroed xxd. 
 
 Item to Rye. Goodbody for viij. torches staves xxijs. 
 
 Item payd to the same parson for tapers . . xvjs. ijci. 
 
 Item the ofiEeryng of the masses d {sic) pens vjs. 
 
 Item to Syr Vynsent to pray for the deade the 
 moneth ijs. vjrf. 
 
 Item the offering at Requiem masse vs. 
 
 Item to a mason fastenynge howkes and yrons xi]d. 
 
 Item to the ryngers xviijci. 
 
 Item for the blakes bowght . . . . xxxvijK. vjs. vjti. 
 
 Item the house-keping the moneth to kepe the 
 householde and servantes together xxyU . 
 
 Item the charges at the diner at the moneth 
 mynd xvZ. 
 
 Item the servantes wages, men and women xyI. xijs. xd. 
 
 Item payd to the phisition iiijZi. 
 
 Summa : cxxxijK. viijs. iijd. 
 
 1 Burial-place, grave (AS. leger-atow). 
 
474 
 
 Ordinary charges. 
 
 In primis a letter ad colligendum xiijs. \i\]d. 
 
 Item for a proxe xvjci. 
 
 Item for the obligation xijd. 
 
 Item for the wexe iiijd. 
 
 Item costes and charges in procuryng . . . . xxs. 
 
 Item the procter's fee iijs. iiijrf. 
 
 Item the charges of the inventory xiijs. m\d. 
 
 Snmma : lijs. viij^i.'" 181 (196). 
 
 1548, June 6. — Inventory of the goods of Sir Thomas 
 WiUughby, knt., " oon of the kinges Justices of his Commen 
 Place," appraised by Walter Fuller, of Penseherste, co. 
 Kent, gent., and William Bogen, of the same parish, yeoman. 
 Long parchment roll. 205. 
 
 1549, January 4. — Inventory of goods and debts of Sir 
 John Willoughbye, knight, of co. Warwick, lately deceased. 
 
 188. 
 
 1549, August 30. — Book in handwriting of George Medley 
 containing inventory of the goods of Henry Willoughbye 
 esquire, taken at Myddelton. 205. 
 
 1550, October 4. — Long paper roll containing an inventory 
 of the goods of Henry Willoughby, esquire, of Myddleton, co. 
 Warwick, appraised by John Rowe, clerk, Mr. Peerse Ithell, 
 Master Trussell, John Hodde, and John Henlye. Appended 
 is " The honourments of the chapell at Mydylton with all 
 other thynges as hereafter foloweth, to remeyne after my 
 decesse unto my neyvewe Henry Wylloughby, and his heyres," 
 signed " John' WiUughby." Both inventories specify much 
 plate, 205. 
 
 [1550.] — Inventory of furniture, etc., at WoUaton Hall in 
 George Medley's hand.^ 
 
 Chappell Stuffe. 
 
 Item a vestment of tawnye velvet, with a crosse of greene 
 velvett, with the armes of the waterbudge,^ the stole and 
 the farman, an albe to the same, an ammys [= amice], and 
 a girdle. 
 
 A cope of cremoysyn and greene damaske, embrodered 
 wyth angells, flowerdelices and branches. 
 
 A sute [= suite] of redde sylke saye for the deacon and 
 subdeacon, with three albes and three ammysses, never a one 
 like the other, and a girdle. 
 
 An olde vestment of blacke vellvett (sic), with a crosse of 
 cremoysyn velvett and the water boudge upon hit, an albe and 
 the ammys to the same, with the stole, and fannon. One girdeU. 
 
 1 The words in square brackets are taken from another copy. 
 
 2 The Waterbouget from the Willoughby arms. 
 
475 
 
 A sute of blacke chamblett, with a crosse of clothe of 
 baudekyn for priest, deacon and subdeacon, with three albes, 
 three ammysses, with two stoles, two fannons, and two girdles. 
 
 Item a cope of blacke sylke saye, with a border of greene 
 satten of Burdges [=Bruges]. 
 
 [Fo. 1 verso.] 
 
 Two vestmentes of tawnye damaske with crosses of greene 
 damaske, with two albes, two ammysses, two stoles, two 
 fannons. 
 
 A vestment of tynsell [= cloth of gold], with a crosse 
 of greene relvett, with stole, fannon, and pares [=parure]. 
 Item a girdell. 
 
 A vestment of dornix [cloth from Dornick, i.e. Tournay] with 
 a crosse of redde satten of Burdges [= Bruges] embrodered, 
 with albe, ammys, stole, fannon and girdell. 
 
 A vestment of white fustian with a crosse of redde saye 
 embrodered, with an albe, ammys, and stole. 
 
 A sute of blacke vellett (sic) with crosses of tawnye 
 velvett for priest, deacon, and subdeacon, and a cope of the 
 same, three albes, three ammysses, two stoles, thre fannons, 
 and two girdeUs. 
 
 A vestment of chaungable sylke with crosses of blewe satten, 
 embrodered with ymages, an albe, an ammys, a stole, a fannon, 
 and a girdle. 
 
 A vestment of cremoysyn sylke embrodered with crosses 
 of clothe of golde, needle worke upon hit, an albe, an ammys, 
 a stole, and a fannon for the same. 
 
 A frunt for an alter of blewe silke saye embrodered. 
 
 A nother of dun braunched sylke, an other longe frunt 
 of white dunnyshe sylke of damaske worke. 
 
 Two fruntes of paynted lynen clothe. 
 
 Two fruntes of redde and greene saye in panes lyned, and 
 fyve ourtens of the same saye. 
 
 A pyllowe of changeable sylke diaper that they laye upon 
 the alter. 
 
 [Fo. 2.] 
 
 A cope of blewe velvett braunched with lyllye pottes. 
 
 Two tunicles for deacon and subdeacon of olde cremoysyn 
 velvett, with goune hooles. 
 
 [A cope of whitte taffa edged with grene velvett.] 
 
 A vestment of blacke worsted with a crosse of redde saye. 
 
 A tunicle of greene sylke dornix for a subdeacon. 
 
 An olde vestement of white bustian.^ 
 
 An albe and ammyss with the pares [=parures] of purple 
 velvett. 
 
 Sheetes. 
 
 A fyne sheete of camericke of foure breades, olde and worne, 
 foure yardes and haKe in lengthe. 
 
 1 A cotton fabric. See New English Dictionary. 
 
476 
 
 A fyne sheete of three breades, olde and worne, foure 
 yardes and a half in lengths. 
 
 A payre of sheetes of foure breades, olde and worne, foure 
 yardes and a half longe. 
 
 A payre of sheetes of foure breades, olde and worne, whereof 
 one sheete is three yardes three quarters longe, and the other is 
 foure yardes and one quarter longe. 
 
 A payre of two breades and a half, olde and worne, foure 
 yardes longe. 
 
 Fyve payre and a halfe of course canvas sheetes of two 
 breades. xxij. payre and a half of two breades of the worst sort, 
 moche broken and woren. 
 
 [Fo. 2 verso.] 
 
 Item three course sheetes, moche worne. 
 
 Item syx pillowbeares [= pillow-cases]. 
 
 ^Item a peyre of olde cwurse canvas worne sheetes, ragged 
 and torne, delyvred after offe Shyfelde's bed. 
 
 ^Item one pajrre of fyne sheetes, whereof one is ij. breades 
 and a halfe, iiij. yardes longe, and the other is three breades, 
 and that is olde and worne. 
 
 ^Item ij. payre and dim. meydlynge sheetes, verye olde 
 and worne, of ij. breades. 
 
 ^One payre of harden [^cloth made of the hards of flax or 
 hemp] sheetes, olde and worne. 
 
 Fustians. 
 
 One payre of fustians, whereof one is of fyve yardes in 
 length and off fyve breades, and the other is foure yardes 
 and a halfe longe and vj. breades. 
 
 One payre of fustians of three yardes longe, and one is 
 three breades, and the other of three and a half. 
 
 One fustian more of three breades and three yardes longe. 
 
 [Fo. 3.] 
 Naperye. 
 
 Diaper toweUes for the table, olde and worne, fyve ; diaper 
 table clothes, olde and worne, fyve ; table clothes olde ana 
 worne, iyve. 
 
 Table clothes olde and worne, some v. yardes longe, some 
 vj., some vij., some viij.— fyftene. 
 
 One newe table clothe of canvas, vij. yardes longe. 
 
 One newe table clothe of hardjTi, fyve yardes longe. 
 
 A sewinge toweU of diaper. 
 
 Table clothes, olde and worne, three. 
 
 A coverpane of diaper, olde. 
 
 Three broken coubbarde clothes and one of diaper. 
 
 Hj. harden toweles, olde and worne, and one of flaxen. 
 
 Uiij. diaper napkyns, ij. flaxen napkens, vj. pyllowe- 
 beares [^piUow-cases], olde and worne. 
 
 1 Added in another hand. 
 
477 
 
 Naperie and Lynen, with other stuffe sent to my cousyv} Maister 
 Thomas WillougJibye at Cambridge. 
 
 First two shorte table clothes. 
 
 Two couborde clothes. 
 
 Two to Welles. 
 
 Syk napkins, wherof foure are of diaper and two playne. 
 
 Two cousshins. 
 
 Item a hanginge of paynted lynen clothe, with a border 
 of Susanna [a species of cloth], conteyninge xxxiij panes. 
 
 Item a coveringe for a couborde of the same, conteyninge 
 three panes. 
 
 \Fo. 3 verso.} 
 For my cousyn^ Mestres Margarett and Fraunces Willoughbye 
 
 at Tylteye. ' 
 
 Two pajrre of sheetes of two breades, and one sheete of two 
 breades and a half. 
 
 Two coubarde clothes. 
 
 Three toweUes, wherof two longe and one shorte. 
 
 Syx playne napkins. 
 
 Two cusshins. 
 
 A quilte of dornix rayed blewe and white, lyned with 
 blewe buckeram. 
 
 Syr John Willoughbie's Bedde Chambre. 
 A tester of greene satten, with curtins of greene sarcenet, 
 verye olde. 
 
 A longe lowe coffer with two lyddes. 
 
 Two greate staildinge chestes. 
 
 Two payre of beUowes. 
 
 A fyer shovell. 
 
 A hammer to breake coles withall. 
 
 A payre of tongues. 
 
 A chayre with a close stole. 
 
 A coubbarde. 
 
 In the closett by the Ohymneye Syde. 
 A little coffer. 
 
 IFo. 4.] 
 In the Ghappell. 
 A hanginge of greene and redde saye. 
 Two candlestickes. 
 Two cruettes. 
 
 In the owter Closett. 
 Two longe coffers. 
 A coubbarde. 
 A heare clothe [= a strainer made of hair-cloth]. 
 
 In the Garrett. 
 A beddesteade of bourdes. 
 A coffer. 
 A bourde. 
 A payre of trestells and a fourme. 
 
 1 The words ' my oousyn ' are cancelled, and ' Maister' is added. 
 
 2 The words ' my oousyn ' are cancelled, and ' Mestres ' is added. 
 
478 
 
 [Fo. 4 verso,] 
 The Stone Parlour. 
 
 Two greate longe bourdes. 
 
 Sy:s. fourmes. 
 
 vj trestells. 
 
 Two narrowe longe coffers, wherin is a vestment of white 
 fustian, vereye olde, with albe, ammys, stole, and fannon, 
 and two corporaces within one case, two cruetts, a bell, a 
 courtyn of greene and redde saye. Item an olde toweU. 
 
 Item two olde curteyns of dornix and a tester to hit. 
 
 A hoole pece of girth webbe. 
 
 The Parlour n^xt to the Stone Parlour. 
 
 A joyned beddesteade. 
 
 A beddesteade of bourdes and a tester over hit of stayned 
 clothe. 
 
 A shippe coffer. 
 
 [Fo. 5.] 
 The Chambre next to the Dynyng Chambre, 
 A beddesteade. 
 
 Mestres Dracottes Chambre. 
 
 Two beddesteades. 
 
 A chayre. 
 
 A fourme. ^ 
 
 A coubbarde. 
 
 The Closett in the Gallerye. 
 Two emptye coffers. 
 
 [Fo. 5 verso.] 
 
 My Ladye Fitzhughes Chambre. 
 
 A high beddesteade. 
 
 A trundell bedde. 
 
 A greate longe coffer with three lockes. 
 
 A coubbarde. 
 
 A chajrre. 
 
 One fourme. 
 
 A pajTe of tongues. 
 
 The Little Chambre next to hit. 
 A beddesteade. 
 An emptye shippe coffer. 
 
 The Greate Chambre. 
 
 A beddesteade of bourdes. 
 A foldinge table with trestells. 
 Poure fourmes, greate and smale. 
 A coubbarde. 
 
479 
 
 [Fo. 6.] 
 The Inner Ghambre wiiMn that. 
 A beddesteade of bourdes. 
 A cofEer. 
 A peace of weynescotte by the wall. 
 
 [Fo. 6 verso.'] 
 The Knyghtes Ghambre. 
 
 A high beddesteade. 
 A trundell bedde. 
 A longe coffer. 
 A coubbarde. 
 A testar of Arras worke. 
 
 Fyve peaces of greene saye, olde and torne, for hangynges 
 for the chambre. 
 
 [Fo. 5 verso.] 
 The nezte Chambre to hit. 
 
 Two beddesteades. 
 
 Two olde sparvers [= hangings for a bed] of greene saye, 
 rotten and toren. 
 
 [Fo. 7.] 
 The Ghambre over the Gate. 
 
 A beddesteade of bourdes. 
 
 A fetherbedde. 
 
 Two mattresses. 
 
 A payre of blanketts. 
 
 Two olde coverletts. 
 
 A hillinge [= coverlet] lyned, olde and worne. 
 
 Two bolsters, wherof one of ticke, the other of fustian, 
 both with f ethers. 
 
 A pillowe of fustian with f ethers. 
 
 Two httle coubbardes. 
 
 The Ghambre next to the Porter's Lodge called " the Stuard's 
 
 Chambre." 
 
 One beddesteade. 
 Two coubbardes. 
 Two shorte formes. 
 
 John Tayliour's Ghambre. 
 Three beddesteades. 
 
 [Fo. 7 verso.] 
 Mr. Edgerton's Chambre. 
 A beddesteade. 
 Two fourmes. 
 
 A tester of stayned worke. 
 A toumed chayre. 
 A presse of bourdes joyned fast to the wall. 
 
 The Ghambre next to hit. 
 A beddesteade. 
 , A fourme. 
 
480 
 
 Thomas Bowdes Ghambre. 
 
 Two bedd.estead.es. 
 
 Two fourmes. 
 
 A presse of bourdes. 
 
 [Fo. 8.] 
 
 The Sycke Folkes' Chambre, otherwise called Costes Chambre. 
 
 A beddesteade. 
 
 The Well Chambre. 
 Two beddesteades. 
 
 The Armerye above. 
 
 XX sheeffes of arrowes without heddes. 
 
 A box full of arrowheddes. 
 
 Two caces for sheefEe arrowes, 
 
 xx" newe jackes covered with russett fustian. 
 
 vj. newe quilted jackes for horsemen. 
 
 ix. olde plated cases. 
 
 xvj. jackes. 
 
 Item a hale [^tent]. 
 
 Bowes of elme, xxij". 
 
 Bowes of ewe, one. 
 
 [Fo. 8 verso.] 
 The armerye benethe [cancelled]. 
 Hydes Chambre, 
 A beddesteade. 
 
 The Ewerye. 
 
 A beddesteade,^ ij. coverlettes, ij. blanketts, a mattresse, a 
 bolster. 
 
 [Fo. 9.] 
 The Parlour by the Buttrye. 
 A shippe coffer. 
 Two bourdes of two plankes. 
 Foure fourmes. 
 
 The Porter^s Lodge. 
 A beddestedde and a fourme. 
 
 The Buttrye. ' 
 xj. blacke lether jackes. 
 Foure olde lether bottles. 
 Two olde coffers. 
 Two binges [=bins] for bredde. 
 Two shorte bourdes. 
 xij. candlestiokes of fatten, 
 vij. lomes [=: vessels]. 
 An almerye [= aumbry]. 
 Two chippinge knyfes. 
 Two dozayne of trenchers. 
 
 [Fo. 9 verso.] 
 The Stable. 
 A. beddesteade. 
 
 ^ Added in another hand. 
 
481 
 
 The Oxehausse. 
 A Beddesteade. 
 
 [Fo. 10.] 
 [Other stuff gathered to gether and layed upp in the Dyninge 
 
 Chamhre.] 
 
 Eleven fetherbeddes and xj. bolsters, whereof fyve large and 
 fyve of a lesse sort, all of tycke, savinge one, and that is one 
 of the greatest sort and is of fustian. 
 
 Item a fyne quilte for the best bedde. 
 
 xiij. mattresses of canvas stuffed with floxe. 
 
 xvj. bolsters for the same, wherof foure of tycke stuffed with 
 fethers, one of canvas stuffed with fethers, and vij. of canvas 
 stuffed with floxe. 
 
 Twelve coverletts lyned, wherof one of fowles and byrdes 
 somewhat good, the resydewe be olde and moche worne. 
 
 A fayre coveringe of wilde beastes of Arreys worke unlyned. 
 
 Other coverletts olde and worne, unlyned, xxxiij. 
 
 Blanketts, xlviij. 
 
 A coveringe of canvas furred with greye coneye. 
 
 Pillowes, foure. 
 
 Carpettes for tables of tapestrye worke, olde and worne, 
 iiij. 
 
 Carpettes for coubbardes of lyke sort, fyve. 
 
 Two peaces for benches lyned, whereof one is of Arreies worke. 
 
 A stayned peace lyned to drawe before a wyndowe. 
 
 A tester for a bedde of greene buckeram and redde. 
 
 [Fo. 10 verso.] 
 The Dyninge Chamhre. 
 Eight peaces of olde Arreyes worke lyned, moche worne and 
 broken. 
 An olde clocke. 
 Two toumed stoles. 
 Two trussinge coffers 
 One chest. 
 A coubbarde. 
 Two longe tables. 
 Two payre of trestells. 
 ^Coossyans. 
 
 [Fo. 11.] 
 In the Kychen [and Larder Housse]. 
 
 Item a skeylet. 
 
 xvij. brasse pannes, olde and worne, wherof foure greate, 
 nyne brasse pottes, whereof foure greate, two of a lesse sort and 
 three smale. 
 
 Two chafers wherof one greate and th'other smale. 
 
 A greate boylinge potte of brasse, sett fast in stone. 
 
 A payre of rackes. 
 
 A payre of cobberdes [= sockets for the ends of spits to 
 
 revolve in]. 
 
 1 Added in another hand. 
 
 M31 
 
482 
 
 Three greate and longe square spyttes and one smale, one 
 greate longe rounde spitte, two of a lesse sort and a smale one. 
 
 A stone morter. 
 
 A greate grydyerne. 
 
 Three trevetts, wherof two three-square and the other 
 rounde. 
 
 Two chafing dysshes, olde and worne. 
 
 Two brazen morters, wherof one greate and the other of 
 a lesse sort. 
 
 Item a pestell to the sayde morters. 
 
 One other lyttell morter with pestell. 
 
 Syx garnysshe [=sets] of good pewter vessell', and in every 
 garnysshe xij. platters, xij. disshes, and xij. sawcers. 
 
 xxviij odde platters, whereof vj. verye fayre and the rest 
 of a worsse sort. 
 
 xxj. porringers, good and badde. 
 
 vj. fayre greate sawsers. 
 
 Foure newe chargers, and two olde. 
 
 xiiij platters verye olde, broken and bowed, of a lesse sorte. 
 
 xij disshes of a meane sorte. 
 
 xxij olde brosed [= bruised] and broken disshes. 
 
 Nj'ne sawsers, moche broken and bowed. 
 
 Two basons and an ewer, verye olde. 
 
 A cullander. 
 
 A lowe candlesticke of pewter with two socketts. 
 
 A greate dressinge knyfe. 
 
 [Fo. 11 verso.] 
 
 Two chopping knyves and a shredinge knife. 
 
 A fleshe axe. 
 
 vj. bourdes short and longe. 
 
 Two payre of pott hookes. 
 
 A skymmer. 
 
 Three olde bredde grates [= graters]. 
 
 A longe brandierne, olde and broken. 
 
 Fyve dryppinge pannes, olde and moche worne. 
 
 Two fryinge pannes, olde and worne. 
 
 Three kymmells and a close kytt. 
 
 Two bryne tubbes. 
 
 A cheze presse. 
 
 A hoggeshedde. 
 
 A verges [= verjuice] barrell. 
 
 vj. bourdes, longe and shorte. 
 
 A payre of mustarde quernes. 
 
 Two tallowe spades. 
 
 Two stampes of the water boudge for vessell. 
 
 A brande of the water boudge to marke cattell. 
 
 [Fo. 12.] 
 
 In the Backhousse [^^Bakehoiise]. 
 Two brewinge leades [= leaden vats], wherof one greate 
 and the other halfe so bigge. 
 
483 
 
 Nyne wort leddes. 
 
 Two fattes and two brode kymmells. 
 
 A knedinge troughe. 
 
 A mouldinge bourde. 
 
 One other bourde with a payre of standynge trestells. 
 
 A beddesteade of bourdes and a fourme. 
 
 A boultinge hutche and a smale fatte. 
 
 A lyttell kymmell. 
 
 Sir Robertes Chambre. 
 A newe fetherbedde. 
 A newe bolster. 
 Two mattresses. 
 A payre of blanketts. 
 Two coverletts. 
 A hiUinge lyned. 
 A coffer. 
 A cheyre. 
 
 {Fo. 12 verso.] 
 In the Chambre within that. 
 
 A trundell bedde. 
 A mattresse. 
 
 Two bolsters, wherof one of ticke stuffed with fethers, 
 and the other of canvas stuffed with floxe, olde and worne. 
 An olde coverlett. 
 
 The Armerye benethe. 
 
 xviij. payre of Ahnon [^Almain] ryvetts. 
 
 Fyftye payre of splentes for Almon ryvetts. 
 
 Foure hedde peaces for dymy lances. 
 
 One hamesse called "a payre of curetts " [=: cuirasses]. 
 
 Fortye and iij. salletts [= headpieces]. 
 
 A payre of briggendors [=brigandines]. 
 
 A jacke of white lynen clothe. 
 
 xvj. payre of olde blacke splyntes. 
 
 A payre of bumbardes, broken. 
 
 A payre of vambraces, [armour for the 1 ^^^ ^ dymylance. 
 
 forearm]. 
 Thirtene leade maulles [= mallets], 
 xiij. biUes. 
 
 vij. hobberdes [== halberds] 
 Three pollaxes. 
 
 Fyve han[d]gonnes, wherof one lacketh a stocke. 
 A lytle brass peace. 
 
 One home with purses for powder and pelletts[= bullets]. 
 An armynge barrell. 
 A pajrre of sheers to clippe plate. 
 A little hookestothye [= stithy, anvil], to ryvet upon. 
 A ryvitinge hammer and a fyle. 
 A payre of nyppers. 
 XX. peaces smale and greate of dyvers kyndes of hamesse. 
 
484 
 
 [Fo. 13.] 
 The New Stoore Housse. 
 Nyne barres of eyren, wherof fyve longe and iiij. shorte. 
 Twelve teames. 
 
 A payre of bridells for a sleade [= sledge]. 
 Tenne lannde^ yolkes. 
 Two coppe^ yolkes. 
 A weyne roope, olde and worne. 
 Two payre of weyne clyves*. 
 
 Fyve payre of ploughe clevis' having but foure boltes. 
 Foure lanndes^ for ploughes. 
 vj. pytcbe forkes. 
 Fyve coulters. 
 Foure olde shares, 
 viij. olde weyne fretts*. 
 
 Foure wymbles [-.= augers] greate and smale. 
 A framynge sawe. 
 
 An olde buckett with bandes of eyren. 
 XXXV sackes, olde and worne. 
 Foure olde wynnowe clothes. 
 A hooke for a feme [= windlass]. 
 Nyne myll peckes. 
 
 A sheepe brande with the waterboudge. 
 Three spades. 
 A longe rake for a stacke. 
 A shorte rake for the garden. 
 Two paringe ejrrens for the garden. 
 
 A greate peace of eyren with nyckes to make hammers for 
 the cole pitts. 
 
 [Fo. 13 verso.] 
 John Holies Chambre. 
 A mattresse. 
 A fetherbedde. 
 Two blanketts. 
 
 A bolster of ticke with f ethers. 
 Two course coverletts. 
 A course coveringe lyned. 
 A beddestedde of bourdes. 
 A trundell beddesteade. 
 A mattresse. 
 
 An olde little fetherbedde, moche woren and toren. 
 A bolster of ticke with f ethers. 
 Two blanketts. 
 
 1 Not in the New English Dictionary. ' Landes ' are mentioned by 
 Fitzherbert's Husbandry in 1523 as part of the harness of oxen or horses, in 
 a passage quoted in the former work, s.v. ' Bow, sb. 1,' § 5. According to the 
 English Dialect Dictionary ' land ' means the hook by which the swingle-tree 
 is attached to the yoke of a plough. Cf. also ' lantree,' ' lanes' in the same 
 dictionary. 
 
 2 The beam or pole of a plough or waggon. See New English Dictionary, 
 s.v. ' Cope, s6. 4.' 
 
 3 See New English Dictionary, s.v. ' Clevis.' 
 
 * Iron hoops for the naves of wheels. See New English Dictionary, s.v, 
 ' Fret, ab. 5.' 
 
485 
 
 Two olde coverletts. 
 
 Two cousshins. ' 
 
 A turned cheyre. 
 
 A coubbardeof bourdes. 
 
 A bourde and a payre of trestells. 
 
 An olde carpett. 
 
 A shorte fourme by the bedde. 
 
 A tester of dornix, moche woren and toren. 
 
 [Fo. 14.] 
 
 In the Chambre next to the Gate. 
 
 Two beddesteades. 
 A narowe bourde. 
 A payre of trestells. 
 A fourme. 
 
 In the next Chambre to hit towardes the Churche. 
 
 Two beddesteades of bourdes. 205 
 
 1551, October 22. — Inventory of the goods of Sir Ralph 
 Fame, knight, at Penshurst in Kent. 205 
 
 1580. — Inventory of household stuff at WoUaton. 205 
 
 1585, November 1. — Inventory of stuff remaining in Wol- 
 laton House. 205 
 
 1596. — ^Inventory of furniture at Wollaton. 205 
 
 1596, December 5. — Inventory of the bedding in the new 
 house at WoUaton, at the entry of Percival Willughbye, 
 esquire. 205 
 
 1596. — Inventory of the goods of Thomas Willughbie, 
 esquire, deceased, at Bore Place, in the parish of Chiddingston, 
 CO. Kent, taken on the 28 June by Percival WiUughbie, John 
 Adams, Christopher Rogers, WiUiam Gibson, and Laurence 
 Dyose, gent. Another made on 23 July. 205 
 
 1599. — Inventory of stuff left at Middleton. 205 
 
 1599. — Inventories of household stuff at Middleton and 
 
 Wollaton. 205 
 
 1601, October 8. — Full inventory of Wollaton furniture. 205 
 
 1609. — " An Inventory of aU the Household Stuff at the 
 Newe Hall at WoUerton, taken the xxiiij"' dale of September, 
 1609. 
 
 In the Great Chamber nexte the Garden. 
 
 Item ij. drawing tables. 
 
 Item ij. cubwardes. 
 
 Item j. forme. 
 
 Item j. gryne velfatt cushen. 
 
 Item a longe cushen of nydle worke. 
 
 Item one imbrodered cushen wjrthe crown and rose. 
 
 Item one imbrodered cheare. 
 
 Item a nydle work cheare with a covre of red buckerum. 
 
486 
 
 Item j. let her cheare. 
 Item ij. Turky stooles 
 Item iij. maxers^. 
 Item j. iorne gret. 
 Item a fyer shovell. 
 
 In the Prynce'a Chamber. 
 
 A pare a bellowes. 
 
 Item a fetterbed, a bolster, ij. pylloes, a mattres, a pere 
 of blankettes, a sylke quylte lyned with red sea [=say]. 
 
 Item y. sylk curtenes, red and yellowe. 
 
 The testorne [= tester] of the bed of red damask, with 
 gold lace, with armes imbrodered. 
 
 Item one cheere of blew velfedd and ij. stoles, a lesser and 
 a bigger, a blewe veHett cushen. 
 
 Item a cubword and a lytell square table, ij. blewe curtens, 
 j. maxre, one iorne grete. 
 
 [Page 4.] 
 
 In the Inner Chamber. 
 
 Item a fetterbed, a bolster, one blanked, a red rugg, a can- 
 noby of yellowe sylk. 
 
 In the Chamber nexte the Prynce's Chamber. 
 
 Item a fetter bed, a bolster, a pyllow, on blanket, on 
 coveringe, old. 
 
 Item fyve gryne sea curtenes, the testerne of the bed 
 gryne velfedd and red. 
 
 Item on cub ward, a joyne stole. 
 
 In the Quine's Chamber. 
 
 Item a fetter bed, a bolster, a pere of blankettes, a mattres, 
 a whyte woll quylte. 
 
 Item a yalloe sylk covering lyned with yaUowe sea. 
 Item V. yalloe sylke curtenes. 
 
 The bed testerne of red velfett and other yalloe stufE. 
 Item on blewe velfett cheare imbrodered, one cubward. 
 Item on iorne gret. 
 
 In the Chamber nexte the Quyne's Chamber. 
 
 Item a fetterbed, a bolster, a mattres, on olde coverlet and 
 a rugg, a halfE cannaby of domex, with three curtenes of 
 sea, blewe and yalloe. 
 
 Item vij, peces of dornex honging in the same chamber, 
 one lyteU Terky stole, and a joyne stole, 
 
 [Page 5.] 
 In the Inner Chamber next the Quyne^a Chamber. 
 Item a fetterbed, a bolster, one blankett. 
 
 1 Not in New English Dictionary, 
 
487 
 
 In the. Great Chamber next the Quyne's Chamber. 
 Item a longe table. 
 
 Item a short table, one cubward, one barfett stoUe. 
 Item ij. formes, the one forme his in the lobye. 
 Item viij. peces of hanginges. 
 
 At the Gallary Dore. 
 Item a table. 
 
 In the Oallary. 
 A table of stone with red buckerum. 
 Item on rownd table standing uppon a foote. 
 A cheare covered with red lether. 
 
 Item xxij. maxes and a armes [= coats of arms] in 
 glasse. 
 
 In the Gallary Chamber upon the Northe. 
 
 Item a fetter bed, a bolster, a pylloe, a blanket, a pyUoe, 
 a blankett, a yelloe rugg. 
 
 A testerne of whyt stuflF tuffett, with curtenes, a square 
 tapbjle, a joyne atoyle. 
 
 In the Gallary Chamber upon the Est. 
 
 Item one fetter bed, a lytell cubward, a pere of bellows, 
 a pere of snuffers, a fyre shoffell. 
 
 [Page 6.3 
 At the East Gallary doore. 
 Item a table and frame. 
 
 In the East Tyrett. 
 
 A fetter bed, a bolster, iij. pyUoes, a mattres, one blankett. 
 
 A quylte of yalloe stuff lyned with fustyon, v. curtenes of 
 greene and red sea, a testerne of whyte and blewe sack 
 clothe. 
 
 A square table and a joyne stole, a lytell lowe stolle covered 
 with lether. 
 
 One iorne creper^ 
 
 A pere of beUowes. 
 
 In the Chamber under the same Chamber. 
 
 A fetterbed, a bolster, a mattres, one blanket, one red 
 sylk quylte. 
 
 In the Northe Tyrett. 
 
 A fetter bed, a bolster, a green koveringe, a yellow and 
 red koveringe, a pece of old domex, a joyne stoole. 
 
 In the Soiothe Tower. 
 
 Item a fetter bed, a bolster, a mattres, one blankett, one 
 whyte quylt. 
 Item on square table. 
 Item one old chear. 
 
 1 A small andii-on or fire-dog. See New English Diet., s.v. 'creeper, 6.' 
 
488 
 
 VPage 7.] 
 In the Parler. 
 A greate table, ij. formes, a lesser drawing table, ij. cub- 
 wardes, a Ijrtell form. 
 
 Item a cheare of lether, one imbrodered cheare. 
 
 Item vij. Twrky stooles. 
 
 Item ij. joyne stoles. 
 
 Item iij. gryne carpettes, one pewter sesterne. 
 
 Item one skryne, a pere of bellowes, a pere of snuiiers. 
 
 Item one mappe. 
 
 Item a pere of tables. 
 
 Item on iorne grate. 
 
 In the Duke's Chamber. 
 Item a fetterbed, a bolster, a pere of pyUoes, a mattres, a 
 blankett, one wbyt rugg. 
 
 Item fyve sylke curtens whyt and gryne, a bed, testeme 
 with valenes of brougett^ stufEe, gryne and whyte. 
 
 Item old broken cheare of clothe o' sylver, on Turky cusshen, 
 one blewe curten, one joyne stole, one iorne grat«, a pere of 
 tonges. 
 
 In the Inner Chamber. 
 
 Item j. f ether bed, one bolster, one mattres, one blankett, 
 one yellow sylke quylte lyned with ftistyon, one iorne grate. 
 
 [Page 8.] 
 In the West Chamber next the Gates. 
 Item a fetter bed, a bolster, a blankett, a rugg of ashe 
 coUer. 
 
 Item a fyld bedd of a carnashion stu£Ee, tuffed. 
 Item a oubward. 
 
 Item a joyne stole, a cushen of nydleworke, a pere of 
 bellowes, tonges, and fyer shoveU. 
 
 In the Inner Chamber. 
 Item a fetter bed, a bolster, a blankett, one olde yalloe 
 quylt of stuff lyned with whyt fustion. 
 
 In the Pantry Chancer. 
 
 Item a fether bed, a bolster, a mattres, a blankett, a 
 coverlet, old, ij. old iorne bound chestes, on« lytell table 
 with a cubward in yt. 
 
 Item one lytell square table and a joyne stole. 
 
 In my Mr. Bed Chamber. 
 Item a fetterbed, a bolster, a pere of pylloes, iij. blankettes, 
 a whyte quylte, a checker rugg, old, a fyld bedd stanall 
 [=' stamel,' a coarse cloth] clothe frynged, with iij. curtenes 
 sutable to the same. 
 
 Itexn ij. wanskott chestes, a cubward, a lyttell table, a 
 truncke, a cheare covered with black lether, a joyne stolle, 
 a pere helloes, fyer shofEel and tonges, a pere of snuffers. 
 1 Cf. New English Dictionary, a.v. ' Brogetie.' 
 
489 
 
 [Page 9.] 
 In the Inner Chambir. 
 
 Item a fether bed, a bolster, on pylloe, a mattres, one 
 blankett, j. gryne sea quylte lyned with fustion, iij. curtenes 
 with yalloe and gryne sea, a standing bed of stamell clothe 
 with my Mr. his armes imbrodered. 
 
 Item an other fether bed and ij. bolsters in the same 
 chamber, a pere of blankettes. 
 
 Item a gryne sea quylte lyned with fustion. 
 
 Item an olde cannaby of stuffe. 
 
 Item in the same chamber an other fetter bed upon a 
 paUett, a bolster, a whyte blankett. 
 
 Item a blewe blankett. 
 
 Item ij. Turky stoles, a lyttell cheare covered with lether. 
 
 Item a cubward, a wanskott cheste. 
 
 Item j. iorne grate with ij. crepers,i one fyer shovell. 
 
 Item a iorne grate with ij. crepers.^ one fyer shovell. 
 
 In Mris. Shirles' [= Sirelley's] Chamber. 
 Item a fetter bed, a bolster, a blankett, a gryne rugg, a 
 whyte fustion blankett. 
 
 Item a standing bed of crymsone velfett with fyve red 
 sylke curtenes. 
 
 Item more uppon a pallett in the same chamber, a fetter 
 bed, a bolster, a blankett, an olde coveringe and other olde 
 coveriuge of sylke, all to pyces, ij. cubwardes, one chearo 
 covered with lether. 
 
 [Page 10.] 
 In Mris. Sturle's Chamber. 
 One creper of iorne. 
 
 Item a fyer shoveU, and a pere of tonges. 
 Item a blewe curten, a joyne stoole. 
 
 In the Inner Chamber. 
 Item ij. fetter beds, one bolster, a pere of pyllowes, ij. 
 blankettes, one old covering. 
 Item iorne grate. , 
 
 [Page 11.] 
 In the Wardroppe. 
 
 Imprimis vj. peces of hanginges, j. pece of dornex that 
 covers them. 
 
 Item vj. Turky carpettes. 
 
 Item ij. gryne carpettes. 
 
 Item one popyngay [=: parrot] gryne carpett, which my 
 Lade took to Mydelton. 
 
 Item one cubwart clothe of gryne. 
 
 Item a testeme for a bed of changable [= shot] stuffe, 
 lyned with yelloe buckrum. 
 
 1 See p. 487, note 1, above. 
 
490 
 
 Item sylke counterpane for a bed of blewe sylk, with yalloe 
 and blewe frynge. 
 
 Item iij. blewe sea [=say] curtenes. 
 
 Item iij. yelloe sea curtenes, a ljd;ell pece of red and yaloe 
 sy[l]k for a bedes head. 
 
 Item a cubwart cloth of nydle worke lyned with redd 
 buckarum. 
 
 Item ]'. cubwart cloth of nydle worke lyned wyth gryne 
 clothe. 
 
 Item on whyt quylte. 
 
 Item ij. old fetter bedes. 
 
 Item fustyon bed with downe in jt. 
 
 Item iiij. paces of blewe for carpettes or curtenes, old. 
 
 Item ij. old Turkye carpettes. 
 
 Item an old testerne for a bed of Arras. 
 
 [Page 12.] 
 
 In the Wardropp. 
 
 Item an old pece of clothe for a counter. 
 Item a pece of old hanging. 
 Item iiij. peces of domex for hanginges. 
 Item on old mattres. 
 Item old velfett sadle. 
 Item an old fether bed tyck. 
 Item a old bolster tyck. 
 Item V. instrewmentes with cases. 
 Item a tyUer boe^. 
 Item a whyt lute of bone. 
 Item a pryvy cote. 
 Item a casse of dagges [= pistols]. 
 Item a male of lether. 
 Item a truncke sadle. 
 Item a sylke stremer. 
 Item ij. long curten rodes. 
 Item short curten rodd. 
 
 Item a bar forme to hange pottes and thre thinges of iorn 
 to beare the barr upone. 
 Item on iorn pyck. 
 Item a iome gret and a fyer shoffeU. 
 A standing bedsted corded. 
 Item a drome and drom stickes. 
 
 Delivered to the Deary Hoiise. 
 
 Item one fetter bed, one bolster, one mattres, j. blankett, 
 ij. coveringes. 
 
 In Will. Sore's Chamber. 
 Item one mattres. 
 
 1 From the fact of the ' tyller boe ' being kept in the wardrobe, it would 
 seem to have been some species of bow for shooting. 
 
491 
 
 [Page 13.] 
 
 In the Cooke's Chamber. 
 
 Item a fetter bedd, a bolster. 
 
 Item a redd coverlett. 
 
 Item a flocke bed. 
 
 Item an old pece of kovering. 
 
 Item a pece of an old quilt, ragged and torne. 
 
 In the Porter's Lodg. 
 [tern a fetter bed, an old bolster, a pylloe, ij. olde blankettes. 
 Item auld quylte, an old truncke. 
 Item an old chear. 
 
 In Margete's Chamber. 
 An old mattres, a covering, a bolster. 
 
492 
 
 Papers and Accounts relating to Coal-Minbs and Iron- 
 Forges. 
 A great mass of accounts and other papers connected with 
 these two industries occupy Bin number 7, division 3, and 
 others occur in some of the numbered bundles. The number of 
 accounts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially 
 the latter, is very great. Some of the sixteenth century 
 accounts are noticed above with the Household accounts. 
 The papers here printed form an infinitesimal proportion of 
 the total mass. 
 
 1526. — Account of coal getting, from 13 February to 24 
 December, 17 Henry VIII., giving the quantity got by each 
 colUer week by week, in the following form : — 
 
 " L. Lambe satt xiii roke^ ) ^, , , 
 
 A roke soft of those | ^^^ ^'^ "^J^" '"^- 
 
 In hande ix roke j-viijs. ijd. 
 
 A roke soft of those. 
 
 Summa in the felde : vj roke and dim. 
 H. Shawe gatt xiiij roke 1 j,^^ j, ^j^ ^^ 
 dim. a roke soft of those J 
 In hand iiij roke and dim. 
 
 Item they (sic) gatt ij pyokeshaftes ] r^j^^ ^ ^. 
 a roke of colys J ^ •* 
 
 colys 
 Summa in the felde : iiij'^'' roke and dim. 
 dim. a roke soft of those. / 
 
 [The other names are R. Falowys, N. Yreland, James 
 
 Wylson, H. Ferneley, R. Lynwode, B. Yerle, J. Spede, G. 
 
 Hartyshorn, and J. Alyn, some of whom occur for part of 
 
 the time of the accoimt only.] 
 
 Summa totalis lihri : ccccxxviijZi. xiijs. xjcZ. oh. 
 
 Summa totaUs deductionis : xvZi. xjs. iijd." 205. 
 
 1548. — " The colpytt booke from the Natyvytie of our 
 Lorde in anno regni regis E. vj^K if°." 
 
 " Nota, before the raysyng ofE the price off the coles, 
 every rooke^ off harde cole was valewed at xviijd., and sjrth 
 that raysyng every rooke is praysed at ijs. Item every rooke 
 of softe cole was worth xijs. But now the softe cole goeth 
 with the harde cole without anye diversitie of price." It is 
 noted in the book that " the enhauncjmg off the price off coles, 
 that is to wete vjd. in every rooke, so that every rooke is ijs.," 
 began on 6 Apnl. These notes are in the handwriting of 
 George Medley. 
 
 The following note (also in Medley's hand) occurs at the 
 foot of the page containing the account for 23 August : — 
 " Memorandum, the xxvij'^ of Auguste in this weeke, anno 
 regni regis Edwardi Sexti 3, was Mr. Henrye WUloughbye 
 slayne at Norwyche by the rebells there.' 
 
 " Summa totalis hujus libri hoc anno recepta : iiij°xviijK. 
 xjjd." 205 
 
 1 See page 169, note 1, above. 
 
493 
 
 1548.— "The syngkyng booke from the Natyvitie of Our 
 Lorde in anno regni regis Edwardi Sexti secundo. [Weekly 
 accounts.] 
 
 January 19. " Paid to Pole and his feylows for 
 di^yyyng of a thyrle [= a shaft] in the newe leyvell, 
 by daytale, for iiij. dayes dim. [=half] .. . . iiijs. vjd!." 
 
 February 1. " Paid to Richarde Smaley and his 
 feylows in ernest of syngk5mg a pit, after iiijs. 
 the heghti iiijd." 
 
 March 2. " Paid to Smaley and one with hym 
 for ij. dayes at clevyng and makyng of pic-helves xvjd." 
 
 ,, ,, " Paid to the said Burton for thakyng 
 up the tymber in a depe shafte viijd." 
 
 March 16. "Paid to Smaley and his feylows 
 
 for a heght iiijs." 
 
 „ „ " Paid to John Lejrves, Edward 
 Deyne, John Bradbry, and James Tole, every one 
 of them iiij. days worke and dim. at syngkyng of 
 ij. bassett^ pitts vjd." 
 
 May 18. "Paid to Dicons and his feylows for 
 iij. heghtes and dim. in scoryng a olde pit.. .. xs. vjd." 
 
 June 8. " Paid to Smaley for a newe waloer^ iiijd." 
 
 June 15. " Paid to Smaley for shotyng [= 
 straightening ?] of a waloer ' iiijd." 
 
 June 28. " Paid to Burton, Baker, Nyxson, 
 and Hill, beyng dryven forth with the dampe of 
 ther pit, for a day worke at the heye way . . xvjd." 
 
 September 14. " Paid to Homfrey Burton and 
 iij. with hym for tymbryng and makyng the myne 
 in the tops of the pit benethe Hudson loge . . vijs. iiijd." 
 
 September 28. " Paid to Faullows and ij. with 
 hym for v. dayes and dim. and Henry Richardes 
 iij. dayes and dim. at brekyng of the bothom and 
 
 tymbryng of the nether myne vjs. viijd." 
 
 „ ,, " Paid to Tomlyn for xij. lodes 
 of puncions caryeng vjs. vjd." 
 
 December 24. " Paid to the pit ryves [= reeves] 
 in parte of recompence for ther paynes for gyeyng 
 [^directing] the workes xs." 
 
 [The account for the purchase of tallow and charges in 
 connexion therewith amounts to 18Z. lis. 6d., exclusive of 
 the cost of making the candles.] 205 
 
 1548-9.—" The colpitt booke of Bylbrough Closse, the ij<ie 
 yere of Edward the vj"^." Payments "for turnyng water in 
 the Closse and other incidental expenses and to colliers for 
 coal getting. 205 
 
 1 This use of ' height ' is not recorded in the New English Dictionary. 
 
 2 An outcrop. See New English Dictionary, s.v. 'Basset, sb, 3.' 
 
 3 A wheel fixed at the head of a shaft in order to revolve (A-S. ivealwian, 
 to turn) it 1 Cf. wallow-wheel in English Dialect Diet. 
 
494 
 
 1550-1. — "The synkyng booke from the Nativitie of Oure 
 Lorde in anno regni regis Edwardi Sexti quarto " for one year, 
 
 205. 
 
 1553-4.— Sinking Book from Nativity, 7 Edward VI. for 
 one year. 
 
 205. 
 
 1552-3.— Coalpit book from Nativity, 6 Edward VI. for 
 
 one year. 
 
 205. 
 
 1555. — " The boke of charges in synckjTig and certeyn 
 deductions in the Holowes at BUbrow Closes," from 18 May, 
 1 and 2 Philip and Mary, to 13 December. 205. 
 
 1554. — " The synkjmge booke " from the Nativity, 1 Mary, 
 to Saturday before New Year's Day. 205. 
 
 1558. — John Hudson's book of receipts of coal money 
 from 19 March, 4 and 5 Philip and Mary. 205 
 
 1571, December 6. — Letter from John Tyroe to Francis 
 WiLLOTJGHBY regarding the manufacture of iron. 
 
 " Yt mays please youre wurshyppe to understande 
 
 I have spoken with the yron-men abowt Walsall, [of] whom 
 I have knowledge, of the prices of ther tra[de] ... as fol- 
 loweth : 
 
 Fyrst ther stonne is worth at the [pytte] ready gotten iiijs. 
 every lode ; from the pytte to Myddleton is . . . myles, 
 every lode caredge wyll cost iijs. or ther abowt ; every lode 
 of stonne wyll make a blome ; the blomer wyll have for every 
 blome xv]d. ; the blome is made in xij. howres. Then the 
 brander wyll have for every brand v]d. Every blome makes 
 ij. brandes, which wyllbe wroght in iiij. howres ; viij. blomes 
 wyll make a tunne of yron, and then ther is allowed to the 
 burnynge of every tunne viij. lode of coles, which is valued 
 every lode at vjs. yu]d. ; and every tunne of yron is worth 
 when it is branded vijK. or ther abowt. These chargis are 
 certayne, bysydes other for common worke men, as nede 
 shall requyre. For the takyng or purchasynge of anygrownd 
 where the stone is gotten, it is very hard to come by, for it is 
 dayly layed for by my Lord Paget, and hath benne longe, 
 but he cann neyther take nor purchase, as I am credebly 
 informyd by honest men. Thus muche I dyd learne uppon 
 Satterdaye last by very honest men, who were in hand with 
 me very earnestly to buy wood for the same purpose, and 
 gladly wold bestow a hundreth powndes or more yf yt maye 
 please youre wurshippe to consyder hereof. It is thowght 
 bye them that have travayled longe in the aforsayd trayde that 
 youre wooddes wyllbe better sold, and more gayne to you, 
 then yf you shuld sett uppe smythis, considerynge the great 
 charge and trobble that doth belonge unto them. And further 
 
495 
 
 the saye yf you shuld set them uppe, youre woodd.es wold not 
 serve you iiij. yere, and your woodde beynge gone, there is 
 not any leafte in the cowntrey to be bowght, except it be 
 Drayton lordshyppe. 
 
 From Myddleton, the vj. of December, 1571. 
 By youre obedyent servaunt, 
 
 John Tyror. 
 
 [Endorsed :] — To the ryght worshypfull and his synguler 
 good mr., Mr. Francis Wyllughby, esquyer, at Nottingham, 
 geve these with spede." 165 
 
 1572. — ^Account of coal-getting at Bilborough Hollows 
 [CO. Notts]. 
 
 1572. — Account of coal-getting at Collorton. 
 
 1572-3.—" The synkinge booke of the Collpittes at WoUaton," 
 15 Elizabeth. 
 
 1573. — " Notes concerninge the colemine at Wollaton, 
 1573," endorsed " Speede's note," being a report upon the 
 working of the mine. 
 
 1574-5. — Bundle of accounts of coal-getting at Bedworth 
 CO. Stafford, Halesowen [co. Worcester], and Wolverhampton. 
 
 [c. 1590.] — Notes in handwriting of Sir Francis Willoughby 
 regarding the manufacture of iron. 
 
 " 13 forges and furnisses in a parishe, vj"^ in comitate (sic). 
 
 Mr. Edward Littelton, of Pilleknoll, will bild a fornis if [he] 
 had any good vent and utterance for his sowes [of iron]. 
 
 To spend my owne stoane and to convert this mill to a 
 hammer mill. 
 
 Blacke brooke. Walke Mill. Robinson or above. 
 
 vj"^ tonne in sowes will mak iiij'''' tonne in barres. 
 Ixvjs. 8d. or Ixxvjs. viijd. carriage 125. : v]7. — to deliyver at 
 Walsall. 
 
 Sowe wayeth abowt xij.c. 
 
 V. loode of cooles and d[im.] will make a tonne of barre 
 iron [vjZi^.] for the finery and the hammer [Ixxvs^.], xxs. for 
 working. 
 
 For the five lood xd. and xxs. I shall receave vjZ. or more. 
 
 150 loode of cooles will make 100 tonne of iron. 
 
 To way every blome. Note that every blome should way 
 400 in waight, and being burned should way 300 waight. 
 
 Every xij. strike should holde owt xj. strike or x. and 
 d\im.'\ at the least when it is brought to the blome smithes. 
 
 '- In the margin with ' sumraa : 9. 15.' 
 
496 
 
 A shever of iron to make a punche for trying of iron stone 
 — iiij. part of a brune^ ijs. vjd. 
 
 X. blomes will make a tonne in barres, which is sold for 
 xiijK. 
 
 ij. dozen and halfe of coles at viijs. will make a tonne in barre 
 iron xxs. and for the wOrkemanshipp xiijs. m]d. : xxxiijs. 4d. 
 
 So I shall gaine in every tonne xxvjs. viijd 
 
 To send to John Martin of Walsall for iron stone. 
 
 To send to Mr. Skefington for v. or vj. loodes of stone, 
 xijd. stoane xxd. getting, Era. Watt his tenant : ijs. Yiijd. 
 iijs. iu]d. : Summa vjs. 
 
 Lord Pagett has ij. furnisses and ij. hammers in Kanke 
 [= Cannock] Wood and one in Bramley." 165 
 
 1591. " The accompt betwene Sir Frauncis WiUughbye and 
 Lawrence Loggyn towching the iron mayde in DufEeild workes 
 by the space of one half yere. 
 
 Item mayde in the sayd workes betwixt the xxj. \ of barr 
 of Februarye and the xxj. of August, beinge halfe | iron 
 a year as is aforesayde ! 50 tons. 
 
 Which soulde after xi]l. the tonn aryseth to . . 600K. 
 
 Whearof dew to Mr. Souch by deduccion of six 
 poundes fyvetene shiUinges uppon everye tonn . . 337Z. 10 
 
 For Sir Frauncis his halfe year's clear prof5rtt. . 1251. 
 
 The workemen's wages, viz., the fyner and ham- 
 merman for working up the said 50 tonns of barr 
 iron, at 16s. the ton 040 
 
 The founder for casting of 75 tonns of rough 
 iron which mayde the sayd 50 ton of barr iron, and 
 casting that by 5 tons 15c. wekeleye, he is to be 
 answered for 13 weekes, which comyth to . . . . 013 
 
 Summa 515 10 
 
 Which 5151. 10s. being deducted from the sayd 600Z., ther 
 remayneth overplus 084?. 10s. 
 
 Noate, the fornace blew 18 weekes, in which she cast 105 
 tons, which devided into equall partes she cast 5 tons 15c. 
 weeklye, soe cast in 13 weekes 75 tonn, whearof the 50 tons 
 of bar iron should have bene mayde. 
 
 Memorandum, it was concluded betwene Sir Frauncis and 
 Mr. Souch at Lammas last that betwene then and the 21 of 
 February aforesayd was wrought upp in barr iron 44 tons, 
 and after betwene Lammas and the 21 of August wear 
 wrought upp 6 tons, soe that by that order in the compas of 
 halfe a year wear mayd the sayd 50 tuns in question. 
 
 Memorandum, that iron hath been mayde at the sayd workes 
 after the xxj. of August, Ryse his booke maketh mencion what 
 Loggyn's further allowance should be." 
 
 Endorsed by Sir Francis Willoughby : Loggin's account for 
 Mr. Zowches workes abowt Codner, 1591. 165 
 
 1 Query meaning. 
 
497 
 
 1591. — Estimate of the weekly charges for the iron-mills 
 at Codner [Codnor, co. Derby] between Mayday and Michael- 
 mas, amounting to 783Z., being 14^ dozen of stone for the 
 two furnaces ; 4?. 7s. Od. weekly for getting and carriage ; for 
 coal to be brought to the furnaces 43 dozen a week; lOZ. 15s. Qd. 
 weekly for cutting, " colinge," and carriage ; 30 loads of 
 coal weekly for the new forge 11. 10s. Od. weekly; four loads of 
 coal weekly for the Hartes Heye [Hartshay, parish of Ripley, 
 CO. Derby] forge 11. Os. Od.; carriage of "sowes" [i.e. pigs of 
 iron] weeMy II. Os. Od. ; charges for repairs weekly 135. id. ; Sir 
 Francis Willoughby's weekly charge for the founder, "fyners" 
 and "hambermen" [i.e. refiners and hammermen], 41. 4s. Od. 
 This provision wiU make 200 tuns of bar-iron yearly. 165 
 
 1590 to 1600, 1605 to 1608.— Weekly accounts of iron sales, 
 costs of manufacture, coal sales, etc., at Okemore [Oakamoor, 
 parishes of Alton, Cheadle and Kingsley], hired of the Countess 
 of Shrewsbury by Sir Francis Willoughby. 165 
 
 Papers Relating to the Cultivation of Wo ad, 
 
 Glass Making, Etc. 
 
 There are numerous papers connected with the attempts 
 of Sir Francis Willoughby to introduce the cultivation and 
 dressing of woad, and consequent endeavours to found a 
 dyeing industry, in co. Notts. The enterprises were not 
 successful, btit whether the failure was due to unavoidable 
 causes or to the dishonesty of the agents chosen by Sir Francis, 
 as he believed, is not obvious. 
 
 1584 to 1595. — Bundle of papers, letters, and accounts 
 relating to the growing of woad at WoUaton, the working of 
 the dye-house there, etc. 165 
 
 1586. — " The booke of charges for the weedinge, cuttinge, 
 and making up of oade [i.e. woad], anno 1586, June the 12th, 
 with other charges thereunto belonging." Other accounts 
 from 1584 to 1591, 165 
 
 1586, April. — MS. treatise by Robert Payne on the pre- 
 paration of woad. The preface contains the following : 
 
 " If thy modestie (gentle reader) do not dispence with my 
 rashnes in this my simple worke, thou wilt condempne the 
 thinge I intreat on, whiche is the true makinge of woade .... 
 
 ' ' The quantitie of fortie acres will kepe in worke one 
 hundered and sixtie persons, the most women and children." 
 [Details as to their wages.] 
 
 M33 
 
498 
 
 " Thus humblie craveinge thee 
 
 to consider the necessitie of the cause 
 
 amonge the poore distressed people 
 
 and take in good parte this my 
 
 simple worke, I bid thee 
 
 farewell in Ohriste. 
 
 From Paynes 
 
 Ende this^ 
 dale of ApreU 
 
 1586." 165 
 
 1589, 4 April, Leeds. — Letter from Randall Tenche, dyer and 
 clothier, to Mr. Paine, servant of Sir Francis Willaby, knight, 
 at Wollerton. Referring to their conversation on the way 
 from Newark-on-Trent, when it was proposed that Tenche 
 should undertake the working of Sir Francis Willoughby's 
 woad, and the spinning, dyeing, and working of Arres work 
 of all sorts, which he is emboldened to do, more especially as 
 he has found out a workman or two that wiU join with him 
 or be under him, who will work any work that shall be set 
 out unto them by a painter in colours, and to work the same 
 either in woollen yarn, being fine and small, or in crueles or 
 in silk, or in silver or gold, or altogether. For proof hereof, 
 Tenche will come over and speak with Sir Francis, and Sir 
 Francis shall draw a little parpet or cushion in what colour 
 that shall be thought fittest for the same, and Tenche will 
 work it before putting Sir Francis to cost or trouble. 
 Tenche will require 501. yearly, finding himself meat, drink 
 and apparel, and ordinary wages for his " famile " for such 
 work as they shall do for Sir Francis, and the two men who 
 shall be " head " in working the Arrese work must have 6s. 8d. 
 each weekl}^, finding themselves in meat, drink and apparel, 
 and for others such wages as shall be thought fit by Paine. 165 
 
 [1585-6.] — [Copy of] certificate signed by William Scott, 
 Mayor of Nottingham, John Gregorie, John Browne, William 
 Gelstrop, Peter Clarke, Fabyan Mellers, Aldermen and Justices 
 of the Peace of the same, and by Sir Thomas Manners and 
 Sir Jervis Clifton, testifying to the Lords of the Council, in 
 accordance with their letters, that the subscribers, " not 
 havinge used the sowinge of woade, have enquired concerning 
 the sowing of the same throughout the County of Notting- 
 ham, and that they only find that Ralf Worthington and 
 Robert Payne have sowed 40 acres with woade in the parish 
 of Wollaton, which land before the breaking up thereof was 
 only employed for sheepe and connyes. The place is far 
 from any clothing townes, and near no market town but 
 Nottingham, which is verrye populus and not any trade to 
 sett the poore on worke. And moreover there ar divers townes 
 nere therunto ireplenyshed with many poore people having 
 no trade to gett theyr lyvinge, a greate parte of which to 
 
 1 The day of the month has not been filled in, 
 
'499 
 
 the number of iiii.c. at the least have byn by the sayde R.W. 
 and R. P. kept in worke, and the sayde Ralf and Robert doe 
 undertake to contynnewe the sayde nomber of poore at 
 worke duryng the wynter with converting of woolle into garsey 
 yarne for divers uses." The subscribers therefore pray that 
 the Lords of the Council will grant permission for the said Ralf 
 and Robert to continue the same, notwithstanding Her 
 Majesty's proclamation for the restraint of sowing of woad. 
 A copy of the letter of the Lords of the Council, dated 
 February 22, 1585-6, ordering the above enquiry is also 
 given. 165 
 
 1589. — Letters and papers concerning Sir Francis Wil- 
 loughby's projects for dyeing, with the assistance of Randall 
 Tenche, dyer and clothier, of Leeds. 165 
 
 Answer of Sir Francis Willoughby to the bill of complaint 
 of Ralph Worthington regarding a joint bond from which 
 Worthington had released Robert Payne without the know- 
 ledge of Sir Francis, in which the latter states that Payne 
 had " cozened " him out of great sums of money. 165 
 
 Evidence of servants and others as to peculation and other 
 unjust dealings by Payne. 165 
 
 Proposal [of Robert Payn] to take Thorlon [i.e. Thurland] 
 House [in Nottingham], divers of the principal rooms excepted, 
 and other lands, etc., and to give for the " oade " [i.e. woad] 
 now at WoUerton [Wollaton] after Michaelmas next 351. yearly 
 of land, and an office of 201. a year above all charges for 
 nineteen years to come, so that he may redeem the same 
 within ten years for 500?. All which with his part at Wol- 
 lerton he would put in stock to be employed upon " molting," 
 clothing, dyeing, and " jarnsey " [i.e. Jersey], by means 
 whereof four hundred persons may be set on work continu- 
 ously out of woad-time, on condition that [Sir Francis Wil- 
 loughby] put in the like stock. In consideration thereof and 
 of the " commodities " [Thurland Hall, etc.] above recited, 
 he will yield after this year either 2001. yearly or half the 
 profit at his [Sir Francis Willoughby's] option. 165 
 
 1591-2, February 29.— Copy of letter from the inhabitants 
 of Wicomb, Bucks, concerning the evil practices and bad 
 character of Robert Payne while resident there. 
 
 Other testimonies to like effect, papers relating to suits 
 growing out of the project, in one of which Sir Francis 
 Willoughby alleges that Payne had cozened him out of vast 
 sums of money by pretending great skill in the planting of 
 woad. 165 
 
 1617. — Bundle of papers relating to glasshouses at 
 Wollaton, including : 
 
 " The heads of the agreement of a bargaine betweene 
 Grymballd Pauncefote and Palemon Nicholson, concerninge 
 
500 
 
 the erectinge of a glasshouse at Auswortliei to be perfected 
 att better leasure, July 23, 1617," the glasshouse and 
 furnace to be erected near the coalpits. 
 
 " A plott [= plan] for the glasse house, July 30, 1615, 
 Jhon Smythson." 
 
 " Glasse mesared at the Newe Haulle [at Wollaton], the 
 xxth of November, 1587." 
 
 1617, May 3.— Certificate of Robert Fosbr[oke] that "there 
 rem[aineth] dew to Sir Percivall Willoughbye from Wollaton 
 Glasshowse from bothe fornesses att this day, computatis 
 compufandis, the just some of 112.: 15.: 3." 
 
 1615, December 8. — Articles of agreement to be concluded 
 between Sir Percival WiUoughby and Sir Robert Mansell, 
 knight, whereby Sir Percival demises to Sir Robert for seven 
 years at a rent of 26?. 13s. 4d. a great barn in WoUerton, with 
 a dwelling house and garden adjoining in the occupation of 
 Jacob Henzey and John Squire, glassmakers, and certain other 
 buildings formerly used for malting. Sir Percival covenants 
 to deliver at the barn as much coal as the assigns or workmen 
 of Sir Robert shall have cause to use in two glassworks lately 
 erected in the said barn. 
 
 Statement of Mr. Pauncefot of the weekly charges of the 
 two glass furnaces (one for " broadglasse," the other for 
 " greene glasse "), and proposal, if Sir Percival will take 
 the works and workmen into his own hands (" which he may 
 best by reason most of all the provisions are his owne "), 
 to take all the glass, the broad at 155. per case, the green at 
 20 per dozen, and to pay him lOZ. weekly, and " cleere with 
 him for all once every quarter." " And if this course be not 
 acceptable, nor the weekly charge can be drawn into this 
 proporcion, for my parte (I soe well understand my owne 
 business) that I will not adventure any longer undertaking." 
 
 A paper entitled " observacions for glasse," [by Robert 
 Fosbroke], noting that a case is a horse-load, which, at the 
 rate of 200 weight to a horse-load, is a tenth of a tun. 
 " Wiche^ asse [^ ash], beanestraw asse and greene fearne 
 asse are all good, and are about viijrf. the strike. Peas-straw 
 asse and gorse asse are nott so good. Dry feme asse is nott 
 good. Two good workmen will make 16 or 18 case of glasse 
 weekeHe. For the nomber of coales and quantite of asse, 
 they must be proporcioned according to the bignes of the 
 forness. Broad glass spendeth bothe more coales and asse, 
 quantitie for quantitie, then drinking glasse dothe. The 
 
 1 A Glass Houseyard at Awsworth (near the site of the railway station) 
 appears on the old Ordnance map. 
 
 2 The witch-elm or the witch-hazel. 
 
501 
 
 forness for drinking glasse spendeth above 20 strikes of asse 
 weeklie, and about 10 or 11 loades of coales. 
 
 " Particular rates of some partes of this busines meet for 
 your worship's understanding. 
 
 For everie rooke of coales 5 6 
 
 For asse of everie sorte a strike . . . . 4 
 For cariadg from your Lordship to 
 
 Bridges^ a ton ". 040 
 
 For water cariadg to Hull a ton , . . . 7 6 
 For howsroome att Bridges for a tun 
 
 and wharfage 00 6 
 
 For the clarke's wages yerelie 20 
 
 For sand a strike 00 2 
 
 " For their complement of asse enoughe wilbe had with 
 sufficient gaine at the former rate. The making of 800 tun- 
 of glasse yerelie will spend above 60 tun of coales weeklie. 
 The fornesses will cost about 20li. a piece, butt 
 you are to proporcion your rent according to the grownd 
 where they are sett, for all that grownd wilbe as wast." 
 There is added " A conjecturall ayming att the proffitt and 
 charge of glasse making," showing that a single furnace may 
 well make 80 tuns of glass yearly, which, at 16s. a case, that 
 is 81. a tun, is 64,01. The costs are rent of furniss lOl. ; 
 wages of five men, 100?. ; ash, 501. ; coals, 1251. ; sand, 
 61. 13s. 4rf. ; carriage to London, 801. ; total, 4:711. 13s. 4^. {sic)." 
 
 165 
 
 1690, May 7. — Grant during pleasure from Peregrine, earl 
 of Danby, by virtue of his office of steward, keeper and 
 warden of the forest of Sherwood and the park of Full wood, co. 
 Nottingham, which was granted to him by the king and queen 
 by letters patent, to Sir Thomas Willughby, of WoUaton, 
 Baronet, of the office of chief-forester and keeper of the office 
 and walk of Langton Arbor Office or Walk in the said forest, 
 and of all fees, profits and commodities belonging to the 
 said office. 24 (390) 
 
 1690, May 24. — Licence from WiUiam, earl of Kingston-upon- 
 HuU, etc.. Lord Lieutenant and Gustos Eotulorum of co. 
 Nottingham, Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of co. York, 
 and Chief Justice and Justice in Eyre of all their Majesties' 
 forests, chaces, parks and warrens on the north side of Trent, 
 to Sir Thomas WiUughby, of WoUaton, Bart., to hunt and 
 hawk with his company and service and to take all manner 
 of beasts or fowls of forest, chace or warren within the 
 limits of the forest of Sherwood, co. Nottingham, red and 
 fallow deer only excepted, and also to fish in the public waters 
 and [to] fowl within the forest, and to keep and use all sorts 
 
 1 The Trent Bridges at Nottingham. 
 
502 
 
 of dogs, guns and nets for that purpose without incurring any 
 pain, fine or forfeiture or other damage by reason of the 
 forest laws, upon condition that he shall always acquaint the 
 keeper of the walk where he intends to hunt, hawk or fish, 
 provided that he use this licence with that moderation which 
 is fitting. Further, the earl, relying very much upon the 
 great care and prudence of Sir Thomas, for the preservation 
 of the game within the said forest, grants to him or to any 
 other sufficient person, whom he shall appoint under his hand 
 and seal and for whom he will be answerable, full power and 
 authority to seize, take and carry away all such guns, dogs, 
 nets or other engines that any person may have or keep 
 within the forest for the destruction of any of the game. 
 
 24 (390) 
 
 1703, July 5. — (Copy of) opinion of Sir Simon Harcourt 
 addressed to Sidney, Lord Godolphin, Lord High Treasurer, 
 setting out that he has, in accordance with his Lordship's 
 commands, signified to him by Mr. Lowndes on 22 June, con- 
 sidered the petition of Sir Thomas Willoughby, Bart., and the 
 report of Mr. Surveyor-General, hereunto annexed, and has 
 perused the letters patent therein mentioned bearing date the 
 26 September, 10 Edward I. [sic for III.], whereby the 
 bailiwick of the honour of Peverell in cos. Nottingham and 
 Derby was granted to William Eland and his heirs [see page 
 93, above], which office, on 31 May, 38 Henry VIII., was 
 granted by Hugh Revell to Henry Willoughby, esquire, and 
 his heirs. What the petitioner and his ancestors have enjoyed 
 by virtue of the general words of the letters patent of 
 Edward I. appears to Sir Simon to be no otherwise than by 
 the report of Mr. Surveyor-General. A long and an uninter- 
 rupted enjoyment is a great evidence of a right, but he does 
 not conceive that the petitioner can claim waifs, estrays, felons' 
 goods, mines, quarries, heriots, etc., within the said honour 
 by virtue of the said letters patent. 
 
 The petitioner praying a grant from Her Majesty, he is 
 humbly of opinion that she may, if she please, grant to him 
 and his heirs, or for such other interest as shall be thought 
 fit, upon surrender of the letters patent of Charles II. 
 mentioned in Mr. Surveyor-General's report, or to commence 
 from the determination thereof, all waifs, estrays, heriots, 
 goods of felons and fugitives and other casual profits arising 
 within the honour, and also the office of High Steward of the 
 honour, notwithstanding the statute made in the first year 
 of the reign for the better support of the queen's household 
 and of the honour and dignity of the crown. But mines of 
 coal and iron and quarries of stone are inheritances of such 
 a nature as cannot be granted by the crown in any other 
 manner than according to the said Act of Parliament. 
 
 42 (390) 
 
503 
 
 1706, June 22. — Letters patent of Queen Anne granting to 
 Sir Thomas Willoughby, Bart., "in consideration of his good 
 services," and " in regard the oifice hereinafter mentioned is only 
 honorary and has been long enjoyed by his family," and to his 
 heirs of the office high steward of the honour of Peverell 
 in the counties of Nottingham and Derby, and of all the 
 manors, lordships, lands and hereditaments belonging to the 
 said honour, together with all rights, authorities, perquisites, 
 liberties, privileges, profits and advantages of the said, office, 
 "in free and common scuage," rendering therefor a peppercorn 
 at Michaelmas yearly. 
 
 Notice of enrolment in the office of the queen's auditors for 
 the said counties, on 6 July, 1706. 24 (390) 
 
504 
 
 Extracts feom Collections of Cassandra Willotjghby, 
 
 1702. 
 
 Cassandra Willoughby, daughter of Francis Willoughby, 
 the natural philosopher, sister of Thomas, first Lord 
 Mddleton, and the second wife of James Brydges, the first 
 Duke of Chandos, compiled a history of the Willoughbys of 
 WoUaton. One volume only is preserved at WoUaton. It 
 is a small quarto volume of paper bound in calf. It is 
 entitled " An Account of the Willughby's of WoUaton, taken 
 out of the Pedigree, old Letters, and old Books of Accounts, 
 in my Brother Sir Thomas Willoughby's study, Dec, a.d. 1702, 
 by Cass[andra] Willoughby." At pp. 506 bis, 507, she vouches 
 the authority of " my father in a manuscript of his which 
 gives an account of some antiquities of our Family." This 
 is the book described at p. 269 above. Hardly any of the 
 great number of the letters quoted or cited by Cassandra 
 have been found. As they are of a private and not of legal 
 nature, it would seem that they were not deposited in the 
 muniment room when it was arranged (in the latter part of 
 the eighteenth century ?), and they have in consequence 
 become scattered or have been destroyed. Several of them 
 were already in bad condition in Cassandra's time, as she 
 remarks. The letters of John Ray and other scholars to 
 Francis Willoughby supplied by Cassandra (who then bore 
 the title of Countess of Carnarvon) to William Derham for 
 his Philosophical Letters between the late Mr. Ray and several 
 of his Ingenious Correspondents, Natives and Foreigners, to 
 luhich are added those of Francis Willughby, Esquire, London, 
 1718, have also disappeared. There is little justification for 
 distinguishing the Willoughbys of Willoughby-on-the-Wolds 
 and WoUaton from the Willoughbys d'Eresby by writing 
 the name of the former Willughby, as indeed, she admits 
 (p. 543 below). 
 
 The book commences with an account of the family of 
 Willoughby of Willoughby on the Wolds, beginning with (1) 
 William^ " who lived in the reign of Edward the First. I 
 don't find who he married, nor any account of him but that 
 he dyed before An. D. 1314." Of his son (2) Sir Richard 
 Willoughby, " Chief Justice," who " was a very great advancer 
 of his family," she states that " I find no account who he 
 married." The Chief Justice's son (3) Richard Willoughby, ^ 
 Knt., married Isabel, daughter and heiress of Roger Morteyn, 
 Knt., lord of Dunnesby [co. Lincoln]. " This Lady brought 
 to Sir Richard Willughby the town of Cossale [co. Notts.] 
 and some land in WoUaton. The time of his death is not 
 
 1- Richard de Willoughby was the son of Richard Bugge of Willoughby on 
 the Wolds. The mistake is derived from the famiily pedigree at Birdsall- 
 House drawn up in 1573. William de Willoughby has been taken from the 
 pedigree of the Willoughbys d'Eresby. 
 
 2 This was really the Chief Justice, his father having been only a justice 
 in Eyre. The pedigree in Thoroton, Antiquitiea of Notts, p. 221, difiers from 
 this. 
 
505 
 
 mentioned/ nor do I find that he had any child besides 
 (4) Sir Richard Willughby, his son and heir, who married Joane, 
 
 the daughter of Lord and Baron Grey of Rotherfield ; 
 
 by this lady he had five sons and two daughters. Richard 
 Willughby, the eldest son, married Matilda, the daughter 
 of Reginald, and sister of Sir John Grey. He dyed the 29th 
 of Edward the 3d, leaving no issue behind him. Thomas 
 Willughby, the second son, and Roger the third son, also 
 dyed without issue, so that the entail which Sir Richard 
 Willughby made of Riseley [Risley, co. Derby] and other 
 lands An. D. 1337 brought the inheritance to Hugh Wil- 
 lughby, a priest, the fourth son of Sir Richard, who not being 
 allowed to marry, kept a mistris called Joane of Riseley ; 
 by her he had a daughter named Felice, who married John 
 Armstrong of Thorpe, and a son called Hugh, who married 
 Joane, the daughter of Sir John Dabridgecourt. By this 
 lady he had a son called Hugh Willughby of Riseley, who 
 married Isabell, the daughter of Sir Gervase Chfton. This 
 Hugh WiUughby bore the arms of his mother viz. ermine, 
 three bars humett, as appears by his grave stone in Wilne 
 Church [co. Derby], where the arms of the Dabrigecourt's is 
 impaled with the Chfton's. From this Hugh are descended 
 the Willughbys of Riseley. His grandfather Hugh Willughby, 
 the priest, the 4th son of Sir Richard Willughby, dyed the 
 14th of Sept'. 1406. He was buried in the church at Wil- 
 lughby on the Wolde, where there is his effigie in stone with 
 a hawk upon his hand. Marjorie Willughby, Sir Richard's 
 eldest daughter, married Mallory ; Johanna, the second 
 daughter, married Bartram Monbouoher. 
 
 " The fifth and youngest son of this Sir Richard was (5) 
 Edmund WiUughby, knight, who inherited the most con- 
 siderable part of his father's estate. He married Alice, the 
 daughter of Roger SomerviU. He was above sixty years 
 old before his brother Hugh dyed. There is no account how 
 long he hved after, nor of his leaving any child besides 
 
 " (6) Edmund Willughby, his son and heir, of whom we 
 have no particular account, but that he married Isabella, 
 the daughter of Sir Hugh Annesley, knight, and that by this 
 lady he had a son that was his heir, viz. 
 
 " (7) Sir Hugh Willughby, who had two wives. The first 
 was Isabella, the daughter of — Folejambe ; she dyed 
 Anno D. 1417 and was buried at WiUughby on the Wolde : 
 by this lady Sir Hugh had a son, Richard Willughby, who 
 married Anne, one of the four daughters and co-heirs of Simon 
 Leek, of Gotham [co. Notts], esq. He [i.e. Richard] dyed 
 without issue Anno D. 1471, and lyes buried with his lady in 
 the church at WoUaton, where there is a stone monument 
 for them. Sir Hugh WiUughby 's second wife was Margaret, 
 the third daughter and only heir, says our pedigree,^ of 
 
 1 He died 14 March, 1362. See page 99 above. 
 
 2 The pedigree (see p. 504, note 1) has 'una herediim.' 
 
606 
 
 Baldvin Frevill, knight. This lady brought the mannour 
 of Middleton from the Frevills to the Willughbys, as also 
 the mannour of Whitnash, with lands in Willmecote and 
 the manor of Wikin near Coventry, and also other lands and 
 rents lying in Warwickshire, as also the mannours of Gunthorpe 
 and Loudham in Nottinghamshire, with Bradford Feme and 
 Mawne in Herefordshire. This I find by Dugdale's Antiquities 
 of Warwickshire to have been but the third part of the 
 Frevill's estate." [Account of descent of the other thirds.] 
 
 " My father in a manuscript of his which gives an account 
 of some antiquities of our family writes that ' Roger Marmion 
 (as appears by Battail Abbie Role) came into England \\dth 
 the Conquerour.' " [Account of his son Robert, derived from 
 Dugdale, Wanvickshire, p. 797, and of the Marmions of Tam- 
 worth down to Phihp, " Lord Marmion," in the time of 
 Henry III.] 
 
 " This Phihp Marmion left no heir male, and upon the 
 division of the estate amongst the co-heirs Middleton, Tam- 
 worth, etc. was alotted to Joane, the wife of Alexander 
 Frevile. This family of the Freviles are also famous in story. 
 Sir Baldwin Frevile, Avhos daughter married Sir Hugh 
 Willughby, was the grandson of this Alexander and Joane, 
 his wife, a man much esteemed by Edward the Black Prince 
 [etc. as in Dugdale, Warwickshire, pp. 819-20]. 
 
 " Sir Baldwin, his son, in the first of Richard the 2'* 
 exhibited his claim to be the king's champion on the day of 
 his coronation" [as in Dugdale, pp. 820-1]. 
 
 [Note that the Frevilles married the heiresses of the Mont- 
 forts, Rispeks {read Kilpeks), De la Plaunch of Bucks, Haver- 
 sham, Buttetort, and De la Zouch]. " In right of this match 
 with the Freviles the WiUughbys quarter these eight coats of 
 armes, as the pedigree of the family of the Willughbys 
 shews." 
 
 " The maniscript above mentioned of my father's gives 
 this account of the Montforts, viz. that Hugh the son of 
 Thurstanus de Bassenberg was with the Conquerour at the 
 Battle of Hastings." [Account of De Montforts especially of 
 Peter, slain at the Battle of Evesham, 1254, from Dugdale, 
 Warwickshire, p. 592 sqq.]. After the castle of Belldesert 
 [co. Warwick] and those large revenues came to this family, 
 they were called ' Domini et Barones de Belldesert,' just as 
 the German barons at this day are stiled upon their coine 
 ' Domini et Barones,' etc. These barons seem to have designed 
 a government hke that in Aragon, the very word, the great 
 justiciar, being often used in England about this time. 
 [Account of Peter Montfort, son of the aforesaid Peter, based 
 upon Dugdale, p. 595]. 
 
 " The pedigree of our family makes Simon Montfort, the 
 great generall of the Barons, to be the younger brother of 
 
 Peter de Montfort that was killed at Evesham 
 
 If he were not of the family of our Peter Montfort it is strange 
 
507 
 
 that Gunthorp and Loudam [co. Notts], two mannours granted 
 to Simon Montfort, earl of Leicester, and Elianor, his wife, 
 the king's sister, by Henry the S"* in the 43"^ year of his 
 reign, instead of 400Z. which the king was to allow them, and 
 afterwards forfeited to the crown, should again be granted to 
 Peter Montfort. But whither they were of the same family 
 or not, it is most certain that they were of the same principles, 
 and both of them very active in the Barons Wars.^ 
 
 " This account of the Marmions and the Montforts is almost 
 all taken out of my father's maniscript ; to which I shall add 
 the account that [Sir Richard] Baker gives of Simon Montfort 
 in his Chronicles of the Kings of England " 
 
 " After this long digression I must return to Sir Hugh 
 Willughby and Margaret, his lady, the third daughter and, 
 as our pedigree says, the only heir of Baldwin Frevill, knight. 
 By this lady Sir Hugh had four sons and seven daughters, of 
 which daughters Matilda, the eldest, married Thomas Hert- 
 well ; Aleonora, the second, married Sir John Shirley, knight ; 
 Jocosa married Richard Bracebrige of Kinsbury ; another 
 daughter married Hilton ; Isabella married Phihp Botteler, 
 esquire. The sixth daughter married Bosomby, and the 
 sfeventh daughter married Marmion. Of Sir Hugh Willughby's 
 sons Rodolphus and Thomas, both dyed without issue. From 
 Baldwin, the third son of Sir Hugh Willughby, are descended 
 the Willughbys of Grendon in Northamptonshire. Sir Hugh 
 Willughby's second lady buryed Sir Hugh, and after married 
 Sir Richard Bingham,^ knight, a judg ; they both lived 
 together at Middleton in Warwickshire, a seat which this lady 
 brought to the Willughbys." [Account of Bingham from 
 Dugdale, Warwickshire, p. 757.] " The time of Sir Hugh 
 Willughby's death is not mention'd, but I find that he was 
 buried at the church at Willughby, where there remeins 
 {sic) seven very old monuments of the Willughby's, the prints 
 of which may be seen in Thoroton's Antiquities of Notting- 
 hamshire, but time has much defaced the figures upon those 
 monuments and left the inscriptions of them not legible. 
 Sir Hugh Willughby's eldest son dying without issue, as is 
 before mentioned, his eldest son by his second wife was 
 
 " (8) Robert, the brother and heir of Richard Willughby. 
 This Robert I find in old writings called Willughby of Wol- 
 laton, and therefore I beheve he was the first of the family 
 that lived at Wollaton. He married Margaret, the daughter 
 of Sir John Griffith of Wichnor, in the county of Stafford, 
 knt. By this lady he had two sons and three daughters. 
 Jane, his eldest daughter, married Thomas Thurland, esq. ; 
 Alice, his second daughter, married Richard Curzon of 
 
 1 Francis Willoughby, p. 61, writes : '■ it is most certain they were of the 
 same mind, and both of them the greatest patriots of those times." At the 
 foot of the page he has written " Sic cecidit Angloram Brutus " (in reference 
 to Simon de Montfort). 
 
 2 Also a descendant of Ralph Bugge. 
 
508 
 
 Keydelston in Derbyshire ; Sanchia, his third daughter, 
 married John Strelley of Strelley, in Nottinghamshire, esq. 
 
 " Richard, the second son of Robert Willoughby, married 
 Anne, the daughter of the Lord Egremont. His eldest son 
 was 
 
 " (9) Henry Willughby of WoUaton, a person who at that 
 time made a great figure in England. He was made a ban- 
 neret^ at the battle of Stoke, about three miles of Newark in 
 Nottinghamshire. This battle was fought upon Satturday, 
 the 16th of June, in the 2nd year of Henry the 7th, Anno Do. 
 1487." [Account of Lambert Simnel and of the battle.] "In 
 the fourth of Henry the Seventh Sir Henry WiUughby was a 
 commissioner [for co. Warwick] for appointing archers to aid 
 the duke of Britain against the French." [Account of affairs 
 in Britanny and of Lord Morley's expedition into Flanders 
 and of his death at Dixmuyden.] " Sir Henry Willughby was 
 one of the officers of this action. Sir Henry Willughby was 
 also a knight of the Sepulcher. He was also one of those 
 that went into Spain with Thomas, Marquis of Dorset, in the 
 third of Henry the Eight[h], upon the intended expedition of 
 invading France.^ This Sir Henry WiUughby had four 
 wives : the first was Margaret, the daughter of Sir Robert 
 Markham, by her he had two sons and three daughters. 
 Jane, the eldest daughter, married Sir Wichardi [sic) Har- 
 bottell, knight. Dorothy, the second daughter, married 
 Anthony Pittzherbert^ of Derbyshire. Margaret, the third 
 daughter, married Sir John de la Zouch of Codnor, knight. 
 
 " Edward, his second son, continues the following history. 
 
 " Sir John Willughby, the eldest son of Sir Henry, married 
 Ann, the eldest daughter of Edward Grey, Viscount Lisle, 
 who was younger brother to Sir John Grey that was killed, 
 being on the king's side, in the battle which was faught at 
 St. Albans, An. Do. 1460." [Account of Wars of the Roses, and 
 of the meeting of Edward IV. with EUzabeth Woodville, 
 widow of the said Sir John Grey, and of their marriage, and 
 the rise of her family.] " Her son Sir Thomas Grey was created 
 Marquis of Dorset. Of him I must give an account hereafter, 
 and shall now return to the above named Edward Grey, 
 Viscount Lisle, who had two other daughters ; the second 
 was Elizabeth, who first married Edmund Dudley. Her 
 second husband was Arthur Plantaginet, naturall son of 
 King Edward the Fourth. His third daughter Muriel married 
 Henry Stafford, earl of Wiltshire. He had also one son, John, 
 who married Muriel, the daughter of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk. 
 This John left only one daughter, Elizabeth ; she was 
 designed to be married to Sir Charles Brandon, who therefore 
 in the 5th of Henry the 8th had the title of Viscount Lisle 
 granted to him and his heirs by that lady (see Dugdale). 
 
 1 See Gairdner, Pasion Letters, IIKM, vi. pp. 102, 1S7, Leland, ColUatanea, 
 ed. 2, iv. pp. 214-15. 
 
 2 See page 128, above. 
 
 3 The well-known legal author. 
 
509 
 
 But the lady not consenting when she came of age, that patent 
 was cancelled, and she after married Henry Courtney, earl 
 of Devonshire, and dyed without issue." [Account of Brandon's 
 four marriages.] 
 
 " I have been thus particular in my account of the Greys 
 here because the grandson of Sir Henry Willughby married 
 the daughter of that Thomas Grey, Marquis of Dorset, as must 
 be shewed hereafter. 
 
 " There are in my brother's library at WoUaton amongst 
 the old paperS^a great many acquittances for legacies and 
 annuities left by this Sir John Willughby, the eldest son of 
 Sir Henry (who died without issue), and amongst other old 
 letters there are three from King Henry the Eighth. The 
 exact copies of those letters are on the other side. 
 
 [1534-6 ?] April 7. — Henry VIII. to Sir John Willoughby. 
 
 " ' Henry R. [in facsimile]. 
 
 " ' Trusty and welbeloved, we grete you well. And for- 
 asmuch as we be enformed that the most pestilent idolatrous 
 enemy of aU truth, and usurpation of priests, the Bisshopp 
 of Rome, perceyving his most detestable doings to begin 
 now to appear to aU our good subjects, is fully minded in 
 his rage to seek all the ways to him possible to ruin and 
 spoile this our realme as heretofore he hath been accustomed, 
 and to invert the good religion of the same with the torment 
 and disherision of all our said subjects : we late you wit 
 that — entendinge to put the same our realm both by sea 
 and land in suche a-rediness as shall be necessary to 
 withstand his malicious purposes, which by aU meanes he 
 laboureth to cloke and colour, pretending only in words the 
 advancement of true religion withoute any the disturbanse of 
 our people, to the intent he maye blinde their simple and 
 honest eies and so the more easily compasse his moost cruell 
 and devyUishe enterprise — we have, amongs other our lovinge 
 subjects, appointed you to furnish unto us, to do us service 
 upon the sea, the number of twenty hable persons. And 
 therefore we will and desire that, immediatly upon the sight 
 hereof, ye will furnish unto us the said number, whereof as 
 many of them to be archers and gonners as ye can make, 
 well able to do us service as before. And the same to be in 
 a-rediness with habUiments meete for them upon an hour's 
 waminge, whensoever our right trusty and right welbUoved 
 cousin and counsailour, th' Erie of Somerset, our Admirall 
 of England, shall by his letters give you admonis[ijon or call 
 for the same. And in the meane tyme with all diligence to 
 make unto him your certificate of the same your nombre, 
 whereby ye shall deserve our harty thanks. 
 
 Yeven under our signet at our manour of Grenewich, the 
 vijtt day of Apriell. 
 
 To our trusty and welbiloved 
 
 Sir John Willoughby, knyght.' " 
 
510 
 
 1542, April 20. — Hbney VIII. to Sir John Willoughby. 
 " ' Henry R. [in facsimile]. 
 
 " ' Trustie and welbeloved, we grete you well, lating you 
 witt^ that, having a speceal truste and confidence in your 
 fidehtie, zeale, and obedience towarde us, wee have appointed 
 our right trusty and right welbeloved cousin and counsailour, 
 th' Erie of Rutland, on our behaulf, to open and declare 
 certaine things to you touching us and the wealthe^ and 
 suretie of this our realme ; requyring you not onelie to give 
 unto him perfite credence as to our self, but also to waye 
 and considre the same in suche sorte as youre conform5rtie 
 may declare youre love and obedience towarde us and answere 
 to the good opinion which we have concejrved of you 
 accordinglie. 
 
 Yeven under our signet at our manour of Grenewich, the 
 20th of Apreale, the SS"" year of our reigne. 
 
 To our trusty and welbeloved servant, 
 
 Sir John WyUoughby, knyght.' " 
 
 " With this letter there is another of instructions to Sir 
 John Willoughby and others about collecting a subsidie, 
 desireing them to gather it before it was due, having great 
 need for the garisons of BoUen, CalUs and Guisness. 
 
 1542, August 25. — Henry VIII. to Sir John Willoughby. 
 
 " 'Henry R. [in facsimile]. 
 
 " ' Trusty and welbeloved, we grete you well, lating you 
 wit that, sending at this time our right trustie and right 
 entirely welbeloved cousyn and counsailour, the Duke of 
 Norffolk, as our Lieuftennant to our bordures for amempst 
 Scotland for the defense and suertie of the same, [we] have 
 appointed you, among others, for his better furniture, 
 ymmediatly upon the sight hereof to put all such hable men 
 as ye can make and fumishe for the warre of your own 
 servants, tennants, and others, within any your rowmes 
 and offices, in such order and a-rediness as, aU delayes set 
 aparte, they may advance towards our said cousyn within 
 oon hower, whensoever he shall commande the same. And 
 to instruct you howe you shall furnish the said number of 
 men which you shall thus prepare and send unto our said 
 cousyn for the purpose aforesaide by vertue of this our 
 commandement, first, our pleasure ys that you shal make 
 as many horsemen as ye be hable in any wise to furnish, with 
 such horses as maye serve in the felde, if nede so required, 
 every horsman to have his spere or javelyn ; and the rest of 
 your numbre you shal order after this sorte folowing, the 
 fourth part thereof ye shal prepare of good archers, every 
 
 1 will, MS. 
 
 2 For " welfare " 7 
 
511 
 
 one furnished with a good bowe and a good full sheef of 
 arowes, the residewe to be bilmen, providing that every 
 bilman, besydes his sworde and dagger, bring a good bil on 
 his neck with him. Desiring and nevertheless commanding 
 you to take paines to see us diligently and substantially 
 served herein at this presente, as we trust you, and as ye 
 tender our honour and [the] defense of our realme and subjects. 
 And these our letters shalbe your sufficient warrant and 
 discharge in that behalf. 
 
 Yeven under our signet at our honour of Hampton Court, 
 the 25th of August, the 34th year of our reigne. 
 
 To our trusty and welbiloved servant, 
 
 Sir John Willoughby, knight.' " 
 
 " Sir Henry Willughby's second wife was Ehzabeth, the 
 daughter of Sir Thomas Abon (or Burgh), knight, the reUct 
 of the Lord Fitz-hugh. By this lady he had no child. His 
 third wife was Helena, the daughter and heiress of John 
 Egerton, esq. By this lady Sir Henry had one son and one 
 daughter. His son was Sir Hugh WiUughby, knight, that 
 famous navigator, who was frozen to dea.th Anno Do. 1553 
 upon the North Seas. This Sir Hugh married Jane, the 
 daughter of Sir Nicholas Streeley, knight ; by her he had one 
 son called Henry. Sir Henry Willughby's daughter that was 
 sister to Sir Hugh was Alice, who married Dreycot of 
 Peynsley in Staffordshire. 
 
 " Sir Henry Willoughby 's fourth wife was A — ,the daughter 
 of Walleys or Walters. By this lady Sir Henry had no children. 
 
 " There is a book^ which gives an account of cattle bought 
 and sold in the 8th year of Henry the 8th, and what was 
 killed for the use of the house from the 21th of September, 
 to the 2nd of November that year, viz. 
 
 Of Oxen and other beefs 29. 
 
 Calves 19. 
 
 Sheep 53. 
 
 Lambs 9. 
 
 Porkets 1. 
 
 " By the book of Houshold accounts for the year An. D. 
 1513, I find that 
 
 gees were then sold for ^d. a piece, 
 
 woodcocks for Id. „ 
 
 chickens for Id. ,, 
 
 lambs for Id. ,, 
 
 sheep for Is. Sd. ,, , 
 
 a cow and a calf for 18s. Od. „ 
 
 " Malmyse was then sold for Is. id. a gallon, 
 
 sack for Is. Od. ,, 
 
 claret for Os. 8d. ,, 
 
 oyle for 2s. Od. „ 
 
 1 See page 329 above. 
 
512 
 
 " There are in the library at WoUaton a great many 
 letters which were writ to this Sir Henry WiUughby the 
 Baneret ; amongst the most remarkable there was one from 
 King Henry the Eighth, all writ with his own hand, but so 
 mislaid that I could not find it to copy. 
 
 " There is another letter from the king to Sir Henry 
 WiUughby, etc., copied on the other side. 
 
 [1513 1], March 11.— Henry VIII. to Sib Henry 
 
 WiLLOTJGHBY SiR WiLLIAM MerING, and SiB WiLLIAM 
 
 Perpoint. 
 
 " 'Henry R. [in facsimile]. 
 
 " ' Trusty and welbeloved, we grete you well. And wheras 
 we — singulerly tendering a sure defence of this our realme 
 agenste the malignitie of ye Scottes and to represse them, 
 which, contrary to their othes and promise, have commensed 
 the warres agenste us in this our realme, as also specially 
 mynding to be in such arredines as we may aide and assist 
 our faithfuU friends, confederates, and allies with our power, 
 according to such treatyes of convencions as is passed and 
 concluded betwixt us and theyme — have now of late in truste 
 not only addressed our commission with instructions to you 
 and other of that our shire of Notyngham, as well for the 
 viewing, mostering, and putting our subjects in arredyness 
 with barneys^ and other habyliments for the warres, according 
 to the purport of our said commission and instructions, but 
 also to make due certificate unto us in writeing upon all and 
 singuler the poynts and articles conteigned in our said 
 instructions, you, groundely regarding and providently con- 
 sidering the great costs and charge that we in likelyhode shall 
 be enforced to sustayn and bear for maintenance and con- 
 tinuance of our armyes both by land and sea, and, over that, 
 by th'advise of our Counsel, dyvising the ways and means 
 how the said charge might be more easely borne and supported 
 by the aide of our faithful! and benevolent subjects, have 
 thought right expedient to have knowledge as well of the 
 extents and yearly revenues of such lands as be within the 
 precincts of that shire, and to whome the lands perticulerly 
 apperteyne, as also in value the estimation of the goods and 
 substances of all and singuler our subgietts, as well spirituaU 
 as temporall, resiant and inhabiting the same ; and for that 
 cause, remembring you to be our true and faithfull servants, 
 [have] thought right expedient to authorise you for that pur- 
 pose, willing and comanding you not only to give ferme 
 credence to our trusty and welbeloved servants Sir Henry 
 WiUughby, Sir William Meryng, and Sir William Perpoint, 
 knights, whom we have right amplie instructed of our minde 
 and pleasure to you by theyme to be declared, but also t'order 
 yourself after such forme and manner for the more assured 
 knowleige of the premiss[es] as they shall instruct you. Faile 
 
 1 harmeya, MS. 
 
513 
 
 ye not thus to doo as we singlerly trust you, and as ye tender 
 th'advancement of our honour and suertie, to be remembred 
 herafter according to your laudable acquitall and good 
 deserts. 
 
 Yeven under our signett at our manour of Grenewiche, 
 ye 11th day of Marche. 
 
 To our trusty and welbiloved 
 
 Sir Henry Willoughby, 
 
 Sir William Mertag and 
 
 Sir William Perpoint, knights.' " 
 
 " The copy of a letter by the Queen. 
 
 [1510-1528], March 22. — Letter under the signet of Queen 
 [Catherine] to Sie Henry Willoxtghby regarding a feoff- 
 ment made in his presence in the reign of Edward IV. 
 
 Trusty and right welbiloved, we grete you wele. And 
 where as we do see and perceive how that ye, hke a faithfuU 
 trew knight, to your great honnour and praise, do alweyes 
 persever and continue in jovtr opinion for the justifieing and 
 maynteyning of the feefifament and covenent made in the 
 dayes of that noble Prince, King Edward the Fourth (whome 
 God pardonne!) between the Lord Hastings, then his Chamber- 
 lain, and Sir John Greysley, knight, touching certain 
 possessions expressed, [as] in a dede of feeffament thereof 
 made and ready to be shewed it appeareth more at large, for 
 the which your trewe knightly acquitaU in this behalf 
 according to your othe and order we gretely commende you, 
 and for ye same give you oure good thanks. And albeit that 
 ye now of late, by your bill subscribed with your hand and 
 sealed with your seel, have shewed briefly how ye were 
 present at Asheby Delasouch at the declaring of the said 
 feeffament and covenents, yet we be enformed by our secrete 
 counsaUl that the same declaration wiU not be accepted before 
 a judge having autoritie t'examin the same for lak of your 
 owne presence : wherefore^ we desire and in our [most] herty wise 
 pray you, the rather for our^ sake and for the true ^declaration 
 herof as ye do knowe, to take the payne and labour, which 
 we be lothe to desire [you] to do considering your great age, to 
 be her* in ye beginnyng of this next terme for ye fynal 
 declaration of this matier according to trowth, wherby that 
 the partie adversary by their counsaiU have no cause of 
 further delay for lak of your said comyng, and in yova that 
 doing we assure you in our opinion ye shal not oonly doo a 
 right charitable and meritorious dede to the high pleasure 
 of God, to your rewarde, but also minster unto us full singler 
 pleasure to your further thanks at your said comyng. 
 
 1 wherof, MS. 
 
 2 one, MS. 
 
 3 there, MS. 
 
 M 33 
 
514 
 
 Yeven under our signet at my Lord's manour of Grene- 
 wiclie, the 22th day of March. 
 
 To our right trusty and right welbiloved 
 
 Ser Henry Willoughby, knight.' " 
 
 " By the time of Sir Henry Willughby's death this letter 
 must have been from Henry the Eighth's first Queen. 
 
 " There is a letter from the Marquis of Dorset, directed to 
 his loving cousin Sir Henry WiUughby. In this letter the 
 Marquis tells Sir Henry that he has the king's letter with 
 his commission for the redress of the business done in 
 Coventry ^. He writes that he understands also that Sir Henry 
 has likewise letters for his assistance in the same, and 
 therefore he prays Sir Henry that they may meet on Friday, 
 and that he will bring wit£ him twenty or thirty of his 
 household men with their bowes. He writes that he shall 
 have with him thirty or fifty, which, he thinks, wiU be 
 sufficient for this time. 
 
 " He writes from Bradgate, and styles himself Sir Henry's 
 assured friend. 
 
 " There is another letter from Thomas Grey, Marquis of 
 Dorset, to desire Sir Henry Willughby's assistance towards 
 carrying five hundred load of wood out of Sheldon^ woods to 
 Oxford, which he had given the Cardinall towards the 
 building of Christ's CoUege. He desires to know how many 
 carts he will furnish him with from such towns as he has 
 joining to the lordship of Sheldon by such a day, and assures 
 Sir Henry that such a pleasure he shall remember during 
 his life, besides the thanks he shall have from the Lord 
 Cardinall's Grace. 
 
 " Dated from Bradgate. 
 
 " There is another letter from Thomas Grey, Marquis of 
 Dorset, directed to his loving cousin Sir Henry WUloughby 
 about a match between his daughter and Sir Henry 
 Willughby's grandson, Henry WUlughby. The Marquis 
 writes that his money shall be ready without faU, etc. 
 
 " There is a letter from John, Earl of Lincoln,^ in behalf 
 of a tenant of his in Sutton,* where Sir Henry WiUughby 
 was high steward. 
 
 " There is a letter from John, Lord Audly, to borrow 
 money of Sir Henry Willughby. 
 
 " There is a letter from Edward, Lord Dudly, to desire 
 Sir Henry Willughby to be with him at his weding with 
 the Lord Powisses daughter. 
 
 1 In 1525, see page, 141 above, 
 
 - Co. Warwick. 
 
 8 John De La Pole, killed at the battle of Stoke, 16 June, 1487, 
 
 4 Sutton Cold2eld, co. Warwick. 
 
515 
 
 •' There is another letter from Edward, Lord Dudly, to 
 perswade Sir Henry Willughby to put his difference with 
 Egerton to a refference to himself and the judges at the 
 assizes. 
 
 " There is a letter from Richard Dane to excuse his son 
 from being against Sir Henry Willughby in a jury about 
 Egerton's difference. 
 
 " There is a letter from John Audeley to give his cousin 
 Sir Henry Willughby liberty to straine^ in any of his grounds 
 in Staffordshire, in right of John Egerton, deceased, whose 
 heir general Sir Henry WUlughby's Lady was. 
 
 " There is a letter from Wat. Blunt to let Sir Henry 
 Willughby know that Ward would not come to be a 
 witness against Egerton unless he had forty shillings. 
 
 " There is a letter from Judith Marmion to Sir Henry 
 Willughby about her goods being driven by a privie seal, 
 by WiUiam Marmion. 
 
 " There is a letter from Zouch about Kingsbury tithes. 
 
 " There is a letter from William Compton to Sir Henry 
 Willughby to desire he wiU change some land with Trussell. 
 
 " There is a letter from Henry Sacheverell, directed to his 
 right worshipful cousin. Sir Henry Willughby, about writings 
 of Sir John Digby's and the settlements of Denby. 
 
 " There is a letter from T. Roos to Sir Henry Willughby, 
 who was steward of Lenton Abbey with Lovel,^ after Lovel's 
 death T. Roos desires it. 
 
 " There is a letter from Arthur Lile, about a jury to enquire 
 after wastes, etc. This letter is directed to Sir Henry 
 Willughby, knight, High Sheriff of Leicestershire. 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir Edward Willughby to Sir 
 Henry about sheriff's business, and to get the prior of 
 Maxstock to give Sir Henry his oath. 
 
 " There is a letter from the Governor and Major of 
 Coventry about allowance for prisoners. 
 
 " There is a letter from William Compton to Sir Henry 
 Willughby, in which he says that he knew not what right 
 Hanke had to sell his son Sir Edward Willoughby the office 
 of Henley, for, at his humble suit, the king had granted that 
 oflSce by patent to Sir John Dingley. 
 
 1 That is, distrain. 
 
 2 Sir Thomas Lovel, K.G., died 25 May, 1524. 
 
516 
 
 "There is a letter from Elenor Brereton to Sir Henry 
 Willughby. She styles herself his mother, and writes that 
 she recomends her to him, being right glad to hear of his 
 health. She thanks him for all his kindness showed to her 
 at aU times, and desires he will get the prior of Lenton to 
 present a chaplain and servant of hers to the vicarage of 
 Middlewick. 
 
 " There is a letter from Robert Nevell about a cup worth 
 twenty pounds, which Sir Thomas Burgh left as a legacy 
 to Sir Henry Willughby 's second Lady, who was the Lord 
 Fitz-Hugh's widow. I believe this Sir Thomas Burgh was 
 that Lady's father. 
 
 " There is a letter from Richard Too to Sir Henry 
 Willughby about news, dated a.d. 1525. 
 
 " There are several letters of news from Sir Thomas 
 Palmer to Sir Henry Willughby, when Sir Thomas More 
 was Chancellor. 
 
 " There is a letter from Digby to Sir Henry Willughby 
 to assure him that T. Digby had not stolen the plate from 
 Middleton, but a priest in York prison would confess who 
 had stole the plate. 
 
 " There is a letter from Allat, a priest and prisoner, to 
 Sir Henry Willughby, in which letter he declares that 
 Thomas Digby had no hand in the robbery at Middleton. 
 
 " There is a letter from the abbot of Bordesley to Sir 
 Henry Willughby to invite Sir Henry and his Lady or Sir 
 Henry alone to his monastry. 
 
 " There is a letter from Thomas Catesby to Sir Henry 
 Willughby to let him know that he had given a priest a 
 noble to pray daily for Sir Henry and his Lady and son by 
 name, and also for his own brother, and wife, and children, 
 and friends. To which agreement the vicar was a witness, 
 and he was to see their names set upon a table. 
 
 " This Sir Henry WiUughby dyed the 20th of May, Anno 
 Do. 1528, and lyes buried at Wollaton in an arch between the 
 south ile and the chanceU, where there is a tomb for him with 
 his efHgie and his four wives, two lying on each side of him. 
 
 " Amongst the old papers in the library at Wollaton there 
 is a letter from which the name is rotted off. 'Tis dated from 
 his house of Boton Malherbe,^ June 1550. This letter is full 
 of advice to his sister Willoughby not to niarry young 
 Knyvett. He desires her to consider that her age is such 
 
 1 The writer was obviously Sir Edward Wotton, who married Dorothy, 
 daughter of Sir Robert Read, 8.nd sister of Bridget, wife of Sir Thomas 
 Willoughby of Chiddingatone, (Hasted's Kent ii. 246), 
 
617 
 
 that she can not expect more children, and [to] think how 
 subject she is to sickness. He prays her to judg if such a 
 young man can desire her to marry him for any other reason 
 but what he can get by her. At present her circumstances are 
 such that she can make her friends welcome to her house, 
 of which she is both master and mrs. But should she marry, 
 these friends must be neglected to make room for her young 
 husband's young acquaintance. And whatever he may say 
 before marriage, she must expect that after it will be hard for 
 her to keep the inheritance of her estate from her young 
 husband for her children. ' But to avoid being tedious, take 
 this for a certain truth that if you doe marry that young 
 man, you wiU not only utterly undoe yourself and children, 
 but also lose the hearts and good wiU of your assured friends,' 
 of whom he professed himself one, and writ that during her 
 widowhood he should be glad to do her any pleasure, or if she 
 would marry such a one as her friends might hope to see 
 herself and her children find comfort from. 
 
 " Upon the outside of this letter there is writ with my 
 father's hand that the lady was the relict of Sir Thomas 
 WiUoughby ; who, I think, must have been that Sir Thomas 
 WiUoughby of Eresby, who was the son of Christopher,- Lord 
 WiUoughby of Eresby, if so, this letter should have been 
 copyed page the 17th of the next book, which gives an 
 account of the Eresby family of the WHloughbys, from whom 
 Sir Percivall WiQoughby was descended. 
 
 " (10) Sir Edward WiUughby, the second son of Sir Henry 
 and heir to his brother. Sir John Willughby that dyed without 
 issue, married Anne, the daughter and only heir of Sir Wilham 
 FihoU of Woodland, knight. By this lady Sir Edward had a 
 son and two daughters. Jane, the eldest daughter, married 
 Richard Topchff, esq., of Somerby. Dorothy, the other 
 daughter, married Robert Willoughby of Boreplace in Kent. 
 This Robert was the son of Thomas, who was the son of 
 Christopher, Lord Willoughby of Eresby in Lincohishire. 
 
 " There are no books of accounts, letters, or other papers 
 remaining by which I could gather any particular account 
 of this Sir Edward Willughby, nor is the time of his death 
 mentioned, nor could I find any letters directed to him 
 worth noting down except one from King Henry the Eighth's 
 Queen Jane, the copy of which letter is on the other side 
 of this leaf. 
 
 [1537], October 12. — Queen [Jane Seymour] to Sir 
 Edward Willoughby, announcing the birth of her son 
 [afterwards King Edward VI.]. 
 
 " By the Queen. 
 
 " ' Trusty and welbeloved, we grete you well. And for- 
 asmuch as, by th'inestimable goodness and grace of Almighty 
 God, we bee dehvered and brought to bed of a prince, 
 
S18 
 
 Concyved in most lawfull matrimony by my Lord the Kiiig's 
 Majestie and us, dowbting not but that, for the love and 
 affection which ye beare to us and to the comynweale of 
 this realme, the knowledge thereof shuld be joyous and glad 
 tydings unto you, we have thought good to certifie ye of the 
 same, to th'intent ye might not only render unto God con- 
 digne thanks and praise for so great a benefite, but also 
 contynually pray for the long contynuance and preservation 
 of the same, here in this life to th'onour of God, joy and 
 pleasur of my Lord the King and us, and the universall weall, 
 quiet, and tranquility of this hole realme. 
 
 Yeven under our signet, at my Lord's manour of Hampton 
 Court, the 12th day of October. 
 
 To our trusty and welbUoved 
 
 Sir Edward Willoughby, knight.' " 
 
 " (11) Sir {sic) Henry Willughby, the only son and heir of Sir 
 Edward Willughby of Wollaton, married Anne, the youngest 
 daughter of Thomas Grey, Marquis of Dorset, by Margaret, 
 his wife, who was the daughter of Sir Robert Wotton of 
 Bocton [Boughton] in Kent and the widow of Wilham Medley." 
 [Account of Thomas, Marquis of Dorset, and of the marriages 
 of his daughters by the aforesaid Margaret, to wit Elizabeth, 
 the eldest, to Thomas, lord Audley of Waldon, Katherine, 
 the second, to Henry Fitz- Alan, earl of Arundel]. "His eldest 
 son was Henry, Lord Grey, who succeeded him as Marquis 
 of Dorset. He married Katherine, the daughter of Wilham 
 Fitz-Alan, earl of Arundel, but had no issue by her. His 
 second lady was Frances, the eldest daughter of Charles 
 Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, by his third wife, who was Mary, 
 the daughter of King Henry the 7th and widow of Lewis the 
 12th, King of France. This Henry, Marquis of Dorset, was 
 constituted Lord High Constable of England during the 
 solemnity of Edward the 6th's coronation, and in the 5th year 
 of Eang Edward the 6th, being An. D. 1551, he was, upon 
 the 11th of October, created duke of Suffolk. By the Lady 
 Frances this duke had three daughters. Jane, the eldest, 
 married Guilford Diidley, who was the 4th son of the Duke 
 of Northiimberland. This Lady was proclaimed Queen of 
 England July the 7th, 1553, and beheaded with her husband 
 the 12th of February following. The duke of Suffolk's second 
 daughter was Catherine, who married Henry, Lord Herbert, 
 son of WilUam, earl of Pembroke, and being divorced from him, 
 she after married Edward Seymour, earl of Hartford. His 
 third and youngest daughter Mary, being deformed, married 
 Martin Keys, Serjeant Porter to Queen Elizabeth. This duke 
 of Suffolk was beheaded on Tower HiU, February the 23th, 
 1553[-4]. And thus with this great duke (whose grandmother 
 was Queen of England, his uncle King of England, his daughter 
 proclaimed Queen, and his wives mother a daughter of Eng- 
 land and Queen of France) ended the titles of honour in his 
 family " [until the creation in 1 James I. of his nephew, Sir Henry 
 
6i& 
 
 Grey, of Pirgo in Essex, as Baron Grey of Groby, co. 
 Leicester, whose grandson was created earl of Stamford by 
 Charles I.]. " The Lady Francis (sic), widow to the duke of 
 Sufl'olk, had one sister Eleonore, who married Henry, earl of 
 Cumberland. 
 
 " This was the fourth time that the Willughbys had matched 
 with this family of the Greys, which had made a very great 
 intimacy between the two famihes, as appears by many of 
 the old papers. In the books of accounts there is often men- 
 tion made of Sir Henry Willughby's being at Bradgate for 
 severaU days together, and in the account book of bills of fair 
 for Wollaton family [i.e. household] (which shews what com- 
 pany daily came to Wollaton) I often find some of the family 
 from Bradgate set down." [Quotations from household 
 account for 1547-8, pp. 393-396 above.] "This Sir Henry 
 WiUughby was one of those gentlemen that went to appease 
 the rebels in Norfolk, who had got together under Robert Ket, 
 a tanner, upon a grievance on account of inclosures, and was 
 killed at Norwich, August the 27th, 1548. He and his lady 
 both lye buried in the church at Wollaton, where there is a 
 monument for them. They left two sons and one daiighter, 
 all very young : Thomas, the eldest son about eight years and 
 a quarter old, and Francis, the youngest son, about two years 
 old ; but the age of Margaret WiUughby, the daughter, is 
 not mentioned. It appears by some of the old papers that 
 Sir Henry WiUughby left these three children to the marquis 
 of Dorset's care, and that the three executors of his wiU were 
 George Medley and GabrieU Barwyke, esquires, and John 
 HaU, gent.i 
 
 " There is a letter from George Medeleye, dated from London 
 in February 1549[-50], in which he writes that the Marquis 
 of Dorset, being now daily to attend the king, he intended 
 to remove his famUy from Bradgate to London, and there- 
 fore ordered that twelve horses should be sent for from 
 WoUaton and a cart and horses from Middleton to come 
 up to London with Mrs. Margaret and little Mr. Francis 
 WiUughby, attended thus : a servant to carry Master 
 Francis before him, another servant to carry Mrs. Margaret, 
 and another servant to carry little Whytneye, a horse for 
 Mrs. Lenton, another horse for the maid, and four for the 
 four men to wait upon them, a man to lead a horse to carry 
 the male [= mail, travelling bag], and two more servants to 
 take care of the horses. 
 
 " It does not appear where these children were after this 
 journey tiU by a book of Medeley's accounts for the children's 
 cloaths, etc., from the 4th of Edward the 6th to the 1st of 
 Elizabeth, I find that his nephew Francis WiUughby and his 
 neece Margaret removed to Tyltey, April the 21th, 1550.^ 
 Mr. Medeley in his letters always calls these children nephews 
 
 1 See page 396, above. 
 
 2 See page 399, above. 
 
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 and neece, which makes me conclude that he was the son 
 of Margaret, marchioness of Dorset, by WilUam Medeley her 
 first husband, and so half brother to Lady Anne Willughby.^ 
 I don't find where Mr. Thomas WiUughby was when his brother 
 and sister removed to Tiltey, but in Mr. Medeley's account book 
 there is set down 20 sh. for Mr. Thomas Willughby's board 
 with him from May the 27th to June the 11th that year, and 
 10s. for Mr. Thomas Willughby's man's board the same time.^ 
 And again the same sume is set downe for his and his man's 
 board with Mr. Medeley from November (sic) the 3d to the 18th,^ 
 which day I find by the book of houshold expences for the 
 family at" Tyltey Mr. Thomas WUlughby went to Cambridg. 
 I don't find who was the housekeeper at Tyltey, but beheve 
 it might be Lady Anne Willughby's mother, who might also 
 be Mr. Medeley's mother. 
 
 " There is a book in my brother's library at WoUaton 
 which gives a very particular account of the expenses of 
 the family at Tyltey' from the 31th of October to the last 
 of February in this 4th year of Edward the Sixth, which 
 book shows that there was a very great table kept at Tyltey. 
 This book also gives an account what company came to 
 Tyltey, viz., that upon the 31th of October there came my 
 Lady's grace* and all her train, but the next day most of her 
 grace's retinue returned home again to Leicestershire. 
 November the 3d there came the Lord Thomas and the Lord 
 John with twenty-one servants from London, who stayed 
 at Tyltey three days and then returned to London again. 
 That upon November the 16th many honest men of the 
 country dined there. That upon the 18th the Lord John and 
 others came from Court, which was the same day that Mr. 
 Thomas Willoughby, Mr. Henry, and Mr. Thomas Medley, 
 Mr. WOloughby's man, and three more servants went to 
 Cambridg. The Lords and others from Court returned 
 thither again upon the 22th of November. Upon the 23th 
 divers of the country dined at Tyltey. Upon the 24:th ten 
 gentlemen came from London to attend my Lady's grace 
 to the Lady Mary's grace^ ; they stayed at Tyltey till the 
 26th, and then after breakfast my Lady's grace, with Lady 
 Jane, Lady Catherine and Lady Mary, repaired to Lady 
 Mary's grace. 'Tis thus entered in this book of Tyltey 
 accounts, by which I understand that the Duches of Suffolk 
 with her three daughters went to Court to wait upon the 
 ktag's sister, who was, after the king's death. Queen Mary. 
 
 1 Cf. Chronicle of Queen Jane, Camden Society, 1850, p. 66, where Medley- 
 is described as ' brother in lawe ' [i.e. half-brother] of Suffolk, Lady Anne's 
 brother. 
 
 2 See page 402, above. 
 
 3 Tilty, CO. Essex. This book has not been found. The fourth year of 
 Edward VI extended from 28 January, 1550, to 27 January, 1551. If, as is 
 most probable, February and not October fell in the fourth year, the account 
 would run from 31 October, 1549, to 28 February, 1550. 
 
 * The Marchioness of Dorset. 
 
 6 Subsequently Queen Mary. She was the god-daughter of the Mar- 
 chioness of Dorset. 
 
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 This book says that December the 2nd Lady Catherine and 
 Lady Mary with their attendance and a great many gentle- 
 men came to sup at Tyltey, and that December the 16th 
 there came my Lord and Lady's grace, Lord John, Lady Jane 
 and divers attending them from London to Tyltey, where 
 they stayed six or seven days. December the 25th this book 
 says that divers of the country dined at Tyltey, and also 
 upon the 26th and the 27th, and that that day there came 
 five players and a boy, and from that time till January the 
 9th are set down great numbers that dined and supped at 
 Tyltey and that the Lord of Oxford's players were there. 
 And that from January the 11th to the 20th there was my 
 Lord, Lord John, Mr. Treasurer and a great deal of other 
 company, and that that day after dinner, my Lord and Lady's 
 grace, the Lady Jane, Lady Catherine, Lady Mary, Lady 
 Clare, Lord John and aU the gentlemen went from Tyltey 
 to the Lady Audley's at Walden. This book says they all 
 returned again to Tyltey the 22th and that they brought 
 the Lord and Lady Audley to Tyltey with them. And that 
 January the 25th there came Mr. George WiUughby and 
 many more strangers. Upon the 26th Lady Audley went 
 to Walden, and Lady Catherine went with her, but they 
 both returned again to Tyltey January the 30th, where 
 Lord Audley and the rest of the company had stayed all 
 that time. January the 31th there came a gentleman to 
 dinner from the Lady Mary's grace. 
 
 " I believe about this time [1553-4] Mr. Medley and the 
 whol famihe at Tyltey were involved in great troubles upon 
 the duke of Suffolk's account, ^ who was beheaded upon the 
 23th of February [1554] following. Mr. Francis and Mrs. 
 Margaret were removed to the Mnoryes with their servants ; 
 I beUeve a house where Mr. Medeley used to hve.^ While 
 they were there I believe Mrs. Lenton took care for their diet, 
 fewel, etc., which reckoned by odd weeks from December the 
 14th to July the 5th, came to 341. Osh. 2d.^ 
 
 " There is a letter from Mrs. Lenton to John Hall, the baily 
 at Middleton, for money ; in which letter she says she knows 
 not where to place Master Francis and Mrs. Margaret Willoughby 
 now that Mr. Medley's house was hke to be seised, etc. 
 
 " Mr. Medeley charges in his account for the diet, etc. of 
 Mr. Francis and Mrs. Margaret Willughby and the same 
 number of servants that they used to have by odd weeks 
 (they being, I beheve, sometimes in one place and sometimes 
 in another) from July the 5th to January the 17th, being the 
 second year of Queen Mary, the sume of 231. 19sh. Od. In 
 this time 'tis often mentioned that Mrs. Margaret was absent 
 with her maid a week at a time. I believe she might then 
 
 1 Medley ' came into ' the Tower on 26 February {Chronicle of Queen Mary, 
 Camden See. 1850, p. 66). His lodgings in the Minories were searched by 
 Bishop Gardiner a month earlier (Ibid p. 184). 
 
 2 Cf. Calendar of State Papers. Domestic, 1547-80, p. 195. 
 
 3 Cf. p. 415, above. 
 
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 be Av-ith the Lady Frances, the duke of Suffolk's widow, 
 because there is a letter from Mr. Medeley writ in this year, 
 being An. D. 1554, in which letter he writes that Mrs. Margaret 
 
 Willughby was then with Lady Frances, I 
 
 beheve Mrs. Margaret Willughby might stay with Lady Frances 
 from May the 9th to July the 11th. 
 
 " There is a letter from Mr. Medeley to John Hall (who 
 was the bailiff at Middleton), dated a.d. 1553. This letter 
 is to desire John Hall to send up to the Minories by two 
 trusty servants all the apparel of gownes and kyrtels, and all 
 other things appertaining to Mrs. Margaret Willughby, 
 which remained in his keeping at Middleton, because he 
 intended, with my Lord Suffolk's help, to get her into some 
 honourable place, where my Lord's grace should think most 
 fit for her to be. In this letter he desires woollen blankets 
 may be put between the gowns and kirtles to defend them 
 from fretting and wet. 
 
 " There is another letter from Mr. Medeley to John Hall, 
 dated a.d. 1554, in which he writes that now was the time 
 to prefer Mrs. Margaret Willughby and to put Mr. Francis 
 Willughby to school. 
 
 " In another letter, dated a.d. 1554, he writes that Mrs. 
 Margaret Willughby was now with the Lady Frances, who 
 was commanded to attend the Queen, and she had took Mrs. 
 Margaret Willughby with her, who had been very much 
 commended, and was so well approved for good behaviour, 
 etc., that Lady Frances did not doubt but soon to place her 
 about the Qugen so as all her friends would be pleased. 
 
 " There is another letter from Mr. Medeley, writ soon after 
 the last, to John Hall, in which he says that Mrs. Margaret 
 Willughby had been at Court with the Lady Frances's Grace 
 (who had her place in the privie chamber). He writes that 
 Mrs. M. Willughby was much commended, and Lady 
 Frances's Grace did not doubt but in a short time so to place 
 her about the Queen's Highness, so as to content all her 
 friends, and also be to her great preferment. 
 
 " An. Do. 1555 Mr. Medeley requires the Lord Paget's 
 letter for the payment of a hunderd pounds to Mrs. Margaret 
 Willughby. And in Mr. Medeley's account book for the 1st 
 year of Queen Elizabeth, being An. D. 1558, there is set 
 down November the 6th ' Paid Mrs. Margaret Willughby for 
 her marriage money, three hundred pounds.' By which, I 
 beheve it was about this time that she married Sir Matthew 
 Arundell. 
 
 " There is in the library at WoUaton a large book of the 
 accounts of George Medeley and Gabriell Barwyke, esquires, 
 and John Hall, gent., the three executors of Sir Henry 
 Willughby, for the 13 years they took care of the estate.^ 
 
 1 See page 416, above. 
 
This book stews that besides the profits of the land there 
 were large sumes of money received for cole, etc., which was 
 brought to account, and yet in conclusion the whole sum 
 raised by them in these 13 years did not amount to more 
 then 3125K. Os. 8d. In this book there is an account of goods 
 which were valued which Sir Henry Willughby had left at 
 Middleton and Wollaton ; amongst which there are set down 
 many vestments, as copes, etc. for the chapel, and many 
 extraordinary armes in the armory.^ There are set down by 
 name in this book 42 geldings. And the plate is in this book 
 valued at iilli. lOsh. Od. 
 
 "There is a book of Mr. Medeley's accounts for^he 1st 
 year of Queen Mary, being An. D. 1553 . . . there is 
 set down 6s. M. paid to the clerk of the Signet for the writing, 
 seal and lycence for his cousin Thomas Willughby to goe 
 beyond sea to the University of Paris to study.^ But 1 
 question whether Mr. Thomas Willughby did goe to Paris, 
 because in a letter from Mrs. Lenton to John Hall, dated from 
 the Minories, February 1554,^ she expresses great concern 
 that she knows not where to place Mr. Francis and Mrs. 
 Margaret Willughby, now that Mr. Medeley's house was 
 like to be seised and they turned out of doors, but she writ 
 that the Lord Paget would have Mr. Thomas Willughby 
 to be with him. In this letter she desired John HaU would 
 send her some money, and writ that Mrs. Medeley was 
 constrained to borrow money. 
 
 " There is a letter from Mr. Thomas Willughby to John 
 Hall for money, not that the Lord Paget denies him anything 
 (he writ), but he would have some money to spend which 
 he would not always acquaint Lord Paget with. 
 
 " In another letter from Mr. Thomas Willoughby to John 
 HaU for money, he also desired him to send him his mother's 
 cross-bow. 
 
 " This Mr. Thomas Willughby married the Lord Paget 's 
 daughter, but there is no account when they were married. 
 From some of the old papers there is reason to beUeve that 
 the Lord Paget suspected Mr. Medeley's honesty, and that 
 therefore after Mr. Thomas Willughby had married his 
 daughter, he was willing to take some care of the Willughbys' 
 estate. Mr. Medeley has set down in one of his account books 
 6s. 8rf. for his counsel when the Lord Paget required the 
 executers to bring in their accounts. An. D. 1555 Mr. Medeley 
 sets down his expenses in going to London to attend the Lord 
 Padget and carrying him a letter concerning the declaration 
 of the executor's accounts made before him at Middleton and 
 Wollaton." [Extracts from the account] "In all this book of 
 
 1 Cf. the inventories at p. 474, above. 
 
 2 See page 398, above. 
 
 3 Apparently 1553-4. C£. p. 521, note 1, above. 
 
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 accounts Mr. Medeley seems to reckon very largely for his owri 
 expences, and in conclusion he sets down for the horses, bridles 
 and sadles which he had spoyled about the business of his 
 brother Sir Henry Willughby's will the sume of 83Z. 6s. 8d. 
 I could find no further account of Mr. Thomas 
 Willughby but that over-heating himself with hunting he fell 
 sick and dyed upon the 16th of August, An. D. 1558.^ 
 
 " There is a letter from Mr. Medley to Trussell, who was 
 the bailiff at WoUaton, dated An. D. 1552, to order him to make 
 provision for baking and brewing, etc., against the Lord John 
 Grey's coming thither. 
 
