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Researches in a Church Chest.
KINGSTHORPIANA;
Researches in a Church Chest.
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OR,
A CALENDAR OF OLD DOCUMENTS NOW EXISTING IN THE
CHURCH CHEST OF KINGSTHORPE, NEAR NORTHAMPTON,
WITH A SELECTION OF THE MSS., PRINTED IN FULL,
AND EXTRACTS FROM OTHERS.
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Common Seal of Kingsthorpe.
LONDON:
ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.
1883.
Page 25, line 7, for "Istē " read "Iste."
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falcationem."
This document, No. VII, is referred to as the ordinance.
of 1483, and should be so headed.
62, line 12, for "conscuence" read "conscyence."
67, 5, for "lybtres" read "lybties."
dell" read "dett."
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87, note, add ref. to p. 41.
91, note, after "art. 33" add ref. to p. 45.
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PREFACE.
Planish (NIN
THE documents presented in the following pages were found
some twenty years since in a promiscuous heap in the Church
Chest of Kingsthorpe, much mutilated, injured by damp and
mildew, and likely in a short time to perish altogether.
From this fate (though perhaps no living interests are con-
cerned in their preservation) it seemed a duty to rescue
them and to secure future safety by making a calendar, with
a description of the contents and condition of each, so that
reference might be easy, and the integrity of the collection
at any time readily ascertained.
More than this was certainly not necessary.
But upon
examining the documents for the above purpose there
seemed to me a possibility that the inhabitants of Kings-
thorpe and its neighbourhood, perhaps even a wider circle,
might find in these papers matter of interest. The references
to historic names of men and places might perhaps be
useful.¹ The notices of events of local importance—such
as the great coney question, referred to so often in the follow-
ing pages though beneath the regard of history, might not
1 In questions of date, for instance. Thus in No. I. William of
Wykeham is styled Chancellor at the date 34 Edw. III. (1361), though
the date usually assigned to his appointment is 1367.
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PREFACE.
be without their use to the historian in enabling him to form
an estimate of the condition and character of the people at
a certain date, to mark the rising force of public opinion,
and the national advance towards a day of liberty.
The allusions to manners and customs, the circumstances
and ideas of our village ancestors, may be thought worth
preserving. We see, for instance, how the bailiff of Bough-
ton rides out of Northampton with his crossbow hanging at
his saddle-bow, prepared for a chance shot at a coney on the
way to Kingsthorpe. The chauntry priest of Boughton, an
arrant poacher probably, is assailed at his own chauntry
door by the underkeeper on a charge of coney-hunting. The
pious people are unable to attend High Mass on Sundays
and Holydays at Boughton Church (the old one, of course,
now in ruins) for fear of stumbling into a coney burrow,
even the bones of the dead being unearthed and exposed
to view, to the great scandal of Christian people.
We see also the yeomen of Kingsthorpe, stung into resist-
ance to an oppressive game-law, combining to meet with
ploughs and horses to break up the infested grasslands, and
thereby subjecting themselves to an indictment for riot.
Then again there are the curious laws and ordinances by
which the inhabitants of the royal manor, meeting under
their bailiff at the Court Leet, were permitted to govern
themselves and to exercise something like the summary
power of our magistracy. These ordinances appear to have
been stringent enough; there was no scruple about sending
the 'myster¹-woman,' who was unable to support herself, out
of the town, and prohibiting her return, and 'impotent folk'
must stand outside the town to beg, and change their domi-
cile before such and such a feast, under a penalty.
The drinking habits of the time are suggested by more
than one incidental notice. The strange custom of brewing
ale for the profit of the Church, which had for a certain time
1 Vide Ordinances (1547).
PREFACE.
vii
the monopoly of sale, must have a pernicious moral effect,
and helped to strengthen the hold of that habit of intemper-
ance under which the country still so deeply suffers. We
find also reference to the office of the May King and Queen,
which seems to have been compulsory on the person elected.
The 'cucking stool,' moreover, was thought to be a necessary
implement of government in those times.
Then we see the three commissioners for the town riding
up to London on the burning question of the conies; how
they travelled from Northampton to Stony Stratford, thence
to Dunstable, to St. Alban's, to Barnet, and so to London,
where they retain as their counsel Master Morgan (probably
of the Morgan family of Kingsthorpe), to plead for them at
the 'Ster Chamber; the fees they are constantly giving,
which are suspiciously like bribes, to the servants; how they
went to Istylworth (Isleworth), so as to be within easy reach
of Sheen, where the Lord Protector (Somerset) was at that
time living, and who apparently had much to do with the
settlement of their 'hundreth matter;' then their engaging
the help of 'Mr. Sessyl' (the future Lord Burghley¹), and
going with him in a 'boyt' to the 'Towre' to get the copy
of Edward III.'s grant of freewarren-doubtless the identical
paper marked No. I. in this collection. One of the most
noticeable features in the journal kept by these persons is
the regular mention of their 'drynkynge' between their
meals, and which throws a curious light upon the social
customs of the day. The entry 'For my drynkynge before.
dener and after' is almost as regular as the dinner itself.
Then again there may be something here for the philolo-
gist, who may light upon some archaic form of word and
phrase worth his attention. Some of the words here occur-
ring are probably local; at any rate, I have not been able to
1 In a warrant of Queen Elizabeth to Lord Burghley (a facsimile of
which is given in Wright's 'Queen Elizabeth and her Times') the name
is spelt Burleigh,' and a line is drawn through it, and 'Burghley'
written over in his own handwriting.
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find them in any of the old glossaries to which I have had
access. Some measures of land and kinds of tenure, some
forms of legal process in the Court Leet, seem peculiar to
the place, and are not to be found in the ordinary law dic-
tionaries or books of reference. As specimens of the English.
language at different dates, and of the purest dialect of
English, according to Fuller, some of these papers will be
found interesting, and, at any rate, it will hardly be doubted
that all such specimens of the popular language and phrase-
ology of a former day ought to be carefully preserved.¹ We
read, for instance, in the depositions (Nos. XVIII. and
XXIII.) how the old bedesman of St. David's at Kings-
thorpe thinks that through the action of the conies 'the
grasse and corne that groweth there is greatly hyndered and
apeyred.' John a Latham, the obnoxious keeper, we are
told, 'manassheth and threepeth against the said inhabitants.'
The man who had received a shrewd blow from the keeper
'never lyked after,' and so on. We also find a number of
curious obsolete words, as 'Lomes,' 'Ledes,' 'Cate,' 'Stow-
delfs,' 'Tollfat,' 'Hodhornys,' 'Lowshard,' etc.
Among local words, I suppose, must be placed the word
'cotisal,' or as it appears in the Court Rolls under the forms
'cotecellus,' 'codecellus,' 'cotestetellus,' 'cotsetulus,' 'cor-
sadellus.' It would seem to have indicated some measure
of area (perhaps with a building on it), as we find mention
of a cotisal and a half. For instance, in the Survey of the
Manor made temp. Jac. II. the holding of Robt Pickmer is
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1 The late Canon James (Quarterly Review) says: The provincial
dialects hitherto published have been chiefly curious from their rude
spelling, the broadness of their brogue, their eccentric and abnormal
forms; but in the midland district not only have we old Saxon words
rather than provincial vulgarisms, but we stand on the native ground of
Shakespeare and Dryden. The worth, then, of the "Northamptonshire
Glossary above its abstract philological interest. While it deals with
English in its best and purest forms, it elucidates by actual example, far
safer than the guesses of commentators, some of the most knotty passages
and most obscure allusions of our great authors.'
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described, and in the margin 'coir voc' le cotecel et dim,'
i.e., 'commonly called the cotisal and a half,' and it appears
in this case to have consisted of the house and grounds of
one acre in extent. We find also a quarter-cotisal men-
tioned.
It may possibly be a form of cotsethla, but that word is
stated to denote the building or mansion house. Cowell
gives an extract from a chartulary, in which 'cotsethlus
terræ' is mentioned, also from the Malmsbury chartulary,
'Dedi Deo et ecclesie-unam cotsetle cum pertinentiis.'
The word 'quarteron,' 'quarterona,' occurs constantly as
a measure of grassland exclusively, and corresponds to the
roda of arable, each meaning a quarter of an acre of grass
and arable respectively. In the list of Copyhold Claims.
(No. XL.) we find 'Johannes Wryght clamat . . . pratum
in coibus pratis iii rod',' and in the margin 'coiter voc' quar-
terons,' ¿.e., roods, commonly called quarterons. The quar-
teron, then, is the same as the quarentena, rood, and fur-
long, to which last it exactly corresponds in derivation and
meaning, being the fourlong or fourthlong, or fourth part of
an acre.
The form 'quarentena,' from 'quarante,' referring to the
forty square perches of which it was composed, never occurs
in these documents. It precisely corresponds to 'furlong'
if we adopt the common derivation from 'fortylong.' Thus
we have the two words quarentena and quarterona, of differ-
ent derivations, which are both equivalent to the word fur-
long, and, curiously enough, the word furlong is capable of
two possible derivations, corresponding to these words;
thus:
quarentena, quarante.
furlong = {fourlong or fourthlong, quarterona, quarta pars.
but I think the last is clearly to be preferred.
The derivation from furrowlong is adopted by Skeat,
who explains (after Spelman), 'as long as a furrow, as a
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PREFACE.
field,' which is a little indefinite. The 'long' in furlong
has probably nothing to do with length, but is merely a ter-
mination like 'ing,' in farthing, ferling, whence ferling-dele,
fardin-dele, or farthingdele, meaning the fourth portion (of
acre), the same as furlong. The word furlong is never used
in these papers as a measure of length.
Another curious local word is the name Semilong,¹ which
has exercised the ingenuity of local antiquaries to explain
its origin. It is however obviously nothing else than the
corrupted form of a word or combination of words of very
common occurrence in these papers, viz.: 'South mylne
wonge,' ¿.e., the meadow of the South Mill. The word Semi-
long indicates the tract of ground, in the south extremity of
the parish, extending from Kingsthorpe hollow to the bound-
ary of the parish of St. Andrew's as far as the mill, which
was formerly called the South Mill, now, I believe, St.
Andrew's Mill, and bounded on the west by the river. South
Mill wonge would naturally in rapid speaking become Sum-
milong, and then some puzzled etymologist may have refined
it into Semilong, with the vain suggestion of a classical de-
rivation.
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Then again the curious provisions in the old wills, some
of which are given at length in the Court Rolls, are of use
to indicate the religious foundations at the parish church,
which seem to have comprised shrines of the Blessed Virgin
and of St. Katharine, and perhaps several others, the church
itself being dedicated in honour of St. John the Baptist.
Land is bequeathed (roda luminaria) for the sustentation of
the lights before the altars.
1 The late Mr. E. F. Law drew my attention to a correspondence
which appeared in the Northampton Mercury some years ago with refer-
ence to the origin of the word Semilong. The majority of the guesses
were worthless enough, but one writer, Jas. Cattel, suggested the true
derivation, quoting a deed of the date 1708, where a piece of land is de-
scribed as lying in a furlong called South Mill wong, alias the Semi-
long, next to the meere on one side,' etc. The writer does not seem to
have had much confidence in the testimony of this solitary deed, but the
evidence in these papers amply confirms his suggestion.
PREFACE.
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The Churchwardens' Accounts are only two in number;
one (1565) is interesting as referring to the repairs of the
'Stepull;' the other witnesses to the practice of 'whytyng'
the church, which in these days is so offensive to architec-
tural purists. The 'pore scolar 'and 'pore singing man
are relieved out of the funds; a 'roop' is provided for the
'Sancte' bell, and other bells are referred to, but of course
an earlier set than the present, the oldest bell in the present
peal bearing the date 1622.
I hope at some future time to supplement the present
volume by another, giving some account of the Church and
the Parish Registers, and thus to prepare material ready to
the hand of any one who may hereafter undertake to write
a history of the parish.
My thanks are due to Mr. Sims, of the British Museum,
who made the extension of the French manuscript, and also
those extracts from the Court Rolls which are given in
extenso. In the rest I have thought it better to preserve the
original contractions, which will present little difficulty, even
to unpractised readers, for whose use, however, a few brief
notes are appended.

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KINGSTHORPIANA.
With
THE COMMON SEAL.
THE engraving on the title-page represents the common seal
of the Royal Manor of Kingsthorpe. It is made of latten,
and is of rather rude workmanship.
The device is a crowned head, surrounded by the inscrip-
tion, "Sigillum Commune de Kyngesthorpe," and on each
side is a fleur de lys, and what is perhaps intended for a
branch of planta genista.
The King represented is, probably, Richard II. The
peculiar form of the beard with two points is characteristic,
and appears in his monument at Westminster. The fleur
de lys would indicate that the seal was made after the
King's second marriage, in 1396, with Isabella of
France.
Richard's first wife, Anne of Bohemia, was, we know, in
possession of the manor, and it may be assumed that
Isabella held it likewise; and in that case, the introduction
of the fleur de lys into the Kingsthorpe seal would be very
natural.
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
1
CALENDAR OF DOCUMENTS NOW EXISTING IN
THE CHURCH-CHEST OF KINGSTHORPE.
1. Copy of Grant of Free Warren to Ralph Bassett de
Drayton, 34 Edw. III.
[On paper, damaged, but nearly all legible.]
2. Award by authority of Joan (of Navarre), widow of
Hen. IV., respecting rights of fishery in dispute be-
tween the Inhabitants of Kingsthorpe and the Prior
of St. Andrew's.
[Written in French on parchment, much injured by damp,
and in parts illegible. There are still four seals attached;
one with coat-of-arms, another with rebus of name.]
3. Grant of Fee Farm to the Inhabitants of Kingsthorpe.
[This parchment is so much injured that the date cannot
be deciphered, but it appears to be of the time of
Edw. IV.]
4. Court Rolls, abstracts of Court Rolls, views of frank
pledge, etc., for the following years:
24, 28, 31, 33, 34, 36, 38, 39, 40,
41, 44, 47, 48, 51
I, 2, 9, 10—12, 18, 20, 21
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26, 36, 38
6,7
12, 13, 32
I, 2, 4
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15-17, 20
2, 3, 8,.16—22, 24, 27-29
1-7 Edw. V., 1 Mary, 1-4 Philip and Mary, in
paper book.
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Edw. III.
Rich. II.
Hen. IV.
Hen. VI.
Edw. IV.
Hen. VII.
Hen. VIII.
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Elisabeth.
Jas. I.
These rolls are injured by damp, and many almost ob-
literated.]
CALENDAR OF DOCUMENTS.
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5. An Indenture, witnessing that Clement Bacon, Bailiff of
Kyngesthorpe, Stephen Sheppard, and John Hob-
nestye, Constables, and the Commonalty of the said
Towne, have demised to William Braunfeld, of
Kyngesthorpe, miller, 4 watermills (described), with
fisheries, etc., for 10 years, at a rent of 7 marks.
Certain conditions and usual warranty follow. Dated
at Kyngesthorpe, 12 June, ao. 35 Hen. VI.
6. A General Pardon from Edw. IV. to the tenants and
men of the Towne of Kyngesthorpe, by whatever
names they might be known, for all transgressions.
and offences committed before the 4th day of No-
vember, ao. 1 of his reign. An enumeration of
various transgressions follows. Dated 8 Feb., ao. 2.
7. Customs of the Manor of Kingsthorpe "made in the
custumarys within the Towne of Kyngesthorp, re-
newed.. day of June, the year of the reigne of King
Richard the Third, after the conquest the first.'
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[Parchment roll in fair preservation.]
8. An Indenture, witnessing that Clement Broke, Bailiff of
Kyngesthorpe, John Bakon, junr., and John Molle,
Constables, and the whole Community of the said
Towne, have demised to Henry Wallys of the same,
miller, 2 watermills (described) for 21 years at an
annual rent of 53s. 4d. Certain conditions and
usual warranty follow. Dated 6 Apr., ao. 2 Hen.
VII.
9. Draft of Will by one
Shepherd, probably in the
time of Henry VIII. or earlier.
[On paper, in very bad condition.]
10. Letters Patent of King Hen. VIII., reciting previous
letters of Hen. VI., Ed. IV., and Hen. VII., and con-
firming to the men and tenants of the Town of
Kyngesthorpe, otherwise called Thorp, in co. North-
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
ampton, the farm of the said Town, with all its
members and appurtenances, from the feast of St.
Michael in the 8th year of his reign, to the end of
40 years, at an annual rent of 50 pounds, the said
rent having been reduced by the sum of 10 pounds
on account of the poverty of the said tenants and
the decay of the Town. Dated at Westminster, Dec.
20, ao. 11 of his reign. Endorsed "the Graunte of
King Hen. VIII. of the Ferme of Kyngesthorpe."
11. Lease of the North or Farre Mill to John Hopkyns and
Margaret his wife.
12. Complaint and petition of the Inhabitants of Kynges-
thorpe to Hen. VIII. in reference to the preserva-
tion of Game, and the oppressive conduct of one
Latham, the under-keeper at Moulton Park.
[This paper seems to have been the rough draft of the
petition actually sent. It is mutilated all down one side,
but the purport can be readily made out.]
13. A Writing, by which certain Inhabitants and Tenants.
(named) of Thorpe, alias Kyngesthorpe, in co.
North"., appoint John Hopkyns, Peter Diconson,
Thos. Reve, and Simon Baker as their attornies to
proceed against one Henry Maye, under-keeper of
the Park of Moulton, for the recovery of certain
arable and pasture lands in Kyngesthorpe, the fee
farm of which had been recently confirmed to them
by the King. Dated 12 Oct., ao. 15 H. VIII.
Endorsed "A Warrant of Attorney from the Towne
of Kyngesthorpe to some of the same Towne."
14. Answer of Hen. Maye to the bill of complaint.
Hopkyns, Bailiff of Kyngesthorpe.
[Paper in very mutilated condition.]
15. Indenture, by which Peter Dyconson (Bailiff) of the
Township and Liberty of Kyngesthorpe, Richard
CALENDAR OF DOCUMENTS.
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Broke, and John Chese, constables of the same,
and the whole community, demise to Agnes Hay-
ward, widow, and Ambrose Walker, and Margaret,
his wife, all of North"., 3 watermills (described), for
a term of 21 years, at a yearly rent of 8 marks.
The conditions and usual warranty follow. Dated
on the feast of the Annunciation, ao. 20 Hen. VIII.
16. Indenture, by which Richard Else, Bailiff of the Town
of Kyngesthorpe, John Hopkyns, and Robt. Coke,
Churchwardens, Richd. Broke and Clement Shep-
perde, constables of the same, and all the Inhabitants
and Tenants, demise to Thomas Morgan of Kynges-
thorpe, gent, a close, etc., in Walbekke, in the parish
of Kyngesthorpe, to hold for a term of 21 years, at
an annual rent of 44s. Usual warranty. Dated,
20 Nov., ao. 26 Hen. VIII.
17. An Agreement between Richd. Pickmer, Bailiff, William
Sheppard, and John Plomer, Constables, and the
Commonalty of Kyngesthorpe of the one part, and
Gilbert Johnson, of North"., on the other; by which
said Gilbert makes over to the said Richd. Pickmer,
etc., his house in Bearward Street, North"., in pledge
for the due performance of the conditions of a lease
of the Nether Mill to the said Gilbert from the said
Richd. Pickmer, etc. Made 17 Feb., 30 Hen. VIII.
18. Depositions of Witnesses respecting the keeping of
conies in Kingsthorpe and Moulton, with the follow-
ing headings :
I. "Examinations taken at the Town of North".
the xxvi. day of April, in the xxxiii. yere of the
reigne of our Sovereign Lord Kyng Henry the
Eight, by Sir Edward Montagu, Knyght, and Sir
Thomas Tresham, Knyght, by virtue of a Commis-
sion to them dyrected for the part of the Inhabit-
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
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ants and of the Town of Boughton and Pysford
against Thomas Latham.
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19 leaves in form of book, much damaged.
2. "Examinations," as above, on the part of
Thomas Latham.
19 pages in a book.
3. A third similar Examination against Latham.
19. Ordinances and Statutes made by the consent of all
the Inhabitants of the Towne of Kingesthorpe, in
the time of Robert Coke, Baily there, anno primo
Edw. VI.
[A revision and enlargement of the code in No. 7, on
parchment, injured, and ink faded.]
20. Indenture by which Richd. Broke, of Kyngesthorpe,
Baily, and Jeffrey Collys, and Thomas Canam, Con-
stables, and the commonalty of the same place,
demise to John Sylbell, of North"., baker, a water-
mill under the Towne of Kyngesthorpe (described)
for forty years, at an annual rent of £4 35. 4d.
Usual conditions and warrants follow. Dated, I
July, ao. 37 Hen. VIII.
21. A Journal of the daily expenditure of certain persons,
viz., Robt. Coke, Rob. Dykynson, and Richd. Broke,
who were sent up to London by the Town of
Kyngesthorpe, to carry through the "Hundreth "
business in the Court of Star Chamber.
[This is on paper, in a very ragged state, but nearly all
legible.]
22. "Receipt of Rich Broke, of Kingsthorpe, in the
xxxviiith yere of the raigne of o". most drede
Sofferayne Lorde Kinge Henry the Eight, to the
use of the Inhabitants of the same Towne," together
with his disbursements.
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CALENDAR OF DOCUMENTS.
23. Depositions on the part of Sir Thomas Tresham, Knight,
taken at Ketering, in the Countie of Northampton,
the xi. day of Aug., in the second yeare of our
Soverayne Lord Kyng Edward the Sixt, before ust
Sir Edw. Montague, Knyght, Chyeff Justice of our
Soverayne Lord the Kyng of his Com Please,
Edward Griffin, Esquyer, the Kyng's Majestie's
Solycitor-General commissioned of our said Soverayne
Lord the Kyng, by virtue of his highnes' commission
to us, directed touchyng a matter dependyng in
varyance between the freeholders and the inhabitants
of the Township of Kyngsthorpe, Boughton, and
Pysford, in the said Countie of Northampton, of the
one partie, plaintyffes, and the said Sir Thomas
Tresham, Kapr. of the Kyng's Majestie's parke of
Moulton, in the said Countie, and Thomas Latham,
under-kapr. of the same parke, defendants."
Depositions, as above, taken on the 30th day of
April, in the 3rd yere of the reigne of Ed. VI., at
Geddington, in the Countie of North"., before the
same.
24. List of Questions to be put to witnesses in a suit re-
specting the keeping of conies in Kyngesthorpe and
Moulton, temp. Hen. VIII.
[Long paper roll, much injured.]
25. Abstract of depositions respecting conies.
[Paper roll, one sheet imperfect.]
26. A breviatt of the depositions produced on the parte
of the inhabitants of Kyngesthorpe and Bucktone...
Keepers of Moulton Parke ought to have no war-
rene of conyes nor hares within
off Bucktone
and Kyngesthorpe.
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[Paper roll, mutilated.]
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
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27. Letters Patent of Philip and Mary confirming the grant
of farm previously made by King Henry VIII. (qu.
No. 10), and extending the term from the feast of
St. Michael next ensuing for 40 years. Dat. at West-
minster 12 May, an 2, 3 Philip and Mary.
[The lower half of the great seal in white wax remains
attached.]
28. Indenture by which the good and dyscrete men and
tenauntes of Kyngesthorpe, otherwise called Thorpp,
in the county of Northampton, demise to Rob. Cooke
certain watermills as described for a term of 34
years at an annual rent of 50s. 8d. Conditions
and covenant follow. Dated xvi. day of Nov., 3
and 4 yeare of the reigns of Philip and Mary, King
and Queen of England, Spain, France both Cycells,
Jerusalem and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, Arch-
dukes of Austryche, Dukes of Burgundy, Mellayne,
and Brabant, Counts of Aspurg, Flanders, and Tyroll.
[The common seal of Kingsthorpe attached.]
29. Indenture by which the good and discrete men and
tenauntes of Kyngesthorpe demyse to Jeffraye
Cooke certain mills in Kyngesthorpe leased to
Thomas Cooke, his brother, by Sir Christopher
Hatton, Knt., by letters dated the 13th Oct., 1589,
and by him willed to the said Jeffraye to hold for
21 years at an annual rent of £4. Usual covenants.
Dated 26 Ap., ao. 35 Elisabeth.
30. Exemplification by Queen Elisabeth at the petition of
Francis Morgan, Esq., of an enrolment of certain
letters patent, dated 5 Ap., ao. 36 of her reign,
granted to the men and tenants of the Town of
Kingsthorpe, confirming the grants made by K.
Hen. VIII., and extending the privileges therein
conceded for a further term of 40 years from the
1
CALENDAR OF DOCUMENTS.
feast of S. Mich. next ensuing. Dated at Westminster
18 Oct., ao. 41 Elisabeth.
[Fragments of the great seal in white wax remain.]
31. Portion of a deed endorsed " a lease graunted to the men
and tenants of the Town of Kingsthorpe." Owing to
the injury the document has sustained the date is
wanting, but it is probably the "Letters Patent" men-
tioned in the preceding (No. 30), as dated 5 Ap., ao.
36 Elizabeth.
[Fragments of the great seal in white wax remain.]
32. Complaint of Henry Knolles, keeper of the Park and
Warren of Moulton, co. Northampton, on behalf of
the Queen [Elisabeth], addressed "to the Right
Honorable William Lord Burleigh, Lord Threasourer
of England, Sir Walter Mildmaye, Knt., Chancellor
of the Qu. Majestie's Court of Exchequer, Sir Ed-
ward Saunders, Knt., Lord Chief Baron of the same
Courte, and the rest of the Barons there."
[On paper; 9 leaves, much mutilated.]
33. "A True Rental;" being the half-year's rent of Kings-
thorpe. Names of Tenants and amounts of pay-
ment. No date; but probably temp. Elisabeth.
34. Churchwardens' account headed "The resetts of me,
Robert Cook, one of the Church Wardens in the yere
of our Lord God, 1565, consernyng the stepull and
other matters as hereafter," etc.
35. Churchwardens' account " a bill of the leyings out since
the last account," no date. 16 cent.
35. The Queen's Rent Roll for Kingsthorpe, dated October
the 10th, 1594.
37. List of names with payments, an assessment apparently
for some ecclesiastical purpose-perhaps a Church
rate.
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
}
38. Abstracts of the Great Roll of the Pipe, being acquit-
tances to the men and tenants of Kingsthorpe for
payment of rent due from the said Town to the
Crown, temp. Hen. VII., Hen. VIII., Eliz., Jas. I.,
Chas. I.
39. Manerii de Kingesthorpe supervisus ibm factus XVI.
die aprilis anno 5, Jas. I.
[Upon paper, very much mutilated at the bottom of each
page.]
40. Claims of copyhold tenants to lands in Kingsthorpe,
without date. 17 cent.
[Ten leaves, rolled, in very dilapidated condition.]
41. An Indenture [much mutilated] by which Mabell Mor-
gan, of Kingesthorpe, co. North"., widow, covenants
for herself and heirs to pay to Francis Barnard, and
others, on behalf of the Townsmen of Kingsthorpe,
the sum of £4 for the rent of certain watermills there.
The conditions follow. Dated 22 Jan., ao. 15 Jas. I.
[Endorsed "Mrs. Mabell Morgan, her deed to the men of
Kingesthorpe." A piece of wax without impression remains
attached].
42. Indenture dated 9 Charles I., 1633, whereby the Trus-
tees of the Manor grant certain tenements and lands
to William Mottershede, in fee simple, being formerly
copyhold of the Manor, at a rent of 46 shillings and
4 pence.
43. An Indenture not executed, by which certain Com-
missioners of the Parliament for the sale of posses-
sions of the Crown make over the Spelhoe Hundred
to Mr. F. Cooke.
44. Inquisition into the Charities of Kingsthorpe by Com-
mission under the great seal, 1683.
45. Indenture 4 Q. Anne, 1705, appointing new Trustees of
the Manor, and regulating future appointments.
CALENDAR OF DOCUMENTS.
II
46. Sundry fragments of various dates, including portion of
a Royal Grant of the Manor, about the date of Hen.
VII. or VIII., being apparently the middle sheet of
three, the two others being lost.
[There are also some modern deeds transferring the
trust of the Manor Lands to new Trustees at various
times.]

I.
[Copy of a grant of Freewarren in all the demesne lands of Moulton,
in the county of Northampton, made to Ralph Bassett de Drayton in
the 34th year of King Edward III.
It is endorsed Recorde out of the Towre,' and is apparently the
'wryghtynge' by Mr. Morgan's man mentioned in No. 21, procured
for use in the Ster' Chamber in conducting the 'hundreth' matter
through that court.
Among the witnesses to the grant we find 'W. Wynton, epo. Can-
cellario nro,' William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, and subse-
quently the founder of New College, Oxford, and St. Mary's, Winchester.
He had served the King as surveyor of works for many years, and had
built for him several important edifices, civil and military, among which
were Windsor Castle and Queenborough. He became Warden of
Forests, Keeper of the Privy Seal, and at last Chancellor, from which
office he was removed in 1371, but was reinstated on the accession of
Rich. II. ('Annals of Eng. Hist.' i. 395). The grant is given under
the privy seal.
It appears that the Bassett family was one of importance in the
county. In a grant by Hen. I., printed in Rymer's federa 'Libertates
Canonicis S. Trin. London, concessæ,' the name of 'Rad' Bassett
apd Northn,' is found among the witnesses. A Richard Bassett was
High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1154. In 34 Hen. III. (1250)
the King committed his park of Northampton (Moulton Park) to Robt.
Bassett, Sheriff of the County. The name Rad' Bassett de Drayton
appears in nearly all the lists of Barons summoned to Parliament during
the reigns of Edward I., II., III., and Richard II., representing pro-
bably three or four generations (vide Dugdale, Summonitiones ad
Parl.'1
rotulo cartarum Regis Edwardi T'tii ao xxxiiiito.
Sciatis nos de gra nra spali concessisse et hac p'senti
carta nra confirmasse dil'to et fideli nro Rado de Bassett de
Drayton qd ipse et heredes sui imppm heant libram waren-
nam in ombs dmcis terris suis de Multon in Com Northt
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
dum tamen tere ille no sint infra metas foreste me.
Ita qd
nullus intret tras illas ad fugand' in eis vel ad aliquid
capiend' qd ad warenna ptineat sine licenc' et voluntate
ipsius Radi vel hered' suor' sup forisfactura nram decem
librar. Quare volumus et firmit' pcipim' pro nobis et here-
dibus nris qd pdcts Radus et hered' sui imppm heant libam
warenna in ombs dmcis tris suis ibm du tamen tre ille no
sint infra metas foreste me Ita qd nullus intret tras illas ad
fugand' in eis vel ad aliquid capiend' qd ad warenna p'tineat
sine licencia et voluntate ipsius Radi vel hered' suor' sup'
forisfacturam nram decem librar' ut pdtm est, hiis testibus
ven'abilibus pribus3 W. Wynton Epo Cancell' nro J. Roffen'
Epo Thesaur' nro Rico Arundell Thoma Warr Ricdo Stafford
Comitibus Guidone Brian Senescallo Hospicii nri et aliis
dat' p' manu Rs apud Westm' xii die Junii p' bre de privato
sigillo.
1 To hunt.
Concordat cn Record'
per me Edwardu Hales.
3 Præsulibus.
2 Forfeiture, fine.


