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Reports of the Commissioners and Assistant C . = . 1. .th Minutes of Evidence, &c., are in course of publication. orts of Her Majesty's Inspectors for the Year 1894, with Summ, ." Lcal Portion, under the provisions of the Coal Mines Regulation Ac ," of " totam terram cum fossato de muro ballii niei Line, in orientali parte per circuitum ecclesiaj beati Michaelis usque ad cceme- terium S. Audreap, et a ccemeterio S. Andrea? usque ad raurum civitatis versus oritnteni," free from hingavel and picage and all other things; " et libere poterit perforare nnirum ballii mei ad port.'xm faciendam ad introitum et exitum suum habendum versus ecclesiam, et ita edificare quod edificia sua extendantiir in utrumque murum." Witnesses : — Roger, archbp. of York, Thomas the Chancellor, Rich, de Luci, Warin son of Gcrold Chamberlain, "William son of Hamo, Rob. de Dunstan- ville, Jose, de Balliol. At Lincoln. An oflSce copy, made by Geo. Holmes, and attested by W. Harvey, 2-i Feb. 1704. '[The original is on Charter Roll, 2 Ric. II., No. 5.] [1157.] Charter of Henry II. — This, written in 16 lines, occupying 4^ inches on a parchment measuring altogether 6 inches (sewn sometime late in ihe 15th cent., or beginning of 16th, as appears from the hand- writing of an endorsement, on another piece of parchment), is the earliest extant document among the city records. Its existence there was not known. The silk strings of the seal remain with a very small fragment of the wax on one of its parchment labels, together with a tin frame in which the seal was at some time placed, probably when the deed was affixed, for preservation, to its present parchment-back. The charter is as follows : — " H. Rex Angl. et Dux Norm, et Aquitan. et Comes And. Episcopo Line. Justic, Vic, Baronibus, Ministris et Omnibus fidelibus suis Francis et Anglis Lincotscire; Salutem. Sciatis me concessisse Civibus meis Lincol. omnes libertates et consuetudines et leges suas quas habuerunt tempore Eduardi et Willelmi et Henrici Regum Anglie, et Gildam suam mercatoriam, de hominibus Civitatis et de aliis mercatoribus Comitatus ; siciit illam habuerunt tempore pre- dictorum antecessorum meoruni Regum Anglie melius et liberius. Et omnes homines qui infra iiii°' divisas Civitatis manent et mercatum deducunt ; sint ad Geldas et Consuetudines et Asisas Civitatis ; sicut melius fuerunt tempore Eduardi et Willelmi et Henrici Regum Anglie. Coucedo etiam eis quod si aliquis eraerit aliquam terram infra Civitatem de Burgagio Lincolie et eam tenuerit per annum et unum diem sine Calumpnia, et ille qui eam emerit possit monstrare quod Calumpniator extiterit in Regione Anglie infra annum et non Calumpniatus est eam ; ex tunc in antea bene et in pace teneat eam et sine placito. Confirmo etiam eis quod si aliquis manserit in Civitate mea Lincol. per annum et unum diem sine Calumpnia alicujus Calumpniatoris, et dederit Con- suetudines Civitatis, et Gives poterint monstrare per leges et Consuetu- dines Civitatis quod Calumpnialor extitit in Regione Anglie et non Calumpniatus est eum ; ex tunc in antea remaneat in pace in Civitate mea Lincol. sicut Civis meus sine . . . recto. T[estibus], Ph[ilippo] Episcopo Baioc. Ero[ulfo] Episcopo Lexov. Toma Cancellario, Comite Regin[aldo], Ric. de Humes Constabulario, H[enrico] de Essexa Con- Btabulario. Apud Notingeham." [The King was at Nottingham in 1157.] [Enrolled in Chancery, Cart. Antiq., F. 16.] 1194, 23 Apr.— Charter of Richard I. See "White Book," f. 150, infra. 1200, 23 April. Charter of K. John. This, which is much creased and rubbed, was long since, for its better preservation, attached at the back to a fragment of a plea at Westminster in the time of Q. Elizii- beth, while the fragments of the great seal were fastened in a tin frame within folds of paper sewn together. [The parts in the text within brackets are from the Charter Roll of 1 John, p. 2, m. 3.] " Jo. Dei gracia rex Angl, dom. Hib. dux [N'ormaunie]. Aquit[annie et]com[es] Andfegavias] archiepiscopis, episcopis, abbatibus, comitibus, baronibus, justiciariis . . . io et omnibus ballivis et fidelibus nostris .... Sciatis nos concessisse [civibus nostris] Line, quod nuUus eorum placitet extra muros civitatis Line, de aliquo placito preter placita [de tenuris exterioribus, exceptis] monetariis et ministris nostris. Concessimus etiara eis quietanciam murdri intra civitatem et in Portsoc, et quod nullus [eorum] faciat duellum, et quod de placitis ad coronam pertiuentibusse pos- sint disracionare secundum consuetudinem quam Gives Civitatis Load, habuerunt tempore Henrici regis patris nostri, et quod infra muros civi- tatis illius nemo capiat hospicium per vim vel per liberacionem Mares- callorum. Hoc etiam eis concessimus quod omnes cives TLinc. sint quieti de theloneo et lestagio per totam Angliam et per portus maris, et quod nullus de misericordia pecunie judicetur nisi secundum legem quam habuerunt cives nostri London, tempore predicti Regis patris nos- tri, et quod in civitate ilia in nuUo placito sit [meskenninga et quod] Burewaremot semel tantum in ebdomade teneatur, et quod terras et tenuras et vadia sua et debita sua omnia juste habeant [quicuuque eis debeat, et] de terris suis et tenuris que infra civitatem sunt rectum eis teneatur secundum consuetudinem civitatis, et de omnibus debitis suis que accommodata fuerunt apud Line, et de vadiis ibidem factis, placitum apud Line, teneatur. Prohibemus eciam ne quis [ab eis] teloneum vel consuetudinem capiat in Anglia de hiis que ad nos perti- nent super forisfacturam decem librarum, salvis in omnibus libertatibus civitatis Lond. Insuper ad emendacionem illius civitatis concessimus quod sint quieti de Bridtoll et de Childewite et de Gj'ereseyeue,* et de Scotale, ita quod prepo-siti nee alii ballivi scotalam faciaut. Has predictas consuetu dines eis concessimus et omnes alias libertates et liberas consuetudines secundum libertates Lond. et leges civitatis Line, quas habuerunt cives nostri Lond. quando meliores vel liberiores habuerunt tempore predicti Regis patris nostri. Quare volumus et firmiter precipimus quod ipsi et heredes eorum hec omnia predicta [habeant et tene]ant hereditarie de nobis et heredibus nostris, red- dendo ])er annum novies viginti libras numero de Line, cum omnibus pertinentiis ad Scaccarium nostrum duobus terminis, ad Pascham scilicet et ad festum Sancti Michaelis, per manus prepositorum Line. Preterea volumus et concedimns quod idem cives civitatis Line, per com- mune consilium civitatis [eligant] duos de legalioribus et discretioribus civibus I-inc, et preseutent eos capitali justiciario apud Westm., qui bene et fideliter custodiunt Preposituram civitatis Line, et [non amoveantur quamdiu] in ballia sua se bene gesserint, nisi per commune consilium civitatis sue. Volumus eciam quod in eadem civitate [Line, per com- mune] consilium civium eligantur [quatuor] de legalioribus et discre- tioribus civitatis ad custodiendum placita corone et alia que ad nos et coronam nostram pertinent in eadem civitate, et ad videndum ipiod pre- positi illius Civitatis juste et legitime tractent tarn panperes quamdivites. Te.stibus, W[ill.] Lond. cpiscopo G[alfrido] filio Petri comito P]ssex, Willelmo Mariscall, comite de Penbroc., " Hub. fil. Rogeri Houchard,"| W[ill. Briwerr.] Dat. per man. S[imonis] archid. Well, et J. de Gre[i], archidiaconi de Gloecestre, apud Awelton xxiij die Aprilis et Rcgni nostri anno primo." * In the Charter Roll this is written " jercHyevo." t Instead of this name the enrolment has "Uug. Hard." k 2 1227, 20 Apr. — Charter of Hon. III. mutilated by damp ; sejtl lost. This wa-< not in lnt«' years known to be in existence, })ut it is mentioned in a list of eharters in Vol. IV. of Eeports of Municipal Corporation- Coniniissiou, p. 2.'i lo. The missing words are supplied, within brackets, from the Inspeximus of Edw. HI. in IS-'iO. *' Henricus Dei gratia Ilex [etc.] Sciatis nos conccssisse civibus nostris Lincoln, quod nullus eonun plaeitet extra eivitatem Lincoln, de aliquo placito preter placita de tenuris exterioribus, exceptis mouetariis et ministris nostris. Con- cessimus etiam eis quietanciain murdri infra eivitatem [et in Portsoca, et quod nuJUus eorum faciat duellum, et quod de placitis ad coronam pertinentibus se possint disrationare secundum consuetudinem quam cives London, habucrunt tempore 11. Regis avi nostri [et quod infra eivitatem] Line, nemo capiat hospitium per vim vel per liberationeiu Marescalli. Hoc etiam eis concessinius quod omnes ci%'es Line, siat quieti de theloneo et lestagio per totam Angliam [et per portus maris, et] quod nullus de misericordia pecunie judicetur nisi secundum legem quam babuerunt cives nostri London, tempore H. Ilegis avi nostri. Et quod in civitate ilia in uullo placito sit [Meskenninga, et quod Bu] rewaremote semel tantum in ebdomada teneatur, et quod terras et tenuras et vadia sua et debita sua omnia juste habeant qui- cunque eis debeat, ct de terris suis et tenuris que [infra eivitatem sunt rectum eis] teneatur secundum consuetudinem civitatis, et de omnibus debitis suis que accommodata fuerunt apud Lincoln, et de vadiis ibi- dem factis placitum apud Line, teneatur. [Prohibemus etiam ne quia ab eis theloneum] vel consuetudinem capiat in Anglia de hiis que ad nos pertinent super forisfacturam decem librarum sulvis in omnibus libertatibus civitatis London. Et si quis [in tota Anglia theloneum} ab hominibus Line, ceperit postquam ipse a recto defecerit, propositus Line, namium capiat apud Line. Insuper etiam ad emendationem illius civitatis concessiraus eis quod siut [quieti de Bridtol et de} Child'wite et Yere.«give* et scotala, ita quod prepositi nee alii ballivi scotalam faciant. Has predictas consuetudines eis concessiraus et omnes alias libertates et liberas consuetudines secundum libertatea London [et leges civitatis Lincoln quas] habuerunt cives nostri London, quando meliores vel liberiores liabuerunt tempore predicti H. avi nostri vel habent. Quare volumus et firmiter precipimus quod ipsi et heredes eorum hec omnia [predicta habeant ei teneant heredi]tarie de nobis et heredibus nostris. Reddendo per annum novies viginti libraa numero de Line, cum omnibus pertinentiis ad Scaccarium nos- trum duobus terminis, ad Pascha scilicet et ad festum Sancti Michaelis [per manum] prepositorum Line. Px'eterea volumus et concedimus quod ipsi cives Lincoln, per commune consilium civitatis eligaut duos de legalioribus civibus Line, et presentent eos capitali justiciario nostro apud "Westmon. [qui bene] et fideliter custodiant prepositurum civi- tatis Line, et non amoveantur quamdiu in ball'a sua se bene gesserint nisi per commune consilium civitatis sue. Volumus etiam quod in eadem civitate Line, [per commune consilium] civium eligantur qua- tuor de legalioribus et discretioribus civitatis ad custodienduni placita corone et alia que ad nos et ad coronam nostram pertinent in eadem civitate, et ad videndum quod prepositi [illius civitatis juste] et legitime tractent tam pauperes quam divites. Concessinius etiam eis gildam suam mercatoriam de hominibus civitatis et de aliis mercatori- bus comitatus, sicut illam habuerunt tempore [H. Regis avi nostri] fct ut omnes homines qui infra quatuor divisas civitatis manent et mercatum deducunt sint ad gildas et consuetudines et assisas civitatis sicut melius fuerit tempore predicti H. Regis [avi] nostri. Concessiraus etiam eis quod si aliquis nativus manserit in civitate nostra Line. * In the Inspeximus this is written Gieresgieue and in the Charter Roll Gyeresiue. per unum annum et unum diem sine calumpnia, ex tunc in antea remaneat in pace in civitate nostra Lincoln, sicut civis noster. Sicut ■carte predicti H. Regis avi nostri, et R. Regis avunculi nostri et doniini J. Regis patris nostri, quas inde habent rationabiliter testantur. Hiis testibus W. Carleol. G. Elyeus. Th. Norwicen. episcopis, H. de Bnrgo. Comite Kantie Justiciario nostro, G. Comite Glouc, et Hereford, Hen- rico de Aldithel, Nich. de Yeredun, Theobaldo Pincerna, Osberto Giffard, Radulfo filio Nicholai, [G. de] Cravvecumbe, Ricardo de Argent[ein], Henrico de Capella, Radulfo de Raleg. et aliis. Dat. per manum venerabilis patris Radulfi Cycestr. episcopi Cancellarii nostri apud Westmon. vicesimo die Aprilis anno regni nostri undecimo." [Enrolled in Charter Roll of 11 Hen. III., pt. 1, m. 8.] 1226, 21 Nov. — Further charter of exemption from tolls, &c. See « White Book," fol. 150, infra. 1262, 7 March. — Letters Patent of Henry III. The great seal, in white wax, is very much broken and in a very brittle state. It has at some time about the end of the fifteenth century or in the sixteenth been enclosed in a tin frame, like that of the charter of Hen. IL, and fastened up in several folds of paper, and the document mounted on another parchment, as noticed below. The document is injured by damp, which must have affected it before these precautions for its preservation were taken. It was not known until now to be in existence. ** Henricus Dei gratia Rex Angl. Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aquitannie vicecomitibus et rainistris suis comitatus Lincoln, salutem. Inspeximus literas quas dominus Henricus Rex avus meis fecit civibus Lincoln, in hec verba. H. Rex. Angl. et Dux Nor- manie Aquitannie et Com. And. vicecomitibus et ministris suis de Lincolnsire salutem. Precipio quod faciatis [forinjsecos mercatores venire ad Lincoln, et ibi facere mercaturas suas ita racionabiliter €t juste sicut facere solebant tempore H. Regis avi mei, ne prepositi Lincoln, amittant meas regias cousuetudines. Teste, Ricardo de Lucy, apud Westmon. [" Wodos "[tock] Pat. Roll]. Nos igitur prefatis civibus nostris hoc [ipsum] tam in conservationem [juris nostri] quam juris eornndem volentes observari, precipimus quod mercatores forinsecos ad villam predictam venire faciatis, et ibi facere mercaturas suas ita racionabiliter et juste, sicut facei'e solebant temporibus predic- torum H. Regis senioris, H. Regis avi nostri, necnon et Ricardi Regis avunculi nostri et Johannis Regis patris nostri, et eciam tempore nostro usque primam transfretacionem nostram in Britanniam. Et concediinus pro nobis et heredibus nostris quod hoc eisdem civibus a modo obser- vetur per forisfacturam nostram decern librarum. In cujus rci testi- monium has litteras nostras fieri fecinius patentes. Teste meipso apud Windele.soram septimo die Marcii anno regni no.stri quadragesimo sexto." [Enrolled on Pat. Roll, 46 Hen. III., m. IL] This is mounted on a copy, on parchment, of a petition from tho citizens of " Nicole " to the King (^probably Edw. IV.) in Parliament, IB French, praying for relief from the fee-farm annual rent to the Crown of 180/., which Iiad become quite insupi)ortable. Many of the inhabi- tants of the city have departed with all their goods, people will not trade tiiere on account of the excessive charge, the highways as well as the lanes are empty and desolate for want of tenants, and tlig city is consequently on the verge of destruction. Of tlie afon^said rcMit 80/. had been granted by the King's royal progcnitois to tiie catlie--t-^ places assigned for the staple in England are Newcastle-upon-Tyne, York, Lincoln, Norwich, London, Winchest^T, Exeter, and Bristol ; in Ireland, Dublin, Drogheda, and Cork ; and in Whales, Shrewsbury, Carmarthen, and Cardiff, and for Cornwall, Lostwithiel and Trerew, and for Devonshire, Aysperton [Ashburton]. Eleven sections follow of trade regulations for alien merchants, and for those of England, Ireland and Wales ; amongst which are provisions that the merchants and people of Gascony and the duchy of Guienne who are under the obedience of the King o^- his s on_^ are not to be regarded as aliens but as denizens ; that after Christmas next no person shall use any cloth bought after that date which was not made in England, Ireland, or Wales under pain of forfeiture and such punishment as the King and his Council may ordain, except the King and Queen, earls, bai-ons. ^J^lh h -ymo ^ ^ f knights, their wives aud children, archbishops, bishops, and other per- sons of holy Church, and such secular persons as can spend 40/. per an. of rents; cloth may be made of any length desired. " Et que gentz eient plus graunte volunte de laburrer sur les ouereignes des draps eiu {sic) Engleterre, Irlaund et Gales nous volunis que totes gentz sachent que nousgrauuterums fraunchises covenables as folours, telers, teynturers, et as autres ouerurs des draps que de cest mester souereinement viuent quele hure que teles fraunchises nous soient demaundez. Et que graunte soit as marchauntz des leines que eux eient un maire des susdites es- taples." No one to molest strangers in coming or going ; otherwise the towns which they had visited to be answerable for damages and for capture of the malefactors. *' Donetz a Kenylworthe le prime jour de May, Ian de notre roialme dis et novisrae." c. 1300. See list of lost documents, infra. 