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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2009
1. The abbot to the steward of the Western Parts and the serjeant and reeve of Todenham. [1285–86].
Wauter par la grace Deu abbe de Westmoster, a James Russel sun senekal del Westpays e a Colle Godman e a s[un] provost de Todeham, saluz. Pur ce ke Henry de la Hulle nous ad fet seurte de xxj lyvre pur tot le forment de nos graunges de Todeham, nous vus comaundums ke vus ly facet lyverer pleyne amynystracyoun de tot le forment ke nous a[v]ums a ymeymes cel maner de Todeham, e ce ne lessez. Adeu.
page 49 note a Hole in MS.
page 49 note b wallorum, interlined.
page 49 note 1 This writ was sent in the first instance to the steward of the Western Parts, who sent it with a writ of his own to the serjeant and reeve of Todenham; see I. 335.
page 49 note 2 The price paid for the wheat was in fact £22 13s. 4d. (W.A.M. 25909).
page 49 note 3 Brother John and Elyas were responsible for the view of account at Islip and probably, therefore, at the other abbatial manors in 1286 (W.A.M. 14780).
page 49 note 4 Alias Thomas de Furno, said in 1288 to be reeve of ‘Eye’ (below, p. 156).
page 49 note 5 25 Mar. 1286, the date of the writ. The reference is to the walls protecting Abbey property from inundation by the Thames.
page 50 note a Ricardi, interlined.
page 50 note b Hole in MS.
page 50 note c Sic in MS.
page 50 note d Corrected from iij s.
page 50 note e de de, MS.
page 50 note 1 The endorsement suggests that the writ was later used as the cover for a file.
page 50 note 2 The steward of the household was in charge of the abbot's treasury at this date; it may have been intended that Brother Adam de Lyminstr' should witness the large disbursements which this writ authorized, although the stipendiary steward normally acted as controller (see above, p. 14).
page 50 note 3 A London fishmonger (below, p. 173; W.A.M. 28831).
page 50 note 4 A London poulterer (Calendar of Letter-Books preserved among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guildhall, Letter-Book C, ed. Sharpe, R. R. (London, 1901), p. 55Google Scholar, ‘Sabcheworth’).
page 50 note 5 A London wine-broker (ibid., Letter-Book A, ed. Sharpe, (London, 1899), p. 215).Google Scholar
page 50 note 6 A London cordwainer (Calendar of Early Mayor's Court Rolls preserved among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guildhall A.D. 1298–1307, ed. Thomas, A. H. (Cambridge, 1924), p. 62Google Scholar, ‘Luddelow’).
page 50 note 7 A London skinner (Cal. of Wills enrolled in the Court of Husting, London, i, p. 182Google Scholar, ‘Suffolk’).
page 50 note 8 Andrew de Stanford was a London skinner (ibid.). For Adam de Phyleby see above, p. 9, note, ‘Fileby’.
page 51 note f de, interlined.
page 51 note g solutos, interlined.
page 51 note h Sic in MS.
page 51 note 1 Part of Deneby's fee for the year 1285–86.
page 51 note 2 The abbot leased land from William de Ware (W.A.M. 28816).
page 51 note 3 Mrs S. P. Hall suggested to me that this might be the Libri Naturales or the Parva Naturalia of Aristotle.
page 51 note 4 1285–86.
page 52 note a xij d. d., MS.
page 52 note 1 Said in 1296 to have been coroner for Herefs. (C.C.R., 1288–96, p. 496).Google Scholar
page 52 note 2 11 Feb. 1287.
page 52 note 3 28 Dec. 1286.
page 52 note 4 30 Dec. 1286.
page 52 note 5 4 Jan. 1287.
page 53 note b Originally the writ ended here with Valete, but Valete was struck out and the extra phrase and a new valediction added.
page 53 note c Part of this word is written over an erasure.
page 53 note 1 Brother Ralph de Morton was steward between these dates.
page 53 note 2 13 Oct. 1289.
page 53 note 3 See I.2, note. In May and June 1290 two carpenters employed for the walls were used by Brother Thomas on work in the monks' cemetery at Westminster (W.A.M. 24497).
page 54 note 1 It is probable that this writ refers to the assessment of the abbot's temporalities at Islip for the taxation of Pope Nicholas IV in 1291 (see Graham, , English Ecclesiastical Studies, p. 290).Google Scholar
page 54 note 2 Brother Alexander de Pershore was proctor for the abbot and convent of Westminster in their appeal to Rome in the case of the apostate friar William de Pershore (Monumenta Franciscana, ii, p. 36Google Scholar). The statement in Monks, p. 62Google Scholar, that Brother Alexander was at Westminster by 2 May is a mistake.
page 54 note 3 Brother Thomas de Lenton and Brother Reymund de Wenlok had charge of abbatial funds in 1291 and 1292 (above, p. 27).
page 54 note 4 See Knights of Edward I, ed. C. Moor, ii (Harleian Soc., lxxxi, 1929), pp. 167–168.Google Scholar
page 54 note 5 A London fishmonger (Beaven, A. B., Aldermen of the City of London temp. Henry III–1908 (London, 1908–1913), i, p. 379Google Scholar, ‘Chigwell’; Williams, G. A.Medieval London: from Commune to Capital (London, 1963), p. 166).Google Scholar
page 55 note a Hole in MS.
page 55 note b The last letter of this name has been interlined.
page 55 note 1 The bailiwick of Todenham comprised the manors of Todenham, Bourton-on-the-Hill and Sutton-under-Brailes.
page 56 note a de, written over an erasure.
page 56 note 1 Fee for the quarter beginning at Easter (6 Apr.) 1292.