42
II.
[It would appear that the Manor was frequently granted by the King
for the time being to his Queen Consort, who probably retained it for
life. Thus we learn from the following document that the Manor was
at this time (I Hen. V. 1413) in the possession of Joan of Navarre,
widow of the late King Hen. IV., who also held it as Queen Consort,
as appears from the Court Roll, anno 12 Hen. IV.
Richard, the Prior of S. Andrews here referred to, was Richard
Napton, mentioned in the Court Roll 12 Hen. IV., vide No. 4, p. 26.
Richard Napton governed S. Andrew's Priory in 1339, after whom
we meet with no other till 1452, when John Holder was possessed of
it' (Bridges).
There are three seals still attached, one with the device of a flat-fish
-probably the seal of Rob. Playce.]
escritz verront ou orront William Esturmy
chivaler chief seneschall des terres notre tres soverayne
dame Johanne Royne dengletre, Johan de Tibbaye chaun-
celler. . . . . Tresorer et Robert Plaice de Counseil de
mesme la Royne, salut'. Cum certayns accordes et ap-
poyntementz se presteront par entre notre dicte dame le
Royne dun [parte] [et Richard] Priour de seynt Andrewes
de Norhampton dautre part, par endentures entre eux faitz
sur certayns grevaunces compleyntz et enjuries faitz et
perpetrez par le dit Priour ses commoignes [et serva]untz
au dicte Royne et ses tenauntz et lour servauntz de sa ville de
Kynggesthorpe et lour servauntz le tenour des queles enden-
tures ensuyst en cestz paroles. Cest endenture faite parentre
Johan par la grace de dieu Royne dangletere et de Fraunce
et dame Dirlande dune parte et Richard Priour de Seynt
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
Ces-
Andrewes de Norhampton dautre parte Tesmoigne lacco..
. . soubz escritz qe les diverses compleynts ou . . . . mon-
strez par les tenauntz des dicte Royne de son Manoir de
Kyngesthorpe en le Counte de Norhamptone . . . . Royne
Priour ses commoignes et servauntz avaunt ces heur . .
avoir de Pescherie en la Ewe qe courge del molyn appelle
Kyngesthorpe mille illeoqe bateries et autres
diverses trespasses et enjuries sib . . Royne come a ses
tenauntz sus ditz et lour servauntz perpetrez et faitz.
tassovoir que
garderount et . . . pret envers les
tenauntz du dicte Royne de son Manoir sus dit pur eux et
lour servauntz a lour procurement abettement . . . . le dit
Priour . . graunt per icestz qe il ses comoignes et servauntz
ne pescheront nullement en lewe sus dit sanz monstrer suffi
ceant matier et evydence a . . . ques avoir pescherie en
la dicte Ewe. Et outre ce le dit Priour voet et graunt par
icest qil et ses commoignes esterrent a la garde et ordy-
naunce de Mons' William Esturmy chivaler chief Senes-
chall des terres du dite Royne Jehan de Tibbaye chaun-
celler, Jehan Everdon' Tresorer et Robert Playce du Con-
seille du dicte Royne de toutz maners pescheries assautes,
debates, trespasses, enjuries grevaunces perpetrez et faitz
devaunt la faisaunce dicestz par le dit Priour et ses com-
moignes a la dicte Royne ses tenauntz et lour servauntz sus
ditz. Et le dit Priour les ditz ordinances et agarde tiendra
et perfourmera pur luy et ses commoignes en toutz poyntz.
Provisy qe les ditz ordynaunces et agarde soient faite de-
vaunt le mois de Pasqz proscheyn venaunt. Et a toutz les
poyntz articles et accord sus ditz et a chescun deux tenier
et perfourmer per le dit Priour ses commoignes et servauntz
susditz le dit Priour soy oblige per icestz a dicte Royne en
quarant livres desterling' appaiere a mesme la Royne a quele
heure qe il ses commoignes et servauntz ou ascun deux
faillent ou faille de lour parte dascun des articles accord et
poyntmentz avaunt dictes. En tesmoignaunce de quele
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
17
chose a lune partie de ceste endenture envers le dit Priour
remaignaunt la dicte Royne ad fait mettre son seall et a
lautre partie de mesme lendenture envers la dicte Royne
remaignaunt le dit Priour ad myz son seall. Don a Westm'
le vynt et second Jour de Juyn lan du reigne notre seigneur
le Roy Henry quart puis le conquest treszime.
Sachez qe
nous avaunt dictes William Esturmy, John de Tibbay, John
Everdone et Robert Playce le Samady proschein devaunt la
moys de Pasques lan du reigne notre seigneur le Roy Henry
quynt puys le Conquest primer en la Receit du dicte Royne
a Westm' par bone et mure deliberacion et ad . . . de
Richard de Nortone, William Skrene, William de Lodyng-
ton sergeant du Roy en loy et autres du Counseill du dicte
Royne aprez en loy lors illeoqes pre[sents]. . . avons or-
deygne [et] ordynons et agardons de notre commune assent
qe touchant le pescherie qe le dit Priour clayme en
la dicte Ewe qe un serg· ... Royne ses tenauntz et lour
servauntz et un autre sergeant de loy depar le dit Priour et
nominacion verront la dicte Ewe et ferront fynal
determynacion de dicte pescherie per...
. . . sils purront
eut accorder. Et sils ne purront eut accorder ils ferront
report apres le dit moys a Mons' Hugh Huls un des
Justices de la banc . ment determiner adjuger et
agarder del pescherie susdit sil le voet prendre sur luy
et purra ce attendre devaunt la fest de seynt Martin lors
prosch . . . . ne voet ou ne purra a dicte agarde atten-
dre et le prendre sur luy come devaunt est dit, adonqes
les ditz deux sergeantz par les ditz Royne et Priour several-
ment nomme. . . . ferront eut lour report a Mons' William
Haukford chief Justice de banc de Roy pur fynalment
determyner et agarder du dicte pescherie devaunt les
ensuant, et qe le dit Priour mesme le Samady apres
la heure de none en lesglise Cathedrall de Seint Paule de
Londres soy liera et oblige. . . . obligatorie au dicte Royne
en quarrant livres appaier a mesme la Royne a quele heure
. . . •
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•
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
qil refuse de ster ou obeyer la garde ou ordynance avaunt
dicte. Et . . . . tenauntz de Kyngesthorpe pescheront et
occupieront la dicte pescherie come ils ount faitz et usez
devaunt ces heures tanque autrement soit ordeyne come
dessus est dit . . . en le mesme temps les ditz Priour ses
commoignes tenauntz et servauntz ne pescheront nullement
en la ewe avaunt dicte. En tesmoignaunce de quele chose
nous avaunt-ditz William [Esturmey], [Johan] de Tibbay,
Johan Ever[don], [et] Robert Playce avons myz noz sealles.
Don en la Receit du dicte Royne a Westm' le Samady pro-
scheyn devaunt le mois de Pasque lan [du reygne] notre
seigneur le roy Henry quynt puis le conquest Prymer.
[Four seals remain attached.]


DEN |44| ||||||||||
………
Godefeld
Manuelfield
Wolsterholme, or
[The extracts from the Court Rolls are selected partly for the sake of
the allusions to manners and customs of the time, but especially on
account of the names of fields and properties incidentally mentioned.
Some of these names still remain, but the majority seem to have dis-
appeared. Most of them are comprised in the following list.]
Slanthorns, or
Lanthorns
Galous weye
Myddel furlong
Shottylbridge
Worcesterholme The Styves, Styes, Nortcleyelond
Bokton mere
or Styles
Sowrland
Kenesplace
Shutsdam
Pywell hull
Genyell
Ffrost
EASITEINDRATE UMAMITTE
IV.
Swaswell
Gorebrede
Threfdale and
Theavedale
Sterwell weye
Kyllyngwell
Port wey furlong
Whithill
Wheteland
Hoselokesende
Pykkow, Pykke, or Hangyndale
Poke
Lynglies
Swarwell brok, or
Sexholme
Buttonfield
Wadenwell
AANTILE) SI FAMUULEEXTER (@JLLYTI
Totyngsthorpe
Hauksplace
Pydale field
Pydale stade
Schirlegedowne
Southmyllwonge
Halywell furlong
Braunfeld
Waynesplace
Jayes walle
Sidwell wong
Black myle furlong
Hoopyng
Brukfield
Grauntpytte
Warns close
Deadman's irons
Wallbeck
Thystylholme, or
Fistylholme
Colkayes
Restow
Pese furlong
Neder furlong
Ober furlong
Heybrome
Smetho
Ballum docket
Hodell croftys
Blackwell hyll
Swarlbridge way
[Other local names will be found in the 'Supervisus,' No. xxxix.]
2-2
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
EXTRACTS FROM COURT ROLLS.
47 Edw. III.-Robertus Codelyn queritr de Thoma
Gilbert de placito trans plegius¹ de pros', Willelmus Chym-
messon, unde queritr et dicit quod die lune proxima
post [festum Sancti] Nicholai anno regni regis Edwardi
tercii a conquestu xlo vjo apud Kyngesthorpe predictam,
predictus Thomas injuste et contra pacem &c. fregit et di-
lasseravit octo
lance, videlicet de russeto et blanketo
in operando et fullando² pannum predictum ad dampnum,
etc. Et predictus Thomas dicit quod in
et super
hoc ponit se qui dicunt quod Thomas Gilbertus non est
culpabilis. Et predictus Robertus pro falso clamore in
misericordia est³ xijd.
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41 Edw. III.-Ricardus Harwedone emit unam rodam
terre de Roberto Michel super Oveswog' in Mainwellefeld.
Et predictus Robertus venit in curiam et inde re-
cepit seisinam ad inveniendum unam ceream ardentem
coram beate Marie in ecclesia de Abyndone. Datum die
lune proxima post festum Octabas Pasche, ao. reg. reg. Ed-
wardi tercii a conquestu quinquagesimo primo.
51 Ed. III.- Die maii pxa post ftm Si Augustini anno
regni reg' Edwardi tertii a conquestu quinquagesimo primo
1 'Plegius de prosequendo': surety or bail. 'Præpositis nostris et
ballivis prohibemus ne aliquam hominem capiant neque averium suum
quamdiu bonos fidejussores dare voluerint de justicia prosequenda,' &c.
(Test. Philip Reg., quoted by Spelman).
2 Fullando': vide lease of mill, No. v., where a fulling mill is re-
ferred to.
3 In misericordia est': i.e., amerced (a merci); the pecuniary
punishment of an offender against the King, or other lord in his court;
such offender is said to be in misericordia. 'There seems to be a dif-
ference between amerciaments and fines. Fines are certain, and grow
out of some statute, but amerciaments are such as be arbitrarily enforced
by affeerors.' 'Amerciament is properly a penalty assessed by the peers
of the party amerced for an offence done, for the which he putteth
himself on the mercy of the lord' (Cowell), vide Ordinances, 1547.
'That at every Leete called the Great Leete too Feerares to be chosen,
the Bailiff to chose thone and the Thurbarrows another, and they to
assesse all amerciamentes.'
KINGSTHORPIANA.
2 [
in curia de Kyngesthorpe venit Johannes de Lapton et dedit
Gilto Roce seniori xlviii rod' terr' arabil' in le Godefeld de
Kyngesthorpe et unam vergatam pti antiqui prati . . . de
Kyngesthorpe habend' et tenend' pdto Gilto hered' et assig'
in pptm.
Rcds Harwedone emit una roda terr' de Robto Michal
super.
in Manwellfeld.
9 Rich. II.-Thomas de Duffeld, 'rector ecclesie de
Kyngesthorp,' gave a place of land to John Kene.
13 Rich. II.—Margareta at Park in bona memoria sua
venit in curiam de Kyngesthorpp et dedit Willelmo Holcot
post dis'. . . . dimidiam acram terre super Northmylne-
forlong juxta le lewe ex parte Australi que extendit a via
platea usque ad molendinum, sibi et heredibus et suis
assignatis ad inveniendum unam candelam cere ante Sanc-
tum Christoferum coram altare Sancte Katerine¹ in Ecclesia
de Kyngesthorpe in eternum, et si contingat quod predictus
Willelmus heredes sui vel assignati sui non invenirent illam
candelam inde condicio predicta. . . . Et custodes lumi-
naris Sancte Katerine debent reingredi et aber' dimidiam
acram terre ante dictam in . . . Et prefatum Willelmum
heredes sive assignatos totaliter excludere sine fine. Datum
die et aº. supradictis.
14 Rich. II.—In dei nomine die martis proxima post
festum Sancte Katerine virginis et Martiris anno ab incar-
nacione domini millesimo ccc. nonagesimo mensis Novem-
bris die videlicet vicesimo nono Nicholaus Cotone alias
Goldsmyth sane mentis quamvis infirmitate existens in villa
1 A shrine was dedicated to St. Katharine, probably on account of
the connection of the parish with St. Katharine's Hospital by the
Tower in London. King Edward II. granted to the hospital the ad-
vowson and patronage of the Church of St. Peter, in Northampton, with
the chapels of Kingsthorpe and Upton, by charter dated 26 Aug., 1309.
22
KINGSTHORPIANA.
1
•
de Kyngesthorpe juxta Northampton Lincolns dioc'¹ . . . .
modo et forma sequentibus suum condidit testamentum.
In primis legavit domino Johanni vicario ecclesie parochi-
alis omnium sanctorum de Northampton predicta unum
vetus ordinale. Item legavit domino Johanni Byshop capel-
lano ijs.
Item legavit Johanni servienti suo unum garne-
ment de suis pannis usualibus. Item legavit seu assignavit
Bartholomeo servienti suo, vijs' quos ei debuit. Item dedit
et legavit avicie filie sue unam acram terre arabilis et
ad seminandum dictam acram super
. . anno, videlicet
tres rodas jacentes in le pesforlong et unam rodam jacen-
tem in le . . . forlong infra parochiam de Kyngesthorp
predicta. Habendum et tenendum dictam acram terre cum
suis pertinenciis eidem avicie ad totam vitam suam de capi-
talibus [dominis feodi] illius per servicia inde debita et de
jure consueta. Et si contingat dictam aviciam super vivere
Elizabet uxorem dicti . . . . dicta acra terre remaneat dicte
avicie heredibus et assignatis suis in perpetuum Tenendum
de capitalibus . . . . Et si dicta Elizabet supervixerit, dic-
tam Aviciam, tunc post dicessum dicte Avicie predicta acra
Elizabet heredibus et assignatis suis in
perpetuum. Tenendum de capitalibus dominis feodi illius
per servicium inde debitum et de jure [consuetum]. Et
dedit et legavit prefate Elizabethe uxori sue omnia terras
redditus et tenementa sua cum omnibus suis pertinen-
tiis in villa et campis de Kyngesthorp predicta exis-
tentibus et alibi ubicunque existentibus. Habendum et
tenendum omnia predicta . . . redditus [et] tenementa
cum suis pertinenciis universis dicte Elizabethe here-
dibus et assignatis suis in perpetuum, de capitatibus
dominis feodi illius per [servicium inde] debitum et de jure
consuetum. Item legavit dicte Elizabethe duas optimas
partes de vasis suis. Item legavit. . . . partem hujusmodi
terre remaneat
1 Northampton was in the Lincoln diocese before the erection of the
See of Peterborough.
1
KINGSTHORPIANA.
23
vasis Johanni Maggesone et Avicie supra dicte inter eosdem
equaliter dividendum. Residuum vero omnium bonorum.
suorum prius non legatorum legavit Elizabethe uxori sue
ante dicte quam ad istud testamentum fideliter exequen-
dum ordinavit et constituit executricem.
Rich. II. Alicia Smythe de Kyngesthorpe venit in
plenam Curiam de eadem et dedit Henrico Fulbroke et
Isabelle uxor sue post ejus decessio septem acras terre et
quarteronas pti in Wolsterholme nuper quarteronas Hugonis
Rolfe ad termin vite illor, &c., quarum una roda abuttat in
ptm rectoris dima acra abuttat into Bowkton mere juxta
terram Johannis Broke—alia roda jacet sup' eundem sta-
dium juxt' terr' Georgii Elys ex pte occidentali, una roda
jacet sup' Slanthorns juxta terr' Thome Reve ex pte aus-
trali una roda jact in eodem stadio juxta terr' Will' Schep-
pard ex pte australi, una roda jacet into Genyell (?) juxta
terr' Johns Broke ex pte australi una roda jacet super ffrost
inter terram Johs Colle ex-pte, una roda jacet at Wadyns-
well ex pte occidli juxta terr' Johs Pelle una roda sup' Res-
tow¹ juxta terr' luminar' Sancte Marie, una dim' acra jacet
sup' Pykkow juxta terr' Wm. Fote ex pte australi, una roda
jacet sup' Clayllond juxt' terr' Johs Aynscote ex pte austrli,
tres partes rod' jact in Lynglies juxta terr' Johs Grene ex
pte orient' et tres partes rod' jact into Swarwell Brok juxta
terr' Johs Brune ex pte occidli, una roda subter le poke
juxta terr' Johs Aynscote ex pte boreali, una roda et dim'
jact super Swaswell juxt' terr' Johs Brok una roda jac' super
Gorebrede―una roda abuttat into ye Galonmere-dein' acra
jac' super hopys-una roda et dim' jact into Threfdale-
una roda abuttat into Sterwellweye-una roda apud Kyl-
lyngwell-dim' acra jacet prope Portwheyfurlong—una roda
jact super Whithyll, &c.
P
1 'Restoo or Restow Delf,' vide Ordinances of 1483, art. 30, and of
1547, art. 43.
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
Rich. II.—Elias Pekke emit de Rcdo Bolson tertiā ptm
uni tenementi in Hoselokesende.
-
Pratum in Sexholme― Buttonfield — Wadenwell — the
Styves-unā acr' in Sowrland.
15 Rich. II.-Ad Curiam Anne Regine¹ Anglie apud
Kyngesthorpe die Mercri px ante festm Simonis et Jude venit
Walfrid de Lucy miles et dedit Alicie Warwyck, Thome War-
wyck, et Kateryne uxi ejus, &c., . . . . anno regis Rcdi sdi pt
cqstum xv (1392).
Rich. II. Henricus Michel clamat v rod' terr' de
Thoma Baudeman in terris qū una rod' terr' jact sup' Shuts-
dam et ii rod' subt' Pywellhull alia roda super hangyndele
una roda apud Totyngsthorp.
G
Placea in Northende vocat' Kenesplace-una alia placea
in eadem villa vocata Haukesplace.
J
Die maner' pxma ante ffest' beate Marie Virginis xx Ri-
cardi Scdi post conqu venit Johēs Bole de Kyngesthorpe
in curia de Kyngesthorp et dedit . . . xvi et unum tenem-
tum in villa de Kyngesthorp situat' nec non tenm pdcte Joh's
Bole ex parte una et tenementm Joh's Cosin ex pte altera
cum curtilag' . . . videlicet un acr' terr' in Boketonfeld,
unam dim' acram recenter in tenura Joh's South alia dim
acr' recenter in tenura Radulphi Grene un rod' in Pydale-
feld nuper in tenura Willi Draytone, una rod' et dim' in
Pydale stede nuper terr' Joh's Reve un' rod' jac' sup' Schir-
legedoune (?) nuper terr' Alicie de Loptone iii acr' terr' in
le Milbroke, &c.
1 In 1382 Richard II. married Anne of Bohemia, sister of the Em-
peror Wenceslaus, who exerted herself to calm the animosities and
jealousies which reigned in his court, and thus earned the title of 'The
Good Queen Anne. She died in 1394.
KINGSTHORPIANA.
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Hen. IV. Quod Henrūs Coup de North legavit in
testamento suo tres acras terr' arabil' jac' in campis de
Kyngesthorpe super stadio vocat' Sowthmyllewonge.
Quod Nichlaus Day emit de Emota Pekke uxore Rcdi
Fysher de Neuport Paynel portionem, &c., in Wolstersholm.¹
Quod Johes Perkyns de domo Sce Trinitatis,2 emit, &c.
4 Hen. IV.-Istē Rotulus testatur qd Rcdus Day de
Kyngesthorpe in plena Curia de eadem venit coră multitu-
dine copiosa et dedit Johanni Pekke hæred' et assignat'
porcionē unius Crofte in le Ryryzerdes tend' sdm consuet'
maner' ville pdcte. Dat ap' Kyngesthorpe die mercurii px
pst festm Si Vincentii anno Regis Henrici qrti pst cqstm
iiii.
Walterus Delepert emit de Johne Pekke Ballivo ville de
Kyngesthorpe dim' acra terr' in stadio vocat Sowthmylne-
wonge³ sibi hered' et assig' quæ qdem dim' acra cadit in
manus Dmni Regis per defectum redditus, &c.
1 'Wolstersholm': this is sometimes spelt Worcestersholm.
2 The Hospital of St. David or St. Dewes, with which the house of
the Holy Trinity was connected, was founded in 1200 by the Prior and
Convent of St. Andrew's, who were then impropriators of the tithes of
Kingsthorpe. The foundation consisted of a master or procurator,
with two chaplains and six novices (vide Baker's 'Northn.'). The site
and grounds were granted to the Master of the Savoy, 4 & 5 Philip and
Mary (vide 'Survey of the Manor,' No. 39). The remains of a large
arch with two niches may be seen in the wall of the old building now
being converted into a dwelling by Lady Robinson, and a few years
back the stone framework of the east window of the Holy Trinity
Chapel might have been seen in the gable of a cottage near the then-
existing toll-bar, but it has now been concealed by another cottage
built against it. The object of the foundation was to receive and relieve
travellers, poor and sick persons. At St. David's house a large room
was provided with three rows of beds. There was also a burial-ground
connected with it, and human remains have, I believe, been discovered
there in some recent excavations.
3 Sowthmylwonge': wong, marsh or lowland (Hallowel); wong, a
field (Coles). The meadow-land between the nether and south mills,
now called Semilong.
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Quod Robtus Pine et Isolda uxor ejus emerunt quinque
rod' terr' super Halywell ffurlong.
Rdus Vyse et Petronilla uxor ejus. ... qd vocatur
Waynsplace. apud Ballumdocket.
12 Hen. IV.—Et quod Ricardus Naptone, prior Sancti
Andree de Northampton et monachi sui et servientes sui
piscaverunt in le Shote de le . . . Sowthmylnes subtus
Northampton et fecerunt le Were in prejudicium ville de
Kyngesthorpe. Et quod Henricus Osberne fecit le Fray
super Willelmum Wryte. Et quod Willelmus Page fecit le
fray super predictum Willelmum. Et quod Agnes Masone
hospitavit contra assisam.
6 Ed. IV.—Ad istam Curiam venit Simon Goldborn et
sursum reddidit in manum Domi Regis unum dimidm
qu... coscetuli ad usum et proficium Emme uxoris dcti
Simonis, &c.
Ad istam Curiam tota comitas ville pdcte dedert et tradi
dert Wilhelmo Broke et Rob' Andrew unum vacuum
jacent' ad fines coscetulorum pdti Wilhelm et Rob' qui
abuttant super le hodell croftys hnd et reclusand'—locum
in ppriis closuris et dent pro fine vi galones sincis (?).
Hen. VII. Ad istam Cur' venit Philipp Hardyng,
Bocher, et petit sesinam . . . vidt duas acr' terr' jac' in
campo boreali in le Frost furlong... alia acr' apud Bough-
ton mere.
Ad hanc Cur' venit Elizabeth Else vidua et petit seisinam
de duab' ac' jac' in Heybron . . . venit Jacobus Latham et
petit seisinā de dua' acr' ap' heybron et dim' acr' ap'
Blackwelhyll.
Excepto et reservato unum tenmtm vocať' Whyte-
et unum clausum vocat Balles close.
hedyshowse
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Ad hanc Curia venit Ricus Yorke et Ema uxor ejus filia
et hered' Johs Langton . . et petunt admitti in unum
Cotestetell' et quatuor acr' terr' arabil'.
Agnes Clypson vidua petit seisinam in quatuor acr' et
unā rod' terr' arab' unde una acr' jacet apud Swarlbridge-
way et du' acr' apud le Galous weye sex rod'. . . in campo
vocat Manuelfelde et du' acr' jac' ex parte orientali Myd-
delfurlong in le Whetelonde et un' rod' jac' ap' Swarlbrige-
hedde.
Ad hanc Cur' venit Margery Ecton et dedit in plena curia
Rco Patman de North" [bever?] dim' acr' terr' jac in le
Styes.
Ad istam Curia venit Molle et petit seisina de tribus rodis
terr' jac' apud Longland et tribus rod' jac' in shortland in
campo boreali que pquisivit de Galfrido Rete . . . et super
hoc venit Johes filius pdti Galfridi et petit cate¹ le p'p'
xxs. xxd. et le [bever?] xxd. et non pseq' et Johes Molle pet'
seisinam inde ut sup'.
Hen. VII.-Itm idem Johēs Molle petit seisina de tribus.
rod' terr' jac apud Longlond et tribus rod' terr' in Shortlond
quas emit de Galfrido Rete et sup' hoc venit Johes Rete
filius pdte Galfridi et petit 'a cate' le px h22 xxiii iv et
pdtus Johes Rete non venit neque solvit le cate secdm cons
man' ideo Johes Molle habet seisinam.
Ad istam Curia venit pdtus Johēs molle et petit seisinā
de duabus acr' terr' empt' de Thoma Broke quar' duar' acr'
i acr' apud Southmylwonge et vi rod' jac' apud Shortland in
le woodfield et duas quarteron' prať' jac' in le Worcester-
mede.
1 'Cate, acate, achat': vide Ordinances of 1483, art. 18, and 1547,
art. 20.
2 'Px. h.'-'proximus heres.'
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Ad istam Curia venit Robtūs Hondesworth rector eccle
de Kyngesthorpe et petit seisina de dimō cotecell' et dim'
acr' terr', &c.
Robertus Broke petit seisinam de uno tenmto contnt unu
cotecell' novem acr' terr' et un' rod' terr' arab' una quar-
teron' pti in australi pte in po dolo et un quarteron' jac'
in le mere et un' quarteron' in vo dolo in pte boreali et
un quarteron' pti jac in xi dolo in le mere et tertiã ptm di
quarteron' pti jac' in Worcesters holme.
Georgius Else petit seisinam de dim acr' terr' arab' apud
Shottylbrigge.
Venit Johës Molle et petit seisina de un' acr' terr' apud
Southmylwonge de duob' rodis apud Nortcleytelond una
acr' jac apud Jayeswalle.
20 Hen. VII.-The word 'cotestecellus' occurs here, also
Shottylbridge, and certain land is described as 'Terra in
Stondelvys' and ' In stadio vocat Inglys in Parkfelde.'
Rcdo Hockyn qd fecit affray super servientē Johnis
Browne in mc 45.
Et dcto Redo qd ft affray super quādam muliēr' manent'
apud Brykkysworth.
Et Edwardo Hartewelle qd jac' in campo cum arcu et
sagitta suspecti❜me p' existimac' ad interficiend Willm Roper
de cotyna (?).
Il Rico Hockyn qd ft affray super Wm. Roper.
Ed Hartewelle p' tent' sup' pdct Wm. Roper.
Et Willmo Emson qd hospitavit pdctm Hochyn Edwardum
Hartewelle et Wm. Roper ut pdct'.
Hen. VIII. 'Excepto uno cotagio in pte boreali vocat' le
Almose house.'
In eandum Curia venit Robtus Stalworthe et filius et
heres Johōs Stalworthe et petit admitti ad possessionem et
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seisinam de et in quarta parte unius codecelli jacent' in villa
de Kyngesthorpe et septem rodis terr', &c., super quoddam
dolum ibidem vocat' Sidwellwong.
Ed. VI.—Ulterius ordinat est qd uxor¹ Thome Tomlyn-
son rcedet a villa et nunquam inhabitabit infra villam post
fest annunc' prox' sub pena xiiis. ivd. Ulterius qd Harosia
Kynge silct recedet et non habitabit in villa ulterius post
fest' sanc' Thome apost'.
Querela-Ricdus Broke qur versus Johnm Hurlock de
plcto convent' fracte per iiii boyate straminis voc' Thek et
per coopertura vidz the Thekkynge ejusdem.
3 Ed. VI. Ad hanc Cur Rob'tus Diconson surs' red-
didit in manu Dni Rgis unū mes cont' di' cotesell' voc' le
Betts cũ ombs pasc'. ... pastur' cũ suis pntiis jac' in villa et
campis de Kyngesthorpe nuper Elizabethe Betts vid' ad
usum Thome Wilson sr de Flower cui Dns Rx per Robm
Coke Baily conct seisinā hend' sibi hered' et assigs suis secū
cons', &c., p redd' p salute pdcte Elizabeth p term' vite sue
unū conclave in pdcto mes et le ele house juxta le . . .
cũ libro ingressu et regressu ad pdctm conclave (unto the
backsyde) and ele house cui dedit Dom Rx seisinä et ad-
missus est, &c. Itm pdctus Thomas non ponet aliquod
super conclave nec prmittet pdt mes esse in decasu p
defectu straminis ad nocumentu pdte Elizabeth durante
vita sua.
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3 Ed. VI.-Ad hanc Curia Simon Curt et Alicia uxor
Rich Else defunct' sursum reddidit in manus Regis
Francisci Morgan gen' heredibus et assignatis suis in
perpetuum terram partim unius cotecelli jac' in Kingsthorpe
quondam Brayfelds cui Ds rex concessit seisinam per redd,'
&c. . . et tribus proclamt' factis si quis achat peteret.
1 Vid. Ordinances of 1547, art. 34; the myster woman.
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
vel aliquid diceret in contrana ptem Franciscus Morgan
admissus est.
Johannes Astell et Agnes uxor ejus sursum redd' in
manum Dni Regis ad usum Thome Curt heredb', &c.,
unam quart' pte' jac' northwards in le xxvi dole et tribus
proclamt' factis Ricardus Broke prox', &c., petit acat.
P
Johës Astell et Agnes ux ejus surs redd, &c., ad usû
Robti Coke hered' et assig' suis una quart' pti jac' north-
ward in le second dole et tercia dolā tot' in le more et
tercia dota tota in le Northmylholme que quidem due dole
cont' ii quarti'r'. Et proclam' factis, &c., Robtus Broke
prox' heres petit acat, &c.
Ad hanc Curia inhitantes et tenent' ville pd' tuno presents
sursum redd' Johē Bett duas foreras¹ voc hadlands quar'
una jac' in Shortlande in campo boreali et altera jac' juxta viā
regiã in Heybrome hend sibi et hered', &c., per redd' viid.
ob per annu. Et proclam' fact' pdts Johēs admissus est.
Ad hanc Curia, &c., Thomas Cannon sursu redd', &c.,
ad usū Thome Wilson hered' et assignat' dimid' acr' terr'
jac' apud Blackmyle furlong int' duas divisas voc' balks.
Cui ds Rex concess' seisina, &c., pr redd, &c. Et proclam'
fact' pdts Thomas Wilson admissus est, &c.
Ad hanc Curia pdts Clemens Talbott sursu redd' in
manus dni Regis iii rod' terr' jac' in Hoopyng ad usū Johs
Cokks hered, &c. Antony Smythe natus in villa petit
Achat sup' Johēm Cokks hoiem franchesiat', &c., ad un'
cur' prox' sequent' pdts Antony relaxt suu Achat.
6 Ed. VI.-Ordinatum est per xii qd si aliquis deinceps.
arat aliquam foreram plus quam debet forf' xiid. unde Bal-
livo iiiid. ad hoies iiiior qui invenient defectum iiiid. et pixidi
pauperum iiiid. et qd ballivus pro tempe assignabit pdcť'
iiii hoies.
1 'Forera.' This seems to be the same as lia or lira, balk or head-
land, v. inf. 21.
KINGSTHORPIANA.
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1
K
Itm qd coes liras voc' balks sint in latitudine iii ped' et plus
ubi fuerunt latiores et qd si quis px adjacentium non relin-
quet tera in tanta latitudine qd tunc forf' pro quolibet pede
deficient' iiis. dividend' ut supra in tres partes.
Itm qd quilibet qui falcabit vel repe plus grain vel herbe
in verni pte anni quã debet forf' pro quolibet pede iiis.
dividend ut supra in tres pptes.
6 Ed. VI. Ad hanc curiam venit Jacob' Kynge et
Halvisia uxor ejus sursū redd' in manus Dni Regis totam
illam purpptram¹ et medietatem suam uni' mess' et duas acr'
terr' et ii quarteron' pti in Kyngesthorpe nuper Clement
Talbott defunct' pdte Halbisie ad usum Thome Hyde, &c.
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6 Ed. VI. -The xii men be agreed that our foure ale
brewers shall bringe in at next corte every one of them a
mesure of a gallon, a pottel, a quart, and a pynt, and all of
turnmessers of wood next courte, in pene of vid. every one
maketh defaute,
Afferat'2
{
Robert Coke.
Robert Dyckynson.
7 Ed. VI.—Ordinatum est qd Johēs Estall et Johēs Holby
qui sunt impotent'³ et non valent laborare nō mendicabunt
in viis regiis nec sedebunt ad finem ville ea intentione ad
mendicandum sed stabunt ultimo fine ville sub pen' xxd. et
fugient villam infra quartam anni partem.
7 Ed. VI.-Et qd Johës Shepd non mendicabit contra
formam statuti sub pen' xiid. et correctione in statuto
limitat'.
1 'Purprestura est proprie terra alienæ clandestina subtractio ejus-
demque vicinæ adscriptio' (Spelm.): encroachment, whether against
the King or a neighbour. Medietas, moiety.
2 Afferat': the affeerers, v. sup. not. 3.
3 Impotent.' This seems to have been the mode of dealing with
men past work. Beggary had to be allowed and regulated.
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Et qd le Shephds forf' quilibet xiid. pro tempore quo per-
mittent oves voluntar' pastre in prato boreali.
Ad hanc Cur' inhabtant' concesserunt Rbto Dykynson et
Rcdo Broke pro term' x annor' ad fest' Scti Michel' px
futur' una pcella aque voc' le middell water redd' pr ann
iiis. iiiid. et facient assignat'.
2, 3 Philip and Mary.-Itm ordinatum est pr xii qd qui-
libet tenent' hēns les psenepps crescent' in manuell feld sup'
terr' suas et les balks destruent les psenepps tam flores quã
semina ita qd nullus tenent' habebit aliquas psenepps vel
flores vel semina ejusde herbe sup' terr' suam aliquo anno
de incepto die ad vincla S. Petri sub pe quilibet delinquent
xld. forisfactur' ad usu ville pro qualibet terra.
I
Itm qd Johës Bayly adimplebit fossetum suum apud
South mylle wonge juxta molendinum suum infra festū in-
ventionis divine crucis prox sub pen' vis. viiid.
Pena posiť' est qd Johēs Domport non defodiet lutum
deinceps juxta coem viam per spac' xx ped sub pẽ xxs. p’
qualibet vice.
Et qd major pars inquisitionis vidt xiii sunt parati ad
ponendos lapides voc mere stones sup' hopyng furlong et
aliis locis ubi magis expedire viderunt in campis die Jovis
in septimana Pento prox sub pẽ xiid. quilibet delinquent
sine causa rationabili.
3, 4 Philip and Mary.-Qd nullus deinceps fodiet in le
Hie waye ap' ad nocumentu vie sub pe vis. viiid.
1
Itm qd nullus incedet sup' le furlong apud Coll's townes-
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end unto the heth sub pe iid. nullus equitabit sub pē iiiid.
et nullus fugabit bigat¹ ibm sub pē xiid.
Itm qd Georgius madler et null' alius non cariabit les
furres p' nocte neque p' diem nisi ppas vepres sub pē xlď.
Itm qd Alicia Pykard deferet se extr' villā ante fesť' nativ'
prox sub pē vis. viiid.
Itm qd rector de Kyngesthorpe escur'2 fac' fossetū suū
voc' mere dyke suffic' ante fest' purificats et quotiens necess'
fu'it postea sub pē vs.
Itm qd nullus retallabit panē tantum nisi pistor et servus
suus sub pē vs.
2, 3 Philip & Mary.-Itm qd tenentes qui tenent juxta
aliquam liam³ voc a balk sup' qua liam lapides positi et
ejecti sunt abcariabunt lapides a liis hujusmodi ante festū
purificat' prox sub pen' cujuslibet delinquentis vs.
3, 4 Ph. Mary.—Ad hanc Cur' venit Franciscũ Morgan
serviens sue Regine in ppria esson' et petit se admitti ad
unu cotecell' et di' ac tres acras terr' jac' in Kyngesthorpe
-pdt cotecell' jac' ex opposiť' Rectori ibm et voc' Angevylle
howse et det tres acr' jac' divise in campis de Kyngesthorpe
pdt vidt in le Northfeld di acr' nuper W. Hedye in le Wood-
feld di acr' in Pykks di acr' betwen le Styes apud le parke
yate iii rode apud Blackwellhyll una rodd' in le Brukfeld
apud grauntpytte ii rodd pro quinque libr' solut' pft' hoinibus
et tenentibus Regi in auxilium renovationis carte sue feod'
ferme ville de Kyngesthorp pdt habend' pfto Francisco et
hered' suis sdm consuetud' ville pdte cui quidem Francisco
1 'Fugabit bigatam': drive a waggon.
2 Escuriare: to scour or cleanse. 'Proviso insuper quod quoties
et quando necesse erit et opportunum dicta fosseta nostra mundare
purgare vel escuriare liceat nobis et successoribus nostris totam aquam
dictorum fossetorum convertere,' &c. (Carta Thomæ Episcopi, 4 Ed. IV.,
quoted by Cowell).
3 Lia': 'Charta Johis de Lacy Constab' Cestria'......' Confirmavi
Deo et,' etc. '22 acras terre in villa de Allancotes infra lias divisas'
(Spelman, vide sup. p. 30).
'Essonia': excuse for non-appearance, vide Ordinances, p. 38.
The service of the Crown was a valid excuse.
3
1
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
concess' est inde seisina hend' sibi et hered' suis sdm constd
ville pdte pr redd' iiiis. iiid. pr acr' et admissus est.
—
1 Jac. I.—. . . et dicunt qd Thomas Knapp et Hum-
fredus Hopkyns pistores firmar' molendinorum ibidem ex-
cessum ceper' tolvetum¹ de granis vīcinorum minus juste.
for2 uterque eorund' xs.
Dic' et putant qd Ricus Dikynson Walter Burnet et
Thomas Massman existentes tres brassatores cerevisie venalis
ibidem illam nimis care infra jurisdictionem hujus lete ex-
posuer' et vendider'.
Ulterius dicunt et putant qd Thomas Wiseman
affraia fecit super Wm. Nutbroune et traxit sanguin' infra
jurisd' hujus lete.
Itm dicunt... qd pftus Franc' Morgan ac Robtus Shep-
pard, Thomas Phipps, Ricardus Dikynson, Wm. Billingham,
Henricus Weston, Hen. Johnson, etc., fecer' et posuer' sua
fumaria et sterquilinia in altis plateis ibm ad commune
et qd pftus Franc' Morgan et Johës
Harris separatim fecer' quandam purprestura in regia via
infra villa ibm cum ligno ibm posito ad nocument'
qd Wilmus Broughton posuit silices anglicè brakes in altis
plateis ibm ad nocum' populi Dni regis illuc transient'.
nocumentum
. qd Franc' Morgan fecit quandam fossam anglice
sawpitt super quendam locum voc le grene ad nocum'.
Johës Peake... jurat sup' sacram' suum dicit et putat qd
quidam Thomas Ellyott serviens Francisco Morgan Arm'
pmisit oves sub custodia sua facere magna detrimenta tam
in segete quam in gramine aliorü ad dampnum non modicum
et gravamen.
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Jac. I.-Court roll in Latin; at the end the following
entries are made :
Newe orders.
It is now ordered at this Courte by the homage and con-
1 Tolvetum': Tollfat in Ordinances of 1547, art. 61.
2 Forisfaciet.
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sent of the Stewards there that the Townes men shall cause
a cucking-stool to be made before the Feast of All Saints
next ensuing upon payne to forfeit xs.
Item.-It is further ordered that Thomas Knapp shall
cause a chymney to be made in a tenement now in occu-
pason of Richard Pitman before the feast day of St. Thomas
the Apostle next ensuing upon payne to forfett xls.
1
3-2
}