 " There is a letter from Mr. Medeley to John Hall at 
 Middleton, dated from Tyltey, August 1553, to desire some of 
 the leveretts bread [ = bred] at Middleton might be saved 
 for the Lord John. 
 
 " There is a letter from Mr. Medeley to Trussell about 
 buying Sir Hugh Willughby's estate in Maperley and 
 Basf ord ; he writes that what makes him fear to goe through 
 with it was the recognyzance wherein he stood bound to the 
 king's Majesty. An. D. 1553. 
 
 " There is an angry letter from Mr. Medeley to Trussell 
 (in April 1562), because he neglected to keep- Wollaton in 
 good repair, and let the tenants' houses goe down. He orders 
 such timber as is needful to be cut down and the houses to 
 be repaired, and tells him Middleton is otherwise kept, 
 which he may be ashamed of. 
 
 " There is a letter from Mr. Medeley to Mr. Francis 
 Willughby, dated from Tyltey, January 1565[-6], in which 
 he makes heavy complaints of his own debts, but writes that 
 he will not trouble Mr. Willughby now, because he looks 
 upon him as his chiefest friend, and therefore he reserves 
 him for his greater need. He expresses great concern for his 
 Lady's mishap in her travell, and wishes they may both be 
 joyful parants of a jolly many sons. 
 
 " There is an account which shows that Mr. Medeley 
 demanded 350?. for his discharging the trust which Sir Henry 
 Willughby had reposed in him, and in this account there 
 is mention made of money which he paid the Duke of 
 Suffolk by Sir Henry Willughby's order. 
 
 " There are severall letters from Mr. Medeley's widow to 
 Sir Francis WiUoughby, An. D. 1568, about her husband's 
 accounts. In one of the letters she enlarges upon the great 
 care his uncle Medeley took upon him for thirteen years 
 together to satisfy the trust which his father had reposed 
 in him. 
 
 1 1559 aooording to p. 399, above 
 
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 "From An. D. 1559 that Mr. Francis Willughby was at 
 Tyltey till near the time of his marrying, I don't find 
 where he was, but believe he might spend most of that time 
 at the University. 
 
 " There is a copy of a letter from Mr. Francis WiUughby 
 to his uncle the Lord Grey, to make him acquainted that 
 he had been invited to many of his friends and kinsmen's 
 houses, amongst the rest (as he trusts God did appoint it) 
 he was at Mr. Lyttleton's at Frankley, in Worcestershire, 
 sundry times received with great chear and good entertain- 
 ment, and in the end it was moved to him, first by good Lord 
 Dudley and after by Mr. Lyttleton, a marriage between his 
 daughter and himself. After good deliberation it had pleased 
 God to give him a liking to the young gentlewoman, who 
 had had a good education and was descended from a house 
 of great antiquity, well friended and alyed, dwelling near 
 his house of Middleton. And Mr. Lyttleton's offers with his 
 daughter being reasonable, could he have his Lordship's favour, 
 he was fuUy minded to match himseK to her. 
 
 "Mr. Ljrttleton offered to gie with his daughter 1,500Z., 
 to apparel! her decently, to bear their charges at the time of 
 their marriage, and to give them their table with six persons 
 to attend them, for three years, and the keeping of six 
 geldings. He writes that his cousin Medley can at large declare 
 to him the maimer of his proceeding, and he desires his 
 liordship's favour and good will that he may proceed herein 
 according to his good advice. 
 
 " There is a copy of a very angry letter from Mr. Francis 
 Willoughby to his brother Arundell, dated a.d. 1564, for 
 being against his marrying Mrs. Lyttleton, for which he had 
 the advice of his cousin Medley, the Lord Dudley, the Lord 
 John Grey, and other of his friends. 
 
 " His sister the Lady Arundell, I beheve was elder than 
 he, and by being much together when they were children, 
 she had assumed, and gained to herself such a power of 
 governing him that after, when he was grown up, she could 
 not leave off the custom she had used in their childhood, 
 but continued to expect that her brother should advise with 
 her in all his affairs, and therefore when she had heard it was 
 reported that her brother was going to marry Mr. Lyttleton 
 of Frankeley's daughter, she was very angry with him for 
 beginning such a treaty without first making her acquainted 
 [with] it, and expressed her resentment of it in severall 
 letters. One she begins with blaming his breach of promise 
 in not coming to London, and then goes on to tell him 'tis 
 reported that he is insured to Mr. Littleton's daughter. She 
 writes that she marvels much that his hast should be so 
 great, and his estimation of her so little, ^s never to consult 
 her in the matter, who was always willing to doe any thing 
 which might be a pleasure to him. She understood George 
 Willoughby had procured him this marriage, she believed out 
 
626 
 
 of some crafty designs of his own, else he would never have 
 perswaded him to proceed so far without consulting any of 
 bis friends. She desires him not to trust to George Willoughby's 
 painted words, nor to let his flatery abuse him so much as 
 to make him think that he was the only able person to be 
 of his counsel, for he had divers friends that had more care 
 for him, and were better able to advise him. She desires to 
 see him, but writes ' if this thing be already past, I pray God 
 to send you as good speed as your haste has been great, which 
 seldom goes together.' " 
 
 " There are many more letters in the library at Wollaton, 
 which shew that Lady Arundell was extreamly agairist her 
 brother's marrying Mrs. Lyttleton, which he took very un- 
 kindly from her, and at last began to suspect that Lady 
 ArundeU coveted his estate, and therefore would be against 
 his marrying anybody. Lady Arundell being made acquainted 
 with these thoughts which her brother had of her, writ him 
 a long letter upon this subject, to justifie herself, and in it 
 gave her reasons why she was against this match, viz., 
 because she thought Mr. John Lyttleton was an ill man, 
 that he was a great dissembler, etc. 
 
 " There is a story in Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire 
 [p. 38] which, if true and of the same Sir John Littleton, 
 would give one reason to believe Lady Arundell's thoughts 
 that he was an ill man was but too well grounded." [Account 
 of Richard Smith, son of Sir Walter Smyth of Shirford " that 
 was murthered by his lady," and his treaty with Sir John 
 Littleton for the marriage of his only daughter by his first wife 
 to Sir John's third son, and of Sir John's tricking him out of 
 the reversion of the estates settled by him on the two children]. 
 
 " Lady Arundell, not having power enough with her 
 brother to break the match, though by many letters it 
 appears she used her outmost endeavours, at last sends him 
 her good wishes in the manner I shall show by copying part 
 of a letter from her to her brother, which she dates from the 
 Court at St. James's. She writes that it well appears, that 
 what he writ to her was not his own thoughts but what 
 George WiUoughby counseled. She writes that he does her 
 wrong to say she does not like the gentlewoman. Her saying 
 they were more in haste then they needed, she thought was 
 no dispraise to her. She writes that she can't take it well 
 of him to burden her with being unwilling that he should 
 marry in hopes she might enjoy his estate ; this, she writes, 
 comes not from himself, who knew that her behaviour to him had 
 deserved a better opinion, himself best knew if she, or anybody 
 for her, had ever perswaded him not to marry. If she had 
 been against his marrying, she would not have consented to the 
 buying out of his wardship, and he well knew the executors 
 would not have paid the money if she and Mr. ArundeU had not 
 consented. And if this were all she had to say, she thought this 
 a sufficient proof that she was not against his marrying. 
 
627 
 
 " She desires him to make her commendations to her sister 
 that shall be, with whom she desires to be acquainted, and 
 she wishes them happily to match, and joyfully to live 
 together, and that God may bless them with such increase 
 of children as may be most to both their comforts. 
 
 " There is a copy of a letter from Mr. F[rancis] Willoughby, 
 dated from Frankeley, November, 1564, to his sister, the 
 Lady Arundell, in which he tells her that he had then resolved 
 to marry Mrs. Lyttleton ; that he was first moved to this 
 marriage by his near kindsman the very good Lord Dudley 
 and divers others who bore him good will ; that the Lord Grey 
 (who in duty he thought he ought to advise with) approved 
 of his choice ; that Mr. Lyttleton was of a very ancient 
 family, and a very good alliance, and had given his daughter 
 a very good education, and gave her a good fortune, and 
 required a very reasonable jointure and the settlement of 
 but one third part of his estate upon heirs male by her, 
 etc. 
 
 " Mr. Lyttleton gave his daughter 1500K. and three years' 
 board for themselves, their horses and six servants. 
 
 " There is a friendly letter from Sir Matthew Arundell to 
 Mr. Francis Willughby, which gives an accoimt of some things 
 which he had bought for him, and that he had sent him some 
 songs, strings, and three books, and for his sister some white 
 Flanders work, not so fine as he would have had, but such as 
 was to be had in London, and some combs, and he writes 
 that his wife had sent a partlet and a pair of sleeves. And 
 if he might know what other things he would have from 
 London, he would provide them. He returns thanks to Mr. 
 Littleton and his Lady for his well usage and good cheer, 
 and concludes, ' I bid you fare as myself. In haste from the 
 Court, the 20th of May. 
 
 Your brother most lovingly.' 
 
 " There is a letter from Lady Arundell to her brother 
 Willoughby, in which she desires to know how his executors 
 had dealt with him, and in what condition he had found his 
 land and houses. She writes that she perceives by Mr. 
 Lyttleton that as yet he has dealt but little in these affairs, 
 and it is her opinion that the sooner he takes them in hand 
 the better it will be both for his experience and profit. She 
 writes that if Sir Matthew Arundell might know when he was 
 to go into Dorsetshire, she would accompany him. She 
 concludes thus ' with my hearty commendations to my 
 sister and you, I bid you fare well, wishing you as I would 
 myself.' ' 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir John Lyttleton (who I must 
 now call Sir) to Mr. Willughby, who from this time I will 
 call Sir Francis, not finding when the Queen knighted him. 
 This letter is dated August the 24th, 1566, In it he writes 
 
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 his son-in-law word that if he had not so suddenly departed 
 from KHlingworth/ he would have made his daughter a 
 lady, for he was sought for but could not be found within 
 an hour after he was gone, when there were six knights made, 
 viz.. Sir William Devereux, Sir George Hastings, Sir John 
 Throgmorton, Sir Foulke Grevile, Sir George Turpin (Sheriff 
 of Warwick and Leicester) and himself. He writes that the 
 Queen went to Mr. Lucye's house, and that the Lord Leicester 
 attended upon Her Majesty till Her Highness was pass'd 
 Warwick, and then returned to Killingworth, and so much 
 company with him that one would have judged there was 
 nobody wanting but the Queen's Highness, and after a day's 
 stay at Killingworth ^ he went to the Court. 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir Matthew ArundeU to Sir 
 Francis Willughby to complain of his iU hap not to see his 
 father-in-law at the Court, and also complaining that Sir 
 Francis WUlughby does not write to him ; he hopes being 
 at such a distance wiU not cause Sir F[rancis] W[illoughby] 
 to forget him, and writes that it is an evil day that is not 
 worth regarding. 
 
 " In another letter Sir Matthew writes Sir F[rancis] 
 Willoughby that his sister will see him at Easter and tarry 
 a month with him, ' in the mean season use her and me as 
 you judg you may.' 
 
 " In another letter Sir Matthew writes Sir F[rancis] 
 W[illoughby] that he had been at Woodland to receive the 
 Lord Herbert, who came and killed a buck in the park with 
 his hounds, of which pack tho' he might have commanded, 
 yet he would not send Sir F[rancis] W[3loughby] any, because 
 he did not like them, nor can he commend the hounds of 
 that country, but if he hears of any good he will try to get 
 them, or any thing else which he shall have a mind to. He 
 has sent a brace of young dogs apt for game. He writes that 
 he will not fail the Queen at Oxford, ^ where he wishes Sir 
 F[rancis] Willoughby would also be. There is like to be great 
 shows of learning, and a notable tragedy there is in hand, 
 and if he would come Sir Matthew promises to be his har- 
 binger. Dated from Wilton. 
 
 " There is a letter from Lady ArundeU which gives an 
 account of the Earl of Leicester's entertainment of the Court 
 at Kellemyale (s«c),^ his house, and she also seems to write with 
 pleasure of an entertainment which he gave to Sir Francis 
 Willughby and the rest of his coxmtry gentlemen. This 
 letter teUs her brother that she has made enquiry but could 
 not yet hear of one that could play and sing, but she hopes 
 
 1 Kenilworth, co. Warwick. 
 
 - Her first visit to Oxford University, of which the Earl of Leicester had 
 been elected Chancellor in 1564, occurred on 31 August, 1566, and following 
 week. 
 
 8 Kenilworth? 
 
529 
 
 ■she shall provide him one when she goes to London. She 
 writes that she has seen his house of Woodland, which is very 
 ancient and in great decay. She concludes with thanks for 
 his mare, commendations to his wife, Sir John Lyttleton and 
 his Lady, with thanks for their courtious entertainment 
 of her. 
 
 " The date of the year is not writ to any of these letters 
 from Lady Arundell, but there are many very friendly letters 
 from Sir John Lyttleton to Sir Francis WiUughby, dated 
 An. D. 1566 and 1567, which seem to have been writ when Sir 
 Francis had gone journeys of business from Frankley. In 
 one Sir John thanks Sir F[rancis] W[Llloughby] for a fat buck, 
 in another he wishes Sir F[rancis] W[illoughbyJ'8 business were 
 finished that they might soon see him again at Frankley, and 
 sends hearty commendations from his wife and mother. 
 
 "In a letter from Sir John Lyttleton to Sir F[rancis] 
 Willughby, dated a.d. 1569, he expresses a kind concern for 
 his daughter's health, and also a concern for not paying the 
 whol sum of money that was due at the time he had 
 promised it, but he writ he had been ill used by his attorney, 
 and therefore could only send now by the bearer 110?. 
 
 " There is a letter from Lady ArundeU to Sir F[rancis] 
 Willughby, dated from the Court. In this letter she writes 
 that though he has no great matter to write of, yet it 
 pleaseth her to hear of his good state, as she had lately done 
 by the Lords that were with him, who had told her they 
 had not seen him look so weU of a good time, which made 
 her think he had recover 'd [from] his cough. She writes 
 that she here incloses the letter he desired, which was not 
 sent to herself but to Sir Matthew, and in his absence she 
 intersepted it, and intended to have kept it to shew him if 
 he had not sent for it. She desires to know if Sir John 
 Lyttleton had paid the money, or set the day when he 
 would, and wishes him better fortune with the rest that 
 is to come than he has hitherto had, etc. 
 
 " In another letter Lady Arundell writes Sir Frances 
 Willughby that she should have thought Sir John Lyttleton's 
 house the best place for him to have been in, had he been 
 such a man as he professed, but in his deahng with him he 
 had verified her opinion of him that he was a great dissembler, 
 and for that reason it was that she misliked his matching 
 into that house. For his wife, she writes that ways might be 
 found to deal with her, whose country friends would stand 
 her in but little stead. She writes that she intended to stay 
 at the Court aU summer. 
 
 " There is a letter from Lady ArundeU to her brother, 
 dated from Shaftbury, in which she hopes business of his 
 side is less troublesome then with them, where the great 
 murther has been done of favour procured for the help of 
 
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 them. His cares, she guesses, is building and setting up of 
 houses. She makes a doubt whether his wife will like hous- 
 keeping, especially when she knows of the company he means 
 to have. She thinks she can't come to him tiU after Easter, 
 and believes in the mean time he wiU not be idle. She desires 
 to know how his last being at the Bath proved with him, 
 and concludes wishing his well doing. 
 
 " In another letter, which Lady Arundell dates from the 
 Court, she writes her brother that she thinks the time long 
 since she heard anything from him, and she is very desirous 
 to know how he likes houskeeping, now, before she can 
 come herself to see ; she is sorry she can't now iix the time 
 when that shall be. 
 
 " She writes that the Lord Admirall desires that when he 
 sells his woods, he may have them for his money before any 
 other, which will be a conveniency to him, being so near 
 his house and also to himself. She concludes wishing long 
 the well doing of himself and his wife. 
 
 " There is another letter from Lady ArundeU to her 
 brother, in which she wishes he had not began his work upon 
 the Treant (the making it navigable), because it would be so 
 chargeable. She writes that she thinks his wife should not 
 be so unreasonable, and if he continues at Middleton, that 
 wiU make a tryal whither she more desires to enjoy his com- 
 pany or follow her own will. She writes that she is uncertain 
 whither her Highness wiU go to York or stay at KyUing- 
 worth. 
 
 " In a letter dated from Wilton Lady Arundell writes Sir 
 F[rancis] WiUughby that she is come from the Court to Lord 
 Pembroke's house in Wiltshire, where she intends to stay 
 three months ; and ere it be long Mr. Arundell wiU begin 
 to keep house. She writes that before she left the Court she 
 dealt with the Lord Warwick concerning setting forth men 
 towards Scotland, and found him so wilhng to pleasure Sir 
 Francis that he said he should have considered it himself 
 if she had not spoke, and did assure her that he would not 
 be unmindful of it when occasion should serve. In this 
 letter she writes that she thinks her aunt Topclyfe is sorry 
 she is come down, and that she has got profers for her 
 husband, but wishes Sir F[rancis] Willughby would do some- 
 thing in the matter, for she believed if he perceived that he 
 would take his aunt's part, he would then offer some reason- 
 able provision for her. In this letter she prays to be 
 remembered to her sister, and looks daily to hear of her good 
 dehvery, and desires to know what good liking he had of 
 Asplehut,! and how long he tary's there. 
 
 1 Aspley HaU, parish of Radford (in the city of Nottingham). 
 
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 " In another letter Lady Arundell writes that she doubts 
 Topclyfe will not be got to pay his wive's portion, and she 
 pittys her case. And in another letter she expresses great 
 concern for her aunt Topclyfe's miserable condition, her 
 husband not performing what he had promised for her 
 maintenance, 
 
 " And in another letter she writes Sir P[rancis] WUlughby 
 that she has got the Bishop of London and others in 
 commission with him to cause Mr. Topclyfe to appear before 
 them, and if this helps not, she knows not what will. 
 
 " This Topcljrf , that Lady Arundell often writes of with much 
 compassion, was Jane, the daughter of Sir Edward WU- 
 lughby, and sister to Sir Henry that was killed at Norwich, 
 A.D. 1548. 
 
 " If George WiUoughby was a brother of hers, it is more 
 then the pedigree shews, for there is no mention of any 
 younger brother George, but by many letters it appears that 
 Sir Francis Willughby called George WUlughby uncle, 
 and that George Willughby was one that Sir Francis often 
 employed in business. 
 
 " There is a letter from this George Willughby, dated 
 February, 1574[-5], directed to his son-in-law Repington, 
 who seems to have been a lawyer employed by Sir F[rancis] 
 W[illoughby]. In this letter George WUloughby writes that 
 there are other lands to pass in the same fine which are not 
 part of the jointure, as namely the manors of WoUaton and 
 Sutton Passis, CossaU, Gunthorp and Lewdham {sic), in the 
 county of Nottingham, Dunsby, in Lincolnshire, and Wood- 
 land, in Dorsetshire, all which he writes are to pass in this 
 manner, viz., to Sir Francis WUlughby and his heirs male, 
 and for want of such issue, to his heirs general, and for want 
 of such issue to the right heirs. 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir F[rancis] W[iUoughby] to his uncle 
 George WUlughby, about buying land of the Earl of 
 Huntington and others. 
 
 " There is a letter from Lady Arundell to Sir Francis 
 WUlughby to put him in mind of his promise of coming to 
 them, which both she and Mr. ArundeU, she writes, look 
 for, and desire, and if his wife hke to travel with him, she 
 might be welcom. 
 
 " Upon the back side of this letter there is writ the copy 
 of a letter from Sir F[ranci8] W[illoughby] to his sister in answer 
 to hers. He writes that much business relating to his estate 
 prevents his being able to come to her at this time, one thing 
 that hinders is land purchased lately in Cossall, which he 
 doubts he shall lose if there be not some friend to move the 
 Queen, and in this he should be glad to use her help, thinking 
 
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 she would be at the Court before he should be compelled 
 to make his direct answer. He writes that the bargain between 
 his father-in-law and himself is broken off, because he can 
 have no good assurance for the money, and he fears he shall 
 be compelled to sue him. He writes that his wife is great 
 with child, and that if after her dehvery, she shall retain 
 her usual trade, he shall be forced to change his mind as her 
 frowardness shall occasion him. She had burdened him in 
 that by his dealing with her he had been the occasion of the 
 loss of her children, which, tho' not true, he was contented 
 to bear. 
 
 " There is a letter from Lady ArundeU to Sir Francis 
 Willoughby in which she writes that Lady WUlughby's 
 dislike of her coming and writing a letter to Mr. Arundell to 
 stay her, had made her not willing to come to bring 
 unquietness to any place, and much less to his house, where 
 she prays he may be quiet without her, and then she would 
 content herself with forbearing to come. 
 
 " The copy of Lady WiUughby's letter to Sir Matthew 
 Arundel], which stiU remains in the library at WoUaton, is 
 to this effect : That she hears his wife is comming to see her 
 brother, which she desires he will prevent, for she is resolved 
 never to stay in the house where his wife is. She believes 
 Sir Matthew is not ignorant what letters his wife had writ 
 to her brother Sir F[rancis] W[illoughby] four years before this 
 time, in which she would have represented her a person fitter 
 for Bridewell than to trouble any honest gentleman's house. 
 These letters she had ready to shew, to testify the ill will 
 which she bore herself and children, and she believed her 
 commiQg now would tend to no other end but to break the 
 good agreement which there was now between her husband 
 and self, as she had endeavoured heretofore, etc. Dated 
 from Kinsbury, September the 5th. 
 
 " There is a letter from Lady Arundell to her brother, in 
 which she writes that if her comming to his house would stand 
 him in any stead, she shall not refuse to come, tho' she 
 had as great dislike to come into his wive's company as she 
 had to come into hers. 
 
 " In another letter from Lady Arundell to Sir Francis 
 WUlughby she expresses her trouble that what should be his 
 comfort is his greatest grief, and writes that she often imagins 
 how that might be help'd, and would advise that the next 
 time she falls into those rages that he shoiild send for her 
 father to come to her, and that they should both go with 
 him home and board there with a convenient number of 
 servants, till such time as she should have lost her wilfuUness, 
 and would apply herself to please him. Or if he would like, 
 since home gave him no content, to come abroad to her, 
 and keep Christmas with them, Mr. Arundell and she should 
 
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 be glad of his company. But if business would not let him 
 come now into these parts, shortly after Christmas she was 
 to gee upi to wait and stay half a year, in which space she 
 hoped he would take some good occasion to come up. 
 
 "In another letter from Lady Arundell to Sir F[rancis] 
 W[iUughby] she writes that she has spoken to the Lord Keeper, 
 and finds the reason that he was out of the Commission of 
 Peace in Nottinghamshire was because he was in that for 
 Warwickshire, and it was not allowed that one man should 
 be of the commission in two counties, but he might choose 
 which county he would be of the commission in. In this 
 letter she writes that she is glad to hear his wife behaves 
 herself better. 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir John Lyttleton to Sir F[rancis] 
 WiUughby, dated June, 1572, in which he makes great 
 complaints of two of Sir F[rancis] W[illughby]'s servants, 
 viz., Catesbie and Marmyon, who, he writes, spread slan- 
 derous reports of his daughter the Lady WUlughby. 
 
 " There is in this year, a.d. 1572, a long and very par- 
 ticular account in writing of a scene of great villany laid by 
 Ithel, Catssbie, Marmyon, Pardia, Barthol (sic) and Widdison, all 
 servants of Sir F[rancis] WUlughby, who had plotted together 
 to defame their lady, and thereby make a breach between her 
 and Sir Francis. Amongst these wicked servants Ithel seems 
 by this account to have been the worst. 'Tis there noted 
 down that he took great pains to have drawn Squire, another 
 of Sir F[rancis] Willughby's servants, to have been in their 
 cabal, but they could not prevail with him, who would always 
 assert his Lady's inocency and pitty her misfortunes. 
 
 " There is a paper writ by Squire, in which he says he has 
 often heard his Lady with tears bewaile her unquiet life through 
 Ithel and his companyons dealing against her, and belying 
 her to her husband ; and that she had told him that being 
 one day with her husband at Streley, she had heard Sir 
 Anthony Streley say to another gentleman leaning in a 
 windoe with him : ' I am heartily sorry for that poor gen- 
 tlewoman's miserable case, there being certain verlets who 
 villanously seek her utter undoing.' 
 
 " Squire writes that Lady Willughby, upon teUing him 
 this, desired he would stand her friend, and learn what he 
 could of their meaning. But she chiefly fear'd Lady Arundell 
 and Ithel. He writes that he promised his Lady with an 
 oath that he would deal for her faithfully and truely in aU 
 respects. 
 
 " There is an account, of Squire's writing, that one time, 
 when he was going from London to Nottingham, he went to 
 wait upon the Lady Arundell to know if she would command 
 
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 him any service to her brother ; she said she had great matters 
 to talk with him about, such as she was loath to commit to 
 writing, expecting to see him shortly in London, ' which she 
 wiUed me to teU him, if he was not coming towards London 
 before I came to Nottingham. She willed me to stay a while 
 that she might talk with me, for now she had leisure, the 
 Queen being gone to Leicester House.' After a little 
 astronomical! talk, and about mathematical! books in the 
 Italian tongue, etc., she made a large enquiry after her sister, 
 the Lady Willughby, viz., what company she kept, etc. 
 Upon this subject there is a very long dialogue writ down 
 by Squire, too much to copy, but, in short, it plainly shows 
 that Lady Arundell strove to learn of Squire stories of her 
 sister, that she might teU her brother in order to give him ill 
 impressions of his Lady. Squire's answers aU tend to excuse 
 and commend his Lady. He named some of the ladys that 
 she most visited, amongst which were the Lady Stanhop 
 and Mrs. Haddam, to which Lady Arundel answered, ' That 
 woman with her ! I heard so before. Well, my sister doth 
 not well, and I marvell my brother wiU suffer it.' 
 
 " There are many letters from Lady Arundell to Sir Francis 
 Willughby which, as well as this dialogue writ by Squire, 
 shew that she must have been very much to blame in agrivating 
 Lady WiUughby's faults to Sir Francis, and thereby increasing 
 the uneasiness that was between her and her husband. It 
 appears that she had an inquisitive way of picking up all the 
 httle stories that she could of Lady Willughby and then 
 telling them with advantage to her brother. There are 
 severall letters from Lady Arundell to her brother in which 
 she excuses Ithel. And there is the copy of a letter from 
 Sir F[rancis] Willughby to his sister, which shows that Sir 
 Francis had upon examination found Ithel guilty of telhng 
 stories and making lyes of his \\ife. 
 
 " There is a long letter from Lady Arundell, in answer 
 to this from her brother, in which she accuses Squire as the 
 person that had raised ill reports of Ithel, and writes that it 
 was Squire himself that had first told her what company 
 his wife kept, and that she had a great liking to Hadd!am's 
 wife, to which she had answered ham that she wished her 
 sister had chose a better companion, for she was Uke to get 
 no good by keeping her company. Lady Arundell writes that 
 many stories were bruted about by Squire, and that he would 
 find him to be a desembling knave. She had learnt that he 
 had been with the Countess of Warwick to acquaint her that 
 Ithel had told her stories of her sister, and to perswade the 
 Countess not to beheve any thing which she should say of her 
 sister the Lady Willughby. 
 
 " There is the copy of a letter, dated May, 1572, from Squire 
 to Lady Willughby, in which he gives her notice of a great 
 plot laid against her to defame her to her husband, because 
 
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 she kept company with Haddam's wife, who they would 
 represent as a vile woman, but he had ever thought her to 
 be a good honest gentlewoman. He prays God to defend 
 Lady Willoughby from such enemies. 
 
 '' There is the copy of a long letter writ by Sir Francis 
 Willughby, June, 1572, which seems to be an answer to one 
 which Lady ArundeU had writ to him fuU of stories of his 
 Lady, who Sir Francis vindicates, and seems not to credit 
 Lady Arundell's reports of her. He writes that he guesses 
 this comes from Catesbie's wife, who is scant honest, and 
 admit that his wife should keep company with Haddam's 
 wife, doth it follow that she must be touched with the Hke 
 spot of dishonesty? 
 
 " There is a letter from Ithel to Sir Francis WUlughby, 
 in which he endeavours to clear himself from being any means 
 of sowing discord between himself and his good Lady, dated 
 An. D. 1572. 
 
 " There are several copies of letters writ by Sir Francis 
 WiUughby, An. D. 1573, which express much pitty and com- 
 passion for his wife, who was then in a very Ul state of health, 
 and, I beheve, advised to goe to London for better help in 
 her illness than she could find in the country. 
 
 " There is the copy of a letter writ by Sir Francis, June, 
 1573, to his cousin Mr. Thomas Willughby, to let him know 
 that earnest business would not permit him to goe to London, 
 and his uncle George Willughby was obliged to travel to the 
 west, and thereby his wife would not be so weU provided for 
 as he wished in this time of her sickness, and therefore he 
 prayed him that he would vouchsafe to accompainy his wife 
 in town, if his own affairs would suffer him, and that during 
 his abode with her, he would take care that she should want 
 nothing which might either content her mind or be for the 
 recovery of her health, and in his so doing. Sir F[rancis] 
 Willughby writes that he shall not only discharge all the 
 charges which he shall sustain, but also requite him with 
 such friendship as shall rest with him during life. 
 
 " I don't find who this Mr. Thomas Willughby was, but 
 beheve he was the father of Sir Percivall. 
 
 " There is a letter from Lady Willughby to Sir F[rancis] 
 Willughby, dated the 16th year of Queen Elizabeth, being 
 An. I). 1574, in which letter she thanks Sir Francis for the venison 
 that he sent her to London, which she thought the best she 
 ever eat. She writes that her phisitians think it is very 
 dangerous for her to travel. She would have got their leave 
 to have gone to her cousin Thomas WiUoughby's in Kent, 
 and would have made two days' journey of it, but they would 
 not consent to it. She writes that she thinks 'tis very 
 unlikely that she should goe forth her time, if she be with child 
 
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 as she trusts in God she is, and yet some of her phisitians 
 think the contrary. She desires they would give her some- 
 thing, either to help or else to dispatch her quickly, for she 
 thinks death would be a thousand times more welcome to 
 her then to live as she now does continually sick. 
 
 " She writes that she has sent him a hat (which she chose 
 for him herself), which is of the newest fashion, and she 
 thinks a very good fashion for him, because it is not high 
 crowned, so that when he rides a hunting he may go under 
 the bushes and never puU it off. 
 
 " There is in the library at Wollaton a letter writ by Sir 
 P[rancis] WUlughby in March, 1574[-5], to a servant of his that 
 was then in London with his Lady, to enquir of him how 
 his Lady does and what weekly charges do arise. He writes 
 that he gave commandment that the horses should be sent 
 down, but he perceives her mind is now changed, and 
 thereby he is disappointed for the convepng of the children 
 to Middleton. He knows not the meaning of this, unless 
 it be to increase his charges, and if that should exceed the 
 rate he was contented to allow, it would be hardly gotten 
 at his hands, and London standing in the eye of the world, 
 it would not stand greatly with her credit to be still riding 
 in the streets. He would be advertised what time she means 
 to continue in London. He also writes to know if Mr. Creme 
 can find him any treble lutes fit for his purpose. 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir P[rancis] WUloughby, dated 
 May, 1575, to Dr. Smith to thank him for the care he had 
 taken of Lady Willughby during her illness. And since he thinks 
 Buxton waters necessary for her, Sir F[rancis] W[iUoughby] 
 writes that if she would accomplish what he would wish her 
 to do, then he would come himself up to London, and if his 
 leasure would permit him, he would goe with her himself tO 
 Buxton. And whereas he advised her to live in a whol- 
 some air and eschue disorder in her diet and perturbations 
 of her mind, for the air he writes that he thinks she will 
 not mislike the place where he is disposed to dwell, being 
 unwilling himself to be in any air which they could find hurt 
 by, but in this point he desires she will consider her duty 
 rather than to suffer herself to be guided by self will. For 
 her disorder in diet and the perturbations of her mind, she 
 only must help that ; for his part, he would not give her any 
 just occasion of trouble if reason might take place, andwillfull 
 will be laid aside. 
 
 " By these and many more copies of letters that are in 
 the library it appears that Sir Francis and his Lady lived 
 very unhappily together. There is the copy of a letter from 
 Sir Francis Willoughby, dated June, 1575, to Sir John 
 Lyttleton, in which letter he gives Sir John notice of his wive's 
 intentions to goe to Buxton, where, he writes, she means to 
 
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 stay a fortnight, but to what place she will return he knows 
 not, and to be in other men's houses, refusing his own; is not 
 convenient. Such journeys are very chargable and some- 
 times bring more discredit then relief to a sick person. 
 Plain dealing he knows has bread dislike between her and 
 Sir John, but to let her follow her fancies would be meer 
 phrensie. Would Sir John and his Lady, or any other friend 
 of hers, come to confer with him before her going, he would 
 stay her journy some time, but if not before, he would expect 
 to meet them at Buxton, or else at their return from thence 
 at Middleton, where (if she would goe thither) she should be 
 used as became Sir John Lyttleton's daughter and his wife, 
 but if she refused she should have but small maintenance or 
 comfort from him. He expresses sorrow for writing so much, 
 but says necessity forces him to shew his private pain, not 
 that he would stain her good name, but he feared she would 
 injure it by her own inconsideration. 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir John Lyttleton to Sir Francis 
 Willughby, dated from Prestwood, June, 1575, in which Sir 
 John expresses himself very affectionately and friendly to 
 Sir Francis, and beholden to him for his plain dealing touch- 
 ing Lady WiUughby, who he hoped would suffer reason to 
 take place, for she had now faithfully promised that she would 
 be directed by her husband as duty required, and that she 
 would refer herself and cause to him to order as he should 
 think well off, and that at her retiirn from Buxton she would 
 come to Middleton to him and remain there, or at any other 
 place where he should think good, not weighing her health 
 or life so much as contenting him. This done, Sir John writes 
 that he shall then become her friend, notwithstanding what 
 before had happened. 
 
 " There is a letter which Sir Francis WiUughby writ to 
 his Lady at Buxton, in which he wishes that with the 
 recovery of her health, she may also put on a tractable mind, 
 and let her self-will give place to reason, and that she 
 would take the wholsome advice of her best friends. He 
 writes that the horses shall be sent, and he desires she will 
 repair the next way to Middleton that he may have the horses 
 against the time he must goe to Killingworth. He desires her 
 to be as good a wife as she would make shew of being to the 
 world, and let her example cause him to do the like. ' Thus 
 wishing you as myself,' etc. 
 
 " There is a letter from Lady Willughby to Sir Francis, 
 in which she says she finds great benefit by the bath at 
 Buxton, and would gladly have staid longer, but she writes 
 that her sister HoUys must return home, and having taken 
 her as she did, she thinks herself obliged to see her safe at 
 home again. 
 
 " This good accord which now seemed to be begining 
 between Sir Francis Willughby and his Lady did not last 
 long, as will hereafter appear, but I shall here stop to mention 
 
5n 
 
 Queen Elizabeth's going a progress through that part of 
 England about this time. Upon this occasion Sir Francis 
 WiUughby sent to inform himself by George Willughby 
 what would be fit for him to doe. In answer to which there 
 is a letter from George Willughby, dated June, 1575, to 
 let Sir Francis Willughby know that he had advised with 
 several] of the country gentlemen where and in what mianner 
 they intended to meet the Queen, and by what he can learn, 
 their servants need only to have plain hvery coats, but he 
 thinks Sir Francis's number of servants should in no wise 
 be less then fifty, as well because heretofore he had not shewed 
 himseM to the Queen, as also that his estate was very well 
 known both to Her Majesty and the whole Counsel to be 
 nothing inferiotir to the best. For himself, George Willughby 
 writes that he thinks he cannot make less than three suits 
 of apparell, for he is well assured that his attendance will be 
 expected a week. 
 
 " I shall here copy a letter from Sir Francis Knolls to Sir 
 Francis WiUughby to give him notice of the Queen's coming 
 to Wollaton : 
 
 " ' Her Majesty is determined to tarry two days at your 
 house, that is to say tomorrow night and Thursday all day, 
 whereof I thought good to advertise you betimes. Where- 
 fore I think it best for you not to defray Her Majesty, but 
 rather that you should give her some good present of beefs 
 and muttons, and to keep a good table yourself in some place, 
 if you have any convenient room for it, two messe of meat. 
 But do herein as you shall think best, but you had need to 
 consider how your provision of drink, etc., may hold out. 
 This Tuesday, the 20th day of July, 1575. 
 
 Your loving Friend, 
 
 F. KnoUs.' 
 
 " There is no account book or papers that I could find which 
 shewed in what manner the Queen was received and enter- 
 tained at WoUaton. 
 
 " By many books of accounts and papers of the orders in 
 the family it appears that Sir Francis Willughby was very 
 exact in keeping the account of his income and his expences, 
 and that he was very reguler in his family, but many of these 
 papers are so decayed by time that they remain very imper- 
 fect. The only sheet I found entire of those orders to be 
 observed by his houshold servants I shall copy on the 
 other side. 
 
 " ' A copy of some of the orders which were to be 
 observed by Sir Francis Willughby's servants at 
 Wollaton,' I believe about the year 1572. 
 
 " ' Item that Foxe supply the place of the usher, whose 
 office is first of all to see that the haU be kept clean, and that 
 his groom sees no doggs come there at all. He is diligently 
 to have good regard of every person that comes into the 
 
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 hall, to the end that if they be of the better sort, notice may 
 be given to the master, or some head officer that they may 
 be entertained accordingly. If of the meaner sort, then to 
 know the cause of their coming, and to give advertisement 
 over, to the end they may be dispatched and answer'd of 
 their business, provided always that no stranger be suffered 
 to pass without offering him to drink, and that no rascall 
 or unseemly person be suffer'd to tarry there. The covering 
 of the boards [=: tables] doth appertain to the under 
 butler. 
 
 " ' Upon inteUigence given from the clerk or the cook that 
 the meat is ready to be served, he is with a loud voice to 
 command aU gentlemen and yeomen to repair to the dresser. 
 At the neither end of the hall he is to meet the service, saying 
 with a loud voice, " Give place, my masters," albeit no man 
 be in the way, and so to goe before the same service untiU he 
 come to the upper end of the hall, carrying a little fine rod 
 in his hand, which at aU other times he is to carry in his 
 bosom, whereby he is to be known of all strangers to be the 
 usher. He is also to appoint some one yeoman, at his dis- 
 cretion, in the winter time to carry the torch before service 
 in the night time. The dining chamber being served, he is 
 to place in the hall in dinner and supper time all noblemen's 
 men which be fellows together, and all gentlemen according 
 to every of their master's degrees, but before their placing and 
 sitting down, he is to give notice unto the clerk that so many 
 mease are to be provided for, but in that matter the diligence 
 of the clerk is no less required then the usher, to the end that 
 they may both to their master's worship see the same very 
 well served, according to the degrees and number of the 
 strangers there. 
 
 " ' If any great press of strangers shall be, then three or 
 four of the meanest sort of servants, as namely the slaughter- 
 man, the carter, and some of the best of the grooms of the 
 stable, or such like, are to be appointed by the usher to attend 
 in t'hall. If no strangers be, then the grooms of the stable, 
 and the allowed pages and boys in the house, to attend upon 
 the first dinner, and they to have the remainder thereof, with 
 some little help out of the kitchen, as the usher shall see 
 cause. And Ukewise the pages at the latter dinner to attend 
 upon the gentlemen and yeomen, and the remainder of the 
 meat at (sic) after both the dinners and suppers, presently by 
 the usher to be put into the almes table, which is always by him 
 to be kept safely locked, to be distributed among the poor 
 such days as 'shall be appointed. Imediately after supper, 
 if there be any strangers, the usher is with a loud voice to 
 command all yeomen waiters to attend upon the buttery 
 hatch, for the serving of . 
 
 " ' AU disorders in the haU are by the usher to be reformed, 
 and if there shall be any stubborn persons, he is to expell 
 them out of the hall, and to command aU men at dinner and 
 supper time (if any great noise shall be) to keep silence, saying 
 
540 
 
 with a loud voice, " Speak softly, my masters." His part is 
 also to walk up and down the hall, and especially in the time 
 of the first dinner or supper, and only to call and to command 
 the buttler, the pantter, and such as be attendents to bring 
 or fetch any thing that shall be wanting, but not in any 
 wise to doe any service himself, otherwise than diligently to 
 look to the tables. The benefit of the play in this as in 
 many places doth belong to the buttler, but in most imto 
 th'usher. He is dihgently to see that no meat filched 
 forth of the chamber be brought into the haU, nor yet 
 to suffer any waiter to abide in the hall during the time their 
 master is at dinner or supper, nor is he to suffer any filchen 
 through the hall from the buttery, kitchen, or such like places. 
 For he is an officer of great trust and credit, and next to the 
 usher of the great chamber (if any be) in degree, above either 
 cooke, butler, yeomen of the chambers, or porter. 
 
 " ' Penne being appointed for the buttery, his office is 
 ever to keep clean and sweet his buttery, and hkewise his 
 plate and cups, making sure every day to have fresh and 
 clean water, and for the most part twice a day to wash the 
 same withal. His jacks appointed for the hall are to be kept 
 from furring and unsweet savour. His office with th' aid 
 of an under-buttler . is to keep the great chamber clean, to 
 make fires there, and to provide for lights in due season, 
 and to cover the boards and cupboards there, having very 
 good regard to the cleanness of his linen, and likewise to 
 provide for cards and dice, whereof he is to have the profit. 
 
 " ' The under-butler is to cover the boards in the hall. 
 He is to suffer no household servant to remain tipling, or 
 to be at all in the buttery ; but whosoever is disposed to 
 drink to be served at the hatch, and so to depart. Neither 
 is he to suffer any stranger to come in the buttery, other 
 then such as shall be of worship or good reputation, and 
 they to be brought in either by sorae of their officers, by th' 
 usher of th' haU, or else by some discrete gentleman or 
 yeoman, for their better entertainment, according to their 
 degrees and credit. He is to foresee that no breakfast, after- 
 noon meats, nor hancks after supper be had or made there, 
 or if any houshold servant by reason of his business come 
 after dinner and is to have some meat, he is to be served in 
 the hall and not in the buttery. But if any stranger of credit 
 in like case come, he is by th' usher or some other discrete 
 servant to be had into the buttery and not to be served in 
 the haU. 
 
 " ' The butler is also to use good discretion in serving 
 forth of the bread and beer to the houses of office, as to the 
 kitchen, the bakehouse, the nursery, and such like, that he, 
 understanding the allowed number there, may so serve them, 
 as it neither be with want nor yet with over great excess. 
 He is to foresee that his broken beer be safe, and clean kept 
 in sweet vessells for the poor. The buttery door ought not 
 
541 
 
 without speciall cause to be set open till eight of the clock 
 m the morning, and then so to stand till it be nine, and from 
 thence to be shut again till between ten and eleven, and then 
 to remain open tOl all dinners be done, and so after dinner 
 and supper be done to be shut again till between two and 
 three, and then after half an hour or thereabouts to be made 
 fast till five, and so to remain open till nine, and after by 
 no means to be opened that night without speciall cause. 
 The discretion of that officer is to foresee that no filching of 
 bread or beer be sufPer'd, nor yet any want where reason doth 
 require may be greatly both for his master's profit and worshipp, 
 for it is an ofiice both of good credit and great trust. 
 
 " There is a book of accounts^ of Sir Francis WiUoughby's 
 expenses from November, 1572, to December, 1573, in which 
 the sum totall of every month's disbursement stands thus 
 
 £ 
 
 November, 1572, disbursements this month was 100 
 
 December, ditto, this month came to the sum of 115 
 
 January, ditto [1572-3], that month . . . . 102 
 
 February, ditto, this month . . . . . . 71 
 
 March, ditto, disbursements that month came of 36 18 
 
 April, ditto, this month 31 2 
 
 May, ditto, this month 87 19 
 
 June, ditto, this month . . . . . . 45 13 
 
 July, ditto, this month 27 11 
 
 August, 1573, this month 86 7 
 
 September, 1573, this month 178 10 
 
 October, 1573, this month 152 13 
 
 November, 1573, this month 223 2 5 
 
 December, 1573, this month 135 10 11^ 
 
 s. 
 
 4 
 12 
 
 
 11 
 
 d. 
 2 
 2 
 1 
 2 
 1 
 Hi 
 
 Hi 
 
 H 
 
 5i 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 5 
 
 By which book it appears that Sir Francis 
 WUloughby's houshold disbursments for 
 these fourteen months came to the sum of £1394 1 
 
 " A list of servants which did 
 Wniughby and his Lady, 
 for a quarter of a year. 
 
 belong to Sir Francis 
 A.D. 1572, and their wages 
 
 Paid to Mrs. Willughby 
 
 To Mrs. EKzabeth 
 
 To Marjory [Garner] 
 
 To John [Johan Poker] . . 
 
 To John [Johan Beardmore] 
 
 To the Landresa [Alice Launders] 
 
 To Marjory [Parleby] 
 
 To Ehzabeth [Hay] 
 
 To Mary [Scrowin] 
 
 £ s. 
 
 d 
 
 13 6 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 1 This book, which has not been found, is partly, though not wholly, em 
 bodied in the one at p. 421, abo%-e. The surnames are here added in brackets 
 from the latter. 
 
542 
 
 Paid to Henry Willougliby 
 To George Gum [Cam] 
 To Thomas Shaw . . 
 To Rigley [Wrigley] 
 To WUliam Marmyon 
 To the Coachman . . 
 To William Blithe . . 
 To [L.] Rice 
 
 To Gregory [Gr(iffith) Ryce] 
 To [Oliver] Holland 
 To Tom [Belper] . . 
 To Roger [Collier] . . 
 To James Coke 
 
 To the Warrener [John Warrjnier] 
 To Sheperd of Arnol 
 To Sheperd of Basford 
 To John Penne 
 To Hugh [Mercer] 
 To Tom [Thomas Tayler] 
 To William Stock [Stoekes] 
 To John [Dun] 
 To William Derby 
 To Fox 
 To John Gold 
 To WilHam Carter 
 To John Smith 
 To Bright . . 
 To Robert [Mason] 
 To John B[orros] . . 
 To Richard B. [Ric. Lackye] 
 To Thomas S[toekesl 
 To John S[cot] . T 
 To John [Mee] 
 To John Dun 
 To John P. [Ketle ?] 
 To the boy in the kitchen 
 To [Merycokes] the clerk of the church 
 The armorer's wages one quarter 
 The musitioners' wages one quarter 
 
 £ 8. 
 
 d 
 
 1 13 
 
 4 
 
 1 10 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 £43 19 8 
 
 " This account of servants makes no mention of any 
 belonging to the nursery, tho' before this year 1572 I beheve 
 most of Sir Francis Willughby's daughters were born. 
 
 " The two John's set down amongst the women servants, I 
 beUeve might both belong to Lady WiUughby in particular. 
 And Henry Willoughby who is set down first in the Ust of the 
 gentlemen servants was, I beheve, Sir Francis's chief gentle- 
 man, and by the speUing his name mth an o, I beheve he was 
 
543 
 
 of tlie Eresby family, tho' that distinction of the names of 
 the two families I don't find always observed, but that Sir 
 Francis Willughby himself did sometimes write his name ou 
 and that Sir Percivall sometimes with the u only. Therefore 
 'tis very hkely that both famiUes might originally be the same 
 and so speU their names alike, tho' throughout this book 
 I have made that distinction because I most often find 
 Sir Francis Willughby's name spelt without the o and Sir 
 Percivall Willoughby's name spelt with it. 
 
 " There are many letters which show that towards the 
 end of the summer, An. D. 1575, Sir Francis WUlughby and 
 his Lady lived very unhappily together, and that, notwith- 
 standing her fair promises to her father that she would be 
 directed by her husband, she had not been long returned 
 from Buxton before she showed the contrary. Some 
 alteration I beheve Sir Francis had a mind to make in her 
 marriage settlement, which might displease her. 
 
 " There is a letter from George WiUughby to Sir Francis, 
 dated in October, 1575, which shows that he did ill ofiices 
 between Sir Francis and his Lady, for in this letter he desires 
 Sir F[rancis] Willoughby would banish his wife from him, 
 if after her many promises she would not at last yield to 
 pass the fines. 
 
 " There is in the library at WoUaton the copy of a letter 
 writ by Sir F[rancis] W[illoughby] to Sir John Lyttleton, An. D. 
 1575, full of complaints of his wife. Amongst other things 
 he writes that one day at WoUaton, as he was talking with 
 Mary, his fool, of going to Kinsbury, his wife answered she 
 would not goe thither ; upon which he asked her if she would 
 stay at WoUaton or goe to Middleton ; she answered that she 
 would not stay there, and that if she had not been lately very 
 sick he would not have found her there, for she would have 
 been gone before he had returned. He asked her whither ? 
 To which she answered, her friends would not see her des- 
 titute, and she would not bear so much as she had done, and 
 that she would not with her good wiU tarry any longer with 
 him, who, she said, kept her but as a fool, to jest and 
 flout at. 
 
 " There is the copy of another letter from Sir Francis WU- 
 lughby to Sir John Lyttleton, in which he teUs him that one 
 night Sir Thomas Cocken supped with him and his wife at 
 Nottingham, and used many friendly speeches to perswade 
 her to be in a better temper,' caUing her sister, and teUing her 
 he did so because he had but one sister, and her name was 
 Lyttleton. But Lady WiUughby grew very angry, and 
 wished him to fall to his meat, if he had no other speeches 
 to impart to her. Sir Thomas Cockin commended some of 
 the servants for being men of honesty, and wished she would 
 not be so much offended with them : to which she repUed 
 
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 they were the veryest villins that ever woman was troubled 
 with. 
 
 " There are severall letters from Sir John Littleton to Sir 
 Francis Willughby in behalf of his daughter, which letters 
 shew that he endeavoured as much as he could to reconcile 
 Sir Francis and his Lady. In one of these letters he assures 
 Sir Francis that he would by no means plead for his daughter, 
 if he did not believe her very innocent concerning those 
 aspersions which had been cast upon her by malicious people 
 and such as had ill designs upon Sir Francis. i 
 
 " In answer to these letters there is the copy of a very 
 long letter wrote by Sir Francis Willughby to Sir John 
 Lyttleton, in which he gave a large account of his wives 
 behaviour. He wrote that he had long born her froward 
 humour with secret sorrow (which now long of herself was 
 become so publick), and to keep her in temper hehadforborn 
 having his only sister a night in his house for eight years, 
 and then because she came to have stayed three or four 
 nights, his wife went down to the vicarage and sent for him, 
 but he refused to goe to her. The next day she sent to him 
 to know if he would suffer her come into the house to speak 
 with him, he answered that he never forbid her the house, 
 but he desired she would carry herseK as she ought. Never- 
 theless upon her coming into the house she called his sister 
 abominable names, and swore she would neither eat, drink or 
 sleep till she was revenged of her. 
 
 " Sir Francis WUlughby did not write how this dispute 
 ended, but by many papers it appears that from this time 
 they lived very unhappily together, and that Lady Willughby 
 would often fall into passions, which made her say very 
 provoking vexatious things to Sir Francis, who seems to have 
 been a man of great piety and learning. There are in the 
 library at Wollaton a great many very pious discourses writ 
 by him, and several sermons which he made for his own 
 chaplains to preach, and a collection of the most learned books 
 of his time. ^ By copys of his own letters and other papers 
 he appears to have been of a very mild, sweet disposition, 
 and a lover of hospitality, but a little too apt to be imposed 
 on by stories from his servants, who, I bebeve, made some 
 advantages to themselves by aggravating those unhappy 
 differences between himself and his Lady, who seems to have 
 been a woman of wit and virtue, but of a turbulent spirit 
 and ungovernable passions, as one may judge by copies of 
 many of her letters and dialogues, some of which I shall copy 
 here. 
 
 "It is before mentioned (page 70) ^ that the Lady Stanhop 
 was one of those Ladys which Lady Willughby most often 
 viseted, and from her doing so, I believe, some of her enemies 
 
 1 Still preserved at Wollaton. 
 
 2 See page 534, above. 
 
545 
 
 would have raised a jealousie in Sir Francis that Lady 
 Willughby's friendship with the Lady Stanhop did proceed 
 from her liking to be in Sir Thomas Stanhop's company. 
 This made an uneasiness between Sir Francis Willughby 
 and the family of the Stanhop's of Shelford. 
 
 " There is an account that upon Christmas even Sir Francis 
 left his Lady and went to Coventry, and that he took with 
 him great part of the plate, but yet left enough with his Lady 
 for necessary use. At his going away from her, he did 
 require of her a jewel in which was Sir Thomas Stanhop's 
 picture, but she bid him content himself, for he should never 
 have that whilst he lived, and also many other disrespectfull 
 things she said to Sir F[rancis] W[illoughby] at their parting. 
 
 " This jewel, in which was Sir Thomas Stanhop's picture, 
 I find by letters to Lady Willughby was bought by Sir Thomas 
 Stanhop for his own Lady, but Lady Willughby having 
 desired Sir Thomas upon his going to London that he would 
 buy her some such diamonds, and he not meeting with them, 
 writ a letter to excuse his not buying the diamonds for her, 
 and with that letter sent the jewel which he had bought for 
 his own wife, in which was his own picture, which picture 
 he desired might be returned to his wife, and if Lady 
 Willughby liked to keep the diamonds the price of them 
 was sixty-six pounds. 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir Thomas Stanhop directed to 
 the worshipful] Mrs. Marrows (who I believe was Lady 
 Willoughby's sister). He writes that he had received the 
 Jewell, but knew not why Lady Willughby's having the jewel 
 or wearing it should breed any harm, for he bought it reasonably 
 cheap, and meant his wife should have worn it, and there- 
 fore caused his own picture to be put therein, but my Lady 
 her sister having desired him when he went to town to lay 
 out such a sum upon a jewel for her, and he finding none for 
 her price, at his return sent this picture and a letter with 
 it for her to show her husband with the jewel and the picture, 
 and if upon consideration thereof they both liked the jewel 
 for the money it cost, then they might keep the jewel and 
 return him the picture. This letter was dated from London, 
 March, 1578[-9]. 
 
 " Before Sir Francis went this Christmas eve from his 
 Lady (who, I believe, might be then at Kinsbury) to 
 Coventry, I find by a letter from Sir John Lyttleton, dated 
 November, 1578, that she had gone from Sir Francis to Franke- 
 ley. In this letter from Sir John to his daughter, he blames 
 her for comming with others with her to Frankeley, without 
 giving them warning, when she knew that her mother was 
 at Prestwood. He wrote that he refers it to her own rash 
 head what wisdom was in this, and because he hears she 
 intends to come to Prestwood, he thinks fit to let her under- 
 stand that he is not well, and the sight of her will not mend, 
 but greatly disquiet him, and therefore he trusts never to 
 
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646 
 
 see her more. She has forgot the duty of a daughter to him, 
 and he will forget her as his daughter in every thing, but that 
 of prajring for her, that God would bless her and her children, 
 and send her grace to show herself both in life, word, and 
 deed a dutiful wife to her husband. 
 
 " In the long account which Sir Francis Willughby gave 
 Sir John Ljrttleton of his wives behaviour to him, he writes 
 that three weeks after he had left her, he sent to Henry 
 Draycott to goe to her and let her know that he was going to 
 her husband (on purpose to try what message she would 
 send) : her answer was, she would send no commendations to 
 him, for she cared not for him. 
 
 " He writes that soon after he went himself to Kinsbury, 
 taking with him Sir Fowlk Grevell, Mr. Boughton, and Mr. 
 Fisher. Of what passed there, Sir Francis gives in this letter 
 to Sir John Littleton a short account, and elsewhere I find 
 it writ down to this effect, viz.. That after they had supped 
 at Kinsbury Sir Francis Willughby sent to lus Lady (who 
 had before refused to come to supper) to requir her to speak 
 with him ; she sent word she would speak with him in the 
 gallery, where they aU went. What Sir Francis said at first 
 going iato the gallery was not heard by the company, but 
 his Lady answer'd in great coUer, ' I will blaze your arms 
 and make you better known.' Sir Francis pressed her to be 
 reconciled to his sister, which she refused. He then asked 
 her if in aU other things she would be ruled by him, to which 
 she answered she would not be ruled by him. Upon which 
 Sir Fowlk Grevell said, ' Why, madam, wiU you refuse to 
 be niled by your husband ? ' She answer'd she was the 
 Queen's sworn servant and knew not but Sir Francis might 
 command her something against Her Majestie's proceedings ; 
 to which Sir Fowlk said that was an evil objection for a wife 
 to lay to her husband. Mr. Boughton would have perswaded 
 her for her children's sake and her own (for to discredit her 
 husband was to discredit herself and posterity) that there 
 might be a good agreement and love between herself and 
 husband. She answer'd that her heart was hardned against 
 Sir Francis, and she could not love him as she had done. Sir 
 Francis answered her that since his first marrying her to this 
 day her actions had shewed the little love which now her 
 speech made manifest. He asked her how she could answer 
 keeping those servants which he had discharged contrary 
 to his liking. To which she gave him a very passionate answer. 
 And many more disrespectful speeches are set down in that 
 dialogue from her to Sir Francis, who told her of some things 
 which he disliked, to which (says this written account) she 
 answered in mockage that she thanked him, and if she had 
 had a cap she would have put it off to him. Many more 
 spitefull disrespectfull speeches she made which are there 
 copied, but this I think is sufficient to show the nature of 
 their uneasiness, and too much to be noted down by a 
 grand-daughter in the fourth descent from this Lady, 
 
547 
 
 " This meeting, which seems to have been designed in 
 order to have reconciled the unhappy difference between Sir 
 Francis and his Lady, served only to increas that breach 
 which was already made. Mrs. Hearing, Lady Willughby's 
 woman, was with her Lady in the gallery, and to Mr. Fisher 
 expressed her sorrow for what had passed. 
 
 "Sir Francis, having left his Lady at Kinsbury Hall, went 
 into Nottinghamshire. After which Lady Willoughby would 
 have sent some of the men out of the house, but they sent 
 her word that they would not goe. Upon which she went 
 down herself , being led by Mrs. Eliz. Mearing and another of 
 the maids, to have seen them turned out, but meeting Cludde 
 with his sword under his arm. Lady WiUughby cry'd out 
 in a fright, 'What ! will they murther me in my husband's 
 absence 1 ' And upon this, sending down some of her maids to 
 raise the town, there came in Penn and Green and divers others 
 after them, who not being able to appease or satisfie my Lady, 
 she desired them aU to guard her to the vicarage, which they did. 
 
 " Sir Francis, being advertised of this disturbance at 
 Kinsbury, left his business which he had at Colearton, and 
 returned to his Lady, taking with him Mr. Beaumont. Ti}e 
 reception he met with from his Lady was not more kind then 
 before, and much such anotRer discourse passed between 
 them, which remains writ down amongst the old papers in 
 the library at Wollaton. 
 
 " There is the copy of a letter from Sir Francis WUlughby 
 to Sir John Lyttleton, in which he writ, that being to goe to 
 London, he had set down directions for his men to observe 
 in ordering of his family during his absence from Coventry, 
 viz., that Joahn (sic) should look to the ordering of the children, 
 to which his wife said who ever should take upon them to 
 order her children in her presence she would mischief, and 
 she would not be left amongst such villains, but would goe 
 into the town. To which he answer'd that she should not, 
 to make such an uproar as she had done before at Kinsbury. 
 Then she desired to goe to an inn, and send for some of her 
 friends to her, and upon his denying her that, she fell into 
 a most violent passion, threatening to make away with 
 herself, and being denyed a knife would have struck her 
 scissors into her belly if she had not been prevented. 
 
 " There remains now in the library at WoUaton those orders 
 which Sir Francis WiUughby left with his servants, Henry 
 Dracot and T. Cludd, when he went from Coventry to London, 
 February, 1578[-9], and left his Lady in that disturbance 
 which his letter to Sir John Lyttleton gives the relation off. 
 
 " ' A copy of the orders left by Sir Francis WiUughby 
 to his servants at Coventry to be observed during 
 his absence. 
 
 " ' That prayers be said at ten o'clock in the morning, and 
 at five o'clock ia the evening. That the children be there 
 
548 
 
 present, and that after service is done dinner and supper 
 be presently brought up. 
 
 " ' That those persons which I have discharged from my 
 house do not repair thereto, nor have any conference with 
 my wife, or any of her friends till my return. 
 
 " ' That she shall have nothing to do with the children, but 
 that they shall be ordered by such as I shall appoint for that 
 purpose. 
 
 " ' That the household be ordered by the discretion of 
 Dracot and Cludde, and such as I shaU authorise. The weekly 
 charges not exceeding M. 13s. 4d. 
 
 " ' That my wife shall not discharge or receive any servant, 
 nor strike or evil entreat any servant. 
 
 " ' That Arthur Buckly do not suffer any horses to be 
 employed at my wives command. 
 
 " ' That there be no stuff bought in the town without ready 
 money paid for the same. 
 
 " ' That who I shall appoint doe keep the chamber where 
 the stuff is laid, and not suffer my wife to buy or lay any 
 other stuff there. That she have no authority to comand 
 anything in the house except necessary diet for herself. 
 
 "'That in my absence shq shall not send any servant of 
 any message to any place. 
 
 " ' That Dracot and Cludde shall discharge all such as 
 shall break these orders and place others in their rooms, if 
 there be need to have any greater number. 
 
 " ' That the children doe goe to bed strait after eight 
 a clock at night, and are made ready before eight a clock in 
 the morning. And after it is nine a clock at night, nobody 
 must be in the great chamber, but that the fire be raked up 
 and the door locked. 
 
 " ' That the servants be not gading into the town, but 
 give their attendance at dinner and supper, and aU other 
 times.' 
 
 " Lady Willughby could not bear being thus left at 
 Coventry with so little power in her family, and her servants 
 so much, as appears by a letter from her directed to Sir 
 Francis Willughby at London, and dated this February, 
 A.D. 1578[-9]. Her letter was to this effect, that at Sir Francis's 
 late going to London, his pleasure was that she should 
 remain in his house at Coventry, if she could like the same, and 
 further he did order that the mayor and aldermen of the said 
 citty should provide her a house, not being an inn, if she did 
 not like to continue in his house. She writes that after he 
 was gone the servants did deal with her so cruelly that she 
 was not able to bear it, fearing that both herself and the 
 child she went with must have been both lost. Such was 
 her grief, for which reason she went out of the house to meet 
 her brother and some other friends and kinsfolks to confer 
 with them what course she had best to take, minding to have 
 returned home immediately after, but the servants refused 
 
549 
 
 her enterattce, which forced her to goe to a house which the 
 mayor and aldermen had provided for her, in which house 
 she now was, in want of aU necessarys, having no apparell 
 but what was upon her back, nor any money to bear her 
 charges. She desires he will remit and forgive her offence 
 to him in words, and hopes at his return to be received by 
 him, that they may live with comfort together. And till 
 then she desires his answer by the messenger what she shall 
 doe. 
 
 '* There is a letter from Lady ArundeU. (who 'tis probable 
 might bear her brother company when he return'd again into 
 the country, and that she might write him this letter soon 
 after her returning home). In it she says that she hears his 
 wife is very joyfull for her departure out of the country, and 
 that her gossips give out that she will use all the means she 
 can to come to his presence and use speeches of great sub- 
 mission, although she means not to perform them. And that 
 the mayor and cittyzens of Coventry have promised her so 
 diligently to solicit the matter, that there is no heart so hard 
 as not to be moved to pity, much less his, whose natural 
 disposition is to be courtious. 
 
 " There is another letter from Sir John Lyttleton to Sir 
 Francis Willoughby dated November, 1579, in which he 
 complains of his age and unfitness to travel, and for that reason 
 he entreats Sir Francis to take the trouble of comming to 
 Frankley, where he would be as wellcome as any friend, and 
 when they were together, he hoped they might put an end 
 to the difference between himself and his Lady, in which 
 cause he thought nobody was so fit to deal as he, her husband, 
 and himself, her father. 
 
 » 
 " There is another letter from Sir John Lyttleton to Sir 
 Francis WUloughby, dated December, 1579, in which he 
 writes that he has sent to his daughter to know what she 
 would desire Sir F[rancis] WHlughby should allow her for 
 maintenance ; to which she had answered that she requested 
 nothing but to be reconciled to his favour and to live with 
 him. Sir John in this letter heartily desires Sir Francis to 
 accept the same, but if he will not, then he desires he will 
 consider whose wife she is, and of what family she is 
 descended from, and accordingly proportion his allowance 
 to her during the time of their separation. He writes that he 
 thinks she can't have less than a gentlewoman to attend her, 
 a nurse for her young son, a maid to help the nurse and to 
 be laundress to them all, a boy needful about the nurse and 
 to make his Lady's fires, and a serving man to wait upon 
 his Lady. And for their tabling he trusts Sir Francis will 
 allow for his wife sixteen pence a day, and for each of the 
 servants eight pence a day, and for wages he thinks he can't 
 
650 
 
 give less than fifty-three shillings and four pence a year 
 a-piece to the woman nurse and man, and to the landress 
 and boy twenty-six shillingSL and eight pence a-piece. He 
 leaves it to Sir Francis to name what he wiU allow for apparel, 
 for his wife and little son (who he prays God to bless with 
 many happy years), and what money he will allow her for 
 other needfull expenses. He thinks it wUl be also needfull 
 for her to have a couple of geldings to use when she shall 
 have occasion to ride. 
 
 " There are many letters from Lady Willughby to Sir 
 Francis, in which she acknowledges herself to blame for her 
 unhansome speeches and disrespectful carriage to him. 
 In one she writes that she had been his wife 16 years and 
 borne him 12 children, that he cannot accuse her of any breach 
 of her marriage covenant, all the faults he charges her with 
 are disrespectfull speeches, which she is sorry for, and once 
 more she offers her humble submission to him, it being the 
 fourth time, which she protests was first sealed with her heart 
 before it was signed with her hand. But if he thinks this 
 not sufficient, she desires he will set her down any other 
 reasonable form, and he shall find her both ready to yeild 
 to it and willing to perform it. She desires he will consider 
 how many false stories he has given credit to, told by those 
 who mortally hate her, as that in truth she was not with 
 child when she left him, but only feigned herself to be so; 
 afterwards that the child was dead, and even now that it 
 is suborned and none of her own. 
 
 ' There are several letters which were writ by Sir Francis 
 and Lady Willughby's friends about this time in order to 
 reconcile those unhappy differences which were between them ; 
 amongst which there is one from Thomas Duport, who 
 expresses great good wOl to Sir Francis Willughby and his 
 family. He writes that he knew his father Mr. Heiury 
 Willughby and Lady Ann, his mother, and also hia grand- 
 father. Sir Edward Willughby, dwelling in Dorsetshire, and 
 also his great uncle Sir John Willughby, dwelling at Collarton, 
 who aU lived worshipfuU in their callings, and he hoped yet 
 to see himself and his Lady live happily together for the 
 good of them both, as well as their chilcfren, who were now in 
 a manner bereft of loving parents and good educations. He 
 begs pardon for his rude writing, wishing to see him live in 
 such worship and estimation as his ancestors in his knowledge 
 had done, concluding 
 
 ' Yours to my little power.' 
 
 " There are severall letters writ by Lady Arundell about 
 this time to her brother Sir Francis Willughby. In one she 
 puts him in mind of taking a house against he comes to London, 
 and tells him there is one to be had in White Freers, which 
 
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 stands near the Temple, of which, the haK-year's rent will 
 be six pounds ; and another house is to be had in Chanon 
 Row, which was the Controler's. 
 
 " In another letter she writes that she has sent her geldings 
 for his coach, being glad to hear of his bringing his children 
 to London ; she writes that if he wiU go forward with his 
 determination, it will make his wife's stout stomach to yeild, 
 and he wiU find many friends to take his part. She advises 
 that if his wife does not come to town, he would order her 
 to remove out of the house and town of Kinsbury, lest she 
 should cause some mischief to it, which he would he forced 
 to recompence. 
 
 " There is a very long letter from Lady Willughby to 
 Sir Francis, in which she writes that it is near two years 
 since she had been banish'd his company and forbid his house ; 
 in which time she had suffered great traveU of body and 
 trouble of mind, wandring from place to place and depending 
 wholy for reUef upon borrowing of friends. 
 
 " There is a letter from Trussell (who seems to have been 
 Lady WiUughby's friend) to his uncle Marmion (one of Sir 
 Francis's servants). In this letter he expresses to his uncle 
 a great value for Sir Francis Willughby's famUy, and hearty 
 concern that some caterpillars about him do eat up the 
 branches of his good name. He writes that Lady Willughby's 
 cause will be heard by the Earl of Leicester and Sir Francis 
 Walsingham, and reported to the Queen. 
 
 " There is the copy of a very melancholy letter writ, I 
 believe, about this time by Sir Francis Willughby to Sir 
 John Lyttleton, in which he laments his misfortunes, and 
 wishes for death, rather than to continue so vexatious a Hfe. 
 He writes that he is now threatened by his wife that she will 
 complain of him to the Queen, which would be to discredit 
 herself. 
 
 " There are many letters from Lady Arundell, which seem 
 to have been writ about this time, to her brother, that shew 
 a good deal of ill nature towards Lady Willughby, and one 
 of those letters is upon a quarrell which had been between 
 Sir Francis and the Stanhops. She dates it from the Court 
 and writes that she hop'd they should have met and had 
 conference together of such things as had hapned since 
 their last being together. She had made enquiry (she writ) 
 for the Lord Talbot's coming up, who, she had heard, was to 
 have ended matters between himself and the Stanhops ; 
 but being to goe out of town now herself, she could not speak 
 with him, but she wishes it were urged in this sort that they 
 should openly acknowledg that they had abused him, and 
 so to desire his good will, or else she would not have him 
 end matters with them. And for that proud fool Edward 
 
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 Stanhope, who made comparison to be as good as Sir F[rancis] 
 W[illoughby], she would have his servants revenge it of him 
 till he should be weary and glad to give over and seek his 
 favour. She writes that their braging and his suffering it 
 occasions parly to his discredit. 
 
 " In this letter she says that Lady Willughby was now 
 at Sir Edward Sutton's, who would give her certain knowledg 
 of her behaviour. 
 
 "There are some letters to Sir F[rancis] Willoughby which 
 makes Sir Thomas Stanhope appear to have been a very 
 haughty, captious gentleman, and by the copy of a letter 
 from Sir Francis to Sir Thomas Stanhope, I believe tho' 
 they were neighbours, they were not very good friends. One 
 of the paragraphs in the letter was : ' And whereas you 
 desire me to be my own secretary, for that you love not 
 emba^ssages by servants' pens, I have at this time satisfied 
 your request, but to be always so far tied would be very much 
 for me,' etc. 
 
 " It does not appear how this quarrel with the Stanhops 
 ended. 
 
 " There is another letter writ by Lady Arundell to Sir 
 Francis Willughby to perswade him to draw a catalogue of 
 his wives faults, and send papers with it to the Secretary 
 Walsingham and the Earl of Leicester, to prevent their 
 interceeding with the Queen in her behalf. Here Lady 
 ArundeU reckons up faults to be noted down, viz., Lady 
 WUlughby's disorderly life, her watching late contrary to 
 his liking, her keeping such company as he did mislike, her 
 turning away Robinson out of the house at a time great 
 matters did depend, her maintaining servants in Warwick- 
 shire which he had turned away, her reviling him to his face, 
 her running out of the house and raising the town at 
 Kinsbury. 
 
 " In another letter Lady Arundell writes Sir Francis 
 Willughby that it is bruted his wife is dead, but she beUeves 
 that he finds it is her over quickness and not deadness that 
 troubles so many. She writes that she often resorts to the 
 Court and there talks her pleasure of her, thinking thereby 
 to hide many of her own faults, which if she could, she was 
 to be borne with, for the number of them was not a few, and 
 to lye of others was no diminishing of them. Her friends 
 (she writes) wish she would come up to answer her, but she 
 means not to bestow her time so iU. She writes that the 
 Lord Chancellor will be earnest with him for her to get rid 
 of her, for she is so importunate with him that it is very 
 troublesome. 
 
 " It does not appear how these matters in dispute between 
 Sir Francis Willughby and his Lady ended, but there is a 
 writing which shows that. An. D. 1582, he was obliged by the 
 Queen to allow her two hundred pounds a year for separate 
 maintenance. 
 
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 " There is a letter from Henry TrusBell, dated December, 
 1580, to Sir Francis Willughby, to give him an account of 
 the death of his little son, which occasion 'd great grief to 
 all about him, but especially to the comfortless Lady, his 
 mother, who, he writes, had been very sick ever since. He 
 solicits Sir F[rancis] W[illoughby] to be reconciled to his Lady, 
 concluding with a prayer that they might both forget what 
 was past, and be inspired with perfect love for the future. 
 
 " There is a letter from Lady Willughby to Sir Francis 
 writ some time after this child's death, in which there is many 
 tender expressions in relation to the family. She writes 
 that she had hved from him till she was above forty years old, 
 and she feared if a reconciliation could not soon be made, 
 she should be past child-bearing, and that now, tho' she 
 could not expect it without hazarding her life, yet she would 
 contentedly run that hazard, with the hopes to establish the 
 house of the WiUughbys. 
 
 " There remains no answer from Sir Francis Willughby 
 to this letter from his Lady, but upon the death of this little 
 son I believe he immediately resolved to marry his eldest 
 daughter Brigit to Percivall Willoughby, the eldest son of 
 Thomas Willoughby, of Boreplace, in Kent, whose great- 
 grandfather was Christopher, Lord Willoughby, of Eresby, 
 in Lincolnshire, which family of the Willoughby's I shall 
 hereafter give an account off. 
 
 " This Percivall Willoughby was, I believe, a youth of a 
 tender constitution, and therefore advised while he was very 
 young to travell. There are letters from his govemour writ 
 from France to Mr. Thomas WiUoughby, which give a long 
 account of him, chiefly in relation to his health. 
 
 " There is a letter from Lady Arundell to Sir F[rancis] 
 Willoughby writ about the time that the Duke of Alanson^ 
 left England. In this letter she says that Monsieur is at 
 the seaside to take his journey to Flanders, where he is 
 desired to take the government. The Lord Leicester and 
 the Lord Hunsdon are to accompany him thither. Her 
 Majesty with most of the Court are gone to bring him to the 
 seaside. (Sir R. Baker says that in February, a.d. 1581-2, 
 the Queen brought the Duke of Anjou on his way as far as 
 Canterbury, and then commanded the Earl of Leicester, 
 the Lords Charles Howard, Hunsdon, Sheffield, Willoughby, 
 Windsor, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Francis Russell, Sir George 
 Bourchier, and some other prime knights to accompany him 
 to Antwerp, where he was made Duke of Brabant, Limburgh 
 and Lorrain.) And if his journey thither be no more pros- 
 perous then it hath been here, Lady Arundell judges he 
 will make fewer hereafter. In this letter she writes that her 
 cousin Percivall Willoughby was going into France, which 
 she thought would doe him good. She dates her letter from 
 
 1 Alen<;on 
 
SS4 
 
 the iiOrd Admirall's House, Purford, but the date of th6 yeat 
 is not put to any of Lady Arundell's letters ; that of this 
 may be known by the Duke of Alanson, who, after three 
 months' stay in England, took his leave of it in February, 
 A.0. 1583 [read 1581-2]. 
 
 " There is a letter from Lady Arundell, dated from 
 Hampton Court, to let Sir Francis Willoughby know that 
 Pen had reported to her great likelyhood of her son's good 
 success in learning, etc. 
 
 " There is a letter from Lady ArundeU to her neece Briget 
 WiUughby to enquire if the traveller which she looked for 
 was yet come, and in this letter she desires to know when her 
 son Arundell meant to retiu-n (by which I beheve her son 
 went to France with Mr. Peroival Willoughby). She writes 
 that when her husband last saw Sir Francis Willughby he 
 told him that he had once thought of sending for her and her 
 sisters home for the summer, but he had altered his mind, 
 thinking it unfit for them to be in his house without some 
 woman of discretion to advise them. This made her think 
 that when her cousin Percival did come home, they would 
 not be sent for, and therefore she looked that they should 
 both come and rest with her all the summer, and at Michaelmas 
 she would bring them up to town and be at their wedding. 
 She writes that she was hkewise desirous to have her sister 
 Dorothy and to keep her with her till she was bestowed in 
 marriage, for she thought her house a meetter place for her 
 then where she was, and therefore she desired her neece that 
 when she next sent to her father, she would let him know 
 how willing she was to have them. 
 
 " There are several letters from William Arundell to his 
 uncle Sir Francis Willughby, complaining of hard usage 
 from his father, which, he writes, must proceed from want 
 of affection for him, because he never was undutiful to him. 
 His brother's marriage, he writes, goes on very happily, with 
 which his father is contented, and he alone remains rejected. 
 He writes about trees (which I suppose SirF[rancis] W[illoughby] 
 had employ'd him to get for him), and says in his letter that 
 those which my Lord had were given him by merchants, and 
 that unless he were Lord Treasurer he should not have them 
 at that price, and that the times were now so dangerous that 
 no merchants durst venture over, but if Sir F[rancis] W[iIloughby] 
 would let him know, he would do what he would have him 
 about getting the trees. 
 
 " There is in the Ubrary at WoUaton a book which gives 
 an accoimt of money raised by Sir Francis Willughby above 
 the produce of his land, An. D. 1579, in which the sums totaU 
 are : £ s. d. 
 
 For wood sold at Wicken, Kinsbury, etc. . . 281 8 
 For fines let 20 13 
 
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 E'er iron made at Middleton wMch had cost 
 
 Sir Francis in geting 604Z. Os. 5d. received 752 12 6 
 And for coal sold from An. D. 1576 to a.d. 1580 1652 17 10 
 
 " There is in the library at Wollaton a book of Sir Francis 
 Willughby's accounts for An. D. 1580, which book shews that 
 Sir Francis with ten servants set out from Wollaton upon 
 the 2nd of November, begining a journey then towards 
 London. This book is very particular in the account of his 
 expences upon this journey, viz., that at Packington he spent 
 13s. 4d., that the next day at Daintry he paid for supper, 
 breakfast, and for horse meat 31. Is. By this account he 
 lay the second night at Brickhill ; there is set down the par- 
 ticulars of his expences there, which for supper, breaMast 
 and horse meat in all comes to 3Z. 8s. Ad. There is also set 
 down the particular account of what he spent at St. Albans, 
 for supper, breakfast and for horse meat, the sum of which 
 was 21. lis. M. 
 
 " This book does not tell where he rested by the way upon 
 this journey, but shows that he did not get to London till 
 Friday, November the 8th, and that he with only one man 
 supped at Mr. Thomas Willoughby's house. There is set 
 down in this book for the supper that night for eleven of Sir 
 Francis Willughby's men, and three carters, and for Mr. Fisher 
 and three men paid at the White Hart in Holbourn the sum 
 of lis. Sd. This book shows that November the 9th, being 
 the next day, Sir Francis Willughby began to keep house 
 in Lincoln's Inn Grange, the particulars of that day's dinner 
 is set down, and that tlurty-f our persons dined with Sir Francis ; 
 the sum of that day's expences was 11. 8s. 1 Id. And that the 
 next day forty-eight persons dined with Sir F[rancis] 
 W[iUoughby], and forty-two .persons supped with him. Every 
 dish of meat is there set down and what it cost ; the whol 
 sum for diner and supper was 21. 16s. lid. Thus particular 
 each day's expence in London is set down in that book from 
 November the 8th till the 30th. That day Sir Francis went 
 into Kent to the wedding of his daughter Brigit. 
 
 " There is set down in this book of accounts paid for Mrs. 
 Brigit Willoughby's wedding apparel, as by the biUs at large 
 may appear, 1561. 18s. 9d., and paid to Mr. Thomas Willoughby 
 in part of wedding goods, 500?. Paid to Mr. Repington for 
 drawing books between Sir Francis Willughby and Mr. 
 Thomas Willoughby, 21. 6s. 8d., and paid his man for engrossing 
 them, 11. Given to Mrs. Brigit Willughby, two pounds ; 
 and to her taylor for going three times into Kent and mend- 
 ing the gown, ten shillings. Given to the trumpeter going 
 into Kent, six shillings and eight pence. Given to the butler 
 at Boreplace, 6s. ; to the yeoman of the celler, six shillings , 
 to the cook, ten shillings ; to the chamberlain, four shillings ; 
 to the pantler, three shillings ; to the usher of the hall, three 
 shillings ; to the servant that helped to dress the horses, 
 one shilling ; and given to a pursuivant, 6s. 8d. 
 
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 " This book shews that Sir Francis stayed at Boreplace 
 till the 6th of December, and that he came that night to 
 London and stayed there till the 17th. The particulars of 
 every dinner and supper and the number of people that dined 
 with him every day is set down in this book during the time 
 which he stayed in London. This book also shews that 
 December the 17th he lay at St. Albans, and that his supper, 
 breakfast and horse meat came to il. 6s. lOd. His expenses 
 upon this journey at Northampton, Harborough and Leicester 
 is also set down in this book. 
 
 " There is another book of accounts for a.d. 1584 which 
 shows the particulars of Sir Francis Willoughby's weekly 
 expenses that whole year, which in all amounted to the sum 
 of 1,847?. Is. 3ld. There is set down that year for two butts 
 of sack, 221. 10s. . . . 
 
 " There are many letters from Mr. Percivall Willoughby 
 to his Lady, both before and after their marriage, severall of 
 which are so torn as to be hardly legible. In one he writes 
 that his pen is insufficient to express his joy to receive a letter 
 writ with her own hand, the pattern whereof he tenderly 
 harbour'd in his heart, but he is amazed to see her term him 
 a master to her, whom in heart he honours, in duty 
 reverences, in love and loyalty faithfuU serves and obeys, 
 in all entire affection is most carefully tender ; and of whom 
 he always desired, and to his power deserved, if not to be 
 entertained as a faithfull friend and servant, at least to be 
 retained as a well wiUer, remaining in her power and pleasure 
 to be comanded, etc. 
 
 " He writes that ' we unadvisedly sowing the seeds of our 
 joys [are] altogether ignorant when to make our harvest. 
 Delays, my only dear, breeds danger, and doubtfuU minds 
 suspect the worst, yet doubt you not of this that I love and 
 live to be only yours. Some think it an ease to have a 
 partner in their grief, but sorry should I be to have thee par- 
 taker of my sorrows; I wish thee part of all my joys, but in 
 grief I would suffer alone. 
 
 My letters should be longer, good heart, if business did 
 not force me to make them short, but tho' my hands faint, 
 my heart shall never fail, tho' pen and paper wast, my 
 love and liking shall increase, and albeit my ink freese for 
 cold, my good will in fervency shall fry. So long as life shall 
 last or you with like affection vouchsafe to blow the coles of 
 my hot desire, I crave only that thou believe, try and trust 
 me. I heartily thank you for the mirth in your letter, and 
 am sorry my melancholy mood will not suffer me to be as 
 merry with you. Wherefore till I am better disposed, my 
 dear, adeu. 
 
 His own never, if not yours ever. 
 
 Per. Willoughby.' 
 
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 " Another letter he begins thus ; 
 • My best beloved Black, 
 
 I have used all means possible for your comming to 
 town, but can't prevail. Your father doubts if you were 
 here you would either see your mother, or your mother see 
 you, which he in no case would whUe he is in town^ other- 
 wise our marriage had been here, etc. I pray send up the 
 measure of your finger for your wedding ring, etc. 
 
 Yours only. 
 
 Per. Willoughby.' 
 " I believe Mr. Percivall WiUoughby and his Lady were 
 both very young when they married, and that it might be 
 intended by both their fathers that Mr. P[ercivall] W[illoughby] 
 should travell the spring after they were married. 
 
 " There is a letter from Mrs. Willoughby, dated from Bore- 
 place, in Kent, to her father, Sir Francis, fuU of expressions 
 of great duty and respect to him, and of distrust of her own 
 being able to indict a letter to him as she ought, her small 
 skill and little use of writing she hopes will make him excuse 
 this her first letter. 
 
 " She writes that she is very well used by her father and 
 mother-in-law, and her cousins, for which she desires when 
 he sees her father-in-law he will return thanks. 
 
 " She writes that Mr. Percivall is now upon begining his 
 travels, which she prays God to prosper, and grant him well 
 to return, and begs Sir Francis wiU not forget him in his 
 absence. Her aunt ArundeU is now at the Lord Lincoln's. 
 
 " This letter bears no date, but Sir Francis Willughby's 
 answer to it is dated March, An.D. 1581 [-2] . He writes that he is 
 glad to hear she is so well used by Sir Percivall's relations, 
 but of that he was always well assured, and to continue it must 
 be her own care, for 'tis not beauty nor fortune but good 
 qualities and a virtuous disposition which makes a gentle- 
 woman esteemed ; therefore 'tis her good behaviour that 
 must gain her own credit. He desires she will learn by others 
 in time (she may ghess who he means) to be wise and not 
 repent too late. That now at first enterance she should 
 frame herself a dutjrful wife, and that she should take care to 
 be in deed such a woman as she desired to be esteemed, and 
 thus she might encrease and long enjoy her friends, in order 
 to which two things were needful, serving God and knowing 
 herself. He bids her therefore serve God first in the morn- 
 ing and last at night with earnest affection, even from the 
 heart, and not for custome sake. Next he bids her know 
 herself, what is and what is not fit to be done, that she may 
 follow the good and refuse the evell ; he bids her be carefull 
 to keep good company, because ill company soon infects 
 those that are well inclined, etc. 
 
 " There is the copy of a very affectionate and respectfull 
 answer from Mrs. Willoughby to this letter from Sir Francis, 
 her father ; in it she returns him many thanks for his 
 
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 fatherly counsel to her, which (she writes) she will endeavour 
 to follow. She thanks God that she is placed amongst good 
 company, honest and well disposed people, who show them- 
 selves very friendly to her. Her duty to her husband she will 
 unfeignedly be carefuU to perform, having the example of 
 others seldom out of her mind, and cause to learn to be wise 
 by other's harms. 
 
 " She writes that the week before she had a letter from her 
 husband, who was going to Geneva ; at his departure (she 
 writes) that he told her he would gladly hear by letter from 
 Sir Francis what he would have him chiefly labour to learn 
 in his travells, and he had writ to him to that purpose. 
 
 " The copy of a letter from Mr. Percivall Willoughby to 
 his Lady before he went to traveU. 
 " ' Hard's the hap that some men have, and who is born 
 under an unlucky planet must seldom or never look for good 
 fortune. . . . To you I have linked my hking and liberty, plighted 
 my faith and troth, and yielded myself to your courtesy and 
 subjection, all which how inwardly you esteem'd I know 
 not, but outwardly it rather seems to be rejected then 
 accepted, the greater is my grief and the more in silence do 
 I sorrow, etc. . . . Might I be privy to your f ancyes, I would frame 
 myself to your fashions, etc. . . . Little I know I do deserve and 
 less I desire. My suite and service I confess not to be much, 
 and yet such as if any of them might please you, there 
 should be no want in me, but, alas ! how may I please when 
 I must not know what breeds your displeasure ; you utterly 
 estrange yourself and your discontents from me, and rather 
 shew me your tears then impart the cause. . . . Words may slip 
 unawares from me or be taken wrong, but would you 
 friendly and freely impart your mind to me I would as will 
 lingly mend what were amiss, as I am sorry I should offend 
 there where I love most, for whom and to whom I only live 
 and care, and in whose joys I repose my greatest felicity. 
 But if you shall secretly sorrow before me and feed me only 
 with lowring looks, as one not able for sorrow to endure 
 the sight of it, I shall be constrained to forsake both my 
 friends and country till such time as I shall certainly both 
 hear and believe you to be more affectionate to him who 
 loves you best. Thus not knowing when again to see you, 
 and finding you unwilhng to speak to me, I have used this 
 for want of conference as my last and best farewell, desiring 
 you (what misery soever I endure) to think of me as I am, 
 that is yours, and only yours. 
 
 " ' sorrow must my senses tast, 
 
 Which once did swim in bhss, 
 Sithe fortune hath me tied so fast 
 
 And bids me leave to wish. 
 The siUy ship, wherein I sailed 
 
 And past from place to place, 
 
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 At anchor tied must still abide, 
 
 Thus alter'd is my case. 
 The waiidring wings of my free-will 
 
 Are clipped to my pain, 
 And in that plight to take my flight 
 
 I labour all in vain. 
 The pleasant winds are aU now ceas'd 
 
 Which 1 
 
 But seas of sorrow are increas'd, 
 
 Which beat against my boat. 
 Such heavie hap is him bequeath'd 
 
 Which sought a place of joy, 
 But now of solace quite bereaved 
 
 Is harbor'd in annoye. 
 
 More faithful then fancied, 
 
 Per. Willughby.' 
 
 " The copy of a letter from Mr. PercivaU Willoughby to 
 his Lady when he was abroad. 
 
 My Dear. The only solace of my sohtary mind, if the 
 thoughts thereof had not continual recourse to thee, my 
 pensive passions would set my heart afloat to aU kind of 
 sorrows, and so still languishing I should both see and suffer 
 a daily pain, and in a short time my aU and finaU confusion. 
 The only comfort which now I receive since parting causes 
 me to judg of my past happyness, when I did enjoy thee 
 being present, and now in absence worthily to esteem the 
 greatness of so great a pleasure by wanting it. 
 
 Pardon me, I pray thee, in that so rashly I went from 
 thee, and condemn me not of diScourtisie. The penance 
 which I suffer may seem sufficient for such a fault, and the 
 httle ease which as yet I receive in my journey (whenever I 
 return) will learn me so much wit as to think myself well when 
 I am well. The case, good heart, is so much altered with 
 me, to come from my friends and aU that's dear to those I 
 know not, a people which I understand not, and who when they 
 speak most friendly mean least good, their meat and kind 
 of dressing I rather loath then hke, their drink being wine, 
 I can't away with. Thus lead I a life fuU of discontent, 
 both in body and mind, so that perswade thy self though I 
 can't make any greater place for thee in my heart then I have 
 done, I shall both love and like my country far better, 
 in the mean time, however, I doe. Make thou thy self happy 
 as thou mayst, and so, sweet soul, my love and life is only 
 thine. 
 
 [Sketch of heart transfixed with darts. } 
 
 PercivaU Willoughby.' 
 
 " It does not appear in what year Mr. PercivaU WiUoughby 
 was knighted, and therefore from this time I shall call him 
 
 I No explanation of this blank is given. 
 
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 Sir.^ While he was at Lyons he took a French gentleman to 
 teach him Italian, who was, I believe, a very proud, haughty 
 person; his name was Francis Conrados. This servant Sir 
 PercivaU seems to have been very kind to, and there is an 
 account that at his first comming to WoUaton he desired Sir 
 Francis would give him leave to eat at his own table, and 
 that he would have had Marmion's chamber for him, but 
 that Sir Francis would not grant, but I think he had Cludd's 
 chamber. Marmion and Cludd were two of. Sir Francis 
 Willughby's favouret servants. Marmion was an ill man, 
 aa appears from his endeavour to asperse his Lady, and cause 
 the separation which was between Sir Francis and his Lady. 
 'Tis likely Cludd, too, might have been in that cabal, 
 because when Sir Francis left his Lady at Coventry, in 
 February, 1578[-9], Henry Dracot and T. Cludd were the 
 two servants which he trusted with the care of his family, and 
 who must have been the chief which Lady Willughby writ 
 to complain off to Sir Francis ; in which letter she says that 
 after he was gone to London the servants dealt so cruelly 
 with her that she was not able to bear it. 
 
 " These, and I believe many more of Sir Francis's servants 
 had very little regard to the interest of their master or his 
 family, but made it their chief care to inrich themselves, 
 which, I beheve, they found more easie for them to doe when 
 Sir Francis Uved by himself then when his Lady or any of his 
 children lived with him. And therefore 'tis very likely that 
 the}' might resolve when Sir PercivaU came to live at 
 Wollaton, that they would make Sir Francis uneasie with 
 him as soon as they could, and so make them part again. 
 This unlucky request which Sir PercivaU made in behalf of 
 Conrados, his man, gave them but too good an opportunity 
 to put in practice what I believe they might resolve by any 
 means to bring to pass ; there are letters which shew that 
 Marmion and Cludd were both extreamly angry at Sir Percivall's 
 asking for their chambers for his French man, and Corn-ados, 
 trusting to his master's kindness for him, did, I believe, 
 carry himself very insolently in the famUy, for it appears 
 that pretty soon after Sir PercivaU came to Wollaton there 
 grow very great discontent and uneasiness amongst Sir Francis's 
 servants. 
 
 " There is a letter from Mr. Thomas Willoughby to his 
 son. Sir PercivaU, dated April the 14th, 1584. In this letter 
 he advises his son to be carefuU how he meddled in the 
 differences amongst Sir Francis's servants, because if he took 
 part with the one that would make the other his enemy. 
 
 "This advice I believe Sir PercivaU followed. I also believe 
 that he soon grew uneasie at the haughty carriage of his man 
 Conrados, and repented that he had not at his first bringing 
 
 1 In a note the authoress adds: "Since the writing of this book I have 
 found that Sir PercivaU Willoughby was knighted by King James the First in 
 Middleton Hall An. D, 1603, and that I have here given hirn the title of 
 knighthood twenty years too soon." 
 
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 him to WoUaton kept him to a more humble and respectful 
 behaviour towards Sir Francis's servants, whose quarrells 
 amongst themselves and their dislike to Conrados gave him 
 so much trouble that he soon found it would be necessary 
 for him to part with Conrados in order to make himself more 
 easie. Conrados had great expectations from his master's 
 kindness to him, and finding that he was to be turned out 
 of his service, and that Sir Percivall would take no farther 
 care for him, he turned so base a villain to his master (as 
 appears by letters and old papers in the Ubrary) thathe joyned 
 in confedracy with Marmion and Cludd, before they parted, 
 to render Sir Percivall as odious as was possible to Sir Francis, 
 by reporting scandalous stories of their own making to Sir 
 lYancis of Sir Percivall. 
 
 " Marmion and Cludd, I believe, had long been striving 
 to make Sir Francis believe that Sir Percivall only courted 
 and respected him till he could get his estate made secure 
 to him, and that whenever he did settle that upon him, he 
 would find that Sir Percivall had very little regard for him, 
 and that self interest was the only cause of his good behaviour 
 to him now. 
 
 " These wicked servants found Conrados a proper tool for 
 them to work by, and as soon as he was gone away from his 
 master, they had contrived a letter for Conrados to write to 
 upbraid Sir Percivall for his breach of promise in turning 
 him away as he had done. In this letter Conrados enlarged 
 upon his own faithful! services, and blamed his master's 
 ingratitude to him, and then accused his master for being 
 guilty of many ill actions, and in that letter told him of many 
 disrespectful words which he had spoke of Sir Francis, and 
 that he had threatned that if he could but get Sir Francis 
 Willughby's estate made secure to himself Sir Francis should 
 not live long after. Much more to this effect there is in this 
 letter concerning Sir Francis, and in it he also accuses his 
 master of saying many reflecting things of Sir Francis's 
 Lady. 
 
 " This letter (of which a copy now remains in the library 
 at Wollaton) was contrived by Sir Francis's servants to be 
 given to Sir Francis instead of Sir PercivaU. Sir Francis 
 receiving the letter read it, and never suspecting the designs 
 which those villains had upon him, believed all that which 
 Conrados had writ was true of Sir Percivall. 'Tis easy to 
 believe that Sir Francis was highly provoked by such treatment 
 from his son Percivall, who till then he had used with a 
 fatherly kindness. And there are many letters which show 
 that Sir Percivall suffered under excessive grief for being thus 
 slandered, and not able to make his innocence appear. 
 
 " There is a letter from Mr. Thomas WiUoughby to his 
 son Sir Percivall, dated March the 24th, 1585[-6], writ, I believe, 
 upon his first hearing of Conrados's accusation against his 
 master, by a letter from Sir Francis to him. 
 
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 " In this letter Mr. Thomas Willoughby blames his son's 
 behaviour and want of wisdom, if he had ever had any such 
 discourse with his man Conrados as his enemies make 
 appear. He desires him to take heed, and not seek to revenge 
 himself, which might disquiet Sir Francis, but to endeavour 
 to purge himself from this pretended infamy by all honest 
 means. He writes that the letter which he received from 
 Sir Francis was opened before it came to him, and that he 
 hears there is a copy of that infamous letter come to Lady 
 Willughby's hands, who for the goodwill she bears him will 
 suffer nobody to have a copy of it, but reads the letter herself 
 to all that come to her. Mr. Willoughby writes that he 
 heard Mr. Thomas Markham gave Lady Willughby the copy 
 of the letter, and that he had caused Francis Conrados to 
 justifie the letter before the Lord Talbot. 
 
 " Old Markham hated Sir Percivall because he had 
 opposed the match between his son and Margaret Willoughby, 
 the treaty whereof I shall hereafter give an account of. 
 
 " There is a letter from Mr. John Adams to his brother 
 Sir Percivall, dated from Boreplace, August the 24. In this 
 letter he begs Sir Percivall will not hazard himself with Mark- 
 ham, but rather bear the tempestious rage of so foolish a 
 storm. He writ that Markham 's first plot was upon his repu- 
 tation, which in the end would turn to his own discredit, 
 but now that he seeks his life, he begs he will trust to himself 
 and other friends to revenge the quarrel. He desires Sir 
 Percivall to consider that he is a married man and that the 
 propigation (sic) of two honourable houses rests in him, etc. 
 
 " There is another letter from Mr. John Adams to his brother 
 Sir Percivall, dated An. D. 1587, to let him know that he had 
 heard that his drawing upon Markham by the Lord Chancellor's 
 house was taken very hainously, and therefore he thought it 
 would be well for his cousin Robert Willoughby and his father 
 to viset the Lord Chancellor and open the whole cause thereof 
 to him. 
 
 " By some of the old letters it appears that Markham had 
 concerned himself very much in the affair between Sir Percivall 
 and his servant Conrados ; which Sir Francis took so iU from 
 him that he gave that for one reason why he was against 
 marrying his daughter to him, saying the dislike which he 
 had to Sir Percivall upon a hght French report, the author 
 infamous and of no credit, might cause a division amongst 
 his children. 
 
 " There are several letters from Mr. Willoughby to his 
 son Sir Percivall, which shew that he took great pains to 
 discover and lay open Conrados's knavery, and also to justifie 
 his son and make his innocency apparant, and also letters to 
 comfort his son, who (by the account of that affair) appears 
 to have suffered under extream affliction for being thus 
 aspersed, and not able to clear himself. 
 
 " In one of his letters he tells Sir Percivall that he did 
 before admonish him that no means would be wanting to 
 
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 discredit him to Sir Francis, and to lessen his character in 
 the world, but now he desired he would ease his mind by 
 considering that this sort of dealing had been usuall in all 
 ages, and that at length shame would be the reward of such 
 infamy, for time would hear truth. He advised him and 
 his good wife with all reverence to serve God, and to neglect 
 no duty to Sir Francis, whose honest nature would, he doubted 
 not, in time be cleared from false suggestions and abuses. 
 Wherefore, not respecting worldly advancement, his prayer 
 for him was that God would give him a contented mind 
 amidst such broiles as this world was pestered with. 
 
 " There is a droling letter from John Pickerell to Sir 
 Percivall, in which he writes that he had daily expected to 
 hear of his death and destruction, and to have seen his final 
 end upon Nottingham gallows, for the fancyed murder of 
 Sir Francis Willughby, which he believed had rather been 
 intended by his accusers then ever thought of by himself. 
 He desires Sir PercivaU not to grieve, but remember whence 
 he is, and despise such false hearted foes. He advised him 
 to shake off his melancholy, and to spend his patrimony 
 in the defence of his reputation, and God would be his 
 buckler. 
 
 " There is a letter from Mr. WUloughby to his son Sir 
 Percivall to let him know that he had been three times with 
 the villain Francis Conrados, and that he had sent to tell 
 him that if he would give him forty pounds he would justifie 
 his master to Sir Francis WUloughby, and confess the whole 
 truth ; which was that Blyth, Marmion and Clud had set 
 him on, so to defame his master. Clud, he said, was the 
 greatest knave, and had given him money and promised him 
 more. In answer to this, Mr. WUloughby told him he should 
 have such a reward as his villainy deserved. In this letter 
 Mr. WiUoughby tells his son that he has writ this account 
 of Conrados at large to Sir Francis. 
 
 " There is a letter from Mr. WUloughby to his son Sir 
 Percivall, dated June the 9th, 1585, in which he writes that 
 Sir Francis Willoughby's Lady and he are grown to great 
 friends, that she opens all her griefs to him, of Marmion, 
 Clud, etc. 
 
 " There is another letter from Mr. WUloughby to his son 
 Sir PercivaU WiUoughby, dated An. D. 1585, in which he 
 advises his son to live more thriftily ; he desires him to 
 consider the expence which he has been at for him already, 
 and writes that he must raise fortunes for his brothers and 
 sisters, but lets Sir PercivaU know that he has sent him such 
 linnin as he can spare, and a sUver salt. In that letter he 
 writes that Sir Francis is so foUowed by Markham, Fisher, 
 Cludd and Marmion, that he hardly does any thing without 
 them. 
 
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 " I could find no account how or when Sir Francis was 
 reconciled to Sir PercivaU, but by many letters from Thomas 
 Markham and copys of Sir Francis Willoughby's answers, 
 An. D. 1586 and 1587, it appears that Sir Francis and Sir 
 PercivaU were then good friends. 
 
 " There are no papers which shew what part Sir Francis 
 Willughby's lady took in this troublesome affair. But by 
 what Mr. Thomas Willoughby writ his son PercivaU of her, 
 viz. that she had a copy of Conrados' letter, which she read 
 to aU that came to her, one may believe she took no pains 
 to doe him justice. 
 
 " There are letters which shew that this Lady Willughby 
 spent part of the time she lived from her husband at 
 Hogsden,! and that while she was there her daughter Brigit 
 Willoughby was in London, and never went or sent to see 
 her mother. 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir PercivaU to Lady WiUughby 
 to excuse his wife on that account, to which letter there is 
 Lady WiUughby's answer, dated May the 18th, 1584, in which 
 she writes that she does not think him answerable for his 
 wives faults, and that if in forgetting her duty to her she 
 had contented any other (I believe meaning Sir F[rancis] 
 W[iUoughby]), it was well done, and she was content to make 
 a virtue of necessity, trusting hereafter to have more comfort 
 of her. In this letter she assures Sir PercivaU that her only 
 hopes was in him that he would do his best to reconcUe her 
 husband and herself, which was the only thing she wished 
 in this world. 
 
 " There is a letter in the library at WoUaton which was 
 writ by this Lady WiUughby to her husband in December, 
 An. D. 1585. The letter was to this effect : that notwith- 
 standing the manifold wrongs and wants which she had 
 sustained for the space of seven years past and the just cause 
 she had to hate those who by their leud and false reports 
 had been the contrivers thereof, yet she solemnly protested 
 that she heartily forgave them. She returned him her humble 
 thanks for vouchsafing her his company and conference ; a 
 happy entrance, she hoped, to a full and perfect reconciUation 
 betwixt them ; to which as on her part she should in aU good 
 and convenient sort be directed by him, so she trusted he 
 would hold her excusable if, by the advice of her good and 
 wise friends, she should refuse to enter into hard conditions, 
 which she does not believe could come from his own disposition 
 but from the mahce of those who have laboured all they can 
 to keep them a sunder, of which she could name many, but 
 would only mention one who, fearing a hkelyhood of their 
 comming together and finding false reports to him of 'her 
 took not the effect he expected, hke a cuning woodman changes 
 
 1 Hoxton, CO. Middlesex. 
 
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 his course and under coUour of friendship to her would 
 insinuate that Sir Francis went about to sue a divorce between 
 them, for which purpose certain fellows had undertaken to 
 find out a supposed child, which suspicion had been bruted 
 greatly to her discredit, whereas if it had pleased him at first 
 when this slanderous report was brought to him to have called 
 her to answer for herself, his mind might have been better 
 sattisfield and her reputation not so much impaired, in defence 
 whereof she still stands, and will to her dpng day, in defyance 
 of any villain or verlett that shall impeach it. In this letter 
 she offers to come from London if he will send for her and 
 receive her again into his house with his first favour as his 
 honest and lawfull wife. She prays for his health and long 
 life, and desires he will give to her poor children the fruitless 
 blessing of their unfortunate mother. 
 
 " There is a letter from Lady ArundeU to Sir Francis 
 Willoughby, which seems to have been writ about this time 
 and is to that effect : 
 
 " ' Methinks the time long now since I either saw you or 
 heard from you, and therefore I could not pass so good an 
 occasion of sending as I now have, that thereby I might learn 
 in how good state of health both you and yours now are, which 
 in myself I feel so to decay, as it maketh me more mindful I 
 to enquire of the state of my friends, etc. I pray let me know 
 how well your purchase and your building goe forward, which 
 you have in hand ; they both together seem to me great 
 matters to goe forward at one time. From the Court, 
 February the 14th.' 
 
 " The building which Lady Arundel! means was, I believe, 
 WolJaton new house. The old hall was built near the church. 
 What now remains of that old building is turned into three 
 or four farm houses, of which one is about a quarter of a mile 
 from the rest, which was the dairy house to the old haU. The 
 new house is placed upon a hUl about haK a mile from the 
 old hall, from whence there is a very noble prospect of 
 the country round it. One side of the house looks upon the 
 castle and town of Nottingham ; from another there is a 
 fine view of Clifton House and gardens, the seat of Sir GervEis 
 Clifton ; from the other sides of the house there is the 
 prospect of several houses and little villages, and each corner 
 and middle of the house pretty near point to churches that 
 are about two or three miles off. The house itself is a very 
 noble pile of building, but it being less easie to describe it by 
 writing then by drawing, I design to place at the end of this 
 book a draught and a plan of it, and shall therefore only 
 mention here that Sir Francis Willughby began this building, 
 A.D. 1580, and finished it a.d. 1588. The master workmen 
 which built the house he sent for out of Italy, as also most 
 of the stone figures which adorn the house. All the stone 
 
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 which it i8 built with was brought from Ancaster in Lincoln- 
 shire by the people who dwelt there, and who exchanged their 
 stone with Sir Francis for his coal, which they carried back 
 from WoUaton. But notwithstanding the stone and its 
 carriage cost nothing but the return of cole which Sir 
 Francis made for it, and that at that time labourers' wages 
 was very small, yet it appears by a very particular account 
 of the building, which still remains in the library, that the 
 building of that house cost Sir Francis WiUughby four-score 
 thousand pounds.^ 
 
 " In this year, a.d. 1587, Sir Francis WiUughby married 
 his second daughter Dorothy to Henry Hastings, the son of 
 George, the younger brother of Henry, Earl of Huntyngdon. 
 There are a great many letters from that Earl (who spells his 
 name Huntyngdon) to Sir Francis, concerning this match, part 
 of which I shall copy in the account which I shall hereafter 
 give of this Dorothy WiUughby and her four younger 
 sisters. 
 
 " There is the copy of a letter writ by Sir Francis to this 
 Earl of Huntyngdon to excuse himself for not keeping their 
 wedding at his house, nor desiring that the young couple 
 should stay with him till Michealmas, because, by reason of 
 his wives absence and the furniture of his house being much 
 decayed, he had not designed to keep house this year, and 
 therefore had not made such provision of corn and cattle and 
 other necessaries as would be needfull for him to discharge 
 himself with credit to such an assembly, and therefore he 
 hoped Lord Huntyngdon would hold him excused for their 
 continuance with him after. the wedding. 
 
 " This copy of a letter is not dated, but another, which is 
 writ upon the same sheet of paper, and I believe at the same 
 time, is dated June, 1587, which makes me beheve they were 
 married about that time. 
 
 *' Wollaton new house was not finished till the year after 
 this, and it is likely Sir F[rancis] Willoughby did not care to 
 buy any new furniture till he went into that house. 
 
 " There are other letters in the library at WoUaton which 
 show that that summer. An. D. 1587, Sir Francis WiUughby 
 married his third daughter Margaret to Robert Spencer, of 
 Wormleighton, in Warwickshire, descended from the ancient 
 barons of that name, which Robert, being a person of a great 
 estate, was by Letters Patent (bearing date July the 21st, 
 the first of King James) advanced to the dignity of a baron 
 of this realm by the title of Lord Spencer of Wormleighton. 
 The ceremony of his creation was performed at Hampton 
 Court, and soon after he was sent to the Duke of Wirtenburgh 
 
 1 This account has not been found. The figures given represent in the 
 money value of the time an enormous sum. There is probably some mistake 
 either in the figures themselves or in overlooking other things in the account. 
 Part of the building accounts are noticed at p. 152, above. 
 
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 with the ensigns of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Prom 
 this Robert Spencer and Margaret, his Lady, the present 
 Earl of Sunderland is descended. 
 
 " There are in the library at WoUaton several letters and 
 papers which were writ An. D. 1588 that shew there was a very 
 villainous design carried on by one Payne, a servant of Sir 
 Francis Willughby's, to render him suspected by the Queen 
 and Counsel of joining with the Spaniard[s] at the time of their 
 invasion, and a copy of articles exhibited in Her Majesties 
 behalf by this Robert Payne against Sir Francis Willughby 
 to the Lords of her Privie Counsel, whereby he would 
 maliciously have made it appear that Sir Francis Willughby 
 was in the Spanish interest, that he had plotted with severall 
 priests to aid and assist the Spaniards in their intended 
 invasion, that he had hindred the firing of the beacons to 
 give the people notice of their danger. That he had made 
 a deed of gift of his estate, which Payne said he believed was 
 done in order to defraud Her Majesty, if any concealment 
 of treason should be found against him. That for fear of 
 Payne's discovering all this. Sir Francis had endeavoured to 
 get him murdered, and that he had corrupted Payne's counsel 
 so that he could not prosecute him in the Star Chamber, and 
 therefore he petition'd the Privie Counsel, in behalf of the 
 Queen against Sir Francis Willughby, laying before them 
 these articles of accusation against him. 
 
 " There is no account how this matter ended, nor what 
 became of Pajoie, but I am apt to believe Sir Francis would 
 not let him go unpunished. And it appears that one of our 
 family, viz.. Sir Ambrose WiUoughby, was one of those 
 gentlemen who at their own charges hired ships to joyn the 
 English Admiral in order to encounter the Spanish Armada. 
 This Sir R. Bacon^ gives an account of. 
 
 " There is a letter from Mr. John Adams to his brother- 
 in-law Sir Percivall WiUoughby, dated June 15th, 1588, in 
 which he writes that he heard Sir Francis was sent for up 
 by a pursivant to appear before the Lord Chancellor. 
 
 " It appears by many of the old papers that there was about 
 this time a great scarcity of money in England, and that Sir 
 Francis Willughby, by his building, and in the midst of that 
 marrying two of his daughters, had run himself in debt, and 
 that he often employed Sir Percivall and Mr. Thomas 
 WiUoughby, his father, to borrow money for him and to be 
 bound with him for it. 
 
 " There is a letter from Edward WiUoughby to his brother 
 Sir PercivaU, dated November, 1588, in which he writes that 
 money grows every day scantier than other, and that those 
 that have money stick not to ask twenty in the hundred for 
 it, and that such are men's wants that rather than they wiU 
 go without it they daily give it. 
 
 1 Sir Richard Baker's Chronicle, 1653, p. 544. 
 
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 " In this letter he tells this story of Alderman Catcher and 
 Alderman Skinner, that they were both by order of the Privie 
 Counsel committed to the Fleet for whiping two gentle- 
 women in Bridewell as common whores, ^ and it was supposed 
 it would cost them 2,000Z. before they got out. The Queen 
 taking the matter hardly against them, their fine was like to 
 be the greater. 
 
 " One of these gentlewomen was wife to him that sue'dto 
 be Lord Latimer, and the other was Captain Nuname's 
 wife. 
 
 " There is the copy of a very angry letter from Lady 
 Willoughby to this Alderman Catcher, who, I beUeve, had 
 writ to her in behalf of Sir Percivall, at a time when she had 
 a quarrel with him, which, I believe, hapned very soon after 
 she was reconciled to Sir Francis, her husband. 
 
 The copy of part of that letter from Lady Willughby 
 to Alderman Catcher. 
 
 " ' You causlessly condemn me of unkindness to Percivall 
 Willoughby. I will forbear to repeat his unfriendly behaviour, 
 because I will not disclose his faults to a babling fool. 
 Expecting no better than the worst you can practice, I stay 
 my own trouble, and stay you your tongue, for albeit I am 
 fatherless, I am not husbandless nor friendless, btit 
 A dispiser of vain fools, 
 
 EHz. WiUoughby.' 
 
 " There is a letter from Edward Willoughby to his brother 
 Sir Percivall, dated from Boreplace, December, 1588, in which 
 letter he desires Sir Percivall will have a care of old Spencer 
 and his cousin Robert, who he beheves have some ill design 
 against him ; and writes that they now labour to bring Lady 
 Willughby to live with Sir Francis. 
 
 " There is another letter writ the same month from 
 Edward W^illoughby to his brother Sir PercivaU to let him 
 know that Lady Willughby now speaks marvilous well of 
 him, and that she had told him her son-in-law Spencer had 
 been with her, and told her that Sir Francis Willughby was 
 a most wise man for not disposing of his land in his own life 
 time, and for his part if Sir Francis should dye, he would keep 
 possession of one of the turrets of the new house. Spencer 
 also told her that Sir PercivaU kept his wife from viseting 
 her, to which she had answered that she could not believe that, 
 because P[ercivall] W[illoughby] had told her that his wife should 
 come to her whenever she pleased ; to which she said Spencer 
 answer'd that Sir Percivall could afford her little if he could 
 not afford her fair words. 
 
 " I believe at this time while Sir PercivaU might be in 
 London with Sir Francis WUlughby and his Lady, my 
 grandfather was born. For there is a very affectionate letter 
 
 1 See the letter of John Adams to Percival Willoughby, p. 158, above. 
 
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 writ by Sir Percivall to his Lady, dated from London An. D. 
 1588, to congratulate her upon the birth of her son. He 
 stiles her his best beloved, and writes that upon the news her 
 mother was sadly out of humour, and vented her anger upon 
 her maids. But Sir Francis seemed to be very glad, tho' 
 as yet he would doe nothing for the child, and was every day 
 in a thousand minds what to doe with his estate. He expresses 
 great concern for his leaving her, and promises not to be so 
 long absent from her again, writing that if Sir Francis had 
 not promised him as he was a Christian to see him satisfied, 
 he should not have stayed from her with such grief and 
 vexation of mind as he had now done. He desired she would 
 cherish and content herself, and prayed God to send their 
 son happier days then his parents. 
 
 " There is a very angry letter from Lady WUlughby to 
 her son Percivall, which is not dated, but I believe might be 
 writ about this time. In this letter she tells him that she 
 marvels much he dares be so saucy to medle where he had 
 so little thanks, and that he came for no other end but to 
 cozen Sir Francis of his money, and to tell him lyes and 
 tales, but it were good for him to get home in time for fear of 
 afterclaps, and say he had fair warning. ' I will not vouch- 
 safe my name at this time, because if thou can'st not guess 
 right, thou may'st goe shoot at rovers this fair weather with 
 thy silence keeper.' 
 
 " There is a letter from Lady Willughby to her husband. 
 Sir Francis, dated from the Grange, July, 1589, full of com- 
 plaints against his servants. Those who he most trusted, she 
 writes, were not faithfull to him ; one of them was a near 
 kinsman to the Lord Huntyngdon and prevented his selling 
 his western land, out of regard to his young Mrs., their 
 daughter. She writes that she desires he will conceal this 
 till she comes down (which she hopes wUl be quickly), and 
 then she will let him understand such a plot of knavery 
 amongst his own men as she believed was never used towards 
 so good a master as he had been to them. She desires in this 
 letter that he will keep his son Hastjnigs out of the mess till 
 she has spoke with him. 
 
 " In this year, a.d. 1589, there is an account of Lady 
 Willughby's going to London for the recovery of her health. 
 There are in the library severall very kind and submissive 
 letters writ by her to Sir Francis while she stayed in town. 
 
 " In one, dated November, 1589, she tels him that their 
 daughter was delivered of a girle, and writes that she had 
 been to try her brother Willoughby's house in London, which 
 she did not think fit for them to be in, the furniture was so 
 mean that she was fain to have all her own found, and besides 
 the house was so cold that in winter she could not be able 
 to endure it. She beseeched him to have a care of her health, 
 
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 iojc tho' she must bear that, he would the charge of her 
 sickness ; but what was his will she would willingly obey. 
 She writ that she marveled his charges should arise to ten 
 pounds a week since her comming away ; before, when things 
 were dearer, at the most their weekly expences was but eight 
 pounds. She writ[e]s that she leaves him to judg if his 
 charges has not been lessen'd since her comming home. She 
 desires in this letter that her coach-horses may be sent to 
 fetch her home again. 
 
 " In another letter Lady Willughby tells Sir Francis that 
 she has found but little benefit by her medicines, tho' her 
 phisitians spare neither his purse nor their own pains, tho' 
 she writes they take but twenty shillings a day, and come 
 twice for it. 
 
 " There is a very kind letter from Lady Willughby to her 
 daughter Bridget, dated An. D. 1592, in which she offers them 
 the Chauntry to dwell in, which if she and Sir Percivall approves 
 off, she will have the house repaired, and they shall have the 
 keeping of twenty cows and Sir P[ercivall] W[illoughby]'s 
 geldings, which (by her manner of writing) she thought would 
 be better for them than to continue at Middleton. 
 
 " There are also very kind letters from Lady Willughby 
 to her daughter Bridget, An. D. 1593, who was then big with 
 child. In one she mentions sending her wine, etc., and desires 
 B[ridget] W[illoughby] will not make strange of any thing which 
 she can pleasure her withall, but believe the more bold she 
 is the more she shall think she loves her. 
 
 " There are several letters from Lady Willughby to her 
 son Percivall, some very kind, and others the reverse of them. 
 
 " In one letter to him she complains that when she was absent 
 from her husband and in want, her other sons-in-law often 
 remembred her with many good things, but he never sent 
 her any thing, nor lent her a groat. 
 
 " In a letter. An. D. 1593, Lady Willughby desires her son 
 Percivall wiU get for her a tunn of the best claret wine and 
 a barrell of sack. 
 
 " There is another letter from Lady Willughby to her 
 son Percivall, in which she promises to use her utmost 
 endeavour to get Sir Francis's estate made secure to him, 
 provided he would help to discharge his debts. She tells 
 him he is too apt to take offence, and confesses she is herself 
 to blame for sharpness of nature ; but if he will trust her, she 
 will be kind to him, and evermore friend and assist him, in 
 which should she fail, she bids him then lay her own hand- 
 writing to her charge. 
 
 " She prays for his good success in his business at London, 
 and that Kmsbury may be redeemed, and hopes that he and 
 Henry Willughby may soon come down to WoUaton to let 
 leases and provide sumes of money to untie the many mort- 
 gages. 
 
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 " There are in the library at Wollaton many very kind 
 letters from Sir Francis Willughby to Sir Percivall, writ 
 from An. D. 1587 to An. D. 1593 ; many of those letters were writ 
 to desire Sir PercivaU would help him to money, and to desire 
 he would be bound with him for several sums of money. 
 
 " In one of these letters Sir Francis desires Sir Percivall 
 will find him a chapman for Steeple Hall, for his debts grow 
 so great that without the sail of that and some other things 
 the interest money will eat up the profit of his revenue. 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir Francis to Sir Percivall, dated 
 An. D. 1591,. to desire he would be bound with him for the 
 sume of 1600M. to Thomas Peyn for the payment of SOOli. 
 which he was to lend to Sir Francis Willughby. 
 
 " Sir Francis seems then to have employed Sir Percivall 
 in all his affairs, and to approve of what he did, and gave him 
 a writing, which was drawn up by Mr. George Lyttleton, his 
 lady's brother, to secure to him the inheritance of Wollaton, 
 Cossall and Trowell and of Middleton and Kinsbury. 
 
 " There is a letter writ by Sir Percivall Willoughby to his 
 Lady to give her notice that her mother was then very sick, 
 and to desire she would send her some of her preserved bar- 
 berrys and some cherries, and to send his dog, because they 
 wanted a dog to kill partridges for Lady Willughby ; and 
 with this letter there is the copy of a very affectionate letter, 
 which he desired she would write to her mother. 
 
 " There is a letter writ, I beHeve, about the same time to 
 Lady Willughby by Robert Spencer, her son-in-law, dated 
 An. D. 1594, in which letter he expressed great concern for her 
 sickness, which had continued so long upon her, and which 
 he had heard, was so extream that he doubted of her life, 
 and that put him now upon writing plainly to her, which he 
 hoped she would pardon, because he did it for the good of 
 her children that were unmarried. Upon which account the 
 world blamed her, saying that if Sir Francis and she had not 
 come together again, they would have been as well or better 
 bestowed then the rest of their sisters, which was very un- 
 naturall in her, and she must expect God would lay the burthen 
 of their offences upon her if they should do otherwise then 
 well. He himself (he writ) had made divers motions for their 
 marrying such men of worth, both for living and behaviour, 
 as had he had sisters of his own, he should have been glad 
 they might have had them. But those offers she had received 
 so contemptably that had not her extream sickness now hap- 
 ned, he should have used no more speeches about them, 
 but that made him write his opinion that she should now take 
 care for them and show the world that she did not hate her 
 own flesh. For should God call her, she might be sure Sir 
 Francis would marry again, and then she might judg what 
 regard would be had of her children. 
 
572 
 
 *' There is no account of the time when Lady Willughby 
 dyed, but I believe it was her last sickness, and that she dyed 
 An. D. 1594. 
 
 " There is a letter without date from Abigail Willughby 
 to her sister Brigitt in which she writes that she hoped they 
 should now have happier days, and that her father would 
 send for her again to WoUaton to supply her mother's place, 
 which she found herself unfit for. 
 
 " There is a letter in the library which was .writ by Sir 
 Francis Willughby to Mr. Thomas Willughby, An. D. 1595, 
 I believe soon after his Lady's death, to borrow his house 
 in Lincoln's Inn Fields. To which letter there is Mr. 
 Willoughby's answer that he was very sorry that he could 
 not furnish him with that house, having let a lease of some 
 of the rooms half a year before. 
 
 " This house, I find, was often borrowed of Mr. Willoughby 
 when he was in the country himself. In March, 1595[-6], Robert 
 Sackeville writ a letter, which yet remains in the library, 
 to borrow it for his wife and the Countess, etc. 
 
 " By the old papers in the library at Wollaton there is 
 reason to believe that Sir Francis Willughby's servants did 
 intend to get from their master some of their Lady's Jewells 
 after she was dead. It was a fashion at that time in very 
 rich embroaderys upon cloaths to mix pearl upon spangles 
 with the gold and silver. Such a sute of cloaths, I believe, 
 this Lady had when she dyed, part of which I believe 
 stiU remains in the wardrobe at Wollaton. ^ This garment 
 was made of crimson velvet, the body of which seemed 
 to have been richly embroadred, but that embroadry was 
 picked off ; in the skert of the gowne there was ten breadths 
 of the velvet about a yard and haK long, the bottom of which, 
 by the marks upon the velvet, appear'd to have been 
 embroadred about four inches deep, and also an embrodry 
 of the same breadth had been on each side of the fore part 
 of the skert of the gowne, the velvet was also marked quite 
 round the skert about fourteen inches from the top, which 
 shew'd that it had been gathered there, which made the 
 farthingale round the hips, which old pictures shew was the 
 dress of that time. With this gown I found in the ward- 
 robe a muff, which was a square piece of rich embroadry, upon 
 which there was some pearl, the other side was sables, and 
 this muff was made to tye together with ribbons. Theire was 
 also a cap richly embroadred, and two long feathers, one 
 black and the other white, which, I believe, was to be worn 
 with it. Such a cap this Lady Willughby's picture is drawn 
 with upon her head, and she is also j-ainted in such a gowne 
 
 1 There are several garments of this period still preserved, with others of 
 later times, at Wollaton. 
 
573 
 
 as I believe this might have been. There was also with these 
 cloaths a frame of wire for the hair, which was to fix jewels 
 in to ware upon the head. There was also some scolloped 
 lace which I believe had been a ruff, and several hoUand 
 head bands and quoives^ for the head made of fine hoUand 
 embrodred with silk, gold and spangles, design'd for such 
 a dress for the head as many of Queen Anne Bullen's pictures 
 are drawn with. There are also in the wardrobe another 
 gowne with a farthingall skert made of black farrendon,^ and 
 laced with black and gold lace. There was also two white 
 wrought waistcoats to be worn with petticoats, which I believe 
 was the undress then in fashion. 
 
 " After this long digression which these old cloaths have 
 led me into, I must return to the first sute upon which I believe 
 the pearl might have been, and also that part of that pearl 
 Lady Willughby might have borrowed of her daughter 
 Brigitt, because I found a letter from her writ to Fox (who 
 was one of Sir Francis's servants), after his Lady's death, to 
 desire she might have such Jewells retm-ned as she had lent to 
 the Lady her mother, viz., pearl to the value of 30i., buttons 
 of gold valued at 181., and in old gold 14Z., and also some 
 other small Jewells. 
 
 " In this letter she writ that Russell had worn some of the 
 pearl since her mother's death, and she had seen some of 
 the buttons worn, and for the old gold, her mother had most 
 of that about her when she dyed. 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir Francis to Sir Percivall, dated 
 April the 24, 1595, to let him know that he would have him 
 meet him at London, and that he should bring with him the 
 rents of Middleton, Kinsbury, and Wyken, and the accounts 
 of the iron mills, and also he must bring with him that 
 writing which did secure to him the inheritance of WoUaton, 
 Cossall and Trowell, Middleton and Kinsbury. 
 