1301, 25 Feb. — Inspeximus Charter of Edward I. reciting and con- firming all the preceding charters to the city. Of these there are two original copies, one in beautiful and perfect condition, the other much mutilated and injured by damp. The latter is contained in a small black box. The great seals of both are enclosed in folds of paper, which consist partly of fragments of the records of the city court. The Charter begins with the recital of the following grants from Henry II. which are not themselves extant. i. " Omnibus N"orensibus qui veniunt ad portum de Grimesby vel ad alios portus meos de Liucolnsire salutem. Precipio quod facialis pre- positis meis Line, omnes rectiludines et consuetudiues quas solebatis facere tempore Kegis H. avi mei prepositis Line. Et prohibeo ne quis vestrum detineat eis theloneura vel aliam consuetudinem injuste super decem librarum forisfacturam. T., W. filio Johanuis apud Wirec[estri!i m ] . " ii. " Precipio quod nuUus mercator qui sit extraneus et deforis sit residens in Line, pro tingendis pannis suis vel vendendis ad taleam nisi illi tantum qui sunt in gilda et ad omnes consuetudines ville et qui reddunt gelda mea cum eis sicuti solebant tempore H. Regis. T., Reg. comite Corn., H. de Essex constab., Ricardo de Humez." iii. " Precipio quod omnes qui de mercato vivunt et mercatum dedu- cunt infra quatuor divisas que pertinent civitati Line, reddant commu- niter cum civibus meis Line, gelda mea et assisas civitatis sicnt i-eddere Solent [^lege, solebant] tempore Regis H. et sicut juste cum eis esse debent in cujuscunque terra maneant. T, Reg. com. Cornub., Henr.de Essex constab., Ricardo de Humez. Apud Notinge[ham]." To the confirmation the following clauses are added:— "Et si forte iidem cives aliqua vel aliquibus libertalum in dictis cartis et Uteris con- tentarum hactenus plene usi non fuerunt, nichiloniinus volumus et con- cedimus pro nobis ethcredibus nostris quod iidem cives et successorcs sui predict! libertatc vel libertatibus illis decetcro gaudeant et utantur. Conces- simus insuper i)ro nobis et heredibus nostris eisdem civibus quod \\m et suc- cessores sui predicti imperpetuum sint quleti de muragio, panagio, pontngio, wharuagio, stallagio et terragio per totum regnmn nostrum et totani tcrram ac potestateni nostram. Hiis testibus, venerabilibus patribus l\. Cantuar. archiepiscoj)©, A. Dunelm., J. Line, W. Coventr. et Lichfield, et J. Karliol. ef)iscopis, Johanne de "Warrenne Surr., Thoma Lancastr., Roger le Bigod Norff". Marescallo Angliae, Guidone do Bello ciimpo AVarr., et Radulfo de Monte Hermerii Glouc. ct Hertford comitibus, Johanne de Britannia, Johanne de Sancto Johanne, Johanne de Segrave, Regi- naldo de Grey, Johanne de Ilastinges, Waltero do Bello campo senoscdlo hospitii nostri, Petro de Tatintono, ot aliis. Dut. per maiiuin nostrum apud Line, vicosimo quinto die Februarii anno rogni nostri vicesimo nono." 8 131S, Doc. At York. — Confirmation by Ethvnrd IT. of a license iVoiu Ktlward 1. (o the Dt>.in and C'liaptor to encloso the precinct of the Catht'ilral L'imrch with walls and pitcs, and to crcnellate, on acconnt of th»> nocturniil inroads ol' thieves and other evil-doers, cruising frequent uinnsianj:;liter, etc.; with the addition of license to raise the walls twelve feet hiiiher and to make as many turrets as they please. An otHee copv from the Pnhlie Records, made by George Holmes and attested by W. Harvey, 24 Feb. 1704. 1327, o Dee. At Leicester. — Writ ad quod dampnum from Edw. III. directetl to Walter de Friskeny and Robert de Malberthorp, upon an application from th«' Dean and Chapter for a grant of the wall of the bailey and a j):irt of the city wall, which are ruinous, that they may repair and crenellate them and use them for part of the enclose of the precinct. An office copy from the Public Records, made by Geo. Holmes, and attested by W. Harvey. 24 Feb. 170 4. 1330, 22 February. — Inspeximus by Edsv. III. of his own Inspeximus charter of 7 Oct. 1327, at Nottingham,* reciting the Inspeximus of Edw. II, of June 1316, and adding further privileges. The great seal is sewn up in folds of paper, being fragments of a court-book of the city probably of the time of James 1. The first charter confirmed in the charter of Edw. II. is one of Henry II., which does not appear to be recited elsewhere. " H. \_etc.'] justiciariis et vicecomitibus suis de Lincolscire salutem. Sciatis rae liberasse civitatem meam Lincoln, civibus meis ejusdem civitatis ad illam firman ad quam solebat esse tempore H. Regis avi mei, cum omnibus consuetudinibus et libertatibus eidem civit^iti pertinentibus in civitate ex extra. T., com. Reg. et War. fil. Ger. Datum apud Stanford." The charter of Edw. II. confirmed to the city the ^^rool-tolls, and granted assize of bread and beer, and of weights and measures ; and also granted " prefatis civibus vacuas et vastas placeas nostras in civitate et suburbio predictis, habendum sibi et heredibus ac succesoribus suis predictis imperpetuum ad commodum suum inde faciendum, prout sibi melius viderint expedire ; ita tamen quod illud faciant absque dampno et prejudicio cathedralis ecclesie beate Marie Lincoln, et liberi tenentis cujuslibet alterius, et quod vici in eadem civitate et suburbio ea occasione niniium non arceantur." To this charter of Edw. II. that of Edw. III. in 1327 added that an inqui- sition having been held upon his command by Walter de Friskeneye, Robert de ]NIalberthorpe, and Peter de Lodyngtone, in the presence ot Thomas de Newmai'ket lately sheriff of Lincoln, and returned into the Chancery, respecting the privileges used by the mayor and citizens, all these are now confirmed, including markets on the Monday, Wednesday and Friday in each week, and a yearly fair extending from the feast of St. Botulph (17 June) to that of SS. Peter and Paul (29 June); also the profit of the buildings which they have erected on the city wall " ex transverse deXeulandeyate usque mansum fratrumde ordine Minorum," in divers places near Walkergate and Soper lane, with power to erect additional buildings ; with criminal jurisdiction, authority for mainte- nance of the peace, etc. ; that, as hitherto, a Burghmanmot be held weekly in the Guildhall by the mayor and bailiffs for the hearing of all local pleas. Of the annual rent to the Crown of 180/. eighty pounds are to be paid in half-yearly payments at the Exchequer. The Inspeximus of 1330 adds to this charter that whereas the judges of assize have, as the mayor and citizens say, frequently summoned to * Of the charter of 1327 the Corporation possefcses an office copy made in 1878 at the PuWic Recoid Office. their courts pleas of assize about tenements in the city because such pleas were not specifically mentioned, therefore these as well as all others are now exclusively reserved to the Burghmanmot. Witnesses, the arch- bishop of Canterbury, the bishops of Ely and Lincoln, tTohn of Eltham earl of Cornwall, Roger Mortimer earl of March, Henry de Percy John Mautravers steward of the household, and others, at Windsor, 22 Feb. an, 4. This charter was not in recent years known to be in existence. 1361,28 Jan. — Exemplification by Edw. III., at the request of the Mayor, bailiffs and citizens of Lincoln, of the record of a ease tried before Martin de Littlebury and his companions, the justices itinerant in Lincolnshire, on the morrow of the first Sunday after Easter 47 Hen. III. (1263). Peter of Savoy claimed 500/. damages from the city of Lincoln because that for 12 years they had exacted market-tolls from the men of his honour of Richmond, whereas all those men were exempt. The city replied that while King Hen. I. held tlie city in his own hands he exacted the same tolls of every one, and that when he gave the citizens seisin of the city at the annual rent of 180/., he gave it with all the rights and privileges then used. The complainant replies that the right of tjiking tolls of his men could not have been among the rights thus conveyed, because the honour of Richmond had been free from the time of the Conquest. Finally, the parties agreed that the men of Richmond should be free of toll for all things born fed or grown within the limits of the honour, but should pay the same toll as others for any thing they may bring not thus exempted, and that for every ship coming with *' helmerother " they shall pay twopence ; and for every ship with " hauderother " one penny ; this applying only to ships carrying merchandise first bought from others and then exposed to sale. The great seal is fastened up in paper. The customary tolls levied at Lincoln are found from this record to have been these : for every horse bought or sold one penny, for every ox one halfpenny, for every cart twopence, for a ship fourpence, for 24 two-year-old sheep one penny, and for every quarter of corn one penny. 1377, Apr. 23. — See list of lost documents, infra. 1378, 16 March. — Inspeximus Charter of Rich. II. reciting and con- firming the previous charters, and adding the clause, found also in some of those, that the non-use hitherto of any of the privileges granted in them shall not involve their loss. Witnesses, S. urchbisliop of Canter- bury, bishops W. of London, A. of St. David's, Chancellor, Thomas of Exeter, Treasurer, H. of Carlisle, John King of Castile and Leon duke of Lancaster, Edmund earl of Cambridge, Tliomas earl of Buckingham, (the King's uncles,) Richard earl of Arundell, Tliomns Bcauclianip earl of Warwick, Hugh earl of Statloid, Richard le Scro[X', steward of the household, Guy de Briene, chamberlain, John de Fordham, keeper of the privy seal ; Westm. 16 March an. 1. " Per peticioneni de magno Consilio. Exam, per Rob. de Muschnm et John de Burtone, clericos." The great seal is fastened within folds of paper cut from the records of the city court, as in preceding cjises. 1379, May 10. — See list of lost documents, infra. 1380, 18 Apr. at Weatm. — Inspeximus by Richard II. of the exem- plification by Edw. 111. of the record of tiie case Ixitween Peter of Savoy and tlie city. See under 1361, svjrra. "Exam. ])er Ric. de Holme et Job. de Lincoln, clericos." The great seal, in green wax, is nearly perfect ; but the impression is poor. 10 1390, 17 Oi't. — Tnspeximus bv Eicli. II. (an. 14) of an indontnrc of agnvnii'ut (in Fioiioli) betweon the Doan ami Cluipter aiul tho Mayor ami citizLMis upou u docrtK? ami award iniulc by John of Gaiiiit, duke of Lancaster, as to the exemption of the catlu-dral close frona all civic jurisdiction, and of a release made hereupon by the citv ; both dated 12 June 1390. This is a copv made towards the end of the 17th century. 1409, 21 Nov. — Charter of Hen. IV. reciting and confirming the Inspeximus of Kich. II. in 1378, and adding these additional privileges: the election of two sherifts inst(.^ad of bailiffs, the city to be called the countv of the city of Lincoln and the Mayor to be the King's Escheator, power to render accounts to the King's Exchequer by attorney, the ^layor and Sheriti's with four others to be justices of the peace, with defined jurisdiction, a yearly fair beginning fifteen days before the feast of the deposition of St. Hugh [17 Nov.] and continuing for fifteen days after, and the receipt in aid of the payment of the city rent of 180/. of the annual rent of G/. paid to the Crown by the weavers of Lincoln; strictly and fully reserving the exemption from the jurisdic- tion of the city of the cathedral church, the close, and the Dean and Chapter. "NVitn., the archbishops of Cant, and York, the bishops of Lon- don, Durham, and Bath and Wells, Edward duke of York, John earl of Somerset, cliamberlain, John Typtot, treasurer, master John Pro- phete keeper of the Privy Seal, and John Stanley, steward of the household. At Westm., 21 Nov. an. 11. " Exam, per Joh. Roderhani et Ric. Bolton, clericos." The great seal (green wax, broken) is fastened up in folds of blank paper. 1414, 15 Dec. — Inspeximus by Henry V. of the preceding charter of Hen. IV. Witn. archbishop of Canterbury, bishop of Winchester the King's uncle and chancellor, the bishop of Norwich, Thomas duke of Clarence, John duke of Bedford, Humphrey duke of Gloucester, his brothers, Edward duke of York, Thomas earl of Arundel, treasurer, Richard earl of Warwick, vSir Henry Fitzhugh, chamberlain. Sir Thomas Erpyngham, steward of the hou.sehold, rcaster John Prophete, keeper of the privy seal. At Westm. 15 Dec. an. 2. "Exam, per John Frank et Will. Aghton, clericos." Great seal in green wax, broken. 1424-5. — Copies, on one membrane, of the Statutes made at West- minster and Leicester 3 and 4 Hen. VI. Statutes at large, 1786, vol. I. pp. 472-4. 1424, 24 Jan. — Inspeximus by Henry VI. of the charter of Hen. V. in 1414. " Teste me ipso apud Westm." an. 2. " Exam, per Joh. Mapiltone et Nich. Wymbyssh, clericos." Part of the great seal, green •wax. 1438, 6 Sept. — See Registers, vol. I. infra. 1439, 25 July. — Writ from Hen. VI. to the judges of assize in Lincolnshire, commanding them to permit the Mayor and citizens of Lincoln to enjoy without interruption the privileges with regard to the trial of causes formerly granted to the mayor and bailitfs. " Teste me ipso apud Dogmersfeld, xxv die Julii an. r. n. decimo septimo." This is sewn to the charter of Hen. V. in 1414. 1441, 26 Feb. — See Registers, vol. I. infra. 1447, 13 March. — License from Hen. VI. to the Mayor and citizens to acquire lands, tenements and rents to the value of \20l. per an., and exonerating them from all payment of tenths and fifteenths for the 11 period of forty years. This is granted on the petition of John Ratheby, mayor, and the citizens, setting forth that, whereas they are bound to an annual payment of 180/., and have also to pay at every time of levying a fifteenth and tenth lOOl., they are so depauperized by the withdrawal of merchants and by a great pestilence which has continued there for a long time and other worldly misfortunes, that scarcely 200 citizens remain in the city, and not one of them can bear the burden of the annual payment, notwithstanding that the King by authority of Parliament has relieved them from some part of the payment of the tenths and fifteenths. Great seal, green wax, broken. 1450, 24 Nov. — License from Hen. VI., in pursuance of his license in 1447 for acquisition of lands in mortmain, to John Markham, justice C.P., William Stanlowe and Joan his wife, John Busshby e.sq., Richard Hillingworth, Thomas Folkingham sen., Peter Idley esq., AVilliam Rither, John Waldeff, Nicholas Stathum, Tliomas Ryby, chaplain, and Robert Peny of Lincoln, to convey to the mayor and citizens the manor of Canwyk with two shillings of rent in Braunsttjne, and also to William and Joan Stanlowe, eTohn Berkestone chaplain, and Thomas Folkyng- ham, to convey one messuage, four tofts, ninety acres of land, sixteen of meadow, and one hundred of pasture, in Clanwyk, which belonged to the late Alexander Hervy and are held of the Crown in chief ; of which, by an inquisilion taken before William Grymesby, late escheator, the manor and rent extend to twenty shillings, and the rest to thirteen shillings and four pence, as part of the value of 120/. licensed to be obtained. "Pro quinque marcis solutis in hanaperio. Kirkeham." Great seal, green wax, broken. 