Chirut
qui
G
[ng,
=
V.
[This indenture, written on parchment, is very much injured by damp,
and is in parts illegible. The following extracts are given as containing
some words worthy of notice, and also on account of the curious pro-
vision that part of the rent should be paid in ale.]
Hec indentura testat' qd Clemens Bacon Ballivus ville de
Kyngesthorpe Stephanus Shepperd et Johannes Hobnestye
constabularii ibm ac tota coitas ejusdm ville unanimo eorum
consensu et assensu concesserunt tradiderunt et ad firmam
dimiserunt Willmo Branfeld de Kyngesthorpe milnr quatuor
molendin' sua aquatica vocat South Mylnes juxta North-
ampton sub uno tecto simul existencia vidt duo molendina
eordum p multura¹ blador' et alia' duo molendina eor' p
arte fullonum cũ toto apparatu et les goyngeres 22 cũ stagno,
aquis, piscar', januis fluctu, pratis, pascuis pastur' et gardinis
ex pte orientali stagni pdti molendinis pdctis spectant'.
hend et tenend de pfto Ballivo, etc. . ・ ・ pfato Braunfeld
... a festo scti Johnis Bapte prox' futur"
usque ad
finem term' decem ann'. . . reddendo inde annuatim post
dctm festū . . . septem marcas bone monete ad quatuor
ann' divnes . . . per equales porc'ones et annuatim in temp'e
falcationis prator' unam cuvam³ vel tynam¹ c'rvsie continent'
•
mille's
•
•
1 'Multura'=molitura: the grinding of the corn. Also used for the
toll charged by the miller (Cowell).
2 'Goyngeres': 'going gear,' vide No. XI.
3 Cuva 'keeve,' tub, cask; Fr. cuves.
▲ 'Tyna': cask or vase (Cowell).
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vigenti et sex lagenas c'vsie aut duos solidos et duos denar'
in moneta pro eadem c'vsia pro omnib' aliis officiis et de-
mandis eis molendinis incumbent' et una decima ecclie de
Kyngesthorpe pdct' de pdctis molendinis annuatim consuet'
et qd pftus Wills Branfeld execut' et assig' sui hēbunt
annuatim herbaguim et vesturam¹ unius holme² prati
jacent' inter aquas post primam falcatinem . . . etc., etc.
•
1 'Vestura': the produce, crop. See 'Supervisus,' No. XXXIX.
2 Holme': the island formed between the river and the mill back-
water.


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[The following document and that numbered XIX. contaïn the codes
of Customs or Ordinances to be observed in the Court Leet. They are
interesting as throwing light upon the condition and manners of the
people, and presenting a curious specimen of the language of the time.
We may notice by comparing the two the change which the lapse of a
little over half a century seems to have made.]
Thes ben Customes made yn the Custumarys withyne the
Toune of Kyngesthorp renewed . . . day of June the yere
of the Regne of Kyng Richard the third after the conquest
the first :-
'We'll keep no great ado-a friend or two.'
1. Fyrste that the grete courtes called the Letes holden
at estern and m'helmasse the dayes that they . . . that the
seid courtes be begon at 9 or 10 of the clock at the ferthest
in the morrowe,¹ and the persones that have a doo² at the
seid courtes ben there at the seid tymes duely evy psone
uppon [payne] and perrell of amercyment of xiid.
2. Also that alle Suters to the seid courtes the on daye
of the seid courtes to appere in propre person or ellis
Morrowe'morning.
2 'A doo'at do- to do: the infinitive used substantively, as in
'much ado,' a great to-do.
Romeo and Juliet, iii. 4.
KINGSTHORPIANA.
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essoigned¹ or [ellis] amercyed, the seconde daye to appere
in propre person or ellis amercyed yf he were essoigned at
the laste, and that alle the essoigned and amercyed so forfette
turne to the avayle of the seid toune as amercyment of the
seid courtes have don aforntyme withoute any pardone of
heme to be hadde withoute resonable mater.
3. Also yf any psone yn pleyne courte tyme beyng
Styward2 or Bailly rebuke, revyle, or disobey in rightwisnes,
or oute of courte doing hys office, to forfette to the seid
toune the peyne of xld.
4. Also yf any psone at any tyme the constables, ffre-
borows or other officers sworne, rebuke, revyle, or disobey
yn doing ther office truely, to forfette to the seid toune as
oftetymes as they so don the peyne of vid.
5. Also that alle thoo psones that brewen to selle that
they cesse of brewyng except ii, iii, or ellis iiii at the moste
in the wek of suche as hathe ledes¹ and other lomes2 of ther
awne and assigned be the bailly of the seid toune for tyme
beyng uppon the peyne (vid.).
6. Also that no psone wytnne the seid toune harborough
no strange psones after a nyght or day in ther place, but
then to bryng hem to the Bailly of the seid toune or con-
1 'Essoigned': 'amercyed.' Essoin-excuse. 'It signifieth in the
common law the allegation of an excuse from him that is summoned to
appear and answer to an action real, or to perform suit to a Court Baron
upon just cause of absence. The causes that serve to essoine are chiefly
under five heads, whereof the first is "ultra mare," the second “de terra
sancta," the third "de malo veniendi," which is also called "essoine,"
the fourth "de malo lecti," and the fifth "de servitio regis" (Cowell).
"Amercyed": vide note p. 20.
""
2 Styward.' This would seem to be more accurate than the present
spelling, if the derivation generally accepted is correct; viz., Sty-ward,
the keeper of the domestic animals. Verstegan, however, derives it
from Stedeward, the keeper of the place or homestead. It is curious
that two such names as Stewart and Howard should be derived from
the keeping of pigs-Styward and Hogward.
3 'Ledes': probably a local word for vats or tubs.
4 Lome': 'It seems to be some sort of vessel in Hollinshed's
"History of England," i. 194' (Halliwell).
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stables, and they to demene heme as they seme beste uppon
the peyn as any psone and as oftyn as any psone aboveseid
may be take with defaute to lese and to forfette to the same
toune xiid.
7. Also at evy courte, that ys to say, ii grete letes at the
seid courtes, to chese two ferers¹ to afere the seid courte
anon after hit ys holden as ryghte wyll, etc.
8. Also that non of alle the seid toun of Kyngesthorp
resceyve ne holde noo tenntes in her tenement yf they ben
cōpleyned uppon be resonable and sufficiant men of the
seid toune, yn the pleyne courte aforne the Styward and
Bailly, to avoyde be a quarter after the seid tenntes yf they
be not of gode name and fame, uppon peyne to lese to the
seid toune xld.
9. Also alle tho psones that dwellyn and holde housolds
yn the same toune that were not born therynne to pay
yerely to the seid toune iiiid. for ther heds yn to the tyme
they bye yt oute of the seid toune, etc.
10. Also that no psone kepe ne holde moo horse then for
evy x acr of eyrabell londe in his tenure 1 horse, as olde cus-
tume hath ben aforne tyme, uppon the peyne of xiid.
II. Also that alle thoo psones that holde and have any
mares and foles wytnne the seid towne of Kyngesthorpe,
that they devoyde and utter hem oute of the boundes of the
seid towne be twyx this and holy [Trinity] in Maye next
comyng, yn peyne of forfeture of the seid catell, mares, and
foles cause this that . . . staunce of the seid toun holden
horse and ther pastures and comyns ben right streyte, and
so yt ys grete hyndraunce to the seid holders of horse, be-
cause they may tye noo horse in the seid comyn and pasture
for the seid mares and foles, and also grete hynderers and
1 'Ferers,' or afeerers: from old French affeurer taxare, persons ap-
pointed upon oath at the Court Leets to set the fines upon such as have
committed faults arbitrarily punishable (in misericordia) which have no
express penalty appointed (Cowell), vide note p. 20.
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harmdoers yn corne medowes, leseures, and pastures of the
seid towne of Kingsthorpe. xld.
12. Also alle thoo that have neght in the seid towne, and
have no fre medowe of her awne as for 1 beste, to pay noo
money, and for evy hed over to pay yerely iiid.
13. Also a man may be essoigned ii tymes, and at the
iiide courte appere in plee of londe or of dette, etc., vid. ;
and yf he come not ynne the iiiith courte day in the same
anon to be condempned.
14. Also yf any psone knowlege any dette aforne the
bailly yn courte or be syde at any mannes sute, yt ys lefull
to the seid bailly yn alle haste resonable to make level of
the seid dette, uppon peyne of vid.
15. Also all thoo londes and tenements that any man
withyn the seid towne bye and purchas or bequevyth, yt ys
lefull to them in her last dayes by vertu of her testament
the seid londes and tenements to whome that hem lyke,
gyve, selle, and bequeth to his ease, etc.
16. Also yt shal not be lefull to noo childe of mankynde
or womankynde for to selle any londe or tenement unto
that tyme that they of the age of xv yere fully.
17. Also yf any psone sell any londes and tenements to
any other psone withynne the seid towne or with oute, that
the seid seller of the seid londes and tenements shalle yelde
hem up in to the Kynges honde unto the behove of the
byer, after custome and man', and there to abyde ix dayes;
and yf any psone kynne to the seid seller withyn the iiiith
degree come withyn the seid ix dayes and aske a cate,² yt
shalbe delyved hym thus to paye the money that the forseid
byer shulde paye, havyng suche day of payment as the seid
seller and byer hav they yn the pleyne courte yn ppre
psones aforne the Styward and Bailly sworne to knowledge
'Leve,' i.e., levy.
2 'Cate': acate, achat (Fr. acheter), purchase; from low Latin, ac-
captare. Compare cater, caterer. For instances of the exercise of this
right of pre-emption vide Court Rolls, 3 Ed. VI.
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the trouth. And yif noo cate of noon suche psone withynne
the seid iiiith degree, withynne the seid ix dayes, be asked,
that then the seid byer come and have lyve of season, after
custome and man'. And yf the seid byer come not, the
seid londes and tenementis abyde other thre courte dayes
in the Kynges honde, that then the seid londes and tentes
be the Bailly of the seid towne be seised yn the Kynges
hondes, unto avayle and behove of the seid towne for eve-
more. And yf there be any born men¹ or ffranches men of
the towne wyl have the bargayn after the lyvie, the to
resceyve yt a fore a foreyn purchasour. Also the same bar-
gyn shallbe kepte hole.
18. Also yf any psone withynne the boundes of the same
towne drawe to any psone yn vyolence, swerd, dagger, or
knyfe, or any other weapon, to forfette to the seid toun at
any tyme that suche defaute ys founde xiid.; and yf they
smyte with the same and drawe any blode, to lese to the
same towne xxd.
19. Also yf any man chaunge any londe or tenement, and
any bote be hadde unto the sume of iid. and above, so after
the quantyte as yt ys above to paye seeson.
20. Also that all comyn brewers that brewe for to selle,
that yn tyme of wynter, ffrome mhelmesse to estern, after the
our of ix yn the nyght, harborough nor resceyve noo psone
to sell nor gyffe noo vetayle suche as they usyn, nor suffre
hem withynne the dores, and yn somr seson ffrome the tyme
of esterne yn to the tyre of mhelmesse after the oure of x
at nyght uppon peyne of ponysshement of bothe ptyes as
oftyn as yt may be knowen, iiiid., and that no house of sus-
pecion holde noo comyn brewhouse uppon the peyne of vid.
21. Also yf any catell of any mannes be distressed for
rente, dette, or trespasse, or any other thyng resonable and
1 'Born men,' or 'ffranches men': vide Court Rolls, 3 Ed. VI., Clement
Talbott's land.
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lefull, and putte yt yn pounde, that yf any man take hem
oute woute license of them that so enpked them as oftyn as
yt maye be founde that they so don to lese to the seid
towne (xiid.) xlď.
22. Also that noo man make noo hye wey, use nor
hawnte over any londes, medowes, lesures, ne pastures, but
suche as have ben usyd of olde tyme oute of mynde, uppon
the peyne of vid.
23. Also yf any man brewe for the avayle¹ of the Churche,
that all other brewers cesse for the tyme uppon lefulle
warnyng tyll that be outred, uppon the peyne of xiid.
24. Also yf any psone sell any tenement, londe, or mede
wytnne the seid towne or felde of Kyngesthorpe, and gyff
noo knowlege therof to the bailly beyng for the tyme, be
the next courte day, to lese for evy hole tenement iiis. iiiid.,
and so forthe to the leste parte therof, after the same rate
of the quantite.
1 'Avayle of the Church.' It appears to have been customary to raise
the money for the support of the Church services by this most question-
able method. Stubbs, in his 'Anatomie of Abuses,' quoted in Brand's
'Antiquities,' says: 'In certain townes against Xmas and Easter, Whit-
sondaye, or some other tyme, the churchwardens of every parishe, with
the consent of the whole parishe, provide half a score or twenty quarters
of mault, whereof some they buy of the churche stocke, and some is
given them of the parishioners themselves, every one conferring some-
what according to his abilitie, which mault being made into very strong
ale or bere, is set for sale either in the churche or some other place
assigned to that purpose. Then, when this is set abroche, well is he
that can get the soonest to it and spend the most at it, etc. That money
they say is to repaire their churches and chappels with, to buy books for
service, cuppes for the celebration of the sacrament, surplesses for Sir
John, and such other necessaries.'
In the churchwarden's accounts at Bishop Stortford, 1489, the fol-
lowing items appear :
Profit of the Hokkyng Ale
From two drinkings called May Ales
40
Of the profit of the play
Of the issue of a drinking made in the church here on
Sunday after the day of the aforesaid play
£4
15s. Od.
6s. 8d.
205.
26s. 7d.
(Glascock's 'Records of St. Michael's, Bishop Stortford.')
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
25. Also for evy quarteron of mede on the southe syde so
solde, the bailly noo knowlege hevyng be the next courte
day, the seller to forfette to the seid towne xiid., and so
forthe to the leest parte after the qntyte of the seller.
26. Also any psone yt sellyth a qüteron mede uppon the
northsyde, the bailly noo knowlege havyng be the next
court day, the seller to forfette to the towne xd., and so
forthe to the lest pte after the qntite of the seller.
27. Also any psone that sellyth an acre of londe, the
bailly noo knowlege havyng of hym by the next courte daye
to forfette and lese to the seid towne iiiid., and so forthe to
the lest pte after the qntyte.
28. Also yf any psone sell any tenement, lond, or mede
wytn the seid towne or withoute to any other psone that
than the seid seller shall yelde up hem yn to the Kynges
honde to the behove of the seller withyn courte dayes
after yt ys solde, or ellys to lese and forfette yt to the seid
towne.
29. Also yf any man repe or mowe any lond thoroughly
or the bailly and the comynte ben agreed to forfette and
lese to the seid towne vid.; and yf he begynne uppon mo
londes than on won, to forfette and lese to the towne xiid.
30. Also yf any man digge yn restowel delff on the
white erthe denyg the wey, to lese to ye towne xiid.
31. Also yf any man denye the Kynges hye wey with
stone or tymber over a quarter, except he be a belder, he
shall lese to the seid towne of Kyngesthorpe viď.
[On the back appear some traces of other ordinances, but
almost entirely obliterated. The two following can be
made out :]
32. Also that no man kepe nor holde no moo but for evy
1 Restowe delff': in the later ordinances Restoo delf.' The word
Stowdelf occurs apparently for stone quarry.
KINGSTHORPIANA.
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acre ii shepe, uppon peyne to lese to the seid towne of
Kyngesthorpe for evy shepe ob'.
33. Also ordeyned that the Bailly from tyme to tyme
shall chose and electe oon of the xii men, and the Steward
an other, for the comynalte of the towne, ffor evy officer as
Bailly, Steward, and other officers, and this election at
altymes to be hadd, made, and yeven¹ in the cort house
accustomed, upon peyne att any tyme doying the con-
trarye xlɗ.
1 'Yeven,' from yeve, to give, appears to be an old form retained in
this peculiar meaning when the form 'give,' 'given,' had come into
ordinary use-given, datum, dated, vide Ordinances (1547), art. 52.