 " I could find no account of Sir Percivall's going to London 
 at that time, and believe he might excuse it, fearing to trust 
 Sir Francis with that writing which he had order'd him to 
 bring. 
 
 " The old papers show that Sir Francis made but a short 
 stay in London, and that at his return to Wollaton he sent 
 to Sir Percivall to come from Middleton to him there, and 
 that at this meeting at Wollaton there passed so much 
 unkindness between the father and son that Sir Percivall 
 went away fpom WoUaton upon the 23th of July, 1595, without 
 taking any leave of Sir Francis. 
 
 1 Coifs. 
 
 2 A kind of cloth made of silk and wool or hair. The earliest quotation in 
 the New English Dictionary, s.v. 'Farandine,' is in 1663, and the invention of 
 the fabric is ascribed to c. 1630. 
 
574 
 
 " There is the copy of a letter which Sir Percivall writ soon 
 after his return from WoUaton to Middleton to Green, who 
 had been his friend, by pleading in his behalf to Sir Francis. 
 In that letter he tells Green that he had been sent for in hast 
 to WoUaton, but his entertainment was such that he stayed 
 not long, and that hereafter he would frame himself to endure 
 loss and disgrace with less disturbance. He desired Green 
 because he had been an old servant, a loving friend, and a 
 faithful peacemaker, to meet Sir Francis at Fox's, but writ 
 that he believed his father-in-law was so resolute in his own 
 overthrow and the utter undoing of him and his, that no 
 good would be done. 
 
 " It is very likely that the reason why Sir Percivall went 
 away from WoUaton without taking leave of Sir Francis might 
 be to avoid unkind word at their parting, but whatever the 
 cause was, this action, together with what had before passed 
 between them, made Sir Francis so very angry with his son 
 Percivall that he immediately sent Russell, his steward, to 
 London to seek him a wife. This Isley Cranewell gives Sir 
 Percivall an account off in a letter dated from WoUaton, 
 July the 23th, 1595, being the same day which Sir Percivall 
 went from thence. He also writ word that the person that 
 Russell would recommend was Mrs. Tamworth, who had been 
 called in question for her honesty, and was separated from her 
 husband. Russell was very quick in performing his master's 
 orders, for there is a letter from Russell to Sir Francis, dated 
 August, 1595, in which he writes that he had carried wedding 
 gloves to Mr. Sutton, by which it appears that they were 
 then married. This lady's name was Dorothey ; she was the 
 daughter of Thomas Coleby, of Graye's Inn, and the widow 
 of John Tamworth. 
 
 " There is a letter from one Lewes writ (I believe soon after 
 Sir Francis was married) to Sir Percivall to advise him to 
 comply as much as he could with Sir Francis, because his 
 Lady had many great friends and was a woman of a great 
 deal of wit (as her actions showed). Her mother also was a 
 very wise woman, and was to live with them in London in a 
 house with fifteen beds which Sir Francis had taken for them ; 
 and he now threatned that the Star Chamber should decide 
 the difference which was between them. 
 
 " There is a letter writ by Sir Francis Willughby and 
 dated from Sherfield, August 29th, 1595, which orders sending 
 a buck to Dr. Smith ; and if the Lord Huntyngdon can't send 
 him a stag from Windsor (which he believes wiU be hard for 
 him to doe if the Queen comes thither), then he would have 
 a brace of bucks sent for himself. He also ordered a pretty 
 nagg to be found for him to give to Dr. Smith, which should 
 have its runing at grass at Sherfield within thirty miles of 
 London, from whence he might use him at his pleasure ; besides 
 
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 that at WoUaton (he writes) that his wife needs a phisitian, 
 and will use him if he will be contented to come to her, which 
 he thinks he will not refuse, to pleasure her ; and Sir Michael 
 MoUjms will bid him heartily wellcome. 
 
 " It appears by the old papers that Sir Francis was very 
 fond of this Lady, who, I believe, took great care to please 
 and oblige him, and thereby soon gained an absolute power 
 over him. They were in so much haste to marry that writings 
 could not be drawn, but Sir Francis articled to tye severall 
 lordships upon this Lady as a security for her jointure, which 
 was to be 2,000 mark a year. But this Lady, liking the 
 land tyed for her security better then the jointure, which was 
 to have been settled upon her, took care to prevent that 
 settlement from being made. 
 
 " It is very likely that the servants who had made that match 
 were entirely in that Lady's interest, and it appears by the 
 old papers that she, together with them, had worked up Sir 
 Francis to such a degree of anger against Sir Percivall and 
 his Lady that he did not care what became of them. 
 
 " There are in the library several very unkind letters from 
 Sir Francis to his daughter Brigit writ this year ; one very 
 long one in justification of Fisher, and to express his anger 
 for her carriage to him, as that in passing by Fisher he would 
 have saluted her, but she bid him spare that courtisie for 
 others that had a better opinion of him. Fisher (he writ) 
 had deserved better usage from her, and Percivall Willoughby 
 had ill requited him for the good he had done him, for if 
 it had not been for Fisher an estate which he settled upon him 
 would not have been settled so. 
 
 " In this letter he also writ that her husband was grown so 
 froward that nothing would content him but what agreed 
 with his own humour, and he was become so imperious that 
 he would not allow him to chuse his own friends, or to place 
 his children where he thought best. If Percivall WiUoughby 
 thought he would bear this from him he was deceived. He 
 would therefore have her make him understand that he should 
 presently use Middleton House himself, and therefore they 
 must leave it, for he would no longer permit such contrary 
 and rebellious humours to be in his house. This letter is 
 dated September, 1595. 
 
 " In answer to this letter Lady Willoughby writ that her 
 husband was not at home, and she could wish it might please 
 him that somebody else might tell him of his dislike rather 
 then herseK ; that as for her sisters she had never heard her 
 husband speak of their being placed, nor had she known 
 him ever meddle with any friend of his, if they would but let 
 him alone. And for Mr. Fisher, his own friends and kindred 
 did not spare to repiort how ill he had dealt with them. Even 
 his son Dilkes had reported that if she would have been 
 perswaded by him and his cousin Cludd, she should have been 
 
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 so basely bestowed. This she had concealed and should still, 
 but that he was offended with her for him whom she had 
 just cause to dislike. She desired he would not take hasty- 
 courses with her husband by the perswasions of others, but 
 first hear what he could say for himself, and that he would 
 not comdemn her upon Mr. Fisher's reports without hearing 
 her speak. 
 
 " Lady WiUoughby was so much provoked by Mr. Fisher's 
 ill treatment of her that at the same time that she answer'd 
 her father's letter, she writ a very angry letter to Fisher ; 
 which he was so enraged at that he threatned to trouble her 
 for it. Upon hearing that, she writ a letter to Sir Percivall, 
 who was then in London, to this effect : ' I have sent you, 
 so near as I can remember, a copy of what I writ to Mr. 
 Fisher, because he threatnes to call me before the Counsel ; ' 
 but I hope there is nothing but what may be well answered if 
 he were far better then he is, seeing it is all too true. He 
 dealt so iU with me to my father that I could not forbear him 
 in any thing that I knew. Come what may of it, I hope 
 for your part, being a common enemy to us both, you will 
 think no otherwise then well of 
 
 Yours 
 
 Brigitt WiUoughby.' 
 "A copy of Lady Willoughby's letter to Mr. Fisher. 
 
 " ' I have received at this instant letters from my father 
 wherein I have his displeasure for not pleasing of your 
 worship ; 1 am sorry he knows you no better, but I hold your 
 tongue for no slander that is so busie in all matters, and 
 spareth not ladys and gentlewomen of greater account then 
 myseK. Thou hast used thy pleasure in bad speeches of the 
 Countess of Shrewsbery, of Mr. Thomas Spencer's wife, and 
 others. Thou hast practiced dissentions betwixt my husband 
 and me from the begining. Thou hast set my father and 
 him at jares, because thou mightest the better fish and inrich 
 thyself, as you hast done, with their spoyles. 
 
 " ' Thou wouldest (being in thy house) have married me to 
 thy cousin Clud, a poor cozening knave of my father's, that 
 came lowsy to him, and therefore in thy heart couldest never 
 since abide me, tho' hitherto I have concealed it. 
 
 " ' I was once before for thy pleasure and perswasions 
 little better then hurled out of this house, being great bellied, 
 when thou didst hope both by that means might have 
 perished. 
 
 " ' And now again I and mine for not worshiping of thee 
 must upon small warning goe wander, as thou thinkest, a great 
 conquest of such a worshipfull justice as thyself, that 
 
 1 The Privy Council. 
 
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 employest all thy wits and means to doe mischief. It is well 
 known to all the country that my father of himself never 
 ofEer'd such measures to the worst servant or tenant that 
 he had. 
 
 " ' At thy being at Middleton thou toldest me that thou 
 earnest to cross my father's marriage, and to take that 
 stumbUng block out of my way, and yet now no man so ready 
 to cog and desemble with them as thyself. And notwith- 
 standing all this and much worse then this thy ordinary 
 protestation is by the faith of an honest man. MaUcious 
 knave thou art that canst not spare poor gentlewomen and 
 infants with thy tongue and practices ; gentleman thou 
 know'st thyseK to be none, and tho' at this instant I have 
 no better means of revenge then a little ink and paper, let thy 
 soul and carkes be assured to hear and tast of these 
 injuries in other sort and terms then from and by the hands 
 of a woman. 
 
 And seeing by thy practices and theirs, to whom by 
 oath thou art confederate with, I am Uke to lose my father's 
 favour (which was all the world to me), while I am able to 
 speak thy treacherous knaverys shall not rest altogether 
 concealed, and complain to my father if thou dare again.' 
 
 " The answer to this letter still remains in the hbrary ; 
 it is dated from Packington, and writ by Mary Fisher to 
 Lady Willoughby, and is to this purpose, viz. : 
 
 " ' That her husband had showed her her letter, so full 
 of outrage and inciviUty as hardly beseemed a gentlewoman, 
 and in which she had charged him with many things not true, 
 as that he would have married her to Cludd when she was in 
 his house. If Cludd had had any such dealing with her, she 
 was sure it was unknown to Mr. Fisher, but it was well known 
 that while she was in their house, Mr. Henry Willoughby (then 
 Uving) did practice both with Cludd and Dracot to have stole 
 her away and married her ; and that she had received a 
 letter from Henry Willoughby to that effect herseK and 
 divers others could witness ; and also that Mr. Fisher fell 
 out with them for offering such practices in his house. Sir 
 Francis Willoughby, being then in treaty with Sir Percivall 
 Willoughby's friends, this her husband had made Sir Francis 
 acquainted with, but had he concealed it, she had not then 
 been Sir PercivaU's wife.' 
 
 " In this letter she used many angry expressions not behind 
 hand with Lady Willoughby's and asserted her husband's 
 inocency of doing any ill offices between herself Sir 
 Percivall and Sir Francis, but the contrary which she had 
 ill requited him for. 
 
 " And whereas she threatned his carcas and bid him com- 
 plain to her father if he durst, should any peril fall on Mr. 
 Fisher, her untemparate letter would be a good testimony 
 from whose malioe his evil came. 
 
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578 
 
 " There are severall very unkind letters from Sir Francis 
 to Sir Percivall, dated from Sherfield and from Wollaton in 
 September and October, 1595 ; some full of threatnings to 
 force him from Middleton, others angry ones that he does 
 not vouchsafe to answer his letters, and in one of his letters 
 to Lady Willoughby he writes thus : ' Belike you learn these 
 ill tempers of your husband, whose base account of me is 
 such as he disdaineth to answer a«iy letter of mine. Tell 
 him from me that if a man write to his better, if he answer 
 it, it is curtesie ; if to his equall, duty ; but if to his inferiour, 
 the not answering it is ill manners.' 
 
 " There is a letter from Edward Willoughby to his brother Sir 
 Percivall, dated August, 1595, to let him know that his brother 
 Hastings had been with Sir Francis Willughby and his lady, 
 and that he had taken the Woodland [co. Dorset] of Sir Francis 
 for three hves, and that he was contented to joyn with Sir 
 Francis in the settlement of his lady's joynture and the con- 
 firmation of other leases, and that he had 3delded to Sir Francis 
 all that he had desired of him. In the doing wherof he had 
 gain'd the good will of Sir Francis. Edward Willoughby in 
 that letter to his brother desires and advises him also to 
 compty with Sir Francis in things that are reasonable, and 
 entreats him to confirm and further his lady's joynture, and 
 writes that he had heard a good report of the lady. 
 
 " There is the copy of a letter from Sir Percivall, writ 
 An. D. 1595, to W. Agard, in which he writes that he is sent 
 for to meet Sir Francis and that there is such shews of a pre- 
 tended peace as should please all parties, but he doubts, such 
 is the minute necessity of declyning estates in these days, 
 that nothing \TiU stay their downfall, and that his hopes are 
 small in so shaken a house, where the principall piUer hath 
 [lain] and ever will ly open to all manner of pestilent blasts. 
 
 " Sir Francis WiUughby's lady and his deceitfull servants, 
 I beheve, made great advantage from this quarrell which 
 they had made between him and his son Percivall. 
 
 " There is a very flattering letter which was writ by Rusuell 
 to his master Sir Francis, dated from Wollaton, October, 1595, 
 in which he heartily wishes him heirs by his new lady, for 
 which he writes that he had the hearty prayers of all the 
 coxmtry, and if he did but hear the daily good wishes that 
 himself and lady had from all sorts of people, it would yeild 
 him cause of joy and invite him to five at Wollaton. He 
 writ that Mr. Henry Willughby had said that he did hear 
 and Uke very well of his lady, but said he had done her great 
 injury in regard her joynture could never be secured by reason 
 of all the land being so intangled and tyed upon Sir Percivall, 
 with many other circumstances which Henry Willughby in- 
 tended to write upon to his worship himself. Russell in that 
 
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 letter enlarged upon his own fidelity and concluded with 
 humble duty, service and faith to himself and good lady, 
 comiting them both to the terrestrial and celestiall paradice. 
 
 " There is no letter or account beok which I could find that 
 mention this lady's bringing any fortune to Sir Francis, but 
 by severall one may guess that he was very fond of her 
 person, and that she and her relations by their care to flatter 
 and please him soon gain'd great power in the management 
 of his affairs. 
 
 "There is a letter from Sir Francis, which bears no date, 
 directed to his loving wife the Lady Dorothy Willughby, who 
 'tis very likely he might leave at Sherfeild while he went 
 upon business to London, before she could goe. In this 
 letter Sir Francis writ that he had inclosed 4 letters which 
 he desired she would send, one to Sir Michael, one to 
 Mr. Talbott, one to Sir John Conuay, and the 4th to Mr. 
 Beamont. He writ that his cause against Parramore in 
 chancery had not beenhear'd because of My Lord's sickness. 
 He wishes her to take care of herself in comming up to 
 London, and concludes comitting her and the lady her mother 
 and his sister Brigit to the tuition of Heaven. In the post- 
 script he writes : ' I did think this process would partly amaze 
 Percivall Willoughby and his hangers on. And Mr. Eobert 
 Willughby doth utterly condemn him touching his detaining 
 of the houses from me, Middleton and the Hote. I would 
 gladly hear an answer of the letters sent to Sir Foulk Grevill 
 and to Sir Henry Godier's executors. If Savage advertized 
 you how the Lord Huntington did take the matter touching 
 his son Henry, I would gladly understand thereof.' 
 
 " Sir Francis had no sister but Lady Arundel, and there- 
 fore I conclude that Brigit named in the letter was his lady's 
 sister. 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir Francis Willoughby to his 
 daughter Brigit dated from WoUaton, February, 1595[-6]. 
 This letter is to tell her that he finds missing of her late 
 mother's apparel a velvet gown, and much other apparel 
 containing many pearls, and also a great quantity of bothe 
 fine and courser Hnnin, aU which he charges her to send him 
 by the bearer, for he will not suffer her to rob and spoile him. 
 
 " There is the copy of Lady Willughby 's answer to her 
 father's letter still remaining with his letter. 'Tis dated 
 February the 11th, 1595[-6], and is to this effect : 
 
 " ' Sir, 
 
 " ' I did never rob nor spoile you, nor commit any graceless 
 action, and am sorry my better deserts can have no better 
 consideration with you. If at your being at Middleton, your 
 steward Russell would have suffer'd me to have come to you, 
 I would have sattisfied you of as many of my mother's things 
 
580 
 
 as either my sisters left here or otherwise I did hear off, not 
 meaning to desire any of them, but only siich things as she 
 had of mine, which might have been fitter for me (as I thought) 
 [to have] again then for Russell and strangers to have worn. 
 I have dehver'd to Fox a note of such things as they left here, 
 and he may fetch them at his' pleasure, and if he had listed, 
 he might have let you understand, being at his house, that 
 I would have spoke mth you about some causes of my mother's. 
 If this may not sattisfie you, I will repose my self in the 
 inocency of my cause, and bear as I may these and other 
 your hard courses. 
 
 " There is another letter from Sir Francis to his daughter 
 Brigit, dated from WoUaton, February the 13th, 1595[-6], to 
 this effect : — ' I have sent you a note under Abigail's hand 
 with things she sent to you, which I would have to be safe 
 dehvered to the bearer hereof, and Ukewise, since the writing 
 of the note, she has said, and others do weU know and have 
 seen, a whole set of these pescoddes, whereof I have sent you 
 a pattern, which were dehvered by her to you, and divers 
 other things, with a carkenett of aggetts, and one other 
 trymming of a gown with pearl, which I would have to be 
 sent to me likewise.' 
 
 " There is also Abigail Willughby's letter to her sister 
 Brigit. In it she expressed much concern for her father's 
 anger, and writ that she had sent a note of the cloaths and 
 linnin mension'd in her father's letter, which he had made her 
 set down in a note. And she fear'd if she should not send 
 them, it would be the worse for her. 
 
 "It is very probable that Sir Francis Willughby might 
 want all those things mentioned in the letter to present to 
 his Lady, who was then with him at Wollaton, as appears 
 from a letter writ by John Atkinson to the Lady Dorothy 
 Willughby at Wollaton ; this letter is dated from Nottingham, 
 February, 1595[-6]. In it he writes that by the symptoms 
 he beheves her Ladyship to be with child ; he also gives in 
 this letter an account of his care of others in the house (which 
 makes me believe he might be the family phisitian), and adds 
 his duty to Lady MoUyns, which shows that that Lady was 
 at Wollaton with Lady WiUughby. 
 
 " It does not appear who that Lady Mollyns was, but finding 
 mention of her in most of the letters writ about that time, 
 and that by other letters when Sir Francis married his second 
 Lady, that her mother was to Uve with them, I conjecture 
 that this Lady MoUyns might be her mother, and that after 
 the death of Thomas Coleby, who was that Lady Willughby's 
 father, she married Sir Michael Mollyns. 
 
 " There are some very friendty letters -writ by John 
 Atkinson to Sir Francis Willughby. There is one dated from 
 Nottingham, in June, 1596, about selling of wood, and to 
 let Sir Francis know that the receits for what had been sold 
 at WoUaton would be upwards of 200K. 
 
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 " There is another letter writ by him the same month to 
 tell Sir Francis that he is very ill used by his servants at 
 WoUaton, who abuse him sadly in selUng his wood. At such 
 a rate, he writes, they sell it as if they gave one half to have 
 the other fetched away. He also writes that by the use of 
 his money they make their own gain, and that he is betrayed 
 by those he most trusted. This letter is directed to Sir Francis 
 WiUughby at his lodgings in Smithfield. 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir Francis WiUughby to Fox about 
 selling Lamley for 4000K. and Carlton, Carcolston and Sutton 
 for 2500K. 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir Percivall to his own father, Mr. 
 Thomas WiUoughby, which gives a long account of his troubles. 
 How, that when he was from home and had left his wife big 
 with child. Sir Francis had sent a troop to take possession 
 of Middleton ; that his servants resisting, they went off to 
 the town, after having broke down a wall and two doors. 
 
 " He writes that the new lady and her friends endeavour 
 as much as they can to disgrace Sir Francis's children and 
 old followers, and perswade to fit him better with new feathers 
 and plomes of their impinge'- then any which either himself 
 hath bred, or his own experience could approve. And when 
 they have plomed him bare, he may sit like a bird to be a 
 scorn to all the world. This letter is dated April the 12th, 
 1596. 
 
 " There are other letters and papers which shew that Sir 
 Francis leased out the greatest part of his estate for three 
 Mves. The money raised by these leases as also that by the 
 sail of the land and wood, 'tis very likely Sir Francis Wil- 
 lughby's lady got secured for herself. 
 
 " There is an account of Sir Percivall's prefering a bill in 
 chancery against Sir Francis, which 'tis probable might be 
 upon that occasion that so he might secure to himself that 
 part of the estate which the law would allow him in right of 
 the settlement which Sir Francis had made of WoUaton, 
 CossaU and TroweU, and Middleton and Kinsbury upon him 
 and his lady and their heirs. 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir Percivall to his lady, dated 
 May the 13th, 1596, which said that her father had preferred 
 a biU against him, but that would be easie enough answer'd. 
 In this letter he writ that her father said none of his name 
 must come near him for fear of troubUng his wife, and that 
 he would care for nobody that loved Sir PercivaU. 
 
 " There is another letter from Sir PercivaU to his lady, 
 dated June the 20th, 1596, in which he writes that her father 
 would have aU for his wife Dorothy ; but since she had made 
 
 Grafting, setting. 
 
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 clioice of him for her husband, he would never yield to that 
 while he Uved. At last, he writes that Sir Francis was 
 content to chuse Mr. Micheal Murrin and he [and] his cousin 
 Henry Willoughby to end all matters. But their demands 
 were so unreasonable that he expected no good would be 
 done. 
 
 " I could find no account how this refEerence ended, but 
 believe it produced no good to Sir PercivaU. And from the 
 old papers one may believe that Sir Francis neglected all his 
 children, and made it his chief care to raise a great sum of 
 money for his lady. And thus having charged his estate 
 with as much money as it could bear, he fell very sick. 
 There is a tradition in the family that his friends suspected his 
 lady had given him poyson, but whither that was so or not 
 is uncertain. All the account which I could find of his sick- 
 ness was from a letter writ by Sir PercivaU to his lady, which 
 letter was to this effect : 
 
 " That again the black messenger salutes her, and God 
 with his many blessings hath and doth intermingle many 
 troubles, that we may the better know and acknowledge from 
 whence both proceed. He writ that her father's case was 
 lamentable, that he had been ill a fortnight, and shut up from 
 all his friends, that the whore and her minnion had stripped 
 him both of goods and land, and left him nothing where he 
 lay but what hung upon his back, and that he now sits haling 
 for life and breath, and that in this case he was soUcited to 
 see him. Dated November, 1596. 
 
 " There is no particular account either of his death or 
 burial, more then that he died in November, An. D. 1596. 
 
 " After Sir Francis WiUoughby's death, his wife being with 
 child. Sir PercivaU was under great apprehensions that she 
 might impose an heir upon him, and in order to prevent any 
 such imposition, he obtained of the Queen a troop of guards 
 to watch and search everybody that came to the house, where 
 she then was. [Of. Croke's Reports 1, p. 566, 39 Eliz.] 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir PercivaU to his Lady, in which 
 he says that her mother-in-law had a strange woman next 
 door to her who in the night was brought to bed of a son. 
 He writes that God knows whither she was not brought 
 thither by design. 
 
 " This Lady, in right of the child she went with, kept 
 possession of all the estate which Sir Francis Willoughby left. 
 This engaged Sir PercivaU in very expensive law sutes. 
 
 " Upon May the 3rd, 1597, she was delivered of a daughter. 
 
 " There is the copy of a letter from Sir PercivaU WiUoughby, 
 dated October, 1597, to the Lord Burghley, then Lord High 
 Treasurer of England, who had given the wardship of that 
 
583 
 
 chfld to his son the secretary. In this letter Sir Percivall 
 desired the Lord Burghley that for the avoiding of the maUce 
 of his adversaries and the better establishing of his perplexed 
 estate, he would vouchsafe so far to recomend his humble 
 sute to his son that he might have the wardship of the child 
 for the land only for such considerations as should seem good 
 to his Honour. And that he might the better judg of the 
 value of it, Sir Percivall writ that he had inclosed the par- 
 ticular of those lands, and by that particular he would also 
 see what lands this lady, the widow of Sir Francis Willughby, 
 by the help of Sir Micheal Molyns and the rest of their accom- 
 plices had got for herself and her heirs, tho' her usages of Sir 
 Francis had been such that she had ill deserved it. With this 
 letter Sir Percivall sent to the Lord Burghley a present of 
 a gelding.^ 
 
 " Amongst the old papers in the Ubrary at WoUaton I 
 could not find any copy of the inclosed particular of the 
 estate which Sir Francis Willughby's widow got from the 
 family, but many circumstances shew that it was a very 
 considerable estate in land, of which I beUeve the Dorsetshire 
 estate was a part. The money which Sir Francis raised 
 by leases and seUing wood, etc., and gave to this lady must 
 have been a great sum ; and by tradition the goods in Sir 
 Francis's houses (all which he gave this lady) must have 
 been of great value. I have been told by some of the family 
 that there was an inventory of the plate, in which there was 
 an account of a hundred large silver dishes and very large 
 quantities of all other usefull plate. All which this lady very 
 soon carried to the Lord Wharton's family by marrying that 
 Lord some months after Sir Francis Willughby's death. This 
 lady's daughter dyed soon after Sir Percivall had beged the 
 wardship of her lands. 
 
 " There remains in the Ubrary at Wollaton the following 
 account of the estate in lands and goods which Sir Percivall 
 WiUoughby and Brigit his wife had from Sir 'Francis Wil- 
 lughby, her father, and also of the debts which the estate 
 was charged with. [The five lordships of Wollaton and 
 Sutton, Cossall, and Trowell, co. Notts., and Middleton and 
 Kinsbury, co. Warwick, " the tenants being leased by Sir 
 Francis WiUughby for three Uves after his second marriage," 
 of the yearly value of SOIL 16s. Od., minus 257Z. for annuities 
 charged upon these manors by Sir Francis. Followed by 
 " an account of the money M'hich Sir Percivall WiUoughby 
 was to pay out of the estate," amounting to 35,156L (includ- 
 ing goods, iron- works, etc., at Middleton and WoUaton, 
 1000?. ; iron-works undertaken by Sir Percival for Sir Francis 
 
 1 An inserted slip written in the same hand cites from the Journal of the 
 House of Lords, 4 April, 1621, the second article of the charge against the 
 Lord Chancellor Bacon that he received 310Z. as a bribe from Lady Wharton 
 in a cause depending between lier and Sir Percival WiUoughby 
 
584 
 
 upon the latter's promise that Sir Percival should be no loser, 
 3000Z.) ; ' Sir Percivall was bound with Sir Francis for the 
 debt of 21,000Z. without any other consideration than that 
 of Sir Francis's promise to leave to him and his wife the 
 whole remainder of his estate, this debt Sir Francis left Sir 
 Percival to pay of ; ' costs of law-suits before Sir Percival 
 could obtain possession of the estate owing to the trouble 
 caused by Lady Wharton, 3000L] 
 
 " There is an account of other mortgaged lands [of] which 
 Sir PercivaU had a power of redemption upon paying 
 3050?., which, with other things imposed upon them by Sir 
 Francis, was as much as they were worth. It is probable 
 that Willoughby and those other lordships which Sir PercivaU 
 sold of his lady's estate might be included in these mortgaged 
 lands, 
 
 " To raise that 3050Z. at that time was, 1 beUeve, pretty 
 hard for Sir PercivaU to doe ; and the lands themselves were 
 so encumbered that no body would buy any of them, and 
 therefore, I beUeve, Sir PercivaU was forced very soon to seU 
 his own Kentish estates to raise that money and also the 
 iOOOli. which he paid to [three of] his lady's sisters [as part 
 of their portions, p. 159] and also money to enable him to 
 carry on his law sutes with the Lady Wharton 
 
 " Having given this account of the shattered condition 
 which Sir Francis Willughby left his estate in to Sir PercivaU 
 and of the neglect which he seemed to shew of aU his children 
 before his death, I think I ought to be so just to his memory 
 as to note down that from the papers which stiU remain in 
 the Ubrary at WoUaton it plainly appears that this Sir Francis 
 was a man of great piety and learning. There is still 
 remaining a coUection which he made of the most valuable 
 books of his time, and many notes of remarks upon them writ 
 with his own hand. There is also in the Ubrary severall other 
 Uttle manuscripts writ by himseU upon divine subjects, some 
 of which seem to have been heads of sermons for his chaplains 
 to preach upon. By the papers which direct the orders which 
 Sir Francis WiUughby would have to be observed in his family 
 and the remaining books of his accounts, one may beUeve that 
 he was a very good oeconomist. 
 
 " It was the fashion of those times for famiUes of distinction 
 to maintain as their retinue in their own familys and to be 
 always ready to attend them upon any occasion many 
 gentlemen who were reaUy born so and who looked upon it 
 to be no disgrace to be so retained by the great famiUes then 
 in England but rather the contrary, for it was then usuall 
 for gentlemen to get their sons placed in a man of quaUtie's 
 house as a means to gain them a better education than by 
 continuing in their own Uttle families they could have had. 
 Of this sort of gentlemen Sir Francis Willughby always 
 retained a great number, as appears by many of the old papers 
 
585 
 
 as well as George Willughby's letter page 76,i who is there 
 mentioned to have said that he had advised with severall 
 of the country gentlemen, where and in what manner they 
 intended to meet the Queen, and by what he could learn 
 their servants need only to have plain Hvery coats, but he 
 thought Sir Francis Willughby's number of servants should 
 in no wise be less than fifty.' 
 
 " Some of these gentlemen servants which Sir Francis 
 retained had, I beheve, gained his friendship so much as 
 to have thereby a power to perswade and influence him in 
 the affairs of his family, and this power (I believe by the 
 old papers) they used only for their own advantage, and 
 finding those unhappy divisions between Sir Francis and 
 his lady and afterwards between him and his son Percivall 
 and daughter Brigitt Willougbby might prove profitable to 
 them, they helped to make and continue that breach as 
 wide as they could between those near relations till after 
 that lady's death and Sir Francis Willughby's second mar- 
 riage. Which second lady defeated their projects and soon 
 shewed she had subtlety enough to outwit them, so much as 
 to make all their plotting turn to her own advantage, and 
 therby to gain to herself such immense wealth as has been 
 already shewed that she raised by making use of the 
 declyning age and last part of Sir Francis Willughby's 
 life. . . . 
 
 " Concerning Dorothy Willughby, the second daughter 
 of Sir Francis. 
 
 " I shall here copy part of a letter from Henry, earl of 
 HuntjTigdon, which, I believe, was writ to Sir Francis 
 Willughby upon this daughter's account, for I think it could 
 not mean Brigett, the eldest daughter, because this letter 
 is dated Aug. 1581, and by the account book it appears that 
 Brigitt was married to Sir PercivaU WiUoughby An. D. 1580, 
 being the year before. The letter was to this effect : 
 
 " ' It was my hap yesterday to pass in my journey 
 towards York nigh your house, where you were not, or else 
 I hope I should have spoken with you, so as this letter might 
 have been spared. There is a matter which I think fit to be 
 moved to you without delay, which in divers respects 'tis 
 meet you should give a favourable ear to. Henry WiUoughby, 
 your kinsman, and by you commended to my service, hath 
 been and is a suitor to one of your daughters for marriage. 
 The liking between them is great, but without your liking 
 to proceed to a match would be thought hard. For your 
 favour that is a suitor, and by me he hath chosen to make 
 the means, because you first commended him to my service, 
 and by his being with me I find him such a one as for good 
 parts, honesty and good nature I may be bold to commend 
 him worthy of much more than I am able to do e for him, and 
 
 1 See page 538, above. 
 
586 
 
 yet what I can doe for him he shall not want. I am bold 
 to pray the continuance of your favour to him, and that 
 in this his suit you would vouchsafe to shew it to him. If 
 God send you no son, what Willoughby is there that can 
 be more meet to tast of your hberall favour than this 
 gentleman ? I could say more than leasure will now serve 
 me to write. Truely I wish with all my heart it may please 
 God to send you a son of your own, but if that fail till I hear 
 more I can't change my opinion which I have uttered. 
 And so heartily pra3dng your favour for this my Willoughby, 
 with my most hearty commendations I doe commit you to 
 the tuition of the Lord. 
 
 '"Hastily from Mansfield, the 17th of Aug. 1581. 
 
 Your loving friend, 
 
 H. Huntyngdon.' 
 
 " Upon the back of this letter from Lord Huntyngdon there 
 is a query whither this Willoughby was a son of Sir Hugh's, 
 writ by my father. 
 
 " Amongst the old papers I could nowhere find any copy 
 of Sir Francis's answer to this letter, nor any other mention 
 made of this Henry Willoughby except in Mrs. Fisher's letter 
 page 148.^ Which person, 'tis hkely, might be the same 
 Henry Willoughby who, she there writ, had practiced with 
 Cludd and Dracot to have stole away and married Brigitt 
 Willughby while she was in Mr. Fisher's house, and at the 
 same time that Sir Francis Willughby was in treaty with Sir 
 Percivall's friends. 
 
 " There are in the library severall letters which were writ 
 some years after that which is copied above from this H. 
 earl of Huntyngdon to Sir Francis Willughby concerning the 
 match between his nephew Henry Hastings and Dorothy 
 Willughby. Some of these letters were dated An. D. 1584, 
 tho' by what I can judg from those old papers they did not 
 marry till 1587, as is already noted page 130.^ It is 
 reasonable to think that the estate which the earl of 
 Huntyngdon oiler'd to settle upon his nephew might be less 
 then Sir Francis thought his daughter deserved and that 
 therefore this match was so long in debate. 
 
 " There is with the letters from Lord Huntjmgdon con- 
 cerning this match a paper which seems to be writ by a very 
 good friend of Sir Francis Willoughby's, in which is drawn 
 up ten considerations and reasons against the match between 
 Henry Hastings and Dorothy Willughby, of which the most 
 materiall were these, viz. 
 
 " ' That a great part of the land was designed to descend 
 to the heirs of Francis Hastings, in whom and to whose issue 
 the earldome was to be restrained. 
 
 1 See page 577, above. 
 
 2 See page 566, above. 
 
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 That the Lady Hastings hath a great part in joynture 
 by act of parUament which inter vein other demises. 
 
 That the earl is about 20,000M. in debt, which may greatly 
 charge his land, and that much of this money must have come 
 by the credit of bonds of others. 
 
 That in respect of procuring such sumes of money there 
 may be hidden mortgages upon the land, except the earl upon 
 his honour do confess them. The sale of Ware and Ware Park 
 made by the earl to Mr. Fanshaw may teach you to beware. 
 
 When you have paid two thousand pounds with your 
 daughter, that is not their satisfaction ; they shott at another 
 mark, for though you pay your money, yet at the marriage 
 there shall be a key to your land, and their desire they think 
 to bring to pass with the maintenance of their honour. 
 
 God send you your heart's ease : I doubt this match 
 will not breed it. 
 
 The young gentleman is half a Stanhop. A word to 
 your wife is enough.' " 
 
 " I don't understand why the author of this paper calls 
 the young gentleman half a Stanhop : his mother was the 
 daughter and co-heir of Sir John Port of EtwaU in Derby 
 Shire 
 
 " There is a letter from Francis Hastings (who was, I 
 beheve, the father of that child) ^ to Sir Francis A¥illughby 
 in which he earnestly desires Sir F. W. to lend him a hundred 
 pounds ; this letter is dated An. D. 1577. 
 
 " In this treaty of marriage there seems to have been 
 many rubs before it could be brought to a conclusion, tho' 
 the particular reasons do not appear. 
 
 " There are several! letters writ by Heru-y Hastings to Sir 
 Francis Willughby both before and after his marriage. In 
 one of these letters to Sir Francis he expresses great fears 
 that by the perswasions of some Sir Francis's thoughts may 
 be drawn from him, which he is very sorry for, knowing himself 
 to be clear from offending him, and writes that my lord is 
 easie to be drawn to anything that in reason shall seem fit and 
 convenient. He hopes Sir Francis mU weigh and consider 
 a young man's case, having settled his affection so deep that 
 nothing but death shall alter it. He begs Sir F. W. wiU 
 remember his own youth, and then he will the better con- 
 sider of him who is determined as long as he hves to per- 
 secute him to death that shall go about to marry her, for he 
 thinks 'tis better to dye and end his grief than to live without 
 her. He assures Sir F. W. that it is not the heat of youth 
 which causes him to write thus, but an honest affection so 
 surely settled that he is sure never to have a quiet mind 
 without her. This letter is dated from London, but not the 
 date of the year. 
 
 1 That is Henry, son of Francis, the eldest son of George Hastings, 
 brother of Henry, earl of Huntingdon. Dorothy Willoughby's husband Was 
 a son of George. 
 
588 
 
 " There is a letter from Henry Hastings to Sir F. W. 
 dated from Loughborough, October, 1587, to desire a lute 
 with 14 strings which he once gave to Sir -Francis, and seeing 
 it is not now occupied, (he writes that) he is the bolder to 
 crave it again that his wife may sometimes use it. By this 
 letter it appears that they were married before October, 
 1587. 
 
 " There is a letter from the earl of Huntyngdon to Sir 
 Francis Willughby, dated from York, April the 9th, 1588, to 
 let Sir Francis know that there is reason to believe that his 
 daughter Hastings is with child, and therefore he thinks it 
 will be inconvenient to her to have his nephew continue to 
 sojourn with her so as they doe at present, and he has not 
 any house in his own hands to offer his nephew, for which 
 reason he is a suitor to Sir Francis Willughby to let them have 
 the Woodland [co. Dorset], they paying him so much rent 
 for the house and grounds about it as he now takes, which 
 Lord Huntyngdon undertakes that his nephew shaU truely 
 pay. He desires Sir Francis will answer his request by a 
 few lines to Harry. 
 
 " With this letter there is a copy of Sir Francis WiUughby's 
 answer, in which he wTites Lord Huntyngdon word that he 
 had sent for his nephew to come to him that they might 
 confer together touching his request concerning Woodland. 
 He writes that the burthen of his debts makes him not 
 willing to grant a lease for the yearly rent of Woodland [makes 
 other proposal regarding it, which he had already mentioned 
 to the earl when he last spoke with him. Proposals for sale 
 of other estates to meet his debts to the earl]. 
 
 " The Lord Huntyngdon's answer to this letter from Sir 
 Francis Willughby still remains in the library at WoUaton : 
 it is dated May, 1588, and is to this effect : 
 
 " The bearer hereof, your son-in-law, being a father, he 
 now the more earnestly intreats you to be good to him and 
 his, and therefore renews his former request touching the 
 Woodland. [Expresses regret that Sir Francis should have 
 to sell any lands, especially his western lands. Advises him 
 to sell lands in Essex in preference.] But if there is no 
 remedy, and he ^vill sell Cane, then he had advised his nephew 
 to make certain requests to him, one of which, he hoped, he 
 would be contented to grant to him. And the more favour 
 he shew'd him, the more bound he should be to him, and 
 himself and all his friends would think themselves the more 
 beholden to him, to whose good favour he leaves his nephew 
 and his cause. And whereas his nephew had desir'd them 
 both to be godfathers to his child. Lord Huntingdon desir'd 
 Sir F. W. would grant the same because his daughter was 
 the mother. 
 
 " There is another very pressing letter upon the same subject 
 from the earl of Huntyngdon to Sir Francis Willughby ; it 
 is dated from Wadley, August 22th, 1588, and in it [he presses 
 
589 
 
 Sir Francis to let the latter's daughter and her husband have 
 the manor of Woodland "at so reasonable a rent as might 
 enable them to welcome both him and their other friends," 
 and begs that he will not aUenate the love that he once 
 seemed to bear to Ms earl's nephew]. But he doubts his 
 nephew's continuall absence and the ill offence from some 
 about Sir Francis (whose vilainy he hopes time will discover) 
 has alter 'd his mind towards him. 
 
 " There are a great many letters which shew that this 
 Henry Hastings used his wife very iU, and 'tis hkely some 
 stories of that sort might have been brought to Sir Francis, 
 and that Lord Himtyngdon might strive as much as he could 
 to make his nephew appear inocent. 
 
 " There is a letter from Henry Hastings to Sir Francis 
 WiUughby, dated from Hinton,"May the 23th, 159.3, to 
 importune him again to let them have the Woodland. He 
 writes that his wife does not like to dwell so near the sea side, 
 and that the place does not agree with her. [Denies that he 
 illtreats his wife, whom he desires Sir Francis to consult privily 
 on the question.] 
 
 " I'here is another letter from Henry Hastings to Sir Francis 
 WiUughby, dated from tuning Park, the 11th of April, 1593, 
 in which he writes if he had known Sir F. W. would have 
 spoken with him, he would have been with him this night. 
 But now his journey is fixed, so that he must lye at Middleton 
 to-morrow and set forwards towards the west upon Monday. 
 [Desires to serve Sir Francis, affirms his honesty, and declares 
 that he never served him or his lady for the sake of gain.] 
 
 " After Lady Willughby's death and Sir Francis's second 
 marriage Henry Hastings endeavour'd to make the second 
 lady and her mother his friends in this affair of the Wood- 
 land, as appears by a letter from him dated from Middleton, 
 October the 2d, 1595. [Abstract of letter.] 
 
 " I beheve Sir Percivall WiUoughby and Hsnry Hastings 
 were very friendly one to another for some years. I shall hear 
 (sic) copy two of their letters. [Copy of undated letter from 
 Hastings to Sir Percival.] 
 
 " Sir PercivaU WiUoughby 's answer : 
 
 " ' Sir, 
 
 " ' I shaU be ever glad you would command me in any- 
 [thing], and am very sory it was not my happ to be at 
 Middleton ; where and here you shaU ever command both 
 men and master and whatever the places may afford, though 
 my troubles for Sir Francis's occasions and the Lord Chan- 
 ceUor's heavie undiserved displeasure have made me a 
 stranger to my own houses and to have Kttle pleasure in the 
 world. And were it not that I am a recommended prisoner 
 to the Fleet after so many heavie payments and chargable 
 suits for not sattisfying Sir WiUiara Brereton [for] 1500Z., 
 I would both see you and tender my love and duty to my 
 
590 
 
 Lord. My Lord and his house I have and ever will honour. 
 And thus being very glad to hear of the health of my sisters, 
 I leave you both to the tuition of the Almighty. 
 
 Yours ever to his poAver 
 
 Percivall Willoughby.' 
 
 " There are in the library a great many letters from Dorothy 
 Hastings to Sir Percivall Willoughby and his lady, some of 
 which I shall here write an abstract off." [Abstracts of five 
 letters, one dated 1615 and another dated 1619.] 
 
 " There is another letter from Mrs. Hastings to her sister, 
 the Lady Willoughby, dated December the 10th, 1619, to 
 desire she would give her tenants warning to pay no more 
 rent to her brother Wood, who, she fear'd, would get Lady 
 Day's rent before hand, for he had play'd her a vile part in 
 disappointing her of her own before, which she desires her 
 sister to get from him, if she can. She writes that she has 
 found him very false in his deaUng, but it is God's will to 
 plague her with vile men. The letter which she [Lady 
 Willoughby ?] sent by her [the writer's] son Henry she doubts 
 was opened, because it was not her own seal ; therefore when 
 she writes to her she desires she will take care who she sends 
 her letters by, for she knows some have been opened and 
 read and sealed again before she had them. Therefore she 
 dares not write her mind to her at large, but desires that 
 she and Lady Peckham will seal up her secrets and pray for 
 her. She writes that Mr. Hastings gives her continually 
 threatning words and she has her health very ill. She hears 
 that her son Ralph wiU be with Lord Huntyngdon that 
 Christmas, and she doubts he may do her wrong by geting 
 her rent from her tenants if Lady Willoughby will not prevent 
 it by warning the tenants not to pay to anybody but herself, 
 for she knows all her children disemble with her for their 
 own advantage. She concludes ' Pray God to send all her 
 friends long hfe and herself speedily to heaven.' 
 
 " There is another very melancholy letter from her to her 
 sister, dated from Woodland, July the 3d, 1620. She writes 
 Mr. Hastings opened and read her last letter before he gave 
 it her. She heartily wishes herself with some of her friends. 
 She is daily vexed with false wittnesses, which say she set 
 her hand to that which she never did. She thinks they will 
 poyson her eare longe, but hopes God will take her to his 
 mercy, and desires her sister to pray for her. 
 
 " There are many such petious letters from Mrs. Hastings 
 to her sister Willoughby. In one, dated April the 11th, 1621, 
 she writes that she has been most vilely used by Mr. Hastings 
 in words and deeds too long to write. He has threatned to 
 lock her up and use her like a dog. She greatly fears that he 
 means to poyson her. He wishes she could not write, and 
 then he could doe well enough with her. He and Sir John 
 Rives told her she had set her hand to writings which she 
 
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 never saw. She wmtes that they care not what they say or 
 swear to serve the turn they would have it. In this letter 
 she tells of a great escape they had of the house being burnt 
 by a barne which was set on fire by one shooting through 
 a hole in it. The wind blew the pouder into the thatch of 
 the barn and so set it on fire, and had not the wind changed 
 of a sudden so as to blow the fire from the house, it must 
 have burnt it. She writ that she had never been well since 
 this fright, and desired her sister if she could tell what 
 was good for the trembling of the heart, she would let her 
 know it. 
 
 " At the bottom of this letter is writ by Sir PercivaU Wil- 
 loughby's hand : " to garter your hoose below knee, for 
 the gartering above is not good for them which have the 
 panting of the heart." 
 
 [Abstract of letter, dated 30 April, 1622, to Lady Willoughby 
 complaining of her husband's ill-usage and that he allows 
 her meat and drink but neither clothes nor money, wherein 
 he uses her worse than his servants, and desiring the loan of 
 601. to help her in her extremity, which she desires may be 
 brought sealed up in a box by the bearer. Abstract of another 
 letter, dated Woodland, March, 1624, to the same, whom she 
 desires to see, and complaining that Mountiegue (sic) Wood 
 " keeps both the use [= interest] and principle money from 
 her, and that it is now near eight years since he had it, and 
 he uses her vilely."] 
 
 " There is another very melancholy letter from her to her 
 sister, in which she writes that she is ahve tho' in great 
 misery, being lame of one legg, and her sight fails her because 
 of vexations which she has daily from Mr. Hastings. 
 
 " In another letter from Mrs. Hastings to her sister, dated 
 from Woodland, May the 10th, 1626, she writes that her 
 daughter Rives is big with child and intends to ly inn at 
 Woodland, and she wishes Lady Willoughby would be at 
 her groning and help to comfort her. She writes that she is 
 sorry to hear that Sir George Peckham and his lady are like 
 to lose Streley. Her brother Wood she fears will defpaud her 
 of her money which he has owed her (and she has forbore 
 him) these ten years. She desires Lady Willoughby will 
 perswade him to pay her before strangers, for she hears his 
 land is extended for debt. 
 
 " There is a letter from Mrs. Hastings to Lady Willoughby, 
 dated from Abes Court, May the 5th, 1628, in which she 
 writes that she is now with her daughter Rives expecting her 
 happy hour. She writes she would be very glad to see her 
 this summer, if the journey would not be too painfull and 
 too chargable. 
 
592 
 
 " There is another letter from Mrs. Hastings to her sister 
 dated from Woodland, October the 31th, 1628, in which she 
 writ that she should be very glad to see her at Woodland, 
 and desires she will bring the mare which she gave her with 
 her, because she wants one to take the air upon, for Mr. 
 Hastings uses the coach continually so that she [can] never 
 have it except upon Sundays to goe to church. She writes 
 that she is grown so ve'ry sickly that she doubts she shall 
 not hve long, and her daughter Rives is also grown very 
 sickly with breeding her children, insomuch that she doubts 
 neither of them will ever see WoUaton again. 
 
 " Upon the top of aU these letters from Dorothy Hastings 
 and many more of the old letters there is writ either ' Jesus ' 
 or eles ' Emanuell,' which, I beheve, was an ancient custome 
 in writing letters. 
 
 " With these letters there is the copy of one from Sir 
 PercivaU Willoughby's lady to Mrs. Hastings, dated from 
 Wollaton, July the 9th, 1620, to this effect : ' The king's 
 coming into the west this summer will, I believe, prevent my 
 seeing yourself, my brother, and my neece Rives at WoUaton. 
 And should I venture to come to you I doubt my brother 
 would prevent it if he could, as he had thoughts to have done 
 the last time. I will never come to doe either of you harme, 
 for my heart desires to doe all the good offices that a loving, 
 well wishing friend may doe between you, and happy should 
 I think myseM if I could by any means work your likings and 
 contents, which I pray God quickly to begin and ever to 
 continue, and that all jarrs and discords may be ended 
 between you, and that they that are the causes may be 
 banished from you. 
 
 " By some of the old letters one may believe that the first 
 cause of the unhappiness of Mr. Hastings and his lady might 
 proceed from his desiring to have her estate in land sold and 
 her unwillingness to part with it. 
 
 " Concerning Margaret Willughby, the third daughter of 
 Sir Francis WiUughby. 
 
 "It has been already shew'd page 13P that this Lady 
 married Robert Spencer, of Wormleighton in Warwickshire, 
 but before this marriage there had been a long treaty of 
 marriage for her between Sir Francis Willughby and his 
 kinsman Thomas Markham ^ for Griffin Markham his son. 
 The relation between the two famihes had made a 
 great intimacy amongst them, insomuch that Mrs. Margaret 
 Willughby used to be often at Mr. Markham's house for 
 a great while together when she was very young. It appears 
 by letters that she was there when her cousin Griffin Markham 
 
 1 See page 50fi, above. 
 
 2 Of OUerton, co. Notts. See Thoroton, Antiquities of Notts, p. 437b. 
 
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 went to Cambridg. There are a great many letters in 
 the hbrary at Wollaton which he writ to her from thence, 
 part of which letters I shall here copy. 
 
 " An abstract of letters from xMr. Griffin Markhara to his 
 cousin Margaret Willughby, dated from Caius College in 
 Cambridg. 
 
 " In the first letter, which begins with ' Dear Cousin,' he 
 tells her that he has never been quiet in his mind since he 
 parted from her so suddenly and with so few words, good 
 will and opportunity not being wanting, but such was his 
 shamefacedjiess that instead of speaking he used blushing, 
 nor would he have spoken more to her before he went to 
 Cambridg, but that from thence he might salute her with 
 his rude hnes, which would not blush to let her perceive his 
 stedfast, unfeigned and faithfuU mind towards her, etc. 
 
 " ' If you will continue as I left you, I don't dispare but my 
 father wiU procure the good will of yours, and then I shall 
 hope that by his perswasions and my mother's instructions 
 your good will will rather increase than diminish,' etc. 
 
 ' Yours to trust 
 
 untill he be dust G. M.' 
 
 " In his second letter he tells her that her answer gave him 
 great content because by it he perceived her affections to 
 him and good will to his friends (as yet undiscovered), which 
 shewed her great clemency, good disposition and singuler virtue. 
 He could neither attribute to his friends sufficient thanks for 
 providing him such a match, nor make such returns as was 
 due to her, but would rest at her command, being ready to 
 perform anything which might be acceptable to her. Her 
 letter had so abandon'd fear from him that he hop'd at their 
 next meeting he should without blushing declare to her the 
 sume of his faithfuU and unfeigned mind, etc. He desires to 
 know as soon as. she can certifie him what end their parents 
 have made, and shall daily pray that it may answer their 
 expectations, and that God would grant to her health, pros- 
 perity and virtue, and so entirely to knitt the knott of amity 
 betwixt them that by no means it might be dissolved. ' I 
 cease any further to trouble you. From Cayus Colledg, 
 Dec. the 24th. 
 
 ' Yours whilst Ufe doth rule his vital breath 
 
 G. M.' 
 
 In his third letter he writes that their meeting did not so 
 much rejoyce him as his departure doth grieve him, for what 
 greater grief can happen to faithfuU friends than in the 
 begining of their familiarity to be separated. But 'tis fond 
 to strive against a stream, and best for them both to comfort 
 themselves with hopes to meet again shortly, and altho' 
 shortly, yet he should think it too long. But in the mean- 
 time he hoped they should often hear from one another by 
 
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 letters, which should carry the true meaning of his mind, 
 who would forsake all others for hir sake and vowed himself 
 hers to be true to her so long as they both should Uve. ' If 
 [you] accept this, I shall be sattisfied, and will labour by what 
 means I can to deserve it hereafter. In the meantime account 
 me yours and at your commandment. Caius Colledg, 
 28 April. Yours to command while hfe doth last, 
 
 G. M.' 
 
 [Abstracts of eleven other love letters, in some of which 
 he regrets his bashfulness before her and that his tutor labours 
 to prevent his leaving Cambridge.] 
 
 " All these letters begin either with ' My sweet cousin,' 
 ' My good Cousin,' or ' My dear Cousin,' but the date of the 
 year is not set to any of them. Most of them are directed to 
 ' My very good Cousin, Mrs. Margaret WiUughby, at Kirkbie 
 Sellers,' and some to 'My loving cousin, Mrs. Margaret 
 WiUughby, at Bestwood Park.' AH these letters I foimd 
 rolled up together and some remarks writ upon them with 
 Sir Erancis WiUughby's hand, which makes me beheve she 
 had given them to her father, but with these letters there 
 are no copys of Mrs. Margaret WiUughby's answers to any 
 of these letters, but there are other letters of hers which 
 express resolutions never to engage herseU farther than her 
 father should approve of. 
 
 " There is the copy of a letter from Mrs. Margaret 
 WiUughby to a cousin of hers whose name is not writ, nor the 
 date. [Copy of letter expressing surprise at the presumption 
 of Mr. Thomas Markham, who ' useth liberaU speeches that 
 either my father or my self have made some promises of 
 marriage to him or his son,' denying any liking for his son, 
 and asserting that she would not in any case make any such 
 promise without her father's consent.] 
 
 " There is a letter from Mrs. Mary Markham, who was the 
 mother of Griflfin Markham, directed to her good cousin Mar- 
 garet WiUughby, in which she writes that she had dealt with 
 her father (Sir P. WiUughby), who she found not only far from 
 the matter, but he shew'd her no curtisie, which she took 
 unkindly, but she would still follow it as earnestly as she 
 was able, if Margaret WiUughby would assure her of her 
 friendship, but her word she could never get but when Mr. 
 Markham commanded it, and goodwill by constraint was 
 little worth [etc.]. 
 
 " There is a letter from Mr. Thomas Markham to Margaret 
 WiUughby, in which he writes that at his return home he 
 found his wife weeping and his son sorrowfuU, but himself 
 was pleased to see that she was so well beloved. Whereupon 
 
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 he had writ a letter to Sir Francis Willughby, which he sent 
 open to her to see, desiring to set the matter on foot again 
 and to conclude with Sir Francis's own offer [of Middleton 
 and Wyken] rather than break, if she would let the bearer, 
 his cousin Marmione (a person she might trust for his know- 
 ledg ; she had not a truer friend in England) know she desired 
 it should be, and that hereafter she would frame herself to 
 please his wife, whom she would find a loving mother-in-law. 
 He concludes with blessing to her, his best beloved god- 
 daughter. From Kirby Billars, October the 31th, 1586. 
 [Copies of said letter to Sir Francis Willoughby and of Sir 
 Francis's letter in reply, dated Wollaton, 1 November, 1586, 
 decUning the proposal on the ground of friendship and for 
 other reasons.] 
 
 " It appears by this letter that Sir Francis Willughby was 
 then satisfied of Sir Percivall's innocency in relation to 
 Conrado's wicked letter and report of him, for by what he writes 
 (' was the 3d cause against the match the dislike settled 
 against some upon a light French report ') he must mean the 
 quarrel between Sir Percivall and Griffin Markham, which 
 by Mr. John Adam's letters to Sir Percivall appears to have 
 grown to such a hight thtt it was hard to prevent their 
 fighting. 
 
 " That Lady Willughby was much against this match 
 appears by a letter which she writ to her daughter Margaret 
 WUlughby to this effect : 
 
 " ' My daughter, the motherly love I bear you (than which 
 no love can be greater) constrains me to write hoping that 
 you bear a dutifuU care of my blessing and counsel. I desire 
 the Almighty to bless you and continue you in that faith 
 which your father and I carefully desired you should learn 
 from your cradle, and as a mother I charge and exhort you 
 not to enter into any union which may draw you from the 
 same. Marriage is honourable, but if religion fail on the one 
 party, it is in my opinion a wicked joyning of the faithfuU 
 with the ungodly. I write this because I hear of a marriage 
 motion'd to you which, for the religion suspected or professed, 
 is not to be received. I also hear that to procure your good 
 will tokens have been given you which are markes and signs 
 of popery : I mean crucifixes and such like. Either you 
 must in time go back, or God hath lost a servant and my self 
 a daughter. Remember your calling and your father's mind 
 and portion to prefer you, and you shall find (I flatter not) 
 that you may be sought in marriage of those who are able to 
 treble anything you shall receive by this match. But were 
 it to gain the whol world and lose God, your bargain were 
 worse than I or any one can write or think. Be not bewitched 
 by foohsh love or bUnd superstition, etc. I am by God's 
 pleasure and at his sufferance severed from my husband and 
 children, and find some of them not so dutyfuU as God and 
 
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 nature commands.' She writ with some resentment that 
 her daughter WiUoughby had been very near her, but never 
 came to see her. And what her son WiUoughby had reported 
 of her (she writ) she knew not. She blamed Margaret for shew- 
 ing her letters and delivering them to others to keep and then 
 telhng her father they were burnt. But she cares not who 
 sees what she writes. She concludes from Holbourn, Feb. 
 the 26th, 1586[-7], 
 
 " ' Your loving mother, if you be an obedient child 
 
 EUzabeth Willughby.' 
 
 " There is a long letter from Margaret Willughby to Sir 
 Francis, her father, dated from Eikle [Eagle, co. Lincoln], 
 March the 28 [informing him, in pursuance of her promise, 
 that she saw her cousin Griffin Markham on Wednesday, who 
 told her that his father had met Sir Francis in London, that 
 they had fixed a meeting in the country, and that he hoped 
 his father's and his end would be obtained, but that she told 
 him that it was vain for him or his father to labour any more 
 in it. At which he, seeming greatly grieved, " asked to know 
 her mind, and if she would goe back from what she had writ 
 if Sir F. WiUughby's good will were obtained ; to which she 
 had answered ' No ; if your good will were obtained, I would 
 never goe back from what I had written.' He then took 
 his leave and went to Northampton to bed," and wrote the 
 enclosed letter next day, afterwards coming himself " desiring 
 to be resolved what I meant to doe ; to which I said I could 
 give no other answer than what I had already given. He 
 then took his leave, saying he hoped his father and you would 
 agree. Thus, dear father, craving this one request that if 
 you put an end to this matcli, began with both your consents, 
 you will leave me to rest as I am, because I can never marry 
 any other without offending my conscience."] 
 
 [Abstract of letter from Robert WiUoughby to Sir Francis, 
 dated Eikle, 27 March, 1587, informing him'of Griffin Mark- 
 ham's coming thither, and of his having some secret speech 
 with Margaret WiUoughby before her sisters and his wife after 
 dinner, despite his wife's endeavour to prevent this, that he 
 desired her to give him [Sir Francis ?] an account thereof 
 and to send him the letter that Mr. Markham had sent from 
 Northampton. He also mentions that Markham came again 
 the next day, as her letter to her father shows, " with this 
 farther circumstance that he came from Northampton with 
 his four men up to the house, and two other men passed at 
 the same time by the gate, one having a broad buckler, the 
 other was [read -with] a double gelding with a pilUon ready 
 furnished. He could not say these two men were of Mr. 
 Markham's company, but he thought the presumption was 
 great that they were."] 
 
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 " It does not appear who this Robert Willoughby was. Sir 
 Percivall's grandfather who married the daughter of Sir 
 Edward Willughby of Wollaton perhaps might be then hving 
 as well as his wife. His name was Robert, and 'tis possible 
 he might dwell at Eikle and that because of the double relation 
 to them Sir Francis Willughby might desire his daughters 
 should live with them some part of the time that he hved 
 from his lady. 
 
 "There is a letter from Sir Francis Willughby to his 
 daughter Margaret, dated from Wollaton, August the 12th, 
 1587 [desiring to know what promise, if any, she had made 
 to Griffin Markham], and tells her there are many causes of 
 dislike, and that the fear of God is the only rule to continue 
 liking between man and wife. She had been warned by Mrs. 
 Luce Bricknell what exact offices must be observed of 
 pleasing the mother and grandmother, with offence inex- 
 cusable against the divine majesty. 
 
 " There stUl remains in the Hbrary at Wollaton a very 
 han[d]some writ letter from Margaret Willughby to her father 
 in answer to this from him, which letter is to this effect : 
 [abstract of long letter, dated from Newhall, August 15th, 
 explaining her relations with Griffin Markham, who during 
 the time she was at the Markham's house " made no shew 
 of good will or affection towards her but what he was urged 
 to by his father and the rest of his friends, and besides his 
 indifferency in the matter, his mother's carriage was very 
 unkind towards her, even when she had used what means 
 she could to metigate her displeasure ; that she had told her 
 that if her husband would be so overseen as to match her 
 son with her (which she hoped would never be), all the rest 
 of her children shuld have their portions well assured, and 
 after that I must not look to live in the same house with her 
 by my presence to disturb her devotions, but be placed in 
 some cottage at their pleasure. And Mr. Markham had told 
 her that if she could not frame and fashion her conditions to 
 his wives and her mother's liking, she would have but a 
 weary life of it in matching with his son." 
 
 [Abstract of letter from Margaret WiUoughby to her 
 father informing him that she had received three letters only 
 from Mrs. Markham since she left her, and account of their 
 contents.] 
 
 " There is a very obliging letter from Sir Clem[ent] Fisher 
 to Mrs. Margaret Willughby in which he writes that he as 
 much wishes her well-doing as that of the dearest child he 
 has. This letter is directed to Kirby [Bellairs ?] and in it 
 he tells her that he is very glad she is so well placed. 
 
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 " Amongst these old letters at WoUaton there is one from 
 Mr. Thomas Markham directed to ' the Right Worshipful 
 Mrs. Spencer at Sandy.' The letter was to this effect : 
 ' Because after so desperate an attempt as this has been, and 
 now clearly broken, I don't think fit to trouble you nor 
 myself with often repairing to j'our house. I send this letter 
 to pray you to make my true excuse to that good lady your 
 mother for not keeping my promise with my wife and daughter 
 Margaret that we would wait upon you some time this 
 summer.' His daughter Margaret laj'^ iU of the small pox, 
 and now might she be glad, and in that respect himself not 
 sorry, that he had not concluded with Mr. Robert Spencer as 
 he desired, for had Mr. Ro. Spencer affected his daughter 
 Margaret, then her company might have bread his danger. 
 ' By this you may see God doth all for the best. He hath 
 shewed His love to you by preserving your son and his 
 chastisement to me by punishing my daughter, which I doe 
 (by his promise) also take for a note of his love. And even 
 so in love I end from the Court at Tybbals, the 25th of 
 July, 1587. 
 
 ' Yours wherein I may 
 
 T. M.' 
 
 " ' Postscript. As for Mr. Spencer, tho' I have cause not 
 to like of his hard dealing in matter of matrimony (whereof 
 now I heartily free him), yet his good company and mutuall 
 friendship I will like very well, as he shall perceive when he 
 may have cause to use me.' 
 
 " There are in the library at Wollaton severall very kmd 
 and friendly letters from Sir John Spencer (who was the father 
 of this Robert that married Margaret WiUughby). These 
 letters are to desire Sir Francis WiUughby to look into his 
 affairs and sell land to clear his debts. One of these letters 
 is dated April, An. D. 1595, in which letter he writes that 
 he understood by his servant Mr. Russell that his debt is now 
 19,000M. (which debt was greatly increased since their last 
 meeting) and that he was about selling land and raising money 
 by fines to pay off 14,000K. of it. He writes that since he 
 is now awake, he hopes he will not again fall a sleep and let 
 the remaining 5,000L rest a growing debt. He desires to see 
 him in town the next term, and assures Sir Francis that 
 himself with his best friends wiU be ready to help to restore 
 him to a perfect good estate, whereby he might live with 
 the reputation of his fathers. He concludes wishing him 
 contentment and the speedy effecting his good purpose, with 
 hearty commendation to himself and his sister. (I believe 
 Lady Arundell might be with Sir Francis after his lady 
 dyed.) 
 
 " There is another letter from Sir John Spencer to Sir 
 Francis WiUughby dated from Althropp, October the 15th, 
 to let him know that they are to muster their horsemen on 
 
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 Thursday at Northampton and upon Satturday, Monday, 
 Tuesday and Wednesday they shall deliver their foot to the 
 captains to be taken to London the week following. In this 
 letter also he puts Sir Francis in mind of his debts, and writes 
 that knowing him to be forgetfull, he has also writ to his 
 sister to call upon him, for that he thinks at All Saints Day 
 he will answer the interest of very near 20,000K. and such 
 returns are heavie. 
 
 "These, with other letters mentioned before from Robert 
 Spencer the son, are sufficient to make one believe they were 
 both very good friends to the Willughbys. ... By the old 
 papers one may also find reason to believe that Mr. Robert 
 Spencer and his lady Uved very happily together. [Account 
 of their four sons and two daughters.] 
 
 " Concerning Winifrid Willughby, the fourth daughter of 
 Sir Francis Willughby. 
 
 " There are many letters which shew that Lady Willughby 
 used her daughter Winifrid with great severity. She seemed 
 by her letters to have had a very tender affection for her 
 sister Brigitt, and it is very likely that in the time that Sir 
 Francis and his lady were both very angry with their son 
 PercivaU she might strive as much as she could to pacify 
 them, and upon the same account I beheve IVIr. Thomas Wil- 
 loughby might often send his second son Edward with messages 
 in behalf of Sir Percivall to Wollaton or Nottingham or where 
 else Sir Francis might be. Winifrid's affection for her sister 
 I beheve made her always desirous to hear what news he 
 either brought from or was to carry to Sir Percivall, and by 
 thus conversing together they soon engaged each other's 
 affections. 
 
 " There is a letter from Edward Willoughby to his brother 
 Sir PercivaU, dated December, 1588, in which he writes that 
 what his father has offer'd him, he will perform at any time, 
 and therefore he desires his brother to advise him whither 
 he shall come down to Sir Francis now in the time of his being 
 sheriff or not. His father, he writes, would send two men 
 and a boy to wait upon him, but being a younger brother he 
 thinks one man and a boy would be sufficient ; but in this 
 he desires Sir PercivaU's advice, as also concerning his hveries, 
 whither they shall be green clokes or coats. 
 
 " Thus Edward Willoughby seemed to have great hopes of 
 gaining his beloved mistris when yet the greatest difficulty still 
 remained, and that was to gain Lady WiUughby's consent. 
 In one of his letters he writes that when it was first proposed 
 to my lady she flew into violent passions both with Sir Francis 
 and her daughter Winifrid, and would by no means be pre- 
 vailed upon to hear of such a match. And for fear least 
 Winifrid should steal away and marry him privately, she 
 kept her locked up by such hands as he could not convey 
 a letter to her or get one from her. 
 
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 " In a letter from Edward Willoughby to Sir Percivall, 
 dated March the 18th, 1589[-90] he writes that Lady Wil- 
 lughby uses poor Winifrid with such severity that he fears 
 she will be lamed. 
 
 " There are several! very pittyous letters from Winifrid 
 to Sir Percivall and his lady. In one of her letters to Sir 
 Percivall she writes that her mother's illness grows worse and 
 worse, and the doctors advise her to goe to the Bath, which 
 she believes she intends as soon as she can. In this letter 
 she desires Sir Percivall -will find some way to get her from 
 her mother, who, she writes, leads her such a life as she is 
 not able to endure, and now she does all she can to make her 
 father angry with her. She has turned away her maids now 
 and says Winifrid shall serve her in their room. In short 
 Winifrid writes that she has not one quiet hour. 
 
 " In another letter from Winifrid Willughby to Sir Per- 
 civall she writes that her mother's unkindness still continues, 
 insomuch that at present she wiU not vouchsafe to call her 
 daughter but Mrs. Winifrid. 
 
 " Amongst Winifrid W^iUughby's letters there is- a love 
 letter to her from Richard Pudsey, in which he owns that he 
 does not diserve her, and writes that words can not express 
 the grief which he suffers for her sake ; it is such as almost 
 drives him to dispare when he thinks of his luckless love. 
 He beseeches her to accept of a simple token as a testimony 
 of his good will ; which undiserved curtisie will bind him to 
 be for ever thankfull. 
 
 " There is no copy of any answer from Winifrid Willughby 
 to this letter. 
 
 " There are sever all letters from Edward Willoughby which 
 express great concern for the ill usage which W^inifrid suffer 'd 
 from her mother, which at last he found a way to free her from 
 by geting her away and privately marrying her. Of which 
 there is this account in a letter which he writ to his sister 
 Brigit, dated from London, May An. D. 1590 : that her 
 mother's cruelty and unnaturall usage of her sister Winifrid 
 had made him take an extraordinary course for her quiet, 
 for which, he writes. Lady WiUughby threatens imprisonment 
 and death shall be his portion with her ; but he trusts as God 
 has joyned them together, so he will help them and raise 
 them up friends, and she hopes she will continue a sister's 
 love to them both. 
 
 " There is also a letter from Edward Willoughby to Sir 
 Francis dated May, An. D. 1590, in which letter he expresses 
 great concern for his heavie displeasure, assuring him that if 
 he had not been pleased to give his consent to his friends 
 as well as to himself, he would never have been troublesome 
 to him while he had hved, but having by his allowance settled 
 his affections upon Mrs. Winifrid, pitty had moved him now 
 to take her from such cruel hard usage as her mother had 
 made her indure, being, he supposed, rather incensed by others 
 than of her ladyship's own disposition so unnaturaU to her 
 
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 daughter. He now heard my Lady had vowed she would 
 have him slayn, but he hoped her Ladyship would not com- 
 mit that office to any of her friends for fear he get little by 
 the match. [Craves favourable consideration of Sir Francis, 
 and hopes that his course of hfe and usage of Winifrid will 
 hereafter gain his favour and affection.] 
 
 " There are in the library at WoUaton many very melancholy 
 letters from Winifrid Willoughby to her father acknowledging 
 her great offence and beging he would forgive her. In one, 
 dated January, 1595[-6], writ in very moving termes both 
 to Sir Francis and his lady, beging if ever child was heard 
 of father and mother, they would not now stop their ears to 
 her, who came to them with a wounded heart, for years of 
 experience had shewed her that the hand of God was streached 
 out against her, which once again she begs them by their 
 blessing to help to appease. 
 
 " In another letter to Sir Francis she begs if he will not 
 look upon her as his child, yet he would not let her be less 
 than his servants. 
 
 " By another letter I find Winifrid and her husband took 
 a journey to Wollaton in hopes to have seen her father (which 
 he refused) and also to remove some goods which I believe she 
 had there which had remained from the time of her going 
 away. Upon Sir Francis's refusing to see them, she writ to 
 teU him that seeing their being there was offencive to him, 
 they would seek some abiding place which should be far from 
 him, but then she hoped he would allow her that 4:01. yearly 
 which he had vouchsafed to promise her towards her main- 
 tenance. 
 
 " Marrying as they did unknown to either of their fathers 
 it is very likely that that settlement which Mr. Thomas 
 Willoughby offer'd to Sir Francis to make upon his son if he 
 would consent to the match might never be made, and perhaps 
 Mr. Thomas Willoughby's second wife, to raise as much as 
 she could for her own children, might prevent his being very 
 kind to his son Edward. However this was, it is very 
 apparent from both their letters, which still remain, that 
 they were often reduced to very low circumstances. He 
 was engaged in a law sute and by being bound for others 
 was forced to pay more than he was worth and run himself 
 so much in debt that he was committed to Warwick Gaol. 
 Under these misfortune[s] Winifrid Willoughby writ her 
 sister Brigitt many very melancholy letters. In one of her 
 letters to her sister she desires she will send her a dish of fish 
 against the assises, they being to have a great company of 
 witnesses. In another of her letters to Lady Willoughby, 
 her sister, she writ that she had been procuring money against 
 the tryal], but she doubts it will fall short. She prays for 
 patience, and complains of grievious pains in her head. 
 
 " There is another letter from Winifrid to her sister Wil- 
 loughby which she dates from her aunt Moorows. In it she 
 writ that she had been sent for to her sister Abigal's against 
 
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 her Ipng inn, but fell so sick by the way that she was forced 
 to stay at her aunt's, and shall now return home as soon as 
 she was able. In that letter she writ that her husband had 
 sent a petition to the king in hopes of being released from 
 his long imprisonment. 
 
 " In another very pittious letter to her sister she writ that 
 the sickness was within four doors of her husband, and there- 
 fore she begged Lady Willoughby would solicit to get him 
 released. 
 
 " There is in the library the copy of a letter writ in a very 
 moving manner to Mr. Burrell and signed by Thomas Cart- 
 wright, WuslUa {sic) Hynton, Richard Eaton, and Edward Ped., 
 dated April the 9th, 1 602, to sohcit him to release Mr. Edward 
 WiUoughby from his imprisonment, desiring him to consider 
 his weak state of health and that in a short time, if he be kept 
 there, he must be utterly ruined, both himself and family, and 
 then Mr. BurreU could have nothing but his bones, whereas 
 now the poor and wofull gentlewoman his mfe to gain her 
 husband's hberty, as they heard, would be contented to 
 mortgage or sell all that she had, even to the bed which she 
 lay upon. They desire he will consider that the debt was 
 not his own but for suretyship for another. Therefore they 
 beseech him for Christ's sake to shew some compassion to 
 his miserable case, and if not to him, to his wife and children, 
 who had no share in his suretyship. 
 
 " There is the copy of a letter to the same effect from 
 Edward Willoughby to Mr. Burrell, dated July, 1605. In 
 this letter he desires Burrell would let him have the use of his 
 books. 
 
 " By Winifrid Willoughby's letters to her sister Willoughby 
 it appears that under these bitter afflictions which she suffer'd 
 Lady WiUoughby was very kind in assisting her, for most of 
 these melancholy letters are full of acknowledgments to her 
 sister for her great bounty and kindness to her. Many of 
 these letters give accounts of her being very sick and weak 
 as well as in want through her husband's misfortunes. In a 
 letter dated October, An. D. 1606, to her sister Willoughby 
 she wishes her neece Brigitt a comfortable enjoyment of her 
 marriage, and that her other neeces may have as good matches, 
 and wished her neece would think her Bess han[d]some 
 enough to wait upon her. 
 
 " There is a very moving letter writ by Winifrid Willoughby 
 to her father in behalf of her husband and children, beging 
 that he would let them have one of his houses to Uve in that 
 they might have some resting place, for her present state was 
 so deplorable that she would rather chuse her grave. 
 
 " There is a letter from W^inifrid to her sister Willoughby, 
 dated May, An. D. 1625, in which letter she write[s]^ that she 
 was under very great affliction to part with her dear son, who 
 had been a great help to her, but was now going beyond sea, 
 
 1 The 3 is erafsed, probably to alter the verb to the preterite " writ," 
 
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 and write[s]i that her griefs and wants were more than she 
 could express, her son and daughter Hanname with their 
 children now lying upon her for maintenance till her husband 
 could pay them her fortune, and her son Swift had sued her 
 husband for that part of his wives portion which was not 
 paid. With these afflictions she write[s]^ that her grieved 
 heart was much oast down. 
 
 [Account of children of Edward and Winifrid Willoughby. 
 Hanname, who married the eldest(?) daughter, was " I think " 
 a major in the king's service : they had many children, " but 
 from them I think there now remains no descendants." Swift 
 of Worcestershire, the husband of the other daughter, was 
 ancestor of Swift, M.P. for Worcester for many years : 
 " he dyed without heirs and so I think did the rest of her 
 children." Thomas Willoughby, their son, was bred a 
 Hamburg merchant.] " There is a letter still remaining in 
 his grand -daughter's hands which he had writ to his wife, 
 August the 25th, 1635, to desire her to receive 2001. then 
 due to him and with it to pay severall small debts which he 
 had left owing, which in all amounted to the sum of 
 2061. 2s. 6d. This letter mentions his being then going to 
 Italy and gives an account of yarn and of wine, in both of which, 
 I beheve, he traded. There is an account of his being un- 
 fortunate in his business and that after sustaining some great 
 losses he went to the East Indies and dyed there. He 
 married Ehzabeth, the daughter of Robert Payne of Basing- 
 stoke, in the county of Southampton, who brought to him the 
 inheritance of the mannor of Barton Stacy in that county, 
 being in value about 600U. per annum. They had two sons 
 and three daughters. The eldest daughter married Carpenter. 
 
 Anne, the second daughter, married Lassoe, a drugster 
 
 on CornhiU. She had a daughter who dyed young and a son 
 WiUiam, who married Jane Stokes, by whom he had a son 
 Francis and four daughters : which five children he left at 
 his death to the care of Mr. Edwards of Soho Square. 
 
 " Elizabeth, the third daughter of Thomas Willoughby, 
 married Mr. Dards, an oyle man, but left no child. 
 
 "Edward WiUoughby, the eldest son of Thomas, dyed 
 unmarried by this accident : he was riding out to take the air 
 with another gentleman, whose hat fell off. Mr. Willoughby 
 by endeavouring to take it up fell off his horse and broke 
 his neck and dyed upon the spot. 
 
 " Hugh Willoughby of Barton Stacy near Winchester in 
 Hampshire, heir to his brother Edward, was a docter of 
 Phisick. He married Rebecca, the daughter of Theophilus 
 
 Pointer of Oxford, who was the son of Pointer, who was 
 
 Dean of Christ Church. ^ This Doctour Willoughby had a 
 son that dyed unmarried at 25 years of age and three 
 daughters ; of which Rebecca, the eldest . Elizabeth, 
 
 1 The s is erased, probably to alter the verb to the preterite "writ." 
 - John Pointer was sub-dean of Christ Chui'ch from 1655 to 1662. 
 
604 
 
 the second daughter of Dr. Willoughby, dyed young. 
 EMzabeth, the third daughter, married Martin Wright, a coun- 
 celler, the eldest son of William Wright, a Welsh judg. 
 
 " Concerning Abigail, the fifth daughter of Sir Francis 
 Willoughby. 
 
 " It appears by many of the old letters in the library that 
 Abigail WiUughby had the care of the house during her 
 mother's sickness and after her death. 
 
 " There is a letter from her to her sister Willoughby, dated 
 from Packington, June the 12th, but not the date of the year. 
 In this letter Abigail writ that she hoped since it had pleased 
 God to take her mother that she would come to WoUaton in 
 her tiirn. This she hoped that herself and brother would 
 be wilHng to doe because there were many things which her 
 wits would not serve her to name that would be spoyled for 
 want of her help. She assured her from the bottom of her 
 heart that it was not want of good wiU in her that they were 
 not there at present. She desired her sister would joyn with 
 her to thank God for their happy deliverance from aU their 
 troubles, and prays God to send them a happy meeting at 
 WoUaton. In the postscript she writ that her mother had 
 given her clock to Russell. Had it been in her power, she 
 should have had it as wiUingly as she could desire it. 
 
 " There is a letter from Abigail Willoughby to her father to 
 give him an account of keys, where they were, and also of those 
 inventorys which she had in keeping, and to let him know that 
 the new napkins were at the weavers when he went up to 
 London, and that there was a great bucke^ of diaper and 
 damask which had been ill washed laid in the diaper chest 
 because they could not be washed again before he went to 
 London. She concludes thus : ' I leave Packington the 
 15th of June.' 
 
 " There is a letter from Sir Francis WDlughby to his 
 daughter Abigail in which he writes [desiring her to deUver 
 to Nuport " the buttons set in a biUiment and also the great 
 pearl which your mother did wear in a necklace about her 
 neck." Dated at Sherfield, 13 August, 1595.] 
 
 " There is Abigail Willughby's answer to this letter, in 
 which she writes that she had sent the buttons that was upon 
 the biUiment, but the necklace which her mother used to 
 wear was of two sorts of Uttle pearl, laced with rubys or 
 garnetts, and a diamond hanging down through the boots, ^ 
 which was in a chest in his chamber, etc. [Dated 19 August, 
 1595.] 
 
 " Amongst the old papers I could not find any particular 
 account of the time when Abigail WiUughby married, but 
 beUeve it was about two years after her father's death. 
 There is a book of Sir Percivall WiUoughby's accounts of money 
 
 1 A washing -tub. 
 - Query meaning. 
 
605 
 
 paid and received by him, in which there is set down 500U. 
 paid in part of Abigail Willughby's portion, February the 
 7th, An. D. 159, and that in April, 1599, he gave his sister 
 Abigail a bond for a hundrfed pounds, and also that June the 
 15th, 1600, he gave her another bond for a hundred pounds. 
 By this account book one may believe that she was married 
 An. D. 1598. Her husband was William Pargiter, a 
 Northamptonshire gentleman. [Abstracts of several letters 
 from him to Lady Willoughby on business matters, etc.] 
 
 " Another sute he made Lady Willoughby in behalf of her 
 son Henry, who was not only in want of maintenance, but 
 also in want of Uberty in respect of his engagements for his 
 father, and tho' she had not a power to get him reheved from 
 the latter, yet he desires her not to forget him for the former. 
 He writ that what he desired was but ten pounds a 
 quarter for his maintenance, which was as little as he could 
 live upon. 
 
 " Greetworth was the name of Mr. Pargiter's house in 
 Northamptonshire. They had five sons and four daughters. 
 
 Dorothy, the eldest daughter, married Kirby of 
 
 Huntingtonshire and after his death her second husband was 
 Sir John Washington of Northamptonshire. She had severall 
 children, but they all dyed withoixt leaving any children. 
 Grace, the second daughter of Abigail Pargiter, married 
 
 Stratford of Merywell near Aderston in Warwickshire : 
 
 by him she had six sons and three daughters, of which 
 Grace, the eldest, married Mr. Rushton of Flower [= Flore] 
 in Northamptonshire ; Abigail, the 2nd daughter, married 
 Mr. Trotman of Warwickshire ; Dorothy, the youngest 
 daughter, married Mr. Hood, a descendant from the famous 
 Robin Hood, in Leicestershire. John, the eldest son of Grace 
 Stratford, married the sister of Sir John Coomes of Davantry 
 in Northamptonshire, by whom he had one son and two 
 daughters : Grace, the eldest daughter, still lives unmarried ; 
 Abigail, his second daughter, married Pilkington, the consul! 
 of Aleppoe, by whom she has four daughters. 
 
 " John, the only son of John Stratford, married Mrs. Free, 
 the daughter of the govemour of the company in Ham- 
 borrough [= Hamburg], by whom he has one son. 
 
 " Edward, the second son of Grace Stratford, married Mrs. 
 Taylor of Ajisty in Warwickshire, by whom he has one son 
 and severall daughters. He is still living and very near 90 
 years of age. 
 
 " Robert, the 3d son of Grace Stratford, was settled in 
 Ireland, where he married Mrs. Welsh and by her had two 
 sons and seven daughters. Of whiph Grace, the eldest 
 daughter, married Burton ; Mary, the second, married Mr. 
 Pearss ; Elizabeth married Mr. Hickman ; Jane, the 4th, 
 married Mr. Carlton ; Abigail, the 5th daughter, married Mr. 
 Canning ; Catherine, the 6th, married Mr. Spencer, and Ann, 
 the seventh daughter, married Mr. Eyre and is since dead. 
 
606 
 
 " Edward, the eldest son of Robert and grandson of 
 Grace Stratford, married Mrs. Beasly of Northamptonshire, 
 by whom he had three sons and one daughter. His second 
 wife is the daughter of Sir Morrice Eustace of Ireland ; by 
 this lady he has no child. 
 
 " Francis, the second son of Robert Stratford, married 
 Mrs. Free, the eldest daughter of the governour of the 
 company in Hamborough. 
 
 " WilUam, Theadore and Francis, the three youngest sons 
 of Grace Stratford, who was the daughter of Abigail Willughby, 
 all dyed unmarried. 
 
 " EHzabeth, the third daughter of Abigail Willoughby (who 
 married Will. Pargiter, Esq.) married Francis Smith of 
 Worcestershire, by whom she had severaU children, who dyed 
 without leaving any children, and Ann, her daughter, now 
 living. This Elizabeth Smith, who was the daughter of 
 Abigail Willughby, lived to be 98 years of age, and not long 
 before her death she was visited by her sister Abigail Hick- 
 man, who was then 88 years of age, and came to let her know 
 that her sister Pargiter, who was then 94 years of age, was 
 very well recovered from a fit of sickness. 
 
 " Ann, the daughter of this Mrs. Smith, married WiUiam 
 Friend of Northamptonshire, by whom she had three sons 
 and two daughters. Ann, her eldest daughter, married Mr. 
 Delangley, by whom she had one daughter, who now survives 
 her. Elizabeth, her second daughter, married Mr. Dobson, 
 a dragster in Ireland : she is also dead and has left two 
 daughters. 
 
 " Robert Friend, her eldest son, now doctor of divinity and 
 master of Westminster School, married Mrs. Jane Delangley, 
 by whom he has three sons. 
 
 " William Friend, her second son, a clergyman, had the 
 good fortune to gain the 20,000H. prize in the lottery. An. D. 
 
 . He married Brigit Glover, a minister's daughter, by 
 
 whom he has two daughters. 
 
 " John Friend, her third son, who is a doctour of Phisick, 
 married Mrs.. Ann Morrice, by whom he has one son John. 
 
 " Abigail, the fourth and youngest daughter of Abigail and 
 William Pargiter, married WiUiam Hickman of Warwickshire. 
 They had severall children that dyed and left no heirs, and 
 a daughter Abigail, who never married ; she is still living and 
 about 83 years of age, but as active and gay as most young 
 women. Charles Hickman, their third son, who was bishop 
 of London-Derry, married Ann, the daughter of Sir Roger 
 Burgoin, by whom he has left one only daughter Ann. 
 
 " Of the five sons of Abigail and William Pargiter Francis, 
 the second, William, the third, Theadore, the fourth, and 
 Ezekiel, the fifth son, ail dyed unmarried. 
 
 " Robert, the eldest son, married Philipa Page, by whom 
 he had eight sons, of which the seven youngest never married. 
 The eldest son Sir William Pargiter married the widow of 
 
607 
 
 Mr. Washington of Wiltshire ; by this lady he had one only 
 daughter, who married Sir Henry Bearing ; by him she had 
 no children. Her second husband was a younger brother of 
 Sir Scroop How, by whom she had only one daughter Leonora, 
 who married Peter Bathurst, the second son of Sir Benjamin 
 and youngest brother of the present Lord Bathurst : she 
 dyed An. D. 1720, and left three daughters, the youngest of 
 which dyed soon after her mother. Francis, the eldest, and 
 Leonora, the second, are still living. 
 
 " Concerning Frances, the sixth daughter of Sir Francis 
 WiUughby. 
 
 " There remains in the library at WoUaton but little account 
 of this Frances WiUughby, the youngest of Sir Francis's six 
 daughters, but by her own letters and some other letters which 
 make mention of her one may beUeve that she strove to be 
 her mother's favoret and as a means to make herself so did 
 help to aggravate those unhappy disputes which were in the 
 family. But this course did not long keep her mother from 
 using her with as much severity as the rest of her daughters, 
 as appears by some of her letters, which are full of sad complaints 
 of the hardships which her mother made her suffer. Her 
 sisters, having, I believe, been before disobliged by her, were 
 not very friendly to her under these misfortunes, and this 
 prompted her to make friendships out of her own family and 
 to goe away from Sir Francis and his lady unknown to either 
 of them with Mr. John Drake. There remains in the library a 
 letter which she writ to Sir Francis upon this occasion. Her 
 letter is to this effect : that her mother's cruelty to her had 
 forced her to take this course, and tho' she was sensible she 
 ought not to accuse her mother, yet now such was her offence 
 that only her mother's wrongs could render her excusable 
 and his knowing that she never used to displease him. She 
 writ that Mr. Drake used her with great respect and took care 
 to preserve her reputation and that her intention was to live 
 for some time in his uncle Richard Drake's house, whose wife 
 had an extraordinary good character, and there she hoped 
 to carry herself so well as to merit his pleasure. 
 
 " But by a letter from her to Sir Percivall Willoughby con- 
 cerning some trouble she had about her fortune, one may 
 believe she did not marry till some time after her father's 
 death. 
 
 " By many other letters one may believe that this Mountague 
 Wood of Lamley was a very ill man as well as a very ill husband 
 to this Frances WiUoughby, who, I believe, married him while 
 she was at Mr. Drake's house. . . . There are many 
 letters from her to her sisters which give an account of his 
 barbarity to her, viz., that he had turned her out of doors, 
 beat her, and made her suffer the want of necessarys for life, 
 and other of her letters complain pf the unkindness of his 
 relations to her, so that, upon the whole, one may judg that 
 she had a very miserable life. 
 
608 
 
 " It appears by an old writing that the manner and Lord- 
 ship of Lamly did belong to Sir Francis Willughby, who left 
 it to his lady (after[ wards] Lady Wharton) for her life ; at 
 her death it descended to the six daughters and co-heirs of Sir 
 Francis Willoughby. The sixth part of that estate which fell 
 to Brigit who was Sir Percivall Willoughby's lady and Sir F. 
 W.'s eldest daughter, her son Edward sold ; Henry Hastings 
 sold his sixth part of the wood and wast grown[d] to John 
 Wood ; the Lord Spencer sold his sixth part to Edward 
 Willoughby, his brother-in-law, which with his own sixth part 
 went to Edward, his grandson. WiUiam Pargiter sold his sixth 
 part with the wood and wast grown[d] to severall persons. 
 
 " Montiegue Wood, Esq., and Frances, his wife, conveyed 
 their sixth part of this mannor and lordship of Lamly to 
 Francis Hawker, Esq., and George Lacock, gent., to the use 
 of Henry Wood, Mary Wood, Abigail Wood, John Wood, Frances 
 Wood, EUzabeth Wood and Edward Wood, the children of 
 Mountague and Francis Wood. This writing shews that 
 Wilsley Wright of Lamly married Mary Wood and purchased 
 the parts of Henry Wood and John Wood, her brothers, and 
 that Abigail Wood (since the Lady Darcy) conveyed her part 
 to Elizabeth, her sister, who sold the same together with 
 her own 6th part to Lawrence Palmer, clerk, and the wood 
 and the wast ground she sold to John Wood, esq. 
 
 " Having finished what account I could find (from the old 
 papers in the library at Wollaton) of Sir Francis Willoughby's 
 five younger daughters, before I return to Sir Percivall 
 Willoughby and his lady and their perplexed affairs, I think it 
 will be proper here to set down what accounts I have been 
 able to find of the Willoughbys of Willoughby and Eresby in 
 Lincolnshire, that being the family from whence Sir Percivall 
 was descended. 
 
 [Account of Willoughbys d'Eresby down to Lord Robert, 
 tempp. Edward I and II.] 
 
 [This volume of the Duchess Cassandra's compilation came 
 into the possession of Lord Middleton about twenty-five years 
 ago. It contains these entries " Hy Jn. Kearney, 1785," 
 and " No. 43 Somerset St., Portman Square," and, in a some- 
 what later hand, " Miss Kearney." The whereabouts of the 
 second volume is unknown, but it was also in possession of 
 Mr. Kearney, for Dr. Thomas Denman, An Introduction to 
 the Practise of Midwifery, London, 1794, preface of vol. i, 
 says, after giving some extracts from a MS. work on obstetrics 
 by Dr. Percival WiUoughby,i that (p. xl) " By a manuscript 
 
 in the possession of Kearney, Esq., it appears that 
 
 this Dr. Willughby was one of the six sons of Sir Percival 
 Wfilughby, and grandson of Sir Francis, so famous in the 
 time of Queen Ehzabeth." The MS. in question was printed 
 under the title of Observations in Midwifery. As also the 
 
 1 See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. Ixii., p. 167, 
 
609 
 
 Gountrey Midwifes Opmculum or Vade Mecum. By Percivall 
 Willughby, Gentleman. Edited from the Original MS. by 
 Henry Blenkinsop, F.R.G.S.E., etc. Warwick, Printed at 
 the Shakespeare Printing Press, High Street, by H. T. Cooke 
 and Son, 1863. 
 
 The editor of this rare book^ seems to have had access to the 
 second volume of the Duchess Cassandra's work, as appears 
 from the following quotations (page v) : 
 
 [" We have not been able to procure any information 
 respecting the early life of Percival WiUughby, except that he 
 received a first class education, the expence of which his father 
 could iU afford ; and that he was a lad of great industry. 
 Percival and his brothers, Thomas and Henry, were first sent 
 to school at Trowbridge, and from thence were removed to 
 I^ugby. They were afterwards removed to Eton, and finally, 
 aU three were sent to complete their education at Oxford. 
 The master of the school at Rugby wrote several letters to 
 Sir Percival, in which he commended them all for their great 
 industry. These particulars appear in a MS. account of the 
 Willughby family, formerly in the Kbrary at Stowe, written 
 by Cassandra Willughby, the second wife of James, the first 
 duke of Chandos. This MS. in so far as it relates to our author 
 Percival, appears to have been compiled from letters (p. vi) 
 and papers which were in the library at WoUaton, and we 
 extract from it the following interesting particulars : 
 
 [" ' While Sir Percival was thus grievously oppressed with 
 the want of monej', his son Henry, and his son Percival (who 
 were at Trinity College, in Oxford) suffered under the same 
 calamity. 
 
 [" ' There are, in the library at Wollaton, several letters 
 written from Oxford, by Percival Willughby to his father, 
 in which he very generously expressed his concern for the 
 expence which Sir Percival was at, to maintain him at Oxford, 
 and his desire to free him from that charge. 
 
 [" ' There is a letter from him to Sir Percival, dated 
 January, 1619[-20], m which he writ that now a fair 
 opportunity offered itself, for his uncle Robert WiUughby 
 had proposed his beiug placed with Mr. Feames Van Otten 
 who, for a hundred pounds, offered to keep him seven years, 
 and to teach him Music, Physic, and Surgery ; and had 
 promised to use him like a son, maintain him like a gentleman, 
 and allow him the free use of his study, and to teach him 
 the secrets of physic : that under him he should have time 
 for his own private studies, and to keep his public exercises 
 as before. And after this, his uncle Robert had promised that 
 he should live with him, and that he would bring him into his 
 business. 
 
 1 The Inspector is indebted for access to this publication to Dr. William 
 Osier, Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford. The work 
 is interesting to the layman for the glimpses it affords of seventeenth century 
 lite. It is, according to Dr. Osier, an important work in the history of English 
 medicine. 
 
 M39 
 
610 
 
 [" 'In other letters, Percival Willughby earnestly pressed 
 his father to consent to this offer, and not to scruple his being 
 so placed, as thinking it an undervaluing of him, for, with 
 God's blessing, he did not doubt but the profession of Physic 
 would make him more happy than his two eldest (p. vii) 
 brothers ; and by the help of that practice, he believed he should 
 never stand in need of them, but he questioned not that they 
 would stand in need of him. 
 
 [" 'It appears by the old papers that Sir Percival was at 
 last prevailed upon by his son, and did consent to send him 
 for seven years to this famous person, Mr. Feames Van Otten, 
 who used Percival Willughby with great kindness, but died 
 before his time was out. There is a very melancholy letter 
 from him to Sir Percival, upon the death of Mr. Feames Van 
 Otten, in which he grievously lamented the loss of such a 
 master. 
 
 [" ' This Percival Willughby so well improved himself in the 
 time he served so good a master, that he soon took his 
 Doctor's degree, and became a very eminent Physician. 
 
 [" ' He married the daughter of Sir Francis Coke, of 
 Trusley, a.d. 1631, and settled himself in Derby town, where 
 he practiced Physic, and lived in great repute, till he was near 
 ninety years of age. He had by this wife two or three sons, 
 who all died unmarried, and two daughters, the eldest of which 
 married Mr. Hart, and the younger married Mr. Burton, 
 of Derby. 
 
 [" ' Henry was not so fortunate as his younger brother, 
 Percival, who, by his practice, gained such an income, as 
 allowed him to live with great plenty, but Henry, who studied 
 the law, did not live to reap much profit by it ; after following 
 that study at Oxford, he removed to the Inward Temple, 
 and, from thence, he writ a great many very melancholy letters 
 to Sir Percival, his father, which still remain in the Library 
 at WoUaton.' "] 
 
611 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Page 53. 
 
 The deed of exchange between Robert Belet, son of William 
 Belet, and Ralph Belet, his uncle, is probably dated too early, 
 for there is an indenture in the same handwriting, dated in 1229 
 " ad proximum hokadai post Pascha," between the said Robert 
 Belet, son of William Belet, and Sir Ralph Belet, his uncle, 
 whereby Robert demises for seven years his portion of the 
 meadow called " xij. acres," saving the third of Mabel, late the 
 wife of Robert Belet, his grandfather. Witnesses : Robert 
 de Wermewelle, Philip German, William Lude, Richard de 
 Musteirs, Adam Schirard, and William Cup. 
 
 Page 196. 
 
 Since this page was in tj^e the New Palaeographical Society 
 ha^ published (plates 158, 159) facsimiles of a single leaf of an 
 uncial bible in the British Museum (Add. MS. 37777), ascribed 
 to " about A.D. 700-715," containing a portion of the Book 
 of Kings (III. xi., 29 — xii. 18), which agrees so closely with 
 the WoUaton leaves (which are also from the Book of Kings) 
 that the conclusion seems inevitable that they both once formed 
 part of the same MS. bible. Mr. C. H. Turner has illustrated 
 the importance and interest to biblical students and 
 palaeographers of the British Museum leaf and its relationship 
 to the famous Codex Amiatinus at Florence,^ which was 
 presented to Pope Gregory II by Ceolfrid, abbot of Jarrow 
 and Wearmouth. It has been suggested by Canon Green well 
 that the leaf came from one of the two copies prepared at the 
 same time by order of Ceolfrid for presentation to the 
 sister-monasteries of Jarrow and Wearmouth. The British 
 Museum leaf and the ten leaves at Wollaton agree in the size 
 of the parchment, the size and arrangement of the columns 
 and lines, the handwriting, the ruling, the absence of 
 punctuation (except later punctuation in one of the WoUaton 
 leaves), the character of the headline " Malachim," its position 
 on the page and its occurrence only on the right side of each 
 leaf, the writing of the first liiie of each chapter in red, the 
 rubrication (even to the alteration of the chapter -numbers 
 in a later hand" and the character of the curled lines in red 
 indicating the -position of the numbers in the text). In the 
 Wollaton leaves the sacred monogram, the " chrismon," 
 (formed of the letters X and P) occurs with a and w at its 
 
 1 Journal of Theological Studies, 1909, p. 530 sqq. 
 
 2 Probably by the late thirteenth century scribe who has written in red 
 ink at the end of the third book in the WoUaton leaves : " Explicit Regunj 
 liber tercius. Incipit liber quartus." 
 
612 
 
 sides in red at the end of the third book, and a large initial P is 
 written in black ink with a single row of red dots running up 
 the centre of the upright stroke, the curved part, and the front 
 curl or serif. 
 
 Page 260. 
 
 " The copy of the kjmges letters of grete tj^thynges." 
 The original letter of which this is a translation must have been 
 despatched from Rome early in March, 1492, although part 
 of it may have been written before. The treaty between the 
 pope and the king of Naples was concluded on 28 January,' 
 and the marriage of the king of France with Ann of Britanny 
 was celebrated on 6 December, 1491. The report of a project 
 for the marriage of Philip of Burgundy with EHzabeth, daughter 
 of Duke George of Bavaria, belongs to a slightly earlier date, 
 for the preliminary contract was signed on 11 October, 1491.^ 
 The scheme fell through, and proposals for a marriage between 
 Philip and a daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, suggested 
 by the threatening growth of French power, began to take 
 shape early in 1492.^ The writer of this letter seems to have 
 been unaware of this change in the matrimonial project. 
 During the writing of the letter the writer received King Henry's 
 letters relating to the sees of Bath and Chester (p. 261). The 
 king wrote to the pope regarding the see of Coventry, Lichfield 
 and Chester on 8 December, 1491.* On the same day the king 
 addressed a letter to the pope regarding the proceedings of 
 the French.^ The city of Granada capitulated on 2 January, 
 1492, but the news did not reach Rome until the begitming 
 of February, and the pope attended a thanksgiving service 
 on the fifth," which is referred to in the letter. The latest 
 event recorded is the discovery of a portion of the Holy Cross 
 in the church of Santa Croce di Gerusalemme at Rome (p. 261), 
 which was made a few days {swperioribus diebus) before 
 12 March.'^ The letter, which makes no mention of the solemn 
 service held in the church in connexion with this discovery 
 on 12 March, must have been despatched from Rome before 
 this date, for on 6 April " was shewed by my Lord of 
 Caunterbury, chaunceler of England, how the kyng of Spayn 
 had conquerid the cyte and contre of Grenade, and aftir was 
 there a solempne procession generaU and a noble seriaon. 
 And after Te Deum solempnely song in Saint Powles quyre, 
 and in the said sermone was shewed that the same yere in 
 
 1 Ferdinand Gregorovius, Geschichte der Stadt Bom im Mittelalter, ed. 3, 
 vii, 294. 
 
 2 Heinrich Ulman, Kaiser Maximilian I. auf urkundlicher Orundlage 
 dargestellt. Stuttgart, 1884, i, 241, note 3. 
 
 s Tbid., i, 241. 
 
 * Calendar of State Papers, Venetian, i, 209. 
 B Ibid., 207. 
 
 8 Johannis BurcJiardi Diarium, sive Rerum Vrbanarum Commentarii, 
 1483-1506, ed. L. Thuasne, Paris, 1883, i, 445. 
 ' Ibid., i, 449. 
 
613 
 
 Rome was founden in an old wall a pese of the Holy Crosse."' 
 These announcements are evidently derived from this letter. 
 The ambassadors of the English king in the papal court about 
 this time were John de Sherwood, bishop of Durham, who had 
 served in that capacity under Richard III,- and John de Gigliis 
 of Lucca, who was appointed on 15 July, 1490.' Sherwood 
 was in England at the time when this letter was sent from 
 Rome, being in London in February.* He was at Pavia on 
 his way back to Rome on 21 May,^ and entered Rome 
 solemnly on 14 June.^ Thus it seems clear that John de 
 Gigliis, who subsequently became bishop of Worcester, was the 
 writer of this letter. This conclusion is confirmed by the 
 writer's reference to " Sebastiane, my cosyn " (p. 261), for that 
 is an unhkely English Christian name, and a Sebastian de 
 Gigliis, also of Lucca, received letters of denization on 
 25 October, 1491.' 
 
 Page 263. 
 
 This strange " prognostication," which purports to have been 
 drawn up in 1431, would seem to have been written in 1491. 
 From its entry in the present register it must have reached 
 Burton before the death of abbot Thomas Field on 2 July, 
 1493.® It must be earlier than death of Pope Innocent VIII on 
 25 July, 1492, since it foretells his death in the following year. 
 It is altogether at sea regarding the course of events in 1492, 
 such as the result of King Henry's invasion of France. The 
 prophesy of the capture of Granada might have been safely 
 made at the end of 1491. This may therefore be the 
 " prognosticacion " that was brought to King Henry on 
 8 January, 1492.^ 
 
 Page 266. 
 
 Although the document from fo. 42 is entitled " The Copy 
 of the Kynges Commission," it is clear that it is not the com- 
 mission, but a memorandum drawn up to shew the advantages 
 that were expected to accrue from the erection of the Staple 
 of metals. As the erection of this Staple has received Uttle or 
 no attention from economical or other historians, it has been 
 deemed advisable to print the memorandum in full. It 
 should be dated in 1492, for on 1 April in that year the king 
 
 1 London Chronicle in Cott. MS. Vitellius A XVI, in Chronicles of London 
 ed. by C. L. Kingsford, Oxford, 1905, p. 197. T'rom this Chrcniole it was 
 taken into Halle's Chronicle, fo. xxiij, verso, Holinshed, 1585, iii, 7726, and 
 Stow, Annals, 1592, p. 792. 
 
 2 P. S. Allen, "Bishop Shirwood of Durham and his Library," in 
 English Historical Review, xxv, ji. 447. 
 
 3 Calendar of State Papers, Venetian,, i, 192. 
 * Allen, p. 452. 
 
 B Calendar of State Papers, Venetian, i, 212. 
 
 6 Burohard, i, 489. 
 
 7 Patent Roll, 7 Henry VII, pars unica, mem. 32. 
 
 8 ' Chronica Abbatum de Burton,' in Monasticon, iii, p. 47. 
 
 9 ' Privy Seal Expenses of Henry VII,' in Bentley's Excerpta Historica, 
 Londcta, 1833, p. 8&. 
 
614 
 
 ordained by letters patent^ that, owing to the neglect of 
 merchants to take lead, etc. to Calais in accordance with the 
 privileges of the merchants of the Staple of Calais, the Staple of 
 copper and lead and all other metals found in England, Ireland, 
 and Wales and the Isle of Wight should be held at 
 Southampton, with the exception of lead found in Derbyshire, 
 which might be carried at pleasure to York or Southampton. 
 WiUiam Dalton, a Southampton merchant of the Staple, 
 was created mayor of the Staple of metals for six years, and he 
 and the constable and merchants of the said Staple were to 
 be the commissaries and governors of the mines, with power 
 to change the Staple to any more suitable place by the advice of 
 the Lord Chancellor. There are many other clauses in the letters 
 patent, most of which are represented in the memorandum. 
 On 24 June a proclamation to carry into effect the provisions 
 was ordered by letters patent to be made throughout the 
 realm. ^ 
 
 " The Copy of the Kinge's Commission. 
 
 " Thes articles folowyng conteyne and shewe a grete parte 
 of the commodites and profettes that may growe by the staple 
 of mettaUes late ordeigned and establisshed by the k3nig oure 
 sover[ailgne lorde under his lettres patentes, sealed with his 
 grete scale of Englande, with the grete avayle also lyke to 
 growe of silver mynes, th'establisshing and ordinaunce of which 
 staples shalbe both honour and profette to the kinges highnes 
 and to the' imiversaU wele and incresse of aUe his subjettes, 
 lyke herafter it may evydently appere. 
 
 " First, the settynge on werke the iduUe peopuUe of the 
 realme that shall laboure in the said mynes shalbe a grete esshe- 
 winge' of thefte, robry and other mysrewles, which shalbe 
 a goode and a meritorius dede. 
 
 " Also the continualle wirkyng of the saide mynes shaUe 
 dayly renew as welle golde and silver oute of the same as lede, 
 tynne and copere, and thereby shalbe brought in to the realme 
 bothe golde, silver, or ware to the value. 
 
 " Also the contynuynge of the same mynes shalle for the 
 kjTiges parte be a grete advauntage as welle of his parte that 
 commyth owte of the grounde, the which is the xvj*'' parte 
 of the golde and silver iyned,* as when it is in the marchaundes 
 handes to be utterde over the see, that is to witte, of alle the 
 marchaundes so to be caried, of a denysen xijd. of the li. and 
 of a stranger xvc^. of the li., except tynne, wherof the 
 
 1 Patent Roll, 7 Henry VII, pars unica, mem. 8. 
 
 2 Ibid., mem. 7d. ; B. Steele, Calendar of Stuart Proclatnations, Oxford, 
 1910, no. 19. The " proolamacion for the mynes of gold, silver and other 
 metals " was despatched on 1 July to Warwick, Huntingdon, Stamford, 
 and other places ('Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VII,' in BentleyV 
 Excerpta Historica, London, 183.3, p. 90). 
 
 3 ' Eschewing,' avoidance or preventive. 
 * Refined. 
 
615 
 
 straungers duety is to pay to the king of every xxs. in 
 value ijs. ii]d. for his custome and subcide.^ 
 
 " Also the lorde of the grounde where any suche silver myne 
 shalbe labourede shalle have a grete avauntage of the 
 xv** part of the ore that commys owte of the myne, where 
 at this day yai have no thyng, by cause the saide silver mynes 
 lye unwrought and be not occupyed.^ 
 
 " A[l]so the tynne wyrkers shall have also a grete profite, 
 for where yai have bene glade a fore tyme to selle yaire tynne 
 before hande, to yaire grete losse and hynderyng, be cause 
 yai be not able ne of powere to kepe yaire tjmne unto the 
 tyme of the cojmage,^ neverthelesse the tynne wirkers by thes 
 estaples* shall have for every c.^ tynne of the best xxijs. and 
 other slaythere*' after the rate of olde tynne' usede, beside 
 the coynage, and the marchaundes to fetche it at the places of 
 the coynage. And for as muche tynne as the tynners cann 
 gete and br5nig to the saide coynages' to have contentacion 
 therfor, and that price to contynew goode chepe and dere 
 in warre and pease, where by the tenners shall have a grete 
 profyte, and all lede myners after the same, as in the lettres 
 patentes is expressed. 
 
 " Also the marchaundes of the saide staples shalle also have 
 grete profyte by meane of the same, for ther shall nother 
 tynne ne lede be caryed oute of the realme bot it shalbe first 
 stapled at one of the staples, and so the marchaunt shall have 
 the tynne for xxijs. the c. and the coynage at the most is 
 iiijs. that is xxvjs. of the c. And the price of the staple shalbe 
 xls. the c, so that the marchaunt shall geyne and wynne the 
 iij*^ penny, that is to witte l.li. of the c.li. in marchaundise. 
 
 " Also the marchauntes shall have grete profite by the silver 
 m5aies, where that every marchaunt shalbe bounde to expende 
 xli. in the myne, and with [that] mony x. p[o]undes the myne 
 must nedes be wonne ; and so shall the king have the 
 xvj*^ part of the silver fyned, and the marchaunt for his 
 costes the xv** partes, and the lordes of the grounde the 
 xv*® part of the ore, and the marchauntes the xiiij'^ partes 
 for yaire costes and labure, wherby the marchauntes must 
 also have a profyte. 
 
 " Also the peauterers' shalle also mow^" seUe peautere 
 vesseUe at a metely price, for yai shall have the tynne, as 
 muche as yai wiUe bye and occupy, to serve the londe^^ at the 
 
 1 Subsidy. 
 
 2 Made use of. 
 
 3 The official stamping of the blocks of tin. See New English 
 Dictionary, s.v. ' Coinage, 4.' 
 
 * Staples. 
 
 6 Hundredweight. 
 
 6 Sorts, kinds ? 
 
 7 An error for ' tyme ' ? 
 
 8 The towns where the official stamping of the tin was done. 
 
 9 Pewterers. 
 
 1 An error for ' now ' ? 
 
 1 1 The country or realm. 
 
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 price that the marchaunt shall by it, so that the saide 
 peauterers feche it at the coynage, as in the said lettres patentes 
 it is expressede, and lede to be occupyed within the londe/ 
 and in lyke forme and maner to be bought and fechet ther as it 
 groweth. 
 
 " Also the ceties, burghes and townnes where thies staples 
 shalbe kepped shalbe enryched be meane of the same staple 
 as welle in shippes as in habitaunces.^ 
 
 " Also the derrer that alle suche commoditees that groweth 
 or his gotten within the realme and oute of the grounde [be] 
 solde for an highe price, the more profyte must nedes growe to 
 the kyng and the hole lande, as every man may parfitelyknowe. 
 
 " Also that no persone take opon hym to dygge or wasshe 
 for golde or silver withoute knowlage gevyng to the governoures 
 of the saide staple, for yf he do it'* is forfette, halfe to the 
 king and halfe to the fynder, as app[e]areth in the saide lettres 
 patentes. 
 
 " Also that if any personn or personns take opon yaim to 
 dygge or wasshe for golde or silver withoute hcens of the 
 forsaide governowres, and it withdrawe and brjmg it not in to 
 the saide staple that the kyng may be aunswared of his right, the 
 ma3Te and counsels of the same staple hath power to punysch 
 the mysdoers in such forme and maner as the mayre and 
 aldermen of Calice use to punyssh felawes* and man queUers f 
 wherfor it is gode that every mann see wysely how he demeneth 
 hym self in medlyng with suche thynges as to this estaple 
 belongeth, on lesse" that he be a marchaunt of the same 
 staple. Bot a marchaunt admyttede into the fredome of the 
 saide staple shalle know moo'' grete profytes than here is 
 shewed or openned.* And he that is wOlyng to have parfyte 
 knowlage of more than is here in conteynede, lat hym see the 
 proclamacion, and there he shall fynde more parfyte knowlage, 
 and the hole knowlege in the kinges lettres patentes. 
 
 " And over this the kyng oure soverayne lorde wolle[th] 
 and graunteth that if ther be any person or personns willing 
 to be admytted a merchaunt of the forsaid staples, to come 
 ore sende to the said mayre or to his assignes betwene this and 
 the last day of August next commjmg, shalle pay xls. to the 
 saide mayre, and yai shalbe admytted for marchauntes, and 
 yaire names regestrede ; and that as many as shalle come 
 after the saide last day of August to be admytted a marchaunt 
 of the saide staples shalle pay for yaire" entre as by the saide 
 marchaundes shalbe extemed.^" 
 
 1 The country or realm. 
 
 2 Inhabitants. 
 
 3 That is the gold or silver so foiMid by him. 
 * An error for ' felons.' 
 
 6 Slayers of men, homicides. 
 " Unless. 
 ' More. 
 
 8 Manifested. 
 
 9 Their. 
 
 10 . Estimated, assessed. 
 
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 " And for be cause the saide mayre hath to doo for the 
 orderyng of the same staples, that if he be absent at any tyme 
 before the said laste day of August, where any person or 
 personnes wolde pay yaire money and to be admittede ia his 
 absens, it is appoynted that yai bryng yaire money and yaire 
 names to thes places and persons aftere wrettyn, to witte : 
 In London to John' Bracebrige or John' Bradman. In the 
 West cuntrey to the prioure of Plumton. In Bristowe to John' 
 Esterfeld. In Laycestre to the mayre. In West Chestre^ to 
 the majTe. In Yorke to the mayre or to Sir Richard York, 
 knight. In the Newe CasteUe opon Tyae to the mayre." 
 
 1406[-7], March 19. Will of Sir William Percy. " En noun 
 de Dieu, Sejmt Marie Sa mere, et de toutz Sejmtez ! 
 le xiiij"* jour de le kalendys de April, I'an de grace et de Dieu 
 M'CCCC.VJ. Jeo WiLl[iam] Percy, chivaler, en sajme memoire, 
 jeo devise ma alme a Dieu et a Sa mere et a toutz seyntes, et 
 mon corps estre enterre deyns le esglise de Wodemancote. 
 Item jeo devyse al cathedral esghse de Cicestre, xls. Item 
 jeo devyse al esgUse de Wodemancote, xiijs. iiijd. Item jeo 
 voile que une fenestre que ore est comence depart le north de 
 dit esglise seit parfoume de mez biens. Item jeo devyse a 
 William, parson du dit esglise, xxs. Item jeo devyse al covent 
 de la priorie de Lewes en almoyfnje, x. marcz. Item jeo devyse 
 al covent des Freris de Shorham, xls. Item jeo devyse a 
 WiUiam fitz monser de Ponynges, x. marcz. Item jeo voile 
 et devyse qe [le] residue de toutz mes biens, vives et mort, 
 apres mez dettes et ma volunte parfournez, remajTiount 
 a Marie, ma compagne. En (sic) parfoumer de mon devyse et de 
 ma volunte, jeo ordeyne et devyse mez executours monser 
 Robert de Ponynges, Gilbard, parson de Ebarton, et Marie, 
 ma compaigne." 
 
 [Proved on 2 July, 1407, before Roger, rector of the parish 
 church of Ponyngg, diocese of Chichester, the commissary 
 specially appointed ia this behalf by John Perche, clerk, 
 registrar of the court of Canterbury, in the parish church of 
 Wodemancote, in the said diocese, with grant of administration 
 to the aforesaid by the said registrar on 9 July.] 
 
 1558, June 18. — Letters of the Signet of Queen Mary 
 
 to . 
 
 " Marye the quene. By the Quene. 
 
 " Trusty and welbeloved, we grete you well. 
 
 " And whereas the presente state in which we nowe stande, 
 being in warres with our auncient enemies the Frenche and 
 Scottes, hathe moved us to have a speciall care to the defence of 
 this our realme and our lovinge subjectes of the same, for which 
 cause we have not onely appointed our lieutenantes in sondry 
 shires, but also by them taken further order for putting all 
 thinges undre their charges in such a readines as apperteinethe. 
 
 1 Chester. 
 
618 
 
 " We let you wit that, mjmding also to have a sufficient 
 strength especially of horsemen put in a readines to defends 
 our borders of the Northe against th'enemy there being 
 ayded by the Frenche, we have for that purposse addressed 
 our lettres to sondry of our nobilitie and gentlemen and 
 appointed the like, as by thies we do appoynt you to put in 
 ordre and a readines one hable man sufficiently furnished with 
 horse and armour for a demylaunce. Requiring you therefore 
 as we specially trust you to foUowe th'execution of this our 
 pleasour and to have the same demylance in a perfecte readines 
 by the xviijth day of July next ensuynge, at which day he shall 
 shewe hymself before our right trusty and right welbeloved 
 cousin and counsailour the Marques of Wynchester, high 
 treasorer of England, our lieutenante of that our countre of 
 Warwicke, or his deputie, in such place as he or his said deputy 
 shall appoynt, and there receave ordre and further knoweledge 
 of our said heutenaunte, or his deputy, of his setting forthe and 
 whither he shall repayre ; at which place so signefied unto 
 hym he shall receave cote and conducte money by our 
 appoyntment. And suche ordre as shalbe by our said 
 lieutenante, or his deputy, given, our pleasour and comaunde- 
 ment is you see observed aswell as yf it were expressed in thies 
 our lettres. Whereof fails you not as ye tendrs our plsasure 
 and will answers for the contrary. 
 
 " Yeven under our Signet at our manour of St. James, 
 the xviijth of June, the fourth and fiveth yeres of our 
 reignes."^ 24. 
 
 1597, June 2. — Percival Willoxjghby to William Cecil, 
 Lord Btjrghley. 
 
 " Righte honourable, my humbls dutis rsmsmbred. 
 
 " Being lately advertised of your Lordship's hards conceipte 
 of me, towching the wrifcte of searche broughte againste 
 the Lady Wyllughby ;^ I thoughts it my dutis, for your 
 honour's bsttsr satisfaccion thsrsin, to signifis unto your 
 Lordship, that thsrs was not any violsnce or mysdsmeanour 
 whatsoever commytted in the execucion thsrsof, ths shsrifss 
 of London thsimsslvss bsing bothe of theim present (as they 
 are ajUdwilbe readie to certifie your honour), and Sir MichaeU 
 Molyns and bothe the Ladies being firsts acquayntsd 
 therswithaU, and thsreupon seemed not to have, nor had, any 
 juste cawse of discontentment : And for myne owns parts, 
 I nether did nor desired any thinge to be doone in that 
 behalfe, but which by good advise and due course of lawe 
 mighte be doone in suche a case ; bsing the rather incited 
 thereunto, for that Sir Mychaell Molyns, (as by sufficient 
 proofe I made it knowen to the judges of ths common plsas) 
 had practised with a gentlewoman in Nottinghamshisf to 
 exchaunge a sonne of hers (if neede weare) for a daughter of the 
 
 1 The flysheet with the address has been torn awa.y. 2 o/. page 582, above. 
 
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 said Lady Wyllugbbyes ; which practise of his, howe 
 daungerous it mighte have proved to me (as my case stood), 
 I leave it to your honorable censure and consideracion ; 
 humbly beseeching your Lordship that whatsoever myne 
 adversaries shall upon a malignant spleene and spirit in this 
 sorte untrewly suggest againste me, your honour will 
 vouchesafe to suspende your harde opinion of me till suohe 
 tyme, as by my carriage in the Common Wealthe, I shall deserve 
 the contrarie. 
 
 It pleased your Lordship of your honorable remembraunce 
 to speake of the twoo names of the Wyllughbyes, th'one in 
 Dorcetshier, th'other in Kente, of bothe which howses then 
 matching together I am no we leafte a poor remnaunte, so that 
 if your Lordship for any former regarde whatsoever doo retejme 
 any sparke of affeccion towardes their names, I truste your 
 Lordshipp wiU the rather for their sakes vouchesafe me your 
 honorable favour and patronage in any my honest and lawfuU 
 accions, tendinge to the reeoverie of their ruinated howses, 
 to which it was their meaning that in farre better sorte 
 I sholde have succeded theim. I am sorie that it is my harde 
 fortune, being the laste of so worthie and memorable a howse, 
 to be nowe exposed to suche a multitude of myseries by Sir 
 Frauncis Wyllughbyes deathe, whoe, promysing and intending 
 my advauncement in marrying with his eldest daughter, hathe 
 leafte me charged with dyvers greate annuities, 6,000 markes 
 for three of the yoimgest daughters porcions, and with 8,000K. 
 of principal! debte att the leaste, besides other collaterall 
 bondes and statutes of infinite value ; leaving me onely (aU 
 deduccions made) not above mj.c.li. yerely revenewe, towardes 
 the undertaking of so greate a burthen. 
 
 " But the greater my distresse is the greater cawse I have 
 to implore your honourable commiseracion, for which I shalbe 
 bound to reteyne a thankefuU remembraunce thereof during 
 my lyfe, and to delyver it successively to my posteritie for 
 tyme to come. 
 
 " The Lady Wyllughby (as upon her mocion it seemed good 
 to your honour) hathe (as I understande) gotten the 
 commission for finding the office^ after Sir Fraunces deathe 
 into Dorcettshier, a place farre distant and remote from my 
 dwelling and counsell, and where no tenure can be founde : 
 so that thereby I shalbe dryven (to my greate travell and 
 charge) to bringe another commission into Nottinghamshier, 
 being th'onely place where any lande is of the tenure in capite 
 or of Her Majestie which was late Sir Fraunces Wyllughbyes, 
 and for which I muste sue my liverie. My humble suite 
 therefore is that, for the easing of my said travell and charge, 
 your Lordship wUbe pleased that I may joyne with her in 
 commission for Nottinghamshier, or in any other countie 
 neerer adjoyniag, as to your Lordship shall seeme beste. And 
 
 1 The inquisition post mortem. 
 
620 
 
 I shall thinke myself deeply bounde to your Lordship therein, 
 resting aUwayes att your honours devocion whilest I lyve. 
 
 " And as righte humbly take my leave. 
 
 " Lyncolnes Inne Graunge, this seconde of June, 1597. 
 " Your honour's humbly to commaunde, 
 
 " Peb. Wylltjghbye." 
 
 [Endorsed :] " To the righte honourable, my verie goode 
 lorde WiUiam, Lorde Burghley, Lorde Highe Treasurour of 
 England." 
 
 [Endorsed :] " 2 Junii, 1597." 
 
 " Mr. Percivall WiUoughby. 
 
 " I shalbe content to heare any mocion in the Court 
 of Wardes to morrow, towching this request. ^And uppon 
 profe of Sir Michaell Molyns practise I wiU chaunge my 
 opynion. 
 
 " W. Burghley." 24. 
 
 [1597,] . [Peecival Willoughby] to [William Cecil, 
 
 LoKD Btjrghley]. (Draught.) 
 
 " Il[ight] ho[nourable] my humble dutie remembred ; 
 I make myself bolde (humbly craving pardon) to implore 
 the honourable contynuaunce of your Lordship's favour in 
 recommending my former suite to Mr. Secretarie, towching 
 the wardship of the landes of Sir Fraunces Wyllughbyes 
 yongest daughter ; being the rather incited thereunto, for that 
 I finde the nowe Ladie Wharton, the mother thereof, to be 
 my emest competitour therein, suggesting many thinges 
 alltogether untrue, to withholde the same from me, and thereby 
 to procure it unto herself ; which if your honourable Lordship 
 doo not helpe to prevente, my estate is farre more miserable 
 then ever it was,^ I shall hardlye be able ever to free my poore 
 estate, or to make any dewe satisfaction to Sir Fra[ncis's] 
 so many creditors. For she, which" was so unkynde a wyfe 
 to so over loving a husbande, as having absolutely contryved 
 and gotten to herself and her heires the greatest parte of his 
 landes, colde not afforde his dead corps the leaste parte of those 
 rightes and obsequies which weare due to suche a man ; and hath 
 bin so harde a stepmother to his children, as firste to with- 
 drawe his fatherly affeccion from theim in his lyfe tyme, to 
 be a straunger, or rather an enemy, unto theim since his deathe, 
 and nowe of late [sought] by Sii? My[c]heU Molins meanes ^ to 
 invegle the yongest of them with faire promises of advaimce- 
 ment to come up to London, and within theis iiij°' or fyve 
 dayes to bestowe her in marriage upon an apprentice or petti 
 merchant of lytle worthe ; she that hath in so many thinges 
 
 1 This clause is an addition, written, like the rest of the note, in 
 Burghley' s hand. 
 
 2 The words " my estate is farre more miserable then ever it was " are 
 cancelled. 
 
 8 The words " by Sir My[o]hell Molins meanes " are interlined. 
 
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 (not unknowen to the worlde) since her firste meeting with 
 Sir Fraunces soughte the subvercion and overthrewe of his 
 howse and name. What I may then looke for att her handes 
 (if I be should be any waye' subjecte to her malice^ whom she 
 holdeth her professed enemy,^ your Lordship ia your honour- 
 able wysdome and consideracion may easily conjecture. And 
 therefore humbly craving your Lordship's honourable care 
 of my releife herein, doo still rest your Lordship's in all dutie 
 and devocion and so righte humbly take my leave." 24. 
 
 1606, June 4. — Marriage settlement between Nicholas 
 Strelley, son and heir of Sir PhiUp Strelley of Strelley, Notts, 
 and Bridget, daughter of Sir Percival Willoughbie of WoUaton, 
 Notts. 179. 
 
