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Ministers' Accounts of The Honor of Leicester (1322 to 1324)

By L. FOX, B.A. (OxoN.)THE object of this introduction is to describe and explain, as far as possible, the material contained in two hitherto unpublished Ministers' Accounts of the honor of Leicester. The first is closely written on both sides of a roll of four membranes, sewn together at the top, and represents the accounts of divers ministers of the honor of Leicester presented before the king's auditors for the period 24th March, 1322, to 4th July, 1323. x The second, written in a similarly small hand on one side of three membranes, sewn together head to tail, and on part of the dorse, is the account rendered by Roger de Belegrave, keeper and receiver of the castle and honor for the period 4th July, 1323, to 29th March, 1324. 2 Taken together they cover the period from the appoint ment of royal officers to administer the forfeited lands of Thomas, earl of Lancaster and also of Leicester, 3 two days after the earl's execution at Pontefract, 4 to the very day on which the same lands were granted by the king to Henry, brother of the late earl and subsequent bearer of the Lancastrian titles. 5

The execution of earl Thomas naturally involved the extinc tion of his household, and the forfeiture of his lands to the Crown; it marked "the most serious break that ever occurred in the history of the house of Lancaster".6 But the administration of the Lancastrian estates was carried on without any revolutionary upheaval by custodians, receivers, auditors and other ministers appointed by and responsible to the Crown. Throughout this period the estates of the honor of Leicester remained intact, and were administered on the same lines as before and after the period of forfeiture, for the lands of the other rebels in the county of

iPnblic Record Office, Ministers' Accounts. General series : 1146/9.a/bid., 1147/20.iFoedera, II i, 480. Cal. Fine Rolls, III, 118.*Foedera, II, i, 478, 493. Lanercost chronicle, 244. Bridlington, 77.

Annales Paulini, 802.seal. Fine Rolls, III, 268. Parl. Writs, II, ii, 252. 6J. F. Baldwin, English Historical Review, I/XII, 196.

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Leicester were assigned to the separate custody of a certain Robert de Gaddesby,7 and other officers were entrusted with the other parts of the Lancastrian estates. The chief value of these ministers' accounts, therefore, consists of the light which they throw upon a number of interesting problems relating to the honor of Leicester, each of which is worthy of separate con sideration.

EXTENT AND STRUCTURE OF THE HONOR A good idea of the geographical extent of the honor of

Leicester may be got from the inquisition taken after the death either of earl Edmund in 1297,8 or of earl Thomas in 1327. 9 Besides including over sixty-five manors in Leicestershire, it covered an extensive area in Warwickshire and Northampton shire, and had scattered members in a large number of other counties. 10 This information may be verified and amplified for the more important part of the honor from the view which the ministers' accounts afford of the arrangement of the various vills into bailiwicks, and the separate treatment of the castle, the reeveship and the forest of Leicester, as well as of the demesne manors. Of the latter there were four : Leicester, Hinckley, Desford, and Earl Shilton. At Leicester, where the earl exercised also the lordship of the borough, 11 a fact which explains his possession of the reeveship ('prepositura'), there was the castle, the centre of the honor, with its prison, 12 together with the demesne lands and pastures, mills and ovens, and the forest of Leicester. 13 Over and above this classification of manors held by the earl in demesne, as opposed to those manors which were held of the earl by feudal tenants, an arrangement of bailiwicks divided the honor

iCal. Fine Rolls, HI, 131. Foedera, II, i, 490. Later Steward (senescallus) of Leicester castle and honor, 1326-27 (Records of the Borough of Leicester, I, 353-4).

BCal. of Inquisitions, III, No. 423. Cf. also W. E. Rhodes, 'Edmund, earl of Lancaster', English Historical Review, X.

*Cal. of Inquisitions, VII, No. 82. (The extents are not given in full inthe printed calendar.)

101 am engaged in constructing a detailed feodary of the Leicestershirepart of the honor and a general survey of the whole.

"Records of the Borough of Leicester, I, ix. 12Cf. Billson, Mediaeval Leicester, 41.

must not be confused with Charnwood Forest. Cf. Farnham,Charnwood Forest and its Historians, 9.

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(more correctly, that part of the honor which is shown in the accounts, because there were members in other counties) into eight geographical and administrative areas in addition to Leicester itself. 14 The Warwickshire and Northamptonshire lands each formed a separate bailiwick; whilst the Leicestershire lands were arranged under the bailiwicks of Hinckley, Desford, Earl Shilton, Sileby, Glenfield, and Carlton Curlieu in the manner indicated in the accompanying map.

TIMES OF ACCOUNTINGIt seems fairly safe to suggest that the times of accounting,

as illustrated in these rolls, should not be regarded as normal. Earl Thomas's forfeited estates did not fall into the king's hands at the beginning of the financial year of Lancastrian accounting, which was Michaelmas (29th September);15 nor were they granted to Henry of Lancaster at the end of one in 1324. 16 Nor did all the ministers put in by the king to administer the estates during the period of forfeiture hold office for the whole period; there were frequent changes of personnel, the duration of office depending solely upon the king's pleasure. 17 This partly explains why the castle at Leicester was accounted for in six periods during these two years and five days, whilst the bailiwicks were only accounted for in four; and in the case of Desford and Earl Shilton manors, account is rendered for less that four months since they were handed over as part of the dowry of Alice Lacy, widow of earl Thomas. 18

MINISTERSThe ministers fall into two main groups : those at the centre

of the honor accounting to the Crown; and those more directly concerned with the local units. Of the first group the most im portant were the Keeper (custos) and the Receiver (receptor).

"These 'bailiwick' divisions appear in the return made for the feudal aid of 1330 (itself a copy of an earlier return c. 1280) (Feudal Aids, VI, 557). Also in a manuscript feodary of the honor of Leicester of 1344 (Duchy of Lancaster, Returns of Knights' Fees, 1/7).

"Ministers' Accounts. Duchy of Lancaster, 1/3; 3246/212; 198/311-2; 212/3247.

i«29th March, 1324. Cal. fine Rolls, III, 268."It is expressly stated that they are appointed 'during pleasure'.1824th March, 1322, to 10th July, 1322. Min. Ace. 1146/9, m. 2 d. Cal. Pat.

Rolls, 182.

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Roger Beler held the office of keeper from 24th March, 1322ia until 4th July, 1323,ao when Roger de Belegrave, the chief officer accounting in the second roll, was appointed in his stead. 21 William de Oterhampton was receiver from 17th March, 1322, until 6th July, 1322,22 when, having been appointed an auditor, he handed over the receivership to William Davy, 23 who remained in that capacity until replaced by Roger de Belegrave on 4th July, 1323. Other officers appearing in connection with the accounts of the castle are the Steward (s en es callus) and the Porter24 (janitor), but no indication of their, functions is given beyond the fact that the porter on two occasions is appointed by the steward and presents the account on behalf of the keeper, and that it was his duty to levy the perquisites of the court at Leicester, to execute the judgments of the same within the town of Leicester,25 and to keep the castle and prison. 26 The second group of officers ranges from bailiffs (balli-vi) in charge of the bailiwicks and the reeves (prepositi) of the demesne manors to the keeper of the mills at Leicester, the park-keeper at Hinckley (parcarius), and the receiver of the profits (receptor exituum) of Leicester forest. Over all these were the auditors (auditores) appointed by the king as special agents to check the accounts and to see that the lands were being managed to the advantage of the Crown. The auditors acting for the two rolls under consideration were William Hereward and Thomas de Blaston,27 who 'audited' the

l. Fine Rolls, III, 118. Foedera, H, i, 480. t°Cal. Fine Rolls, HI, 220. ziRoger de Belegrave is mentioned in the first roll as Steward (senescallus) .

Min. Ace 1146/9. m. 3d. &Cal. Fine Rolls, III, 110, 140. ^Appointed 4th July, Col. Fine Rolls, III, 121. For a receipt from Roger

Beler to Sir William Davy, the king's receiver for Tutbury andLeicester, for £200 of silver out of the proceeds of his bailiwick, 16Edw. II, cf. Cal. of Ancient Deeds, C. 2837.

a«Mm. Ace. 1146/9, m. 1 ; m. 3 d.asln 1322 it was found by inquisition that "in the time of earl Edmund the

porters of the castle did not interfere with any attachments unless with a bailiff of the town ; in the time of earl Thomas they forcibly made attachments and other executions without any bailiff, and did great injuries to the town whereby the burgesses suffered great hardships". (Cal. of Miscellaneous Inquisitions, n, No. 548).

26Mz«. Ace. 1147/20, m. 1.^Appointed 24th March, 1324. Cal. Fine Rolh, HI, 265.

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accounts, whilst Robert de Silkeston and Henry of Leicester28 appear to have received expenses for 'viewing' some of them.29 The method of procedure is clear. In the light of former returns30 of which mention is often made, they examine the accounts presented by the various officers., 31 testing in every possible case whether all expenditures are valid; for where decay is alleged they holdi inquisition to see for themselves,32 and allowing this and disallowing that, they sum up the account, showing either a deficit or quittance. Since on the rolls under consideration items, are crossed out and accounts amended, there is every reason to suppose that they are the original ones used by the auditors.

In return for their services the auditors received a fixed wage,33 which seems to have been part of the local charges,34 and for which allowance was made in the receiver's account. 35 The same applied to the receiver himself,36 and to the keeper.37 Whilst the latter was more or less responsible for the general supervision

^Appointed 28th March, 1322. Cal. Pat. Rolls, 91.29M»». Ace. 1146/9, m. 2. The 'view* and 'audit' were probably two quite

distinct processes parallel to the 'view' and 'audit' at the Exchequer.

3<>lt is stated in the instructions issued to the auditors (Cal. Fine Rolls, III, 266) that records will be delivered to them from the Exchequer. In Min. Ace. 1146/9, m. 1, frequent reference is made to an account- roll of the time of the earl (rotulus compotorum tempore Comitis) of 14 Edward II, which appears to have been used as the basis of the present account. It was the normal custom for auditors to carry round the past rolls of manorial estates when auditing accounts. Cf. H. S. Bennett, 'The Reeve and the Manor in the Fourteenth Century', English Historical Review, XLI, 364. Possibly this is one of the reasons for the disappearance of so many of them.

3iln the first roll all the separate officers of the component parts of the honor present their accounts before the auditors; in the second roll Roger de Belegrave, the receiver and keeper, presents to the auditors an account of what he has received from these various officers.

32Min. Ace. 1146/9, m. 1; 3 d. Min. Ace. 1147/20, m. 1.3S1322. Cal. Pat. Rolls, 178; William de Oterhampton and other auditors

granted £20 p.a.3«E.g. Min. Ace. 1146/9, m. 2. Under the bailiwick of Sileby allowance

is made in the bailiff's account for 20 shillings, expenses of Robert de Silkeston and Henry of Leicester, auditors, for viewing the accounts.

351322. Cal. Close Rolls, 454.SBCal. Fine Rolls. Ill, 110. 1322, Cal. Pat. Rolls, 176. Both William de

Oterhampton and his successor, William Davy, were granted 12d. a day, and two robes a year for their clerk, and in addition hay, litter, and firewood.

371322. Cal. Close Rolls, 475.

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of the estates in his cafe, 38 and acted as the intermediary between the king and the feudatories holding those estates, 39 he was also held answerable for the issues by the receivers to the king's wardrobe,40 to which the issues were first transmitted;41 but from 21st July, 1322 the keeper was instructed to be answerable at the Exchequer.42

Some interesting details have been discovered concerning the more important ministers appearing in these accounts. The one about whom most is known is Roger Beler,43 knight and squire of Leicestershire, and a former Lancastrian partisan,4* who was appointed as Baron of the Exchequer in July, 1322,45 holding that position until he was murdered in January, 1326;46 and who, besides attempting an interesting exchequer reform,47 served the Crown as royal justice on innumerable commissions in every part of the country.48 Incidently he was the founder of the chantry chapel of St. Peter, at Kirby Bellars,49 towards the maintenance of which he secured every available endowment. 50 Robert de Silkeston, auditor, was evidently a man well experienced in this kind of work, for besides being receiver of Bolingbroke he had acted as one of earl Henry of Lacy's auditors in 1305; 51 he acted as one of the executors of the earl's will, 52 and then must have passed into Thomas of Lancaster's service, for he appears as one of the auditors of the Lancastrian accounts in 1313-1314.53 A further proof that it was not unusual for the earl's officers to continue in office after the earl's death is seen in the employment of Henry of Leicester as another royal auditor. He first appears

M1322. Cal. Pat. Rolls, 161.391322. Cal. Close Rolls, 540. Roger Beler ordered to summon all who

ought to do homage and fealty for their lands in his keeping.«CaZ. Fine Rolls, III, 150. «/6zd., 121.wibid., 150.«3Cf. Foss, Judges of England; Tout. T. P., Place of Edward II in English

History.««For his pardon cf. 1318. Cal. Pat. Rolls, 228, 235; Foedera, II, i, 375.«Tout, op. cit., 343. tSAnnales Paulini, 130.«Tout, op. cit., 200. Cf. Tout, English Historical Peview, XXXI, 461-4;

Conway Davies, Baronial Opposilion to Edward II, App. of docu ments,'562 (1918).

48Numerous references are scattered throughout the Calendars of Close, Patent, and Fine Rolls.

MDugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, VI, 513.SQKnighton's chronicle, I, 443. MChetham Society, Vol. CXII, 16, 57.521316. Cal. Pat. Rolls, 393, 535. ^Min, Ace. 1/3.


as a king's clerk;64 later he passed into the service of the Lan castrian household, appearing as keeper of the earl's wardrobe in 1313-1314,65 and securing pardon in 1318 as one of the adherents of the earl, 68 after which presumably he re-entered the royal service. He was also parson of Castle Donington, and custodian of the Hospital of St. John there by grant of earl Thomas of Lan caster.67 Thomas de Blastbn, of Leicestershire, another auditor of these accounts, had a most important later career in royal service. After being a king's clerk for some time, in 1328 he held the office of chamberlain of Chester. 58 In 1332 he was appointed as a baron of the Exchequer, and in the same year as a baron of the Ex chequer of Dublin;59 the former appointment was renewed in 134 1. 60 During these years he frequently appears as royal tax- collector, justice, and adviser. As early as 1318 he was rector of Cotesbach in Leicestershire, 61 which living he still held in 1336, together with a prebend of Wylmyncote in the collegiate church of Tamworth and a prebend in Wybaston in the king's free chapel of Wolverhampton. 62 In 1328 he was presented to the chapel of Barewe in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield;63 and he was rector of the church of Solihull, co. Warwick, in 1339. 6* He died in 1342. William de Oterhampton, receiver for part of the time, had been receiver of Roger Damory in 1318-1319, as is known from his journal which has survived. 65 At the beginning of 1324 he became chamberlain and then escheator in South Wales,66 and in 1325 was made paymaster general and receiver of victuals and money at Portsmouth, 67 which office he probably held until his death in 1327. 68 Roger de Belegrave can be traced in the employment of the Crown both before and after his tenure of the keeper-and-receiver-ship of the Leicester honor. 69

5*1307. Cat. Pat. Rolls, 5, 8. ssMin. Ace. 1/3, m. 20.561318. Cal. Pat. Rolls, 235. Parl. Writs, II, ii, 132.571322. Cal. Pat. Rolls, 84. Coram Rege Roll, 270, Mich., 1 Edw. HI,

1327, m. 13.sacal. Fine Rolls, IV, 85, 100. saCal. Pat. Rolls, 363, 378. «o/bid., 80. si/bid., 298. 62/bid., 341. 63/bid., 335. 64/b,-d., 212. esExchcquer Accounts (Various) : 506/23. ««CoJ. Fine Rolls, HI, 253, 288, 326.MParl. Writs, H, i, 699. Foedera, TL, i, 595. Col. Fine Rolls, m, 335. ^Exchequer Accounts (Various) : 17/3. «SC«f. Fine Rolls, III, 46 ; IV, 143, 236. Cf . references to him in Records

of the Borough of 'Leicester, and Roll of the Mayors of Leicester, 19.


It seems clear, ttiferefore, that these officers, whether in the past they had been in royal or baronial service, had considerable experience of the management of estates and accounts; it would not be going too far to call them professional, a conclusion borne out by the business-like nature of the accounts for which they were responsible.

PLAN OF THE ACCOUNTSThe plan of the accounts rendered for the various component

parts of the honor is practically the same. In each case, on the credit side the income (recepte) is classified under several heads, and followed by a statement of expenditures (expense), the account being finally balanced either by payments (liberate) testi fied by tallies or warrants (per litteras de acquietancia), or by debts still to be paid. Naturally the incomes and expenditures are different for each of the places concerned, and they vary for the different periods accounted for on the two rolls; but it is possible to give a rough idea of the nature of the main items in each case, whilst leaving the accounts in detail to speak for themselves. In the account of the town and castle of Leicester the income was composed of assized rents,70 rents from tenements, fishing rights in the river Soar, and mills let, the perquisites of the court, the farms of the four mills and six ovens, the farm of the reeveship, and what could be made out of the demesne lands and pastures. 71 In addition, there was the income from the forest of I/eicester, composed of dues for the agistment of cattle and the pannage of pigs, money from wood sold, fines from the woodmote of Hethilie, and miscellaneous items. Expenditures were simi larly classified. Loss of revenue from certain lands and tene ments takes its place among the outgoings; repairs to various parts

7°For the meaning of Assized Rent cf. : Maitland, English Historical Review, IX, 420—'the old money dues payable by freeholders and customary tenants'. Miss Neilson, Customary Rents, 7—'redditus assisae* are excluded from customary rents, because they were regulated 'not by the custom of the manor, but by agreements depending upon the nature of the land and the advantage of the persons concerned'. Miss Levett, Economic History Review, I, 71— 'no single and simple definition of rents of assize is of any use. Any manor or group of manors may be working on a definition of its own".