HIF
IX.
[This is apparently the draft of a will, and is valuable on account of
the number of local names it contains. It has no date, but is of the
time of Hen. VII. or VIII. On account of the loss of the first lines,
it is uncertain what chapel is referred to as containing the testator's
tomb. Every other local reference is to Kingsthorpe, but the mention
of the houses of Dominicans and Franciscans 'ibid' seems to point to
Northampton.]
[Beginning imperfect.]
pdcte capelle pro tumulo meo ibm . . . item lego
ad sustentacionem luminis . . . item lego ad sustentacionem
domus ffratrum prdcator ibid iiiid. Item lego ad sustenta-
cionem domus ffratm mynor ibid. . . item lego Roberto
Shepherd filio meo unam ollam eneam unam parapsidem¹
electrinam² . . . ii sawcers electrina . . . unum cooperto-
rium voc a coverlet et unum par linthiar.3 Item lego Alicie
filie mee unam ollam eneam unam patellam eneam ii parap-
sides electrinas ii sawcers electrin' ii dish electrin' unam
matteras unum coopertorium unum par linthiarum unum
manutergium diapere, etc. Item lego ad sustentacionem
luminis animarum omnium fidelium defunctorum meam di-
midiam acram terre arabil' jacent' apud pesefurlong hendm
pro dicta sustentacione in ppetuum. Item lego ad susten-
1 'Parapsidem': dish.
2 Electrinam': electrum, a mixture of gold and silver. Cups made
of it were supposed to detect poison.
3 Sheets, towels,
KINGSTHORPIANA.
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1
tacionem cantarie p'rtnentis predicte capelle beate Marie
virginis in ecclesia sup'dcta unam rodam et dim terr' arabil'
jacent' . . . nederfurlong in heybrome juxta terram Cle-
mentis Broke habend' ad sustentaconem pdctm in pptuum.
Ulteriusque do et lego Isode uxori mee totum tenementum
meum cum omnibus suis prtntiis in quo modo maneo ac
decem acr' terr' arabil' et duas quarteron prat' jac' in campis
et pratis de Kyngesthorpe prdct' quarum quidem terrar'
prdct' iii rode jacent ex parte boreali de le Milbroke i rod jac'
in stadio vocat' le ffrost dimid' acr' jac' apud Smetho, dimid'
acr' jac' apud Boughton mere dim' acr' jacent' apud finem
borealem pdcte ville de Kyngesthorpe juxta terram Ricardi
Shepherd... acr' jac' apud Gilberts furres i rod jac' apud
Parsonstownesende subter viam vocat' Milnwayi acr' jac' apud
Parkfield extendent' ad le Heth i rod' jac' apud Shortlandes
i rod jac' apud le Delves dim' acr' jact apud ffystellholme dim'
acr' apud Manuellfeld... extendns juxta culturam vocat' Long-
lande, dim' acr' jac' apud Gepdale iii rod' jac' apud Nether-
furlong in Heybrome i rod' et dim' apud Heybrome in dict' le
Netherfurlong juxta les hadon Johannis Rede i rod' et dim' jac'
pr' domu Ste Trinitatis iii rod' jac' apud Blackwellhill dim' acr'
jac' apud Oberfurlong in Haybrome juxta terras Thome Sm--
ii quarteron prat' jac' ex parte boreali ville ibm hend' et
tenend' totum pdct' teneta et omnes decem acras terre arabil'
et duas quarteron' prat' cum omnibus ear pertintiis ut pdct
Isode uxi mee ad tm vite sue de capitalibus dominis feodi
ill' pr servicia inde debit' et de jure consueta ita quod im-
mediate' post discessum pdcte Isode uxoris mee omnia et
singula pdct' tenement' 10 acre arabilis duæ quarteron' prati
cum omnibus earum ptnciis pfto Roberto filio meo hered'
et assignat' suis rem'¹ in pptuum tenend' de capital' dominis,
etc. Quod si contingat pdctm Robertum filium meum obire
et pdct' Isode uxore mea sup'vivente volo tunc qd omnia et
singula pdct' ten' decem acre terre arabil' et due quarteron'
1 Remanere.
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•
prat' cum omnibus earum ptnciis Alicie filie mee hered' et
assign' suis rem in pptuum tenend' de capital' dms feodi p'
servicia inde debit' et de jure consuet'. Quod si contingat.
tam pdct' Robertum filium meum quam dct Aliciam filiam
meam obire et dict' Isode uxore mea eis supervivente volo
tunc quod eadem Isode uxor mea in vita sua caussabit
omnia pmissa p . . . decessum vendantr et pecunie inde
percepte pro salute animar nostrar omnium amicoru nostror
ac omnium defunctorum in donis benedicts et elemosinis
caritativis distribuantr. Ac insuper do et lego Alicie filie
mee iiii acr' terr' arabil' et unam quarteron' prats quarum
quidem terras pdctar . . . apud Boughton Mere i rod jac'
inter les Styes dim' acr' jac' juxta les pyttes prope . .
Childe, dim' acr' jac' apud T . . . versus domum Se Trini-
tatis iii rod' jac' apud Heybrome i rod' extendent' vie voc
et una quarteron' prat' jac' ex parte australi ville
pdcte hend' et tenend' pdct' terr' arabil' et quarteron' prat'
cum omnibus earu ptciis ut pdct' est pfte Alicie filie mee
hered' et assign' suis rem in pptuum quandocunque sit in
plena etate videlicet de anno xiiii et usque eundem annum
quod pficia dct iiii acr' terr' arabil' et quarteron' prat'
pdcte Isode, uxori mee reddentur et disponentur si ex divina
gracia tam diu vix'it. Item do et lego Ricardo Shepherd
consanguineo meo dim' acr' terr' arabil' jac' apud pesefur-
long hend' et tenend' hereds et assign' suis in pptuum
tenend' de capital' domis feodi pr servicia inde debita et re
jure consueta.
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[The following is a specimen of the Royal Grants made to the inha-
bitants. According to Baker (History of Northamptonshire') the
constitution of the manor of Kingsthorpe was peculiar, 'the inhabit-
ants themselves being permitted to hold their town at farm by lease
from the Crown. It was probably first demised to them by King John,
for in 8 Hen. II. (1223) the sheriff was commanded to give the men of
Kyngesthorpe full seisin of Spelho hundred as parcel of that manor, and
held with it in the reign of King John. In 20 Hen. VI. the King de-
mised the manor of Kingsthorpe, alias Thorpe, to his tenants there for
forty years, rendering £50 yearly. In 4 Hen. VII. the men of Kings-
thorpe paid a fine for confirmation of divers charters, and in the follow-
ing year the King confirmed the lease of his predecessor, lowering the
rent from £60 to £50 on account of their great poverty. The manor
continued to be held by successive leases till 14 Jas. I., when it was
granted in fee to Thomas Hollis, Francis Morgan & Co., feoffees in trust
for the other freeholders, at a yearly rent of £40, which rent was pur-
chased by Lord Chief Justice Rainsford in 1674 of the trustees for the
sale of fee farm rents, and is now vested in Miss Wrighte. The feoffees,
when reduced in number, are filled up by the nomination of the sur
vivors. The Enclosure Commissioners allotted 14 a. 2 r. 14 p. to the
feoffees, which is called the Town Land.']
Kadang
Henricus Dei gratia rex Anglie et Francie et dominus.
Hibernie omnibus quos p'sentes lie p'vennt saltm Inspexi-
mus lias patentes dni Henrici nup regis Angl' septimi post
conquestum prius np fets in hec verba Henricus Dei gratia
rex Angl' et Francie et dns Hibernie omnibus ad quos
psntes tie pvennt saltm. Inspeximus las patentes dni E.
nup' regis Angl' quarti post conquestum fcts in hec verba
Edwardus dei grā rex Angl' et Francie et dns Hibernie
omnibus ad quos psentes lie pvnnt saltm Sciatis qd ex
4
50
KINGSTHORPIANA.
humili supplicatoe homm et tenentm nrom ville nre de
Kingesthorp alias nuncupat' Thorp in Com Northt accepim'
qualit' Henricus nup' rex Angl' sextus de quo nup' tenentes
ville pdcte villam illam tenuerunt ad firmam pro sexaginta
libris p'annu tunc considerans qd villa pdcta tunc in de-
casum maxime recidebat et ruinam qd ad valorem sexaginta
ibrar p'annu qumvis de tenentibs foret occupata se non
extendebat sicut p' quandam supplicatoem inde fctm et in.
canceller' ipius nuper regis retornatam plene liquet de grã
sua spcli concesserit pfatis nup' tenentibs et eorum succes-
soribus tenentibs ejusdem ville qd ipi herent et tenerent
dtam villam cum omnibs membris et ptns eidem ptinen' in
die obitus Johanne nuper regine Anglie usque ad tmnm
quadraginta annor ex tunc px sequen' reddend' inde eidem
nup' regi et hered' suis annuatim quinquaginta libras dum-
taxat p'omnbs oneribus et pficiis que eidem nup' regi hered'
et successoribs suis aut alicui alie p'sone p' jus Dni debend'
fieri possent seu solvend' dcto t'mno durante prout in lis
patentibus ipius nuper regis plenius continet". Acetiam
cum nos p' lias nras patentis quar dat' est septimo die Julii
anno regni nri septimo de grã nrā spcli concessimus carissime
consorti nre Elizabethe regine Anglie inter alia quadraginta
libras p' annu de firma de Kingesthorp alias Thorp in com
Northt pcipiend' a festo Pasche anno regni nri septimo
durante vita ipius consortis p' manus hoim tenentm seu
Ballivorum ejusdem ville et successor' suor' aut Vic' dcti
com Northt aut aliorum receptorum ejusdem ferme p' tem-
pore existen' ad tmnos Pasche et Si Michls p' equales por-
coes prout in eisdem Iris patentibs nris inde confectis
plenius continetr qualiter etiam nunc tenentes ville pdcte ad
tantam paupertatem villaq' illa de tenentibus desolationem
hiis diebus devenerunt qd si tenentes pdct dctm firmam
sexaginta librar' ex nunc singulis annis p'rsolverent finalis
distruccio et desolatio ville illius infra die consequeretr.
Nos premissa considerantes non modicam paup'tatem te-
KINGSTHORPIANA.
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nentm nrom et decasum ville pdcte compacientes de grā
urā spcli concessimus et p'p'sentes concedms eisdem hoibus et
tenentibus nris ville illius et eorum successoribus tenentibus
ejusdem ville qd ipi heant et teneant de nobis dctm villam
cum omnbs membris et ptns quibuscunq et dcte ville
ptnen' a festo Pasche anno regni nri quartodecimo usque
ad tmnm quadraginta annor extunc px' sequen' red-
dend' inde annuatim quinquaginta libras dumtaxat
videl't quadraginta libras inde annuatim p'fat' consorti
nre durante vita sua pdct' in plenam et annualem solucoem
p'missorum quadraginta librar' annuar' ut pdctm est ei con-
cessar' ac decem libras inde residuas nobis et successoribs
nris annuatim durante dcto trmno quadraginta annorum
pdctor' pro omnbs onibs et fermis que nobis et heredbs ac
successoribs nris aut alicui alie psone p' jus nri debend'
fieri possent seu solvend' dcto trmno quadraginta annorum
durante et qd nec ipi nec heredes nec successores sui a
dcto festo Pasche p' non solucone alicujus melioris firme
que nobis fore posset solvend' infra dctm tmnm onentr et
impetant sed tm pdcta firma quadraginta librar' p' ann' ut
pdct est solvend'. Et insuper de grã nra pdta ac ex dcta
scientia et mero motu nro p'donam' remittim' et relaxam'
pfatis hoibus et tenentibs hered' et successoribs suis tenentibs
dete ville de Kingesthorp alias Thorp dctas decem libras
parcellas de dcta firma sexaginta librar' p' annum et qd ipi
tenentes heredes et successores sui tenentes ejusdem ville
de dctis decem libris parcella de dicta firma sexaginta librar'
p' annu erga nos et heredes nostros durante dcto trmno
quadraginta annor' penitus exon'ent' et quiet' existent aliquo
actu statuto sive ordinacoe in contrm fact' non obstante in
cujus rei testimoniū has lias nras fieri fecimus patentes teste
me ipo apud Westm' primo die Junii anno regni nri quinto
decimo nos autem lias pdctas ac omnia et singula in eisdem
contenta rata hentes et grata ea p' nob' et hered' nris
quantum in nob' est acceptam' et approbam' ac diltis nob'
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nunc hoibs et tenentibs ville pdcte et eoru successoribs
tenore ps'entiu ratificam' et confirmamus p'ut lie pdcte
ro'nabilit' testant" in cujus rei testimonium has lias nras fieri
fecimu' patentes teste me ipo apud Westm' vicesimo tercio
Octobr' anno regni nri quinto. Nos autem lias pdctas ac
omnia et singula in eisdem contenta rata hentes et grata ea
p' nobis et hered' nris quantú in nob' est acceptam' et appro-
bam' ac diltis nobis nunc hoibs et tenentibs ville nre pdcte
et eorū successoribs tenore psentiū ratificamus et confirmam'
p'ut lie pdcte ro'nabilit' testant. Et ulterius ex humili sup-
plicatioe nunc hoium et tenentm pdctor' ville nre pdcte ac
pmissa considerantes necnon nimie paup'tati et indigencie
tenentm nror' pdctor' et decasum ville pdcte pie compa-
cientes de gra nra pdcta ac ex certa scientia et mero motu
nostris concessim' et per p'sentes concedim' eisdem nunc
hoibs et tenentibs nris ville nre pdcte et eoru successoribs
tenentibs ejusdem ville qd ipi heredes et eoru successores
tenentes ville pdcte heant et teneant de nob' et hered' nris
dctam villam cum omnbs membris et ptin quibucunq'
eidem ville ptinen a festo Sti Michis Archi anno regni nri
octavo usque ad finem et tmnm quadraginta annor' reddend'
inde nob' et hered' nris annuatim quinquaginta libras p'
omnimod' onbs et firmis que nob' et hered' ac successoribs
nris aut alicui alie psone p' jus suū debend' fieri possent seu
solvend' et qd nec ipi nec heredes nec successores sui p'
non solucom majoris firme que nob' vel hered' aut succes-
soribs nris fore posset solvend' onent seu impetant™ sed in
pdcta firma quinquaginta librar' p' annu tantum ut pdctm
est solvend'. Et insuper de grã nra pdcta ac ex certa
sciencia et mero motu nris p'donam' remittim' et relaxam'
pfatis hoibs et tenentibs ac successoribs suis tenentibs dcte
ville de Kingsthorp alias Thorp dctas decem libras p'cellas
de dcta firma sexaginta librar' p' annu necnon omnia arre-
ragia ejusdem firme a pdcto festo Sti Mchlis Archi anno
regni nri octavo quovismodo reddend' seu solvend' et qd
KINGSTHORPIANA.
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ipi heredes et successores sui hõies tenentes ejusdem ville
tam de dctis decem libris p'cell' de dcta firma sexaginta
librar' p' annu qū de arreragiis pdctis erga nos et heredes
nros penitus exonentr et quiet' existent aliquo actu statuto
sive ordinacone vel restrictoe in contrar' fact' non obstante.
In cujus rei testimonium has lias nras fieri fecimus patentes
leste me ipo apud Westm' vicesimo die Decembr' anno
regni nri undecimo.
[Endorsed.]
Irrotlat' in memor' Sccii de anno undecimo Regis Hen-
rici octavi inter Recorda de primo Sti Hillarii rotlo ex pte
rememoratoris Thes'.
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KRIS PHI
XI.
[There were three watermills in ancient Kingsthorpe, thus mentioned
in Domesday': ‘Ibi iii molini de xliii solidis et iiii denariis.' They
were described as the North or Farre Mill (being furthest from the vil-
lage), the Nether Mill, in the village, and the South Mill, adjoining
Northampton. They still exist, and the last is now usually called St.
Andrew's Mill. On the alienation of the manor they all came into the
possession of the Morgan family of Kingsthorpe, and so to the Robin-
sons, by whom they were sold within the last few years to different
purchasers.]
This indenture made the xxviiith daye of Aprill, in the
xiith yere of the regne of Kyng Henry the eight, betwen
Simon Bakon, baylly of Kyngesthorp in the countee of
North"., William Wryght and Thomas Carte, constabulls of
the same Toune, and all the hole cominaltie of the seid
towne of Kyngesthorp, on the oon ptie, and John Hopkyns,
of the same towne, miller, and Margarett his wife, on the
other ptie, Witnesseth that the seid bailly, constabulls, and
comnaltie of on assent and consent, hathe graunted, be-
taken, and to ferme sett unto the seyd John Hopkyns and
Margarett his wife, and to eyther of theym, the mille of
Kyngesthorp aforsaid called the north mill or farre mill of
Kyngesthorp, with alman¹, medowes, holmes, lesues, pas-
tures, willowes, waters, dikes, and all other comodites and
pfitts to the seyd mille appteynyng, or in eny wise belong-
yng, to have and to holde all the foresaid mille, and all
other the pmisses, with their apptennces, unto the seyd John
Hopkyns and Margarett his wife, and oon such psone as the
KINGSTHORPIANA.
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seyd John or Margarett shalle name or assigne ffrome the
ffest of thannunciacon of oure Lady the virgin last past
before the date of these psents unto thende and time of
xviii yeres then next ensuyng, and fully to be complete and
ended, yeldyng and paying therfore yerely duryng the seyd
time unto the seyd baylly, constabulls, comnaltie, and theire
successors or assignes ffyfty shillings viiid. of laufull money
of England at too times or ffests of the yere; that is to sey,
at the ffestes of Seynt Mighell tharchangel and the Annun-
ciacōn of oure Lady the Virgyn by even porcōns. And yf
it happen the seyd rent of ls. viiid. by yere or eny pcell
theroff, to be behynde unpaid after eny ffeste of the ffests
aforeseyd be the space of oon month, if it be askyd then it
shall be laufull unto the seyd baylly, constabulls, comnaltie,
or their successours, or eny of theym, to entre into the seyd
mille, all other the pmisses, with their apptnnces, and evy
pcell of the same, and distreyne, and the distresse so founde
and taken laufully, to lede, dryve, chace, bere, and cary
awey, and withold, retayne, and kepe unto suche tyme as
the seyd rent, together with arreragis of the same, yf eny be
to theym truly and fully contented and paid. And in case
the seyd rent or eny pte therof fortune to be behynde in pte or
all unpaid after eny ffeste of the ffests aboveseyd by the
space of a quarter of oon yere, and noo sufficient distresse
of and upon the pmisses may be hadde ne founde for the
seyd rent doo beyng behynde, that then it shalbe laufull
unto the seyd baylly, constabulls, cominaltie, and theire
successours, and eny of theym, to reentre into the foreseyd
mille and all other the pmisses, with theire apptnnces, and
the same to have ageyne and peasiblie enoy as in theire
former astate, this indenture in eny wise to the contrary not
withstandyng. And the seyd John Hopkyns and Margarett
his wyfe covennten and graunten by theyse psents to the
seyd bayly, constabulls, and comnaltie, that they, the seyd
John Hopkyns and Margarett his wife, and their oon as-
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signey shalle yerely during the seid time of theire owne ppre
costs and charges bere and make alman repacōns, what-
soevr they be, belongyng to the seyd mille, and all other the
pmisses, with theire apptnnces, as well above the grownde
as all other goyng gere and water worke under the grownde,
and kepyng of the lowshards¹ of the bank of the ryver and
mille dame. And soo at thend of the seyd t'me all the
seyd mille and other the pmisses, with theire apptnnces,
wele and sufficiently repaired at thend of the seyd terme,
the seyd John and Margarett and theire oon assigney, or
oon of them, shall leve by the ovsight of iiii indifferent men
of Kyngesthorp aforsaid, then there dwellyng. Also the
seyd John Hopkyns and Margarett his wife covennten and
graunten by these psents unto the seyd bayly, constabulls,
and comnaltie of the seyd towne, that they, the seyd John
Hopkyns and Margarett his wife, and their oon assigney, at
theire ppre costs and charges, shalle yerely during the seyd
trme discharge the seyd towneshipp ayenst the pson of
Kyngesthorp and his successors of almanr tithes herafter to
be due and payble yerely during the seyd t'me out of the
seyd mille and all other the pmisses, with theire apptnnces,
and also yerely paye the mede money of their seyd costs
and charges, and also make the planke at the mille dore to
goo on the medowe, provided alwey that the seyd John
Hopkyns and Margarett his wife, nor theire assigney, nor
non other psone or psones for theym, shalle at noo tyme
herafter duryng the seyd t'me felle by the grownde nor
plukke up noo man tree or trees belongyng to the said
mille and other the pmisses, or eny pte of the same, nor
make noo unlaufull loppe nor toppe by these psents. In
witnesse wherof to the oon pte of these indentures with the
seyd John Hopkyns and Margarett his wife remayning, the
said baylly, constabulls, and comnaltie hath sett their comon
1 'Kepyng of the lowshards,' vide No. XV., note.
KINGSTHORPIANA.
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seale of Kyngesthorp aforesaid, and to the other pte of
these indentures with the seyd baylly and constabulls and
comnaltie remayning, the seyd John Hopkyns and Mar-
garett his wife hathe sett theire seales the daye and yere
aboveseid.


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MEZIALMEN CHENERS
XII.
[The curious document which follows is one of those referring to the
dispute about conies which seems to have exercised the minds of the
men of Kingsthorpe for many years. The claim of free warren in this
and neighbouring parishes was probably undisputed for some centuries,
but about the time of Hen. VII. and VIII. the grievance arising from
it had reached a point which aroused active resistance.
The petition sets forth the views of the inhabitants, and assuming the
statements to be true, they certainly make out a hard case. The claim
probably was legal, but had by force of circumstances become a hard-
ship, and doubtless had to be modified, though there is nothing in these
papers to show what was the issue of the agitation. This document is
evidently only the original draft interlined and corrected.
The paper
is injured all down one side, but the missing words can be easily sup-
plied, and are inserted in brackets.]
In most lamentable manr sheweth and compleyneth . . .
your orators and humble pore subjects, tenents, and inhabit-
ants of Kingsthorpe, in the county of Northmpton, that
wheres yor [said petitioners] and predecessors have holden
the said Towne and all manr [of... and] pastures lying
within the ffeldes and pyshe of the same Towne of your
Hyghnes and of your most noble p'genitors in fee ferme
tyme . . . . they and their auncestors and p'decessors have
yerely, until the xxth yere of the ryghte noble Kynge Henry
the VI., yelded and payed unto yr said p'decessor... the
yere whyche said ryghte noble Kynge Henry VI., consider-
ing the pov❜tie and necessytie of his said tenents of Kyngs-
thorpe and the great [decrease] of the Towne, and howe
that evy acre of lande in the ffeldes of Kyngesthorpe [was]
KINGSTHORPIANA.
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than charged wt the yerely rent of vid., whyche was more
than [they were] worthe, upon great and mature dlyberacion
and advyse, by his gracious [grant], bearynge date at Westm
the xvii day of Apryll, in the xxth yere of his reigne, among
other thynges did graunt unto the tenents [of the said] Towne
of Kyngesthorpe, then beynge auncestors and p'decessors [of
yr orators], and to their heyres and successors, that they, their
heyres, [etc., should have] and holde of his Hyghnes and of
his heyres and successors the said [Towne], with all the
members and apptenences, whatsoever they wer, to the same
[Town belonging], from the day of the death of Johan, the
late quene of England, for the time of xl yeres than next
ensewyng, yelldyng therefore [to the said Kynge and his]
successors deuryng the said tyme ffyftie pounds for all manr
of [rent] whyche to the same, his heyres or successors, or to
any other psone, [by right ought to] be made or payed; and
after the end of the said xl yeres your [most noble] p’genitor
Kyng Edward the fourthe, uppon lyke consyderacions, dyd
by his letters patents, bearynge date at Westm the ffyrst
daye of June in the xv yere of his noble reigne, give and
graunt unto the tenants and inhabitants of the said Towne
of [Kyngesthorpe], then beyng p'decessors and auncestors
of your beseechers, that they [their heyres and successors]
shuld have and holde of his hyghnes and of his heyres
and successors the Towne of Kyngesthorpe, with all the
members and apptenences, whatsoever they were, to the
same Towne belonging, from the ffeaste of Esture in the
xiii yere of his noble reigne unto [the term of] other xl yeres
than next ensewing, yelldyng therefore yerely to his hyghnes
[his heyres and] successors deurynge the said time, ffyftie
pounds for all man' of charges which to the same, his heyres
or successors, or any other persone, by right shuld be made
or payed, after the whyche end of xl yeres yr Majte royall
letters patent, bearynge date at Westm the xxth day of
бо
KINGSTHORPIANA.
Decembre, in the [eighth] yerel of yr Majte noble reigne,
dyd gyve and graunt unto the said tenants of the said
Towne of Kyngesthorpe then beyng that they, their heyres
and [successors], shuld have and holde of yr hyghnes and
yr heyres and successors [the said Towne], wt all the mem-
bers and apptenances, whatsoever they were, to the same
[Towne] appertayning, from the ffeast of Seynt Mychaell
the Archangel, in the viii yere [of yr] most noble reigne,
unto the end and term of xl yeres than [ensewing], yelldyng
therefore yerely to your said hyghnes, your heyres and suc-
cessors Towne ffyftie pounds for all man' of charges
and fermes whyche to your hyghnes or successors, or to any
other psone, by your ryght ought to be [made or payed].
So it is, moste excellent soverayne Lord, that one Thomas
Latham, underkeeper of the parke of Moulton in your said
county of Northampton, adjoyning to the ffelde of Kynges-
thorpe aforesaid, by the color of the custody of the said
parke as well of [his own] power, as by the myght berynge
and mayntenance of his ffriends, wtoute . . . color or consy-
deracion doyth daily norysshe and longtyme hath norysshed
conyes as well in suche prclls of errable ground wtn the
said ffeldes wherefore your said orators do p'ticularly paye
yerely unto yr said hyghnes [for every] acre vd., as also on
the other lees and pastures lyinge wtn the said ffeldes,
[which] yr said orators and their auncestors have alwayes
kept and yett do kepe [for the] pasturage of their horses,
neete, and shepe, for their lyveing and sustenance, [and
which are] environed and compassed about with the corn
ffelds of the said Towne, [and by] the occasyon of the great
number of conyes, so in the pmysses wrongfully norysshed,
the beasts, cattell, and shepe of your said orators do daily
[pine] and be starved for lacke of meate, and their corne
growynge in the said fields [is] yerely etyn, spoyled, and
dystroyed in the quantitie of thre hundreth acres, for the
1 Vide Royal Grant, No. X.
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
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whyche ground your orators paye yerely to your Grace vd.
an acre, [and there is] no profytt of the same, whyche is to
their yerely loss and damage... and above to their utter
undoyng and impovyshment, and doyth wt [power] and
myght continue the same, and manasshethe and threapeth
so yr said orators [that they] dare not for jeapdye of their
lyfe put away any of the said conyes ne make [any] resist-
ance in the same onless they shuld gyve occasyon to have
your graces peace [broken] and stand in danger of their lyfe,
and so the said Latham hath yerely with power and myght
noryshed, brought up, and kylled yerely out of the said
ffelds, by the space of this vii yerys past, about the nombre
of two thousand, whyche comyth no pfytt ne gayn to your
gracious maieste by no man' [of means], notwithstandyng
that yº said orators, yr Grace's tenants, are greatly dampni-
fied and hurt by the same; yet furthermore, moste dread
soverayne Lord, the said Latham, [not] thus beyng con-
tentyd, but of his further crueltie, injuriousness, and froward
mind usually beatythe and woundythe the shephds and
herdmen, yr subjects, whyche do kepe the shepe or beasts
of yr said orators upon the said ffelds of Kyngesthorpe, and
kylleth their doggs, beyng tyed in at their gyrdells, and
menasshethe and threateneth the said shpds of yr orators
in such manr and forme that they dare not well kepe any
shepe or beasts in any such place whereas the said
Latham doyth of his myght and power norysh any conyes
in the ffelds of Kyngesthorpe aforesaid, whyche yerely paye
their rents truely to your Grace for the same, and all to
oppresse and trede under the fete yr said poor tenants to
make them to [do after his] wyll and pleasure, so that if
quick redresse be not shortly hadd for [these things], your
said pore tenants and orators are lyke shortly to be utterly
undon and impoverished for ever, in tender consideracyon
whereof the premisses . . . it may please yr most excellent
majste of yr accustomed justice. . . to graunt yr writ of
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subpene to be dyrectyd to the said Thomas Latham com-
manding him by the same to appere before yr moste honable
Courte of ster¹ chambre at Westm' at a certyn daye and
under a gret payn, ther to make answer unto the pmisses,
and that yr said orators may be [allowed] and authorysed
by yr moste noble grace from henceforthe to destroye and
kyll the said conyes, accordyng to ryght and conscyence,
and that the said Latham be compellyd to make recom-
pence unto yr said orators for their several [losses] and
damages susteyned in that behalf, and to abyde such further
order concernyng the pmisses as by yr most noble grace
shalbe thought to stand in ryght and conscuence.
1 This court was established 3 Hen. VII. in violation of Magna
Charta, but Henry only reduced to a system what former kings had
done irregularly and occasionally, the King's Council having from time
immemorial dealt with both civil and criminal causes, unfettered by the
rules of law. The court was to be composed of the Lord Chancellor,
the Lord Treasurer, the Keeper of the Privy Seal, a Bishop, a Lord of
the Council, and the two Chief Justices; their power embraced the
punishment of murders, robberies, perjuries, and 'unsureties of all men
living,' in as full manner as if the offenders had been 'convict after the
due order of the law' ('Annals of English History,' ii. 119).

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XIII.
[The men of Kingsthorpe seem to have been very much in earnest
on the coney question. The following document proves them to have
been stronger in zeal and determination than in grammar and spelling.]
All true Cristen people to whome this present writyng
shal come, rede here or see. We, John Hopkyns, hus-
bondman, Peter Diconson, yoman [with forty-two other
names], inhitannts and tennts of or sovaigne lord the kyng
of hys town of Thorp, otherwyse called Kyngesthorp, in the
countie of Northt", senden gretyng in or Lord God evlast-
yng. fforasmoche and where as nowe of late tyme cer-
teyne discencōns, discords, variannces, and debats hathe
ben and yet is dependyng betwene us the foreseid kynge's
tennts and oon Henry Maye, underkepr of the kyng's prke
called Moulton Prke, next Kyngesthorp afforseid, of, for,
and upon the very trewe title, right, and possession of cer-
teyne arrable lands, pasture, wt thapptennces and with al
other man of pfights in Kyngesthorp afforseid, wiche
evmore hathe leyne, and of very trewe right hathe longed
to the seid tennts of Kyngesthorp, and prcell of the ffee.
ferme of the seid town, wiche wase and hathe byn a great
helpe, pfight, and socour to us afternamed tennts and our
predecessours in mayntennce of or seid ffee fferme, accord-
yng unto divse grunts of divse kyngs to us therof grunted,
wiche dothe pleynly expresse and shewe that we, the forseid
tennts, owght to have the seid ffee fferme wt all man¹ com-
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odities and pfights therunto belongyng, and specially, as it
dothe appere by the kyng or sovaigne Lord's moste honor-
able grunts to us lately grunted, not-wt-standyng where as
the right honorable Sir Nicholas Vaux, knyght, late Lord
Vaux, decessed, ruler and master, kepr of the forseid prke,
of his myghty power and auctoritie by force kepte and with-
held from us afforenamed and or predecessours, tennts of
Kyngesthorp afforseid, the forseid arrable lands, felds, and
pastures, and occupied the same as waren grownds, and
wold not suffre or pdecessours to enyoy the same accordyng
to the seid graunt, but wtheld the same by strong power
and might unto suche tyme as or seid pdecessours were
fayne to make sute unto the kyng's grace that ded is ffadre
unto or sovaigne lord the kyng, who[se] soul Jhu prdon, by
fforce, wherof at that tyme it wase fynally concluded and
detmyned by the kyng's moste honorable counsaile then
beyng that the forseid then tennts of Kyngesthorp, or pde-
cessours, shuld enyoy the seid lands now in variannce as their
owne as prcell of the ffee fferme to theym and their succes-
sours for ev, accordyng to their grunt. Notwtstandyng
aftward thurghe entreatie and desier of the forseid Lord
Vaux, and for and by cause the seid Lord Vaux shuld be
goode and lovyng to or forseid pdecessours and to al the
town afforsaid for the sum of 13s. 4d. stling yerely, to be
paied towards the pfight off Kyngesthorp afforseid, for a
knowlege that the forseid lands wase theires, the seid then
tennts were contented that the seid Lord Vaux and his de-
puties shuld have the occupacon of the forseid land and
grownds now in traves¹ from yere to yere at the pleasures
of or seid pdecessours, and for no longer tyme, wiche wase
and hath byn a great hyndernnce of al dwellars and tennts
there, and yet is, and nowe where as we thabovenamed
kyngs tennts immediatly after the decesse of the forseid
Lord Vaux in savyng the right and title of the forseid town
1 In dispute.
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entred peasiblie upon the pmisses as prcell of or ffee fferme
and accordyng to the kyng's grunts to us therof grunted.
Albeit the forseid Henry Maye, now underkepr of the seid
prke of Moulton, by force and strong mayntennce hathe
wtstand oure possession, and of pure malice and mayntennce
hathe indicted al us affornamed, the kyng's tennts, of riott,
and untrewly forswere hym that his evydence wase true, and
so by force dothe wthold the seid lands from us contrary to
al good right and consience, to or utter undoyng, except
shorte remydie there for maie be had and founde. Knowe
al men therfore by these presents, us the affornamed al the
kyng's tennts of oon assent and consent to have ordeyned,
made, assigned, and constituted, and by these presents do
ordeyn, make, assign, and lawfully constitute or right trustie
and well belovyd neighbours John Hopkyns, Peter Diconson,
Thomas Reve, and Simon Bacon, or ffaithful, laufull, and
trew attoneys, pctours joyntly and sevally to folowe, psecute,
pcede, implede, deffend, and spede ayenst the fforseid
Henry Maye and al other for him or in his name what so
ever ther be by wey of peticon, compleynt, or other wyse, as
well afore or sovaigne lord the kyng and his moste honorable
counsaile as in eny other court or courts, spuall or tempall,
wt in this the kyng's royalme, afore eny juges or justices, of
and for recorde of al the forseid lands nowe beyng in traves,
gyffyng and gruntyng to or seid attorneys and pctos or full
auctoritie and power and comandement to maynteyne and
folowe in or name and sted ayenst the seid Henry Maye and
al others, and to make sute as is afforeseid, consnyng the
pmises, and furthermore, if nede shal requyre, to make, con-
stitute, and retain in the names, and for us divse attorneys,
counselos, and pctors to the further mayntennce of the sute
in this be halfe to be had and doon, and furthermore, if nede
that requyre, to make by vtue herof divse instruments, as
many as shalbe thought necessarie, to be had for the ful
spede of or seid matters and causes, and also fynally to folow,
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psecute, conclude, and detme of and in al the pmisses after
form of law as best shalbe thought and devyse to be had,
doon, and made, as thoughe wee thabovenamed inhitnnts
were there in or owen ppr prsonys present. In wittnesse
wherof to this or present writyng we have sett or sealles, and
for a more faithffull wittnesse, suertye, and knowlege of the
pmisses to be trewe, we have hereunto set the comon seal of
Kyngesthorp afforseid, dated the xii daie of October the
yere of the reigne of or forseid sovaigne lord the kyng, by
the grace of God of England and France kyng, deffendor of
the faithe, and Lord of Irland¹ after the conquest the fif-
teeneth.
1 The word eighth has been omitted here.


XV.
This Indenture, made in the ffest of the Anunciacon of
oure Ladye, in the xx yere of the reign of kyng Herry the 8th
of Englond and of France, kyng, defender of the feythe,
and lord of Irelond, [between] Peter Dyconson [balyffe], of
the townshyppe and lybtres of Kyngesthorpe, in the countie
of Northton, Richard Brouke and John Chese, constables,
of the same townshyppe, and all the hole commynalty therof,
onne ptie, and Agnes Hayward, of the town of Northt,
wedowe, and Ambrose Walker, of the same town of Northt,
and Margarett his wyff, on the other ptie, witnessethe that
the said Peter Diconson, the constables and commynalty
afforseid, by one hole assent, concent, and agrement, have
graunted, dymysed, betaken, and to fferme letton, and by
these psents, graunten, dymysen, betaken, and to fferme.
letton, all thow ther three water mills, wt the apptenncs and
all the apparell therunto belongyng, callyd the south mills
of Kyngesthorpe afforseid, late in the tenure and occupacon
of onne Willm Pntice of Northampton afforseid, whiche
seid three mills bene corne mills, and also alman' of apparell,
houses, damms, closurs, holms, medows, lesurs, and pasters,
willows, wat's, diches, pfytts, and comodytyes to all and evy
of the seid mills apprtenyng or belongyng, and also the
south mill holm¹ wt the apprtenncs, to have and to holde
1 'Holm'the island formed between the river and the mill back-
water.
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all the fforsaid three mills and other the pmisses, wt all and
synguler ther apprtenncs, as it is above said, unto the said
Agnes Hayward, Ambrose Walker and Margarett his wyffe,
and to one other psone ther laufull and sufficyent assigney,
and to evy of theym ffrome the daye of the makynge herof
unto the end and trme of 21 yers then next onsuwyng, and
fully to be complette and ended, yeldyng and payinge ther-
for yerely duryng the said terme unto the said balyffe, coun-
stables, and commynaltie, ther successours or assigns, eight
mark stlyng, that is to saye, for the seid mills onely and for
the seid south mil holme yerely vis. viiid. stlyng, ffor the
yerely rent of the waters iiis. viid. stlyng, and for the wold
eye yerely xiid. at towe times in the yere usuall, that is to
saye, the ffest of Seynt Michell tharchanngell and the Anun-
cyacon of our Ladye, by evyn porcons, and if it ffortune the
seid rents or any prcell therof to be behynd unpayd in prte
or in all by the space of one moneth next after any of the
seid ffests at the whiche it ought to be paid, and not paid if
it be laufully askyd, then it schall be laufull for the seid
balyfe, counstables, and ther successours and assigns to put
in to evy of the seid three mills and other the pmysses, wt
ther apptenncs, and distreyn, and the distresse so ther hadde,
found, and taken laufully, to leede, dryve, carry, and chase
aweye, and theym to wthold and kepe unto such tyme the
seid rent or rents and the rrerages therof, if any be to theym,
be trulye contentyd and paid, and if it ffortune the seid
rent or rents or any pcell therof to be behynd unpaid in
prte or in all by the space of towe moneths, after any of the
seid ffests at the which it ought to be paid, if it be laufully
askyd, then it shall be leefull to the seid balyffe, counstables,
ther successors and assignes, to reenter into all the seid
three mills and other the pmysses, wt all and singler ther
apptenncs and evy prcell therof, and theym to enyoye and
have ayayn as in ther first estate this indenture in [any]
wyse notwithstandyng, provided alwaye duryng the seid
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leasse that the seid Agnes Hayward, Ambrose Walker and
Margarett, and their one assigney as is afforseid, shall not
let nor set to fferme any of the seid three mills or any other
of the pmysses to any prsone or prsones beyng spuall. The
seid Agnes, Ambrose, and Margarett covennten and graunten
to and with the seid balyffe and counstables, that theye and
ther assigney schall and sufficyently duryng the seid terme
of xxi yeres repare, susteyn, maynteyn, and kepe uppe or
cause to be repared, maynteyned, and kept uppe all and
singler the seid iii mills, wt ther appurtnncs, as well in dep-
ness, higthe, lengthe, and bredythe as in all other man' of
repcons and apparrell of mill warke, houses, ston walls, ston
tymber warkmanschipp, kepyng lawschards and schoryng
of diches to evy of the seid mills and other the pmysses be-
longyng at ther costs and charges, and so all these seid iii
mills at the end of the seid terme they well and sufficyently
reparyd shall leve by the ovsyght of six indefferent men of
Kyngesthorpe afforseid, and ov that the seid Agnes Hayward
Ambrose Walker, Margarett, and ther one assigney shall
yerely duryng the seid terme discharge all the afforseid
townshipp mills and other the pmysses of and for almanr
of tythe duwe from the date herof, or to be duwe to
the prsone of Kyngesthorpe afforseid, or to any other prson.
or prsones, and of and for all other manr of charge belong-
yng to the kyng, if any fall, ensuwyng out of the seid mills
and other the pmysses att ther' own costs and charges;
ffurthermore, the said Agnes, Ambrose, and Margarett, and
K
In
2 Lawshard,' sometimes written 'lowshard and 'laushard.'
No. XI. we find 'kepyng the lowshard of the banks of the river.' Aker-
man's 'Wiltshire Glossary' has the word 'linchard,' meaning a pre-
cipitous slip of land on a hillside left untouched by the plough-from
A.S. hlinc, a bank. Keeping the lowshard or laushard of the banks,
which seems to have been the ordinary duty of the miller, may have
been keeping the river bank in proper form by cutting back the rushes
and other vegetation obstructing the watercourse.
'Shard' means
something shredded off; we find further on in this indenture 'shreddyng
of the trees,' i.e., topping them. Or, perhaps, lowshard may be only
another form of lowshot, which is in use here for overshot.
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their assigney shall yerely duryng the seid terme at all tymes
grynde or cause to be ground almanr of grayn and corne that
to any of the said mills shall be brought by any inhabitant or
inhabitants of Kyngesthorpe aforesaid, and to serve theym
and evy of theym at the fyrst comyng unto the seid mills
before any straunger¹ as sone the bene or benys shall be
emptye, and also the said Agnes, Ambrose, and Margarett,
and ther assigney duryng the seid terme shall yerely paye
or cause to be paid towards the mowyng of the south mill
holmes iis. iid. stlyng, provided alwaye by the presents that
it shallbe lefull to the seid Agnes, Ambrose, and Margarett,
and ther assigney, yche of theym yerely duryng the seid
trme to have, receyve, and take to ther use and uses almaner
of laufull loppe and schreddyng of trees belongyng to the
same mills and other the pmysses, wt ther apptnnces, wt out
any impechement of waste, plukynge uppe, fellyng, or de-
stroying of trees wt out license of the Balyffe of Kynges-
thorpe aforeseid. In witnesse wheroff to the one pte of
these indentures remaynyng with the seid Agnes, &c., or
one of them, the said Balyffe, counstables, and comnalty of
Kyngesthorpe aforeseid have sett their comyn seall of the
townshipp, and to the other pte remaynyng with the said
Balyffe, constables, &c., and their successors, the said Agnes,
Ambrose, &c., have sette ther sealls the daye and yere
aboveseid. Provided alwaye that the said Agnes, Ambrose,
&c., shall yerely paye duryng the seid trme for Walbek
brouke unto the seid Balyfe, &c., viiid. stlyng, pvided alwaye
that the seid Agnes, Ambrose &c. shall yerely have and
occupye during the terme aforeseid the south milne holme
from such tyme as the fyrst croppe be clerely off of the
grounde unto the fest of the purificacon of our Lady then
next ensewyng.
1 This priority of having their corn ground was secured to the in-
habitants by the Ordinances (1547), art. 64.

