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Acknowledgements 3
Abbreviations 4
Introduction 5
Computus Rolls: 17
1. 1272–3 (ECR 63/4) 17
2. 1276–7 (ECR 63/5) 72
3. 1281–2 (ECR 63/6) 86
4. 1283–4 (KCC WB 2/2) 114
5. 1287–8 (ECR 63/7) 145
6. 1288–9 (ECR 63/8) 180
7. Sede Vacante Roll, 2 October 1281–17 February 1282 (KCC WB 2/1) 186
Glossary 196
page 5 note 1 Select Pleas in Manorial and other Seignorial Courts, ed. Maitland, F. W. (Selden Society, 2, 1889)Google Scholar; Select Documents of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec, ed. M. Chibnall (Camden Third Series, 73, 1951).Google Scholar
page 6 note 2 E.C.R., 30/43; 49/242, 243; 63/56–8, 121; Morgan, M., The English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Oxford, 1946), p. 6.Google Scholar
page 6 note 3 E.C.R., 61/RRG23
page 6 note 4 See Harvey, P. D. A. and Thomas, Sylvia, Medieval Manorial Records (Yorkshire Archaeological Society 1983), p. 10Google Scholar
page 6 note 5 For the administration of the property and the priories of Ogbourne and Ruislip see English Lands, passim; VCH Wilts., iii. 394–6Google Scholar; VCH Middlesex, i. 202–4.Google Scholar
page 7 note 6 English Lands, pp. 6–7.Google Scholar
page 7 note 7 The Account-Book of Beaulieu Abbey, ed. S.F. Hockey (Camden Fourth Series, 16, 1975).Google Scholar
page 7 note 8 Oschinsky, Doroth, Walter of Henley (Oxford, 1971), pp. 215–19, 242.Google Scholar
page 7 note 9 The term dominus in these accounts must almost certainly apply to the prior of Ogbourne; other monks are called ‘brother X’ and the steward is identified either by his name or by the title senescallus. Some of the early accounts were heard by an unidentified official, possibly a steward, called ‘W. clericus’.
page 7 note 10 English Lands, p. 6Google Scholar; For the view of account see Oschinsky, , pp. 188–9.Google Scholar
page 8 note 11 Below, pp. 18, 25, 63, 73.
page 9 note 12 Select Docs, p. 36.Google Scholar
page 9 note 13 Titow, J.Z., Winchester Yields (Cambridge, 1972), p. 7Google Scholar n. 1, suggests that on the Winchester estates the increment may have been the difference between fully-heaped and less fully-heaped bushels, rather than between heaped and struck bushels.
page 10 note 14 Cf. Account-Book of Beaulieu, p. 12Google Scholar, where apparently ‘every new abbot received a recognicio, a payment equal in amount to tallage’; but in the Bec accounts the villagers paid more, and the first levy was described as the king's.
page 10 note 15 . Placita de Quo Warranto (Record Commission, 1818), p. 759Google Scholar; English Lands, p. 63.Google Scholar
page 11 note 16 Porée, A. A., Histoire de l'abbaye du Bec (Évreux, 1901), i. 605–6.Google Scholar
page 11 note 17 Porée, , i. 617–18.Google Scholar
page 11 note 18 Cal. Fine, i, 156.Google Scholar
page 11 note 19 CPR 1281–92, p. 11.Google Scholar
page 11 note 20 Cal. Fine, i, 163.
page 11 note 21 Below, pp. 186–95.
page 11 note 22 The Chronicle of Bec recorded payments from 1282 to 1293, and then after a break of four years during the confiscation of the alien priories from 1297–1303 (Porée, , ii. 3Google Scholar, n. 3)
page 12 note 23 Calculations of corn consumption are approximate, because on some manors the abbot's expenses were not distinguished from those of the steward or other visitors.
page 12 note 24 English Lands, p. 147.Google Scholar
page 12 note 25 MSS of King's College Cambridge, C 5.