1463, Aug. 29. — See list of lost documents, infra. 1463, 11 Dec. — Inspeximus by Edward IV. of the preceding license in 1447 of Hen. VI. *'nuper de facto et non de jure Regis Anghe." "Teste me ip.so apud Dancastre," an. 3. " Fro decern libris solutis in hanaperio. Exam, per Will. Morland et Hen. Upton, clericos." Good impression of great seal, in white wax, broken in the rim. [Enrolled in the Memoranda of the Exchequer.] 1466, 15 Feb.— Charter of Edw. IV. : .see the following Charter of 1484. A copy of this is also in the " White Book," infra. 1484, 30 Nov. at Westm. — Inspeximus by Rich. III. of a charter from Edw. IV. of 15 Feb. 1466, in which after reciting and confirming the charter of Hen. VI. of 24 Jan. 1424, by authority of Parliament held on 4 Nov. 1461, it was granted to the Mayor Thomas Grantham and the citizens, in relief of the desolation and ruin which had come upon the city, that the villages of Braunstone, Wadyngtone, Brace- brigge and Canwik should be separated from the county and annexed to the count}' of the city, with the transfer of all jurisdiction of sheriffs etc., that all their inhabitants .should contribute to scot and lot and all the charges of the city, and none be allowed to dwell within the liber- ties of the city who shouhl refuse so to do. There wore also granted a large number of quit-rents paid to the Crown from various houses in the city, many of which had belonged to Jews, and which are all specified in detail. In tlie list the following names of Jews are found: Ursell Levy of Wickford in the parish of St. Mark, whu.'se name occurs thrice ; Diabella, a Jewess, condemnel!iki(likc, with rights of way, power to fell trees, enclose, wall, &c. Lands conveyed to the abbey are a meadow on the east side of Blakedikc, a marsh and lands on the east side of Lincoln, and a lane and land below the walls on the site of the cell on the south side ; paying for the lane 3*. id. annually. 16 Among tlic boumlaries mentioneil are, Blakedikestone ; the water of Wythoiu ; OMobaijorliolmegate ; Grenepasture ; Inland ; Gretewelle ; a stone cross near Grotewellegatc called Stubcros ; Seyntjohneswon^ ; a Btone newly fixed called le Monks' stone; a windmill calli'd Wayer- mylne ; a stone wall called Chiviot wall ; Snyke- (and Sneke-) dyke wall ; the land of the Miu^ter of the Hospital of H. Innocents ; Sparowe lane ; Fynkelstrete ; a stone wall lately belonging to the friars lately called Sekfieris \i.€. Fratres de Sacco] called le Stamp ; a causeway calk^l Stanipcause ; a stone in Bagerholniwonge called Butstone. Blanks are left for some measurements of land which have not been filled iu. The seal of the abbey is lost. 1536, 20 May.— Bond from " Tomas " enrl of Rutland in 2000/. that he will abide by the arbitrament of Sir Thomas Audeley, knt. Lord Chancellor, and master Thomas Cromwell, Chief Secretary to the King, concerning the rent of 100/. which he claims from the city. 1554, 17 March. — Indenture of sale by John Broxolme, esq., of the Inner Temple, London, to the Mayor and Commonalty of Lincoln for the sum of 81/. of his moiety of a rent of 4/. IS*. 4rf. from the lands and tenements of the late gild of St. Anne, which was granted to him and Thomas Burton, esq. by Sir John Thynne, knt., and Thomas Throg- morton, esq., who had it by grant from K. Edw. VI. dated 19 May, 1549. 1558, 4 July. — Release from Henry, earl of Rutland, to the Mayor, &c. of Lincoln, for the sum of 400 marks, and in exchange for the rectory and parsonage of Surflet with the advowson, of the annual rent of 100/. payable to him from the city. 1569-1577, 11-19 Eliz. — A parcel of eighteen deeds relating to the conveyance of property from Thomas Grantham to the city of Lincoln. 1574, 10 Dec. — Indenture of agreement between Robert Mounson, one of the Justices of the Common Pleas, and the Mayor and Common- alty of Lincoln, whereby the former — in consideration of the grant to him of the parsonage of Hanslope, Bucks, for divers years, and in order that the latter may ever hereafter the more quietly have and enjoy a conduit or watercourse lately in question, and also for the desire that the said Robert Mounson hath towards the maintenance of a free grammar school in perpetuity, if the said mayor, etc., shall so think it good, as they do well and charitably intend it hereafter if they may, — covenants to convey to feoffees the site and precinct of the Grey Friars iu Lincoln, with all the houses, etc., to the same belonging ; reserving the use to himself for his life or for twenty years. 1575, 23 Oct. — Deed of sale by Stephen Trymylby, esq., and Kathe- rine his wife to William Goodknappe, Martin Mason, John VVylson, Edmund Knyght, and Thomas Hanson, of all the cottages lands and tenements lately belonging to the gild of St. Mary in Wigford. 1576, 18 Jan. — Conveyance of the same by the said William Good- knappe, etc. to the Mayor, etc. and commonalty of Lincoln. 1585, 22 Sept. — Indenture of articles of agreement, by arbitration, between the Mayor and citizens of Lincoln and Robert Smith of the Black Monks near the city, respecting a watercourse and conduit pass- ing through the giounds of the said Robert Smith to the city, and the conduit-pipes, with various lands called the Monks' Leas, the Green Pasture, &c., belonging to the late cell ef the Black Monks, parcel of 17 the possessions of the dissolved monastery of St. Mary at York. Signed and sealed by Edward earl of Rutland as umpire and judge as well as by the parties. 1592. — Fragment, consisting of eight small quarto leaves, of a book of orders made in 1591 and 1592 respecting a knitting school estab- lished by the city, as follows : — 1591, 11 June. — Alderman Morley appointed overseer. 8 Oct. — Seven persons who had been appointed to confer with John Chesemau, the Knitter, draw up certain rules, which are confirmed. Cheseman, in consideration of 61. being given him to discharge his debts, undertakes to set on work in his science all such as are willing to come to him or are sent by the aldermen, and to hide u(»thing from them that belongeth to the knowledge of the said science. A competent number of discreet women or men to be found for the purpose of learning. Forty stone of wool to be provided ; Cheseman weekly to take two stone, paying for the previous week's supply. As many wheels as are needful to be provided. Scholars offending by absence or otherwise to be punished as the offence requireth, at the discretion of such as shall be appointed. Four aldermen to be overseers. Cheseman's stipend to continue according to the agreement made at his first coming to the city. 1592, 28 July. — Forty stone of wool to be provided. 4 Aug. — Articles of agreement made at the Knitters' house in St. Saviourgate between John Cheseman and Francis Newby. 1 . The said Newby and Jane his wife shall daily repair to Chese- man's house to learn his trade of knitting, spinning, dressing of wool, and keeping his mill, until well instructed, and shall not absent themseves without leave. 2. Cheseman to instruct them after the best manner he can. 3. Tiie said Francis and Jane to have the oversight and teaching of thirty scholars for this first year, to see that they do make their work, and work according to their pattern. 4. Cheseman to pay the said Francis and Jane for the first year 405. 5. The said Francis to have twopence paid him by Cheseman for every pair of stockings made by the said scholars; and for every pair which the said Jane or any servant that she shall hire shall work, being well fashioned, as much as Cheseman doth give to any other. 6. The said Francis and Jane shall have the benefit and commodity of amending and footing all stockings which shall be brought unto them to be amended or footed. The same day it is agreed to pay the Knitter 16*-. 8d. for ten wheels which he hath provided, and which he is to maintain ; and the overseers arrange to visit by tui-ns, two every three weeks. Temp. Eliz. — Inventory of furniture in Metcalf's house called the " Sarzin's Head," assigned over to Stephen Mason as security for a debt due to Mr. Robert Chapman of Hull and Mr. Thomas Enderbie. There are lifteen rooms, with a gallery, and outhouses. Petition to Sir Peter Warburton, knt., and Sir Thomas Foster, knt., justices of assize in the comity of Lincoln, from the bakers serving the prisoners witli bread in the gaol of Lincoln, (Maviiig order to be taken for their payment or else to be ndea.SL-d from l)aking. The allowance is 40/. a year, at one penny a day for each prisoner, but the deliverance comes to GO/., the town of I^outh refuses to pay any thing, the petitioners are put to great charge in gathcrin'j it in the o 79300. B IS pfti'ts of rjiiitliit^y, and one Mr. Rossiter who hath a great town ui his possession refiiseth to give any allowance. [The two preceding papers were taken out of a roll of paper envelop- ing tlie seal of one of the royal charters.] 1588-1591, "I Rolls of recognizances of debts, in accordance with the ll>00-l(i29. / Stat. De ruercatoribits, from 30 to 33 Eliz. and from 7 Jas. I. to 5 Chas. I. One fragment of a roll of 1693 is included. 1G32, 2 May.— Deed of gift by Sir William Ellis, knt., of an annuity of 10/. 8.?. from lands in Swinthorp in the parish of Snellanil ; for the payment of twelve pence weekly to four poor widows, one to be the ■widow of a vicar or singiug-man of the cathedral, and the others widows of freemen, who frequent divine service and sermons on the sabbath days, and can distinctly say without book in the English tongue the Lord's Prayer, the articles of the Belief and the Ten Com- mandments ; no one of them to be a brewer of ale or beer to sell, or au alehouse keeper, or a tippler of beer, or to usually beg, or to keep in her house any servant, child, or other person that shall usually go on begging. Cent, xvii.— " A booke of the precinctes and privileges to hia Majesties castle and baile of Lineolne." Nine leaves, containing trans- lations of an inquisition made 36 Edw. III. (1362) ; a plea in the time of Rich. II. (year omitted) on the part of John of Grauut v. the Mayor, bailiffs, etc. ; a writ from Edw. III. for exemption of all the lands and men of Henry [Plantagenet] earl of Lancaster from tolls, etc. ; with the bounds and privileges of the bailey. 1684--1718. — A pai'cel of documents relating to the Jersey School for the employment of the poor in knitting and spinning, as follows : — 1684, 4 Sept. — Agreement with Joseph Newton to come to Lincoln to be the master, at a yearly salary of 30/. for the first three years and 20/. afterwards, with house rent-free, and 100/. for stock. 1687, 1 May. — Agreement with John Ashley at 20/. a year. 1688, 6 July. — Copy of the will of Henry Stone, esq., of Skel- lingthorpe, bequeathing 700/. 1705, 12 Nov. — Agreement with Jo.5eph Doughty to come to Lincoln, at a salary of 35/. a year. 1718, 26 June. — Agreement with John Hooton at a salary of 30/. [1704.] — Copy of the case of the Dean and Chapter against the city, with regard to arrests within the Close and the licensing of ale- houses ; and of the opinion of counsel thereon. 1714-1737. — A folio volume 'contains the accounts of the Foss-dyke tolls. This is interesting as affording evidence of the amount of trade by water during this period ; a large proportion being for coals and ale from the Trent. The volume forms part of a parcel of documents re- lating to the Foss-dyke, of which the earliest are, an agreement for a table of tolls in pursuance of an Act of Parliament for improving the navigation between Boston and the river Trent, dated 10 Oct. 1671; and an agreement with Samuel Fortrey, esq. of St. Martin's in the Fields, Middlesex, " a person well versed and expert in affairs of that nature," that he and his heirs shall have one third part of the profits of the tolls in return for his assistance in carrying out the improvements, and the maintenance of a bridge in tiie town of Saxilby, and his bear- ing one third part of charges and losses, dated 24 Apr. 1672. 19 1736, 4 Feb. — License from Richaal [SmalbrokeJ bishop of Lincoln for the taking in of a small part of the churchyard of St. Peter at Arches, " wherein no corpse hatli been known to be interred," for the •enlargement of the new intended market-house, paying an annual quit- rent of 2*. to the parish; with a ground-plan, and a letter from the bishop to the mayor. 1736, 29 Dec. — Agreement by Daniel Coppin of Boston to make a complete set of chimes for eight bells, with twenty hammers for two tunes, to be set up in the steeple of St. Peter's church at the expense of the Corporation, for 80/. (Enclosed with the preceding license.) [c. 1740.] — Case of the city with regard to the claim of persons re- siding within the Close to the freedom of the city ; with questions for counsel. [c. 1740.] — Draft of a similar case of the city with regard to persons within the bailiwick of the castle; by Wm. Grylby, of G-rays' Inn, {Recorder of the city]. 1785. — A very excellent abstract of the royal charters with notes, and a list of all the exiating books of record and papers, was drawn up by Samuel Lyon, Town-clerk, in 1785. This exists in his original MS., and also in a very neatly written transcript. The original, together with the account of the charities described in the following article, was presented to the Corporation by Mr. Lyon in 1797, with a letter dated at Canwick on Oct. 23, which is entered nt p. 863 of a^oI. VIII. of the Registers. Mr. Lyon had resigned his ofhce in 1790, and thanks were given him on Sept. 14 in that year for his indefatigable attention to the duties of his offii-e which he had long held with honour to himself and satisfaction to the Corporation ; and one hundred guineas were voted for presenting him with a gold cup, but this he declined as being already sufficiently gratitied. 1786. — " A particular account of all the charitys and charity estates in which the Corporation of Lincoln, or any members thereof in their corporate caiiacitys, have any interest or concern ; with the annual income arising from each, and the present mode of distributing the same ; as also, with a schedule annexed of all the wills, deeds, and writings in the possession of the Corporation relating thereto ; made out from original records or other evidences, in the month of August, 1786, by Sam. Lyon, Town-Clerk of the city of Lincoln," This very carefully drawn-up account occupies 51 pages in a folio book ; it specifies where the several records are to be found, and sub- joins to a list of the documents relating to Christ's Hospital in Lincoln this note, " All the al)Ove particulars under this title were delivered to Mr. Bell in order to be deposited in the Hospital chest in the Hospital house, in which there are already some other writings." 1798. — "A particular survey book of the old inclosures and fii-ld lands in the parish of Belton in the county of Lincoln." A quarto volume containing minute particulars of every portion of land in the parish arranged under the owners' names alphabetically. This is au interesting local record, and gives all the ohl licld-names. It was pre- pared by a surveyor named Teale, in accordance with an order of Common Council of Feb. 14, 1798. There are, of course, many , 1\\ May, 27 June. — WiUiam Bretylbank, one of the sergeants of llie citv, is complained of, deprived of his oflfice, and committed to ward. lr.