page 56 note 2 The robe was half William de Clun's annual allowance (below, pp. 246–47). The money was part of 80 marks which the abbot owed him by a recognizance dated 14 Feb. 1290 (C.C.R., 1288–96, p. 126Google Scholar; see also below, p. 176 and note).
page 56 note 3 The acquittance is dated at Pershore, 7 July 1292 (W.A.M. 28906).
page 56 note 4 The bailiwick of Staines comprised the manors of Staines, Yeoveney and Laleham, and, for a short while after its recovery as a demesne manor in 1292, Denham.
page 56 note 5 15 Sept.
page 57 note b part, interlined.
page 57 note c a saver, interlined.
page 57 note d The last letter of this word has been interlined.
page 57 note 1 Richard supervised the threshers at Staines, Yeoveney and Laleham from 28 Oct. 1292 until 31 May 1293. A common table for the famuli was kept only during the harvest season, and this was over before he arrived; a wage of 1½d. a day, therefore, was paid to him by the reeve of Staines for the whole period. The account for Denham is not extant.
page 57 note 2 Most of the seed used at Staines in 1292–93 was bought.
page 57 note 3 25 Dec. 1292–29 Mar. 1293.
page 57 note 4 The name ‘Insula’ is now obsolete. In the medieval period it usually described, not the whole manor of ‘Eye’, but the abbot's house and adjacent land in the south-east corner (W.A.M. 26850 ff.; see also below, p. 222). An alternative name for ‘Insula’ was ‘La Neyte’, and in this volume ‘La Neyte’ has been preferred, although it, too, is now obsolete.
page 57 note 5 A London draper (Williams, op. cit., p. 113, ‘Thunderle’).
page 58 note a dicto, interlined.
page 58 note 1 A London cordwainer (Beaven, , Aldermen of the City of London, i, p. 376).Google Scholar
page 58 note 2 William de Monte Revelli, a royal chamberlain (Rymer, Foedera (Record Comm. edn, 1816–69), I. ii, p. 768). He was given 7s. 3d.
page 59 note b Hole in MS.
page 59 note 1 This writ and I. 28, 30–31 appear to refer to the same journey.
page 60 note a Hole in MS.
page 60 note b xiij, written over an erasure.
page 60 note 1 See I. 29, note.
page 60 note 2 Brother Alan de Leyton, keeper of the granary at Westminster (W.A.M. 26033–34). I owe this reference to Mr L. E. Tanner.
page 61 note c de de, MS.
page 61 note d bladi, interlined; frumenti, struck out.
page 61 note 1 29 Mar.–1 Aug. 1293.
page 61 note 2 Later a writ of account was executed to cover this sum (I.48). 38 qr. exceeded the amount required by I. 34 for the famuli at ‘Eye’.
page 61 note 3 Eleven horses belonging to the household were stabled at Pyrford for twenty-five nights, and one horse for eighteen nights, this year.
page 62 note a e, interlined.
page 62 note b Corrected; reading uncertain.
page 62 note 1 The justices of the Middlesex eyre, sitting in the Strand (Year Books 21 and 22 Edward I, p. ixGoogle Scholar). The abbot of Westminster was defendant in a plea of quo warranta concerning liberties in Middlesex (P.R.O., J.I.1/543, m. 39).
page 63 note c Hole in MS.
page 63 note d e de Bourton', interlined.
page 63 note 1 25 Dec. 1293–18 Apr. 1294.
page 63 note 2 I.e. the walls protecting ‘La Neyte’ from the Thames. A vallator received a bushel of corn a week and 1½d. at Christmas and Easter; only one was employed during the period named in this writ.
page 63 note 3 Probably a reference to a period when Brother Thomas de Lenton supervised the walls along the Thames (above, p. 26, note).
page 63 note 4 A bonus on 100 qr. of barley bought by Adam de Warewik' from the reeve.
page 64 note a Hole in MS.
page 64 note b Comunennent, MS.
page 64 note 1 Winchcombe fair was held on 28 July (V.C.H. Cloucs., ii (London, 1907), p. 155).Google Scholar
page 64 note 2 Richard was paid 1½d. a day for seven weeks, four days.
page 64 note 3 This writ has been dated from 1.44, which appears to have been written on the same day and which is the voucher to an account still extant.
page 65 note c Hole in MS.
page 65 note d a ly, interlined.
page 65 note e nous, interlined.
page 65 note f Seven words have been erased at this point.
page 65 note 1 See I. 22, note.
page 65 note 2 The wool was the net demesne clip of the manor of Todenham only and amounted to 314 fleeces. Until 1293 Bourton-on-the-Hill was the collecting centre for wool produced in the bailiwick of Todenham (W.A.M. 8240–42, 8244–45). In and after 1295 the centre is known to have been at Sutton-under-Brailes (Gloucester County Records Office, 1099/M31/13–25). This writ suggests that the change was made in 1294.
page 65 note 3 Nicholas was paid 2d. a day for six weeks, six days, J. de Evesham 1½d. a day for four weeks, one day.
page 66 note a Sic in MS.
page 66 note b speciali nostra, written in inverted order but marked for transposition.
page 66 note c a paer, interlined.
page 66 note 1 1292–93.
page 66 note 2 See I. 34.
page 66 note 3 The abbot's mother held land at Spoonbill (below, p. 176, note).
page 66 note 4 1293–94.
page 66 note 5 Reeve of Todenham from Sept. 1291 until Feb. 1293 (W.A.M. 25918–19).
page 67 note 1 The dates are: 1 Aug. and 1 Nov. 1295, 25 Mar. and 24 June 1296.
page 67 note 2 Repayment of a loan of £10 made by letters patent dated 25 June 1295; the term for repayment was 1 Nov. 1295 (W.A.M. 28046). The obligation named both Juliana and her husband.
page 67 note 3 Fee for the quarter beginning on 29 Sept. 1295.