page 12 note 26 Brentnall, H. C., ‘The metes and bounds of Savernake Forest’, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, xlix (1940–1942), 396.Google Scholar
page 13 note 27 VCH Hants., iv. 329–30Google Scholar; Winchester College Muniments, A descriptive list compiled by Sheila Himsworth, 3 vols. (Phillimore for Warden and Fellows, 1976–84), no. 9021.
page 13 note 28 ‘William de Botes’ croft occurs in 1199 (WAM, xlix (1940–1942), 396, 402).Google Scholar
page 13 note 29 Close Rolls 1264–8, p. 466Google Scholar. The tentative suggestion in VCH Hants., iv. 330Google Scholar that Gilbert de Cundy may be another name for Gilbert de Botes cannot be true, since some of Cundy's grants are witnessed by Botes (Winchester College Muniments, nos. 9024, 9035).
page 13 note 30 Winchester College Muniments, nos. 5610a, 5598c, 9021, 9035.
page 13 note 31 KCC, C4, C6; no rolls survive for 1270–2 or for 1273–5.
page 13 note 32 VCH Hants., iv. 66, 84Google Scholar. Henry Sturmy entered into possession of his inheritance in 1254 and died in 1305 (VCH Hants., iv. 75, 92).Google Scholar
page 13 note 33 Brentnall, H. C., ‘Savernake Forest in the Middle Ages’ WAM, xlviii (1937–1939), 384Google Scholar mentions their presence at Wolfhall in 1275. For its later history see Jackson, J.E., ‘Wulfhall and the Seymours’, WAM, xv (1875), 140–207.Google Scholar
page 14 note 34 English Lands, p. 141.Google Scholar
page 14 note 35 VCH Wills., iv. 421–2Google Scholar; v. 421–2; CPR 1281–92, p. 159.Google Scholar
page 14 note 36 English Lands, pp. 56–7.Google Scholar
page 14 note 37 WAM, xlviii (1937–1939), 384Google Scholar; xlix (1940–2), 406, 419–26.
page 14 note 38 Cal. Fine, iv. 56Google Scholar; Inq.PM, vii. no.242.
page 14 note 39 English Lands, pp. 138–9.Google Scholar
page 15 note 40 For the jurisdiction of the Salisbury prebendaries see VCH Wilts., iii, 160–2Google Scholar; Edwards, Kathleen, The English Secular Cathedrals in the Middle Ages (Manchester, 1949), pp. 126–7.Google Scholar
page 15 note 41 Some apparent discrepancies may be due to accounting techniques; a difference between the figures for sales of wheat in the cash and grain accounts at Wantage in 1283–4 could be resolved if 30 quarters of wheat sent to Ogbourne were treated as sold.
page 16 note 42 See Select Documents, p. xiiiGoogle Scholar for the circuit. A court was held at Preston on 10 November 1289; when I printed the available membranes of the 1288–9 roll in 1951 I noted that there appeared to be no account for Preston at that date. The rolls since discovered show, however, that the accounts for Preston, Hooe and Glynde for 1287–8 were late; they were presented to William of Harden on 11 Nov. 1289 and added at the end of the roll for the previous year. The accounts for 1288–9 were heard by the lord (the prior of Ogbourne) a few weeks later on 30 Dec. 1289 and entered on the appropriate roll, so bringing the records up to date.
page 17 note a Sic in MS
page 17 note 1 27 April 1273.
page 17 note 2 A pension of 1 mark (13s. 4d.) for the chapel of Compton was payable by the parson of Enford (Select Docs., p. 57Google Scholar; English Lands, p. 140).Google Scholar
page 17 note 3 Although a proctor named William of Wantage had acted on behalf of Bee c. 1218 (ECR 26), he can scarcely have been the same man. This must be the William de Wanetyng who was granted a life-holding of land in Amport and Monxton in 1278 (VCH Hants, iv. 342–3).Google Scholar
page 17 note 4 28 April 1273.
page 18 note 5 The abbot of Bec held the church of Cleeve (Somerset) as a prebend of Wells; it was leased to the abbot and convent of Cleeve for 44 marks annually, of which 4 marks were paid to the stall vicar of Wells (English Lands, p. 142).Google Scholar
page 18 note 6 30 April 1273.