71See separate section on the question of the devastation caused by the king's army during the rebellion (tempus turbationis), below pp. 49-51.


of the castle figure largely in Roger de Belegrave's expenses;72 the forest and other officials needed their wages, and tithe had to be paid; finally, there were miscellaneous items too numerous to be named. But in order to show himself quit, as the term went, the accountant had to answer for the 'dead-stock' (mortuum staurum) which he took over from his predecessor, a fact which explains the repeated miscellaneous list of pots, trestles, boards, fetters, and so forth. A good example of this kind of thing is contained in the account which is included for the castle and manor of Donington which happened to be in the hands of the same ministers for the earlier part of this period. 73 In this case a fairly elaborate account is also given of the various kinds of grain received and disposed of : corn, winter-wheat, barley, pease, malt, maslin; whilst besides dead-stock, live-stock is classified under horses, foals, oxen, sheep, and pigs. That this is the normal thing to expect in a reeve's account74 is proved by the accounts of the reeves of the demesne manors of the honor. Against an income composed of rents and farms and produce sold was set an expenditure composed of wages, tithe, and miscellaneous items, and this was followed by an account of the stock on the manor. (Cf. Desford). 75 The bailiffs' accounts of the bailiwicks were more simple, being a statement of income from the following five or six sources : assized rents, rents from the letting of various tenements, fixed perquisites from vills within the bailiwicks in addition to casual perquisites arising from the view of frankpledge;76 and finally perquisites of the court of Leicester.

. Ace. 1147/20, m. 1. The rates and classification of wages are interesting; some workmen were paid by the day, others by piece work (ad taskam). For the whole subject cf. Knoop and Jones, The Mediaeval Mason.. Ace. 1146/9, m. 3. From 24th March to 16th Jnly, 1322. Cal. Fine Rolls, III, 110, 118, 121. Cal. Charter Rolls, IV, 4. Cf. Leics. Arch. Soc. Trans. XIV, 40, for the descent of Castle Donington, by Prof. A. Hamilton Thompson.

"Cf. Bennett, op. cit., 358-365. "Mm. Ace. 1146/9, m. 2 d.76Miss Neilson (Customary Rents, 168) points out that the original form

of 'chevage' (payment to secure exemption from attendance at the view) became obscured, and appears in some cases as a fixed annual rent, 'certits redditus', paid by the vill, no allowance being made for necessary variations from year to year, and that amercements for absence were still paid in addition. It seems that both these pay ments are illustrated in the accounts of the bailiwicks contained in these records.

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It is impossible to review these accounts without being im pressed both by the accuracy and the pre-eminently sensible nature of the methods used, and by the degree of administrative centralisation within this congeries of fees. What is more remarkable, however, is that, outside the period covered by these rolls, the honor of Leicester as a whole was but one of a number of similar honors forming the later Duchy of Lancaster, each of which was held to account to the Lancastrian household, which had its own wardrobe, central officers, and well-established admininistrative routine. These facts alone explain why, during the period between the execution of earl Thomas and the cession of his lands to his brother Henry, the honor of Leicester could be administered as a whole by royal officials, the only change being that the Crown and not the earl controlled both ministers and revenue.

EVIDENCE OF DEVASTATION BY EDWARD II's ARMY DURING THE BARONIAL STRUGGLE

The accounts reveal unmistakeable evidence of devastation wrought by Edward II's army during the period of rebellion ('tempus turbationis') preceding them.

During the period from 24th March to 29th September, 1322, the demesne lands and pastures of the castle of Leicester were farmed to Walter de Busceby, Henry de Barkeby, and Thomas Chambreleyn for a sum of £50, of which £12 10s. Od. was paid to the receiver, leaving a debt of £37 10s. Od. 77 For the ensuing period, 29th September, 1322 to 4th July, 1323, the keeper of the castle was unable to give a financial return for the said lands because the above-mentioned three farmers had relin quished and resigned them into the king's hand on account of their poverty. 78 "Nor was there anybody in those parts", says the account, "who wanted to, or even could, farm the said lands and pastures on account of the destruction wrought on the tenants of the said town by the arrival of the king's army", a state of affairs proved to be true by an inquisition held in the presence of

. Ace. 1146/9, m. 1 d. The wording suggests that these three farmedthe demesne lands and pastures under earl Thomas for the samefarm.. Ace. 1146/9, m. 3 d.

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the auditors themselves: "the said lands lay for the most part wild and uncultivated during the time when the aforesaid farmers held them". That they remained in this condition for the rest of the time covered by these rolls is expressly stated in Roger de Belegrave's account,79 and the whole of the revenue which they brought in during this time was £12 6s. lid.80 and £1 6s. 8d.81 from pasture and hay.

Further evidence is afforded by a statement relating to the income from the reeveship of Leicester. In rendering an account of £58 17s. llfd. from the reeveship, held by Walter de Busceby, improver and farmer (appruator et firmarius), the keeper thought fit to explain82 why he had not been able to let the reeveship for a larger sum : "there was nobody who wanted, or even could, farm the said reeveship on account of the poverty of the tenants of the said town and the devastation of the neighbourhood (patria) caused by the arrival of the king's army and other magnates in the time of the rebellion". For which reason the keeper had deemed it more to the advantage of the Crown to let the reeveship for a small farm rather than retain it in the king's hand.

It is very probable also, though it is not actually stated, that the passing of the king's army accounted for the complete devas tation of four shops in Leicester, the loss of revenue from which is entered under the 'expenses' column in each of the periods accounted for.83

More enlightening details are given in the account of the manor and castle of Donington, another of earl Thomas's estates, which suffered at the hands of the royal army.84 In the expenses of the reeve incurred during a period of less than four months85 appears a sum of 7s. 6d. spent on hay and fodder, bought for the horses and cattle, because 'the hay and the greater part of the fodder were devastated by men of the king's army*. New locks had to be fitted, and keys bought for the doors of the grange and

"Min. Ace. 1147/20, m. I.80/bid., m. 1. 4th July to 80th September, 1323.si/bid., m. 2. 30th September, 1323, to 29th March, 1324.82Mf«. Ace. 1146/9, m. 1 d.83/bid., m. 1; 8 d. Min. Ace. 1147/20, m. 1; 2.

. Ace. 1146/9, m. 3. 8524th March to 16th July, 1322.

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the door of the stabl«, and repairs to the doors carried out, at a cost of 13d. because they had been smashed and their locks carried off by men of the king's army. The doors of the buttery, pantry, the wardrobe, and the lord's chamber had similarly been treated, and had to be repaired and have locks refitted at a cost of lOd. More costly to renew were the ninety-seven perches of hedge round the park, at a cost of 10s. lid., because the old hedge had been 'carried away and burned by the men of the king's army during the time of the disturbance'.

Such details as these are especially interesting and important since the contemporary chroniclers have nothing to say on this question of the behaviour of the royal forces. It has long been known that the rebel barons caused a fair amount of devastation,86 but that there is another side to the picture is now amply proved by the damage done to Lancastrian property by Edward II's forces both at Leicester and Doningtoh.87

eeBridlington, 74. Foedera, TL, i, 557. Auctor Malm., 256, 266.87The itinerary of Edward II from February to the end of March, 1322,

covering his march from Gloucester to Burton-on-Trent, Borough- bridge and Pontefract, makes it almost certain that Edward in person did not pass through Leicester or Castle Donington at this time; it is most probable, therefore, that the devastation wrought on these two Lancastrian estates was the work of an auxiliary or expeditionary royal force (described as 'the king's army' in the accounts) taking part in the northward pursuit of the rebel barons.


Notes on Transcription and TranslationApart from the following frequently-occurring abbreviations and

place-names, all words have been fully extended :li. = libra and cases.s. = solidus and cases.d. = denarius and cases.ob. = obolus and cases.qa. = quadrans and cases.marc. = marca and cases.dim. = dimidia and cases.8. = Sanctus and cases.e.t. = eundem terminum and cases.qr. = quartarium and cases.bus. = buscellus and cases.

The following signs have been used :( ) indicates that the enclosed words or items are struck

out in the original Ms. The striking-out of items seems to have been the auditors' method of checking.

[ ] indicates that the enclosed words are crossed out and that a corrected version of them immediately precedes them. They are mostly used where the auditors have crossed out items of money and entered others in then- place.

A few unimportant marginal notes have been omitted.In the translation all proper names have been left as in the

original Ms., even where variations have been noticed.The cramped formulae of the accounts and the obscurity of some

of the words used have made it impossible in some cases to present an infallible English translation; a literal rendering has been sacrificed in many cases to economy of words.

I am indebted to Dr. Moses Tyson of Manchester University for his advice concerning a few difficulties of transcription.

MINISTERS'ACCOUNTS 213[w. 4.d.] PARTICULARS OF THE ACCOUNTS [OF DIVERS

MINISTERS] OF THE HONOR OF LEICESTER FROM 24th MARCH, 1322 to 29th SEPTEMBER, 1322; AND FROM THE SAME 29th SEPTEMBER TO 4th JULY, 1323.

[m.l.]. LEICESTER CASTLE. John de Freseby, Porter of the Castle of Leicester, appointed by Geoffrey de Skeftyngton, Seneschal there, renders his account through Roger Beler in the presence of William Hereward and Thomas de Blaston, whom the King has appointed by his patent writ to audit the accounts of forfeited lands in co. Leicester, from 24th March, 1322 to 13th June, next following.

The same renders account of:£. s. d.

Assized rent of divers tenants in the town of Leicester at Whitsun, as contained in the account-roll of the time of the earl delivered to the Exchequer, namely, for 1321-1322. 1 4 Hi Rent of William de Mersheton and Adam de Petelyng for 3 plots of land in the Satur day market, at the same term, as contained therein. 1 1 7 Rent of Robert Benett forl lane near Bele- grave and of Thomas Sauvauge for 1 lane near to his house, at the same term, as contained therein. 8 From 2 plots of land farmed out to Walter de Busceby and John de Cave, at the same term, as contained therein. 2 2| Rent of William le Baker for 1 plot of land in Otegate, at the same term, as contained therein. 4

iFor the position of the Saturday market and other streets in Leicester see the plan of mediaeval Leicester, and text, in Billson, C. J., Mediaeval Leicester.

2Fnrther details about some of these citizens of Leicester can be found in Records of the Borough of Leicester, I.


£ S. d.Rent of William Sharpe for 1 plot of land near to the river Soar, at the same term, as contained therein. 3 Rent of the abbot of Leicester for the fishery in the river Soar, at the same term, as contained therein. 2 2$ Rent of Margery Lombe for 1 small plot near to the garden of the friars preachers, at the same term, as contained therein. 1 Rent of John de Knyghtcote, Junior, for 1 plot of land at the end of his yard, at the same term, as contained therein. 2 Rent of John deCovyntre for 1 plot near to to the Castle garden, at the same term, as contained therein. 2 From 1 plot of waste in the Saturday market farmed to Henry Flemyng, at the same term, as contained therein. 2 Rent of John Mareschal for the site of 1 pair of thraves outside the east door of the forge of the same John, at the same term, as contained therein. 1 Perquisites of the court of Leicester during the aforesaid time. 2 9

Total Receipts : 1 13 7|Expenses.Of which he accounts for in:

£ s. d.Loss of rent of 1 house, late of John de Sharneford, completely destroyed through making the ditch of the town of'Leicester, at Whitsun, as contained in the said account-roll. 2 Loss of rent of 4 shops, late of John Cagge, now in the King's hand for lack of tenants and because the said shops are ruined and destroyed, nor could anything be raised from them, at the same term, as contained

MINISTERS' ACCOUNTS 215£ s. d.

therein, and by inquisition taken in the presence of the said auditors and delivered to the Exchequer under the seals of twelve sworn-men. 3 9 Loss [of rent] of 1 tenement called the Boys' Hall3 because the said tenement was enclosed within the enclosure of the Castle by order of Ellis de Stapelton, late Senes chal of the said Earl4 as contained therein and in the above-mentioned inquisition. 5i Rent paid to the abbot of Leicester for the barbican of the Castle situated on the ground of the same abbot, belonging to the church of the Blessed Mary, at the same term, as contained therein. 1 0 To the canons of the same church for the same, at the same term, as contained therein. 4

Total Expenses : 5 8j The said John owes : 1 7 11J

Stock. The same renders account of 2 mill horses and 9 swans received from Thomas le Rous, sheriff of Leicester, by the indenture made between the same Thomas and Robert de Gaddesby, locum tenens of Roger Beler, keeper of the aforesaid Castle and honor; and they remain. For these the same Robert de Gaddesby answers below.The same renders account of 2 tables with 1 pair of trestles, 6 fixed tables, 1 table for the measures, 12 benches, 7 pairs of trestles, 1 long seat, 3 dressers, 1

3Cf. Leics. Borough Rec., I, 195. Duchy of Lancaster, Ancient Deeds, Nos. 2244-2247.

4Seneschal of the honor of Leicester c. 1306-1311. He appears in 1307 as one of the household clerks of Barl Thomas (Cal. Close Rolls, 42), and received pardon as such in 1313 (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 24) and in 1318 (Ibid., 235). In 1314 he was presented to the church of Farthinghoe in the diocese of Lincoln (Cal. Pat. Rolls,, 181); and in 1321 and 1322 appears as the parson of Swaton, co. Lincoln (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 28, 32; Cal. Close Rolls, 441, 582). He was one of the executors of the will of Earl Thomas in 1327 (Cal. Close Rolls, IS, 66, 137; Cal Pat. Rolls, 169).

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long moveable seat, 1 screen, 4 iron posts for the hangings of a bed, 1 counting-table, 1 bin in the pantry for putting bread in, 2 joists for putting casks on, 3 casks of putrid wine of no value, 1 pulley, 3 boilers fixed in the fireplace, 3 old cooking-pots, 5 cupboards, 2 mortars with pestles, 80 Estriche boards,5 600 tiles, 1 large basket, 4 pairs of fetters, 4 hanging bars, 4 boards in the larder for a cupboard, 4 split planks, 2 boards in the bake'-house, 2 old mill stones with other mill gear, 6 chests for putting the toll in,6 1 new axle for the wheel of a mill, 2 chests in 2 wind mills, along with their other equipment. For these the said Robert answers below.

Again, LEICESTER CASTLE. John de Keithorpe, Porter of the said Castle, appointed by Roger Beler on the surety of John de Tilton, Walter de Busceby, Richard de Keithorpe, William de Keithorpe and John de Sadyngton, renders his account in the presence of the said auditors from the aforesaid 13th June to 29th September, next following.

The same renders account of:£ s. d.

Assized rent of divers tenants in the town of Leicester at Michaelmas, as contained in the said account-roll. 1 4 llf Rent of William de Mershton and Adam Pettelyng for 3 plots in the Saturday market, at the same term, as contained therein. 1 7 Rent of Robert Benettfor 1 lane near Bele- grave and of Thomas Sauvage for 1 lane near to his house, at the same term, as contained therein. 8 From 2 plots of land farmed out to Walter de Busceby and John de Cave, at the same term, as contained therein. 2|

STimber coming from Norway or the Baltic (Shorter Oxford Diet.) In Leics. Borough Rec, Miss Bateson translates 'floor boards'.

sThese would probably be similar to the old Borough Chamberlains' chest, preserved in the City Guildhall.


£ s. d.Rent of Nicholas le Mercer for l£ acres of land at Kingeshulyate, at the same term, as contained therein. 2 Rent of William le Baker for 1 plot of land in Otegate, at the same term, as contained therein. 4 Rent of William Sharpe for 1 plot of land near to the river Soar, at the same term, as contained therein. 3 Rent of the abbot of I^eicester for the fishery in the river Soar, at the same term, as contained therein. 2 2^ Rent of Margery Lombe for 1 small plot near to the garden of the friars preachers, at the same term, as contained therein. 1 Rent of John de Knyghtcote, Junior, for 1 plot of land at the end of his yard, at the same term, as contained therein. 2 Rent of John de Covyntre for 1 plot of land near to the Castle garden, at the same term, as contained therein. 2 From 1 plot of waste in the Saturday market farmed out to Henry Flemyng, at the same term, as contained therein. 2 Rent of John Mareschal for the site of 1 pair of thraves outside the east door of the forge of the same John, at the same term, as contained therein. 1 Rent of Roger de Burton for 1 foot of land for a postern-gate, at the same term, as contained therein. 1 Rent of Nicholas I/engynour for 1 house in Soar lane, granted to him for the term of his life by a deed of the Earl for the service of Id. p.a., at the same term, as contained therein. 1 Herbage of the old garden within the enclosure of the Castle. 4 4 Sale of herbage of the new garden. 1 6

2l8 LEICESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY£ S. d.