page 68 note 1 The abbot was plaintiff in the court of King's Bench against John le Duk of Gosford and others for the recovery of 88 marks due in two instalments on 20 July and 29 Sept. 1294 by a Chancery recognizance dated 2 May 1294. The sum was the price of corn sold to the defendants in 1294. On 18 Nov. 1295 the abbot obtained execution against John le Duk's land and chattels in Oxon. (C.C.R., 1288–96, p. 386Google Scholar; P.R.O., K.B.27/145, mm. 21, 21d. See also I. 57–58, 63.)
page 68 note 2 Repayment of two loans, one of 20 marks made by letters patent dated 25 June 1295 on the security of a gold chalice and paten, the other of 10 marks made by letters patent dated 5 Oct. 1295 on the same security. The term for repayment of both loans was 1 Nov. 1295. W.A.M. 28042, 28047.
page 68 note 3 See I. 55, note.
page 69 note a episcopi, interlined.
page 69 note 1 See I. 55, note.
page 69 note 2 The acquittance from Wanden is dated at Westminster, 8 Nov. 1295 (W.A.M. 28981). The abbot owed him 8 marks for houses bought from him at ‘La Neyte’ (W.A.M. 28979).
page 69 note 3 Fee for the half-year beginning on 29 Sept. 1295; the acquittance from Wrotting is dated at Westminster, 16 Nov. 1295 (W.A.M. 28984).
page 70 note a Sic in MS.
page 70 note 1 The acquittance from Batesford is dated at Westminster, 16 Nov. 1295 (W.A.M. 28983).
page 70 note 2 See I. 55, note.
page 70 note 3 See I. 55, 58.
page 70 note 4 Fees for the half-year beginning on 29 Sept. 1295; acquittances from Southcot and Barre are dated at Westminster, 23 Nov. 1295 (W.A.M. 28987–88).
page 70 note b Sic in MS.
page 71 note 1 Fee for the quarter beginning on 29 Sept. 1295; the acquittance from Long-ford is dated at Westminster, 25 Nov. 1295 (W.A.M. 28989).
page 71 note 2 Fee for the half-year beginning at Easter (3 Apr.) 1295; the acquittance from Birley is dated at Westminster, 21 Oct. 1295 (W.A.M. 28980).
page 72 note a Hole in MS.
page 72 note 1 The acquittance from Dene is dated at Denham, 31 Dec. 1295 (W.A.M. 28991).
page 72 note 2 Fee for the quarter beginning on 25 Dec. 1295.
page 72 note 3 Half Pitchford's fee for the year 1294–95.
page 73 note 1 The acquittance from Stubbing is dated at Westminster, 8 Feb. 1296 (W.A.M. 28996). The money was the price of land in Staines and Laleham which he sold to the abbot's nephew, John [le Verrer].
page 74 note 1 The third and last instalment of the moiety of 1294 fell due on 8 July 1295 (C.P.R., 1292–1301, p. 89). Brother Reymund de Wenlok was sub-collector of taxes paid by the abbot and convent of Westminster.
page 74 note 2 The first instalment of the tenth of 1295 from the abbot's temporalities in London and Midd.; payment was due on 1 Mar. 1296 (ibid., p. 172).
page 74 note 3 Fee for the quarter beginning at Easter (25 Mar.) 1296.
page 75 note 1 Fees for the half-year beginning at Easter 1296.
page 75 note 2 Fee for the year beginning on 29 Sept. 1295.
page 75 note 3 Fee for the half-year beginning on 25 Dec. 1295; an acquittance was executed at Westminster, but it is now damaged and the date is missing (W.A.M. 29018).
page 76 note a … a Struck out.
page 76 note 1 The farm of the church at Bourton-on-the-Hill was granted to the abbot at Michaelmas 1295. After the first year he paid a stipend of 4 marks to a resident chaplain, but in the first year John de Droxford paid 1 mark and the abbot 3½ marks (W.A.M. 8247–48).
page 76 note 2 A London vintner (Thrupp, S. L., Merchant Class of Medieval London, 1300–1500 (Chicago, 1948), p. 119Google Scholar, ‘Honilane’; Williams, , Medieval London: from Commune to Capital, p. 120Google Scholar). The acquittance from him is dated at London, 6 June 1296 (W.A.M. 29006).
page 76 note 3 Fee for the half-year beginning at Easter (25 Mar.) 1296; an acquittance from Southcot dated at Westminster, 6 Oct. 1296, is indexed among the muniments of Westminster Abbey as W.A.M. 29013 but is now lost.
page 77 note a … a Struck out.
page 77 note b precipimus, interlined.
page 77 note 1 Repayment of a loan due on 22 July 1296 by letters patent dated 15 June 1296; damages and interest were promised in case of default (W.A.M. 28047**).
page 77 note 2 Serjeant of Todenham.
page 78 note a prechein, interlined.
page 79 note b Translacionis, interlined.
page 79 note c The last ten words are interlined.
page 79 note 1 In 1296 the abbot was required to furnish two men and two horses for the defence of the Sussex coast in respect of his lands in Surrey, but half of this requirement was later waived (W.A.M. 16918). See also de Cotton, Bartholomew, Historia Anglicana, ed. H. R. Luard (Rolls Ser., 1859), p. 312.Google Scholar
page 79 note 2 Alias John de Insula or de Lisle (W.A.M. 26861). There was a baron of the Exchequer of this name (Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench under Edward 1, i, p. clxv).Google Scholar
page 79 note 3 29 Sept. 1296–29 Sept. 1297. In fact only one servant was employed for the walls. See also I. 2, note.
page 80 note a Hole in MS.
page 80 note 1 Karewell was taking the abbot's nephews to Oxford.