page 18 note 7 16 Nov. 1272, the date on which Henry gave up the office of reeve.
page 18 note 8 For the abbot of Bee's holding in Wallop see VCH Hants., iv. 342–3.Google Scholar
page 18 note 9 8 May 1273.
page 18 note 10 A pension of £5 annually was owed by the vicar of Wantage (Select Docs., p. 52Google Scholar; English Lands, p. 141).Google Scholar
page 18 note 11 Bec received a rent of £5 annually (payable by the abbot of Reading) from East Hendred by gift of King Stephen (English Lands, p. 140Google Scholar; Select Docs., pp. 16–18, 24Google Scholar). An additional £1 was owed by the abbot of Reading for tithe; and in the abbey's custumal (Select Docs., p. 52Google Scholar) he was said to owe £6. Receipts from Hendred in the account rolls normally amounted to the slightly higher figure of £6 6s. 8d., entered in 1287–8 as a payment from the abbot of Reading.
page 19 note 12 Probably the dean of the prebend of Ogbourne.
page 19 note 13 Ware (Herts.) was a priory of the abbey of Saint-Evroult, whose monks had sold their holding in Cottisford worth los. annually to Bec in 1167. It seems that a payment of 10s. continued to be made. The custumal of the abbey stated that the vicar of Cottisford owed 1 mark annually to Saint-Evroult (Select Docs., p. 99Google Scholar). For a payment to the prior of Ware see below, p. 32.
page 19 note 14 12 May 1273.
page 20 note 15 In 1180 David Darmenters farmed the mill of Stowe to the abbot of Bee for 12s. annually (ECR 27/2 cf. Select Docs., p. 127Google Scholar for what appears to be a continuation of this payment). The abbot appears to have let the mill at farm for £1.
page 20 note 16 The last group of tenants in the abbey's custumal for Weedon includes Richard of Atteneston (Select Docs., p. 102Google Scholar).
page 20 note 17 13 May 1273.
page 20 note 18 Revenue from the tithes of the demesne of the lord of Barford had at a slightly earlier date been farmed to the rector of Barford for 7s. annually (Select Docs., p. 99Google Scholar); a settlement was made by papal judges delegate in 1252 (ECR 26).
page 20 note 19 15 May 1273.
page 21 note 20 Revenue from tithe (Select Docs., p. 123Google Scholar; English Lands, p. 146)Google Scholar.
page 21 note 21 The tithes of Shabbington were farmed to the prior of Wallingford for tos. Annually (English Lands, p. 146 n. 3).Google Scholar
page 21 note 22 The abbot of Bec held tithes in Bensington, Newnham Murren, Clopcot, Chalgrove, Great Haseley and Gatehampton, and two mills and land as well as tithe at Goring (English Lands, pp. 145–6).Google Scholar
page 21 note 23 23 May 1273.
page 22 note 24 Cf. Select Docs., p. 81Google Scholar, where Roger de la Done owed 8s. for a hide and about 20 acres of land. La Done was later Down Barns in Northolt (VCH Middlesex, iv. 137).Google Scholar
page 22 note 25 The heirs of Robert the Butler of Isenhampstead Latimer (Bucks.) owed 205. annually (Select Docs., p. 81).Google Scholar
page 22 note 26 See Select Docs., pp. 83–4Google Scholar for a statement of the abbot of Bec's rights to tithe in Southall in the parish of Hayes.
page 22 note 27 Commutation of the Easter brewing service (Select Docs., p. 74).Google Scholar
page 22 note 28 6 June 1273.
page 22 note 29 The prior of Avebury owed 205. annually for the tithes of his demesne in Barbury (Select Docs., p. 35).Google Scholar
page 23 note 30 Possibly money sent to Marlborough for transmission to the vicars choral in the Salisbury prebend.
page 23 note 31 8 June 1273.
page 23 note 32 The pension of 6s. 8d. owed by the vicar of Ogbourne St George for certain tithes had been reduced to as. because some of the land owing lesser tithes had been taken into the demesne (Select Docs., p.35).Google Scholar
page 23 note 33 3 July 1273.
