Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Social conditions
Names of the tenants assigned to serve the King's table.
[Sidenote: Of the Table of the King.]
Simon Weyland holds the swineherd's land, and renders 1/2 mark a year,
because there are no swine.
[Sidenote: Virgate.]
The heir of William the Weaver holds the shepherd's land, and renders
12s. a year, because there are no animals.
John le Messager holds one ploughman's land, and renders 12s. a year,
because there is no plough.
Adam le Wardur holds another ploughman's land, and renders 12s. a year,
because there is no plough.
William Anore holds the smith's land, and renders 5s. a year, because
there is no plough.
Reckoned as a virgate for the works of the paling.
Sum of rents of the aforesaid lands of the King's table, 47s. 8d.
[Sidenote: King's Messenger.]
Geoffrey son of Peter holds 6 acres of land, for which land he ought to
carry the writs of the lord the King, when they come in the manor of the
lord the King, wheresoever the bailiff shall wish within the county, at
his own cost, and receiving 1-1/2d. for going a reasonable day's journey
out of the county and nothing for the return journey.
Names of the cotters and rents of assize of their tenements and the
customs of the same.
[Sidenote: Cotters.]
[Sidenote: Virgate.]
Geoffrey Scurel holds one cotland and renders yearly 5s. and for works
49d.
Peter le Abbot and his partners hold one cotland and render yearly 4s.
and for works 49d.
William son of Savary holds one cotland and renders yearly 4s. and for
works 49d.
Juliana relict of Edmund and her partners hold one cotland and render
yearly 5s. and for works 49d.
Richard del Ho holds one cotland and renders yearly 3s. and for works
49d.
William de Ros and Adam Pays hold one cotland and render yearly 5s. and
for works 49d.
William de Uphavering the younger holds one cotland and renders yearly
5s. and for works 49d.
Reckoned as a virgate for the works of the paling.
[Sidenote: Sums.]
Sum of rents of assize of the aforesaid cotters yearly, 31s.
Sum of the same works yearly, 28s. 7d.
Sum of both, that is, rents of assize and the same works yearly, 59s.
7d.
Lands occupied over[100] the King and arrented by William Brito and his
fellows.
Richard Hageman holds 16 acres of land of new purpresture[101] and
renders yearly half a mark.[102]
* * * * *
[Sidenote: Sum.]
Sum, 102s. 11-1/2d.
Richard Segar holds two dayworks with a house of the same [_i.e._ of new
purpresture] and renders yearly 8d.
The same holds 1-1/2 acres of old purpresture and renders yearly
6d.[103]
* * * * *
[Sidenote: Sum.]
Sum, 10l. 1s. 6d.
Edmund Prest holds 5 acres and renders yearly 10d.[104]
* * * * *
The prior of Hornchurch holds 66 acres and 2 dayworks of land and 1 rood
of meadow of encroachment and renders yearly half a mark.
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