page 80 note 2 Reeve of ‘Eye’. It may be assumed that Brother John de Wenlok was warden of ‘La Neyte’.
page 80 note 3 Part of 100 marks due to the society of the Bonsignori; the acquittance from them is dated at London, 21 Oct. 1296 (W.A.M. 29014).
page 80 note 4 Fee for the year 1295–96; the acquittance from Willoughby is dated at West-minster, 23 Oct. 1296 (W.A.M. 29015).
page 80 note 5 The second instalment of the tenth of 1295 from the abbot's temporalities in the archdeaconries of London and Midd.; payment was due on 20 May 1296 (C.P.R., 1292–1301, p. 172).Google Scholar
page 80 note 6 The acquittance for this payment is dated at Westminster, 26 Oct. 1296 (W.A.M. 29016).
page 81 note 1 From this it appears that the abbot attended the parliament which met at Bury St Edmunds on 3 Nov. 1296.
page 81 note 2 The last order was not carried out at Staines but may have been carried out at another manor in the bailiwick for which the account this year is not extant.
page 82 note a Hole in MS.
page 82 note b The last five words are interlined.
page 82 note 1 The procuration of the cardinal bishops of Albano and Palestrina ordered on 9 Oct. 1296 (Lunt, , Financial Relations of the Papacy with England, pp. 554–55Google Scholar). See Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae auctoritate P. Nicholai IV, circa A.D. 1291 (Record Commission, 1802), p. 223Google Scholar. The procuration is not entered in the account to which this writ is a voucher.
page 82 note 2 I.e. the parliament which met at Bury St Edmunds on 3 Nov. 1296. No such payment is entered in the account to which this writ is a voucher.
page 82 note 3 The sum of 8d. was paid for senage.
page 83 note c vous, interlined.
page 83 note d pur, interlined.
page 83 note e chevals, interlined.
page 83 note f un, written over an erasure.
page 83 note g e demy, interlined.
page 83 note h du, interlined.
page 83 note i com, interlined.
page 83 note j The last nine words are written over an erasure.
page 83 note k An erasure follows.
page 84 note a facez, interlined.
page 85 note b A short erasure follows.
page 85 note c a tres, written over an erasure.
page 85 note d net, interlined.
page 85 note 1 It has been assumed that the feast intended in the dating clause of this writ is the translation of St Thomas, archbishop and martyr (7 July); the translation of St Thomas the apostle was not included in the kalendar of Westminster Abbey (English Benedictine Kalendars after A.D. 1100, ed. F. Wormald, ii (Henry Bradshaw Soc., lxxxi, 1946), p. 69).Google Scholar
page 86 note a brinseez, interlined.
page 86 note b The fifth letter in this word is interlined.
page 86 note c seynt Thomas, interlined.
page 86 note d Hole in MS.
page 86 note e An erasure follows.
page 86 note 1 Henry was paid 2d. a day for four weeks, five days as a reepreeve.
page 87 note 1 The abbot held the church at Bourton-on-the-Hill at farm (I. 85, note).
page 88 note a ws, interlined.
page 88 note b de luy, interlined.
page 88 note c le, interlined.
page 88 note d Sic in MS.
page 88 note 1 In fact the church at Bourton-on-the-Hill was served at this time by a chaplain named John, who was paid 4 marks a year (W.A.M. 8248). See also I. 85, note.
page 88 note 2 30–31 Aug. and 4 Sept.
page 89 note e The words a son in the address are damaged.
page 89 note f Hole in MS.
page 89 note 1 6 Sept. 1297.
page 90 note a patentes, interlined.
page 90 note 1 1296–97.
page 91 note b The last six words are interlined.
page 91 note 1 The last nine payments were fees or the arrears of fees. Acquittances from Gosfield, Barre and Southcot are dated at Westminster, 10 May, 5 May and 13 May 1298 respectively (W.A.M. 29042, 29041, 29046). Their fees were for the half-year beginning at Easter (6 Apr.) 1298.
page 92 note a qe fut, written above, la, struck out.
page 92 note 1 1297–98.
page 92 note 2 The first instalment of the tenth of 1297 from the abbot's temporalities in the archdeaconries of London and Midd., due on 13 Jan. 1298 (Reg. Roberti Winchelsey, i, p. 211).Google Scholar
page 92 note 3 Fee for the year beginning on 29 Sept. 1298.
page 92 note 4 1298–99.
page 93 note b serra, interlined.
page 93 note c Sic in MS.
page 93 note 1 I.e. on 22 Apr. and 29 Sept. 1302. John le Wyte and Roger le Chapeleyn were reeves of Sutton-under-Brailes in 1284–85 and 1289–94 respectively (Gloucester County Records Office, 1099/M31/4, 8–12).
page 93 note 2 Beans, peas and vetches estimated at 10 qr. were issued.
page 94 note 1 A London draper (Beaven, , Aldermen of the City of London, i, p. 379).Google Scholar
page 94 note 2 This writ is not a voucher to the current Pyrford account (W.A.M. 27403).
page 95 note a solidos, struck out.
page 95 note 1 11 June.
page 95 note 2 The triennial tenth of 1301, of which the last payment had fallen due on 16 Jan. 1304 (Lunt, , Financial Relations of the Papacy with England, p. 375).Google Scholar
page 96 note a The last letter of this word is interlined.
page 96 note b MS. illegible; the word and letter in square brackets have been supplied.
page 97 note 1 The dating of this writ is difficult. If the feast intended in the dating clause is that of St Edmund, archbishop and confessor (16 Nov.), the writ is to be dated 17 Nov. 1306, or—since one instance is known where a Westminster scribe began Edward I's regnal year on 16 Nov. (above, p. 35 and note)—18 Nov. 1305; if the feast is that of St Edmund, king and martyr (20 Nov.), the writ is to be dated 25 Nov. 1305. As it is not a voucher to the receiver's account for the year 1306–7 (II. 8), one of the dates in 1305 is likely to be the correct one.