page 24 note 34 This almost certainly includes receipts from the Salisbury prebend; in other years the court revenues for Hungerford are negligible.
page 24 note 35 The prior of St Frideswide's, Oxford, owed £2 annually for the tithes of Hidden (English Lands, p. 140 n. 6Google Scholar; Select Docs., pp. 66, 68.Google Scholar
page 24 note 36 Expenses incurred in the Salisbury prebend.
page 25 note 37 4 July 1273.
page 25 note 38 9 Nov. 1272.
page 25 note 39 In the custumal half a mark was owed for the wood of ‘Applehangre’ (Select Docs., P. 49).Google Scholar
page 25 note 40 In the custumal Simon Pipard held 1 virgate for 4s. at Michaelmas (Select Docs., p. 48).Google Scholar
page 26 note a Sic in MS
page 26 note 41 A few years later, in 1278, William de Wantyng was granted a holding in Amport and Monxton for life by Peter, abbot of Bee (VCH Hants., iv. 342–3).Google Scholar
page 26 note 42 15 July 1273.
page 26 note 43 Bec held tithes in Leatherhead, Tolworth, Woodmansterne and Chipstcad (Select Docs., p. 22Google Scholar; English Lands, p.150).Google Scholar
page 26 note 44 Tooting was in the parish of Streatham. A pension of £1 was paid from the church of Streatham (English Lands, p. 149).Google Scholar
page 27 note 45 For the hundred of Liss see above, Introduction, p. 13.
page 27 note 46 22 July 1273.
page 27 note 47 27 Sept. 1273.
page 27 note 48 For rents and dues of £1 7s. in Turnworth and 16s. in Charlton see Select Docs., P. 91.Google Scholar
page 27 note 49 29 Sept. 1273.
page 27 note 50 For tenants at Blackmanstone see Select Docs., pp. 63–4.Google Scholar
page 27 note 51 A mill at Wareham was farmed to the prior of Wareham (Select Docs., p. 65).Google Scholar
page 28 note 51 30 Sept. 1273.
page 28 note 53 The second half of the stipend of the stall vicar at Wells.
page 28 note 54 2 Oct. 1273.
page 29 note 55 The prior of Christ Church (Hants.) owed one mark annually for tithes of the demesne of Robert Moubert in Sopley (Select Docs., p. 57).Google Scholar
page 29 note 56 3 Oct. 1273.
page 29 note 57 In 1226 the widow and son of Henry de Stratfield granted Bee the reversion of their land called La Goldhorde in Amport and Over Wallop to the abbot of Bec (VCH Hants., iv. 342–3).Google Scholar
page 30 note 58 Oct. 1273.
page 30 note 59 For Gilbert de Botes see above, Introduction, p. 12.
page 31 note 60 10 Oct. 1273.
page 31 note 61 The abbot of Bee owed £117s. annually to the prior of Kilpeck and £110s. annually to the abbot of Tewkesbury for tithes in Ogbourne St Andrew (Select Docs., p. 40).Google Scholar
page 31 note 62 The vicars choral at Salisbury.
page 31 note 63 11 Oct. 1273.
page 32 note 64 Ware was a priory of Saint-Evroult, and this may be a payment replacing a contribution towards the pension of 1 mark due from the church of Cottisford (Select Docs., p. 99Google Scholar; English Lands, p. 144Google Scholar). It is not recorded under Cottisford.
page 32 note 65 12 Oct. 1273.
page 33 note 66 13 Oct. 1273.
page 33 note 67 The tithes of Aston Rowant were collected at Bledlow (Select Docs., p. 123).Google Scholar
page 33 note 68 Waddesdon was one of the manors of Miles Crispin from which Bec received onethird of the demesne tithes together with one virgate of land and a villein (English Lands, pp. 145–6Google Scholar; Select Docs., p. 77Google Scholar). The bailiff of the manor of Bledlow was responsible for their collection (Select Docs., p. 123).Google Scholar
page 33 note 69 The tithe corn of Kingston Blount was normally sold in bulk.
page 33 note 70 14 Oct. 1273.