Ward of cattle and sheep of the township of Knyghton caught on the demesne lands and impounded. 378 Delivery of the prisons during the afore said time. 18 4 Sale of 2 cooking-pots found in the Castle. 9 0 Sale of 6 swans, on the account. 113

Expenses. Total Receipts: 7 13 4Of which he accounts for in :

Loss of rent of 1 house, late of John de Sharneford, completely destroyed through making the ditch of the town of Leicester, at Michaelmas, as contained in the said account-roll. 2 Loss of rent of 4 shops, late of John Cagge, now in the King's hand for lack of tenants and because the said shops are ruined and destroyed, nor could anything be raised from them, at the same term, as contained therein, and by inquisition taken in the presence of the said auditors and delivered to the Exchequer under the seals of 12 sworn-men. 3 9 Loss of rent of 1 tenement called the Boys' Hall because the said tenement was enclosed within the enclosure of the Castle by order of Ellis de Stapelton, late Senes chal of the said Earl, as contained therein and in the above-mentioned inquisition. 5j Rent paid to the abbot of Leicester for the barbican of the Castle situated on the ground of the same abbot, belonging to the church of the Blessed Mary, at the same term, as contained therein. 1 0 To the canons of the same church for the same, at the same term, as contained therein. 4

Total Expenses : 5 8

MINISTERS' ACCOUNTS a, 19£ s. d.

The said John owes on the above- mentioned surety: 778

Stock. The same renders account of 2 mill horses left over Horses, from the account of John de Freseby, Porter of the

said Castle, as contained therein; and delivered to John Marwe and John de Norton, keepers of the mills, as below.

Swans. The same renders account of 9 swans left over from the account of the said John de Freseby, as contained above. Of which, 6 sold, above; and 3 swans remain, for which Robert de Gaddesby answers below in the year 1322-23.

Deadstock. [As under 'Stock' above, pp. 55-56.] Of which he accounts for 2 cooking-pots sold, as above; and the rest remains in the keeping of the aforesaid Robert de Gaddesby, for which he answers below in the year 1322-23.

THE MILLS OF LEICESTER, WITH THE OVENS. John le Marue and John de Norton, keepers of the 2 water-mills and the 2 wind-mills, and of the 6 ovens, render their account in the presence of the aforesaid auditors from the aforesaid 24th March to 12th April, next following.

The same render account of:£ s. d

Sale of 4 qr. 2^ bus. wheat, and 4 qr. 2 bus. maslin, issue of the said mills during the aforesaid time. 5 2 10J Carriage-dues of 2 horses hired for carry ing corn to the aforesaid mills during the aforesaid time. 2 6 Sale of fish caught at the bays of the ponds of the aforesaid mills during the aforesaid time. 7 Sale of 2 mill horses. 1 10 0 Farm of 6 ovens thus leased from 29th September, 1321 to the said 12th April, next following. 7 10 0

Total Receipts 14 5 11J

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Expenses.(Of which he accounts for in :

£. s. d.Tithe paid to the Prior of Ware for issue of the said mills. 10 3j And paid to William de Otrehampton, receiver of the revenues of the aforesaid mills, appointed by the King's writ, through Ralph de Osberston, Henry de Belegrave, John de Stokton, and Henry de Skeftyngton, farmers of the said'ovens, by 6 tallies. 6 15 8 To the same by 1 letter of acquittance. 700

Total Expenses : 14 5 llj) They are quit.

Horses. The same render account of 2 mill horses received from John de Keythorpe, Porter of the Castle of Leicester, and xsold above. • Quit.

[m. 1 d.] Again, THE MILLS AND OVENS OF LEICESTER. William le Palmere, Walter de Busceby, William de Appelby, John de Busceby, Peter le Palmere, Robert le Palmere, Richard de Anelepe [Wanlip] and Ivo of the abbey of Leicester, farmers of the said mills and ovens, render their account in the presence of the said auditors for the same time as below.

The same render account of:£ s. d.

From the said 4 mills and 6 ovens farmed out to them by Roger Belers, keeper of the Castle and honor of Leicester, for £36 p.a., to be rendered to the King at the terms of Easter and Michaelmas, viz., from 12th April, 1322 to 29th September, next following. 18 0 0

Total Receipts: 18 0 0


Payments. "(Of which they account for :

Paid to William Davy, appointed receiver £ s. d. of the aforesaid Castle and honor by patent writ of the King, by 1 tally. 920

Total Expenses: 9 2 0 ) The aforesaid farmers owe : 8 18 0

DEMESNE LANDS AND MEADOWS OF THE CASTLE OF LEICESTER. Walter de Busceby, Henry de Barkeby, and Thomas Chambreleyn, farmers of the demesne lands and meadows of the Castle of Leicester, render their account in the presence of the said auditors from the aforesaid 24th March to 29th September, next following.

The same render account of:From the demesne lands and meadows £ s. d. thus farmed out to them p.a. in the time of the said Earl, at the terms of Easter and Michaelmas, as contained in the said account-rolls of the time of the same Earl delivered to the Exchequer. 50 0 0

Total Receipts: 50 0 0Payments.(Of which they account for:

Paid to William de Otrehampton, receiver of the said Castle and honor, through Henry de Barkeby, by 1 letter of acquittance. 650 To William Davy, his successor, through the same Henry, farmer of a fourth part of the aforesaid lands and meadows, through Robert de Gaddesby, which William in person acknowledged on this account. 650)

Total Payments : 12 10 0 Owed to the King : 37 10 0


Of this, Walter de Busceby, fanner of two parts of the said lands and meadows, owes £25, which are respited to him at the Exchequer, and Thomas le Chambre- leyn, farmer of a fourth part of the said lands and meadows, owes £12 10s. Od., as the aforesaid Henry and Walter say.

THE REEVESHIP OF LEICESTER. Walter de Busceby, improver and fanner of the reeveship of Leicester, renders his account in the presence of the said auditors from the aforesaid 24th March, 1322 to 29th September, next following.


Revenue of the aforesaid reeveship from the said 24th March to 12th April next following, for 19 days of account. 3 17 llf Same from 29th September, 1321, to the aforesaid day of April, as contained in the account-roll of the said reeveship rendered in the presence of Robert de Silkeston and Roger de Gildesburgh, auditors of the accounts of forfeited lands in co. Leicester, and delivered to the Exchequer. 40 0 0 From the aforesaid reeveship thus farmed out to the same Walter, William de Lynderiche, Richard Cagge, Henry de Petelyng, Adam le Tannour, Nicholas de Knaptoft and Robert the Clerk by Roger Belers, keeper of the said Castle and honor of Leicester, from the said 12th April to 29th September next following, as contained therein; and no more because 55 0 0 there was nobody who, on account of the poverty of the tenants of the said town and the devastation of the vicinity through the arrival of the King's army and other magnates in the time of the disturbance, was willing to, or even could, farm it; and because it seemed to the aforesaid Roger

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£ s. d.more to fhe King's advantage to farm it out rather than retain it in the King's hand, he farmed the said reeveship to the said farmers for the above-mentioned farm.

Total Receipts : 58 17 ll|Payments.(Of which the same accounts for:

Paid to William Davy, receiver of the aforesaid Castle and honor, by 2 tallies. 48 0 0

Total Payments: 48 0 0 Owed to the King: 10 17 llf

Of this, £3 17s. llfd. of the revenue of the said reeveship from 24th March, 1322 to 12th April, next fol lowing, are respited to the said Walter, along with £36 2s. Oj-d. of arrears of the revenue of the said reeveship from 29th September, 1321 to the aforesaid 24th March, next following, the total of which is the amount of debt of the said Walter of the revenue of the said reeveship respited : £40; and the said Walter owes £7.)

LEICESTER FOREST. Roger Anneys, receiver of the revenues of the forest of Leicester, renders his account in the presence of the aforesaid auditors for the same time as above.


For cattle agisted in the reserved parts from 14th September to 29th September. 2 15 2 Sale of the crops of 32 oak-trees felled for making a fence round the forest. 109 Sale of the barks of 10 of the said oaks. 4 2 Sale of old fencing round the said forest. 8 6 Sale of 545 perches of old hedge in places round the said forest. 4 12 6j Sale of old stakes in the same forest. 14 8

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Sale of fern in the reserved parts. 4 6 Sale of nuts there. 2 0 Perquisites of the wood-mote of Hethilye during the aforesaid time. 1 16 8

Total Receipts : 11 18 lljExpenses.Of which he accounts for in:

Tithe paid to the Prior of Ware for the agistment of cattle, the sale of crops and barks of oaks felled, and nuts, as above. 8 2j Wages of 1 man repairing holes in the roofs of the houses at the Lodge in the said forest, with 2 qrs. of lime bought for pointing the said houses. 4 7 Removing 418 perches of old hedge round the forest at Kyngkeshull, Gillewro, and near to the roads of Groby and Clenfeld, and remaking it again with new, and partly old, timber, and resetting it, viz., at lid. a perch. 2 12 3 Purchase of 13 qrs. li bus. of maslin for the allowances of 2 foresters and 2 fencers repairing and mending holes in the fence round the forest, as customary, for the year, apart from the fence newly made round the same, from the said 24th March to 30th September, and of 2 foresters from 6th April to 30th September : price per qr., 7s., a qr. given per 12 weeks. 4 10 8f Wages of the said 2 fencers, each taking 5s. p.a. during the aforesaid time. 5 0 Wages of the said 4 foresters during the aforesaid time, each taking A mark p.a. 13 4 Fee of the master-forester for keeping the said forest during the aforesaid time, taking £5 p.a. 2 10 0 Wages of the aforesaid receiver during the aforesaid time, taking £ mark p.a. 3 4

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Payments. *(Paid to William Davy, receiver of theaforesaid Castle and honor, by 1 tally. 7 9jTo the same William, on the presentaccount, without a tally. 2 ll)

Total Expenses and Payments : 11 9 Oj[11 18 llj]

He owes; 9 11 [He is quit.]

SALE OF WOOD IN THE SAME FOREST.Geoffrey Boner, Robert Campeon and Robert Fitz- Simon, sellers of wood in the same forest, render their account in the presence of the said auditors for the same time as above.

The same render account of:£ s. d.

Sale of timber which belonged to Robert de Holand7 found within the said forest in the Coppice of Gilwro. 1 6 10

Total Receipts: 1 6 10(This they account for as having paid themselves to William Davy, the aforesaid receiver of the aforesaid Castle and honor.)

CARLETON BAILIWICK. Roger de Pikeryng, bailiff in fee, of Carleton, renders his account through his sub-bailiff, Robert Hereward, in the presence of the aforesaid auditors, for the same time as above.

The same renders account of:

'A typical knight of Earl Thomas of Lancaster's household; styled by the chroniclers as 'principal counsellor' and secretarius. For many years his receiver and chief confident, Holland deserted his master in 1322 and died a traitor's death in 1328. (M. Malmesb., 267; Ann. Paulini, 342.)


£ S. d.Rent of Thomas Rypers for his tenements in Wilughby, at the terms of Whitsun and Michaelmas. 6 8 Perquisites of two views of Ilveston' and Museley, after Easter. 2 12 4 Small perquisites of the court of Leicester within the said bailiwick during the afore said time. 12 8

Total Receipts: 3 11 8Payments.(Of which the same accounts for :

Paid to William de Otrebampton, receiver there, by 1 tally. 1 15 4 To William Davy, his successor there, by 2 tallies. 1 10 0 To the same William through Oliver de Waleys, sheriff of Leicester, who in person acknowledged it. 45

Total Payments: 399) The said Robert owes : 1 11

HYNCKELE BAILIWICK. Maynard Pynzon, bailiff in fee there, renders his account through his sub- bailiff, William de Hoghton', in the presence of the aforesaid auditors, for the same time as above.


Perquisites of 1 view at Hinckele after Easter. 8 0 Small perquisites of the court of Leicester in the same bailiwick during the aforesaid time. 1 8

Total Receipts: 9 8This he accounts for as having paid himself to the aforesaid William Davy, receiver there. He is quit.

MINISTERS' ACCOUNTS 227[m.2.] SYLEBY .BAILIWICK. Nicholas de Belagrave,

bailiff of Sileby, renders his account in the presence of the aforesaid auditors from the aforesaid 24th March to 30th September, next following.

The same renders account of :£ s. d.

Rent of free tenants within the bailiwick of Syleby at the terms of Easter, Whitsun and Michaelmas. 1 7 Oj From the abbot of Leicester for holding view of frankpledge of the tenants of the aforesaid Earl in Lokyngton, granted to him by a deed of the aforesaid Earl, after Easter. 6 8 From John de Segrave for holding view of frankpledge of the tenants of the aforesaid Earl in Syleby and Thernby, granted to the aforesaid John and the heirs of his body by a deed of the same Earl, after Easter. 1 0 Perquisites of 1 view in Syleby after Easter. 16 8 Perquisites of 1 view in the vill of Tye after the same. 1 0 Perquisites of 1 view in Goteham after the same. 5 3 Small perquisites of the court of Leicester in the said bailiwick during the aforesaid time. 170

Total Receipts: 3 18 2j Payments. (Of which he accounts for:

£ s. d.Paid to William de Otrehampton, receiverof the aforesaid Castle and honor, by 1 tally. 6 1\To William Davy, his successor. 2 11 7In expenses of Robert de Silkeston andand Henry of Leicester, auditors appointedby the King, for viewing accounts of


£ S. d.forfeited lands in co. Leicester, before anyfee was assigned to them. 1 00)

Total Expenses and Payments : 3 18 2| He is quit.

DERSFORD BAILIWICK. Richard de Segrave, bailiff in fee, of Dersford, renders his account through his sub-bailiff, William de Hoghton', in the presence of the aforesaid auditors for the same time as above.

The same renders his account of :£ s. d.

Perquisites of 1 view at Dersford after Easter. 8 2 Perquisites of the court of Leicester in the said bailiwick during the aforesaid time. 7

Total Receipts: 8 9This he accounts for as paid to William Davy, receiver of the said Castle and honor, on the account, who acknowledges it in person. He is quit.

SHULTON' BAILIWICK. William de Hoghton', bailiff of Shulton', renders his account in the presence of the aforesaid auditors for the same time as above.

The same renders his account of:£ s. d.

Assized rent of free tenants within the said bailiwick at the terms of Easter and Michaelmas, with 1 Ib. cummin., rent at the said term of Easter. 4 ij Rent of Robert de Champaigne for 35 acres, 1 rood of waste, which he holds by a deed of the Earl in Shulton', at the same terms. 17 7i Rent of Richard de Shulton' for 9 acres of land there, at the same terms. 6 0


Rent of*Ralph de Turreville for 30£ acres of land there, at the same terms. 100 Perquisites of 1 view at Shulton', after Easter. 174 Perquisites of the court of Leicester within the said bailiwick during the aforesaid time. 9

Total Receipts: 3 15 10Payments.(Of which he accounts for :

Paid to William de Otrehampton, receiver of the said Castle and honor, by 1 tally. 200 To William Davy, his successor. 11 10 In expenses of the aforesaid Robert de Silkeston and Henry of Leicester, auditors, for taking views of accounts of the afore said lands in the said county, before any fee was assigned to them. 1 40)

Total Expenses : 3 15 10 He is quit.

CLENFELD BAILIWICK. Walter Courteamor, bailiff of Clenfeld, renders his account in the presence of the said auditors for the same time as above.


Sale of 3 barbed arrows, rent at the term of Whitsun. l£ Perquisites of the court of Leicester within the said bailiwick during the aforesaid time. 3

Total Receipts : 4^

This he accounts'for as paid to William Davy, receiver there, without a tally, who in person acknowledged it.


BAILIWICK OF THE HONOR OF LEICESTER IN WARWICKSHIRE. John de Glenne, bailiff there, renders his account in the presence of the said auditors for the same time as above.


Rent of Thomas de Cambville for his tene ments in Lappeworth, at the terms of Easter and Michaelmas. 2 0 Rent of Henry de Montfort for the tene ments late of John Bedelli, thus leased to him yearly, at the same terms. 2 6 Rent of Robert de Brome in Lappeworth, at the terms of Easter and Michaelmas. 4 0 Wardship of the lands of Hugh de Braun- deston, in the King's hand by reason of wardship, farmed out to Robert le Mare- schal, at the same terms. 4 0 From a fixed view of frankpledge of the township of Ilmedon, after Easter. 5 0 Perquisites of 1 view at Brinkelowe and 1 view at Merssheton Boteler, after Easter. Ill 2 Farm of the bailiff for having his bailiwick. 13 4

Total Receipts: 320 This is respited to him at the Exchequer.

BAILIWICK OF THE HONOR OF LEICESTER IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Ralph Knot, bailiff of the honor of Leicester in co. Northampton, renders his account in the presence of the aforesaid auditors from the aforesaid 24th March to 16th September, next following.


Assized rent of Hawis de Keygnes at the term of Easter. 13 4 Rent of free tenants in Assheby Legger at the term of Whitsun. 13 10}

MINISTERS ACCOUNTS 23!£ s. d.

Rent ol Simon de Thorp for 1 sore sparrow-hawk, at the term of St. James, [25th July.] 2 0 From 1 horse-mill in Lilleborne farmed out for £2 p.a., viz., at the term of Easter. 100 From 1 plot of meadow there, farmed out at 3s. 6d. p.a., viz., at Easter. 1 9 From 1 plot of land there, farmed out at 6d. p.a., viz., at the same term. 3 From the tenements late of Geoffrey the Clerk in Assheby logger, in the King's hand by reason of the minority of the heir of the said Geoffrey, at Easter. 3 From the tenements late of John Gilbert there, in the King's hand for the same reason, at the same term. 4 From the tenements late of John Bacheler, Roger Bacheler, Robert Bacheler and Richard Harme there, in the King's hand for the same reason, thus farmed out, at the same term. 5 8 Farm of the bailiff for having his bailiwick for the half year. 13 4 Perquisites of 1 view and the court at Lillebourne, Esthaddon, and Helmeden, during the aforesaid time. 1 10 0

Total Receipts: 509

Of this, £5 Os. 3d. is respited to him at the Exchequer, and he owes 6d.

