Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Social conditions
Richard de Dovere holds the watercourse from Romford bridge to the park
of Havering, and for the watercourse from the end of the fishpond of the
abbot of Waltham between Havering and Weald to the mete and bound of the
limits of Havering as far as the watercourse extends, and renders yearly
12d.
Richard de Dovere holds 85 acres of demesne in several places and
renders yearly 20s.
[Sidenote: Sum.]
Sum, 117s. 7d.
Sum total of all lands occupied over the King, 21l. 2s. 0-1/2d.
[Sidenote: Subtenants.]
Names of all sub-tenants in the town of Havering who have chattels to
the value of 40d. of whom it is acknowledged by the aforesaid jurors
that each such tenant ought to reap, bind and cock one acre of oats of
the demesne of the lord the King in autumn, and to find one man to mow
in the King's meadow for one day at his own cost. And every of them,
according as they join in a plough for ploughing their own land, shall
plough for the lord the King each year for one day at the summer
ploughing and for another day at the winter ploughing.[105]
* * * * *
[Sidenote: Sum.]
Sum of the rents of the aforesaid sub-tenants without ploughing, 4l.
6s.
The King is in seisin of the wardship of the lands and heirs of all the
tenants of the same manor, and can hold them when he deems it to his
advantage, and then he shall have no heriot. And if he deem it not to be
expedient for him to hold the wardship of the lands and heirs in his own
hand, he can demise the same, and then he shall have a heriot and
relief.
Further, they say that all the tenants of the same manor can marry their
sons and daughters without licence of the King or of his bailiffs,
except the cotmen.
Further, they say that the King can tallage all the tenants of the same
manor, except those who hold by charters of Kings at their will,
according to their means, when he tallage other his demesne manors.
Further, they say that the pleas of court can be worth 40s. a year.
Further, they say that heriots and reliefs and other perquisites can be
worth in common years 53s. 4d.
Further, they say that view of frankpledge can be worth in common years
6s. 8d.
[Sidenote: Sum.]
Sum total of all sums of the same manor, 112l. 10s. 11-3/4d., except
free tenants and the ploughing of sub-tenants and customary carts.
[Footnote 91: And 28 others named.]
[Footnote 92: _cf. above, Rectitudines, p. 5, under Geneat's Service_,
"he must ... cut the deer-hedge and maintain it."]
[Footnote 93: Produce or profits.]
[Footnote 94: November 11.]
[Footnote 95: Food for swine.]
[Footnote 96: Thirty-one virgates follow in like detail.]
[Footnote 97: Strips.]
[Footnote 98: September 29.]
[Footnote 99: November 11.]
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