■ll3^11G. , 19 July. — William Benne, chaplain, unanimously elected chap- lain of the chantry of Dalderby in St. Bennet's church, f. 116''. , . One of the sheriffs fined for not duly executing the sentence on Kobert Bisshopp, who after being made to abjure the city for petty bribery returned, and was sentenced to be set in the pillory and to have his ears nailed to it. f. 1 17''. -, Oct. — Special allowance of land to the incoming mayor and of the right of creating three freemen, by reason of scarceness of corn and other victual and his great charge in keeping of his house to the honour of the city. ff. 12P, 122. , 10 and 25 Oct. — Various sheriffs fined for escapes of prisoners through their neglect, ff. 123'' \ 128. The gild of St. Anne let to farm. f. 124''. Persons appointed to lake to the use of the Mayor and Commons, according to the King's grant by his charter, all such swans a.s be strays and of which the owner is not known. Ibid. , 26 Xov. — William Dyghton, schoolmaster, is bound over to keep the peace, f. 125. A fisherman fined for saying that if any victualler coming to the city -will give the mayor any part or dish of fish, he may sell at his pleasure, or else he will be " pullyd and gollyd." Ibid. , 10 Dec. — Whereas divers books pertaining to the Gildhall, as well concerning the Common Council as other writings, be en^bezzled and withdrawn, and no knowledge can be had where they are nor liy ■whom they were withdrawn, the mayor shall cause such as have occupied any books to be spoken with, and if no person will acknowledge the having them, then a monition shall proceed of cursing against all such persons as keep any such books, rolls, evidences, muniments or other writings, f. 125''. , 10 Dec. — Will. Dyghton, schoolmaster, and John Welcome, scrivener, give bail for a "scoler " to keep the peace, f. 126*'. 1521,21 Jan. — 'J'he Eecorder declares that he will no longer hold office because of certain misdemeanours and misordering of the best of the city as Avell as of the commonalty ; but at the urgent lequest of the mayor and his brethren and also of my lord dean of Lincoln he consented still to occupy the room of the recordership upon condition that the misdemeanours be mended, f. 127. , 30 Jan. — Order that certain acts compri.^ed in a bill made by the Recorder's advice for the common profit of the city be of authoritv ■and be registered in the book of customary of the city.' f. 127''. , 10 Feb. — The bridge at the Bargate and the " Gawte " bridge ordered to be paved, f. 128''. The watch to be surely kept nightly within the precinct and shire of the city by eight persons in harness to serve the King. Ibid. , . Sir Robert Cowper, vicar of Bolingbroke, arrested by a servant of the sheriff of the county in Eastgate within the precinct of the city contrary to its privileges. Ibid. 29 1521, 10 Feb. — Letter to a member of the Privy Council complaining 1521. that corn had been stopped by the sheriff of the county on its way to market, f. 129. -, 2(> Apr. — A deputation appointed to go to Mistress Taylboys about the bringing forth of St. Anne's gild. f. 130- Agreed that the Mayor shall cause a cursing to be published through the city agaiust all those that have withdrawn records and books ol the Common Councih Ibid. , 16 July. — List of persons who complain of toll being taken of them by the officers of Nottingham, f. 131^. A vagabond taken in the city among " vacabunds and valyant beg- gers " is set in the stocks and then let go. Ibid, George Browne, alderman, elected in the place of the graceman of St. Anne's gild, complains that as the plague is reigning in the city he cannot get such garments and " honourments " as should be in the pageants of the procession ; wherefore it is agreed to borrow a gown of my lady " Powes " for one of the Maries, and the other Mary to be arrayed in the crimson gown of velvet that belongeth to the gild ; and the prior of St, Katheriue's to be spoken with to have such " honour- ments" as we have had aforetime, f. 132. , . Letters to and from the Mayor of Nottingham respect- ing mutual complaints about the exaction of tolls contrary to a com- position made between the two places, f. 132''. , . Aldermen Browne and Form an ordered to bring forth St. Anne's gild on pain of forfeit by each of 40.v. without pardon, f. 133. , 20 June. — One John Oltby, or Otley, of Bowden, Cheshire, examined who had come to Lincoln on his way to go to our Lady of Walsingham. Ibid. , Aug.-7 Sept. — Assessment for ten soldiers, ff. IBS'*, 135. , 7 Sept. — The Mayor brings in a book of the Common Council that was found in M. Taylboys' house after his decease and saith that he hath mo books and papers that were found in his bouse, f. 135'\ , 30 Oct. — The Mayor shows a paper of Mr. Dighton for the foundation of a priest to sing in the church of St. Michael upon the hill for him, his father and mother and others, with all the brethren and sisters of St. Anne's gild, the same to be by the gift of Dighton during his life, and afterwards of his executors during their lives, and after their decease of the Mayor and commons of the city, as all other chantries within the city are and ever have been ; with a proviso tiiat the said chaplain shall yearly b(! ready to help to the preparing and bringing forth of the procession of St. Anne's day, and after Dighton's decease to be called for ever St. Anne's priest. If the Mayor and Commons make default in giving of the same for 15 days, I hen Sir William Tyrwhyt and his heirs to give the same. f. 141''. , 21 Nov. — Four men who came from London to the fair, one to see his grandmother, another to sell ale, the third to seek work, and the fourth to sell pins and laces, are all commanded to the stocks to be punished as vagabonds, although it is said of the first that no trespass can be found in him. Ibid. , 31 Dec. — The house for the schoolmaster to be ropnired. fir. 1421' [152^ KiOb]. A composition witli the prior of St. Katherine's to be new made. Ibid. Every alderman to make a gown for the kings in tlie pageant on St. Anne's day, and the Paler noster play to be played this year. Ibid. 30 1532. 1522, 13 Juno. — Two hoiiost persons to bo rtppoiiitml in esich parish to pither tho moiu-y on St. Anne's ;<-), 27 Jan., 8 Apr., 15 May ; lo36, 4 May. ff. 210^, 239, 2-13^, 245% 247, 24S% 2o4. ir)28 29 Oet. — Afxreed thnt if any of the Common Council have com- muninj; of high an price 7/." [Item,] tenches, 6 J lo'12, Feb. — Copy of a "Supplication" delivered by William Yattes and Ralph Goodknape, aldermen, to the King at Candlemas time, shewing that the city is in great ruin and decriy, and very like to be in a few years clearly desolate, by the charge of the annual jtayment to the Earl of Rutland of 20 marks, and to the Dean and Chapter of 80/.; and whereas by their chai-ters they were for their relief exonerated from payment ot fifteenths and tenths, they are now by a late Act of Parlia- ment passed without the customary proviso for their exoneration, charged with payment of 400/. for four fifteenths and tenths within four years ; whereby most part of the citizens will be compelled in short time to forsake the city, to its utter desolation. Whcrelbre they pray that the said fifteenths and tenths may be remitted, and that the benefice and parsonage of Cottingham in Yorkshire may be appro- priated to the Dean and Chapter in lieu ot the annual payment of 80/. f. 289^. On tlie cover of this volume is this memorandum of plate delivered anto the common chamber by Mr. Knight, late mayor, on 4 Oct., 16 Eliz. [1574] :— " First, a bason and ewer of silver, parcel gilt. Item, three goblets of silver with a cover, double gilt. Item, three silver pots with a cover, double gilt. Item, one fair salt of silver with a cover, double gilt." Vol. III. A volume containing 194 leaves of thick ])aper, foliated in the lower margin of the leaves, slightly mutilated at thfl beginning and end. '^r^vAH 38 An iiulex of matters, on twelve leaves, is prefixed. This volume, as veil as those that follow, lias been bound within recent years. It comprises entries from 1511 to 15G4. 1541, 14 Sept. — The waits' badges are described as chains with a silver cross, f. 2. 1542, 10 June. — The church of St. Peter at the Plea to betaken down, and the load, ornaments, and bells sold for the use of the common chamber, f. 3. . , . If any other church hereafter decay, or the inhabitants in any parish be assio^ned or disposed to go to any other parish, then the jewels, plate, ornaments, vestments, lead, bells, and utensils of such church shall be sold in like manner. Ibid. , . St. Anne's guild to be brought forth the Sunday after St. James' day [St. Anne's day in 1539, supra, and in 1547, infra.] f. 3^. , . The graceman of the great guild to deliver up plate to the value of 10/. for the use of the city ; to be re-delivered again, or else the money for which it may be sold. Ihid. , 7 Sept. — George Seyntpoll, esq., appointed Recorder by letters from the Duke of Suffolk, f. 4. 1543, IS Apr The archdeacon [George Heneage] to have assurance for the foundation of a chantry over tJie High Bridge for 51. yearly after seven years next ensuing, f. 9. , 23 Aug. — The Recoi'der, Geo. Seyntpoll, remits all the burgess- money due to him for the last Parliament, viz., 8/. Hs. f. 10. ,24 Sept. — William Smyth, priest, and William Kempe appointed to go about the country yearly gathering for St. Anne's guild, f. 13 [see also lo'^]. , 20 Oct. — The constables to bring all the poor people within the city before the justices, and such as shall be limited to beg shall have a sign delivered them. f. 15^. , . 100/. delivered in, which had been given by archd. George Heneage to the use of the city. f. 16. , . The Recorder and aid. Will. Alanson to sue to the King for a release from the fee-farm rent paid to the cathedral church. Ibid. , . Petition to the King for relief from the said rent, pray- ing for assignment of a benefice instead, but not specifying any particular one as in the petition in 1542. f. 18^. 1544, 25 Nov. — Enacted that all brewers shall tun their ale to their tipplers in " colles or soes," and in none other vessels, f. 23. . . Every alderman that hath not been mayor to prepare for himself a7id his wife gowns of crimson, and every one that hath been mayor to prepare for himself and his wife gowns of scarlet and tippets of velvet, to be worn at all principal feasts. Ibid. , . The second sword to have a new " scabot" ; and those in whose mayoralty or mayoralties the " cheippe " of the best sword, and certain greyhounds, lions and dragons, of silver and gilt, were lost from the second sword, are to make them again. Ibid. [See tinder 15 Oct. 1549.] [ 1545 : see entry of 30 March, i7>fra], 26 March. — Letter from Charles [Brandon] L)uke of Suffolk to the mayor and aldermen, written from the Court, relative to their application to the King about the fee farm 39 rent. At this present the King's affairs are so weighty and of such 1544. importance that as yet no conclusion can be had in the matter ; but when convenient opportunity may serve, we will, according to our former letters, take so good an end as it shall be to your contentation. Yet we not a little marvel that ye will say xis nay in a request for John Dyone to be one of your justices of peace, Avho is a man of good learning, judgement, and right meet for the same ; wherefore forthwith proceed to his election, or else certify in writing why you make denial, by this bearer William Alynson, avIio hath right honestly and diligently applied your matters here very painfully, f. 24. [1544], 6 June. — A previous letter from the same, " from oure howse besyde Charyng Crosse." At the request of Geo. SayntpoU and Will. Alenson we have not only spoken with the lords of the Council but have also been a suitor unto the King, who most graciously con- sidereth the decay of the city, and at my petition to him with the Lord Chancellor is pleased to aid the city with certain benefices to be impro- priate for the discharge of your fee-farm ; and at his grace's return out of France I trust the same shall be assured unto you, f. 25. , 36 H. VIII., 19 Aug.— At Hampton Court. Letter from Q. Katherine, appointed Regent during the King's absence, to the mayor and sheriffs, commissioning them to levy the second payment of the subsidy granted in Parliament, f. 25*'. , 9 Nov. — At Westm. Letter from the King to the commis- sioners directing the immediate gathering and payment of the subsidy, with all possible diligence, for sundry great and urgent considerations, f. 26. 1515, 30 March. — An answer to be made by letter to the letters of the Duke of Suffolk touching Mr. Dyone. f. 26^ , 17 Aug. — The plate and money belonging to the great guild to be used for the suits to the King for the release from the fee-farm : but aid. William Yattes, in wliose custody it was, utterly and obstinately refused so to do, but being threatened with a fine of 20/. and imprison- ment, consented, f. 27''. , , Yattes to have the money he hath spent at London out of the money that the archdeacon lent to the city, f . 28. , 5 Sept. — 40/. to be returned to archd. Heneage, at his request, out of the 100/. he gave for the ibundation of a chantry, he returning all the writings he hath concerning the same. f. 28^. , . The mayor certifies that he hath received from aid. Yattes the plate and money of the great guild, and that the plate was sold for 23/. 13^. 4d.; this sum to be given to Y''attes for the suits to the King. Ibid. , 17 Sept. — Agreed that the late mayor. Will. Smyth, notwith- standing that he and his wife did not use such housekeeping nor wear such apparel as they ought to the worship of the city, shall have the usual allowance, and shall also be discharged of a forfeit of five marks set on hill), on condition that he gives the bellman an hoiiost livery, and pays the money, 3ls. Ad., remaining due from him. f. 29*^. , . The bill of Will. Yattes of IH/. 4*. for expenses to and at London to be paid. Ibid. (Much more paid to him at .several time." subsequently.; . Lengthy instructions from the King to the coininissioners for the last jmyment of the subsidy, which is cessable at Micliaclnius next, desiring them tocoUect it in anticipation by i July at the lal<'-it. " And 40 lJ4v.. to this sniftU demand wo think our subjoets will show tliemsolves agree- ablo, aiul lovingly ami tVaiikly advance, roinemberin^j; the manifold pains and labour of body, tho travail and care of mind, which we have and do daily sustain for their sakes." f. 32**. Io4o, 5 Oct. — William Smyth is, at his petition, discharged from the oflice of alderman, being aged and bed-ridden, and for a long time impotent and decrepit, f. 34. , 14 Nov. — William Yatts, graceman of the guild of our lady St. Mary, called the Great Guild, founded in Wykford, William Hill and "William Smyth, clerk, wardens of he said guild, with the consent of the ■whole fraternity', brethren and sisters, for the relief of the city give to the mayor sheriffs and commonalty and their successors for ever, all the lands tenements and hereditaments belonging to the said guild, with all the evidences, deeds, charters, &c. concerning the same. f. 35. . 4 Nov. Lambeth. — Letter from the Duke of Norfolk in behalf of William Ilynde, the town clerk, whose removal from his place some of his '' backfriends " are endeavouring to procure, desiring that he may be suffered to continue in his office. Ibid. , 4 Nov. Windsor. — A. letter from Sir Robert Tirwhyt to the same effect, f. 35''. , 29 Dec. — Resolved that Hynde shall continue as town clerk. Ihid. , . That suit be made to the King for relief from the fifteenth and tenth. Ibid. 1546, 20 Jan. — Letter of 10 Jan. from Sir Edw. North, Chancellor ^>f the Augmentation, desiring the Council, in accordance with the King's commandment, to search for such parsonages in the King's gift as may be impropriated to the city for payment of the fee-farm of 80/. f. 36. , 5 Feb. — The plate belonging to the great guild is brought in. First, the chalice and the cover, double gilt, weighing 30 ounces. Item, the standing cup with the cover, double gilt, weighing 27 ounces. Item, the bi'od . . cup with the cover, double gilt, weighing 22 ounces. Item, one standing silver cup, parcel gilt, with the cover, weighing 15^ ounces. Item, one dozen silver spoons, with gilt knops, weighing 15 ounces. Total value 24/. 