Again, BAILIWICK OF THE HONOR OF LEICESTER IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. John Knot, bailiff there, renders his account in the presence of the aforesaid auditors from 16th September, 1322 to 29th September, next following.

The same renders account of:

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Assized rent of free tenants in Assheby Legger, at Michaelmas. 13 10J Farm of 1 horse-mill in Lilleborne, at the same term. 100 From 1 plot of meadow there, thus farmed out, at the same term. 1 9 From 1 plot of land there farmed out to John Nicol, at the same term. 3 From the tenements late of Geoffrey the Clerk, John Gilbert, John Muryel, John Bacheler, Roger Bacheler, Robert Bache- ler, and Richard Harme in Assheby logger, in the King's hand by reason of the minority of their [heirs], thus farmed out, at the said Michaelmas. 6 3 Perquisites of 1 court at Lilleborne, Esthaddon, and Helmeden, during the aforesaid time. 17 2

Total Receipts : 2 19 3| This is respited to him at the Exchequer.

HYNCKELE. Thomas le Parker, park-keeper of Hynkele, renders his account in the presence of the aforesaid auditors from the aforesaid 24th March to 13th April, next following.


Rent of free tenants in Hinckele, at the term of Easter. 5 6f He does not answer for the rents and ser vices of the customary tenants, and for 2 acres of land which Geoffrey le Parker and Robert Cock hold there, and for the produce of the demesne lands of Hinkele manor, because Robert Fitz-Nigell holds the said lands, rents and services, by grant of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, value £20 p.a., ceded to the same Robert for the


term of Robert's life by a deed of the saidEarl.8From 5 plots of waste in the market farmedout to Roger Fabro, Richard Fabro,Roger Randulf, Henry Godebody, andWilliam Wodero, for enlarging theirmessuages, at the said Easter term. 1 0From 2 plots of waste in the market farmedout to Simon Vityngg and John Frere, atthe same term. 10From 60 acres of land in Stokkyng farmedout to John de Hertwell, at the same term. 10 0From 1 virgate of land in Sheynton farmedout to William Sampson, at the same term. 5 0From 2 small plots of waste farmed out toRobert Cok and Robert Inddeman forenlarging their messuages, at the sameterm. 1From 1 cottage farmed out to John leMareschale, at the same term. 8From 1 plot of waste farmed out to Johnde Athreston' to build a forge on, at thesame term. 1 0He does not answer for the herbage andfruit of 1 garden, the easement of thehouses of the chief messuage, the herbageof 1 mound there, extended at £1 p.a.,the income from the toll, market and fairof the Borough, which in the time of theEarl used to be farmed out for £23 6s. 8d.,during the aforesaid time, because Johnde Lilleborne holds them for the term ofhis life in part payment of 40 marks p.a.granted to him by a deed of the said Earl;which are now in the King's hand by

sin 1303 Robert le Fuiz Neel received pardon for entering, without licence, into lands to the value of £20 p.a. in the manor of Hynkele, which are held in chief, by demise for life of Thomas, Earl of Lan caster; and licence for him to have them again. (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 146).

234 LEICESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY£ s. d.

reason of the forfeiture of the said John.Robert de Gaddesby, keeper of theforfeited lands in Leicestershire, exceptthe lands and tenements of the same Earl,ought to answer for the revenues fromthese; and he answers separately at theend of this membrane.From 1 plot of land called Colyndychefarmed out to the tenants of Castle End,9at the same term. 8

Total Receipts: 1 4 9| Payments.

Of which, paid to William Davy, Receiver of the aforesaid Castle and honor of Leicester, who in person acknowledged it on the account. 10 0

Total Payments : 10 0 He owes : 14 9|

[w. 2 d.] Again, HINKEI/E. Reginald Atte Hulle, park-keeper of Hynkele renders his account in the presence of the aforesaid auditors from 13th April, 1322 to 29th September, next following.


Rent of free tenants in Hinkele, at Michaelmas. 5 6f From 5 plots of waste in the market fanned out to Roger Fabro, Richard Fabro, Roger Randulf, Henry Godebody and William Woderone, at the same term. 1 0 From 2 plots of waste in the market farmed out to Simon Vityng and John Frere, at the same term. 10

»One of the streets in Hinckley. Cf. Nichols, Hist. Leics. IV, 669.

MINISTERS ACCOUNTS£ s. d.

From 60 acres of land in le Stokkyngg, farmed out to John de Hertwell, at the same term. 10 0 From ij virgates of land farmed out in Sheynton to William Sampson, at the same term. 5 0 Rent of 1 virgate of land in Sheynton, at Michaelmas. Oi From 2 small plots of waste farmed out to Robert Cok and Robert Inddeman, for enlarging their messuages, at the same term. 1 From 1 cottage fanned out to John le Mareschal, at the same term. 8 From 1 plot of waste farmed out to John de Athreston, for building a forge thereon, at the same term. 1 0 From 1 plot of land called Colyndiche, farmed out to the tenants of Castle End, at the same term. 8 Sale of herbage of 1 plot called Priourslesn in the park of Shydey. 15 0 Sale of the herbage of Muryhurst and Middelmor in the same park. 5 0 Sale of the herbage of the great meadow in Shydey and of 3 plots of meadow in the same, estimated at 17$ acres, on the account. 1 14 0 Underwood sold in the same park. 130 Sale of old hedges in the same park. 3 4 Sale of old hay in the said manor. 3 4

Total Receipts: 5 8 6i

Expenses. Payments.Of this he accounts for in:

Tithe paid for herbage and underwood sold in the park, as above. 4 3%


£ s. d.Removing 30 perches of old fence in places round the park of Shydey, and renewing same. 2 6 Re-making 23 perches of fence round the mound of the Castle and manor. 1 11 Wages of the aforesaid Reginald, the park-keeper, during the aforesaid time. 5 0 (And paid to William Davy, receiver of the Castle and honor of Leicester, by 2 tallies. 1 18 5f

Total Expenses and Payments : 2 12 2j) The said Reginald owes : 2164

SHUI/TON'. William Hamnond, reeve of Shulton1 , renders his account in the presence of the aforesaid auditors from the aforesaid 24th March, 1322 to 10th July, next following, before the King, by his writ given at York on the aforesaid 10th July,f [in which it is contained that when Thomas, late Earl of Lancaster, with the assent of Edmund his father, married Alice, the daughter of Henry de Lacy, late Earl of Lincoln, at the door of the church, he dowered her with Newcastle under Lyme, the borough there, and the vills of Penkhull, Shep- rugge, Wolstaneston, and Clayton, and all their other appurtenances in co. Stafford, together with the manors of Dersford and Shulton' with the parks and their other appurtenances in co. Leicester; and the same Edmund put the said Thomas and Alice in peaceful seisin of the aforesaid Castle, borough, manors, vills and parks, thus to hold in dower or dowry] orders Roger Beler, the keeper of the aforesaid Castle, borough, manors, vills and parks, which after the death of the same Thomas were taken into the King's hand, not to intermeddle further, and by the same writ to deliver to the aforesaid Alice or her attorneys in this part the revenue collected from them since the time of

fCf. Cal. Close Rolls, 578-579; Cal. Pat. Rolls, 182.

MINISTERS' ACCOUNTS 237their seizure into the King's hand; and by another writ of the King, given at York on 16th July next following, that he should deliver by the same writ all grain, of whatever kind, and grass and hay- growing in the said borough, vills and manors to the aforesaid Alice or her attorneys in this part.


Sale of 5 bus. beans, which Robert de Gaddesby, locum tenens of Roger Beler, received from Thomas le Rous, sheriff of I/eicester, by indenture. 8 4 Sale of 5 cart-loads of old hay, 1 rick of straw, 4 baskets for manure, 2 tables with trestles, 2 fixed tables, 2 benches, 1 long moveable seat which the same Robert received by the same indenture. 154 Sale of 1,500 old laths found in the said manor, not in the said indenture. 2 6

Total Receipts: 1 16 2(This he accounts for as paid to William de Oter- hampton, receiver of the said Castle and honor.)

DERSFORD. Robert Brock, reeve of Dersford, renders his account in the presence of the aforesaid auditors from the aforesaid 24th March to 10th July, next following, before the said manor was handed over to the aforesaid Alice Lacy, with the revenues col lected from the time of its seizure into the King's hand, and the grain, grass and hay growing in the same, allocated by the writ of the King, as above, in the account of the manor of Shulton'.


Sale of 1 cart-load of old hay, 1 ladder, the hides of 2 calves which the aforesaid Robert de Gaddesby received from the aforesaid Thomas le Rous by the said indenture. 2 4


Sale of bean-straw found in the said manor, not in the indenture. 5 8 Sale of old chaff found there. 2 6 Sale of old timber found there. 4 0 Milk of 18 cows farmed out from the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross [3rd May] until Michaelmas next following. 1 16 0 Sale of 8 oxen. 5 18 0 Sale of the hide of 1 calf, of murrain. 2

Total Receipts: 888Expenses.Of which he accounts for in :

Food and wages of 1 man keeping 60 of the King's cattle until the feast of the Assumption of the B.V. Mary. [15th August.] 11 0 Driving the aforesaid cattle from Dersford to Tuttebur' and there delivering them to William de Birchouere, 10 appointed by Roger Beler to keep the King's stock. 1 0 Wages of 1 fencer repairing and mending holes in the fence round the park during the aforesaid time. 1 4

Payments.(And paid to William de Oterhampton,,receiver of the aforesaid Castle and honor,by 1 tally. 400To William Davy, his successor, throughWilliam de Birchouere, keeper of theKing's stud, appointed by Roger Beler forthis purpose. 3 15 4)

Total Expenses : 0 13 4 [8 8 8]

He owes : 7 15 4 [He is quit.]

Exchequer Accounts (Various) 100/11., 17 & 18 Edw. H, for particulars of the account of William de Birchouere of horses and cattle. 2 ms.

Stock. Oxen.


The same1 renders account of 8 oxen which the said Robert de Gaddesby received from the said Thomas le Rous by the said indenture; and sold, above. Quit.

Bulls The same renders account of 1 bull and 11 cows and received through the aforesaid Robert from the same Cows. Thomas by the said indenture; and handed over to

the aforesaid William de Birchouere. Quit. Heifers. The same renders account of 7 heifers, 1 of which in

calf, received through the said Robert from the same Thomas by the said indenture; and handed over to the said William de Birchouere. Quit.

Bullocks. The same renders account of 2 bullocks received through the aforesaid Robert from the same Thomas by the said indenture; and handed over to the said William de Birchouere. Quit.

Steers. The same renders account of 20 steers received through the aforesaid Robert from the same Thomas by the said indenture; and handed over to the said William de Birchouere. Quit.

Calves. The same renders account of 12 calves received through the aforesaid Robert from the same Thomas by the said indenture; and handed over to the said William de Birchouere. Quit.

Calves The same renders account of 4 calves born, received born. from the aforesaid Thomas through the said Robert

by the said indenture; and of 12 born from as many cows; and no more because 4 cows are barren. Of which 1 in tithe, and 1 in murrain whose hide is answered for above; and 14 handed over to William de Birchouere. Quit.

Robert de Gaddesby, keeper of forfeited land in co. Leicester, except the lands and tenements late of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, [renders account of] the herbage and fruit of 1 garden, the easement of the houses of the chief messuage, and the herbage of 1 mound at Hinckele, extended at £1 p.a., and the revenue from the Borough, toll, market and fair of Hinckele, which in the time of the Earl of Lancaster used to be farmed out for £23 6s. 8d. p.a., and which the said Earl granted


to John de Lilleborne by his deed for the term of the life of the said John, and which are in the King's hand by reason of the forfeiture of the said John, from 24th March, 1322.

[m. 3.] THE CASTLE AND MANOR OF DONYNTON. The account of Roger Beler, keeper of the Castle and manor of Donynton, late of Thomas, Earl of Lan caster, of the goods and chattels received from Ralph Basset, keeper of the said Castle and manor before the said Roger, by an indenture made between them, viz., of:

5i qrs. wheat, 7 qrs. 3 bus. winter-wheat, 3 qrs. 7 bus. barley, 2 qrs. 7 bus. pease, by the rase measure, in the granary; 20 qrs. wheat in the chapel; 12 qrs. wheat in the barn; 8 qrs. winter-wheat, 12 qrs. barley in the same barn, estimated in the rick; 3 cart-horses; 10 farm- horses; 1 foal; 17 oxen; 218 sheep; 10 pigs; 1 whale-bone cross-bow with strings; 6 wooden cross-bows, 3 of which lack strings; 47 bolts for the same; 1 basinet; 3 old haketons; 1 iron armour for a horse; 1 hauberk; 6 iron lance heads; 3 old brass pots; 2 old cauldrons; 1 brass cauldron; 1 chest; 1 iron stove; 1 cart; 2 iron-shod waggons; 2 remaining lots of old wine of no value; the rolls of the court of the said Castle and manor. 11 All these he handed over to Richard Mabbeson, elected reeve there in return for homage, by an indenture of them drawn up between the same Roger and Richard. The same Richard answers for these in his account of the said Castle and manor below.

Again, THE CASTLE AND MANOR OF DONYNTON. Richard Mabbeson, reeve there, elected in return for homage, renders his account in the presence of the aforesaid auditors from 24th March, 1322 to 16th July, next following, before Roger Beler, keeper of the said Castle and manor, delivered them to Hugh le Despenser, the Younger, by the King's patent

"The earliest surviving Court-roll for Castle Donington is for 36 Henry VI, 1457. Court Rolls, 80/1090.


writ, sdong with the goods and chattels in them, by another writ of the King, and by an indenture of them made between the same Roger and Robert Jorce of Loghteburgh and Richard de Noel of Donynton, attorneys of the said Hugh by his letters patent.


Rent of free men, villeins, and cottars of the said manor, at the term of the Annun ciation [25th March.] 19 8 1 Rent of 34J cottages and £ part of 1 cottage, outside the gate of the vill, on le Barre- wonge, at the same term. 1 14 7j Rent of 2 cottages outside the gate, at the same term. 9 Rent of Caldon, at the same term. 17 3| Rent there at the same term. 5j Rent of 1 virgate of land in Wylyngton, at the terms of the Annunciation and St. John the Baptist [24th June]. 4 0 Farm of the common oven, at the term of the Annunciaton. 180 Rent of 3 virgates of land in Tykenhale, at the terms of the Annunciation and St. John. 15 0 Rent of John Abel for 21 acres of land there, at the term of the Annunciation. 5 4£ Rent of the Prior of Repyngdon for 35 acres of waste at Bollehaghe, at the term of the Annunciation. 8 9 Rent of Thomas, servant of Robert Abel, for 2 acres of waste in Tykenhale, at the same term. 6 Rent of William Dassewell for 9i acres 1 rood of waste there, at the same term. 2 5 Rent of William Barfot for 8 acres 3 roods of waste there, at the same term. 2 2^


£ S. d.Rent of John Russell for 30 acres of waste there, at the same term. 6 8 Rent of John Fitz-Henry for 3 acres of waste there at the same term. 9 Rent of John de Bollehaghe for 3 acres of waste there, at the same term. 9 Rent of Henry Adthelyn for 2 acres of waste there, at the same term. 6 Rent of Simon Bertrey for 2 acres of waste there, at the same term. 6 Rent of Simon Fitz-Alan for 1 acre of waste there, at the same term. 3 Rent of Henry Barfot for 3 acres 1 rood of waste there at the same term. 4j Rent in Ravenston, at the same term. 3 11 Rent of John Coci for 8^ acres of land on le Spittelcliffe, at the same term. 1 0 Rent of Rodynton, which is called Warnot, at the term of St. John the Baptist. 10 0 Rent of the Abbot of Chester, for having a way through the middle of the lord's meadow for carrying his hay of le Stener over the Trent, at the same term. 12 1 0 Fishing by net in the Trent, thus farmed out during the aforesaid time. 14 2 Corbel fishing at the mills, at the term of the Annunciation. 124 Farm of two parts of the ferry over the Trent, with the boat, at the term of the Annunciation; and no more because the Abbot of Chester holds the third part of the ferry, worth 9s. 5jd. p.a., as he held it in

i2By an agreement, dated 17 Feb., 1309/10, Henry of Lacy granted to the abbot and convent of St. Werburgh's, Chester, one third of the profits of the ferry across the Trent at 'le Bargeford', and a right of way to carry their hay from 'le Stener' through the Earl's pasture called 'Langholmford'. In return the abbot and convent were to render 12d. p.a., to contribute to the upkeep of the ferry boat, and to allow the boat to land in 'Wilne* on the far side of the Trent without hindrance. (Duchy of Lancaster, Misc. 1/21).'


the time of Henry de Lacy, late Earl of Lincoln." 9 5j Fish from the Borrokke's mill, Depdraght, and le Flodeyates, sold during the afore said time. 6 8 Rent in Swanyngton, at the term of John the Baptist. 11 4 From separate pasture and the agistment of cattle in the park, during the aforesaid time. 2 10 0 Sale of 36 qrs. 5 bus. wheat, wholesale: price, 14s. per qr. 25 12 9 Sale of 9 qrs. 3 bus. winter wheat: price, 11s. per qr. 5 3 1$ Sale of 12 qrs. 7 bus. barley: price, 9s. perqr. 5 15 10J Sale of 2 qrs. 2 bus. multure, and 2 qrs. malt barley, issue from the mill: price, 10s. 4d. perqr. 2 3 11 View of frankpledge there, after Easter. 15 10 Perquisites of the court there during the aforesaid time. 1 19 9