GALER
CYTRYN
POLITIK
XVIII.-PART I.
Examinacions taken at the Town of Northn the xxvi day
of Aprill, in the xxxiiid yere of our Soverayne Lord Kyng
Henry the eight, by Sir Edward Montagu, Knyght, and Sir
Thomas Tresham, Knyght, by virtue of a commyssion to
them dyrected for the parte of the Inhabitants of the Towne
of Boughton and Pysford against Thomas Latham.
Henry Tanner, of Boughton, in the Countie of North",
husbondman, born in Cokefeld, in the Countie of Sussex,
tenant and servant to my Lord Vaux, of the age of 57 yeres,
sworne and examined, deposeth and saith upon his othe in
manr and forme folowing, that is to say, that he hath dwelt
in Buckton, in the said Countie of North", these 40 yeres
past and above, and by all that tyme he nevr knowe ne
harde that Anne, late Countess of Warwick, or any other
psone or psones beyng owners of the manr of Moulton, ne
any keapr of the park of Moulton, ever claymed to be war-
reners or ever had or claymed to have any franke or free
waren with the feldes of Buckton and of Pysford.
And he saith further upon his oathe that above 40 yeres
now past one Thomas Aylmer, being Bayliffe then of
Buckton aforesaid, and servant unto Sir Thomas Greene,
Knight, with whom this depnent at that tyme dwelled,
kept in hys owne house at Buckton aforesaid as well greye-
houndes, ferretts, purse netts, and other yngines for the
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1
kyllyng of conyes, and that at that tyme he did accustomably
kyll conyes in the said feldes of Buckton and Pysford, both
wit his long bow, his dogge, ferretts, and pursenetts, wtout
lett or intrupcion of any pson or psones. And he saith
further that the said Thomas Aylmer wold nevr rydde be-
twene Northn and Buckton but that he wold have his cross-
bowe hangyng at his sadle bowe wt hym, to the intent to
kyll conyes by the waye. Itm, the said deponent knoweth
not howe and after what manr the furst brede and encrease
of conyes began wi¹n the said feldes of Buckton and Pys-
ford, and further saith that he knoweth not whether the
furst borowes and clappers¹ for conyes were made by the
hande of man or by onely dyggyng and labours of conyes,
and howe many yeres past the furst borow or clapper began
this deponent knoweth not. And further this deponent
saith that he hymself all hys lyfe tyme hath kyllyd conyes
there wt his bowe and dogge without denyall of any keap
there or of any other pson or psones untill now wtn these
ii yeres last past the said Thomas Latham did forbydde
hym to kyll any conyes there; and ffurther this deponent
saith that the tennts and inhtants of Buckton and Pysford
have ever frely at their owne pleasure hunted and kyllyd
conyes wtout lett or intrupcion of any keapr there. And
saith further that the late Lord Vaux was owner of the Lord-
ship of Buckton and Pysford at the same tyme that he was
keap' of the said park of Molton. And further he deposeth
the said Latham hath nourysshed and mayntened many
clappers of conyes wtn the churche yarde of Buckton afore-
said, insomuche that the great number of conyes win the
same have dygged up many mennys bones in the same
churche yarde, that it is dangerous for men to go in it for
breaking of their necks. And further what number of
conyes the said Latham, defendaunt, hath yerely kyllyd out
p
1 From French clapier, a hutch; a coneyhole or clapar (Palsgrave).
A clapper for conies, i.e., a heap of stones or earth, with boughes or
such like, whereunto they may retire themselves, &c. (Minshen).
1
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of the said feldes by the space of vii yeres this deponent
knoweth not. And further this deponent saith that grasse
ground lying in the feldes of Buckton and Pysford, turned
up by the conyes whiche the said Latham there nourysshed,
amounteth to the number of iic (200) acres, and further a
great part of their corn destroyed by the said conyes, but of
what value the corne is of this deponent knoweth not. And
further this deponent saith that their charge to make redy
one acre of grounde to be sowne wt rye or barley, and to
sowe the same wt rye or barley, amounteth to vs. at the lest.
And further he saith upon his othe that there lyth xxx acres
of tyllage land this yere laye for fere lest it shuld be destroyed
wt conyes, and what number of acres hath lyen laye¹ these
vii yeres past he knoweth not. And further this deponent
saith that the great number of conyes hath so overronne
and underdigged their feldes and devoured and spoyled
their comon, whereupon their bests and cattel shuld lyve,
by means whereof the bests and cattel of the Inhabts of
Buckton ben almost sterved and redy to dye for hunger.
And further this deponent saith that the said Latham hath
kylled their herde dogges whose names hereafter followeth :
Thomas Mylle, Willm Cane, Thomas Wilbe; and also did
sore beate and wounde one Symon West of Boughton, afore-
said, wt his dagger, to the great pell of the said Symon lyff.
And further examined howe he knoweth the same, saith that
he was psent at the same tyme when the said West was so
hurt by the said Latham; and further this examinate saith
that the said Latham hath forbydden the Inhabts of the
said Towne of Bouckton to use their long bowes in their
feldes, and hath taken bowes away from dyverse yong men
that hath byn shotyng in the feldes there. And moreover
this examinate saith that the said Latham and his folk byn
of suche a stobberne and froward mynde against all men that
walke in the said feldes of Bouckton wt dogges, that about
1 'Lye laye,' i.e., untilled; layland = fallow (Cowell).
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iii yeres past one John Wyntr, svnt to the said Latham,
made assaute of one Marten Williams, svnt to mastr Hum-
frey, of Boughton aforesaid, bycause he was wont to walke in
the felds of Boughton wt doggs, and there slewe the said
Williams.
[Then follows John Crow's evidence, almost identical
with the preceding; in the latter part he says:]
And that there is so great a nomber of conyes in the said
feldes that they have turned up and made borowe at the
lest iic [200] acres of grasse grounde, and that there is in
the said feldes yerely by the said conyes eten and spoyled
iiiixx [fourscore] acres of tyllage londs, wherby oftetymes
they have not corne to sowe their londs agayne. And also
they [were] compelled, fore feare lest they shuld losse all
aswell their corne sowne as their labor, to lett a hundred
acres of land lye leye, to the uttr undoyng of the poure In-
hitannts of the same Townes. And saith further that the
Churche yarde of Boughton aforesaid is so dygged wt the
conyes whiche the said Latham hath there norysshed, that
a man can go skantly in a corner of yt but he shall fynde it
full of dead mennes bones, a thing most pytyous to be seen,
and that the said Latham will not suffer this examinate nor
hys chyldren to use shottyng wt their long bowes on his
grounde.
[Willm Wilbe, of Bouckton, says :]
'That the nombr of conyes that have byn nourysshed in
the said feldes have yerely eaten and destroyed by the space
of vii yeres c [100] acres of sowne lond, whiche hath
amounted every acre to xs., which now [is] clerely lost; and
further this examinate sayth that they be compelled, for
eare lest conyes shuld destroye it, to lett at the lest xx acres
of land to lye leye whiche was sowne wtn these iii yeres.
And further this examinate saith that the said Thomas
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Latham aboute vi yeres nowe past did sore beate and wound
one Symon West wt a wood knife to the pell of his lyfe by-
cause his dogg did ronne at conyes in Kyngesthorpe feld;
and further examined howe he knoweth this to be true, de-
poseth and saith that immediately after the said West [was]
wounded, this deponent cam to the said West's house to
Kyngesthorpe, and there kept hym by the space of foure
dayes, fearyng that all that tyme he wold have died. And
further this examinate saith that one John Wynter, svnt to
the said Latham, dyd kyll one Martyn Williams, svnt to
Maistr Humfrey, of Boughton, thre yeres past, but for what
cause he knoweth not, and more cannot depose.'
[John Miller, of Sprotton, husbondman and freeholder,
repeats nearly the same evidence :]
'He hath known all the keaprs of Molton park that hath
byn these xl yeres, yet he never knewe any of theym to kyll
any conyes out of the said parke, and further saith that he
hath seene in his tyme suche a lytell number of conyes wtn
the said feldes, that his neighbours could not kyll wt their
ferretts skantly one conye in a houre there; but howe these
conyes furst came into the said feldes this examinate knoweth
not.'
[Edmond Wryght, of Pysford, in the course of his evi-
dence:]
'Saith further that he hath yerely sustained these vii yeres
past suche losse, by reason that the conyes abydyng in their
felds hath spoyled his corne, that he is almost uttirly undon
sines he came to the Towne, and saith further that in
harvest nowe ii yeres past he sent his srvts into the felds
wt his dogge to dryve swyne oute of his corne, wt whom ii of
Latham srvts did mete, and not only kylled his dogge, but also
beate his srvts very sore. And saith further that one the
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morrowe next folowing Latham hymselfe came wt iiii other
men to this examinate, unto the feldes where he had a nother
dogge lying by his carte in the felde, and there forthe wt
kylled his other dogge wt a woodknife.'
[Richard Carvell, of Harlston:]
The great nomber of conyes nourisshed by the said
Latham have so underminded the Churchyarde of Bouckton
aforesaid, that it wold abhorre any Crystiane manys harte
in the world to se it. And also the said Latham, not mynd-
yng to have the said conyes destroyed wtn the said church-
yarde, will not suffer any dogges to rome wtn the said
churchyarde, but will kyll them. And also this examinate
saith that the fourthe pte at the lest of the corne and grasse
of the said Townes is spoyled and destroyed by the said
great nomber of conyes remaining in their feldes, over and
beside the destruction of their comon, so that it is an great
starvyng and famysshyng of their bests, to the utter undoyng
of the said Inhabtnts, this beside the losse of their corne.
[William Starmer, of Harlston:]
And there byn norrysshed in Buckton church yarde many
conyes, by means whereof they byn many dead mennes
bounes dyggyd up and gnawen wt conyes. And the in-
habitants being able goo to the said churche evry holyday
to hygh masse and dyverse tymes in the week days. And
the said Thomas Latham hath had yerely this vii yeres as
he supposeth iv or v thousand cople of conyes wtn the felds
of Bouckton and Pysford; and he knoweth that one Wynter,
servant to Thomas Latham, cam to one Robt Porter, beyng
shephard to this examinate, havyng a dogge in hys strynge
at his gyrdell, and cott the dogges throte, and divers tymes.
bett the same Porter, so that he wold no longer kepe shepe
in the folde of Pysford; and also he kylled the nettsherd
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dogge called John Mondyn, and bett one Thomas Warde
and broke his hedde.
(Signed) Edward Montagu, Thomas Tresham.
PART II.
1
Examinacions taken at the Towne of Northn the xxvi day
of April, in the xxxiii' yere of the reigne of our Soveraine
Lord Kyng Henry the viiith, before Sir Edward Montague,
Knyght, Sir Thomas Tresham, Knyght, and Richard
Catesby, Esquyer, by virtue of the Kyng's Comission to
theym dyrected for the pte of Thomas Latham, keapr of the
Parke of Molton.
Richard Scott, of the Towne of Northampton, of the age
of lxxiii yeres, born at Norton Davyd, otherwyse called
Bromsnorton, in the countie of Northt, where he dwelt unto
suche tyme as he came unto the age of xii yeres or ther-
abouts, and from thence he went to Boughton, where he
dwelt from the tyme that he was of the age of xii yeres
until he came to the age of xxiii yeres, and from that tyme
to the day of the taking of these deposityons he hath dwelt
in the said Towne of Northampton
all the said tyme
he dwelt in Boughton aforesaid after that he was svnt to
John Colls, Esquyer, by the space of x yeres next ensuyng
his departyng from Boughton, sworne and examyned, de-
poseth and saith that one Watkyn Chundeler, beying svnt to
Kyng Richard the iiid, was keapr of Molton pke, in the said
countie of Northton, all the tyme of his reigne, and had
warren of conyes and other bests and fowles of waren aswell
in the felds of Kyngesthorp, Boughton, and Pysford as in
the said Molton Parke and felds of Northampton; also he
saith that the conyes in Kyngsthorp felds had moste comonly
their . . . and resort in and upon the north fylde of the said
Towne.... Also he saith that one Nicholas Assheton, gent
•
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beyng under keapr to Sir James Harryngton, knyght, of the said
pke, James a Latham, yoman, and William Harryngton, yoman,
underkeap's to the said Sir James of the said waren and conyes
wtin the said felds of Kyngsthorp, &c., from the beginning
of the reigne of Kyng Henry the vii untyll Blackheyth feld,¹
which the said deponent supposd was above the space of
xiv or xv yeres, had the keapyng of the said waren, toke the
pfits of the conyes w¹in all the said felds of Kyngesthorp, &c.,
wtout lett or intrupcion of any pson or psones; and
further the said deponent . . . sayd William Harryngton
. . . Sir John Chese beyng chauntry prest of Boughton,
at the dore of hys chauntry for huntyng in the said waren.
And over that the said deponent saith that to his jugement
the nombr of conyes wtin the said felds of Kyngesthorp,
Boughton, and Pysford is rather encreased then mynyshed,
but not to any suche nombr that the corne and grasse grow-
yng in the same felds is clerely destroyed and spoyled. .
. . there are not the thride part the nomber that
were there in the tyme of the said Sir James Harryngton.
And imedyatly after the said Backhethfeld the said Sir
James Harryngton was put from the office of the said Pke
and waren, and then the same office was gyven to Sir
Nicholas Vaux, and he was Mastr Keapr of the said Pke
and waren
his life, which was by the estymacion.
[of the said deponent the] space of xxviii yeres . . .
H. Maye, gent, was his underkeapr of the said pke and
waren, and had the keapyng and pfetts of the conyes w¹in
the said felds of Kyngsthorp, &c., duryng the said tyme of
xxviii yeres or therabouts, savyng at one tyme aboute
xxi yeres past the inhabytaunts of the said towneship of
Kyngsthorp complayned to the kyng's moost honorable
counsaill that the said keapr and warener had increased the
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1 Blackheathfield, A.D. 1497. Parliament had granted a subsidy for
the war in Scotland; but the people of Cornwall resisted the tax and
marched upon London, but were defeated at Blackheath June 22, and
their leaders executed.
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nomber of the conyes witn the felds of Kyngsthorp aforesaid
so greatly, that their corne and grasse in the same felds of
Kyngsthorp was utt¹ly destroyed and spoyled, and when they
could not upon their said complaynt gain redresse and
remedy, that then the said inhabitaunts did put in tyllage
and ayre wt ploughs the same ground where the conyes had
made their clappers and had their moost resorte; and after
the death of the said Sir Nicholas Vaux
son Lord
Harryngton had . . . beyng his underkeapr by the space
of iii or iiii years; and the same Richard Humphrey had
Wagstaff under him to walk and keape the said warens, and
duryng the said tyme of iii or iiii yeres the said Richard Hum-
frey and his underkeapr had the keapyng of the said waren,
and toke the pfetts of the conyes in a peysable man, as
any other prsone or prsones dyd at tyme wtin the remem-
braunce of the said deponent.
John Relson, of Kyngsthorp. . . of the age of lxxi years
or therabouts in the said townes of Boughton and
Kyngsthorp by the space of lv yeres last past, and now he
is a bedesman in Seynt Devys in Kyngsthorp aforesaid,
sworne and examyned, deposeth and saith that he did know
James Latham, Nicholas Aysheton, and William Harryngton,
underkeps to Sir James Harryngton, knyght, whiche Sir
James had by the kyng's gyft the keapyng of the said parke,
and his said underkeaprs had the keapyng of the conyes
wtin the said felds of Kyngsthorpe, &c., and toke the pfetts
of the same conyes by the space of xiiii or xv yeres, but
whether they had any waren wtin the said felds of Kyngs-
thorp, &c., or not, he knoweth not, and furthermore, the
said deponent saith that the nombr of conyes is increased in
the felds of Kyngsthorp in dyverse places, wherby the grasse
and corne that groweth yerely there is greatly hyndred and
apeyred,¹ but he saith that he hath known many moo conyes
Apeyred' injured, impaired; apeyringis = losses in Wyck-
liffe's New Testament, quoted in Halliwel, 'But whiche thyngs weren
to me wynningys, I have deemed these apeyryngis for Crist' (Phil. iii. 7).
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wtin the said felds in a certeyn place called Blackwell Hill
than are at this present day of his deposition.
Richard Abbey, of the towne of North", of the age of
lxii yeres .
saith that one
one Sir James Harryngton,
Knyght, at the begynnynge of the reigne of Kyng Henry
VIIth, was maistr keapr of Moulton pke, and in that tyme
one Thomas Abbey, father to the said Richard, another
called John Lawforde, of the seid towne of Northamp",
bocher, went oute of Northn towne in a dark nyght wt a
lantern and a candell lyght in the same unto the warren
betwene the felds of the said towne of Northn and Kyngs-
thorpe feld, intending to stele conyes wt a ferrett and purse-
nette, and then the underkeap of the said pke for that
tyme beyng mette wt them, and they told him they went to
seek for a bullock that was broken from them, and they
inquired if the said keapr had sene any, and he said nay,
and dyd bydde them goe on theyr weys to loke if they could
fynde hym, and after they were depted from hym they had
that that they dyd come for.
PART III.
Examinacion taken at Northn the xxvi daye of Aprill
anno reg. H. VIII. xxxiii, before Sir Edward Montagu and
Sir Thomas Tresham, for the parte of the Inhabitants of
the towne of Bockton and Pysford by virtue of the said
comission to the said Sir Edward and Sir Thomas directed.
Robert Crow of Harlestone, of the age of lx yeres, sworne
and examyned, deposeth and saythe . .. that he never
knewe that any psones beyng Lords of Molton at any tyme
claymed or had any frewarren wtn the townes or feldes of
Bockton or Pysford . . . he knoweth one Thomas Aylmer,
beyng bayliff of Bockton, and divers others of the tenants
of Bockton, kepe greyhoundes, ferretts, hounds, and nettes,
and hunted daylie and kylled both hayres and conyes to
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the wall of Molton pke, wtout any manr of denyall by any
keapr there, which he knoweth to be true, for that this
examinate hath gon and hunted hymself among theym
many tymes, and never denyed until the tyme of one
Latham, beyng underkeapr to Sir Nicolas Vaux, late Lord
Vaux, decessed, beyng the Lord of Bockton and Pysford,
and keapr of Molton Pke, and they suffered the conyes to
increase for the Lord's plesure, whiche then were few in
number to those that be nowe there. The tenants myght
then take their plesure for the same conyes, so that they
wuld then do small hurte, and now the churchyarde of
Buckton is so full of coney earthes and conyes, and ther be
bones of dede psones dygged up wt conyes in the same
churche yarde whiche would fylle a scutle. And the inha-
bitants of Buckton beyng able, do go evy holyday to the
said churche to hear masse and service on week dayes also,
and this examt sayth further that the conyes whyche the
said Thomas Latham hath yerely taken in Buckton and
Pysford feld hath byn worthe yerely to hym and hys master
xiiili. vis. viiid. at the least, and there is destroyed wt the
great number of conyes in grasse grounde and corne
grounde above c. acres, by means whereof their cattill byn
lost and pynyd for lack of mete, and if there were no conyes,
the inhabitants of Buckton and Pysford would sowe yerely
fourty quarters of corne more than they now doo or dare
sowe for feare of destruction wt conyes, for there lyeth
above lxxx acres of grounde leye and unsown for fear of
the conyes wtn the said two felds of Buckton and Pysford
. and the rent, sowyng, arying, foldynge, and sedynge
of an acre of rey wyll cost the tenant therof fyve shillings
and above, and an acre of barley iiis. ivd., and he thynketh
upon hys othe that there be xx acres of rey and barley
destroyed in Buckton and Pysford wt conyes, and he saith
further that Thomas Latham, now keap', dyd beat and kyll
one Martyn Williams, svnt to Richard Humfrey, in Buckton
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feld, because the same Williams chalenged the said Latham
for breaking of hedges of Mr. Humfrey, and hath beaten.
one Simon West upon the hedde and in the necke that he
never lyked after,¹ and also the same Latham shott at a
great masty of the said Richard Humfrey standyng in Mr.
Humfrey's dore, and shote hym thorowe, and also kylled a
shepperd's dogge of one Canne, a shepperd, beyng in the
churche yarde, and bett divers childern, shepherds, and
svnts in suche sorte that they durst not kepe a dogge
in the felde, and so toke from one Pallady a bowe and
arrowes, and from dyvers others, and wold not suffre any of
the inhabitants of Buckton ne Pysford to shotte in the
comn felds wt ther long bowe, but toke away the same and
put the owners of the same in danger of ther lyves if they
sayd any thing.
[Next follows the evidence of Richard Wade to nearly
the same effect. Amongst other things he says:]
، An acre of lande sown in reye stondeth the tenant in
sowing vii shillings at the lest, and there ley in Buckton
felde above thirty acres, whiche the tenants dare not sowe
for feare of destruction wt the conyes.'
[Speaking of Latham, he says:]
'He will not suffre any shepperd to have a dogge at hys
gyrdell in the feld.'
[Part of Richard Wade's evidence is as follows:]
'That he knewe Sir James Harryngton, who had the
keaping of Molton pke above fiftie yeares synes, at whiche

To lyke to be in flourishing condition. Comp. Ps. xcii. 13,
'They shall be fat and well liking;' Dan. i. 10, 'Why should he see
your faces worse liking?'
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tyme he hard hys ffather saye that there was but four conyes
in Buckton and Pysford feld, and that the fyrst conyes that
were brought in those feldes were brought by one Master
Greene, Lord of Buckton, who dygged a clapper for theym
in Pysford felde, and he never knewe any keapr pretende to
have any fre warren,' etc., etc.