13*. 4c?. f. 36*'. , 6 June. — St. John's church in Newport, now decayed, shall be taken down ; the lead, stone, utensils, plate, jewels, ornaments, and bells, to be sold for the use of the common chamber, and the money to be bestowed upon the suit to the King; but the books to be reserved for the church of St. Nicholas in Newport towards the maintenance of the service there, f. 37^. Further order on 10 Oct. 1547. f. 47^ , . The church of St. Stephen in Newland, now decayed, with the gutter of lead, the tile, timber and stone, granted to the sheriffs in place of 10/. given to them for the expenses of their ofBce. f. 38. , 19 Oct. — Such poor people in every parish as are not able to work and get their living to have signs given them with which to ask alms weekly, and none to give any alms but to such as have these signs, f. 41. 1547, 17 Jan. — Rules for the jurisdiction of each alderman in his wnrd, with regard to buildings, the paving and cleaning of streets, expelling of vagabonds, punishment of unlicensed beggars, unlawful games (not specified) «fec. f. 42, and at f. 68^. . Proclamation of thp death of Hen. VIII. and accession of j:dw. VI. f. 43. 41 1547, 21 Feb, — Letter from the Privy Council for levying of a 1547. subsidy, f. 43''. , 13 June. The procession and sight upon the Sunday next after St. Anne's day shall be brought forth as hath been iu times past, and every occupation shall pay to the same as hath been accustomed, f. 44b. , before Mich, {day omitted) — At an election for members of Parliament George Seyntpoll, esq,, Recorder, received 29 voices, Thomaa Grantham, gentleman, 36, John Broxolme, esq., 15, and William Yattes, alderman, 4. Ibid. , 14 Sept. — Order for a present to be prepared for the Lord Protector, f, 45''. , 10 Oct. — A chalice lately pertaining to the church of St. John in Newport sold to aid. Fawkener for 49*. at As. 8d. the ounce, f. 47''. ■ , 5 Nov. — An inventory to be brought in of the jewels, plate and ornaments lately belonging to the procession of St. Anne's sight, and the same to be sold to the use of the common chamber, f. 48'', 1548, 21 Jan. — Five shillings to be given yearly to the poor of St. Swithin's parish out of the rent of Gressington house, f, 49, , , The bells now in the churches of the Holy Rood and St. Edward to be forthcoming. Ibid. , 25 Feb. — All impotent and poor people, beggars and idle persons, and all children above five years of age, to be viewed, that they may be put to labour or occupation or be otherwise ordered, according to the King's proclamation, f. 49. , 15 March. — The Bishop of Lincoln to have a present of two pikes, two tenches, two eels, and two breams, at his coming, f. 50. . [Presents were given this year to the Duchess of Suffolk and to the Duke her son of two cranes and four swans, and to tlie Earl of Rutland of three cygnets, six " bytters," and sixteen " kuotts." f. 51.] , 20 Aug. — Every chief constable to see a pair of butts made within his ward, f. 51''. , 29 Sept. — Possession was taken of the church and parsonage of Surflett to the use of the corporation, according to the King's letters patent, Robert Margesson, parish priest of the same, and others being present, f. 53, , 1 1 Oct. — *' Nota for a swanmerke belongyng to the parsonage ofSurflet," f, 55^ 1549, 13 Feb,— The vicar of St, Mary's and Sir Robert Drewry to be called to make account of the stock and plate lately belonging to the Clerks' guild, and the shoemakers to make account of the slock and rents appertaining to the fellowship of shoemakers, and others to make account of the wood and timber of the church of St. John in Newport, f. 57. , 18 Feb. — The shoemakers confess to have 28*. in hand ; it was agreed that Shoemakers' Hall be put to the north ward, and (h(! cham- berlain thereof to let it for as much as he can. f. 57*^. , , All the evidences and writings concerning the said hall and fellowship to be brought in. Ibid. , . The keepers of the Clerks' guild promi.se to bring in 26s. Hd. for the profits of the guild, and all the plate, jewels, implementfl, books, writings, and evidences belonging to the same. Ibid. ■42 1649. 1 ')10, IT) Fob. — Presentation of Robert Margesson to the vicarage of Surtlott. f. -IT''. , 8 Apr. — The bells of the chapel on the High Bridge to be taken down with tiie " tojiell " ; the chapel to be made a dwelling-house and to be let. f. 59. -, 4 June. — A survey to be made of all the houses and grounds ia every i)arish, witii their yearly rent, and a book to be made thereof; also a book of the lands and tenements belonging to any of the churches and their rents, f. 59. It was thought convenient by the Council that of every ]2d, of yearly rent 2d. should be paid for an honest stipend for a curate of every church that shall remain as a parish church, if it will thereunto extend. Il/id. , 27 June. — Tlie mayor having exhibited a bill devised by the Bishop of Lincoln about payment of tithes, it is agreed that they be paid by every parishioner according to the ancient custom of the city and the King's late proclamation, and no otherwise, f. 60*^. The council do not agree to a proposal by Mr. Burton for his having the chantry lands. lOid. , 3 Aug. — The lead of the chancel of the late church of St. Peter at Plea secured to Vincent Grantham against the King and all other persons, f. 61. 34| cwt. sold to him 5 Sept. for 71. f. 61*". , 9 Aug. — The moiety of the chantry lands which had been purchased for the city by John Broxolme sold to the mayor and others for 20/., which sum was paid 17 March 1551. f. 61. The other half, and 7 marks yearly from the great Guild, sold to the same. f. 69. , 15 Oct. — Aid. Will. Alynson to make account of certain dra- gons, greyhounds and lions of silver and gilt which were taken off the second sword in the time of his mayoralty, f. 65. , . Aid. Will. Dighton to make answer for the " cheipe " of silver of the great sword, which was gone in his mayoralty ; a new scabbard to be made for the second sword ; enquiry to be made who lost the buckle of silver of the great sword, and when. Ibid. [See 25 Aug. 1550.] , . The stocks, the iron door within the prison called the Kitchen, and the other prisons, to be repaired, f. 65^. , 17 Nov. — Enquiry to be made of the burgesses of the city whether a pension of 41. yearly claimed out of the parsonage of Surflet as payable to the late monastery of Spalding be discharged or not ; and •whether the lessee of the parsonage, George Herryson, be chargeable with it or not. f. 66. , 9 Dec. — Copy from the Exchequer records of the original license from Hen. III. to BartholomcTV Burghersh to assign to the Dean and Chapter the 60/. of fee-farm rent from the city which the King had granted to him. f. 68. 1550, 21 Jan. — Every person to pave in front of his own house or ground, f . 69. , 15 Feb. — Where[as] at the present certain poor people are visited with the plague who are not of ability to help themselves, whereby they shall be compelled to go abroad within the city, to the great jeopardy of spreading abroad of the said sickness, for the speedy providing that they may be relieved and kept in, it is agreed in a Secret Council that all people who are or shall be visited with the plague shall keep within their houses and not go forth ; and every alderman of the ward where such sick people are shall see that they be kept within their 43 houses and ai-e relieved, for which every alderman is to pay weekly 4d., 1550. and every one who hath been sheriff 2(1., with other persons of ability, f. 69". 1550, 10 March. — The following rents are demanded by the Court of Augmentations from chantries : Tatteshall chantry 2s., Dalderby 41. Os. 4d., Fitzmartin 41. Os. 4d., Cantilupe, 4^., Flemyng and the guild of St. Anne 41. 13s. 4d., Burghersh 60/., King Edward's chantry 40^. : answer deferred until the coming of the Recorder, f, 70. , . The following vii. articles are demanded in a bill sub- scribed by the curate and inhabitants of Surflett, and the answer is deferred until the coming of the Recorder. 1. For a deacon yearly to help to minister and to do other things that belongeth to that office. 2. For two lights to be found in quere in service time. 3. For ten shillings yearly in alms to poor people. 4. For bread and ale to the value of Qs. Sd. to be given to the parishioners upon Maunday Thursday yearly. 5. For the gift of a dinner or twopence in silver upon every offering day to all such persons as do help in the quere to maintain God's service. 6. For finding of strewing in the church four times in the year. 7. For finding of a common bull and a common boar to serve the whole town. f. 70''. , . A present of two pikes, one bream, two tenches and three great roasting eels to be sent to the earl of Rutland, f. 71. , 26 March. — No person within the city, suburbs, or liberties to keep any greyhounds or hounds to hunt withal, except the mayor, the aldermen, and such as are or have been sheriffs, and these only to hunt by their own persons, and not to send the hounds to any other, f. 7P. , . At the Easter Court leet, ordered that all brewers sell their ale at 2\d. the gallon, f. 72. , 28 Apr. — No person to fish with any seins or nets or lay any hopnet or any other kind of net within the common waters, but oidy to angle, from mid-May to the middle of July next. f. 72"". -, 3 June. — All lands, tenements, rents and profits belonging to any church that shall be hereafter defaced or pulled down shall from henceforth belong to the churches that shall stand and be parish churches, towards the living and relief of the curate and his successors of such church whereunto any other church shall be united, f. 73. , . A mansion house to be built for the vicar at Surilett with all speed, and part of the timber taken from defaced churches to go towards it. f. 73'\ , 16 June. — Four parishioners of St. Laurence to remain in ward until they have restored a bell lately taken by them out of the steeple of St. Laurence weighing 12 cwt. 30 lbs., or the said weight in bell metal, or else 16/. f. 74. , 14 July. — No one to draw with any scin within the common waters tmto Michaelmas, except the Mayor to draw his draught for one day, and any fratnichcst man to lay three days weekly any li(.pncts or " leipes," and to stang or angle according to the custom of the city. Ibid. , 2 Aug.— The lead of the churches united to J)c mclti'd and cast in sows; and the bells, jewels, plate and ornaments to i»c ])rought to such place and per.sons as the mayor shall ai)])oint. ff. 74'', 75. , . A person to go to Boston about the purchase of a hou.se for the vicarage of Surflet. f . 75. 44 1550. l.'i'iO, 2 Aii^. The clmpol of the High liridge lo be mended with load. 1'. 75. , . The Duchess and Uuke of Suffolk her son to have a present at their coming to the city, the mayor providing such things as he may, by consenc, think niosit expedient, f. 7o''. , 2.) Aug. — Proof to be given, after searching the cathedral and city records, to lianiond Sutton and — Thorohl, esqs., tliat the church of St. Andrew in Wikf'ord is a parish church, and not a church built by the Suttons of Lincoln, their i)redecessor3, only for their own ease and commodity, and therefore claimed by them as their property. Ibid. , . Mr. York to have part of the timber and stone of the late church of St. Margaret in Wikford, so that he build with the same in the city or suburbs. Ibid. , . Mr. John Pope, chancellor of the cathedral, to be allowed to buy tile of the city, as he is and ever hath been beneficial to the city. Ibid. , . Will. Dighton discharged from making a nevv "oheipe " for the best sword, which is to be made at the cost of the common chamber, f. 76. , 1 Sept. — The bakers having given up the assize because wheat 13 above the price of 20*., it is ordered that they shall bake their sail bread after the assize of 20s. until new order. Ibid . , . The lead of the churches defaced to be sold at 7/. 3s. 4(7. the fother, and the bells foi- 30s. the cwt. Ibid. -, 6 Nov.— Orders about the bringing of corn, butter and cheese to market, in accordance with the King's proclamation, f. 79. 1551, 9 Feb. — The clothiers to have the seal for a petition to the King in the name of the city for such things as they shall think neces- sary for the continuance of their fellowship in the city. f. 80. J . A covenant with the clothiers that they shall have the late church of the Holy Hood with the churchyard and other land, for the making a walk mill, and a dye-house of the church, for so long as twenty broad cloths shall at the least be yearly made, j aying 10/. if twenty broad cloths be not made ; provided that if any great plague fortune to be within the city, then no advantage be taken against them for not making the cloths, 'ff. 80\ 81. , . All such young people or other that live in idleness to be taken by the clothiers for 8 or 9 years, giving them meat, drink, clothes and other necessaries sufficient, and those who will not work to have one month's warning to avoid out of the city. f. 81. , . All persons who come to buy cloth, or who bring any wool, woad, madder, oil, alum, or other necessaries for cloth-making, to be free of toll for seven years, f. 81^ , . The clothiers to have a seal for sealing their cloths, and fiuch letters as they may desire to noblemen or worshipful men for help. Ibid. , . Any lawful means found by anyone for improving the trade to be sanctioned ; Edmund Atkinson, the present mayor to be one of the fellowship, f. 82. , 17 Apr. — The churches of St. Margaret and St. Andrew to be taken down and sold to the use of the common chamber, f 82\ 45 1551, 16 May. — Whereas the clothiers cannot have the Shoemakers' 155\. Hall as was granted to ihem, they shall have a house at Butter-Cross, paying 40*. yearly, f. 83. , 5 Aug. — The mayor to have the church of Trinity parish at an appraisement, f. 8i. , 10 Sept. — Every one of the clothiers shall pay to the graceman and fellowship of the mystery of weavers of the city, for their upset to be .sworn brethren unto the said fellowship 3s. 4d., and 12c?. yearly for their looms' farm, and shall not work or cause to be wrought any other cloths but their own or tlie work of other clothiers upon pain of the penalties contained in the charter of the weavers. Ibid. , 22 Xov. — Five shillings yearly to be paid to Sir Edmund, master of the hospital of Spital-on-the-street, for a piece of ground in Newport which he claims as belonging to the hospital, f. 88^. , . Bread to be baked after the assize of 22s. 6d. the quarter. Ibid. , 23 Nov. — Appraisement of the church of St. Andrew. Ibid. *' First, the waynescot above the hye alter with the cobert appraised to -- - - vi^ viii'^ Item, the old chist - _ _ - viiid a lectourne . - . . iut from an incorrect copy, by Precentor Edmund Veuahlcs, in Vol. XfX. of the Reports unci Papers oj the Associated Societies of Lincolnshire, etc., part ii., 1888. 