Total Receipts : 73 18 4jExpenses.Of which he accounts for in :

Second tithe paid to the Hospital of St. John [of Donington] for 34j cottages and £ part of 1 cottage outside the gate of the vill on le Barrewonge, which used to be tithed again in the time of the Earl, as con tained in the account-rolls at the time of the same delivered to the Exchequer, at the term of the Annunciation. 3 Ij Tithe and second tithe paid to the receiver of Donynton and to the aforesaid hospital for passage dues over the Trent with the boat, the agistment of cattle, and the sale of pasture above. 11 3j


Loss of rent of 5 acres of waste in Tiken- hale which were arrented to the Prior of Rependon and enclosed by the same Prior, and afterwards overrun by the men of Mel- borne because the said waste was their common, viz., for the aforesaid term, as contained in the aforesaid rolls. 1 3 Iron and steel bought for the plough shares of 4 ploughs, with the wages of a smith for making 2 new ploughs, for heading 3 ploughs, and 1 plough-share bought new. 8 10 Cart-clouts13 and nails bought for one cart, 2 pairs of traces, 3 new horse-collars, tallow, grease, and 1 horse hide to bleach. 4 8 8 cart-clouts and nails for 1 waggon, mending the body of the same, and fitting axles once to the said waggon. 1 4 Shoes for 3 cart-horses and 9 farm-horses during the aforesaid time. 3 3 Hay and fodder bought to feed the horses and oxen during the aforesaid time, because the hay and the greater part of the fodder were destroyed by the men of the King's army. 7 6 Two sacks bought. 1 4 2 spades and 1 shovel, with irons, bought. 4$ Parchment for the court-rolls and 1 satchel for them, bought. 3 Dung for manuring 6 acres of land, bought. 16 1 Locks for the doors of the grange and the stable, with keys, bought, and carpentry for repairing the said doors, because the aforesaid doors were smashed and their locks carried away by the men of the King's army. 1 1 Mending the doors of the buttery, pantry, the lord's wardrobe and chamber, and re-

I'lron plates to protect axle-trees.


fitting fhe locks, for the same reason as above. 10 Threshing 32, qrs. wheat, 8 qrs. winter wheat, at 3d. per qr., and 12 qrs. barley, at l£d. per qr., and winnowing the said grain, viz., at 2d. per 9 qrs. 12 5i1 quart of white fat [lard], 2 Ibs. of grease, and \ gallon of tar[picche] for greasing the ewes. 1 4 Tending 10 pigs in the open field, and 2 basten ropes for the cattle bought during the aforesaid time. 8 Food and allowances of 8 servants on Easter day, as customary. 14 8 The reeve's wage during the aforesaid time. 5 9 Wages of 8 ploughmen, 1 carter, 1 hayward, 1 shepherd at the term of the Invention of the Holy Cross [3rd May]. 5 62 pieces of iron bought for the bills of amill, with the wages of a smith for makingthem and sharpening 200 nails for thewalls of the said mill; tallow and greasebought for the same. 1 8$1 pair of mill stones bought for the same. 15 0£ qr. pease bought in summer for theallowances of servants. 5 0Weeding 279 acres of grain of all kinds,altogether. 13 4Mowing 144 acres of meadow, at 5d. peracre. 300Tedding the grass of the said meadowsand making the hay, viz., 2|d. per acre. 1 10 0Remaking 97 perches of hedge round thepark, at ijd. per perch, because the oldhedge was carried off and burnt by themen of of the King's army in the time ofthe disturbance. 10 Ij

"For valuable remarks on the permanent body of manorial servants and on manorial administration generally, cf. H. S. Bennett's Life on the English Manor (1937), 188 etc.


£ S. d.Food and wages of 1 park-keeper keeping the said park during the aforesaid time. 4 0

Payments.(And paid to William de Otrehampton',receiver of the said Castle and manor, by1 letter*of acquittance and 5 tallies. 44 16 9£To William Davy, his successor, by 1letter of acquittance. 11 1 5)

Total Expenses and Payments : 67 4 11J Owed to the King : 6 13 5j

Of which, Richard Noel de Donynton owes £4 9s. Od., which he received from Nicholas de Hungreford and Richard del Doustes for the King's grain sold to the same Nicholas and Richard, for which Richard Noel answers below; and the said Richard Mabbeson, reeve, owes £2 4s. Sjd-Richard Noel owes £4 9s. Od., received from Nicholas de Hungreford and Richard del Doustes for the King's grain sold to them in the manor of Donynton in 1321-2, as contained above. Of this £4 9s. Od. Roger Beler, keeper of forfeited lands and tenements in Leicestershire, is charged in his account of the Castle and manor of Donington, in the said total receipts of £73 18s. 4jd., noted in detail above.

Granges.Wheat. The same renders account of 5$ qrs. wheat received in

the granary from Roger Beler, by an indenture as contained above; and of 32 qrs. wheat received in the rick both in the barn and in the chapel from the same Roger by the same indenture; and 4 bus. wheat, issue from the mill during the aforesaid time. Total received : 38 qrs. Of which in allowances to Richard del Doustes, keeper of the aforesaid Castle and manor during the aforesaid time, viz., for 16 weeks and 2 days: 1 qr. 3 bus.; and 36 qrs. 5 bus. sold, as above. Quit.

Winter The same renders account of 7 qrs. 3 bus. winter Wheat, wheat received in the granary from the aforesaid


Roger %y the said indenture; and 8 qrs. received from him in the rick as contained above. Total: 15 qrs. 3 bus. Of which, 6 qrs. in maslin for the allowances of servants, as below; and 9 qrs. 3 bus. sold as above. Quit.

Barley. The same renders account of 3 qrs. 7 bus. barley received in the granary from the same Roger by the said indenture; and 12 qrs. received from him in the rick, as contained above. Total received: 15 qrs. 7 bus. Of this, in maslin for the allowances of servants, as above: 3 qrs.; and 12 qrs. 7 bus. sold as above. Quit.

Pease. The same renders account of 2 qrs. 7 bus. pease received in the granary from the same Roger by the said indenture; and 4 bus. bought, as above, Total: 3 qrs. 3 bus. He accounts for the whole of this in allowances of servants, as below. Quit.

Malt. The same renders account of 2 qrs. malt, issue from the mill during the aforesaid time. Sold as above. Quit.

Maslin. The same renders account of 6 qrs. winter wheat, 3 qrs. barley, 3 qrs. 3 bus. pease received above for allowances of servants; and of 3 qrs. 1 bus. multure, issue from the mill during the aforesaid time. Total received: 15 qrs. 4 bus.; of which he accounts for in the allowances of 1 carter, 1 hayward, and 8 plough men from the aforesaid 24th March to 16th July next following, for 16 weeks, 2 days, each taking a qr. per 12 weeks, with the allowances of 1 shepherd for 4 weeks during the aforesaid time: 13 qrs. 2 bus.; and 2 qrs. 2 bus. sold, as above. Quit.

Stock. Horses. The same renders account of 3 cart-horses and 10 farm-

horses received from the aforesaid Roger by the afore said indenture. Total received: 13. Of which, 1 in murrain whose hide is bleached and used for cart harness; and 12 delivered to Hugh le Despenser by gift of the King, by a royal writ directed to Roger Belers, as contained above and in the indenture


between the same Roger and Robert Jorce of I<oghte- burgh and Richard Noel of Donynton, attorneys of the same Hugh.

Foals. The same renders account of 1 foal received from the same Roger by the said indenture; and delivered to the aforesaid Hugh by the said writ and indenture. Quit.

Oxen. The same renders account of 17 oxen received from the same Roger by the said indenture; and delivered to the aforesaid Hugh by the said writ and indenture. Quit.

Pigs. The same renders account of 10 pigs received from the same Roger by the said indenture; and delivered to the aforesaid Hugh by the said writ and indenture.

Sheep. The same renders account of 218 sheep received from the aforesaid Roger by the said indenture; and delivered to William de Birchouere, the King's stock- keeper, at Huntyndon, appointed before under the same Roger. Quit.

Dead Stock.The same renders account of 1 whale-bone cross-bow with strings, 6 wooden cross-bows 3 of which lack strings, 47 bolts for the same, 1 basinet, 3 old haketons, 1 iron armour for a horse, 1 hauberk, 6 iron lance heads, 3 old brass pots, 2 old cauldrons, 1 brass cauldron, 1 chest, 1 iron stove, 1 cart, 2 iron-shod waggons, 2 remaining lots of old wine of no value, and the rolls of the said Castle and manor, received from the said Roger by the said indenture, as con tained above; and of 4 ploughs and other implements, price 4s., 6 harrows, price, 6d., 1 measure for the mustard, price, 6d., 4 tables with trestles and 6 benches, price, 5s., 6 empty jars, price, 4s., 3 boilers fixed in the fireplace, price, 8s., 1 tray, price, 8d., 4 wedges, price, 3s., 1 bowl for alms, price, 6d., and 1 wooden bushel, price, 4d., found in the said Castle apart from the indentured goods; and all handed over to the aforesaid Hugh, by the said writ and the sai'd indenture.


(Public Record Office).

Ministers' Accounts, General Series1146/9.

[m.4d.] PARTICULE COMPOTORUM [DIUERSORUM MINISTRORUM] CASTRI ET HONORIS LEICES-

TRIE A XXIIIJ t0 DIE MARCIJ ANNO XV VSQUE FESTUM SANCTl MICHAEUS PROXIMO SEQUENTEM. ET AB EODEM FESTO SANCTl

MICHAELIS ANNO XVJ° VSQUE IIIJ DIEM JUUJ PROXIMO SEQUENTEM.

[m. l.J CASTRUM LEICESTR'. Johannes de Freseby Janitor Castri I<eic' per Galfridum de Skeftyngton' Senescallum ibidem positus per Rogerum Beler reddit compotum suum coram Willelmo Hereward et Thoma de Blaston' quos Rex per breve suum patens assignauit pro compotis terrarum forisfaetarum in Comitatu Leic" audiendis a xxiiij die Marcij anno XV vsque xiij diem Junij proximo sequentem.

Idem reddit compotum de xxiiij.s. xj. d. ob. de redditu assiso diuersorum tenencium in villa Leic' termino Pentecoste sicut continetur in rotulo compotorum tempore Comitis videlicet de anno xiiij ad Scaccarium liberato. Et de xix.d. de redditu Willelmi de Mersheton' et Ade Petelyng pro iij placeis terre in foro sabbati ad e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de viij.d. de redditu Roberti Benett pro j venella versus Belegraue et Thome Sauuauge pro j venella iuxta domum suam e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de ij.d. ob. qa. de ij placeis terre positis ad firmam Waltero de Busceby et Johanni de Cave e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de iiij.d. de redditu Willelmi le Baker pro j placea terre in Otegate ad e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de iij.d. de redditu Willelmi Sharpe pro j placea terre iuxta aquam de Sore sicut continetur ibidem. Et de ij.s. ij.d. ob. de redditu abbatis I/eic' pro piscaria aque de Sore ad. e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de j.d. de redditu Margerie Lombe pro j parua placea iuxta


gardinum fratrum predicatorum e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de ij.d. de redditu Johannis de Knyghtcote Junioris pro j placea terre ad caput curie sue e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de ij.d. de redditu Johannis de Couyntre pro j placea terre iuxta gardinum Castri ad e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de ij.d. de j placea vasti in foro sabbati dimissa ad firmam Henrico Flemyng e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de j.d. de redditu Johannis Mareschal pro situ j paris trauorum extra portam orientalem ad hostium forgie eiusdem Johannis ad e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de ij.s. ix.d. de perquisitis Curie Leic' per predictum tempus.

Summa recepte: xxxiij.s. vij.d. ob. qa.Expense. De quibus idem computat in decasu redditus j domus que fuit Johannis de Sharneford omnino deuastate per facturam fossati ville Leic' termino Pentecoste, ij.d., sicut in dicto rotulo compotorum. Et in decasu redditus iiij seldarum que fuerunt Johannis Cagge in manu Regis existencium pro defectu tenencium et pro eo quod dicte selde stint ruinose et vastate nee aliquid de eisdem potuit leuari e.t., iij.s. ix.d., sicut continetur ibidem et per inquisicionem captam coram predictis auditoribus et sub sigillis xij juratorum ad Scaccarium liberatam. Et in decasu j tenementi vocati le Boyshalle pro eo quod idem tenementum inclusum fuit infra clausum Castri per Elyam de Stapelton' quondam Senescallum dicti Comitis, v.d. qa., sicut continetur ibidem et in inquisicione supradicta. Et in redditu resoluto abbati L/eic' pro barbicano Castri situato super solum ipsius abbatis pertinens ad Ecclesiam beate Marie ad eundem terminum, xij.d., sicut continetur ibidem. Et canonicis dicte ecclesie beate Marie pro eodem ad e.t., iiij.d., sicut continetur ibidem.

Summa expensarum : v.s. viij.d. qa. Et debet dictusJohannes : xxvij.s. xj.d. ob.

Staurum. Idem reddit compotum de ij equis molendinariis et ix cignis receptis de Thoma le Rous vicecomite Leic' per indenturam inter ipsum Thomam et Robertum de Gaddesby locum tenentem Rogeri Beler Custodis predictorum Castri et honoris confectam. Et remanent. De quibus idem Robertus de Gaddesby respondet infra.Idem reddit compotum de ij mensis cum j pari trestellorum, vj mensis dormientibus, j tabula pro ciphis, xij formulis, vij paribus


trestellorum, j longla cathedra, iij speres, j longa cathedra vertibili, j skrene, iiij columpnis ferreis pro curtinis j lecti, j tabula computataria, j granario in panetria pro pane imponendo, ij gistis pro doleis desuper cubandis, iij doleis vini putridi nullius valoris, j polyn, iij plumbis in fornace, iij cacabis veteribus, v

XX. C.

dressoriis, ij mortariiscumpilis, iiij bordis de Estriche, vj cindulis, j magno paigner, iiij paribus fergeamm, iiij seruris pendentibus, iiij bordis in lardaria pro dressorio, iiij planches spissis, ij bordis in pisterna, ij veteribus molaris cum alio apparatu molendini, vj cistis pro tolneto imponendo, j nouo axe ad rotam j molendini, ij cistis in ij molendinis ventriticis cum alio apparatu eorumdem. De quibus dictus Robertus respondet infra.

Adhuc CASTRUM LEIC'. Johannes de Keithorpe Janitor dicti Castri per Rogerum Beler positus per manucapcionem Johannis de Tilton', Waited de Busceby, Ricardi de Keithorpe, Willelmi de Keithorpe, et Johannis de Sadyngton' reddit compotum suum corain dictis auditoribus a xiij die Junij predicto vsque festum S. Michaelis proximo sequens.

Idem reddit compotum de xxiiij.s. xj.d. ob. qa. de redditu assiso diuersorum tenencium in villa I/eic' termino Michaelis sicut continetur in dicto rotulo compotorum. Et de xix.d. de redditu Willelmi de Mershton' el Ade Pettelyng pro iij placeis in foro sabbati e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de viij.d. de redditu Roberti Benett pro j venella versus Belegraue et Thome Sauuage pro j venella iuxta domum suam e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de ij.d. ob. qa. de ij placeis terre positis ad firmam Waltero de Busceby et Johannis de Cave e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de ij.d. de redditu Nicholai le Mercer pro j acra dim. terre apud Kingeshulyate e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de iiij.d. de redditu Willelmi le Baker pro j placea terre in Otegate e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de iij.d. de redditu Willelmi Sharpe pro j placea terre iuxta aquam de Sore e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de ij.s. ij.d. ob. de redditu abbatisLeic'propiscariaaquede Sore e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de j.d. de redditu Margerie Lombe pro j parua placea iuxta gardinum fratrum predicatorum e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de ij.d. de redditu Johannis de Knyghtcote Junioris pro j placea terre ad caput curie sue e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de ij.d.


de redditu Johannis de Couyntre pro j placea terre iuxta gardinum Castri ad e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de ij.d. de j placea vasti in foro sabbati dimissa ad firmam Henrico Flemyng e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de j.d. de redditu Johannis Mare- schal pro situ j paris trauorum extra portam orientalem ad hostium forgie eiusdem Johannis e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de j.d. de redditu Rogeri de Burton" pro j pede terre pro vna posterna e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de j.d. de redditu Nicholai I,engynour pro j domo in Sorelane sibi concessa ad terminum vite per scriptum Comitis per seruicionem j.d. per annum e.t. sicut continetur ibidem. Et de iiij.s. iiij.d. de herbagio veteris gardini infra clausum Castri. Et de xviij.d. de herbagio noui gardini vendito. Et de Lxvij.s. viij.d. de warda aueriorum et bidencium de villata de Knyghton' captorum super terras dominicas imparcatorum. Et de xviij.s. iiij.d. de alleuiacione prisonum per predictum tempus. Et de ix.s. de ij cacabis inuentis in castro venditis. Et de xxj.s. iij.d. de vj cignis venditis super compotum.

Summa recepte : vij.li. xiij.s. iiij.d.