 1644, September 6. — Award by James Chadwick, the umpire, 
 agreed upon by the parties to an action of trespass in the King's 
 Bench, which was ready for trial at the last assizes held at 
 Nottingham, between Huntingdon Shaw, plaintiff, and 
 Francis Price, defendant, concerning a trespass supposed to 
 be committed in a close called Bellper Close in Sutton Passes, 
 CO. Nottingham, wherein Sir Francis Willoughby and the 
 inhabitants and parishioners of Radford are chiefly concerned, 
 and also concerning all other controversies between Sir 
 Francis and the inhabitants, concerning the parish or 
 " constablery " of Radford. The umpire a\^ards (1) that 
 the action shall whoUy cease, and that the defendants shall 
 give to the plaintiff 12d. in fuU satisfaction, and that the 
 plaintiff shall then make to them a sufficient release in law 
 of the action ; (2) and the umpire declares that it plainly 
 appears by sui3&cient testimony, both of records and otherwise, 
 that Sutton Passes is within the parish of Radford and the 
 precincts thereof ; (3) and that it likewise appears that Sutton 
 Passes is within the " constablery " of WooUaton and the 
 jurisdiction thereof. He orders that this declaration shall 
 be entered upon record at the next general Quarter Sessions 
 at the joint charge of the parties, so that the several and 
 respective "leyes" and assessments may be assessed, levied 
 and paid accordingly, that is for the " ancient constable 
 leayes " with relation to the extent of the " constablery " 
 of Wollaton and other assessments with relation to the parish 
 of Radford. 24.' 
 
 Books. 
 
 A parchment volume, measuring lOf by 16f inches, in modern 
 
 binding, written in a hand of circ. 1400, with illuminated 
 
 borders and initials, including large drawing of Noah's ark 
 
 according to St. Augustine and according to others, 
 
 1 The words " should be in any way " are interlined. 
 
 2 The word " malice " is interlined. 
 
 3 The words " whom she holdeth her professed enemy " are cancelled. 
 
622 
 
 containing John of Trevisa's English translation of Higden's 
 Polychronicon, ending in 1357. Ends : " Jiis translacion is 
 i-ended in a ]?orsday Tpe ei^t day of Averyl, J^e ^ere of oure 
 Lord a ]?ousand foure score and seven, Tpe ten]?e ^ere of kyng 
 Richard Tpe Seconnde after the Conquest of Engelond." At the 
 end is written in a hand of the middle of the sixteenth 
 century : " Mester gabryell Barwyke. Alys Jeaycotte." 
 
 A fifteenth century MS. on parchment of Lydgate's transla- 
 tion of Sir John Bochas's Book of Princes, with inscription at 
 the end : " Syr Henry Wylloghby, knyght bannret in hast 
 be thys delyvyjrrt at medultun." 
 
 A copy of the Sarum Antiphonale, in folio, in original binding 
 of wooden boards, leather covered, protected by overhanging 
 cover of double white buckskin, through which the brass 
 bosses go. The book is somewhat decayed through damp. 
 Folio 180 verso : " [AJntiphonarii ad usum Sar' volumen 
 [secundum] vulgo pars estivalis nuncupata. [Vejnalis habetur 
 Londinii a Francisco [Byrckmjan in cimiterio sancti Pauh." 
 Colophon : " [Imprejssum est hoc preclarum opus in alma 
 [Parisiorum Acade]mia per vvolffgangum hopylium impensis 
 Francisci [Byrckman ciuis] Coloniensis. Anno post incar- 
 nationem dni. millesimo [quingentesimo] vicesimo."^ Added 
 in ink: " [Givjyn by* Ser' Henry WyUoughby knyght and 
 
 [banneret to] his Chapell' of Saynt Thomas U' to 
 
 remayne and he or sche y intendyng not to 
 
 bryng yt [back again] hawe Christys cwrs Saynt Thorns 
 
 holly Chyrchys. Amen. Amen. Amen." 
 
 At fo. 161 were discovered two fragments, measuring 
 2|- by 6J inches, inclusive of a margin of slightly over one inch 
 in width, viTitten in a hand of circ. 1300, which had been used 
 as patches, but had been detached through damp, containing 
 the following lines. They form part of the Life of St. Bridget, 
 ascribed to Robert of Gloucester in Hardy, Descriptive 
 Catalogue of Materials relating to the History of Great Britain 
 and Ireland, i, p. 111. This life is really a part of the great 
 Southern English Legendary (c/. C. Horstmann, Altenglische 
 Legenden, Neue Folge, Heilbronn, 1881, p. xliv), which has not 
 yet been printed. 
 
 Brigid. 
 
 A servant he hadde in is hous . Brochseth was hur' name 
 
 )>is Duptac byso3te hure . of lechorie and ssame. 
 
 En hure he byjat a child . in spousbruche and with wou. 
 
 yo is owe wif Kit under3et . sorry he was ynou. 
 
 Mest heo dradde hure of y&t child . J-at hit ssolde so wel 
 
 1 See Francis Procter and Christopher Wordsworth, Breviarium ad usum 
 insignia Eccleaiae Sarum, fasciculua III, Cambridge, 1886, p. Iv. 
 
623 
 
 To sormonte hure owe children . hor maister vor to be. 
 feivove heo criede on hure loverd . to boe ywar byvore 
 And suUe out of londe Tpe servant . ar TfSit child were ybore. 
 ^es hosebonde nolde hit grante no^t . vor he hadde lo]?e 
 
 it do. 
 j^is wif cride ni';t and day . ^yf heo my^te hit bringe }>erto 
 So ]3at hit fel ^^er afterward. Tpa.t J'is hosebonde 
 Wyl? his servante alone wende . in a cart over londe. 
 
 A chantor was [in] J^ulke stude . as were by olde dawe. 
 As our Loverd hit wolde, by is hous . ye cart gan evene 
 
 drawe. 
 He sat and hurde hou J>is cart . by ys gate wende. 
 Anon he clupede on his men . and hasteliche out sende. 
 " Loke}> " he sede hastehche . " wat J'ing is >at ich yhure ! 
 Vor Ipe son of ]?ulke woeles . is under a god creature, 
 Tpe nobloste creature . is wi)>inne ]pulke tre 
 fat is noujje ia eny londe . loke]? wat hit bee ! " 
 Tpe ne fo[n]d by in Tpis cart . na mo bote hom to. 
 
 Vor J^is womman ssal a dojter here . ]?at ssjme ssal so clere 
 Among alle ]7at on er|?e be]? . in as cler manere 
 As among alle oj^er sterren . y>e sonne brijte is, 
 Also ssal heo an erfe ssyne . among o]?er men ywis. 
 In a god tyme ';o wovf ybore . and wonderlich also 
 Vor noj-er wi]?iiine hous ne wij^oute . Tpe dede worTp ydo. 
 
 Duptac was Jjo douterles . vor he [najdde never er none. 
 Joy vol he was and glad ynou . vor he behet hure one. 
 Suf>J'e hit byvel J^er afterward . j^at on oTpei enchanteor 
 
 wend[e], 
 And of Duptac bo:;te J'is servante . as oure Loverd grace 
 
 sende. 
 Vor fe wyf nolde nevere fine . ar it were j^erto ybro'^t. 
 Ac ye child ]?at was in hire wombe . Duptac ne solde no^t. 
 YoTf he ladde >is woman . [Tpa,t he ha]dde dere ybo^t, 
 And weddede hure as his owe wif . and volwede is Tpo^t. 
 So fat a quene of Tpe londe . gret myd childe was 
 And was upe Tpe point to habbe child . wenne our Loverd 
 
 c;ef ^'at ca[s]. 
 Of ye chanteor he let of este . wanne god time were 
 %yi hit were ybore ye oyer sede . as my boc me dey lore, 
 In ye morwenjmge to morwe . wanne me may ye sunne yse 
 yer ne ssolde in al ye worlde . yer childer per beo. 
 yo bad ye quene vaste . J'at it moste be yo ybore. 24. 
 
624 
 
 StTMMAEY. 
 
 The deeds comprise papers of various sorts relating to 
 lands in the following counties. This Ust, which is drawn 
 principally from the medieval deeds, is not absolutely 
 exhaustive, and there may be in a few cases errors in the 
 identifications of the local names, especially in the very early 
 cases, where the counties are not specified. In some instances 
 the county has been identified by the aid of later deeds. 
 There is a vast number of undated deeds of the thirteenth 
 century. Among them are many hundreds of deeds, releases, 
 and the like relating to small parcels of land in WOoughby 
 on the Wolds, co. Notts, which are concerned with the 
 acquisition of that village by the Bugge-WiUoughby family. 
 A careful study of these WiUoughby deeds might throw some 
 interesting light upon the small landowners and their tenure 
 at this period. In the following Hst the modem names of 
 places are given, with the older forms when advisable in 
 parentheses. 
 
 Deeds, &c. 
 
 Bedford : Meppershall (Maperteshale) ; Polehanger, in 
 Meppershall ; Shefford, parish of Campton. 
 
 Buckingham : Bourton ; Little Lynford ; Newport Pagnell. 
 
 Chester: City of Chester; " Chetilton " (Cheddleton, co. 
 Stafford?) ; Smallwood in Astbury. 
 
 Derby : Ashborne (Esseburn, etc.) ; Ambaston, parish of 
 Elvaston ; Brackenfield, parish of Morton (Brakynthweyt, 
 etc.) ; Breaston (Breydeston, etc.) ; " Breylesford," parish 
 of North Wingfield ; Castleton ; Elvaston (Aylwaston); 
 " Estcote " ; Heanor ; Ible (Ibole), parish of Wirksworth ; 
 Ingleby, parish of Foremark (Engleby juxta Fomewerke, 
 Ingilby, parish of Repingdon, i.e. Repton) ; Keddleston ; 
 Kilboum, [parish of Horsley] (county uncertain) ; Eark 
 Langley ; Langwith ; Long Eaton ; Mapperley, parish of 
 Eark HaUam ; Morley ; OScote (Offedecot), parish of Ash- 
 borne ; Oakerthorpe (Ulgerthorp, etc.), parish of South 
 Wingfield ; Osmaston (Osemundestun) ; Parwich (Peverwych) ; 
 Risley ; SmaUey ; Stauisby (Stannesby, etc.), parish of 
 Ault Hucknall ; Stanley ; Swanwick ; Thurlstone, parish 
 of Elvaston ; Ufton Underwood (parish of Ashborne) ; 
 Wilsthorpe (Wivelsthorpe), parish of Sawley. 
 
 Dorset : Barnsley in Wimbome Minster ; Bere ; Bland- 
 ford ; Bloxworth ; " Bradene " ; Caundle Stourton (Candel 
 Haddon) ; ChickereU, West ; " Conyngesdich " ; Cranborne ; 
 " Dodingbery " ; Dudsbury (Doddesbury), parish of West 
 Parley ; Frome Billet (Frome Belet), parish of West Stafford ; 
 GiUingham ; Harringston (Little Heryngston), parish of 
 Charminster ; Kingston Lacy, parish of Wimbome ; Knighton, 
 West ; Knowlton, parish of Woodlands ; Langton Herring ; 
 Langton WaUis (Langeton Walyssh in Purbyke), parish of 
 Langton Matravers ; Lytchett ; " Londenesham " ; Mamhull ; 
 
625 
 
 Mapperton (Mappilarton) ; Morden, East and 'West ; Ryme; 
 Shaftesbury ; Stafford, West ; Stoke Gaylard (Stocke 
 Coyllard) ; " Stoke Lee," " Stokeley " ; Sturminster Marshall ; 
 Wambrook ; Wareham ; Wilkswood, parish of Langton 
 Matravers ; Wimborne Minster ; Winterbome Herringstone 
 (Winterburne Herring) ; Winterbome Muston or Turberville 
 (Mustereston), parish of Bere Regis ; Winterbome Steepleton 
 (Winterburn Billet) ; Winterbome Whitechurch ; " Winter- 
 biime Minster " ; Winterbome Zelston or Marwood (Winter- 
 burne Malreward) ; Witchampton ; Woodland ; Woodsford 
 (Wirdeford). 
 
 Essex : Chingford ; Danbury (Daningbir') ; Plumberrow 
 (Plumbergh), parish of Hockley ; Steeple. 
 
 Gloucester : Barton in Wynescombe [parish of Temple 
 Guiting] ; Boddington ; Guiting ; Hardwicke ; Hatherop ; 
 Winchcombe (Wynescombe). 
 
 Hampshire : Colemore ;. Crevequer manor in Farhngton ; 
 Farlington ; Fordingbridge ; EUingham ; " Frendestapele " ; 
 Lasham ; Millbrook ; Nether Burgate, parish of Fording- 
 bridge ; the New Forest ; Portsea ; Tadley. 
 
 Hereford : " Dokelynton " ; The Vem, parish of Boden- 
 ham ; Bradford (=Broadfield) in Bodenham. 
 
 Hertford : Bushey (Byssheye, Bysshayeherttesheved) ; 
 "Hunteland" manor; Puckeridge ; " Rodington " ; Standon. 
 
 Kent : Aylesford ; Bore Place, parish of Chiddingstone ; 
 Borstall manor (parish of Rochester?); Brastead (Bracksted); 
 Burmarsh (Burgh warmersh, etc.) ; Chevening ; Chiddingstone ; 
 Dymchurch ; Foot's Cray ; Halstow ; Haringe (Heringe), 
 parish of Sellinge ; Hever Brocas and Hever Cobham ; Hoo 
 All Hallows (All Saints Parish, Hundred of Hoo) ; Ightham ; 
 Leeds ; Leigh ; Lympne ; Melbrook, parish of Chiddingstone ; 
 Penshurst ; Romney Marsh ; Sandwich ; Sellinge ; Sevenoaks ; 
 Shoreham ; " Somerden " ; Speldhurst ; Sundridge (Sundresse, 
 etc.) ; Woolwich. 
 
 Lancaster : Spotland, parish of Rochdale. 
 
 Leicester : Ashby-de-la-Zouch ; Barkby ; Bruntingthorpe ; 
 Cossington ; Croxton, South ; Evington ; Gumley (Guthe- 
 mundele) ; Hamilton, parish of Barkby ; Kegworth ; Leicester ; 
 Mowsley (Mousele) ; Oadby (Outheby) ; Sapcote ; Segrave ; 
 Thurlaston ; Worthington and Newbold ; Wymeswold. 
 
 Lincoln : Barkby ; Bracebridge ; Dembleby ; Dunsby 
 (Dunnesby near Repinghale, i.e. Rippingale) ; Hacconby ; 
 Manby ; Scopwick (Skopwyk) ; Swayfield ; Stainton-le-Vale 
 (Staynton near Thoresway) ; Swineshead ; Temple Bruer ; 
 Welhngore (Wellyngovere) ; Wigtoft. 
 
 Middlesex : Harefield ; Stepney ; All Hallows, Barking- 
 church ; manor of Pomfret on Thames and its ferry, in the 
 parish of Stepney. 
 
 Norfolk : Frenze ; Lynn ; Sheringham ; Thelveton ; 
 Weasenham ; WeUingham. 
 
 Northampton : Benefield ; Charwelton ; Floore ; Purston. 
 
 M40 
 
626 
 
 Northumberland : " Horton Schirref " ; " Hereford " ; 
 Corbrigg ; " Stikelawe." 
 
 Nottingham : Algarthorpe, parish of Basford ; Arnold ; 
 Attenborough (Adinburc', etc.) ; Bamby-in-the- Willows 
 (Bameby near Codyngton, i.e. Coddington) ; Barton in Fabis ; 
 Basford ; Beeston ; Bilborough ; Bingham ; Bleasby ; Brad- 
 more ; Bramcote ; Broughton Solney or Upper Broughton ; 
 Broxtow, parish of Bilborough ; Calverton ; Carcolston ; 
 Carlton near Nottingham ; Carlton-on-Trent ; Caythorpe, 
 parish of Lowdham ; Chilwell ; Clifton, South (North ?) ; Cos- 
 tock (CortUngstock) ; Cossall ; Cotgrave ; Cropwell (Crophull) 
 Bishop ; Cropwell Butler ; Dunham ; Edwalton ; Gedling ; 
 Gibsmere, parish of Bleasby ; Gotham ; Goverton (Gorton), 
 parish of Bleasby ; Gringley ; Gunthorpe, parish of Lowd- 
 ham ; Hickling ; Kelham ; Kingston-on-Soar (Kinston) ; 
 Kirkby-in-Ashfield (Kyrkeby super Asshefeld) ; Kneeton 
 (Kniveton) ; Lambley ; Leake, East (Esterleyk) ; Lenton ; 
 Lound ; Lowdham ; Mamham, North and South ; Nottingham ; 
 Normanton-on-Trent ; North Carlton ; Radford ; Ratcliffe-on- 
 Trent ; Rempstone ; Ruddington ; Scrooby ; Shelford ; Skegby, 
 parish of Marnham ; Sneinton ; Stanford-upon-Soar ; Staunton ; 
 Sutton-cum-Lound ; Sutton-upon-Trent (Sutton near Suthe- 
 marneham) ; Sutton Passeysi ; Teversall ; ToUerton (Torlaton) ; 
 Toton (Thoueton), parish of Attenborough ; Trowell ; 
 Willoughby-on-the- Wolds ; Wiverton, parish of Tithby ; 
 Wollaton ; Woodborough ; Worksop ; WysaU. 
 
 The deeds supply the following additions to the hsts of 
 Mayors and baihffs of Nottingham given in the Records of the 
 Borough of Nottingham, vols. i. and ii. The years of office 
 (from Michaelmas to Michaelmas) are added in brackets and 
 the date of the deed from which the information is derived 
 is given after the names. 
 
 [1290-1291].— Roger de Crophull, mayor ; Adam le 
 Flemeng and William de Normanton, bailiffs, Wednesday 
 after St. Botolf, 19 Edward I, 1291. 
 
 [Circ. 1300].- — Adam le Palmer, mayor ; WiUiam son of 
 Roger de Crophull, and Adam le Flemeng, baihffs {undated). 
 
 [1302-1303]. — John le Paumer, junior, mayor ; Adam le 
 Flemming and John le Bere, bailiffs, Sunday after St. Mark, 
 31 Edward I. 
 
 [1335-6]. — John de Tumby, mayor ; Stephen Tavemer 
 and Ralph Coher, bailiffs, Monday before St. Gregory, 
 10 Edward III. (an error for 19, decimo [nana]). 
 
 [1342-1343]. — Roger de Botehale, mayor ; John Larcher 
 and William de Wodeburgh, baihffs, Wednesday before 
 St. Ambrose, 16 Edward III. 
 
 [1367-1368]. — Richard Hanneson, mayor ; Peter le Mason 
 and Roger de Sutton, baihffs, Wednesday before St. John 
 ante Portam Latinam, 42 Edward III. 
 
 ^ See pages 96, 621, above. 
 
627 
 
 [1391-1392]. — John de Plumptre, mayor ; Nicholas de 
 Wjmdesore and Robert de Hathern, bailiffs, 15 Richard II. 
 
 Peter, prior of Lenton, is mentioned in a deed dated on 
 Friday after the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula, 40 Edward III. 
 (1366). This is not in harmony with the Kst of priors given 
 by J. T. Godfrey, History of the Parish and Priory of Lenton, 
 1884, p. 182. 
 
 Oxford : Steeple Aston. 
 
 Rutland : Martinsthorpe. 
 
 Salop : CaUaughton (Kaluweton), parish of Much Wenlock ; 
 Longdon ; Much Wenlock ; Shrewsbury. 
 
 Somerset : Curry, North. 
 
 Stafford: Bromley (Abbot's?); Cheadle ; Coton (parish 
 of Hanbury ?) ; Fauld, parish of Hanbury ; Levedale, parish 
 of Penkridge ; Newland in Rushall ; Rushall (Russale) ; 
 Walsall ; Wiggington, parish of Tamworth ; WooUaston 
 (Ullaston), parish of Bradley. 
 
 Suffolk: Mildenhall. 
 
 Surrey : Ashted ; Beddington ; Carshalton ; Home ; 
 Mortlake ; Nobryghtz manor in Walkingstead and Home ; 
 Sheen, East, parish of Mortlake ; Walkingstead (Wolkenested), 
 parish of Godstone ; Wimbledon. 
 
 Warwick : Alspath (old name of Meriden) ; Ashow ; 
 Atherstone-on-Stour (Edrichestone) ; Bedworth ; Bentley ; 
 Blackgreave, parish of Lea Marston ; Brandon, parish of 
 Wolston ; Bretford, parish of Wolston ; Calcutt, parish of 
 Grandborough ; Cliff (CKve), parish of Kingsbury ; ColeshiU ; 
 Coventry ; Curdworth ; FoleshiU (FoIkeshuU) ; Grendon ; 
 Hurley, parish of Kingstjury ; Itchington, Long ; Kingsbury ; 
 Lea Marston ? (Le Lee) ; Marston ; Maxtoke ; Meriden 
 (Muridene) ; Middleton ; Pathlow, parish of Aston Cantelow ; 
 Pinley ; " Rjmggesthorp " ; Slately (Slaughteleye), parish of 
 Kingsbury ; Stoke ; Stratford Lee ; " Stubton " ; Sutton 
 Coldfield ; Tamworth ; Thurlaston, parish of Dunchurch ; 
 Warwick ; Whateley, parish of Kingsbury ; Whitacre ; 
 Wilncote (Wylmyndecote) ; Wishaw ; Wyken. 
 
 Wilts : Devizes ; Ogbury (Okebury), parish of Durnford. 
 
 Worcester : " Beckenovere," " Beckenore " manor, parish 
 of Hanbury near Droitwich ("in parochia de Hanbur' iuxta 
 Wyche ") ; Bedwardine (Bedeworthin) ; " Clopton " (near 
 Crowneast ?) ; Crowneast (Crowenest), parish of St. John in 
 Bedwardine County, Worcester ; " Dokelynton " ; Habberley, 
 parish of Kidderminster ; " Lawerna " (on the Laughern 
 Brook, near Worcester) ; " Riggehall " ; Spetchley (Speches- 
 leg) ; Tenbury (Temedebury) ; Wick ; Worcester. 
 
 York : BirdsaU ; Caldwell, parish of Stanwick ; Cother- 
 stone, parish of Romald Kirk ; Cleasby ; Danby ; Hahiaby 
 (Halnathby), parish of Croft ; Helperthorpe ; Kirby Wiske ; 
 Lutton, East ; Skelton ; Swaythorpe (Swathorp, Swave- 
 thorp), parish of Kilham. 
 
629 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Abbots Bromley. See Bromley. 
 Abbot's Court [inWinterborne Kingston, 
 CO. Dorset] ? Abes Court, letter 
 dated at, 591. 
 Abel, Sans Abealx, mentioned in Saint 
 
 Graal, 235. 
 Abes Court. See Abbot's Court ? 
 Abkettleby, co. Leicester. See Ketlebi. 
 Abon, Elizabeth daughter of Sir Thomas, 
 
 511. 
 Acchelin, Acelin, Anschetinus son of 
 
 William son of. In, 30. 
 Accounts : 
 
 household, 323-464, 511. 
 in tabular form, 452, 453. 
 manorial, 285-323. 
 Accumbe, Brother Nicholas de, 86, 
 Acelin. See Acchelin. 
 Acford AJfredi. See Okeford Pitzpaine. 
 Achard : 
 
 Ranulph son of, 64. 
 Walter son of, 45. 
 Aclee. See Oakley. 
 Acofere. See Okeover. 
 Aconbury, Acornebury priory [co. Here- 
 ford], Joan de Grey, nun of, 85. 
 Acton ? Atton [co. Stafford], bequest of 
 
 land in, to Burton abbey, 256. 
 Acts of the Apostles, metrical veision of, 
 
 412, 412n. 
 Adam : 
 
 Budo son of, de Len', grant to, 59. 
 Osbert son of, 50. 
 Blchard son of, the steward, 65, 
 Thomas son of, de Bssebi, 48. 
 Adam beU', 469. 
 
 Adams, Adamysse, John, brother-in-law 
 of Sir Percival Willoughby, in- 
 ventory taken by, 485. 
 letters from, 158-159. 
 
 , abstracts of, 562, 567. 
 
 , reference to, 595. 
 
 wages of, 371. 
 Adelhard. See Mth.e\h.a.vA. 
 Aderston, See Atherstone. 
 Adigburc. See Attenborough. 
 
 Admiral, lord. See Clinton, Edward 
 
 lord. 
 Ad quod damnwn, writs and inquisitions 
 
 of, 172, 242. 
 Adrian 11., pope, 127. 
 Adwalton, Adylton [parish of Birstal, 
 
 CO. York], fair at, 393. 
 ^Ifere, earl of the Mercians, 209. 
 Alfred, minister, 209. C7/. Alfred, 
 ^afric, AUrik: 
 
 archbishop [of Canterbiu-y], bequest 
 to, 254. 
 
 , to be a friend of Burton abbey, 
 
 257. 
 
 earl of the Mercians, 210. 
 M\ts\, witness, 212. 
 ^Ifsige the priest, 211, 212. 
 ^Ifthryth, queen of Mercia, 205. 
 ^Ithelsige. See iEthelsige. 
 Aete, William de, 72. 
 iEthelbriht, witness, 201. 
 jEthelhard, Adelhard, Athelhard : 
 
 d-ux, 209. 
 
 princeps, grant to, 200-201. 
 .a)thelhun, dux, 209. 
 iEthehnaer, demise to, 211-212. 
 ^thelnoth, thane of the bishop of 
 
 Worcester, grant to, 209. 
 jEtheh-ed, Btheldred : 
 
 king of England, Albion, 210, 254. 
 
 king of Mercia, 198. 
 
 , grant by, 199-200. 
 
 ^thelric, Athelryke : 
 
 bequest to, 256. 
 
 the deacon, 211, 212. 
 
 witness, 201. 
 ^thelsige, ^Ithelsige, the priest, 211, 
 
 212. 
 ^thelstan : 
 
 the priest, 211. 
 
 the prior {primus) [of Worcester], 
 212. 
 ^thelward : 
 
 knight of the bishop of Worcester, 
 demise to, 210. 
 
 witness, 201. 
 ^thelwold the clerk, 211. 
 Africa, Spanish rights in, 190. 
 Agar, Mr., 459. 
 Agard : 
 
 Philip, doctor of canon law, com- 
 missary of the bishop of Coventry 
 and Lincoln, will proved before. 
 125. 
 
 W., abstract of letter to, 578. 
 Agiilun, See Aguilluu. 
 
630 
 
 A^lionbie, Edward, esquire, commis- 
 sioner for assessment, 284. 
 Aguillxm, Agillun, Aguyllon, Aguylun : 
 Geoffrey, knight., 63. 
 Robert, 71, 72. 
 
 , fee of, 73. 
 
 Aguisant. See Aguysans. 
 Aguyllon, Aguylun. See Aguillun. 
 Aguysans, Aguisait, king [des cent 
 chevaliers], with King Arthur at 
 Caerleon, 227. 
 Aincurt. See Deincurt. 
 Alan : 
 
 , Adam son of, de Wesehamtorpe, 
 grant by, ^49, 50. 
 Roger son of, de XJeseham, 35. 
 See Pitz-Alan. 
 A'Lane. See Lane. 
 Alanson. See Alenijon. 
 Alastre, John de, bailiff of Nottingham, 
 
 100. 
 Alayn, Aleyn : 
 Richard, lU. 
 
 Robert, of Dartford, demise by, 110. 
 WiUiam, of Dartford, demise by, 
 110. 
 Albaniaco, Ralph de, knight, 76. 
 Albemarle, earl of. See Porz, William de. 
 Albini, Aubini : 
 Robert de, 6. 
 
 William de, earl of Arundel, 37. 
 Albone, reward to, 407. 
 Albint. See White. 
 
 Alcinous, to give apples to, proverb, 216. 
 Aldberht, minister, 209. 
 Aldeburgh, [Richard de], justice, 247. 
 Aldercar [in Heanor, co. Derby, or in 
 Newstead, oo. Notts], Olderkar, 
 reward to keeper of, 347. 
 Aldestre. See Austrey. 
 Aldesword'. See Aldesworthe. 
 Aldesworth. See Awsworth. 
 Aldesworthe, Aldesword' [Awsworth, co. 
 Notts] : 
 John de, 87. 
 Robert de, 83. 
 Aldridg, Aldrege, Mi'., 454. 
 
 at WoUaton, 462. 
 Aldulf. See Eadwulf. 
 Alegald, Geoffrey son' of, 9. 
 Alengon, Alanson, duke of. See Anjou. 
 Aleppo [Turkey], consul at. See Pilking- 
 
 ton. 
 Alessandre. See Alisaundre. 
 Alexander romance, Geste Alexandre, 
 
 225-226. 
 Alexander VI., pope of Rome, prophecy 
 
 concerning, 264. 
 Alexander, witness, 2, 8. 
 Alexandri, Agnes, de Hoveryngham, 281. 
 Aleyn. See Alayn. 
 Alfegh, John, of Chiddingstone, inventory 
 
 of goods of, 466-473. 
 Alfehne, Alfelm : 
 
 bequests to, 254, 255. 
 brother of WuUric Spott, 257. 
 cousin of Wxilfric Spott, bequest to, 
 255. 
 
 Alfred, Michael son of, 2. Cf. Alfred. 
 
 Alfreton, all' Predyngton [co. Derby] : 
 bequest of land in, to Burton 
 abbey, 257. 
 
 Alfreton, arms of family of, 237, 238. 
 
 Alfrik. See iElfric. 
 
 Alfwiu, Godwin son of, de Bperston, 5. 
 
 Algarthorpe, Hawgulthepp, Thorp [in 
 Basford, oo. Notts] : 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 grant of land in, 40. 
 minister's account of, 307. 
 
 AUens in Dover castle, 71. 
 
 Aline, dame, dedication of poem to, 221. 
 
 Alisaundre, Alessandre, William, of 
 Tideswell, maintainer of outlaws, 
 273, 275. 
 
 Alithia, character in poem of Theodulus, 
 218. 
 
 AUat, a priest imprisoned at York, ab- 
 stract of letter from, 516. 
 
 AUthrop. See Althorp. 
 
 Ahn, Hugh de, 46. 
 
 Almain, Aim on rivets, 483. 
 
 Almain, Henry son of the king of, friend 
 and ally of, and arbitrator for 
 Edward [I.] the king's son, 68. 
 nephew of Henry III,, 70. 
 seal of, 69. 
 
 Almanac, purchase of, 450. 
 
 Ahner, co. Dorset, Mapperton in. See 
 Mapperton. 
 
 Alnetho, John de, grant to, 32. 
 
 Alphabetical poem, 267-268. 
 
 Alphonso duke of Calabria, later Alphonso 
 II., king of Naples, 260. 
 
 Alsebwry. See Aylesbury. 
 
 Alsop-en-le-Dale, Alsope way [co. Derby], 
 258. 
 Cold Baton in, 309. 
 
 Alsope, John, depositions of, 258, 259. 
 
 Alspath. See Meriden. 
 
 Alston, WiUiam, Benedictine monk, 139. 
 indulgence granted to, 137. 
 
 Altar, portable, privilege of erecting, 
 134, 138, 189. 
 
 Althorp, Allthrop, Althropp [co. North- 
 ampton], 457. 
 letter dated at, 598. 
 
 Alto Bosco [Hautbois, co. Norfolk], 
 Reginald de, 35. 
 
 Alton [co. Stafford], dean of. See Can- 
 trell, Ralph. 
 
 Alvaston [in Derby] ? Athelwaldeston, 
 bequest of land in, 255. 
 
 Alvecote, Avecote, priory [in Shutting- 
 ton, CO. Warwick], Thomas prior 
 of, 8. 
 
 Alveley [co. Salop], Romsley in, 256. 
 
 Alvers. See Auvers. 
 
 Alverton [in Kilvington, co. Notts], 
 court rolls of, 304. 
 
 Alyn, J., collier, 492. 
 
 Ambaston [in Blvaston], co. Derby, 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 
 Ambesbury. See Amesbury. 
 
 Ambrose, grant of service of, 38. 
 witness, 26. 
 
631 
 
 America : 
 
 Spanish but for English intruders, 
 
 190. 
 Spanish conquest of the New World, 
 192. 
 Amesbury, Ambesbury, co. Wilts, manor 
 
 of, 124. 
 Amiens [Prance, dep. Somme], spiritual 
 
 court of, 259. 
 Amyas, WilUam de, merchant of Not- 
 tingham, 279, 279n, 280, 281. 
 Anathemas invoked in confirmation of 
 
 grant, 10, 241. 
 Ancaster, co. Lincoln, ashlar hewn at, 
 269. 
 wood from, for Wollaton New Hall, 
 566. 
 Anchorites, female, ancres, gifts to, 349, 
 
 357, 384. 
 Andegavensis. See Angevin. 
 Andrew, John, de ZoeUis, archdeacon of 
 
 Bertinorio, 140. 
 Andrew, Saint, the only saint in Scot- 
 land, 187. 
 Aneslee. See Annesleye. 
 Angevin, Aungevin, Aungevyu, Langewin 
 Andegavensis, Godfrey, grant by, 
 54, 54n. 
 Nicholas le, 18. 
 
 son of Robert, 25, 25n. 
 
 Robert, 18, 20, 25-27, 40. 
 William, grant of forfeited lands of, 
 72. 
 Angulo, John son of Robert in, bondman 
 
 of Beeston, grant of, 63. 
 Anislea, Amsleia. See Annesleye. 
 Anjou, B^ancis duke of, duke of Alencjon, 
 duke of Brabant, Limburg and 
 Lorraine, in England, 553, 554. 
 Anketil, A nicety U : 
 
 Anketil son of, 21. 
 Oliver, manorial records of, 302. 
 Roger, 76. 
 Anne, Queen, letters patent of, 503. 
 the great queen, 195. 
 See also Boleyn. 
 Anne, Mrs., clyster and vials for, 451. 
 Annesley Woodhouse ? Wdehus [co. 
 
 Notts], grant of land in,, S3. 
 Annesleye [Annesley, co. Notts], Aneslee, 
 Anislea, Anisleia, Anseleia : 
 Isabel (Willoughby) daughter of 
 
 Sir Hugh, 505. 
 John de, knight, 96. 
 Ralph de, 18. 
 
 Reginald de, 18, 18n, 33, 34. 
 WiUiam de, 34. 
 Anstey, Ansty [co. Warwick], 605. 
 Anthony, Antony, payments to, 328. 
 
 waiter at Wollaton, 168. 
 Antic dancers, manners of, 164. 
 Antony. See Anthony. 
 Antwerp, the duke of Anjou at, 553. 
 Ape, performing, 425, 447. 
 Apeldrefeud, Henry de, rents and services 
 
 of, in Sundridge, 269. 
 Apeltre. See Appletree. 
 Apole, Thomas, wages of, 371n. 
 
 Apleby, GUbert, of Rampton, disclaimer 
 
 of arms of, 179. 
 Appeal to pope to reverse election of 
 
 abbot of Burton, 250-251. 
 Appe John. See John. 
 Appleby, Great, Appulby [cos. Leicester 
 and Derby], bequest of land in, 
 to Burton Abbey, 257. 
 Appletree,Apeltre wapentake [co. Derby], 
 presentments by jurors of, 273, 
 278. 
 Appulby. See Appleby. 
 Apulia, Simon de, dean of York, 25n. 
 Aragon, Arragon, president of the council 
 of. See Villa Hermosa, Duke of. 
 resemblance of government intended 
 
 by barons to that of, 506. 
 Spanish confidence in natives of, 
 191. 
 Archdeacon : 
 
 Edmimd the, 8-10. 
 
 Ralph the, 10. 
 
 Richard the, of Dorset, 12. 
 
 Roger the, 10. 
 
 William the, [of Dorset], 30, 30n. 
 
 , Walter his clerk, 30. 
 
 Archer : 
 
 Henry, assessor of poU-tax, 194. 
 
 le, 02. 
 
 William son of John le, indicted, 
 
 276. 
 See Larcher. 
 Arches : 
 
 Joan wife of Richard, knight, will 
 of, 104^106. 
 
 , Avice her daughter, bequest 
 
 to, 105. 
 
 , Eleanor her daughter, bequest 
 
 to, 105. 
 
 , Isabel her daughter, bequest 
 
 to, 105. 
 Arcuria. See Harcourt. 
 Arden, Arderne : 
 
 Alice (de Kinesbire) daughter of 
 
 Osbert de, grant by, 17. 
 John de, gi'ant by, 4. 
 Robert brother of John de, 4. 
 Roger de, 6, 
 Walter de, confirmation of gi'ant to, 
 
 22. 
 William brother of John de, 4. 
 
 de, steward [? of Waleran earl 
 
 of Warwick], 25. 
 Ardermes, Arderene [Belgium], forest of, 
 
 fabliau relating to, 230. 
 Arderne. See Arden. 
 Armada, the, 567. 
 Armestronge. See Armstrong. 
 Armour, kinds of, 112, 113, 483. 
 Armourer, the, wages of, 542. 
 Arms ; 
 
 disclaimer of, in co. Nottingham, 
 
 178-179. 
 Norroy king at. See St. George, 
 Richard. 
 Armstrong, Armestronge : 
 
 Felice wife of John, of Thorpe [itt 
 the Glebe], 505. 
 
632 
 
 Armstrong, — eont. 
 
 Mr. [Hugh], death of, 424. 
 
 , inquisition upon, 428. 
 
 Armswell, Erymyngewell [in BUckland 
 Newton, co. Dorset], court rolls 
 of, 303. 
 Arnald, Arnall, Arnehall. See Arnold. 
 Arney : 
 
 Nicholas, 104-106. 
 
 , legacies to, 104. 
 
 Arnold, Arnald, Arnall, Arnehall, Arrnold, 
 Ernhale, co. Notts : 
 boundaries of woods at, 241. 
 court roUs of, 286. 
 custumal of, 246. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 flocks marked at, 418. 
 grant of manor of, 246. 
 ministers' account of, 321. 
 • shepherd of, wages of, 439, 449, 542. 
 Arnold, Arnald, Brnhal' : 
 Gervase de, 41, 41n. 
 WilUam, of Hulton, 64. 
 fiddler, reward to, 440. 
 Arondcl. See Arundel. 
 Arragon. See Aragon. 
 Arras [Prance, dep. Pas-de-Calais] 
 ? Brasce, mentioned in fabliau, 
 230. 
 Arras, Arrese, work, 479, 481, 490, 498. 
 Arras, Gautier d', Ille et Galeron, poem 
 
 by, 222-224. 
 Arrowsmythe, payment to, 424. 
 Arsic, Roger, 44. 
 Arthon, Arthen, Mr., 345. 
 funeral of, 383. 
 reward to servant of, 348. 
 Arthur, king, 225, 226. 
 
 at Caerleon, 227. 
 Arthurian cycle, poem of, 224-225. 
 Artor, member of the household at Wol- 
 
 laton, 168. 
 Arundel, earl of, my lord of. See Albini, 
 
 William de ; Pitz-Alan, Henry. 
 Ai'undel, Arondel, Arundell : 
 
 John, bishop of Coventry and Lich- 
 field, 125. 
 Sir Matthew, 526, 529, 530, 531. 
 
 , abstracts of letters from, 527, 
 
 528. 
 
 , to, 525, 532. 
 
 , his wife. /Sec Willoughby, (V). 
 
 William de, 6. 
 
 WiUiam son of Sir Matthew, abstract 
 of letter from, 554. 
 
 , bequest to, 85. 
 
 Asby. See Ashby-de-la-Zouche. 
 
 Ascheborne. See Ashborne. 
 
 Asches, Swein atte, 81. 
 
 Aselacton [Aslocton, co. Notts], Simon 
 
 do, 25. 
 Aseperc : 
 
 Thomas de, 9. 
 
 , his sons, 9. 
 
 Ashborne, Aschebui'ne, Asshebourn, 
 Asshebm'ne [co. Derby], 273, 274, 
 275, 276, 278, 281, 367. 
 offences committed at, 272, 274. 
 
 Ashborne — eoni. 
 
 presentment of jurors of, 276-276. 
 road from, 258. 
 Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Asby, Ashebe, 
 
 Asheby Delaaouch, Assheby [co. 
 
 Leicester], 369, 375, 388, 390, 513. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 (repair of highway at, 327. 
 Ashby Magna [co. Leicester] ? Magna 
 
 Essebia, confirmation of grant of 
 
 land at, 11. 
 Ashford, Assheforde [co. Derby], 275. 
 Ashow, CO. Warwick, deeds relating to, 
 
 627. 
 Ashtead [co. Surrey] : 
 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 
 ? Estedam, confirmation of grant of 
 
 land in, 23. 
 Ashton, mentioned in depositions, 120. 
 Asia, Spanish rights in, 190. 
 Askaneus, Askeneus, my lord of. See 
 
 Sforza. 
 Aske, Mr., at WoUaton, 462. 
 Askeneus. See Askaneus. 
 Askew, Mr., at Wollaton, 462. 
 Aslocton, CO. Notts. See Aselacton. 
 Asple [Aspley (Hall) in Badford, co. 
 
 Notts], Kichard de, 12. 
 Aspley Hall, Asplehut [in Badford, co. 
 
 Notts], 530, 530n. 
 wood [in Badford, co. Notts], 397. 
 Aspremont, battle [in Apidian cam- 
 paign] fought at, 226. 
 Asshebourn, Assheburne. See Ashborne. 
 Assheby. See Ashby. 
 Assheby, Adam de, receiver of outlaws, 
 
 275. 
 Assheforde. See Ashford. 
 Astbxiry, co. Chester, SmaUwood in. 
 
 See SmaUwood. 
 Astelay. See Astley. 
 AsteU, Mr., virginial-player, payments 
 
 to, 437, 444. 
 Astley, Astelay [co. Warwick], 377. 
 Aston, Astun, Eston [co. Warwick], 383. 
 reward to poor man of, 386. 
 vicar of, 333. 
 
 , induction of, 353. 
 
 Henry the clerk of, 16. 
 Aston, Steeple, co. Oxford, deeds relating 
 
 to, 627. 
 Aston : 
 
 Boger de, knight., 294. 
 Ml-., 395. 
 AtheUiard. See ^thelhard. 
 Athelitia (wife of Bichard son of 
 
 Gervase?), grant to, 270. 
 Athehyke. See ^thelric. 
 Athelwaldeston. See Alvaston, Elvaston. - 
 AthelweUe [in Nottingham], Laurence 
 
 de, 64. 
 Athenian shepherd named Pseustis, 
 
 218. 
 Atherfield, Atherfylde [in Shorwell], Isle 
 
 of Wight, manor of, 124. 
 Atherstone, Aderston, Atherston, Hader- 
 
 ston, Hatherston [co. Warwick], 
 
 389, 605. 
 
633 
 
 Atheratone — cotit. 
 
 payment to friar of, 364. 
 session of commission at, 345. 
 Atherstone-cn-Stour, Eddricheston [co. 
 Warwick] : 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 grant of land in, 47. 
 See Eddriceston. 
 Athol), Henry Percy de, Dathell, knight, 
 
 manorial records of, 297. 
 Atkinson, Atkynson : 
 John, 454. 
 
 , abstracts of letters from, 580, 
 
 581. 
 
 , clerk of the kitchen, 455. 
 
 Richard, pump made by, 431. 
 Thomas, 454. 
 
 Mr., payments to, 427, 428, 434, 
 440. 
 Attenborough, Adigburc, Adinburc', 
 Hadinbur [co. Notts], 63. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 parson of, 41. 
 Toton in. See Toton. 
 Atton. See Acton ? 
 Attorney, the idng's, reward to wife of, 
 
 375. 
 Auberey,William, servant of Henry VIII., 
 attack upon Sir Edward Will- 
 loughby by, 147. 
 fraudulent conduct of, 147-148. 
 Aubini. See Albini. 
 Auceps, Robert, of Attenborough, 63. 
 Aucher, Henry son of Thomas, grant of 
 
 lands of, 71. 
 Audley, Audeley, Awdlay : 
 lady, lord. See Tuchet. 
 Elizabeth (Grey) wife of Thomas 
 
 lord, of Walden, 518, 521. 
 John, abstract of letter from, 
 
 515. 
 Thomas lord, of Walden, 521. 
 Augustine, wages of, 449. 
 Ault HucknaU. See Hucknall. 
 Aune : 
 
 Walter de, maintenance of outlaws, 
 
 274, 276. 
 William de, knight, maintainer of 
 outlaws, 273, 280. 
 
 , taker of royal prises without 
 
 warrant, 279. 
 Aungevin, Aungevyn. See Angevin. 
 Aurifdber. See Goldsmith. 
 Austrey, Aldestre [co. Warwick], bequest 
 
 of, 256. 
 Austria, Ostrice, archduke of. See 
 Maximilian, 
 enmity of Bavaria to, 260. 
 Ausworthe. See Awsworth. 
 Auvers, Alvers : 
 Robert de. In. 
 
 , grant to, 7. 
 
 Wilham brother of Robert de, 8. 
 Avecote. See Alvecote. 
 Avene. See Avon. 
 Avenel : 
 
 Gervase, 7, In. ^ . 
 
 William, 7, 7ra. 
 
 Averey, Averye, Aweray : 
 
 Henry, accounts rendered by, 418, 
 420. 
 
 , farm of, 154. 
 
 , payment to wife of, 418. 
 
 , shepherd of Wollaton, 418. 
 
 Hugh, child of, christened, 381. 
 
 , money allowed to, 342. 
 
 Robert, beasts bought by, 393. 
 
 , pitch bought by, 392. 
 
 William, 419. 
 
 pursuivant lodged at house of, 383. 
 Averham [co. Notts], rector of. See 
 Lawrans, Robert. 
 Staythorpe in, 10. 
 Averye. See Averey. 
 Avlenus, fables of, 219. 
 Avignon, Avynyon [France, dep. Van- 
 close], legate of. See St. Peter ad 
 Vincula, cardinal of. 
 Avon, Avene, co. Hants, manor of, 124. 
 Avon [in Stratford-under-the-Castle, 
 
 CO. Wilts], grant of, 270. 
 Avynyon. See Avignon. 
 Awdlay. See Audley. 
 Aweray. See Averey. 
 AwfiU, Agnes (Sonde) daughter of Mr., 
 
 310. 
 Awic, Richard de, 11. 
 Awsworth, Aldesworth, Ausworthe [co. 
 Notts] : 
 bequest of land in, to Burton 
 
 abbey, 257. 
 glass-house at, 500, 500«. 
 See Aldesworthe. 
 Aylesbury, Alsebwry, Elsebayry [co. 
 Bucks], 384. 
 guild of Our Lady of, 384. 
 Aylesbury, arms of family of, 237. 
 
 Sir Roger de, 97. 
 Aylesford, Aylysford, Bylesford, Eylis- 
 ford [co. Kent] : 
 church of Carmelite friars of, burial 
 
 in, 84. 
 court rolls of, 285, 295, 299. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 payment to friar of, 329. 
 ship of, 96. 
 
 B 
 
 B., Richard, wages of, 542. 
 Babyngton : 
 
 Anthony, 125. 
 
 John, knight, agreement by, 120. 
 
 — , , steward of the manors 
 
 and fairs of Lenton priory, 
 124. 
 Bache, Roger de la, 86. 
 Bacheler, William, 58. 
 Bachepuz, James de, 46. 
 
634 
 
 Bacon : 
 
 Francis, lord clianceUor, receipt of 
 
 bribe by, 583. 
 James, of Wellow, disclaimer of 
 
 arms of, 179. 
 Sir Richard {rectius Baker). See 
 Baker. 
 BacqueviUe, Bakevyle (Baskerville), 
 [Normandy], lord of. See Beau- 
 mont, Thomas. 
 Baddesley, Badselay, Badslay, Badsley 
 [CO. Warwick], 389. 
 reward to poor man of, 348. 
 Badger, co. Salop. See Becgeshowre. 
 Badselay, Badslay, Badsley. See Bad- 
 desley. 
 Baggalay, Baygelay, Bayglay, payment 
 of expenses of, 357. 
 Ralph, payment of expenses of, 340. 
 Baggeruggestrete. See Baggridge. 
 Baggeworth, John de, admission of, as 
 chaplain of the chantry of St. 
 Mary, Sapcote, 99. 
 Baggridge, Baggeruggestrete [in Horton], 
 CO. Dorset, 109, 114. 
 serjeanty in, 109, 114. 
 Bsfgod, Roger, 15. 
 Bagpipes, a£Bnity of organs to, 185. 
 
 Robert of, 110. 
 WiUiam of. 111. 
 Bagshawe, Robert, of Pentrich, will of, 
 124-125. 
 
 , Helen his wife, bequest to, 
 
 125. 
 Bailiff, service as, a, servile obUgation, 
 
 101. 
 Bailliol, Bailloil : 
 Hugh de, 60n. 
 Jocelin de, 3. 
 Robert de, 52. 
 Baiocis, Robert de, 32. 
 Bakenesfelde. See Beaconsfield. 
 Baker : 
 
 Orm the, 20n. 
 
 Sir Richard, Chronicles of Die kings 
 of England by, 507.' 
 
 , references to, 553, 567. 
 
 William, wages of, 450. 
 coat for, 427. 
 corner, 493. 
 expenses of, paid, 450. 
 payments by hands of, 442, 444, 
 447. 
 Bakevyle. See BacqueviUe. 
 BakeweU, Baukewell [co. Derby], 272, 
 276, 278, 446. 
 felons harboured at, 272, 274, 275, 
 
 277. 
 presentments of jurors at, 274-279. 
 proctor of. See Bernard, Robert ; 
 
 Gunston, Hugh de. 
 vicar of. See Bernard, Robert ; 
 Can, Walter. 
 Baldoc, Ralph de, bishop of London, 
 
 probate before, 86. 
 Baldwin, WiUiam son of, 20, 20n, 25, 
 26, 40. 
 
 BaU, Henry, miller, wages of, 450. 
 Balle, at WoUaton, 458. 
 Balterley, Baltrys [in Barthomley, co. 
 Stafford], bequest of land at, 255. 
 Balun, Malger de, 53. 
 Banester. See Banyster. 
 Bangley Chase, Banglay chace [in Tarn- 
 worth, CO. Stafford], aUeged 
 breach of park in, 115-117. 
 reward to keeper of, 359. 
 Banyster, Banester, Mr., payments to, 
 for books, etc., 421, 422. 
 
 , , for physic, etc., 423, 
 
 424, 444, 445, 447, 449, 450, 451, 
 Barba Aprili, MUo, 17. 
 Barbers, abuse of, 166. 
 Barbery, triumph of Ferdinand of Ara- 
 
 gon over the men of, 264. 
 Bardolf, Bardulf : 
 Hugh, 51. 
 Ralph, 76. 
 Baret, Barette : 
 Roger, 51. 
 
 William, account rendered by, 321. 
 Barewe, Maud de, of Boulton, house of, 
 
 broken, 273. 
 BarU, Walter, 93. 
 Barjonas, Richard, 28, 28n. 
 Barkby : 
 
 CO. Leicester, deeds relating to, 625. 
 CO. Lincoln, deeds relating to, 625. 
 Barklay, Barkley. See Berkeley. 
 Barlaston, Borlestou, co. StaHord, be- 
 quest of land in, 255. 
 Barlborough, Barleburgh [co. Derby], 
 
 bequest of land at, 255. 
 Barleye, manorial account of, 289. 
 Barlowe : 
 
 Richard, 167. 
 
 , of Sutton Coldfield, grant to, 
 
 156. 
 Barming, Barmling [co. Kent], posses- 
 sions of viUeins (?) in, 271. 
 Barnaby, Barneby : 
 
 Isbrand, Ysebrand, chUd of, chris- 
 tened, 367. 
 
 . expenses of, paid, 387, 388. 
 
 , wages of, 371. 
 
 , wife of, payment to, for ale, 344. 
 
 Master WiUiam de, canon of South- 
 weU, 95. 
 Barnard, Joel, of East Bridgford, dis- 
 claimer of arms of, 179. 
 Barnby in the WiUows, Barneby near 
 Codyngton, co. Notts, deeds re- 
 lating to, 626. 
 Barneby. See Barnaby. 
 Barneston, Richard son of Gervase de, 
 
 20n. 
 Barnet, Bernaytt, Bernett [cos. Herts 
 and Middlesex], 354. 
 reward to piper at, 332. 
 Barusley, Bernardesle [in Wimborne 
 Minster, co. Dorset] : 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 minister's account of, 302. 
 Barnston, Berueston [co. Notts], fines 
 of, 288. 
 
636 
 
 Barre ! 
 
 Geoffrey, 34, 34«. 
 John, payment to, 438. 
 Ralph, bequest to, 113. 
 Thomas, answer of, to bill of com- 
 plaint, 115-117. 
 . . . . , payment to, for skins, 440. 
 Barri, Richard, of ToUerton, 83. 
 Bartholomew, Bartholomew sou of, de 
 
 Notingeham, 25, 26, 27. 
 Barthomley [co. Stafford], Balterley, 
 
 Baltrys in, 255. 
 Barthope in . Bast Acklam, co. York. 
 
 See Bergtorpe. 
 Barton : 
 
 [parish of Temple Guiting], co, 
 
 Gloucester, deeds relating to, 625. 
 
 -in-Fabis, Barton-on-Trente, co. 
 
 Nottingham, deeds relating to, 
 
 626. 
 
 , manor of, 89, 90. 
 
 — ■ — , , accounts of, 308. 
 
 , , coOTt rolls of, 288-292, 
 
 294, 297. 
 -le-Street [co. York], manor of, 85. 
 -on-Humber [co. Lincoln], ferry 
 
 charges at, 443. 
 Stacey, Stacy [co. Hants], manor of, 
 603. 
 Barton : 
 
 Henry, alderman of London, 
 
 manorial records of, 297. 
 Robert de, money extorted from, 
 280. 
 Barttlett, lord, 461. 
 Barwicke. See Berwick-upon-Tweed. 
 Barwicke, Barwyck, Barwyke, Barwykke. 
 
 See Berwyke. 
 Basford, Baseford, Basforth [co. Notts], 
 41, 115, 179, 524. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 flocks marked in, 418. 
 grant of laud in, 40. 
 
 , confirmed, 11. 
 
 mill at, 11, 41, 115. 
 
 shepherd of, wages of, 439, 449, 
 
 542. 
 Afearthorpe in, 40, 307. 
 Roger vicar of, 64. 
 Basford, Baseforde, Basefort, Basforth : 
 of Nottingham, payment to servant 
 
 of, 390. 
 Robert, expenses of, paid, 376. 
 
 , wages of, 371. 
 
 son of Philip de, grant con- 
 firmed by, 11. 
 Simon de, 41, 42. 
 Thomas, farmer of Newton grange, 
 
 259. 
 payment of expenses of, 366. 
 BasUie, Thomas, of Ratcliffe-on-Trent, 
 
 83. 
 Basinges, Thomas de, sheriff of London, 
 
 74. 
 Basingstoke, co. Hants, 603. 
 Baslow [co. Derby], In. 
 Baslow St. Anne [co. Derby], Bubnell 
 in, 274, 275. 
 
 Bassenberg, Hugh son Thurstan de, at 
 
 battle of Hastings, 606. 
 Basset, Basset Crosse [in Feckleton, co. 
 
 Leicester], man hanged at, 382. 
 Basset : 
 
 Joan de, manorial records of, 291. 
 
 wife of Ralph, of Drayton, 
 
 assignment of dower to, 283. 
 John, 21. 
 
 of Weldon, arms of, 237, 238. 
 PhiUp, 71. 
 
 , friend and ally of Edward [I] 
 
 the king's son, 68. 
 Richard, chaplain of the chantry of 
 St. Mary, Sapcote, 99. 
 
 , knight, 99. 
 
 Simon, 17, 17m, 21. 
 
 Thomas brother of Simon, 21. 
 
 Wiffiam, 21. 
 
 , esquire, depositions taken 
 
 before, 259. 
 
 , grant to, 51. 
 
 Bassett, Old, waiter at WoUaton, 168. 
 Bassingburn, Wariu de, friend and ally 
 of Edward [I] the king's son, 68. 
 Baaterlee. See Baxterley. 
 Basterlee, Basterleia [Baxterley, co. 
 Warwick] : 
 Thomas de, 21. 
 WUliam de, priest, 9. 
 Bate : 
 
 Ahce, 80, 81. 
 
 Gilbert, 80. 
 
 Henry son of, demise of mine to, 
 
 88. 
 John, chaplain, payment to, 316. 
 
 , of London, merchant, boats 
 
 bought of, 172. 
 Thomas, of Poley, 114. 
 Mr., 183. 
 BateU: 
 
 John, legacy to, 103. 
 Nicholas, of Trowell, demise of mine 
 to, 100. 
 Bateman, John, sale of wood by, 317. 
 Bath, the Bath [co. Somerset], 600. 
 
 Sir Francis Willoughby at, 530. 
 Bath and Wells: 
 
 bishop of. See Giffard, Walter ; 
 
 Stafford, John, 
 church of, affairs of, at the papal 
 court, 261, 612. 
 Bathurst : 
 
 Allen lord, 607. 
 Sir Benjamin, 607. 
 Peter, son of Sir Benjamin, marriage 
 of, to Leonora How, 607. 
 
 , Frances his daughter, 607. 
 
 , Leonora his daughter, 607. 
 
 Battle abbey roU, Battail Abbie Role, 
 
 506. 
 Baukewell. See BakeweU. 
 Bauzeyn, Juliana, abbess of Shaftesbury, 
 settlement of arrears claimed by, 
 76. 
 Bavaria, duke of. See George. 
 Bavent, Roger de, 22, 22n. 
 Bawnnfordde, Cecily, payment to, 362. 
 
636 
 
 Baxterley, Basterlee, co. Warwick, 21. 
 
 See Basterlee. 
 Baye : 
 
 Robert, of Cossall, demise of mine 
 
 to, 100. 
 Thomas, payment to, 427. 
 Bayeux, Henry bishop of, 24. 
 Baygelay, Baygley. See Baggalay. 
 Bayke, reward to, 339. Cf. Becke. 
 Bayre, almsman of Sir Henry Willoughby, 
 
 340. 
 Bayryn. See Byron. 
 BayviU [co. Pembroke], court roll of , 288. 
 Bayville, Baywille, Walter son of Bichard 
 
 de, 30. 
 Baywerlay. See Beverley. 
 BaywiUe. See BayviUe. 
 
 Richard de la, of Carlton, 91. 
 William de, 91. 
 Beaconsfleld, Bakenesfelde [co. Bucks], 
 
 rental of, 297. 
 Beaman, Edward, of the household at 
 
 Wollaton, 168. 
 Beamish, Beamysshe [in Chester-le-Street,. 
 
 CO. Durham], 132. 
 Beamond, Beamont. See Beaumont. 
 Beamysshe. See Beamish. 
 Beard, Berde [in New Mills, co. Derby], 
 
 275, 276, 278. 
 Beardmore, Joan, John, payment of 
 
 wages to, 425, 439, 541. 
 Bearewood. See Verwood ? 
 Bear wards, rewards to, 360, 361, 378, 
 
 448, 451. 
 Beasly,Mrs.,wifeofBdmundStratford,606. 
 Beatrice [consort of Frederick Barbar- 
 
 rosa], empress of Rome, 224. 
 Beauchiof {Bellv/m Caput) abbey [co. 
 Derby], proctor of abbot and 
 convent of. See Ratcliffe, 
 
 William de. 
 Beaudesert, BeUdesert, Bcudesert, co. 
 Warwick, lord of. See Montfort, 
 Peter de. 
 See Beldesert. 
 Beaufort, Henry, bishop of Winchester, 
 chancellor of England, letter from, 
 102-103. 
 secretary of. See Petworth, Richard. 
 Beaumis, Behneis, Philip de, 20, 44. 
 Beaumont, Beamond, Beamont, Beau- 
 mounte : 
 Henry de, 89. 
 Huntingdon, esquire, 175-177. 
 
 , boats in possession of, 172. 
 
 , creditors of, 182. 
 
 , proposals for sale of coal by, 
 
 175. 
 
 , yard of, 177. 
 
 John, sale by, 322. 
 
 Sir Thomas, 177. 
 
 Thomas, lord of BacqueviUe, 109. 
 
 Mr., 547. 
 
 , colliers sent by, 463. 
 
 , reference to letter to, 570. 
 
 Beausalc, Beausalle [in Hatton, co. 
 Warwick], court roll of, 313. 
 
 Beauvale, Bewoll [in Greasley, co. Notts], 
 hawking at, 360. 
 See also Robin Hood's Well. 
 Becgeshowre [Badger, co. Salop] : 
 Roger de, 51. 
 
 Stephen son of Roger de, 51. 
 Becherinc. See Bekering. 
 Becke : 
 
 Francis, in the brewhouse at Wol- 
 laton, 169. 
 of Middleton, payment to, 433. 
 Cf. Bayke. 
 Beckenore, Beckenovere in Hanbury, co. 
 Worcester, deeds relating to, 627. 
 Beckering in Holton, co. Lincoln. See 
 
 Bekering. 
 Becket, Beket : 
 
 Robert, 18, 32. 
 
 Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, 
 2n. 
 
 , , chancellor, 3. 
 
 Beckingham, co. Notts, 179. 
 Becok, Bekoc : 
 Richard, 64. 
 
 , mayor of Nottingham, 79. 
 
 , the elder, 77. 
 
 Becton. See Beighton. 
 Beddington, Bedyngton [PiUaton Hall in 
 Penkridge, co. Stafford], bequest 
 of, to Burton abbey, 256. 
 Beddington, co. Surrey, deeds relating 
 
 to, 627. 
 Bedford, county of, delivery of rolls of 
 
 eyre in, 92. 
 Bedeford, John de, 60. 
 Bedlington [co. Notts or Derby ?], coal- 
 mines at, 176. 
 Bedwardine County [in Worcester] : 
 chantry at Orowneast in, 65, 66. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 Matthew vicar of St. John's chm^ch, 
 grant by, 65. 
 Bedworth [co. Warwick] : 
 
 accounts of coal at, 320, 495. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 Bedyngton. See Beddington. 
 Beescwde. See Bestwood. 
 Beeston, Beesson, Beston, Bestona, 
 Bestun [co. Notts], 179. 
 deeds relating to, 626, 
 grant of bondsman in, 63. 
 payment to poor man of, 437. 
 Roger the clerk of, 63. 
 Silvester son of Robert the chaplain 
 
 of, grant to, 41. 
 See Beston. 
 Beighton, Becton [co. Derby], bequest 
 
 of land at, 255. 
 Bekering, Becherinc [Beckering in Hol- 
 ton, CO. Lincohi] : 
 Peter de, 19, 44. 
 
 , his son, 44. 
 
 Beket. See Becket. 
 
 Bekoc. See Becok. 
 
 Bel,' Peter le, 21, 21n. 
 
 Beldesert [Beaudesert, co. Warwick], 
 
 Clare de, 36. 
 Belegrave, Peter de, 91. 
 
637 
 
 Belet ! 
 
 Mabel wife of Robert grandfather of 
 
 Robert, 611. 
 Ralph uncle of Robert, lands ex- 
 changed by, 53, 54, 611. 
 Robert aon of William, lands ex- 
 changed by, 53, 54, 611. 
 William, 71, 72. 
 Beleye, John son of Thomas de, indicted, 
 
 275. 
 Belknap, BeUnappe, Beltnop, Beltnoppe : 
 Sir Edward, of Weston, indulgence 
 granted to, 137. 
 
 , , rewards to players of, 
 
 334, 379. 
 Bella Aqua : 
 
 John de, manorial records of, 287. 
 William de, 83. 
 Belleis, John, wages of, 371. 
 Belldesert. See Beaudesert. 
 BeUnappe. See Belknap. 
 Bello Campo : 
 
 Cecily de, 56. 
 
 Isabel de, countess of Warwick, 
 
 manorial records of, 293-295, 297. 
 
 Richard de, grant to, 56-57. 
 
 Sibyl de, wife of Henry Puterel, 
 
 grant by, 63. 
 
 Bellper Close in Sutton Passeys, co. Notts, 
 
 621. 
 BeUper. See Belper. 
 BeUum Caput. See Beauchief. 
 BellToyer. See Belvoir. 
 Beimels. See Beaumis. , 
 Belper, Bellper, 454. 
 
 Thomas, wages of, 427, 439, 450, 
 
 542. 
 child of, christened, 446. 
 in the brewhouse at Wollaton, 169. 
 Belshaw, Belschawe : 
 
 Henry, chaplain, 308. 
 , priest of St. Anthony's chan- 
 try at WoUaton, depositions of, 
 119. 
 Beltnop, Beltnoppe. See Belknap. 
 Belvaco, Bartholomew de, mayor of 
 
 Lynne, 60. 
 Belvoir, Bellvoyer, Bever [cos. Leicester 
 and Lincoln], 443. 
 castle, 454. 
 Bench : 
 
 Common, chief justice of. See 
 
 Bereford, William de. 
 King's, action in, 621. 
 
 , chief JTistice of. See Scrop, 
 
 Geoffrey le. 
 
 , justice of. See WiUoughby, 
 
 Richard de [E.]. 
 , rolls and memoranda of, deli- 
 very of, 92-93. 
 Benefield, Benyfeld [co. Northants] : 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 manorial account of, 298. 
 Benethley [Bentley, co. Warwick], 
 
 Robert de, 47. 
 Benigwrd' [Benniworth, co. Lincoln], 
 
 Roger de, 29. 
 Bennet, John, payment to, 440, 
 
 Benniworth, co. Lincoln. See Benigwrd'. 
 Bentley, co. Warwick, deeds relating to, 
 627. 
 See Benethley. 
 Bentworth, Bynteworth, co. Hants, 
 Burkham in, grant of land in, 91. 
 Benyfeld. See Benefleld. 
 Beorhtred, Berhtred, bishop [of Lind- 
 sey], 209. 
 witness, 200. 
 Beorn, Richard, 58. 
 Beornoth, dux, 206. 
 Berde. See Beard. 
 Berde : 
 
 Adam de, of Hayfleld, indicted for 
 
 offences in co. Derby, 274. 
 John de, indicted, 273. 
 
 , Giles his servant, indicted, 
 
 274. 
 Bere Regis, Bere, co. Dorset : 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 manor of, 124. 
 Stockley in. See Stockley. 
 Bere : 
 
 John le, bailiff of Nottingham, 626. 
 Ralph le, of Nottingham, 64. 
 Richard de la, 36. 
 Walter brother of Richard de la, 
 36. 
 Berecotes, William de, canon of South- 
 well, 95. 
 Bereford : 
 
 William de, 80, 81. 
 
 , [chief justice of the Common 
 
 Bench], incident related by, 271- 
 272. 
 Berevilla. See Berville. 
 Bergtorpe [Barthope in East Acklam, 
 
 CO. York], William de, 59. 
 Berhtred. See Beorhtred. 
 Berhtwud, dux, 203. 
 BerhtwuU, king of Mercia, grant by, 
 
 207-209. 
 Berin. See Byron. 
 Berkeley [co. Gloucester], work written 
 
 at, 240. 
 Berkeley, Barklay, Barkley, Berkelee : 
 Sir Maurice, delivery of ordnance 
 
 to, 130. 
 Thomas de, warden of the marches 
 in Cumberland and Westmore- 
 land, letter from, 95, 95n, 96. 
 William, master of the game in 
 Sutton chace, 116. 
 Berkham. See Burkham. 
 Berlott. See Bertlotte. 
 Bernard : 
 
 grant to, 28. 
 
 brother, monk of Burton, 249. 
 
 Robert, harbourer of felons, 272. 
 
 , proctor of BakeweU, 277. 
 
 , vicar of BakeweU, 274. 
 
 , , convicted clerk, 274. 
 
 Simon son of, de BiUeburg, grant 
 to, 39. 
 Bernardesle. See Barnsley. 
 Bemay, Alexander de, Alexander 
 romance of, 225-226. 
 
638 
 
 Bernaytt. See Bamet. 
 Berner, William, 32. 
 Berneston. See Barnston. 
 Bernett. See Barnet. 
 BernevUe, Bichard de, 59,' 64. 
 Berron. See Byron. 
 Berte : 
 
 Alexander son of Walter, 68. 
 Hugh son of Walter, 58. 
 Peter son of Walter, 58. 
 Eichard son of Walter, 58. 
 Walter, 58. 
 
 William White son of Walter, 58. 
 Bertie, Peregrine, lord Willoughby 
 d'Eresby, in company of the duke 
 of Anjou, 553. 
 Bertilmunt, Adam de, 28. 
 Bertinorio (Bretonoriensis), [Italy], arch- 
 deacon of. See Zoellis, John 
 Andrew de. 
 Bertlotte, Berlott : 
 
 Balph, ale taken at house of, 343. 
 
 , reward to son of, 337. 
 
 Bertrem, John, of Thorpe in Kilton, 
 
 owner of book, 222. 
 Bertwll, Robert, marriage of, 385. 
 Berville, BereviUa, William de, 23, 23n. 
 Berweke. See Berwyke. 
 Berwick-upon-Tweed, Barwicke, Ber- 
 wyke [co. Northumberland], 382. 
 the king's pensioners of, 170. 
 Berwyke, Barwicke, Barwyok, Barwyke, 
 Barwykke, Berweke : 
 Gabriel, 351, 388, 396, 622. 
 
 , executor of will of Sir Henry 
 
 Willoughby, 149, 396, 519. 
 
 , accounts rendered by, 
 
 416, 522. 
 
 , payment of annuity to, 317. 
 
 , of wages of, 370. 
 
 Bichard, account of expenses of, 
 
 328-329. 
 Mr., sickness in house of, 349. 
 Beseling Thorpe. See Buslingthorpe. 
 Beseville, William de, 89. 
 BeskaU in Sherwood forest, co. Notts, 
 242. 
 inclosure of, 245. 
 Beskewod, Beskewodd. See Bestwood. 
 Beston, Bestun [Beeston, co. Notts] : 
 Bartholomew brother of Eobert de. 
 
 42. 
 Gervase son of Silvester de, 63. 
 John son of Eobert de, 42, 64. 
 Ealph son of Silvester de, 63. 
 Bobert (the chaplain) de, 421. 
 Boger son of Ealph de, 64. 
 
 son of Eobert de, 42. 
 
 Beston, Bestona, Bestun. See Beeston. 
 Bestwall, Bestwalle [in East Stoke, co. 
 
 Dorset], manor of, 124. 
 Bestwood (Park), Beescwde, Beskewod, 
 Beskewodd Haye [co. Notts], 
 40. 
 boundaries of, 241. 
 keepers of, reward to, 358. 
 letters directed to, 594. 
 Bethlehem, pilgrimage to, 140. 
 
 Bi5thune, Everard of, Graeciemus of, 
 
 213, 218. 
 Bettnam, Mr., of the household at 
 
 Wollaton, 168. 
 Beudesert. See Beaudesert. 
 Beufou, Boger de, 39. 
 Beuson, due, 226. 
 Bever. See Belvoir. 
 Beverley, Baywerlay, Bewerley [co. 
 York], brotherhood of St. John 
 of, 359. 
 wine from, 382. 
 Bevington.Wood, Woode Bevyngton [in 
 SaUord Priors], co. Warwick, 130. 
 Bewerlay. See Beverley. 
 BewoH. See Beauvale. 
 Bexhill [co. Sussex], Pelsham in, 307- 
 
 309. 
 Beyron. See Byron. 
 Bialmont, Roger nis de, 225. 
 Bible : 
 
 translation of, Scottish allegation of 
 
 error in, 187. 
 sent by Charles II to Mohegau 
 
 Indians, 195. 
 Latin, uncial MS. of, 196, 611. 
 
 , Codex Amialinvs, 196, 611. 
 
 , Vulgate, copy of, 221. 
 
 Bigod, Bygod : 
 
 Bartholomew le, 71, 72. 
 Hugh le, 71, 72. 
 
 , justice of England and arbi- 
 trator for Eichard, earl of 
 Gloucester, 68. 
 Eoger le, earl of Norfolk and Suf- 
 folk, marshal of England, friend 
 and ally of Bichard earl of 
 Gloucester, 68. 
 BUborough, Bilborowe, BObrow, Bil- 
 burghe, Bileburc, Bileburg, Bille- 
 burg [co. Notts] : 
 coal mines in, 148. 
 Close, coalpit book and coal accounts 
 
 of, 493, 494. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 grants of land in, 18, 28, 39. 
 house at, 164. 
 
 ministers' accounts of, 296, 311, 316. 
 The Hollows, Holou, HoUuez in, 
 148. 
 
 , coal mine in, 163, 416, 494, 
 
 495. 
 
 , grant of land in, 34. 
 
 Hugh the parson of, 40. 
 Broxtow in. See Broxtow. 
 BiUeburg, Bilburg, Bileburc, Billeburc 
 [Bilborough, co. Notts] : 
 Acer de, 19. 
 AUce de, 64. 
 Bernard de, 39. 
 
 , grant to, 28. 
 
 Simon de, 42. 
 
 son of Bernard de, grant to, 
 
 39. 
 Bilsby, Billesbi [co. Lincoln], 14. 
 Bilsthorpe, Bylsthorp [co. Notts], rector 
 
 of. iSee HiU, Bichard. 
 Biubrooke, Binnebroc [co. Lincoln], 14, 
 
639 
 
 Bindon. See Binton ? 
 Bingham, Byngham [co. Notts], 152, 179. 
 court roll of, 288. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 ministers' accounts of, 307-309, 311. 
 presentment by jurors of, 280. 
 Haywode near, 242. 
 Bingham, Byngham : 
 
 Anastaaia wife of Ralph de, grant 
 
 to, 93. 
 
 Geoffrey, brother of Richard de, 83. 
 
 John (de Ralegh) wife of Robert de, 
 
 and executor of his will, bequests 
 
 to, 83, 84, 
 
 John sons of Robert de (2), bequests 
 
 to, 83, 84. 
 Margaret, widow of Richard de, and 
 grandmother of Sir Henry Wil- 
 loughby, 122, 507. 
 
 , , answer of, to bill of 
 
 complaint, 115-117. 
 
 , wife of Ralph de, 84. 
 
 Nichola (de Tornay) wife of Robert 
 
 de, tomb of, 83. 
 Ralph, son of Robert de, and execu- 
 tor of lus wUl, bequests to, 83, 84. 
 Richard de, knight, 82, 243. 
 , grandson of Robert de, be- 
 quests to, 83, 84. 
 
 , justice, bequest to, 113. 
 
 , , executor of wills, 114. 
 
 Robert de, will of, 83, 84. 
 
 (Hobckin) son of Ralph de, 
 
 93. 
 
 , bequest to, 84. 
 
 son of Richard de, be- 
 quest to, 84. 
 Master, 111. 
 Binnebroc. See Binbrooke. 
 Binton [co. Warwick] ? Bindon, reward 
 
 to hermit of, 336. 
 Birchovere, WiUiam de, 278. 
 BirdsaU, Briddesale, Briddessale, Bride - 
 sale, Bridessale [co. York] : 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 grants of land in, 1, 22, 59, 63. 
 
 , confirmed, 3. 
 
 House, document preserved at, 
 
 505n. 
 See Bridesale. 
 Birmingham, Breemejam, Bremegam, 
 Bremygeam, Brymejam, Byrmy- 
 iam, Byrmyngham [co. Warwick], 
 330, 336, 359, 378, 382, 426. 
 fair, cattle bought at, 393. 
 goldsmith of, 372. 
 guild of, 359. 
 nails bought at, 433. 
 session for musters at, 339. 
 
 of commission at, 343. 
 
 wine bought at, 366, 386. 
 Birron. See Byron. 
 Birton, Birtun. See Burton. 
 Bisoppes Stoc. See Stoke Bishop. 
 Bishop, Samuel, 172. 
 Bishops, boy, gifts to, 379, 386. 
 Bitueonseum monastery [oo. Worcester], 
 grant of, 204-205, 
 
 Biuirt, Hamo, 60. 
 
 Blacgrave, Blacgreve. See Blackgrave. 
 
 Black iniger) : 
 
 Richard son of William the, 16. 
 WiUiam the, 15. 
 Blackdown, Blakedon [co. Dorset], 104. 
 Blackeham, John, 167. 
 Blackgrave, Blacgrave, Blacgreve, Blag- 
 greve, Blakgreve [Blackgreave in 
 Lea Marston, co. Warwick] : 
 John de, 48. 
 Roger de, 15. 
 Simon de, 49. 
 
 , grants to, 48. 
 
 William de, 80, 81. 
 
 , grant to, 86. 
 
 .... de, 15. 
 Blackgreave in Lea Marston, co. War- 
 wick, deeds relating to, 627. 
 Blackwell, Blacwell [co. Derby], 274. 
 
 outlaws received at, 275. 
 Bladis, Alan de, 47. 
 Blaggrevo. See Blackgrave. 
 Blakeden', Adam de, bailifE of Newcastle- 
 
 on-Tyne, 75. 
 Blakedon. See Blackdown. 
 Blakeneye, Peter de, sherifi of London, 
 
 87. 
 Blakgreve. See Blackgrave. 
 Blakston [near OUerton, co. Notts], grant 
 
 of manor of, 246. 
 Blakwyn, John, of Leicester, goldsmith, 
 
 112. 
 Blandford, Blanforde, co. Dorset : 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 fishery at, 144. 
 
 riotous conduct of Sir Giles Strang- - 
 ways at, 144. 
 Bleasby, Bleseby, co. Notts : 
 court rolls of, 320, 322. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 map of, 169. 
 
 minister's account of, 302. 
 places named in, 302, 320-322. 
 Blenkinsop, Henry, editor of Dr. Percival 
 Willoughby's medical works, 609. 
 Bleseby. See Bleaeby. 
 Blewe, Blow, 388. 
 
 Averey, expenses of, paid, 415. 
 Geoffrey, 345. 
 
 . payment to, 415. 
 
 , wages of, 371. 
 
 Henry, expenses of, paid, 415. 
 Blidworth, BUtheworth [co.Notts], sheep 
 
 stolen at, 281. 
 Bhthe. See Blyth, Blythe. 
 BUtheworth. See BUdworth. 
 Blockkeley [in Kingsbury or Lea Mar- 
 ston, CO. Warwick ?], grant of 
 land in, 48. 
 Blockesworth. See Bloxworth. 
 Blockesworth, Blokesworth, Blokeswrthe, 
 Blokeswurth [Bloxworth, co. 
 Dorset] : 
 Avicia de, grant by, 31. 
 Henry de, 76. 
 
 son of Robert de, grant to, 
 
 and marriage of, 58. 
 
640 
 
 Blockeaworth — eont. 
 
 Hugh de, grant to, 31. 
 Robert de, grant to, 53. 
 
 son of Hugh de, grants to, 38, 
 
 52. 
 Blois, William (the precentor) de, bishop 
 
 of Lincoln, iin. 
 Blokesworth, Blokeswrthe, Blokeswnrth, 
 Blokkeswurth. See Blockesworth, 
 Bloxworth. 
 Blont. See Blund. 
 Blount, Mountjoy, lord Newport, 
 
 193. 
 Blow. See Blewe. 
 
 Bloxworth, Blockesworth, Blokeswrthe, 
 Blokkesworth, Bloxceworth [co. 
 Dorset] : 
 common rights in, agreement con- 
 cerning, 61. 
 court rolls of, 288, 293-297, 299- 
 
 303, 306, 309-312, 318-320. 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 grant of bondmen in, 58. 
 grants of land in, 34, 52, 53. 
 ministers' accounts of, 296, 298, 
 
 299, 301, 306, 319, 320. 
 places named in, 31, 53, 61. 
 rentals of, 312, 320. 
 See Blockesworth. 
 Blund, Blont, Blunt: 
 Edward le, 74. 
 Gamel, of Wishaw, grant to, 24, 25, 
 
 271. 
 Margaret wife of William, account 
 
 rendered by, 320-321. 
 Walter, abstract of letter from, 
 515. 
 
 , canon of Lincoln, 44. 
 
 William, will of, 320, 321. 
 
 payments by hands of, 450. 
 
 to, 426, 429, 441, 446. 
 
 to wife of, 429. 
 
 Blvsse, Henry, debt owed to, 472. 
 Blyth, Blithe, co. Notts, 179. 
 Blythe, Blithe: 
 
 Geoffrey, bishop of Coventry and 
 
 Lichfield, 346, 351, 364. 
 WiUiam, 452, 454. 
 
 , account rendered by, 420. 
 
 , conspiracy of, 563. 
 
 , wages of, 439, 449, 542. 
 
 [William], payments by hands of, 
 442, 445, 450. 
 
 , to, 424, 441, 446. 
 
 Mr., book-keeper, 164. 
 Boardman, payment to wife of, for 
 
 picking crabs, 459. 
 Boare Place. See Bore Place. 
 Boawre, John, collector of poll-tax, 
 
 194. 
 Bobandon. See Bupton. 
 Bobenhulle, Bobinhulle. See Bubnell. 
 Bocton. See Boketona, Boughton Mal- 
 
 herbe. 
 Bodd, husband of Grace Yerlie, death 
 
 of, 181. 
 Boddington, co. Gloucester, deeds re- 
 lating to, 625. 
 
 Bodenham [co. Hereford], the Vera, 
 Perne in, 285-287, 307-309, 625. 
 Boeth. See Booths. 
 Bogen, William, of Penshurst, yeoman, 
 
 474. 
 Bohun, Boum, Humphrey de, earl of 
 Hereford and Essex, 70. 
 
 , the younger, 70. 
 
 Boilestun [Boylestone, co. Derby], 
 
 Aytrop de, 36. 
 Boisdele, Bosdeele [Bois d'EUe, Nor- 
 mandy] : 
 Alan de, 19. 
 
 son of Helto de, grant con- 
 firmed and land exchanged by, 
 43. 
 Helto de, 19, 19n. 
 
 , grant by, confirmed, 43. 
 
 Hugh son of Helto de, 19. 
 Isabel wife of Helto de, grant to, 19. 
 John de, 19. 
 Boketona [Bocton, co. York], William 
 
 de, 59. 
 Bokingham, John de, bishop of Lincoln, 
 
 99. 
 Bokyngham. See Buckingham. 
 Bolderston, Henry, indicted, 276. 
 Boldon, Nicholas, miller at WoUaton, 
 
 169. 
 Boldum, William, 75. 
 Bole, CO. Notts, 179. 
 Boler, Nicholas son of Hugh le, groom 
 
 of John Coterel, outlaw, 273. 
 Bolewyk, Thomas de, bailiff, receiver of 
 
 outlaws, 280. 
 Boleyix, Bullen, queen Anne, headdress 
 
 in pictures of, 573. 
 Boleyne. See Boulogne. 
 Bollen. See Boulogne. 
 Bollishovre [Bolsover, co. Derby], Master 
 
 Alan de, 29, 29n. 
 Bolsover [co. Derby], castle. In. 
 
 , works at, 4 In. 
 
 custom of manor of, 247. 
 Palterton in, 255. 
 Bolton. See Boulton. 
 Bond: 
 
 agreement for cancellation of, 89. 
 for observance of Lenten fast, 152. 
 Bonde : 
 
 Agnes (AwfiU) wife of William, 310. 
 Walter, 62. 
 
 William, rental of possessions of, 
 310. 
 Bondins, Godefroit son of, character 
 
 in a fabliau, 228. 
 Bondsman, emancipation of a, 78. 
 Boneye. See Bunney. 
 Bonifaz, Alan, 61. 
 Bonnar, Mr., payments to, 425. 
 Bonyngton, Bonyton. See Sutton Bon- 
 
 nington. 
 Books, payment for, 353, 355, 368, 383, 
 400, 404, 406, 411, 412, 421, 423, 
 425, 433, 442, 443. 
 Books, fabliaux, etc : 
 
 absez (ABC's), 400, 401. 
 accidence, 405. 
 
641 
 
 Books, fabliaux, etc. — coni. 
 Achilleia of Statius, 219. 
 Aotes of the Apostles, in English 
 
 metre, 412. 
 Adagiorum epitome, of Erasmus, 
 
 412, 412n. 
 Aapremcmt, chanson de geste, 226. 
 Augustine, St., De Conflictu Vitiorum, 
 
 268. 
 A treatise of the figures of Grammar, 
 
 by Sherry, 413, 413n. 
 Bochas, Sir John, Book of Princes, 
 
 622. 
 Bridget, St., Southern English Life 
 
 of, 622. 
 Calepin, Ambrose, Latin Dictionary, 
 
 411. 
 Cato, 218, 411. 
 
 Cepor[in]ua. See Wieseudanger. 
 Chronicles of the kings of England, 
 
 by Baker, 507. 
 Cicero's Epistles, 411. 
 Codex Amiatinus, 196. 
 CoUoquia Vivis. See Vives. 
 Colopine cum onomastico. See 
 
 Calepin. 
 CoTnTpendium Elegantiarum Valle. 
 
 See Valla, Lorenzo. 
 Corrvpendium grammaticce GrceccB, of 
 
 Ceporinus (Wiesendanger), 414n. 
 Coneberi, Conneiert, fabliau, 222, 
 
 223, 230. 
 Confaiulationeg of Ewaldus Gallus, 
 
 408. 
 Confessio Amaniis by John Gower, 
 
 236. 
 Corderius, Maturis, De corrupii 
 
 Sermonis Emendatione, 412n. 
 De conflictu vitiorum, of,St. Augus- 
 tine, 268. 
 De corrupii sermonis emendatione, 
 
 by Cordier, 412, 412n. 
 De Dicu et dou peseour, fabliau, 231. 
 De duplice copia rerum, of Erasmus, 
 
 412, 412n. 
 
 De elegantia linguae Latince, by Valla, 
 
 413, 413n. 
 
 De fabro et securi, by Marie de 
 
 Prance, 234-235. 
 De ij vilains, fabliau, 230-231. 
 De la cugnie, fabliau, 234. 
 De la dame escollii, fabliau, 232. 
 De I'aventure d'Arderene, fabliau, 
 
 230. 
 Del fol Vilain, fabliau, 228. 
 De partibus orationis, poem on 
 
 synonyms, 215. 
 De pcenitentia, 214. 
 De presire ki perdi les coUes, fabliau, 
 
 232. 
 De proprietatibus rerum, of Glan- 
 
 ville, in English, 240. 
 De raptu Proserpince, of Claudian, 
 
 219-220. 
 Des iij comandemens, fabliau, 233. 
 Des putains el dee lecheors, fabliau, 
 
 233. 
 Dialogues, 403, 411. 
 
 Books, fabliaux, etc — cont. 
 
 Dictionary ui English (by Sir 
 
 Thomas Eliot), 411. 
 DiffereniicB, Latin poem on 
 
 synonyms, 215. 
 Disticha, of Cato, 218. 
 Distinctiones, by Balph de Longo 
 
 Oarapo, 216. 
 Doctor and Student, legal dialogue, 
 
 403n. 
 Doctrinale, by Alexander de Ville 
 
 Dieu, 214. 
 Du sot chevalier, fabliau, 230. 
 Du vilain qui conquist Paradis par 
 
 plait, fabliau, 234. 
 Erodes, by Gautier d' Arras, 223. 
 Erasmus, Copia, 412. 
 Epitome Adagiorum, 412. 
 Evangiles des Domees, of Robert de 
 
 Gretham, 220-221. 
 Ewaldus Gallus, Confabulaliones, 
 
 408. 
 Fables of Avienus, 219. 
 Flowers for Latin Speaking, 413, 
 
 413n. 
 Prance, Marie de, De fabro et securi, 
 
 234-235. 
 Geft d' laumont et d'Agoulant, 226. 
 Geste Aalexandre, 225-226. 
 Grcecismvs of Everard of Bi5thune, 
 
 213, 218. 
 Hebrew grammar, 406. 
 Higden's Polychronicon, translated 
 
 by John of Trevisa, 622. 
 Historia de Vita et Gestis Scander- 
 
 bergi, 422, 422«. 
 Ille et Galeron by Gautier d'Arras, 
 
 222-224. 
 Introduction to the Practise of 
 
 Midwifery, by Dr. Denman, 608. 
 La provance de femme, fabliau, 229- 
 
 230. 
 Tm vengeance de Raguidal, Arthurian 
 
 poem, 226-227. 
 La veuve, fabliau, 229-230. 
 Le Borjois Borfon, fabliau, 233. 
 Legendary, Southern English, 622. 
 Le petit Saint Graal, by Robert de 
 
 Borron, 235. 
 Lydgate, John, translation of 
 
 Bochart's Book of Princes, 622. 
 Manuel des pechiM, 220-221. 
 Messire Gauvain, Arthurian poem, 
 
 226-227. 
 Miroir of Robert de Gretham, 220, 
 
 221. 
 Observations in Midwifery, by Dr. 
 
 Percival WiUoughby, 608, 609. 
 Plulosophical Letters, etc., by Wil- 
 liam Derham, 504. 
 Polychronicon of Higden, 622. 
 Psalter in Latin, 411. 
 Robiert, fabliau by Gauters li Leus, 
 
 230. 
 Romance of Troy, by Benoit de 
 
 Sainte Maure, 222. 
 Roman de Joseph d'Arimathie, 235. 
 Sarum Aniiphonale, 622. 
 
 M 41 
 
642 
 
 Books, fabliaux, etc. — cont. 
 
 Scanderbege upon the Tiorkish wars, 
 
 422. 
 Sherez figures in English. See 
 
 Sherry, Richard. 
 Speculum vitcB of William of Nas- 
 
 sington, 238-239. 
 Summa Magna of Ralph Hengham, 
 
 236. 
 Terence, 411, 412, 413«. 
 The Abbay of the Holy Ghost, 240. 
 Trevisa's translation of Higden's 
 
 Polychronicon, 622. 
 Vives, John L., Linguw Latince 
 
 Bxercitatio, 411. 
 Vox Populi, news-letter, 192. 
 Year Book, 247. 
 Boothe, Boeth, Bothe : 
 
 John, of North Wheatley, disclaimer 
 of arms of, 179. 
 
 -, wages of, 440, 449, 542. 
 
 Mr., at Wollaton, 462. 
 Boquerel, Matthew, alderman of London, 
 
 74. 
 Bordesley, Bordesleye abbey [parish of 
 Tardebigge, eo. Worcester] : 
 abbot and convent of, grant by, 97. 
 
 grant to, for maintenance of 
 
 chantry, 97, 98. 
 abbot of, abstract of letter from, 516. 
 monks of, lOn. 
 Bore Place, Boreplace, Boare Place [in 
 Chiddingstone], co. Kent, 159, 
 322, 460, 485, 517, 553, 556. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 letters dated at, 159, 557, 568. 
 minister's account of, 310. 
 payments to servants at, 555. 
 rent of, 329. 
 Borleston. See Barlaston. 
 BoronhuUe [co. Derby], 275. 
 Borrey, Isabella, 95. 
 Borroes. See Borrowes. 
 Borron, Robert de, Saini Graal of, 235. 
 Borrowash, [Bu]rrossheasche [in Ock- 
 
 brook, CO. Derby], 317. 
 Borrowes, Borroes, Borros : 
 
 Agnes, payment to, for serving the 
 
 thacker, 459. 
 John, marriage of, 458. 
 
 , payment by, 445. 
 
 , reward to, 424. 
 
 , wages of, 439, 449, 542. 
 
 [John], 455. 
 
 •, servant of George Willoughby, 
 
 421. 
 Borstal! [Borstal in Rochester ?], co. 
 Kent, deeds relating to manor of, 
 625. 
 Borton, co. Dorset, bequest to villeins of, 
 
 101. 
 Bosco, Reginald de, 35. 
 Bosco Herbert!, Theodoric de, 12n. 
 Bosdeele. See Boisdele. 
 Bossall, Botshal [co. York], 6. 
 
 See Bozhale. 
 Boston, BoBston [co. Lincoln], 446. 
 document dated at, 136. 
 
 Boston — cont. 
 
 fish bought at, 315, 316, 387. 
 guild of St. Mary in the church of 
 St. Botolph, 133, 332. 
 Botehale, Roger de, mayor of Notting- 
 ham, 626. 
 Boteler. See Butler. 
 Bothe. See Boothe. 
 BothemeshuU : 
 
 John de, assaulted, 281. 
 Robert de, chaplain, assaulted, 
 281. 
 Botild, William, 62. 
 Botiller. See Butler. 
 Botlyn, Richard, indicted, 276. 
 Boton. See Boughton. 
 Botshal. See Bossall. 
 Botsworth, " Bottesford [co. Leicester], 
 
 430. 
 Boude, Bowde, Thomas, 388, 480. 
 Soudone, John de, indicted, 274, 276. 
 Boughton, Mr., interview of, with lady 
 
 Willoughby, 546. 
 Boughton Malherbc, Bocton, Boton Mal- 
 
 herbe [co. Kent], letter dated at, 
 
 516. 
 Bouillon, Godfrey of, Godfrey BuUen, 
 
 conquest of Jerusalem by, 263. 
 Boulogne, Boleyne, Bollen : 
 brass pot of, 470. 
 subsidy for garrison of, 510. 
 Boulton, Bolton [co. Derby], house 
 
 broken at, 273. 
 Bourn. See Bohun. 
 Bourehier, Sir George, in the company 
 
 of the duke of Anjou, 553. 
 Bourton, co. Buckingham, deeds relating 
 
 to, 624. 
 BoutiHer. See Butler. 
 Boveney [in Burnham, co. Bucks], rental 
 
 of, 297. 
 Boves [Picardy], Robert de, 18, 40. 
 Bovintun [Boynton, co. York], Walter 
 
 de, 22, 22ra. 
 Bowbrege, money collected for, 386. 
 Bowde. See Boude. 
 Bowers Gilfard ? Bures [co. Essex], land 
 
 in, exchanged, 36. 
 Bowkekyngam, Bowkyncom, Bowkyn- 
 
 gam. See Buckingham. 
 Bowls, money lost at, 447. 
 Bowlwell. See Bulwell. 
 Bowne, Mr., commissioner to hold in- 
 quisition, 428. 
 Boxe, La, in Wyken [co. Warwick], 270. 
 Boxley abbey [co. Kent], abbot of, rent 
 
 belonging to, 271. 
 Boy bishops, gifts to, 379, 386. 
 Boylestone, co. Derby. See Boilestun. 
 Boynton, co. York. Sue Bovintun. 
 Bozhale [Bossall, co. York], Paul de, 
 
 23. 
 Bozoun, John, the younger, 275. 
 Brabant, duke of. See Anjou, Francis 
 
 duke of. 
 Bracebridge, Bracebrugg [co. Lincoln] : 
 account of, 289. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 
643 
 
 Bracebrldge, Brabryge, Bracebruge, 
 Bracebrugge, Braissebrugge, 
 
 Brasbridge, Brasbrydge, Bras- 
 bryg, Braseburge, 454. 
 Anketill de, 86. 
 Henry, payment to, 345. 
 
 , wages of, 370. 
 
 Joan de, accounts of, 289. 
 
 Jocosa (Willoughby) wife of Richard, 
 
 of Kingsbury, 507. 
 John, deputy of the mayor of the 
 staple in Loudon, 266, 617. 
 
 , of Kingsbury, will of, 131. 
 
 John de, grants by, 14-16, 48, 49. 
 
 , to, 21, 87. 
 
 Peter de, 8. 
 
 Ralph, retainer of services of, 99, 
 
 100. 
 Robert de, 21, 48. 
 
 son of John de, 15. 
 
 Robin de, 16. 
 Thomas, 388, 458. 
 
 , high collector of subsidy, 284. 
 
 , rental of possessions of, 315. 
 
 William de, 21. 
 
 Mrs., reward to servant of, 418. 
 Brackenfield [in Morton, co. Derby]: 
 bequest of land in Ogston in, 257. 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 Bradbent, Richard, accounts rendered 
 
 by, 307, 308. 
 Bradbourn : 
 
 John de, indicted, 273, 275, 277, 
 
 278. 
 Richard brother of John de, in- 
 dicted, 275, 278. 
 William brother of John de, in- 
 dicted, 273, 275, 277, 278. ' 
 Bradbourne, Bradeboum [co. Derby]: 
 felons received at, 275. 
 Brassington in. See Brassington. 
 Bradbry, John, payment to, for sinkiag 
 
 coal pit, 493. 
 Bradeleye. -See Bradley ; Bradle ? 
 Brademare [Bradmore, co. Notts], John 
 
 son of Elias de, 83. 
 Brademere. See Bradmore. 
 Bradene, co. Dorset, deeds relating to, 
 
 624. 
 Bradeshall. See Breadsall. 
 Bradford : 
 
 Bryan [in Wimborne Minster, co. 
 Dorset], minister's account of, 
 302. 
 Peverill, Peverell, co. Dorset, agree- 
 ment made at, 97. 
 See Broadfleld ? 
 Bradgate, Brodgate, Brodegate Park [co. 
 Leicester], 395, 395n, 396, 400, 
 414, 414m, 415, 519. 
 letters dated at, 514. 
 Bradle [in Church Knowle, co. Dorset] 
 t Bradeleye, grant of manor of, 
 72, 73. 
 Bradley, Bradeleye [co. Derby], offences 
 
 committed at, 273. 
 Bradman, John, deputy of the mayor of 
 the staple in London, 266, 617. 
 
 Bradmore, Brademere, Bradmere, Brad- 
 meyre, Bradmyre, Brodmer, co. 
 Notts: 
 boons at, 454. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 manor of, 89, 90, 123. 
 
 , accounts of, 292, 296, 308, 
 
 311, 314, 316. 
 
 , court rolls of, 286, 287, 292, 
 
 293, 301, 319, 321. 
 reward to maids of, 430. 
 tenants of, boon-works by, 455, 457, 
 
 458. 
 See Brademare. 
 Bradshagh, William, 110. 
 Bradshawe, William, wages of, 426, 439. 
 Bradwell [co. Derby], Grindlow in, 276. 
 Brsegentforda. See Brentford. 
 Brage, payment to, for shooting at butts, 
 
 332. 
 Brahal, Gilbert de, 36. 
 Braissebrugge. See Bracebridge. 
 Braksted. See Brasted. 
 Bramcote, Bramcot, Brameott, Bram- 
 coate, Brampcote, Brancote, co. 
 Notts : 
 coal mine in, 173. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 minister's account of, 316. 
 sale of wood at, 317. 
 terrier of Sempringham lands In, 323. 
 tithes of Sempringham lands in, 323. 
 Viuicroft in, grant of land at, 41. 
 Richard the chaplain of, 41. 
 Bramcote in Polesworth [co. Warwick]. 
 
 See Bromcote. 
 Bramcote Hill, Bramcot Hilles [near 
 Wollaton, CO. Notts], ambush at, 
 118, 119. 
 Bramcote, Brancote [co. Notts] : 
 Geoffrey de, 42. 
 Helias de, 13. 
 Herbert de, 41n. 
 Reginald de, 42. 
 
 Robert son of Herbert de, grant by, 
 41, 41n. 
 
 , seal of, 42. 
 
 Bramley, Bromleye [co. Derby], 274, 
 
 274n, 496. 
 Bramley, Richard, teacher of singing, 
 
 411. 
 Brampcote, Brancote. See Branxoote. 
 Brandon, Braundon [in Wolston, co. 
 Warwick] : 
 court rolls of, 295, 304-306, 310- 
 
 312, 315, 317, 321, 322. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 ministers' accounts of, 312, 313, 
 317. 
 Brandon : 
 
 Sir Charles, later duke of Suffolk, 
 patent of viscounty of Lisle grant- 
 ed to, and cancelled, 508-509. 
 
 , reward to bear-wards of, 360, 
 
 361, 378. 
 
 , Frances (Grey) his daughter, 
 
 518. 
 , Mary his wife, 518. 
 
644 
 
 Brasbridge, Brasbrydge, Brasbryg, Brase- 
 
 burge. See Bracebridge. 
 Brassington, Brasyngton [in Bradbourne, 
 CO. Derby], man killed at, 273. 
 Mouldridge Grange, Moldrikgraunge 
 in, 276. 
 Brasted, Bracksted, Braksted [co. Kent] : 
 cattle bought at fair of, 329. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 minister's account of, 304. 
 Brasyngton. See Brassington. 
 Braundeston, Hugh de, 97. 
 Braundon. See Brandon. 
 Bray, William de, of Wollaston, grant of 
 
 market to, 70. 
 Brayson. See Breaston. 
 Breadsale [co. Dorset], manorial account 
 
 of, 296. 
 Breadaall, Bradeshall [co. Derby], be- 
 quest of land in, to Burton abbey, 
 256. 
 Breaston, Brayson [in Wilne, co. Derby] ; 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 sale of wood at, 317. 
 Brechedore. See Brekedure. 
 Bredlinton. See Bridlington. 
 Bredon, Breodun priory [co. Worcester], 
 
 grant to, 201-203. 
 Bredon, John de, money extorted from, 
 
 282. 
 Breedon, mole-catcher, payments to, 427. 
 Breemejam. See Birmingham. 
 Brekedure, Brechedore, William, 13, 
 
 13n, 14. 
 Brekeir. See BrickhUl. 
 Bremegam. See Birmingham. 
 Bremergrafan, Bremesgraf. See Broms- 
 
 grove. 
 Bremygam, Mr., servant of, 330. 
 
 Cf. Burmyncham. 
 Bremygeam. See Birmingham. 
 Brendwod, John, wages of, 371. 
 Brensley, Francis, to provide a horseman 
 
 tor his hundred, 152. 
 Brentford, Brsegentforda [co. Middlesex], 
 
 deed dated at, 203. 
 Breodun. See Bredon. 
 Brereton : 
 
 Eleanor, abstract of letter from, 516. 
 Sir WiUiam, debt of Sir Percival 
 Willoughby to, 589. 
 Bretegate, Nicholas de, 43. 
 Bretford, Bretsforde [in Wolston, co. 
 Warwick] : 
 court rolls of, 295, 304-306, 310- 
 
 312, 315, 317, 321, 322. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 minister's account of, 317. 
 wood sale of, 317. 
 Bretland [in Woolaton ?], co. Notts, 
 
 Shawe pit in, 164. 
 Breton, Bretun : 
 
 Ivo, Ywain, Iwehein le, 29. 
 
 , grant to, confirmed, 17, 18, 18n. 
 
 son of Ivo le, grant confirmed 
 
 by, 62. 
 
 ^, seal of, 63. 
 
 Cf. Brito. 
 
 Brett, arms of family of, 237, 238. 
 Bretun. See Breton. 
 Breul, Elias, indulgence granted to, 137. 
 Breus', WiHiam de, friend and ally of 
 
 Richard earl of Gloucester, 68. 
 Brewod, John, 111. 
 Breylesford [in North Wingfleld], co. 
 
 Derby, deeds relating to, 624. 
 Brianeston. See Bryanston. 
 Brickhin, Great Brekell', Brickell [co. 
 Bucks], 447, 555. 
 offering at Our Lady of, 357. 
 Bricknell, Mrs. Luce, 597. 
 Briddesale, Briddessale. See Brrdsall. 
 Briddesale, Briddessale [Brrdsall, co. 
 York] : 
 Gilbert de, 23, 23«. 
 John son of Gilbert de, 59. 
 Juliana wife of William son of Hugh 
 
 de, 22. 
 Richard son of Alice de, 59. 
 William son of Hugh de, grant by, 
 22. 
 
 , seal of, 23. 
 
 William son of William son of Hugh 
 de, 22. 
 Brideport. See Bridport. 
 Bridesale, Bridessale. See Birdsall. 
 Bridge, carrier, of Leicester, 399, 400. 
 Bridgend, Brygend [in Horbling, co. 
 
 Lincoln], 388, 388m. 
 Bridges, the. See Nottingham, places 
 
 named, Trent Bridges. 
 Bridges, money collected for, 386. 
 Bridgford, East, co. Notts, 179. 
 Bridlington, Bredlinton priory [co. York], 
 
 Gregory prior of, 4, in. 
 Bridport, Brideport [co. Dorset], St. 
 Mary's church, will proved in, 84. 
 Brien : 
 
 Jordan brother of Robert son of, 14. 
 Robert son of, 14. 
 Thomas, of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, 62n. 
 Walter brother of Robert son of, 14. 
 William brother of Robert son of, 14. 
 Brigge, 114. 
 
 Briggeford, John de, 99. 
 Brigges, Richard, disclaimer of arms of, 
 
 179. 
 Bright, wages of, 542. 
 Brlnsley, co. Notts, 45n. See Brunes- 
 
 leya. 
 Bristol, Bristowe, Brystoe : 
 
 deputy of the mayor of the staple 
 
 at, 266, 617. 
 merchant of, 284. 
 players from, 451. 
 ship from, for Newfoundland ven- 
 ture, 284. 
 BristoU, John, of Maplebeck, disclaimer 
 
 of arms of, 179. 
 Bristowe. See Bristol. 
 Brito, le Bruton, le Brutun : 
 Budo son of WiUiam, 33n. 
 
 , grant to, 25. 
 
 Henry, of Hucknall, 34. 
 Hugh, of Hucknall, 40n. 
 Reginald, 26. 
 
645 
 
 Brito — cont. 
 
 Robert, 56. 
 
 Boger, [deputy] constable of Not- 
 tingham castle, 66. 
 Thomas, 62. 
 William, 26, 27. 
 
 , grant to, 33. 
 
 Cf. Breton. 
 Brittany : 
 
 Anne duchess of, marriage of, 260, 
 
 261, 264n, 612. 
 expedition to, 508. 
 prophecy of French invasion of, 264. 
 Broadfield [in Bodenham] 1 Bradford, 
 CO. Hereford : 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 manor of, 506. 
 
 , court roU of, 287. 
 
 , ministers' accounts of, 307-309. 
 
 BrocgrevCj Broggrave, Adam de, 21, 47. 
 Brocholvestoue. See Brokestowe. 
 Brochseth, mother of St. Brigit, 622, 623. 
 Brock : 
 
 Geoffrey, of Basford, disclaimer of 
 
 arms of, 179. 
 Henry, of Broxtow, disclaimer of 
 
 arms of, 179. 
 John, of Bole, disclaimer of arms of, 
 179. 
 Brockeleye, Brockelee, Simon de, 15, 21. 
 Brocolvestou. See Brokestowe, Broxtow. 
 Brocton, Stephen de, 63. 
 
 Cf. Broughton, Browton. 
 Broculvestowe. See Brokestowe, Brox- 
 tow. 
 Brod, Thomas, master of the John 
 
 AvangeUist, 128. 
 Brodegate, Brodgate. See Bradgate. 
 Brodmer. See Bradmore. 
 Brogcholvestowe. See Brokestowe. 
 Broggrave. See Brocgreve. 
 Broghtin', Thomas, wages of, 449. 
 Broke. See Brooke. 
 Brokelestowe. See Broxtow. 
 Brokeseed, Stephen, payment to, 401. 
 Brokestowe, Brocholvestoue, Brocol- 
 vestou, Broculvestowe, Brog- 
 cholvestowe, Brokolestowe [Brox- 
 tow, in Bilborough, co. Notts] : 
 Eustace de, 14, 18, 29. 
 
 , confirmation of grant to, 11. 
 
 Geoffrey son of Gilbert de, grant 
 
 to, 40. 
 Gilbert de, 40, 40n. 
 Balph de, 41. 
 Seyi de, 96. 
 Brokystow. See Broxtow. 
 Brom, Idonya wife of John de, grant by, 
 91. 
 John de, grant by, 91. 
 Bromcote [Bramcote in Poleeworth, co. 
 
 Warwick], Robert de, 16. 
 Bromsgrove, Bremergrafan, Bremesgraf 
 
 [co. Worcester], land at, 206. 
 Bromicroft. See Broomy Croft. 
 Bromley, Abbots [co. Stafford], bequest of 
 land in, to Burton abbey, 256. 
 [Abbots ?], deeds relating to, 627. 
 
 Bromley, Brother William, monk of 
 
 Burton, 248, 252. 
 Bromleye. See Bramley. 
 Brompton, John de, assaulted, 281. 
 BromweU, Henry, of North Wheatley, 
 
 disclaimer of arms of, 179. 
 Bromwich, West [co. Stafford], Sandwell 
 
 priory in, 373. 
 Bronston, Brother William, monk of 
 
 Burton, 250-252. 
 Brooke, Broke [co. Kent], 283. 
 Brooke, William, lord Cobham, lord 
 
 lieutenant of Kent, 160. 
 Brookes, Thomas, 167. 
 Broome, payment to, 443. 
 Broomy Croft, Bromicroft [in Kingsbury, 
 CO. Warwick], grant of land in, 
 48. 
 Brondissh, Robert de, clerk, 91. 
 Brordan, princeps, 203. 
 Broseley, co. Salop. See Burwardesleia. 
 Brotton, co. York, Thorpe in Kilton in, 
 
 222. 
 Broughton, co. Leicester, manor of, 123, 
 
 124. 
 Broughton, Upper, Browchton ? Browton 
 [co. Notts] : 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 minister's account of, 308, 311, 314, 
 
 318. 
 players of, reward to, 379. 
 Broughton, Brouhton, Brother Robert, 
 monk of Burton, 250-252. 
 Cf. Brocton, Browton. 
 Broiui. See BrowQ. 
 BrouneU. See Brownell. 
 Browchton. See Broughton, Upper. 
 Brown, Browne, Broun, Brun : 
 
 James, drink taken at house of, 363. 
 John, alderman of Nottingham, 498. 
 
 , letters from, reference to, 284. 
 
 , of Gedling, 91. 
 
 Richard, rewards to, 365, 366. 
 
 , taught to knit nets, 347. 
 
 Robert, 21. 
 
 , of HaUoughton, 94. 
 
 , of Leicester, 111, 112. 
 
 Mr., of the household at Wollaton, 
 168. 
 
 154. 
 
 ..... payments to, 401, 410. 
 Brownell, Brounell, 388, 396. 
 Browton. See Broughton, Upper. 
 Browton, Sir Bandwll of, reward to min- 
 strel of, 346. 
 Cf. Brocton, Broughton. 
 BroxtaU, child of, christened, 431. 
 Broxtow, Brocolvestou, Broculvestowe 
 [in Bilborough, co. Notts], 11, 
 lln, 41, 179. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 minister's account of, 307. 
 Broxtow, Brokelestowe, Brokystow hun- 
 dred [co. Notts] : 
 order to bailiff for appearance of 
 
 horsemen of, 152. 
 presentments of jurors of, 279, 
 280. 
 
646 
 
 Bruce, Brus, Bruys : 
 
 David de, king of Scotland, move- 
 ments of, in Galloway, 95, 95m. 
 Robert de, friend and ally of Richard 
 
 earl of Gloucester, 68. 
 Bruer. See Temple Bruer. 
 Bruere, Gilbert de la, supplying the 
 
 place of dean of Lichfield, receiver 
 
 of outlaws, 277. 
 Brug, Bartholomew de, 76. 
 Bruges, satin of, saten in Brydges, satten 
 
 of Burgees, 369, 408, 475. 
 Brun. See Brown. 
 Brunesleya, Brunnesleye [Brinsley, co. 
 
 Notts] : 
 Geoffrey de, 96. 
 Robert de, 46. 
 Roger de, 45, 87. 
 Brunneby, Robert de, of Nottinghami, 97. 
 Robert son of Robert de, of Not- 
 tingham, grant by, 97. 
 Brunnesleye. See Brunesleya. 
 Bruntingthorpe, co. Leicester, deeds 
 
 relating to, 625. 
 Brus. See Bruce. 
 Brusle, John, 36. 
 Bruton, Brutun, le. See Brito. 
 Bruys. See Bruce. 
 Bryanston, Brianeston [co. Dorset], court 
 
 roU of, 287. 
 Bryde, Master John, notary, 248. 
 Brydges, Cassandra (Willoughby) wife 
 
 of James, duke of Chandos, 504. 
 Brydone, Maud de, abbess of Tarrant, 
 
 grant by, 76. 
 Brygend. See Bridgend. 
 Brymejam. See Birmingham. 
 Brynabell, servant of Su- Giles Strang- 
 
 ways, 142. 
 Brystoe. See Bristol. 
 BubneU, BobenhuUe, Bobinhulle [in Bas- 
 
 low St. Anne, co. Derby], 274, 275. 
 Buchingehamsha. See Buckingham, 
 
 county of. 
 Buckingham, Bokyngham [co. Bucking- 
 ham] : 
 Castilmylbrigge in, legacy to fabric 
 
 of, 101. 
 church of, legacy to fabric of, 101. 
 Buckingham, county of, Buchingoham- 
 
 sira, forestry of, 2, 3. 
 Buckingham, Bowkekyngam, Bowkyu- 
 
 com, Bowkyngam, duke of. See 
 
 Stafford, Edward. 
 Buckland, Bukland [co. Dorset], 114. 
 Buckland Newton [co. Dorset], 
 
 Aruswell in, 303. 
 Buckly, Arthur, in charge of Sii' Francis 
 
 WiUougliby's horses, 548. 
 Buckstons. See Buxton. 
 Bucstones, Bukstones [Buxton, co. 
 
 Derby] : 
 Thomas son of Thomas de, of Bake- 
 well, indicted for offences in co. 
 
 Derby, 278-278. 
 William do, of Eyam, indicted for 
 
 offences in co. Derby, 272, 274, 
 
 276-278. 
 
 Budeford : 
 
 Philip de, 97. 
 
 Richard de, 98. 
 Bue, William, indulgence granted to, 137. 
 Bufle, Robert son of Walter le, of Wor. 
 
 cester, grant to, 65. 
 Bugge, Bugghe: 
 
 Geoffrey, 63. 
 
 Hugh, clerk of Sempringham, 13. 
 
 Robert, reeve of the French borough 
 of Nottingham, 62. 
 
 For Agnes, Margery, Ralph and 
 Richard, see Willoughby. 
 Bukerel, Robert, 32. 
 Bukland. See Buckland. 
 Bukstanes, Bukstones. See Bucstones, 
 
 Buxton. 
 Bulintun. See BuUington. 
 Bull, Nicholas, wages of, 450. 
 BuUen. See Boleyn. 
 Bullington, Bulintun priory [in Goltho, 
 CO. Lincoln], ratification of final 
 concord by prior and convent, 43, 
 Bullock, Mr., feodary, note under seal 
 
 of, 432. 
 BulweU, Bowlwell [co. Notts], 347. 
 
 payment to poor man of, 391. 
 
 Byse, CO. Notts, boundaries of, 241. 
 Bunkes, Walter, 242. 
 Bunney, Boneye, co. Notts, grant of 
 
 land in, 59. 
 Bunney, Boneye, Buney : 
 
 Aucher son of William son of Prone 
 de, grant by, 59. 
 
 Martin de, 59. 
 
 Thomas, depositions of, 163, 164. 
 Bunting, 454. 
 Bupton, Bobandon [in Longford, co. 
 
 Derby], bequest of, 257. 
 Burch : 
 
 Achilles son of Gervase de, 14. 
 
 Master Gervase de, 14. 
 
 Stephen son of Gervase de, 14. 
 Burdet, Burdyt : 
 
 WiUiam, 10. 
 
 Mr., 395. 
 Burdun, Roger, 11, lln. 
 Bm'dyt. See Burdet. 
 Bm'es. See Bowers Giffard ? 
 Burgate, Nether [in Fordingbridge, co. 
 Hants] : 
 
 court roll of, 320. 
 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 
 minister's account of, 320. 
 
 rental of, 320. 
 Burgees. See Bruges. 
 Burgenun, John, 7. 
 Bm'ges, Walter de, 71, 72. 
 Burgesse, John, saddle for, 373. 
 Bm-gh : 
 
 Edward son of Sir Thomas, knight, 
 agreement by, 122. 
 
 Elizabeth daughter of Sir Thomas, 
 lady Pitzhugh, bequest to, 516. 
 
 • , marriages of, 212, 511. 
 
 Thomas, esquire, agreement by, 122. 
 
 , knight, agreement by, 122. 
 
 , , bequest by, 516. 
 
647 
 
 Burgham. See Burham. 
 
 Burghmersshe. See Burmarsb. 
 
 Burglars, 167. 
 
 Burglegh. See Cecil. 
 
 Burgoin, Ann (Hickman) daughter of 
 
 Sir Boger, 606. 
 Burgundy, Burgone, duke of. See Charles, 
 
 John, Philip. 
 Burham, Burgham [co. Kent], court roll 
 
 of, 285. 
 Burkham, Berkham, in Bentworth, co. 
 
 Hants, grant of land in, 91. 
 Burleia, Nicholas de, 47. 
 Burlez, tailor, payments to, 404, 405. 
 Burmarsh, Biu-ghmersshe, Burgh- 
 warmersh, co. Kent : 
 action concerning laud in, 283. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 Burmyncham, Fulk de, 465. 
 
 Cf- Bremygam. 
 Burnell, Hugh, ordered to defend Shrews- 
 bury, 101. 
 Burnet', Henry de, bailiff of Newcastle- 
 
 on-Tyne, 75. 
 Burnham [co. Bucks] : 
 abbey, 297. 
 places named in, 297. 
 rental of, 297. 
 Burnham, East [in Bm'nham, co. 
 
 Bucks, rental of, 297. 
 Burrell, Mr., abstracts of letters to, 
 
 602. 
 Burrough - on - the - Hill, Erdburg, co. 
 
 Leicester, 33n. 
 Burser, Kobert, 61. 
 Burton Hastings, co. Warwick, Shirford 
 
 in, 526. 
 Burton Lazars, Burton Laysarse, St. 
 Lazars [in Melton Mowbray, co. 
 Leicester] : 
 perdoner of, 327, 348. 
 preceptory of, 278. 
 
 , master of. See Norton, 
 
 Thomas. 
 Burton-on-Trent, Birton, Bii'tun [co. 
 Stafford], 327. 
 abbey, abbot of, 259. See also 
 Field, Thomas ; Henley, Brother 
 Ralph ; Matthew, William ; 
 Ownesby, Robert. 
 
 , , assault by servants of, 
 
 259. 
 
 , , contested election of, 
 
 248, 253. 
 
 , bequests to, 256-258. 
 
 , Coventz Hostry in, 251. 
 
 , founder of. See Spott, 
 
 Wtilfric. 
 
 , prior of. See Lythum, 
 
 Brother Richard. 
 — — . register of, 247-268. 
 
 , St. Mary's chapel in, 251. 
 
 , taxation of temporalities of, 
 
 253. 
 chaplain of church of. See Marche, 
 
 Thomas, 
 market of, 259. 
 Stretton in, 255. 
 
 Burton i 
 
 Grace, daughter of Robert Strat- 
 ford, 605. 
 Humphrey, collier, 493. 
 John, legacy to, 103. 
 — — , monk of Burton, 251, 252. 
 Richard son of William de, 39, 39n. 
 Robert de, 5. 
 
 WUliam son of Robert de, 5. 
 Mr., of Derby, son-in-law of Dr. 
 Percival WUloughby, 610. 
 Burwardesleia [Broseley, co. Salop] : 
 Warin de, 51. 
 
 William son of Warin de, 51. 
 Bushey, Bysshayeherttesheved, Byss- 
 heye, co. Hertford, deeds dated 
 at, 625. 
 Buslingthorpe, Beseling Thorp [co. Lin- 
 coln], account of, 289. 
 Bussell, 454. 
 
 John, fermor of Langton Herring, 
 legacy to, 104. 
 Bustlard, William, outlaw, 274. 
 Butler, Boteler, BotiUer, BoutUler : 
 Maud wife of Ralph le, 98. 
 Ralph, killed in pit at Wollaton, 
 429. 
 
 le, 80-82. 
 
 son of Ralph le, 98. 
 
 Thomas, 429. 
 
 , pantlerer, legacy to, 103. 
 
 Butter Crambe, Buttercram [co. York], 
 licence to enclose and fortify house 
 at, 51. 
 Butterwick [co. Lincoln], tenement in, 
 
 247. 
 Buttetort, connection of family of, with 
 
 family of PrevUe, 506. 
 Buxton, Buckstons, Bukstanes, Buk- 
 stones, Bwcstone [co. Derby], 274, 
 445, 543. 
 road to, 258. 
 St. Anne's [church or well], 336, 367. 
 
 , offering at, 385. 
 
 waters drunk at, 536, 537. 
 See Bucstones. 
 Bwrton Laysarse. See Burton Lazars. 
 Bydyk, William, manorial records of, 
 
 294. 
 Bygod. See Bigod. 
 Bylsthorp. See Bilsthorpe. 
 Bynetre, Herbert de, 60. 
 Byngham. See Bingham. 
 Bynteworth. See Bentworth. 
 Byrckman, Francis, bookseller, 622. 
 Byrmyiam, Byrmyngham. See Bii'ming- 
 
 ham. 
 Byron, Bayryn, Berin, Berron, Beyron, 
 Birron : 
 John (1), indulgence granted to, 137. 
 Six- John (2), 418. 
 Sir John (3), commission to, 160. 
 
 , to provide horsemen, 152. 
 
 Ml-. John, at WoUaton, 462. 
 Lady, 361. 
 Mi-s., 432. 
 Bytham, Castle, Castelbitham [co. Lin- 
 coln], minister's account of, 298, 
 
648 
 
 Bythewater, John, o£ Edwinstowe, sale 
 of woodland to, 242. 
 
 Cadiz, Scalys Malya, Spain, arrival of 
 
 English forces at, 146. 
 Caen [Normandy], charter dated at, 
 
 23n, 24. 
 Caerent, river. See Carant. 
 Caerleon [co. Monmouth], king Arthur 
 
 at, 227. 
 Calabria, duke of. See Alphonso. 
 Calabrians, to give pears to the, proverb, 
 
 216. 
 Calais, Gales, Calice, Calle, Callis [France], 
 352. 
 mayor and aldermen of, 616. 
 sand, 464. 
 staple of, 614. 
 
 subsidy for garrison of, 510. 
 Calcutt, Calcott [in Grandborough, co. 
 Warwick] : 
 court rolls of, 295, 304-306, 310- 
 
 312, 315, 317, 321, 322. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 Oaldelowe. See Callow. 
 Caldwell, In Stauwick, co. York, deeds 
 
 relating to, 627. 
 Calepinus, Ambrose, Latin dictionary 
 
 and onomaatioon of, 411, 411n. 
 Cales. See Calais. 
 Oalfvovre. See Calver. 
 Calice. See Calais. 
 
 Callaughton in Much Weulock, co. Staf- 
 ford, deeds relating to, 627. 
 Calle, Callis. See Calais. 
 CaUow, Caldelowe [in Wirksworth, co. 
 
 Derby], 275. 
 Callver. See Calver. 
 Calmont, Guy de, 225. 
 Caltofte, arms of family of, 237. 
 Calton ; 
 
 Nicholas de, indicted for offences 
 
 in CO. Derby, 272, 275, 277. 
 Ralph, executor of wUl, 125. 
 Thomas, churchwarden of Wollaton, 
 151. 
 Calvary, pilgrimage to, 140. 
 Calver, Calfvovre, Callver, CaJverd, 
 Cawverd [in Curbar, co> Derby] : 
 [John], 163, 454. 
 John, payments to, 488, 440, 459. 
 
 , wages of, 439, 449, 542. 
 
 Robert de, of Bubnell, indicted, 275. 
 Calverton [co. Notts]: 
 court rolls of, 286. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 Oalz, Caux, Maud de, 34n. 
 
 , wife of Ralph son of Stephen, 
 
 grant to, 241. 
 Cam. See Camme. 
 Caniarwelle. See Camberwell. 
 
 Cambat, John, a felon, 109, 114. 
 Camberwell, co. Surrey ? Camarwelle, 36. 
 Oambrensia, Giraldus, 215. 
 Cambridge, Cambrydge, 413, 414, 416, 
 520. 
 sweating sickness at, 404. 
 university, of, 477. 
 
 , Caius college, letters dated at, 
 
 593. 
 Camel, gift to man with, 342. 
 Camera, Brother William de, 38. 
 Camm [co. Dorset], Shaston St. Rumbold 
 
 in, 302. 
 Camme, Cam, Gum, Kam, George: 
 clothes made by, 440, 448. 
 expenses of, paid, 422, 432-439, 
 
 442, 444, 446, 450. 
 wages of, 439, 449, 542. 
 Camoys, Ralph de, senior, knight, grant 
 
 by, 91. 
 Camphor, camphyre, used with lime as 
 
 a remedy for coal-damp, 193. 
 Campion, 455. 
 Can, Walter, vicar of Bakewell, assault 
 
 on, 278. 
 CanceviUe, Richard, 30. 
 Candishe, Candyshe. See Cavendish. 
 Cane. See Winterborne Came. 
 Canke. See Cannock. 
 Canning, Abigail, daughter of Robert 
 
 Stratford, 605. 
 Cannock, Canke, Kanke [co. Stafford]: 
 reward to players of, 350,. 
 Wood, furnaces in, 496. 
 Canon : 
 
 Master Lisiard the, 25, 25n. 
 William the, clerk, 9. 
 Canterbury, Conterbayry, Oontwrbayry; 
 archbishop of. See JSlfric ; Becket, 
 Thomas ; Jaenbeorht ; Morton, 
 John ; Savoy, Boniface of ; 
 Theobald ; Walter, Hubert ; 
 Wulfred. 
 brotherhood of St. Thomas of, 367, 
 
 884. 
 charter dated at, 71. 
 court of, appeal to, 251. 
 , wills proved before commis- 
 sary of, 102, 149, 617. 
 Cantilupe, Walter de, bishop of Wor- 
 cester, 67. 
 Cantrell, Ralph, dean of Alton and 
 Leek, depositions taken before, 
 259. 
 Canulf. See Cenulf. 
 Canwell, Canwall [co. Stafford], 116. 
 
 offering at St. Giles' priory, 359. 
 CapeUa. See Chapel-en-le-Frith. 
 Capra, Michael, 35, 35n. 
 CapuU, Edward, esquire, 130. 
 Carant Brook, river Cserent [co. 
 
 Gloucester], 201, 202. 
 Carburton, Carberton wood [in Edwin- 
 stowe], CO. Notts, boundaries of, 
 241. 
 Carburton Storth, Carberton Storth [co. 
 Notts], enclosure of forest at, 
 246. 
 