46 1551. lool, 8 Deo. — Tho two waits [to which number they nre now re- duceil], are to luivo tlieir liveries, and to wear two silvor collars, f. 89. , . The arch under the High Bridge, and the"greys9e" {gressus, steps) to be repaired, f. 89''. , . In consideration tliat there hath been a great "lythe" and no wind for live weeks or more, whereby the bakers and other pereons could not get any corn ground at the windmills, and so could not bake any Im-ad for the sustentaiion of tho king's people, and some persons in consequence get their wheat ground at one horse-mill and some at another and upon querns, as hatli seldom been seen within the city, and by reason of such scarcity some in the beginning bought horse- bread to eat but at length could not get any of the same, to the great famishing and destruction of the whole people of this city and especially of the poor, it is ordered that the bakers shall bake their bread after the assize of 2-is. the quarter of wheat, and speedily provide carts or horses to send their wheat and other grain to be ground at water-mills in the countries. Ibid. 1552, 10 March. — Tho chapel on the High Bridge to be again repaired with lead. f. 90. , . The late parish church of St. John to be repaired, and the ornaments, implements and goods belonging to tho same to be sold. f. 90i>. , 28 Apr. — The lease of the parsonage of Surflett to John Harrison, clerk, forfeited by his felling of trees, f. 91''. , 9 June. — The Mayor, his brethren, and the Recorder to take order for a present to be given to the Duke of Northumberland at his coming to the city and how he shall be met. f. 92^. Agreed that the present be four cranes, six cygnets, six " bytters," twelve " godwyttes," two dozen " knottes," two great pikes, two great breams and two great tenches. Ibid. , . Cecil AYaddysworth committed to ward for detaining a chalice that belonged to the church of St. John in Wikford ; 20.?. to be paid to Mrs. Wright for one that belonged to the church of St. Edward. Ibid. , 21 Sept. — The parish church of St. Laurence from the chancel westward Avith the steeple leased to Wilham Clarke for 41 years, he paying yearly 205., and keeping it in repair, and at the end of the term re-delivering it, sufficiently covered with tile and the steeple with lead, with all the buildings which he may have set up. f. 95. , 3 Nov. — Agreed that although the claim of Thomas Husey, esq., and Ambrose Sutton, esq., to the late parish church of St. Andrew was lately disproved by ancient records, yet because Mr. Sutton's ancestors were beneficial to the city, and also for the obtaining of their good will, it shall be offered to them for 53/. f 97. , 16 Dec. — Agreed at a .Secret Council that whereas the Act for the union of churches does not contain words suiEcient for the plate, jewels, bells, ornaments and implements to be employed for the use of the city as was meant at the sueing out of the Act, and the King's Com- missioners of church goods consequently now require inventories of the aforesaid things, 40^. shall be given as a reward to Will Dalyson, esq., serj. at law, one of the commissioners for the church goods in the city, to set his hand and seal to a certificate made to the Privy Council, in order that they may be had and enjoyed to the use of the city without suit or trouble, f. 98. 47 1553, 18 Jan. — The Earl of Rutland to have, according to his letters 1553. to the major, the nomination of one of the burgesses for Parliament, with a present of a tun of claret wine for his goodness heretofore, and hereafter to be showed, f. QS**. Agreed that George Stamp shall have the church of St. John in Wikford for 20/., on condition that he do not take the church down, nor the steeple nor the aisles nor the battlements nor any part thereof, nor take away any tiles or lead ; unless he build an able dwelling-house with chambers for an honest man to dwell in against the street, and then to take down the steeple only. Ibid. , 18 March. — By reason that there are very many tipplers within the city, and there is not only much idleness and evil rule maintained within such tippling-houses, but also much bribery and petit larceny used and maintained, it is agreed that there shall be only thirty tipplers in the whole city and suburbs, which shall be admitted by the mayor, justices of peace and aldermen, f. 101. , . The Tailors' charter to be renewed. Ibid. , — — . Brewers to sell their ale at twopence the gallon. Ibid. 1553. — Particulars of the values of the vicarages of the united churches, with the payments reserved out of them, and the assignment of the parishes, as signed by the Bishop, Mayor, and Sheriffs, f. 104*' ''. Form of receipt from the Earl of Rutland for 20 marks in full payment of one year's rent of 100/. from the city. f. 104^. , 7 Oct. — Articles for the weal of the city are to be devised in writing, and sent to the city burgesses at Parliament, f. 106. , . The Recorder to speak to the Lady Elizabeth's council concerning the advowson of Hanslape granted to her by Edw. VI. which had been granted to the city by Hen. VIII. Ibid. . . The swordbearer and macebearer to have two livery coats of one colour yearly. Ibid. , 15 Nov. — The waits to have their liveries of red cloth as they had last year. f. 106^ , . The clothiers to apply to Parliament for the Queen's license to buy and sell their avooI through Lincolnshire, shipping at Boston haven ; and to sue that the towns and hamlets witliin four or five miles of the city may be comprised within the liberties and con- tribute to all charges. Ibid. 1554, 1 Feb. — The Recorder claims G/. \2s. for 66 days' attendance at Parliament, f. 108. , 18 March. — The Earl of Rutland to have 6/. 135. Ad. towards his costs in the Queen's affairs in setting forth a band of men. Ibid. , . "William Rotheram, alderman, elected a burgess for Par- liament, and to have the parsonage of Surflet, but not the advowson, for 21 years, for 21/. yearly, paying 11/. yearly to the vicar, and 4/. to the Queen, &c. f. 108''. , 20 June. — Whereas there is a writ of quo warranto procured by one David Brian against the city, it is agreed at a Secret Council that a present shall be sent to the Queen's Attorney with a letter from the Recorder, f. 109. , G July. — Agreed at a Secret Council that St. Anne's guild with Corpus Christi ])lay shall bo brought forth and played this year, and that every craft shall Ijring forth their pageants as hntli l)een accustomed, and all occupations to be contributorics as shall be assessed. f. 110. 48 \b'>A. loot, 20 July. — Secret CoiiiK'il. The Queen's Auorney co liave a present of two eniiies mid four ey iiouse in the tenure Item, Sara['s] ehambro J of William Smart. Item, a greate idoll with a clubb ^ Item, a tombc with a eoveryng ! Item, the citie of Jerusalem with towers and pynaclea I Item, the eitie of Haiges with towers and pynacles I . c- » T, ' , . r T.T ° ^■' V in baynt Item, the eitic of ISyuyvyc rSwvthunes Item, the Kyng's palace of Nynyve churche. Item, oldc Tobyes house Item, the Tsralytes house and the neighbures house Item, the Kyngs palace at Laches Item, a fyrmament with a fierye clowde and a duble clowde, in the custodye of Thomas Fulbeck, alderman." Vol. IV. A folio volume of 255 leaves, extending from Mich. 6 Eliz. 1564 to Mich. 41 Eliz. 1599. Foliated by a contemporary band at the foot of the leaves. On a fly-leaf prefixed, mutilated at the edges, is the following curious Christmas poem, spoken or sung by the three city waits [representatives by their title of Senators, of the Three Wise Men?] as a warning beforehand for the right keeping of Christmas time, a ceremony called "Crying Christmas." [See under 1571 hifra.l The leaf is headed '* Anno XXV. Officii Willelmi Hynde communis clerici civitatis Lin- coln," i.e. 1565, as appears from the heading of the first leaf of the Register itself. " The first Senatour. The Maker allmyghtye, the grounde of alle grace, Save this congregation that be here present, And bryng them all to the celestyall place That with pacyens wyll here the effect of our intent. The second Senatour. Oure intent and purpose is auncyent customes to declare That haue ben vsed in this citie manye yeres ago. And nowe for to breake them we wysshe ye schuld beware, For ther be grevous ponysshment for ihem y*^ wyll do soe. The thurd Senatour. At the tyme of Cristmas myrthe hath ben made Throughout all nacyous of the Crystiane faith, And slyll so to keip it ye nede not be alFrayde, For then was our Savyour bourn as the Scripture saitb. The first Senatour. At that tyme saith Saynt Johne appeared our perfight lyght And the Saveyour of all the world y* faithfully trust in hym. Saynt Luke in y® second chapitour declaryng his strenght and myght, Therfbre at that tyme to be merye we wyssh ye schuld begyn. The second Senatour. The Aimgelles with myrthe the schepperdes did obey, When they song Gloria in excelsis in tuynes mystycall, The byrdes w* solemnytye song on every spray, And the beastes for jqye made reuerence in there stall. 59 The thurd Senatour. 1564. Therfore w* a contrite hart let hus be merye all Havyng a stedfast faith and a love most amyable, Disdaynyng no roan of power greate nor small. For a crewell oppressour is nothyng commendable. The furst Senatour. Whatsoeuer oppressor wyll be cruelle and not merye make Schal be sore fettered in a dongion full deip Wherin is todes and miteis w' many a gret snayk, That place is so dark you schall not se your fete. Second Senatour. Therfore Crystmas myrth I wold ye schuld esteme, And to feare God and schewe y® deides of charyty boithe man and wyff, Orelles the people wyll assemble w* weapons scherpe and keene, Wherfore it wyll not prevaile to make any stryfF. Thurd Senatour. Bycause that holye tyme all good people do prepare Aswell kynges and queues that is of most noble byrthe, As also dukes, erles and lordes royally wyll faire, And spend the tyme of Crystmas w* joye and myrthe. The first Senatour. Forsomuch as all degrees within this r Do hyghly esteym the tyme of Cry To broke y* honourable custom I wold none to Bat spend y® tyme in hearyng and folowyng Gods word. Second Senatour. That is the clieiff cause hither we were sent To gyve the people warnyng to have all things perfightly, For they that do not breakyth M' Mayours comaundement And accordyng to the order ponysshed must they be. Thurd Senatour. Therfore endevour your sclffes to have all thinges well, That no default be found neyther of riche nor pore But at that tyme help your neighbures as S. James doth [tell?] Refresshyng the pouertye y* cummyth to y*' dore. First Senatour. Breiffiy we have declared theifect of our mynd And I do not doubt but you wyll have it in rcmoml)rnynce, One neighbour to another I wyssh ye schuld bo kyude, For y® tyme doith so spend nedea we must goo fro[m hence ?] 60 The Second Scnatour. Here wc cannot tary, the tyme passith Tliis niortall worlde is but vnu[ity] All ma-^istrates and rulers v/e wold ye sch[uld] Walkyng in your The [thurd Senatour]. The cternall Lord haue Unto other places Powir vpon you th He yt all thynges Amen." 1565, 7 Eliz. — John Hochynson, mayor, *' anno xxv. officii Willelmi Hynde clerici communis." f. 1. , Jan. 20. — The lease of St. John's churchyard to be bought of John Grene, and a decent wall against the High Street to be made, f. 2. , June 9. — The tower at the Eastbargate which is decayed and fallen down to be set up and amended, f. 3^. , . Mr. Richard Byrkyt to be vicar of Hemmyswell, at the instance of Mr. Elmer, archdeacon of Lincoln, f. 4. , Aug. 25. — The decayed town wall from the Westbargate unto tho old Tower to be mended, f. 5. The charter of the Tilers, Masons, Bricklayers, Plasterers, Pavers, Tilemakors, Glasiers, Limemakers, Milners [Millers] and Thekers [Thatchers] ; in eleven ordinances. It begins with a paragraph similar to the introductory paragraph of the charters noticed before, f. 6. Fouj- officers to be yearly chosen ; one to be graceman and master, two to be wardens, and one to be dean. J , " A note what implements of goods were lefte in the parsonage of Hemmyswell at the entre of William Dalyson, esquier, iuto the same." f. 7. " In primis, in the parlour one table standyng of ii trestelles in the ground. Item, in the same parlour, ix paynes of newe whyte glasse. Item, in the same parlour, in the west wyndowe iii paynes of glasse." Other glass in the chamber over the parlour and in the east parlour, and in the chamber above. In the hall two glazed windows on the south side, and a table on trestles. One frame for a door. A stable, five ox stalls, and a shed. , Oct. 4. — At a Secret Council. Alderman William Goodknappe having confessed what he had previously denied, that he had converted 10/. to his own use which he had received for the city, he is bound over to repay the same with a fine of 51., but allowed to remain an alderman, f. 7*". But on the 25 Jan. following he is released from this payment altogether on condition that he do not hereafter claim in the right of his uncle Ralph Goodknappe any debts due to him from the city. f. H*". The mayor and two aldermen sign the former entry with their mark?. 1566, Jan. 26. — Agreed that the stage- play of the story of Toby shall go forward and be played in Whitsou holydays next ; the common chamber to bear 41. towards the charges, and the orderers thereof to be ap))ointcd by the mayor and his brethrer. f. 10^ 61 1566, March 9. — The mayor's cook to have 10*-. for a reward, in 1566. consideration that it is thought him not to be meet to serve again, f. 11. , May 28. — William Vaughan to be vicar of Hanslape. f. 12. , . The lead and timber of St. John's steeple in Wikford to be taken to the use of the common chamber. Ibid. -, July 9. — Westgate bridge to be amended and repaired with stones taken from St. Augustine's church, f. 12''. , . Five marks yearly for his life granted to Thomas Wright, late alderman, in consideration that he is poor and sick and cannot help himself, f. 13. , . Agreed that the Wrights in this city shall have a charter. Ibid. , Aug. 22. Agreed that Hugh Pye, freemason, for that he is a good workman, shall have his franchise for 25s. and the oflficers' fees. f. l4^ , Sept. 14. — All such persons as have contemptuously departed out of the hall after their coming for the election of mayor and sheriffs, to be bound over to appear at the next sessions to answer to such things as shall be objected against them, or else to be imprisoned. f. 15. , Dec. 5. — For avoiding of many great hurts, hindrances, and enormities of late time crept into this city as well by evil rule in ale- houses, being brewers, victualling-house keepers, and tippling houses, as also by the continued and daily resort, long-being and continuing of divers and many workmen, craftsmen and labourers in the same houses, there loitering and drinking of over-strong and mighty ale, to the in- crease of idleness and drunkenness, it is ordered that the mayor and justices of the peace shall forthwith appoint of the best and most honest inhabitants, meet for the purpose, to be common brewers and tipplers, and such persons shall sell their ale or beer to the tipplers by dozens and half-dozens to the tippler to be assigned, and not to sell any ale or beer in their houses ; and every tippler that shall be assigned, to sell ale or beer by half-pennyworths or pennyworths, or by pots out of the house, and none otherwise, and only at such prices as the mayor from time to time shall appoint, f. 17. , , Order to be taken to prevent certain persons of the town of Bardney from repairing inordinately to Lincoln on market- days to make corn dearer, f. 17''. 1567, June 12. — John Drope, B.A., to be usher of the free school. f. 18^ , Oct. 15. — Twenty chaldron of coals to be bought, from New- castle, to be sold to the poor and to none other, f. 21. , . No person that wears any livery of noblemen or gentle- men to be hereafter of the Common Council, f. 21''. , . Similar orders to those given above respecting beer- sellers, adding that all brewers shall hare small ale and single beer for poor people, and that all victuallers and tipplers shall spar in their doors at the time of divine service and sermon time. J bid. , Nov. 24. — Letters to be written to ihc Privy Cnimcil for license for 20 stranger.s, householders, of good ability and good artificers, who have lately come to the city. f. 22''. 