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XIX.
TRNO
Ordinances and Statutes made by the consent of all the
inhabitants of the Towne of Kyngesthorpe in the tyme of
Robert Coke, Bayly there, anno primo Edwardi sexti
(1547).
1. Fyrst, the great Corttes called the Leetes, holden at
Easterne and Mychelmas the dayes that the said Corttes
and Leetes shall be holden, shallbe kept and begone at ix
or x of the clocke in the fore nowne, and that every person
or persones whiche to yt are sommoned to appere at the
said courttes shallbe their at evy tyme or tymes, upon
lawfull warnynge, upon payne of every one makyng de-
faute, xd.
2. Item, that all suters to the said courttes that be warned
lawfully shall the one day of the said courte to appere in
ppre person, or elles assyned, or elles amerced xiid., the
seconde day to appere in ppre person, or elles to be
amerced xiid.
3. Item, if any customery tenant or suter or other person
do revyle, rebuke, or dysobey the Baily or the Steward at
any other tyme, for any matter concernyng their office, that
then they to forfait to the said offycers iiis. ivd.
4. Item, if any costomery tenant or suter at any tyme do
rebuke, revyle, or dysobey the constables, thurbarowes,
ale-tasters, haywarde, or other officers sworne in doyinge
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their offyce, to forfayt to the said offecers as often as they
so do viď.
5. Item, that they [who brewe beer] to sell within the
Towne but too, three, or elles foure at the most in every
week . . . or other brewynge vesselles of their owne, and
assyned by the Bayliffe of the . . . uppon payne of every
one makynge defaute vis. viiid., the one halfe .
to the use of the Towne.
or halfe
6. Item, that there shall . . . in any ale wyth out the
Towne to sell agayne wythin the Towne, with out license
of the Bayliffe, uppon the payne of every one making de-
faute xiid.
7. Item, that no psone shall withe in the said Towne
harber or lodge any strawnge persones more then one night
and one day in their howses, but they gyve the Bayliffe
knowledge, upon every one makynge defaute iiis. ivd.
8. Item, that at every Leete, called the great Leete, too
ffeerares to be chosen, the Bayliff to chose thone and the
thurbarros an other, and they to assesse all amerciamentes
that be putt in to their handes before the said Leete be
adiorned, in payne of every on makynge defaute xiid.
9. Item, that every psone that is found fauty by the xii
men and worthy to avoyde the Towne shall avoyde the
Towne by the day appoynted them to avoyde, uppon payne
off every one makyng defaute vs. viď.
10. Item, all thos psones that dwell and kepe house-
holdes in the same Towne, that were not ther borne, shall
pay yerly to the said Towne iiiid. for their hedd unto the
tyme they do by it out of the Bayliffe in the presens of the
Courte.
II. Itm, that no psones shall kepe and holde mo horses
then for every x acres of errable land in his tenure one
horse, as the olde custome before hathe beene, uppon payne
for every moneth for every horse more then aforesaid
lymyted xd.
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12. Item, that no psones shall kepe any mare or mares
withe in the libertes of the said Towne, except they kepe
them in their owne severall closses, uppon payne of every
one makynge defaute iiis. ivd.
13. Itm, all they that have neyt above a yere olde and
have not free medowe of their owne, that ys to say, for
every nette a quarten, and if they have mo, for every beast
xiid., and that no man shall geeste¹ more cattell but his
owne, except they hyer them, being mylchk beastes, uppon
payne of every beast iiis. ivd.
14. Itm, the Bayliff to have the one halfe of the mylchk
beastes' money and the Towne to have thother halfe.
15. Itm, that a free man, defendant, shall be assyned too
tymes after he be warned, and the third courte shall appere
in a plee of land or of dell, or elles to be amerced xiid.,
and if he come in at the fourthe courte day, that then he
forthe withe to be condempned.
16. Itm, if any psone do knowledge any dett before the
Bayliff on the Courte or besyde the Courte at any other
tyme, at the sute of any persone or persones, that then it
shall be lawful for the said Bayliff, in all hast resonable,
to make, leve, and dystrene for the said dett upon the
goodes and cattelles of the said dettor or dettors, uppon the
payne of iiis. ivd. of hym that resystethe the dystresse and
the levynge of the said dett.
17. Itm, if the Bayliff do not mynyster justice in exe-
cutynge his office consernynge the said compleyntes, as
often as he is found fauty therin to forfayt to all other
offecers withe in the said Towne vis. viiid., and the halfe to
use of the Towne and thother halfe to the said offeceres.
18. All thos lands that any man do purchase with in the
said Towne, or that any man hathe by testament of other,
1 'Geeste.' The verb is not to be found in the glossaries. It means
to place cattle to feed in the common pastures. Gisting' and 'agist-
ment' are met with.
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yt shall be lawfull to them in their last dayes by vertu of
their testament or elles by surrenders, accordynge to the
olde awncient custome, to give, sell, or bequethe the same
at lyberty.
19. Itm, yt shall not be lawfull to any childe of male or
of female for to sell any landes or tenements unto the tyme
the man childe be of the age of xxi yeres and the woman
childe of xvi yeres.
20. Itm, if any psone sell any landes or tenements to any
other psone withe in the said Towne or withe out, that the
said seller of the said landes or tenements shall yelde thym
upp in to the Bayliff's handes ix dayes before the courte
unto the behoffe of the byer, and if any psone kyn to the
seller withe in the fourth degree come withe in the said ix
dayes, and aske a cate,¹ yt shallbe delyvered them the next
courte day, to pay the monye that the byer shulde paye
withe in ix dayes after the Court, or elles to lyes his cate
or tytle, and havynge suche day of payment as the said
seller and byer was agreed of, and the seller in the pleyne
Courte in ppre persone, before the Bayliff and Steward,
shallbe sworne to knowledge the truthe of the said bar-
gaynes, and if their be any men borne withe in the Towne
or franches man of the Town, will have the bargayne after
the byures withe in the fourth degree have refused they to
receive it before a straunge purchaser, and the same bar-
gayne shall be kept hole and well to them as to the byures
abovesaid in all maner of poyntes.
21. Itm, if ther be no cate of no psone withe in the
said fourthe degree, nor no borne men nor franchesmen
withe in the said ix dayes be asked, that then the said byer
shall have lyvery off seison accordynge to the custome and
maner in playne and full Courte.
22. Itm, if ther be any man of full age withe in the
realme, and out of prison, or woman sole unmarid, that
1 'Cate,' vide Ordinances (1483), art. 17, and note.
;
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ought to have any landes or tenementes by inheritance or
by will or by any maner of purchase, that they shall come
in to be admyted as heires or other wase to procede to
their possession withe in three Courte dayes next folowinge
after that they have any right to any suche landes or
tenements, or elles the Bayliffe shall seysse all such landes
and tenements in the Kynge's handes to the use of the
Towne for evermore.
23. Itm, that every heire, or such as have landes by will
or testament, shall paye for their sesianynge vis.
24. Itm, that every purchaser shall pay for a cotsedill
sesianynge viis., and so after the rate to the leste parte.
25. Itm, for every quarton of medow south warde for the
sesianynge, vs.
26. Itm, for every acre of the furlonge that shottes uppon
walbekke close, the whiche furlonge ys called domynycall
Land, shall paye yerely to the kynge for every acre vid.,
and for sesianynge of every acre of the same furlonge xiid.
27. Itm, the sesianynge of every acre that is purchased
in all other places, viid. the acre.
28. Itm, for every quarton northe warde for the sesian-
ynge, xld.
29. Itm, if any psone withe in the boundes of the said
Towne draw at any psone in violence sword, dager, or
knyfe, or any other wepon, to fforffaytt to the said Towne at
every tyme that suche default is made xxd., and if they
smyte withe the same and drawe blowde, to leys to the said
'Towne xld.
30. Itm, if any man do chaunge any landes or tenements,
gevynge botte to the sum of iis. or about, so after the quan-
tyty as ys above said, to pay for sesionynge after costome
and maner.
31. Itm, that all common brewers that brewithe to sell
that in tyme of wynter, from Mychelmas to Candlemas,
thei shall not suffer no mane's servantes to be in their
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howses after ix of the clock in the nyght, and in somer
season from candlemas . . . hower of x of the clocke in
the nyght uppon payn of penysshement . .
32. Itm, that no suspect psones shall kepe no
Bayliffe or his assygnes, uppon pane for every said
Towne vs.
33. Itm, if any mane's cattell be distressyd for rent, dett,
or trespass, or any other resonable thynge, and it in pound,
that if any psone take it out withe out license of hym that
so do impounde the said cattell, that then thei to forfayt to
the said Town xld.
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34. Itm, that no man nor woman shall take into their
hows or howses any myster¹ woman beyng with childe, ther
to be dlyvered, wtout the lycence of the Bayly and her
neyghboures, upon the payne of vish. viiid. to the Bayly and
vis. viiid. to the Towne as often as they so doe.
35. Itm, that evy parson that puttyth his mattr to a Jure
or unto arbitrament shall stand to suche ende as the Jure
or arbitrars shall make, without further trobyll, uppon payne
of xxs.
36. Itm, that no man shall make any highe waye, use or
haunt on any other man's land, medowes, lesows, or pastures
but suche as have ben of olde tyme accustomed out of
mynde upon payne of xiid.
37. Itm, if any parson do brewe ale for the avayle of the
churche, that all other brewers shall cesse for the tyme
1 'Myster woman,' i.c., pauper; from mistere, a trade; ministerium.
Hence mystery used in the sense of a trade, as in the phrase ‘art and
mystery'-a word, however, which has no connection with the word
mystery (mysterium), and ought rather to be spelt mistery.' From
the necessity of work and service probably arose the sense of want.
Thus Chaucer's 'Romaunt of the Rose':
'That he of meat hath no mistere.'
In James V.'s answer to Henry VIII.'s letter counselling him to secu-
larize the monasteries, he says, 'I thank God I am able to live well
enough on what I have, and I have friends that will not see me mister.'
—'Life of Sir Ralph Sadler.'
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untill the churche ale be utteryd havyng lawfull warnynge
upon payne of every pson doying the contrary xld.
38. Itm, if any pson or psons as sell any tenement, land,
medow, or pasture wn the Towne and feld of Kyngesthorpe,
and do give no knowleage therof unto the Baily for the
tyme beyng by the next court day after suche sale made, to
lese for every hooll tenement vis., and so fourthe to the lest
parte therof after that rate.
39. Itm, that if any parson do sell any medowe on the
Towne syde of Kyngesthorpe, and do geve the sayd Baylye
no knowleage therof by the next court, the seller to forfayte
unto the said Towne for every quarter'n iis., and so fourthe
after the same rate to the least part therof.
40. Itm, in lyke maner for every quartron medowe sold
on the northe syde wtout knowleage gevyn to sayd Bayly as
is aforesaid, the seller to forfayte to the Towne xxd., and
so fourthe after the same rate to the least part.
41. Itm, likewise for the sale of every acre of land the
seller to forfayte to the Towne xiid., and so fourthe after
the same rate to the least part.
42. Itm, if any pson do denye the Kynge's highewaye
wt stone or wood or any other thynge above one quarter of
a yere except he be in buylding, he shall lose to the said
Towne of Kyngesthorpe xiid.
43. Itm, if any pson do digge in Restoo Delfe on the
whole herth, denying the highe waye, to lose to the said
Towne for every lood xiid.
44. Itm, that noe person or psones of this Towne shall
cary no furrys¹ but there owne excepte Restowe Delff,
uppon payne of every one making defaute xiid.
45. Itm, that noe parson shall suffre no kyte, busserd,
pye, nor flesshe crowe to brede and ther yonge to fly away
from the grounde, uppon payne of losyng xiid., and the said
1 Vide Court Roll, p. 33. 'Qd Georgius Madler non cariabit les
furres.. nisi proprias vepres.'
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xiid. so forfayted shallbe gethered Whitson weeke by the
Baylye, and the money theerof to goe to the mendynge of
the hye wayes.
46. Itm, that the six Thurbarrowes shall present the
trespasses unto the Baylye, and they to have of every tres-
passer iid., and they to present the defautes so founde by
the last hoole day in Whitson weeke, upon payne on every
Thurbarrowe doyng not his duty to forfaytt xiid. to the mend-
ynge of the said hye wayes.
47. Itm, that every fermer of the mylles shall geve the
Thurbarrowes every half yere vid., or elles a brekfast worthe
vid.
48. Itm, the Baylie shall have all the affore said
paynes, excepte those that be appoynted to the churche,
towne, or hye wayes, or other officers, or any other wayes
appoynted.
49. Itm, that the ale Tasters shall have for every bruynge,
or for every weeke of a Tnnr, a quart of ale when they come
to their howses and a peny to their kepe.
50. Itm, that no parson or parsones kepe no beere goinge
assawte, uppon payne of every on makynge defaute xvd. as
often as thei so do.
51. Itm, that no man nor woman kepe nor holde no mo
shepe but for every acre too shepe, uppon payne to lese to
the said Towne of Kyngesthorpe for every shepe iid.
52. It is ordeyned that the Baily allwayes shall elect and
chose of the xii men one that hath been Baylye and borne
office in the Towne, and the benchers then to chose and
elect a nother for the comynelty of the same Towne for
every offecere as Bayly and other officers. This electyon is
at all tymes to be had, made, and sorted (?) yeven¹ in the
court house accustomed, that ys to say, the Sunday next
after the chesyng of the Meyre of Northampton, uppon
1 'Sorted yeven,' vide Ordinances (1483), art. 33. The meaning of
'sorted' is not very clear; possibly this may be an ancient legal formula.
!
92
KINGSTHORPIANA.
payn at every tyme doyinge the contrary the Bayly to lese
and forfaytt to the said Towne xxs.
53. Itm, that no parson nor parsones shall sue nor make
no maner of sute of pley of londe, det, or action temprall
[out of the courte] without licence of the Baily and Con-
stable of the same Towne for the tyme beyng, uppon payne
of xxs. of every trespasser so offendynge to be leved for the
Towne for ever more.
54. Itm, that no parson nor parsones shall ley no londes
nor tenements to morgage above iii yeres, uppon payne of
forfaytynge of all such londes and tenementes to the use of
the Towne for ever more.
55. Itm, that no man of no out Towne shall not digge
nor dame nor fyshe in the broke called Walbeck broke,
from Swarbrong hedd to Walbecke, uppon payne of every
one makynge defaute iiis. ivd.
56. Itm, that no howse holdere shall not fet nor send for fier
in a wispe to ther neyghbour's howse, uppon payne of every
howse holdere makynge defaute xiid. as often as thei so doe.
57. Itm, that there shall no inhabiter wasshe no clothes
at the comen welles before daylight, and further that thei
shall laye no clothes nor wrynge no clothes withe in the
damynge or headds of the said welles, uppon payne of every
one makynge defaute xiid.
58. Itm, that there shall no man spyrituall nor tempall
inhabytinge withe in the Towne hunte nor with fferettes.
nor nettes withe in the liberty of the same Towne, except he
or thei have licence of the Baily or the Constables for the
tyme beynge, uppon payne of makynge defaute vs., and for-
faytting nettes so founde of huntynge.
P
59. . . . licence to ferryt, and if they dygge any grounde
from the grounde, uppon payne.
60. Itm, that no [brewer that brewethe] to sell shall
grynde their malt at any querne, uppon the payne for every
strike so grounde xiid. to the Baylee.
KINGSTHORPIANA.
93
61. Itm, that all thos psones that have quernes shall
suffer noe body to grynde theirat above a Tolfatt,¹ uppon
payn for every Tolfatt more then their owne at any tyme
so doynge iiid.
62. Itm, that the millers shall make a sufficient planke to
goe over at all tymes, uppon payne of every one makynge
defaute xxs.
63. Itm, all inhabiters shall grynde at the Towne myllnes,
uppon payn of anyone makynge defaute vis. viiid.
64. Itm, that the inhabyters shall have their corne
grounde before a stranger, uppon payne of forfaytyng
vis. viiid.
65. Itm, that the Mylners shall make suffycient meale
and mett, uppon payne of losynge vis. viiid.
66. Itm, that the Courtes called the Leetes shall be
holden and kept withe in a fortenyt after Michellmasse, and
lyke wise after Easterne, uppon payne of losynge to the
Churche xxs.
67. Itm, that the Baylie from hense fourthe shall have
the pofyttes of the sesonynge beynge under the value of
xiiis. iiiid.
68. Itm, that if the sesonynge be above a marke, the
Baylie shall have but halfe the marke and halfe the ovplus,
and ..
69. Itm, that all wavys and strays from hense forthe
shalbe delyvered to the Baylie by the Thurbarrowes, and
the price of the stray namyd, and to brande them with the
comon brande, and the Baylye so to have them in his
kepynge withe in the libertyes, after ancyent and olde
custome of this realme.
70. Itm, that every of the sixe thurbarrowes shall alwayes
1 'Tolfat:' some measure of capacity; probably from toll, or from
the miller's fee. Tolhop is a toll-dish by which they take toll for
corn sold in market overt (Cowell). Tolcorn is corn taken for toll at
grinding in the mill.
}
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
do their duty as often as he or thei shalbe called, uppon
payne of every one makynge defaute xiid.
71. Itm, that their shalbe no mo olde shepe in a flocke
but xiiii score, and for every shepe that is above as often as
they be so tryed by stayne men alymyted to lose for every
shepe ob' to the affore said men.
72. Itm, their shalbe iii folde makes in a flocke at the
lest, uppon payne of every monethe iiis. iiiid.
73. Itm, that the Thurbarrowes shall not from hence
forthe take any soynynge mony of any freeholder at Easterne
Leet, uppon payne of xiid. for every id. so taken.
74. Itm, the Baylye shall alwayes at Easterne Leete gyve
the thurbarrowes iid. ffor the somonynge of the Leete.
75. Itm, that no man or woman of the Towne shall at
any tyme lodge any sturdy begger, uppon payne of every
one makynge defaute iiis. iiiid. to the Towne and iiis. iiiid.
to the Baylye.
76. Itm, that no parsone shall by any stuffe of any such
begger except they make the Bayly prevy to the same,
uppon payn of losynge iiis. iiiid. to the Towne and iiis. iiiid.
to the Baylye.
77. Itm, that every man that ought to clense the comon
gutters, that is to say, Bette's gutter, Page's gutter, Am-
brosie's gutter, Dyconsis' gutter, Cowke's gutter, that every
of the gutters may be clensed so that the water may passe
at all tymes, uppon payne of every one makynge de-
faute xiid.
78. Itm, that the chosynge of the kynge and quene for
the May gaymes shalbe chosin uppon Eastern day after
Evynsonge, and he or she that do refuse the election shall
forfaytt vis. viiid., and the Baylye to distresse immediately
for the same, and for to have the one halfe for his labor and
the other halfe to the Churche.
79. Itm, that the pson or his depute shall at all tymes
scowre the more dytche as often as need shall require, that
95
is to say, the Baylye shall geve the pson or his depute warn-
ynge, and after warnynge be geven that it be done w in
xii dayes after, in payn of iiis. iiiid., that is to say, to
his owne water that comes from the psonnage to the
stile in the corner of the more that turnes agayne to the
ryver.
KINGSTHORPIANA,

6
12

每
​XXI.
[The inhabitants seem to have deputed three of their number to go
up to London and obtain the necessary legal assistance in bringing
their case before the courts of law; and probably they had their good
reasons for conducting it in the 'Ster chamber,' which had been estab-
lished about sixty years before by Henry VII. The names of these
commissioners frequently occur in the records, and they were no doubt
prominent men in the Toune.' Mr. Morgan, the counsel whom they
engaged, was most likely connected with the Morgans of Kingsthorpe,
who were established there about this time. Rob. Coke was 'Baily'
in 1547, in which year, as we gather from internal evidence, the present
journey was taken.
The expenses of these persons seem to have been defrayed by the
sale of goods of some kind, possibly the property of the church. The
mention of wax, silver and gold plate, etc., seems to point to this.
Unfortunately there is no record left of the furniture, vestments, plate,
etc., belonging to the church, and nothing to show what became of
them, unless the present document refers to their disposal.]
THYS be the passels that Robert Coke, Robert Dykkynson,
and Richard Broke have lyde out for the towne as here
after follo.
Sondaye. It. at stony stratford, ye daye of October,
for shoying of Robert Dykkynson hors
It. same daye for our supper there
and for our horse myte the same nyght
there
Mondaye. It. for our dynner and horse myte at Don-
stabill
ye same daye at Synte Albons for or
supper.
•
vd.
vid.
xid.
xid.
ixd.
KINGSTHORPIANA.
97
Tuesdaye.
Thorsdaye.
Ffridaye.
Ye same daye at night for horse meyte xiid.
Ye same daye at Lond' for ii pare of
shoes
xviiid.
Wydnesdaye. It. for our iii dinners
It. at Barnyt for or brakfaste and hors
meyt
Ye same daye at Lond' for or dynner.
Ye same daye for our supper there
It. payd the same daye to Richard
Broke for hys expysses to Lond.
It. the same daye to Master Morgan,
menepaye Reteyned hem for our
counsell
It. the same daye for our supper
It. for our dinner
It. the same daye for or supper
It. the same daye before dinner and
after supper
It. the same daye for a payre of shoes
for Richard Broke
viiid.
vid.
vid.
ixd.
.iiis.ivd.
ixd.
ixd.
ixd.
xviiid.
It. the same daye for our drynke before
diner and after2
iiid.
ixd.
ixd.
It. for or dyner
It. the same daye Master Morgan for
hys ffe at the barin the Ster chamber¹ iiis.ivd.
It. the same daye to Mr. Tauornd (?)
for hys fee in the same offys
It. the same daye to the Kynges' At-
turnay servants for rewards
xxd.
xxd.
iiid.
1 'Ster Chamber': vide note to No. XII.
2 This custom of drinking between meals was probably universal,
and was known, I think, as the bever. There is a passage in Samuel
Ward's 'Sermon on the Life of Faith' (1630): 'Why should not thy
soul have her due drinks, breakfasts, meals, undermeals, bevers, and
aftermeals, as well as thy body?' where the word 'bevers' seems to
7
98
KINGSTHORPIANA.
Satterday.
Sundaye.
Mondaye.
Thorsdaye.
Ffrydaye.
Sattordaye.
It. for or dener and sopper
Itm. for or drynkynge before dener and
after
•
Itm. for or dener and sopper
It. for or drynkynge before and after.
It. for or dener and sopyer
•
Tewysdaye. It. for or dener and sopper
It. before dener and sop.
Wedenysday. It. Mr. Morgan for his fee in the Ex-
checkar
It. Master Browne for hys feys in the
same Courte
It. for or dener and sopper
•
It. for or drynkynge at the tavern and
or freynds
•
It. for or drynkynge before dener and
after
It. for or diner and sopper
It. for or drynkyng before diner and
after
xviiid.
It. for o ferrying to Wystminster and
hom
It. for or diner
It. for or drynkynge before diner
It. at ye taffern and or drynkynge at
night
iiid.
xviiid.
iiid.
xviiid.
.iiis.ivd.
vid.
xviiid.
iiid.
iiis.ivd.
xviiid.
iiid.
xviiid.
iiid.
ivd.
ixd.
iid.
vid.
It. ye same daye to sergant Morgan for
hys counsel in makyng of or pleye . iiis.ivd.
It. for or ferrying and or counsel to
Westminster and hom ageyne to
Lond'
It. ye same daye diner and supp
viid.
xviiid.
refer to this practice. The custom may perhaps still survive in the
eleven o'clock beer and the afternoon beer of the workmen in some
places.
KINGSTHORPIANA.
99
Sundaye.
Mondaye.
Thursday.
It. ye same daye Master Morgan's man
for wryghting of the copye of ye
towre
It. for or drynkynge before diner and
after
It. my dener and sopper
It. befor dener and after
Towysdaye. It. for my dener and sopper
It. for my drynkynge
Wedonysday. It. for my dener and sop'.
It. to Mr. Morgan for hys fee
It. for other charge
•
It. paid out for solyn off my shoys and
for ye makyng clene of all or botts .
Ye same daye for my dener and super
Ye same daye for my drynkynge before
dener and after
It. for my dener and my drynkynge
It. ye same daye for my horse and
Richd. Brooke and Rob. Dykonson's
horse, meyt yt we did have whe...
come home
It. laid out ye same daye for my horse
mytt for iiii days
ye same daye for oure (hodhornys) (?)²
It. ye same daye for wesyng of my
shurte
It. ye same daye for rewards to ye
servants
iiis.ivd.
ivd.
vid.
iid.
ངོ་R་ངོ་ཚུ་ཚོ་
vid.
xxd.
iid.
viid.
xis. viiid.
xvid.
iiid.
id.
ivd.
1 This refers to the copy of the grant of freewarren, No. I. in this
collection.
2 'Hodhornys': this is a difficult word, about which one is left to
conjecture. It has been suggested that it means 'ordinaries,' but that
will hardly suit the context. Could it be connected with 'hodiorns,' or
' hodierns ''journals,' whatever that might mean? 'Adiorn' stands
for adjourn in the Ordinances.
72
UM
***...
100
KINGSTHORPIANA.
}
Frydaye.
Satterday.
Sunday.
Munday.
My dener at ys styll [worth]
It. in the morning for my drynkynge
and a boytt to Westminstre and
home
It. the same daye to Mr. Morgan's
clerk for wryting off a byll
The same daye for my drynkynge at
after none and at nyght
It. for my dener and sopp
It. for my drynkynge same daye
It. the same daye to Mr. Eden for our
pte of the decreys
It. for Harye Tanner and me for oure
dener and oure sopper, Thystyll-
worth¹
It. ye same daye for a wherrye bott to
Shene
Itm. the same daye for a pottyll of
seke yt I be stowyd of my lord
prcctor's servant
Itm. the same daye before dener and
after supper
Itm. for or dener at Thystyllworth and
one of mye Lord's servants
Itm. for or ferrying over to Shene twyse
and again to Hystyllworth
It. for or drynkynge in the mornyng.
Itm. the same day for or drynkynge at
our loging at Hamsmyth
Teuysday. All Itm. to Mastr Morganys mane and for
Hallow day. copying of boyth decreys
ivd.
iid.
iid.
iid.
viiid.
iid.
VS.
xvid.
xvid.
vid.
iiid.
xiid.
iid.
iid.
iiid.
xxd.
C
1 Thystyllworth.' In Domesday the name is 'Gestelworde;' in
subsequent ancient records uniformly 'Istelworth,' afterwards occasion-
ally Istleworth.' About Queen Elizabeth's time in conversation and
sometimes in records it was 'Thistleworth.' The name Isleworth is
quite modern (Lysons).
KINGSTHORPIANA.
IOI
Ffrydaye.
Wedneysday. Itm. for my dener and my sopper
Itm. before diner and after
Itm. for my dener and sopper
Thursdaye.
Satterday.
Itm. for my dener and my sopper
Itm. for charges before dener and after
The same daye for a boytt to the
Wycht Hawle to the Temple for
Mr. Syssyll¹ and me
Itm. the same day for my drynkynge
before dener and after
Itm. the same day to Mr. Taverner for
his feys
The same daye for pyr tronke hose and
a paire of shoys
The same day to Rychard Brook for
hys charge from home to Lond'
Itm. to the same Rychard for shawying
of his horse at Dunstable
Itm. for our dener
Itm. for our drynkynge before and after
supper
Itm. for our dener and sopper
Itm. for drynkynge before diner and
after
Itm. the same day for a boyt to the
Courte
viid.
iiid.
viiid.
iid.
viiid.
iid.
iid.
xxd.
xiiid.
xxiid.
vid.
viiid.
ivd.
xvid.
iiid.
iid.
1 'Mr. Syssyll': Wm. Cecil, afterwards Lord Burghley. His father
was Master of the Robes to Hen. VIII. He was educated at St. John's,
Cambridge, and afterwards entered at Gray's Inn. The King conferred
upon him the reversion of the office of custos brevium in the Common
Pleas in 1541, which fell into his possession in 1546. In 1547 the Lord
Protector Somerset appointed him his Master of Requests. In 1548 he
was appointed Secretary of State, and was the first person chosen of
the Privy Council under Elizabeth, and from that time to his death he
may be said to have directed the affairs of England. In a pedigree in
Lord Burghley's hand (given in facsimile in Wright's 'Queen Elizabeth
and her Times') the name is written in the first places Sitsilt,' after-
wards 'Sicell,' and again 'Cyceld.'
102
KINGSTHORPIANA.
t
i
Sunday.
Munday.
Tewysdaye.
Itm. the same day to Mast™ Morgan for
making off a byll and other payings vis. viiid.
Itm. the same day for rewards to Mr.
Morgany's men
Itm. for our dener and sopper
The same day for our drynkynges
The same day for the solyng of my
shoys
Itm. the same day for x days horse-
meytt and two days Harye Tanarys
horsemeytt .
Itm. for our dener and sop
Itm. before dener and after
•
Itm. for our dener and sopper
Itm. paid Mr. Broke for hys.
in yr Exchequr
The same day for our drynkyn before
dener and after
Wedonesday. Itm. for our dener and sopper
•
yng
Itm. before dener and att ye taverne
Itm. the same day for a brakefast at
Westmynster for husse and Mastr
Brown and Mast™ Smyth
•
Itm. the same day to Mr. Syssyll for
hys payns to my lord Ptector for
the report for oure matt™
Itm. to Mast' Smyth for the report off
our hundreth matt" to my lord Cheyf
Baron
xiid.
xvid.
ivd.
vd.
VS.
xvid.
iiid.
xvid.
xxd.
iiid.
xvid.
iid.
xiid.
XXS.
VS.
The same day to Sir Clement Smyth
for the dyscharging of our hundreth
tyll a tyme.
Itm. the same day to Mr. Browne for
helpeyn husse to fynyshe oure matt¹ iiis.ivd.
vis. viiid.
KINGSTHORPIANA.
103
1
Thursday.
Ffryday.
*
*
Itm. the same day to Mr. Morgan for
the copye . . . forth of the Towće.
The same day before diner and after
supper
same day for a boytt to Westmynster.
Itm. for viii days horsemeytt, vd. the
day, sum
Itm. for rewards in or Hyn
Itm. for or brakefaste at Lond¹
Itm. the same at Barnytt for our dener
and Thomas Buttras and our horse-
mett
•
Itm. the same daye att nyght at Dun-
stable for a sopper and a botyl of
secke and a faggot.
Itm. att Dunstable for our horsemeytt
at nyght
Itm. the same day att Stony Stretford
for a diner and horsemeytt
Itm. hyer off my horse from Hyegatte
to Stretford
Itm. . . . Northampton in expenses
*
*
*
*
Sma totalis, ixli. ivs. vid.
X-
*
*
*
Itm. lyde owt for a papr boke for the
towne
Itm. payd for the towne gronds to the
king's rynt
Itm. payd to John Horloke for the
towne hole for part of hys wynter-
ryng
Itm. He must have iiis. more and the
herd iid. for dryffynge of hem to
Horlock.
XXS.
ivd.
iid.
iiis.ivd.
ivd.
ivd.
xvd.
xiiid.
ixd.
xvd.
xiid.
ivd.
ivd.
vis.viiid.
ivd.
104
KINGSTHORPIANA.
!
Itm. payd to John Hopkyns xiiid. that
the Church owt hym for hys account.
Sm ixli. xviis. viid.
It. I paid to Rychard broke xxiid.
Debett, vii. xiiis. iiiid.(?)
[On another page the following:]
It. Reseyved of the Towne as hereafter folls. :
It. for iorn, brasse, laty, and wyxe
It. for wyght plat
It. for gylt plat
Sum, xvli. xiiis.
xls.
viiili. viiis.
vli.
VS.

1

XXII.
[Richard Broke and Robert Coke were two of the three commis-
sioners sent to London on the Hundreth' business.
The Duke of Somerset is here called Protector, so that the date is
after Henry VIII.'s death.]
Money receyvyd by Rycharde Broke, of Kyngesthorpe,
in the xxxviii yere of the Rayne of or most drede Soverayne,
Lorde Kynge Henry the eight, to the use of the Inhabitants
of the said Towne.
Itm. That was taxyd of the lott grasse there
Im. receyvyd of Henry Pagdale for the rent
of Walbecke Closse
Itm. from Francis Morgan for another halfe
yere's rent of said closse
Itm. of Master Wm. Morgan for the Towne
corne
Summa recepta
•
•
xls.
Itm. that the toune shyppe owt me at my last
accompte made the xii daye of Aprille.
The sum layd out
XXS.
xxiis.
ATN
xxixs.
vli. xis.
Unde payd to my Lorde prtr for the hole yere iiili. xiiis. ivd.
Itm. payde to Mr. Butler for that he laid out
for us in ffees
XXS.
xviiis. xd.
vli. xiis. iid.
тоб
KINGSTHORPIANA.
So the Towneshippe owth to the said Richard Broke
xiiiid., the which they have payd, and so they be even x die
December anno sup' scripto.
[There is a note at the side:]
Itm. that Robert Coke, Bayley, layd out xd. for the towne
the same day to pay the said R. Broke.
1
1


THUTHAY
$12
XXIII.-PART I.
Druid
"Pott
«inuuuuninhi
Depositions on the part of Sir Thomas Tresham, knyght,
taken at Keteryng, in the countie of North", the xi daye of
Augt, in the 2ª yere of our soverayne lord kyng Edward the
sixt, before us, Sir Edward Montagu, knyght, Chyeff Justice
of our sayd soverayne lord the kyng of his Com Please,
Edward Gryffin, Esquyer, the kyng's majestie's Solycytor-
general, commissioned of our sayd soverayne Lord the Kyng,
by virtu of his highness commyssion to us dyrected, touch-
yng a mattr dependyng in varyance betweene the freeholders
and the inhabitants of the township of Kyngsthorp, Bough-
ton, and Pysford, in the sayd countie of North", of the one
partie playntiffes, and the sayd Sir Thomas Tresham, keapr
of the Kyng's majestie's parke of Molton, in the said countie
of North", and Thomas Latham, underkeap" of the same
parke, on the other part defendants as hereafter ensueth.
Robert Wyllyams, of Molton, in the countie of North",
tenant to the Ladye Elizabeth Grane [Grene]?... deposeth
that the great lodge of the park of Molton ys w'in the paryshe
of Kyngesthorp, and ys prcell of the manor of Kyngesthorp,
and that the keapr there dwellyng dothe paye his offryng to
the pyshe churche of Kyngesthorp, and that all psones
dying out of the same great lodge be buryed witn the same
pryshe churche of Kyngesthorp, and that the same keap™
108
KINGSTHORPIANA.
fyndyth the hallowed loffe¹ when hit chaunsyth to hys torne
to fynde the same, and he hath known thys so used thys
fyftye yere.
the sayd deponent sayth that there is certyn
wast grounde lying witn the feld of North", were unto the
gallowes there, upon whyche grow certeyn furzes, but how
many acres the sayd wast conteyneth this deponent knoweth
not . . . sayth that he hath knowne that the kyng our sove-
rayne lord that nowe ys and hys mooste noble pgenytors
kyng Henry VII. and kyng Henry VIII. have had and used
to have waren of conyes and for all other beasts and fowls
of waren witn the felds of North", Abyngton, Kyngesthorp,
Boughton, Pysford, and Lytle Byllyng, next adjoynyng to
the sayd park, by the space of liii yeres last paste.
above xxiv yeres past the inhabitants of the town-
shyp of Kyngesthorp did plough up a hole clapper of conyes
lying upon the flat beneath the foxholes, lying next the place
called Whyte Hills, and that the Lord Vaux did indyte the
sayd inhabitants of ryot to the nomber of xxx psones for the
ploughing up the same in a a ryotous manner.
and that the townshypps of Pysford, Abyngton,
Boughton, and divers other towns witn the sayd countie of
North", to the number of vi score, do and tyme out of mynd
have usyd to paye their rent yerely towards the mendyng,
upholdyng, and repayryng of the sayd walls of the sayd
park.
·
•
•
Another witness states that he lived . . . 'at Lychborough
about xxx yeres ...
was constable there, and that the
same townshyp of Lychborough did then paye yerely iiiid.
towards the makyng, mendyng, and repayryng of the walls
of the sayd park . . . that one Gregory Cosbye about 8 or
9 yeres past was indyted at a cessyons holden at North" for
huntyng of the hare in the feld of Pysford beyng witn the
waren belongyng unto the park of Molton.'
1 From this it would seem that bread and wine for the service of the
church was provided by certain inhabitants in turn.
KINGSTHORPIANA.
109
Wyllyam Tymes, servt to my ladye Parr. . . sayth that
about 26 yeres past he was svnt to one Henry Maye, then
beyng keapr, and at the same tyme thys deponent was at
the takyng of one Thomas Elmer, then bayliff of Boughton,
otherwise Buckton, whyles the same Elmer was ferretyng in
the sayd fyld of Boughton, and that this deponent and his
companie did then take away the ferrett and pursenetts of
the sayd Thomas Elmer, and carryed away the same ferrett
and pursenetts to the park lodge. And at another tyme this
deponent toke away a ferrett and pursenett from the sonne
and svnt of the sayd Thomas Elmer, bycause they did frett
in the sayd fyld of Buckton, and that the sayd Henry Maye
about 29 years past toke away a brase of greyhounds, that is
to say, a dogge and a bytch, from one Braynsford of North",
then svnt to Mr. Lucye, for huntyng of the hare in Kyngesthorpe
in a crteyn place called Wallbeck, and that the same Brayns-
ford was layde in the Stockes in the same great lodge of the
said pke. Robert Parkdale, svnt to Thomas Latham about
viii yeres past, dyd take one John Landsdale for stelyng of
conyes in the nyght tyme, and brought the same John Lands-
dale to the parke Lodge, and from thence he was had to
the castle of North", and there quitt by proclamation at the
next assisses following. . . . further sayth that hit ys and of
old tyme hath byn engraved upon diverse of the stones of
the said wall [of Molton park Lodge] how farre every towne-
shippe sholde repayre, amende, and make the said walls. . . .
That the Kyng's Masty that now ys and his noble pgenitors
have tyme out of mynde made and usyd to have made holls
in the bottom of the walls of the said parke, to thintent the
hares and conyes solde issue oute into the felds of North",
Abyngton, etc.
1
IIO
KINGSTHORPIANA.
1
PART II.
Depositions on the part of Sir Thomas Tresham, &c., &c.,
as in the last document.
Extracts.
Evidence of Simon Malory.
That the Towne of Giddington doth pay yerely vi pence
towards the repayring and mendyng of the wall of the said
Parke [of Moulton], saithe that he knew Nicholas Assheton
and William Harryngton, keaprs of the same pke under Sir
James Harryngton, Knt., and after them he knewe James
Latham, keapr of the same pke under Sir Nicholas Vaux,
Knt., and after hym he knew Thomas Latham, keapr under
the late Lord Parre, and that all the same keaprs during
their tymes dyd use, occupye, and keape the libtie of warren
wtin the said felds of Kyngesthorp, &c., for huntyng and
hawkyng, and also have usyd to keape conyes in dyverse
places of the same felds. . . That the said James Latham
did oftentymes take the deponent in stellyng and kyllyng of
conyes in Pysford feld wt hys bowe, and dyd oftyn take
away the bowe of this deponent, but upon the gentle en-
tretye of this deponent the said James Latham did always.
restore to this deponent his bowe agayn. . . . That he hath
redde the names of many Townes engraven upon the stones
upon the walls of the said pke, the names wherof he doth
not now well remember, the which townes he hard saye then
and many tymes sythens that the same townes engraven
upon the same stones have payde their yerely rent towards
the mendyng of the same walls . . . continually by the
space of threscore yeres he hath knowne holes and muses¹
in the bottom of the walls.
John Avery, 'svnt to Edmund Kaysho, of Northampton,'
Muses': passages for game through a wall or hedge (Halliwel).
KINGSTHORPIANA.
III
•
amongst other things, deposes . . . that about xiv yeres
past Thomas Latham, keapr of the said pke, dyd lett to
ferme to one Francis Avery,¹ last Pryor of the late Pryory of
Seynt Andrewes in North", brother to this deponent, one
clapper or berye² of conyes lying and beyng w'n the felde of
North", upon a crteyn place there called North" hethe, for
the whych clapper or berye of conyes the said Pryor dyd
paye yerely to the said Thomas Latham vis. viiid., the whych
clapper the said Pryor dyd holde and occupye by the space
of two yeres untill the dyssolution of the said Pryory.
Saith that he dyd ferrett in Pysford feld about xxvi yeres
past, and the ferrett this deponent dyd borowe of one John
Shughburgh, of Pysford, and dyd delyvr to the said Shug-
burgh a horse in pledge for the same ferrett, the whychel
ferrett the said Henry Maye dyd take away from this de-
ponent, and also his pursenettes, and dyd lede this deponent
to the park lodge to the intent to have layde hym in the
stockes, but this deponent dyd so gently entrete the said
Maye that he forgave hym that ponyishement for that tyme.
At whyche tyme this deponent could not gett hys ferrett
nor pursenettes of the said Henry Maye, nor could not gett
hys horse ageyne of the said Shugburgh, tyll suche tyme as
one Raufe Standysshe, of Wolvage, in the countie of North",
esquier, dyd sende for the said Maye to Wolvage to dyne
wt hym, and there the said Mr. Standysshe entted³ the said
Maye to delyvr the ferrett and pursenettes ageyne to this
deponent, at whos request the said Maye delyvered the
ferrett agayne to this deponent, and he had his horse ageyn.
Doth well remember that one underkeapr to the said
Henry Maye dyd cut the plough geares of crteyn of the in-
habitants of Kyngesthorpe at such tyme as they would have
•
1 'Francis Avery': Bridges, Hist. North.,' has the following:
'Francis Abree, alias Leicester, who was the last Prior of St. Andrew's,
was, on the dissolution of the Priory, 33 Hen. VIII., made Dean of
the Cathedral Church of Peterborough.'
2 'Beryes': a word still in use-burrows.
3 Entreated.
II2
KINGSTHORPIANA.
eyred¹ win the hethe of Kyngesthorp, and that none of the
inhabitants of Kyngesthorpe dyd never lett to ferme any
clappers or beryes of conyes to any prson or psones, for
they had no suche authority so to do, as he supposeth.
the said Henry Hayward was ymprysonned by a
crteyn space for hunting and pytchyng of hayes² for the
takyng of conyes. And at an other tyme, about fiftie
yeres past, one Camfeld, keapr of Molton towne warren, was
ponysshed and chalengyd by the said Simon Malory for
takyng conies with setting his haye.
To the viii interrogatory he saythe that eversythens
he may remember there was cteyn holes made in the bottom
of the said park walls, that the hares and conyes wtn the
said park myght ronne out of the said park into the felds
for relyeff, and that the same conyes and hares were not
hurten nor hunted.
That the townshippes of Walgrave, Crannesley,
Moulton, Orlingbere, Hannington, and dyverse others town-
shippes, do paye a rent towards the reparations of the wall
of the said pke.
•
One Henry Maye, decessed, dyd lett to ferme to one
Phipps, of North", decessed, and after hys death to John
Barnard, Esquier, decessed, two beryes in Northampton
feld, and that the said Phipps and John Barnard dyd paye
yerely to the keapers of the said pke, to the trust of our
soverayne Lord the Kyng, vis. viiid.
Baldwyn Willoughby, of Weston, mentions inquiries which
he and others made by commission as to the number of
conies, and says that they . . . 'found not above the number
of five hundred cople of conyes in the same feld of Buckton,
and for the feld of Kyngesthorpe and Pysford there were
dyvers of the inhabitants of the same townes present to the
number of iv or v psones, whyche declared before this exa-
1Eyred': ploughed.
2 Hayes': a hay is a net used for catching hares or rabbits (Hal-
liwell).
*
KINGSTHORPIANA.
113
minate and others that there was no suche number of conyes
in the said felds as was conteyned in the said compleynt,
whos saying this examinate and others dyd credytte and
believe, and so surveyed not the same two felds of Kynges-
thorpe and Pysford. . . . Beyng in Buckton feld, this exa-
minate and dyverse other psones perused the conyes'
boroughes win the same felds, and also the destruction of
the corne in the same, at whyche tyme this examinate
estemed the number of conyes not fyve hundred cople in
the said felds. The corne beyng destroyed in the same felds
exceeded not above the value of xxxsh. or thereabout, but
whether the conyes or shepe destroyed the said corne this
examinate cannot depose.