page 97 note 2 If the suggestion that Brother Roger and Brother Henry were the abbot's receivers at this date is correct (above, p. 27 and note), this may be an order to Brother Roger to deliver the balance of money in his hands to Brother Henry, who is found acting as sole receiver a few days later.
page 98 note a A short erasure follows.
page 98 note b Sic in MS.
page 98 note c MS. torn.
page 98 note d tere, interlined.
page 98 note 1 Arrears of a fee for the year ending on 29 Sept. 1305.
page 98 note 2 The reference is to O Sapientia, the Advent antiphon sung in choir at West-minster on the feast of St Barbara (16 Dec.). In 1288 Wenlok granted the sacrist of Westminster £4 from the rents of the fair at Westminster in order to provide spice money of one shilling for each professed monk on the morrow of this feast, the surplus to be kept for the use of the convent in wine and pittances (Flete, p. 120). Within a year, however, Wenlok began to pay the spice money himself, so denying the convent the anticipated surplus (below, p. 169). See also above, p. 20.
page 98 note 3 Lay serjeant of the convent granary at Westminster (W.A.M. 19841).
page 99 note e Sic in MS.
page 99 note 1 Wine-broker (Cal, of Early Mayor's Court Rolls of the City of London, A.D. 1298–1307, pp. 167–68).Google Scholar
page 100 note a MS. illegible; the words and letters in square brackets have been supplied.
page 100 note b au, struck out.
page 100 note c qe vous commaunduns, struck out.
page 100 note 1 Berking's first composition obliged the abbot to supply wine and wastel bread for the convent, and bread, beer and other refreshment for the poor, on Maundy Thursday (below, p. 220).
page 101 note a The last three letters of this word are interlined.
page 101 note 1 3 Apr.–22 May 1306.
page 101 note 2 The queen's alms were pittances of Id. a week for one hundred and forty poor persons, which the abbot and convent of Westminster paid in commemoration of Eleanor of Castile. In 1292, in order to provide for these pittances, Edward I restored to the Abbey its ancient manor of Denham, latterly held of the Abbey in fee by Queen Eleanor herself, and freed it from the burdens of military tenure (C.Ch.R., 1257–1300, p. 411Google Scholar; V.C.H. Bucks, iii (London, 1925), p. 257)Google Scholar. Wenlok assumed control of Denham as an abbatial manor and paid the queen's alms from his own funds. See also above, p. 19 and note.
A payment to Brother John de Wenlok (almoner) for the period covered by this writ is entered on the current receiver's account (below, pp. 197–98), but this is not the warrant vouched. Payment of alms from 19 Dec. 1305 to 13 Oct. 1306 per iij precepta is entered; the first warrant, no longer extant, ran from 19 Dec. 1305 to 22 May 1306, the second (I. 182) from 22 May to 1 Aug. 1306 and the third (I. 207) from 1 Aug. to 13 Oct. 1306. I. 167 duplicates part of the first warrant cited. The payment warranted by the latter may have been made in the first instance only down to Easter 1306, to be completed by a second payment for which a new warrant was issued. This may explain why four tallies were cut.
page 102 note a vu', MS.
page 102 note b Hole in MS.
page 102 note c ne, interlined.
page 102 note 1 123 acres of demesne at Laleham which had been leased since at least 1302 were brought under direct cultivation again this year (W.A.M. 27113–15). Under this warrant the sum of 14s. 8d. was spent on boons for ploughing and harrowing 40 acres for barley seed.
page 102 note 2 1303–6.
page 103 note d lettre, interlined.
page 103 note e dusse souz, interlined.
page 103 note f facez, struck out.
page 103 note g Hole in MS.
page 103 note 1 Six calves were sold for 7s. 5d.
page 103 note 2 24 June.
page 104 note a Sic in MS.
page 104 note 1 Fee for the half-year beginning on 25 Dec. 1305. The acquittance from Bardby is dated at London, 28 Oct. 1306 (W.A.M. 29210). Bardby was retained by the abbot and convent jointly and payments by both were erratic. This writ requires the receiver to ascertain when the last payment was made, in order that the correct term may be entered on the acquittance for the present instalment.
page 104 note 2 Payment of this rent by the abbot on behalf of his nephew is first mentioned in 1302 (W.A.M. 16924).
page 104 note 3 No expenditure on the pantry or buttery is entered on the current ‘Eye’ account.
page 104 note 4 For the walls see I. 2, note. The warden of the walls may have been Brother John himself; in some years, however, the abbot appears to have employed a monk-warden of the walls who was an official distinct from the warden of ‘La Neyte’ (above, p. 19 and note).
page 105 note b eorundem, interlined.
page 105 note c quadraginta, struck out.
page 106 note a tibi, interlined.
page 106 note 1 Arrears of a fee for the year 1303–4.
page 106 note 2 22 May–1 Aug. 1306.
page 106 note 3 I. 167, note.
page 107 note b Sic in MS.
page 107 note 1 In 1296 the abbot's nephew, John le Verrer, secured the remainder of a lease of lands belonging to Geoffrey atteDoune in Staines, Stanwell and Egham; subsequently he secured a renewal of the lease. The rent, 40s. a year, was paid by the abbot, and the lands were administered by his reeve at Staines. On 14 Oct. 1305 John le Verrer sub-let the lands to Eustace Malebranche, lessee of the abbot's demesne at Staines. This writ warrants payment of the arrears of rent then outstanding. See W.A.M. 16758, 29055, 16762, 16921, 16765.
page 107 note 2 Keeper of the king's goshawks in Kent (C.C.R., 1302–7, p. 386Google Scholar, ‘Bykenore’).