649 
 
 Car-Colston, Carcolston, Carlecolston, oo. 
 Notts: 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 manor of, 125. 
 
 , court roll of, 315. 
 
 , ministers' accounts of, SOT- 
 BOO, 315, 816. 
 sale of, 681. 
 Cardinal, My Lord. See Wolsey, Thomas. 
 Card -playing, payments of money for, 
 331, 332, 333, 351, 353, 360, 368, 
 360, 370, 381, 423, 424, 420, 432, 
 446, 447. 
 Caretter. See Carter. 
 Carey, Henry, lord Hunsdon, in com- 
 pany of the duke of Anjou, 553. 
 Carisbrook, Carisbroke, Isle of Wight, 
 
 manor of, 124. 
 Carlecolston. See Car-Colston. 
 Carlell, Hugh de, of Nottingham, 07. 
 
 Cf. Carliolo. 
 Carlemainne. See Charlemagne. 
 Carleton. See Carlton. 
 Carliolo : 
 
 Peter de, money extorted from, 282. 
 Thomas de, 75. 
 
 son of Henry de, 75. 
 
 Cf. CarleU. 
 Carlisle, KardoiU', 95n. 
 letter dated at, 96. 
 Carlton, Carleton [co. Notts] : 
 minister's account of, 321. 
 sale of, 581. 
 
 [in GedUug, co. Notts], near Ged- 
 lyng, near Nottingham, deeds 
 relating to, 626. 
 
 , grant of meadow in, 91. 
 
 , manor of, 125. 
 
 , ministers' accounts of, 202, 
 
 307, 315, 316. 
 — — , tenement in, 154. 
 -iu-Lindrick, Lyndryk, co. Notts, 
 manor broken at, 281. 
 
 , Wallingwells in, 186. 
 
 North, Northecarleton [in Carlton- 
 in-Lindrick, co. Notts], court rolls 
 of, 290, 318. 
 
 , deeds relating to, 626. 
 
 -on-Trent, -juxta-Trentham [co. 
 Notts], 179. 
 
 , court rolls of, 298, 318. 
 
 , deeds relating to, 626. 
 
 , ferry and fishery at, 126. 
 
 , manor of, 125. 
 
 , ministers' accounts of, 308, 
 
 309, 314-316. 
 
 , rental of, 386. 
 
 Carlton, Karleton : 
 
 Geoffrey son of Geoffi'ey de, 34. 
 
 Master Henry de, 84. 
 
 Jane, daughter of Robert Stratford, 
 
 605. 
 William son of Geoffrey de, 34. 
 Carmelite order in England, Robert prior 
 provincial of, grant of fraternity 
 by, 127. 
 Carpenter : 
 
 Alfred the,of Wishaw, grant to,24,271. 
 
 Carpenter — cont. 
 
 William le, of Mansfield, robbed, 
 
 280. 
 Mrs., daughter of Thomas Willough- 
 by, 603. 
 Carpynter, Thomasina, 102. 
 Carras, name in poem, 223. 
 Carre, Doctor, of Cambridge, 413, 414. 
 CarriU, Mr., a learned man, 150. 
 Carshalton, co. Surrey, deeds relating 
 
 to, 627. 
 Carter, Caretter : 
 
 John, of Winterborne Herringston, 
 
 legacy to, 103. 
 Jouce the, 77. 
 
 William, wages of, 440, 440, 542. 
 Cartwright, Thomas, letter signed by, 
 
 602. 
 Castelbitham. See Bytham. 
 CasteU', Nicholas, debt owing to, 472. 
 Castel Landon, Hyebles de, character in 
 
 poem, 225. 
 Castellis, Walter de, 52. 
 Castello, Roger de, 25. 
 Casteme, Catesthurne [in Ham, co. Staf- 
 ford], bequest of land in, to Bur- 
 ton abbey, 257. 
 Castile, Castilie : 
 
 king of. See John duke of Lancaster, 
 president of the council of, 187. 
 Spanish confidence in natives of, 
 101. 
 Castillum, Peter de, 32. 
 Castle Bytham. See Bytham. 
 Castle Donington. See Donington. 
 Castleton, Castelton [co. Derby], 274- 
 276. 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 Castleton in Liddesdale [Roxburghshire, 
 
 Scotland], siege of, 05n. 
 Catcher, Alderman: 
 
 imprisoned and fined for whipping 
 
 gentlewomen, 158, 159, 568. 
 letter to, 568. 
 Cater, Roger, payment by, 441. 
 Catesby, Catesbie, Cattesby, Cattysby, 
 Catysbe, Catysby : 
 Thomas, abstract of letter from, 516. 
 Mr., clothes for, 366, 369, 383, 385. 
 
 , payment by, 363. 
 
 , schooling of, 383, 385. 
 
 servant of Sir Francis Willoughby, 
 
 bad character of his wife, 535. 
 , defamation of lady Wil- 
 loughby by, 533. 
 Catesthurne. See Casteme. 
 Catherine. See Katherine. 
 Cathorp, Cattorp [Caythorpe in Lowd- 
 ham, CO. Notts] : 
 Reginald de, 30. 
 Robert de, grant by, 5. 
 Cato, Disticha of, 218, 411. 
 Cattesby. See Catesby. 
 Cattle, inventories and accounts of, 466, 
 
 471-472, 511. 
 Cattorp. See Cathorp, Caythorpe. 
 Cattysby, Catysbe, Catysby. See Cates- 
 by. 
 
650 
 
 Caudebeck, Richard, 77. 
 Cauldon, Chelfdon [co. Stafford], bequest 
 of land in, to Burton abbey, 257. 
 Caundle Stourton, Candel Haddon, oo. 
 
 Dorset, deeds relating to, 624. 
 Caux. See Calz. 
 Cave [co. York] : 
 
 Peter son of William de, 4. 
 William brother of Peter son of 
 William de, 4. 
 Cavendish, Candishe, Candyshe : 
 [Sir] William, lands of, 153. 
 William lord, of Hardwick [later 
 
 earl of Devonshire], 180. 
 — — , projected marriage of his son, 
 180-181. 
 Cawverd. See Calver. 
 Cay: 
 
 Henry, of Priestcliffe, indicted, 275. 
 John brother of Henry, indicted, 
 275. 
 Cayleway, John, knight, feoffee for com- 
 pletion of will, 313. 
 Cayso, William, pravus puer, 213. 
 Caythorpe, Cattorp [in Lowdham, co. 
 Notts], 38. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 rental of, 294. 
 See Cathorp. 
 Cecil : 
 
 [Bobert], the secretary, 583. 
 Sir William, lord Bm'leigh, William 
 Burglegh, lord Treasurer, 153, 
 582, 583. 
 
 , letter to, 618-621. 
 
 , signature of, 321. 
 
 Cementarius. See Mason. 
 Cena domini, bull, 137. 
 ConuH, Cauulf , Coenulf, Coenwult, Kenulf, 
 king of Mercia, grants by, 197, 197r!, 
 203-206. 
 
 , reference to, 269. 
 
 Ceolfrod, abbot of Jarrow and Wear- 
 mouth, 196, 611. 
 Ceolwulf I., Ceolulf, king of Mercia, confir- 
 mation by, 206. 
 Ceolwulf, bishop [of Lindsey], 203. 
 Ceporius, Ceporinus. See Wiosendanger. 
 Cereberge. See Charborough. 
 Ceres, to give grain to, proverb, 216. 
 Cerne abbey [co. Dorset] : 
 
 Dionisius abbot, and the convent 
 
 of, grants by, 52, 52)i, 53. 
 Richard abbot of, 59. 
 
 , and the convent of, agreement 
 
 of, concerning common rights in 
 Bloxworth, 61, 62. 
 Certeseye. See Ohertsey. 
 Cesterfeld. See Chesterfield. 
 Cey [Savoy], See under London, places 
 
 named. 
 Chadwick, James, award of, 621. 
 Chaent, Gilbert de, 6. 
 Chain pump used for London water 
 
 service, 174. 
 Chamberlain, the : 
 
 Alexander, 4, in. 
 Stephen, 29, 29n. 
 
 Chamberlain, the — conl, 
 Walter, 32, 32n. 
 William, of Coasal, 76. 
 See Nevill, Geoffrey de ; Tankar- 
 ville, William de. 
 Chamberlayne, 388, 
 
 of Nottingham, reward to, 384. 
 WiUiam, 151. 
 Chamberleng, Ralph le, grant of forfeited 
 
 lands of, 72. 
 Champannia, Chaumppayne : 
 Robert de, 36. 
 
 de, 76. 
 
 Chancellor, the. See Becket, Thomas ; 
 
 Stafford, John ; Walter, Hubert. 
 
 Chancery, Chonssry, reward to clerk of, 
 
 356. 
 Chantries : 
 
 admission of chaplain to, 99. 
 foundation, etc., of, 6, 65, 96, 97, 98. 
 surveys of, 284. 
 Chapel-en-le-Frith, Capella [oo. Derby], 
 275. 
 Malcolf in, 279. 
 Chaplain : 
 
 Agnes daughter of Ralph the, of 
 
 Sutton, marriage of, 49. 
 Elias the, 44. 
 Gilbert the, 11, 43. 
 Hugh the, 6. 
 
 John the, of Lowdham, grant to, 
 37, 38. 
 
 , , sale to, confirmed, 55. 
 
 Nigel the, 10. 
 
 Ralph the, 15, 22, 43, 49. 
 
 , of Sempringham, 14. 
 
 Richard the, 36. 
 
 Robert the, 5. 
 
 Roger the, of Willoughby, 29. 
 
 Sampson the, 52. 
 
 Stephen the, of Chesterfield, 10. 
 
 Thomas the, of Hahwrd, 59. 
 
 , of Sempringham, 13. 
 
 William the, son of Walter, 35. 
 Chapman, Chepman : 
 
 Edmund, payment to, 330. 
 John, marriage of, 378. 
 Charborough, Cereberge, Serdbege [in 
 Mordcn, co. Dorset], 12, 12». 
 WiUiam parson of, 59. 
 Charlemagne, Carlemainne, Karlemainne, 
 
 226, 228. 
 Charles II., letters patent of, 502. 
 
 tokens sent by, to Mohegan Indians, 
 195. 
 Charles V., emperor of Germany, pro- 
 phecy of bu'th of, 266. 
 Charles VIII., of Prance, arrangements for 
 marriage of to Elizabeth daughter 
 of Edward IV., 259. 
 in aUlanco with Milan, 261. 
 marriage of, to the duchess of Brit- 
 tany, 260, 612. 
 prophecies concerning, 263. 
 Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, 
 
 prophecies concerning, 263. 
 Charminster, co. Dorset, Wolvetonin, 124, 
 See also Herriugstou. 
 
651 
 
 Chartiilary for use as brown paper, 198. 
 Chanin : 
 
 Gwyschard de, knight, grant to, 75. 
 Isabel wife of Gwyschard de, grant 
 to, 75. 
 Charwelton, co. Northampton, deeds 
 
 relating to, 625. 
 Chastre, John de, bailiff of Xottingham, 
 
 99. Cf. C'hcstre. 
 Chatsworth, Chattsworthe fco. Derby] : 
 letters dated at, 155, IGl. 
 payment to horse keepers of, 445. 
 Chandos, dtike of. See Brydges. 
 Chaumflor, Chaumflour, Eleanor de, 
 executrix of the Wl of Henry de 
 Grey, 86. 
 legacy to, 85. 
 Chaumppayne. See Champania. 
 Chauton, WUUam de, 57. 
 Chaworth : 
 
 Elizabeth, legacies to, 113. 
 Sir George, at WoUaton, 458. 
 [Su- George ?], at WoUaton, 462. 
 Sir Thomas, legacy to, 113. 
 William, legacy to, 112. 
 Cf. Cheworth. 
 Chaworth of Wiverton, arms of, 237-238. 
 Cheadle, Chedell [co. Stafford] : 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 minister's account of, 298. 
 Cheal, Cheylehalle [in Gosberton, co. 
 Lincoln], minister's account of, 
 298. 
 Cheddlngstone. See Chiddingstone. 
 Cheddleton, Chetilton (?), Chetulton [co. 
 Stafford] : 
 court rolls of, 286, 292, 293, 305. 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 Chedell. See Cheadle. 
 Chedingston, Chedyngstone, Chedyngton. 
 
 See Chiddingstone. 
 CheiUesmore. See Cheylesmore. 
 Cheleram, Thomas, indulgence granted 
 
 to, 137. 
 Chelfdon. See Cauldon. 
 Chelforde. See Sheltord. 
 Chelmorton, Cheyhnardon [co. Derby], 
 
 275, 278. 
 Chepman. See Chapman. 
 Cherleton : 
 
 Ha wis, wife of John de, grant to, 95. 
 Sir John de, lord of Powis, Powys, 
 grant to, 95. 
 Chemok, William de, assaulted, 281. 
 Chertsey, C'erteseyc [co. Surrey] : 
 deed dated at, 91. 
 John abbot of, 91. 
 
 prior of, 91. 
 
 Cheseman, Robert, of Eltham, demise 
 
 to, 110. 
 Chessel, Chesthill [in Shalfleet], Isle of 
 
 Wight, manor of, 124. 
 Chester, Chestur, West Chestre, 373. 
 archdeacon of. See Beddeswcll, 
 
 R. de. 
 bishop of. See Coventry, bishop of. 
 church of, affairs of, at the papal 
 court, 261, 612. 
 
 Chester — cont, 
 
 constable of. See Lacy, John de. 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 deputy of the mayor of the staple 
 at, 266. 
 
 , mayor of Chester to act as, 
 
 617. 
 steward of. See Mohaut, Robert de. 
 CTiesterfeeld. See Chesterfield. 
 Chesterfeld, Chestiirfeld, Master Thomas, 
 consistory of the bishop of Coven- 
 try and Lichfield, 248, 249. 
 Chesterfield, Cesterfeld, Chesterfeeld, 
 Chesterfeld, Chestrefeld [co. Der- 
 by], 274, 446. 
 fair, cattle bought at, 393. 
 men beaten at, 278. 
 presentments by jurors of, 273, 274, 
 
 280. 
 Stephen the chaplain of, 10. 
 Chesthill. See Chessel. 
 Chestre, Simon de, bailiff of Derby, 
 amerced, 282. 
 Cf. Chastre. 
 Chestrefeld. See Chesterfield. 
 Chestur. See Chester. 
 Chesturfeld. See Chesterfeld. 
 Chetelton, William de, knight, indicted, 
 
 274-276, 278, 281. 
 ChetUton, Chetulton. See Cheddleton. 
 Chevening, Cheving [co. Kent] : 
 bequest of land in, 150. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 Cheworth, John de, indicted, 276. 
 
 Cf. Chaworth. 
 Cheylehalle. See Cheal. 
 Cheylesmore, CheUlesmore [near Coven- 
 try, CO. Warwick], manor of, 98. 
 Cheylmardon. See Chelmorton. 
 Cheylmardon, Thomas de, chaplain, 
 
 indicted, 275. 
 Cheyne, Sir William, chief justice of the 
 King's Bench, 298. 
 Joan his wife, wUl of, 104-106. 
 Chichester, Cicestre [co. Sussex], bequest 
 
 to church of, 617. 
 Chickercll, Chikerell, co. Dorset, 97. 
 ChickereU, West, ^\■est<;hekereU, A\'est- 
 chykerel], co. Dorset : 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 ministers' accounts of, 296, 298, 
 
 299, 301, 306, 307. 
 Putton in, 298, 299, 301, 307. 
 Chiddingstone, Cbeddingstone, Cheding- 
 ston, Chedyngstone, Chedyng- 
 ton, Chidingstone, Chydyngston, 
 Cheddlngstone Burghersh, Burg- 
 hersshe [co. Kent], 150. 
 bequest of lands in, 150. 
 chapel of, burials in, 150. 
 
 , repaii' of, 330. 
 
 court rolls of, 300, 320. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 inventory of goods at, 466-473. 
 minister's account of, 310. 
 rentals of, 304, 305. 
 Bore Place in. See Bore Place. 
 Milbrook in, 329, 625. 
 
652 
 
 Chikerell. See ChickereU. 
 Childecoumbe [Chilcombe, co. Dorset] : 
 John son of Mary de, grant to, 93. 
 Mary de, grant by, 93. 
 Child Okeford, Childeokeforde, co. Dor- 
 set, manor of, 124. 
 Chilwell, Chilwellia, Chillwell, Chylywell, 
 CO. Notts, 63, 87, 179, 418, 453. 
 deeds relating to, 826. 
 Chinee, Hugh, of Beeston, 63. 
 Chingford, co. Essex, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Chirintun, William de, 36. 
 Chniweton. See Kniveton. 
 Chobeham, Hendric de, 36. 
 
 Cf. Cobham. 
 Cholle, William, 59. 
 Chonssry. See Chancery. 
 Chowche. See Zouche. 
 Church : 
 
 charter written in, 16. 
 sluggishness at, 165. 
 Church goods, inventories of, 468, 471, 
 
 474-475, 477, 478, 523. 
 Church Lawton, co. Chester, Lawton 
 
 Gate in, 426, 427. 
 Church service, purchase of, 400, 406. 
 Churchyard, demise to vicar of buildings, 
 
 etc. in, 82. 
 Chydyngston. See Chiddingstone. 
 ChyUweU. See Chilwell. 
 Chyngleton, payment of expenses of, 378. 
 Cicero, works of, bought, 411. 
 Cicestre. See Chichester. 
 Cille, witness, 200. 
 Cimiterio, Hugh in, 57. 
 Cippenham [in Burnham, co. Bucks], 
 
 rental of, 297. 
 Cirecestria, Robert de, 30. 
 Cissor. See Taylor. 
 
 Citeaux [Burgundy, Cdte-d'Or], John, 
 
 abbot of, grant of prayers by, 124. 
 
 Clappinsalc, William, 77. 
 
 Clare, Richard de, earl of Gloucester and 
 
 Hertford : 
 
 promise of, to support Edward [1], 
 
 the king's son, 67-69. 
 seal of, 69. 
 Clarel, John, canon of Lichfield, receiver 
 
 of outlaws, 275, 277. 
 Clarke : 
 
 Peter, alderman of Nottingham, 
 
 certificate signed by, 498. 
 teacher of virginals, 407. 
 Cf. Clerk. 
 CJaudian Z)e ieapfu Prosei'pincB, 219-220. 
 ClauiU'. See Claville. 
 Claverdon, co. Warwick, Songar Grange 
 
 in, 97. 
 Claville, Clauill' : 
 
 Amice daughter of William de, 
 
 marriage of, 58, 59. 
 Cecily wife of William de, 58. 
 Philip de, 59. 
 Robert de, 59. 
 Walter de, grant by, 270. 
 William de, 38, 38n. 
 , grant by, 58. 
 
 Clay, the Cley [division of Basaetlaw 
 wapentake, co. Notts], disaffores- 
 tation of, 241, 246. 
 Claybrooke [co.Warwick],Wibtoft in,255. 
 Cleasby, Cleseby [co. York] : 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 minister's account of, 307. 
 Clerk : 
 
 Adam the, 17. 
 
 Alan son of Maurice the, of Lutton, 
 
 14. 
 Eustace the, 27. 
 Geoffrey the, 44. 
 
 , of Garton, 61. 
 
 Geoffrey stepson of Elias the, grant 
 
 to, 58. 
 Gilbert the", of Sempringham, 13. 
 Henry the, 17, 28, 53. 
 
 , of Aston, 16. 
 
 , of HucknaU, 40, 42. 
 
 Hugh the, 79. 
 
 Ivetta daughter of Henry le, suit of, 
 
 281. 
 John the, of Kimberley, 42. 
 Nicholas the, 17. 
 
 ■ , of Marnham, grants to, 10. 
 
 Peter the, 36. 
 Ralph the, 59, 87. 
 
 , of Sempringham, 13. 
 
 Ranulph the, 2. 
 Richard the, 27. 
 
 , de Botshal, 6. 
 
 Robert the, 17, 19, 53. 
 
 brother of Nicholas the, of 
 
 Marnham, 11. 
 
 , of Clifton, 11. 
 
 Roger the, 29. 
 
 , of Beeston, 63. 
 
 Serlo the, 34. 
 
 \^arin the, grandson of Eustace son 
 
 of John, 2n, 4. 
 William the, 6, 83. 
 
 , de Cothingeham, 6. 
 
 , grandson of Ansketil de Ridalo, 
 
 2. 
 
 ■ , of Riugstone, 76. 
 
 William son of Walter le, of Mark- 
 
 eaton, chaplain, 278. 
 Cf. Clarke. 
 Cleseby. See Cleasby. 
 Cleseby, Harstulph {sic) of, grant to, 244. 
 Clevilla [? in Pickwell, co. Leicester], 
 
 grant of land in, 35. 
 Cley. See Clay. 
 Cleyden : 
 
 Brother Robert, precentor of Burton, 
 249, 250, 251. 
 
 , , scrutineer at election 
 
 of abbot, 248. 
 
 , proctor to present the abbot 
 
 elect to the bishop, 252. 
 Client, Henry the, of Plumtree, 18. 
 Cliff, Clyt [in Kingsbury, co. Warwick] : 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 rental of, 305. 
 Clifford : 
 
 Frances wife of Henry, earl of Cum- 
 berland, 519. 
 
653 
 
 Clifford — coni. 
 
 Bobert, justice of the forest north 
 
 of Trent, 242. 
 Eoger de, 71, 72. 
 , friend and ally of Edward [I], 
 
 the king's son, 68. 
 Clifton Campville [co. Stafford], Har- 
 
 lastou in, 254. 
 Clifton, South, co. Notts, 437. 
 court rolls of, 300. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 minister's account of, 317. 
 Clifton with Glapton, co. Notts : 
 House and gardens, 565. 
 manor of, 123, 437. 
 Clifton, Cliftun, Clyfton, Clyftun, 
 
 Clyftwn, Klyfton : 
 Geoffrey de, 28. 
 Gervase de, 28, 28n. 
 
 , Nicholas his brother, 28. 
 
 Gervase the parson of, 27?i. 
 
 , Maud his daughter, grant to, 
 
 27. 
 Sir Gervase, knight (1), inquisition 
 
 post mortem, 123. 
 , Isabel (de Jernyngham) his 
 
 daughter, chancery suit of, 283. 
 
 , Robert his son, clerk, 123. 
 
 Sir Gervase,k[iight (2),186n,429, 565. 
 
 , at Thurland House, 455. 
 
 , at Wollaton, 456. 
 
 , certificate signed by, 498. 
 
 * , order issued by, 152. 
 
 , rewards to servants of, 418, 
 
 420, 431, 445. 
 
 , Lady CUfton, his wife, 456. 
 
 Isabel (WiJloughby) daughter of Sir 
 
 Gervase, 505. 
 Nigel de, 11. 
 Richard de, 11. 
 
 of, trees sold to, 242. 
 
 Robert the clerk of, 11. 
 
 WUliam, payments to, 330, 332, 345, 
 
 350. 
 
 , wages of, 371. 
 
 , 385. 
 
 wedding of, 376. 
 
 Clifton, arms of family of, 505. 
 Clinton, Clynton, 309 : 
 
 Anne, lady Clinton and Say, grant 
 
 of fraternity to, 121. 
 
 , marriage of, 121. 
 
 Edward, lord, lord admiral, 530. 
 
 , , earl of Lincoln, 557. 
 
 , son of Sir John, 304. 
 
 John de, 465. 
 — — , knight, 78. 
 
 , , rental of lands of, 304. 
 
 Richard, son of Sir John, 304. 
 Thomas son of Sir John, 304. 
 
 , knight, 304. 
 
 WiUiam de, 91. 
 Clipstone, Clypstone [co. Notts], 242. 
 complaint by men of, 245. 
 lordship of, outside the park, 
 
 boundaries of, 241. 
 Park, boundaxies of, 241. 
 works at, 20n, 33n, 34n. 
 
 Clivc, Cliuo, Robert de, 21, 49. 
 Clopton [near Crowneast by Worcester ?], 
 CO. Worcester, deeds relating to, 
 627. 
 Clowbeck, Clowbek [co. York], minister's 
 
 account of, 307. 
 Clown, Clune [co. Derby], bequest of 
 
 land at, 255. 
 Cludde, T., servant of Sir Francis 
 Willoughby, 547. 
 cousin of Mr. Pisher, 575, 576. 
 in charge of his master's household, 
 
 548, 560. 
 plots of, 561, 563, 577, 586. 
 Clumber wood, co. Notts, boundaries of, 
 
 241. 
 Clune. See Clown. 
 Clyf. See CUfi. 
 
 Clyfton, Clyftun, Clyftwn. See Clif- 
 ton. 
 Clynton. See Clinton. 
 Clypstone. See Clipstone. 
 Cnoltune. See Knowlton. 
 Coal : 
 
 accounts, etc., relating to, 307-309, 
 311, 314-316, 320, 322, 323, 492- 
 497, 523. 
 agreement as to carriage of, 172— 
 
 173. 
 charges for removal of, 183. 
 damp, prevention of, 192-193. 
 mines, 162, 182. 
 
 , agreements relating to, 148- 
 
 149. 
 
 , demises of, 88, 100, 173. 
 
 , excepted from grant, 87. 
 
 , hammers for, 484. 
 
 , in Scotland, 184. 
 
 , Umitiation on royal power of 
 
 granting, 502. 
 
 , produce of, 168. 
 
 , profits of, charged with legacy, 
 
 121. 
 , provisions in wills for main- 
 tenance of, 123, 149. 
 
 , pumping machines for, 173- 
 
 175, 398. 
 
 , rules to be observed in, 169- 
 
 170. 
 
 , technical terms in connection 
 
 with, 88, 163, 169-170. 
 
 , valuation of, 182. 
 
 proposals for carriage of, for use of 
 king, 171-172. 
 
 for sale of, 175-177. 
 
 Coate, Cotes, co. Wilts, manor of, 124. 
 Cobham, lord. See Brooke, William. 
 Cobham, Reginald de, admiral, 96, 
 
 Cf. Chobeham. 
 Cochett. See Cothett. 
 Cocken, Cockin, Sir Thomas, attempt 
 of, to reconcile Sir Francis and 
 lady WUloughby, 543. 
 Cockwell : 
 
 Emma wife of Ralph de, 97. 
 Ralph de, of Nottingham, 96, 
 Coddenor. See Codnor. 
 Codderston. See Cotherstone. 
 
654 
 
 Coddeswffillan, Codeswsel [oo. Gloucester 
 or Worcester], grants of laud at, 
 201, 202, 202»i, 207-208. 
 Coddlngton, co. Notts. See Cotlnton. 
 Codenore, Codenover, Codeiiovere,Coden- 
 
 ovre. See Codnor. 
 Codgrave. See Cotgrave. 
 Codnor, Coddenor, Codenore, Codenover, 
 Codenovere, Codenovre, Codner, 
 CO. Derby, 508. 
 household account of, 323-327. 
 iron works at, 496, 497. 
 lord of. See Grey of Codnor, Henry 
 de. 
 Coenulf, Coenwulf. See Cenulf. 
 Cogham [? Oongham, co. Norfolk], 
 
 Austin de, 35. 
 Coke, Sir Francis, marriage of daughter 
 of, to Dr. Percival Willoughby, 
 610. 
 Thomas, legacy to, 102. 
 C/. Cook. 
 Cokes. See Cokkes. 
 Coket, Geoffrey, 78. 
 Cokfeld, John de, knight, 96. 
 Cokkes, Cokes, Cokys : 
 
 reward to, for bringing letters, 367. 
 Thom.as, payment of expenses of, 
 
 384. 
 William, payment to, 338. 
 Colbrook. See Oolebrooke. 
 Colchester, Colencestre [co. Essex] : 
 mentioned in fabliau, 232. 
 St. Giles' church, burial in, 111. 
 St. John's abbey, will made in, 111. 
 Colchester [North America, Connecticut], 
 
 land given to, 195. 
 Cold -Eaton, Colde Etton [in Alsop-le 
 Dale, CO. Derby], minister's ac- 
 count of, 309. 
 Cole, John, of Wodyl, 213. 
 
 C/. CoUe. 
 Colearton. See Cole Orton. 
 Colebrooke, Colbrok [co. Devon], court 
 
 rolls of, 308. 
 Coleby : 
 
 Dorothy (Willoughby) daughter 
 of Thomas, of Gray's Inn, 574. 
 See also Willoughby. 
 Thomas, 580. 
 Colemore, co, Hants, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Colencestre. See Colchester. 
 Cole Orton, Colearton, Coleorton, Col- 
 lorton, Overton [co. Leicester], 
 428, 430, 434, 547. 
 account of coal at, 495. 
 manor of, 109. 
 
 Sir John Willoughby at, 550. 
 Coleshill, CoUeshuU, ColshuU [co. War- 
 wick], 381. 
 church of, burial in, 131. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 road from Tamworth to, 80. 
 saddler of, payment to, 373. 
 Kingshurst Hall in, 364. 
 Colet, John, reeve of Middleton, 288. 
 Colevill, Richard de, 25. 
 
 Colewic [Colwick co. Notts] : 
 
 Gerbod brother of Richard de, 28. 
 Philip son of Reginald de, 28«. 
 Reginald de, 28, 28n. 
 Richard de, 28. 
 
 William brother of Richard de, 28. 
 Colier, Colyer, Collyer : 
 
 Agnes wife of John, 98. 
 John, 98. 
 
 , of Linby, grant of waste of 
 
 forest to, 245. 
 John le, of Nottingham, chantry 
 founded by, 96. 
 
 , . , licence to alienate to, 
 
 89. 
 Ralph, bailiff of Nottingham, 97, 626. 
 Richard, 99. 
 
 le, 99. 
 
 Robert le, indicted, 279. 
 Roger, payments to, 426, 429, 443, 
 448. 
 
 , wages of, 440, 449, 542. 
 
 William, 99. 
 Colingham [CoUingham, co. Notts], Wal- 
 ter de, 5. 
 CoUe, Peter, 65. 
 
 Cf. Cole. 
 CoUeshull. See Coleshill. 
 CoUiers, rewards to, 336, 339. 
 CoUingham, co. Notts. See Colingham. 
 CoUorton. See Cole Orton. 
 Collwyck. See Colwick. 
 Colly, Philip, of West Retford, dis'-. 
 
 claimer of arms of, 179. 
 Collyer. See Colier. 
 Colmor : 
 
 Mr., of Leicester, at WoUaton, 
 
 462, 463. 
 young Mr., at WoUaton, 462. 
 Cologne, bishop of, prophecy concerning, 
 
 264. 
 Colomores, 210. 
 Colpyt Book, the, 197. 
 ColshaUe. See Oossall. 
 ColshuU. See ColeshiU. 
 Colston Basset [co. Notts], court roU of, 
 
 288. 
 Colwallys, co. Dorset, manor of, 124. 
 Colwick, CoUvryck, Colwyck, co. Notts, 
 423, 432. 
 John rector of, dean of Nottingham, 
 
 281. 
 See Colewic. 
 Colyer. See Colier. 
 
 Combar, Brother John, monk of Bur- 
 ton, 250-252. 
 Combe Deverel, DevereUescombe, co. 
 
 Dorset, manor of, 124. 
 Combe-Martin, WUliam de, alderman of 
 
 London, 87. 
 Comberford. See Cumberforth. 
 Common fields, agreement for regulation 
 
 of, 106-109. 
 ComposteUa, Santiago de, St. James 
 [Spain], church of, 134, 137. 
 pUgrimage to, 133. 
 Compton, Cumtuue [co. Worcester], 
 demise of land at Mersc in, 211-212. 
 
655 
 
 Compton Abbas, West Cumton [co. 
 
 Dorset], legacy to church of, 83. 
 
 Compton, William, abstract of letters 
 
 from, 515. 
 Comyn, Walter, indicted, 277. 
 
 Cf. Cumin. 
 Conains, character in poem, 223. 
 Congham, co. Norfolk. See Cogham ? 
 Coningesby, Conyngesby t 
 John de, 97. 
 Boger de, 79, 80, 86. 
 Coningsby, Conyngesby [co. Lincoln], 
 
 240. 
 Conisborough, Consburghe [co. York], 
 bequest of fishery and land at, 
 255. 
 Connecticut, America, 195. 
 Conrados, Francis, teacher of Italian 
 to Sir Percival WiUoughby, 560. 
 abstract of letter from, 561. 
 conspiracy of, against his master, 
 561, 562, 563, 595. 
 Consburghe. See Conisborough. 
 Constable : 
 
 Sir Marmaduke, 395. 
 Sir Bobert, 455. 
 Constantinople, Costantine the nobull', 
 prophecy concerning capture of, 
 263, 266. 
 Conterbayry. See Canterbury. 
 Contorn [ ? Coundon, co. Warwick], Wil- 
 liam de, clerk, 9. 
 Contwrbayry. See Canterbury. 
 Conway, Conuay : 
 
 Edward lord, retreat of, 194. 
 Sir John, reference to letter to, 579. 
 Conygesdich, co. Dorset, deeds relating 
 
 to, 624. 
 Conyngesby. See Coningesby, Coningsby 
 Cook, cociis, coxus : 
 
 Henry the, assaulted, 281. 
 
 James, wages of, 440, 450, 542. 
 
 Balph the, 58. 
 
 Eichard the, 18. 
 
 Bobert, ale drunk at house of, 391. 
 
 , payment to wife of, 388. 
 
 Serlo son of Richard the, the cook. 
 
 of Lenton priory, giant to, 64. 
 Simon the, 77. 
 Thomas the, legacy to, 84. 
 William, LL.D., dean of Shoreham, 
 
 divorce decreed by, 150. 
 Cf. Coke. 
 Cooke, H. T., printer, of Warwick, 609. 
 Coomes, Sir John, of Davcntry, marriage 
 
 of his sister, 605. 
 Cooper, Mr., payment to, for wine, 423. 
 
 Cf. Couper, Cowper, Cupper. 
 Coote, WiUiam, of Coningsby, legis 
 
 peritus, 240. 
 Coper's Cove, Nevrfoundland, 284. 
 Corbet, William, of Tasley, indicted, 277. 
 Corbett : 
 
 Mr., of Saffron Walden, payment to, 
 
 411. 
 Mrs., payment to, 412. 
 Corbridge, Corbrigg, co. Northumberland, 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 
 Corby [co. Lincoln], minister's account 
 
 of, 298. 
 Cordier, Mathurin, De corrupii sermonis 
 
 emendaiione, 412, 412n. 
 Corfe, Corf [co. Dorset], constable of. 
 
 See Nicholas, Henry son of. 
 Corfe : 
 
 Eleanor wife of Bobert, agreement 
 
 by, 130. 
 Bobert son of Thomas, agreement 
 
 by, 130. 
 Thomas, of Wood Bevington, agree- 
 ment by, 130. 
 Corner, William le, 40, 40n. 
 Cornhulle : 
 
 Beginald de, sheriff of Kent, 36. 
 Bobert de, sheriff of London, 74. 
 Cornish wrestler, reward to, 442. 
 Cornishmen, payments to, 440, 445. 
 Cornvalle, Master Heldris de, poem of, 
 
 224-225. 
 Cornwall, earl of. See Dunstanvill, 
 
 Beginald de. 
 Corp, Simon, sheriff of London, 87. 
 Corson, John, of Nottingham, payments 
 
 to, 427, 437. 
 Cort : 
 
 Englebert le, of Walecort, character 
 
 in a, fabliau, 228. 
 Thomas, of Edensor, 279. 
 Cortlingstock, Cortlyngstok. See Cos- 
 took. 
 Cortnaye. See Courtney. 
 Cortsey, Cortysley, Courtysley [co. 
 Sussex], ministers' accounts of, 
 307-309. 
 Coscale, Coshale. See Cossale. 
 Coshingtnn, Cosington. See Cossington. 
 Cossal, ColshaUe, Cossall, Cossell, Coss- 
 hale, Cozale [co. Notts], 75, 76, 
 100, 152, 179, 331, 377, 387, 
 504. 
 church of, advowson of, 87. 
 coal mine in, account of, 323, 
 
 , demise of, 88. 
 
 , excepted from grant, 87. 
 
 , workings abandoned in, 163. 
 
 deed dated at, 88. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 iron mine in, 75. 
 land in, chartulary of, 197. 
 
 , grants of 42, 75. 
 
 , purchase of, 531. 
 
 lord of. See A^'illoughby (E). 
 manor of, court roll of, 290. 
 
 , fine of, 531. 
 
 , grant of, 87. 
 
 , ministers' accounts of, 296, 
 
 307-309, 311, 314-316. 
 payment 1;o baker of, 333. 
 
 to barber of, 350. 
 
 places named in, 75, 87. 
 
 rental of, 323. 
 
 secured to Sir Percival WiUoughby, 
 
 571, 573, 581. 
 soldiers of, 341. 
 tenants of, at Wollaton, 463, 
 wives of, at Wojlatop, 462. 
 
656 
 
 Cossale, Coscale, Coshale, Cozale [Cossal, 
 CO. Notts] : 
 Adam de, 83, 87. 
 
 son of Robert de, grant by, 
 
 75. 
 Henry son of Perot de, grant to, 75. 
 Hugh son of Thomas de, grant by, 
 42. 
 
 , seal of, 42. 
 
 Robert son of Adam de, 87. 
 Cossington, Coshington, Coslngton, Cos- 
 yngton, co. Leicester, 340, 346. 
 chartulary of lands in, 196. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 manor of, 123. 
 
 , court rolls of, 291, 318, 
 
 319. 
 
 , ministers' accounts of, 296, 
 
 308, 311, 314. 
 plan of, 150. 
 Costantine the nobuU.' See Constan- 
 tinople. 
 Coste, William son of, 34n, 40, 40n. 
 Coste's chamber at Wollaton Hall, the 
 
 sick folks' chamber, 480. 
 Costock, Oortlingstock, Cortlyngstok [co. 
 Notts] : 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 parson of, money extorted from, 
 280. 
 Cosyn, Brother William, preceptor of 
 
 Standon, 86. 
 Cosyngton. See Cossington. 
 Cotegrave, Matilda de, of Nottingham, 
 
 beaten and maimed, 282. 
 Cotel, Richard, of Chesterfield, death of, 
 
 274. 
 Coterel : 
 
 Adam servant of James, 274, 277, 
 
 278. 
 James, indicted for ofiences in cos. 
 Derby and Notts, 272-280. 
 
 , outlawed, 282. 
 
 John brother of James, indicted for 
 offences in cos. Derby and Notts, 
 272-274, 276-278, 280. 
 Laurence, death of, 273. 
 Nicholas brother of James, indicted 
 for offences in cos. Derby and 
 Notts, 272-274, 276-280. 
 Walter servant of James, 272-274, 
 276-278. 
 Coteringham. See Cottingham. 
 Cotes [CO. Leicester], grant of land in, 
 72. 
 See Coate. 
 Cotesbache, Walter de, indicted, 276. 
 Cotewalton. See CotwaJton. 
 Cotgrave, Codgrave [co. Notts] : 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 limestone at, 427. 
 Cotham [co. Notts], 505. 
 Cotherstone, Codderston [in RomaldKirk], 
 CO. York : 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 minister's account of, 307. 
 Cothestoohe [Ootterstock, co. Northants], 
 Geoffrey de, 13. 
 
 Cothett, Cochett : 
 
 Nicholas, maker of song book, 383. 
 [t Nicholas], payment to wife of, 
 390. 
 Cothingeham, Cotingham. See Cotting- 
 ham. 
 Cotinton [Coddington, co. Notts], Richard 
 
 de, 11. 
 Coton [in Hanbury ?], co. Stafford, deeds 
 
 relating to, 627. 
 Cottam, Cottom, John, depositions of, 
 
 164. 
 Ootterstock, co. Northants. See Cothe- 
 
 stoche. 
 Cottingham, Coteringham, Cothingeham, 
 Cotingham, Cotyngeham [co. 
 York], 6. 
 grant of market in, 37, 271. 
 licence to enclose and fortify bouse 
 at, 51, 271. 
 Cottom. See Cottam. 
 Cotton, Sir Robert, MSS. of, 198. 
 Cotwalton, Cotewalton [in Stone, co. 
 Stafford], bequest of land in, to 
 Burton abbey, 256. 
 Cotyngeham. See Cottingham. 
 Coudray, Sir Thomas de, knight, 91. 
 Coumb, Walter de, 91. 
 Council, the king's, 512. 
 
 complaints to, 142, 144. 
 petition to lords of the, 499. 
 Coundon, co. Warwick. See Contorn 1 
 Couper : 
 
 Thomas le, 87. 
 
 William le, of Stainsby, indicted, 
 
 281. 
 Cf. Cooper, Cowper, Cupper. 
 Court, expenses at, 355-356. 
 Courtney, Cortnaye, Courtenay, Cowert- 
 naye, Cowertney : 
 Henry, marquis of Exeter, reward 
 to servant of, 386. 
 
 , Elizabeth (Grey) his wife, 509. 
 
 Thomas, payment to, for making 
 horse-shoes, 435. 
 
 , , for making ironwork, 
 
 431. 
 
 , , for trimming teeth, 
 
 447. 
 Courtysley. See Cortsey. 
 Coventry, Coventre, Cowentre [co. War- 
 wick], 98, 123, 334, 338, 345, 351, 
 360, 366, 376, 389, 428, 545, 548, 
 560. 
 bishop of, of Chester, of Coventry 
 and Lichfield. See Arundel, John ; 
 Blythe, Geoffrey ; Durdent, Wal- 
 ter ; Heiworth, William ; Lange- 
 ton, Walter de ; Longespee, Roger 
 de ; Northburgh, Roger de ; 
 Pech^, Richard, 
 commission at, 378. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 documents dated at, 128. 
 friars of, 332, 343, 357, 365, 382. 
 gloves of, 4. 
 
 governor and mayor of, abstract of 
 letter from, 616. 
 
657 
 
 CoTentry — coni. 
 
 house of Sir P. Willonghby at, orders 
 
 observed in, 547-648. 
 mayor and aJdermen of, 548, 549. 
 priory, fee-farm of, 98. 
 riot at, 141, 141»t, 514. 
 sheriffs of, standing cup of. 111. 
 Covetousnesa, 167. 
 Cowden [co. Kent] : 
 
 bequest of land in, 150. 
 cattle bought at fair of, 329. 
 Cowentre. See Coventry. 
 Cowertnaye, Cowertney. See Courtney. 
 Cowgrove [parish of Wimborne Minster, 
 CO. Dorset], minister's account of, 
 302. 
 Cowhurd, Alice, legacy to, 104. 
 Cowmberford. See Cumberforth. 
 Cowper : 
 
 of Nottingham, wine bought 
 
 of, 428. 
 John, reeve of Middeton, 291. 
 Ralph, 168. 
 
 William, chaplain, obit of, 236. 
 Cf. Cooper, Couper, Cupper. 
 Cowttes, Mr., herons from, 384. 
 Coxus. See Cook. 
 Cozale. See Cosal, Cossale. 
 Crampton, payments to, 351, 360. 
 Cranborne, co. Dorset, deeds relating to, 
 
 624. 
 Cranbrook, Cravenbroke, co. Kent, letters 
 
 close dated at, 243. 
 Crandale Alard de, 2. 
 Cranewell, Isley, abstract of letter from, 
 
 574. 
 Cravenbroke. See Cranbrook. 
 Cray. See Foot's Cray. 
 Creme, Mr., to find treble lutes, 536. 
 Crepping, Gryppyng, Richard, justice in 
 eyre for pleas of the forest, 242, 
 245. 
 Cressi : 
 
 Cecily wife of Roger de, 28n. 
 Hugh brother of William de, 28. 
 Ralph de, 58. 
 Roger de, 28, 28m. 
 
 , brother of William de, 28. 
 
 William de, 28, 28n. 
 Crete, coming of Saturn from, 218. 
 Crevequer in Farlington, co. Hants, 
 deeds relating to manor of, 625. 
 Crindham, Brother Ralph de, knight 
 
 hospitaller, 38. 
 Crochesbi [Croxby, co. Lincoln], Ralph 
 
 de, 32. 
 Croel, John de, 6. 
 
 Cf. Crouill. 
 Orofte, Robert de, 76. 
 Croker, W., servant of Lord Lisle, 118. 
 Cromwell [co. Notts], 85. 
 Cromwell', CrumweU [co. Notts] : 
 Joan de, legacy to, 85. 
 Margaret de, legacy to, 85. 
 Ralph de, 8n. 
 Orophull. See Cropwell. 
 CrophuU : 
 
 Maud de, beaten, 282. 
 
 Orophull — conf, 
 
 Roger de, mayor of Nottingham, 
 
 626. 
 William eon of Roger de, bailifE of 
 Nottingham, 626. 
 Cropwell [co. Notts], manor of, 123. 
 ministers' accounts of, 311, 316. 
 Cropwell Bishop [co. Notts], court 
 roll of, 288. 
 
 , deeds relating to, 626. 
 
 Cropwell Butler, Boteler [co. Notts], 
 court roll of, 288. 
 
 , deeds relating to, 620. 
 
 Crosby, Mr., christening of child of, 338. 
 Cross : 
 
 legacy of, 85. 
 
 title board of the, found at Rome, 
 261. 
 Crossed Oak in Sherwood forest, co. 
 
 Notts, trees in, 242. 
 Croudere, Simon le, indicted, 274, 
 
 276. 
 Crouebyrihal, William de, chaplain, of 
 St. James' hospital, Tamworth, 
 grant to, 77, 78. 
 Crouill, Gerbod de, 63. 
 
 Cf. Croel. 
 Crowe, William, indicted, 275. 
 Crowenest. See Crowneast. 
 Crowland [co. Lincoln], 446. 
 Crowneast, Crowneat, Crowenest [in Bed- 
 wardine County in Worcester] : 
 court roUs of, 287. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 grant of chantry at, 65, 66. 
 inventory of cattle at, 466. " 
 
 Croxby, co. Lincoln. See Crochesbi. 
 Croxton, South, co. Leicester, deeds 
 
 relating to, 625. 
 Crucem, Geoffrey ad, de Thameworth, 
 
 78. 
 Cruddewrthie [Cur^worth near Kinga- 
 bury, CO. Warwick] : 
 Adam de, 49. 
 
 Robert brother of Adam de, 49. 
 CrumweU. See Cromwell'. 
 Crystal glaas, payment for, 407. 
 CudwulE. See Cuthwulf. 
 Cultivation, two-course system of, 44. 
 Cumberforth, Comberford, Cowmberford, 
 Cwmbwrford : 
 cousin of John WiUoughby, bequest 
 
 to, 136. 
 Mr., rewards to minstrel of, 335, 341. 
 
 — ^, to servant of, 373. 
 
 Cumberland, wardens of the Scottiah 
 marches in. See Berkeley, Thomas 
 de ; Lucy, Anthony de. 
 Cumberland, earl of. See Clifford. 
 Cumin, Richard, 65. 
 
 Cf. Comyn. 
 Cumton, West. See Compton Abbas. 
 Cumtune. See Compton. 
 Cunger, William le, 80, 81. 
 Cup, William, 611. 
 
 Cupper, Richard le, bailiff of Nottingham, 
 79, 79n. 
 Cf. Cooper, Couper, Cowper. 
 
 M 42 
 
658 
 
 Curdworth, oo. Warwick, deeds relating 
 to, 627. 
 See Cruddewrthie. 
 Curry, North, eo. Somerset, deeds relat' 
 
 ing to, 627. 
 Cursiin, Cursone, Owrssun : 
 
 Alice (Willoughby) wife of Richard 
 
 of Kedleston, 507-508. 
 Cecily, bequest to, 137. 
 Mary, sister of Cecily, bequest to, 
 
 137. 
 Bichard, 118, 120. 
 Mr., reward to servant of, 367. 
 Curtemajori, Master Simon de, prebend 
 ary of Woodborough, and canon 
 of Southwell, grant of emancipa 
 tion by, 93. 
 Cuthwulf, Cudwulf, bishop [of Hereford]! 
 
 209. 
 Cwmbwrford. See Cumberforth. 
 Cwrssun. See Cursun. 
 Cynefrith, Kinef erth,bishop [of Lichfield] 
 
 209. 
 Cynetheign, Cynethen, the clerk, 211 
 
 212. 
 Cyroneau, Francis, indulgence granted 
 
 to, 137. 
 Cytharista, Adam, 11. 
 
 D 
 
 Dabridgecourt, Dabrigecourt : 
 
 Joan {Willoughbv) daughter of Sir 
 
 John, 505. 
 John, knight, demise of mine by, 
 
 100. 
 arms, of, 505. 
 Dagun, Hugh, 53. 
 Daintry. See Daventry. 
 Dalby, Dawby [co. Leicester], 434. 
 Dalderby, John, bishop of Lincoln, pro- 
 bate before, 86. 
 Dale [CO. Derby], sale of wood at, 317. 
 Dale: 
 
 [James], 454. 
 James, payment to, 443. 
 Dalton, William, mayor of the staple of 
 
 metals, 614. 
 Danbm^y, Daningbir', co. Essex, deeds 
 
 relating to, 625. 
 Danby, co. York, deeds relating to, 627. 
 Danby, earl of. See Osborne, Peregrine. 
 Dancers, manners of, 165. 
 Dancing boy, payment to, 389. 
 Dand, Mr., 459. 
 Dane, Bichard, abstract of letter from, 
 
 515. 
 Danegeld, the, 1, 2. 
 Danet. See Dannett. 
 Daniel : 
 
 Adam, 64. 
 
 Nicholas, indicted, 275. 
 
 Dankester. See Doncaster. 
 Dannett, Danet : 
 John, 109. 
 
 Mary, cousin of George Medley, 410. 
 Darbe, Darby. See Derby. 
 Darcy, Darsye : 
 
 Abigail (Wood) lady, 608. 
 John, le neveu, keeper of the peace 
 and justice of oyer and terminer 
 in cos. Derby and Notts, proceed- 
 ings before, 272-282. 
 Thomas lord, expedition of, to Spain, 
 146. 
 Dards, Mrs. Elizabeth, daughter of 
 
 Thomas Willoughby, 608. 
 Darknolle. See Dartnall. 
 Darlaston, Thorlaston [near Stone, co. 
 
 Stafford], 256. 
 Darley, Derlegh [co. Derby], abbey of, 
 
 bequest to, 125. 
 Darlton, co. Notts, Kingshaugh in, 241. 
 
 See Derleton. 
 Darrel, John, exorcist, imposture prac- 
 tised upon, 165n, 166. 
 Darsye. See Darcy. 
 Dartford, Derteford, co. Kent, 110. 
 inquisition taken at, 283. 
 letter dated at, 162. 
 Dartnall, Darknolle, Mr., at Wollaton, 
 
 462, 463. 
 Dary in Alexander, predictions made at, 
 
 263. 
 Dathell. See AthoU. 
 Daukyns, Henry, bachelor in decretis, 
 proctor of the monks of Burton, 
 251. 
 Dauton, John, indulgence granted to, 
 
 137. 
 Daventry, Daintry, Davantry, Dayntre 
 
 [CO. Northants], 377, 555, 605. 
 David king of Scotland. See Bruce, 
 
 David de. 
 David, Amiot son of, a Jew of Notting- 
 ham, 62, 62n. 
 Davis, Dayvys, iUness at house of, 340. 
 Davy : 
 
 John, bailiff of Nottingham, 99. 
 
 , of Nottingham, 97. 
 
 Dawby. See Dalby. 
 Day, Daye : 
 
 Bichard, payment to, 380. 
 William, of Derby, clothier, 392. 
 Dayntre. See Daventry. 
 Dayvys. See Davis. 
 Deaf Tom, 169. 
 Dean {decaniis) : 
 Henry the, 2. 
 Boger the, 4, 
 
 , the, 15. 
 
 Dearing, Sir Henry, marriage of, 607, 
 
 Decby. See Digby. 
 
 Dedyk, John, bequests to, 112. 
 
 Cf. Dethyk. 
 Defender of the Faith, declension of 
 
 holders of title, 190. 
 Deincurt, de Aincurt : 
 John, 66. 
 Boger, 83. 
 
669 
 
 Delangley ; 
 
 Ann (Friend) wife of Mr., 606. 
 Jane, wife of Robert Friend, 606. 
 Delapole. See Pole. 
 Dembleby, co. Lincoln, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Demechyrclie. See Dymclmrch. 
 Demoniac possession, 164-166. 
 Denby, settlement of, 515. 
 Dene, Geoffrey de la, 37. 
 Deneberht, bishop of Worcester, grants 
 
 to, 203-206. 
 Denewalehay [in Repton, co. Derby], 
 
 outlaws received in, 277. 
 Denman, Dr. Thomas, book by, named, 
 
 608. 
 Denteth, Agnes, grant by, 100. 
 Derby, Darbe, Darby, Derbei, 392, 425, 
 427, 431, 610. 
 archdeacon of. See Muschamp, 
 
 William de. 
 bailiffs of. See Chestre, Simon de ; 
 
 Draper, Payn le. 
 document dated at, 121. 
 fair, 342, 352. 
 
 Friars Preachers, grant of fraternity 
 with, 121. 
 
 , prior of. See Jackson, Robert. 
 
 joiner of, 296. 
 
 lord. See Stanley. 
 
 medical practice of Dr. Percival 
 
 WiUoughby at, 610. 
 nuns of, reward to, 368. 
 players of, rewards to, 420, 450. 
 presentments by jurors of, 272-273, 
 
 277-278. 
 St. Werburgh's church, will proved 
 
 in, 125. 
 singers of, 440, 451. 
 the Frereyate in, 273. 
 Derby, county of : 
 
 presentments of juries of, 272-279. 
 staple for metals found in, 614. 
 Derby, Darby, Derbi, Derbia : 
 Astin son of Swain de, 40. 
 Peter son of William de, 45. 
 Robert, 105, 106. 
 
 , bequests to, 104. 
 
 , supervisor of will of William 
 
 Fillol, 104. 
 
 de, money extorted from, 
 
 282. 
 Swain de, 40. 
 William, wages of, 440, 450, 542. 
 
 Wetherby called, notary of 
 
 diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, 
 250. 
 
 marriage of, 396. 
 
 Derham, William, Philosophical Letters, 
 
 etc., of, 504. 
 Derlegh. See Darley. 
 Derleton [Darlton, co. Notts], Nicholas 
 
 de, sale confirmed by, 55. 
 Derleye, John, death of, 273. 
 Dernton, WiUiam, notary of the diocese 
 
 of Durham, 251. 
 Derteford. See Dartford. 
 Derworth, counsel, 247. 
 
 Despenser, Dispeneator : 
 
 Hugh le, justiciary of England, letter 
 of, ordering delivery of Dover 
 castle, 70, 71. 
 Thomas, 40n. 
 Walter, 34. 
 Dethyk, William, of Newhall, petition 
 of, 259. 
 Cf. Dedyk. 
 Deverellescombe. See Combe Deverel. 
 Devereux, Deveroux : 
 
 Walter, earl of Essex, reward to 
 players of, 446. 
 
 , lord Ferrers, at Middleton, 
 
 370. 
 
 — — , , reward to soldiers of, 
 
 348. 
 Sir William, knight, commissioner 
 for assessment, 284. 
 
 , knighted, 528. 
 
 Devis, Nurse, wages of, 449. 
 
 Devizes, co. Wilts, deeds relating to, 627. 
 
 Devres, Mr., 461. 
 
 Dewies Stow. See St. Davids. 
 
 Deyne, Edward, payment to, for sinking 
 
 coal-pit, 493. 
 D'Eyvill. See Eyvill. 
 Dibbene, Tibben, Robert, reeve and 
 
 bailiff of Middleton, 287, 288. 
 Dichelmestonj See Ditchampton. 
 Dick, Little, expenses of, paid, 410. 
 Dicons, payment to, in coal account, 
 
 493. 
 Digby, Decby, Dycby, Dygby : 
 Alice wife of Simon, 131. 
 Ewyrell, payment to servant of, 
 
 350. 
 Sir John, charge of, 193. 
 
 , writings of, 515. 
 
 Rowland, 181. 
 
 Simon, manorial records of, 308. 
 
 , of CO. Warwick, will of, 
 
 131. 
 Thomas, innocent of robbery at 
 
 Middleton, 516. 
 Master, delivery of ordnance to, 
 
 129-130. 
 Mr., 395. 
 
 , abstract of letter from, 516. 
 
 , obit of, 332. 
 
 , reward to nurse of, 334. 
 
 Mrs., card-playing at house of, 331. 
 Dilkes, son of Mr. Fisher, 575. 
 Dinant [Belgium], provost of. See 
 
 Guinant. 
 Dingley, Sir John, grant of office to, 515. 
 Dinningcgrafes [near Stoke Bishop, co. 
 
 Gloucester], 211. 
 Distefald, John, 43. 
 Ditchampton, Dichelmeston [co. Wilts], 
 
 grant of, 270. 
 Diva, Robert de, prior o£ the hospital 
 of St. John of Jerusalem in Eng- 
 land, grant by, 36, 37, 37n. 
 Cf. Dyve. 
 Divorce : 
 
 agreement as to, 120. 
 pronouncement of, 150. 
 
660 
 
 Dixmuyden [Flanders], death of lord 
 
 Morley at, 508. 
 Dobson, Mr., druggist, of Ireland, Eliza- 
 beth (Friend) his wife, 606. 
 Doctar, Mr., of the household at Wolla- 
 ton, 168. 
 his boy, 169. 
 Doddingps Berc, Doddyngbyre, Doding- 
 bery [in Bere Regis!, oo. Dorset : 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 ministers' accounts of, 296, 298, 299, 
 301, 306. 
 Doddyngseles, William, 97. 
 Dodington. See Duditona. 
 Dokelynton, co Hereford, deeds relating 
 to, 625. 
 CO. Worcester, deeds relating to, 627. 
 Doll. See Dooll. 
 
 Donaby, Downaby, Adlard, purser of 
 the George of Lynne, delivery 
 of ordnance by, 130. 
 Donatus, 214. 
 
 Doncaster, Dankester, Doncestere, 
 Downgcaster [co. York], bequest 
 of land at, 255. 
 men of Dorset led to, for suppres- 
 sion of Pilgrimage of Grace, 147. 
 Our Lady of, offering made at, 342. 
 Donecastria, Laurence de, 7. 
 Donington, Castle, Downyngton, Dun- 
 3Tigton park [co. Leicester] ? Dun- 
 ing park, letter dated at, 589. 
 reward to keepers of, 347, 359. 
 Donjon, Ralph de, canon of London, 
 prebendary of Islington, deed of 
 sale by, 73, 73«, 74. 
 Donnesby. See Dunsby. 
 Dooll, DoU, Richard, servant of Sir 
 Edward Willoughby, assault on, 
 145. 
 Dorchester, Dorchestre, Dorsetre, Dore- 
 eesiria [co. Dorset] : 
 chapter of, 12. 
 Friars Minors of, bequests to, 83, 
 
 101. 
 manor of, 124. 
 minister's account of, 319. 
 sessions at, 145. 
 Dorney [co. Bucks], rental of, 297. 
 Dornick, dornix. See Tournai. 
 Dorset : 
 
 archdeacon of, probate of will before, 
 
 84. 
 Richard archdeacon of, 12, 
 men led from, to Doncaster, for 
 suppression of Pilgrimage of 
 Grace, 147. 
 misdemeanours of Sir Giles Strang- 
 ways in, 142. 
 Dorset, marquis of. See Grey. 
 Dorset, Alexander de, 52, 52«. 
 Dorsetre. See Dorchester. 
 Doughtye, Doughtie, William, of West 
 HaUam, gift brought by wife of, 
 420. 
 payment by hands of, 433. 
 Douglas, William, sheriff of Teviotdale, 
 193. 
 
 Dover [co. Kent] ; 
 
 castle of, constable of. See Glaston', 
 Robert de. 
 
 , delivered to the bishop of 
 
 London, 71. 
 
 levies sent to, 160. 
 Dovy, Edward, assessment of, 194. 
 Dower, action for, 247. 
 Dowltun, payment of expenses of, 833. 
 Downaby. See Donaby. 
 Downgcaster. See Doncaster. 
 Downingsby. See Dunsby. 
 Downyngton. See Donington. 
 Downysby. See Dunsby. 
 Dracott. See Draycot. 
 Drake : 
 
 John, 607. 
 
 Richard, 607. 
 Drakegild, Walter, 30. 
 Draper : 
 
 John, legacy to, 104. 
 
 Payn le, bailiff of Derby, amerced, 
 282. 
 Draton, Dratton. See Drayton Basset. 
 Draycot, Dracott, Draycott, Dreacote, 
 Dreycott : 
 
 Henry, 546, 547, 577, 586. 
 
 , payment by, 446. 
 
 . to, 445. 
 
 , placed in charge of Sir P. 
 
 Willoughby's household, 548, 560. 
 
 Master, payment of annuity to, 317. 
 
 Mr., 396. 
 
 , books for, 365, 383. 
 
 , clothes for, 358, 385. 
 
 , payment to servant of, 429. 
 
 Mrs., 395. 
 
 , furniture of bed-chamber of, 
 
 478. 
 Drayton [co. Notts], court rolls of, 295, 
 
 297. 
 Drayton Basset, Draton, Dratton, Dray- 
 ton [CO. Stafford], 283, 345. 
 
 church, bread and wine, etc., for, 
 379. 
 
 park, alleged breach of, 115-117. 
 
 — - — , keepers of, 359. 
 
 , underkeeper of, 346. 
 
 Outewodes in, 115, 116. 
 
 Shirrall Hall in, 359. 
 
 Sir William, parish priest of, 379. 
 Drayton, Alice, legacy to, 104. 
 Dreacote. See Draycot. 
 Drew, Nicholas, 91. 
 Dreycott. See Draycot. 
 Drugs and medical remedies named : 
 
 Athanasia, 411, 411n. 
 
 Calamus aramaticus, 372, 372w. 
 
 diacodi, 450, 460m. 
 
 epitathony, 450, 450n. 
 
 lera Piara and Mayna, 406, 406w. 
 
 Mithredaium, 410, 410n. 
 
 penedyce, 436, 436«. 
 
 swoninge water, 447. 
 
 synope, 424, 424»!. 
 Drunkenness, 166. 
 
 Dubtach, Duptac, father of St. Brigit, 
 622-623. 
 
661 
 
 Duckmanton, Dukmanston [oo. Derby], 
 
 bequest of land in, 255. 
 Dndda, dux, 209. 
 Duddeleye. See Dudley. 
 Duditona [Dodinston (? in Gleobury 
 Mortimer, co. Salop)], Menon de, 
 51. 
 Dudley [co. Worcester],minister's account 
 
 of, 311. 
 Dudley, Duddeleye, Dwdlay : 
 
 Ambrose, earl of Warwick, 530. 
 Anne, countess of Warwick, 159, 
 
 534. 
 Edmund, esquire, councillor to the 
 
 king, supervisor of wills, 126. 
 Edward lord, 332, 525. 
 
 , abstracts of letters from, 514, 
 
 515. 
 
 , marriage of, 514. 
 
 , payment to minstrel of, 328. 
 
 , to servants of, 357, 373. 
 
 Elizabeth (Grey) wife of Edmund, 
 508. 
 
 , bequest by John Willoughby 
 
 to, 137. . 
 Guildford, marriage of, to Lady 
 
 Jane Grey, 518. 
 John lord, 122. 
 
 Robert, earl of Leicester, 153, 528, 
 553. 
 
 ■ , ,case of lady Willoughby 
 
 heard before, 551, 552. 
 
 ■ , , chajicellor of Oxford 
 
 University, 528n. 
 Dudsbury, Doddesbury, in West Parley, 
 CO. Dorset, deeds relating to, 624. 
 DufSeld, Dufieild, Dufield [co. Derby]: 
 grant of rent from mill in, 51. 
 iron works at, 496. 
 Duke's chamber, the, at Wollaton, 488. 
 Duket, Hugh, grant of forfeited lands 
 
 of, 72. 
 Dukmanston. See Duckmanton. 
 Dumbleton, Dumeltan, Dumelton [co. 
 Gloucester], bequest of land in, 
 255. 
 Dun, Dune, Dunne : 
 Avicia de, 31n. 
 John, 455. 
 
 , axes for, 434. 
 
 , wages of, 426, 439, 449, 542. 
 
 Dunchurch, Dunscherche [co. Warwick], 
 354. 
 Thurlaston in, 295, 304-306, 310- 
 312, 315, 317, 321, 322. 
 Dune. See Dun. 
 Dunesby. See Dunsby. 
 Dunesby, WiUiam de, indicted, 279, 280, 
 Dunham [co. Notts ]: 
 
 court roUs of, 291, 205, 297. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 Duning. See Dunnyng. 
 Duning park. See Donington ? 
 Dunmow [co. Essex], 400. 
 Dunne. See Dune. 
 Dunnesby, Duunysbye. See Dunsby. 
 Dunnyng, Duning : 
 land held by, 30. 
 
 Dunnyng — conl. 
 Isolda, 79. 
 Thomas, 79. 
 Dunsby, Donnesby, Downingsby, 
 Downysby, Dunesby, Dunnesby, 
 Dunnysbye [co. Lincoln], 101, 
 121, 123, 444, 454. 
 boon carriages from, 458. 
 court rolls of, 293, 297, 318. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 lord of. See Mortein j Willoughby 
 
 (I^). 
 manor of, fine of, 531. 
 ministers' accounts of, 295-297, 299, 
 307-308, 311. 
 Dunscherche. See Dunchurch. 
 Dunstable, DunstabwU [co. Beds], 332, 
 334, 377, 429, 447. 
 reward to friars of, 354. 
 Dunstanvill, Reginald de, earl of Corn- 
 wall, 3. 
 Dunston : 
 
 George, of Edwinstowe, disclaimer 
 
 of arms of, 179. 
 John de, of Walton, indicted, 
 277. 
 Dunyngton. See Donington. 
 Duport, Thomas, abstract of letter from, 
 
 550. 
 Duptac. See Dubtacb. 
 Durame. See Durham. 
 Durand, Roger sou of, 55. 
 Durdent, Walter, bishop of Coventry 
 and Lichfield, required to confirm 
 grant, 271. 
 Dureaume, William de, 74. 
 Durendai [sword of Roland], 226. 
 Durham, Durame, 225. 
 
 bishop of. See RowthaU, Thomas ; 
 
 Sherwood, John de. 
 diocese of, 251. 
 St. Cuthbert of, 221. 
 Durnford, co. Wilts, Normanton in, 
 
 124. 
 Dutchman of Nottingham, payment to, 
 
 for dyeing, 450. 
 Duttun, Adam de, 11, lln. 
 Duyn, Adam le, 91. 
 Dwdlay. See Dudley. 
 Dyall, Ralph, payment to, 383. 
 Dycby. See Digby. 
 Dyer, WiUiam, of Ooleshill, 381. 
 Dygby. See Digby. 
 
 Dymchui'ch, Demechyrche, co. Kent : 
 action concerning land in, 283. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 Dyn', Mr., at Wollaton, 462. 
 Dynmock, Mr., payment to musicians 
 
 to, 449. 
 Dynua, dux, 206. 
 Dynue, 207. 
 Dyose, Laurence, gentleman, inventory 
 
 taken by, 485. 
 Dyve, Hugh de, 70. 
 
 Cf. Diva. 
 Dyxon : 
 
 payment for man of, 402. 
 to, 402, 404. 
 
662 
 
 Eadberht, 207. 
 
 bishop [of Leicester or London], 203. 
 Badbold : 
 
 dux, 203. 
 princeps, 203. 
 Eadgar : 
 
 king of the English, 209. 
 the priest, 211, 212. 
 Eadulf : 
 
 minister, 209. 
 witness, 209. 
 Eadwald, witness, 200. 
 Badward the priest, 211. 
 Eagle, Eikle [co. Lincoln], 597. 
 
 Jetters dated at, 596. 
 Ealdgyth [wife of Morkar], Elgith, 
 
 bequest to, 258. 
 Ealdwulf, Aldulf, bishop [of Lichfield], 
 
 205. 
 Eanmund the abbot, 209. 
 Eanulf , grandfather of King Offa, church 
 
 built by, 202. 
 Barlshaw, Barleshall [in Oaunton], co. 
 
 Notts, 179. 
 Earth-works, 12, 12n. 
 Easingwold, William, town clerk of 
 Nottingham, handwriting of, 240. 
 Eastwood, CO. Notts, 179. 
 
 minister's account of, 296. 
 See Bstweit. 
 Eaton, Cold. See Cold-Baton. 
 Eaton, Long, Longeton [co. Derby ]: 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 minister's account of, 292. 
 Eaton Socon, co. Beds, Stapelhoe in, 56. 
 Eaton, Bichard, letter signed by, 602. 
 Bbarton. See Edburton. 
 Bccleshall [co. Stafford], bequest of land 
 
 in, to Burton abbey, 257. 
 Ecclesiastical documents, 117, 121, 124, 
 
 125, 127, 133, 137. 
 Ecgfrith, witness, 200. 
 Ecgwine, bishop of Worcester, grant by, 
 
 200-201. 
 Echeles [Nechells in Aston, co. Warwick], 
 
 Simon de, 16. 
 Eckington, Egyiiton [co. Derby], bequest 
 
 of land in, 255. 
 Edburton, Ebarton [co. Sussex], Gilbert 
 
 parson of, executor of will, 617. 
 Eddriceston [Atherstone-on-Stour, co. 
 Warwick] : 
 Alan son of Humphrey de, grant by, 
 46, 47. 
 
 , seal of, 47. 
 
 William de, 47. 
 Eddricheston. See Atherstone-on-Stour. 
 Edenborrowe. See Edinburgh. 
 
 Edenesovere, Stephen de, indicted for 
 offences in cos. Derby and Notts, 
 272-274, 276-279. 
 Cf. Endesovr'. 
 Edensor, Edenesovere [co. Derby], 278. 
 Edgar. See Eadgar. 
 Edge, Thomas Webb, letter to, 197. 
 Edinburgh, Edenborrowe : 
 
 reception of James I. at, 185. 
 the High Church in, 186. 
 Edlin, Edllin: 
 
 Edward, payment to for playing, 
 
 432. 
 John, lute strings bought by, 447. 
 musician, reward to, 440. 
 Edmonson, Mr., payment to, for wine, 
 
 423. 
 Edmund son of king Henry III., delivery 
 
 of Dover Castle by, 70, 71. 
 Edney, Edward, in the stable at WoUa- 
 
 ton, 169. 
 Edwalton [co. Notts] : 
 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 ministers' accounts of, 307—309. 
 Edward I. : 
 
 grants by, 244, 245. 
 statutes of the Forest of, 243. 
 the king's son, promise of support 
 made by the earl of Gloucester to, 
 66-69. 
 Edward II., letters patent of, 87, 89. 
 Edward III., letters patent, etc., of, 89, 
 
 93, 502. 
 Edward IV., 508. 
 
 marriage of, 513. 
 
 of Elizabeth his daughter, 259. 
 
 Edward VI., announcement of birth of, 
 517-518. 
 coronation of, 518. 
 Edward, prince of Wales, the Black 
 prince [son of Edward III], 506. 
 retainer of services by, 98. 
 Edward : 
 
 Richard, legacy to, 103. 
 the coachman, payment to, 446. 
 See also Badward. 
 Edwards, Mr., of Soho Square, 603. 
 Bdwinstowe, Edwinstow, Edynstowe, co. 
 Notts, 179, 242. 
 boundaries of, 241. 
 customal of, 247. 
 inquisition taken at^ 242. 
 men of, complaint by, 245. 
 Egerljon, Hegerton : 
 Isabel, 360. 
 John, 515. 
 Eichard, payment to, 360. 
 
 , wages of, 370. 
 
 William, payment to, 341. 
 
 , wages of, 370. 
 
 Mr., furniture in bed-chamber of, 
 479. 
 
 , payment to minstrel of, 328. 
 
 the hermit, rewards to, 334, 385, 
 
 846. 
 difference of Sir Henry WiUoughby, 
 
 with, 515. 
 inquest concerning matter of, 360. 
 
663 
 
 Egmanton, co. Notts, 179. 
 
 Bgremeut, lord. See Percy. 
 
 Egynton. See Eckington. 
 
 Eikle. See Eagle. 
 
 Eland, William de, the king's yeoman, 
 
 grant to, 93, 502. 
 Eleanor, queen, nuncius of. See Lega, 
 
 Simon de. 
 EUehne, bequest to, 254. 
 Blfnoth, land of, 50. 
 Elford, BUford [co. Stafford], bequest 
 
 of land at, 255. 
 Elgith. See Ealdgyth. 
 Ellas : 
 
 Blias son of, 40. 
 John son of, de Brademare, 83. 
 Eliduc, mentioned in fabliau, 223. 
 Blingham, Walter de, action brought 
 
 by, 247. 
 EUot, Sir T., dictionary of, 411, 411n. 
 Elis. See Blys. 
 Elizabeth, queen, princess : 
 
 at Hatfield, 409, 409», 410. 
 
 at Leicester House, 534. 
 
 at Oxford, 528, 528n. 
 
 at WoUaton, 588. 
 
 death of gentlewoman of, from 
 
 smaU-pox, 412. 
 in Warwickshire, 528. 
 movements of, 580. 
 picture of, 424. 
 Elizabeth daughter of Edward IV., 
 marriage of, to Charles dauphin 
 of France, 259. 
 Elizabeth, Mrs. [? lady Pitz-Hugh], 421, 
 423, 446. 
 burial of, 449, 451. 
 clothes for, 448. 
 expenses of, paid, 481, 441. 
 payment by, 489. 
 wages of, 489, 541. 
 Ellford. See Elford. 
 Bllingham, co. Hants, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Elsebayry. See Aylesbury. 
 Bltham, co. Kent, 110. 
 Elton [co. Derby], lady of. See Pole- 
 
 jaumbe, Alice. 
 Elton, Mr., of Cossall, 152. 
 Blvaston, Aylwaston, Athelwaldeston (?), 
 [co, Derby], bequest of land in, 
 255. 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 Ely, bishop of. See Eustace ; Ridel, 
 
 Geoffrey. 
 Elys, Blis : 
 
 John, collector of rents at Middleton, 
 
 290. 
 payments to, 386, 873. 
 Emancipation, deeds of, 78, 93, 101. 
 Endesovr', Bndesor', Thomas de, grant 
 of forfeited lands of, 72. 
 Cf. Bdenesovere. 
 Bnemere, Walter de, 91. 
 Bngainn', Walter, 2. 
 Bngenors, king, with king Arthur, 227. 
 English Jesuits reputed to be of the 
 Spanish faction, 191. 
 
 English language preferred to Latin for 
 
 homUy, 239. 
 English words. See Glossary. 
 Ennyver, Bynnever : 
 
 Elizabeth, payment to, 405. 
 
 mother, payments to, 401, 402. 
 Enoch, Enok, books of the prophet, 265. 
 Enveysie, Roger 1', 58. 
 Eperston [Epperston, co. Notts] : 
 
 Godwin son of Alfwin de, grant to, 5. 
 
 Thomas de, chaplain, grant to, 
 98. 
 Bpirots, Scanderbege prince of the, 
 
 422. 
 Epitaphs in four languages, 155-156. 
 Epperston. See Eperston. 
 Brasce. See Arras 1 
 Erasmus, works of, bought, 412, 412n. 
 Erdburg. See Burrough-on-the-HiU. 
 Erdington, Brdyngton [co. Warwick], 
 court rolls of, 293-295, 297, 298. 
 Brdinton [Erdington in Aston, co. 
 
 Warwick], Roger de, 16. 
 Brdyngton. See Erdington. 
 Eresby, co. Lincoln, 517, 608. 
 Erewash, Irewis, Yrewis, river [co. Notts], 
 
 13, 13n, 14. 
 Ermenfrois, character in a fabliau, 229. 
 Ermesby, Master Michael de, 78. 
 Ermyngewell. See ArmsweU. 
 Ernhal', Ernhale. See Arnold. 
 Brniva, Roger son of, 50, 
 Brnwi, William, 21. 
 
 Esbroo, Essebroc, Hessebroc [Bsbrook in 
 Kingsbury, co. Warwick] : 
 
 Felicia sister of Hugh de, marriage 
 of, 48. ' ■ 
 
 Hugh de, 5, 16, 21, 48, 49. 
 
 , grants by, 47, 48. 
 
 Nicholas de, 4, 15-17. 
 Bsbrook, Essebroc [in Kingsbury, co. 
 
 Warwick], 47. 
 Bscbeators, chapters of, 257. 
 Escrop. See Scrop. 
 Bsegar, 15. 
 
 Godfrey son of, 21. 
 
 , grant to, 14, 15, 
 
 Esnig msedwe [near Stoke Bishop, 
 
 CO. Gloucester], 211. 
 Esnotrewic, co. Derby, 257™. 
 Espec,' Walter, In, 2n. 
 Essebi, Thomas son of Adam de, 48. 
 Essebia. See Ashby 7 
 Essebroc. See Bsbroc, Bsbrook. 
 Essex, earl of. See Bohun, Humphrey de ; 
 Devereux, Walter ; Peter, Geof- 
 frey son of. 
 Essex', 
 
 H. de, the constable, 3. 
 
 John de, 52. 
 
 Master Roger de, 52. 
 Estaumford, Estaunford. See Stamford. 
 Estbm'nham. See Burnham, Bast. 
 Estedam, See Ashtead ? 
 Bsterfeld, John, deputy mayor of the 
 
 staple at Bristol, 617. 
 Estgrenewych. See Greenwich, East, 
 Esthwerst, See Ewhurst, East. 
 
664 
 
 Estlee : 
 
 Thomas de, 31. 
 Walter son of Thomas de, 21. 
 Eston. See Aston. 
 EstoteviU, EstouteviU. See StuteviU. 
 Estraunge, Bxiraneus: 
 
 Hamo le, friend and ally of 
 
 Edward [I] the king's son, 68. 
 Ralph, 50. 
 Estray, case of, reported in Year Book, 
 
 247. 
 Estueit. See Bstweit. 
 EstutevUla. See StuteviUe. 
 Estweit, Estueit, Estwait, Hestweyt 
 [Eastwood, CO. Notts] : 
 Paschasius de, 46. 
 Walter de, 41, 41n, 45, 56. 
 
 , grant to, 46. 
 
 Etheldred. See ^thelred. 
 Ethiopia, 218. 
 
 Eton [co. Bucks], education of Sir 
 Percival WiUoughby's sons at, 609. 
 Eton Wyke [co. Bucks], rental of, 297. 
 Eton, Ettou. See Eyton. 
 Etton, Cold. See Cold-Eaton. 
 Etwall, CO. Derby, 587. 
 Eu, Ralph count of, constable of France, 
 
 89. 
 Buelme. See Ewelmie. 
 Euerherst, Simon, debt owed to, 472. 
 Europe, Spanish preponderance in, 190. 
 Eustace, bishop of Ely, 37. 
 Eustace, Sir Morrice, of Ireland, marriage 
 
 of his daughter, 606. 
 Evaldus Gallus, Confabulatwnes of, 408, 
 
 408n. 
 Everard : 
 
 Adam son of Nicholas, of the Marsh, 
 
 76. 
 Geoffrey son of Henry, demise of 
 
 mine to, 88. 
 John, demise of mine to, 88. 
 Roger, 75. 
 Everingham, Everyngham : 
 
 Robert, forester in fee of Sher- 
 wood, 241. 
 
 , , removed from his office, 
 
 246. 
 
 , trespass committed by, 244. 
 
 Evesham, battle ot, lln, 506. 
 Evil year, preservatives for, 405. 
 Evington, Evyntou [co. Leicester] : 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 ministers' accounts of, 299, 302. 
 Evrars son of Tieirut, character in a 
 
 fabliau, 229. 
 Evynton. See Evington. 
 Bwelme, Buelme [co. Oxford], foundation 
 
 statutes of almshouse at, 283. 
 Bwhurst : 
 
 East, Esthwerst [in Speldhurst, co. 
 
 Kent], court rolls of, 815. 
 West, Westhwerst [in Speldhurst, 
 CO. Kent], court rolls of, 315. 
 Exchequer : 
 
 bm exhibited in, 323. 
 treasurer and barons of, certificate 
 of, 93. 
 
 Exeter : 
 
 bishop of. See Grandison, John ; 
 
 Iscanus, Bartholomew, 
 my lord of. See Courtney, Henry. 
 ExiraneuB. See Estraunge. 
 Eyam, Byom, co. Derby, 276. 
 
 See Byom. 
 Eylesford, Eylisford. See Aylesford. 
 Eynnever. See Ennyver. 
 Eyom [Eyam, co. Derby] : 
 
 Robert de, of Bubnell, indicted for 
 offences in co. Derby, 274. 
 
 son of Henry de, indicted, 
 
 276. 
 William de, indicted, 272-274, 276- 
 278. 
 Eyre, Ann, daughter of Robert Stratford, 
 
 605. 
 Eyton, Eton, Etton : 
 
 Nicholas de, indicted for offences 
 
 in CO. Derby, 273, 277. 
 Richard, wages of, 370. 
 Thomas, 399. 
 
 , accounts rendered by, 316. 
 
 EyviU, John D', friend and ally of Richard 
 earl of Gloucester, 68. 
 
 Paber. See Smith. 
 Fabian, Thomas son of, 59. 
 Fables of Avienus, 219. 
 Fabliaux : 
 
 in Picard dialect, 221-235. 
 titles of. See Books. 
 Pademore, Givo de, 7n. 
 Paine, Sir Ralph, inventory of goods of, 
 
 485. 
 Pair : 
 
 grant of, 70. 
 men beaten at, 277. 
 See also Adwalton, Birmingham, 
 Brasted, Chesterfield, Derby, 
 Pazeley, Lenton, Lichfield, Mans- 
 field, Newark, Nottingham, Penk- 
 ridge, Stourbridge, Wimborne 
 Minster, Wythyham. 
 Falconer : 
 
 Richard the, 169. 
 Walter the, 2. 
 
 WiUiam brother of Walter the, 2. 
 Palowys, PauUows, R., collier, 492. 
 
 11 R.], collier, 493. 
 Fanshaw, Mr., sale of Ware and Ware 
 
 Park to, 587. 
 Faresley. See Fazeley. 
 Partngdon, co. Berks, Wadley in, 588. 
 Parlington, oo. Hants, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Farren, Mr., of the household at Wolla- 
 ton, 168. 
 
665 
 
 Farrier (Marescalcus, MarescaUus, Mares- 
 chdlliis, Marischallus) : 
 Adam the, 11. 
 
 Hugh brother of Adam the, 11. 
 Richard brother of William the, 4. 
 William the, 4, 16. 
 
 , grant to, 16. 
 
 , of Eatcliffe-npon-Trent, 83. 
 
 Cf. Marshal. 
 Faslay. See Pazeley. 
 Pastil^ ! 
 
 payments for, 332, 352, 364. 
 relaxation of, 135, 138, 139. 
 Pauld, in Hanbury, co. Stafford, deeds 
 
 relating to, 627. 
 Paullows. See Palowys. 
 Pax, GUbert, 58. 
 Payghtarbard. See Pitzherbert. 
 Payknam. See Peckenham. 
 Payrewood. See Verwood. 
 Payrys. See Ferrers. 
 Pazeley, Paresley, Faslay, Payslay [oo. 
 Stafford], 364. 
 Bridge, money collected for, 386. 
 fair, 392. 
 Peckenham, Payknam forest [co. Wor- 
 cester], reward to keepers of, 378. 
 Pegge, William, of Ashford, indicted, 275. 
 Felde. See Field. 
 Felley [co. Notts], prior of, 96. 
 FeUui, Robin de, character in a fabliau, 
 
 228. 
 Pelsham, PUsham, Pylsham [in Bexhill, 
 CO. Sussex], ministers' accounts of, 
 307-309. 
 Fen, expenses of, paid, 446. 
 Fenton, Mr., at WoUaton, 458. 
 Perariis. See Ferrers. 
 Ferdinand I., king of Naples : 
 
 peace of, with the pope, 260, 612. 
 sufferings of, prophesied, 265. 
 Ferdinand V., king of Spain : 
 
 capture of Granada by, 260, 262, 
 
 264, 612. 
 his consort. See Isabella, 
 marriage of daughter of, 612. 
 Feren. See Vem. 
 Perers. See Ferrers. 
 Ferne, La Perne. See Vern, 
 Ferneley, H., collier, 492. 
 Ferrers, Fayrys, de Perariis, Perers, 
 Perres : 
 Edward, indulgence granted to, 137. 
 Sir Edward, of Baddesley Clinton, 
 
 334, 334n, 378. 
 Elizabeth (Preville) wife of Thomas, 
 
 294. 
 lord. See Devereux, Walter. 
 Robert brother of WiUiam, 6. 
 Sibyl wife of WUliam, coimtess 
 
 Ferrers, 5, 271. 
 Thomas, 294. 
 
 William, earlFerrers, grant by, 5, 271. 
 Perries. See Barton-on-Humber, Gedling, 
 Marnham, Sawley, Shelford, Step- 
 ney, WUford. 
 Perror, James, examination of, before 
 the king's council, 142. 
 
 Perry-boat, grant of, 126. 
 Pevre. See Smith. 
 
 Field, Felde, Thomas, abbot of Burton, 
 register compiled by, 247-268, 613. 
 Cf. Pylde. 
 Pifehcad St. Quintin, Pyfehede Quyntyn, 
 CO. Dorset, manor of, 124. 
 See Fyfield. 
 Filidleage [near Stoke Bishop, co. 
 
 Gloucester], 211. 
 PUlol, Piliol, Filliol, Pilol, PUoU, PUyoll, 
 Fyllol : 
 WilUam, 30k, 105. 
 
 , executor of wUl, 102. 
 
 , grant to, 109. 
 
 , letter to, 102-103. 
 
 , manorial records of, 291-293. 
 
 , will of, 103-104. 
 
 , Joan his sister, legacy to, 103. 
 
 , Joan his wife, executor of his 
 
 will, 104. 
 
 , grant to, 110. 
 
 , , manorial records of, 292. 
 
 , , will of, 104-106. 
 
 John son of William, grant to, 114. 
 
 , legacy to, 105. 
 
 , manorial records of, 299-303. 
 
 , Margaret his wife, 115. 
 
 WiUiam son of John, knight, manorial 
 records of, 306, 309, 311-313. 
 
 , marriage of, 115. 
 
 , supervisor of will, 124. 
 
 , Anne (WiUoughby and Poulet) 
 
 his daughter, 315, 517. 
 Filsham. See Pelsham. 
 FUyoU. See PiUol. 
 Finchingfeld, William de, 87. 
 Fines, manner of drawing up, 269. 
 Firby, co. York. See Pribi. 
 Firedamp, 88. 
 Fisher, Pyssher, pisscator : 
 Alan the, 55. 
 Sir Clement, abstract of letter from, 
 
 597. 
 Mary, letter from, 577. 
 
 , , reference to, 586. 
 
 Mr., 157, 555, 563, 577, 586. 
 
 , ai-feeling of lady Bridget Wil- 
 
 loughby towards, 575-577. 
 — ■ — , interview of, with lady Eliza- 
 beth Waioughby, 546, 547. 
 
 . letter to, 576-577. 
 
 Fishery : 
 
 bequest of, 254. 
 grants of, 126, 501. 
 See Blandford. 
 Fitz-Alan : 
 
 Elizabeth (Grey) daughter of Wil- 
 liam, earl of Arundel, 518. 
 Henry, earl of Arundel, my lord of 
 Arundell, 407. 
 
 , , Katherine (Grey) his 
 
 wife, 518. 
 PitzHerberd. See Herbert. 
 Pitzherbert, Payghtarbard, Fyzherbarde, 
 Phytheherberd, Sphyherber, Sphy- 
 herberd : 
 Anthony, executor of wills, 126, 136. 
 
666 
 
 Fitzherbert, Anthony — conf. 
 
 , indulgence to, 137. 
 
 , legal author, 508n. 
 
 , marriage of, 125. 
 
 [Anthony], 333, 346. 
 
 , reward to minstrel of, 352. 
 
 , to servant of, 373. 
 
 Dorothy (Willoughby) wife of 
 
 Anthony, 508. 
 Henry, 125. 
 Of. Herbert. 
 PitzHugh : 
 
 Elizabeth lady, bequest to, 516. 
 
 , marriage of, 122, 511. 
 
 Henry (son of Hugh), of Eavens- 
 
 worth, action brought by, 247. 
 Lady, furniture in bed-chamber of, 
 
 478. 
 See Hugh and c/. Elizabeth. 
 PitzRoger. See Boger. 
 Eitzwilliam, Sphyweylliam, Mr., servant 
 
 of, 340. 
 Pladbury, Plaedanburgh, Plaedan Byrig, 
 Pledebyrig [co. Worcester], graute 
 of land at, 199-201, 203-204. 
 Flanders : 
 
 expedition of lord Morley to, 508. 
 the duke of Anjou in, 553. 
 Flanders tiles, 397. 
 
 work, 527. 
 Plawborough, Flawburgh [co. Notts], 
 
 court rolls of, 304. 
 Pledebyrig. See Pladbury. 
 Plemeng, Plemming : 
 
 Adam lo, bailiff of Nottingham, 626. 
 John le, 75. 
 Plodden, battle of, 146, 146h. 
 Ploore, Flower, co. Northampton, 605. 
 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 Florence : 
 
 Codex Amiatinus at, 611. 
 merchants of, 261. 
 Florentia, Brother Zenobius Masius de, 
 Guardian of the Observant Friara 
 of Mount Sion, creation of a Knight 
 of the Holy Sepulchre by, 140- 
 141. 
 Flower. See Ploore. 
 Flowers, Mrs., 438. 
 Pluellen, 455. 
 Polchere, witness, 200. 
 
 Cf. Pouch er, Fulcher. 
 Polejaumbo, Poljam : 
 
 Alice, lady of Elton, indicted, 277. 
 
 Godfrey, indicted, 279. 
 
 Isabel (Willoughby) daughter of . . . . , 
 
 505. 
 James, manorial records of, 290. 
 John, John son of John, of Beard, 
 
 indicted, 274, 276, 278. 
 Robert son of Richard, of Boron- 
 bull, indicted, 275, 277. 
 Boger, 111. 
 
 Thomas, of Beard, indicted, 275. 
 Foleshill, Polkeshull [co. Warwick], deeds 
 relating to, 627. 
 See Polkeshiil. 
 Polet, Robert, 20. 
 
 Poleville : 
 
 Eustace de, indicted for offences in 
 
 CO. Derby, 273, 275-278. 
 Richard de, parson of Teigh, in- 
 dicted for offences in co Derby, 
 276. 
 Laurence brother of Eustace de, 
 indicted for offences in co. Derby, 
 273, 275-278. 
 Robert brother of Eustace de, in- 
 dicted for offences in co. Derby, 
 276-277. 
 Walter brother of Eustace de, in- 
 dicted for offences in co. Derby, 
 273, 275-278. 
 William de, 25. 
 Poliat, Richard, grant of lands and 
 
 daughter of, 270. 
 Poljam. See Polejaumbe. 
 Polkeshul [PoleshUl, co. Warwick], Viel 
 
 de, 17. 
 Pontarabia. See Puenterrabia. 
 Pools, payments for, 327, 329. 
 Foot's Cray, co. Kent, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Ford, Porde : 
 
 [in Chapel-en-le-Prith], co. Derby, 
 
 274. 
 [co. Stafford], court rolls of, 286. 
 Porde, Nicholas de la, indicted for of- 
 fences in CO. Derby, 273, 274, 277, 
 279. 
 Pordingbridge [co. Hants] : 
 court rolls of, 320. 
 deQds relating to, 625. 
 ministers' accounts of, 319, 320. 
 rental of, 320. 
 Burgate in, 320, 625. 
 Pordington, Fordyngton, co. Dorset, 
 
 manor of, 124. 
 Fordlane, Walter dc la, 59. 
 Fordyngton. See Pordington. 
 Foremark, Formark [co. Derby], 430. 
 Forest : 
 
 documents relating to the, 240-246, 
 
 501-502. 
 justices of the. See Clifford, Robert ; 
 Pierrepont, William ; Vescy, 
 William de. 
 Formark. See Foremark. 
 Porster : 
 
 Agnes (Morton) daughter of Agnes, 
 
 283. 
 Anne wife of John son of Agnes, 283. 
 John son of Agues, chancery suit of, 
 283. 
 Forsworne wood in Sherwood forest, co. 
 
 Notts, trees in, 242. 
 Fortify, licences to, 51, 271. 
 Forz, William de, earl of Albemarle, 
 friend and ally of Richard earl of 
 Gloucester, 68. 
 Fosbrooke, Robert, of Trent Bridges: 
 agreement by, 172. 
 letters from, 175-177, 181-182. 
 paper on glass making by, 500. 
 propositions for sale of coals by, 175. 
 statement of account by, 500. 
 
667 
 
 Poucher, Kobert, of Osmaston, threat- 
 ened, 278. 
 a. Folchere, Pulcher. 
 Fountains abbey [co. York], services ot 
 
 Sir Henry WiUoughby to, 124. 
 Founterabye, Fountraby. See Fuent- 
 
 errabia. 
 Foway, servant of Sir Giles Strangways, 
 
 145. 
 Powgard of Lenton, net-making taught 
 
 by, 347. 
 Fowler, Kichard, 163. 
 
 payment to, 442. 
 
 Fox, Poxe : 
 
 Alice, reward to, 348. 
 
 Geoffrey, 452. 
 
 George, of Carlton, disclaimer of 
 
 arms of, 179. 
 John, of Nottingham, saltpetre man, 
 
 164. 
 Nicholas, indicted, 275, 278. 
 Bobert, wages of, 426, 440, 450, 542. 
 [Robert], expenses of, paid, 447. 
 
 , usher, duties of, 538-540. 
 
 Thomas, bailifE of Willoughby-on- 
 
 the Wolds, 308. 
 meeting at house of, 574. 
 servant of Sir Francis WiUoughby, 
 580. 
 
 , abstractsof letters to, 573, 581. 
 
 Pox taker, reward to, 336. 
 
 Prampton, Promton' priory, co. Dorset, 
 
 53. 
 Prampton, William, of Buckland, 114. 
 Prancais. See Pranceis. 
 Prance, Pronse, 364. 
 
 constable of. See Eu, Ralph count of. 
 invasion of, by Henry VII., 264, 
 266, 613. 
 
 , intended by Henry VIII., 
 
 508. 
 king of. See Charles VIII., Louis XI. 
 ' Most Christian king,' a title im- 
 plying little, 190. 
 position of Roman church in, 191. 
 queen of, minstrel of, 334. 
 services of Sir Edward WiUoughby 
 
 in, 146. 
 travels of Sir Percival WiUoughby 
 
 in, 553, 554. 
 war with, in reign of queen Mary, 617. 
 Prance, Marie de, fable by, 234-235. 
 Pranceis, Prancais, William, 13, 14. 
 grant by, 32, 32n. 
 seal of, 32. 
 
 Cf, Praunceys, Frenchman. 
 Pranldey, co. Worcester, 525, 529, 545, 
 549. 
 letter dated at, 527. 
 Fraternity, letters of, 117-118, 121, 125, 
 
 127, 133. 
 Praunceys, Bobert, threatened, 280-281. 
 
 Cf. Pranceis, Frenchman. 
 Frederick IV., emperor of Germany, 
 
 prophecy of death of, 264. 
 Fredyngton. See Alfreton. 
 Free, governor of the Hamburg company, 
 marriage of his daughters, 605, 606. 
 
 Freinel, Preynell, Adam, 32, 53. 
 Freman, Mr. and Mrs., at WoUaton, 462. 
 Fremington, Fremyngham [co. York], 
 
 minister's account of, 307. 
 French : 
 
 books, purchase of, 406. 
 
 garters, purchase of, 437. 
 
 Jesuits reputed to be of the Spanish 
 faction, 191. 
 
 language, not so universal in Eng- 
 land as English, 239. 
 
 poetry, early, 220-235. 
 Frenchman, WUliam the, 65. 
 
 Cf. Pranceis, Praunceys. 
 Prendestapele, co. Hants, deeds relating 
 
 to, 625. 
 Frenze, co. Norfolk, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Frere, Adam le, 53. 
 Frevile, PrivUla, FryvUl : 
 
 Roger de, 35. 
 
 , grants to, 34, 35, 49, 50. 
 
 , Isabel lady of GressenhaU his 
 
 sister, 
 
 Maud wife of Baldwin de, 65. 
 
 , grant to, 65. 
 
 Alexander son of Baldwin de, 65. 
 
 , assignment of purparty to, 
 
 80, 81. 
 
 , Joan his wife, 79-81, 89, 90, 
 
 506. 
 
 Baldwin son of Alexander de, bond 
 of, 89, 90. 
 
 , grandson of Alexander de, 
 
 inventory of cattle of, 465-466. 
 
 , , retainer of services of, 
 
 98. 
 
 , son, grandson, etc., of Alex- 
 ander de, manorial records of, 286, 
 287, 294, 295. 
 
 Elizabeth (Ferrers) sister of Baldwin 
 de, 294. 
 
 wife of Baldwin de, 90. 
 
 John son of Baldwin de, 89. 
 
 , marriage of, 90. 
 
 Baldwin, great-grandson {sic) of 
 Alexander de, 506. 
 
 Margaret great-granddaughter (sic) 
 of Alexander de, 506, 507. 
 
 Bartholomew de, manorial records 
 of, 287. 
 
 marriages of famUy of, 506. 
 FreyneU. See Preinel. 
 Friars : 
 
 payments to, 329, 334-336, 340, 343, 
 346, 348, 353, 355, 357, 359, 360, 
 364, 366, 369, 382. 
 
 Observant, of Mount Sion, guardian 
 of. See Masius, Brother Zeno- 
 bius. 
 Pribi [Firby, co. York], Ralph de, 61. 
 Friend : 
 
 Wmiam, 606. 
 
 , Ann (Smith) his wife, 606. 
 
 , , (Delangley) his daugh- 
 ter, 606. 
 
 , Elizabeth (Dobson) his daugh- 
 ter, 606. 
 
668 
 
 Friend — conl. 
 
 Robert, son of William, D.D., master 
 of Westminster school, 606. 
 
 , Jane (Delangley) his wife, 606. 
 
 WiUiam, son of William, clergyman, 
 606. 
 
 , Bridget (Glover) his wife, 606. 
 
 John, son of William, doctor, 606. 
 
 , Ann (Morrice), his wife, 606. 
 
 , John his son, 606. 
 
 Progmorton. See Throgmorton. 
 Frome BiUet [in West Stafford, co. 
 Dorset] : 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 minister's account of, 319. 
 Prome : 
 
 Isabel daughter of John, bequests 
 
 to, 101-102. 
 Joan (PUliol) daughter of John, 
 bequests to, 101, 102. 
 
 , manorial records of, 292. 
 
 John, wiU of, 101-102. 
 
 Richard brother of John, bequest to, 
 
 102. 
 Thomas brother of John, bequest to, 
 
 102. 
 William brother of John, bequest to, 
 102. 
 From ton'. See Framptou. 
 Prone, Aucher son of William son of, 
 
 de Boneye, grant by, 59. 
 Fronse. See Prance. 
 Frost, Thomas, bond of, to William 
 
 Auberey, 147, 148. 
 Proward, Nicholas, of Wirksworth, in- 
 dicted, 275. 
 Frowyk, Roger de, 87. 
 FruiUard, Adam, 58. 
 Frysaunce, Alphonse, astrologer to the 
 Great Turk, predictions of, 263- 
 266. 
 Pryswith, Mrs., payment by the hands 
 
 of, 447. 
 Fuenterrabia, Fontarabla, Pounterabye, 
 Pountraby [Spain, Guipuzcoa] : 
 arrival of lord Dorset at, 146. 
 delivery of ordnance at, 128, 129. 
 Puket, Ralph, 64. 
 Pulcher : 
 
 Alan son of, 50. 
 Wariii son of, 36. 
 Cf. Polchere, Poucher. 
 Fuleburn, Stephen de, treasurer of the 
 hospital of St. John of Jerusalem 
 in England, 74. 
 Puletebi, Pulesbi [Pulletby, co. Lincoln], 
 
 William de, 8, 17. 
 Fuller, Walter, of Penshurst, gentleman, 
 
 474. 
 PuUers' mills, 156. 
 Pulletby [co. Ijincolu]. See Puletebi. 
 Fulwood, Pulwode [in HucknaU-under- 
 Huthwaite], co. Notts, 501. 
 boundaries of, 241. 
 Pundwi, Fundi, Pimdu, Fimwi. 
 
 Amable daughter of William, grant 
 
 to, 4. 
 Peter brother of Walter, 15. 
 
 Pundwi — cont. 
 
 Walter, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 47, 48, 49. 
 
 WiUiam, 16, 17. 
 Funeral : 
 
 bequests for, 114. 
 
 expenses of, 449, 451, 473. 
 Punwi. See Pundwi. 
 Purneixx : 
 
 Sibyl de, manor of, broken, 281. 
 
 Thomas de, assaulted, 281. 
 Purnivall, Thomas, pleas of the forest 
 
 held before, 245. 
 Pyfehede Quyntyn. See Fifehead St. 
 
 Quintin. 
 Pyfield, Fifehead, co. Hants, manor of, 
 
 124. 
 Pykeys, William, money extorted from, 
 
 282. 
 Pylde, Robert, 167. 
 
 Cf. Pelde. 
 PyUege. See PUsley. 
 Pyllol. See PiUol. 
 Pylsham. See Pelsham. 
 Fynders, WiUiam, bachelor in decretis, 
 proctor of the monks of Burton, 
 251. 
 Pyndryn, John de, indicted, 275. 
 Pyndiirn, Mr., payment to servant of, 
 
 375. 
 Fyssher. See Fisher. 
 Fytton: 
 
 Mr., reward to minstrel of, 366. 
 
 . , to officers of, 367. 
 
 Mrs., token sent to, 377. 
 
 Mary, payment to, 381. 
 
 Pyzherbarde. See Pitzherbert. 
 
 Gaddesby [co. Leicester], minister's 
 
 account of, 302. 
 GaUey, Gagely [in Penkridge, co. Staf- 
 ford], bequest of, to Burton abbey, 
 256. 
 Gainsborough, Gainsborowe, Gaynees- 
 borro, Gaynesborro, Gaynseborow, 
 Gaynsseborowe [co. Lincoln], 443. 
 boats taking coal to, 172, 175. 
 charges upon coal at, 172. 
 sale of coal from WoUaton at, 169. 
 Gaiton, Gaitune [Gayton, co. Lincoln], 
 Richard de, 29. 
 grant to, 18, ISn, 
 GaUoway, Galwayth, movements of 
 
 David de Bruce in, 95. 
 Galo, Walo, WUliarn son of, 2, 2n. 
 Gamble, Richard, payment to, 459. 
 Gamelston, Roger de, 99. 
 Gamston, co. Notts, 124. 
 Gamyl, Henry son of Geoffrey, seal of, 
 
 86. 
 Ganors, name In poem, 223. 
 
669 
 
 Garadyne. See Garendon, 
 Gardino, Thomas de, 86. 
 Gardner, Thomas : ■ 
 
 payments to, 429, 448. 
 wages of, 427. 
 Garendon, Garadyne, Garydyne [co. 
 Leicester] : 
 abbot of, rewards to oiHcers of, 348, 
 
 368. 
 offerings made at, 339, 348. 
 pilgrimage to sweet rood of, 384. 
 Gargat, William, janitor of Lenton priory, 
 
 grant to, 70. 
 Garlandia, John de, poems assigned to, 
 
 214, 216. 
 Garnado. See Granada. 
 Garnam, William, demise of mine to, 100. 
 Garner, Marjory, 542. 
 Gajnethorpe. See Granthorpe. 
 Garsions, character in poem, 223. 
 Garter King at Arms, payment to, 328. 
 Garton [-on-the-Wolds, co. York] ! 
 Adam de, 4. 
 
 Geoffrey the clerk of, 61. 
 Garydyne. See Garendon. 
 Gascoigne, Gayesqiiyen, Adam, pursui- 
 vant, payment to, 391. 
 Gascon', Richard, John Gaston (sic), of 
 Wollaton, depositions of, 118, 
 119, 120. 
 Gascony, Gascoyne, army to be sent to, 
 
 128. 
 Gaston. See Gascon. 
 Gatekeeper, Alan the, 64. 
 Gaunt, Gilbert, earl of Lincoln, grant 
 
 by, 241. 
 Gaunte. See Ghent. 
 Gautelos, character in a fabliau, 228. 
 Gaybonse, WUliam, present from, 387, 
 
 Cf. Gebbons, Gebones, Gibbons. 
 Gayesquyen. See Gascoigne. 
 Gaylyfe, Mr., payments to, 333. 
 
 Cf. Jelyfe. 
 Gayneesborro, Gaynesboro. See Gains- 
 borough. 
 Gaynlord, counsel, 247. 
 Gaynseborow, Gaynsseborowe. See Gains- 
 borough. 
 Gayton, co. Lincoln. See Gaiton. 
 Gebbons, Thomas, esquire, keeper of 
 Sutton Coldfleld, grant by, 156. 
 Cf. Gaybonse, Gibbons. 
 Gebones, Lancaster, of the buttery at 
 Wollaton, 168. 
 Cf. Gaybonse, Gibbons. 
 Gedling, Geddelyng, Gedelyng, co. Notts, 
 91. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 ferry and fishery of, 126. 
 ministers' accounts of, 307, 309. 
 Gedney, Mr., 452. 
 Gee, Arnold, bailiff of Sutton-upon- 
 
 Ti-ent, 308. 
 Gelstrop, WUliam, alderman of Notting- 
 ham, certificate signed by, 498. 
 Gelynse, Gelyonse : 
 Mr., 338. 
 of Faslay, return of, from Pranoe,364. 
 
 Geneva, Percival WiUoughby at, 558. 
 Genoa, Jene, Jenes fustian, etc., 437, 
 
 451. 
 Geoffrey : 
 
 Amabilla wife of Robert son of, 270. 
 Geoffrey son of, de Karleton, 34. 
 Robert son of, 58, 70, 270. 
 Thomas son of, 38n. 
 William son of, 32, 70. 
 
 , de Karleton, 34. 
 
 George duke of Bavaria, marriage of his 
 
 daughter, 260, 612. 
 George, expenses of, paid, 421. 
 Gerard, WiUiam son of, 11. 
 Germainne, betrayal of, 228. 
 Germains, character in fabliau, 223, 228. 
 German, Germon, Germun, Germund, 
 Gernnwn : 
 John, maintenance of children of, 
 
 343, 346, 363. 
 Philip, 54, 611. 
 marriage of, 385. 
 sent to London, 349. 
 Germany, Jermany : 
 
 empire of, only local, 190. 
 waterworks of, 175. 
 Germon, Germun, Germund, Gernnwn, 
 
 See German. 
 Gorvase, Richard son of, 29n. 
 grant by, confirmed, 270. 
 Ghent, Gaunte [Flanders], coverlet of, 
 
 468. 
 Gibbons, Gybbona, Gybons : 
 Thomas, esquire, 167. 
 William, 167. 
 
 Mr., at Wollaton, 456, 457. 
 Cf. Gaybonse, Gebbons, Gebones. 
 Gibsmere, Gibsmire, Gyppesmere [in 
 Bleasby], co. Notte : 
 court roUs of, 320, 322. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 map of, 169. 
 
 ministers' accounts of, 302, 321. 
 Gibson, William, inventory taken by, 
 
 485. 
 Giffard; 
 
 Richard, 24. 
 
 Walter, bishop of Bath and Wells, 
 71, 72. 
 Gigliis : 
 
 John de, of Lucca, agent of Henry 
 VII. at Rome [later bishop of 
 Worcester], 613. 
 
 , , letter from, 260. 
 
 Sebastian de, 461, 613. 
 Gilbert : 
 
 Brother, 38. 
 
 Gilbert le flz, 80. 
 
 Henry le fiz, 80. 
 
 Ralph son of, 12. 
 
 William son of, de Gotham, receiver 
 
 of outlaws, 280. 
 witness, 8. 
 Gill, William, of Rolleston, disclaimer 
 
 of arms of, 179. 
 Gilling, GUlingemore [co. York], founda- 
 tion of chantry at, 6. 
 Gilling', WiUiam de, 52. 
 
670 
 
 Gillingham, Gylyngham [co. Dorset] : 
 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 
 ministers' accounts of, 301, 307. 
 Oirart, son of ditc Beuson, 226. 
 Gisorcio : 
 
 Anketin de, citizen of London, 92. 
 
 John de, citizen of London, 92. 
 Givo, Eobert son of, 7, In. 
 Glanville, Bartholomew, De Proprieta- 
 
 Hhus Rerum of, 240. 
 Glasier, Peres, servant of William Dethyk, 
 
 assault upon, 259. 
 Glass : 
 
 manufacture of, at WoUaton, 182, 
 284, 499-501. 
 
 , with wood, prohibited, 182. 
 
 Glasson, Richard, bailiff of WoUaton, 
 
 307. 
 Glaston'; Robert de, constable of Dover 
 
 castle, delivery of castle by, 71. 
 Glastonbury abbey [co. Somerset], abbot 
 
 of, action brought by, 247. 
 Gledenhurst, William de, 17. 
 Glendower, Glegndouredy, Owen de, 
 defence of Shrewsbury against, 
 101. 
 Gleyden, John, clerk in orders, 391. 
 Glossary ; 
 
 acre as a measure of length, 162, 
 442, 443. 
 
 Adam bell, 469. 
 
 alea, 74, 74k. 
 
 algorys, 472. 
 
 alygraunte, 387. 
 
 ancrys, 349. 
 
 anepitathony, 450. 
 
 athameat, 324. 
 
 aulettes, 328, 328n. 
 
 awndyr, 213. 
 
 bankers, 102, 102n, 467. 
 
 bassett, 493. 
 
 beatinge (of shoes), 165, 165n. 
 
 blittrons, 244, 244n. 
 
 blome of iron, 494, 495. 
 
 blome smith, 495. 
 
 blomer, 494. 
 
 bodge, 328. 
 
 bole, 257, 257n. 
 
 boltes of thread, 421. 
 
 bonegrace, 408, 408n. 
 
 boots (of a necklace), 604. 
 
 bord Alexander, 466n, 467. 
 
 brander, 494. 
 
 brettes, 370. 
 
 briggenders, 483. 
 
 brougett, 488, 488n. 
 
 brune, 496. 
 
 buck, 441. 
 
 busshementez, 116, 116n. 
 
 bustian, 472. 
 
 bycokett, 467, 467». 
 
 canmes, canm.asse (canvas), 347, 350, 
 373. 
 
 cannon bittes, 445, 445n, 
 
 cannyans, 432, 436, 436n, 444, 451. 
 
 caroohe, carrouche, 180, 180n. 
 
 cawUmen, sets of, 366. 
 
 caytohing sylke, 405. 
 
 Glossary— cont. 
 
 celer, 102, 102m. 
 
 cenapey, 325, 325n. 
 
 cerceW, 325. 
 
 cesprey, 269, 269n. 
 
 chalandes, 334. 
 
 chandrable, 173.. 
 
 charere, 12, 12ot. 
 
 chevyn, 370. 
 
 cipheos, 405, 405n, 407n. 
 
 citheos, 411. 
 
 clyves, 484, 484n. 
 
 cobberdes, 481. 
 
 cockglode, 441. 
 
 coddjTig tyme, 107, 107n. 
 
 cogges, 443. 
 
 cokshut cordes, 438, 438n. 
 
 collemettinge, 171, 171n. 
 
 collobium, 274. 
 
 connyber, 180, 180n. 
 
 connye clappers, 428, 443, 443w. 
 
 coppe yolkes, 484, 484n. 
 
 cor-fuUe of coal, 170. 
 
 costeryngez, 466. 
 
 cowle, 437. 
 
 crapol, 112, 112n. 
 
 creme, 379. 
 
 creper, 487, 489. 
 
 crevises, 455. 
 
 Crowchemesseday, 106, 106n. 
 
 crypen, 410, 410n. 
 
 curtowes, 129, 129m. 
 
 cussues, 113, 113n. 
 
 cypers, 355, 355n. 
 
 cyseos, 407, 407«. 
 
 dagges, 490. 
 
 dagswayne, 469. 
 
 dalesmen, 163, 163n. 
 
 diacodi, 450. 
 
 dornyxe, 403, 403n. 
 
 drova, 61, 61n. 
 
 dubler, 15, 15n. 
 
 ellis sprewuse, spruce elles, 372, 380. 
 
 enterteisis, 397, 397n. 
 
 epitathony, 450. 
 
 erthmerche, 12, 12n. 
 
 eyndinge, 419, 419n. 
 
 fardingale, vardingale, 401, 404, 437, 
 
 444. 
 farrendou, 573, 573-n. 
 feinge, 431. 
 feme, 484. 
 ferret sylke, 437. 
 
 ferryla, 426, 427, 428, 429, 441, 443. 
 fewster, 373. 
 f eying, 431. 
 fither. See phither. 
 flankerdes, 467, 467n. 
 fleake mayles, 440. 
 fornesium, 82, 82n. 
 forstuithemede, 103. 
 freshacates, 315. 
 fressyng, 324, 324n. 
 frett, 484, 484n. 
 frewter, 470, 470n. 
 frosecherchers, 406, 406n. 
 frosepastez, 402, 402n. 
 full of ketelles, 470. 
 
671 
 
 Glossary — coni. 
 
 funys, 328, 328n. 
 
 galentyn, 325. 
 
 gardevyan, 472, 472n. 
 
 gamych, 328. 
 
 gaskin, 436, 436n. 
 
 gessorant, 113, 113n. 
 
 gestrons, 119, 119n. 
 
 gifter-money, 164, 164n. 
 
 gleythe, 373, 373n. 
 
 gobbinge, 164, 164n. 
 
 goderdes, 372. 
 
 grene gynger, 356, 358. 
 
 greyles, 113, n3n. 
 
 gwyd, 97, 97n, 
 
 gylyng, 493. 
 
 gyfter, 340, 340n. 
 
 gyfter plowes, 419. 
 
 gyne, 417, 417n. 
 
 gyspynne, 471. 
 
 habbardin8, 460. 
 
 hachellys, 470. 
 
 hakbussh, 129. 
 
 ham, 53, 53n. 
 
 harden, 476. 
 
 harlasez, 407, 407n. 
 
 hayransus, 384. 
 
 he, 57, 57n. 
 
 heddryftes, 100. 
 
 heght, 493. 
 
 hilling, 479. 
 
 holm, 13, 13n. 
 
 homes fustian, 434, 434n. 
 
 hooltestothye, 483. 
 
 horsshawmes, 130. 
 
 impinge, 581, 581m. 
 
 ingeonabull, 265. 
 
 inkell', 409. 
 
 intryket, 265. 
 
 jellope, 450. 
 
 Jenes, 451. 
 
 jorietes, 444, 444n. 
 
 keels, 172, 173. 
 
 kemp, 324. 
 
 Jcerra, 54, 54n. 
 
 knapes, 432, 432n. 
 
 knoting, 170. 
 
 kyddes, 362. 
 
 kymlynnes, 471, 471«. 
 
 kymmels, 482. 
 
 lanndo yolkes, 484, 484n. 
 
 laydyng, 339, 339n. 
 
 leppe, 371. 
 
 ley, 380, 380«. 
 
 ley (metal), 470, 470«. 
 
 leystowe, 473, 473n. 
 
 limpe, 162. 
 
 Ihoge, 62, 62n. 
 
 lobbefysche, 372. 
 
 locatretryna, 449. 
 
 lome, loome, 437, 480. 
 
 loom, lowme (drinking vessel), 331, 
 
 4.37. 
 lowke, 350. 
 lumykyn, 326, 326n. 
 lybbing, 435. 
 lymmar, 129, 129n. 
 malebracee, 438, 438n. 
 
 Glossary — cont. 
 
 manecombe, 434. 
 
 man quellers, 616. 
 
 manus Christi, 422. 
 
 marlere, 12, 12«. 
 
 mastlen, 373. 
 
 maxers, 486, 487. 
 
 merche panes, 436, 436n. 
 
 Mithridatum, metredatum, 410, 449. 
 
 mockado, 437, 437m. 
 
 mortarium, 12, 12n. 
 
 muge, 465. 
 
 mynnykyns, 444, 444m, 
 
 nyght rayelles, 405. 
 
 nyghturtale, 107, 107m. 
 
 owte gate, 443. 
 
 pantoffeUes, 425, 425m. 
 
 partlet, pertlettes, 369, 369m, 406. 
 
 pastrena, 434. 
 
 pavuse, 112, 112m. 
 
 penedyce, 436, 436m. 
 
 perlyng, 467. 
 
 phither, 57, 57n. 
 
 picosHum, 88, 88m. 
 
 porchmowethez, 408, 408n. 
 
 portowos, 113, 113n. 
 
 poundgarnyttes, 376. 
 
 poyntes, 329, 329m. 
 
 pycke (hair) under the lip, 166. 
 
 pyson, 113, 113m. 
 
 quysshons, 102, 102m. 
 
 Qwysson, 107, 107m. 
 
 ragmersshe, 468, 468m. 
 
 raylse, 386. 
 
 removes (horse shoes), 428, 435. 
 
 rewann', 324, 324m. 
 
 rooke of coals, 168, 170, 175. 
 
 roundes, 443. 
 
 rovers, to shoot at, 569. 
 
 runtes, 419, 419n. 
 
 salet, sallett, 114, 114m, 483. 
 
 savernap, 97. 
 
 sohed, 107, ]07m. 
 
 schelylett, 137. 
 
 seege, 401. 
 
 serten, 107, ]07m. 
 
 shadowes, 449. 
 
 shetys, young hogs called, 471. 
 
 shotyng, 493. 
 
 soughe, sowe, 88, 88n, 149, 149m, 161. 
 
 sowe of iron, 495, 497. 
 
 sowcs of lead, 130. 
 
 sowwe, 347. 
 
 sperver, 466. 
 
 splentes, 467. 
 
 sponenge, 448. 
 
 spruce elles, ellis sprewuce, 372, 380. 
 
 stamell, stanall, 450, 450m, 488. 
 
 standysshe, 403, 403m, 435. 
 
 steeling, 434, 438. 
 
 stovers of coal, 169. 
 
 styllytary howse, 417. 
 
 Susanna, 477. 
 
 swoninge water, 447. 
 
 syk, 107, 107m. 
 
 synoynge, 373. 
 
 systers threed, 421, 442. 
 
 tayke, 359. 
 
672 
 
 GlosBary — cont. 
 
 tayryttes, dog, 3S9, 
 
 tenturs, 119, 119n. 
 
 throthenug, 438. 
 
 thurle, thyrle, 149, 149«, 439, 
 
 topnett, 379, 379«. 
 
 topytte, 387. 
 
 torsalle, tornsalle, 372, 372m, 422. 
 
 trayakwll, treakle, triakell, 355, 355«, 
 405, 449. 
 
 tufte tafeyta, 422. 
 
 tundish, 437. 
 
 tyghtes, traces, 472. 
 
 tyUer boe, 490, 490«. 
 
 vardingale. See fardingale. 
 
 Toluper, 404, 404n. 
 
 wadmole, 447, 447n. 
 
 waloer, 493. 
 
 ■wambraces, 483. 
 
 washe of oysters, 444. 
 
 wateregates, 100. 
 
 weynelles, 472, 472n. 
 
 withdraught, 466. 
 
 wodewoses, 465. 
 
 wonnen, 108, 108n. 
 
 wymbles, 484. 
 
 yekins, yekynse, 354, 358. 
 
 yelyng tub', 471, 471n. 
 Glossehop, Glowssopp payment of ex- 
 penses of, 353, 375. 
 Gloucester, carl of. See Clare, Bichard 
 
 de ; Robert, William son of. 
 Gloucestria. John de, of Castletoa, in- 
 dicted, 274, 276. 
 Glover, Glower, Glowwer : 
 
 Bridget, wife of William Friend, 606. 
 
 Edward, payments by, 454, 455. 
 
 Richard, herald, pedigree by, 505n. 
 
 almsman, jacket for, 350. 
 
 wedding of, 360. 
 Glowssopp. See Glossehopp. 
 Glowwer. See Glover. 
 Gluttony, 166. 
 
 Goadby, Marwood, Gowteby [co. Leices- 
 ter], manor of, 109. 
 Goare. See Gore. 
 Godard, Augustine, 62. 
 Godbehere, Godbeheer, Oliver, 455. 
 
 , expensesof paid, 429, 433, 445. 
 
 Godebers, character in a fabliau, 229. 
 Godeynogh, William, money extorted 
 
 from, 282. 
 Godfrey, William son of, de Hurnle, 
 
 Hurley, 14, 47. 
 Godfrois son of Mehaut, character in 
 
 a fabliau, 228. 
 Godler, Sir Henry, executors of, 579. 
 Godinge, the deacon, 211, 212. 
 Godiva, countess [of Mercia], gift by, 
 
 196. 
 Godolphin, Sidney lord, lord High 
 
 Treasurer, 501. 
 Goffe, Augustine son of, reeve of the 
 French borough of Nottingham, 62. 
 Gold, John, wages of, 542. 
 Goldsmith, Goldsmyth, Goulde Smythe, 
 Aurifdber : 
 
 Richard, waiter at WoUaton, 168. 
 
 Goldsmith — cord. 
 
 Simon the, 20, 20re. 
 Walter, payment to, 421. 
 Cf. Orfevre. 
 GoUe, Bichard, 7. 
 Gomfrey, Brother Roger, 114. 
 Gonaston, Gonastonne, Goneston, Gun- 
 olvestune [Gonalstone, co. Notts] : 
 Gilbert son of Winemer de, 55. 
 Hugh de, indicted, 274. 
 Luke, expenses of, paid, 459. 
 [?Luke], 454. 
 Gondomar, Sarmlento count of, proceed- 
 ings on return of, to Spain, 187- 
 192. 
 Gonduins, character in a fabliau, 229. 
 Goneston. See Gonaston. 
 Gonne : 
 
 John, payment to, 401. 
 Thomas, payments by, 411, 413. 
 Goodbody, Richard, payment to, for 
 
 torches, 473. 
 Goodwyn, Burton, 176. 
 
 complaint against, 175. 
 Cf. Gudwyne. 
 Gorciis, Brother Astorgius dc, prior of 
 
 Lenton, 96. 
 Gore Fields and Heath, Goare [in Mor- 
 
 den, CO. Dorset], 61. 
 Gorges, Ralph de, knight, 76. 
 Gori, Roger, 16. 
 Gorton. See Goverton. 
 Gorton, William, payment to, 401. 
 Gosberton [co. Lincoln], Cheal in, 298. 
 Gosson, John, 368. 
 
 Gotham, co. Notts, deeds relating to, 626. 
 Gotham : 
 
 William de, keeper of the peace and 
 justice of oyer and terminer in co. 
 Notts, proceedings before, 272- 
 282. 
 William son of Gilbert de, receiver 
 of outlaws, 280. 
 Gouarre, John, 74. 
 Goulde Smythe. See Goldsmith. 
 Gourton. See Goverton. 
 GoushuU, Thomas de, 281. 
 Goutevilla [? in Pickwell, co. Leicester], 
 
 grant of land in, 35. 
 Gouyz : 
 
 Hawysia wife of Richard de, settle- 
 ment of arrears claimed against, 
 76. 
 Richard de, settlement of arrears 
 claimed against, 76. 
 Goverton, Gorton, Gourton [in Bleasby], 
 CO. Notts : 
 court rolls of, 320, 322. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 map of, 169. 
 
 ministers' accounts of, 302, 321. 
 Gows, John, manorial records of, 
 
 292. 
 Gower : 
 
 Henry, bishop of St. David's, 91. 
 John, Confessio Amantis of, 236. 
 Gownthorp, Gownthorpe. See Gunthorpe. 
 Gowteby. See Goadby Marwood. 
 
673 
 
 Graham [Grantham, co. Lincoln] : 
 John de, citizen of London, 89. 
 Thomas de, 21. 
 See Grantham. 
 Grainesbi [Grainsby, co. Lmcoln], Hugh 
 
 de, 32. 
 Grammatical works, extracts from, 213- 
 
 216. 
 Granada, Garnado : 
 
 capture of, 260, 262-3, 264, 612, 613. 
 treasures found in, 262. 
 Granadoe silk, 410. 
 
 Grandborough [co. Warwick], Calcutt in, 
 295, 304-306, 310-312, 31,5, 317, 
 321, 322. 
 Grandison, John, bishop of Exeter, 
 
 action brought against, 247. 
 Grantham, Graham, Grantam, co. Lin- 
 coln, 388, 430. 
 soke of, 23, 24. 
 See Graham. 
 Granthorpe, Garnethorpe, co. Lincoln, 
 
 rental of, 319. 
 Grasworth. See Gresworth. 
 Grauncurt, John de, 94. 
 Graveseud, Gravesende, Gravysende [co. 
 Kent] : 
 constable and portreeve of, money 
 
 laid out by, for soldiers, 159. 
 fair at, 329. 
 manor of, 91. 
 Gravesende, Maud (de Grey) wife of John 
 
 de, 91. 
 Gravysende. See Gravesend. 
 Gray, Darby, wages of, 426. 
 
 See Grey. 
 Grayslay. See Gresley. 
 Greasley, co. Notts, Beauvale in, 360. 
 
 See Gresley. 
 Greatworth, Greetworth [co. Northamp- 
 ton], Mr. Pargiter's house at, 605. 
 Greek : 
 
 dealer in clothes, payments to, 408, 
 
 410. 
 epitaph in, 155. 
 grammar, purchase of, 406. 
 Greene, Grene : 
 
 John, payment to, for sword hilts, 
 423. 
 
 atte, of Buxton, indicted, 274. 
 
 Ralph, 115. 
 
 Richard, paym.cnt to, 425. 
 
 547. 
 