Expense. De quibus computat in decasu redditus j domus que fuit Johannis de Sharneford omnino deuastate per facturam fossati ville Leic' termino Michaelis, ij.d., sicut continetur in dicto rotulo compotorum. Et in decasu redditus iiij seldarum que fuerunt Johannis Cagge in manu Regis existencium pro defectu tenencium et pro eo quod dicte selde sunt ruinose et vastate nee aliquid de eisdem potuit leuari e.t., iij.s. ix.d., sicut continetur ibidem et per inquisicionem captam coram dictis auditoribus et sub sigillis xij juratorum ad Scaccarium liberatam. Et in decasu j tenement! vocati le Boyshalle pro eo quod idem tenementum inclusum fuit infra clausum Castri per Elyam de Stapelton' quondam Senescallum dicti Comitis, vd. qa., sicut continetur ibidem et in inquisicione supradicta. Et in redditu resoluto abbati Leic' pro barbicano Castri situate super solum ipsius Abbatis pertinens ad ecclesiam beate Marie ad e.t., xij.d., sicut continetur ibidem. Et canonicis dicte ecclesie beate Marie pro eodem ad e.t.,iiij.d., sicut continetur ibidem.

Summa expensarum : v.s. viij.d. Et debet dictus Johannes per manucapcionem supradictam : vij.li. vij.s. viij.d.

MINISTERS' ACCOUNTS 253Staurum.Equi. Idem readit compotum de ij equis molendinariis de remanencia compoti Johannis de Friseby Janitore [sic] dicti Castri sicut supra continetur. Et liberantur Johanni Marwe et Johanni de Norton' Custodibus molendinorum vt patet infra.

Cigni. Idem reddit compotum de ix cignis de remanencia compoti dicti Johannis de Freseby sicut supra continetur. De quibus in vendicione supra vj. Et remanent iij cigni. De quibus dictus Robertus de Gaddesby respondet infra in anno xvj.Mortuum Staurum. [As under 'Staurum' above, pp. 90-91], De quibus computat ij cacabos in vendicione vt supra. Et residuum remanet in custodia predicti Robertide Gaddesby de quo respondet infra in anno xvj.

MOLENDINA LEIC' CUM FURNIS. Johannis le Marue et Johannes de Norton' Custodes ij molendinorum aquaticorum et ij molendinorum ventriticorum et sex furnorum reddunt compotum suum coram dictis Auditoribus a xxiiij die Marcij predicto vsque xij diem Aprilis proximo sequentem.

lidem reddunt compotum de Cij.s. x.d. ob. de iiij qr. ij bus. dim. frumenti et iiij qr. ij. bus. mixtilionis de exitu dictorum molend inorum per predictum tempus venditis. Et de ij.s. vj.d. de portagio ij equorum conductivorum pro blado ad dicta molendina portando per predictum tempus. Et de vij.d. de pisce capto ad bayas dictorum molendinorum per predictum tempus vendito. Et de xxx.s. de ij equis molendinariis venditis. Et de vij.li. x.s. de firma sex furnorum sic dimissorum a festo S. Michaelis anno xv vsque dictum xij diem Aprilis proximo sequentem.

Summa recepte: xiiij.li. v.s. xj.d. ob.Expense. (De quibus computat in decima soluta Priori de Ware pro exitu dictorum molendinorum, x.s.iij.d.ob. Et liberates Willelmo de Otrehampton' Receptori exituum predictorum molendinorum et furnorum per breve Regis assignato per Radulphum de Osberston', Henricum de Belegraue, Johannem de Stokton' et Henricum de Skeftyngton' nrmarios dictorum furnorum per vj tallias, vj.li. xv.s. viij.d. Et eidem per j litteram de acquietancia, vij.li.

Summa tnisarum: xiiij.li. v.s. xj.d. ob.) Et quieti sunt.


Equi. Idem [sic] reddunt compotum de ij equis molendinariis receptis de Johanne de Keythorpe janitore Castri Leic'. Et venduntur supra. Et eque.

[m. 1 d.] Adhuc MOLENDINA ET FURNI LEIC'. Willelmus le Palmere, Walterus de Busceby, Willelmus ds Appelby, Johannes de Busceby, Petrus le Palmere, Robertus le Palmere, Ricardus de Anelepe et luo de abbathia L,eic* firmarij dictorum molendinorum et furnorum reddunt compotum suum coram dictis auditoribus de eodem tempore vt infra.

lidem reddunt compotum de xviij.li. de iiij molendinis et vj furnis predictis dimissis ad firmam per Rogerum Belers Custodem Castri et honoris I^eic' pro xxxvj.li. per annum Regi reddendis terminis Pasche et S. Michaelis, videlicet a dicto xij die Aprilis anno xv vsque festum S. Michaelis proximo sequens.

Summa Recepte: xviij.li.Liberate. (De quibus ijdem computant liberatos Willemo Davy Receptori exituum predictorum Castri et honoris per breve Regis patens assignato per j talliam, ix.li. ij.s.

Summa expensarum : ix.li. ij.s.) Et debent predicti firmarijRegi: viij.li. xviij.s.

TERRE ET PRATA DOMINICA CASTRI LEIC'. Walterus de Busceby, Henricus de Barkeby et Thomas Chambreleyn firmarij terrarum et pratorum dominicorum Castri Leic" reddunt compotum suum coram dictis auditoribus a xxiiij die Marcij predicto vsque festum S. Michaelis proximo sequens.

lidem reddunt compotum de I/, li. de terris et pratis dominicis sic dimissis eisdem ad firmam tempore dicti Comitis per annum tenninis Pasche et S. Michaelis sicut continetur in dictis rotulis compotorum de tempore ipsius Comitis et ad Scaccarium liberatis.

Summa Recepte : I,, li.Liberate. (De quibus computat liberatos Willelmo de Otre- hampton' Receptori exituum dictorum Castri et honoris per manus Henrici de Barkeby per j litteram de acquietancia, vj.li.v.s. Et Willelmo Davy Receptori post eum per eundem Henricum


firmarium quarte paitis terranim et pratorum predictorum per manus Roberti de Gaddesby, qui quidem Willelmus presens super istum compotum recognouit, vj.li. v.s.)

Summa liberate: xij.li. x.s. Et debentur Regi: xxxvij.li. x.s. De quibus Walterus de Busceby firmarius duarum parcium terrarum et pratorum predictorum debet xxv.li. que atterminantur ei in Scaccario. Et Thomas le Chambreleyn firmarius quarte partis terrarum et pratorum predictorum debet xij.li. x.s. vt predicti Walterus et Henricus dicunt.

PREPOSITURA LEICESTR'. Walterus de Busceby appruator et firmarius prepositure I,eic' reddit compotum suum coram dictis Auditoribus a predicto xxiiij die Marcij anno xv vsque festum S. Michaelis proximo sequens.

Idem reddit compotum de Lxxvij.s. xj.d. ob. qa. de exitibus predicte prepositure a predicto xxiiij die Marcij vsque xij diem Aprilis proximo sequentem per xix dies de rata, xl.li. de exitibus dicte prepositure a festo S. Michaelis anno xv vsque predictum. diem Aprilis sicut continetur in rotulo compoti dicte prepositure redditi coram Roberto de Silkeston' et Rogero de Gildesburgh' Auditoribus compotorum terrarum forisfactarum in dicto Comitatu Leic' et in Scaccario liberato. Et de Lv.li. de predicta prepositura sic dimissa ad firmam eidem Waltero, Willelmo de Lynderiche, Ricardo Cagge, Henrico de Petelyng, Ade le Tannour, Nicholao de Knaptoft et Roberto Clerico per Rogerum Belers Custodem dictorum Castri et honoris lyeic' a predicto xij die Aprilis vsque festum S. Michaelis proximo sequens sicut continetur ibidem. Et non plus eo quod non fuit aliquis qui dictam preposituram propter impotenciam tenencium dicte ville et depauperacionem patrie per aduentum exercitus Regis et aliorummagnatumtemporeturbacionis voluit amrmare seu potuit. Et quia videbatur predicto Rogero magis commodum Regis consequi dictam preposituram ad firmam dimittere quam in manu Regis retinere eandem preposituram dimisit predictis firmariis pro firma supradicta.

Summa recepte: I<viij.li. xvij.s. xj.d. ob. qa. Liberate. (De quibus idem computat liberates Willelmo Davy Receptori exituum predictorum Castri et honoris per ij tallias, xlviij.li.


Summa liberate: xlviij.li. Et debentur Regi: x.li. xvij.s. xj.d. ob. qa. De quibus atterminantur eidem Waltero I/xxvij.s. xj.d. ob. qa. de exitu dicte prepositure a xxiiij die Marcij anno xv vsque xij diem Aprilis proximo sequentem simul cum xxxvj.li. ij.s. qa. de arreragiis exitus dicte prepositure a festo S. Michaelis anno xv vsque predictum xxiiij diem Marcij proximo sequentem, quibus summis coniunctis est summa debeti eiusdem Walteri de exitu dicte prepositure atterminati, xl. li. Et. debet dictus Walterus vij.li.)

FORESTA LEICESTR'. Rogerus Anneys Receptor exituum foreste Leic' reddit compotum suum coram predictis Auditor- ibus de eodem tempore vt supra.

Idem reddit compotum de Lv.s. ij.d. de aueriis agistatis in defenso a festo Exaltacionis S. Crucis vsque festum S. Michaelis. Et de xx.s. ix.d. de croppis xxxij quercuum prostratarum pro palicio circa forestam faciendo venditis. Et de iiij.s. ij.d. de corticibus x dictarum quercuum venditis. Et de viij.s. vj.d. de veteri palicio circa dictam forestam vendito. Et de iiij.li. xij.s.

c.vj.d. ob. de v.xlv perticatis veteris haie circa dictam forestam per loca venditis. Et de xiiij.s. viij.d. de veteribus stipitibus in eadem foresta venditis. Et de iiij.s. vj.d. de fengera in defenso vendita. Et. de ij.s. de nucibus ibidem venditis. Et de xxxvj.s. viij.d. de perquisitis Wodemote del Hethilye per predictum tempus.

Summa Recepte: xj.li. xviij.s. xj.d. ob.Expense. De quibus computat in decima soluta Priori de Ware pro agistamento aueriorum, croppis, et corticibus quercuum prostratarum et nucibus supra venditis, viij.s. ij.d. ob. Et in stipendio j hominis emendantis defectus cooperture domorum apud la I/uge infra dictam forestam cum ij qr. calcis emptis pro dictis domibus inde punctandis, iiij.s. vij.d. Et in CCCCxviij perticatis veteris palicij remouendis circa forestam apud Kyngkes- hull", Gillewro et iuxta vias de Groby et Clenfeld et iterum cum nouo maeremio et veteri in parte de nouo faciendis et reassidendis, videlicet j.d.ob. pro perticata: I/ij.s. iij.d. Et in xiij qr. j bus. dim. mixture emptis pro liberacionibus ij forestariorum, ij paliciatorum reparancium et emendancium defectus palicij circa


forestam ex consuetudine per annum excepto palicio quod de nouo efficitur per annum circa eandem a dicto xxiiij die Marcij vsque in crastinum S. Michaelis et ij forestariorum a vj die Aprilis vsque crastinum S. Mic'haelis: iiij.li. x.s. iij.d. ob. qa., precij qr. vij.s., quartario dato ad xij septimanas. Et in stipendio dictorum ij paliciatorum quolibet capiente per annum v.s. per predictum tempus: v.s. Et in stipendio dictorum iiij forestariorum per predictum tempus quolibet capiente dim. marc, per annum: xiij.s. iiij.d. Et in feodo magistri forestarij pro custodia dicte foreste per predictum tempus: L.S., capiente per annum, C.s. Et in stipendio predict] Receptoris per predictum tempus: iij.s. iiij.d., capiente per annum dim. marc.Liberate. (Et liberates Willelmi Davy Receptori exituum Castri et honoris predictorum vij.s. ix.d. ob. per j talliam. Et eidem Willelmo super presentem compotum sine tallia ij.s. j.d. ob.)

Summa expensarum et liberate : xj.li. ix.s. qa. [xviij.s. xj.d. ob.] Et debet: ix.s. xj.d. Et quietus est.

VENDICIO BOSCI IN EADEM FORESTA. Galfridus Boner, Robertus Campeon et Robertus filius Symonis venditores bosci in eadem foresta reddunt compotum suum coram dictis auditoribus de eodem tempore vt supra.

lidem reddunt compotum de xxvj.s. x.d. de maeremio quod fuit Roberti de Holand inuento infra dictam forestam in Conpicio de Gilwro vendito.

Summa Recepte : xxvj.s. x.d. (Quos computant seliberassc Willelmo Davy predicto Receptori exituum predictorum Castri et honoris.)

BAU,IUA DE CARLETON'. Rogerus de Pikeryng balliuus de Carleton' de feodo per Robertum Hereward subballiuum suum reddit compotum suum coram dictis> Auditoribus de eodem tempore vt supra.

Idem reddit compotum de vj.s. viij.d. de redditu Tiiome Rype^s pro tenementis suis in Wilughby terminis Pentecoste et S. Michaelis. Et le Lij.s. iiij.d. de perquisitis duorum visuum de Ilueston' et Museley post festum Pasche. Et. de xij.s. viij.d. de minutis perquisitis Curie I/eic' infra dictam ballivam per predictum tempus.


Summa Recepte : Lxxj.s. viij.d.Liberate. (De quibus idem computat liberates Willelmo de Otre- hampton' Receptori ibidem xxxv.s. iiij.d. per j talliam. Et Willelmo Davy Receptori ibidem post ipsum xxx.s. per ij tallias. Et eidem Willelmo iiij.s. v.d. per manus Oliueri de Waleys vice- comitis Leic' qui presens recognouit.

Summa liberate : 'Lxix.s. ix.d.) Et debet dictus Robertas :xxiij.d.

DE HYNCKELE. Maynardus Pynzon Balliuus ibidem de feodo per Willelmum de Hoghton' subballiuum suum reddit compotum suum coram predictis Auditoribus de eodem tempore vt supra.

Idem reddit compotum de viij.s. de perquisitis j visus de Hinckele poste festum Pasche. Et de xx.d. de minutis perquisitis Curie Leic' in eadem balliua per predictum tempus.

Summa Recepte: ix.s. viij.d. Quos computat se liberasse predicto Willelmo Davy Receptori ibidem. Et quietus est.

[m.2.] BALLIUA DE SYLEBY. Nicholaus de Belagraue balliuus de Sileby reddit compotum suum coram predictis auditoribus a xxiiij die Marcij predicto vsque crastinum S. Michaelis proximo sequentem.

Idem reddit compotum de xx.s. vij.d. ob. de redditu libere tenencium infra dictam balliuam de Syleby terminis Pasche, Pentecoste et S. Michaelis. Et de vj.s. viij.d. de abbate Leic' pro visu francplegij habendo de tenentibus predicti Comitis in Lokyngton' eidem concesso per scriptum Comitis predicti post festum Pasche. Et de xij.d. de Johanne de Segraue pro visu francplegij habendo de tenentibus dicti Comitis in Syleby et Thernby predicto Johanni et heredibus de corpore suo procreatis per scriptum eiusdem Comitis post dictum festum Pasche. Et de xvj.s. viij.d. de perquisitis j visus in Syleby post festum Pasche. Et de xij.d. de perquisitis j visus in villa de Tye post dictum festum. Et de v,s. iij.d. de perquisitis j visus in Goteham post idem festum. Et de xxvij.s. de minutis perquisitis Curie Leic' in dicta balliua per predictum tempus.

Summa Recepte: Lxxviij.s. ij.d. ob.Liberate. (De quibus computat liberates Willelmo de Otre- hampton' Receptori Castri et honoris predictorum per j talliam


vj.s. vij.d. ob. Et Willelmo Davy Receptori ibidem post ipsum Lj.s. vij.d. Et in expensis Roberti de Silkeston' et Henrici de Leicestr' auditorum per Regem assignatorum pro visibus compotorum terrarum forisfactarum in Comitatu Leic* antequam aliquod feodum eisdem assignabatur xx.s.)

Summa expensarum et liberate : Lxxviij.s. ij.d. ob.Et quietus est.

BALLIUA DE DERSFORD. Ricardus de Segraue Balliuus de Dersford de feodo per Willelmum de Hoghton' subballiuuni suum reddit compotum suum coram predictis auditoribus de eodem tempore vt supra.

Idem reddit compotum suum de viij.s. ij.d. de perquisitis j visusde Dersford post festum Pasche. Et de vij.d. de perquisitis CurieLeic' in dicta balliua per predictum tempus.

Summa Recepte : viij.s. ix.d. Quos computat liberates Willelmo Davy Receptori exituum dictorum Castri et honoris super compotum qui presens recognouit. Et quietus est.

DE SHULTON'. Willelmus de Hoghton' Balliuus de Shulton' reddit compotum suum coram predictis auditoribus de eodem tempore vt supra.

Idem reddit compotum suum de iiij.s. j.d. ob. de redditu assiso , libere tenencium infra dictam balliuam terminis Pasche et S. Michaelis cum j libra cimini de redditu dicto termino Pasche. Et de xvij.s. vij.d. ob. de redditu Roberti de Champaigne pro xxxv acris j roda vasti quas tenet per scriptum Comitis in Shulton' ad eosdem terminos. Et de vj.s. de redditu Ricardi de Shulton' pro ix acris terre ibidem ad eosdem terminos. Et de xx.s. de redditu Radulphi de Turreuille pro xxx acris et dim. terre ibidem ad eosdem terminos. Et de xxvij.s. iiij.d. de perquisitis j visus de Shulton' post festum Pasche. Et de ix.d. de perquisitis Curie Leicestr' infra dictam balliuam per predictum tempus.