page 108 note 1 Fee for the half-year beginning at Easter (3 Apr.) 1306; the acquittance from Ludgarshall is dated at Westminster, 28 May 1306 (W.A.M. 29198).
page 108 note 2 1301–2.
page 108 note 3 Fee for the half-year beginning at Easter (3 Apr.) 1306.
page 109 note a A second apud, struck out.
page 109 note b regni, written over an erasure.
page 109 note 1 In fact part of this sum was spent on John de Droxford's groom.
page 109 note 2 The first instalment of the septennial tenth of 1305 from the abbot's temporalities in the archdeaconries of London and Midd., due on 24 June 1306 (see Lunt, Financial Relations of the Papacy with England, p. 384). The acquittance from the sub-collectors, the abbot and convent of Westminster themselves, is dated at Westminster, 12 May 1306 (W.A.M. 29196).
page 110 note a Hole in MS.
page 110 note 1 See Tout, , Chapters, ii, p. 158Google Scholar, ‘Bikenore’.
page 111 note b a, struck out.
page 111 note c Omitted in MS.
page 111 note 1 See Tout, , Chapters, vi, p. 45Google Scholar, ‘Sudley’.
page 111 note 2 John de la More had been reeve until 22 June 1306 (W.A.M. 16927–28).
page 111 note 3 Eustace Mal ebranche had been granted a five years' stock and land lease of the demesne at Staines from 29 Sept. 1305 and a lease of the land of the abbot's nephew there from 14 Oct. 1305. He defaulted, and on 17 June 1306 the abbot took the lands in hand again. See P.R.O., E.159/79, m. 48; W.A.M. 16765,16927; and, for the nephew's land, I.184. The present writ probably refers to the valuation of stock made when the leases were granted.
page 111 note 4 The first instalment of the septennial tenth of 1305 from the abbot's temporalities in Pyrford, due on 24 June 1306 (Lunt, , Financial Relations of the Papacy with England, p. 384).Google Scholar
page 112 note 1 Thomas Jorz O.P., cardinal priest of St Sabina. Jorz was at the papal curia in 1306 (Dictionary of National Biography, x (London, 1921–1922), p. 1091Google Scholar; see also C.C.R., 1302–7, pp. 431, 436, 439).Google Scholar
page 112 note 2 Simple protection for one year was granted to the abbot on 16 July 1306 (C.P.R., 1301–7, p. 454).Google Scholar
page 112 note 3 Henry was paid 2d. a day for twenty-eight days.
page 113 note a pur estre, interlined.
page 113 note 1 Fee for the half-year beginning on 24 June 1306; the acquittance from Abingdon is dated at London, 31 July 1306 (W.A.M. 29206).
page 113 note 2 Public notary. His mark is on W.A.M. 12732.
page 113 note 3 1 Aug.–13 Oct. 1306. For the queen's alms see I. 167, note.
page 114 note a Sic in MS.
page 114 note b Hole in MS.
page 114 note c Waltero le Ferur, interlined.
page 114 note d tecum, interlined.
page 115 note e Sic in MS.
page 115 note f facez, interlined.
page 115 note g e le costag, struck out.
page 115 note h Sic in MS.
page 115 note i But with Eye instead of Eyebur' in the address.
page 116 note a conferendum, written over an erasure.
page 116 note b Sic in MS.
page 116 note 1 Probably a reference to Thomas de Longford, a steward of the household.
page 117 note c MS. illegible.
page 117 note d Hole in MS.
page 117 note 1 The name given in the receiver's account is John de Abindon'.
page 117 note 2 13 Oct. 1306–25 Mar. 1307. For the queen's alms see I. 167, note.
page 117 note 3 Fee for the year beginning on 29 Sept. 1305. An acquittance was taken and given by the receiver to the steward of the household, but it is not extant (below, p. 201; see W.A.M. 29214).
page 117 note 4 I.e. the second year of Henry Payn's receivership.
page 118 note 1 Fee for the half-year beginning at Easter (3 Apr.) 1306; the acquittance from Barre is dated at Westminster, 22 Oct. 1306 (W.A.M. 29209).
page 118 note 2 I. 219, note.
page 118 note 3 Great Malvern Priory was a cell of Westminster Abbey.
page 119 note 1 In fact this was Wenlok's fee for a whole year. The acquittance from him is dated at London, 31 Oct. 1306 (W.A.M. 29211).
page 119 note 2 Fee for the half-year beginning at Easter (3 Apr.) 1306.
page 120 note a Sic in MS.
page 120 note 1 The prior of Deerhurst was entitled to tithe amounting to £3 3s. 4d. from Bourton-on-the-Hill, Todenham and Sutton-under-Brailes (Taxatio Ecclesiastica, pp. 219b, 223, 222bGoogle Scholar). The above payment of 40s. was the amount due in respect of the abbot of Westminster's demesne in these manors. The acquittance is dated 28 Oct. 1306 (W.A.M. 8193).
page 120 note 2 Probably Piers Gaveston and not a member of the family of London mercers called Causton; see below, p. 212.
page 120 note 3 A member of Edward of Caernarvon's household (Tout, , Chapters, ii, p. 172Google Scholar, ‘Charlton’).
page 120 note 4 An officiai of this name was employed as a reepreeve on the abbot's manors (W.A.M. 16836, 16915; see also I. 47).
page 120 note 5 Fee for the year beginning on 25 Dec. 1305; the acquittance from Nassington's proctor is dated at Westminster, 12 Dec. 1306 (W.A.M. 29217). In fact the payment included arrears from the year 1304–5, and 3 marks of the fee for the year 1305–6 remained outstanding until 29 Aug. 1307 (W.A.M. 29242; see also below, p. 207).