page 34 note 71 The parson of Chesterton (Oxon.) owed 15s. annually for tithe (Select Docs., p. 99Google Scholar; English Lands, p. 146).Google Scholar
page 34 note 72 12 Dec. 1273.
page 34 note 73 15 Dec. 1273.
page 35 note 74 3 Nov. 1273.
page 35 note 75 Bec held the church of Glynde, in the exempt deanery of South Mailing, fully appropriated; the revenue is from tithes which in the custumal were valued at about 25 marks (Select Docs. pp. 1–2, 7, 81Google Scholar; English Lands, p. 143).Google Scholar
page 36 note 76 5 Nov. 1273.
page 37 note 77 17 Nov. 1273.
page 37 note 78 20 Nov. 1273.
page 38 note 79 25 Nov. 1273.
page 38 note 80 Robert de Perers, who held land in Suffolk (Cal. Close 1288–99, p. 46Google Scholar), occurs as sub-escheator in Sussex (Inq. P.M., ii. no. 571).
page 39 note 81 28 Nov. 1273.
page 39 note 82 Bec held tithes in Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre (English Lands, pp. 147–8).Google Scholar
page 39 note 83 25 Sept. 1273.
page 40 note 84 29 Sept. 1273. For Wolfhall in Savernake Forest see above, Introduction, p. 13.
page 49 note 85 For the avantagium see Titow, J. Z., Winchester Yields (Cambridge, 1272), p. 7.Google Scholar
page 52 note 1 26 March 1277.
page 52 note 2 30 March 1277.
page 53 note 3 8 April 1277.
page 53 note 4 9 April 1277.
page 53 note 5 13 April 1277.
page 54 note 6 Bec held tithes in Up Wimborne (English Lands, p. 142).Google Scholar
page 54 note 7 15 April 1277.
page 55 note 8 Peter de la Cambe, abbot of Bec.
page 55 note 9 17 April 1277.
page 55 note 10 Ralph de Fremingham was a justice of the common pleas from 1275–8 (Foss, Judges, iii. 282).Google Scholar
page 56 note 11 20 April 1277.
page 57 note 2 23 April 1277.
page 57 note 13 24 April 1277.
page 58 note a Beck’ + added in margin in late medieval hand.
page 58 note b Sic in MS; no space left.
page 58 note 14 26 April 1277.
page 58 note 15 28 April 1277.
page 58 note 16 5 May 1277.
page 59 note 17 13 May 1277.
page 60 note 18 21 Sept. 1277.
page 61 note 19 3s. was owed from the tithes of Ogbourne for the upkeep of the chapel of Rockley (Select Docs., p. 40).Google Scholar
page 61 note 20 The chapel of Shalbourne formed part of the Salisbury prebend (English Lands, p. 141).Google Scholar
page 61 note 21 23 Sept. 1277.
page 62 note c Beek’ + added in margin in late medieval hand
page 62 note 22 24 Sept. 1277.
page 62 note 23 30 Sept. 1277.
page 63 note 24 A fifteenth on all movable goods was granted in 1275 (Powicke, F. M., The Thirteenth Century (Oxford, 1953), pp. 343–4).Google Scholar
page 63 note 25 3 Oct. 1277.
page 63 note 26 Godfrey's office is not clear; he appears in 1281–2 at both Preston and Hooe and possibly also at Bledlow.
page 63 note 27 6 Oct. 1277.
page 64 note 28 Oct. 1277.
page 64 note 29 Sept. 1277.
page 65 note 30 18 Oct. 1277.
page 65 note 31 A substantial tenement was bought from Benedict of Blakenham in 1255 (English Lands, p. 85Google Scholar). This entry shows that Benedict's tenants became tenants of the abbey, and the land was not taken into the demesne.
page 66 note 32 22 Oct. 1277.
page 66 note 33 27 Oct. 1277.
page 67 note 34 3 Nov. 1277.
page 67 note 35 7 Nov. 1277.
page 68 note 36 8 Nov. 1277.