Summa Recepte : Lxxv.s. x.d.Liberate. De quibus computat liberates Willelmo de Otre- hampton' Receptori exituum dictorum Castri et honoris per j talliam xl. s. Et Willelmo Davy Receptori post ipsum xj.s. x.d. (Et in expensis predictorum Roberti de Silkeston' et Henrici de Leicestr' auditorum pro visibus compotorum terrarum predictarum


in dicto Comitatu capiendis antequam feodum eisdem assignabatur xxiiij.s.)

Summa expensarum : I/xxv.s. x.d. Et quietus est.

BALWUA DE CLENFELD. Walterus Courteamor Balliuus de Clenfeld reddit compotum suum coram dictis Auditoribus de eodem tempore vt supra.

Idem reddit compotum de j.d. ob. de iij sagittis barbatis de redditu termino Pentecoste venditis. Et de iij.d. de perquisitis Curie Leic* infra dictam balliuam per predictum tempus.

Summa Recepte : iiij.d. ob. Quos computat liberates Willelmo Davy Receptori ibidem sine tallia, qui presens recognouit.

HONORIS LEIC' IN COMITATU WARREWIK'. Johannes de Glenne Balliuus ibidem reddit compotum suum coram dictis auditoribus de eodem tempore vt supra.

Idem reddit compotum de ij.s. de redditu Thome de Cambuille pro tenementis suis in I,appeworth' terminis Pasche et S. Michaeflis. Et de ij.s. vj.d. de redditu Henrici de Monte Forti pro tenementis que fuerunt Johannis Bedelli sic dimissis eidem per annum ad e.t. Et de iiij.s. de redditu Roberti de Brome in I,appeworth' terminis Pasche et S. Michaelis. Et de iiijs. de custodia terrarum Hugonis de Braundeston' in manu Regis existencium nomine custodie positarum ad firmam Roberto le Mareschal ad e.t. Et de v.s. de certo visu francplegij villate de Ilmedon' post Pascham. Et de xxxj.s. ij.d. de perquisitis j visus de Brinkelowe et j visus de Merssheton Boteler post festum Pasche. Et de xiij.s. iiij.d. de firma balliui pro balliua sua habenda.

Summa Recepte : L/xij.s. Qui atterminantur ei in Scaccario.

BAUJUA HONORIS LEIC' IN COMITATTJ NORHAMP- TON'. Radulphus Knot Balliuus honoris Leic' in Comitatu Norhampton' reddit compotum suum coram predictis Auditoribus a xxiiij die Marcij predicto vsque xvj diem Septembris proximo sequentem.

Idem reddit compotum de xiij.s. iiij.d. de redditu assiso Hauwisie de Keygnes termino Pasche. Et de xiij.s. x.d. qa. de redditu libere tenencium in Assheby L,egger termino Pentecoste. Et in ij.s. de redditu Symonis de Thorpe pro j esperuario soro


termino S. Jacolp. Et de xx.s. de j molendino equino in Lille- borne dimisso ad firmam pro xl.s. per annum, videlicet termino Pasche. Et de xxj.d. de j placea prati ibidem dimissa ad firmam per annum pro iij.s. vj.d., videlicet de termino Pasche. Et de iij.d. de j placea ibidem dimissa ad firmam pro vj.d. per annum, videlicet de eodem termino. Et de iij.d. de tenementis que fuerunt Galfridi Clerici in Assheby Legger existentibus in manu Regis racione minoris etatis heredis ipsius Galfridi termino Pasche. Et de iiij.d. de tenementis que fuerunt Johannis Gilbert ibidem in manu Regis existentibus eadem racione qua supra e.t. Et de v.s. viij.d. de tenementis que fuerunt Johannis Bacheler, Rogeri Bacheler, Roberti Bacheler et Ricardi Harme ibidem in manu Regis existentibus eadem racione qua supra, sic dimissis ad firmam ad e.t. Et de xiij.s. iiij.d. de firmam balliui pro balliua sua habenda pro dimidio anno. Et de xxx.s. de perquisitis j visus et Curie in Lillebourne, Esthaddon' et Helmeden' per predictum tempus.

Summa Recepte : C.s. ix.d. De quibus atterminantur ei in Scaccario : C.s. iij.d. Et debet: vj.d.

Adhuc BALLIUA HONORIS LEIC' IN COMITATU NOR- HAMPTON'. Johannes Knot Balliuus ibidem reddit compotum coram dictis auditoribus a xvj die Septembris anno xvj vsque festum S. Michaelis proximo sequens.

Idem reddit compotum de xiij.s. x.d. ob. de redditu assiso libere tenencium in Assheby Legger termino Michaelis. Et de xx.s. de firma j molendini equini in Lilleborne e.t. Et de xxj.d. de j placea prati ibidem sic dimissa ad firmam termino S. Michaelis. Et de iij.d. de j placea terre ibidem dimissa Johanni Nicol ad firmam ad e.t. Et de vj.s. iij.d. de tenementis que fuerunt Galfridi Clerici, Johannis Gilbert, Johannis Muryel, Johannis Bacheler, Rogeri Bacheler, Roberti Bacheler et Ricardi Harme in Assheby Legger in manu Regis existentibus racione minoris [sic] eorumdem, sic dimissis ad firmam dicto termino Michaelis. Et de xvij.s. ij.d. de perquisitis j Curie in Lilleborne, Esthaddon'. et Helmeden' per predictum tempus.

Summa Recepte : Lix.s. iij.d. ob. Qui atterminantur ei in Scaccario.


HYNCKELE. Thomas le Parker Parcarius de Hynkele reddit compotum suum coram predictis Auditoribus a predicto xxiiij die Marcij vsque xiij diem Aprilis proximo sequentem.

Idem reddit compotum suum de v.s. vj.d. ob. qa. de redditu libere tenencium in Hinckele termino Pasche. De redditibus, operibus custumariorum et ij acris terre quas Galfridus le Parker et Robertus Cock tenent ibidem et exitibus terrarum dominicarum manerij de Hinkele non respondet quia Robertus filius Nigelli tenet predictas terras redditus et opera ex concessione Thome Comitis Lane' in valorem xx.li. eidem Roberto concessarum per annum ad terminum vite ipsius Roberti per scriptum dicti Comitis. Et de xij.d. de v placeis vasti in foro dimissis ad firmam Rogero Fabro, Ricardo Fabro, Rogero Randulf, Henrico Godebody et Willelmo Wodero pro mesuagiis suis elargandis dicto termino Pasche. Et de x.d. de ij placeis vasti in foro dimissis ad firmam Symonis Vityngg et Johanni Frere ad e.t. Et de x.s. de L,x acris terre in Stokkyng dimissis ad firmam Johanni de Hertwell e.t. Et de v.s. de j virgata terre in Sheynton' dimissa ad firmam Willelmo Sampson e.t. Et de j.d. de ij paruis placeis vasti dimissis ad firmam Roberto Cok et Roberto Inddemann pro mesuagiis suis elargandis e.t. Et de viij.d. de j cotagio dimisso ad firmam Johanni le Mareschale e.t. Et de xij.d. de j placea vasti dimissa ad firmam Johanni de Athreston' pro j forgia super edificanda ad e.t. De herbagio et fructu j gardini, aisiamento domorum capitalis mesuagij, herbagio j mote ibidem que ad xx.s. extenduntur per annum, exitibus Burgi, tolonij mercati et nundinarum que solebant dimitti ad firmam tempore Comitis pro xxiij.li. vj.s. viij.d. per predictum tempus non respondet, pro eo quod Johannes de I/illeborne ea tenet ad terminum vite in partem solucionis quadraginta marcarum eidem per annum concessarum per scriptum eiusdem Comitis, que modo surit in manu Regis per forisfactum ipsius Johannis. De quorum exitibus Robertus de Gaddesby Gustos terrarum forisfactarum in Comitatu Leic' exceptis terris et tenementis que fuerunt eiusdem Comitis debet respondere. Et respondet extra in fine huius rotuli. Et de viij.d. de j placea terre vocata Colyndyche dimissa ad firmam tenentibus del Castelhende e.t.

Summa Recepte : xxiiij.s. ix.d. ob. qa. Liberate. De quibus liberates Willelmo Davy Receptori


predictorum Castri et honoris I/eic', qui presens super compotum recognouit, x.s.

Summa liberate : x.s. Et debet: xiiij.s. ix.d. ob. qa.

[m. 2d.] Adhuc HINKELE. Reginaldus Atte Hulle Parcarius de Hynkele reddit compotum suum corani predictis Auditoribus a xiij die Aprilis anno xv vsque festum S. Michaelis proximo sequens.

Idem reddit compotum de v.s. vj.d. ob. qa. de redditu libere tenencium in Hinkele termino S. Michaelis. Et de xij.d. de v placeis vasti in foro dimissis ad firmam Rogero Fabro, Ricardo Fabro, Rogero Randulf, Henrico Godebody et Willelmo Wode- rone ad e.t. Et de x.d. de ij placeis vasti in foro dimissis ad firmam Symoni Vityng et Johanni Frere ad e.t. Et de x.s. de I,x acris terre in le Stokkyngg dimissis ad firmam Johanni de HertwelT e.t. Et de v.s. de j virgata terre in Sheynton' dimissa ad firmam Willelmo Sampson e.t. Et de ob. de redditu j virgate et tercia parte j virgate terre in Sheynton' termino S. Michaelis. Et. de j.d. de ij paruis placeis vasti dimissis ad firmam Roberto Cok et Roberto Inddeman pro mesuagiis suis enlargandis ad e.t. Et de viij.d. de j cotagio dimisso ad firmam Johanni le Mareschal ad e.t. Et de xij.d. de j placea vasti dimissa ad firmam Johanni de Athreston' pro j forgia superedificanda e.t. Et de viij.d. de j placea terre vocata Colyndiche dimissa ad firmam tenentibus del Castelende ad e.t. Et de xv.s. de herbagio j placee vocate Priourslesn infra parcum de Shydey vendito. Et de v.s. de herbagio de Muryhurst et Middelmor in eodem parco vendito. Et de xxxiiij.s. de herbagio magni prati in Shydey et iij placeis prati in eodem que estimantur ad xvij acras dim. venditis super compotum. Et de xxiij.s. de subbosco in eodem parco vendito. Et de iij.s. iiij.d. de veteribus haiis in eodem parco venditis. Et de iij.s. iiij.d. de veteri feno in dicto Manerio vendito.

Summa Recepte: Cviij.s. vj.d. qa.Expense.Liberate. De quibus computat in decima soluta pro herbagio tt subbosco venditis in parco vt supra, iiij.s. iij.d. ob. Et in xxx perticatis veteris palicij circa parcum de Shidey per loca remouendis et reassidendis, ij.s. vj.d. Et in xxiij perticatis haie circa motam Castri et Manerij de' nouo faciendis, xxiij.d. Et


in stipenflio predicti Reginald! parcarij per predictum tempus, v.s. (Et liberates Willelmo Davy Receptori exituum Castri et honoris Leic' per ij tallias, xxxviij.s. v.d. ob. qa.

Summa expensarum et liberate: Lij.s. ij.d. qa.) Et debetdictus Reginaldus : Lvj.s. iiij.d.

SHULTON'. Willelmus Hamnond prepositus de Shiilton'reddit compotum suum coram predictis auditoribus a predictoxxiiij die Marcij anno xv vsque x diem Julij proximosequentem, antequam Rex per breve suum datum apudEboracum predicto x die Julij, in quo continetur quod cumThomas nuper Comes Lane' de assensu Edmundi patris suiAlesiam filiam Henrici de Lacy quondam Comitis Lincoln'desponsauit ipsam ad hostium ecclesie, de Nouo Castro subtusLymam, Burgo ibidem, ac villis de Penkhull', Sheprugge,Wolstaneston" et Clayton', ac omnibus aliis pertinenciis suisin Comitatu Stafford, necnon de maneriis de Dersfordet Shulton' cum partis et aliis pertinenciis suis in ComitatuLeic' dotauit, idemque Edmundus ipsos Thomam et Alesyamin pacificam seisinam Castri, Burgi, maneriorum, villarumet parcorum predictorum in dotem seu dotalicium sichabendum posuerit, mandat Rogero Beler Custodi Castri,Burgi et maneriorum predictorum, quod de eisdem Castro,Burgo, maneriis, villis et parcis predictis que post mortemipsius Thome capta sunt in manu Regis se vlterius nonintromittat, exitus inde perceptos a tempore capcionis inmanu Regis prefate Alesie vel eius in hac parte attornatisliberans per idem breve. Et per aliud breve Regis datumapud Eboracum xvj die Julij proximo sequenti quod omniablada cuiuscumque generis fuerunt et herbam ac fena indictis burgo, villis et maneriis crescencia predicte Alesie veleius in hac parte attornatis liberaret per idem breve.

Idem reddit compotum de viij.s. iiij.d. de v. bus. fabarum quasRobert de Gaddesby locum tenens Rogeri Belers recepit de Thomale Rous vicecomite Leic' per indenturam venditis. Et de xxv.s.iiijd. de v carectatis veteris feni, j tasso straminis, iiijcorbis. pro fimis, ij mensis cum trestellis, ij mensis dormienti-bus, ij formulis, j longa cathedra vertibili que idem Robertusrecepit per dictam indenturam venditis. Et de ij.s. vj.d. de

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DERSFORD. Robertus Brock prepositus de Dersford reddit compotum suum coram predictis auditoribus a predicto xxiiij die Marcij vsque x diem Julij proximo sequentem antequam idem Manerium liberabatur predicte Alesie de Lacy cum exitibus a tempore capcionis in manu Regis inde perceptis, blado, herbis et fenis in eodem cresscentibus per breve Regis superius allocatis in compoto Manerij de Shulton'.

Idem reddit compotum de ij.s. iiij.d. de j carectata veteris feni, j scala, et coreis ij vitulorum que predictus Robertus de Gaddesby recepit de predicto Thoma le Rous per dictam indenturam venditis. Et de v.s. viij.d. de stramine fabarum inuento in dicto manerio extra dictam indenturam vendito. Et de ij.s. vj.d. de palea ibidem inuenta vendita. Et de iiij.s. de veteri meremio ibidem inuento vendito. Et de xxxvj.s. de albo xviij vaccarum dimissarum ad firmam a festo Inuencionis S. Crucis vsque festum S. Michaelis proximo sequens. Et de Cxviij.s. de viij bobus venditis. Et de ij.d. de coreo j vituli de morina vendito.

Summa Recepte : viij.li. viij.s. viij.d.Expense. De quibus computat in cibo et stipendio j hominis custodientis I/x aueria Regis vsque festum Assumpcionis beate Marie, xj.s. Et in predictis aueriis fugandis de Dersford vsque Tuttebur' et ibidem deliberandis Willelmo de Birchouere deputato per Rogerum Beler pro instauro Regis custodiendo, xij.d. Et in stipendio j paliciatoris pro defectibus palicij circa parcum reparandis et emendandis per predictum tempus, xvj.d. Liberate. (Et liberates Willelmo de Oterhampton' Receptori exituum predictorum Castri et honoris per vnam talliam, iiij.li. Et Willelmo Davy Receptori ibidem post ipsum per manus Willelmi de Birchouere Custodis equicij Regis per Rogerum Belers ad hoc deputati, Lxxv.s. iiij.d.)

Summa expensarum : xiij.s. iiij.d. [viij.li viij.s. viij.d.] Et debet: vij.li. xv.s. iiij.d. [Et quietus est.]

Instaurum.Boues. Idem reddit compotum de viij bobus quos dictus


Robertus de Gaddesby recepit de dicto Thoma le Rous per dictam indenturam. Et venduntur supra. Et eque.

Tauri et Vacce. Idem reddit compotum de j tauro et xxij vaccis receptis per predictum Robertum de eodem Thoma per dictam indenturam. Et liberantur predicto Willelmo de Birchouere. Et eque.

Bouette. Idem reddit compotum de vij bouettis quorum j taurello receptis per predictum Robertum de eodem Thoma per dictam indenturam. Et liberantur dicto Willelmo de Birchouere. Et eque.

Juuenci. Idem reddit compotum de ij juuencis receptis per dictum Robertum de eodem Thoma per predictam indenturam. Et liberantur dicto Willelmo de Birchouere. Et eque.

Bouiculi. Idem reddit compotum de xx bouiculis receptis per predictum Robertum de eodem Thoma per dictam indenturam. Et liberantur Willelmo de Birchouere. Et eque.

VituU. Idem reddit compotum de xij vitulis annalibus receptis per predictum Robertum de eodem Thoma per pre dictam indenturam. Et liberantur dicto Willelmo de Birchouere. Et eque.

Vituli de Idem reddit compotum de iiij vitulis de exitu receptis exitu. per predictum Robertum de eodem Thoma per dictam

indenturam. Et de xij de exitu tot vaccarum. Et non de pluribus quia iiij vacce steriles. De quibus in decima j. Et in morina j de cuius coreo responsum est supra. Et xiiij liberantur Willelmo de Birchouere Et eque.