page 121 note b Hole in MS.
page 121 note c Roberto coquo duos solidos, struck out.
page 121 note 1 Fee for the half-year beginning on 25 Dec. 1306; the acquittance from Abingdon is dated at Westminster, 14 Dec. 1306 (W.A.M. 29218).
page 121 note 2 I.156, note.
page 121 note 3 Ralph de Pereham was the Abbey's lessee at Longdon, in Solihull (W.A.M. 21255).
page 122 note a Piriford, written over an erasure.
page 122 note 1 I.e. the household day-account.
page 122 note 2 Ingelard de Warley, clerk to Edward of Caernarvon; the acquittance from him is dated at London, 21 Dec. 1306 (W.A.M. 29220).
page 123 note 1 Fee for the half-year beginning on 29 Sept. 1306; the acquittance from Gravesend is dated at Westminster, 3 Jan. 1307 (W.A.M. 29221*).
page 123 note 2 A plea of trespass in Northants. in which the abbot was defendant is mentioned in 1306 (P.R.O., E.13/28, m. 19d).
page 123 note 3 The second instalment of the septennial tenth of 1305 from the abbot's temporalities in Islip, due on 7 Dec. 1306 (see Lunt, , Financial Relations of the Papacy with England, sp. 384Google Scholar). The acquittance from the collectors is dated at Oseney, 20 Dec. 1306 (W.A.M. 29219).
page 123 note 4 The ‘statute’ referred to may be the petition granted to the abbot and convent of Westminster at the Hilary parliament of 1307, exempting the manors assigned for Queen Eleanor's anniversary from the thirtieth of 1306 (Rotuli Parliamentorum, i (London, 1783), p. 196, no. 32Google Scholar; C.C.R., 1302–7, p. 488).Google Scholar
page 123 note 5 Brother William de Chalk was proctor for the abbot at the Hilary parliament of 1307 at Carlisle (Parliamentary Writs, i, p. 185).Google Scholar
page 123 note 6 1 Aug. For the queen's alms see I. 167, note.
page 124 note 1 Fee for the quarter beginning on 25 Dec. 1306; the acquittance from the steward is dated at Westminster, 4 Apr. 1307 (W.A.M. 29231).
page 124 note 2 Fee for the half-year beginning at Easter (26 Mar.) 1307; the acquittance from Ludgarshall is dated at Westminster, 12 Apr. 1307 (W.A.M. 29232).
page 124 note 3 The procuration of 12 marks levied in 1307 by Peter of Spain, cardinal bishop of Sabina (Graham, , English Ecclesiastical Studies, p. 314Google Scholar). Half was due from the abbot, half from the convent, but the whole sum had been paid by the abbot from his own funds in Mar. 1307 (W.A.M. 29227–28). See above, p. 20.
page 125 note a ad opus, interlined.
page 125 note 1 Fee for the quarter beginning at Easter (26 Mar.) 1307; the acquittance from Merre is dated at Westminster, 4 Apr. 1307 (W.A.M. 29231).
page 125 note 2 1304–5.
page 125 note 3 1305–6.
page 125 note 4 The master of the Order of Knights Templar was plaintiff, and the abbot of Westminster one of the defendants, in a plea of trespass in Midd. (P.R.O., K.B.27/188, m. 56 d).
page 126 note a apud, interlined.
page 126 note b conventus, written above.
page 126 note 1 Pleader (Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench under Edward I, ii, p. cxxxivGoogle Scholar, ‘Herterpole’).
page 126 note 2 The acquittance from Spigurnel is dated at London, 6 May 1307 (W.A.M. 29235; see Pearce, , Walter de Wenlok, p. 91).Google Scholar
page 126 note 3 Judge of the King's Bench (Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench under Edward I, i, p. cxxxiii).Google Scholar
page 126 note 4 Judge of the Common Bench (ibid., p. cxxxix, ‘Mallore’).
page 127 note c acounte, interlined; venue, struck out.
page 127 note d Sic in MS.
page 127 note 1 Joan, daughter of Edward I and widow of Gilbert, earl of Gloucester, died at Clare on 23 Apr. 1307 and was buried there in the church of the Austin Friar (Flores Historiarum, iii, p. 142Google Scholar; cf. ibid., p. 329).
page 128 note a penes, interlined; apud, struck out.
page 128 note b usque ad compotum tuum reservandas, struck out.
page 128 note 1 24 Dec. 1306–22 July 1307.
page 129 note c te, interlined.
page 129 note d Sic in MS.
page 129 note 1 Edward I died on 7 July 1307.
page 129 note 2 See I. 211.
page 129 note 3 30 July 1307. See above, p. 2.
page 130 note a Sic in MS.
page 130 note b et, written over an erasure.
page 130 note c Sic in MS.
page 130 note 1 Bailiff of Staines (W. A.M. 16922).
page 130 note 2 The issues of the church at Staines were assigned to the convent (below, p. 218); Thomas Seman was a bailiff employed by the latter (W.A.M. 29303, 29310, 29322–23).
page 131 note c pro, interlined.
page 131 note 1 Bailiff of Westminster (W.A.M. 29239).
page 131 note 2 Above, p. 16.
page 132 note a Sic in MS.
page 132 note b nous, interlined.
page 132 note 1 I.e. by 18 Nov. Early in 1291 the abbot borrowed 800 marks from the society of the Bonsignori and Bonaventura Bernardyn to cover the expenses of the Abbey's appeal to Rome in its suit with the Friars Minor over the apostate friar William de Pershore (see Pearce, , Walter de Wenlok, pp. 37–40Google Scholar). The recognizance specified repayment in eight instalments, to be completed within a month of Christmas 1292 (P.R.O., E.368/62, m. 28). Payment fell at once into arrears (W.A.M. 28878, 28884–85).