62 1566. 1500, Nov. 24. Tlio stnge piny of tlie story of old Toby, contained in the Old Testament, i^hnll be played fit the feast of Pentecost next, and the city shall bear towards the charges 61. 13s. 4d. f. 22^. , . Six (in the next year, seven) poor men to have livery gowns at 3*. -id. the yard. Ibid. 1508, March 20. — A pot of silver, lost by Mr. Ellys in his mayoralty, to be made of 16^ ounces, f. 23''. , . The mayor, instead of a butt of sack, to have half in sack and half in malmsey. Ibid. , . John Staynton, Mr. Archdeacon's servant, to be usher of the free school. Ibid. , May 8. — Dispute with Cambridge about tolls ; search to be made in the Exchequer whether the charter of Lincoln or Cambridge be the older, f. 24\ , . Forasmuch as Robert Mounson, esq., is pleased to make a free school of his own charges in the late Grey Friars, it is ordered that he shall have all the glass remaining in the free school towards the glazing of the windows in the new school. Ibid. — — , . The way to the " Cross of the Cliff " to be mended. Ibid. , May 29. — 20/. allowed towards the rebuilding of the mansion- house and buildings appertaining to the parsonage of Belton, which had been all burned, f. 25. , June 19. — The mayor bought at London, of John Franklen at the sign of the Queen's Head at the corner shop in St. Paul's Church' yard, four dozen leathei* water-buckets for the city, which, with carriage and hanging in the hall, cost 5/. 12*. Gd. Ibid. , July 8. — Two bookbinders admitted freemen, f. 25^. But one of them, Rich. Smyth, forgiven his franchise money, if he will leave the city. f. 32^ , . Complaint made that little hospitality is kept at Han- slape parsonage, that there is no service at Castlethorpe, and the church of Hanslape is not well served, that the curate is badly paid, not quarterly but scantly once in the year ; letters to be wi'itten to the farmer for a reformation, and that the curate have the churchyard for a reasonable rent. Ibid. , Aug. 9 and 19. Further grants made towards the re-building of Belton parsonage at the instance of the Privy Council, f . 26. 1569, Jan. 26.— A new lease, f. 31''. , Sept. 18. — No inhabitant of the city to lend feather-beds or bedding for lucre to innholders or other inhabitants of the bail, to the hurt of the innholders and inhabitants of the city, f . 27. , . Where [as] persons who have been arldermen or sheriffs, . on Sundays, holy days and market-days undecently go abroad with cloaks or other undecent raiment, and also with gowns, wearing hats, contrary to good order, it is agreed that anyone so doing shall forfeit twenty pence. Ibid. , Oct. 14. — Where[as] one cup of silver double gilt, parcel of the common plate appertaining to the city which was lost and hurt by Mr. [Leo] Ellys in the time of his mayoralty, should have been delivered whole and sound and as good as he received it, it is agreed that he shall be compelled to make the residue [of the plate] as good as he received it, and deliver it and the cup he lost before Christmas next upon pain of 10/. f. 29. C3 1568, Dec. 22. — At a Secret Council, agreed to give to Lord Willoughby a present of two fat pikes and two breams, and to the Recorder, who hath of late taken pains for the business of the city with certain of the Privy Council, two fat swans, or one fat swan and a fat turkey-cock. f. 29^ , . Mention of the cross called the " Queues Crosse." Ibid. 1569, Jan. 19. — The proclamation of the city called the Mayor's cry, as now newly corrected and amended according to the statutes of the realm and the ancient customs of Ihe city, shall be good and effectual hereafter, f. 30^ , . The charter of the city and the last pardon of a tax under the privy seal to be pleaded for discharge of a writ for gathering a tax. Ibid. , . Thomas Marsshe, stationer, shall have word to give attendance at the lottery now at the drawing thereof in the city of London for the adventure of this city, for the 71. lOs. lately put into the same. f. 31. , March 1. — Mr. EUys brought in a silver cup with a cover double gilt weighing 14 ounces at 6.f. the oz. f. 33. , March 5. — The tax of a fifteenth and a deodand discharged. Ibid. , . Ordinances for orphans' goods devised and established for the town of Newark were openly read and well liked of, and it was ordained that the like ordinances should be drawn in form to take place for ever in this city. Ibid. , . It shall be lawful for all freemen to buy wood, coal, thakkes, or turf, for the relief of the poor, to be retailed and sold in the winter time, so that the price be always rated by the mayors &c. Ibid. , . All the gears of St. Anne's guild remaining in a tene- ment next to St. Benedict's churchyard shall be laid and kept in the lower chamber in the Guildhall, which shall be repaired for the same with speed, f. 33''. , . Some of the stones of St. Katherine's chuich to be kept for use, and the rest to be sold at one penny the cartload. Ibid. , March 10. — The Bishop and Justices of assize to have presents of pikes, breams or perches, tenches and eels, at their coming. Ibid. Similar entries at subsequent dates. , March 12. — Marks assigned to three bakers for distinguishing their bread by pricks, f. 34. , May 30. — At a court leet, agreed that any fraunchestman wearing the livery of any nobleman or gentleman before he bear office in the city may continue in such service with the license of the mayor, etc., the law and ordinance made in the time of Edw. IV. to the con- trary notwithstanding, f. 34''. See Oct 8, infra. , July 9. — Aid. George Stampe sequestered and displaced until the next Common Council for troubling the shorifTs at We.'^tmin.stor when they were there about the great business of the city, whereby a Quo warranto is like to come against the liberties of the city. f. 35''. , June 15. — Case of alleged unlawful distraint by the shcrifTH against one Thomas Wynterbounic, supposed to be outlawed, tried in the Star Chamber, in which the sheriffs are cleared, and a clerk to one of the secondaries of the court committed to the Fleet for falsely erasing 1568. G4 the writ of outl'wvrv : "Wynterboiirne is subsequently disfranchised, ff. 36, l^7. Bound over, nt the request of noblemen who have written on his behalf, to stand to arbitration, Jan. 12, 1570. f. 45''. [See under 15S5.] 1569, Sept. 1. — Onliuanccs established for orphans and their portions. ff. 36\ 37^-39. , Sept. 21. — Verdict by the jury before the commissioners for concealed lands in Bucks that there is not any sufficient evidence to find any concealed lands in Stock-Goldington or Castlethorpe, with a copy of a presentment made by one George Byrchemore, " I say that the *' parsonage of Castyltborpe is ruinous and not well served, and there- " fore must needs be concealed." f. 41''. , . Oath of the searchers and sealers of tanned leather and curried leather, f. 42, 42^ , Oct. 8. — All freemen on admission to be sworn to the oath made in the time of Edw. IV. concerning the wearing of liveries, f. 44. , Dec. 28. — No artificer or labourer, under the degree of a chamberlain of the city, after monition by proclamation shall be or remain in any alehouse, etc. in the city on any work-day to drink or spend any money for any ale, beer, or any other thing there to be found, upon pain of 4d., or go to the Close or Bail for the same under pain of 8c?., half the penalties for the prosecutor and half for the poor. f. 46''. Also on Oct. 10, 1579. f. 115. , . Every alderman to provide four clamps of iron, for each ward, for casualty of fire. Ibid. 1570, March 10. — A writ (dated Feb. 13) sued out by one Mr. Bowyer for search for concealed lands, ff. 47'', 48. , May 18. — Ale to be sold at 2^d. the gallon and beer at 2d. the gallon, upon pain of 40c?. f. 48''. , June 13. — A swan-mark to be bought of Thomas Wynter- bourne, which was lately William Yatts', alderman, deceased, f. 49. , July 12. — Antony Thorold resigns the Recordership, to which Robert Mounson is appointed at his request, but the former to have 40.y. yearly for life for continuing his counsel, f. 49''. , . The master of the poor folks lately appointed to have 20*. yearly for keeping the bar-gates, and 20*. for the order of the poor, and driving away and punishing of vagabonds, strange beggars, and poor people out of the city. Ibid. , . Such persons as refuse to pay as they are assessed towards the setting forth of soldiers for the service of the Queen shall be kept in ward till they make payment, f. 50. , Oct. 22. — The outgoing mayor gives up these parcels of plate : three goblets, whereof one with a cover double gilt, two drinking pots double gilt, whereof one with a cover; the three goblets weighing 82 ozs. and the two pots 36^ ozs. f. 53. 157l> Feb. 22. — Twelve persons to be bound over to appear at the next assizes for riotously cutting down and carrying away trees, f. 54''. , March 24. — Dr. Wilson, Master of St. Katherine's in London and one of the Masters of Requests, to have the freedom of the city, and to be one of the citizens in the next Parliament beginning April 2, and the Recorder to be the other, f. 55^' **. , . Privies to be made in the prison called the Kitchen and in other prisons in the city. Ibid. 65 1571, March 24. — The second sword and the red velvet hat to be l*?!- new covered, f. SS**. , March 27. — Aklerman [Johnl Welcome to be solicitor for the affairs of the city at Pailiament, at 4*. a day. Ibid. , . If a tax be granted, a ilischarge to be speedily sued for ; ami an Act to le procured discharging all penalties against the Under Sheriffs and their clerks, and that they may continue to occupy their office from year to year as the Under-sheriffs of London do. Ibid. , . Where[as] within the county of Lincoln, timber, wood, coal, thakk, turf and other necessaries have been ahnost clearly felled, taken away, consumed and spent by many greedy persons, owners of the same since the dissolution of the late religious houses, to the great decay of the poor ancient city of Lincoln, formerly served out of the said county with these necessaries for the relief of the said city and for setting the poor people on work ; and for that there is yet some plenty of timbci-, Ac. within the counties of Nottingham, Derby and York next adjoining, whence .the said poor city could be well served if the same could be broughtby water ; [it is desired] that an Act of Parliament may be made for a commission to a.ssess all persons within seven miles of the city for the dyking, cleansing and scouring of Foss-dyke, in order that sufficient water may be brought from the Trent to bring the said timber, etc. f. 56. Also that an Act may be procured that all penalties incurred by virtue of any statutes or proclamations by inhabitants of the city may be assigned to the city. Ibid. , May 21. — At a Secret Council. The water that should serve the most part of the city being stopped that the people cannot have any conduit water, to their great hurt and danger of life by reason of corrupt watpr, and for that the common waters of the city are now low and something corrupt by reason of certain sinkers irom kitohens, stables, swine-sties, and such other corrupt places descending into the .^aid common waters, Avhereby great infection is like to ensue, it is agreed that every person, of what estate soever, shall before Sunday Uf xt, reform and correct all such sinkers and corrupt places, so as all infection of water may be avoided, upon pain of imprisonment for four days and four nights without bail, and 40s. in money ; and no fish- mongers shall hereafter put their fishwater into any waterchannels l)ut shall convey it away into other meet places, f. 56^. , . Orders for beer brewers, f. 57. , Oct. 31.— 85 pitces of evidences relating to Thomas Grantham's lands, deceased, delivered in. f. 61. , . An annuity of 51. granted to Nicholas Catskyn, clork, so long as he shall be chaplain to the mayor for the time being, and for preaching as well at the parsonages appeitaining to the city as also within the city. f. 61''. " Sir " Nicholas Catskyn, clerk, preacher, to have 51. more wages yearly and a livery gown to the value of 45s., Apr. 12, 1572. f. 6^,^. , . The old robes which the i-fficers cried Christmas withal to i)e made into decent cloaks for the said officers to cry the sanieyiarly withal hereafter, and the rest ol' the utensils where the robes lie, which be of small value, to be sold. Ibid. , . 26.S-. Hd. granteti College 28 Nov. 1581 (A. Clark's Regitter of the IJmv. of Uxf., Vol. II., Pait II., 1887, p. 112), B.A., 9 July 1.584 ; MA 2G May l.^SS. (76. Part III., p. 124.) 09 1583, Dec. 22. — All orders, &c. made at any Common Council to be i->'^ drawn in paper and read openly at the next Council before they be entered, that if anything be mistaken it may be reformed before it be entered in the Council book. f. 137^ 1584, Jan. 18. — The indentures of agreement about the schools to be sealed, f. 138. , Feb. 26. — A house of easement to be made at the Friars for the scholars, f. 140. , . Three shillings and fourpence allowed monthly for the bringing up of a bastard child whose father and mother are dead. Ibid. , . A legacy of 40/. from John Wilson for the poor. Ibid. , Apr. 4. — Mayors no longer to be charged with the venison feast, which is from henceforth to be laid down, and the rent-fish given by the fishers to be had by the mayors towards their housekeeping, f. 140^ , . Mr. Jermyns to be occupied in preaching upon Sunday afternoons and upon Wednesdays in the forenoon, to teach the people their duties towards God and the Queen's Majesty, and to have yearly 20/. Ibid. , . Ordered that one half of all the people in every house above 12 years of age, being not sick or lawfully hindered, be at the beginning of every sermon every Sunday in the morning, and oae from every house at the beginning of every sermon in the afternoon of every Sunday and festival day, and likewise on every Wednesday, upon pain of 20f/. on S'.indays and 12^/. on other days, f, 141. , . All tradesmen to have their shop doors and windows closeii all the day-lime on Sundays, except they have need to open their shop doors for their own passage in and out of their houses, upon pain of 3*. 4f7. ; and except that it shall be lawful for every butcher upon any Sundiiy out of Lent, and every fishmonger on every Sunday in Lent from 5 o'cl. a.m. until the market bell ring, and from I to 3 if there be no sermon at that time, to keep open his shop-doors to sell victual, but at no other time in the day except to innholders upon strangers' sudden coming; and except also that any mercer, draper, or otiier artificer m;iy serve any stranger passing through the city as a stranger with any wares. Ibid. , June 18. —Alderman Hodshone to be disfranchised if within a month he do not so alter the couise of his sinkers that no filth of his swine and other corruption shall come into the river or common stream, f. 142. Similar order with regard to a dyer, and others. Ibid. , July 30. — Further order to Aid. Hodshone, beer-brewer, with regard to the filth of his brewing as well as of his swine, and also lo the dyer. f. 142\ , Aug. 3. — A lease granted of St. Laurence's church and steeple. f. 143. The freedom of the city granted at the request of Lord Willoughby of Parhain, to secure his good-will, to Robert Perkins, hiy .servani or tailor. Ibid. , . Mr. Jermyns continued as preacher of the city. Ibid. 1585, Jan. 16. — No j)resent above the value of 20*. to be given to any nobleman or man of worship except by consent of the nuiyor and 70 J585. innjority of aldermen, uor under that value to any one except the mayor and four of his brethren consent, f. 147. lobS. April 17. — The order about Aid. Ilodshone's sinkers made on Aufj. 3 (July 30 ? HO order entered on the former day) to be clearly void being '* partly mistaken." f. 148''. , Oct. 23. — Copy of a severe letter from the Privy Council dated at Richmond, Oct. 18. " Whereas after your first contempt made in the election of .your mayor,* contrary to the direction of our letters vrritten unto you, and the good advice given you by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln to make choice of a man able in discretion to govern that city and well atfected in religion, you have sithens added to the first a second contempt savouring of more wilfulness, in electing to the places of justices of the peace within the said city for this year the four persons that were the chief ringleaders in the disorder of the choice of the mayor, and were here by hus {sic) f to your knowledge punished for the same, whereat Ave do not a little marvel," two of them, Dawson and Emonson, wh(i are held to be specially unfit, are hereby sequestered from those places, an 1 order given to elect two others. This order is consequently obeyed, f. 152. , Dec. 11. — A frieze coat of the value of 4*. allowed yearly to " lame Robyns." f. 163. 