page 68 note 37 Ralph le Bar was one of the free tenants in Cottisford (Select Docs., p. 98).Google Scholar
page 68 note 38 13 Nov. 1277.
page 69 note 39 John Russell was bailiff of Wantage in 1283–4.
page 69 note 40 20 Nov. 1277.
page 70 note 41 22 Nov. 1277.
page 71 note 42 2 Dec. 1277.
page 71 note 43 25 Sept. 1277.
page 72 note 44 This is the first appearance of a separate account for the Salisbury prebend.
page 72 note 45 10 Dec. 1277.
page 72 note 46 28 Dec. 1277.
page 73 note 47 19 May 1278.
page 73 note 48 See above, Introduction, p. 8.
page 74 note 49 View of frankpledge at Weedon was held by the bailiff of the honour of Leicester; the abbot of Bec paid the bailiff's expenses and received the profits (English Lands, p. 64)Google Scholar
page 78 note 50 The abbot of Bee had property in London, including a house in Baynard Castle Ward where the prior of Ogbourne stayed when he had business there (English Lands, p. 147).Google Scholar
page 85 note 51 19 May 1278. This is the corn account corresponding to the escheators' account for the same period.
page 86 note 1 28 Sept. 1282.
page 86 note 2 The estates were in the king's hand during the vacancy following the death of Abbot Peter on 2 Nov. 1281. Tenants were tallaged both by the king and by the abbot.
page 86 note 3 The mill at Polton had just been built, as the expenses for Ogbourne St Andrew show.
page 87 note 4 Ralph de Broughton was keeper of the estates of Bee during the three months from 17 Nov. 1281 to 17 Feb. 1282 when they were in the king's hand.
page 87 note 5 Dean of the abbot's Salisbury prebend.
page 88 note 6 This account for the period Michaelmas 1281 to Michaelmas 1282 was written up after Christmas 1282 at the same time as the remainder of the roll. There is no change of ink or handwriting.
page 88 note 7 1 Oct., 1282.
page 88 note 8 The escheator's expenses resulted from the vacancy in the abbey.
page 88 note 9 De perquisitis regis should be understood.
page 89 note 10 7 Oct. 1282.
page 90 note 11 The dean of the Salisbury prebend.
page 90 note 12 12 Oct. 1282.
page 90 note 13 21 Oct. 1282.
page 91 note 14 Abbot Ymerius visited the English lands in the spring of 1282.
page 92 note 15 The purchase of a psalter and repairs to the chancel of the church of Weedon may have been connected with the abbot's visit.
page 92 note 16 Unidentified; probably a royal clerk.
page 92 note 17 For the use of tallies in manorial accounting see Oschinsky, pp. 222–4.
page 92 note 18 23 Oct. 1282.
page 94 note 19 30 Oct. 1282.
page 94 note 20 The priory of Stoke-by-Clare, dependent on Bec.
page 94 note 21 Richard de Boyland, itinerant justice, and a considerable landholder in Norfolk and Suffolk (Foss, , Judges, iii. 59–60).Google Scholar
page 94 note 22 Warin, a free tenant in Blakenham, witnessed a number of Blakenham charters between 1277 and 1290; he died in 1315 holding a messuage and 5 acres of land for 2s. 11d. and suit of court (ECR 29/1258).
page 94 note 23 6 Nov. 1282.
page 95 note 24 This entry, which occurs among the ecclesiastical revenues, must be the pension of 4 marks due from the church of Dunton (English Lands, p. 146).Google Scholar
page 95 note 25 11 Nov. 1282.
page 96 note 26 14 Nov. 1282.
page 97 note 27 17 Nov. 1282.
page 97 note 28 The provision of a new alb may, like the renewals at Weedon, have been connected with the abbot's visit.
page 98 note 29 20 Nov. 1282.
page 98 note 30 William Sorel later appears frequently in the abbey's service. He acted as bailiff of Quarley in 1283–4, bailiff of Blakenham from at least 1297 and bailiff of Wretham from 1303–5 (Select Docs., pp. 172–85Google Scholar; English Lands, p. 55).Google Scholar
page 99 note 31 24 Nov. 1282.
