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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
Some time ago I was asked by Mr. G. R. Martyn, of the firm of Martyn's & Gane, if I could identify an old document, which had been found in cleaning out a room in his offices. The document was sent to me and proved to be the depositions relating to the sea-banks at Terrington. I asked Mr. Martyn if he had any more such documents and, as a result, a fairly large collection was sent for inspection.
page v note 1 See p. 24.
page v note 2 H. MSS. Com. 11th Report, Ap. IV. Henceforward referred to as T.P.
page v note 3 Official Papers of Sir Nathaniel Bacon, Ed. H. W. Saunders, Camden Soc., 3rd Series, Vol. XXVI, 1915. Henceforward referred to as S.P.
page vi note 1 Camden Soc., 3rd Series, Vols. XXIX, XXXI, XXXIV.
page vii note 1 p. 21.
page vii note 2 p. 21.
page vii note 3 p. 19.
page vii note 4 p. 19.
page vii note 5 The whole topic is ably discussed in , S. and Webb, B., English Local Government (London, 1906).Google Scholar
page viii note 1 p. 7 et seq.
page ix note 1 For a full discussion of the whole problem of usury in the Elizabethan Age see Tawney, R. H., Discourse upon Usury (London, 1925)Google Scholar. There is a reference on p. 23 to this identical case, taken from the State Papers.
page ix note 2 p. 4.
page x note 1 The Terrington business is discussed at length, S.P., pp. 107–114. Dr. Saunders regarded it as emanating from the Court of Sewers. The endorsements of the depositions, however, prove that the enquiry was by a commission from the Exchequer. The reason is obvious since all the deponents agree that the queen was the chief landowner in Terrington.
page x note 2 For the whole subject of the consumption of wheat and rye see Ashley, W. J., Bread of our Fathers (Oxford, 1929).Google Scholar
page x note 3 p. 5.
page xi note 1 My colleague, Mr. H. King, has suggested to me that this mixing may have been due to a difficulty in growing a mixed crop such as maslin, since rye and wheat ought to be sown and harvested at different times. The practice of mixing wheat and rye after threshing is also noted in the accounts of Roger Townshend's bailiff, p. 41.
page xi note 2 p. I.
page xi note 3 S.P., p. xi.
page xi note 4 Thomson, G. Scott, The Lords Lieutenants in the Sixteenth Century (London, 1923)Google Scholar.
The subject has also been treated in considerable detail by the late Dr. J. E. Morris in the introduction to Miss Joan Wake's edition of Papers relating to Musters in Northants. Northants Record Soc., Vol. III (1926).
page xii note 1 Rye, W., State Papers relating to Musters, Beacons and Shipmoney in NorfolkGoogle Scholar; cf. also Hudson and Tingey in Norfolk and Norwich Architectural Soc., Vol. XIV.
page xiii note 1 S.P., p. xl.
page xiv note 1 See p. 27.
page xiv note 2 For a similar list for the diocese of Lincoln see Foster, C. W., State of the Church (Lincoln Record Society, 1926), p. 145.Google Scholar
page xvi note 1 S.P., pp. 201, 202, 208. For earlier and later procedure and value, see an article on “Royal Fish” in the Quarterly Review, July, 1936.
page xvi note 2 S.P., p. 194 et seq.
page xvii note 1 p. 45.
page xvii note 2 The date of these documents is instructive in connexion with the building of the existing Hall.
page xviii note 1 The ceremony is, I believe, widespread. In Provence it is known as la cabade.
page xviii note 2 The spelling of personal and place names of the original documents has been retained, but dates corrected to New Style. In preparing this edition I have made much use of the work of Dr. H. W. Saunders, which has been of the greatest value. I owe much also to the wise guidance of Dr. Hubert Hall.
page 2 note 1 A customary measure used on the quays, usually 5 pecks to the bushel.
page 3 note 1 The schedule is missing.
page 5 note 1 The date of this document is possibly 1630. See Rye, , op. cit., p. 179.Google Scholar
page 5 note 2 The abbreviation “co.” is generally used for the combe measure.
page 7 note 1 For special bail and process of latitat see Holdsworth, W., History of English Law, Vol. I., p. 219.Google Scholar
page 12 note 1 Words illegible.
page 14 note 1 A cade is a barrel containing six long hundreds (i.e. 720) herrings. A warp is defined by the N.E.D. as two, three or four. At Yarmouth 33 warps went to the hundred. Obviously another measure is meant here.
page 18 note 1 A todd = 28 lbs.
page 21 note 1 The spelling of the name varies.
page 24 note 1 S.P., pp. 107–23.
page 35 note 1 Dr. Hubert Hall informs me that part of the foreshore at Stifikey is still locally known as the “meeles.” He suggests, however, that the whale may have been stranded some distance from Stifikey village.
page 36 note 1 Word illegible.
page 36 note 2 Possibly a bucket (cf. Fr. seau).
page 36 note 3 Figure illegible.
page 40 note 1 Word illegible.
page 40 note 2 Roger Townshend was Nathaniel Bacon's son-in-law and successor. Although this is not strictly speaking one of Bacon's papers, it has been included for its intrinsic interest.
page 41 note 1 Calves, i.e. neats.
page 42 note 1 Walsingham appears to have been instrumental in getting the patent for Sydney to license the exportation of corn. The proceeds of the licenses were to be applied to erect a pier at Cromer (S.P., p. xxxiv, and pp. 124–9).
page 47 note 1 Morston.
page 49 note 1 11d. per day.
page 49 note 2 Peternoster probably simply means our Peter.
page 50 note 1 Probably the same man as in the previous document.
page 53 note 1 This Index must not be regarded as exhaustive, since the descriptions of the documents given in the text were intended as a guide to the contents.