 . . . . , friend of Sir Percival Wil- 
 
 loughby, 574. 
 . . . . , payments to, 437, 440, 446. 
 Greenfield, Grenefylde, Grynefelde : 
 
 William, archbishop of York, seques- 
 trator of. See Benes, Thomas de. 
 payments to, 401, 405. 
 Greenwich, Grenewiche [co. Kent] : 
 
 letters of the signet dated at, 132, 
 140, 509, 510, 514. 
 Greenwich, Bast, Bstgrenewych, co. 
 Kent, 110, 
 ferry at, 110. 
 
 Greetworth. See Greatworth. 
 Gregorie, John, alderman of Nottingham, 
 
 certificate signed by, 498. 
 Gregory IL, pope, 611. 
 Gregory : 
 
 Mother, payment to, 447. 
 
 Walter son of, 15. 
 
 payment to,for crying a wether, 421. 
 Greiuestun, Matthew de, 50. 
 Grendon, co. Northampton, family of 
 
 Willoughby of, 507. 
 Grendon, co. Warwick, deeds relating to, 
 
 627. 
 Grendon [co. Warwick], Robert de, 17. 
 Grene. See Greene. 
 Grenefylde. See Greenfield. 
 Greuelowe. See Grindlow. 
 Greneweye, Thomas de, indicted, 274, 
 
 276. 
 Grenewiche. See Greenwich. 
 Gresbrowke, Gresbrocke : 
 
 Mrs., at Wollaton, 463. 
 
 reward to daughter of, 333. 
 Gresley, Grayslay, Greseleya, Greslay, 
 Greysley [Greasley, co. Notts] : 
 
 Henry de, 46. 
 
 Sir John, knight, 513. 
 
 Ralph de, 45n, 52m. 
 
 Mr., 349. 
 
 , pajTnent to minstrel of, 328. 
 
 Cf. Griseley. 
 Gressenhall, Gressighehalia [co. Norfolk]: 
 
 Isabel sister of Roger de Privilla 
 lady of, grant by, 34. 
 
 , seal of, 35. 
 
 William the steward of, 35. 
 
 , John his son, 35. 
 
 Gresworth, Grasworth : 
 
 Thomsis, accounts rendered by, 451, 
 452. 
 
 [Thomas], 454. 
 Gretham, Robert de, poem of, 220, 221. 
 Greves, Mr. and Mrs., at Wollaton, 462. 
 Grevill, Grevell, Grevle, Gr'evyll, Sir 
 Foulke, 398, 428, 546. 
 
 knighted, 528. 
 
 payments to bear-ward of, 448, 451. 
 
 reference to letter to, 579. 
 Grey, Gray : ^ 
 
 (A) Sir John, death of, 508. 
 
 (B) Edward brother of (A), viscount 
 Lisle, lord Lysle, bill of complaint 
 of, 115-117. 
 
 , depositions concerning riotous 
 
 conduct of, 118-121. 
 
 — - — , supervisor of will of Sir Henry 
 Willoughby, 122. 
 
 , Anne (Willoughby) his daugh- 
 ter, marriage of, 121, 123, 508. 
 
 , Elizabeth (Dudley) his daugh- 
 ter, 508. 
 
 , his wife, 120. 
 
 , Jane his wif e,agreement by,123. 
 
 , bequest to, 123. 
 
 , Muriel (Stafford ) his daughter, 
 
 508. 
 
 ^ Entries sRanged genealogically (as far as possible). 
 
 M 43 
 
674 
 
 Grey — cont. 
 
 (C) John son of (B), 508. 
 
 , Elizabeth his daughter, 508. 
 
 , Muriel his wife, 508. 
 
 (D) Thomas, marquis of Dorset 
 [grandson of (A)], 366, 377, 378, 
 380, 384, 385, 508. 
 
 , commission to, 141, 141m, 
 
 514. 
 
 — — , in Spain, 146, 508. 
 
 , letters from, 514. 
 
 , lieutenant-general of the king's 
 
 army, 128, 130. 
 
 , payments to servants of, 374, 
 
 385. 
 
 , Anne (Willoughby) his daugh- 
 ter, 509, 
 
 , , death of, 394, 394n. 
 
 , , marriage of, 514, 518. 
 
 , Elizabeth (Audley) his daugh- 
 ter, 518. 
 
 , Katherine (Pitz-Alan) his 
 
 daughter, 518. 
 
 , Margaret (Wotton) his wife, 
 
 518. 
 
 (E) Henry son of (D), marquess of 
 Dorset, High Constable of Eng- 
 land, and duke of Sufiolk, 390, 
 395, 396, 398, 518, 522. 
 
 , execution of, 518, 521. 
 
 , payment to, 524. 
 
 , rising of, 414b. 
 
 , supervisor of 'will, 149. 
 
 , Prances (Brandon) his wife, 
 
 518, 520-522. 
 , Jane [lady Jane Grey] his 
 
 daughter, 518, 520, 521. 
 
 , , C/. Guyldeforde. 
 
 , Katherine (Pitz-Alau) his 
 
 wife, 518. 
 , (Seymour) his daughter, 
 
 518, 520, 521. 
 , Mary (Keys) his daughter, 
 
 518, 520, 521. 
 Henry lord, manorial records of, 
 
 308. 
 Lord John [son of (D)] 395, 520, 
 
 521, 524. 
 
 , abstract of letter to, 525. 
 
 , reward to players of, 386. 
 
 Lord Thomas [son of (D)], 394, 
 
 395, 520. 
 Maud daughter of Reginald [? lord 
 
 de Grey], 505. 
 William, of Wood Bevington, agree- 
 ment by, 130. 
 , Lawrence his son, marriage 
 
 of, 130. 
 Mr., rewards to servants of, 368, 385. 
 
 , to soldiers of, 341, 353. 
 
 Grey of Codnor : 
 Henry de, 46. 
 John son of Richard de, 71. 
 
 , money received from, 74. 
 
 Henry son of John de, household 
 
 accounts of, 323-327. 
 
 , wUl of, 84-86. 
 
 , Henry his son, bequest to, 85. 
 
 Grey of Codnor — cont., 
 
 , , keeper of the peace in 
 
 CO. Derby, 272-282. 
 
 , Joan his daughter, companion 
 
 of Richard de Grey, bequest to, 
 85. 
 , , nun of Acombury, be- 
 quest to, 85. 
 
 , Joan his wife, bequest to, 85. 
 
 , Lucy de Somery his daughter, 
 
 bequest to, 85. 
 
 , Nicholas his son, bequests to, 
 
 85. 
 
 , Thomas his son, bequest to, 85. 
 
 Richard son of Henry de, 87. 
 
 , agreements by, 89-91. 
 
 , bequests to, 85. 
 
 ■, executor of his father's will, 
 
 86. 
 
 , falcons of, 326. 
 
 , grant by, 91. 
 
 , keeper of the peace and justice 
 
 of oyer and terminer in co. Derby, 
 272-282. 
 
 , manorial records of, 286. 
 
 , Maud (de Graveseude) his 
 
 wife, grant to, 91. 
 Elizabeth [wife of Richard lord de], 
 manorial records of, 298. 
 Grey of Groby : 
 
 (A) Henry nephew of Henry duke 
 
 of Suffolk, 519. 
 Henry grandson of (A), earl of Stam- 
 ford, 519. 
 Grey of Powis, Edward lord, marriage 
 
 of his daughter, 514. 
 Grey of Rotherfield, Joan (Willoughby) 
 
 daughter of .... baron, 505. 
 Greysley. See Gresley. 
 Griffith, Margaret (Willoughby) daughter 
 
 of Sir John, of Wichnor, 507. 
 Grimestun [Grimston, co. York], Walter 
 
 de, 23, 23n. 
 Grindlow, Grenelowe [in Bradwell, co. 
 Derby], outlaws received at, 276. 
 Gringley, Grynnelay [co. Notts] : 
 covu-t rolls of, 291, 295, 297. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 Griseley : 
 
 Edmund brother of Robert de, 
 
 indicted, 277. 
 Robert de, indicted, 277. 
 Roger brother of Robert de, indicted, 
 
 277. 
 C/. Gresley. 
 Groby, co. Leicester, lord Grey of, 519. 
 Gromewell, relations of George Medley 
 
 with, 398. 
 Grundy, Michael, of Thurgarton, dis- 
 claimer of arms of, 179. 
 Gryffen, Mr., 396. 
 Cf. Gryphyn. 
 Grymmesby, John de, of Lincoln, in- 
 dicted, 274, 276, 280. 
 Grynefelde. See Grenefylde. 
 Grynnelay. See Gringley. 
 Gryphyn, payment by, 411. 
 C/. Gryffen. 
 
675 
 
 Gryppyng. See Crepping. 
 
 Guard, captain of the. See Hatton, Sir 
 
 Christoplier. 
 Gudwyne, Nurse, payment to, 440. 
 
 Cf. Goodwyn. 
 Guienne, Guyen, army to be sent to, 128. 
 Guinant, provost of Diuant, 228. 
 Guiues, Guisness [dep. Pas-de-Calais], 
 
 subsidy for garrison of, 510. 
 Guisborough priory [co. York], 25m. 
 Guiting, CO. Gloucester, deeds relating 
 
 to, 625. 
 Gum. See Camme. 
 Gumley, Guthemundelo, co. Leicester, 
 
 deeds relating to, 025. 
 Gune, Nurse : 
 
 payments to, 440, 444. 
 
 payment by, 450. 
 Gunner, John, 454. 
 
 gunpowder for, 458. 
 
 Gunolrestune. See Gonaston. • 
 
 Gunstou, Hugh de (lo Procuratour), 
 
 proctor of Bakewell, 272, 274, 277. 
 
 Gunthorpe, Gownthorpc [in Lowdliam, 
 
 CO. Notts], 281. 
 
 chartularies of lands in, 196, 269. 
 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 
 lordship of, 121. 
 
 manor of, 506, 507. 
 
 , court rolls of, 293, 306, 319. 
 
 , ministers' accounts of, 296, 
 
 307-309. 
 
 rental of, 294. 
 Gurncr, Margery, wages of, 439. 
 Guthlac, mtness, 200. 
 Guy, John, merchant of Bristol, letter 
 
 to, 284. 
 Guyen. See Guienne. 
 Guyldeforde, lady [lady Jane Grey ?], 
 
 reward to lackey of, 409. 
 Gybbons, Gybons. See Gibbons. 
 Gyles, Mr., 177. 
 Gylyngham. See Gillingham. 
 Gynur, Bobert le, 81. 
 Gyppesmere. See Gibsmere. 
 
 H 
 
 Habberley, in Kidderminster, co. Worces- 
 ter, deeds relating to, 627. 
 Habtot : 
 
 Hasculf brother of Robert de, 5. 
 
 Bobert de, 5. 
 
 William de, 56. 
 Hacche, Hamo de, 76. 
 Hacconby, Haconby, Hawkynbe [co. 
 Lmcoln], 123. 
 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 
 minister's account of, 307. 
 Hacham. See Haugham. 
 Hacker, Mr., at WoUaton, 463. 
 Haconby. See Hacconby. 
 
 Hacun, Alan son of, 16. 
 
 Haddam, Mrs., not a, good companion 
 
 for lady WiUoughby, 534, 535. 
 Haddon [co. Derby], Sir Francis Wil- 
 
 loughby at, 153. 
 Haderston. See Atherstone. 
 JHadham [co. Essex], 410. 
 Hadlnbur. See Attenborough. 
 Hadyngton [co. Dorset], minister's ac- 
 count of, 296. 
 Hffidda. See Headda. 
 Haghmon. See Haughmond. 
 Hahc, Bichard de, 19. 
 Hahwrd, Thomas the chaplain of, 59. 
 Haia, Master Bobert de, 10. 
 
 Cf. Haye. 
 Hailes, Haylse [co. Gloucester], abbey of 
 the Holy Blood of, offerings at, 
 343, 360. 
 Hair, long, abuse of, 166. 
 Haisbroc, Nicholas de, 17. 
 Halam, Halome [co. Notts], 114. 
 
 See Halum. 
 Halon. See Hallam. 
 Halesowen [co. Worcester], coal accounts 
 
 of, 495. 
 Haliton, Bobert de, money extorted 
 from, 282. 
 Cf. Halton, Halughton. 
 Haliwell, brother WUliam de, chaplain 
 
 of the knights hospitallers, 38., 
 Hall: 
 
 Hem-y, 125. 
 
 Hugh, payment for livery of, 403. 
 
 , payments to, 404, 405. 
 
 John, 167, 399, 437. 
 
 , abstracts of letters to, 522- 
 
 524. 
 
 , accounts of, 414-416, 522. 
 
 — — , baUiff at Middleton, 521, 522. 
 
 , executor of will of Sir Henry 
 
 WiUoughby, 144, 396, 398, 406, 
 519. 
 John del, of Castleton, indicted, 275. 
 Urban, 388. 
 
 William, payment to, 463. 
 furniture in chamber of, 484. 
 Hallam, Kirk, Kyrkhalam, Kyrke Halam 
 [CO. Derby], burial in All Saints' 
 church. 111. 
 sale of wood in, 317. 
 Mapperley.in, 115, 125, 292, 524, 
 624. 
 Hallam, West, Westhalam, Westhalom 
 CO. Derby], 420. 
 Sir Bichard, rector of All Saints' 
 • Church {sic). 111. 
 HaUam, Kirk or West, Halen [co. Derby], 
 bequest of land in, to Burton 
 abbey, 256. 
 HaUam Wood [co. Derby], 445. 
 Hallam, Nicholas, of Connecticut, letter 
 to, 194-195. 
 Cf. Halum. 
 Halloughton, Halluton, co. Notts, 94. 
 
 See Halughton. 
 Halnaby, Halnathby, in Croft, co. York, 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 
676 
 
 Halome. See Halam. 
 
 Halpeny, expenses of, paid, 415. 
 
 Halselin. See Hauselin. 
 
 Halstow, CO. Kent, deeds relating to, 625. 
 
 Halton, Eobert de, baker, beaten, 282. 
 
 Cf. Haliton. 
 Halugbton [Hallonghton, co. Notts], 
 Eichard de, 94. 
 Cf. Haliton. 
 Halulu [Halam, co. Notts], Master 
 Benedict de, 94. 
 a. Hallam. 
 Haltm, Beatrice de, 45n. 
 Halywell. See Hollywell. 
 Hamburg, Hamborough company, 
 governor of. See Free, 
 merchant, 603. 
 Hamelln, land, of, 31. 
 Hamerden [in Ticehurst, co. Sussex] : 
 court rolls of, 303.' 
 ministers' accounts of, 307, 309. 
 Hamilton, in Barkby, co. Leicester, deeds 
 
 relating to, 625. 
 Hampton, Bevis of, not the subject of 
 
 a homily, 238. 
 Hampton Court [co. Middlesex], 414. 
 barony conferred at, 566. 
 letters dated at, 554. 
 letters of the signet dated at, 511, 
 518. 
 Hamtou. See Southampton. 
 Hamund : 
 
 Laurence, 70. 
 
 , clerk, 77. 
 
 Eobert, 77. 
 Hanbury [co. Stafford], Marchington in, 
 
 254. 
 Hancockes, Edward, gardener at Wol- 
 
 laton, 169. 
 Hancok, John, chaplain, 100. 
 Handley, Hanley : 
 
 Henry, of Brampcote, lease of coal 
 
 mine by, 173. 
 Mr. [? Henry], at WoUaton, 463. 
 Handsworth, Honesworth, co. Stafford, 
 
 manor of, 272. 
 Hanewerth. See Hanworth. 
 Hanke, sale of office by, 515. 
 Hanley. See Handley. 
 Hannam : 
 
 Major, 603. 
 
 , .... (WUIoughby) his wife, 
 
 603. 
 Hanneson, Eichard, mayor of Notting- 
 ham, 626. 
 Hauston, Hunston Grange [in Thorpe 
 CO. Derby] : 
 boundaries of, 258. 
 lime pits in, 258. 
 open grounds in, 259. 
 places named in, 258, 259. 
 Hantesira. See Northampton, county of. 
 Hanworth, Hanewerth [co. Lincoln ?], 
 
 grant of marsh of, 5. 
 Happws. See Hopwas. 
 Harald : 
 
 Agnes, of Swansea, marriage of, 91. 
 Sir Philip, of Swansea, 91. 
 
 Harang, Sir Walter, knight, 93. 
 HarboTough. See Market Harborough. 
 HarboteU, Harbottell, HarbotyU, Her- 
 botell, Herbowtyll : 
 Bartram, manorial records of, 301. 
 George son of Guicherd, 132. 
 Guicherd, of Prudhoe and Beamish, 
 inquisition post mortem, on, 132. 
 
 , wardship of lands and heir of, 
 
 132. 
 Jane (WiUoughby) wife of Guicherd, 
 
 508. 
 Mary, 330, 338, 342, 349, 365, 366. 
 
 , bonnet for, 343. 
 
 , clothes for, 344, 347, 348, 361. 
 
 , marriage of, 370, 372. 
 
 , side-saddle for, 373. 
 
 Harbury, Harlburghe Brige [co. War- 
 wick], bequest of land in, to 
 Burton abbey, 257. 
 Harcourt, Aicuria, Harcuria, Harincuria : 
 Alice wife of Simon de, grant con- 
 firmed by, 9, 10. 
 Simon de, grant confirmedby, 9, 10. 
 Sir Simon, opinion of, 502. 
 HardeshuU' : 
 
 Elizabeth daughter of John de, 
 
 marriage of, 89, 90. 
 John de, bond of, 90. 
 Philip de, 89, 90. 
 C/. Hardredeshull. 
 Hardewyn, Thomas, 109. 
 Hardi, Eobert, 57. 
 
 Cf. Hardwy. 
 Hardredeshull, Hardrideshul [Hartshill 
 in Mancetter, co. Warwick] : 
 Eobert son of William de, 49. 
 William de, 49. 
 Cf. HardeshuU". 
 Hardstoft, Hertestoft [in Ault Hucknall, 
 
 CO. Derby], house at, 281. 
 Hardwick, Bess of. See Talbot. 
 Hardwicke, co. Gloucester, deeds relating 
 
 to, 625. 
 Hardwy, Elizabeth, obit of, 237. 
 
 Cf. Hardi. 
 Hardyngbothe, Hugh son of Peter de, 
 
 of CO. Stafford, indicted, 275. 
 Hare : 
 
 John, Indicted, 281. 
 Nicholas le, 81. 
 Eobert le, 81. 
 Harefield, co. Middlesex, deeds relating 
 
 to, 625. 
 Harewood, letters from, 284. 
 Harincuria. See Harcoiirt. 
 Harlaston, Horlaston [in Clifton Camp- 
 vUle, CO. Stafford], bequest of 
 land at, 255. 
 Harlaxton, Herlavestona [co. Lincoln], 
 confirmation of grant of land in, 
 23, 24. 
 Harlburghe brige. See Harbury. 
 Harley wood [co. Salop], 51, 
 Harley, Harleia : 
 
 Malcolm de, grant by, 50, 50n. 
 
 , seal of, 51. 
 
 William de, SOn. 
 
677 
 
 Harmar, Mr., groceri of London, pay- 
 ments to, 422. 
 Harome, co. York. See Harum. 
 Harpham, Harpam, Mr., of Nottingliam, 
 
 payments to, 428, 430. 
 Harringe, Harryng, Haryng [in Selllnge, 
 CO. Kent] : 
 chancery suit concerning manor of, 
 
 283. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 ministers' accounts of, 310, 311. 
 Harringworth, Haryngworthe [co. North- 
 ampton], church of, bequest to, 
 113. 
 Harstaffe, George, of Eastwood, dis- 
 claimer of arms of, 179. 
 Hart, Mr., son-in-law of Dr. Percival 
 
 WUloughby, 610. 
 Hartes Heye. See Hartshay. 
 Hartford. See Hertford. 
 Hartshay, Hartes Heye [in Ripley, co. 
 
 Derby], iron forge at, 497. 
 Hartshill in Maucetter, co. Warwick. 
 
 See Hardredeshull. 
 Hartyshorn, G., collier, 492. 
 Harum [Haron^e, co. York], William 
 son of Drew de, grant by, 59, 59n. 
 
 , seal of, 59. 
 
 Haryng. See Harringe. 
 Haryngworthe. See Harringworth. 
 Hasilwode, WiUiam, 213. 
 Hassellworth. See Hazleford. 
 Hasteng, Aytrop, 36. 
 Hastings, battle of, 506. 
 Hastings : 
 
 William lord, chamberlain of Ed- 
 ward IV., 513. 
 George grandson of William, first 
 earl of Huntingdon, reward to 
 minstrel of, 386. 
 Edward grandson of George, at 
 
 Wollaton, 458. 
 Henry grandson of George, third 
 earl of Huntingdon, 531, 569, 574, 
 579, 590. 
 
 , debts of, 587. 
 
 , iron on ground of, 182. 
 
 , letters from, 585-586, 588-589. 
 
 , letter to, abstract of, 588. 
 
 , sale of Ware and Ware park 
 
 by, 587. 
 
 , Katheriue his wife, 442. 
 
 , , at Wollaton, 446. 
 
 George brother of Henry, foiuTth 
 earl of Huntingdon, 458, 459. 
 
 , at Wollaton, 454, 457, 459. 
 
 , knighted, 528. 
 
 , Dorothy (Port), his wife, 587. 
 
 Francis lord Hastings, son of George 
 (4th earl), 586. 
 
 , abstract of letter from, 587. 
 
 Henry son of Francis, 587n. 
 Henry son of George (4th earl), 
 569. 
 
 , abstract of letters from, 587, 
 
 589. 
 
 , cruelty of, to his wife, 589- 
 
 502. 
 
 Hastings — cont. 
 
 , lease of Woodland to, 578. 
 
 , marriage of, to Dorothy WU- 
 loughby, 566, 569, 586, 588. 
 
 , sale of Lambley by, 608. 
 
 . Henry his son, 590. 
 
 , Mrs. Rives his daughter, 591, 
 
 592. 
 
 , Ralph his son, 390. 
 
 Hat, advantage of a low-crowned, for 
 
 hunting, 536. 
 Hatfield, Hatfeld [co. Herts], visit to 
 princess Ehzabeth, 409, 409k, 410. 
 Hatfield [division of co. Notts], dis- 
 
 afforestation of, 241. 
 Hathern, Robert de, bailiff of Notting- 
 ham, 627, 
 Hatherop, co. Gloucester, deeds relating 
 
 to, 625. 
 Hatherston. See Atherstone. 
 Hatton [co. Warwick], Beausalein, 312. 
 Hatton, Sir Christopher, knight, cap- 
 tain of the Queen's guard, re- 
 lease to, 284. 
 Hauchesgard, [Hawksker, co. York], 
 
 Aechetil de, In. 
 Haugham, Hacham [co. Lincoln], 19. 
 Haughmond, Haghmon abbey [co. Salop], 
 Nicholas, abbot, and the convent 
 of, grant by, 95. 
 Hauselin, Halselin : 
 Ralph, 32, 32n. 
 William, 11, lln, 32. 
 Hautbois, co. Norfolk. See Alto Bosco. 
 Hauxford, WiUiam, 167. 
 Havekesford, Richard de, 16. 
 Havereseche, Matthew de, 60n. 
 Haverholme, Haverhohn prioiy [co. Lin- 
 coln], prior of, manorial records 
 of, 288, 289. 
 Haversham, connection of family of, with 
 
 family of Previle, 506. 
 Haveryng, John, debt owed to, 472. 
 Haveryngg, Richard de, canon of Lich- 
 field, indicted, 275. 
 Haward, Hawnard, Hawward, John, 
 payment of expenses of, 342, 
 347, 349, 355, 361, 368, 386. 
 
 , wages of, 371. 
 
 Cf. Hayward. 
 Hawgulthepp. See Algarthorpe. 
 Hawis, Robert son of Richard, grant to, 
 
 270. 
 Hawker, Francis, conveyance to, 608. 
 Hawksker. See Hauchesgard. 
 Hawkynbe. See Hacconby. 
 Hawnard. See Haward. 
 Haydon. See Headon. 
 Haye, Hayes : 
 
 Elizabeth, wages of, 439, 449, 541. 
 
 [Elizabeth], 454. 
 
 Richard de la, 75. 
 
 Thomas of the, grant of waste of 
 
 forest to, 245. 
 Cf. Haia. 
 Hayfleld, Hayfeld [co. Derby], 274. 
 Haylse. See HaUes. 
 Hayner. See Heanor. 
 
678 
 
 Hayuyge. See Heneage. 
 Hayr, Roger de, 28. 
 Hayward, Heyward : 
 Nicholas le, 59. 
 Richard le, indicted, 278. 
 Cf. Haward. 
 Haywood Oaks, Haywode near Blid- 
 worth, CO. Notts, bounds of, 
 243. 
 Hazlef ord, Hassellworth Cliffe [co. Notts], 
 
 369. 
 Heaberht, bishop of Worcester, 206, 208, 
 209. 
 dux, 206. 
 Headda, Heedda, bishop [of Lichfield], 
 
 200. 
 Headon, Haydon, co. Notts, 179. 
 
 See Hedun. 
 Heanor, Hayner, Heynor [co. Derby], 
 429. 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 feast at church of, 360. 
 minister's account of, 296. 
 See Henover. 
 Heathcote [in Wirksworth], co. Derby, 
 
 275». 
 Heathe : 
 
 George, 187. 
 John, 167. 
 Heberd, Ralph, reward to, 383. 
 Hebrew : 
 
 epitaph in, 155. 
 grammar, purchase of, 406. 
 Heddon, Henry de, 53. 
 
 Cf. Hedun. 
 Heddun. See Hedun. 
 Hede: 
 
 Alice wife of John, of Mapperley, 
 
 111. 
 John, of Mapperley, wiU of. 111. 
 Margery wife of Thomas of the, 
 
 letter of fraternity of, 117. 
 Richard, 118. 
 
 Thomas of the, letter of fraternity 
 of, 117. 
 Hedun, Hedduu [Headon, co. Notts], 
 Hugh de, 8, 8n. 
 Cf. Heddon. 
 Heelaye, James, payments to, 426. 
 Heels, high, use of, 166. 
 Hegertou. See Egerton. 
 Heibote. See Husbote. 
 Heiworth, William, bishop of Coventry 
 
 and Lichfield, 248, 250. 
 Helham, Elizabeth, 399. 
 Hellines son of Mehaut, character in a. 
 
 fabliau, 228. 
 Helperthorp [Helperthorpe, co. York], 
 
 Richard de, 23. 
 Helperthorpe, co. York, deeds relating 
 
 to, 627. 
 Helygeve, Thomas, prior of Stone, 252. 
 Helyot of Ilkeston, payment to, 445. 
 Hemdeshill [Hempshall in Nuthall, co. 
 Notts], Alexander son of TJghtred 
 de, grant to, 42, 42n. 
 Hemcnal", John de, grant to, 34. 
 Hemory, John, 80, 81. 
 
 Heming, monk of Worcester, chartulary 
 compiled by, 198. 
 
 , collations with text of, 198- 
 
 212. 
 Hemlingford hiindred, co. Warwick, sub- 
 sidy roll of, 284. 
 Hemmingford, William de, vicar of Rud- 
 
 dington, 82. 
 HempshaU in Nuthall, co. Notts. See 
 
 Hemdeshill. 
 Hendy : 
 
 John, of Winterborne Belet, legacy 
 to, 103. 
 
 , of Woodlands, legacy to, 103. 
 
 Heneage, Haynyge, Mr., money received 
 
 by, 343. 
 Heneley. ' See Henley-in-Arden. 
 Hengham, Ralph, Summa Magna of, 
 
 236. 
 Henley-in-Arden, Henley [co. Warwick]: 
 grant of office of, 515. 
 rental of, 294. 
 Henley, Henle, Henlye, Heynley : 
 John, goods appraised by, 474. 
 Brother Ralph, monk of Burton, 
 250, 251. 
 
 , , elected to abbacy, 251- 
 
 253. 
 Roger de 15. 
 
 , at TUtey, 899. 
 
 Henn, payment for bread and ale at 
 
 house of, 342. 
 Henover [Heanor, co. Derby], Thomas 
 
 de, 46. 
 Hem-y I., 3. 
 Henry II., charters and confirmations 
 
 of, 2, 33, 342. 
 Hem-y III., agreement of, with barons, 
 71, 71n. 
 charters, etc., of, 70-73, 240, 241, 
 245, 507. 
 Henry IV., letters patent of, 101. 
 Henry VI., letters patent of, 109, 110, 
 
 114. 
 Hemy VII. : 
 
 burial of, 327. 
 
 letter from his agent at the papal 
 court [John de Gigliis], 260, 612. 
 Mary his daughter, 518. 
 retinue of, on his journey into 
 
 France, 267. 
 ' the son of man,' prophecies con- 
 cernmg, 264-265, 613. 
 Hemy VIII. : 
 
 letters of the signet of, 126, 131, 
 
 132, 140, 509-513. 
 retainer of services by, 128. 
 Hemy, prince, [Hemy VIII.], 125. 
 Henry : 
 
 author of poem on homonyms, 217. 
 Robert son of, 36. 
 Master, 44. 
 Henton [co. Dorset], deed dated at, 99. 
 Hentworth, Henworth, John, 175, 176, 
 
 177. 
 Henwod [? Henwood, co. Warwick], 
 
 Elizabeth Smethswick at, 148. 
 Henworth. See Hentworth. 
 
679 
 
 Heuzey, Jacob, glaasmaker, 500. 
 Heortford [oo. Worcester], demise of 
 
 lajid in, 209. 
 Herbert, Henry lord, earl of Pembroke, 
 528, 530. 
 
 , Katherine (Grey) his wife, 518. 
 
 Herbert, Harberd : 
 
 Edmund fitz, release to, 99. 
 Gervase son of, 21, 25. 
 Herbert son of, 22. 
 Martin sou of, ford of, 229. 
 Bobert sou of, 64. 
 
 , de Bramoote, grant by, 41. 
 
 , , seal of, 42. 
 
 See Pitzherbert. 
 Herbotell, HerbowtyU. See Harbotell. 
 Hereford [co. Hereford] : 
 
 bishop of. See Outhwulf, Wulfheard. 
 
 earl of. See Bohuu, Humphrey de. 
 
 Hereford, oo. Northumberland, deeds 
 
 relating to, 626. 
 Hereford, Walter de, 97. 
 Hereui, Walter, 74. 
 Heriz, Heritz : 
 
 Geoffrey de, 25. 
 
 Ivo son of Robert de, 8n, 26. 
 
 Peter de, 8. 
 
 Kobert de, 8, 8n, 20, 26, 27, 29n. 
 
 , grant confirmed by, 32, 33, 
 
 271. 
 WiUiam de. In, 19ji. 
 
 , grant by, 7. 
 
 Herlavestona. See Harlaxton. 
 Herle : 
 
 William de, justice in eyre, 283. 
 
 , knight, 91. 
 
 William de], counsel, 247. 
 Hermits, money given to, 331, 334, 335, 
 336, 337, 346, 354, 358, 381, 389. 
 Herm^Tn, Hugh, reward to, 342. 
 Herott, Herot, Sir John, priest of Wol- 
 
 laton, salary of, 429, 440. 
 Herringston, Little, Harringston, Little- 
 heryngestone, Lytelhernygeston, 
 Lytelheryngeston [in Charminster, 
 00. Dorset] : 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 minister's accounts of, 296, 298, 
 299, 301, 306, 307, 309, 319. 
 Hersant, Richard son of, 20. 
 Hertestoft. See Hardstoft. 
 Hertford, Hartford, earl of. See Clare, 
 
 Seymour. 
 Hertford, North America, court of, 195. 
 Hertrugge, Walter de, 78. 
 Hertt the gunner, reward to, 334. 
 HertweU, Maud (Willoughby) wife of 
 
 Thomas, 507. 
 Hertyll, John de, 100. 
 Herwodilande [co. Kent?], 36. 
 Heselerton, Heeelertun, Heslerton [co. 
 York] : 
 Thomas de, 61. 
 
 , knight, 63. 
 
 Hessebroc. See Bsbroc. 
 Hestweyt. See Estweit. 
 Hetcote, William de, of Tides well, main- 
 tainor of outlaws, 275. 
 
 Hethcot, George, payment to, 438. 
 Hethe, Heth : 
 
 Henry son of Albredus del, taken by 
 outlaws, 281. 
 
 William son of Hugh del, indicted, 
 281. 
 Heton, John de, 75. 
 Hever, Hever Brocas and Oobham [co. 
 Kent] : 
 
 bequest of land in, 150. 
 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 
 rentals of, 286, 304. 
 Heynley. See Henley. 
 Heynor. See Heanor. 
 Heyre, William, of London, gentleman, 
 
 action brought against, 283. 
 Heyward. See Hayward. 
 Hickling, co. Notts, deeds relating to, 626. 
 Hickman : 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Strat- 
 ford, 605. 
 
 William, of Warwickshire, 606. 
 
 , Abigail (Pargiter) his wife, 606. 
 
 Charles, son of William, bishop of 
 Londonderry, 606. 
 
 — , Ann (Burgoin) his wife, 606. 
 
 , Ann his daughter, 606. 
 
 Hide. See Hyde. 
 
 Higham [co. Derby], 445. 
 
 High Peak, Peak, the, [co. Derby] : 
 
 bailiff of. See Spayne, Ralph de. 
 
 presentments by jurors of, 276-277, 
 279. 
 Highway robbers, 165. 
 Hildesdon, Brother John de, chaplain of 
 
 the knights hospitallers, 38. 
 Hill, Hylle: 
 
 Gilbert of, of CUpston, sale of 
 woodland to, 242. 
 
 Richard, letters from, 161, 162. 
 
 , unjust dealings of, 163-164. 
 
 , clerk, 114. 
 
 , rector of Bilsthorpe, 113, 114. 
 
 , tenant by copy of court roll, 
 
 376. 
 
 Bobert, kilns emptied by, 459. 
 
 [7 Bobert], well cleaned by, 431. 
 
 Thomas, of the household at Wol- 
 laton, 169. . 
 
 William, brick-maker, 452. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs., at Wollaton, 462. 
 
 child of, christened, 422. 
 
 collier, 493. 
 Hilterston, John, of Nottingham, mer- 
 chant, depositions of, 118-119. 
 Hilton : 
 
 Bichard de, of Nottingham, 97. 
 
 (Willoughby) wife of, 507. 
 
 Hinde, Hynde : 
 
 Matthew, 399. 
 
 WiUiam, at Wollaton, 462, 463. 
 
 , his wife, 463. 
 
 , purchases by, 464. 
 
 Mr., 176. 
 Hinton, letter dated at, 589. 
 Hirmighelond : 
 
 Godfrey de, 35. 
 
 Balph son of Godfrey de, 35, 
 
680 
 
 Hobbya, Thomas, clerk, money received 
 
 by, 125. 
 Hobi, Houbi [Hoby, co. Leicester] : 
 Gilbert de, grant by, 33. 
 
 •, seal of, 34. 
 
 Hoby, Houby [co. Leicester], minister's 
 
 account of, 302. 
 Hochenhala. See Hucknall. 
 Hoddemon. See Hodsone. 
 Hoddesake. See Hodsack. 
 Hode. See Odo. 
 
 Hodde, John, goods appraised by, 474. 
 Hodhurst [Odhurst, co. Warwick], 
 
 Thomas de, 21. 
 Hodo. See Odo. 
 Hodsack, Hoddesake [in Blyth], co. 
 
 Notts, manor and soke of, 123. 
 Hodsone, William, son of John Hodde- 
 mon, Huddemou,of Bolton,hanged 
 for offences in co. Derby, 273. 
 Hody. See Ody. 
 
 Hoe [Hoo, CO. Norfolk], Walter de, 35. 
 Hogan, Simon, citizen of London, ap- 
 praiser to the archbishop of Can- 
 terbury, 466. 
 Hogsden. See Hoxton. 
 Hogswyn, payment of expenses of, 
 
 341. 
 Holaud. See Holland. 
 Holbech, Geoffrey de, 64. 
 Holborn. See London, places named. 
 Holcombe, co. Dorset, manor of, 124. 
 Holeway. See Holy. 
 Holland, Low Countries, waterworks of, 
 
 175. 
 Holland, Holand, Oliver, 388. 
 payment to, 435. 
 wages of, 439, 449, 542. 
 HoUe. See Kingston-upon-Hull. 
 Holllngworth : 
 Francis, 454. 
 John, 454. 
 
 Mr., expenses of, paid, 459. 
 Hollis, HoUys: 
 
 Sir John, suggested bond of Mr. 
 
 Beaumont to, 183. 
 Mr., reward to servant of, 432. 
 
 sister of lady Willoughby, 537. 
 
 HoUyweU, Halywell [? in WoUaton, co. 
 Notts] : 
 hay, etc., made in, 375, 387. 
 moles caught at, 427. 
 Holm. See Holme-on-the-Wolds 1 
 Hohn, Nicholas de, indicted for sheep- 
 
 steahng, 281. 
 Holme-on-the-Wolds ? Holm [co. York], 
 
 2, 4. 
 Holme Pierrepont, co. Notts, Lamcote in, 
 
 19n, 39ra, 46n. 
 Holou [in Bilborough, co. Notts]. See 
 
 Bilborough. 
 Holt, Holtleigh [in Wimborne Minster, 
 CO. Dorset], minister's account of, 
 302. 
 Holtto [in Kingsbury, co. Warwick] 
 grant of land in, 49. 
 Holt: 
 
 Lewin de, 49. 
 
 Holt — cord. 
 
 Roger de, 49. 
 
 del, 8. 
 
 Cf. Howlte. 
 Holy, Holeway [in White Staunton, co. 
 
 Somerset], minister's account of, 
 
 318. 
 Holy Land : 
 
 bequest in aid of, 84. 
 excepted from grant of service, 87. 
 Holy Roman Empire, Spanish applicatioji 
 
 of theory of, 189-191. 
 Holy Sepulchre, creaton of knight of, 
 
 140-141. 
 Homilies, metrical, 238-289. 
 Homonyms, Latin poem on, 217. 
 Honesworth. See Handsworth. 
 Honne, Henry Whithe, of Nottingham, 
 
 beaten, 281. 
 Honte, William, depositions of, 259. 
 
 Cf. Hunt. ' 
 
 Honychm-che, William, feofee for exe- 
 cution of will, 313. 
 Honyenby, William de, grant of forfeited 
 
 lands of, 72. 
 Honyter, Thomas, master of the chapel 
 
 and hospital of Holy Trinity, 
 
 Walsoken, letter of fraternity of, 
 
 125. 
 Cf. Hunter. 
 Hoo, CO. Norfolk. See Hoe. 
 Hoo AU Hallows, All Saints Parish in 
 
 Hoo hundred, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Hoo hundred [co. Kent], court rolls of, 
 
 285. 
 Hood, Dorothy (Stratford) wife of Mr., 
 
 a descendant of Robin Hood, 605. 
 Hopwas Hay, Happws Haye [co. Staf- 
 ford, near Tamworth], hunting at, 
 
 342. 
 Hordle, Hordhull, co. Hants, manor of, 
 
 124. 
 Horeston, co. Derby : 
 castle, 33w. 
 
 customs of mianor of, 247. 
 Horlaston. wee Harlaston. 
 Horn, TJlric, 58. 
 Home, CO. Surrey, deeds relating to, 627. 
 
 Home, 454. 
 
 Horreby, Joan widow of John de, knight, 
 
 attempted ravishment of, 281. 
 Horringford, Horyngforde [in New- 
 church], Isle of Wight, manor of, 
 
 124. 
 Horse calle(^ Dycoun, 85. 
 Horseley, Mr., teacher of arithmetic and 
 
 virginals, 413. 
 Horsepol, Simon de, 54. 
 Horses : 
 
 payment for shoes, etc., of, 435. 
 wild, bequest of, 257. 
 Horsley, Horslay, Horsseley [co. Derby], 
 
 120, 328, 399. 
 Horton [co. Dorset] : 
 
 church of St. Wulfilda, burial in, 
 
 103. 
 , bequests to fabric of, 101, 103. 
 
681 
 
 Horton — cont. 
 
 manor of, 105. 
 Baggridge in, 109, 114. 
 Horton Monachorum. See Monks Hor- 
 ton. 
 Horton Schirref, oo. Northumberland, 
 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 Horton, Mr., 395. 
 Horyngiorde. See Horringford. 
 Hosdaing, Raoul de, fabliau of, 233-234. 
 Hotes, Bobert, grant of forfeited lands 
 
 of, 72. 
 Hoton, Houton, co. Leicester, licence to 
 alienate land in, 89. 
 See Hutton. 
 Houbi, Houby. See Hobi, Hoby. 
 Houby. See Hobi, Hoby. 
 Houghe, Richard, sergeant at mace of 
 
 Sutton Coldfield, 156. 
 Household goods, inventories of, 465- 
 
 491. 
 Houton. See Hoton. 
 Hoveryngham : 
 
 Agnes Alexandri de, 281. 
 Gilbert de, beaten, 282. 
 How: 
 
 Sir Scroop, brother of, marriage 
 of, 607. 
 
 , , Leonora (Bathurst) his 
 
 daughter, 607. 
 Howard : 
 
 lord Charles, in company of duke 
 
 of Anjou, 553. 
 Thomas, earl of Surrey and second 
 duke of Norfolk, at the battle of 
 Flodden, 146. 
 , , Mtiriel (Grey) his daugh- 
 ter, 508. 
 
 , -third duke of Norfolk, 390. 
 
 , , lieutenant of the Scot- 
 tish border, 510. 
 
 , , services of, in Prance, 
 
 146. 
 
 , , , in Navarre, 146. 
 
 Howlte, Mr,, reward to servant of, 339. 
 
 Cf. Holt. 
 Hoxton, Hogsden, co. Middlesex, 564. 
 Hoylele, John, 110. 
 
 Hucknall, Hochenhala, Hukenale [co. 
 Notts], 40 n. 
 Henry the clerk of, 40, 42. 
 Hucknall, Ault [co. Derby], Hardstoft 
 in, 280-281. 
 Stainsby in, 273, 280, 281, 624. 
 Hucknall Torkard, co. Notts, 19«. 
 Hucknall-under-Huthwaite, co. Notts, 
 
 Fulwood in, 241. 
 Huddemon. See Hodsone. 
 Hudson : 
 
 Hugh, churchwarden of Wollatou, 
 
 151. 
 John, coal accounts of, 494. 
 Mr., 415. 
 
 clothes for, 402-404. 
 payments to, 407, 412. 
 Huese, Ralph, 32. 
 
 Huggate, Hugate [co. York], Nicholas, 
 parson of, 4. 
 
 Hugh: 
 
 Eustace son of, grant by, 46. 
 
 , seal of, 46. 
 
 Juliana wife of William son of, de 
 
 Bridessale, 22. 
 Robert son of, 57, 79. 
 
 , de Titheby, 27. 
 
 , of Cossal, 76. 
 
 Roger son of, 44. 
 Stephen son of, 46. 
 Waiiam son of, 27. 
 
 , de Bridessale, grant by, 22. 
 
 William son of, 22. 
 
 . . . . , legacy to, 102. 
 Cf. Pitzhugh. 
 Huitt, Hwght : 
 
 Richard, baker of Tamworth, mar- 
 riage of, 346. 
 Mr., draper, of Candelwick street, 
 loan of money by, 157. 
 Hukenale. See Hucknall. 
 Hulehale [XJUenhaU in Wooton Wawen, 
 
 CO. Warwick], William de, 36. 
 Hulfketel, Geoffrey, 21. 
 Hull, CO. Somerset, minister's account 
 of, 318. 
 See Kingston-upou-HuU. 
 Huhno, Walter del, 18. 
 Hulvestorp. See Ulvestorp. 
 Humez : 
 
 Richard de, constable, 3. 
 William de, constable, 23n, 24. 
 Humphrey : 
 
 Alan son of, de Eddriceston, grant 
 by, 46, 47. 
 
 , , seal of, 47. 
 
 Roger [rectius Reinfrid '] son of, 
 grant to, 271. 
 Humtingtou. See Huntingdon. 
 Hunald, king of Toulouse, mentioned in 
 
 fabliau, 228. 
 Hunberht, dux, 209. 
 Hundedunescira. See Huntingdon, county 
 
 of. 
 Hungerford, Ralph de, 52, 53. 
 Hunsdon, lord. See Carey, Henry. 
 Hunston. See Hauston. 
 Hunt: 
 
 Henry, of Lenton, child of, chris- 
 tened, 440. 
 John, payment to, for wine, 441. 
 William Le, sale of Middleton New 
 
 Park by, 194. 
 Cf. Honte. 
 Hunteland, co. Hertford, deeds relating 
 
 to, 625. 
 Hunter, Hunte, Venator, Venour : 
 Benedict, 79. 
 Hubert the, 35. 
 John le, deed of emancipation by, 
 
 78. 
 Maud mother of Philip le, dower 
 
 lands of, 86. 
 Philip le, of Middleton, grant by, 86. 
 Waiiam le, 81. 
 
 , baUifE of the French borough 
 
 of Nottingham, 77. 
 Gf. Honyter. 
 
682 
 
 Huntingdon, county of, Hundeduneacira, 
 
 forestry of, 2, 3. 
 Huntingdon, Humtington, Huntington, 
 
 earl of. See Hastings. 
 Huntyngton, young ladies of, at Wol- 
 
 laton, 418. 
 Hurer, Gilbert le, 87. 
 Hurley, Hurle, Hurlea, Hurlega, Hurn- 
 lee [parish of Kingsbury, co. 
 Warwick] : 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 grants of land in, 21. 
 
 , confirmed, 22. 
 
 grants of mill in, 15-17. 
 rental of, 305. 
 Hurley [in Kingsbury, co. Warwick], 
 Hurlee, Hurnle, Hurnlee : 
 Godfrey de, 16. 
 
 son of Ingrid de, 14. 
 
 , confirmation of grant 
 
 by, 22. 
 
 , grant by, 21. 
 
 Hacun de, 16, 17. 
 Ingrid de, 22. 
 William de, 48. 
 
 sou of Godfrey de, 21, 47. 
 
 , confii'mation of grant 
 
 by, 22. 
 Hurtefruut, William, 19. 
 Hurtt, Mr., at Wollaton, 462, 463. 
 Husbote and heibote, 17, 49, 87. 
 Husse, William, rector of Wollaton, obit 
 of, 237. 
 
 , — • — , service book purchased 
 
 out of estate of, 236. 
 Uustorp. See Owthorpe ? 
 Hutton, Hotou, co. York, 64. 
 Huuicciorum* See Htvicciorum. 
 Hwght. See Huitt. 
 Hwicciormn, Huuiccioruin, Mons, [co. 
 
 Gloucester], 201, a02. 
 Hwithyse, minister, 209. 
 Hyde, Hide, Hydde : 
 Geoffrey atte, 86. 
 Jaket de la, 80. 
 
 Thomas, accounts rendered by, 315, 
 316. 
 
 , expenses of, paid, 387, 388. 
 
 furniture in bedchamber of, 480. 
 Hykelton, Robert de, assaulted, 281. 
 Hyll. See Hill. 
 
 Hylston, John, prior of Lenton, grant 
 by, 124. 
 Cf. Ilkston. 
 Hynde. See Hinde. 
 Hynton, Wuellia, letter signed by, 602. 
 Hyrryngton [co. York], minister's ac- 
 count of, 307. 
 Hyrtyngdon [co. York], minister's ac- 
 count of, 307. 
 Hytho, West, Westhytho, co. Kent, 
 action concerning land in, 283. 
 
 I 
 
 Ible, Ibole [in Wirksworth], co. Derby, 
 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 Idouea lady [? of Stanton-by-Dale], 45. 
 Ightham [co. Kent] : 
 
 court rolls of, 297, 303, 304, 306, 317, 
 
 318, 320. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 Ham, Hum [co. Stafford], bequest of land 
 
 in, to Burton abbey, 256. 
 Ilkeston, Ilston, Ylkeston [co. Derby], 
 445. 
 sale of wood at, 317. 
 Ilkston, John, brother of Robert, rector 
 of Wollaton, obit of, 237. 
 Cf. Hylston. 
 Ilston. See Ilkeston. 
 Hum. See Ham. 
 Hum, Brother Henry, monk of Burton, 
 
 252. 
 India, East Indies, Ynde, 603. 
 
 sendal pale d', 465. 
 Indictments : 
 
 delivery of bundle of, 93. 
 for offences in cos. Derby and 
 Notts, 272-282. 
 Indies, president of the [Spanish] coun- 
 cil of the, 187. 
 See India. 
 Indulgence, papal, 137. 
 Inges, Roger de, 5. » 
 
 Inggelby, Yngulby : 
 
 John, chaplain, obit of, 236. 
 
 son of Sh' William, 114. 
 
 Ingleby, Bngleby juxla Fornewerke, 
 Ingilby in Repingdon [in Pore- 
 mark], 00. Derby, deeds relating 
 to, 624. 
 Ingram : 
 
 John, 99. 
 
 Richard, of Gedling, 91. 
 Ingrid, Ingrit : 
 
 Godfrey son of, de Hurnlee, 14. 
 John son of, 15, 48. 
 Inkberrow, Intebeorgan [co. Worcester], 
 confirmation of grant of land at, 
 206. 
 Innocent : 
 
 IV., pope, 127. 
 VIII., pope, 133. 
 
 , death of, 613. 
 
 , peace between, and the king 
 
 of Naples, 260. 
 
 , prophecy of death of, 264. 
 
 Inquisition, president of the council of 
 
 the, 187. 
 Inquisitions : 
 
 ad quod damnum, 242. 
 , post mortem, 99, 122, 132, 149. 
 Insula. See Lisle. 
 
683 
 
 Intebeorgan. See Inkberrow. 
 Interlude, 424. 
 
 Inventories of household goods, 465-491. 
 lohanbert. See Jaenbeorht. 
 Ireland, Yereland, 334, 605, 606. 
 
 poor man from, 441. 
 Ireton, Yerton, Richard, servant of Mr. 
 Wynfilde, 391. 
 Cf. Irton. 
 Irewis. See Erewash. 
 Iron : 
 
 forges, accounts, etc., relating to, 
 
 492-497. 
 mills, 1§2. 
 Ironstone, mine of, 75. 
 Irton, Adam de, indicted, 276. 
 
 Cf. Ireton. 
 Isabel, queen, consort of Edward II., 
 
 gift by, to Queen Philippa, 90. 
 Isabella, consort of Ferdinand V. of 
 Spain, assistance of, at capture 
 of Granada, 260, 263. 
 Iscanus, Bartholomew, bishop of Exeter, 
 
 23n, 24. 
 Isle, L'. See Lisle. 
 Islington [co. Middlesex], prebendary of. 
 
 See Donjon, Ralph de. 
 Isocrates quoted (in Latin), 175. 
 Italian : 
 
 handwriting taught, 413. 
 lessons in, 560. 
 
 mathematical works written in, 534. 
 Italy, Ttayle, 603. 
 
 peace prevalent in, 260. 
 
 president of the [Spanish] council of, 
 
 187. 
 water-works of, 175. 
 workmen and stonework for WoUa- 
 ton hall from, 565. 
 Itchington, Long, co. Warwick, deeds 
 
 relating to, 627. 
 Ithel, ItheU: 
 
 Geoffrey, account audited by, 452. 
 
 Peerse, 474. 
 
 Thomas, death of, 272-274. 
 
 , indictment of, 273. 
 
 servant of Sir Francis Willoughby, 
 defamation of lady Willoughby 
 by, 533, 531. 
 letter from, abstract of, 535. 
 Ivessone, Henry, harbourer of felons, 272. 
 Ivo, Yvo : 
 
 Henry son of, of Taddington, in- 
 dicted for offences in co. Derby, 
 273, 274. 
 Richard son of, of Taddington, in- 
 dicted for offences in co. Derby, 
 275. 
 Robert son of, 25. 
 
 J 
 
 Jackes, Jakes : 
 Francis, 429. 
 
 James, expenses of, paid, 436. 
 Jackson, Jacsone : 
 
 John, waiter at Wollaton, 168. 
 Robert, prior of the friars Preachers 
 of Derby, grant of fraternity by, 
 . 121. 
 
 Sir Robert, payment to, 375. 
 Mr., of Nottingham, at Wollaton, 
 
 462. 
 Mrs., of Nottingham, and her daugh- 
 ter, at Wollaton, 463. 
 
 horse leech, 433. 
 
 . . . . , payment to, 430. 
 Jaenbeorht, lohanbert, archbishop [of 
 
 Canterbury], 203. 
 Jakes. See Jackes. 
 James I. : 
 
 at Middleton Hall, 560. 
 proposals for supply of coal to, 169. 
 reception of, in Scotland, 185-186. 
 James IV., king of Scotland, death of, 
 
 at Plodden, 146. 
 James, Yamsws : 
 
 Roger sou of, 9. 
 
 Robert, ale taken at house of, 343. 
 , payment to wife of, for watch- 
 ing by gibbet, 382. 
 witness, 13. 
 Jameta. See Lauienza. 
 Jane [Seymom-], queen, letter from, 517- 
 
 518. 
 Janitor, Idnard, 51. 
 Janyn, legacy to, 102. 
 Jarlande, Hugh, shepherd at Basford, 
 
 418. 
 Jarrow [co. Durham], abbot of. See Ceol- 
 
 fred. 
 Jaumbes, William, 77. 
 Jeaycotte, Alys, 622. 
 Jebse, Robert, marriage of, 343. 
 Jelyfe, Robert, child of, christened, 376. 
 
 Cf. Gaylyfe. 
 Jene, Jenes. See Genoa. 
 Jergente [? Girgenti], William de, 32. 
 Jermany. Sec Germany. 
 Jernyngham : 
 
 Isabel (Clifton) wife of John, 283. 
 John, esquire, action of trespass 
 against, 283. 
 
 , , chancery suit of, 283. 
 
 Jerusalem : 
 
 creation of knight of the Holy Sepul- 
 chre dated at, 141. 
 hospital of St. John of. See St. John, 
 pilgrimage to, 124. 
 prophecies concerning conquest of, 
 263, 265, 266. 
 
684 
 
 Jervis, Jervys, John, boat of, 173. 
 
 Jesson, grave made by, 449. 
 
 Jessop, Alexander, of Headon, discIaimeT 
 
 of arms of, 179. 
 Jesuit order, raised by the providence 
 
 of God's vicar, 191. 
 Jewels, 573. 
 coral, 136. 
 diamond, 85, 604. 
 emerald, 85, 90, 465. 
 garnet, 604. 
 
 pearl, 85, 90, 465, 572, 604. 
 ruby, 90, 465, 604. 
 sapphire, 84, 90. 
 Job, commentary on book of, 420. 
 John, King, charters of, 37, 51, 246. 
 John, count of Mortaigne, earl of Morton 
 
 [laier Icing John], grant by, 241. 
 John X., pope, 127. 
 John XI., pope, 127. 
 John, duke of Lancaster, king of Castile 
 and Leon, retainer of military 
 services by, 99, 100. 
 Jolin Sans Peur, duke of Burgundy, life 
 
 of, saved, 263, 266. 
 John : 
 
 Eustace son of, 4rt. 
 
 Geoffrey son of, de Levedale, grant 
 
 by, 57. 
 Lewys appe, 378. 
 
 Little, of the kitchen, shoes for, 387. 
 Nicholas up, Uppejohn, 371. 
 
 , payment to, 344. 
 
 Robert son of, 5. 
 JoUan : 
 
 Richard son of, of Reston, grant 
 by, 19. 
 
 , , seal of, 19. 
 
 Thomas sou of, 23. 
 Jones, Jonez : 
 
 ^^'alter, commissary of the Checker 
 
 at York, 150. 
 William, reeve of Middleton, 290, 
 291. 
 Jorce, Simon le, of Wimeswold, licence 
 
 to, to alienate, 89. 
 Jordan, river, pilgrimage to, 140. 
 Jorz [Jort, Normandy] : 
 
 Agnes wife of Geoffrey de, 27». 
 Geoffrey de, 27, 27n, 33, 46. 
 Josaphat, valley of, tomb of the Virgin 
 
 Mary in, 140.' 
 Jowgler. See Juggler. 
 Joynes, Robert, expenses of, paid, 433. 
 Judas, mentioned in fabliau, 231. 
 Judde, Rafe, bequest to, 113. 
 Juel, John, legacy to, 83. 
 Jueta, Simon son of, 42. 
 Juggler, jowglor, reward to, 343, 359. 
 Julian Dati, bishop of San Leone, 139. 
 Julius IL, pope, 127, 133. 
 Junson, Jwnson, oats harvested in close 
 
 of, 419. 
 Jurdon : 
 
 Geoffrey, 63. 
 John, 109. 
 Justices of the peace to be in the com- 
 mission for one county only, 533. 
 
 Juvenis, 
 Jwnson. 
 
 See Young. 
 See Junson. 
 
 K 
 
 Kam. See Camme. 
 
 Kanke. See Cannock. 
 
 Kardoiir. See Carlisle. 
 
 Karlemainne. See Charlemagne. 
 
 Karleton. See Carlton. 
 
 Karyngton, Henry, 131. 
 
 Katherine of Arragon, queen of England, 
 
 letter from, 513-514. 
 Katherine queen of England, mother of 
 
 Henry VL, grant by, 110. 
 Kayghley, Kayglay, Kighley : 
 
 Ralph, payments to, 340, 369. 
 I child of, christened, 437. 
 
 j Kearney, Henry John, 608. 
 
 Kedleston, Keydelston, co. Derby, 508. 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 i Kegworth [co. Leicester], 430. 
 I deeds relating to, 626. 
 
 I Kelham, co. Notts, deeds relating to, 626. 
 Kellemayle. See Kenilworth. 
 Kemo : 
 
 John, 213. 
 WiOiam, 213. 
 Ken, John de, 52. 
 Kendal cloth, cayndoll, 383. 
 Kendall : 
 
 Samuel, rector of WoUaton, action 
 
 brought by, 323. 
 Thomas, steward, payment to, 308. 
 Kene, WiUiam, legacy to, 102. 
 Kenilworth, Kellemayle, Killingworth, 
 Kyllingworth, Kyllyngworth, 528, 
 530, 537. 
 abbot of, 378. 
 
 , reward to officers of, 345. 
 
 the court entertained at, 528. 
 Kent: 
 
 bonds taken to observe Lenten fast 
 
 in, 152. 
 deputy-lieutenant of. See Leveson, 
 
 Sk' John, 
 lord lieutenant of. See Brooke, 
 
 WiUiam. 
 musters in, 152, 156, 158-162. 
 sheriff of. See CornhuUe, Reginald 
 de ; Willoughby, (DD). 
 
 and justices of, letters to, 160. 
 
 Kenulf. See Cenulf. 
 
 Kepsbroke [co. Kent], court rolls of, 315, 
 
 Ker : 
 
 John del, 96. 
 
 William de la, grant to, 79. 
 Kersington, William de, 30. 
 Ket. See Kett. 
 Ketell', Henry, priest, 95. 
 
 Cf. Kettle. 
 Ketle. See Kettle. 
 
685 
 
 Ketlebi [ Abkettleby, co. Leicester], Ralph 
 
 de, grant to, 29. 
 Eett, Ket, Robert, rebellion of, 396, 519. 
 Kettle, Ketle, John, wages of, 426, 440, 
 450. 
 Cf. Keteir. 
 Kevervilla, Walter de, 35. 
 Kew, Keyo [co. Surrey], 507. 
 Keword [Keyworth, co. Notts], Gervase 
 
 son of Isabel de, S3. 
 Key, wife of, payment to, 387. 
 Keydelston. See Kedleston. 
 Keyo. See Kew. 
 
 Keys, Mary (Grey) wife of Martin, Ser- 
 jeant porter to queen Elizabeth, 
 518. 
 Keyworth, co. Notts. See Keword. 
 Kidisley, Henry de, of Cossall, demise of 
 
 mine to, 88. 
 KighUl. See Kygyll. 
 Kighley. See Kayghley. 
 Kilboum [in Horsley], co. Derby, deeds 
 
 relating to, 624. 
 Kilbourne, Fi'ancis, of Stanford-on-Soar, 
 
 disclaimer of arms of, 179. 
 Kilham, co. York, Swaythorpe in, grant 
 of land in, 60. 
 See Killum. 
 Killimen, William, of Normanton, dis- 
 claimer of arms of, 179. 
 Killingworth. See Kenilworth. 
 Killum [Kilham, co. York], Stephen de, 
 
 4, in. 
 Kilpek, connection of family of, with 
 
 family of Previle, 506. 
 Kilvington, Kylvyngton [co. Notts] : 
 court rolls of, 304. 
 Alverton in, 304. 
 Kimberley, Kinemarle [co. Notts], 42. 
 
 See Kynmarley. 
 Kindersley, Mr., 165. 
 Cf. Kyuardesleye. 
 Kinebald, Robert, 16. 
 Kiueberht, dux, 209. 
 Kineburhglngtuu [co. Gloucester], grant 
 
 of land in, 207, 208. 
 Kineburhgingtun. See Kemerton. 
 Kineferth. See Cynefrith. 
 Kinemarle. See Kimberley. 
 Kinesberi, Kinesberia, Kinesbire, Kines- 
 
 buria. See Kingsbury. 
 Kingesford, John de, 47. 
 King's Bench. See'Bench. 
 Kingsbury, Kinesberia, Kingsburio, 
 Kinisberia, Kinisbiris, Kinsburie, 
 Kinsbury, Kynnesbury, Kynsbay- 
 ry, Kynsberie, Kynsebayry, co, 
 Warwick, 131, 507, 543, 545-547, 
 551, 573. 
 armour bought at, 339. 
 church of, 8, 9. 
 
 , charter written in, 16. 
 
 , vicar of. See Wenloke, 
 
 Thomas, 
 court rolls of, 299, 301, 305. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 grants of land in, 4, 14, 16, 17, 48, 
 49. 
 
 Kingsbiuy — cont. 
 
 of mill in, 8, 9, 15, 17, 270. 
 
 Hall, disturbance at, 547, 552. 
 
 , mortgage of, 570. 
 
 letter dated at, 532. 
 minister's account of, 289. 
 park, grant of land near, 47. 
 
 , underkceper of, 346. 
 
 places named in, 4, 5, 15-17, 21, 
 
 47-49, 305. 
 rentals of, 298, 315, 321. 
 sale of wood at, 554. 
 secured to Sir Percival Willoughby, 
 
 571, 573, 581, 583. 
 tithes of, 515. 
 Kingsbury, Kinesberi, Kinesbire, Kines- 
 buria : 
 Alice de, grant by, 17. 
 Godfrey de, 48. 
 Herbert de, 4. 
 Peter de, priest, 9. 
 Kingshaugh, Kyngeshagh [in Darlton], 
 
 CO. Notts, boundaries of, 241. 
 Kiugshurst Hall, Kyngeshorste [in Coles- 
 hill, CO. Warwick], 364. 
 Kingston juxta Byre. See Winterborne 
 
 Kingston. 
 Kingston Lacy [parish of Wimborne 
 Minster, co. Dorset] : 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 ministers' accounts of, 296, 306, 319. 
 rentals of, 293, 313. 
 Kingston Marlwood, Kyngston Mawre- 
 
 ward, CO. Dorset, 105. 
 Kingston-on-Soar, Kynston, co. Notts : 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 outlaw received at, 280. 
 Kingston St. Mary [co. Somerset], Nails- 
 bourne in, 318. 
 Kingston-upon-HuU, HoUe, Hull [co. 
 York], 501. 
 account relating to, 443. 
 earl of. See Pierrepont, William, 
 proposal for carriage of coal by sea 
 
 to London via, 171-172. 
 reward to players of, 440. 
 Kinisberia, Kinisbiris, Kinsburie, Kins- 
 bury. See Kingsbury. 
 Kirby, Dorothy, daughter of William 
 
 Pargiter, 605. 
 Kirby Bellars, Billars, Kirkbie Sellers 
 [co. Leicester] : 
 letter dated at, 595. 
 letters directed to, 594, 597. 
 Kirby Wiske, co. York, deeds relating 
 
 to, 627. 
 Kirchiver, Hugh, of Orston, 179. 
 Kirkby in Ashfield, Kyrkeby super Asshe- 
 
 feld, deeds relating to, 626. 
 Kirkby Ravensworth [co. York], Ravens- 
 worth in, 306, 307. 
 Kirketon : 
 
 Sir Alexander de, knight, 63. 
 Robert de, 64. 
 Kirk Hallam. See Hallam. 
 Kirk Langley. See Langley. 
 Kirkham, Kyrkeham [co. York], R. 
 prior of, 60. 
 
686 
 
 Kirklington, Kirtelington, Kyrkelyngton 
 [CO. Notts] : 
 chapel of St. Anthony, bequests 
 
 to, 113. 
 court rolls of, 287. 
 Klyfton. See Clifton. 
 Kneeton, Kniveton, co. Notts, deeds 
 
 relating to, 626. 
 Kneton, Geoffrey, constable of Notting- 
 ham castle and clerk of the forest, 
 account of, 245. 
 Knight, Knyght : 
 
 Geoffrey the, of Sutton, 11. 
 Sir Thomas, burled at Chiddingstone, 
 150. 
 Knighton, West, Westaforde Knyghte- 
 tone [co. Dorset] : 
 deeds relating to, 624 
 grant of land in, 93. 
 Knights hospitallers. See St. John of 
 
 Jerusalem. 
 Knightstreet [in MarnhuU] ? Kyngestrete, 
 
 CO. Dorset, 91. 
 Kniveton, Chniweton, Kuyveton ? Kui- 
 tona : 
 Andrew de, indicted for sheep- 
 stealing, 281. 
 John de, wounded at Chesterfiold, 
 
 278. 
 Eichard de, 55. 
 Eobert de, 27. 
 
 William dc, knight, slain at Bradley, 
 273. 
 Knolls, Knowelles, Sir Frances, 417. 
 
 letter from, 538. 
 KnowHon, Knolton, Cnoltune [in Wood- 
 lands, CO. Dorset] : 
 church of, bequest to, 101. 
 
 , light in, 44. 
 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 field, rentals of, 291, 304. 
 manor of, 105. 
 Knowlton, Knolton hundred [co. Dorset] : 
 court rolls of, 293, 295, 297, 298, 
 300-305, 307, 309, 311, 313, 314, 
 318, 320. 
 grant of, 270. 
 ministers' accounts of, 296, 298, 306, 
 
 320. 
 rental of, 320. 
 serjeanty in, 110, 114. 
 Knyght. See Knight. 
 Knyghtetone. See Knighton. 
 Knyveton. See Kniveton. 
 Knyvett, proposed marriage of, 516- 
 
 517. 
 Kotes, Roger de, 49. 
 Kuitona. See Kniveton ? 
 Kullee, William de, 22. 
 Kwernby, Mr., payments to, 343, 347. 
 KygyU waste, co. Notts, boundaries of, 
 
 241. 
 Kyllymarcho of Dunmow, joiner, 400. 
 Kyllingworth, Kyllyngworth. See Kenil- 
 
 worth. 
 Kylvyngton. See Kilvington. 
 Kyme priory [co. Lincoln], prior of, 
 14. 
 
 Kyme : 
 
 Petronilla daughter of Simon son of 
 Simon de, 28n. 
 
 Philip de, 29. 
 
 , grant confirmed by, 14, 14n. 
 
 , John his clerk, 14. 
 
 Philip son of Philip de, 14. 
 
 Ralph brother of Simon de, 18. 
 
 Richard de, canon of Lincoln, 44. 
 
 Roger son of Philip de, canon, 14. 
 
 Simon de, 43, 44. 
 
 son of Philip de, 14. 
 
 son of Simon de, grants by, 
 
 18, 28, 28k. 
 
 WiUiam son of Philip de, 14. 
 Kynardesleye, John de, canon of Lich- 
 field, indicted, 275. 
 
 Cf. Kindersley. 
 Kynethrith, queen of Mercia, 203. 
 Kyngeshagh. See Kingshaugh. 
 Kyngeshorste. See Kingshurst. 
 Kyngestrete. See Knightstreet. 
 Kyngston Mawreward. See Kingston 
 
 Marlwood. 
 Kynmarley [Kimberley, co. Notts], 
 
 Robert de, 83. 
 Kynnesbury, Kynsbayry, Kynsberio, 
 
 Kynsebayry. See Kingsbury. 
 Kynston. See Kingston-on-Soar. 
 Kyuton, expenses of, paid, 412. 
 Kyrke Halam. See HaUam. 
 Kyrkeham. See Kirkham. 
 Kyrkelyngton. See Kirklington. 
 Kyrkhalam. See HaUam. 
 KystwU, William Whythe, child of, 
 christened, 365. 
 
 Lackey, Lackye, Richard, expenses of, 
 paid, 433. 
 
 , wages of, 439, 449, 542. 
 
 Lacock, George, conveyance to, 608. 
 Lacy : 
 
 John de, constable of Chester, grant 
 
 confirmed by, 10. 
 Richard de, citizen of London, 89. 
 
 , knight, 91. 
 
 Lade, John de la, grant of forfeited 
 
 lands of, 72. 
 Lady, Domine, Robert son of the, 58. 
 Lake [in Wilsford], co. Wilts, manor of, 
 
 124. 
 Lalleford, John of East Greenwich, 
 
 demise to, 110. 
 Lambe, L., collier, 492. 
 Lambert : 
 
 Adam son of, 36. 
 Hugh, 60. 
 John son of, 50. 
 Richai-d, 60. 
 Lambeth [oo. Surrey], wills proved at, 13 1 , 
 
687 
 
 Lambeth Marsh [co. Surrey], Carlisle 
 House in, letters directed to, 176, 
 177, 181, 182. 
 Lambley, Lamel', Lamley [oo. Notts], 
 324, 453, 607. 
 court rolls of, 313, 320. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 manor of, descent and partition of, 
 
 608. 
 sale of, 581. 
 Lamcote [in Holme Pierrepont, co. 
 
 Notts], 19n, 39n, 46;i. 
 Lamel', Lamley. See Lambley. 
 Lamenza, Picardy ? Jameta, 235. 
 Lancaster, duke of. See John. 
 Lancastre, William de, 99. 
 Lancketon. See Langton Herring. 
 Landric, Alan son of, 2. 
 Laudstephan. See Llanstephan. 
 Lane : 
 
 John a', maker of wax, 371. 
 Peter in the (in Venellu), de Mus- 
 cham, 94. 
 Langam, Mr., physician, rewards to, 
 
 341, 346, 369. 
 Langar [co. Notts], court rolls of, 288. 
 Langare [Langar, co. Notts], Master 
 
 Eichard de, 27. 
 Langedon : 
 
 John de, 49. 
 Robert de, 16. 
 Langeford, Nicholas de, keeper of the 
 peace and justice of oyer and ter- 
 miner in CO. Derby, proceedings 
 before, 272-282. 
 Cf. Longeford. 
 Langeton, Walter de, bishop of Coventry 
 and Lichfield, bishop of Chester, 
 86, 327. 
 Langeton Heryng. See Langton Herring. 
 Langewin. See Angevin. 
 Langley, Kirk, co. Derby : 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 minister's account of, 296. 
 Langley, Thomas, of Worksop, disclaimer 
 
 of arms of, 179. 
 Langton, oo. Stafford. See Longdon. 
 Langton Herring, Lancketon, Langeton 
 Heryng [co. Dorset] : 
 admiralty court of, 319. 
 court rolls of, 297, 301, 306, 307, 
 
 309, 310, 312, 319, 320. 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 termor of. See Bussell, John, 
 ministers' accounts of, 296,298,299, 
 
 306, 307, 319, 320. 
 rentals of, 306, 320. 
 Langton Matravers, co. Dorset, Wilks- 
 
 wood priory in, 30, 102, 283. 
 Langton Wallis, Walles, WaUyshe, 
 Walysche, Walysh, Walysshe, 
 Welshe [co. Dorset], 157. 
 court rolls of, 288, 295, 296, 302-307, 
 
 309-312, 318-320. 
 deeds relating to, 024. 
 ministers' accounts of, 296, 299, 
 
 306, 319, 320. 
 rental of, 320. 
 
 Langton Walk in Sherwood forest, co. 
 
 Notts, grant of forestry of, 501. 
 Langwith, Langwath [co. Derby]: 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 
 minister's account of, 298. 
 Laram, Sir Robert, chaplain, 308. 
 Larcher, John, bailiff of Nottingham, 
 620. 
 Cf. Archer. 
 Large : 
 
 Hugh, Hwght, 148, 340, 342. 
 
 , payments to, 330, 338, 353. 
 
 , wages of, 371. 
 
 William, of Dunsby, manumission 
 of, 101. 
 Larke, Mr., payment to, 340. 
 Larkfleld, Larkefeud hundred [co. Kent], 
 
 court roUs of, 285. 
 Laron, Robuedin li, character in 
 
 fabliau, 228. 
 Laselse, of Nottingham, reward to, 384t 
 Lasham, Lassham, co. Hants, 283. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 grant of manor and advowson of, 91. 
 Lassoe, Mrs., daughter of Thomas Wil- 
 
 loughby, 603. 
 Latimer, Latymer : 
 
 Elias, grandson (nepos) of William, 2. 
 John son of William, knight, grants 
 
 to, 19. 
 William, 2, 4. 
 Latimer, claim to peerage of, 568. 
 Latin : 
 
 English preferred to, for homily, 
 
 239. 
 epitaph in, 155. 
 grammar, metrical works on, 213- 
 
 216. 
 psalter, 411. 
 quotations, 175-176, 182. 
 
 , in charges at quarter sessions, 
 
 284. 
 Latymer, endorsement of roll, 283. 
 
 See Latimer. 
 Launders, Alice, the wages of, 439, 541. 
 Laundesdale, payment to, 426. 
 Lawerna [on Laughern Brook, near 
 Worcester], co. Worcester, deeds 
 relating to, 627. 
 Lawrans, Robert, rector of Wollaton and 
 
 Averham, obit of, 237. 
 Lawton Gate, Lcatonyate [in Church 
 
 Lawton, co. Chester], 426, 427. 
 Laxton [co. Notts], 34«. 
 Richard de, 34, 34n. 
 Robert brother of Richard de, 34. 
 Laycostre. See Leicester. 
 Layche. See Leech. 
 Laychefeld. See Lichfield. 
 Laycytre, Laycytur, Laysytur. See 
 
 Leicester. 
 Lazarus, raising of, 226. 
 Leacon in Westwall, co. Kent? Leitun, 36. 
 Leadsmith (plumbifaber), Elias the, of 
 
 Esbrook, 47. 
 Leake [co. Notts], Leca, Leche, Leek, 
 Leke, Leyc : 
 Francis, of Sutton, 466. 
 
688 
 
 Leake — cord. 
 
 Sir Francis, 425. 
 
 James, steward of Sir Henry Wil- 
 
 loughby, 330. 
 John de, 59. 
 
 , of Halam, 114. 
 
 — — , son of William de, 26«. 
 
 Sir John, manorial records of, 288. 
 
 Sampson de, 59. 
 
 Simon, of Cotham, Anne Willough- 
 
 by his daughter, 505. 
 William de, 18, 26, 26«, 27, 40, 46. 
 payment to, for lace, 448. 
 Leake, Bast, Bsterleyk, co. Notts, deeds 
 
 relating to, 626. 
 Lea-Marston, Lee and Marston, Leye, 
 Le Lee [co. Warwick], 290, 291. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 feast at, 383. 
 
 Blackgreaves Farm in. See Black- 
 grave. 
 Leatonyate. See Lawton Gate. 
 Leca. See Leake. 
 Lecchelade, Hugh de, vie', 33, 33n. 
 Lecester, Leceter, Leycestria, Leyster, 
 454. 
 John, 399. 
 
 , account rendered by, 314. 
 
 William de, canon of Liclifield, re- 
 ceiver of outlaws, 275, 277. 
 Leche. See Leake. 
 Lechefeld, Lechefyeld, Lechefylde. See 
 
 Lichfield. 
 Ledbury [co. Hereford], 130. 
 Lee, Le Lee [in Lea-Marston, co. War- 
 wick], ministers' accounts of, 290, 
 291. 
 Lee, Thomas de, de le, accounts ren- 
 dered by, 290, 291. 
 Cf. Leye. 
 Leece, William, payment to, 431. 
 Leech, Layche, Roger, surgeon, rewards 
 
 to, 347, 385. 
 Leeds, co. Kent, deeds relating to, 625. 
 Leeds [co. York], 499. 
 Leeis, Hugh, payment to, 426. 
 Leek, Lceke [co. Stafford] : 
 
 dean of. See Cantrell, Ralph. 
 Rudyard in, 256. 
 Leek. .See Leake. 
 Leemyng, wages of, paid, 440. 
 Leen, Liene, river [co. Notts], 40. 
 Lees Moor, near Bakewell, co. Derby 
 ? hermitage of Leyes, outlaws re- 
 ceived at, 275. 
 Lega : 
 
 Hugh de, 51. 
 
 Simon de, nuncius of queen Eleanor, 
 grant by, 86. 
 Legal treatises, 236. 
 Legate, William the, 11. 
 Leghe, Lethg', Leye, Lye : 
 
 John de, knight, indicted, 274-276, 
 
 278, 281. 
 dame Margaret, Lady Lye, wife of 
 Sir Peter Leghe and mother of 
 Henry Willoughby, 119, 120, 122. 
 See also Willoughby (P). 
 
 Leghe, dame Mai^aret — cant. 
 
 , , agreements by, 120, 
 
 121. 
 
 , , illness of, 118. 
 
 , , obit of, 236. 
 
 Sir Peter of, reward to officers of, 
 
 367. 
 Robert brother of John de, indicted, 
 
 274-276, 278, 281. 
 Legist, Master Stephen the, 4. 
 Leiburn. See Leyburn'. 
 Leicester, Laycestre, Laycytre, Laycytur, 
 
 Laysytur, Leister, 109, 111, 112, 
 
 347, 426, 436, 442, 447, 450, 462, 
 
 556. 
 assizes at, 367. 
 bishop of. See Wernbeorht. 
 court of the justices of the peace at, 
 
 133. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 deputy of the mayor of the staple at, 
 
 266. 
 
 , mayor of, to act as, 617. 
 
 document dated at, 100. 
 forest, 378. 
 
 friar of, reward to, 360. 
 waits of, rewards to, 335, 441. 
 The Cock, Cokk, in, 112. 
 Leicester, county of, sheriff of. See 
 
 Turpin, Sir George ; Willoughby 
 
 (Q). 
 
 Leicester, earl of. See Dudley, Robert ; 
 
 Montfort, Simon de. 
 Leigh, Leighe [parish of Wimborne Min- 
 ster, CO. Dorset], minister's account 
 of, 302. 
 Leigh, Lye [co. Kent] : 
 
 bequest of land in, 150. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 Leister. See Leicester. 
 Leitun. See Leacon, Leyton ? 
 Leke. See Leake. 
 Lekeburn, Hugh de, vicar of Youlgreave, 
 
 receiver of outlaws, 275, 277. 
 Lemerlay, John, 60. 
 Len'. See Lynne. 
 
 Lendryyge Loge. See Liudridge Lodge. 
 Lennard, Samson, letter to, 161. 
 Lent, bonds taken to observe fast in, 
 
 152. 
 Lenton, co. Notts, 121, 336, 347, 369, 
 440. 
 chartulary of lands in, 196. 
 deed dated at, 96. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 fair at, 332, 337, 374, 386, 435, 456. 
 
 , goods brought from London 
 
 for, 175. 
 
 — , petition relating to, 170-171. 
 
 grant of toft in, 64. 
 
 hospital of St. Anthony, grant to, 59. 
 
 , payment to pardoner of (?), 338. 
 
 ministers' accounts of, 307, 309. 
 priory, 41n, 79. 
 
 , chapel of, money to be paid 
 
 in, 120. 
 , janitor of. See Gargat, Wil- 
 liam. 
 
689 
 
 Lenton, priory — cont. 
 
 , manors and falra of, grant of 
 
 stewardship of, 124. 
 
 , money kept in, 122. 
 
 . prior of, tithe paid to, 375. 
 
 > , to present to chantry, 
 
 96. 
 
 J , to vicarage, 516. 
 
 , Hugh prior of, 64. 
 
 , Peter prior of, 627. 
 
 , R. prior of, 55. See also 
 
 Gorciis, Brother Astorgius de ; 
 Hylston, John. 
 
 , prior and convent of, assent 
 
 of, to foundation of chantry, 96. 
 
 . ■ grants by, 55, 64, 124. 
 
 , , tithes paid to, 313. 
 
 , register of, 197. 
 
 , rental of possessions of, 317. 
 
 , seal of, 124. 
 
 , Serlo the cook of, 64. 
 
 , steward of. See Lovel, 
 
 Thomas ; Willoughby (Q). 
 
 , stone from, 459. 
 
 rentals of, 300, 314, 317. 
 toll at, 422. 
 Hugh vicar of, 64. 
 William son of William the parson 
 of, grant by, 70. 
 Lenton, Leutun : 
 Everard de, 12. 
 Geoffrey de, 10, lOn. 
 Hugh, 183. 
 
 , carrier of coals, 171. 
 
 Mrs., 399, 519, 521. 
 
 , abstracts of letters from, 521, 
 
 523. 
 
 , bills, etc., of, 401, 404, 406, 
 
 408, 415. 
 
 , payment for board of, 403, 
 
 415. 
 L'Bnveysie. See Bnveysie. 
 Leo X., pope, 139, 140. 
 
 privileges granted by,' 133, 134. 
 Leofstan the deacon, 211, 212. 
 Leofwine the monk, 211, 212. 
 Leon, king of. See John, duke of Lan- 
 caster. 
 Lerma, duke of, president of Spanish 
 
 council, arrogance of, 187-189. 
 Lestrange, Ida, damsel of Queen Philippa, 
 
 letter to, 90. 
 Lethg'. See Legh. 
 Letters, customary superscription of, 
 
 592. 
 Leus, Gauters li, author of fabliaux, 227- 
 
 232. 
 Levant, Levent taffeta, 434, 437. 
 Levedale [in Penkridge, co. Stafford] : 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 grant of land in, 57. 
 places named in, 57. 
 Levedale : 
 
 Geoffrey son of John de, grant by, 
 
 57. 
 William son of Stephen de, grant to, 
 57. 
 I/event. See Levant. 
 
 Leveson, Sir John, deputy lieutenant of 
 Kent: 
 account rendered by, 159. 
 letter from, abstract of, 160. 
 letter to, 160. 
 
 soldiers trained before, 284. 
 Levissey. See Lyveasey. 
 Leviva, 18. 
 
 Lewdham. See Lowdham. 
 Lewenton ?, 349. 
 
 Lewes priory [co. Sussex], bequest to, 167. 
 Lewes, Lewys : 
 
 abstract of letter from, 574. 
 plumber, 397, 398. 
 Lewis duke of Wurtemburg, insignia of 
 the garter carried to, 566, 567. 
 See also Louis. 
 Lewisham [co. Kent], Morden in, 330. 
 Lewsy. See Lucy. 
 Lewyssay. See Lyvessey. 
 Leyburn', Leiburn [Leyboume, co. Kent]: 
 Robert de, 36. 
 Roger de, 72, 74. 
 
 , friend and ally of Edward [1.] 
 
 the king's son, 68. 
 
 , grant to, 72, 73. 
 
 , mandate to, 71. 
 
 Roger son of Roger de, grant to, 71 . 
 Leyc. See Leake. 
 Leycestria. See Lecester. 
 Leye. See Lea-Marston. 
 Leye, Nicholas de la, 86. 
 See Leghe. 
 Cf. Lee. 
 Leyes. See Lees Moor t 
 Leyster. See Lecester. 
 Leyton, co. Essex ? Leitun, 36. 
 Leyves, John, payment to, for sinking 
 
 coalpit, 493. 
 Lichfield, Laychefelde, Lechefeld, Leche- 
 fyeld, Lechefylde, Lichefeld, 
 Lychefeld, Lychefyelde, Lych- 
 feld [co. Stafford] : 
 bishop of. See Cynefrith, Eadwulf, 
 
 Headda, and under Coventry, 
 canons of, named, 275, 277. 
 cathedral church of, bequest to, 85. 
 child bishop of, rewards to, 346, 379, 
 
 386. 
 close of, sexton of. See Paxson, 
 
 Sir John, 
 dean and chapter of, trespassers 
 
 maintained by, 278. 
 fair at, 342, 351, 372, 380, 387. 
 fish bought at, 340, 342. 
 friars of, payments to, 348, 359, 382. 
 Grey Friars of, payments to, 353, 365. 
 
 , warden of, payment to, 378. 
 
 shoemaker of, payment to, 331. 
 waits of, 421. 
 Liene. See Leen. 
 Lights in churches, maintenance of, 12, 
 
 44. 
 Lile. See Lisle. 
 Lile, Arthur. See Plantagenet. 
 Lilleburn, Hem-y de, 21. 
 Limburg, duke of. See Anjou, Francis 
 duke of. 
 
 M 44 
 
690 
 
 Lime, a remedy for coal-damp, 193. 
 Lime-pits, 258. 
 
 Liuby, Lindeby, Lyndeby [co. Notts], 
 245. 
 Ealph parson of, 56. 
 Linby Hay, Lyndeby Haye, eo. Notts, 
 
 boundaries of, 241. 
 Linchln' : 
 
 Richard brother of William de, 31. 
 William de, 31. 
 Lincoln, Lyncolne, Nichole, 19, 96, 274, 
 276, 280, 324, 327. 
 bishop of. See Blois, William de ; 
 Bokingham, John de ; Dalderby, 
 John ; Longland, John, 
 canons of, named, 44. 
 cathedral church of, bequest to, 85. 
 chapter of, 43. 
 
 , seal of, 43. 
 
 charter dated at, 73. 
 dean of. See Bolveston, Eoger de. 
 William precentor of, 44, 44n. 
 writ dated at, 243. 
 See Nichol'. 
 Lincoln, county of, Lyncklenshyre : 
 
 delivery of records of indictments 
 
 in, 93. 
 panel of jurors of, 356. 
 swans from, 375. 
 Lincoln, earl of. See Clinton, Edward ; 
 Gaunt, Gilbert ; Pole, John de la. 
 Lincoln, Alvred do, 54n. 
 Lindeby. See Liuby. 
 Lindhurst, Lyndehursfc wood, co. Notts, 
 
 boundaries of, 241. 
 Liudridge Lodge, Lendryge Loge, Lyn- 
 drese Lowge [in Sutton Coldfield 
 Chase, co. Warwick], 350, 365. 
 Lindsey, bishop of. See Ceolwulf. 
 Linton, Linintone [co. Kent], possessions 
 
 of villeins (?) in, 271. 
 Lisle, Insula, Lile, L'Isle, Lyle, Lysle : 
 lord. See Grey (B) ; Plantagenet, 
 
 Arthur. 
 Anketil de, 79, 86. 
 Baldwin de, friend and ally of Ed- 
 ward [I.], the king's son, 68. 
 Brian de, 51n, 52n. 
 
 , grant by, 51. 
 
 , perambulation of Sherwood 
 
 forest by, 241. 
 Geoffrey de, 18. 
 Hugh de, grant by, 40, 40n. 
 Reginald de, 18, 33. 
 William de, 48. 
 Mr., at WoUaton, 456, 457. 
 
 , reward to servant of, 390. 
 
 Mrs., at WoUaton, 462. 
 Lisores, Lisures. See Luisuris. 
 Litchurch, Lychurch wapentake. See 
 
 Morleston. 
 Litelton. See Lyttleton. 
 Lithegreynys, John of, perambulation of 
 
 the forest by, 243. 
 Litholf, William son of, 59. 
 Little, William, sale of laud by, 270. 
 Littleheryngestone. See Herringston. 
 Littleton. See Lyttleton. 
 
 Liulf, Nicholas son of, 17. 
 Llanstephan, Landstephan [co. Car- 
 marthen], grant of honour of, 270. 
 Loce, Richard son of, 88. 
 Lochrutton, Loghrynton [Kirkcudbright^ 
 
 shire], David de Bruce in, 95. 
 Lochton. See Lutton. 
 Logeleia, Elias de, 47. 
 Loggin, Loggyn, Lawrence, account of 
 
 manufacture of iron by, 496. 
 Loghrynton. See Lochrutton. 
 Lomdon. See London. 
 Londenethorp. See Londonthorpe. 
 London, Lomdon, Loundon, Lowndon, 
 Lundon, Lwndon, Lwndwn, 148, 
 152, 172, 180, 330, 338, 340-343, 
 349-352, 355, 357, 364, 375, 378, 
 382, 383, 385, 394, 395, 397, 398, 
 402, 407, 409, 410, 412, 415, 422, 
 424-426, 429-431, 433, 438, 447, 
 448, 450, 451, 453, 459, 523, 525, 
 527, 529, 533-536, 545, 547, 548, 
 556, 560, 564, 565, 568, 573, 576, 
 579, 596, 617, 620. 
 
 aldermen of. See Barton, Henry ; 
 Boquerel, Matthew ; Catcher ; 
 Combe-Martin, William de. 
 
 bishop of. See Baldoc, Ralph de ; 
 Sands, Edwin ; Sandwico, Henry 
 de. 
 
 canon of. See Donjon, Ralph de. 
 
 citizens of, 92, 170, 466. 
 
 coal carried by sea to, 169-170. 
 
 deputies of the mayor of the staple 
 in. See Bracebridge, John ; Brad- 
 man, John. 
 
 documents dated in, 69, 74, 75, 89, 
 92, 96, 98, 519, 545, 569, 587, 
 600. 
 
 expenses of living in, 555. 
 
 goods taken by boat to Lenton fair 
 from, 175. 
 
 houses in, bequest of, 85. 
 
 mayor of. See Pulteney, John de ; 
 Befham, Richer de. 
 
 puysnS citizens of, 89. 
 
 russet, payment for, 327. 
 
 sherifis of, 357, 618. See also 
 Basinges, Thomas de ; Blakeneye, 
 Peter de ; CornhuUe, Robert de ; 
 Corp, Simon. 
 
 ship of, 128. 
 
 the king's council in, 142. 
 
 troops conducted to, 599. 
 
 water-service of, 174. 
 
 will proved in, 149, 
 
 wine from, 372. 
 London, places named : 
 
 All Hallows Barking, parish of, 86. 
 
 , deeds relating to, 625. 
 
 Barnard's Inn, 321. 
 
 Bedlam, Baydlem, Baylam, Bethle- 
 hem, brotherhood of Our Lady of, 
 365, 368. 
 
 , reward to pardoner of, 354. 
 
 Bridewell, 532. 
 
 , gentlewomen whipped in, 158, 
 
 568. 
 
691 
 
 London, places named — cont. 
 
 Candelwick Street, Candelwicrstrate, 
 
 73, 157. 
 Canon, Chanon Row, 551. 
 Castle, the, Holborn, 322, 398. 
 CoruhlU, 603. 
 Counter, the, 158. 
 Crown Inn, the, 398. 
 Drury Lane, house in, 175. 
 Fleet prison, 568, 589. 
 Gerard's Garden, Holborn, 321. 
 Gray's Inn, Graysenn, Grayse In, 
 
 Gresyn, 327, 331, 333, 356, 357, 
 
 574. 
 . Parliament chamber in, 357, 
 
 358. 
 Holborn, letter dated at, 596. 
 
 , places named in, 321, 322. 
 
 — — , the White Hart in, 555. 
 Leicester House [in the Strand], 
 
 queen EUzabeth at, 534. 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields, house in, 572. 
 
 Grange, 555, 569. 
 
 , letter dated, 620. 
 
 Minories, Mynnyrys, the, 398, 403, 
 
 403n. 
 
 , Mr. Medley's house at, 521, 522. 
 
 St. Anthony's school, 409. 
 
 St. Bartholomew's church, 74. 
 
 St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, George 
 
 vicar of, 115. 
 St. James', the Court at, 526. 
 St. Mary BuncivaU, our Lady of 
 
 Runsywold, offering at, 356. 
 St. Paul's church, guild of St. John 
 
 in, 345. 
 
 , Te Deum sung in, 612. 
 
 St. Paul's churchyard, books sold 
 
 at, 622. 
 St. Swithin's parish, demise of 
 
 house in, 74. 
 
 Street, grant of land in, 73. 
 
 Savoy, Cey(?), Saywowe, Sey(?), the, 
 
 334. 
 , brotherhood of chapel of the, 
 
 360, 385. 
 Seething Lane, Syvethenstrate, 
 
 grant of land in, 86, 87. 
 Sergeant's Inn, Sargans In, 358. 
 Smithfield, Smythfeeld, the queen's 
 
 coachmakers in, 163. 
 
 , letter directed to, 581. 
 
 Soho Square, 603. 
 Staple Inn, 321. 
 
 , payment to principal of, 384. 
 
 Temple, the, 552. 
 
 , ale taken at, 383. 
 
 , Inner, Inward, 610. 
 
 Tower, the, 87, 328. 
 
 , constable of the. See Odo, 
 
 Hugh son of. 
 
 , offerings at Our Lady at the, 
 
 354, 357. 
 Tower Hill, execution on, 518. 
 White Friars, Freers, house at, 550, 
 
 551. 
 Willoughby House, lease of upper 
 rooms in, 822, 
 
 London, New. See New London. 
 London' : 
 
 Brother John de, 86. 
 John de, 64. 
 Cf. Lund'. 
 Londonderry, Ireland, bishop of. See 
 
 Hickman, Charles. 
 Londonesham, co. Dorset, deeds relating 
 
 to, 624. 
 Londonthorpe, Londenethorp [co. Lin- 
 coln], confirmation of grant of 
 land in, 23, 24. 
 Long, Gautier le, fabliau by, 229-230. 
 Longdon, co. Salop, deeds relating to, 627. 
 Longdon, Langton [co. Stafford], bequest 
 of land in, to Tamworth priory, 
 257. 
 Long Eaton, Longeton. See Eaton. 
 Longeford, William de, slain at the Frere- 
 yate in Derby, 273. 
 Cf. Langeford. 
 Longespee, Lungespee : 
 
 Boger de, bishop of Coventry and 
 
 Lichfield, 71. 
 Stephen, friend and ally of Edward 
 
 [I.], the king's son, 68. 
 William de, earl of Salisbury, 51. 
 Longford [co. Derby], Bupton in, 257. 
 Longford [co. Stafford], bequest of, to 
 
 Burton abbey, 256. 
 Longland, John, bishop of Lincoln, 347. 
 Longo Campo, Ralph de, Distinctiones 
 
 of, 216. 
 Loosebarrow, Lousebarugh hundred [co. 
 Dorset], minister's account of, 
 302. 
 Lopart, Robert, character in fabliau, 
 
 230. 
 Lorde, Mr., reward to horse keeper of, 
 
 340. 
 Lorraine, duke of. See Anjou, Francis 
 
 duke of. 
 Lossenham, Losham [in Newenden, co. 
 
 Kent], grant of manor of, 71. 
 Loterel, Loterell. See LutereU. 
 Lottery, prize won in, 606. 
 Loudham. See Lowdham. 
 Loughborough, Loughborow [co. Leices- 
 ter], 458. 
 letter dated at, 588. 
 Louis XL, king of France : 
 
 letters and public instrument of, 
 
 259. 
 marriage of Charles his son, 259. 
 Louis, Lewis XIL, king of France, Mary 
 
 his wife, 518. 
 Lounde, co. Notts, deeds relating to, 626. 
 Loundon. See London. 
 Lousebarugh. See Loosebarrow. 
 Lovel, Lovell, Luvel : 
 
 Henry, lord Morley, expedition of, 
 
 to Flanders, and death of, 508. 
 Osbert, 32. 
 
 Thomas, knight, steward of the 
 manors and fairs of Lenton priory, 
 124, 515, 515n. 
 Lovet, John, indicted for ofiences in co. 
 Derby, 273. 
 
692 
 
 Low Countries. See Holland. 
 Lowdham, Lewdham, Loudtam, Low- 
 dam, Ludham [co. Notts], 123, 
 151, 425. 
 chartularies of lands in, 196, 269. 
 court rolls of, 293, 306, 319. 
 deeds relating to, 62 6. 
 extent of, 294. 
 grant of land in, 5, 54. 
 lordship of, 121. 
 manor of, 506, 507. 
 
 , flue of, 531. 
 
 ministers' accounts of, 296, 307-309, 
 
 311, 314-316. 
 Caythorpe in. See Caythorpe. 
 Gunthorpe in. See Gunthorpe. 
 John the chaplain of, grant to, 38. 
 
 , sale to, confirmed, 55, 
 
 Lowdham, Loudham, Ludham : 
 
 Eustace de, [acting] sheriff of Notts, 
 56, 56n. 
 
 , clerk, 39, 39n, 40?i, 55, 55n. 
 
 Fulk de, grant to, 54, 55. 
 Gilbert de, clerk, 39, 39n. 
 John de, knight, manorial records 
 of, 289. 
 
 son of Walter de, 55. 
 
 Walter de, knight, 55. 
 
 son of Eustace de, 39, 55. 
 
 William, esquire, will of. 111. 
 Lowdlowe. See Ludlow. 
 Lowkyd, lord Derby's minstrel, reward 
 
 to, 383. 
 Lowndes, Mr., 501. 
 Lowndon. See London. 
 Lowys, payment to, 365. 
 Lucas, 454. 
 Lucca, 613. 
 Lucy, Lewsy : 
 
 Anthony de, warden of the marches 
 in Cumberland and Westmoreland, 
 95, 95n, 96. 
 Mr., reward to players of, 379. 
 Lud, Avicia (de Blokeswrthe) daughter 
 
 of Henry son of, grant by, 31. 
 Lude, William, 54, 611. 
 Ludelowe, Joan (Marmion) wife of 
 Thomas de, assignment of purparty 
 to, 79, 79n, 80, 81. 
 Ludham. See Lowdham. 
 Ludlow, Lowdlowe [co. Salop], payment 
 
 to guild at, 332. 
 Ludovico (il Moro), governor of the duke 
 
 of Milan, 261. 
 Luisuris, Lisures, Lusoriis [Lisores] : 
 Fulk de, charter of confirmation to, 
 
 2, 3, 270. 
 Eobert de, lln. 
 Lukesone, William son of Hugh, chap- 
 lain, indicted, 275. 
 Lund', Stephen de, grant of forfeited 
 lands of, 72. 
 CI. London'. 
 Lundon. See London. 
 Lungespee. See Longespee. 
 Lupus : 
 
 Reginald, 60. 
 Robert, 52, 52n. 
 
 Lusoriis. See Luisuris. 
 Luterell, Loterel, Loterell : 
 
 Geoffrey, 40. 
 
 brother of Richard, 26, 26n, 27. 
 
 , knight, 281. 
 
 , money extorted from, 280. 
 
 John, 99, 100. 
 
 Richard, 26. 
 Lutton, Lochton [co. Lincoln], 14. 
 Lutton [in Weaverthorpe, co. York], 
 
 Thomas de, 61. 
 Lutton, Bast, co. York, deeds relating 
 
 to, 627. 
 Luvel. See Lovel. 
 Lwndon, Lwndwn. See London. 
 Lwse, gift of coals to, 340. 
 Lyaeus, to give wine to, proverb, 216. 
 Lychefeld, Lychefyelde. See Lichfield. 
 Lychett. See Lytchett. 
 Lychfeld. See Lichfield. 
 Lychurch. See Litchurch. 
 Lydleton. See Lyttleton. 
 Lydlinch, Nydenynch, co. Dorset, 91. 
 Lye. See Leghe, Leigh. 
 Lyle. See Lisle. 
 Lymdem, Thomas, indulgence granted 
 
 to, 137. 
 Lympne, Lymne [co. Kent] : 
 
 action concerning land in, 283. 
 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 Lyncklenshyre. See Lincoln, county of. 
 Lyncolne. See Lincoln. 
 Lynde, Thomas de la, feoffee for exe- 
 cution of will, 313. 
 Lyndeby. See Linby. 
 Lyndeby : 
 
 John of, trees sold to, 242. 
 
 Michael de, grant to, for chantry, 96. 
 Lyndehurst. See Lindhurst. 
 Lyndrese Lowge. See Lindridge Lodge. 
 Lyne. See Lynne. 
 
 Lyne, Sir Thomas, riot caused by ser- 
 vants of, 144. 
 Lyntord, Little, co. Buckingham, deeds 
 
 relating to, 624. 
 Lyngard, John, 115. 
 Lynn, Len', Lyne [co. Norfolk], 59. 
 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 
 mayor of. See Belvaco, Bartholomew 
 de. 
 
 ship of, 130. 
 
 Wyngate in, grant of land in, 59. 
 Lynne, Budo son of Adam de, grant to, 
 
 59. 
 Lynwode, R., collier, 492. 
 Lyons, Sir Percival WiUoughby at, 560. 
 Lyre, gown, etc. of, 103, 104. 
 Lyse, Mr., school of, at St. Anthony's, 
 
 London, 409. 
 Lysle. See Lisle. 
 Lystere, Margery la, beaten, 282. 
 Lytchett Matravers, Lytchet Mautravers 
 [co. Dorset] : 
 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 
 minister's account of, 302. 
 Lytchett Minster, Mynstre, South Lychett 
 [co. Dorset] : 
 
 court rolls of, 320. 
 
693 
 
 Lytohett Minster — cont. 
 
 ministers' accounts of, 296, 298, 299, 
 
 301, 302, 306, 319, 320. 
 rental of, 320. 
 Lytelhemygeston, Lytelheryngeston. 
 
 See Herringston. 
 Lythum, Lythom, Brother Richard, 
 
 prior of Burton : 
 intrigues of, 249-250. 
 letter of, 252. 
 
 scrutineer at election of abbot, 248. 
 Lyttleton, Litelton, Littleton, Lydleton : 
 Edward, of Pilleknoll, 495. 
 Francis, 424. 
 
 , wages of, 426. 
 
 George sou of Sir John, 571. 
 
 Sir John, 529. 
 
 , abstracts of letters from, 527- 
 
 529, 533, 537, 544, 545, 549. 
 , to, 536, 537, 543, 544, 
 
 546, 547. 
 , marriage of Elizabeth his 
 
 daughter to Sir Francis Willough- 
 
 by, 525, 526. 
 
 , story to discredit of, 526. 
 
 , his lady, 529. 
 
 Lytton, Richard of, 110. 
 
 Lyvessey, Levissey, Lewyssay, Lyvsay, 
 
 John, 388. 
 , accovmts rendered by, 314- 
 
 316, 330-351, 352-361, 363-370, 
 
 375-379, 381-387. 
 , accovmts rendered by his 
 
 wife and executors, 316. 
 
 M 
 
 Mablethorpe [co. Lincoln], rental of, 
 
 319. 
 Macclesfield, Maqkesfeld forest [co. 
 
 Chester], 367. 
 Machine for pumping water out of mines, 
 
 173-175. 
 Mackworth, Mackeworth, Makworth [co. 
 
 Derby], 278. 
 felons received at, 275, 277. 
 Markeaton park in, 275-277. 
 parson of. See Tuchet, Edmund. 
 Maostoke. See Maxtoke. 
 Maderman, Robert le, 87. 
 Mseres slaed [near Harvington, co. Wor- 
 cester], 210. 
 Magnus, Magnws, Dr. Thomas, 382. 
 Maid (puella), Edith the, 50. 
 Maidstone, Maideston [co. Kent], grant 
 
 dated at, 110. 
 Main, Hugh son of, 50. 
 Mainil. See Menil. 
 Mainsens, a bride, character in fabliau, 
 
 229. 
 Mainsent, character in fabliau, 230. 
 
 Makestoke [Maxtoke, co. Warwick] : 
 Adam de, 15. 
 Robert de, 15. 
 Makworth. See Mackworth. 
 Malcolf, La Malcave fin Chapel-en-le- 
 Frith, CO. Derby], man imprisoned 
 in, 279. 
 Maldut. See Mauduit. 
 Malherbe, Robert, grant to, 50, 50n. 
 MaUory, Margery (WUloughby) wife of, 
 
 505. 
 Malmesbury abbey [co. Wilts], 322. 
 Malmsey wine, Mawmysse, Mawse : 
 price of, 512. 
 purchase of, 362, 375. 
 Malnevu : 
 
 Robert, 9. 
 William, 20. 
 Malreward, Malrewad : 
 
 Geoffrey, grant by, 30, 30n. 
 Robert, 14. 
 Malton [co. York], chaplain of St. Mary's 
 
 church, 2. 
 Maltona, John de, 59. 
 Malvern priory [co. Worcester], Roger 
 
 prior of, 8. 
 Mamecestre, William de, 63, 64. 
 Mamesfeld. See Mansfield. 
 Mamesfeld, John son of Thomas de, 
 
 robbed, 280. 
 Mammetun, Robert de, 18. 
 Mamsfeld. See Mansfield. 
 Man, Richard le, 76. 
 Manby, co. Lincoln, deeds relating to, 625. 
 Manchones ? Mawson, Aragon, council 
 
 held at, 187. 
 Maneston [Manston, co. Dorset], Richard 
 
 de, knight, 76. 
 Manners, Mannares, Manners, Mannours : 
 Edward, earl of Rutland, at Wol- 
 
 laton, 446. 
 — ^, order issued by, 152. 
 Elizabeth, countess of Rutland, at 
 
 Thurland House, 456. 
 Isabel, countess of Rutland, 446. 
 John, earl of Rutland, at Thurland 
 House, 455, 456. 
 
 , at WoUaton, 457. 
 
 Roger, at Wollaton, 462. 
 
 , earl of Rutland, at Wollaton, 
 
 462. 
 Theodocia, wife of Sir Thomas, 456, 
 458. 
 
 , death of, 182. 
 
 Sir Thomas, at Thurland House, 457. 
 
 , at WoUaton, 454, 456, 458. 
 
 , certificate signed by, 498. 
 
 Thomas, earl of Rutland, 510. 
 Mansell, Maunsel : 
 
 John, treasurer of York, 70. 
 Wir Robert, lease of glass house to, 
 500. 
 Mansfield, Mamesfeld, Mamsfeld, Maunce- 
 feld, Maunsfold, Mmvnsfelde, 
 Monsfeld [co. Notts], 119, 120, 
 179, 280, 359, 459. 
 custumal of, 247. 
 extent made at, 182. 
 
694 
 
 Mansfield — cont, 
 fair, 392. 
 
 letters dated at, 170, 586. 
 Field, robbery in, 280, 281. 
 Mansfield Woodhouse, Mamsfeld Wode- 
 house, CO. Notts, boundaries of, 
 241. 
 Manston, co. Dorset. See Maneston. 
 Map mentioned in inventory of goods, 
 
 488. 
 Map, Walter, 215. 
 
 Mapelderton, Mapelerton. See Mapper- 
 ton. 
 Mapelton. See Mapleton. 
 Maperley. See Mapperley. 
 Maplebeck, eo. Notts*, 179. 
 Mapleton, Mapelton [co. Derby], offence 
 
 committed at, 279. 
 Mapperley, Maperley, Mappurley, Mapur- 
 ley [in Kirk Hallani, co. Derby], 
 111, 125, 524. 
 court rolls of, 292. 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 Mapperton, Mapelderton, Mapelerton, 
 Mappilarton [in Aimer, co. 
 Dorset]: 
 agreement as to land in, 76. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 manor of, 99. 
 
 , court rolls of, 288, 296, 299- 
 
 301, 303, 306, 309-313, 318-320. 
 
 , ministers' accounts of, 296, 
 
 298, 299, 305, 319, 320. 
 
 , rental of, 320. 
 
 Pillol, ministers' accounts of, 296, 301. 
 Gonevyle, ministers' accounts of, 
 296, 301. 
 Mappleton, WiUiam de, of Ashbourne, 
 
 indicted, 275. 
 Mappowder, co. Dorset, 54n. 
 Mappurley, Mapurley. See Mapperley. 
 Mapurley, Thomas de, mayor of Not- 
 tingham, 100. 
 Maqkesfeld. See Macclesfield. 
 Mara : 
 
 Lettice wife of William de, charter 
 
 of confirmation to, 23, 24. 
 William de, charter of confirmation 
 to, 23, 24. 
 Marble quarry in Isle of Purbeck, 30. 
 Marc : 
 
 PhUip, 26«. 
 
 , sheriff of co. Notts, 56, 56ra. 
 
 Marcam, Maroham. See Markham. 
 Marche : 
 
 Thomas, chaplain of Burton parish 
 church, mandate to, 252. 
 
 , , scrutineer at election of 
 
 abbot of Burton, 248. 
 Marchenton. See Marchiugton. 
 Marchiennes, Marcieues [France, dep. 
 Nord], mentioned in fabliau, 230, 
 231. 
 Marchington, Marchenton [in Hanbury], 
 CO. Stafford, bequest of land at, 
 255. 
 Marcienes. See Marchiennes. 
 Mareis, Fulk de, grant by, 10. 
 
 Marescalcus, Marescallvs, MareschaUus. 
 
 See Farrier. 
 Margaret- daughter of Theodosius, lec- 
 tion on, 212. 
 Margaret of Burgundy, prophecy con- 
 cerning marriage of, 263. 
 Margette, furniture in bed-chamber of ,491 . 
 Margret, Mrs., payment by the hands 
 
 of, 446. 
 Marischallus. See Farrier. 
 Mariscis, Simon de, 30. 
 Marisco, Robert de, 29. 
 Marjory, wages of, 541. 
 Markau. See Markham. 
 Markeaton, Marketon park [in Mack- 
 worth, CO. Derby], 278. 
 lord of. See Tuchet, Robert. 
 outlaws at, 275-277. 
 Markere, TJlric, 31. 
 Market Harborough, Harborough [co. 
 
 Leicester], 556. 
 Marketon. See Markeaton. 
 Marketon, Henry de, chaplain, indicted, 
 
 .274. 
 Market Overton, Marketoverton. See 
 
 Overton. 
 Markets, grants of, 37, 70, 271. 
 
 men beaten at, 277. 
 Markham, co. Notts, court rolls of, 291, 
 
 295, 297. 
 Markham, Marcam, Marcham, Markan, 
 Marlam ; 
 Griffin son of Thomas, at Cambridge, 
 593. 
 
 , letters from, 593, 594, 598. 
 
 , , abstracts of, 594. 
 
 , proposed marriage of, to Mar- 
 garet Willoughby, 562, 592, 596, 
 597. 
 
 , quarrel of, with Sir Percival 
 
 Willoughby, 598. 
 Henry de, 38, 39, 55. 
 John, indulgence granted to, 137. 
 
 , knight, servant of, 344. 
 
 , , supervisor of will, 149. 
 
 Margaret daughter of Thomas, ill- 
 ness of, 598. 
 
 (Willoughby) daughter of Sir 
 
 Robert, 508. 
 Mary wife of Thomas, abstract of 
 letter from, 594. 
 
 , reference to letter from, 597. 
 
 Robert, at WoUaton, 456, 458. 
 
 , letter carried to, 459. 
 
 , supervisor of will of Sir Henry 
 
 WiUoughby, 122. 
 
 , brother of Hem-y de, 39. 
 
 Thomas, 563, 594, 597. 
 
 , commission to, 160. 
 
 , cousin of Sir Francis Willough- 
 by, 157, 592. 
 
 , hatred of, towards Sir Percival 
 
 Willoughby, 562. 
 
 , letter from, abstract of, 594- 
 
 595. 
 
 , letters from, reference to, 564. 
 
 Mr., 443. 
 
 , payment to servant of, 445. 
 
695 
 
 Marian. See Morland. 
 
 Marlborough, Marleberg [co. Wilts], 
 
 charter dated at, 70. 
 Marlow, Merloo, Merloue, 388. 
 payment to son of, 389. 
 William, wages of, 371. 
 Marl-pits, 12n. 
 Marmion, Marmeon, Marmioun, Mar- 
 
 myon, Marmyun, Mermyon : 
 accounts of family of, 271, 506, 507. 
 GreofErey, 270. 
 Henry, 148, 338. 
 
 , bailiff of Cossall and Middle- 
 ton, 313-315. 
 
 , executor of will, 149. 
 
 , payment of annuity to, 317. 
 
 , wages of, 370. 
 
 Joan (de Ludelowe) daughter of 
 
 Philip, 79. 
 (de FryviU), granddaughter of 
 
 Philip, 79. 
 John, 122. 
 
 , accounts rendered by, 307, 308. 
 
 , agreement by, 121. 
 
 , executor of wiU, 122, 126. 
 
 Judith, abstract of letter from, 515. 
 Mannaser, fee of, 270. 
 Millicent, grant by, 270-271. 
 Philip, 78, 506. 
 
 , arms of, 77, 77n. 
 
 , death of, 79n. 
 
 — — , demise by, 74, 75. 
 
 , grants to', 71-74. 
 
 , lord of Tamworth castle, 
 
 founder of Premonstratension 
 
 house at Tamworth, 77-78. 
 
 , partition of lands of, 79, 98. 
 
 Robert, 270, 506. 
 
 son of Robert, grant by, 270- 
 
 271. 
 Roger, named in Battle Abbey roll, 
 
 506. 
 William, 515. 
 , servant of Sir Francis Wil- 
 
 loughby, abstract of letter to, 
 
 551. 
 , • , defamation of lady Wil- 
 
 loughby by, 533, 560. 
 , , plot of, against Sir 
 
 Percival Willoughby, 561, 563. 
 
 , , wages of, 542. 
 
 Mr., 388, 396, 398, 415. 
 . . . . , cousin of Margaret Willough- 
 by, 595. 
 servant of Elizabeth countess 
 
 of Shrewsbury, letter from, 122- 
 
 125. 
 Marnham, Marnaham, Marname, North 
 
 and South Marneham, co. Notts, 
 
 lln, 126. 
 church of, lOn. 
 court rolls of, 287, 301, 303. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 ferry, 171. 
 ministers' accounts of, 293, 315, 
 
 316. 
 Nicholas the clerk of, grant to, 10, 
 
 lOn. 
 
 Marnham — cont. 
 
 Robert brother of Nicholas the clerk 
 of, 11. 
 Marnham, South, ministers' accounts of, 
 
 307, 308. 
 Marnham, Marnaham, Walter de, 11. 
 Maruhull [co. Dorset], deeds relating to, 
 
 624. 
 Marriage settlements, etc., 11, 48, 49, 
 55, 58, 89, 91, 97, 115, 121, 123, 
 125, 126, 130, 525, 621. 
 Marrows, Mrs., abstract of letter to, 545. 
 
 Cf. Moorows. 
 Marse. See Mersey. 
 
 Marshal, William, earl of Pembroke, 37. 
 Marshall, Mr., at WoUaton, 458. 
 MarshaUs at High Cross, apiid le Hay 
 Cros [in Standon, co. Herts], court 
 rolls of manor of, 297. 
 Marston [in Lea-Marston, co. Warwick], 
 ministers' accounts of, 290, 291, 
 311. 
 See Merst. 
 Martel : 
 
 Eudo, 76. 
 
 Geoffrey, 54n. 
 
 Margery wife of Budo, 76. 
 
 Richard, 82. 
 
 , of Chilwell, 87. 
 
 Roger, 54n. 
 Marten, Thomas, wages of, 371. 
 
 Cf. Martin, Martyn. 
 Marteni. See Martingni. 
 Martin : 
 
 John, of Walsall, 496. 
 Robert sou of, 55. 
 Cf. Marten, Martyn. 
 Martingni, Marteni, Martigui, Martini : 
 Elias de, 29, 56ra. 
 
 , grant to, 56. 
 
 William de, 25. 
 
 , confirmation of grant to, 32, 
 
 33, 33n. 
 Martinsthorpe, co. Rutland, deeds re- 
 lating to, 627. 
 Marton priory [Marton-in-the-Porest, co. 
 
 York], Ernisius prior of, 4, in. 
 Martyn : 
 
 John, master of Le Beggare of Ayles- 
 
 ford, 96. 
 — • — , of Newark, 114. 
 Nicholas, 110. 
 William, keeper, wages of, 440, 449. 
 
 , supervisor of wiU, 124. 
 
 Cf. Marten, Martin. 
 Marvyn, Thomas, purser of the John 
 Avangellist, delivery of ordnance 
 by, 128. 
 Mary, quoen of England, 520, 520n, 521, 
 5:i2. 
 letters of (he signet of, 617-618. 
 Mary, queen of Scots, imprisonment of 
 
 152, 153. 
 Mary [? Scroin], Sii' Francis Willoughby'a 
 
 fool, 543. 
 llaryat, of Nottingham, payment to, for 
 killing foxes and other vermin, 
 418. 
 
Maryner, William, citizen of London, 
 
 appraiser of goods, 466. 
 Masius, Brother Zenobius, de Plorentia, 
 guardian of the Observant Friars 
 of Mount Sion, creation of Knight 
 of the Holy Sepulchre by, 140- 
 141. 
 Mason, Masun, Mazoun, eemeniarius ; 
 Alan the, of Bilsby, 14. 
 Henry, 115. 
 
 Hugh the, of Binbrooke, 14. 
 John, rector of Normanton, 115. 
 Payn the, of Poynton, 14. 
 Peter le, bailiff of Nottingham, 626. 
 Bichard, legacy to, 102. 
 Eobert, wages of, 440, 449, 542. 
 Roger son of John le, of Chesterfield, 
 
 274. 
 Samuel, at Wollaton, 458. 
 Walter the, 75. 
 Mr., 180, 181. 
 Massey, Raphael, 167. 
 Masun. See Mason. 
 Mather, Henry, of EarleshaU, disclaimer 
 
 of arms of, 179. 
 Mathew, William, abbot of Burton, 
 
 resignation of, 247-248. 
 Matkynsone, John, slain at Bradley, 273. 
 Matloc, Henry de, grant to, 63. 
 Matlock [CO. Derby], 445. 
 letter dated at, 197. 
 Matthew, Roger son of, 50. 
 Maud, the empress, reference to, 270. 
 Maud : 
 
 Andrew son of, 55. 
 Robert son of, 57. 
 Mauduit, Maldut : 
 
 Godfrey, grant by, 27. 
 
 , grant to, 26. 
 
 , , confirmed, 20. 
 
 Maukunti, Geoffrey, 70. 
 Mauncefeld. See Mansfield. 
 Maund, Mawne, Mowne [in Bodenham, 
 CO. Hereford], manor of, 506. 
 ministers' accounts of, 307-309. 
 Maunsel. See Mansell. 
 Maunsfeld. See Mansfield. 
 Mautravers, Thomas, 76. 
 Mawne. See Maund. 
 Mawnsfelde. See Mansfield. 
 Mawsou. See Manchones t 
 Maximian, elegies of, 219. 
 
 trivialities of, 214. 
 Maximilian of Austria, prophecy con- 
 cerning, 263. 
 Maxtoke, Macstoke, co. Warwick, 333, 
 366, 882. 
 court roUs of, 303, 305. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 payment to ringers of, 330. 
 priory, abbey, prior of, 332, 367, 
 515. 
 
 , reward to canons and organist 
 
 of, 334. 
 See Makestoke. 
 May, WiHiam, of Brook, gentleman, 
 
 action brought against, 283. 
 Maynard, WiUiam, of Nottingham, 64. 
 
 See Measham. 
 Mazoun. See Mason. 
 Meadcalfe, Edward, waiter at WoUaton, 
 
 168. 
 Meadow Place Grange [in Youlgreave, co. 
 Derby] 7 Medeweplot, outlaws re- 
 ceived at, 275. 
 Mearing. See Mering. 
 Measham, Maysam, Meysamham, Mes- 
 
 som [CO. Derby], 339, 363, 374. 
 Meaux in Wawne, co. York. See Melsa. 
 Medeleye. See Medley. 
 Medeweplot. See Meadow Place Grange ? 
 Medilton; See Middleton. 
 Medley, Medeleye ; 
 
 George, of TUtey, executor of will of 
 Sir Henry Willoughby, 149, 474, 
 519, 526. 
 
 , abstracts of letters from, 519, 
 
 522, 524. 
 
 . from his widow, 524. 
 
 , accounts of, 396-414, 416, 
 
 492, 519, 522-524. 
 
 , involved in trouble on account 
 
 of duke of Suffolk, 521, 523. 
 
 , probable parentage of, 520. 
 
 , purchase of Wollaton chantry 
 
 house by, 417. 
 
 , suspected of dishonesty, 523. 
 
 , Alice his maid, 405. 
 
 , PhUip his servant, 399, 410. 
 
 Henry, 399, 414. 
 
 , payment to, 417. 
 
 Margaret (Wotton) wife of William, 
 
 518, 520. 
 Thomas, 520. 
 Mednill. See MeniU. 
 Medultun, Medylton. See Middleton. 
 Mee, John, wages of, 426, 440, 542. 
 Meeringe. See Mering. 
 Megre, Roger le, notorious thief, 277. 
 Mehaut, sons of, mentioned in a fab- 
 liau, 228. 
 Meirembout, Ranulph de, 19. 
 Mekylton. See Mickleton. 
 Melchbourne, Melchebourn [co. Beds], 
 
 deed dated at, 86. 
 Melen. See Milan. 
 Melford, John, indulgence granted to, 
 
 137. 
 Mellento. See Meulent. 
 Mellers : 
 
 Fabyau, alderman of Nottingham, 
 
 certificate signed by, 498. 
 Mr., payment to, for wine, 375. 
 MeUynge, John, bequest to, 113. 
 Melner : 
 
 Nicholas son of Roger de (sic), 274. 
 Simon son of Roger de {sic), 274. 
 Cf. Mylner. 
 Melsa [Meaux in Wawne, co. York], 
 
 Robert de, 6. 
 Melton : 
 
 Thomas de, indicted, 275. 
 William de, archbishop of York, 93, 
 94. 
 
 , , proceedings upon plea 
 
 of Quo Warranto against, 246. 
 
697 
 
 Melton Mowbray, co. Leicester, Burton 
 
 Lazars in. See Burton Lazars. 
 Menil, Mainil, Mednill : 
 Isabel de, 60n. 
 
 Robert de, grant by, 60, 60n. 
 William de, 56. 
 Meppershall, Maperteshale, co. Bedford, 
 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 Mercer : 
 
 Hugh, expenses of, paid, 425, 443. 
 
 , payments by, 423, 424, 432, 
 
 436, 437, 440, 441, 442, 443, 444, 
 445, 447. 
 
 , wages of, 439, 449, 542. 
 
 Mercia : 
 
 countess of. See Godiva. 
 earls of. See .^Ifric, ^Ifere. 
 kings of. See JSthelred, Berhtwulf, 
 
 Cenulf. 
 optimates of, 208. 
 
 queens of. See ^Ifthryth, Ssethryth. 
 Mere, Henry de la, 79. 
 Merevale, Merywall, Merywell near 
 Aderston, MerywoU, Miravalle, co. 
 Warwick, 605. 
 abbey, 49. 
 
 , reward to monk of, 354. 
 
 , — — to servants of abbot of, 
 
 339, 344. 
 Meriden, Merydyne, Muridene alias 
 Alspath [co. Warwick], 376, 383. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 beath, 334. 
 Mering, Mearing, Meeringe, Meryng : 
 Elizabeth, lady Willoughby's maid, 
 
 547. 
 Sir William, letters of the signet to, 
 
 512-513. 
 Mrs., wages of, 449. 
 Merlin, story of, 235. 
 Merloo, Merloue. See Marlow. 
 Mermyon. See Marmion. 
 Mersc in Compton [co. Worcester], demise 
 
 of land at, 211-212. 
 Mersey (Marse) and Bibble, rivers, be- 
 quest of land between, 254. 
 Merst' [Marston, co. Warwick], Laurence 
 
 de, 15. 
 Merter. See Mercer. 
 Merthiugleya, Hugh de, bailiff of New- 
 
 castle-on-Tyne, 75. 
 Merton, Merthone [co. Surrey], prior and 
 convent of, rents purchased of, 
 269. 
 Mertter. See Mercer. 
 Merycoxe, Merycokes, 399. 
 
 church clerk, wages of, 440, 542. 
 Merydyne. See Meriden. 
 Meryng. See Mering. 
 Merywall, Merywell, MerywoU. See 
 
 Merevale. 
 Messom. See Measham. 
 Messyngham, Brother John de, 86. 
 Metals, staple of, 266, 613-617. 
 Metheringham, Metyngham [co. Lincoln], 
 
 minister's account of, 298. 
 Meulan, Meulens [Prance, dep; Seine-et- 
 Oise], 229. 
 
 Meuleut, Mellento [Meulan, dep. Seine 
 et-Oise] : 
 
 Hugh, kinsman of Peter de, 44. 
 
 Peter de, grant by, 44, 44n. 
 
 Balph son of Peter de, 44. 
 
 Wllliami son of Peter de, 44. 
 Meysamham. See Measham. 
 Mickleton, Mckylton [in Romald Kirk, co, 
 York], minister's account of, 307, 
 Middelton, Middilton. See Middleton. 
 Middlebere, Myddylbere [co. Dorset] 
 
 court rolls of, 312. 
 Middlesex, delivery of records of indict 
 
 ments in, 93. 
 Middleton, Medilton, Medultun, Medyl- 
 ton, Middelton, Middilton, Middul 
 ton, Midelton, Midwlton, Myddel 
 ton, Mydelton, Mydelton, Myd 
 wlton, Mydylton, Mydyltun, co 
 Warwick, 90, 121, 123, 149, 332 
 333, 348, 357, 358, 360, 361, 367- 
 369, 388, 390, 408, 415, 433, 435 
 443, 453, 454, 462, 489, 494, 507, 
 524, 525, 530, 536, 537, 543, 570 
 573, 574, 577-579, 589, 595, 622 
 
 bailiffs of. See Hall, John ; Mar 
 mion, Henry. 
 
 bread, wine, etc., for church of, 379. 
 
 cattle at, 466. 
 
 chapel ornam.ents at, 474, 523. 
 
 chartulary of, 196. 
 
 consecration of beUs at, 349. 
 
 court rolls of, 285-291, 299, 308, 309, 
 318, 322, 323. 
 
 deeds dated at, 78, 79. 
 
 relating to, 627. 
 
 Easter tithing at, account of, 318. 
 
 foreign accounts of, 452. 
 
 furniture, implements, horses, etc., 
 at, 396, 397, 474. 
 
 grant of land in, 86. 
 