page 99 note 32 Steventon (Berks.) was a small priory dependent on Bee and its Norman priory of Notre-Dame du Pré (English Lands, pp. 21–3).Google Scholar
page 100 note 33 25 Nov. 1282.
page 101 note 34 This roll is cither the account for 1280–1 or one of the rolls containing receipts from all the English possessions of Bee that were sent to the mother abbey (English lands, p. 7).Google Scholar
page 101 note 35 The next accounts were probably those of Deverill, Chisenbury, Hungerford and Combe, for which corn accounts were recorded on the dorse of the roll.
page 105 note a Omitted in MS.
page 107 note b Omitted in MS.
page 111 note 36 There is no record of a corn account for Povington, which follows Swyncombe on the roll.
page 111 note 37 Cowick (Devon.) was another of the priories of Bee.
page 114 note 1 8 Oct. 1284.
page 115 note 2 10 Oct. 1284.
page 115 note 3 12 Oct. 1284.
page 116 note 4 20 Oct. 1284.
page 118 note 5 28 Oct. 1284
page 118 note 6 This purchase probably included the meadow which Stephen the smith of Beylham had bought from Giles son of Geoffrey de Langedene for 10s. in April 1269 (ECR 29).
page 118 note 7 Among the Blakenham charters at Eton are several that relate to the Chantebien family, no doubt kinsmen of the free tenant Peter Chantebien who with his partners held 30 acres in the custumal (Select Docs., pp. 93, 96Google Scholar). Agnes, widow of Ralph Chantebien, sold her dower rights in Ralph's tenement to the abbot for is. 4d., and in spite of the small discrepancy in price this is probably the transaction recorded here (ECR 29).
page 119 note 8 The arrears from the year 1281–2, incurred during the vacancy after the death of Abbot Peter of Bec.
page 119 note 9 9 Nov. 1284.
page 120 note 10 Richard le Waleys was a tenant in Sussex of the archbishop of Canterbury (cf. Cal. Fine, i. 75Google Scholar; Cal. Close 1272–9, p. 237).Google Scholar
page 120 note 11 12 Nov. 1284.
page 122 note 12 15 Nov. 1284.
page 122 note 13 Probably a case of suicide, since the drowned man's goods were forfeit; see Pollock, F. and Maitland, F. W., The History of English Law before the time of Edward I (2nd edn, Cambridge, 1968), ii. 488.Google Scholar
page 122 note 14 18 Nov. 1284.
page 124 note 15 21 Nov. 1284.
page 125 note 16 The official either of the dean of Salisbury or of the abbot's prebendal jurisdiction.
page 125 note 17 A kinsman of William of Harden (cf. Cal. Fine, i. 194, 348Google Scholar; iv. 233, 240).
page 125 note 18 2 Dec., 1284.
page 126 note 19 Most probably on a visit to Cowick priory.
page 126 note 20 Possibly Peter de Gormville. His office is not certain; he may be the ‘P. Anglicus’ who in June 1283 paid 300 marks from the English estates to Abbot Ymerius, according to the abbey's chronicle (Porée, ii. 3 n. 30, ‘anno Domini 1283, in festo Nativitatis B. Johannis Baptiste, recepit idem abbas per manum P. Anglici trecentas marcas, computatis sexies viginti marcis quas dictus procurator reddidit in Anglia Roberto le Balancher civi Rothomagensi, quam pecuniam idem civis tradiderat mutuo domino abbati’).
page 126 note 21 2 Dec. 1284.
page 127 note 22 4 Dec. 1284.
page 127 note 23 6 Dec. 1284.
page 128 note a Sic in MS.
page 128 note 24 The additional account from Michaelmas to 6 Dec. 1284 is added in lighter ink, but it is in the same hand and there is only one final calculation of the bailiff's arreas.
page 128 note 25 9 Dec. 1284.
page 129 note 26 12 Dec. 1284.
page 131 note b In another hand.
page 131 note 27 4 Jan. 1285.
page 139 note 28 This appears to have been treated as grain sold in the cash account.