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XXXIII.
THE TREW RENTALL, BEING THE HALFE YEARE'S RENT OF
KINGSTHORPE.
Taken out of an old booke almost 50 yeares since.*
Imprimis Mr. Ffrancis Morgan, Esq., for
his house and Land
Itm. for halfe a cotisall bought of Mr. Frier
Itm. for Welford Land
Itm. for Mr. Wm. Samwell's Close .
Itm. for Bridsall's House
Itm. for Camfielde's House and Land
Itm. for Chadweeke's House
Itm. for halfe a cotisall of Betts at Walbeck
Itm. for Trase's Land
Itm. for Mr. Mottershead's House and Close
Itm. for Ffloyd's Close att Walbacke
Itm. for Ffloyd's House and Land
Itm. for Hollis his House
Itm. for Clement Dickinson's House
Itm. for Hugh Edward's House and Land
Itm. for Hantorne's Spennie
•
1
་
XXS.
vid.
xxiid. ob.
xiid.
viď. ob.
iis. xid
xiid.
vid.
iis. ivd.
xiid.
vid.
viis. id. ob.
xiid.
id. ob.
iiis. ixd.
xiid.
The
* The names of F. Morgan, Thomas Knapp and Richd. Dickenson
are found in the Court Rolls 2, 3, Phil. and Mary and I Jas. I.
list was probably drawn up about the last date.
KINGSTHORPIANA.
115
Itm. for the South Milles
Itm. for the nether mills
Itm. for the north mills
Itm. for St. Davie's Close at Walbacke
Itm. for St. Davie's House and Land
Itm. for Willimsonn's House and Land
Itm. for Land belonging to Haddon's House
Itm. Mr. Ffrancis Barnard, Esq.
Itm. Mr. Wm. Mottershed
Itm. Mr. Richard Mottershed for his House
and Land
Itm. for Edwardes his Close
Itm. for Ludlow's Hous
Itm. for Mawbbes his house
Itm. for Reves his house
Itm. Mr. Abraham Ventris for Jennawaie's
farm
•
Itm. for Mr. Lambard's Land
Itm. for the white House
Itm. Thomas Wiseman for his Land
Itm. Phillip Jeffes for his Land
Itm. Mistris Cooke for her farme
Itm. for Ann Cook's Land .
Itm. for Land bought of Simon Wallis
Itm. Mr. Crow
Itm. Barnaby Brookes
Itm. Alexander Lucas
Itm. John Wrighte .
Itm. Ffrancis Weston
Itm. Thomas Hollis
Itm. Thomas Hantorne
Itm. Izachar Brookes his wife
Itm. John Webb
Itm. William Brookes Clarke
Itm. John Smith the younger
1
·
•
·
lixs. iid.
xliis.
XXVS.
iis.
xviiis.
vs. viid. ob.
iis. id.
XXVS.
xxivs.
xd. ob.
iis. ivd.
xiid.
xiid.
is.
xixs.
vid.
vid.
xxis. vid.
viiis. viid.
iis.
ob.
ivd. ob.
xvid.
xviiis. vid.
jid, ob.
id.
ixs. iid.
xxiiid. ob.
ixd.
vid.
iis. ixd.
xiiid. ob.
8-2
ivs. iid.
vid.
viiis. viiid.
ixd.
116
KINGSTHORPIANA.
12
Itm. William Harriott
Itm. John Willsonn
Itm. Robt. Porter
Itm. John Harris
Itm. Robert Bell the elder
Itm. for Elmes his house
Itm. Robert Sheppard
Itm. Thomas Anson
Itm. Roger Colbye .
Itm. Richard Dickinson
Itm. Thomas Dickinson
Itm. Thomas Knabb [qu. Knapp ?]
Itm. Edward Wallis the yonger
Itm. Matthew Ayer .
Itm. Simon Morris
Itm. Richard Morris
Itm. Robert Morris
Itm. Robert Pickmer
Itm. for Alice Cooke's Land
Itm. John Powell
Itm. Robert Jeffes
Itm. John Dickinson
Itm. Thomas Pickmer
Itm. William Gardner
Itm. Thomas Childe
Itm. Walter Burnell
Itm. for Land bought
Itm. for his Close
Itm. Simon Robers.
Itm. for Chorley's Land
Itm. John Hadden.
Richard Brookes
Widow Wrighte
Anthony Smithe
Simon Cowper and his mother
•
•
iiis. ivd.
xiiid.
xid.
xiiiid.
ixd.
viis.
id. ob.
id. ob.
ivs.
iiis. ivd.
xxd.
vid.
iiid. ob.
ixs.
xxiid.
xivs.
xxiiid.
xxiiid.
vid: ob.
xxd. ob.
xiiid. ob.
viiid.
viiid.
viiid.
iiiis. ixd.
iiis. id.
iis. id.
xiid.
iiis. id. ob.
xiid. ob.
iis.
vs. ixd.
vid.
ivs. vid.
xivd.
KINGSTHORPIANA.
117
John Pye
Nickolas Walker
John White.
Simon Smithe
Richard Larrance
Richard Momford
ffor Edwards his lande
ffor Lande bought of Simon Wallis.
Thomas Heyward
Simon Wallis
Henry Draper
James Dabbins
James Smalley
John Glover
•
George Ayer
Robert Bell (?) the yonger
Edward Wallis the elder
ffor Westonn's Land
Mr. Atkines
Mr. Hatton.
•
William Cooke
Margery Hopkins
Thomas Starmer (?)
The Bayliffe of the Hundred
Mke Terringham
The Churchwardens of Abington
Henry Denthon
John Marrill of Brampton
George Hillier
Widdowe Laan
•
•
•
ivs. viiid.
xiis.
vid.
iiis. xid.
xvid.
ivs. vd.
iis. vid.
viiid.
vid.
xvis. vid.
iiis. xid.
ixd.
viis. iid.
iis. id.
viid.
vd. ob.
iiid.
id. ob.
vid.
xxvis. viiid.
VS.
iis. vid.
xiiid.
xxid.
vid.
iid. ob.
iid. ob.
iid. ob.
xiid.
ivd.


XXXIV.
Ihu.*
It. The Resets of me Robert Cook, one of the Churche-
wardens in the yere of or lord god 1565, consernyng the
Stepull and other matters as hereafter, etc.
It. Reseved off Geoffory broke, townesman,
ffor wood and other resetts
•
It. Reseved of my selfe for the comenes of
the northe mille holme for xx yeres
It. Reseved of myself for the sesonyng of my
hows and lande bowthe of Antonye
Smythe to the towne, as I payd to the
ballye that ys
Sum totalis
•
It. Rd of Alhalow day of the Townes men
The leyngs out for the Towne.
It. payd to Wyllia Hall for the derssing of
owre stepull with hys ernest
It. payd for lyme and sand to him and chyld,
and for carying of one lowed of stone
•
•
viili. iiis. xd.
•
vli.
xiiis. ivd.
xiili. xviis. iid.
XXS.
viiili. xiis.
xxixs. iid.
*The custom of placing the sacred monogram at the head of the page
was usual at this date, vide North's 'Chronicle of S. Martin's, Leicester,'
p. 90. It appears on every page of the Document No. XXI. p. 96 ante.
KINGSTHORPIANA.
119
It. in expenses at Northehants and at tymes
at home
It. payd to Wybster's wyfe and cowper's wyfe for
work
It. payd to Notbrone for hostershels
It. payd to Master Tallar for v pere of trasses
It. payd to the Smythe for jorne worke
It. for fyer wood and poll's hors grase
It. to Halman, Hadon, Lasye, and Wybster for
carrying of ladders to the churche and rear-
ing of them, and for carrying them home.
It. payd for carrying of John Spencer and his
graffe making
•
It. payd for a Sant's beyll roop
It. payd to the Smythe for mending of the
Churche dore lokes
•
It. payd to Sir Boull for a pore scollar
It. payd for a windo to Master Wells of Thynden
for the Court House*
It. payd to Symon Chyld for fycheyng of yt home
It. payd to Sir Boull for a pore synging man
It. payd to Marten for hys workmanshyp at the
Court House
It. payd to Berchell for hys workmanship at the
Court House
It. payd to Chylde for carrying of morter thather
It. for a pees of wood for the Court House
It. payd for a server to Sir Mertyn
It. spent at the visitacion
It. payd to Wylsone for makyng clene of the
bertylment of the Churche
It. payd to a pore man at the Churche.
It. payd when the Constables went to Grafton .
VS.
iiis.
XS.
xxiiid.
iid.
xxiiid.
xiiiid.
vid.
iiid.
iiis ivd.
vd.
viiid.
iid.
xiid.
vd.
vid.
xiid.
vid.
* Built by Lady Pritchard for the use of the Manor Court; now the
property of the Thornton family.
120
KINGSTHORPIANA.
It. payd to Barter for ernest for the Churche
It. payd to Prokter for lime.
It. payd to Symond Smythe for carrying of ii
loyde of morter and carrying of the lyme
into the churche
•
It. payd to Clomsone the sawyer for sawing
It. spent at Homans when Willya Dobens the
smythe and Borchett dressed the bells
Itm. payd to the Smythe for yorne and hys
workmanship
It. payd to Burchett on hys wages
It. payd to Prokter for v quarters of lyme
It. payd to Wyghtyng for lx foot of pavear
It. payd to the smythe for nails for the bels
It. payd to Symond Chyld for ii lode of lyme and
one lode of ston from Northehampton
It. payd to the same Chyld iii loods of ston from
Harlson
It. payd to the same Chyld for iii loods of sand
and morter
It. payd to the same Chyld for vi loods of ston
at hom
It. payd to Thomas Story for tember for the stels
It. payd to Wyrght the sawer
It. payd to Burchett for hys wages
It. spent at Holmans at the carrying of the stels
It. for borde to make the dore for the stels
It. for nails for the dore
·
iis.
xiid.
xiid.
viid.
iiid.
iis. xd.
iid.
xivd.
vis. viiid.
vid.
iis.
vid.
iis. vid.
ixd.
vd.
xiid.
ivd.
xxd.
vid.
ivd.
This document is endorsed as follows:
D. The xi daye of November, in the seventh yere of the
m. raigne of the Quene's Majesty, came yn Robert Cooke
and Thomas Jeffs, Chwardens, and made ther account,
and theye ar dyscharged, and the same daye came yn
Jeffre Browke and Henry Sheppard, and made ther
cownte, and they are dyscharged.

*****
XXXV.
A bill of the leyings out since the last account.
Item. Paid to John Starmer for lime for the
church
Item. For 9 strike of heare
Item. Paid for laith and nayles.
Item. Paid to Robert Garner for three weekes'
worke
Item. Paid to Wm. Homes for his worke
Item. Paid to Leakines for fower dayes' worke .
Item. Paid to Wm. Wright for fower dayes'
worke
•
Item. Paid to Edmund Wallis for 3 dayes' worke
Item. Paid to him for fetching of lime and sand
Item. Paid to Banes for glasinge the windowes.
Item. Paid to Harris for mending the Churche
yate
Item. Paid to Garner for leading the lime
Item. Spent on the workmen at Briges at severall
tymes
Item. Paid for 5 strike of lime to white the
Churche
Item. Paid to Garner for whiting the Churche
Item. Spent on the workmen wan they made an
end of their worke
•
xviiis. vid.
iiis.
is. ivd.
xxis.
xiis. vid.
ivs.
ivs. viiid.
iiis. iiid.
iis. xd.
xiiis.
is.
ivd.
vid.
iis. vid.
xviiis. vid.
vid.
122
KINGSTHORPIANA.
Item. Paid to the Clarke for clenynge the
Churche at several times
Item. Paid to Symon Rogers for making the
bars for the windowes and for mendinge
the Churche yeate hinges
Item. Paid to Goodwife Hantorne for washing
the Churche linen.
Item. Paid to George Epson for bread and wine
at Midsomer
Item. Paid to him for bread and wine at
Michelmas
Som £6 4s. 5d.
Rd of Mr. Hatton for a grave
Paid to Edward Wallis for leaing (?) downe the
grave
Pade to Peter Whalie for mending the churche
bible and the prayer-booke
$0.00 0 0 0 0
1000-300
•
coco
0000
10100000
iis. vid.
is. vid.
is.
vis.
vis.
vis. viiid.
xxd.
vid.


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Francis Morgan, Esq.
Harvey Ekins, Esq.
Lile Hackett, Esq.
John Wright
Richard Pilgrim.
Thomas Haspittall
William Pipping
William Bates
Edward Causbie
Francis Pery (pays at Michelmas)
Mary Wood
John Doxie, for Wilson's house
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XXXVI.
The Queen's Rent Roll for Kingsthorpe, dated October
the 10th, 1594.
James Lack
Thomas Draper .
William Pratt
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also for land of Richard Haspittalls
John Wakefield
Walter Dickenson
William Atkins .
Hatton Atkins, for part of Crick's land
Thomas Gardner
Thomas Easton
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
Michael Pratt
Thomas Brownknafe
William Butling.
Thomas Tebbs .
John Steevenson (for D. Jennowaye's land)
also for land of Hatton Atkins
Francis Ladd, for his house and leys.
for land of Dr. Connants
Richard Hollis, for his house and land
also land of Dr. Connants
also for land of Rob' Pickmer
Jonas White
Ffrancis White
•
George Timms, for Wm. Wrights
William Marret, jr.
Elizabeth Atkins, widow
Francis Cooke, gent.
Francis Billingham at the Cock
William Greene, his owne
also for land late Dr. Morgan's
Judith Weston, pays at Lady day
William Swain
•
William Garrett, pays at mich'
Richard Gibbons
Thomas Townsend
Richard Tyte, sr., his owne
for land of Bridget Jannoway's
Richard Billingham
also for land of Thos. Bradshaw
William Greene, his owne
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Alexander Knight
Edward Horcombe
Thomas Causbie, for Heny Satchell
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Samuel Cumberpatch
Henry Milward.
William Stanhurst
William Fasan
John Wallson
Elizabeth Wayte
John Childe
Clement Darlow
Samuel Cricke, for his owne
for land of Jno. Darlow's
William Brookes
Roger Cumberbach
John Wood, for his owne
for land of Rob' Wilkins his
Richard Campe .
Daniel Jaquest
Sarah Brooker, wid.
•
Thomas Lucy
Mary Cannel, wid.
John Billingham, for Hatton Atkins' land
for Elizabeth Hantorne's house
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John Cooch, for Esq. Lant's land
John Bellingham, his owne
for land of Mr. Morgan's
For the new close
For land of Mr. Goodays
Eor land late of Childe's
Francis Bellingham
Richard Tyte, jr. his house
for land of Thomas Dentt's
Priscilla Kilsby, wid.
for land of Hannah Morris
for land of Willm. Morris
David Selby
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
William Chapman
John Causeby, for Mewes his house and land
for land of Dr. Connants
for land of Mr. Goodays
Edward Foster
William Morris
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John Billingham, for S. David's
for land of Robt. Morris
Abington land
Joseph Dobson.
Mrs. Potter's land
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John Fitzhugh, for all the land late of Mr. Peter
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XXXVII.
List of names with payments; no date, 16-.
£ s. d.
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8
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Wm. Draper
Thos. Hollis
Thos. Morgan
Job Walker
Rich. Gibbings.
Widow Cobley
John Fade
Widow Smith .
The over mill.
The nether mill
Widow Hantorn
Wm. Wallis
Rich. Wells
St. Miles
Anthony Dyer
Edw. Boot
Simon Ladd
Wm. Homes
Fr. White
Geo. Morris
Jno. Morris
Wm. Morris
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Thos. Brookes
Jno. Wood
Rich. Morris .
Widow Tite
Clement Ayres
Robt. Brownknave .
4 Symon Ayre.
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Rich. Bellingham
3 Jno. Esson
O Bartoll Dix
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Walter Bellingham.
4 John Thomas Binn-
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4 Thos. Hoyerd
4 Casby Brownknave .
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Dan. Smith
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Wm. Hart
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Goodman Swene
Widow Cannid
William Watterfall
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4 Widow Casby.
4 Widow Wallis
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KINGSTHORPIANA.
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Thomas Crase .
John Mumm
William Wright
Zachary Hantorne
John Wilson
Thomas Child.
Jasper Billingham
Simon Child
William Marsh
Thomas Money
Mr. Morgan
Thomas Knight
Thomas Jennaway
Robert Pickman
William Dickason
William Blesoe
Robert Wright.
Thomas Plowman
Richard Dickason
Francis Bland
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Robert Garner
Offen.
Abrahams
Billingham.
Samuel Wright .
John Crick
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4
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Rd. of John Morris
for 2 graves
Rd. at Easter wase a
twellmunth bred
and wine
17 2
Rd. at Christmas last
for bred and wine 4 6
68
13 4
Rd. at Ester last for
bred and wine
Rd. of Henry Barnes
Rd. of William Brook 4
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XXXIX.
Nichi Walker
Robti Pirkmer
Symon Wallis
Georgii Hilliar de Bucton
Hugon' Stanton de ead'
Hugon' Lucas de ead'
Willi Smythe de Billinge
magna
Johanis Harrys de ead'
Ha
Manerii de Kingesthorpe supervisus ibm fact' xvi die
Aprilis anno regni Dom' nri Jacobi Dei grati Anglie Scotie
ffrancie et Hibernie Regis fidei defens' viz. Anglie ffrancie
et Hibernie quinto et Scotie quadragesimo per Willm Sam-
well mil', Willm Tate mil' Johem Henry Armr Thomam
Mulsho arm' et Willm Blake gen' virtute Commissionis dcti
dni Rs ext' sum' dct' Regis eis et aliis direct' sup' sacrum
tenen ibm
flas
Francesci Manly de Spratton
Haddon de ead'
Robti Clarke de ead'
Thome Pearson de Spratton
Johnnis de ead'
Willi Dunckly de Wilton
John Scot de Dallington
Qui dicunt sup' sacrm quod.
Robtus Pirkmer clam tener' p' copia rottulor' cur' manerii
de Kyngesthorpe has pcell' terr' territor' et hereditamentor'
in Kingesthorp predict' ut sequitur.
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130
KINGSTHORPIANA.
coit' voc' Domum mansionale pr estim' vi
coticell' et dispac'l unu horr' vii spac unu al-
teru horr' 5 spac unu alt' horr iii spac' unu
kille house ii spac i mault house ii spac unu
stabul' ii spac' un kow house iii spac unu
pidgeon house i spac ii pomar' et unu gar-
dinu le backside continens per estim'
coit' voc
Pratum in combus pratis viz.
xviii quarterons northward and southward
Terr' arabil' et lesur' in le Northfield in divsis
pcellis p' est'
Terra arabil' in le Woodfield in divsis pcellis p'
est'
xx acr.
xvi ac.
Ter' arab' in le Brookefelde in divsis pcells per est'
divsis
Hend' sibi et heredibus suis sedm conss manii pdti per
ann xxviiis.
Dom mansionale continen' p' estim' viii spac',
unu horreu cont' iiii spac et stabull' et i
kowhouse ii spac unu maulthouse ii spac,
unu pomar' le backside eisdem adjacen' et
claus eisdem adjacen' conť' p' estim'
Pratum in coibus pratis viz., southwarde et north-
i acr. dim'.
warde per est'
terre arabil' et terre in le Northfield
terre ar' in le wood field
vi acr.
Brooke clam tener' p' copia rottulo ut sup has pcell'
terr' tentor et hereditamentor nuper in tenura Thomæ pris
sui, viz. :
xxiv acr.
i ar. et dim.
ii acr. et dim.
xiv ac.
xii ac.
1 'Spac',' i.e., spatia, 'bays.' The size of a house or barn seems to
have been estimated by the number of interspaces between the rafters
of the roof. In the Claims of Tenants, No. XL., which is written in
Latin, the writer has in one instance introduced the word 'bay' instead
of spac', evidently by inadvertence.
KINGSTHORPIANA.
131
terre ar' in the Brookefield
f
per ann. xviiis. ivd. et sect.
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х ас.
Idem Francs' Morgan clam ten' ut sup' unu capitle mes-
suagium cu ptiis voc' A ffarme House nuper patris sui et
ante.
dom mansionale
spac, unu horr'
spac' alt horr
spac' unu stabull i le killehouse et maulthouse spac
pomar' gardin et curtilag'.
claus' pastur' adjacen' cont' p' estim.
claus' pastur' voc Nene Close in Woodfield p' esť
habend' sibi et hered' su' ut sup' redditus per ann, xls.
. ii acr.
iii ac.
Idem Franc clam ut sup' cert' terr' in coibus campis de
Kyngesthorpe nuper Clement Welsted et aute
Wel-
Welsted de antiquo terr' arr' in coibus
sted et
Northfield.
campis Woodfield. habd ut sup redd' per ann iiis. ixd.
Brookfield.
Idem Ffranciscus Morgan clam ut supd unum cottagium
cum ptn suis voc' Batman's house p'ope Conegens well
nuper Thomæ Coles ante agnete Barbore et Barbory ex an-
tiquo, viz. :
domum mansionalem ii spac' horr ii spac et cur-
tilag' voc le grasseyard modo in occupatione
Georgii Sporley cont' pr est
. i rodd.
habend' sibi et hered' suis sedm conss maner pr reddit
ann xiiiid., ann val demittend xxxl. iiis. iiiid.
on. clam ut supd cottagium mo' voc' Burchull's house
cu ptnen juxta le Kings well, viz. :
domum mansional i spac' et curtilag pr est
iiii pertic.
modo in occupacione Rich. Pitman.
habend ut supd pr redd per ann xiiid., ann val dimitt xxxs.
9-2
132
KINGSTHORPIANA.
Idem Ffranciscus clam ten' ut supd cottagium et cert terr
modo voc Trusses ante Thomæ Coles et Orpyn ex antiquo.
X-
X-
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Awdrey Bett vid' nupr uxor Sylvester Bett ante uxor
Thomæ Parker defunct clam tener' pr copiam dat
die
anno Rs
cert terr', viz. :
prat in le Moore Southward pr est
prat in le Moore Northward pr est
Terr' arabil' in Woodfield pr est
Terr' arab' in Northfielde pr est
Terr' arab' in Brookefield pr est
habend sibi pr termino vite sue remaner' Johanne Knipe
et hered' suis pr redd ann iiis. vid. ann val demit.
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i rodd.
iii acr. i rodd et di rod.
iii acr. i rod.
i ac. i rod.
Henry Weston clam tener' ut supd has pcell' terr' tentor'
et heredtor sequend, viz. :
Domum mansionalem modo in tenura ipsius Henry
Pratum in coibus pratis southward p' est
Terr arab in le Northfield p' est
nuper Simon Cooke le backside et clausum, &c.,
eidem adjacen cont per est
i acr.
i ac.
iii ac.
iiii acr.
iii ac. et dd.
Terr arab in le Woodfield p' est
Terr arab in le Brookfield
hend sibi et heredibus sm conss manii p' redd per ann
ivs. iid., et sect cur'.
Johannes Smyth clam ten' ut supd has pcell' terr' et tentor'
ut sequitur, viz. :
Domum mansional in tenur' ipsius Johannis nuper
patris sui iii spac i horr iii spac i stabul i spac
le backside adjacen'.
i rod.
iii rod.
Terr' arab' in diversis pcell' in le north field
Terr arab' in le Woodfield
dim acr.
hend sibi et heredi' suis ut supd p' reddit ann xviiid. et
sect cur.
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KINGSTHORPIANA,
133
Gardianus Ecclesiæ de Abington in com Northfield clam
tener' ut dic x cert' terr' in campis de Kingsthorpe, pď, viz. :
terr' arab' in Manwellfield p' estm
dm ac.
ter arab' in Brookfield p' estm
ii acr.
pr reddit ann vs. et sect cur.
Hugo Weston clam tener' divss terr in Kingsthorpe voc
'Denton's.
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Hugo Hayward et Elizabeth uxor ejus clam tener' pr copia
rotlor ut in jure ipsius Elizabeth et hered ipsius Elizabeth
cert' terr' et tenta in Kingsthorpe nup Wilmer Mace et ante
Hopkyns, viz. :
Unum Cottagium vi spac i horreu decar' iii spac
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*
i rod.
di ac.
iv acr.
cum le backside x yards pr estm
pratum in coibus pratis northward pr est
Terr' arabilis in le Northfield pr est
Terr arab. in le Woodfield pr est
Terr' arab. in le Brookfield pr est .
iv acr.
vii acr.
hend' sibi et hered' suis ut supd pr redd ann viis. viid. et
sect cur.
Thomas Williams clam ut supd cert' terr' et tenta in
Kingsthorpe nup' pris sui et ante Orpyn ut sequitur.
Unum cottagiu ii spat et Clm eidem adjacen' pr est
Terr' arabil in le Brookefield
i rod.
i acr. et dim.
i ac. iii rod et dim.
iii acr.
Terr' arabil in le Woodfield pr est
Terr' arabil in le Northfield pr est
per redd p ann iiis. ivd. et sect cur.
Simon Morrys clam tener' sibi et hered ut supò cert' terr'
et tenta in Kingsthorpe nuper Wilhelmi Morrys pris sui de-
functi et avi &c., viz. :
Domum mansional v spac' i horr v spac' i stabull
ii spac' le yard backside et clm eidem adiacen'
Pratum in coibus pratis de Kingsthorpe pd south-
ward
i acr.
ii acr.
134
KINGSTHORPIANA.
Terr' arabil in le Woodfeld
Terr arabil in le Northfeld pr est .
Terr arabil in Brookfield pr est
x acr.
p
hend et tenend sibi et hered su pr redd ann xixs. viiid. et
sect cur.
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[Morr]ys clamat tener' ut supd sibi et hered' suis cert' terr'
et ten' ut supd antea pris sui et antea avi sui.
Unum cottagium in occupacion hugonis Draper
cum clo, eidem adjacent'
i rod.
terr' arabil in le Northfeld pr est
terr arabil in le Woodfield pr est
terr arabil in le Brookfield pr est
i acr. iii rod.
ii acr.
ii acr.
hend et tenend sibi et hend suis pr redd p' ann iiish. id. o.
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xvi acr. xiii rod.
xiv acr.
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Magister hospitalis de Savoy clam tener unu messuagium
terr tentor et hereditament' modo in tenura Francisci Mor-
gan, viz. :
Domum mansionalem vi spac, horr' ii spac iii clausm
adjac' p' estim'.
i acr. dim.
Terr' arr' in le Northfeld p' estim
Terr' arr' in le Woodfeld p' estim
Terr' arr' in le Brookefeld p' estim.
Prat' in coibus prat' cont' p' estim northward et
iv ac.
XX ac.
southward
X-
xii ac.
xix ac. iii rod.
1 'Vestura'=produce, crop.
xxxivs.
iii clausus inclusus cont' in toto per estim. iv acr.
But whether the said messuage and lands be holden of
the manor of Kyngesthorpe accordynge to the custome, we
knowe not.
M
Tria molend' aquat', viz., unu molend' aquat' voc' le North-
mill cont per estim' iiii spac et vestur'¹ unius le holme cont'
p' estim' ii ac in occupacione Francisci Barnard, gen, annual'
reddit', ls.
KINGSTHORPIANA.
135
Unu molend' aquat' vocat' Nether Mill cont' p' estim' iiii
spac et unu le holme cont' p' estim' i ac in occupať' Thome
Knapp.
Unu molend' aquat' voc' the South Mill cont' p' estim'
iiii spac et unu le holme contin' p' estim' i ac in occupat'
Francisci Morgan, armig, vli. xviiis. ivd.
Dicunt ulterius jur pdti sup sacr su pd qd metť' et bounds
maner de Kingesthorpe pdte tendunt se modo et forma
sequenti.
Incipient apud ter' voc' Sindering juxta Boughton meadowe
et abinde per meta voc Boughton mere usque le heath et
abinde usque le Westcorner de Moulton parke orientaliter
spac mille pass et abinde usque et infr' capital' messu voc le
great Lodge de moulton parke, et sic per eundem murum (?)
usque Abbington dike et sic per foss (?) pdt usque regiam
viam voc Molton way et abinde usque quandam meta voc
Abbington mere sup' quendam fonte voc Swarbrick (?) head
orientaliter pr estmac' mille passu et abinde usque quandam
metam de Abbington pdt voc Monksparke et per furcas voc
le gallowes quæ sunt infra metas de Kingesthorpe et abinde
usque meta adjungend' sup' North" heath et abinde usque
quendam locum voc longlands sic abinde usque quendam
locum voc' Theavedale et sic ex dorso cujusdam loci voc'
Walbacke jxta Northampton et abinde p' regiam viam retro
essu¹
usque quandam venellam voc Walbacke lane aus-
traliter pr estim' mille passu et abinde p' eandam venella
usque metas ville Northampton adjacent cuidam loco voc'
Southmill wong et per easdem . : .
et sic retro esu usque et infra quædam
Southmille holme . . current a villa de Kingesthorp
flumen illud usque quodda molendu voc
p estm mille passim et ab
locum voc Sindering borealiter.
1 Probably retrocessu.
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[The following list of Claims of Copyhold Tenants, with their pay-
ments, is in so mutilated a condition that only a portion of the names
can be deciphered. It is without date, but is probably anterior to the
Supervisus,' No. XXXIX., and from the occurrence of many of the
names in both the lists it might seem to be of about the same date as the
'Trew Rental,' No. XXXIII.}
Names of Tenants.
Edmund Wallis
Richard Walker
William Lambart.
Simon Smith
Richard Lawrence
- Yonger
Thomas Knapp
Symon Wallis
Anthony Smith
Robert Porter
Richard Gardiner
William Gulliver
Katerine Mewes
Roger Cosby
Simon Camp
George Hilliar
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Christopher Hatton
Edward Whitsey.
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50 50
KINGSTHORPIANA.
137
Francis Terringham
John Bosworth
John Harris
William Gardiner
Thomas Yonger
Thomas Pilmer
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Henry Draper
Simon Else
Richard Mottershed
Philip Jeffs
Thomas Yonger
Richard Dickinson
Cicely Cooke
Robert Cooke
Izacar Brooke
Thomas Child
Anthony Rowell
John White
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William Mottershed
Thomas Wiseman
Anthony Morgan, sã
John Wright
Friers
Georgius Thorley.
William Harcourt
John Wilson
Robert Sheppard .
John Pye
Alexander Jennings
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The following extracts illustrate the meaning of certain
words:
Ricardus Lawrence clam' tener' ut supr' has pcell' terr'
ten' et hereditr' ut sequitr nuper Oliv'i Latham.
138
KINGSTHORPIANA.
Domum mansional' iii spac'¹ unu horr' ii spac' unu atreu²
et clm eisdem adiacen', etc.
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Robtus Cooke clam' tener' p' rotul' maner' ut sup' unu
tent' et cert' terr' et cotag' nup' Simonis Cooke ante Robti
Cooke.
coiter 3
voc' xxviii
qterns.
*
Dom' mansional' vi spac' duo horr' vi spac' duo stabuľ' et
le heyhouse v bayes unu le Kilnhouse ii bayes unu yarde et
pomar', etc. Quatuor cotecell' prat' pastur' inclus' cont' p'
estim' iii acr di.
*
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*
X-
-X-
*
Wm. Mottershed gen' clam' tener', etc., etc.
Prat' in coi prat' voc South mead p' esť'
Prat' in coi prat' voc Walbank p' est
Prat' in coi prať' voc le Gulch p' est
Prat' in coi prat' voc Worsterholme p' est'
*
X-
Prat' in coi prat' voc' Wistersholme p' est' i ac. di.
Prat' in coi prat' voc'le North meadow p'est' ii acr.
Prat' in coi prať' voc'South meadow p'est iii ac. di.
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di ac.
ii ac.
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Spac'': for spatia, Anglice bays.' In the next extract the English
word is used by inadvertence instead of the Latin.
2 Atreu': for atrium, Anglice 'yard,' as in the following extract.
3 This would seem to show that the word 'quarteron' is equivalent
to 'rood.'
On the other hand, we find in another part the words 'prat in coi
prat' iii rod,' with the marginal note 'coiter voc ii quartrons.' But pos-
sibly the words 'coiter voc' may have indicated the reputed quantity,
which might not have been accurate in every case.