 Hall, House, 575. 
 
 , household accounts of, 370- 
 
 374, 379-381, 387, 460-461. 
 
 , knighthood conferred at, 560. 
 
 inventories relating to, 416, 466, 
 485, 523. 
 
 iron at, 555, 583. 
 
 letters dated at, 495, 589. 
 
 manor of, 115, H6, 506. 
 
 marl -pit in, 81. 
 
 ministers' accounts of, 287, 288, 290, 
 291, 296, 297, 307-309. 
 
 muniments found at, 269. 
 
 New Park, sale of, 194. 
 
 Our Lady's light at, 335. 
 
 partition of lands in, 79-82. 
 
 payment to holy-water-clerk of, 380. 
 
 to maids of, 354. 
 
 to players of, 337, 351. 
 
 to ringers at church of, 369. 
 
 to university student of, 364. 
 
 places named in, 79-82. 
 
 rentals of, 294, 302. 
 
 robbery at, 516. 
 
 sale of wood and iron at, 320. 
 
 secured to Sir Percival Willoughby, 
 571, 573, 581, 583. 
 
698 
 
 MIddleton — cont. 
 
 tapers for church of, 364. 
 Sir Richard, priest of, 370. 
 William the chaplain of, 79. 
 iSee Mideltou. 
 Middleton, lord. See Willoughby {ad 
 
 finem). 
 Middlewich, Middlewick [co. Chester], 
 
 presentation to vicarage of, 516. 
 Middulton, MideUon. See Middleton. 
 Midelton [Middleton, co. Warwick], Nor- 
 man de, 79. 
 Midlei, Ranulph de, 44. 
 Midwlton. See Middleton. 
 Milan, Melen, Myllyon : 
 
 dnke of. See Sforza, John, 
 fustian, 434. 
 haburgen of, 113. 
 Milbrook, Milbroke, Mylbrok [in Chid- 
 dingstoue, co. Kent] : 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 rent of, 329. 
 Mildenhall, co. Suffolk, deeds relating to, 
 
 627. 
 Milford, Milforde, co. Hants, manor of, 
 
 124. 
 Millbrook, co. Hants, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Miller, Molendinariiis, Molinarius, Moner, 
 Monner, Myller : 
 Adam le, demise of mine to, 88. 
 Albert the, 19, 29. 
 Harry, payment to, 427. 
 Roger the, 58. 
 
 , baUiff of the French borough 
 
 of Nottingham, 77. 
 Milton, CO. Hants, manor of, 124. 
 Minehead [co. Somerset], Periton in, 299. 
 Mines, 614, 615, 616. 
 iron, 75. 
 See also coal. 
 Minstrels, money paid to, 825, 328, 334, 
 335, 336, 337, 341, 346, 348, 351, 
 352, 357, 358, 364, 366, 376, 377, 
 386, 389. 
 Minworth in Curdworth [co. Warwick]. 
 
 See Munnewrth. 
 Miravalle. See Merevale. 
 Mitcham, Mucheham [co. Surrey], con- 
 firmation of grant of land in, 23. 
 Mitford, Robert de, 75. 
 Mitton, Mutton [in Penkridge, co. Staf- 
 ford], 57. 
 Mitynley [misreading of Strivelyu, Stir- 
 ling, Scotland], writ dated at, 
 242. 
 Moatlow, Mottelow [in Thorpe, co. Der- 
 by], boundaries of, 258. 
 Mohaut, Robert de, steward of Chester, 
 
 grant by, 87. 
 Mohegan Indians, Sachem of. See Pan- 
 
 hekoe. 
 Moigne, Moyngno : 
 
 John, of Carlton, 91. 
 
 , knight, manorial records of, 
 
 293. 
 Mol', Nicholas de, grant to, 270. 
 Molden, Richard, 80, 81. 
 
 Moldgrove. See Moylgrore. 
 Moldrikgraunge. See Mouldridge Grange. 
 Molendinarius. See Miller. 
 Moleneux, Molynex : 
 
 Francis, to provide a horseman for 
 
 his hundred, 152. 
 Serjeant, payment of annuity to, 
 317. 
 Molesworth, Adam de, grant by, 56. 
 Moleyns, Thomas, supervisor of will, 124. 
 Molinarius. See Miller. 
 MoUyus, Molyns : 
 
 Sir Michael, 575, 583, 618, 620. 
 
 , 7 Mr. Michael Murrin, 582. 
 
 , reference to letter to, 579. 
 
 Lady, conjecture as to identity of, 
 580. 
 Molynex. See Moleneux. 
 Molyns. See Mollyns. 
 Monboucher, Joan (Willoughby) wife of 
 
 Bertram, 505. 
 Monelond, Geoffrey, reeve of Tawstock, 
 
 291. 
 Moner. See Miller. 
 
 Money, false, delivery of, (among records), 
 93. 
 scarcity of, 567. 
 Monks Horton, Horton Monaehorum, co. 
 Kent, action concerning land in, 
 283. 
 Monkspath (Hall), Mounkespathe [parish 
 of Tamworth, co. Warwick], docu- 
 ment dated at, 98. 
 Monkton-up-Wimborne, TJpwymboum 
 hundred [co. Dorset], court rolls 
 of, 292, 299, 304, 305, 307, 311, 
 314, 318, 319, 321. 
 minister's account of, 319. 
 Monmouth, Geoffrey of, poem based 
 
 upon, 224-225. 
 Monsfeld. See Mansfield. 
 Monte Alto : 
 
 Henry de, 52. 
 Richard de, 52. 
 Monte Claro, Master John de, canon of 
 
 Southwell, 95. 
 Monte Porti. See Montfort. 
 Monteni, Arnold de, legacy to, 85. 
 Montfort, Montef orti, Monte Forti : 
 
 Eleanor wife of Sjmon de, grant to, 
 
 507. 
 Henry de, grant by, 35, 35k. 
 Hugh brother of Henry de, grant 
 
 to, 35. 
 John brother of Peter de, 98. 
 
 ■ , father of Peter de, 98. 
 
 Peter de, death of, at Evesham, 506. 
 
 , grant of presentation to, 67. 
 
 , lord of Beaudesert, 506. 
 
 , , chantry founded by, 
 
 97-98. 
 
 , , grant to, 97. 
 
 Simon de, earl of X.eicester, Brutus 
 Anglorum, 507n. 
 
 , , grant to, 507. 
 
 , , letter of, ordering de- 
 livery of Dover Castle, 70, 71, 71n. 
 , , rebellion of, 71, 72, 506. 
 
699 
 
 Montfort — cont. 
 Walter de, 36. 
 William de, 36. 
 Montfort, family of, account of, 506-507. 
 
 , connection of, with family of 
 
 Frevile, 506. 
 Montibus, Raimbald de, 52. 
 Montivilliers, Musterdyvelys [Normandy, 
 dep. Seine-Infirieure], gown of, 
 467, 467n. 
 Moorows, amit of Winifred Willoughby, 
 601, 602. 
 Cf. Marrows. 
 Mora. See More. 
 Morcar. See Morkar. 
 Mordeu, Mordon, East and West Mordon 
 [CO. Dorset] : 
 court rolls of, 320. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 grant of mill in, 38, 270. 
 minister's accounts of, 296, 298, 
 
 299, 301, 306, 319, 320. 
 rental of, 320. 
 Charborough in, 12, 12n. 
 Gore Fields in, 61. 
 William parson of, 59. 
 Morden, Moredou [in Lewisham, co. 
 
 Kent], 330. 
 Mordon [Morden, co. Dorset], Robert de, 
 
 chaplain, 59. 
 More, Mora : 
 
 Benedict de la, 87. 
 
 John of, 110. 
 
 Letia wife of William de, grant to, 
 
 270. 
 Reginald de la, notorious thief, 277. 
 Roger de la, 59. 
 Sir Thomas, chancellor, 516. 
 William, indulgence granted to, 
 137. 
 
 de, grant to, 270. 
 
 son of Walter de la, emanicpa- 
 
 tion of, 78. 
 
 Mr., payment to, for soap, 402. 
 Moreden. See Morden. 
 Moresburghe. See Mosborough. 
 Moreteun. See Mortein. 
 Moreton. See Morton. 
 Morins, character in poem, 223. 
 Morkar, Morcar [Ealdormann] : 
 
 bequest to, 256. 
 
 to daughter of, 258. 
 
 Morkot', Alan de, 22. 
 
 Morland, Marlon, Master, delivery of 
 
 ordnance by, 129, 130. 
 Morlegton, Morlingtun, 255. 
 Morleston and Litchurch, Morleyston and 
 Lychurch wapentake [co. Derby], 
 presentment by jurors of, 273. 
 Morley [co. Derby] : 
 
 bequest of land in, to Burton abbey, 
 257. 
 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 Morley [in Shermanbury, co. Sussex], 
 ministers' accounts of, 307-309. 
 Morley, lord. See Lovel, Heiu^y. 
 Morleyston. See Morleston. 
 Morrice, Ann, wife of John Friend, 606. 
 
 Mortein, Moreteun, Morteyn [Mortaln, 
 Normandy] : 
 Adam de, 12, 12n. 
 Eustace de, 56. 
 Hugh de, 12. 
 Isabel (Willoughby) daughter of 
 
 Roger, lord of Dunsby, 504. 
 Roger de, 83. 
 
 , demise by, 87. 
 
 , licences to, to alienate, 87, 89. 
 
 Mortlake, oo. Surrey, deeds relating to, 
 
 627. 
 Morton, Moreton [co. Derby], bequest of 
 land in, to Burton abbey, 257. 
 Ogston, Oggeston, in Brackenfield 
 in, 257. 
 Morton, earl of. See John. 
 Morton : 
 
 Adam de, 14. 
 
 Agnes, widow, action brought by, 
 283. 
 
 , , inquisition post mortem, 
 
 283. 
 John, archbishop of Canterbury, the 
 chancellor, 466, 612. 
 Mortuo Mari, Roger de, 71, 72. 
 Mosborough, Moresburgh [in Eckington, 
 CO. Derby], bequest of land in, 
 255. 
 Moscovia, departure of Sir Hugh Wil- 
 loughby for, 398. 
 Mossall Heathe. See Mousehold Heath. 
 Mosse, payment to, for pressing crabs, 
 
 459. 
 Moston, Brother Gilbert, monk of Burton, 
 
 249, 250-252. 
 Motcombe, Mottecombe [co. Dorset], 
 
 ministers' accounts of, 301, 307. 
 Mottelow. See Moatlow. 
 Moulde, Henry, 389. 
 Mouldridge Grange, Moldrikgraunge [in 
 Brassington in Bradbom-ne, oo. 
 Derby], outlaws received at, 275. 
 Mouuer. See MiUer. 
 Mounkespathe. See Monkspath. 
 Mount, Nurse, payments to, 440, 441. 
 Mounteigle, lord. See Stanley. 
 Mousehold Heath, Mossall Heathe, Nor- 
 wich, CO. Norfolk, Norfolk rebels 
 at, 155-156, 519. 
 Mowmford : 
 
 Mr., payment to, 352. 
 
 , reward to servant of, 336. 
 
 Mowne. See Maund. 
 Mowntt-Bgle, lord. See Stanley. 
 Mowsley, Mousele, co. Leicester, deeds 
 
 relating to, 625. 
 Moxhul' [Moxhall in Wishaw, co. War- 
 wick], Osbcrt de, 24. 
 Moycok, William, of Sutton Bonuington, 
 
 280. 
 Moylgrove, Moldgrove [co. Pembroke], 
 
 court rolls of, 288. 
 Moyngne. See Moigne. 
 Mucel, dux, 206, 209. 
 Mucheham. See Mitcham. 
 Much Weulock. See Wenlock. 
 Mum', William de, 25. 
 
700 
 
 Munflohet, Richard de, friend and ally 
 of Richard earl of Gloucester, 68. 
 Munjai, Mungay, William de, 46, 46»i. 
 Munnewrth [Miniworth in Curdworth, co. 
 
 Warwick], Henry de, 25. 
 Murimouth, Ralph, of Bakewell, threat- 
 ened, 278. 
 Murrin. See MoUyns ? 
 Muschamp, Muscham [Muskham, co. 
 Notts] : 
 Hugh brother of Robert de, 45. 
 Peter in Venella de, 94. 
 Robert de, 45, 45n. 
 William brother of Robert de, 45. 
 
 de, archdeacon of Derby, 45, 
 
 45n. 
 Musician, wages of, 440, 542. 
 Muskham. See Muschamp. 
 Musteirs, Richard de, 611. 
 Mustel, Musteile, Mustela, Robert, 13, 
 
 13n, 14. 
 Muster master, armour for the, 160. 
 Musterdyvelys. See Montivilliers. 
 Musters, commissions for, 126. 
 
 papers relating to, 152, 156, 158-161, 
 177, 187, 193. 
 Mustirs, Walter de, grant to, 76. 
 Mutton. .See Mitton. 
 Myddelton. See Middletou. 
 Myddylbere. See Middlebere. 
 Mydelton, Mydleton, Mydwlton, Mydyl- 
 
 ton, Mydyltuu. See Middleton. 
 Myghell of Cossall, carrier, 387. 
 Mylbrok. iSee MUbroke. 
 Myles, Amy, debt owed to, 472. 
 Myller. See MUler. 
 Mylhier. See Mylner. 
 Myllyon. See Milan. 
 Mylner, Myllner : 
 
 Brother Henry, monk of Burton, 
 
 250, 251. 
 Henry, payment to, 431. 
 Cf. Melner. 
 Mytton, the hermit, reward to, 337. 
 
 N 
 
 Nailsbourne, Nallysbourne [in Kiagston 
 
 St. Mary, co. Somerset], minister's 
 
 account of, 318. 
 Namlon, due, councillor of Charlemagne, 
 
 226. 
 Naples, king of. See Ferdinand. 
 Nassington, William of. Speculum Viiae 
 
 of, 238-230. 
 Navarre, the duke of Norfolk in, 146. 
 Nead, upholsterer, 438. 
 Neapoli, Gamier de, prior of the knights 
 
 hospitallers in England, 37». 
 Necham, Roger, indulgence granted to, 
 
 137. 
 
 Nechells in Aston, co. Warwick. iSee 
 
 Bcheles. 
 Nedham : 
 
 Henry de, indicted, 274. 
 John of, 110. 
 
 Robert brother of Henry de, in- 
 dicted, 275. 
 Neel, Thomas, 80. 
 
 Cf. Neyll. 
 Nemore : 
 
 Beruer de, 47. 
 Robert de, grant to, 46, 47. 
 Nettleship, Roger, of Beckingham, 179. 
 Neuton : 
 
 Adam de, priest, 95. 
 Roger de, expenses of, 325. 
 Neuwerk. See Newark. 
 NevUl, Nevell, Nevyll : 
 
 Anthony, payment of annuity to, 
 
 317. 
 Geoffrey de, the king's cham.berlain, 
 
 51, 51n. 
 Hugh, grant to, 246. 
 , perambulation, etc., of Sher- 
 wood forest by, 241, 243. 
 John de, grant of forfeited lands of, 
 72. 
 
 , knight, 106?t, 109. 
 
 son of Geoffrey de, 52, 52ji. 
 
 Richard, charge of, 193. 
 Robert, abstract of letter from, 516. 
 Mrs., wife of claimant to title of 
 lord Latimer, whipped, 158, 568. 
 Neville's Cross, battle of, 95n. 
 Nevyll. See Nevill. 
 
 Newark, Neuwerk, Newerk, Nowwarke 
 [CO. Notts], 114, 152, 177, 436, 
 441, 446, 459, 498. 
 castle, document dated at, 152. 
 disclaimer of arms at, 179. 
 fair, cattle bought at, 393. 
 friars of, reward to, 369. 
 presentments by jurors of, 279, 280. 
 sale of coal at, 168, 173, 175-177. 
 weir, boat cast on, 175. 
 Newbegyn, Margery, debt owed to, 472. 
 Newbold [co. Chester], minister's ac- 
 count of, 304. 
 Newbold [co. Leicester], deeds relating 
 
 to, 625. 
 Newborne. See Newburn. 
 Newburgh priory [co. York] : 
 
 grant by prior and chapter of, 6. 
 names of priors of, 6«. 
 seal of, 7. 
 Newburgh, Novo Burgo ; 
 
 Alice de, covmtess of Warwick, 25. 
 
 Robert de, knight, 93. 
 
 Waleran de, earl of Warwick, grant 
 
 by, 24, 24m, 271. 
 William de, earl of ^\'ar-\vick, 24n. 
 Newburu, Newborne [co. Northumber- 
 land], Scottish army encamped 
 at, 193. 
 Newoastlo-on-Tync, Newe Castelle opon 
 Tyne [co. Northumberland] : 
 bailiffs of, named, 75. 
 common seal of, 75. 
 
701 
 
 Newoastle-on-Tyne — cont. 
 
 deputy of the mayor of the staple at, 
 
 266. 
 mayor of. See Scot, Nicholas le. 
 
 , to act as deputy mayor of 
 
 the staple, 617. 
 St. Bartholomew's priory, Christiana, 
 prioress, and convent of, grant by, 
 75. 
 skirmish of Scots and English near, 
 and capture of, 193-19-4. 
 Newcastle-under-Lyme [co. Stafford], 
 
 427. 
 Newchurch, Isle of Wight, Horringford 
 
 in, 124. 
 Newe CasteUe. See Newcastle. 
 Newenton, Geoffrey de, 57. 
 Newerk. See Newark. 
 New Forest, co. Hants, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Newfoundland, description of, 284. 
 
 venture to, 284. 
 NewhaU, co. Derby, 259. 
 letter dated at, 597. 
 Newlajid, in Rushall, co. Stafford, deeds 
 
 relating to, 627. 
 New Loudon [Connecticut, North 
 
 America], 195. 
 New Mills [CO. Derby], Beard in, 274, 276, 
 
 278. 
 Newnam. See Nuname. 
 Newport, Nuport, Isle of Wight, manor 
 
 of, 124. 
 Newport Pagnell, co. Buckingham, deeds 
 
 relating to, 624. 
 Newport, lord. See Blount, Mountjoy. 
 Newstead in Sherwood, Newsted (Novus 
 Locvs), CO. Notts, 433. 
 prior and convent of, 41. 
 
 , grant to, 245. 
 
 Newton [by Middlewich (Therwyke?), 
 CO. Chester ?], bequests of laud 
 in, to Burton abbey, 256. 
 minister's accoimt of, 289. 
 Newton Grange, Newton [in Thorpe, co. 
 Derby], 258, 259. 
 farmer of. See Basforth, Thomas. 
 Neyll, Mr., departure of, 395. 
 
 Cf. Neel. 
 Nichol' [Lincoln] : 
 
 Alfred de, 54, 62. 
 Geoffrey de, 62. 
 Nicholas V., pope, 133. 
 Nicholas : 
 
 Adam son of, demise of mine to, 88. 
 Everard son of, demise of mine to, 
 
 88. 
 Giles son of, grant of forfeited lands 
 
 of, 72. 
 Henry son of, constable of Corfe, 62. 
 Robert son of, 36. 
 (witness), 8. 
 Nichole. See Lincoln. 
 NichoUes, Nycols : 
 
 James, Serjeant at mace of Sutton 
 
 Coldfield, 156. 
 Bichard, purser of the James 
 Ilcorribe, 128. 
 
 Nicholson, Palemon, agreement by, 
 
 499-500. 
 Niddesone, Richard, indicted, 276. 
 Nigel, Henry sou of, 32. 
 Niger. See Black. 
 Noah's ark, drawing of, 621. 
 Nobryghtz in Walkingstead and Home, 
 CO. Surrey, deeds relating to manor 
 of, 627. 
 Noel, Osbert, 6. 
 None Eton. See Nuneaton. 
 Norfolk, Norfocke : 
 
 duke of. See Howard, Thomas, 
 earl of. See Bigod, Roger le. 
 rebels of, at Household Heath, 155, 
 519. 
 Norfouc, Nortfolc : 
 Adam de, 28. 
 Alexander de, 19. 
 Norhamptone, Master Philip de, vicar of 
 St.Mary's,Nottingham,grantto,64. 
 Norman, Margery, grant of reversion of 
 
 dower lands of, 86. 
 Normandy bill, 468. 
 Normanton [co. Notts], 179. 
 deeds dated at, 626. 
 rector of. See Mason, John. 
 Normanton [in Durnford], co. Wilts, 
 
 manor of, 124. 
 Normanton : 
 
 Joan wife of Thomas de, rape of, 281. 
 Richard de, 94. 
 Roger de, 11. 
 Thomas de, 94. 
 
 William de,bailiff of Nottingham, 626. 
 Normanvyle, Thomas, justice in eyre for 
 
 pleas of the forest, 242. 
 Norre, William, threatened, 282. 
 Norreis, Henry, 29n. 
 
 Cf. Norys. 
 Norroy king at arms. See St. George, 
 
 Bichard. 
 Nortfolc. See Norfouc. 
 Northampton, Northamton, 430, 447, 
 450, 556. 
 charter dated at, 3. 
 letter sent from, 596. 
 musters at, 599. 
 Northampton, county of, Hantesira : 
 forestry of, 2, 3, 3». 
 rolls of eyre in, delivery of, 92. 
 Northburgh, Roger de, bishop of Coven- 
 try and Lichfield, 236. 
 Northecarleton. See Carlton, North. 
 Northovere, Adam, 58. 
 Northtun. See Norton. 
 Northwood, Northwode in Sherwood 
 
 forest, trees in, 242. 
 Norton [co. Derby or co. Stafford ?], 
 
 bequest of land at, 255. 
 Norton, Northtun [co. Gloucester], 201, 
 
 202. 
 Norton : 
 
 Thomas, knight, master of the pre- 
 ceptory of Burton St. Lazars, 125. 
 
 ,monk of Burton, 250, 251, 252. 
 
 , , scrutineer at election 
 
 of abbot, 248. 
 
702 
 
 Norwell, co. Notts, 179. 
 Norwich, Norwyohe [co. Norfolk] : 
 
 rebels at Household Heath, 155. 
 
 Su" Henry Willoughby slain at 
 Household Heath, 396, 492, 519. 
 
 white works of, 466. 
 Norys, Goda handmaiden of Maya la, 
 beaten, 282. 
 
 Cf. Norreis. 
 Nothingham, Notingame. See Notting- 
 ham. 
 Notingeham, Notincheham : 
 
 Aki de, 26. 
 
 Bartholomew son of Bartholomew 
 de, 27. 
 
 , grant by, 25, 26. 
 
 son of TJlf de, grant to, 19, 
 
 20, 20n. 
 
 Silvester de, 41. 
 
 son of Silvester de, parson of 
 
 Eadford, 41. 
 Notman, Nottman : 
 
 William, payment of expenses of, 
 382. 
 
 , wages of, 371. 
 
 Nottingham, Nothingham, Notingame, 
 Nottinggam, Nottyngam, Not- 
 tyngham, Notyngam, Notyngham, 
 62, 64, 65, 89, 96, 97, 99, 100, 112, 
 118-121, 150, 151, 164, 180, 243, 
 281, 282, 325, 326, 339, 361, 363, 
 367, 377, 384, 390, 393, 418, 422, 
 424-430, 432, 437, 441, 443, 445, 
 450, 456, 459, 464, 495, 498, 533, 
 534, 543, 565, 599. 
 
 aldermen of, named, 498. 
 
 alms, etc., to poor of, 423, 424. 
 
 — — to prisoners at, 333, 358, 422, 
 430. 
 
 archdeacon of, 99. 
 
 assizes at, 367, 388, 621. 
 
 bailiffs of, named, 626,627.. See also 
 Alastre, John de ; Ohastre, John de ; 
 Colier, Ralph ; Cupper, Richard 
 le ; Davy, John ; Orfevre, Hichael 
 le ; Roley, Thomas de ; Stafford, 
 Thomas, de ; Sutton, John de ; 
 Taverner, Stephen le. 
 
 brotherhood of the Trinity at, 360. 
 
 burgesses of, charters to, 12«, 26n, 
 27m. 
 
 coal carried from, to London, 171- 
 172. 
 
 ■ carried to, 163. 
 
 dean of. See Colwick, John rector of. 
 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 
 demoniac possession at, 165-167. 
 
 documents dated at, 97, 99, 118, 
 179. 
 
 friars of, payments to, 327, 335, 336, 
 340, 385. 
 
 , Carmelite, of, bequest to, 85. 
 
 Minors of, 79, 111, 112. 
 
 , bequest to, 85. 
 
 , letters of fraternity of 
 
 John warden of, 117-118. 
 
 gaol delivery at, 120, 281, 282. 
 
 Goose Pair, Goeefeyr at, 392. 
 
 Nottingham — cont. 
 
 grant of messuages in, 27, 100. 
 inquisitions taken at, 149, 150, 241. 
 Jew of, 62. 
 
 mayor of, at Wollaton, 462. 
 mayors of, named, 626, 627. See 
 also Beook, Richard ; Mapurley, 
 Thomas de ; Scott, William ; 
 Spicere, Hugh le ; Tumby, John 
 de. 
 ministers' accounts of, 296, 307-309. 
 offering at rood of, 385. 
 places named in : 
 
 Aspley Hall, 530, 530n. 
 Athelwelle [Spring], 64. 
 castle, 20w, 40«, 565. 
 
 , constable of. See Kneton, 
 
 Geoffrey. 
 
 , custody of, 93. 
 
 , deputy-constable of, 56n. 
 
 , estreats of court of, 312. 
 
 Cowlane, Le, 97. 
 French borough, the, 62. 
 
 , bailiffs of. See Hunter, 
 
 William le ; Miller, Roger le. 
 
 , reeves of. See Bugge, 
 
 Robert ; Gofie, Augustin son of. 
 gaol, 2 On. 
 
 Larkdale, Laverkedale, 64. 
 Market, the, 62. 
 Outwoods, reward to keepers of, 
 
 347. 
 Robin Hood's well, 444. See also 
 
 Beauvale. 
 Rock, the, 100. 
 St. John's hospital, 241. 
 St. Mary's church, 422. 
 
 , alms to poor of, 423. 
 
 , vicar of. See Norhamptone, 
 
 Master Philip de. 
 St. Peter's church, rector of. 
 
 See WiUoughby, William de. 
 streets : 
 
 Bereworde gate, 62. 
 Chapelbarre, 97, 281, 391. 
 Wheelergate or Baxtergate, 77, 
 77n. 
 Thurland House, Thorlande, Thor- 
 lon, Thyrlandes Place, 314, 418, 
 455, 457, 499. 
 Trent Bridges, 171, 172, 443. 
 
 , coal carried to, 171-173, 
 
 183, 501. 
 
 , coal sold at, 169, 177. 
 
 , wharfage at, 501. 
 
 Wall, the, 97. 
 pleas of the forest held at, 242, 243, 
 
 245. 
 pound weight of, 70. 
 presentments by jurors of, 279. 
 proclamation made at, 389. 
 quarter sessions at, 388, 390, 391. 
 rental of land In, 314. 
 riotous conduct of lord Lisle at, 
 
 118-120. 
 Serjeants of, payment to, 391. 
 sessions at, 119. 
 for loan at, 389. 
 
703 
 
 Nottingham, sessions — coni. 
 
 of commissions at, 340, 430. 
 
 sheriffs of, gift of wine by, 417. 
 
 tanner of, 397. 
 
 town clerk of. See Easingwold, 
 
 William, 
 waits of, 335, 423, 424, 430, 441, 
 
 450. 
 works at, 20n, 40n. 
 Nottingham, county of : 
 
 attempt to found woad industry 
 
 in, 498-501. 
 disafforestation in, 241. 
 disclaimer of arms in, 178-179. 
 lord lieutenant and cuatos rotu- 
 lorum of. See Pierrepont, 
 William, 
 musters in, 152, 156, 158, 159, 
 
 177, 187, 193, 512. 
 oath of supremacy administered 
 
 in, 160. 
 sheriff of, 119. See also Marc, 
 Philip; Talbot, Gilbert; Wil- 
 loughby (W). 
 
 ■ , court of, 309. 
 
 , papers relating to ofBce of, 
 
 284. 
 soldiers of, 349. 
 surveys of chantries in, 284. 
 Nottman See Notman. 
 NottoU. See Nuthall. 
 Nottynggam, Nottyngham, Notyngam, 
 
 Notyngham. See Nottingham. 
 Novo Biu'go. See Newburgh. 
 Nowwarke. See Newark. 
 Nuers, Sir Amaury de, 62. 
 Nuname, Newnam, wife of Captain, 
 
 whipped, 158, 568. 
 Nuneaton, None Eton, Nwnhetun priory 
 [CO. Warwick], children boarded 
 at, 346, 363. 
 Nunneries, indulgence of access to, 138, 
 
 139. 
 Nuport. See Newport. 
 Nuport, buttons delivered to, 604. 
 Nuthall, Nottoll, co. Notts, Hempshall 
 in, 42, 42m. 
 park at, 368. 
 Nuthall, Nutehale : 
 Hugh de, 42. 
 
 Margaret, bequest to, 123. 
 Nwnhetun. See Nimeaton. 
 Nyckes, Mr., of Nottingham, pew-rent 
 paid to, 428. 
 Cf- Nyxson. 
 Nycols. See Nicholles. 
 Nydenynch. See Lydlinch. 
 Nyxson, son of Nyxe, collier, 493. 
 payments to, 431, 438, 440. 
 C/. Nyckes. 
 
 Oadby, Outheby, co. Leicester, deeds 
 
 relating to, 625. 
 Oakamoor, Okemore [in Alton, Cheadle 
 and Kingsley, co. Stafford], ac- 
 counts of iron and coal at, 497. 
 Oakerthorp, Ulgerthorp [in South Wing- 
 field], CO. Derby, deeds relating 
 to, 624. 
 Oakley, Aclee [co. Stafford, parish of 
 Croxall, CO. Derby], bequest of 
 land at, 255. 
 Oaten cakes, the children of the Chapel 
 
 fed on, 185. 
 Oath: 
 
 of Supremacy, administration of, 160, 
 taken by abbot, on election, 252- 
 253. 
 
 by councillors under Provisions 
 
 of Oxford, 69, 69n. 
 
 by foresters, woodwards, etc., 
 
 246. 
 Obits, calendar of, 236-237. 
 Observant Friars of Mount Sion, guar- 
 dian of. See Masius, Brother 
 Zenobius. 
 Oche, John, indulgence granted to, 137. 
 Octavian, not the subject of a homily, 
 
 238. 
 Oddyngseles, William de, 97. 
 Odhurst, CO. Warwick. See Hodhurst. 
 Odo, Hodo, Hode : 
 
 Geoffrey son of, 26, 27, 29. 
 Hugh son of, constable of the Tower, 
 74. 
 Ody, Hody, Henry, of Ashbourne, in- 
 dicted for offences in co. Derby, 
 272-273, 276, 277, 278, 281. 
 Offa, king of Mercia : 
 gift of bible by, 196. 
 grants by, 197, 197n, 201-203. 
 
 , reference to, 269. 
 
 Offcote, Offodecot [in Ashborne], co. 
 
 Derby, deeds relating to, 624. 
 Oftfor, bishop of Worcester, 201. 
 
 grant to, 199-200. 
 Ogbury, Okebury, in Dumford, co. Wilts, 
 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 Ogden, 454. 
 
 Oggeston. See Ogston. 
 Ogle: 
 
 Margaret Lady, agreement by, 132. 
 Mr., at Wollaton, 458, 462. 
 Ogston (Hall), Oggeston [in Brackenfield, 
 parish of Morton, co. Derby], 
 bequest of, to Burton abbey, 2.57. 
 Oil de Buef. See Wellebef. 
 Okeford, Child. See Child Okeford. 
 Okeford Pitzpain, Acford Alfredi [co. 
 Dorset], Henry rector of, 31. 
 
704 
 
 Otemore. See Oakamopr. 
 OkeoTer, Acofere [co. Stafford], bequest 
 of land in, to Burton abbey, 256n. 
 Oker, Thoraas, depositions taken before, 
 
 259. 
 Oldercar, See Aldercar. 
 Oliver : 
 
 Jordan, 62. 
 
 , sale of land to, 270. 
 
 Eosamuud, 270. 
 Olivet, Mount, pilgrimage to, 140. 
 Ollerton, co. Nottingham, 592n. 
 Omuling the abbot, 201. 
 Oneale, Serjeant-major Daniel, charge of, 
 
 193. 
 Onheld, Gilbert del, 80. 
 Opton. See Upton Grey. 
 Ordnance, delivery of, 128-130. 
 Orf evre : 
 
 Michael le, bailiff of Nottingham, 
 
 79, 79m. 
 Roger le, beaten, 282. 
 
 , of Nottingham, indicted, 282. 
 
 Cf. Goldsmith. 
 Oriad6s, character in poem, 223. 
 Oriebrant, 226. 
 Orm (witness), 20, 20n. 
 Ormeshi, Richard de, 14, 14n. 
 Orpheu."!, the Thracian bard, reference to, 
 
 219. 
 Orton, Mr., at WoUaton, 462. 
 Osbern, Osburne : 
 Henry, 81. 
 Ralph, 86, 415. 
 Richard, 81. 
 Osbernehi [Osbournby, co. Lincoln], 
 
 Peter de, the king's servant, 14. 
 Osborne, Peregrine, earl of Dauby, 
 
 keeper of Sherwood forest, 501. 
 Osbournby. See Osbernebi. 
 Osburne. See Osbern. 
 Osfrith (witness), 200. 
 Osilyur, Robert le, 64. 
 Osland, Outheslond, Owthesland wood 
 [in Perlethorpe, co. Notts]: 
 boundaries of, 241. 
 forest offences in, 246. 
 Osmaston, Osmundeston [co. Derby], 
 278.' 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 Ospreys, hosprayse, reward for killing, 
 
 366. 
 Ostenhanger, Ostrynhanger [in Stan- 
 ford], CO. Kent, action concerning 
 land in, 283. 
 Osthritha consort of .^Sthelred, king of 
 
 Mercia, 200. 
 Ostrevant [Prance, dep. Nord], mentioned 
 
 in fabliau, 230. 
 Ostrice. See Austria. 
 Ostrynhanger. See Ostenhanger. 
 Oswald, bishop of Worcester and arch- 
 bishop of York, demises by, 198, 
 209-212. 
 Oteby [Otby in Walesby, co. Lincoln] : 
 Jordan de, 32. 
 Robert de, 82. 
 Otten. See Van Otten. 
 
 Otterford, Oterford [co. Somerset], 
 
 minister's account, of, 318. 
 Outheslond. See Osland. 
 Overtheman, Edward, wages of, 449. 
 Overton. See Cole Orton, 
 Overton, Market, Marketoverton [co. 
 Rutland], minister's account of, 
 293. 
 Overton, Robert de, grant of forfeited 
 
 lands of, 72. 
 Ovingham, co. Northumberland, Prud- 
 
 hoe in, 132. 
 Ownesby, Robert, monk of Burton : 
 intrigues for election of, as abbot, 
 
 248-250. 
 resignation of abbacy by, 251. 
 Owthesland. See Osland. 
 Owthorpe 1 Hastorp [co. Notts], grant of 
 
 rent in, 27. 
 Oxford, Oxeforth : 
 
 dean of Christ Church. See Pointer, 
 education of Sir Percival Willough- 
 by's sons at Trinity College, 609, 
 610. 
 friar going towards, 386. 
 poor scholar going to, 429. 
 provisions of, 69n. 
 queen Elizabeth at, 528, 528«. 
 wood for building Christ Church, 
 514. 
 Oxford, lord of. See Veer, John de. 
 Oxton, John de, clerk, 86. 
 Oyzell : 
 
 Richard, grant to, 244. 
 
 •, waste of forest arrented by, 
 
 244-245. 
 
 P., John, wages of, 542. 
 Packington [co. War-nick], 555. 
 
 letters dated at, 577, 604. 
 Padget. See Paget. 
 Padleye, Henry de, 279. 
 Padua University, matriculation of Fran- 
 cis Willoughby at, 194. 
 Page, Philippa, wife of Robert Pargiter, 
 
 606. 
 Pageants held idolatrous in Scotland, 
 
 185. 
 Paget, Padget, Pagett, Pegett : 
 
 lord, 494, 496, 522, 523. 
 
 , marriage of his daughter, 528. 
 
 , relations of, with George 
 
 Medley, 523. 
 
 Mr., at Wollaton, 462. 
 Paine. See Payne. 
 Palfreyman, Henry le, indicted, 274. 
 Palmer, palmaritis, Paumer : 
 
 Adam le, 64. 
 
 , mayor of Nottingham, 626, 
 
 John le, 64. 
 
705 
 
 Palmer, John le — cont. 
 
 , junior, mayor of Nottingham, 
 
 626. 
 Lawrence, clerk, 608. 
 Nicholas brother of Thomas, 43. 
 Bichard the, 20. 
 Thomas, 43. 
 Sir Thomas, mention of letter of, 
 
 516. 
 Mr., at WoUaton, 458. 
 
 , payment to servant of, 382. 
 
 Palterton [in Bolsover, co. Derby], be- 
 quest of laud at, 256. 
 Panelle, Isabel, 314. 
 Panhekoe, Sachem of the Mohegan In- 
 dians, letter from, 194-195. 
 Pardia, servant of Sir Francis Wll- 
 loughby, defamation of lady 
 WiBoughby by, 533. 
 Pardoners, gifts to, 327, 342, 348, 354, 369. 
 Pare : 
 
 William de, death of, 272-274. 
 
 , Indictment of, 273. 
 
 Parelby. See Parleby. 
 Pargiter : 
 
 WilUam, of co. Northampton, 605, 
 
 608. 
 , Abigail (Hickman) his daugh- 
 ter, 606. 
 
 , Abigail (Willoughby) his wife, 
 
 605. 
 , Dorothy (Kirby and Washing- 
 ton) his daughter, 605. 
 
 Elizabeth (Smith) his daugh- 
 606. 
 
 Ezekiel his son, 606. 
 Francis his son, 606. 
 Grace (Stratford) his daugh- 
 605, 606. 
 
 , Theodore his son, 606. 
 
 , William his son, 606. 
 
 Robert sou of William, 606. 
 
 — — , Philippa (Page) his wife, 607. 
 
 Sir William son of Robert, 606, 607. 
 
 (Dearing) his daughter, 
 
 607. 
 
 (Washington) his wife, 
 
 607. 
 Paris, Parys : 
 
 book printed at, 622. 
 candles of, 324, 326. 
 university of, 398, 523. 
 Parker, John, of Blakedon, legacy to, 104. 
 Parleby, Parelby : 
 
 Margery, payments by, 446, 449. 
 
 , purge for, 445. 
 
 . wages of, 439, 449, 541. 
 
 Paries : 
 
 WUllam de, 33n. 
 
 , knight, indicted and hanged, 
 
 271-272. 
 Parott. See Perot. 
 Parpoynt. See Pierrepont. 
 Parramore, chancery action against, 579. 
 Parson : 
 
 Hugh the, 57. 
 Richard son of the, 57. 
 Thomas the, 4. 
 
 ter. 
 
 ter, 
 
 Part, lo. See Lopart. 
 
 Partition of lands, 79-81. 
 
 Parvyng, counsel, 247. 
 
 Parwich, Peverwych, co. Derby, deeds 
 
 relating to, 624. 
 Parys. See Paris. 
 Parys, John, brother of Burton Lazars 
 
 robbed, 278. 
 Pasci, Elias de, 5, 11. 
 Passeys, Passeis [Passais, dep. Orne] ; 
 Alan son of Robert, of Sutton, grant 
 
 by, 64. 
 Alice wife of Alan son of Robert, 64. 
 Robert de, 40, 40n. 
 Pate: 
 
 Mr., money won at bowls by, 447. 
 — ■ — , payments to servant of, 433, 
 
 444. 
 Mrs. Anne, departure of, 425. 
 PateshuU, Simon de, 51. 
 Pathlow, in Aston Cantelow, co. War- 
 wick, deeds relating to, 627. 
 Paul III., pope of Rome, detestable 
 
 doings of, 509. 
 Paul v., pope of Rome, Nuncio of, at 
 
 Spanish Council, 188-189. 
 Paulet, William, marquis of Winchester, 
 
 high treasurer of England, 618. 
 Paumer. See Palmer. 
 Pauncefote, Grymballd : 
 
 agreement by, 499-500. 
 statement of cost of glass works 
 by, 500. 
 Paunton, Hugh de, 91. 
 Pavelly, Richard de, knight, 82. 
 Paxson, Sir John, sexton of the close of 
 
 Lichfield, executor of will, 122. 
 Paygyon, child of, christened, 367. 
 
 soldier from, Powgyon soldier, re- 
 wards to, 341, 353. 
 Payn : 
 
 Nicholas son of, 6. 
 Robert son of, 17. 
 Payne, Paine, Peyn : 
 
 Elizabeth (Willoughby) daughter of 
 
 Robert, of Basingstoke, 608. 
 Robert, 82. 
 
 , alleged peculation by, 499. 
 
 , cultivation of woad by, 498- 
 
 499. 
 
 , exhibition of articles against 
 
 Sir Francis Willoughby by, 567. 
 — -, letter to, 498. 
 
 , treatise of, on preparation of 
 
 woad, 497-498. 
 Thomas, money lent by, 571. 
 Payngkryge. See Penkridge. 
 Peak castle, co. Derby, ^n. 
 
 See High Peak. 
 Pearson, Bartholomew, letters from, 
 
 reference to, 284. 
 Pearss, Mary, daughter of Robert Strat- 
 ford, 605. 
 Peaworth, Richard, legacy to, 104. 
 Fech6, Peck : 
 
 Richard, bishop of Coventry, 8, 8n, 9, 
 
 , , grant confirmed by, 9, 
 
 270. 
 
 M 45 
 
706 
 
 Peckham : 
 
 Sir George, 591. 
 Lady, 590, 591. 
 Peckleton [co. Leicester], Basset in, 382. 
 Pad., Edward, letter signed by, 602. 
 Peek, Robert of, 110. 
 Peerse, payment to wife of, 401. 
 Pegett. See Pagett. 
 Pellvparius. See Skinner. 
 Pembrolce, Penbroc, earl of. See Herbert, 
 
 Henry lord.; Marslial, William. 
 Pen, Penne : 
 
 John, wages of, 439, 449, 542. 
 
 [John], 547. 
 
 . . . . , butler at Wollaton, duties of, 
 
 540-541. 
 .... [tutor of William Arundell], 
 554. 
 Penbroc. See Pembroke. 
 Peuiggeston [Penistone, co. York], Master 
 
 John de, 94. 
 Penkridge, Payngkryge, Pyngkaryge, 
 Pyngkeryge, co. Stafford, fair at, 
 347, 361, 368. 
 places named in, 57, 255, 255n. 
 Penmaen, Penmayn [co. Glamorgan], 
 rector of. See Sweyneae, Sir Philip 
 de. 
 Penshurst, Pensherst [co. Kent], 474. 
 bequest of land in, 150. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 inventory of goods at, 485. 
 rental of, 304. 
 Reinsleigh in, 302. 
 Pentrich, Pentrych, Pentryche, co. Der- 
 by, 124, 125. 
 vicar of, 125. 
 Percehaie, Adam, 32. 
 Perche, John, clerk, commissary of the 
 archbishop of Canterbury, 102, 617. 
 Perci. See Percy. 
 Perckenes, Oliver, 169. 
 Perckines, Mr. and Mrs., at Wollaton, 
 
 463. 
 Percy, Perci : 
 
 Anne (WiUoughby) daughter of 
 
 Thomas, lord Egremont, 508. 
 Geoffrey de, 71. 
 
 Henry, Dathell, knight, manorial 
 records of, 297. 
 
 de, friend and ally of Richard 
 
 earl of Gloucester, 68. 
 Mary compagne of Sir WiUiam, 617. 
 William de. In. 
 William, knight, will of, 617. 
 Percy, sword called, 104. 
 Periton, Peryton [in Minehead, co. Somer- 
 set], minister's account of, 299. 
 Perlethorpe, co. Notts, Osland wood in, 
 
 241, 246. 
 Pernell, payments to, for fasting, 332, 
 
 352, 364. 
 Perot, Parott, Perote, Perrot : 
 Henry son of, of Cossal, 75. 
 John, of Woodborough, will of, 270. 
 Robert, accounts rendered by, 314- 
 
 316. 
 , chaplain, 314-316. 
 
 Perot — cont. 
 
 Thomas, bailiff of Guuthorpe and 
 Lowdham, 307. 
 Perpoint, Perpontte, Perpount, Perpoynt. 
 
 See Pierrepont. 
 Perrot. See Perot. 
 Perrs, one of the black guard, payment to, 
 
 391. 
 Perry Bar, Purybar, Pyrybar [co. Staf- 
 ford], court rolls of, 310. 
 minister's account of, 311. 
 Pershore abbey [co. Worcester], Simon 
 
 abbot of, 16, 16n. 
 Persita, Robert de, 9. 
 Perton, Walter de, indicted by jury of 
 
 Repton wapentake, 273. 
 Perwych, John de, 97. 
 Peryton. See Periton. 
 Pet, William, 65. 
 Peter : 
 
 Adam son of, reeve of Worcester, 
 
 65. 
 Geoffrey son of, earl of Essex, 
 51. 
 Petra, William de, grant to, 30. 
 Petworth, Petteworth, Richard, master 
 of Wilkswood chantry, secretary 
 of Henry bishop of Winchester, 
 103, 102n. 
 Peverel, Peverell, Peveril : 
 fee, 154. 
 honour of, bailiwick of, 93, 502. 
 
 , grant of High stewardship of, 
 
 503. 
 
 , tenure of, 87, 89. 
 
 Peverell : 
 
 Joan daughter of Richard, marriage 
 
 of, 97. 
 Richard, 97. 
 Peveril. See Peverel. 
 Pew-rent, payment of, 428. 
 Pewter, sale of, 615, 616. 
 Pewtrell. See Powtrell. 
 Peyn. See Payne. 
 Pheney, Geoffrey, miller, wages of, 
 
 450. 
 Philip II., king of Spain, directions of, 
 
 to his son, 192. 
 Philip III., king of Spain, meeting of 
 the council of, 187. 
 
 , universality of kingdom of, 
 
 190. 
 Philip duke of Burgundy, marriage of, 
 
 260, 612. 
 Philip, Philip sou of, 12. 
 Philippa, Queen, jewels of, 90. 
 
 , letter from, 90. 
 
 Phytheherberd. See Pitzherbert. 
 Picard dialect, fabliaux in, 221-235. 
 Piccolommi, Francis, archbishop of Siena, 
 my lord cardinal of Seen', 261. 
 Pickerell, John, abstract of letter from, 
 
 563. 
 Pickpockets, 166. 
 Pic kweU, ? Pychavilla [co. Leicester], 
 
 grant of land in, 35. 
 Picot, 20. 
 Pieres, character in fabliau, 230, 
 
707 
 
 Pieirepont, Parpoynt, Perpoint, Per- 
 pontte, Perpount, Perpoynt : 
 Robert de, keeper of the peace and 
 justice of oyer and terminer in 
 Notts, proceedings before, 272- 
 282. 
 Sir William, letters of the signet to, 
 
 512. 
 William, earl of Kingston-upon- 
 Hull, lord lieutenant and custos 
 rotulonim of Notts, lord lieutenant 
 of the East Riding, and chief 
 justice of the forest north of Trent, 
 501. 
 Lady, reward to servant of, 369. 
 Mr., at Wollaton, 462, 463. 
 Piete. See Pite. 
 Pigun, Henry, 57. 
 Pilgrimage, payment for, 351. 
 
 to Jerusalem, will made prior 
 
 to, 124. 
 Pilgrimage of Grace, services of Sir 
 Edward WUloughby in suppres- 
 sion of, 147, 147n. 
 Pilkington, Pylkyngton : 
 
 Henry, godson of Sir Henry WU- 
 loughby, 376, 388. 
 . . . . , consul at Aleppo, marriage of 
 Abigail Stratford to, 605. 
 Pillaton Hall, PUleknoU [in Penkridge, 
 
 CO. Stafford], 255n, 495. 
 Pllsley, Pyllege [in North Wingfield, co. 
 Derby], bequest of land in, to 
 Burton abbey, 257. 
 Piucerna : 
 
 Geoffrey, 52. 
 Richard, 53. 
 Robert, 53. 
 Simon, 47. 
 Pinchbeck, Pynchebeck [co. Lincoln], 
 
 446. 
 Pinel, Walter, 8, 9. 
 Pinipedun, Adam de, bailiff of New- 
 
 castle-on-Tyne, 75. 
 Pinley, co. Warwick, deeds relating to, 
 
 627. 
 Pinnere, Henry, of Chilwell, disclaimer 
 
 of arms of, 179. 
 Pinson, Pynson, Richard, king's printer, 
 
 printing by, 133, 136. 
 Pinzard, Robert, 55. 
 Pipard, Gilbert, 24. 
 Pipe, acquittances of the, 152, 159, 160, 194. 
 
 rolls, extracts from, 244, 245. 
 Pirgo, CO. Essex, Sir Henry Grey of, 519. 
 Pisscatar. See JFisher. 
 Piib^, Piete, Pitei : 
 Richard, 63. 
 
 , grant by, 29. 
 
 Roger, 19n, 20, 26, 27. 
 
 , grant by, 25. 
 
 , , confirmed, 32, 33. 
 
 , grant confirmed by, 17, 18. 
 
 , seal of, 18, 25. 
 
 William, 18, 26, 27, 29, 56. 
 
 , grant by, 19. 
 
 , , confirmed by, 26. 
 
 , seal of, 21. 
 
 Pitton, Putton in Gower [co. Glamorgan], 
 
 91. 
 Pius II., pope, 133. 
 Placard, letters of, 131. 
 Plantageuet : 
 
 Arthur, lord Lisle, f Arthur Lile, 
 abstract of letter from, 515. 
 
 , reward to minstrels of, 377, 
 
 , to soldier of, 349. 
 
 , Elizabeth his wife, 508. 
 
 Plashes, Plessy [in Standon, co. Herts], 
 
 manor of, 86. 
 Plaunch, de la, connection of family of, 
 
 with family of Previle, 506. 
 Players and musicians, rewards to, 334, 
 337, 338, 342, 350, 351, 384, 379, 
 386, 387, 420, 422, 424, 427, 436, 
 440, 442, 446, 447, 449, 451. 
 Plesele [Pleasley, co. Derby], Roger de, 
 
 grant by, 56. 
 Plesseiaoum, name of town in Prance, 236. 
 Plessetis, John de, earl of Warwick, 70. 
 Plessy. See Plashes. 
 Plumberrow, Plumbergh, in Hockley, co. 
 
 Essex, deeds relating to, 625. 
 Plumbifaber. See Leadsmith. 
 Plumptre : 
 
 Henry de, 100. 
 John de, 100. 
 
 , mayor of Nottingham, 627. 
 
 Plumton. See Plympton. 
 Plumton, Plumtun, Pluntun : 
 
 Robert de, 17, 21, 47, 48, 49. 
 Walter de, 4, 17. 
 Plumtree, Plumtre, co. Notts, 18. 
 Pluntun. See Plumton. 
 Plymouth, Plymmouth [co. Devon], ship 
 
 of, 128, 129. 
 Plympton, Plumton priory [co. Devon], 
 prior of, deputy of the mayor of 
 the staple in the West Country, 
 266, 617. 
 Pocklington, William, of South Scarle, 
 
 disclaimer of arms of, 179. 
 Podyngton. -See Putton. 
 Poems : 
 
 alphabetical, 267-268. 
 amorous, 558-559. 
 modiajval, 213-235, 622-623. 
 See also Books. 
 Pointer, Rebecca (WUloughby) daughter 
 of Theophilus, son of John Pointer 
 dean of Christ Church, 603, 603n. 
 Pointon [co. Lincoln], 14. 
 Poker, Joan, John, wages of, 439, 449, 
 
 541. 
 Pole: 
 
 name of counsel, 247. 
 payment to, for driving a shaft, 493. 
 Cf. Poole. 
 Pole, de la, Delapole : 
 
 Alice wife of William, duke of Suf- 
 folk, 283. 
 John, earl of Lincoln, abstract of 
 
 letter from, 514, 514n. 
 Richard, keeper of the peace and 
 justice in co. Derby, proceedings 
 before, 272-282. 
 
708 
 
 Pole, de la — cont. 
 
 William, duke of Suffolk, foundation 
 of almshouse by, 283. 
 Polehanger, in Meppershall, co. Bedford, 
 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 Polesworth, Polesworde, Poleswrthe, 
 PoUisworda, Polseworth, Pols- 
 worth, Poulesworth, Powlseworth, 
 Powlsseworthe, Powlsworth [co. 
 Warwick], 348, 349. 
 abbey of St. Edith, abbess of, pay- 
 m.ents to servants of, 350, 357, 
 373, 378, 385. 
 
 , grants to, 8, 15-17. 
 
 , — — , confirmed, 9, 270, 271. 
 
 , prioress of, 335. 
 
 anchoress of, reward to, 384. 
 boys and maids of, 335. 
 hermit of, money given to, 331, 381. 
 Pooley Park in, 114, 346. 
 Poley. See Pooley. 
 PoUesworth, Richard de, 99. 
 PoUisworda. See Polesworth. 
 Polonian Jesuits reputed to be of the 
 
 Spanish faction, 191. 
 Polseworth, Polsworth. See Polesworth. 
 Polteneye. See Pulteney. 
 Pomfret. See Pontefract. 
 Ponsot, Punsholte : 
 
 Nicholas de, 54, 54n. 
 Robert de, 54n. 
 Pontefract, Pomfret, Pountfreyt [in 
 Stepney, co. Middlesex] : 
 ferry at, 110, 02.5. 
 manor of, 625. 
 Ponyuges : 
 
 Robert de, 617. 
 
 William, fits monser de, bequest to, 
 617. 
 Ponyngg. See Poynings. 
 Poole, PooU : 
 John, 388. 
 William, remedy of, for coal-damp, 
 
 193. 
 Mr., 430. 
 
 — — , of Dalby, payment to, 434. 
 Cf. Pole. 
 Pooley, Park, Poley, Powlay [in Poles- 
 worth, CO. Warwick], 114. 
 reward to keeper of, 346. 
 Pordy, payment by the hands of, 418. 
 Port, Sir John, of EtwaU, marriage of 
 
 daughter of, 587. 
 Porte, Roger de la, character in fabliau, 
 
 230. 
 Porter : 
 
 cornet Charles, death of, 193. 
 
 Humphrey le, 27. 
 
 Robert, of Bingham, disclaimer of 
 
 arms of, 179. 
 Thomas, payment to, 340. 
 
 , reeve of Middleton, 307. 
 
 William le, of Callow, indicted, 275. 
 
 son of Henry le, indicted, 273. 
 
 Portsea, co. Hants, deeds relating to, 625. 
 Portugal, Portugal!, president of the 
 council of, 187. 
 Spanish confidence in natives of , 191. 
 
 Portun', Robert de, 61. 
 
 Posies, presents of, 331, 332, 333, 336. 
 
 Potkyn, Peter, doctor of laws, 136. 
 
 Pott. See Spott. 
 
 Potter, Thomas, letter to, 162. 
 
 Poudrell. See Powtrell. 
 
 Pouleswortb. See Polesworth. 
 
 Poulet: 
 
 Anne (Pyllol) wife of John, 315. 
 
 John, rental of possessions of, 315. 
 Poundisf ord , Poundesf ord [co. Somerset], 
 
 minister's account of, 318. 
 Pountfreyt. See Pontefract. 
 Powdrell. See Powtrell. 
 Powgyon. See Paygyon. 
 Powis, Powys, lord of. See Cherleton, Sir 
 John de ; Grey of Powis, Edward 
 lord. 
 Powlay. See Pooley. 
 Powlseworth, Powlsseworthe, Powls- 
 
 worth. See Polesworth. 
 Powtrell, Pewtrell, Poudrell, Powdrell, 
 PowtryeU : 
 
 Nicholas, Mr. Serjeant, payment of 
 annuity to, 317, 433. 
 
 , payments to, 433. 
 
 Mr., at Wollaton, 458, 462. 
 
 , reward to servant of, 432. 
 
 Cf. Puterel. 
 Powys. See Povris. 
 Poyne, WiUiam, 63, 70. 
 Poynings, Ponyngg [co. Sussex], Roger 
 
 rector of, 617. 
 Pratellis, Peter de, 51. 
 Preke, Henry, 58. 
 
 Premonstratensian religious hoiise, pro- 
 posed foundation of, at Tamworth, 
 77. 
 Prenloue, Ralph, 5. 
 Presbiter. See Priest. 
 Prestclyve. See Priestcliffe. 
 Prestedene, Walter de, 51. 
 Preston [in Penkridge, co. Stafford], 57. 
 Prestwald, Prestwalt : 
 
 Randolph de, 18. 
 
 Walter de, 18n. 
 Prestwod, of Leicester, 112. 
 Prestwold, Prestwood [co. Leicester], 545. 
 
 letter dated at, 537. 
 Price, Prancifi, defendant in action of, 
 
 trespass, 621. 
 Priest, presbiter, sacerdos : 
 
 Costus the, 41. 
 
 Geoffrey the, 17. 
 
 Ivo the, 25. 
 
 Peter the, 8. 
 
 Ralph the, of Haugham, 19. 
 
 , of Lincoln, 19. 
 
 Robert son of the, 89, 55. 
 
 Serlo the, 8. 
 
 Siward the, 17. 
 
 WiUiam the, 17. 
 Priestcliffe, Prestclyve [in Taddington, 
 
 CO. Derby], 275. 
 Prince's chamber, the, at Wollaton, 486. 
 Prior, Priour : 
 
 John, 87. 
 
 , citizen of Ijondon, 89. 
 
709 
 
 Prior — conl. 
 
 Philip the, of Basford, 41. 
 Priscian, 214. 
 Proclamation prohibiting malting of 
 
 glass with wood, 182. 
 Proctour, payment to, for bellows, 401. 
 Procuratour : 
 
 Hugh (de Gunston) le, of Bakewell, 
 harbourer of felons, 272, 274, 276. 
 Thomas le, indicted for offences in 
 CO. Derby, 276. 
 
 son of Thomas le, indicted for 
 
 offences in co. Derby, 274. 
 Prognostications : 
 
 of Alphonse Frysaunoe, 263, 613. 
 payments for, 332, 365. 
 Proudowe. See Prudhoe. 
 Proverbial expressions, quotations, etc. : 
 cricle cricle, 158. 
 
 Iidbent mel in ore et fel in corde, 176. 
 Latin equivalents to ' coals to New- 
 castle ', 216. 
 shoot at rovers, 569. 
 silence maketh guiltie, 175. 
 tied by the leg, 159. 
 tied to a broken mast, 159. 
 unus oculatus testis valet mille 
 
 auritos, 176. 
 Veritas non querit angulos, 175. 
 Provour, John, reeve of Woodland, 291. 
 Prowre, Robert, reeve of Woodland, 
 
 290. 
 Prudhoe, Proudowe [in Ovingham, co. 
 
 Northumberland], 132. 
 Psalter, Latin, purchase of, 411. 
 Pseustis, an Athenian shepherd, 218. 
 Puckeridge, co. Hertford, deeds relating 
 
 to, 625. 
 Pudsey, Pudsie, Pudsy : 
 George, esquire, 167. 
 
 , at WoUaton, 454. 
 
 Richard, letter from, 600. 
 [? Richard] son of George, 454. 
 Pugeys, Imbert, 70. 
 Puinnant, Geoffrey, 13. 
 Puintraut, Geoffrey, 14. 
 Pulteney, Polteneye : 
 
 John de, mayor of London, 89. 
 William, nephew of Elizabeth Smeth- 
 wick, 148. 
 Pulter, Payn, and his wife, bequest to, 
 
 102. 
 Pump for drawing water out of mine, 
 
 173-175. 
 Punsholte. See Ponsot. 
 Punz, Joscelin de, 29. 
 Purbik [Isle of Purbeck, co. Dorset], 
 
 Roger de, 76. 
 Purford, letter dated at, 554. 
 Pursecutters, 167. 
 Purston, CO. Northampton, deeds relating 
 
 to, 625. 
 Purybar. See Perrybar. 
 Puterel : 
 
 Henry son of Henry, of Thrumpton, 
 63. 
 
 , release by, 64. 
 
 , seal of, 63. 
 
 Puterel— eowi. 
 
 Sibyl de Bello Campo wife of Henry, 
 of Thrumpton, grant by, 63. 
 
 , seal of, 63. 
 
 Cf. PowtreU. " 
 Putton, Podyugton [in West Chickerell, 
 CO. Dorset], minister's accounts of, 
 298, 299, 301, 307. 
 See Pitton. 
 PychavUla. See Pickwell ? 
 Pydelivere, John, 76. 
 Pylkyngton. See Pilklngton. 
 Pymme : 
 
 Lecia, of Sutton Bonnington, in- 
 dicted, 280. 
 William, outlaw, 279, 280. 
 Pymne, Thomas, servant of Sir Henry 
 
 WiUoughby, slain in riot, 117. 
 Pynchebeck. See Pinchbeck. 
 Pynder, Ralph, grocer of London, chan- 
 try house at WoUaton sold by, 
 417. 
 Pyngkaryge, Pyngkeryge. See Penk- 
 
 ridge. 
 Pynnock, Mr., arrival of, 395. 
 Pynsou. See Pinson. 
 Pype, Humpiirey, 186». 
 PyTyi)ar. See Perrybar. 
 
 Quare impedit, case of, reported in Year 
 
 Book, 247. 
 Queen's chamber, the, at WoUaton, 488. 
 Queruby. See Kwernby. 
 Quinci, Quenci, Seer de, 2, 24. 
 Quiutin, William, 76. 
 Quo Warranto : 
 
 delivery of rolls of, 92. 
 
 plea of, 246. 
 
 statute of, lecture upon, 268. 
 Qwelar, Qweler, Brother Walter, monk 
 of Burton, 250-252. 
 
 Radeclive, Badeclyve. See Ratcliffe. 
 Radford, Radforth, Rodefort [Co. Notts], 
 121. 
 chartulary of lauds in, 196. 
 constabulary of, 621. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 ministers' accounts of, 296, 307- 
 309. 
 
710 
 
 Badford — cont. 
 
 parisli of, extent of, 621. 
 rentals of, 300, 314, 317. 
 vicar of, tithes paid to, 313, 375. 
 
 . See Notingeham, Silvester son 
 
 of Silvester de. 
 Aspley in, 12, 397, 530. 
 Radford, Eadforthe: 
 
 Ellen, house of, 456. 
 Henry, payment to, 430. 
 
 , wages of, 439, 449. 
 
 Radmauthwaite, Bedmerthweit, Bod- 
 
 merthweyt [in Mansfield, co. 
 
 Notts], false money coined at, 
 
 280. 
 
 Baggede, Yevan le, indicted for ofEenoes 
 
 in CO. Derby, 273, 274. 
 Bails for delivery of coal, 169. 
 Baleghe, Joan de, wife of Robert de 
 Bingham and executor of his 
 will, 84. 
 
 , bequests to, 83, 84. 
 
 Balph : 
 
 Athelicia [t wife of Peter son of], 
 
 grant to, 271. 
 Geoffrey son of, 24. 
 Peter son of, grant to, 270. 
 Ralph son of, 9, 49. 
 Richard sou of, 21. 
 Eicher brother of Balph sou of, 9. 
 Bobert son of, 17. 
 Boger son of, sale of woodland to, 
 13, 242. 
 
 , de Beeston, 64. 
 
 William son of, 24. 
 Rameham [Remeuham, co. Berks], Wil- 
 liam de, 36. 
 Bameseye, John de, 87. 
 Bamneswath. See Eavens worth. 
 Eandall, payment to, for crying a, 
 
 wether, 430. 
 Eaudolf, witness, 36. 
 
 , Beimbald his brother, 36. 
 
 Bandolph arms, 237. 
 Ranulph, Boger son of, 10. 
 Raoul, irouvere, poem of, 226-227. 
 Raper, payment to, 443. 
 Ratcliffe-on-Trent, Badeclive on Trente 
 [CO. Notts], 83. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 Batcliffe, Badeclive, Badeclyve , Batte- 
 clyff: 
 Thomas de, 325. 
 Thomas, earl of Sussex, payment to 
 
 players of, 447. 
 Walter de, 62. 
 
 William de, proctor of the abbot 
 and convent of Beauchief, 106m, 
 109. 
 
 , vicar of Buddington, 82, 82n. 
 
 Batkiller, reward to, 391. 
 Batteclyfl. See Batcliffe. 
 Baveuingham, Ravenigham i 
 
 Andrew son of Bobert de, 55. 
 Robert de, 39, 55. 
 William son of Bobert de, 55. 
 Bavenshead waste, co. Notts, boundaries 
 of, 241. 
 
 Ravens worth, Bamneswath, Eavens - 
 wath [in Kirkby Bavensworth, co . 
 York], 247. 
 minister's account of, 306, 307. 
 Bavishment of ward, action for, 247. 
 Baworth, Henry, assessor of poll-tax, 
 
 194. 
 Bawson, father, reward to, 360. 
 Bay, John, friend of Francis Willoughby, 
 269. 
 reference to letters of, 504. 
 transcripts, etc., by, 37, 271. 
 Baynor, Bobert, shepherd of Arnold, 
 
 418. 
 Beanor, John, assessment of, 194. 
 Eeason, William, of Skegby, disclaimer 
 of arms of, 179. 
 Cf. Beson. 
 Bebercy [Bubercy, Normandy], Bobert 
 
 de, 70, 70m. 
 B^bceuf. See Bibof. 
 Bed {Buffiis), William son of Osbert the, 
 
 of Nottingham, grant by, 62. 
 Beddeswell, B. de, archdeacon of Chester, 
 
 probate of will before, 86. 
 Bede [in Bridge, co. Kent] ?Eedhe, 36. 
 Bede: 
 
 Bobert, appointed King's Serjeant 
 
 at law, 124. 
 , inheritance of Bridget (Wil- 
 loughby), his daughter, 150. 
 Redhe. See Rede, Eeed. 
 Redhyll, Richard, in the kitchen at 
 
 Wollaton, 169. 
 Redinges, Richard de, 70. 
 Bedmerthweit. See Badmanthwaite. 
 Beed [in Marton, co. Kent] ?Bedhe, 36. 
 Eeeve : 
 
 Eustace the, 76. 
 Orm the, 20n. 
 
 Peter son of William the, grant to, 
 49. 
 Bef ham, Eicher de, mayor of London, 87. 
 Beigate, William de, chaplain, grant by, 
 
 30. 
 Beinfrid, Boger son of, grant to, 5, 5m. 
 Beinsleigh, Eenneslegh [in Penshurst, 
 CO. Kent], ministers' accounts of, 
 302. 
 Eemeuham, co. Berks. See'Eameham. 
 Bemmesle. See Bomsley. 
 Eempston [co. Notts], Bempeston, 
 Bempiston : 
 Hugh de, 62. 
 Bobert, 105, 106, 109. 
 
 de, 59. 
 
 Bempstoue, co. Notts, deeds relating to, 
 
 626. 
 Benes, Thomas de, sequestrator of W. 
 
 archbishop of York, 86. 
 Eenesleye, John de, 86. 
 Eenneslegh. See Beinsleigh. 
 Bepindon. Bepingdon. See Repton. 
 Repington, Reppington, Reptiugton, 
 Bepyndon, Eepyugton, Eyping- 
 ton : 
 Balph son of Gteoffrey de, notorious 
 thief, 277. 
 
711 
 
 BepingtoA — cont. 
 
 William, payment to, 399. 
 
 Mr., at WoUaton, 454, 456, 457, 462, 
 
 463. 
 , commissioner to hold inquisi- 
 tion, 428. 
 
 , payment to, 555. 
 
 , to servant of, 373. 
 
 , son-in-law of George Wil- 
 
 loughby, abstract of letter to, 
 531. 
 Repton, Bepiudon, Repiugdon [co. 
 Derby], prior of, commission to, 
 252-253. 
 Denewalehay in, 277. 
 Repton wapentake [co. Derby], present- 
 ment by jurors of, 273. 
 Repyndon, Bepyngtou. See Repington. 
 Requiem mass, payment for offering at, 
 
 473. 
 ResUe. See Risley. 
 Reson, John, legacies to, 103, 104. 
 
 Cf. Reason. 
 Reston, Ristunia [oo. Lincoln], grant of 
 land in, 19. 
 See Ristunia. 
 Retainers of military service, 98, 99. 
 
 statute of, 131. 
 Retford, co. Notts, disclaimer of arms 
 
 at, 179. 
 Retford, West, co. Notts, 179. 
 Retheley, William, of Dartford, demise 
 
 by, 110. 
 Reuel, Henry, 25. 
 ReveU, Hugh, grant by, 502. 
 Reyvall. See Bievaulx. 
 Rhine, Reynyshe wine, 456. 
 Rhodes, the Rodes, Roodes, baptism 
 received at, 263. 
 predictions written at, 266. 
 Rhodes, William, payment to, for thack- 
 ing at the woad-house, 459. 
 Cf. Rodes. 
 Rhuddlan, Rothelan castle [co. Flint], 
 constables of. See Saxton, 
 
 Nicholas ; Trowtbek, William. 
 Ribble, Rybell, and Mersey, rivers, be- 
 quest of land between, 254. 
 Ribof, Ribeof [Riiboeuf, dep. Seine In- 
 f^rieure] : 
 Walter de, 18n, 41. 
 
 , grant by, 39, 39n. 
 
 , Walter his servant, 40. 
 
 Riby [co. Lincoln], minister's account of, 
 
 289. 
 Ricars, mentioned in fabliau, 232. 
 Bice, Ryce, Byse : 
 
 Griffith, 232, 440, 542. 
 
 , expenses of, paid, 443. 
 
 , payment by, 430. 
 
 , wages of, 439, 449, 542. 
 
 L., payment to, 432. 
 
 , wages of, 439, 449, 542. 
 
 William, payments to, 423, 426-428. 
 
 , of Cossall, disclaimer of arms 
 
 of, 179. 
 book of accounts of, 496. 
 Richard II., coronation of, 506. 
 
 Richard : 
 
 Heminciis son of, 5. 
 Herbert brother of Simon son of, 7. 
 Juetta wife of Simon son of. In. 
 Balph son of, 27. 
 Bichard son of, 57. 
 Simon son of, 7, In, 33. 
 the falconer at WoUaton, 169. 
 Bichardes, Henry, collier, 493. 
 Richmond [co. York], minister's account 
 
 of, 307. 
 Ridale [Ryedale, co. York] : 
 
 Acilia (de Steinesgrife) wife of An- 
 sketil de, confirmation by, 3. 
 
 , grant by, 1, 2. 
 
 , seal of, 4. 
 
 Ansketil de, grant by, 1, 2. 
 
 , seal of, 2. 
 
 Maud daughter of Ansketil de, nun 
 
 of Watton, 1, 3. 
 Patrick de, 22, 22«. 
 Walter son of Ansketil de, 1, In, 3. 
 Wilham son of Ansketil de, 1, In, 3. 
 Ridel, Geoffrey, bishop of Ely, 24. 
 Rie. See Rye ? 
 
 Rievaulx, Beyvall, abbey [co. York], 
 foundation of, Ira, 2n. 
 grant to, 241. 
 Biggehall, co. Worcester, deeds relating 
 
 to, 627. 
 Right. See Wright. 
 Rigley. See Wrigley. 
 Rimpton, Rympton [co. Somerset], 
 
 minister's account of, 318. 
 Ringstone, Byngesdon [in Bippingale, co. 
 
 Lincoln], 76. 
 Riugwode, William de, of West Stafford, 
 
 84. 
 Riot, alleged, at Nottingham, 118-120. 
 
 , at Tamworth, 116. 
 
 Ripley [co. Derby], Hartshay in, 497. 
 Bippingale [co. Lincoln], Ringstone in, 76. 
 Rise. See Risses. 
 Biseley, Joan of, mistress of Hugh Wil- 
 
 loughby, priest, 505. 
 Rislep, Hugh de, executor of the will of 
 Henry de Grey, 86. 
 
 , bequest to, 85. 
 
 Bisley, Reslie, Byseley, co. Derby, 420, 
 462. 
 chartulary of WUloughby lands in, 
 
 269. 
 court rolls of, 286, 289, 292. 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 pedigree of Willoughbys of, 505. 
 sale of wood at, 317. 
 See Byseley. 
 Risses [Rise, co. York], John de, 61. 
 Biston. See Bushton ? 
 Bistune. See Tarrant Bushton. 
 Bistunia. Sec Bestou. 
 Bistunia [Reston, ixi. Lincoln], Bicliard 
 son of Jollan de, grant by, 19. 
 
 , seal of, 19. 
 
 Rives : 
 
 Sir John, 590. 
 
 Mrs., daughter of Henry Hastings, 
 591. 
 
712 
 
 Rives, Mrs. — cont. 
 
 , iU health of, 592. 
 
 Cf. Ryves. 
 Kobarts, John, waiter at WoUaton, 168. 
 Bohers, character in fabliau, 229. 
 Robert : 
 
 Adam son of, de Coshale, grant by, 
 
 75. 
 Alan son of, del Wal, grant to, 55, 56. 
 Hugh son of, de Wilgheby, 46. 
 John son of, de Beston, 42, 64. 
 Mary (de Sanoto Sepulcro) wife of 
 
 Ralph son of, 23, 24. 
 Ralph son of, 23, 24. 
 Robert son of, 39. 
 Silvester son of, chaplain of Beeston, 
 
 grant to, 41. 
 Simon son of, 14, 14n. 
 Thomas son of, 39, 43, 55. 
 William son of, earl of Gloucester, 
 270. 
 Robert, Friar, trees sold to, 242. 
 Robert of the stable, 455. 
 Robin Hood's WeU [St. Anne's Well in 
 Nottingham, or in Beauvale, co. 
 Notts], payment to keeper of, 444. 
 Robinson, 495, 552. 
 Robson, payments to, 438, 442. 
 Roches, Sir John de, knight, 92. 
 Rochester [co. Kent], bishopric of, offi- 
 
 cial of, 86. 
 Rochford : 
 
 Eudo de, knight, 76. 
 Henry de, 76. 
 Roculf, William, reeve of Worcester, 65. 
 Rodefort. See Radford. 
 Boderam. See Rotherham. 
 Rodes. See Rhodes. 
 Rodes, William de, 70. 
 
 Cf. Rhodes. 
 Rodeyerde : 
 
 John de, indicted, 274, 276. 
 Thomas de. Indicted, 274, 276. 
 Rodington, co. Hertford, deeds dated at, 
 
 625. 
 Rodmerthweyt. See Badmanthwaite. 
 Roger : 
 
 Andrew son of, 39. 
 Elizabeth fitz, release to, 99. 
 John son of, 75. 
 Robert son of, 11, lln. 
 keeper of the still, 389. 
 payment to,. 434. 
 Rogers : 
 
 Christopher, inventory taken by, 485. 
 James, esquire, 150. 
 Sir John, 145. 
 
 , fishery of, at Blandford, 144. 
 
 Roimondins, character in a fabliau, 228. 
 Roke, John, tenant of Sir Edward Wil- 
 
 loughby, indictment of, 143. 
 Roland, RoUant, 226. 
 Boley, Thomas de, bailiff of Nottingham, 
 100. 
 Cf. Rowley. 
 RoUeston, Bolston : 
 CO. Notts, 179. 
 CO. Stafford, bequest uf land at, 255. 
 
 Bolveston, Roger de, dean o£ Lincoln, 
 
 43. 
 Romald Kirk [co. York], Ootherstone 
 
 and Mickleton in, 807. 
 Roman Empire, Holy, Spanish applica- 
 tion of theory of, 189-191. 
 Romanus, Roman, John, archbishop of 
 
 York, 243. 
 Rome, Rowme, 335, 336. 
 
 agent of Henry VII. at, letter from, 
 
 260, 612. 
 church of Santa Croce di Gerusa- 
 lemme, relic foundin, 261, 612,613. 
 
 St. James, Te Deum sung in, 
 
 262. 
 St. Peter ad Vincula, car- 
 dinal of, 261. 
 churches of, named, 138. 
 empire of, local, 190. 
 indulgence dated at, 140. 
 pilgrimages to, 136, 137. 
 runner, Rowme roner, reward to, 
 
 358. 
 seat of pope necessarily at, 191. 
 Romney Marsh, co. Kent, deeds relating 
 
 to, 625. 
 Romsley, Bemmesle [in Alveley, co. 
 Salop], bequest of land in, to 
 Burton abbey, 256, 256«. 
 Bonfeugeray, dep. Orue. See BunfugereL 
 Boodes. See Rhodes. 
 Rooke, Mr., house of, in Drury Lane, 175. 
 Boomwood, Bumwode [in Sherwood 
 forest], CO. Notts, forest offences 
 in, 246. 
 Roos : 
 
 T., abstract of letters from, 515. 
 Thomas lord de, manorial records of, 
 300. 
 Roose, Peter, esquire, commission to, 
 
 160. 
 Ros : 
 
 Everard de. In, 2n, 59n. 
 Robert de, 1, In, 2n, 3. 
 
 son of William de, grant by, 63. 
 
 William de, deUvery of, bag of, 93. 
 Rosel .■ 
 
 John, coroner, 281. 
 Patrick de, 41. 
 Thomas de, 41. 
 EoseU, Mr., 181. 
 Cf. Russell. 
 Bolarius. See Wheelwr^ht. 
 Rothelan. See Bhuddlan. 
 Rotherham, Boderam [co. York], 393. 
 Botherom, George, reward to, 424. 
 Bothomago, Rotomago [Rouen, Nor- 
 mandy] : 
 Martin de, 7. 
 WilUam de, 27. 
 Rotington'. See Ruddiugtou. 
 Rotomago. See Rothomago. 
 Rotundo Fulgereto. See Runfugerei. 
 Rouelent, king Arthur at, 227. 
 Rouen, Normandy, charter dated at, 37. 
 
 See Rothomago. 
 Rowe, John, 80. 
 clerk, 474. 
 
713 
 
 Rougby. See Rugby. 
 Rowley, Thomas, of Bristol, reference to 
 letters from, 284. 
 Cf. Roley. 
 Rowme. See Rome. 
 Rowthall, Thomas, bishop of Durham, 126. 
 Rubei'cy. See Rebcicy. 
 Ruddtngton, Rotingtou', Rutintona, co. 
 Notts: 
 deeds relating to, 026. 
 demise of vicarage, etc., from com- 
 munity to vicar, 82. 
 sale of wool from, or, in default, of 
 
 land in, 69, 70. 
 vicar of. See Hemmingf ord, William 
 de ; Ratcliffe, William de. 
 Rudgare. See Rudyard. 
 Rudingtun, Rutinton. Rutintona [Rud- 
 dington, oo. Notts] : 
 Coste son of Hugh de, sale by, 69. 
 Hugh de, 70. 
 Robert de, 62. 
 William de, 28. 
 Rudyard, Rudgare [in Leek, co. Stafford], 
 bequest of land in, to Burton 
 abbey, 256. 
 Rufford abbey [co. Notts] : 
 foundation of, 241, 242. 
 grant of forest rights to, 242. 
 grant of licence to enclose to, 245. 
 pleas concernii^ forest rights of, 
 
 242. 
 woods and wastes of, bounds of, 
 
 243. 
 WUliam forester of, 245. 
 Ruffus. See Red. 
 
 Rugby, Rowgby [co. Warwick], dinner 
 of commissioners at, 345. 
 education of Sir Percival Willough- 
 by's sons at, 609. 
 Rugley. See Wrigley. 
 Rumwode. See Roomwood. 
 Rumney wine, purchase of, 375. 
 Runfugerei, Rotundo Fulgereto [Ron- 
 feugeray, dep. Orne], Brother 
 Richard de, chaplain of the knight£ 
 hospitallers, 38, 3Sn. 
 Rushall, Russale, co. StafEord, deeds 
 
 relating to, 627. 
 Rushcliffe, RysecUve wapentake [co. 
 Notts], presentment by jiu^ors of, 
 280. 
 Rushton in East Stoke I Riston, co. 
 
 Dorset, grant of land in, 53. 
 Rushton, Grace (Stratford ) wife of Mr., of 
 
 Floorc, 605. 
 Russell, Russel : 
 
 Sir Francis, in the company of the 
 
 duke of Anjou, 553. 
 Robert, grant conditional on con- 
 viction of, 73. 
 WiUiam, indicted, 276. 
 
 , steward of Sir Francis Wil- 
 
 loughby, 573, 579, 580, 598, 604. 
 , , abstract of letter from, 
 
 578. 
 J , mission of , to seek a wife 
 
 for his master, 574. 
 
 Ruasell — cont. 
 
 Cf. Rosell. 
 Russia, empire of, only local, 190. 
 Rutinton, Rutintona. See Ruddington, 
 
 Rudingtun. 
 Rutland, countess, earl of. See Manners. 
 Rybell. See Ribble. 
 Ryce. See Rice. 
 Rychmouut, William, of Leicester, slater, 
 
 agreement by, 109. 
 Rydgeley. See Wrigley. 
 Rydware, Joan wife of Nicholas de. In- 
 dicted, 275. 
 Rye [co. Sussex] ? Rie, 157. 
 Ryedale, co. York, 1. 
 
 See Rid ale. 
 Rygley. See Wrigley. 
 Ryme, co. Dorset, deeds relating to, 625. 
 Rympton. See Rimpton. 
 Ryngesdon. See Ringstone. 
 Rynggesthorp, co. Warwick, deeds re- 
 lating to, 627. 
 Rypington. See Repiugton. 
 Rysbergh, Thomas de, indicted, 274, 
 
 276. 
 Ryse. See Rice. 
 RysecUve. See Rushcliffe. 
 Ryseley. See Risley. 
 Ryseley [Risley, co. Derby], Robert de, 
 
 83. 
 Ryver, Richard, bequest to, 102. 
 Ryvers, payment to, 329. 
 Ryves, expenses of, paid, 447. 
 Cf. Rives. 
 
 Sabaean, to give incense to a, proverb, 
 
 216. 
 Sabbath, the Scottish, 187. 
 Sacerdos. See Priest. 
 Sacheverell, Saucheverell, Saufcheverel, 
 Saychewerell, SaycheWeryl, Seche- 
 verelle, Sowcheverell, ZachevereU : 
 Henry, abstract of letter from, 515. 
 
 , reward to minstrel of, 335. 
 
 Joan wife of John, abduction of, 
 
 120. 
 Ralph, at Wollaton, 454, 457-459. 
 
 , party to agreement, 120. 
 
 Robert, bequest to, 85. 
 
 Jlr., at Thurland House, 455. 
 
 , at WoUaton, 462. 
 
 , reward to soldier of, 347. 
 
 , suggested bond of Mr. Beau- 
 mont to, 183. 
 Cf. Salto Caprioli. 
 Sackeville, Robert, abstract of letter 
 
 from, 572. 
 Saethryth, queen of Menia, 209. 
 
714 
 
 Saffron Walden, Walden [co. Essex], 
 401, 521. 
 school at, 409, 410, 411, 412. 
 tailor of, 400. 
 St. Albans, Saint Tawbons, Saynt Taw- 
 bunse, Sent Talbonse [co. Herts], 
 354, 377, 447, 555, 556. 
 battle of, 508. 
 
 reward to anchoress of, 357. 
 St. Amand, St. Amant [Prance, dep. 
 Nord], mentioned in fabliau, 230. 
 St. Anthony. See Kirklington, Lenton ? 
 St. Augustine, 621. 
 
 De Confliciu Vitiorum of, 268, 
 St. Bridget, metrical life of, 622-623. 
 St. Catharine, proctor and brotherhood 
 
 of, 366. 
 St. Cornelys, 365. 
 
 St. Cuthbert of Durham, book of, 221. 
 St. Davids, Dewies Stow [co. Pembroke], 
 bishop of. See Grower, Henry, 
 episcopal see at, 198. 
 St. Edmund, delivery of bag of, 93. 
 St. George, Richard, Norroy king at arms 
 
 disclaimer by, 178-179. 
 St. Germans, Christopher, Doctor and 
 
 Student by, 403ji. 
 St. James. See Compostella ; West- 
 minster. 
 St. John, friary, brotherhood of, 366. 
 
 , pardoner of, 342. 
 
 St. John of Jerusalem, hospital of, 29. 
 brethren of, 86. 
 church of St. Bartholomew, 74. 
 grant to, 270. 
 prior of, grant by, 270. 
 priors of, 37m. See also Diva, 
 Robert de ; Tothale, Brother 
 William de ; Vere, Roger de. 
 treasurer of. See Puleburn, Stephen 
 de. 
 St. Michael's Mount, Sent Mykylse 
 Mowutt [co. Cornwall], friars 
 going to, 335. 
 St. Paul, words of, quoted in preamble 
 
 of charter, 199. 
 St. Peter, fabliau relating to, 231. 
 St. Peter ad Vincula, cardinal of the 
 church of, legate of Avignon, 261. 
 Saint Tawbons. See St. Albans. 
 Sainte Maure, Benoit de, Romance of 
 
 Troy of, 222. 
 Saints, lections on, 212. 
 Sakespee : 
 
 Alice sister of Muriel, nun of 
 
 WUberfoss, 43. 
 Emma sister of Muriel, nun of 
 
 Wilberfoss, 43. 
 Isaac brother of Muriel, 42, 43. 
 Juliana sister of Muriel, nun of 
 
 Wilberfoss, 43. 
 Muriel wife of Simon, 42, 43. 
 Robert brother of Muriel, 42. 
 Simon, 42. 
 Sale, Robert de la, 80. 
 Saltord Priors, co. Warwick, Wood Bev- 
 
 ington in, 130. 
 Salicosa Mara. See Saucusemar. 
 
 Salisbury [co. WHts], cathedral church of, 
 
 bequests to fabric of, 83, 101, 103. 
 
 Salisbury, Sarisbyr', earl of. See Longe- 
 
 spee, William de. 
 Salle [Sail, co. Norfolk], Robert de, 50. 
 Sallowe [Sawley, co. Derby], Robert de, 
 executor of the will of Henry de 
 Grey, 86. 
 
 -, bequest to, 86. 
 
 Salmon, Samon, Sawmon ; 
 
 Anthony, to provide horseman for 
 
 his hundred, 152. 
 John, 99, 100. 
 
 , at WoUaton, 458. 
 
 Richard, 99. 
 Salopesburi, Master Robert de, 16. 
 Salopesburs. See Shrewsbury. 
 Saltley in Aston, co. Warwick. See 
 
 Sautlega. 
 Salto Caprioli, Robert de, 45. 
 
 Cf. Sacheverell. 
 Salvage, Salvagius. See Sauvage. 
 Samon. See Salmon. 
 Sampson, William, indictment and 
 acquittal of, 143. 
 Cf. Saunson. 
 Sana, Nicholas de, 35. 
 Sancta Barba, Henry de, 76. 
 Sancta Cruce, Alan de, prior of the 
 knights hospitallers in England, 
 37ra. 
 Sancta Maria : 
 
 German brother of Helias de, 20, 26. 
 
 Helias de, 20, 20n, 26. 
 
 Reginald brother of Helias de, 20, 
 
 20«, 26. 
 Roger de, 40. 
 Sancto Johanne, Sir Edward de, knight, 
 
 92. 
 Sancto Laurencio, Brother Adam de, 
 
 knight hospitaller, 38. 
 Sancto Lupo, William de, 36. 
 Sancto Martino, William de, knight, 76. 
 Sancto Petro, Richard de, 14. 
 Sancto Quintino, Walter de, 30. 
 Sancto Sepulcro : 
 
 Laurence de, 23, 24. 
 Mary daughter of Laurence de, 23, 
 24. 
 Sancton. See Santon. 
 Sanders, M., 197. 
 Sanderson, gamester, 151. 
 Sandes. See Sands. 
 Sandiacre, Sandyacre [co. Derby], sale 
 
 of wood at, 317. 
 Sandiacria, Saundiacre, Seint Diacre 
 [Sandiacre, co. Derby] : 
 Peter de, 45, 45)i. 
 Richard de, 85. 
 Sands, Sandes : 
 
 Edwin, archbishop of York, at 
 
 Thurland House, 457. 
 — — , bishop of London, 531. 
 William, knight, trea/Surer of wars, 
 128. 
 Saudwell, Sandwalles priory [in West 
 Bromwich, co. Stafford], prior of, 
 payment to servant of, 373. 
 
716 
 
 Sandwich, co. Kent, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Sandwico, Sandwyco : 
 
 Henry de, bishop of London, Dover 
 
 castle received by, 71. 
 Ralph de, grant of forfeited lands 
 of, 71. 
 Sandy [co. Bedford], letter directed to, 
 
 598. 
 Sandyacre. See Sandiacre. 
 San Leone, bishop of. See Julian. 
 Sant Tawbous. See St. Albans. 
 Santon [Sancton, co. York] ; 
 Alexander de, 4. 
 Peter de, 64. 
 
 — — son of Alexander de, 4. 
 Sapcote, Sapecote, co. Leicester : 
 chantry of St. Mary of, 99. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 minister's account of, 298. 
 Sapurton, Thomas, chaplain, scrutineer 
 at election of abbot of Burton, 
 248. 
 Saracens, Granada delivered up by the, 
 
 262. 
 Sarezinus, Ivo, 27. 
 Sarisbyr'. See Salisbury. 
 Sarum, use of, 112. 
 Saturn, 218. 
 
 Saucheverell. See Sacheverell. 
 Saucusemar, Salicosa Mara [Sausseuze- 
 mare-en-Caux, Normandy], Roger 
 de, 58. 
 Saufcheverel. See Sacheverell. 
 Saundiacre. See Sandiacria. 
 Saunson, William, 109. 
 
 Cf. Sampson. 
 Sausseuzemare-en-Caux. See Saucusemar. 
 Sautlega [Saltley in Aston, co. Warwick], 
 
 Godfrey de, 9. 
 Savage, Salvage, Salvagius, Sauvage, 
 Sawyge, 579. 
 Agnes le, 53. 
 Geoffrey, 10. 
 James, 36. 
 Ralph, 213. 
 
 Roger, indicted, 272-274, 276-281. 
 Mr., servant of, 342. 
 Savages, gents, society of, la compaignie 
 
 sauvage, 279, 281. 
 Savoy. See London, places named. 
 Savoy, Boniface of, archbishop of Can- 
 terbury, curse pronounced by, 
 241. 
 Sawley, co. Derby, 450. 
 ferry at, 426, 427. 
 See SaUowe. 
 Sawmon. See Salmon. 
 Sawyge. See Savage. 
 Saxton, Nicholas, esquire, constable of 
 
 Rhuddlan castle, 110. 
 Say, WUliam de, friend and ally of 
 Richard earl of Gloucester, 68. 
 See Clinton. 
 Saychewerell, Saycheweryl. See Sache- 
 verell. 
 Saydon, John, bequest to, 102. 
 Sayut Tawbunse. See St. Albans. 
 
 Scala Caeli, chapel of, 135. 
 
 Guild of Our Lady of, at Boston, 
 133m. 
 Scalys Malys. See Cadiz. 
 Scanderbege, prince of the Bpirots, on 
 
 the Turkish wars, 422, 422re. 
 Soapaie. See Sheppy. 
 Soarington. See Scarrington. 
 Scarle, South, co. Notts, 179. 
 Scarrington, Scarington, co. Notts, 179. 
 Scarsdale, Searvesdale wapentake [co. 
 Derby], presentments by jurors 
 of, 273, 274, 280. 
 Scegebi. See Skeggeby. 
 Scegth, land bequeathed by, 255n. 
 Scheldon. See Sheldon. 
 Schelton. See Shelton. 
 Scheypert, Sir Robert, bequest of book 
 
 to, 137. 
 Schirard : 
 
 Adam, 611. 
 Henry, 93. 
 Schirfeld, John de, bequest to, 85. 
 Schirlaunde, Robert de, 85. 
 Schirmissur, Arnold, 34. 
 Schools and scholars, 409. 
 
 fees for board, etc., 352, 359, 383, 
 
 385, 409, 411, 412, 413. 
 gifts to scholars, 334, 338, 348, 364, 
 365, 366, 429, 433. 
 
 to school children, 335, 346, 
 
 369. 
 inscriptions by schoolboys, 218. 
 payments for school books, 353. 
 Scopwick, Skopwyk, co. Lincoln, deeds 
 
 relating to, 625. 
 Scot : 
 
 Henry le, 75. 
 
 Isabel daughter of Isabel, chancery 
 suit of, 283. 
 
 widow and executrix of Sir 
 
 WUliam, 283. 
 John, wages of, 440, 542. 
 Nicholas le, mayor of Newcastle-on- 
 
 Tyne, 75. 
 Roger, canon of Lincoln, 44. 
 Walter, indicted, 274. 
 
 le, 46. 
 
 Cf. Scott. 
 Scoteny, Thomas de, 52. 
 Scotland, Scottland, Skowtland, 123, 
 361, 429. 
 defensive measm-es against, 512,617, 
 
 618. 
 king of. See James IV. 
 lieutenant of the border of. See 
 
 Howard, Thomas, 
 men set forth towards, 530. 
 queen of. See Mary, 
 reception of James I. in, 185-186. 
 satirical description of, 184-187. 
 soldiers from, 358. 
 Scots, movements of the, in Galloway, 95. 
 Scott : 
 
 Thomas, B.D., pamphlet written 
 
 by, 192. 
 William, mayor of Nottingham, 
 certificate signed by, 498. 
 
716 
 
 Scott — conl. 
 
 Mr., payment to, 444. 
 Cf. Scot. 
 Scottish troops, skirmish of, near New- 
 castle-upon-Tyne, 193-194. 
 Scottland. See Scotland. 
 Scribes of charters : 
 
 Henry the clerk of Aston, 16. 
 Peter the clerk, 36. 
 Richard, 5. 
 Scrivelshy, Scrivelby [co. Lincoln], 
 grant of rights in, 270. 
 manor of, 98. 
 Scroin, Scrowin, Mary, wages of, 440, 
 449, 541. 
 See also Mary. 
 Scrooby, co. Notts, deeds relating to, 626. 
 Scrop, Escrop, Geoffrey, 11. 
 
 le, chief justice of the 
 
 King's Bench, 92. 
 Scrowin. See Scroin. 
 Sculecotes [Sculcoats in Kingston-upon- 
 
 Hvdl], Benedict de, 6. 
 Seabrook, North America, divine tobacco 
 
 pipe found at, 195. 
 Seals, 1-64 passim, 69-76, 86-88, 95, 
 96, 98, 99, 124, 128, 136, 142. 
 counterfeit, dehvery of, 93. 
 Seamer. See Seymour. 
 Sebastiane. See Gigliis. 
 Secheverelle. See Sacheverel. 
 Sedgwycke : 
 
 Henry, 168. 
 Baphael, 167. 
 See, Thomas atte, 93. 
 Seen'. See Siena. 
 Sefare, Hamo son of, 16. 
 Segrave, co. Leicester, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Segrim, Alan son of, 50. 
 Seint Diacre. See Sandiacria. 
 Seletord. See Shelford. 
 Seles, Richard de, knight, 31. 
 Selford. See Shelford. 
 Sellinge, Selling [co. Kent] : 
 
 action of trespass concerning land 
 
 in, 283. 
 chancery suit concerning manor of, 
 
 283. 
 court rolls of, 303, 306, 310, 311. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 ministers' accounts of, 310, 311. 
 rentals, etc., of, 283. 
 Harringe in, 283, 310, 311. 
 Selston, William de, 96. 
 Sempingeham [Sempringham, co. Liu- 
 coin], Master GUbert de, 2, 2n. 
 Sempringham, Sempingham, Sepingham 
 [CO. Lincoln] : 
 chaplains and clerks of, named, 13- 
 
 14. 
 order of, 2/i. 
 priory, grant to, 13. 
 
 , , confirmed, 13, 14. 
 
 , lands of, 323. 
 
 Senatus prior of Worcester, letter of, 196. 
 Sene [Siena], Master Roland de, advo- 
 cate, demise to, 74, 75. 
 
 Sent MykylseMowntt. See St. Michael's 
 
 Mount. 
 Sent Talbonse. See St. Albans. 
 Sepeia [Sheepy, co. Leicester] : 
 Geoffrey de, clerk, 9. 
 Simeon de, priest, 9. 
 Sepingham. See Sempringham. 
 Sepulchre, Holy, knights of, 140, 508. 
 Serdbege. See Charborough. 
 Sergius III., pope, 127. 
 
 v., pope, 127. 
 Serlo : 
 
 William son of, 70. 
 verses of, 215, 217. 
 witness, 17. 
 Servants, apportionment of duties of, 
 
 538-541. 
 Service-books, 236, 240, 351, -419. 
 bequest of, 112. 
 gift of, 110. 
 
 the New, purchase of, 406. 
 Sessions of the Peace, estreats of, 132, 
 
 133. 
 Setter, Simon, slaughter-man at Wolla- 
 
 ton, 169. 
 Seveuoaks, Sevenoke, Sevnocke [co. 
 Kent: 
 bequest of land in, 150. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 soldiers trained at, 284. 
 SewaU, Ralph son of, of Nottingham, 
 
 grant to, 62. 
 Seymour : 
 
 Sir Edward, baron Beauchamp and 
 earl of Hertford J lord Edward 
 Seamer, 444. 
 Jane, the queen. See Jane. 
 Katherine (Grey) wife of Edward 
 lord, 518. 
 Sf orza : 
 
 Ascanius, cardinal, bishop of Pavia 
 and Cremona, my lord of Aska- 
 neus, 261. 
 John, duke of Milan, ally of king of 
 Prance, 260, 261. 
 Shacklow (wood), Shakelowe [in Bake- 
 well, CO. Derby], outlaws har- 
 boured at, 276. 
 Shaftesbury, Shaftbury, Shaaton [co. 
 Dorset] : 
 Amicia abbess of, demandant in final 
 
 concord, 76. 
 deeds relating to, 625 . 
 Joan abbess of, release by, 99. 
 Juliana Bauzeyn, abbess of, settle- 
 ment of arrears claimed by, 76. 
 letter dated at, 529. 
 Shakelowe. See Shacklow. 
 Shalfleet, Isle of Wight, Chessel in, 124. 
 Shangton, Shenton [co. Leicester], be- 
 quest of land in, to Burton abbey, 
 256. 
 Shardelowe, [John de], justice, 247. 
 Sharnford, Shernforde [co. Leicester], 
 bequest of land in, to Burton 
 abbey, 257. 
 Sharnhill, Isle of Wight, manor of, 124. 
 Sharpc, Richard, 167. 
 
717 
 
 Sharpels, servant of Lord Lisle, 119. 
 Sharplow, Sharpelow [in Tissrngton, co. 
 
 Derby], 258. 
 Sharschulle, counsel, 247. 
 Shaston St. Rumbold, Shaston [in Camm, 
 CO. Dorset], minister's account 
 of, 302. 
 See Shaftesbury. 
 Shavaldour, William le, indicted, 274. 
 Shaw, Shawe : 
 
 Alexander, depositions of, 163, 164. 
 H., collier, 492. 
 
 Huntingdon, assessor of poll-tax, 
 194, 194n. 
 
 , plaintiff in action of trespass, 
 
 621. 
 Robert, depositions of, 163, 164. 
 Thomas, account rendered by, 421. 
 
 , book covered by, 423. 
 
 , expenses of, paid, 429. 
 
 , wages of, 440, 449, 542. 
 
 [! Thomas], payments to, 426, 435. 
 payment to son of, 363. 
 Sheen, Shene [eo. Surrey], letters close 
 
 dated at, 92. 
 Sheen, Bast, in Mortlako, co. Surrey, 
 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 Sheepy, co. Leicester. See Sepeia. 
 Shelifield [co. York], letter dated at, 155. 
 the countess of Shrewsbury to go 
 to, 154. 
 Sheffield House [in Sheffield, co. York], 
 
 153. 
 Sheffield, Edmund lord, in company of 
 
 duke of Anjou, 553. 
 Shefford, co. Bedford, deeds relating to, 
 
 624. 
 Sheldon [co. Warwick], 373. 
 court rolls of, 305. 
 wood sent from, for building Christ 
 Church, Oxford, 514. 
 Sheldon, Scheldon : 
 
 Henry de, knight, 78. 
 Richard de, 78, 81. 
 Shelford, Chelforde, Seleford, Selford [co. 
 Notts], 58, 429, 441, 545. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 ferry at, 441. 
 places named in, 58. 
 priory, 58. 
 
 , Laurence prior of, 57«. 
 
 , prior and convent of, grant 
 
 by, 57. 
 
 , prior of, reward to officers of, 
 
 369. 
 
 , William brother of Laurence 
 
 prior of, 58. 
 Shelton, Schelton [co. Notts], court rolls 
 
 of, 288, 289. 
 Shelton, Margery, of the household at 
 
 WoUaton, 168. 
 Shene. See Sheen. 
 
 Shengleton, expenses of, paid, 338, 345. 
 Shenton. See Shangton. 
 Sheperd, Shepherd, Sheppard : 
 
 Richard le, sheep stealer, 281. 
 
 WiUiam le, 167. 
 
 of Arnold, wages of, 642. 
 
 Sheperd — eont. 
 
 of Basford, wages of, 542. 
 Sheppy, Scapaie [co. Kent], grant of 
 
 marsh at, 36. 
 Sherborne, Shirboru [co. Dorset], abbot 
 of, bequest to, 101. 
 sessions at, 145. 
 Sherbrooke, Mr., payment to, 423. 
 Shore. See Sherry. 
 Sherfield [? co. Hants], 574, 579. 
 
 letters dated at, 574, 578, 604. 
 Sheriff, payment for office of, 340. 
 
 Richard clerk of the, 40. 
 Sheringham, Shiryngham [co. Norfolk]; 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 manor of, 91. 
 Shermanbury [co. Sussex], Morley in, 
 
 307-309. 
 Shernforde. See Sharnford. 
 Sherold. See Shirrall. 
 Sherratt, Henry, 167. 
 Sherry, Share, Richard, " A treatise of 
 the figures of grammar and rhe- 
 torike ' by, 413, 413m. 
 Sherwood forest, co. Notts : 
 
 translation of Forest Book of, 240- 
 
 246. 
 grants relating to, 501, 502. 
 keeper of. See Osborne, Peregrine. 
 Sherwood, John de, bishop of Durham, 
 
 613. 
 Sherwynd, John, servant of Nicholas 
 
 Coterel. indicted, 279. 
 Shestoke. See Shustoke. 
 Shether, Richard, at brotherhood of 
 
 Our Lady, 356. 
 Sheyle, Henry do, maintainor of felons, 
 
 272. 
 Shiefelde, sheets from bed-chamber of, 476. 
 Shipley, Shypley Park [in Heanoc, co. 
 Derby], squaring of timber at, 375. 
 Shipley [in Claverley, co. Stafford] 
 ? Stypley, bequest of land in, to 
 Burton abbey, 256. 
 Shipman, Thomas, of Scarrington, dis- 
 claimer of arms of, 179. 
 Ships, etc., named : 
 le Beggare, 96. 
 the Anne, 173. 
 - the Bartholomew, 173. 
 the Constance, 173. 
 the George, 130. 
 the Grace of God, 173. 
 the Henry Maria, 173. 
 the James, 129. 
 the James Ilcombe, 128, 129. 
 the John, 173. 
 the John Evangelist, Avangelliat, 
 
 128, 130. 
 the Mary WyaUsyngham, 130. 
 the Speedwell, 173. 
 the Trinitie, 173. 
 the William, 173. 
 Shipton, John, bequest to, 114. 
 Shirborn. See Sherborne. 
 Shirbourne, John, 103. 
 Shirford [parish of Burton Hastings, co. 
 Warwick], 526. 
 
718 
 
 Shirley : 
 
 Eleanor (Willoughby) wife of Sir 
 
 John, 507. 
 Nicholas, supervisor of will, 125. 
 ShirraU Hall, Sherold [in Drayton Bassett, 
 CO. Stafford], reward to keepers 
 of, 359. 
 Shiryngham. See Sheringham. 
 Shoemakers, tricks of, 165. 
 Shoreham [co. Kent] : 
 
 dean of. See Cook, William, 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 Shoreham, Shorham [co. Sussex], priory 
 
 of, bequest to, 617. 
 Shortred, Sir John, payment to, 343. 
 ShorweU.IsIe of Wight, Atherfield in,124. 
 
 Sutton in, 124. 
 Shrewsbury, Salopesburs [co. Salop] ! 
 deeds relating tcf, 627. 
 defence of, against Owen Glen- 
 dower, 101. 
 grant of tenement in, 95. 
 Shrewsbury, Shrouesbury, Shrowesbury, 
 earl and countess of. See Talbot. 
 Shustoke, Shestoke [co. Warwick], 
 court rolls of, 309-311. 
 soldiers of, 341. 
 Shypley. See Shipley. 
 Shyrard : 
 
 Nicholas, of Porde, indicted for 
 
 ofEences in co. Derby, 274. 
 Richard brother of WiUiam, in- 
 dicted, 274, 276. 
 WiUiam, of co. Stafford, indicted, 
 274, 276. 
 Shyrley. See Shirley. 
 Sibetorp, Sibethorp, Sybetorp [Sibthorpe, 
 
 CO. Notts], William de, 39, 55. 
 Sibily, Sybily, John, 80. 
 Sibthorpe, co. Notts. See Sibetorp. 
 SiccaviUa, Herbert de, 27. 
 Sidetun [Syston, co. Lincoln], Simon de, 
 
 44. 
 Sidney, Sir Philip, in the company of 
 
 the duke of Aujou, 553. 
 Siena, Seen', my lord cardinal of. See 
 Piccolomiui, Francis. 
 See Sene. 
 Sigered, dux, 209. 
 Sigewald, witness, 200. 
 Signet, clerk of the, payments to, 398, 
 
 523. 
 Silingeholde, John de, 36. 
 Silver mines, 614, 615, 616. 
 Silvester : 
 
 Gervase son of, 64. 
 
 , de Bestun, 63. 
 
 Ralph son of, de Bestun, 63. 
 Robert son of, 64. 
 Roland son of, lln. 
 Master, 20, 20n, 26. 
 Simnel, Lambert, 508. 
 Simon : 
 
 Robert sou of, 21. 
 Simon son of, 39. 
 Sion, Mount, guardian of the Friars 
 Observant of. See Masius, 
 
 Brother Zenobius. 
 
 Sion, Mount — cont. 
 
 pilgrimage to, 140. 
 Sire, John, indicted for ofEences in co. 
 
 Derby, 273. 
 Sixtinus, John, doctor of canon and civil 
 
 law, 136. 
 Sixtus rV., pope, privileges granted by, 
 
 117, 133. 
 Skalgaynes, Master, predictions of Alfons 
 
 Frysaunce, his clerk, 263-266. 
 Skefington, Mr., 496. 
 Skegby [in Marnham, co. Notts], 179. 
 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 Skeggeby, Scegebi : 
 Richer de, 11. 
 William de, beaten, 282. 
 Skelton, co. York, deeds relating to, 627. 
 Skinner {Pelliparius) : 
 
 Alderman, imprisoned and fined for 
 whipping gentlewomen, 158, 588. 
 Robert the, 75. 
 Skowtland. See Scotland. 
 Slade, Sladde : 
 
 Leonard, payment to, 346. 
 Thomas, executor of will, 122. 
 
 , payment to, for holy water, 
 
 379. 
 William, marriage of, 378. 
 Mr., christening of child of, 344. 
 ale taken at house of, 342. 
 payment to, 373. 
 
 wife of, payment to, for watching by 
 gibbet, 382. 
 Slaney, John, reference to letters from, 
 
 284. 
 Slately, Slaughteleye [in Kingsbury, co. 
 Warwick] : 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 rental of, 305. 
 Smales, payment to, 446. 
 
 Cf. Smawle. 
 Smaley, See Smaly. 
 Smalley, co. Derby, deeds relating to, 624, 
 Small-pox, death from, 412. 
 SmaUwood [in Astbury, co. Chester], 425, 
 427. 
 court rolls of, 288, 289, 291, 311, 
 
 312, 317. 
 deeds and papers relating to, 318, 
 320, 624. 
 Smaly, Smaley, John, waiter at WoUa- 
 ton, 168. 
 Richard, payments to, in coal 
 account, 493. 
 Smawle's tenement, 154. 
 
 C/. Smales. 
 Smeeth, Smethe [co. Kent], 283. 
 Smethswick, Smethsewyke : 
 
 Elizabeth, letter from, 148. 
 
 , Elizabeth, her sister, 148. 
 
 Smith, Paber, Pevre, Smythe : 
 Adam le, 81. 
 
 Anne daughter of Francis, of Wor- 
 cestershire, 606. 
 Averey, payment to, 415. 
 Elizabeth (Pargiter) wife of Pi'ancis, 
 
 of Worcestershire, 606. 
 Francis, of Worcestershire, 606. 
 
719 
 
 Smith — cont. 
 
 Henry father of Richard, rector of 
 Wollaton, obit of, 236. 
 
 , Joan his wife, obit of, 237. 
 
 John, wages of, 449, 542. 
 Peter the, 21. 
 Ranulf the, 17. 
 
 Richard, parson of Wollaton, 137, 
 236. 
 
 son of Sir Walter, of Shirford, 
 
 526. 
 William, depositions of, 259. 
 
 , de Capella, indicted, 2T5. 
 
 the, 70. 
 
 Sir William, 344. 
 Doctor, 447, 448. 
 
 , abstract of letter to, 536. 
 
 , payments to, 431, 450. 
 
 , present for, 574. 
 
 Mr., 389. 
 
 , at Wollaton, 462. 
 
 swans kept by, 353. 
 Smithson, Smithston, Smythson : 
 
 John, plan of glass-house by, 500. 
 Robert, 452. 
 
 ' architect ' of Wollaton Hall, 269. 
 Smythe. See Smith. 
 Smythson. See Smithson. 
 Sneinton, co: Notts, deeds relating to, 626. 
 Snowdeswyke [co. Derby?], bequest of 
 
 land in, to Burton abbey, 257. 
 Soire, Baldwin de, 228. 
 Soldiers, pavments and gifts to, 334, 
 341, 344, 345, 347-351, 353, 358, 
 359, 364, 447, 
 Solihull, Solyoll, Sowlyold, SowlyoU, 
 Sylyold, SylyoUe [co. Warwick], 
 348, 353. 
 rewards to players of, 338, 364. 
 
 to soldiers of, 341, 350, 358. 
 
 Somerby [co. Lincoln], 517. 
 Somerden, co, Kent, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Somerdeby, Brother Robert de, 86. 
 Someri. See Sumery. 
 Somershall, Ralph, of Mansfield, dis- 
 claimer of arms of, 179. 
 Somerset, William, earl of Worcester, 
 my lord of Woster, rewards to 
 players of, 424, 440. 
 Somervill, Sumerville : 
 
 Alice (Willoughby) daughter of 
 
 Roger, 505. 
 Hugh de, 20. 
 
 Robert son of Walter de, 10. 
 Roger son of Walter de, 10. 
 Walter de, 10. 
 Somery. See Smnery. 
 Sommers, WiUiam, imposture by, 165n, 
 
 166. 
 Sondressb, Sondresshe, Sondriche. See 
 
 Sundridge. 
 Songar Grange, Soungre [in Claverdon, 
 CO. Warwick], deed dated at, 97. 
 manor of, 97. 
 Sonning, Sonnyng [co. Berks], St. An- 
 drew's church, burial in, 101. 
 Sopley, Sople, co. Hants, manor of, 124. 
 
 Sore, William, furniture In bed-chamber 
 
 of, 490. 
 Somes, Henry de, 36. 
 Sothewell, Sothwell. See Southwell. 
 Souch. See Zouche. 
 Soudan, Stephen, grant of forfeited lands 
 
 of, 71. 
 Soungre. See Songar Grange. 
 Southampton, Sowthamton, Hamton : 
 delivery of ordnance at, 129. 
 staple of metals at, 614, 
 Southcombe, Sowthcombe [co. Dorset] : 
 court rolls of, 306, 307, 309. 
 ministers' accounts of, 296, 306. 
 Southron, Sir Thomas, priest, executor of 
 
 will, 126. 
 Southwell, Sothewell, Sothwell, Suth- 
 well, CO. Notts, 388. 
 barony of, 243. 
 canons of, named, 95. See also 
 
 Curtemajori, Master Simon de. 
 chapter of, deed dated in, 95. 
 
 , renewal of charter by, 93. 
 
 collegiate church of St. Mary, be- 
 quest to, 113. 
 
 , burial in, 113. 
 
 , St. Peter's chapel in, 112. 
 
 manor of, customs of, 247. 
 
 woods and wastes of, boundaries of, 
 
 243. 
 See Sueir, 
 .Southwold, South wolld, Suffold [co. Suf- 
 folk], ship of, 129, 130. 
 Sowcheverell. See Sacheverell. 
 Sowlyold, Sowlyoll. See Solihull. 
 Sowthamton. See Southampton. 
 Sowthcombe. See Southcombe. 
 Spain, Hey Spayne : 
 
 king of. See Ferdinand V. 
 proceedings upon return of Gondomar 
 
 to, 187-192. 
 Sir Edward Willoughby's servi ces 
 
 in, 146. 
 Sir Henry Willoughby's services in, 
 
 508. 
 universality of kingdom of, 190-191. 
 Spalding, Spawldinge [co. Lincoln], 446. 
 Spaniard, action the proper sphere of, 189. 
 Spanish Armada, the, 567. 
 Spanish silk, 399, 401, 421. 
 skin, payment for, 406. 
 Sparham, Nicholas de, indicted, 277. 
 Sparry, John, 97. 
 Sparwe, William, indicted, 275. 
 Spawldinge. See Spalding. 
 Spayne. See Spain. 
 Spayne, Ralph de, bailiff of the High 
 
 Peak, indicted, 275. 
 Spectacles, pans of, bought, 460. 
 Spcde, J., coUier, 492. 
 Speede, note by, 495. 
 Speid, John, 452. 
 Speldhuist [co. Kent]: 
 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 Bwhurst in, 315. 
 Spencer : 
 
 Sir John, abstracts of letters from, 
 598, 599. 
 
720 
 
 Spencer, Sir John — cont. 
 
 , his wife, abstract of letter to, 
 
 598. 
 Katherine, daughter of Robert 
 
 Stratford, 605. 
 Robert, son of Sir John, 457, 566- 
 568, 608. 
 
 , abstract of letter from, 571. 
 
 , at Thurland house, 455. 
 
 , at Wollaton, 456, 458. 
 
 , created lord Spencer of Worm- 
 
 leighton, 566. 
 
 , marriage of, to Margaret Wil- 
 
 loughby, 566, 592, 598. 
 
 , reference to letters from, 599. 
 
 Thomas, wife of, slandered, 576. 
 old, evil designs of, 568. 
 payment to, 363. 
 Spetchley, Spechesleg, co. Worcester, 
 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 Sphyherber, Sphyherberd. See Fitz- 
 
 herbert. 
 Sphyweylliam. See Pitzwilliam. 
 Spicere, Hugh le, mayor of Nottingham, 
 
 97, 99. 
 Spicfat : 
 
 Reginald, brother of William, of 
 
 Caythorpe, 38. 
 William, of Caythorpe, grant by, 
 38, 38n. 
 Spien, Hugh, 13. 
 Spillemort, William, 15. 
 Spondon [co. Derby], robbery at, 278. 
 
 sale of wood at, 317. 
 Spondon : 
 
 Robert de, 79. 
 William de, clerk, 9. 
 Sporting licence, 501-502. 
 Spotland in Rochdale, co. Lancaster, 
 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 Spott, Pott, WuUric, founder of Burton 
 
 abbey, will of, 253-257. 
 Sprey, wages of wife of, for washing, 
 
 450. 
 Spure, Richard, 58. 
 Spylman, lecture of, upon statute of Quo 
 
 Warranto, 269. 
 Spyne, William atte, 97. 
 Squire : 
 
 John, glassmaker, 500. 
 servant of Sir Francis Willoughby, 
 abstracts of letters from, and 
 notes by, 533, 534, 535. 
 Squire (armiger), Nicholas the, 18. 
 Stabul, Robert a, payment to, 327. 
 Stabularius, Ulf, 14. 
 Stafford [co. Stafford], archdeacon of, 251, 
 Stafford, West, Stalord [co. Dorset], 84, 
 105. 
 chapel of, bequest to, 83. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 minister's account of, 319. 
 Stafford : 
 
 Edward, duke of Buckingham, re- 
 wards to minstrel of, 351, 361. 
 
 , , , to players of, 334. 
 
 John, bishop of Bath and Wells, 
 chancellor, 104. 
 
 Stafford — cont. 
 
 Muriel (Grey) wife of Henry, earl 
 
 of Wiltshire, 508. 
 Thomas de, bailiff of Nottingham, 
 
 97. 
 Walter de, indicted, 274, 276. 
 Stainforth, Thomas de, bailiff of Riby, 
 289. 
 Cf. Staumforth, Staunforth. 
 Staingrive, Stayngreve, Steinesgrife, 
 Steingrive [Stonegrave, co. York] : 
 Acilia (de Ridale) daughter of Wil- 
 liam de, 1, 2. 
 Adam de, clerk of Geoffrey le Scrop 
 chief justice of the King's Bench, 
 92, 93. 
 Simon de, 4. 
 William de, 2, 2n, in. 
 Stainsby. Stannesby, Steynesby [in Ault 
 HucknaU, co. Derby], 281. 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 outlaws received at, 273, 280. 
 Stainton-le-Vale, Staintun [co. Lincoln] : 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 grant of land in, 32. 
 Stamford, Estaumford, Estaunford [co. 
 Lincoln], 85. 
 documents dated at, 90. 
 Stamford, earl of. See Grey ot Groby. 
 Stana, Robert de la, 62. 
 Stanberewe [in Standon], co. Herts, 86. 
 Stanbrigg', Geoffrey ad, 58. 
 Stanclyf, John de, seizure of, 279. 
 Standlow, Stanlow [in Newton Grange, 
 
 CO. Derby], boundaries of, 258. 
 Standon, Staundon, Stondon [co. Herts] : 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 grant of land in, 86. 
 preceptor of. See Cosyn, Brother 
 
 William, 
 rental of, 309. 
 
 Marshalls at High Cross in, 297. 
 Plashes and Stanberewe in, 86. 
 Standon : 
 
 Pinianus, de outlaw, 275. 
 
 Joan Wife of William de, grant to, 
 
 86. 
 Walter de, 73. 
 
 William de, clerk, grant to, 86. 
 Stanford, co. Kent, Ostenhanger in, 
 
 283. 
 Stanford-on-Soar [co. Notts], 179. 
 deeds relating to, 620. 
 Reginald the priest of, 14. 
 Stanford[-on-Soar, co. Notts] : 
 
 Alice, sister of Godfrey de, 14. 
 Godfrey de, 14. 
 
 , grant confirmed by, 13. 
 
 , seal of, 14. 
 
 Hawisa wife of Robert de, 14. 
 Maud wife of Godfrey de, grant 
 
 confiiTned by, 13, 14. 
 Peter de, 59. 
 
 Richard de, chaplain, grant to, 98. 
 Sfcanforda, 210. 
 
 Stanhope, Stannope, Stanope : 
 Edward, a proud fool, 552. 
 , at Thurland House, 457. 
 
 / 
 
721 
 
 stanhope — cont. 
 
 Sir Thomas, T., 423, 424, 427, 442. 
 
 , abstract of letter from, 545. 
 
 . to, 552. 
 
 . at Thurland House, 455. 
 
 . at WoUaton, 454. 
 
 , character of, 552. 
 
 , commission to, 160. 
 
 — — > , to hold inquisition, 428. 
 
 , jevfel containing portrait of, 
 
 545. 
 
 , order issued by, 152. 
 
 , rewards to servants of, 428. 
 
 432, 441, 442. 
 
 . to waits of, 433. 
 
 Lady, Mistress [wife of Sir Tliomasl, 
 164, 534, 544, 545. 
 
 , at WoUaton, 361. 
 
 , gifts to, 442. 
 
 , reward, to servant of, 431. 
 
 Stanley, oo. Derby, deeds relating to, 624. 
 Stanley : 
 
 Edward, earl of Derby, rewards to 
 minstrel of, 376, 383. 
 
 -, lord Monteagle, Mowntt-Egle, 
 
 reward to minstrel of, 337. 
 William, earl of Derby, reward to 
 players of, 463. 
 
 , lord Monteagle, Mounteigle, 
 
 reward to players of, 446. 
 Stanlow. See Standlow, Whalley. 
 Stansted Mountfichet [co. Essex] 
 
 402. 
 Stanton [co. Leicester], minister's ac- 
 count of, 298. 
 Stanton-by-Dale, Stanton [co. Derby]: 
 sale of land in, 45. 
 sale of wood at, 317. 
 Stanton, Stantuu : 
 Henry de, 6. 
 Richard de, 27. 
 Cf. Staunton. 
 Stapelford, Stapilford [Stapleford, co. 
 Notts] : 
 Hugh de, 56, 64. 
 Robert dc, 34. 
 Stapelgrove. See Staplegrove. 
 Stapelhoe, Stapelho [in Eaton Socon, co, 
 Beds], grant of messuage in, 56. 
 Stapelton, Thomas de, action brought 
 
 against, 247. 
 Stapilford, Stapiltorthe. See Stapelford, 
 
 Stapleford. 
 Staple of metals, commission concerning, 
 
 266, 613-617. 
 Stapleford, Stapleforde, Stapilford, 
 Stapilforthe [co. Notts], 8n, 388. 
 sale of wood at, 317. 
 Staplegrove, Stapelgrove [co. Somerset], 
 
 minister's account of, 318. 
 Stapunhuir, Brother William, monk of 
 
 Burton, 249, 252. 
 Star Chamber, Ster Chamber, complaints 
 in, before the king's council, 144, 
 145. 
 Statins, AchUleis of, 219. 
 Statutes of the Realm, English translation 
 of, 240. 
 
 Staumforth, Mr. Stanhope's servant, 
 reward to, 441. 
 Cf. Stainforth, Staunforth. 
 Stauudon. See Standon. 
 Staunforth, Mr., 426. 
 
 Cf. Stainforth, Staumforth. 
 Staunton [oo. Notts] : 
 
 court rolls of, 288, 289, 301. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 Staunton Harold, Staunton [co. Lei- 
 cester], 390. 
 ? Stouton Parke, 346. 
 Staunton, White [co. Somerset], Holv in, 
 
 318. 
 Staunton, Geoffrey, chaplain, 115. 
 
 Cf. Stanton. 
 Staveley [co. York], Adam de, 6. 
 StaweU [? CO. Somerset], court rolls of, 
 290, 300, 301, 303. 
 minister's account of, 303. 
 Stayngreve. See Staingrive. 
 Staythorpe, Sternethorp, Stlresthorp, 
 Stirestorp [in Averham, co. Notts], 
 grant of land in, 10, lln. 
 Steele, Stel, Stell : 
 
 Roger, payment to, 428. 
 
 , supper taken at house of, 354. 
 
 -, wife of, payment to, 358. 
 
 Steeple, co. Essex, deeds relating to, 625. 
 
 Steeple Aston. See Aston. 
 
 Steeple Hall, proposed sale of, 571. 
 
 Steinesgrife, Steingrive. See Staingrive. 
 
 Stel, Stell. See Steele. 
 
 Stephen, king, confirmation of grant by, 
 
 242. 
 Stephen V., pope, 127. 
 Stephen : 
 
 Ralph son of, grant of custody of 
 
 Sherwood forest to, 241. 
 William son of, de Levedale, grant 
 
 to, 57. 
 Master, 2. 
 Stepney, co. Middlesex : 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 ferry at, 110, 110m, 625. 
 Sterbredge. See Stourbridge. 
 Ster Chamber. See Star Chamber. 
 Sterlei, Sterley. See Strelley. 
 Sternethorp. See Staythorpe. 
 Stevens, Doctor, water distilled for, 448. 
 Steward, Lord. See Talbot, George, earl 
 
 of Shrewsbury. 
 Steward, Richard son of Adam the, 65. 
 Steynesby. See Stainsby. 
 Stikelawe, oo. Northumberland, deeds 
 
 relating to, 626. 
 Stillington, Thomas, depositions of, 184. 
 StipershiU, StipreshuU [near Polesworth, 
 
 CO. Warwick], rental of, 294. 
 Stirchley [co. Salop] ! Styrley, bequest 
 
 of, to Burton abbey, 256. 
 Stlresthorp, Stirestorp. See Staythorpe. 
 Stirling [Stirlingshire], charter dated at 
 
 242, 245. 
 Stoakes. See Stokes. 
 Stoburgh. See Stowborough. 
 Stoka. See Stoke. 
 Stock, Stockes. See Stokes. 
 
 M 46 
 
722 
 
 Stockland [co. Dorset], minister's account 
 
 of, 314. 
 Stookley, Stockle, Steele, Stokle [in 
 Bare Regis, co. Dorset], minister's 
 accounts of, 296, 298, 299, 301, 
 306, 307. 
 Stodleg. See Studlev. 
 Stoek. See Stoke. 
 Stoekes. See Stokes. 
 Stoile, Hugh, beaten, 282. 
 Stoke, Stoek : 
 
 ferry at, 427. 
 CO. Notts, 179. 
 
 , battle of, 508, 514n. 
 
 CO. Warwick, deeds relating to, 627. 
 Bishops, Biscopes Stoc [in Westbury- 
 
 upon-Trim, co. Gloucester], 210. 
 East, CO. Dorset, Bestwall in, 124. 
 Gaylard, Stocke, Stoke CoyUard, co. 
 Dorset, 97. 
 
 , deeds relating to, 625. 
 
 Lee, CO. Dorset, deeds relating to, 
 625. 
 Stoke, Stoca [co. Notts] : 
 Robert the priest of, 11. 
 Walter de, 52. 
 Stokeley, co. Dorset, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Stokes, Stoakes, Stoekes, Stoekes, 454. 
 Bernard de, 20. 
 