Robertus de Gaddesby Gustos terrarum forisfactarum in Comitatu Iveic' exceptis terris et tenementis que fuerunt Thome Comitis I/anc' in eodem Comitatu [reddit compotum de] herbagio et fructu j gardini, aisiamento domorum capitalis mesuagij et herbagio j mote apud Hinckele que ad xx.s. extenduntur per annum, et de exitibus Burgi, tolonij mercati et nundinarum de Hinckele que pro xxiij.li. vj.s. viij.d. solebant dimitti ad firmam tempore Comitis I^anc' per annum et que tenementa dictus Comes

MINISTERS' ACCOUNTS 267concessit Johann^de I/illeborne per scriptum suum ad terminum vite ipsius Johannis, et que sunt in manu Regis occasione foris- facti dicti Johannis a xxiiij die Marcij anno xv.

[m. 3.] CASTRUM ET MANERIUM DE DONYNTON'. Compotus Rogeri Beler Custodis Castri et Manerij de Donynton' que fuerunt Thome Comitis I<anc' de bonis et catallis receptis de Radulpho Basset Custode dictorum Castri et Manerij ante ipsum Rogerum per j indenturam inde inter eos confectam, videlicet de v qr. dim. frumenti, vij qr. iij bus. siliginis, iij qr. vij bus. ordei, ij qr. vij bus. pisarie per rasam mensuram in granario, xx qr. frumenti in capella, xij qr. frumenti in grangia, viij qr. siliginis, xij qr. ordei in eadem grangia per estimacionem in tasso, iij equis carectariis, x affris, j pullano, xvij bobus, CCxviij multonibus, x porcis, j balista de baloria cum cordis, vj balistis de ligno quarum iij sine cordis, xlvij quarellis pro eisdem, j bacinecto, iij akedons veteribus, j coopertura de ferro pro j equo, j lorica, vj ferris lancearum, iij veteribus ollis eneis, ij veteribus cacabis, j dorlotto eneo, j cista, j camino ferreo, j carrecta, ij plaustris ferratis, ij remanentibus veteris vim nullius valoris et rotulis Curie dictorum Castri et Manerij. Que omnia liberauit Ricardo Mabbeson preposito ibidem per homagium electo per indenturam inde inter ipsos Rogerum et Ricardum confectam. De quibus idem Ricardus respondet infra in compoto suo dictorum Castri et Manerij.

Adhuc CASTRUM ET MANERIUM DE DONYNTON'. Ricardus Mabbeson prepositus ibidem electus per homagium reddit compotum suum coram predictis auditoribus a xxiiij die Marcij anno xv vsque xvj diem Julij proximo sequentem antequam Rogerus Beler Gustos dictorum Castri et Manerij eadem liberaret Hugoni le Despenser juniori per breve Regis patens, vna cum bonis et catallis in eisdem existentibus per aliud breve Regis et per identuram inde inter ipsum Rogerum et Robertum Jorce de Loghteburgh' et Ricardum de Noel de Donynton' attornatos dicti Hugonis per litteram suam patentem confectam.


Idem reddit compotum de xix.li. viij.s. j.d. de redditu liberorum natiuorum et cotariorum dicti Manerij de Donynton* termiilo Annunciacionis. Et de xxxiiij.s. vij.d. ob. de redditu xxxiiij cotagiis et dim. et viij parte j cotagij extra portam ville super le Barrewonge e.t. Et de'ix.d. de redditu ij cotagiorum extra portam ad e.t. Et de xvij.s. iij.d. ob. qa. de redditu de Caldon' e.t. Et de v.d. ob. de redditu ibidem e.t. Et de iiij.s. de redditu j virgate terre in Wylyngton' terminis Annunciacionis et S. Johannis Baptiste. Et de xxviij.s. de firma communis furni termino Annunciacionis. Et de xv.s. de redditu iij virgatarum terre in Tykenhale terminis Annunciacionis et. S. Johannis. Et de v.s. iiij.d. ob. de redditu Johannis Abel pro xxj acris terre ibidem termino Annunciacionis. Et de viij.s. ix.d. de redditu prioris de Repyngdon' pro xxxv acris vasti apud Bollehaghe termino Annunciacionis. Et de vj.d. de redditu Thome seruientis Roberti Abel pro ij acris vasti in Tikenhale e.t. Et de ij.s. v.d. qa. de redditu Willelmi Dassewell* pro ix acris dim. j. roda vasti ibidem e.t. Et de ij.s. ij.d. qa. de redditu Willelmi Barfot pro viij acris iij rodis vasti ibidem e.t. Et de vj.s. viij.d. de redditu Johannis Russell' pro xxx acris vasti ibidem e.t. Et de ix.d. de redditu Johannis filij Henrici pro iij acris vasti ibidem e.t. Et de ix.d. de redditu Johannis de Bollehaghe pro iij acris vasti ibidem e.t. Et de vj.d. de redditu Henrici Adthelyn pro ij acris vasti ibidem e.t. Et de vj.d. de redditu Symonis Bertrey pro ij acris vasti ibidem e.t. Et de iij.d. de redditu Symonis filij Alani pro j acra vasti ibidem e.t. Et de iiij.d. qa. de redditu Hugonis Barfot pro iij acris j roda vasti ibidem e.t. Et de iij.s. xj.d. de redditu in Rauenston' e.t. Et de xij.d. de redditu Johannis Coci pro vij acris dim. terre super le Spitelcliffe e.t. Et de x.s. de redditu de Rodynton' qui vocatur Warnot termino S. Johannis Baptiste. Et de xij.d. de redditu Abbatis Cestrie pro via habenda per medium pratum domini pro feno suo del Stener cariando vltra Trentam e.t. Et de xiiij.s. ij.d. de piscara per recia in Trente sic dimissa ad firmam per predictum tempus. Et de xxij.s. iiij.d. de piscaria corbellorum ad molendina termino Annunciacionis. Et de ix.s. v.d. qa. de firma duarum parcium passagij vltra Trentam cum batello termino Annunciacionis. Et non plus quia abbas Cestrie tenet terciam partem dicti passagij que valet ix.s. v.d. qa. per annum prout earn prius tenuit tempore H[enrici] de Lacy quondam Comitis Lincoln'. Et de vj.s. viij.d.

MINISTERS' ACCOUNTS 269de piscaria del bbrrokkes molendini, Depdraght, et le Flodeyates vendita per predictum tempus. Et de xj.s. iiij.d. de redditu in Swanyngton' tefmino Johannis Baptiste. Et de L.s. de pastura separibili et agistamento aueriorum in parco per predictum tempus. Et de xxv.li. xij.s. ix.d. de xxxvj qr. v bus. frumenti venditis in grosso, precij qr., xiiij.s. Et de Ciij.s. j.d. ob. de ix qr. iij bus. siliginis venditis, precij qr., xj.s. Et de Cxv.s. x.d. ob. de xij qr. vij bus. ordei venditis, precij qr., ix.s. Et de xiiij.s. xj.d. de ij qr. ij bus. multure et ij qr. brasei ordei de exitu molendini venditis, precij qr., x.s. iiij.d. Et de xv.s. x.d. de visu francplegij ibidem post Pascham. Et de xxxix.s. ix.d. de perquisitis Curie ibidem per predictum tempus.

Summa recepte : Lxxiij.li. xviij.s. iiij.d. qa.Expense. De quibus computat in redecima soluta hospital! S. Johannis pro xxxiiij cotagiis et dim. et viij parte vnius cotagij extra portam ville super le Barrewonge que solebant redecimari tempore Comitis sicut continetur in rotulis compotorum de tempore eiusdem in Scaccario liberatis, videlicet de termino Annunciacionis, iij.s. j.d. ob. Et in decima et redecima soluta Receptori de Donynton' et hospitali predicto pro passagio vltra Trentam cum batello, agistamento aueriorum et pastura superius venditis, xj.s. iij.d. ob. Et in decasu redditus quinque acrarum vasti in Tikenhale que arentate fuerunt Priori de Rependon' et incluse per ipsum priorem et postea prostrate per homines de Melborne pro eo quod dictum vastum erat communa eorum, videlicet de predicto termino, xv.d., sicut continetur in rotulis predictis. Et in ferro et acero emptis pro ferramentis iiij carucarum cum stipendio fabri, ij carucis de nouo faciendis, iij carucis capitandis, et j vomere de nouo empto, viij.s. x.d. Et in clutis et clauis emptis pro expensis j carecte, ij paribus tractium, iij coleris nouis, cepo et vncto et j coreo equino de albando, iiijs. viij.d. Et in viij clutis et clauis pro j plaustro, emendacioiie corporis eiusdem et dicto plaustro semel axando, xvj.d. Et in ferramentis iij equorum carectariorum et ix affrorum per predictum tempus, iij.s. iij.d. Et in feno et foragio emptis pro sustentacione equorum et bouum infra predictum tempus, vij.s. vj.d. pro eo quod fenum et maxima pars foragij deuastabantur per homines de exercitu Regis. Et in ij saccis emptis, xvj.d. Et in ij vangis et j tribulo cum ferris emptis, iiij.d. ob. Et in


pergameno pro rotulis Curie et j sacculo pro eisdem emptis, iijd. Et in fimis emptis pro vj acris terre compostandis, xvj.s. j.d. Et in iij seruris pro hostiis grangie et hostio stabuli cum clauibus emptis et dictis hostiis de Carpentaria reficiendis, xiij.d. eo quod hostia predicta fracta fuerunt et serure asportate per homines de exercitu Regis. Et in hostiis Butelrie, panetrie, gardarobe et camere domini emendandis et seruris reficiendis eadem racione qua supra, x.d. ,Et in xxxij qr. frumenti, viij qr. siliginis pro qr. iij.d., et xij qr. ordei pro qr., j.d. ob., triturandis et dicto blado ventando, videlicet pro ix qr. ij.d.: xij.s. v.d. ob. Et in j quarta albi segiminis, ij libris vncti et dim. lagena de tarpicche emptis pro vnctura bidencium, xvj.d. Et in x porcis custodiendis in campo et ij cordis de basto emptis pro aueriis per predictum tempus, viij.d. Et in cibo et oblacionibns viij famulorum die Pasche ex consuetudine, viij.d. Et in stipendio j prepositi per predictum tempus, v.s. ix.d. Et in stipendio viij carucatorum, j carectoris, j messoris et j bercarij de termino Inuencionis S. Crucis, v.s. vj.d. Et in ij peciis ferri emptis pro billis molendini

c.cum stipendio fabri pro eisdem fabricandis et acuendis ij clauis pro parietibus dicti molendini, cepo et vncto emptis ad idem, xx.d. ob. Et in j pari molarum empto ad idem, xv.s. Et in dim. qr. pisarie empto in estate pro liberacionibus famulorum,

c.v.s. Et in ij.Lxxix acris omnimodi bladi sarclandis in grosso, xiij.s. iiij.d. Et in Cxliiij acris prati falcandis, v.d. pro acra: I/x.s. Et in herba dictorum pratorum spargenda et feno leuando,

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videlicet ij.d. ob. pro acra : xxx.s. Et. in iiij. xvij perticatis haie de nouo faciendis circa parcum pro perticata j.d. qa. : x.s. j.d. qa., pro eo quod vetus haia asportata fuit et combusta per homines de exercitu Regis tempore turbacionis. Et in cibo et stipendio j parcarij custodientis predictum parcum per predictum tempus, iiij.s.

Liberate. (Et liberates Willelmo de Otrehampton' Receptori exituum dictorum Castri et Manerij per j litteram de acquietancia et v tallias, xliiij.li. xvj.s. ix.d. ob. Et Willelmo Davy Receptori ibidem post ipsum per j litteram de acquietancia, xj.li. xvij.d.)

Snmma expensarum et liberate : Lxvij.li iiij.s. xj.d. qa. Et debentur Regi: vj.li. xiij.s. v.d. qa. DequibusRicardusNoel

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de Donynton* debet iiij.li. ix.s. quos recepit de Nicholao de Hungreford et Ricardo del Doustes pro blado Regis eisdem Nicholao et Ricardo veuditis, de quibus idem Ricardus Noel respondet infra. Et debet dictus Ricardus Mabbeson prepositus : xliiij.s. v.|d. qa.Ricardus Noel debet iiij.li. ix.s. receptos de Nicholao de' Hungreford et Ricardo del Doustes pro blado Regis eisdem vendito in manerio de Donynton' anno xv sicut supra continetur. De quibusquid iiij.li. ix.s. Rogerus Beler custos terrarum et tenementorum forisfactorum in Comitatu Leic' oneratur in compoto suo de castro et manerij de Donington' in dicta summa Recepte de I,xxiij.li. xviij.s. iiij.d. qa. superius annotatis.

Grangie.Frumentum. Idem reddit compotum de v qr. dim. frumenti

receptis in granario de Rogero Beler per j indenturam sicut supra continetur. Et de xxxij qr. frumenti receptis in tasso tam in grangia quam in capella de eodem Rogero per eandem indenturam. Et de iiij bus. frumenti de exitu molendini per predictum tempus. Summa Recepte: xxxviij qr. De quibus in liberacionibus Ricardi del Doustes custodi dictorum Castri et Manerij per predictum tempus, videlicet per xvj septimanas et ij dies : j qr. iij bus. Et in vendicione vt supra : xxxvj qr. v bus. Et eque.

Siligo. Idem reddit compotum de vij qr. iij bus. siliginis receptis in granario de predicto Rogero per dictam indenturam. Et de viij qr. receptis de eodem in tasso sicut supra continetur. Summa : xv qr. iij bus. De quibus in mixtura pro liberacionibus famulorum vt inferius: vj qr. Et in vendicione vt supra : ix. qr. iij bus. Et eque.

Ordeum. Idem reddit compotum de iij qr. vij bus. ordei receptis in granario de eodem Rogero per dictam indenturam. Et de xij qr. receptis de eodem in tasso sicut supra continetur. Summa Recepte: xv qr. vij bus. De quibus in mixtura pro liberacionibus famulorum vt supra : xij qr. vij bus. Et eque.


Pisaria. Idem reddit compotum de ij qr. vij bus. pisarie receptis in granario de eodem Rogero per dictam indenturam. Et de iiij bus. de empcione vt supra. Summa: iii qr. iij bus. Et totum computat in liberacionibus famulorum vt inferius. Et eque.

Braseum. Idem reddit compotum de ij qr. brasei ordei de exitu molendini per predictum tempus. Et venduntur supra. Et eque.Mixturct. Idem reddit compotum de vj qr. siliginis, iij qr. ordei, iij qr. iij bus. pisarie receptis supra pro liberacionibus famulorum. Et de iij qr. j bus. multure de exitu molendini per predictum tempus. Summa Recepte : xv qr. iiij bus. De quibus computat in liberacionibus j carectarij, j messoris et viij carucariorum a predicto xxiiij die Marcij vsque xvj diem Julij proximo sequentem, per xv j septimanas ij dies quolibet capiente qr. pro xij septimanas cum liberacionibus j bercarij per iiij septimanas infra tempus predictum: xiij qr. ij bus. Et in vendicione vt supra, ij qr. ij bus. Et eque.Staurum.Equi. Idem reddit compotum de iij equis carectariis et x affris receptis de predicto Rogero per predictam indenturam. Summa recepte : xiij. De quibus in morina j cuius coreum dealbatur et expenditur in hernesio carectario. Et xij liberantur Hugoni le Dispenser de dono Regis per breve Regis directum Rogero Belers sicut supra continetur et indenturam inter ipsum Rogerum et Robertum Jorce de I/ughteburgh' et Ricardum Noel de Donynton' attornatos ipsius Hugonis. Et eque.Pullani. Idem reddit compotum de j pullano recepto de eodem Rogero per dictam indenturam. Et liberatur predicto Hugoni per dicta breve et indenturam. Et eque.Boues. Idem reddit compotum de xvij bobus receptis de eodem Rogero per dictam indenturam. Et liberantur predicto Hugoni per dicta breve et indenturam. Et eque.Porci. Idem reddit compotum de x porcis de eodem Rogero per dictam indenturam. Et liberantur predicto Hugoni per dicta breve et indenturam. Et eque.

c.Multones. Idem reddit compotum de ij.xviij multonibus receptis de eodem Rogero per dictam indenturam. Et liberantur Willelmo


de Birchouere instaurario Regis apud Huntyndon* sub eodem Rogero ante constitute. Et eque.Mortuum Staurum. Idem reddit compotum de j balista de balena cum cordis, vj balistis de ligno quarum tres sine cordis, xlvij quarellis pro eisdem, j bacinecto, iij akdons veteribus, j coopertura de ferro pro j equo, j lorica, vj ferris 'lancearum, iij veteribus ollis eneis, ij veteribus cacabis, j dorlotto eneo, j cista, j camino ferreo, j carrecta, ij plaustris ferratis, ij remanentibus veteris vini nullius valoris et rotulis Curie dicti Castri et Manerij receptis de dicto Rogero per dictam indenturam sicut supra continetur. Et de iiij carucis cum et alio apparatu, precij, iiij.s., vj herciis, precij, vj.d., j mela pro cinapio, precij, vj.d., iiij mensis cum trestellis et vj formulis, precij, v.s., vj doleis vacuis, precij, iiij.s., iij plumbis in furnace, precij, viij.s., j alue, precij, viij.d. iiij cunis, precij, iij.s., j doleo pro elemosina, precij, vj.d., et j bussello ligneo, precij, iiij.d. inuentis in eodem Castro extra indenturam. Et omnia liberantur predicto Hugoni per idem breve et dictam indenturam.

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