page 133 note c sufficientibus, interlined.
page 133 note d The last four words are written over an erasure.
page 133 note e Hole in MS.
page 134 note a nos, altered from nostre.
page 134 note 1 Brother Reginald de Hadham was warden of ‘La Neyte’ from 1292 to 1294 and possibly again from 1302 to 1305.
page 134 note 2 I.e. after the recovery of Denham by Westminster Abbey as a demesne manor (I. 167, note).
page 134 note 3 I. 270, note.
page 135 note a pors, interlined.
page 135 note b vus, interlined.
page 135 note 1 I. 270, note.
page 135 note 2 I.e. before the manor of Islip was leased (W.A.M. 32691; Westminster Domesday, fos. 318v–19).
page 136 note 1 The customary payment referred to is church-scot (W.A.M. 27106).
page 137 note a j d. ob., interlined.
page 137 note b en haste, interlined.
page 137 note 1 24 June. Islip wood lay within the bounds of the royal forest in Edward I's reign (V.C.H. Oxon., vi, p. 212).Google Scholar
page 138 note a Sic in MS.; read foayl.
page 138 note b tost, interlined.
page 138 note c Hole in MS.
page 138 note 1 Gilbert de Swinfield was chancellor of Hereford from Jan. 1287 to Aug. 1297; he is known to have been in Oxford in 1290 (Emden, , Biographical Reg. of the University of Oxford, iii, pp. 1832–33Google Scholar). The writ refers to an inception feast.
page 138 note 2 I.e. between the recovery of Denham as a demesne manor and the leasing of Islip (I. 167, 275, notes).
page 138 note 3 I. 286, note.
page 138 note 4 I. 275, note.
page 139 note d Hole in MS.
page 138 note e a Sottone, interlined.
page 139 note 1 I. 275, note.
page 140 note a Omitted in MS.
page 140 note b trovez, interlined.
page 140 note c A word has been erased.
page 140 note d choses, interlined.
page 140 note 1 I. 275, note.
page 141 note e Hole in MS.
page 141 note f Sic in MS.
page 141 note 1 I. 275, note.
page 141 note 2 Nicholas Godman had ceased to be Serjeant of Todenham by this date (W.A.M. 25922; see also P.R.O., K.B.27/145, m. 21).
page 141 note 3 29 Sept.
page 141 note 4 I. 300, note.
page 142 note a Hole in MS.
page 142 note 1 I. 300, note.
page 142 note 2 The reference to the parson of Sutton-under-Brailes shows that this writ refers to wool produced in the bailiwick of Todenham (I. 15, note) and suggests that the writ belongs to the period when Sutton-under-Brailes was the collecting centre for wool produced there (I. 46, note).
page 143 note b The last three letters of enveoms are written over an erasure.
page 143 note 1 I.e. before Sutton-under-Brailes replaced Bourton-on-the-Hill as the collecting centre for wool produced in the bailiwick of Todenham (I. 46, note).
page 143 note 2 A London wool merchant (C.P.R., 1272–81, p. 17).Google Scholar
page 144 note 1 8 Sept.
page 145 note a An erasure follows.
page 145 note 1 In 1235 Henry III granted to the abbot of Westminster eight bucks yearly from the forest of Windsor, to be taken by the constable of Windsor and carried by him to Westminster on 31 July (C.C.R., 1234–37, p. 119Google Scholar). Geoffrey de Pitchford was constable between 1272 and 1298 (V.C.H. Berks. (London, 1923), iii, p. 24).Google Scholar
page 145 note 2 The text, though puzzling, is not in doubt.
page 145 note 3 21 Sept.
page 146 note a sibi, interlined.
page 146 note b Hole in MS.
page 146 note 1 25 June.
page 147 note c en sawve coundut, interlined.
page 147 note d A word was interlined here but is now illegible.
page 147 note e tibi, interlined.
page 147 note 1 Matthew xviii, 23; 1 Corinthians iii, 8.
page 148 note a seyngnur le abbe, interlined.
page 148 note 1 This writ ordered the replacement of sown acres for the stipendiary famuli by money wages. The change had been made at Todenham, Bourton-on-the-Hill and Sutton-under-Brailes in 1291 and had been made at Islip by 1294. It brought the abbot's distant manors into line with his nearer ones, where money wages were already paid. The new rule did not affect the payment of food liveries, which continued at unchanged rates. See W.A.M. 25917–18, 8242, 8244, 14781; Gloucester County Records Office, 1099/M31/9–10.
page 148 note 2 I. 326, note.
page 149 note 1 A royal chamberlain (W.A.M. 19839).
page 150 note a Hole in MS.
page 150 note 1 This letter is I.1.
page 151 note b e si il, written over an erasure.
page 151 note c icest joedy, interlined; dem', struck out.
page 151 note 1 The twelfth granted in the November parliament of 1296; it was due in two instalments on or about 2 Feb. and 2 June 1297 (Parliamentary Writs, i, p. 51).Google Scholar
page 151 note 2 James Russel acted as steward between these dates.
page 152 note a vous, interlined.
page 152 note b deus, interlined.
page 152 note 1 John de Longford acted as steward of the household between these dates.
page 152 note 2 I. 342, note.
page 153 note c Hole in MS.; v' was written after facet, but erased.
page 153 note 1 I.e. the household grooms and horses. It is to be understood that some house-hold grooms, with their horses, were helping with agricultural work at Pyrford.
page 153 note 2 John de Batesford acted as steward between these dates.
page 153 note 3 I. 344, note.
page 153 note 4 I.e. Windsor Forest. The money had been spent in taking the abbot's venison there (I. 315, note).
page 154 note a Hole in MS.
page 154 note b e sun valet, written over an erasure.
page 154 note c furne, struck out.