THILL
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ALEXLIIIIRAKKIETY.
XLII.
Vib
FOTOLINE
This indenture, made the 10th day of July, Anno Dm.
1633, and in the ninth year of the reigne of or most gratious
soverigne lord Charles, by the grace of God of England,
Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defendr of the Faith.
Between John Readinge, of the Inner Temple, London,
Esqr., Richard Mottershedde, of Kingsthorpe, in the county
of Northampton, gent., etc., etc. . . . of the one part. And
Thomas Mottershedde, of Kingsthorpe aforesaid, son and
heir of William Mottershedde, of Kingsthorpe, aforesaid,
gent., deceased, son and heir of John Mottershedde, late
also of Kingsthorpe aforesaid, deceased, of the other part.
Whereas our late soveigne Lord King James, of famous
memory, by his Highness' letters patent under the great seal
of England, bearing date at Westmr the 13th day of April,
in the 14th year of his Highness' reign over the realm of
England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the nine
and fortith, of his special grace certaine knowledge and mere
mocon, and for the consideracons conteyned and specified
in the said letters pattent, hath for him, his heirs, and suc-
cessors given and graunted unto Francis Morgan, late of
Kingsthorpe aforesaid, Esqr., deceased, Francis Barnard, of
Kingsthorpe aforesaid, esqr., deceased, the said William
Mottershedde, of Kingsthorpe aforesaid, gent., deceased,
etc., etc. . . parties to these presents men and tenants of
140
KINGSTHORPIANA.
the said town of Kingsthorpe, and to their heirs and assigns
for ever, all that the said town and village of Kingsthorpe or
Thorpe, in the said county of Northampton, with all and
singular the rights, members, and appurtenances whatsoever
to the said town and village apperteyning, and also the rever-
sion and reversions whatsoever of the said town, with all
the members and appertenances to the same belonging, and
all rents and yearly profits belonging to the same town, and
all others the lands, tenements, hereditamts, and premises.
in the said recited letters patent mentioned, and all rights,
jurisdictions, liberties, franchises, customs, privileges, profits,
commodities, advantages, emoluments, and hereditaments
whatsoever to the said town belonging, fully, freely, and
wholly, and in as ample manner and form as the men and
tenants of Kingsthorpe aforesaid at any time heretofore
ever had, held, used, or enjoyed the said town and other
the premises in the said recited letters patent mentioned to
be graunted by force of any charter, gift, grant, or confirma-
tion, for any term of years or by reason of any lawful pre-
scription, use, or custom heretofore had or used, or by any
other lawful way or means whatsoever, to have, hold, and
enjoy the said town and all and singular other the premises
before in the said recited letters pattent mentioned. .
unto the said Francis Morgan, Francis Barnard, John Read-
inge, etc., etc. . . now witnesseth this present indenture that
the same John Readinge, Richard Mottershedde, Simon
Morris, etc., etc. . . . have for divers good causes and con-
sideration them thereunto especially moving, and for and
to the intent to make sure and confirm unto him the said
Thomas Mottershedde, his heirs and assigns, the messuage
or tenement, lands, tenements, and hereditaments hereafter
in these presents mentioned, granted, released, and con-
firmed, being heretofore copyhold land and holden by copy
of court roll of the said manor and town of Kingsthorpe,
and to the intent to make the same fee simple in the said
1
KINGSTHORPIANA.
14I
•
Thomas Mottershedde and his heirs, do by these presents
for them and every of them grant, release, and confirm, etc.,
etc. . . . all that messuage, tenement, or farmhouse, and all
that dovehouse thereunto belonging, with the appurtenances
situate, lying, and being in Kingsthorpe aforesaid, and also
all the close of pasture, with the appurtenances, in Kings-
thorpe aforesaid, near or adjoining unto, and now or late
used or occupied with the said messuage or tenement, and
now or late in the tenure or occupation of the said Thomas
Mottershedde . . and also all the arable land, leyland, and
pasture ground lying and being in the parish and field of
Kingsthorpe, containing by estimation four score and eleven
acres, part whereof were heretofore taken in exchange from
the said Francis Morgan, deceased, for other lands of the
said William Mottershedde, deceased, and the said fourscore
and eleven acres are lying and being dispersed within the
field and precincts of Kingsthorpe, and both said messuage.
or tenement belonging and extending, and therewith now
or lately used, occupied, or belonging, and were heretofore
in the occupation of the said William Mottershedde . . .
to have and to hold the said messuage or tenement, close or
pasture, arable lands, leyes, meadows, pastures, and commons,
etc., to the only and proper use and behoofe of him the said
Thomas Mottershedd and of his heires and assigns for ever,
yielding and paying yerely unto the sd John Readinge, Richd
Mottershedd, Simon Morris, etc., etc., to be collected and
gathered by the said Bayliff of the said Towne of Kings-
thorpe for the time being yerely for ever the some of Forty-
six shillings and 4 pence of good and lawful money of Eng-
land, being the ancient coppieholde rent and now the Fee
Farm rent of and for the said messuage and tenement, close
of pastures, and premisses, or some part thereof, and Twelve
pence, chiefe rent for the same premisses yerely at the Feasts
of S. Michael Tharchangel and annunciation of or blessed
Lady Saint Mary the virgin, or withine twenty dayes next
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before either of the said Feast days, by equal porcons at or
in the Court house or Town house of Kingsthorpe aforesaid
and the said Thomas Mottershedde, for himself, his
heirs, executrs, adminisrs, for every of them doth covenant,
graunt, promise, and agree to and with the said John Read-
inge, Rich Mottershedde, etc., etc., etc., and every of them
and every of their several heirs and assigns, by these presents,
that he the said Thomas Mottershedde, his heirs, etc., etc.,
shall and will yearly for ever hereafter pay or cause to be
paid unto the said John Readinge, Richd Mottershedde,
etc., etc., etc., that be or shall be lords of the manor of
Kingsthorpe, the said sum of ffortie six shillings and four
pence, being the said coppyholde rent or ffee ffarm rent of
the premises, or some part thereof, and the said twelve pence
chief rent before expressed at the days and times before
lymitted.
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and the said John Readinge, for him, his heirs, executrs,
etc., etc., and the said Rich Mottershedde, for him, his
heirs, etc., and the said Simon Morris, for him, his heirs,
etc... and not one for another, do respectively graunt
and covenant to and with the said Thomas Mottershedde,
his heirs, etc., that he, the said Thomas Mottershedde, his
executors and administrators, and every of them, at all and
every time and times from and after thensealing and de-
livering of these presents, shall or may for evermore then
after lawfully and quietly and peaceably have, hold, use,
occupy, possess, and enjoy, to the proper use and behoof of
him the said Thomas Mottershedde, his heirs, etc., the said
messuage or tenement, close of pasture, etc., etc., and pre-
mises before mentioned . . . and every part and parcel
thereof, without any lawful lett, disturbance, interruption,
etc., of or by him the said John Readinge, his heirs, etc.,
or of or by him the said Richd Mottershedde, his heirs, etc.,
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etc., etc. . . . and that they, the said John Readinge, Richd
Mottershedde, Simon Morris, etc., etc., have not done, made,
or committed any act or things whatsoever to charge, en-
cumber, or impeach the aforesaid-mentioned premises, in
witness whereof the parties first above named have to these
present indentures interchangeably set their hands and seals
the day and year first above written.


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XLIV.
(Some parts of this document are destroyed, as indicated by the
lacunæ.)
Inquisition into Charities, etc., by Comm under Great
Anno 1683.
Seal.
To all Christian people to whom the present writing shall
come, we, Richard Raynsford, Walter Littleton, Edward.
Saunders, Esquire, and Charles Tyrell, Gent., being four of
the Commrs amongst others authorized by vertue of the
King's Maties Commn under the great seal of England,
issuing out of the high Court of Chancery, bearing date at
Westmr the two and twentieth day of Feby last past before
the date of these presents, to the Revd Father in God
William, Lord Bp. of Peterbro', Thomas Pinfold, Doctor of
Laws, and Chancellor to the said Bp., and also to Thomas
Cox and John Stephens, Esquire, and John Raynsford, gent.,
and divers other persons directed according to a certain
statute made in the high court of Parliament, holden at
West', in the seven and twentieth day of Octr, in the three
and fortieth year of the reigne of our late soveraigne lady of
famous memory Elizabeth, late Queen of England, and en-
tituled an act to redress the misimployment of lands, goods,
and stocks of money heretofore given to charitable uses, send
greeting in our Lord God everlasting.
Whereas by an inquisition indented taken at the Guild-
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hall, in the town of Northampton, in the county afore said,
on the sixteenth day of August last past, before the date of
these presents before the said Thomas Cox, John Stephens,
John Raynsford, and Charles Tyrrell, by vertue of the
Comm" aforesaid, by the oaths of Thomas Sergeant, of the
said town of Northampton, gent., Richard Ebrall, of the
same, gent., Theophilus Wiston, of the same, gent., Robert
Foes the elder, of the same, gent., Robert Stiles, of the same,
gent., John Clifford, of the same, gent., Robert Addys, of
the same, gent., Thomas Dunkley, of the same, Thomas
Hanson, of the same, Daniel Singleton, of the same, Edward
Hilliar the elder, of the same, Edward Boddington, of the
same, and John Dunkley, of the same, honest and lawful
men of the said county of Northton, who being duly returned,
impannelled, sworne, and charged to inquire of and upon
the matters contained in the said statute by vertue of the
comm² aforesaid, it was found by the said Jurors, in and by
the said inquisition, that one Thomas Knapp,
Thos. Knapp,
gift of 5s. per heretofore of Kingsthorpe, in the said county of
Northton, long since deceased, did by his last
will and testament in writing, which was proved in the
Ecclesiastical Court held for the Dyoces of Peterbro', on
or about the six and twentieth day of May, which was in
the year of our Lord 1613, give unto the poor of Kings-
thorpe aforesaid a certain yearly rent of 5 shillings per
annum, to be paid out of the rent of his house in Kings
thorpe aforesaid, called the Bakehouse, upon S. Thomas'
Day, and then to be distributed to the said poor by the dis-
cretion of the parson and Churchwardens of Kingsthorpe
aforesaid, and that Francis Cooke, of Kingsthorpe aforesd,
gent., was at the time of taking the said inquisition owner of
the said house, and that the said house was then in the
occupation of Mary Morris, widow, and that the said yearly
rent of 5 shillings had heretofore been duly paid according
to the said will of the donor thereof; but that the said
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Francis Cooke having for divers years permitted a poor in-
habitant of the said town of Kingsthorpe to dwell in another
house of him the said Francis Cooke there without paying
any rent for the same, the inhabitants of the said Town of
Kingsthorpe have been content, in consideration thereof, to.
permit the said Francis Cooke to detain the said yearly rent
of 5 shillings during such time as he so suffered the said
poor inhabitant to dwell in his said other house, and that
the said poor inhabitant being then lately dead, he, the said
Francis Cooke (as appeared by credible evidence then given
thereof), was willing and desirous that the said yearly rent
of 5 shillings should for ever hereafter be duly paid and dis-
tributed to the poor people of Kingsthorpe aforesd, on
S. Thomas' Day yearly, according to the said mind and will
of the said donor thereof.
p. ann.
And it was further found by the jurors aforesd, in and by
Wal' Burnell, the said inquisition, that one Walter Burnell,
gift of 6s. 8d. heretofore of Kingsthorpe afored, did, being
owner of a certain room or building in Kings-
thorpe afored, then being used as a shopp, and in the occu-
pation of Francis Billingham, standing on the east side of
the high road leading to the town of Northampton, the
dwellinghouse then of Clement Darlow, gent., standing on
the north side, and the dwelling house of William Brooks,
on the south side thereof, did heretofore give the yearly rent.
or summe of six shillings and eightpence to be paid out of
the said shopp to the overseers of the poor of the town of
Kingsthorpe, for the time being, on Good Friday yearly for
ever, for the use of the poor people of Kingsthorpe aforesaid.
And that the said yearly rent or summe of 6 shillings and
8 pence had from time to time been paid to the said charita-
ble uses, and ought to be for ever hereafter according to
the mind and direction of the said donor thereof. And that
the said Clement Darlow had been owner of the said shopp,
and received the rent and profit thereof, for the space of
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8 years last past and upwards, and ought to be accountable
for the said yearly rent or summe of 6 shillings and 8 pence
for all such time as he had been owner of the said shopp.
ann.
And it was further found by the jurors aforesaid, in and
Sim. Rogers, by the said inquisition, that one Simon Rogers,
gift 5s. per
long since dead, being heretofore owner of a
certain messuage, tenement, or dwellinghouse,
situate in Kingsthorpe aforesaid, on the east side of the high
road leading to the town of Northampton, on the north side
of the above mentioned shopp, which said messuage, tene-
ment, or dwellinghouse the abovenamed Clement Darlow
now (occupies), did give or grant a rent charge or summe of
5 shillings per annum, to be issuing and paid out of the said
messuage or dwellinghouse on S. Thomas' Day for ever, to
the use of the poor of Kingsthorpe aforesaid. The said
messuage. house did afterwards descend and come to
one Simon Childe . . . and was about 18 years since or
some what . . . Childe by the said Clement Darlow, who
had ever since be . . . that the said rent charge or sum of
5 shillings per annum upwards being paid for many
years together, and so downwards during such time as the
said messuage, tenement, or dwellinghouse was in the pos-
session of the said Simon Childe, and until the same was
purchased of the said Simon Childe by the said Clement
Darlow as aforesaid, and that the said Clement Darlow was
privy to the said gift or rentcharge, and ought to give an
account to the Church wardens or overseers of Kingsthorpe
aforesaid how he had paid and employed the same, and
forthwith to pay all such money as he was in arrear for the
said rentcharge to the overseers of the poor of Kingsthorpe,
for the use of the said poor of Kingsthorpe, and that the
said rent charge or summe of 5 shillings per annum ought
for ever hereafter to be duly paid on the Feast day of Saint
Thomas the Apostle yearly to the overseers of the poor of
Kingsthorpe aforesd for the time being, and by them to be
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distributed to and among the poor people of Kingsthorpe
aforesaid, according to the mind and intent of the said donor
thereof.
ann.
And it was further found by the juiors aforesaid, in and
John Smith, by the said inquisition, that one John Smith,
gift of 4s. per heretofore of Kingsthorpe aforesaid, deceased,
being seized in his demeasne as of ffee and in a
certain dwelling house and some lands in Kingsthorpe afore-
said, did by his last will and testament in writing, bearing
date on or about the 17th day of October, in the year of our
Lord 1637, give the rent or summe of 4 shillings per annum
to the poor of Kingsthorpe aforesaid, in these words follow-
ing: I give to the poor of Kingsthorpe the summe of
4 shillings to be yearly paid them on the Feast of S. Thomas
for ever, and my will is that my wife Elisabeth during her
life shall discharge the said four shillings yearly, and after
her decease William Billingham and Samuel Rider shall pay
out of my house and land 2 shillings apiece yearly for ever
upon the aforesaid Feast.
And that the said house was situate in Duck End in
Kingsthorpe aforesaid, and that one William Butlin, miller,
then was and for the space of 12 years last past had been
owner, and received the rent and profit thereof, and was
privy to the said gift of 2 shillings per annum out of the
same, and ought to give a good account how he had paid
the same during such time as he had enjoyed the said house,
and (ought) forthwith to pay all arrears thereof to the over-
seers of the poor of Kingsthorpe afored for the use of the
said poor, and that the abovenamed Clement Darlow had
about one year since purchased and was then owner of the
said lands, being like wise privy to the said gift of 2 shillings
per annum out . . to pay forthwith to the overseers of the
poor of Kingsthorpe said use, and that the said yearly
summe of four shillings
2 shillings per annum ought
into 2 several summes of
out of the said house and
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lands respectively on . . . of the poor of Kingsthorpe afore-
said for the time being for the use of the poor of Kings-
thorpe aforesaid.
ann.
And it was further found by the jurors aforesaid, in and
by the said Inquisition, that one Henry Weston,
Hen. Weston,
gift of 25. per being heretofore seized in his demeasne as of
ffee of and in one house and some meadow
ground and ten acres of land and leys in Kingsthorpe afore-
said, did by his last will and testament in writing, bearing
date the 29th day of April, 1611, did give the two several
yearly rents of 12 pence to be paid out of the same to the
use of the poor of Kingsthorpe aforesaid, namely, 12 pence
out of his house and meadow and 12 pence out of his said
ten acres of land and leys; and that one Dorothy White was
then owner of the said house, and did confess before the
said Commissioners and jurors, at the time of the taking of
the said inquisition, that she was privy to the said gift and
ought to pay the said rent of 12 pence per annum for the
use of the said poor.
And that one John Mewes, of Kingsthorpe afored, was
then the owner of the said ten acres of land and leyes, and
did likewise confess to the said commrs and jurors that he
was privy to the said gift, and ought to pay the said rent of
12 pence per annum out of the said land and leys for the
use of the said poor, and that he is 5 years in arrear for the
said rent, which the said jurors did find and say he ought
forthwith to pay to and for the charitable use aforesaid.
Mayden
And it was further found by the jurors afore-
Hooke. said, in and by the said inquisition, that it did
appear to them by good evidence at the time of the taking
the said inquisition that they did find that a certain piece of
meadow ground, called by the name of Maiden Hooke,
lying in the parish of Kingsthorpe afored, in a certain place
called Worsters Holme, was heretofore given and appointed
to the use following, viz., that the rent and profit thereof
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should yearly for ever be laid out, employed, and disposed
in buying bread and drink for . . . passengers through
Kingsthorpe aforesaid.
20
Mr. Clark,
And it was further found by the jurors afored,
gift of £20. in and by the said inquisition . . . George
Clarke . . . Doctor Clarke heretofore . . . did give .
pounds of lawful . . . aforesaid with direction . . . and
overseers of the poor of Kingsthorpe . . . to be distributed
to the poor on S. George's . . . said money was at the time
of taking the said inquisition lent unto and in the hand of
Edward Foster, of Kingsthorpe aforesaid, upon security, and
that the interest thereof had been from time to time duly
paid and disposed according to the will and mind of the
said donor, and ought so to be and continue for ever here-
after, as, in, and by, before recited inquisition (and which
is hereunto annexed), whereunto for more certainty relacon
being had it doth and may more plainly and at large appear.
Now know ye that wee the said Comrs, taking upon us
the execution of the said statute by virtue of the said com.
mission so to us and others directed as aforesaid, and by
virtue of the power and authority to us and others in that
behalf, in and by the said statute and Commission given
and remitted, having duly called before us, and the said
jurors duly sworn at the time of the taking the said inquisi-
tion, all persons interested or concerned, or that pretend
to be interested or concerned in or about the premisses or
any part or parcel thereof, and having heard or examined all
witnesses on either side produced, and heard what was
alleged by the parties or their agents, or any of them, and
having well weighed their allegations and proofs, and the
said verdict and inquisition, doe this present 8th day of Feb-
ruary, in 6 and 30th year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
Charles the second, by the grace of God of England, Ire-
land, France, and Scotland, King, Defender of the Faith,
etc., annoq dm 1683, adjudge, determine, and decide, as
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followeth, and first we do order, adjudge, determine, and
decree that all the several annuities or rent charges men-
tioned in the above certified inquisition, and every of them
and every part and parcel of them and every of them, and
also all the rent issues and proffitts of the said piece of
meadow ground lying in the parish of Kingsthorpe aforesaid
called the Maiden Hooke, and also the interest, increase,
and product of the above mentioned sum of 20 pounds, so
as aforesaid given by the said George Clark, decd, shall
from time to time for ever hereafter be laid out, distributed,
disposed, and employed to and for the aforesaid pious and
charitable uses respectively to and for which the same were
found by the jurors in and by the same inquisition to have
been given, limited, assigned, or appointed, and according
to the will, direction, and intent of the donors thereof re-
spectively, and not otherwise.
And we do further order, adjudge, determine, and decree
that Francis [Cooke], of Kingsthorpe aforesaid, Esqre.,
Edward Reynolds, of Kingsthorpe aforesaid, Doctor of
Divinity, William Atkins, of Kingsthorpe afored, gent. .
and the survivor of them . . . of the poor of Kingsthorpe
afored, from . . . trustees of and for all and every the above
piece of meadow ground called Maiden Hooke . .
every of them, and shall take care to se the same
proffitts thereof faithfully employed and disposed to the
uses aforesaid respectively, and according to the mind, will,
direction, and intent of the donors thereof respectively, and
we do further order, adjudge, determine, and decree that
the said Clement Darlow shall within the space of 30 days
next after he shall have notice of this our decree give a true
account to the above named trustees, or the major part of
them, how, when, and to whom he hath paid the above-
mentioned annuities or rentcharges of 6 shillings and 8
pence and 5 shillings so as aforesaid issuing and payable
out of his said messuage and shopp in Kingsthorpe afore-
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said, and what arrears of them or either of them are behind
and unpaid respectively since the purchase of the said mes-
suage and shopp out of which the same are payable, and
also that he, the said Clement Darlow, shall forthwith pay
under the said trustees, or under such persons that they or
the major part of them shall appoint to receive the same, all
and every such summe and summes of money as he shall
be found to be in arrear of said rentcharge . . . which he
cannot by sufficient proof. . . have duly paid according to
the donor's will . . . determine and decree that the above
named . . . [4 lines] . . . [shall be reduced] to two, that
then those two surviving trustees shall by some writing under
their hands and seals elect, choose, constitute, and appoint
so many more of the most discreet, honest, and substantial
inhabitants of Kingsthorpe afores, to be trustees with them
of and for the said premisses, to and for the charitable uses
aforesaid, do such . . . shall therein be fit, and so from
time to time, as the like occasion shall require, and these
our decrees, determinations, judgements, and orders, which
the said court do hereby humbly certify into his Majesty's
High Court of Chancery under our hands and seals, dated
the said 8th day of January, in the 6 and 30th year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the 2nd, by the grace
of God of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King,
Defender of the Faith, Anno Dm 1683, Ri. Raynsford,
Wal. Littleton, Edw. Saunders, Charles Tyrrell.
Examined by
[The Charities referred to in this document no longer exist under the
names of the respective donors, but probably most of them have been
absorbed in a Fund now in the hands of the Charity Commissioners,
producing £6 os. 2d. per annum, and which is distributed in weekly
doles of bread to certain poor women of the place.]

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XLV.
This indenture, made in the 29th day of September, in
the 4th year of our sovereign lady Anne, by the grace of
God, etc., etc., and in the year of our Lord 1705, between
John Morgan, Esqre., Henry Milward, gentleman, Wm.
Atkins, gentleman, and John Billingham, yeoman, all of
Kingsthorpe, in the county of Northampton, of the one part,
and Francis Cooke, Edmund Morgan, Hatton Atkins,
gentlemen, Wm. Green, junior, Wm. Morris, senior, Wm.
Morris, jun"., Richd Hollis, John Cooch, Samuel Crick, and
Edward Atkins, yeomen, all of Kingsthorpe aforesaid, of the
other part. Whereas our late sovereign lord King James,
by his letters pattents bearing date at Wstmr the 13th day
of April, in the 14th year of his said reign, did grant to
Thomas Hollis, Richd Morris, Francis Morgan, Francis
Barnard, and others therein named, since deceased, the
town of Kingsthorpe, with its members and appurtenances,
and did thereby also grant that the said grantees therein
named, and their heirs, should and might have all rights,
jurisdictions, liberties, etc., etc., within the said town as fully,
freely, and entirely as any the men and tenants of Kings-
thorpe aforesaid then before had used, held, or enjoyed by
any charter, gift, etc., at the ffee ffarm of forty pounds per
an., as by the said letters pattent, etc., may appear, and
Whereas since the making the said letters pattents the said
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town of Kingsthorpe hath been granted to the several tenants
and their heirs in ffee ffarm at several yearly rents, and such
part thereof as was not granted away as aforesaid, together
with the manor, lordship, or seignory of Kingsthorpe, and
all other franchises, liberties, etc., thereunto belonging, did
lawfully come unto the said Thomas Hollis and Richd
Morris and their heirs by right of survivorship, and Whereas
the said Thomas Hollis and Richd Morris, by their inden-
ture bearing date the one and twentieth day of January, in
the year of our Lord 1650, and enrolled in his Majesty's
High Court of Chancery, did grant, bargain, sell, aliene,
enfeoff, and confirm unto Wm. Morris and Wm. Billingham
and Thos. Morgan, and others therein named, and their
heirs, the manor, lordship, or seignory of Kingsthorpe,
with the rights, royalties, members, and appurtenances of
the same, together with profits of courts goods and chatles
waived and strayed goods and chatles of felons, and all other
profits, etc., etc. And whereas the same was lawfully vested
in the said Wm. Morris and Wm. Billingham, and their heirs
by right of survivorship. And whereas the said Wm. Morris
and Wm. Billingham, by their indenture bearing date the
thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord 1684, did
grant, sell, aliene, etc., unto Francis Morgan, Esquire, John
Morgan, Henry Milward, etc., etc., the manor, lordship, and
seignory of Kingsthorpe aforesaid, with the rights, etc., etc.
Now this indenture witnesseth that the said John Morgan,
Henry Milward, Wm. Atkins, and John Billingham, for the
good and benefit of the said town, and in performance of
the original trust, in the said letters pattent and in the said
recited indenture devolved upon them by survivorship, and
for the better ordering and governing the said town, and
also for and in consideration of the sum of 5 shillings apiece
of lawful English money to them in hand paid by the said
Francis Cooke, Edmond Morgan, Hatton Atkins, etc., etc.,
etc., before the enseailing and delivery of these presents,
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have granted, bargained, sold, aliened, etc., unto the said
Francis Cooke, Edmond Morgan, Hatton Atkins, etc., etc.,
all that the manor, lordship, or seignory of Kingsthorpe
aforesaid, with the rights, royalties, privileges, etc., etc., etc.,
and all lands, tenements, and hereditaments, parcells of the
said manor, conteined in the letters pattents, and not granted
to themselves or to some or any of them, or to any other
person in ffee ffarm as aforesaid, and the reversion and
reversions, remainder and remainders of all and singular the
premises, and all the estate, right, title, interest, claim, and
demand what soever of the said John Morgan, Henry Mil-
ward, Wm. Atkins, John Billingham, or any of them, of, in,
and to the same, To have and to hold the said manor or
seignory of Kingsthorpe, lands, tenements, hereditaments,
etc., etc., unto the said Francis Cooke, Edmund Morgan,
Hatton Atkins, etc., etc., To the use of the said Francis
Cooke, Edmund Morgan, Hatton Atkins, etc., etc., and of
the said John Morgan and Henry Milward, Wm. Atkins,
and John Billingham, and of their heirs, etc., for ever, And
the said John Morgan and Henry Milward, Wm. Atkins,
and John Billingham . . . do hereby covenant, promise,
grant, and agree to, and with the said Francis Cooke, Ed-
mund Morgan, Hatton Atkins, etc., etc., that the aforesaid
manor, lands, tenements, etc., and all other the premisses.
herein before granted or mentioned . . . shall remain, con-
tinue, and be to the uses herein before mentioned, etc., etc.,
and it is lastly mutually agreed by and between all the said
parties to these presents, and so hereby declared, that when
and as often as there shall be but four of the grantee parties
to these presents surviving, that then such four surviving
grantees, or more of them in case they should think fit
sooner to renew their said estates, shall at the request of the
best or most considerable freeholders of the said town and
inhabitants for estates, and at the cost and charges of the
said town, make such new grant or conveyance of the said
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manor of Kingsthorpe, and other the before granted pre-
misses, to such of the then freeholders and inhabitants of
the said town and their heirs as the said surviving grantees,
with the best and most considerable freeholders of the said
town and inhabitants for estates, shall nominate and think
fit, to the end that the same may continue in grant for ever,
that the said town may be better governed and ordered,
that the ffee ffarm rent may be duly collected and paid, and
that the profits arising out of the same may be employed
for support of government and for the best advantage of the
said town. In witness whereof the parties first above-named
to these present indentures interchangably have put their
hands and seals the day and year first above written.


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