 Christopher, of Nottingham, 393. 
 Henry de, 32, 32ri, 59. 
 Jane, wife of William Willoughby 
 
 603. 
 Scher de, 21. 
 
 Thomas, wages of, 420, 439, 449, 542. 
 William, payment by, 451. 
 
 , wages of, 426, 439, 449, 
 
 542. 
 payment by, 435. 
 Stokesley, Robert de, 75. 
 Stokle. See Stockley. 
 Stole -wTought with gold, 377. 
 Stolp, Ralph, 279. 
 Stoltun. See Stoulton. 
 Stondon. See Standon. 
 Stone [CO. Stafford], 426. 
 
 bequest of land in, to Burton abbey, 
 
 257. 
 prior of. See Helygeve, Thomas. 
 Stonegrave. See Staingrive. 
 Stonton. See Staunton Harold ? 
 Stony Stratford, Stonystretford. See 
 
 Stratford, Stony. 
 Storbridge. See Stourbridge. 
 Storlay. See Strelley. 
 Stortford [co. Herts], inquisition taken 
 
 at, 283. 
 Stotard, Alan, death of, 274. 
 Stoue. See Stow. 
 
 Stouer Prewes. See Stowcr Provost. 
 Stouford, counsel, 247. 
 Stoulton, Stoltun [co. Worcester], grant 
 
 of land in, 207. 
 Stourbridge, Sterbredge, Storbridge, 
 Sturbrege, bturbrydge, Sturbryge, 
 Sturburge [co. Cambridge], 447. 
 fair, 432. 
 
 Stourbridge, fair — coni. 
 
 , fish, etc., bought at, 315, 316. 
 
 362, 372, 387. 
 
 , grey sope bought at, 404. 
 
 Stourmynster. See Sturminster. 
 
 Stow Nine Churches, Stoue [co. 
 
 Northants], 377. 
 Stowborough, Stoburgh, co. Dorset, 
 
 manor of, 124. 
 Stower Provost, Stouer Prewes [co. 
 Dorset], minister's account of, 
 303. 
 Stowrlay, Stradlega. See StreUey. 
 Straetford. See Stratford-on-Avon. 
 Strangways : 
 
 Sir Giles, misdemeanours of, 142- 
 
 146. 
 Henry, supervisor of vrill, 124. 
 
 son of Sir Giles, assault of, 
 
 upon Sir Edward Willoughby, 
 145-146. 
 
 , justice of the peace, 
 
 145. 
 Stratford : 
 
 John de, 87. 
 
 Grace (Pargiter) wife of , of 
 
 Mere vale, 605. 
 , Abigail (Trotman) her daugh- 
 ter, 605. 
 
 . , Dorothy (Hood) Jher daughter. 
 
 605. 
 
 , Edward her son, 605. 
 
 , Francis her son, 606. 
 
 , Grace (Rushtou) her daugh- 
 ter, 605. 
 
 , Theodore her son, 606. 
 
 , William her son, 606. 
 
 John son of Grace, 605. 
 
 (Coomes) bis wife, 605. 
 
 , Abigail (Pilkington) his daugh- 
 ter, 605. 
 
 , Grace his daughter, 605. 
 
 Robert son of Grace, 605. 
 
 , Mrs. Welsh his wife, 605. 
 
 , Abigail (Canning) his daugh- 
 ter, 605. 
 
 , Anne (Eyre) his daughter, 
 
 605. 
 , Catherine (Spencer) his daugh- 
 ter, 605. 
 
 , Elizabeth (Hickman) his 
 
 daughter, 605. 
 
 , Francis his son, marriage of, 
 
 606. 
 
 , Grace (Burton) his daughter, 
 
 605. 
 
 , Jane (Carlton) his daughter, 
 
 605. 
 
 , Mary (Pearss) his daughter. 
 
 605. 
 Edward son of Robert, 606. 
 
 , Mrs. Beasly his wife, 606. 
 
 , .'. .. (Eustace) his wife, 606. 
 
 Stratford Lee, co. Wanvick, deeds re- 
 lating to, 627. 
 Stratford-on-Avon, Straetford, Stretford 
 [CO. Warwick], 345. 
 grant of land at, 200-201. 
 
723 
 
 Stratford, Stony, Stonystretford [co, 
 
 Buckingham], 354. 
 Stratlee, Stratleie. See Strelley. 
 Strawberry water, 366. 
 Strelley, Sterley, Streley [co. Notts! 
 508, 533, 591. 
 coal at, 176. 
 
 sold at, 177. 
 
 foul condition of road at, 177. 
 letter directed to, 197. 
 payment to keeper's wife of, 446. 
 Strelley, Sterlei, Sterley, Storlay, Stowr- 
 lay, Stradlega, Stratlee, Stratleie, 
 Streeley, Strellay, Strcleia, Stre- 
 ley, Strelleyp, Stretle, Stretlega, 
 Stretlei, Stretleio, Stretleyhe, 
 StrUley, Strylley, Sturle, Stwrlav, 
 Sturley l : 
 Sampson de, 12, 12n, 13, 14, 18, 20. 
 
 son of Sampson de, 12n, 29. 
 
 29, 33, 34, 40, 41, 46. 
 Walter son of Sampson de, 12n, 34, 
 Eobert de, 63. 
 Eobert son of Robert de, knight, 96. 
 
 , release in favour of, 83. 
 
 , Elizabeth his wife, release in 
 
 favour of, 83. 
 Hugh de, 56. 
 Peter de, 100. 
 Philip de, 56, 56n. 
 Roger de, 29. 
 John, 118-120. 
 
 , executor of wUl, 122. 
 
 , Sancbia (WiUoughby) wife of, 
 
 508. 
 Sir Nicholas, of Bilborough, agree- 
 ment by, 148, 149. 
 , Jane (Willoughby) his daugh- 
 ter, 511. 
 Sir Anthony, son of Sir Nicholas, 
 418, 533. 
 
 , at Wollaton, 456, 458. 
 
 , payment to gardener of, 433. 
 
 , to provide horsemen for his 
 
 hundred, 152. 
 
 [Joan] his wife, 456. 
 
 , . reward to servant of, 
 
 431. 
 Sir Philip son of Sir Anthony, at 
 
 Wollaton, 458. 
 Philip son of Sir Philip, proposed 
 
 marriage of, 621. 
 Mr. John, reward to servant of, 431. 
 Mr., goldsmith, 461. 
 
 , payment to, for bricks, 424. 
 
 , rewards to servants of, 336, 
 
 358. 
 Master, reward to nurse of, 358. 
 Mrs., furniture in bedchamber of, 
 489. ■ 
 Stretford. See Stratford. 
 Stretle, Stretlega, Stretle, Stretleio, 
 
 Stretleyhe. See Strelley. 
 Stretton [in Burton-upon-Trent, co. Staf- 
 ford], bequest of land in, to Bur- 
 ton abbey, 256. 
 
 Stretton [in North Wingfteld, co. Derby], 
 
 bequest of land in, 258. 
 Strettona : 
 
 Henry de, 56. 
 William de, 56, 
 Strey, Nicholas, of Beeston, disclaimer 
 
 of arms of, 179. 
 Strilley. See StroUey. 
 Stringer, wheel for pump made by, 
 
 439. 
 Strylley. See Strelley. 
 Stubton, CO. Wai-wick, deeds relating to, 
 
 627. 
 Studlcy, Stodleg priory [co. Warwick], 
 A prior and convent of, grant of 
 presentation to canonry by, 67. 
 Sturbrege, Sturbrydge, Sturbryge, Stur- 
 
 burge. See Stourbridge. 
 Sturle. See Strelley. 
 Sturminster : 
 
 Marshall, Stourmynster Marchall 
 
 [co. Dorset] : 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 minister's account of, 302. 
 Newton [co. Dorset], minister's 
 account of, 302. 
 Sturtevaunt : 
 
 William, of Carlton, disclaimer of 
 arms of, 179. 
 
 , of Norwell, disclaimer of arms 
 
 of, 179. 
 Sturton, CO. Notts, 179. 
 Sturton, Mr., at Wollaton, 458. 
 Stuteville, Estotevill, Estoutevill, Estute- 
 villa : 
 Bartholomew de, 6, 6m. 
 Bstout eon of Nicholas de, agree- 
 ments by, 89, 90. 
 Balph de, 89. 
 Robert de, 6w, In, 89. 
 William de, 6m. 
 
 , grant to, 6. 
 
 , licence to, to fortify, 57, 271. 
 
 , market granted to, 37, 271. 
 
 StwrJay. See Strelley. 
 
 3tyle, young, at Tiltey, 399. 
 
 Stypley. See Shipley. 
 
 Styrley. See Stirchley { 7 ), Strelley. 
 
 Suabi [Swaby, co. Lincoln], Vincent de, 
 
 29. 
 Subsidy rolls, 283, 284. 
 Suclyng, Giles, indicted, 276, 
 Sudlee, Godfrey de, 16. 
 Sueir [Southwell, co. Notts], Hugh de, 
 
 77. 
 Suffold. See Southwold. 
 Suffolk, Swfloko, SwfEolk, duke of. See 
 Brandon, Charles ; Grey, Henry 
 (E) ; Polo, WiUiam de la. 
 earl of. See Bigod, Roger le. 
 Sumerville. See SomsrviU. 
 Sumery, Somori, Somery : 
 
 Lucy de, bequest to, 85. 
 — — , gift to, 327. 
 Roger de, friend and ally of Richard 
 earl of Gloucester, 68. 
 
 Entries arranged genealogically (as far as possible). 
 
724 
 
 Sundridge, Sondressh, Sondresshe, Son- 
 
 driche, Sunderesse, Sundrysshe 
 
 [CO. Kent], 150. 
 bequest of land in, 150. 
 court roUs of, 300. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 rentals of 285, 294, 304. 
 rents and services in, 271. 
 subsidy roll of, 283. 
 Supremacy, oath of , administration of,160. 
 Surrey, earl of. See Howard, Thomas : 
 
 Waronne, John do. 
 Sussex, my lord of. See Eatcliffe, 
 
 Thomas. 
 Suthtauton. See Tawton, South. 
 Suthwell. See Southwell. 
 Sutton : 
 
 [co. Derby], bequest of land in, to 
 
 Burton abbey, 257. 
 [in Shorwell], Isle of Wight, 124. 
 -at-Hone, oo. Kent ? grant of land in, 
 
 36. 
 hundred, co. Kent, men fur- 
 nished in, 159, 284. 
 
 , names of men in, 158. 
 
 , pioneers from, 160. 
 
 Bonnington, Bonyngton, Bonyton 
 
 [Co. Notts], 280. 
 
 ■ , William chaplain of, 279. 
 
 Coldfield, Cofilde, in Cofllde, in Col- 
 
 fleld, Swtton [co. Warwick], 49, 
 
 170, 382, 341, 514. 
 , bailiff of, reward to servant of, 
 
 373. 
 
 , chace, 116. 
 
 , court rolls of, 293, 294, 296, 
 
 298, 304, 306-308, 311. 
 
 , deeds relating to, 627. 
 
 , grant of land in, 157. 
 
 , hall held at, 167. 
 
 , keeper, warden of. See Geb- 
 
 bens, Thomas ; Veysey, Simon. 
 , master of the game in. See 
 
 Berkeley, William. 
 
 ■ , mill in, 156. 
 
 , minister's account of, 308. 
 
 , sale of, 581. 
 
 , school at, 335, 346, 352, 359. 
 
 ■ , Serjeants at mace of. See 
 
 Houghe, Richard ; NichoUes, 
 
 James. 
 , steward of. See Willoughby, 
 
 (Q). 
 
 , Bracebridge Pool in, 156. 
 
 , Le Mote Hawle at, 156. 
 
 , Little Sutton in, 345. 
 
 , Swarsdale in, 168. 
 
 , the Pool in, pike from, 342. 
 
 -cum-Lound, co. Notts, deeds re- 
 lating to, 626. 
 -on-the-HiU, Sutton [co. Derby], 
 
 bequest of land in, to Burton 
 
 abbey, 256. 
 Passeys, Passes, Passis, Passus, 
 
 Passys, parish of Radford and 
 
 constabulary of WoUaton, co. 
 
 Notts, chantries in chapel of St. 
 
 Mary, foundation of, 96, 98. 
 
 Sutton Passeys— con<. 
 
 , chantry at, tenements of, 119. 
 
 , chartularies of lands in, 196. 
 
 197. 
 
 . deeds relating to, 626. 
 
 , fine of manor of, 531. 
 
 , grants, etc., of land in, 55, 56, 
 
 64, 89. 
 
 , locality of, award relating to, 
 
 621. 
 
 , ministers' accounts of, 311, 
 
 313-316. 
 
 , pastures of, 397. 
 
 , payment of subsidies in, 236 
 
 , places named in, 621. 
 
 , settlement of, on Sir Perciva). 
 
 Willoughby, 583. 
 
 , tithes of, 313, 375. 
 
 Scarsdale [In Sutton-cum-Duck- 
 manton, co. Derby], bequest of 
 land in, to Burton abbey, 256. 
 -upon-Trent, near Suthemarneham, 
 CO. Notts, 126, 456. 
 
 , court rolls of, 301, 304. 
 
 , deeds relating to, 626. 
 
 , ministers' accounts, 308, .309, 
 
 315, 316. 
 Sutton, Sutunia : 
 
 Sir Edward, 552. 
 
 Geoffrey the knight of, 11. 
 
 John de, bailiff of Nottingham, 97. 
 
 — ■ — son of Robert de, 96. 
 
 Robert de [Sutton Coldfield], 17. 
 
 [co. Kent], 36. 
 
 Roger de, bailiff of Nottingham, 626. 
 Serlo de, 9. 
 SUvester de, 11, lln. 
 William, bishop of Pavada in par- 
 tibus for diocese of Coventry and 
 Lichfield, 349. 
 Mr., wedding gloves for, 574. 
 Swaby, co. Lincoln. See Suabi. 
 SwallowclifEe, Swalclyf, co. Wilts, manor 
 
 of, 124. 
 Swansea, Swaneseye, Sweynese [co. 
 Glamorgan], 91. 
 court rolls of, 297. 
 Swanwick, co. Derby, deeds relating io, 
 
 624. 
 Swarsdale in Sutton Coldfield, co. War- 
 wick, 167. 
 Swavetorp. See Swaythorpe. 
 Swayfield, co. Lincoln: 
 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 ? Wafeld, minister's account of, 298. 
 Swaythorpe, Swathorp, Swavetorp [in 
 Kilham, co. York : 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 grant of land in, 60. 
 Swebsun, Richard, reward to, 337. 
 Sweets, educational use of, 400. 
 Sweet water, 166. 
 
 Swenfen, Swenfeyn, Swynfayn, Swynfen: 
 Robert, 368. 
 
 • , marriage of, 376. 
 
 — — , payment of expenses of, 361, 
 
 369. 
 , reward to, 366. 
 
725 
 
 Swonten, Robort — coni. 
 
 , shoes for, 347. 
 
 , ■wages of, 371. 
 
 Mr., payment of expenses of, 378. 
 
 , to servants of, 350, 390. 
 
 , to soldier of, 341, 353. 
 
 Sweoperlan [near Stoke Bishop, co. 
 
 Gloucester], 211. 
 Swethman, Peter son of, 59. 
 Sweynese. See Swansea. 
 Sweynese, Sir Philip de, rector of Pen- 
 
 maen, 91. 
 Swffoke, SwfEolk. See Suffolk. 
 Swineshead [co. Lincoln] : 
 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 
 minister's account of, 311. 
 Swinstead, Swynsted [co. Lincoln], 
 
 minister's account of, 298. 
 Swote, Bobert, citizen of Loudon, 92. 
 Swynfayn, Swynfeu. See Swenfen. 
 Swynscow, payment to wife of, 362. 
 Swynsted. See Swinstead. 
 Swtton. See Sutton Coldfield. 
 Sybetorp. See Sibetorp. 
 SybUy. See Sibily. 
 Sye: 
 
 Henry, of WoUaton, husbandman, 
 depositions of, 119. 
 
 John, of Nottingham, yeoman and 
 burgess, depositions of, 120. 
 Sylcok, William, of Derby, offences com- 
 mitted by servant of, 273. 
 Sylyold, Sylyolle. See So,lihull. 
 Symon', Master Alfred de, 53. 
 Symondes, Symons, Raphael, 166. 
 
 wages of, 426. 
 Synonyms treated metrically, 215-216. 
 Syreford : 
 
 Henry de, 58. 
 
 Robert de, 58. 
 Syston, CO. Lincoln. See Sidetun. 
 Syward : 
 
 Nicholas, of Chelmortou, indicted, 
 275, 278. 
 
 , the younger, indicted, 276. 
 
 Tabarie. See Tiberias. 
 
 Taddington, co. Derby, Priestcliffe in, 
 
 274. 
 Taddington, Tadyngton, Tatyngton [co. 
 Derby] : 
 
 Henry son of Ivo de, 273, 274. 
 
 Nicholas son of John do, 276. 
 
 Richard son of Ivo de, 275. 
 Tadley, co. Hants, deeds relating to, 625. 
 Tadyngton. See Taddington. 
 Tailer, TaiUour. See Taylor. 
 Tailors, deceitful manners of, 165. 
 
 Talbot, Talbott, Tawboter* 
 
 [Francis], lord, 551. 
 
 , reward to players of, 436. 
 
 George, 4th earl of Shrewsbury, Lord 
 Steward, 359. 
 
 , , payment to minstrel of, 
 
 328. 
 
 , , supervisor of will of Sir 
 
 Henry Willoughby, 122. 
 
 , 6th earl of Shrewsbury, 153. 
 
 , — — , frantic speeches of, 155. 
 
 , -, quarrels of, with his 
 
 wUe, 152, 153. 
 
 , Elizabeth his wife, ' Bess, 
 
 of Hardwick,' 152, 153, 576. 
 
 , -, . letter from, 161. 
 
 , , , mine hired from, 
 
 497. 
 
 Gilbert, earl of Shrewsbury, High 
 Sheriff of Nottingham, 160. 
 
 Simon, 105, 106. 
 
 , executor of will of William 
 
 Fillol, 104. 
 
 , bequests to, 103, 104. 
 
 William, warden of Wilkswood chan- 
 try, 102«. 
 
 lord, 562. 
 
 Mr., reference to letter to, 579. 
 Talun, Godfrey, 23. 
 
 Tamworth, Tamwrtb, Thameworth, 
 Thamworth, Tomweorthin, Tom- 
 worth; Tome(7) [cos. Stafford and 
 Warwick], 78, 90, 98, 116, 208, 
 335, 344-346, 506. 
 
 bequest of land in, 255. 
 
 bridge of Our Lady at, 386. 
 
 castle, court rolls of, 286. 
 
 ■ , lord of. See Marmion, Philip. 
 
 chapel of St. James at, offering at, 
 366. 
 
 Convent at, bequest to, 257. 
 
 dean of. See Whytney, Sir Baldwin 
 do. 
 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 
 hospital of St. James at, 77, 78. 
 
 payment to carrier of, 408. 
 
 . to ofScers of my lord of, 377. 
 
 to players of, 337. 
 
 to prebender of, 353. 
 
 places named in, 77, 98, 115, 118, 
 359. 
 
 Premonstratensian house at, pro- 
 posed foundation of, 77. 
 
 roads to, 80, 167. 
 
 sessions for musters at, 339. 
 
 soldier of, 344. 
 
 survey of, 294. 
 
 See Thameworth. 
 Tamworth, Dorothy (Willoughby) widow 
 
 o* John, 574. 
 Tankarville : 
 
 ^V'illiam de, the chamberlain, 23, 
 
 , his father, 2-1. 
 
 , William the chamberlain his 
 
 grandfather, 23. 
 Tannesloy, John de, 100. 
 Taplow, Tappelewo [co. Bucks], rental 
 of, 297. 
 
726 
 
 Tarrant [Crawford] abbey, Locus Regine 
 super Taranie [co. Dorset], Maud 
 de Brydone, abbess, and convent 
 of, grant by, 76. 
 seal of abbess of, 76. 
 Tarrant Bushton, Ristune [co. Dorset], 
 St. Leonard's hospital, brdthers of, 
 44. 
 
 , grant to, 44, 44n. 
 
 Tasley, Tasseleye [co. Salop], 277. 
 Taterington [co. Gloucester or Worces- 
 ter?], grant of laud in, 207-208. 
 Tathwell, Tathwyll [co. Leicester], be- 
 quest of land in, to Burton abbey, 
 257. 
 Tatyngton. See Taddington. 
 Taunton [co. Somerset], ministers' ac- 
 counts of castle, borough and 
 libery of, 318. 
 Tauton. See Toton. 
 Taup, Henry son of Hugh, of Ashborne, 
 
 indicted, 274, 278. 
 Taverbam [co. Norfolk], William de, 35, 
 
 35n. 
 Taverner : 
 
 Ralph le, 79. 
 
 Richard le, malefactor, 282. 
 Stephen le, bailiff of Nottingham, 
 97, 626. 
 
 , of Nottingham, indicted, 281, 
 
 282. 
 Taw, river [co. Devon], account of fishery 
 
 on, 291. 
 Tawhote. See Talbot. 
 Tawstock [CO. Devon], minister's account 
 
 of, 291. 
 Tawsyttwr. See Towcester. 
 Tawton, South, Suthtauton, co. Devon, 
 
 manor of, 124. 
 Taykylle. See TickhUl. 
 Taylor, Cissor, Taller, Taillour, Tayler, 
 Taylior, Tayllour, Taylour : 
 George, payments to, 401, 402. 
 John, furniture in bedchamber of, 
 
 479. 
 Richard, 79. 
 Robert son of Robert le, of Castleton 
 
 indicted, 276. 
 Thomas, 167, 433. 
 
 , expenses of, paid, 431, 436, 
 
 44,2, 447. 
 
 , wages of, paid, 439, 449, 542. 
 
 Walter, payment to, 444. 
 William, payment to, 402. 
 Mrs., of Anstey, marriage of, to 
 Edward Stratford, 605. 
 Teddington, Teottingtun, Tredinglun [co. 
 ■Worcester], grants of land in, 201, 
 202. 
 Tedric. See Theodoric. 
 Tcersall. See Teversall. 
 Teeth, payment for trimming, 447. 
 Tegularius. See Tyler. 
 Teigh, Ty [co. Rutland], parson of. See 
 
 Folevill, Richard de. 
 Temes : 
 
 Hugh de, 42. 
 Walter de, 52. 
 
 Temper, William, chamberlain of guild 
 
 of St. Mary of Boston, 136. 
 Temple Bruer, co. Lincoln, deeds relating 
 
 to, 625. 
 Templer, Robert le, 80, 81. 
 Tenbury, Temedebury, co. Worcester, 
 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 Tenche, Randall, of Leeds, dyer and 
 clothier, 499. 
 
 , letter from, 498. 
 
 Teottingtun. See Teddington. 
 Terence.works of, and relating to, bought, 
 
 411, 412, 413. 
 Terry, Joan, legacy to, 83. 
 Teversall, Teersall [co. Notts], 423. 
 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 Tevery, 454. 
 
 Teviotdale, Tividale [Roxburghshire], 
 
 sheriff of. See Douglas, William. 
 
 Tewcke, George, of the household at 
 
 WoUaton, 168. 
 
 CI. Tokke. 
 
 Teynterel, Nicholas, canon of Lichfield, 
 
 indicted, 275. 
 Teynturer, Robert le, 79. 
 Thakar, payment to, 350. 
 Thames, river, chain pump employed on, 
 
 174. 
 Thameworth, Thamworth : 
 
 Geoffrey ad Crucem de, 78. 
 See Tamworth. 
 Thaxsted, Richard of, teacher of vir- 
 ginals, 413. 
 Theadoce. See Willoughby (H H). 
 Thedris, Adam, 15. 
 Theenne. See Thynne. 
 Thegenthorp, bequest of land at, 255. 
 Thelveton, co. Norfolk, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Theobald archbishop of Canterbury, 
 required to confirm grant, 271. 
 See Tiebaut. 
 Theobalds, Tybbals [co. Hertford], letter 
 
 dated at, 598. 
 Theodoric, Tedric ; 
 
 Hugh son of, grant by, 12, 12?i. 
 Margaret wife of Hugh son of, grant 
 
 by, 12. 
 William son of, 21. 
 Theodosius, Margaret daughter of, 212. 
 Theodulus, poems of, 218. 
 Therwyke. See Newton ? 
 Thichehale [Ticknall, co. Derby], Alan 
 
 do, 6. 
 Thitrasche, La Tierasce [Prance, dep. 
 Aisne], mentioned in fabliau, 230. 
 ThikehU. See Tickhill. 
 Thirkleby, co. York. See Turgilisbi. 
 Thomas : 
 
 Hugh son of, de Cozale, grant by, 42. 
 
 , , seal of, 42. 
 
 John son of, de Mamesfeld, 280. 
 Philip son of Thomas son of, 32. 
 Richard son of Robert son of, 32. 
 Ris ap, Rysewpp, Sir, 338. 
 
 , , reward to servant of, 
 
 360. 
 Robert sou of, 82, 52, 53. 
 
727 
 
 Thomas — cont. 
 
 Thomas son of, 82, 52, 53. 
 
 son of Robert son of, 32. 
 
 Thorganby, co. Lincoln. See Turgrimbi. 
 Tborgrimthorp [Thomthorp in Bury- 
 thorp, CO. York], William de, 23. 
 Thorlaston. See Darlaston. 
 Thorlaxton. See ToUerton. 
 Thomthorp in Burythorp, co. York. 
 
 See Tborgrimthorp. 
 Thornys, Hugh, account rendered by, 
 
 307. 
 Thoroton, Thurverton [co. Notts], court 
 
 rolls of, 288, 289. 
 Thorpe : 
 
 [co. Derby], Hanston Grange in, 
 boundaries of, 258. 
 
 , places named in, 258. 
 
 in Kilton, Thorp Kilton [in Brotton, 
 
 CO. York], 222. 
 [in the Glebe, co. Notts], 505. 
 See Algarthorpe. 
 Thorpe, 454. 
 
 R., counsel, 247. 
 Richard, debt owed to, 472. 
 Robert de, 70. 
 Thoutton. See Toton. 
 Thracian bard, Orpheus the, 219. 
 Throgmorton, Progmorton : 
 Sir John, knighted, 528. 
 Sir Robert, 415. 
 
 members of family of, at WoUaton, 
 395. 
 Thrumpton, Thrumpstou, Thurmunston, 
 CO. Notts, 63, 64. 
 court rolls of, 291, 295, 297. 
 Tburbom, John, legacy to, 102. 
 Thurgartou, co. Notts, 179. 
 
 See Turgarton. 
 Thurland, Thurlond, Thwrland : 
 James, 388. 
 Jane (Willoughby) wife of Thomas, 
 
 507. 
 Thomas, 118-120. 
 
 , of Gamstou, will of, 124. 
 
 Mr., payment for children of, 363. 
 
 , rewards to servants of, 339, 
 
 359. 
 Thurland House. See Nottingham. 
 Thurlaston, co. Leicester, deeds relating 
 
 to, 625. 
 Thurlaston [in Dunchurch, co. Warwick] : 
 court rolls of, 295, 304-306, 310- 
 
 312, 315, 317, 321, 322. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 Thurlond. See Thurland. 
 Thurlstone [in Blvaston], co. Derby, 
 
 deeds relating to, 624. 
 Thurmunston. See Thrumpton. 
 Tburstan, Alice daughter of, sale by, and 
 
 marriage of, 55. 
 Thtirverton. See Thoroton. 
 Thuscheyt, Matthew, 45. 
 Thwrland. See Thurland. 
 Thynne, Theenne, Mr., at WoUaton, 462. 
 Tibben. See Dibbene. 
 Tiberias, Tabarie [Judaea], mentioned 
 in fabliau, 231. 
 
 Tibetot, Payn, 85. 
 
 Tioehurst, co. Sussex, Hamerden in, 303, 
 
 307, 309. 
 TickhiU, Taykylle, Thikehil, Tikehil, 
 Tikehul' [co. York], 18, 25, 33. 
 castle, 20. 
 friar of, 336. 
 honour of, 8n, 27. 
 Ticknall, Tycknall, Tykenhall [co. 
 Derby] : 
 bequest of land in, to Burton abbey, 
 
 256. 
 pots from, 440. 
 See ThichehaJe. 
 Tideswell, Tiddeswall, Tyddeswelle, 
 Tydiswell, co. Derby, 273. 
 church of, gift of service-book to, 
 
 110, 111. 
 outlaws received at, 275. 
 vicar of, 110. 
 Tiebaus, a covetous man, character ia 
 
 fabliau, 228. 
 Tiebaut, Count, character in fabliau, 
 
 224. 
 Tierasce. See Thi^rasche. 
 Tietrut, Evrars son of, 229. 
 Tighler. See Tyler. 
 Tikebroc, William de, 22. 
 Tikehil, Tikehul'. -See TickhiU. 
 TUhere, bishop [of Worcester], 203. 
 Tilisbiria, Walter de, 10. 
 TUl,' Hugh de, 18. 
 
 Tilty, Tyltey, eo. Essex, 396-400, 402, 
 404, 409, 410, 414, 519, 520. 
 account of company at, 520, 521. 
 letter dated at, 524. 
 Tin, workers of, 615. 
 Tirle Brook, River Tyrl [co. Gloucester], 
 
 201, 202. 
 Tissington, Tyssyngton [co. Derby], 
 boundaries of, 258. 
 Moor, 258. 
 Titheby [Tythby, co. Notts], Robert son 
 
 of Hugh de, 27. 
 Tividale. See Teviotdale. 
 Tobacco pipe, not made by man, 195. 
 Tochet. See Tuchet. 
 Tokke, Richard, wages of, 371. 
 
 Cf. Tewcke. 
 Tole, James, payment to, for sinking coal 
 pit, 493. 
 Cf. TowUe. 
 ToU. See Towlle. 
 ToUer, Tolr' [co. Dorset] : 
 
 church of St. Andrew, bequest to 
 fabric of, 83. 
 
 , burial in, 83. 
 
 — — , Henry rector of, executor of 
 the will of Robert de Bingham, 84. 
 ToUerton, Thorlaxton, Torlarton [co. 
 Notts], 83, 123. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 Tolr'. See ToUer. 
 Tom, Deaf, Delfc Thorn, of the household 
 
 at WoUaton, 169. 
 Tome. See Tamworth ! 
 Tomlenson, Mr. and Mrs., at WoUaton, 
 462. 
 
728 
 
 Tomlyn, payment to, 493. 
 
 John, payment to, 432. 
 Tomson, William, rat-killer, 391. 
 Tomweorthin, Tomworth. See Tarn- 
 
 worth. 
 Toneworth. See Tunworth. 
 Tonga [co. Salop], bequest of land in, 255. 
 Too, Richard, mention of letter from, 
 
 516. 
 TopclifEe, Topolyfe, Richard, of Somerby, 
 517, 531. 
 
 ■ Jane (Willoughby) his wife, 
 
 530, 531. 
 Toreaz, Geoffrey, 19n. 
 Torhtwald the earl, 200. 
 Torlarton. See ToUerton. 
 Torlarton : 
 
 Robert, servant of Lord Lisle, 119. 
 Roger son of Robert, 119. 
 Tornay, Nichola de, wife of Robert de 
 
 Bingham, tomb of, 83. 
 Torp, Walter son of Walter de, 60. 
 Tors, Lambert li, Alexander, romance of, 
 
 225-226. 
 Tothale, Brother William de, prior of the 
 hospital of St. John of Jerusalem 
 in England, grant by, 86. 
 Toton, Tauton, Thoueton, Thoutton, 
 Toueton, Toveton, Towton [parish 
 of Attenborough, co. Notts], 118, 
 119, 120, 326. 
 court rolls of, 285, 287, 288, 292, 
 
 293. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 ministers' accounts of, 296, 308. 
 Toueton, Richard de, of Nottingham, 97. 
 Toulouse, king of. See Hunald. 
 Tourgys, Simon, 87. 
 Tournai, Tournay, Domick [Hainault], 
 cloth from, dornix, 475, 478. 
 silk made at, 403rj. 
 Towcester, Tawsyttwr [co. Northants], 
 
 354. 
 TowUe, ToU, Towle, payments to, 424, 
 431, 438, 451. 
 pilgrimage of, to Garendon, 384. 
 Cf. Tole. 
 Towneshend, Townesend, Towuysende : 
 WUliam, bond of, to William 
 
 Auberey, 147. 
 Mr., 461. 
 payment to, 362. 
 Towton. See Toton. 
 Trawelyon. See Trewelyon. 
 Tredingtun. See Teddington. 
 Trenchard : 
 
 Henry, feoffee for execution of will, 
 
 313. 
 John, esquire, will of, 124. 
 Thomas, knight, manorial records of, 
 312, 313. 
 Trencheloill, John, bequest to, 104. 
 Trent, river: 
 
 bridges, weirs, etc., on, IGU. 
 buck carried out of, 389. 
 coal carried by, 171. 
 coutmually in full stream, 183. 
 navigation of, 171, 530. 
 
 Treppes, Mr., of OlulweU, 418. 
 Trewelyon, Trawelyon, Mr., rewards to 
 
 servants of, 346, 357, 361. 
 Trikyngham, Theobald de, grant of for- 
 feited lands of, 72. 
 Trotman, Abigail (Stratford) wife of Mr., 
 
 of Warwickshire, 605. 
 Trowbridge [co. Wilts], school at, 609. 
 TroweU [co. Notts], 45n. 
 
 chartulary of lands in, 197. 
 coal-mine at, 173. 
 
 , account of, 323. 
 
 — — , demise of, 100. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 grant of mill in, 13. 
 — — , confirmed, 14. 
 secured to Sir Percival Willoughby, 
 571, 573, 581, 583. 
 TroweU, Trowall : 
 
 Geoffrey de, 45n. 
 
 Maud daughter of Geoffrey de, sale 
 
 to, 45. 
 Nicholas son of William de, grant 
 
 by, 13, 13n, 14. 
 Roger son of Geoffrey de, 45n. 
 Trowtbek, William, esquire of queen 
 Katherine, constable of Rhuddlan 
 castle, 110. 
 Trubelvill', William de, 70. 
 Truman, John, of Stoke, disclaimer of 
 
 arms of, 179. 
 Trumipeter, payment to, 555. 
 Trusley [co. Derby], Coke of, 610. 
 Trussebut, William, knight, enfeoffed of 
 
 manor, 280. 
 Trussell : 
 
 Henry, abstracts of letters from, 551, 
 
 553. 
 John, 396. 
 
 , accounts rendered by, 315, 
 
 316, 388, 396. 
 [John], bailiff at Wollaton, 524. 
 
 , goods appraised by, 474. 
 
 Mrs., gift of chicken by, 420. 
 proposed exchange of land by, 515. 
 Trybald : 
 
 Henry, heir of, a miuor, 109, 114. 
 WUliam, 110, 114. 
 Tu, Thomas, rector of Wollaton, 115. 
 Tuchet, Tochet: 
 
 Edm.und, parson of Mackworth, 
 
 maintainer of outlaws, 277, 278. 
 
 EUzabeth daughter of John, lord 
 
 Audley, marriage of, 115. 
 John, lord Audley, 356. 
 
 , . abstract of letter from, 
 
 514. 
 Mary wife of John, lord Audley, 401. 
 Robert, lord of Markoaton, main- 
 tainer of outlaws, 277, 278. 
 Thomas, 100. 
 Tuddul, witness, 200. 
 Tumby, John de, mayor of Nottingham, 
 
 97, 626. 
 Tunworth, Toneworth [co. Hants], court 
 
 rolls of, 286. 
 Turgarton [Thurgarton, co. Notts], Man- 
 fred de, 6. 
 
729 
 
 TurgUisbi, Turgelisbi [Thirkleby, co. 
 York]: 
 Gerard de, 61. 
 Walter de, grant to, 60, 60n. 
 Turgisius, Thomas son of, 43. 
 Turgrimbi [Thorganby, co. Lincoln] : . 
 Matthew de, 32. 
 
 Thomas brother of Matthew de, 32. 
 Turk, Richard de, prior of the knights 
 
 hospitallers in England, 37n. 
 Turkety, Master Kichard, demise by, 77. 
 Turkey, emperor of, his title not uni- 
 versal, 190. 
 Turkey, Twrky, carpets, 489, 490. 
 
 stools, 486, 488, 489. 
 Turkish wars, work of Scanderbege on, 
 
 422, 422m. 
 Turks, the, prophecy of prosperity of, 
 
 264. 
 Turnor : 
 
 Henry, 167. 
 John, 167. 
 
 William, waiter at Wollaton, 168. 
 Turonia, Gilbert de, 32. 
 Turvyle, Turvill, Philip de, canon of 
 Lichfield, receiver of outlaws, 275, 
 277. 
 Turpen, Thomas, of Cotgrave, payment 
 
 • to, 427. 
 Turpin, Sir George, sheriff of Warwick 
 
 and Leicester, knighted, 528. 
 Tutbury, Brother Bernard, monk oi 
 
 Bxirton, 251, 252. 
 Tutsainz, William, 58. 
 Tuxford, Tuxforth [co. Notts], 446. 
 Twenge, Robert de, 70. 
 Twrky. See Turkey. 
 Twrlay, Twrnlay : 
 
 Elys, payments to, 342. 
 
 , soldiers brought by, 341, 344. 
 
 Twyford, John de, keeper of the peace 
 and justice of oyer and terminer 
 in CO. Derby, proceedings before, 
 272-282. 
 TwyttcheU, payment to, 441. 
 Ty. See Teigh. 
 Tybbals. See Theobalds. 
 Tycknall. See Ticknall. 
 TyddesweU, TydisweU. See Tideswell. 
 Tye, C, metrical translator of Acts of 
 
 the Apostles, 412n. 
 Tykenhall. See Ticknall. 
 Tyler, TegvXarius, Tighler: 
 
 Cecily wife of Hugh le, 96. 
 Hugh le, of Lincoln, grant by, 96, 
 97. 
 
 the, 14. 
 
 Richard, payment of expenses of, 
 
 365. 
 Roger, payment to, for tiles, 442. 
 Tyltey. See Tilty. 
 Tyre, siege of, 225-226. 
 Tyrer, Tyror, John : 
 
 account rendered by, 320. 
 letter from, 494-495. 
 payment to, 445. 
 Tyrl. See Tirle. 
 Tyror. See Tjter, 
 
 Tysoe, Tyshou [co. Warwick], court rolls 
 
 of, 306. 
 Tyssyngton. See Tissington. 
 Tyssyngton, John de, death of, 273. 
 Tyste, Walter, death of, 273. 
 Tythby, Tytheby [co. Notts], court rolls 
 
 of, 288. 
 See Titheby. 
 
 u 
 
 Udall, Nicholas, work ascribed to, 413. 
 XJeligheham [Wellingham, co. Norfolk], 
 
 , David de, 35. 
 TJeseham. See Weseham. 
 TJHeton [TJfton Fields in South Wingfield, 
 
 CO. Derby], Adam de, 25, 25n. 
 Ufton Underwood [in Ashborne], co. 
 
 Derby, deeds relating to, 624. 
 TJghtred, Alexander son of de, Hemdes- 
 
 hill, grant to, 42. 
 Ulecotes, Philip de, 28n. 
 Ulf : 
 
 ^ Adam son of, 20, 26. 
 Bartholomew son of, of Nottingham, 
 
 grant to, 19, 20, 20n. 
 witness, 13. 
 TTUenhall in Wooton Wawen, co. War- 
 wick. See Hulejiale. 
 DUoghby. See WUloughby. 
 Ulvestorp, Hulvestorp, Uulvcstorp 
 [Woolsthorpe in Lowdham, co. 
 Notts] : 
 Hugh de, 55. 
 
 Roger son of Robert de, 39. 
 William de, 39. 
 
 brother of Hugh de, 55. 
 
 Underne : 
 
 William, rector of Wollaton, infor- 
 mation, etc., concerning gaming 
 and other offences of, 150-152. 
 Mrs., chair for, 437. 
 
 , payment to, 440. 
 
 , to servant of, 442. 
 
 Under-sheriffs, rigorous action against, 
 
 158. 
 United Provinces, pamphlet written to 
 
 warn, 192. 
 Uphtunie, Philip, 8. 
 Up John, Uppejohn. See John. 
 Upton : 
 
 Richard de, 04. 
 Roger de, 38. 
 Upton Grey, Optou [co. Hants], court 
 
 rolls of, 286. 
 Upwymbourn. See Monkton-up-Wim- 
 
 borne. 
 Ursinus, Francis, cardinal deacon of the 
 
 church of St. George, 139. 
 Urticis, Ralph de, 32. 
 
730 
 
 TTston : 
 
 Nicholas de, receiver of outlaws, 274. 
 Walter servant of Walter de, indicted 
 
 for robbery, 274. 
 William de, indicted, 274, 281. 
 
 , taker of royal prises without 
 
 warrant, 279. 
 
 son of John de, indicted for 
 
 robbery, 280. 
 
 son of Roger de, indicted for 
 
 robbery, 274, 281. 
 TJuelingeham. See Wellingham. 
 Uulvestorp. See Ulvestorp. 
 Uxbridge [co. Middlesex], 432, 
 
 Vagge, Robert, of Smeeth, yeoman, 
 action brought against, 283. 
 Cf. Wagge. 
 Vaisy, Dr., payment to, 328. 
 
 Cf. Vescy, Veysey. 
 Valeie, William de la, 25. 
 Valence, Thomas, of Lincoln's Inn, lease 
 
 to, 322. 
 Valence sugar, 422. 
 
 Valenciennes, Valencicnes [Prance, dep. 
 Nord], mentioned in fabliau, 230, 
 381, 442, 451. 
 Valentines, payments for, 353, 365, 376, 
 
 381, 442, 451. 
 Valla, Lorenzo, De eleganiia lingucB 
 
 Latinoe of, 413, 413n. 
 Valoiniis, Valunniis : 
 Geoffrey de, 2. 
 Werresius de, 39. 
 Vane, Captain George, charge of, 193. 
 Van Otten, Mr. Feames, teacher of Music, 
 
 Physic and Surgery, 609, 610. 
 Varneham, at Tiltey, 399. 
 Vaughan. See Vohone. 
 Vans : 
 
 John de, friend and ally of Edward 
 
 [I.], the king's son, 68. 
 Robert des, executor of the will of 
 Henry de Grey, 86. 
 
 , , bequest to, 85. 
 
 Vavaser, Mr., at Wollaton, 462. 
 
 Vavassor, Vavasur, Robert le, 56, 58. 
 
 Veel, Robert, of Dorset, 110. 
 
 Veer. See Vere. 
 
 Vegetius, Vegosias, book of, bought, 422. 
 
 Veiron, Ralph, 28, 29. 
 
 Venator. See Hunter. 
 
 Venddme, Matthew of, poem assigned 
 
 to, 216. 
 Venella. See Lane. 
 Veni Creator Spiritus sung at election of 
 
 abbot, 252. 
 Venia, Philip de, merchant of Florence, 
 261. 
 
 Venice, policy of, doubtful, 260. 
 
 Venice Spanish silk, 400. 
 Venour. See Hunter. 
 Verdenel, Adam, 43. 
 Verdon, Sir Henry, accompanies Henry 
 
 VII. into France, 267. 
 Vere, Veer : 
 
 John de, earl of Oxford, players of, 
 
 521. 
 Roger de, prior of the hospital of 
 St. John of Jerusalem in England , 
 37«, 74. 
 
 , , seal of, 74. 
 
 Verjuice, 330, 374, 380, 459. 
 Verli, Robert de, 35. 
 Vern, the, Peren, Perne, La Feme [in 
 Bodenham, co. Hereford] : 
 court rolls of, 287. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 inventory of cattle at, 466. 
 manor of, 506. 
 
 ministers' accounts of, 285-287, 
 307-309. 
 Vernon, Richard, knight, intrigues of, 
 at election of abbot of Burton, 
 248-249. 
 Vernun, Gilbert, 60. 
 
 Verwood, Fayrewood [co. Dorset], minis- 
 ters' accounts of, 296, 298, 
 299, 301, 307. 
 7 Bearewood, court roUs, etc., of, 320. 
 Vescy, Vesci, Vessy : 
 Warin de, 2, 2n. 
 William de, 2, 2n, 4. 
 
 , justice in eyre for pleas of 
 
 the forest, 242, 243, 245, 246. 
 
 , justice of the forest north of 
 
 Trent, 244. 
 Cf. Vaisy, Veysey. 
 Vestments. See Church goods. 
 Veysey, Simon, warden of Suttou Cold- 
 field, 167. 
 Cf- A'aisy, Vescy. 
 Vicars, Brother Thomas, of the Carmelite 
 
 order, 128. 
 Vice-chamberlaiue, Mr., 157. 
 Vildebef. -See WeUebef. 
 ViUa Hermosa, Duke of, president of the 
 
 council of Aragon, 187, 188. 
 ViUe Dieu, Alexander de, Doctrinale of, 
 
 214. 
 Villers, Vylers : 
 Hugh de, 79. 
 
 Robert son of Matthew de, indicted, 
 277. 
 Villughby. See WiUoughby. 
 Vincent, Vynsent, Sir, payment to, for 
 
 prayers, 473. 
 Vinesauf, Geoffrey de, poem assigned to, 
 
 216. 
 Virgin Jlary, pilgrimage to tomb of, 140. 
 Visitation of co. Nottingham, 178-179. 
 Vives, J. L., Exercitatio Lingum Latince, 
 
 41 In. 
 Vohone [Vaughan ?], Richard, in the 
 
 kitchen at Wollaton, 169. 
 Vylers. See Villers. 
 Vynsent. S»e Vincent. 
 
731 
 
 W 
 
 W. ; 
 
 Henry son of, 35. 
 Hubert brother of Henry son of, 35. 
 Wacelin, Waeelyn. : 
 Ralph, 23. 
 Robert, 32. 
 Thomas, 59. 
 Walter, 59. 
 William, 59. 
 Wadden, bequest of, to Burton abbey, 
 
 256. 
 Waddon. See Whatton. 
 
 See Whatton. 
 Wadewrth [Wadworth, co. York], Robert 
 
 de, 11. 
 Wadington, Wuldingdune, William de, 
 Manuel des PecUi's of, 220-221. 
 Wadley [in Faringdon, co. Berks], letter 
 
 dated at, 588. 
 Wadworth, co. York. See Wadewrth. 
 Wafeld. See Swayfield ! 
 Wagge, George, depositions of, 163. 
 
 Cf. Vagge. 
 Waite, Henry le, 62. 
 Wal, Alan son of Robert del, grant to, 
 
 55, 56. 
 Walcourt, Walecort [in Flemish Hain- 
 
 ault], 229. 
 Walden. See Saffron Walden. 
 Waldeshilf [Waldershelf in Bradfield, co. 
 
 York], Robert de, 19. 
 Walecort. See Walcourt. 
 Waleis, Walensis. See Waleys. 
 Waleis. See Waleys. 
 Walerand, WaUeraund, Walrand, Wal- 
 rond : 
 Humphrey, executor of will, 150. 
 ^Robert, 71, 72. 
 
 , friend and ally of Edward [I.], 
 
 the king's son, 68. 
 Wales, Walse, 338, 365, 378. 
 Waleys, Waleis, Walensis, Walssh : 
 Nicholas, 36. 
 Ralph, legacies to, 104. 
 Robert, 21, 22. 
 Roger le, marriage of, 97. 
 William le, 48. 
 
 , grant of forfeited lands of, 72. 
 
 Cf. Wallys, Wealch, Welsh. 
 Walhampton, Wolhampton, co. Hants, 
 
 manor of, 124. 
 Walkelin : 
 
 Heni-y son of, 6. 
 John son of, 26. 
 Walker : 
 
 Ralph, depositions taken before, 259. 
 William, account of, 329. 
 
 , wages of, 371. 
 
 Mr., at Wollaton, 462. 
 
 Walkingham, John de, 52. 
 Walkingstead, parish of Qodstone, oo. 
 
 Surrey, deeds relating to, 627. 
 Wallay Park. See Wooley. 
 WaUeraund. See Walerand. 
 Walley, Thomas, ward of, 122. 
 Walling wells, Wallinge Wells [in Carl- 
 ton-in-Lindrick, co. Notts], 186, 
 186n. 
 Walo. See Galo. 
 WaUop, CO. Hants, manor of, 124. 
 Wallys : 
 
 Anne daughter of WiUiam, marriage 
 
 of, 130. 
 William, of Ledbury, 130. 
 Cf. Waleys. 
 Walrand. See Walerand. 
 Walrend Trencharde, Isle of Wight, 
 
 manor of, 124. 
 Walrond. See Walerand. 
 Walsall, Walshall, Wolsoll, Wossall [co. 
 Stafford], 369, 376, 494, 496. 
 bequest of land at, 255. 
 coals delivered at, 495. 
 court at, 368. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 letters brought from, 367. 
 Walse. See Wales. 
 Walshall. See Walsall. 
 Walshelond, minister's account of, 289. 
 Walsingham, Walshyngham [co. Nor- 
 folk], charter dated at, 245. 
 offering at Our Lady of, 367. 
 Walsingham : 
 
 Sir Francis, lady Willoughby's case 
 
 heard by, 551, 552. 
 Sir Thomas, letter from, 162. 
 Walsoken, Walsokyn, co. Norfolk, master 
 of the chapel and hospital of Holy 
 Trinity at. See Honyter, Thomas , 
 Walssh. See Waleys. 
 Walter : 
 
 Amabilis wife of Robert son of, 
 
 grant by, 8, 9. 
 Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury, 
 
 the chancellor, 36. 
 Robert son of, grant by, 8, 0. 
 Walter son of, de Torp, 60. 
 Brother, monk of Burton, 249. 
 Walton, CO. Derby, 277. 
 grant of rent in, 87. 
 See Warton ? 
 Walton, Brother John, monk of Burton, 
 
 250-252. 
 Waltones, inventory of cattle in manor 
 
 - of, 466. 
 Wambrook, Wambroke [co. Dorset] : 
 court rolls of, 288, 296, 303, 309-313, 
 
 316, 318-320. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 ministers' accounts of, 297-299, 306, 
 
 307, 314, 319, 320. 
 rental of, 320. 
 Wandesley [in Annesley, co. Notts], 
 Wandeleia, Wandeslee, Wandes- 
 lega, Wandesleia, Wandesleyo : 
 Ralph de, 33, 34. 
 Randolph de, 18, 40. 
 
732 
 
 Wandesley — conf. 
 
 Eauulpli de, 83. 
 
 Roger de, indicted, 273. 
 
 , robbed, 272. 
 
 Wantyng', William de, appeal of, delivery 
 
 of record of, 93. 
 Wapplode, John, 213. 
 Ward, refusal of, to give evidence for 
 
 less than forty shillings, 515. 
 Warda, WiUiam de, 9. 
 Warde : 
 
 Brother Nicholas, monk of Burton, 
 proceedings of, at election of 
 abbot, 249-252. 
 
 , , proctor to present the 
 
 abbot elect to the bishop, 252. 
 William de la, the younger, indicted, 
 277. 
 
 entertained at breakfast, with 
 
 his company, 394. 
 Wards, court of, 620. 
 Ware and Ware Park [co. Herts], sale of, 
 
 by lord Huntingdon, 587. 
 Wareham, co. Dorset, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Warenbaus, character in fabliau, 229. 
 Warenbers, character in fabliau, 229. 
 Warcnne : 
 
 Hamelin de, earl of Ware^ine, 
 
 William his son, 35. 
 John de, earl of Surrey, 72. 
 
 , earl of Wareune, friend and 
 
 ally of Edward [I.], the king's 
 son, 68. 
 
 — — , ■ , seal of, 69. 
 
 Waringe, Mr., scholar, payment to, 
 
 433. 
 Warmon, William, of Tamworth, 78. 
 Warmwell [co. Dorset], John de, 93. 
 
 Warner, B. 213. 
 
 Warrewyk. .See Warwick. 
 Warryner : 
 
 John, the warrener, expenses of, 
 paid, 434. 
 
 , wages of, paid, 440, 449, 
 
 542. 
 Warsop [co. Notts], customs of manor 
 
 of, 247. 
 Warter, co. York, fee of. In. 
 
 See Wartria. 
 Warton, Waverton [co. Warwick] ? Wal- 
 ton, grant of manor of, to Poles- 
 worth abbey, 270. 
 survey of, 294. 
 Wartria [Warter, co. York], Walter de, 
 
 61. 
 Warwick, Warrewyk, Warwik, Werweke, 
 Werwyke [co. Warwick], 339, 342, 
 353, 415, 528. 
 book published at, 609. 
 castle, letters of the signet dated 
 
 at, 127. 
 church of St. Mary, lOn. 
 payment to friars of, 346, 364. 
 
 to waits of, 346. 
 
 prison at, 601. 
 
 sessions of the peace at, 132, 
 133. 
 
 Warwick, county of : 
 lieutenant of, 618. 
 lists of able-bodied men, etc., in, 
 
 283. 
 musters in, 156. 
 
 sheriff of. iSee Turpin, Sir George ; 
 WUloughby (JJ). 
 Warwick : 
 
 countess of. See Bello Campo, Isabel 
 de ; Dudley, Anne ; Newburgh, 
 Alice de. 
 earl of. See Dudley, Ambrose 
 Newburgh, Walerande, William 
 de ; Plessetis, John de. 
 Guy earl of, not fit subject for a 
 homily, 238. 
 Washboume, Wassaburnau, Wasseburne 
 [CO. Gloucester], grants of land 
 at, 201, 202. 
 places named in, 202. 
 Washington : 
 
 Dorothy (Pargiter) wife of Sir John, 
 
 of Northants, 605. 
 Mr., of Wiltshire, marriage of his 
 widow to Sir William Pargiter, 
 607. 
 Wasnasch, Joan, debt owed to, 472. 
 Wassaburnan, Wasseburne. See Wash- 
 bourne. 
 Wasshebourne, Capt. William, petition 
 
 of, 170-171. 
 Wastneis, the physician, payment to, 451. 
 Watenowe. See Wattenhou. 
 Water : 
 
 strawberry, 366. 
 sweet, 166. 
 Water-works, models of, 175. 
 Watnall in Groasley, co. Notts. See 
 
 Wattenhou. 
 Watson : 
 
 John, reward to, 344. 
 expenses of, paid, 427. 
 Watt, Francis, 496. 
 
 Wattenhou, Watenowe [Watnall, in 
 Greasley, co. Notts] : 
 John de, licence to, to alienate, 89. 
 Simon de, 42. 
 Watton, Wattun priory [co. York], 
 grants to, 1, 22, 59, 63. 
 
 , confirmed, 3. 
 
 Watton, Stephen de, 77. 
 
 Cf. Whatton. 
 Waverton. See Warton. 
 Wdburc. See Woodborough. 
 Wdehus. See Annesley Woodhouse J 
 Wealch, John, account rendered by, 322. 
 
 Cf. Waleys, Welsh. 
 Woarmouth [co. Durham], abbot of. See 
 
 Oeolfred. 
 Weasenham, Weseham [co. Norfolk] : 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 grant of land in, 49, 50. 
 places named in, 50. 
 See Weseham. 
 Webster, Webbe, Webbestar, Webstar : 
 Richard le, indicted, 275. 
 William, chaplain. Sir William, 
 glasses bought for, 366. 
 
733 
 
 Webster, Wllllani — cont. 
 
 , payments to, 313, 347, 370. 
 
 , sugar bought by, 385. 
 
 Weddoson. See Widdowson. 
 Wedon. See Weedon. 
 Wedoson, Wedowsuu. See Widdowson. 
 Weedon, Wedon [co. Northampton], 354. 
 Weeford, co. Stafford, 115«. 
 Welbeck, Wellebec abbey [co. Notts}, 
 abbot of, proceedings upon plea 
 of Quo Warranto against, 246. 
 Richard abbot of, 46, 46n. 
 Welberca, Adam de, 9. 
 Welburne, coroner of co. Chester, reward 
 
 to, 368. 
 Weldeboef. See Wellebef. 
 Weldon [co. Northampton], arms of 
 
 Basset of, 237, 238. 
 Welesburnan. See Wellesbourne Hastings. 
 Welford, Welforthe [co. Northampton], 
 
 430, 447. 
 Welingham. See Wellingham. 
 Well', Master Walter de, 53. 
 Wella : 
 
 Andrew de, 19. 
 GUbert de, 19. 
 Cf. Welle. 
 Welldon, Sir Anthony, 184n. 
 Welle, Eustace de la, 58. 
 
 Cf. Wella. 
 Wellebec. See Welbeck. 
 Wellebef, OU de Buef, VUdebef, Welde- 
 boef, Wellebuef, Wildebef : 
 Geoffrey de, 64. 
 
 le, of Chilwell, 63. 
 
 Godfrey son of Henry, grant con- 
 firmed by, 34. 
 Henry de, 33n, 34, 34n. 
 Oliver de, 33n. 
 Ralph de, 33, 33n, 34. 
 Welles : 
 
 Edward, debt owed to, 472. 
 Thomas, depositions taken before, 
 259. 
 Wellesbourne Hastings, Welesburnan [co. 
 Warwick], the king of Mercia at, 
 208. 
 Welley Hay, in Sherwood, co. Notts, 
 
 boundaries of, 241. ' 
 Wellhaw. See WeUow. 
 WeUigovere. See Wellingore. 
 Wellingham, XJuelingeham, Welingham 
 [CO. Norfolk], 49. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 grant of land in, 34, 35. 
 See Uelingham. 
 Wellingore, WeUigovere, WeUyngovere 
 [co. Lincoln] : 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 minister's account of, 289. 
 Wellom, Adam de, rector of Wollaton, 
 
 98. 
 Wellow, Wellhaw, co. Notts, 179. 
 WeUs [CO. Somerset], bishop of. See Bath. 
 
 Simon archdeacon of, 51. 
 Weloghby. See WUloughby. 
 Welsh, Mrs., wife of Robert Stratford, 
 605. 
 
 Welsh priest, reward to, 337. 
 Wenlook, Much, Wonlocbia [co. Salop]: 
 abbey of, wall of, 50. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 grant of land in, 50, 50n. 
 Wenloke,Thomas,vicar of Kingsbury,131. 
 Wenyngton : 
 
 Christopher, bequest to, 115. 
 Isabel mother of Joan wife of Ralph, 
 
 115. 
 Joan wife of Ralph, executrix of bis 
 
 will, 115. 
 Ralph, will of, 115. 
 Werdesford [Woodsford, co. Dorset], 
 
 Theodoric de, 12n, 54. 
 Wermewelle, Robert de, 611. 
 Wernbeorht, Werenberht, bishop [of 
 
 Leicester], 205. 
 Werthe. See Worth Matravers. 
 Werweke, Werwyke. See Warwick. 
 Weseham. See Weasenham. 
 Weseham, Ueseham [Weasenham, co. 
 Norfolk] : 
 Roger son of Alan de, 35. 
 
 son of Ascilia de, 50. 
 
 Wesehamtorpe [Weasenham, co. Norfolk], 
 Adam son of Alan de, grant by, 
 49, 50. 
 Westaforde Knyghtetone. See Knighton, 
 
 West. 
 Westan stoce [near Stoke Bishop, co. 
 
 Gloucester], 210. 
 Westchekerell, WestchykereU. See 
 
 ChickereU, West. 
 Westcot, Edmund, delivery of ordnance 
 
 to, 130. 
 Weste, William, of Wollaton, 151. 
 Westeres. See Westreys. 
 Westhalam, Westhalom. See Hallam, 
 
 West. 
 Westhwerst. See Ewhurst, West. 
 Westhythe. See Hythe. 
 Westminster, Westmynster : 
 
 documents dated at, 72, 91, 334, 355. 
 
 fine levied at, 76. 
 
 Henry VIII. at, 328. 
 
 manor of St. James, document dated 
 
 at, 618. 
 parliament at, 131. 
 school, master of. See Friend, Robert. 
 Westminster, Thomas of, monk, 8. 
 Westmoreland, wardens of the Scottish 
 marches in. See Berkeley, Thomas 
 de ; Lucy, Anthony de. 
 Westmynster. See Westminster. 
 Weston, Westonne [co. Bucks], rental of 
 
 land in, 297. 
 Weston-on- Trent, Weston [co. Derby], be- 
 quest of land in, to Burton abbey, 
 257. 
 Weston, Thomas son of Leticia de, in- 
 dicted, 274. 
 Westreys, Westeres, Westrin : 
 Robert le, sale by, 45. 
 
 , seal of, 46. 
 
 William son of Robert le, 45, 45n. 
 
 , grant confirmed by, 46. 
 
 , seal of, 46. 
 
734 
 
 Wethens, Robert, wages of, 371. 
 Wetherby, William, called Derby, notary 
 of diocese of Coventry and Lich- 
 field, 251. 
 WhaHey, Stanlow abbey [co. Lancaster], 
 
 foundation of, lOji. 
 WbaUey, Mr., land sold to, 398. 
 Wbartoh, Dorothy (Willoughby) lady, 
 583, 583n, 584. See also Willough- 
 by (X). 
 Whateley, in Kingsbury, co. Warwick, 
 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 Whatton, Long, Waddou [co. Leicester], 
 bequest of land in, to Burton 
 abbey, 257. 
 Wliatton, William de, tailor, beaten, 282. 
 
 Cf. Watton. 
 Wheatley, North, co. Notts, 179. 
 Wheeler. See Qwelar. 
 Wheelwright [roiarius) : 
 
 Gonnilda wife of Roger the, of Bot- 
 
 lisford, 77. 
 Roger the, of Botlisford, demise to, 
 
 77. 
 Thomas, wages of, 450. 
 Whilebi. See WUloughby-on-the-Wolds. 
 Whiston, Wyteston [in Penkridge, co. 
 Stafford], bequest of, to Burton 
 abbey, 256. 
 Whitacre, co. Warwick, deeds relating 
 to, 627. 
 Interior [co. Warwick], court rolls 
 
 of, 312. 
 See Witacra. 
 Whitchurch, Whitechurch, Whytchirche 
 [CO. Dorset], court roHs of, 320. 
 ministers' accounts of, 296, 306. 
 White, Albus, Whyte : 
 
 Basilia daughter of Simon the, of 
 
 Lynne, grant by, 59. 
 Charles, ofSturton, disclaimer of 
 
 arms of, 179. 
 Edward, letter of fraternity for, 125. 
 William, 110, 114. 
 
 , son of Walter Berte, 58. 
 
 Whitechurch. See Whitchurch. 
 Whitefeld, Sir William de, knight, 93. 
 Whithe Honne, Henry, of Nottingham, 
 
 beaten to death, 282. 
 Whitnash, Whitnasshe, Wittenasshe [co. 
 Warwick], 122. 
 court rolls of, 313. 
 manor of, 506. 
 Whitwell, Whytwyke [co. Derby], be- 
 quest of land at, 255. 
 Whorlton-in-Craven castle [co. York], 
 
 60«. 
 Whytchirche. See Whitchurch. 
 Whyte. See White. 
 Whytmore, Mr., 428. 
 Whytney : 
 
 Sir Baldwin de, dean of Tamworth, 
 
 465. 
 little, servant to carry, 519. 
 Mistress, payment to, 402. 
 Whytwyke. See Whitwell. 
 Wibtoft [in Claybrooke, co. Warwick], 
 bequest of land in, 256. 
 
 Wicga, minister, 209. 
 
 Wichnor, co. Stafford, 389, 507. 
 
 Wick, CO. Worcester, deeds relating to, 
 
 627. 
 Wicken. See Wyken. 
 Wicomb. See Wycombe. 
 Wicsah. See Witsah. 
 Widdowson, Weddoson, Wedoson, 
 Wedowsun, Widdoson, Wyddoson, 
 Wydowson : 
 Bartholomew, 399, 421, 432, 437, 
 440, 447. 
 
 , defamation of lady WiUough- 
 
 by by, 533. 
 
 , expenses of, paid, 426, 431, 
 
 441. 
 beer taken at house of, 347. 
 Wido, Master, 8. 
 Widow : 
 
 AscOia the, 50. 
 Moke the, 64. 
 Widmerpool, John de, 97. 
 Wiesendanger {Ceporinus, Ceporivs), 
 James, Compendium Grammaiicoe 
 GrcBccB by, 414«. 
 Wiggington, in Tamworth, co, Stafford, 
 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 Wigston, Little, Wygeston [in Clay- 
 brooke, CO. Leicester], bequest of 
 land in, to Burton abbey, 256, 257. 
 Wigtoft, Wygtoft [co. Lincoln] : 
 chartulary of lands in, 196. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 ministers' accounts of, 296, 307, 308, 
 311. 
 Wikin. See Wyken. 
 Wilberfoss, Wilberfosse [co. Tork] : 
 grant of land in, 42. 
 priory, Laurence brother of, 43. 
 
 , release by Christiana, prioress, 
 
 and the convent of, 42. 
 
 , seal of the prioress of, 43. 
 
 Wilbi. See Willoughby. 
 Wilchuswede. See Wilkswood. 
 Wildebef. See Wellebef. 
 Wileby. See Willoughby-on-the-Wolds. 
 Wiltord, CO. Notts : 
 ferry at, 429. 
 manor of, 123. 
 Wilford, Wileford, Willeford : 
 Osbert de, 26. 
 Thomas de, 62. 
 Mr., of Rye, 157. 
 Wilgebi, Wilghebi, Wilgheby, Wilhebi. 
 See Willoughby. Willoughby-on- 
 the-Wolds. 
 Wilileia [Willey, co. Salop], Warner do, 
 
 61. 
 Wilkswood, Wilchuswede, Wylcheswod 
 [in Langton Matravers, co. Dorset]: 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 free chapel or priory of St. Leonard, 
 102. 
 
 , grant to, 30. 
 
 , transcripts of grants, etc., to, 
 
 283. 
 Will, payment for probate of, 473. 
 See also Wills. 
 
735 
 
 Wlllam. See WiUiam. 
 WiUaton. See WoUaton. 
 Willeford. See Wilford. 
 WiUey. See Wilileia. 
 William, Willam : 
 
 Aucher son of, son of Prone de 
 
 Boneye, grant by, 59. 
 Geoffrey son of, 64. 
 German son of, 40. 
 Henry son of, de Wodeburgh, eman- 
 cipated, 93, 94. 
 Hugh son of, 59. 
 Peter son of, de Derbia, 45. 
 Richard, bequests to, 102, 103. 
 
 sou of, de Birtun, 38, 38n. 
 
 Robert son of, 52. 
 Roger, bequest to, 103. 
 Thomas son of, 29. 
 William son of, bequest to, 85. 
 
 , parson of Leuton, grant by, 
 
 70. 
 Williamson, Luke, of Rolleston, dis- 
 claimer of arms of, 179. 
 WUlmecote. See Wilnecote. 
 WUlmott, Colonel, charge of, 193. 
 Willoughby, UUoghby, Villughby, Wel- 
 oghby, Wilbi, Wilghobi, Wil- 
 heby, Willeby, Willoughbe, Wil- 
 loughbie, WUloughbye, Willowgh- 
 by, WUlughbey, Willughby, 
 Willybe, WUobi, Wiloby, Wil- 
 ughby, Wilwebi, Wyleby, Wyl- 
 geby, Wylgheby, Wyllobe, Wyl- 
 loghby, WyUoughby, WyUough- 
 bye, Wyllowghby, WyUughby, 
 Wylooghby, Wyluby, Wylughbye 
 and Buggel : 
 
 (A) Ralph (Bugge), 62. 
 
 , of Nottingham, confirmation 
 
 of grant to, 62. 
 
 , , wood belonging to, 248. 
 
 Margaret wife of (A), confirmation 
 
 of grant to, 62. 
 Ralph sou of (A), 62. ' 
 
 (B) Richard (Bugge) son of (A), of 
 Nottingham, 62. 
 
 , grant to, 65. 
 
 , sale of wool to, 69, 70. 
 
 Agnes daughter of (B), grant by, 79. 
 (C)2 Richard (Bugge) son of (B), 
 of Willoughby, 83, 504n. 
 
 (D) Richard (Willoughby) son of 
 (C)2, 82, 504, 504n. 
 
 , captured by outlaws, 276. 
 
 , celebrations for soul of, 98. 
 
 , justice in eyre, 504n. 
 
 , licences to alienate laud to, 
 
 87, 89. 
 
 (E) Richard son of (D), 504. 
 
 , chantry founded by, 98, 119. 
 
 , counsel, 247. 
 
 , C.J.K.B., 272, 504n. 
 
 , , delivery of rolls to, 92-93. 
 
 Willoughby, Richard son ot (D) — cord. 
 
 , demise to, 87. 
 
 . grants by, 98. 
 
 . grants to, 91, 97. 
 
 , inq. p. m., 99. 
 
 , knight, 91, 97, 98. 
 
 , licence to alienate land to, 89. 
 
 , lord of Cossal, demise of coal 
 
 mine by, 88. 
 — — , money stolen from, 276, 277. 
 Elizabeth wife of (E), 99. 
 Isabel wife of (E), 89, 504. 
 Nicholas sou of (E), grant to, 91. 
 (P) Richard son of (E), 99, 505. 
 Joan (Grey) wife of (P), 505. 
 
 (Monboucher) daughter of (P), 
 
 505. 
 Margery (MaUory) daughter of (P), 
 
 505. 
 Roger son of (P), 505. 
 Thomas son of (P), 505. 
 (G) Richard son of (P), 505. 
 
 Matilda (Grey) wife of (G), 505. 
 (H) Hugh, priest, son of (P), 505. 
 Felice (Armstrong) daughter of (H), 
 
 505. 
 Joan of Risley, mistress of (H), 505. 
 (J) Hugh son of (H), 505. 
 
 Joan (Dabridgecourt) wife of (J), 
 505. 
 (K) Hugh (of Risley) son of (J), 505. 
 Isabel (Clifton) wife of (K), 505. 
 (L) Edmund de, knight, son of (F), 
 505. 
 
 , lord of Dunsby, manumission 
 
 by, 101. 
 Alice (Sumervill) wife of (L), 505. 
 (M) Edmund son of (L), 505. 
 
 Isabel (Annesley) wife of (M), 505. 
 (N) Hugh de, son of (M), 106n, 109, 
 505. 
 
 , gift by. 111. 
 
 , will of. 111. 
 
 Baldwin, of Greudon, sou of (N), 
 
 507. 
 Eleanor (Shirley) daughter of (N), 
 
 122, 507. 
 Isabel (Boteler) daughter of (N), 
 507. 
 
 (Polejambe) wife of (N), 505. 
 
 Jocosa (Bracebridge) daughter of 
 
 (N), 507. 
 John [?sonof (N)], will of, 114-115. 
 Margaret (Previll) wife of (N), 505, 
 506, 507. 
 
 , subsequent marriage of, 507. 
 
 Maud (Hertwell) daughter of (N), 
 
 507. 
 Rodolph son of (N), 507. 
 Thomas son of (N), 507. 
 .... (Bosomby) daughter of (N), 
 
 •507. 
 (Hilton) daughter of (N), 507. 
 
 1 The following entries are arranged genealogically. Letters (A) to (X) deal witti the ascendants of 
 Bridget daughter of Francis Willoughby ; letters (AA) to (QG) deal with the ascendants of Percival 
 Willoughby; (HH) and the subsequent entries deal with PerciTal and Bridget Willoughby and the 
 issue of their marriage ; and unassigned entries are placed at the end in alphabetical order, 
 
 2 It is possible that (B) and (0) are identical. 
 
736 
 
 Willoughby — eoni. 
 
 .... (Marmion) daughter of (N), 
 507. 
 (O) Richard son of (N), 505. 
 
 Anne (Leek) wife of (O), 505. 
 (P) Robert son of (N), 507. 
 
 — — , bequest to, 114. 
 
 , executor of will, 115. 
 
 , obit of, 237. 
 
 Alice (Curzon) daughter of (P), 507, 
 508. 
 
 Jane(Thurland)daughterof (P), 507. 
 
 Margaret (Griffith) wife of (P), 507. 
 See also Leghe. 
 
 Richard son of (P), 508. 
 
 , annuity for, 122. 
 
 . divorce of, 120. 
 
 . grant of fraternity to, 121. 
 
 , marriage of, 121. 
 
 — — (?), obit of, 237. 
 
 Sanchia (Strelley) daughter of (P), 
 508. 
 (Q) Henry son of (P), 508. 
 
 , executor of will, 115. 
 
 , knight, accounts signed by, 
 
 329, 337, 351, 361, 370, 379. 
 
 , , agreementsby, 120, 121, 
 
 123, 125, 132. 
 
 , , answer of to bill of com- 
 plaint, 115-117. 
 
 , — ■ — , at battle of Stoke, 508. 
 
 , , book for, 622. 
 
 , 1 ■ • given by, to St. 
 
 Thomas' chapel, 622. 
 
 , , burial of, 237, 516. 
 
 , , clothes for, 346. 
 
 , , commissions to, 141, 
 
 508, 514. 
 
 — — , , depositions of witnesses 
 
 of, 118-121. 
 
 , , grant of fraternity to, 
 
 127. 
 
 , , grant to, 124. 
 
 , , hoiisehold accounts of, 
 
 330-387. 
 
 , , indulgence for, 132. 
 
 , , knight of the Holy 
 
 Sepulchre, 508. 
 
 , , letters to, 126-127, 131, 
 
 132, 512-516. 
 
 , . marriages of, 122, 328, 
 
 511. 
 
 . , master of ordnance, 128. 
 
 , , , delivery of ord- 
 nance to, 128. 
 
 . , military services of, 508. 
 
 . , obit of, 236. 
 
 — — , , petition of, 132. 
 
 , ■ , prayers for, 516. 
 
 , , sheriff of Leicestershire, 
 
 515. 
 
 , , soldiers furnished by,146. 
 
 , , steward of Lenton ab- 
 bey, 515. 
 
 , , of Sutton Cold- 
 field, 514. 
 
 , , wills of, 122, 123, 126, 
 
 128, 130. 
 
 Willoughby — cont. 
 
 Alice (Draycott) daughter of (Q), 
 381. 
 
 , bequest to, by her brother 
 
 John, 136. 
 
 , brought from Polesworth, 378. 
 
 , clothes for, 330, 385, 386. 
 
 — — , household account of, 337. 
 
 , marriage of, 357. 
 
 , side saddle for, 373. 
 
 , stole worked by, 377. 
 
 Dorothy daughter of (Q), 121, 123. 
 
 , marriage of, 125, 508. 
 
 Elizabeth wife of (Q), 511. 
 
 , funeral of, 364. 
 
 , grant to, 124. 
 
 , horse for, 331. 
 
 , payments for, 332. 
 
 Helen (Egerton) wife of (Q), 511. 
 
 Henry son of (Q), clothes for, 348. 
 
 Isabel daughter of (Q), shoes for, 
 344. 
 
 Jane daughter of (Q), 121, 508. 
 
 , clothes for, 376, 378, 385, 386, 
 
 Margaret daughter of (Q), 121, 508, 
 
 (Markham) wife of (Q), 121, 
 
 508. 
 
 — • , executrix of his wiU, 122. 
 
 (R) Hugh son of (Q), arrows for, 382. 
 
 , bequest to, by his [half-] 
 
 brother John, 137. 
 
 , book for, 353. 
 
 , clothes for, 348, 350, 358, 384. 
 
 , inkhorn, etc., for, 383. 
 
 , knight, 415. 
 
 , , Arctic explorer, 397, 
 
 397«, 511. 
 
 , , departure of for Mus- 
 covy, 398. 
 
 , schooling of, 346. 
 
 , shoes for, 346. 
 
 Henry son of (R), 511. 
 
 Jane (Strelley) wife of (R), 511. 
 (S) John son of (Q), 122, 123, 126, 
 131, 338, 343, 374, 508, 517. 
 
 , account signed by, 388. 
 
 , agreement by, 148-149. 
 
 , at Cole Orton, 550. 
 
 , created knight of Holy Sepul- 
 chre, 140. 
 
 , furniture of bed-chamber of, 
 
 477. 
 
 , grant to, 124. 
 
 , inq. p. m., 149. 
 
 1 inventory of goods of, 474. 
 
 , knight, 397}i. 
 
 , , letter to, 148. 
 
 , lands of, in co. Warwick, 149. 
 
 , letter of fraternity for, 125. 
 
 , letter of, from Rome, 335. 
 
 , letters to, 509-511. 
 
 , marriage of, 121, 123. 
 
 , pilgrimage of, to Compostella, 
 
 132. 
 
 , , to Holy Land, 140. 
 
 , , to Rome, 136. 
 
 , released from Order of Bath, 
 
 125. 
 
737 
 
 Waioughby, John son of (Q)—cont. 
 
 , will of, 149. 
 
 Anne (Grey) wife of (S), 123, 508. 
 
 , letter of fraternity for, 125. 
 
 (T) Edward son of (Q), 121, 122, 338, 
 342, 343, 349, 351, 352, 508, 517, 
 550. 
 
 bequest to, 123. 
 captured by Scots, 146. 
 funeral expenses of, 473. 
 inventory of goods of, 473. 
 journey of, across the sea, 
 346. 
 
 knight, assaulted, 145-146. 
 
 , manorial records of , 3 1 9, 
 
 , servants of, assaulted, 
 
 143, 144. 
 
 knighted, 146. 
 
 letter from, abstract of, 515. 
 
 received from, 364. 
 
 to, 517-518. 
 
 letters carried to, 348. 
 payment to servant of, 356. 
 petition of, setting out his 
 military services, 146-148. 
 
 reward to children of, 348. 
 Anne (PiUiol) wife of (T), 517. 
 
 , bequest to, 187. 
 
 wife of (S) or (T), obit of, 237. 
 
 , pUlion for, 359. 
 
 Dorothy, daughter of (T). See (CC) 
 
 below. 
 Jane (TopclifEe) daughter of (T), 
 517, 530. 
 (V) Henry son of (T), 518, 550. 
 
 . , agreement by, 148-149. 
 
 , bequests, etc., to, 137, 474. 
 
 , epitaphs on, 155-156. 
 
 , executors of. See Berwyke, 
 
 Hall, Medley. 
 
 , grant to, 502. 
 
 , heir of (S), 149. 
 
 , inq. p. m., 149-150. 
 
 , inventories of goods of, 474. 
 
 , marriage of, 514, 518. 
 
 , sale of the Castle in Holborn 
 
 to, 322. 
 
 , slain by Kett's rebels, 155, 
 
 396, 492, 519. 
 
 , will of, 149, 396, 398. 
 
 Anne (Grey) wife of (V), 509, 520, 
 550. 
 
 , death of, 394, 394n. 
 
 Margaret (Lady Arundell) daughter 
 of (V) and ward of George Medley, 
 399-401, 405, 519, 521-523, 557, 
 598. 
 
 , abstracts of letters from, 525- 
 
 533, 549-554, 565. 
 
 , to, 527, 531, 532, 535. 
 
 , account drawn up by, 406- 
 
 409. 
 
 , at court, 522, 526, 529-533. 
 
 , at the Minories, 412, 415, 521. 
 
 , blameworthy conduct of, 534, 
 
 551. 
 
 , clothes, etc., for, 401, 402, 
 
 404, 406. 
 
 Willoughby, Margaret (Lady Arundell) 
 daughter of (V) — cont. 
 
 , jointure of, 414. 
 
 — • — , marriage of, 522. 
 
 , payment for board of, 403. 
 
 , visit of, to princess Elizabeth, 
 
 409. 
 Thomas son and heir of (V), 149, 
 
 398, 399, 519. 
 , at university of Cambridge, 
 
 477, 520. 
 
 , of Paris, 398, 523. 
 
 , board of, 402. 
 
 , death of, 524. 
 
 — — , marriage of, 523. 
 (W) Francis son of (V) and ward of 
 
 George Medley, 163, 165, 397, 399, 
 
 405, 407, 519, 521, 523, 560, 594, 
 
 608. 
 , accounts of, 420, 452, 496, 
 
 497, 541, 554, 535. 
 , accused of assisting Spanish 
 
 invasion, 567. 
 
 , board of, 403, 415. 
 
 , books for, 403, 406. 
 
 , chancery actions of, 499, 579, 
 
 581, 596. 
 
 , character of, 544, 584. 
 
 , clothes, etc., for, 400-402, 404- 
 
 407, 413, 414, 477. 
 
 , commission to, 160. 
 
 , conspiracy of servants of, 561- 
 
 563, 585. 
 , cultivation of woad by, 497- 
 
 501. 
 , date of birth of children of, 
 
 542. 
 
 , death of, 582, 619. 
 
 , death of his son, 553. 
 
 , domestic infelicities of, 543- 
 
 547, 550, 564, 585. 
 
 , fame of, 608. 
 
 , financial difficulties of, 567, 
 
 598, 620. 
 , household orders drawn up 
 
 by, 547-548. 
 
 , Illness of, 582. 
 
 , inquisitions post morlem, 619. 
 
 , J.P., charges by, 284. 
 
 , for Warwickshire, 533. 
 
 , letter from, 157. 
 
 , letters from, abstracts of 525, 
 
 527, 531, 532, 534-537, 543, 544, 
 
 546, 547,, 561, 552, 566, 571-575, 
 
 578-581, 588, 595, 597, 604. 
 , letters to, 152-153, 161-163, 
 
 494-495, 538, 579-580, 585-586, 
 
 588. 
 , , abstracts of, 524, 526- 
 
 529, 531-533, 535, 537, 538, 544, 
 
 548-551, 553, 554, 557, 558, 564, 
 
 569, 570, 578, 580, 581, 587-589, 
 
 595, 597-601, 604. 
 
 manorial records of, 319, 321. 
 
 ,marriage of his daughters, 157. 
 
 , marriage of, to Elizabeth Lyt- 
 
 tleton, 525. 
 , , to Mrs. Tamworth, 574. 
 
 M 47 
 
738 
 
 Willoughby, Francis son of (V) — eont. 
 
 , notes by, as to iron, 495- 
 
 496. 
 
 , picture of, and of his -wife, 432, 
 
 432n. 
 
 , presents given to, 420. 
 
 , quarrel of, with Sir Percival 
 
 Willoughby, 573-575, 577, 578, 
 585, 595. 
 
 , queen Elizabeth entertained 
 
 by, 538. 
 
 , reconciliation of, to his wife, 
 
 568. 
 
 , release by, 284. 
 
 , rent received from, 322. 
 
 , retinue of, 584, 585. 
 
 , schooling of, 409-413, 522. 
 
 , sheriff of Notts, 158. 
 
 , , acquittances of the Pipe 
 
 of, 159, 160. 
 
 , to provide horsemen for his 
 
 hundred, 152. 
 
 , virginals for, 408. 
 
 , WoUaton Hall built by, 
 
 565. 
 Elizabeth (Lyttleton) first wife of 
 (W), 561. 
 
 , at Buxton, 537. 
 
 , at Hoxton, 564. 
 
 , catalogue of faults of, 552. 
 
 , cause of, to be heard, 551. 
 
 , clothes of, 572, 573, 579. 
 
 , death of, 572, 573. 
 
 , exclusion of, from control of 
 
 Uer husband's house, 548. 
 
 , friendship of, \rith Thomas 
 
 Willoughby, 563. 
 
 , illnesses of, 524. 535, 536, 569- 
 
 571, 600, 604. 
 
 , jointure of, 161. 
 
 , letters from, 568, 595-596. 
 
 , , abstracts of, 532, 
 
 535, 537, .548, 550, 561, 564, 565, 
 569, 570. 
 
 , to, 534, 564, 571, 601. 
 
 , plot to defame, 533, 534. 
 
 , reconciliation of, to her hus- 
 band, desired, 549, 555, 565. 
 
 , , , effected, 567, 
 
 568. 
 
 , separate maintenance of, 
 
 552. 
 
 , severity of, to her daughters, 
 
 599, 600, 607. 
 — — , unreasonable conduct of, 532, 
 543-547, 562. 
 (X) Dorothy (Tamworth) second wife 
 of (W), 574, 578, 618. 
 
 , abstracts of letters to, 579, 
 
 580. 
 
 , birth, death and wardship of 
 
 a daughter of, 582, 583, 620. 
 
 , estate of, 583, 608. 
 
 . influence of, 581, 585. 
 
 , subsequent marriage of, to 
 
 Lord Wharton, 583, 608, 620. 
 Bridget (sister of X!), 579. 
 Henry son of (X), 605. 
 
 Willoughby — eont 
 
 Abigail daughter of (W), 462. 
 
 , abstracts of letters from, 572, 
 
 580, 604. 
 
 , to, 170, 604. 
 
 , confinement of, 601, 602. 
 
 , in charge of her father's house, 
 
 604. 
 — ^, marriage of, 604, 605. 
 Bridget daughter of (W). -See under 
 
 (HH). 
 Dorothy daughter of (W), 554, 585. 
 
 , abstracts of letters from, 592. 
 
 , m-health of, 590-592. 
 
 , ill-usage of, by her husband, 
 
 589-592. 
 
 , letter from, 590. 
 
 ;-, marriage of, to Henry Hast- 
 ings, 566, 586-588. 
 Frances daughter of (W), abstracts 
 of letters from, 607. 
 
 . , at Mr. Drake's house, 607. 
 
 , evil behaviour of, 170. 
 
 , marriage of, to Montague 
 
 Wood, 607. 
 
 , misfortunes of, 607. 
 
 Margaret daughter of (W), abstracts 
 of letters from, 594, 596, 597. 
 
 . to, 594, 597. 
 
 . , children of, 599. 
 
 , letters to, 593-596. 
 
 , marriage of, to Robert Spen- 
 cer, 566, 567, 592, 598. 
 , proposed marriage of, to Grif- 
 fin Markham, 562, 592, 595-597. 
 Winifred daughter of (W). See under 
 (EE) ielou: 
 (AA) Christopher lord Willoughby of 
 
 Eresby, 517, 553. 
 (BB) Sir Thomas son of (AA), of 
 Bore Place, 517. 
 
 , accouni; of cattle of, 329. 
 
 , justice of Common Pleas, in- 
 ventory of goods of, 474. 
 
 , letter of fraternity to, 133- 
 
 136. 
 Bridget wife of (BB), letter of frater- 
 nity to, 133-136. 
 
 , will of, 150. 
 
 Christopher son of (BB), bequest to, 
 150. 
 (CC) Bobert son of (BB), 517, 597. 
 
 , executor of his mother's vrill, 
 
 150. 
 — -, will of, 150. 
 Dorothy wife of (CC) and daughter 
 of (T), 517. 
 
 . , divorce of, 150. 
 
 Henry son of (CO), 150. 
 (DD) Thomas son of (CC), 150, 322, 
 430, 535, 553, 555, 567, 599. 
 
 , captain of militia in Kent, 284. 
 
 , inventory of goods of, 485. 
 
 , J.P., bonds taken before, 152. 
 
 , letters from, abstracts of, 560- 
 
 564, 572. 
 
 , letters to, 157-158, 162. 
 
 , . abstracts of, 572, 581. 
 
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 WUloughby, l^homas son- of (CC)— con<. 
 
 . Loudon house of, 555. 
 
 . second marriage of, 601. 
 
 , sheriff of Kent, acquittances 
 
 of the Pipe of, 152, 159. 
 Lady, [? wife of DD], 159. 
 (EE) Edward son of (DD), 458, 608. 
 
 , abstracts of letters from, 567, 
 
 568, 578, 599, 600, 602. 
 
 , at Wollaton, 168. 
 
 , committed to Warwick gaol, 
 
 601, 602. 
 
 , lawsuits of, 601. 
 
 , marriage of, to Winifred WU- 
 loughby, 600, 601. 
 Winifred wife of (EE) and daughter 
 of (W), 462. 
 
 , abstracts of letters from, 600- 
 
 603. 
 
 , to, 600. 
 
 , at Wollaton, 168. 
 
 , farthingale for, 437. 
 
 , severity of her mother to, 599, 
 
 600. 
 
 , unfortunate circumstances of, 
 
 601, 602. 
 Elizabeth daughter of (EE), 602. 
 
 , at Wollaton, 168. 
 
 Mrs. Hannam daughter of (EE), 603. 
 Mrs. Swift daughter of (EE), 603. 
 (FP) Thomas son of (BE), death of, 
 603. 
 
 , Hamburg merhant, 603. 
 
 , travels of, 602, 603. 
 
 Elizabeth (Payne) wife of (FP), 603. 
 Anne (Lassoe) daughter of (FP), 603. 
 Edward son of (FP), 603, 608. 
 Elizabeth (Dards) daughter of (FP), 
 
 603. 
 Mrs. Carpenter, daughter of (PP), 
 
 603. 
 William son of (FP), 603. 
 (GG) Hugh son of (PP), doctor of 
 medicme, 603. 
 Elizabeth, second daughter of (GG), 
 603. 
 
 (Wright) third daughter of 
 
 (GG), 604. 
 Rebecca daughter of (GG), 603. 
 
 (Pointer), wife of (GG), 603. 
 
 Robert son of (DD), 454, 455, 458, 
 461. 
 
 , his wife, 461. 
 
 (HH) PercivaJ son of (DD), 454, 456- 
 459, 517, 579, 591. 
 
 , accounts in writing of, 460. 
 
 . agreements by, 172, 500. 
 
 , allowance for, 159. 
 
 , at WoUaton, 560, 573, 574. 
 
 , boats belonging to, 172-173. 
 
 . , coal mine let to, 173. 
 
 , delicate health of, 553. 
 
 , estate of, 583, 584. 
 
 , financial difficulties of, 584, 
 
 589, 609, 619. 
 
 , his brother. See Adams, John. 
 
 , in charge of Sir Francis WU- 
 
 loughby's afiairs, 571. 
 
 Willoughby, Percival son of (t)D) — conl. 
 
 , inventory taken by, 572. 
 
 , knighted, 560n. 
 
 , law suits of, 581, 582, 583n, 
 
 584, 618. 
 — — , letters from, 558, 559, 589- 
 
 590, 618-621. 
 , , abstracts of, 556, 557, 
 
 564, 574, 578, 581, 582. 
 , letters to, 158-159, 175-177, 
 
 180-183, 576. 
 , , abstracts of, 560-563, 
 
 567-571, 573, 574, 578, 599, 600, 
 
 607. 
 
 , , reference to, 284. 
 
 , manufacture of glass by, 500. 
 
 , plot against, 561, 595. 
 
 — — , quarrels of, with Sic Francis 
 
 Willoughby, 573-575, 577, 578, 
 
 581, 585, 599. 
 
 , , with the Markhams, 
 
 562, 595. 
 , recommended to Fleet prison, 
 
 589. 
 , to make pool heads at Sutton 
 
 Coldfield, 168. 
 , travels of, 553, 554, 557- 
 
 560. 
 Bridget wife of (HH) and daughter 
 
 of (W), 437, 564, 583, 585, 596, 
 
 599. 
 , letters from, 180-181, 576- 
 
 577. 
 , , abstracts of, 557, 558, 
 
 573, 575, 592. 
 , letters to, 558, 559, 577, 
 
 500. 
 , , abstracts of, 554, 556, 
 
 557, 569, 570, 572, 575, 578, 580- 
 
 582, 592, 600, 601. 
 
 , marriage of, 451, 553, 555. 
 
 , ointment for, 449. 
 
 Bridget daughter of (HH), 602. 
 — ■ — , marriage settlement of, 621. 
 Edward son of (HH), 608. 
 Henry cousin of (HH), 458, 462, 
 
 463, 570, 582. 
 — — , at Wollaton, 168. 
 , cousin of Elizabeth, countess 
 
 of Shrewsbury, 161. 
 
 , payment by, 446. 
 
 , to man of, 433. 
 
 , plot of, 577. 
 
 , queries as to parentage of, 
 
 543, 586. 
 , suitor for the hand of Dorothy 
 
 Willoughby, 585, 586. 
 
 , wages of, 439, 542. 
 
 Henry son of (HH), education and 
 
 life of, 609, 610. 
 JeU daughter of (HH), 181. 
 Percival son of (HH), education, 
 
 marriage and professional liCe of, 
 
 609, 610. 
 , marriages of his daughters, 
 
 610. 
 , Observations in Midwifery, etc, 
 
 by, 608, 609. 
 
740 
 
 WUlonghby — eora. 
 
 Robert cousin of (HH), 562, 579. 
 
 , abstract of letter from, 596i 
 
 , evil designs of, 568. 
 
 , liberal offer of, 609. 
 
 , query as to identity of, 597. 
 
 Rosse sister of (HH), 159. 
 
 Storley daughter of (lilH), behaviour 
 
 of, 180, 181. 
 Theodosia (Mynors) daughter of 
 (HH), 168. 
 
 , behaviour of, 180. 
 
 Thomas son of (HH), education of, 
 609. 
 (JJ) Francis son of (HH), agreement 
 by, 194. 
 
 , birth of, 569. 
 
 , legal controversies of, 621. 
 
 , sheriff of Warwick, 194. 
 
 (KK) Francis son of (JJ), naturalist, 
 agreement by, 194. 
 
 , notes by, 269-271, 507n. 
 
 , publication of letters of, 504. 
 
 Thomas son of (KK), 504. 
 
 , grants to, 501-503. 
 
 , high steward of the honour of 
 
 Peverel, 503. 
 
 , lord Middleton, 504. 
 
 , petition of, 502. 
 
 Cassandra daughter of (KK), ex- 
 tracts from collections of, 504- 
 610. 
 Henry, lord Middleton, 197. 
 
 Ambrose, ship hired by, to oppose 
 
 Armada, 567. 
 Baldwin, payment to, 330. 
 
 , soldiers from, 347. 
 
 , going to, 350. 
 
 . , wife of, 360. 
 
 George, 398, 430, 433, 521, 535. 
 , abstracts of letters from, 531, 
 
 538, 543. 
 , crafty designs of, 525-526, 
 
 543. 
 
 , reward to servant of, 421. 
 
 , son-in-law of. See Repington. 
 
 Hugh son of Robert de, 46. 
 Richard, 454. 
 
 , wages of, 449. 
 
 William de, rector of St. Peter's 
 
 Nottingham, 282. 
 lord, 450. 
 ■ , rewards to musicians of, 422, 
 
 433. 
 Mr., of Risley, at WoUaton, 462, 
 
 463. 
 , , reward to servant of, 
 
 420. 
 Willoughby, arms of family of, 505, 506. 
 spelling of name of, 543. 
 union of Dorset and Kent branches 
 
 of family of, 619. 
 Willoughby d'Eresby, family of, 504, 608. 
 
 See also Bertie. 
 Willoughby Brook, Wyloughby-broke [in 
 
 Willoughby - on - the - Wolds, co . 
 
 Notts], 106. 
 
 Willoughby Farm, payments for, 375. 
 Willoughby House [in London], lease 
 
 of upper rooms in, 322. 
 Willoughby lands, chartularies of, 196- 
 197, 268. 
 manorial records of, 294. 
 Willoughby-on-the-Wolds,Whilebi, Wile- 
 by, Wilgebi, Wilghebi, Wilgheby, 
 Wilweby, Wylgeby, Wyllughby, 
 Wyluby [co. Notts], 19», 83, 362, 
 424. 
 church of, burial in, 505, 507. 
 
 , land held of, 29. 
 
 , monuments in, 507. 
 
 court rolls of, 288-290, 292-294, 
 
 300, 317-323. 
 deeds relating to, 624, 626. 
 farmer of, gift by, 420. 
 grant of chantry at, 65. 
 
 of homage in, 46. 
 
 grants of land in, 19, 20, 25-27, 29, 
 56, 270. 
 
 , confirmed, 17, 18, 26, 32, 33, 62. 
 
 land held in socage in, 83. 
 
 manor of, 123, 161. 
 
 ministers' accounts of, 292, 296, 308, 
 
 311, 313-316. 
 places named in, 29. 
 sale of, 584. 
 tenants of, 455, 462. 
 Wills of: 
 
 Alfegh, John, 121. 
 
 Arches, Joan wife of Richard, 104- 
 
 106. 
 Bagshawe, Robert, 124-125. 
 Bingham, Robert de, 83-84. 
 Bracebridge, John, of Kingsbury, 
 
 131. 
 Dygby, Simon, 131. 
 FiUol, WiUiam, 103-104. 
 Prome, John, 101-102. 
 Grey, Henry de, lord of Codnor, 84- 
 
 85. 
 Hede, John, 111. 
 Loudham, William, 111. 
 Percy, Sir William, 617. 
 Perrot, John, 270. 
 Spott, Wulfric, 255-257. 
 Thurland, Thomas, 124. 
 Trencbard, John, 124. 
 Wenyngton, Ralph, 115. 
 Willoughby, Bridget, 150. 
 
 , Henry, esquire, 149- 
 
 , Sir Henry, 121-123, 126, 128, 
 
 130. 
 
 , Sir Hugh, 111. 
 
 , John, 136. 
 
 , Sir John, 149. 
 
 , Robert, 150. 
 
 Zouche, John la, 112. 
 Willughboy, Willughby, Willybe. See 
 
 Willoughby. 
 Wilnecote, Willmecote, Wilmcott, Wilu- 
 cote, Wylmyncote [co. Warwick], 
 court rolls of, 311, 317, 321. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 ministers' accounts of, 289, 296, 307- 
 309, 311, 314-316. 
 
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 Wilobi, Wiloby. See Willoughby. 
 WUsford, CO. Wilts, Lake in, 124. 
 Wilson, Wylson, James, collier, 492. 
 payment to, for making charcoal, 
 442. 
 WUsthorpe, Wivelsthorpe [in Sawley], 
 CO. Derby, deeds relating to, 624. 
 Wilton [CO. Wilts], letters dated at, 528, 
 
 530. 
 Wilton : 
 
 Serlo de, poem by, 215. 
 Walter de, 76. 
 Wilughby, Wilwebi. See Willoughby, 
 
 WiUoughby-on-the-Wolds. 
 Wimbledon, co. Surrey, deeds relating to, 
 
 627. 
 Wimbome Minster, Wymborne Minster 
 Wynburne, co. Dorset : 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 manor of, 124. 
 minister's account of, 302. 
 places named in, 302, 624. 
 riot at fair at, 148-144. 
 Kingston Lacy In. See Kingston 
 Lacy. 
 Wimborne St. Giles, Wimbome Pleoy 
 
 hiindred, court of, 292. 
 Wimbome, Up, hundred. See Moukton- 
 
 up-Wimbome. 
 Wimbotsham, co. Norfolk, 49n. 
 Wimeswould, Wymeswold, Wymondes- 
 wold, Wymundeswold, Wymund- 
 wold, Wymyswold [co. Leicester], 
 89. 
 agreement as to conunon fields in, 
 
 106-109. 
 court roUs of, 296, 317, 319. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 licence to alienate land in, 89. 
 manor of, 123. 
 ministers' accounts of, 297, 308, 
 
 311, 314. 
 places named in, 106, 107. 
 Wtnborn', Peter de, 59. 
 Wincescumbe. See Winchcombe. 
 Wincestre. See Winchester. 
 Winchcombe, Wincescumbe, Wynes- 
 combe [co. Gloucester], 212. 
 deeds relating to, 625. 
 St. Kenelm's abbey, 349. 
 
 , ofierings made at, 341, 343, 
 
 384. 
 Winchester, Wincestre, Wyuchestre, 225. 
 bishop of. See Beaufort, Henry. 
 marquis of. See Paulet, William, 
 palace, letter dated at, 103. 
 tester made at, 102. 
 Windmerpool [co. Notts], 8n. 
 Windsor, Wyndesore castle [co. Berks], 
 574. 
 letters of the signet dated at, 132. 
 Windsor, Frederick lord, in the com 
 pany of the duke of Anjou, 553. 
 Winemer, William son of, de Gunolves 
 
 tune, 55. 
 Winfield, Wynfelde [co. Derby], bequest 
 of land in, to Burton abbey, 257 
 Winnlngton, name in school-book, 213. 
 
 WinshiU, Wynshull [in Burton-upoh- 
 Trent, co. Stafford], bequest of, 
 to Burton abbey, 256. 
 Winter, William, 20, 20n. 
 Winterborne, Wiuterbum' : 
 
 Andre-wde, 30, 52. 
 
 Matthias de, chaplain, 59. 
 
 Bobert de, 32. 
 
 Walter de, 32, 59, 62. 
 Winterborne ; 
 
 Came, Cane, Cribton, Wyntrebom 
 Caam, Wynterboume Houndyng- 
 ton [CO. Dorset], 105. 
 
 — — •. church of, bequest to, 101. 
 
 , minister's account of, 819. 
 
 , proposed sale of, 588. 
 
 Herringston, Heryngeston, Wynter- 
 borne. Herring, Heryng [co. 
 Dorset], 103. 
 
 , deeds relating to, 625. 
 
 , ministers' accounts of, 296, 
 
 301, 306, 307, 309. 
 
 Kingston, Kingston juxta Byre, 
 Kyngeston Wynterboum, Wyn- 
 terboume Kyngeston, co. Dorset, 
 105. 
 
 , court rolls of, 288-290, 292- 
 
 294, 296, 302, 303, 806, 809-312, 
 318-820. 
 
 , ministers' accounts of, 296, 
 
 298, 301, 305, 307, 319, 320. 
 , rental of, 320. 
 
 , Abbot's (3ourt in, 591. 
 
 Steepleton, Wynterborn, Wynter- 
 boume Belet, Belette, Billet, co. 
 Dorset, 103. 
 
 , court rolls of, 292, 298, 300, 301. 
 
 , deeds relating to, 625. 
 
 , exchange of land in, 53. 
 
 , manor of, 104, 105. 
 
 , ministers' accounts of, 296, 
 
 301, 306, 307, 309. 
 
 , rentals of, 290, 291. 
 
 Turbervill, Musterston, Musterton, 
 Turbervileston, Turbervyle, Tur- 
 bervyleston, Wynterburne Musters 
 [in Bere Kegis, co. Dorset], court 
 rolls of, 290, 293, 295, 297, 298. 
 
 , deeds relating to, 625. 
 
 , grant of land in, 76. 
 
 , ministers' accounts of, 296, 
 
 299, 301, 306, 807. 
 Whitechurch, co. Dorset, deeds re- 
 lating to, 625. 
 
 Zelstone, Malreward, Marwood, 
 Mawreward, Seleston, Selston, 
 Winterburne [co. Dorset], court 
 rolls of, 288, 291, 294, 296, 300, 
 303, 306, 307, 309-313, 315, 318- 
 320. 
 
 , deeds relating to, 625. 
 
 , grant of land in, 30. 
 
 , to St. Peter's church, 12. 
 
 , ministers' accounts of, 296, 
 
 298, 305, 319, 320. 
 
 , rentals, etc., of, 296, 306, 320. 
 
 Winteringham, Wintringham [co. Lin- 
 coln] grant of, 270. 
 
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 Wirksop. See Worksop. 
 Wirksworth, Wyrkesworth [co. Derby], 
 275. 
 Callow in, 274. 
 Wirkswortli, Wjrrkesworth wapentake 
 [CO. Derby], presentments by 
 jurors of, 273, 278. 
 Wirrall peninsula [co. Chester], bequest 
 
 of lands in, 25in. 
 Wirtenburgh. See Wurtemburg. 
 Wise, George, of Rollestou, disclaimer 
 
 of arms of, 179. 
 Wifihaw, Wishaue, Wissall, Witsahe, 
 Wyschaw [co. Warwick] : 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 grant of land in, 24, 271. 
 payment to piper of, 371. 
 terrier of, 318. 
 See Witsah. 
 Wistan the priest, 211, 212. 
 Witacra, Witacre [Whitacre, co. War- 
 wick] : 
 Maneser de, 16. 
 William de, 9. 
 Witham, Withom, South [co. Lincoln], 
 
 minister's account of, 208. 
 Witchampton, co. Dorset, deeds relating 
 
 to, 625. 
 Withevcd, William, 77. 
 Withom. See Witham. 
 Wltintun, Serlo de, 21, 22. 
 Witsah, Wicsah [Wishaw, co. Warwick] : 
 Hamo de, 25. 
 Baenald de, 25. 
 Ralph son of Raenald de, 25. 
 Witsahe. See Wishaw. 
 Wittenasshe. See Whitnash. 
 Wiverton [Bingham, co. Notts], with 
 Tithby, near : 
 arms of Brett and Chaworth of, 
 
 237-238. 
 court rolls of, 288. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 Wiverton [co. Notts] : 
 Gervase de, 20n. 
 Richard de, 20, 20n. 
 Sir Richard de, 62. 
 Wlfputtelee, ^\^fputelee, Wlputl' : 
 Jordan brother of Ralph de, 16. 
 Ralph de, 15, 16, 17. 
 Wlfred. See Wulfred. 
 Wlputl'. Sec Wlfputtelee. 
 Wltertune [A^'olterton, co. Norfolk], John 
 
 de, 35. 
 Wlviva, Ralph son of, 20. 
 Woad, cultivation of, 459, 497-501. 
 \\"od. Sec Wood. 
 Wodborn, Richard, servant of Lord Lisle, 
 
 118, 119, 120. 
 Wodcokke, payment to servant of, 
 
 374. 
 Wode. See Wood. 
 Wodeburgh. See ^\■oodborough. 
 Wodeburgh ,: 
 
 Henry son of William de, emanci- 
 pation of, 93, 94. 
 William de, bailiff of Nottingham, 
 626. 
 
 Wodegete, Wodeghete, Wudiete [Wood- 
 yates co. Dorset] : 
 William de, 54, 54n, 62. 
 
 , knight, 31. 
 
 Wodehall, Sir Thomas, chaplain. 111. 
 Wodeham : 
 
 John, 110. 
 
 , executor of will of William 
 
 PiloU, 104. 
 
 , manorial records of, 293. 
 
 Wodeland, Wodelond. See Woodlands. 
 Wodemancote [co. Dorset], coiirt rolls of, 
 310. 
 See Woodmaucote. 
 Wodestok, counsel, 247. 
 Wodeward, Geoffrey le, of Markeaton, 
 
 receiver of outlaws, 277. 
 Wodnett. See Woodnet. 
 WodrofE, Robert, 110. 
 Wodyl, 213. 
 
 Wokinden', Thomas de, bequest to, 85. 
 Wolarton, Wolaton, Wolatton. See 
 
 WoUaton. 
 Wolf. See Wulf. 
 Wolhampton. See Walhampton. 
 WoUartoun. See Wollaton. 
 WoUaston, Wollaveston [co. Northants], 
 
 grant of market and fair at, 70. 
 Wollaton, Willaton, Wolarton, Wolaton, 
 Wolatton, WoUartoun, WoUatton, 
 Wollatun, AVollerton, WoUoghton, 
 WoUoton, Wollowrton, WoUowgh- 
 ton, WooUarton, Wullerton, AVyl- 
 larton, Wylloghton [co. Notts], 
 118, 120, 148, 149, 151, 153, 161, 
 327, 328, 335, 336, 338, 339, 344, 
 353, 357, 360, 361, 363, 367, 369, 
 374, 385, 387, 388, 390, 395-397, 
 414, 415, 418, 422, 426, 429, 430, 
 431, 435, 445, 446, 448, 453-456, 
 459, 461, 462, 504, 507, 524, 543, 
 560, 561, 570, 573, 574, 575, 599, 
 601, 604, 609. 
 account books of, 351-462 passim, 
 
 522. 
 accounts of chantry at, 313. 
 
 of coal at, 309, 311, 314-316, 
 
 320, 495. 
 
 of herbage, etc., at, 319, 
 
 320. 
 bailiff at. See Trussell, John, 
 beyd-house at, bequest to, 137. 
 blind wom.an of, 385. 
 chantry at, 454, 456-458, 570. 
 
 , priest of. See Belshaw, Sir 
 
 Henry. 
 
 , purchased by George Medley, 
 
 417. 
 chartulary of lands in, 197, 269. 
 Chrowood in {?), 161. 
 church, advowson of, 87, 89. 
 
 , bequest to, 137. 
 
 , burials in, 236, 505, 516, 519. 
 
 , chalice for, 378. 
 
 , dedication of, 237. 
 
 , epitaphs in, 156, 269. 
 
 , lauds of rector of, 323. 
 
 , monum.ents in, 505. 
 
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 Wollaton, church— coni. 
 
 , rectors of. See Husse, William; 
 
 Ilkston, Robert ; Kendall, Samuel ; 
 
 Lawrans, Robert ; Smith, Richard ; 
 
 Tu, Thomas ; Undeme, William ; 
 
 Wellom, Adami de. 
 
 . service book belonging to, 236. 
 
 , wardens of. See Calton, 
 
 Thomas ; Hudson, Hugh, 
 clothes in wardrobe at, 572, 573. 
 coal mines at 121, 123, 149, 161, 
 
 169, 171-176, 182, 398. 
 
 , produce of, 169, 416. 
 
 court rolls of, 308. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 DobsnoUe in (?), 163. 
 documents dated at, 100, 162, 170, 
 
 183, 574, 578-580, 592, 595, 597. 
 in library at, 509, 522, 526, 532, 
 
 536, 543, 544, 547, 554, 555, 561, 
 
 564, 566, 567, 569, 571, 572, 583, 
 
 588, 593, 597, 598, 601, 607, 608. 
 Dofcote Close in (?), 161. 
 flocks marked at, 418. 
 glass-making at, 182, 499-501. 
 Hall, House (Old), 154. 
 , furniture and rooms at, 474- 
 
 485. 
 
 , position of, 565. 
 
 Hall, New, the Hall, 159, 284, 454, 
 
 456, 458, 500. 
 , building and works accounts 
 
 of, 289, 451, 460. 
 
 , description of, 565-566. 
 
 , furniture and rooms at, 485- 
 
 491. 
 
 , pictures at, 432n. 
 
 highway made at, 368. 
 household at, 168-169. 
 implements, etc., at, 396, 523. 
 iron-works at, 583. 
 list of horses at, 397. 
 manor of, fine of, 531. . 
 
 , licence to alienate, 89. 
 
 miner killed at, 429. 
 
 ministers' accounts of, 296, 307-309, 
 
 311, 313-316. 
 model of waterworks at, 175. 
 muniments found at, 269. 
 orchard at, 340. 
 orders observed by servants at, 538- 
 
 541. 
 park, 148, 149. 
 places named in, 161, 163, 427, 442, 
 
 454. 
 poU-bill of, 194. 
 present given by wives of, 420. 
 priest of. See Herott, Sir John. 
 Redfeeld in (?), 163. 
 scholars of, reward to, 369. 
 secured to Sir Percival Willoughby, 
 
 571, 573, 581, 583. 
 subsidy for, receipt for payment of, 
 
 236. 
 the queen at, 463, 538. 
 woad culture at, 459, 497-499. 
 wood in, 87, 89. 
 sold at, 580, 581. 
 
 Wollaton, Ralph de, 97. 
 
 Wollatton, WoUatun. See Wollaton. 
 
 Wollaveston. See WoUaston, 
 
 WoUerton. See Wollaton. 
 
 Wolley, Adam, antiquary, letter from, 
 
 197. 
 Wolloghton, Wolloton, Wollowghton. 
 
 See Wollaton. 
 Wolnawle, Mr., payment to, 346. 
 Wolsey : 
 
 Thomas, ' my lord cardinal,' 377. 
 
 , , building of Christ 
 
 Church, Oxford, by, 514. 
 
 , , reward to porter of, 384. 
 
 WolsoU. See Walsall. 
 Wolterton, See Wltertune. 
 Wolverhampton, co. Stafford, coal ac- 
 counts of, 495. 
 Wolveton [in Charminster], co. Dorset, 
 
 manor of, 124. 
 Wonlochia. See Wenlock. 
 Wood, Wod, Wode : 
 
 Atuell, payments to, 437, 441. 
 Montague, 608. 
 
 , bad character of, 590, 591, 607. 
 
 , letters from, 170. 
 
 , Prances (WiUoughby) his wife, 
 
 607. 
 
 , Abigail (lady Darcy) his 
 
 daughter, 608. 
 
 , Edward his son, 608. 
 
 , Elizabeth his daughter, 608. 
 
 , Frances his daughter, 608. 
 
 , Henry his son, 608. 
 
 , John his son, 608. 
 
 , (7), sale of land to, 608. 
 
 , Mary (Wright) his daughter, 
 
 608. 
 Roger atte, bequests to, 102, 104. 
 WiUiam, pilgrimage of, 351. 
 
 , of Blyth, disclaimer of arms 
 
 of, 179. 
 Woodborough, Wdburc, Wodeburgh [co. 
 Notts], 270. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 grants of land in, 5, 94. 
 ministers' account of, 296. 
 prebendary of. See Curtemejori, 
 
 Master Simon de. 
 See Wodeburgh. 
 Woode Bevyngton. See Bevington. 
 Woodlands, Wodeland, Wodelond, co. 
 Dorset, 103, 473, 517, 529, 578, 
 588. 
 court rolls of, 287, 288, 293, 296, 
 298, 301-304, 306, 307, 309-313, 
 318-321. 
 deeds relating to, 62 5. 
 hunting at, 528. 
 letters dated at, 591, 592. 
 manor of, 105, 589. 
 - — , flue of, 531. 
 ministers' accounts of, 290, 291, 296 
 
 298, 299, 306, 311, 319, 320. 
 reeves of, 290, 291. 
 rentals of, 289, 308, 320. 
 will dated at, 106. 
 Knowlton in. See Knowlton. 
 
744 
 
 Woodmancote, Wodemancote [oo. SuiS- 
 sex], church of : 
 bequest to, 617. 
 burial in, 617. 
 will proved in, 617. 
 William, parson of, 617. 
 window in, 617. 
 Woodsford, co. Dorset, deeds relating to, 
 62.5. 
 See Werdesford. 
 Woodnet, Wodnett : 
 
 Gabriel, payment to man of, 435. 
 
 , wages of, 427. 
 
 Lawrence, payment to, 354. 
 
 , wages of, 371n. 
 
 William, wages of, 371. 
 Woodshawe, Thomas, expenses of, paid, 
 
 435. 
 WoodviUe, Elizabeth, 508. 
 Woodwas, Richard, basket-maker, 432. 
 Woodyates, co. Dorset. See Wodegete. 
 Wool, sale of, 69. 
 
 Woolaston, TJllaston, in Bradley, co. 
 
 Stafford, deeds relating to, 627. 
 
 Wooley [in Morton, co. Derby] ? Wallay 
 
 Park, keeper of, 338. 
 Woollarton. See WoUaton. 
 Woolsthorpe in Lowdham, co. Notts. 
 
 See TJlvestorp. 
 Woolwich, oo. Kent, deeds relating to, 
 
 625. 
 Worcester, Wyssyter, 65. 
 archdeacon of, 67. 
 Bedwardine county in, 65, 66. 
 bishop of. See Cantilupe, Walter de ; 
 Deneberht; Ecgwine; Gigliis, John 
 de ; Heaberht ; Oftfor ; Oswald ; 
 Tilhere; Wulfstan. 
 cathedral, MSS. from, 196. 
 deed dated at, 67. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 Our Lady of, offering at, 384. 
 places named in, 65. 
 priory, 210. 
 
 , gifts to, 196. 
 
 , grants to, 197, 203-209. 
 
 , MSS. from, 197. 
 
 , prior and convent of, 66. 
 
 , prior of. See ^thelstan, Sena- 
 
 tus. 
 
 , reversion of grant to, 200- 
 
 201. 
 reeves of. See Peter, Adam son of 
 
 Boculf, William. 
 St. Helen's church, vicar of, 66. 
 the French Meadow in, 65. 
 Worcester, Woster, my lord of. See 
 
 Somerset, William. 
 Worcetur, Wurcetur, Brother John, monk 
 
 of Burton, 250-252. 
 Words, list ot. See Glossary. 
 Worksop, Wirksop, Worsope, Wyrke- 
 sop' [CO. Notts], 179, 446, 464. 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 prior of, proceedings in Quo War- 
 ranto against, 246. 
 Walter, prior, and convent of, grant 
 by, 65. 
 
 Worldende [co. Hereford], inventory of 
 
 cattle at, 466. 
 Wormleighton [co. Warwick], Spencer of, 
 
 566, 592. 
 Worsope. See Worksop. 
 Worth Matravers, Werthe [co. Dorset], 
 grant of land in, 30. 
 marble quarry at, 30. 
 Worthe : 
 
 Mr., reward to children of, 335, 
 367, 385. 
 
 , schooling of children of, 346. 
 
 Worfchington, co. Leicester, deeds relating 
 
 to, 625. 
 Worthingtou : 
 
 Ralph, cultivator of woad, 498, 499. 
 
 , legal proceedings of, 499. 
 
 Wossall. See Walsall. 
 Woster. See Worcester. 
 Wotton : 
 
 Sir Robert, advice of, as to his sis- 
 ter's proposed marriage, 516-517, 
 516m. 
 
 , Margaret (Grey) his daughter, 
 
 518. 
 Wrawby, Wraby [co. Lincoln], minister's 
 
 account of, 289. 
 Wright, Right, Wryght : 
 
 Geoffrey, burglary at house of, 272. 
 Henry, of Egmanton, disclaimer of 
 
 arms of, 179. ~ 
 Humphrey, 169. 
 John, payments to, 426. 
 
 , of Staffordshire, payment to, 
 
 350. 
 William, Welsh judge, 604. 
 Wilsley, marriage of, to Mary Wood, 
 
 608. 
 Mr., the king's painter, 473. 
 Wrigley, Rigley, Bugley, Rydgeley, Byg- 
 ley, Wrightlye : 
 [Richard], 455. 
 — T-, payments to, 428, 431. 
 
 , of the household at Wollaton, 
 
 168. 
 Richard, wages of, 440, 450, 542. 
 Master, and his bedfellow, 394. 
 Writs, book containing forms of, 268. 
 Wryght. See Wright. 
 Wryton, court rolls of, 313. 
 Wudiete. See Wodegete. 
 Wuldingdune. See Wadington. 
 Wulf , Wolf : 
 
 John son of Richard le, marriage of, 
 
 91. 
 Macy daughter ot Richard le, 91. 
 Richard, 109, 114. 
 le, of Pitton in Gower, agree- 
 ment by, 91. 
 WuUage, bequests to, 255. 
 Wulfcliff in Sherwood forest [co. Notts], 
 
 trees in, 242. 
 Wulfgar the clerk, 211, 212. 
 Wultgat, bequest to, 255. 
 WuUheard, bishop [of Hereford], 205 
 
 206. 
 Wulfred, Wlfred, archbishop [of Canter 
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 WnUrio the clerk, 211, 212. 
 
 Wulfetan, bishop of Worcester, chartu- 
 
 lary compiled by order of, 198, 
 
 199. 
 Wnlfweard the deacon, 211, 212. 
 Wulfwina the clerk, 211, 212. 
 Wulgare, knight of Wulfric Spott, be- 
 quest to, 256. 
 Wnllerton. See WoUaton. 
 Wulnoth the clerk, 211, 212. 
 Wurcetur. See Worcetur. 
 Wurtemburg, Wirtenburgh, duke of. See 
 
 Lewis. 
 Wybarnys chamber, furniture in, 469. 
 Wychynore, Stephen, bequest to, 103. 
 Wycke, Wycken. See Wykeu. 
 Wycombe, Wicomb, co. Buckingham, 
 
 bad repute of Robert Payne at, 499. 
 Wyddoson, Wydowson. See Widdowson. 
 Wygeston. See Wigston. 
 Wygeton, Gilbert de, clerk, grant to, 86. 
 Wygtoft. See Wigtoft. 
 Wyke, John, supervisor of will, 124. 
 Wyken, Wicken, Wikin near Coventry, 
 
 Wycke, Wycken, Wykyn [co. 
 
 Warwick], 414, 415, 425, 428, 
 
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 court rolls of, 311, 317, 321. 
 deeds relating to, 627. 
 lordship of, 122. 
 manor of, 506. 
 minister's accounts of, 296, 307-309, 
 
 311, 314-316. 
 sale of wood at, 554. 
 soldiers of, 341. 
 La Boxe in, 270. 
 Wykham, Brother Hvmiphrey de, 86. 
 Wykyn. See Wyken. 
 Wylcheswod. See Wilkswood. 
 Wylde : 
 
 Edward, 455. 
 Roger, 455. 
 
 of Tamworth, reward to, 335. 
 Wyldebore, Thomas, debt owed to, 472. 
 Wyldycotes, Thomas, gentleman, agree- 
 ment by, 121. 
 Wyleby, Wylgeby, Wylgheby. See WU- 
 
 loughby. 
 Wyllarton. See WoUaton. 
 Wyllobe, Wylloghby. See WUloughby. 
 WyUoghton. See WoUaton. 
 WyUoughby, WyUoughbyo, WyUowghby. 
 
 See WiUoughby. 
 Wyllowholme [? in WoUaton, co. Notts], 
 
 tithes of, 313. 
 WyUughby. See WUloughby, WU- 
 
 loughby-on-the-Wolds. 
 Wylmyncote. See Wilnecote. 
 Wylooghby. See WiUoughby. 
 Wylson. See WUson. 
 Wyluby, Wylughbye. See WiUoughby, 
 
 WiUoughby -on-the-Wolds. 
 Wyluowr', Mistress, bequest to, 137. 
 Wymborne Minster. See Wimborne 
 
 Minster. 
 Wymondesold, WUliam, 125. 
 Wymondeswold. See Wjmeswould. 
 Wymund, Henry, citizen of London, 92. 
 
 Wymundeswold, Wymundwold, Wymys- 
 
 wold. See Wimeswould. 
 Wynburne. See Wimborne Minster. 
 Wynchestre. See Winchester. 
 Wyncturmaster, Brother John, monk of 
 
 Burton, 252. 
 Wyndesore. See Windsor. 
 Wyndesore, Nicholas de, baUifl of 
 
 Nottingham, 627. 
 Wynfelde. See Winfield. 
 Wynfilde. See Wyngfeld. 
 Wyngate, Deodatus de, 60. 
 Wyngfeld, Wynfilde, Wyngfyld : 
 Mr., 394, 395. 
 
 , reward to servant of, 391. 
 
 Wynkeburn, H6nry de, indicted, 279- 
 
 281. 
 WynshuU. See WinshUl. 
 Wynsige the priest, 211. 
 Wynster, John, parker of West HaUam, 
 
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 Wynterborne, Wynterbourne, Wynter- 
 
 burne. See Winterborne. 
 Wyntersyck [ ?iu WoUaton], moles caught 
 
 at, 427. 
 Wyntreborn. See Winterborne. 
 Wyott of Drayton Basset, payment to, 
 
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 Wyrkesop'. See Worksop. 
 Wyrkesworth. See Wirks worth. 
 WysaU [CO. Notts], 363. 
 
 deeds relating to, 626. 
 Wyschaw. See Wishaw. 
 Wyssyter. See Worcester. 
 Wystow, John, account rendered by, 307. 
 Wyteston. See Whiston. 
 Wythyham [co. Sussex], cattle bought 
 
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 Wyverton. See Wiverton. 
 
 Yamsws. See James. 
 
 Yarborough [co. Lincoln], rental of, 319. 
 
 Yardley : 
 
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 Thomas, 167. 
 Yate, Richard atte, of BakeweU, indicted, 
 
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 Yatesbury [co.Wilts], survey of, 294. 
 Year Book, outer leaves of, 247.^ 
 Yereland. See Ireland. 
 Yerle, Yerhe : 
 
 B., coUier, 492. 
 
 Bodd husband of Grace, death of, 
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 Yerton, See Ireton. 
 YUes, emperor of Rome, 223. 
 Ylkeston. See Ilkeston. 
 Ynde. See India. 
 Yngulby. See Inggelby. 
 Yolgreve. See Youlgreave. 
 Youman, John, indicted, 276. 
 
 M 48 
 
1*46 
 
 York, 530, 685. 
 
 archbishop of, lands of, 243. 
 
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 Komanus, John; Sajids, Edwin, 
 cathedral church of, bequest to, 85. 
 commissary of the Checker at. See 
 
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 coverlet made at, 469. 
 dean of. See Apulia, Simon de. 
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 deputy mayor of the staple at, 
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 documents dated at, 51, 98, 588. 
 prison at, 516. 
 staple at, 266, 614. 
 trea.surer of. See Mansell, John. 
 York, Bast Biding of, lord lieutenant of. 
 
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 York, Ralph son of Paulinus of, 7. 
 
 Sir Richard, 617. 
 Youlgreave, Yolgreve [co. Derby], vicar 
 of, 279. See also Lekeburn, Hugh 
 de. 
 Young, Juvenis : 
 
 GeoHrey son of Thomas the, 60. 
 Thomas the, 60. 
 Yoxhale, Brother John, monk of Bur- 
 ton, 252. 
 proceedings of, at election of 
 abbot, 248, 251. 
 Yreland, N., coUier, 492. 
 Yrelond : 
 
 Adam de, 80, 81. 
 John le flz Adam de, 80. 
 Yrewis. See Erewash. 
 
 Ysambrace, not the subject of homily, 
 
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 Ytayle. See Italy. 
 Yvo. See Ivo. 
 
 Zacheverell. See Sacheverell. 
 
 Zhuche. See Zouche. 
 
 Zoellis, John Andrew de, archdeacon of 
 
 Bertinorio, 140. 
 Zouche, CShowche, Souch, Zhucbe, 
 Zowche, Zuch : 
 Eudo la, 70. 
 
 John la, will of, 112-114. 
 [John, of Codnor], brother of John 
 
 Willoughby, bequest to, 136. 
 Sir John, commissioner to hold in- 
 quisition, 428. 
 
 , illness of daughter of, 340. 
 
 Margaret (Willoughby) Wife of John 
 la, 508. 
 
 , bequests to, 118. 
 
 , executrix of his will, 114. 
 
 William, agreement by, 120. 
 
 la, friend and ally of Edward 
 
 [I], the king's son, 68. 
 
 lord, 113. 
 
 Mr., 458. 
 
 , ironworks of, 496. 
 
 , letter from, 515. 
 
 Zouche, connection of family of, With 
 family of Fievile, 606. 
 
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