page 140 note 29 William de Braybœuf (Brabœf) served as justice itinerant, assessor of the fifteenth in Hampshire and sheriff of Hampshire during the early years of Edward I's reign; he died in 1284 (Foss, , Judges, iii. 60–1).Google Scholar
page 145 note 1 7 Oct. 1288.
page 146 note a quos … remansit added later.
page 146 note 2 8 Oct. 1288.
page 148 note 3 13 Oct. 1288.
page 149 note b Et ita … 10¾d. added in lighter ink.
page 150 note c Space left for completion.
page 150 note 4 26 Oct. 1288.
page 151 note d Space left for completion.
page 151 note e Word omitted.
page 151 note 5 16 Nov. 1288.
page 152 note 6 For Roger Beufo (de Bello Fago) see Foss, , Judges, iii. 55.Google Scholar
page 153 note 7 The Barentyne family was settled in Chalgrove from the thirteenth century (VCH Oxford., viii. 62Google Scholar; cf. also Cal. Close 1272–9, p. 124).Google Scholar
page 153 note 8 2 Dec. 1288.
page 153 note 9 The payments by the abbot of Reading relate to East Hendred.
page 154 note 10 4 Dec. 1288.
page 155 note 11 6 Dec. 1288.
page 155 note 2 From 22 Aug. to 29 Sept. 1287.
page 156 note 3 26 Dec. 1288.
page 157 note f Space left for completion.
page 157 note 14 6 May 1289.
page 158 note g Space left for completion.
page 158 note 15 7 May 1289.
page 158 note 16 Leek seed.
page 159 note 17 28 May 1289.
page 160 note 18 6 June 1289.
page 160 note 19 Michaelmas 1287 to Michaelmas 1288.
page 160 note 20 Cf. Edwards, K., English Secular Cathedrals, p. 126Google Scholar. By the thirteenth century the individual prebendaries had their own courts with powers of correction. For the summoner (apparitor) see ibid., p. 157.
page 160 note 21 An entry under Povington for the same year may refer to the same transaction.
page 160 note 22 23 July 1289.
page 162 note 23 Eels and small fry.
page 162 note 24 The entries for Milburne and Povington are out of chronological sequence.
page 163 note 25 Cf. the chapter account for the Salisbury prebend, though the sums do not exactly tally.
page 163 note 26 11 November 1289. See above, Introduction, p. 16.
page 164 note 27 See above, Introduction, p. 10.
page 164 note 28 Glynde was in the exempt deanery of South Mailing.
page 169 note a Space left; no entries for Wretham or Lessingham.
page 180 note 1 William of Harden.
page 181 note 2 26 Dec. 1289 or 1290. The account appears to refer to 1289; yet the reference to William Notard's extra rent would be more likely in the following year (see n. 3).
page 181 note 3 He had been put in seisin of one rod of land of the lord's demesne in Nov. 1289. (Maitland, , Select Pleas, p. 33).Google Scholar
page 183 note 4 Solomon of Rochester, itinerant justice from 1274 to 1287 (Foss, , Judges, iii. 144–5).Google Scholar
page 183 note 5 30 Dec. 1289, for the year Michaelmas 1288 to Michaelmas 1289.
page 186 note a One or two words torn away; possibly quia nan
page 186 note 1 For Ralph de Broughton see above, Introduction, p. 11. The accounts are for the period 2 Oct. 1281 to mid February 1282. Although a few end on 14 Feb., the day the temporalities were restored to the abbot, most run to 17 Feb., variously described as the Tuesday after St Valentine's day, or the Tuesday before the feast of St Peter in Cathedra. Some are in two parts, with a break either on St Andrew's Day (30 Nov.) or at Christmas.
page 186 note 2 Churchset, regularly entered on these accounts, occurs only occasionally as a separate item in the abbey's rolls, and must be included under another heading, possibly perquisites, or hens.
page 186 note 3 Almost every manorial official made a claim against the estimated dairy expenses; in this case it seems likely that the dairy of Ogbourne St George was separately managed by a different official.
page 187 note 4 For recognition see above, Introduction, p. 10.
page 193 note b De bosco … 8½d. added later