1586, Jan. 15. — Mr. Jermyns the preacher having left the city, his stipend is granted to the Dean of the Cathedral Church, so long as it shall please his worship to take pains therein, f. 153"'. , . Forty shillings bestowed upon the poor people of the city for a charitable benevolence. Ibid. , April 18. — Certain persons to be sent up to the Privy Council to answer interrogatories concerning the supplication lately delivered by the Common Council against Mr. Rush worth, f. 154^*. — — — , May 9. — The Archbishop of Canterbury to have the nomina- tion of a preacher for the city. f. 155. , — — . Thomas Yates, a scholar a Cambridge, to have 40*. yearly for three years towards his maintenance at learning. Ibid. — — , May 30. — The house next to the prison called the Kitchens to be made a prison for apprentices and pei'sons committing small offences, f. 155\ , . Articles exhibited against two newly-elected aldermen, Laythorpe and Dobson, Laythorpe was illegally elected ; is of an incontinent life and hath been fined in penance and hath not paid, "a great disworship to the city to have such an alderman " ; he has unjustly caused suits about the cattle on the commons, &c. ; he is officer to the sheriffs of the shire and clerk of the county, and there fully occupied ; he is at this day impeached of forgery in the Star Chamber. Dobson hath left the city, and hath said that he is not of ability to keep house there, l^oth are in consequence di.«placed from the aldermanship, ff. 155^ 156. , Sept. 14. — At the election of mayor two letters from the Privy Council were read respecting the displacing of the aforesaid aldermen, * Henry Blowe had been elected mayor by 108 voines to 79, 38, and 27 given for others. t This spelling is unirerpally used by the Town Clerk at the time. 71 with regard to -which " gentlemen " were appointed to come for enquiry 1586. and also for appeasing contentions in the city, and requiring that Laythorpe and Dobson should be allowed to be in the calendar for election of mayor ; but the mayor and three others refused to allow it, as being not aldermen at that time, whereupon five others refused to take part in the election, f. IS?*". 1586, Oct, 5. — The grant of the reversion of the town-clerkship to Leonard Carr, made May 7, 1580, repealed, because he has maintained a faction in the city, and taken part in a slanderous bill supplicatory to the Privy Council against Henry Blowe, late mayor, f. ISQ*". (See under 1589.) Richard Parkyns appointed clerk, in the place of Mr. Bunche, deceased. Ibid, , Oct. 11. — A letter sent to the Lord Chancellor informing him that before his letter came in favour of L. Carr, the place had been given to another, f. 160. , Nov. 2, 3. — Thomas Winterburue deprived (but not unani- mously) of his places of justice of peace (to which he had been appointed against his own \vill) and alderman, for tearing in pieces, in great furjr and madness, some examinations which he had signed, f. 160''' ''. [It is possible that Winterburue was a Roman Catholic, as he had at first " most wilfully and stubbornly " refused to take the oaths incident to the office of a justice.] , Dec. 31. — Not more than one couple to be henceforth taken into any house by the inhabitants of the city, and no persons to be admitted to dwell in the city but such as the mayor and the most of his brethren shall allow, f. IQl^. , . The constables to report every fortnight what foreigners or strangers have come to inhabit. Ibid. 1587, March 3. — ^Thomas Emonson disfranchised for spoil and waste by cutting down trees on land leased to him. f. 164. Proceedings against others, f. 165. Emonson to be restored on paying a fine. f. l7l^ -, May 20. — Appointment of persons to visit all the several divisions of the city, it having been in the last summer visited with the sickness of the plague very grievously, and there being now some great and manifest presumptions of some dregs and offscourings thereof yet remaining, f. 165''. , Sept. 12. — Mr. Silvester, curate of St. Bennet's, appointed vicar of Bolton, with a stipend of 16/ f. 167\ The inventory of plate handed on to the incoming mayor is increased this year by a case of knives and a staff of *' brasell " tijtped with silver. This mahogany staff is not mentioned in subsequent inventories, but is still preserved amongst the civic insignia. It measures 28^ inches, f. 170, , Oct. 30. — Thomas Kendall disfranchised for certain lewd speeches against the Bishoj) and Dean, f, 170'', " lie said it was never a good world since the spiiituality nuist have the choosing of the mayor .... The Bishop hath nothing to do with the choosing, and that if either he or the Dean did come into the hall they were as good not, and if that they were cast out of the hall window they know the wor.'^t of it . . . . that it was a Khanic for Mr. Dean to deal as he did at his first coming he [)reached upon good will and for notiiing, and now he selleth his sermons," etc. 1587, Oct. 30. — 51. allowed to William Storr, a scholar at Oxford, towards his nroocodiiii; bat'holor [iiuister : see note under 1580] next Lent, in coii.sidorntion th:it ho do not lu*i-cutter challeuge any more exhibition of the city, f, 171. 1588, March 21. — Copy of a letter from Sir Krancis Walsingham, dated from the Court, Jan. 1, desiring that Laythorpe's name may be Bubjected to the city for re-election a.s an alderman, on the grounds of his wisdom and understanding in the atlairs of the world (being a most fit man for those good parts it hath pleased God to endow him withal for the government of the city), that the manner of ])roceeding against him was hard, and the matters objected most weakly and slenderly proved ; but if he be not re-elected, then he should surcease from seeking further restitution. An election for two aldermen is now held, and 24 and 19 voices are given for Will. Gosse and John Becke against 5 given for Christopher Laythorpe and John Rodthorne. f. 172»•^ , July 9. — Stones given out of the Friers to two persons. f. 173^ and again, f. 186. , . Leonard Carr admitted to the office of Town-clerk, in accordance with a letter from Lord Chancellor Christopher Hatton, dated at London, March 11, stating that he ought to enjoy the office according to the grant formerly made, there having been no just cause for its revocation, and that he is found to be honest and of good behaviour, and very willing to perform his best service with that duty that shall become him- f. 174. Carr is also admitted clerk of the staple in accordance with a writ from the Queen, in which it is said that Parkins is not qualified for the office because he has not lands or tenements in the city. Ibid. , July 29. — The seal of the statutes merchant to be cut, according to Act of Parliament, f. 174. ■ , Aug. 10. — The Friars never to be let for a term of years. f. 175^ , Sept. 23. — Extract from the indenture of Sir Thomas While's benefaction to the city, dated July 1, 1566, with an election of four persons to receive loans of 25/. each, in accordance with the same. If. 1761-- 178. Mr. Sele, M.A.* to have the curacy of Belton, in pur- suance of letters from the Bishop of Lincoln showing that for his learning and godly policy in governing he is a sufficient and meet man, of which sufficiency the Bishop can better judge than this house can. f. 178\ , . Robert Cooke, blacksmith, to pull down two chimneys of mud which he hath built in a thatched barn, to the harbouring of many beggars and danger of fire, or else to be disfranchised. Ibid. In the mayor's inventory of plate this year the three cups become " five silver tuns," and " a pair of wood knives to take up a table withal" is added, the other knives being " to cut meat." f. 180. This description is repeated in subsequent years. , Oct. 5. The Bishop to be applied to, to confirm the union of the two schools, f. ISO''. * Probably John Seele, of Magd. Hall, Oxf., M.A., in 157». 73 1588, Oct. 5. — The reversion of the Recordership (on death or de- ibSi. parture of Mr. Anton) granted to Mr. William Ellis on the application of L. Chanc. Hatton, and "for avoiding of many displeasures" that might arise should the office become suddenly void ; with a copy of a letter of thanks thereupon from Hatton, dated from London, 26 Nov. f. 180^ , Dec. 12. — If the Dean and Chapter will give Mr. Plumti'e, the usher of the School 3/. 6s. 8d. yearly for life, this house will give him 51. yearly and the benefit of a freeman, and so he be discharged from teaching any longer, because he is old and doth no good upon the children, f. 182. , . The faii'est great free-stones in the Friars to be piled and laid up in the vaults under the school. Ibid. , . A thousand " kidds " (faggots) to be bought for the poor this Christmas according to the true meaning of Mr. John Wilson's gift. Ibid. — — , . The blind boy of Townend to have a coat given him. Ibid. , . Freemen who allow dogs to go unmuzzled to be dis- franchised if they refuse to pay the fine. f. 182''. 1589, Feb. 6. — The Monks' Leas to be walled if sufficient stone can be digged there for the purpose, f. 183. , Oct. 20. Every householder in Bar-gate, Bail-gate, East-gate and Newport (impotent and labourers only excepted) every night when the moon shineth not between All Hallows day and Candlemas, from 6 to 9 at night to set over their doors or windows a lantern with a candlelight in it, on pain of 4d. f. 190. 1590, Jan. 19. — At the suit of the waits it is ordered that no musicians except the waits do hereafter play at any marriages, unless such musicians give to the waits 2s. for every marriage they play at. f. 191''. , Feb. 16. Whereas Mr. Barnes, our preacher that is to be, is offered 40/. stipend and his diet at the mayor's table, but desires also to have his meat and drink in his chamber for himself and his man, a convenient lodging, and the bringing hither of his books and implements, all at the city's charge, which things this house cannot well condescend unto because of the great charge it is at every year, yet because of the great desire the citizens have of his coininj^ through the report of his great learning and his fitness otherwise, it is agreed he shall have 40/., a chamber, and the fetciiing of Ins books and imj)lements, with his meat at the mayor's table until the common chamber is better able to con- tribute to the charge of his diet. f. 192. , May 22. — Mr. Walwoodde elected usher, f. 193''. , Sept. 5. — Mr. Walkwoodde (sic) to have a gown-cloth only this year, in consideration of the stipimd given to the late usher, f. 194''. , . No serving-man or retainer to any one te be elected to any office in the city. f. 195. , . No freeman under the degree of sheriff shall procure, work for, or entreat any man to giv<; his voice to any to l,e el('(;t('d to any office, f. 195''. 74 In tho inventory this >vn»' the knives to cut meat arc omitted, and a basket to cany the plate and a carpet to hiy on a form in the Minster where the Mayoi' and his brethren sit are added, f. IQ?**. This list is continued afterwards. 1501, July 31. — A committee appointed to confer with Mr. Grene of Boston, who has oflered to set 400 poor people of Lincoln on work for five vears at wool, if the city will tind him a convenient house and lend him'300/. freely for the five years, f. 200. , . Mr. Bai-nes elected preacher with a stipend of 201. (sic), f. 201. 1592, Sept. 5. — The best learned counsel in the law that can be gotten in Londor. to be consulted, with Mr. Recorder, about the statute merchant seal, for confirming or reforming it, or purchasing a new grant, f. 207. 1593, Feb. 5. — Charles Dy mock made a freeman at the request of his nephew Sir Ed war 1 Dymock, knt., with a view to his election as one of the burgesses of the city, he having always showed himself very courteous to the citizens, and promising to attempt in Parliament any- thing that may be beneficial to this corporation, and, further, that he will not put the city to any charge for burgess- money, f. 211. , March 29. — Mr. Tonge, the late mayor, '* disjusticied and also disaldred '' for refusing to bring in his accounts, and for having gone away with sums of money remaining in his hands, f. 212. To be sued, f. 217. , Sept. 22. — Wl. left for the poor of St. Peter's parish in East- gate by Lady Rooper. f. 214^'. , . The old brazen weights to be sold, being not according to the standard and doing no good. Ibid. 1594, Apr. 20. — A list of all the inhabitants in the towns of Wad- dington, Bramstou, Canwick, with their assessment (or " bustage ") for taxes. S. 219^ 20^ , July 26. — A table of *' wyned" wood to be made and set up at the Guildhall, with the laws that are made, that the freemen may know what they are bound to. f. 221^. 1595, Jan. 17. — A " wyned " table to be made, with a green carpet of seven quarters broad-cloth, to stand before the mayor at sermon times in the body of the Minster, to lay the sword, hat, and mace upon (and a velvet cushion, f. 236'') ; and also a new hat to be made for the sword- bearer of crimson velvet, with the band and tassels and other furniture thereunto belonging, f. 226. , , A new mace to be made, greater and fairer than the mace that now is, and the sum of 39/. 14*. 4c?. and the old mace to be allowed towards it ; the new mace of silver gilt weighing 78.^ ounces Cometh at 10s. 2d. an ounce to 39/. 15s., the graving of four arms in four " ammell " [enaui'^l?] plates to 40s., a case for it 15s., the carrier for bringing it down 5s. ; summa, 42/. 5s. ; received for the silver of the old mace being 10 ounces, three-quarters and a half at 4s. 8d., 50s. 6d. So there remains due to the goldsmith, 39/. 14s. 4d. f. 226^ , . The two greatest and least swords to be repaired in scabbards, hilts, " pumbles " (pommels), handles and " cheapes." Ibid. 76 1595, Jan. 17. — A new stall of " wyned " wainscot to be set up in 1595. St. Peter's church for the mayor and aldermen, f. 22Q^\ , . Edmund Shuttle worth to be town-clerk on the death of Leonard Carr. f. 227. 1597, Feb. 12. — The mayor's charges for a scaffold at the horse race to be allowed, f. 23 7^ , June 16. — Mr. Thomas Luddington,* the preacher to the city, to have 30/. per an., and his diet at the mayor's table, f. 239. — — , Sept. 7. — The burgesses for the city to be treated with to get the letters patent granted with the new seal for statutes merchant confirmed by Act of Parliament, f. 240^. 1598, Feb. 16. — St. John's churchyard and steeple to be sold. f. 243^ , Sept. 2. — The corn market to be kept in St. John's church- yard, f. 245\ — — , . The Friars, notwithstanding a former order to the contrary, leased for 21 years, f. 246. , Nov. 23. — No clothes to be washed at the conduits, f . 249*^. 1599, March 28. — The waits or musicians to have 100*. yearly towards the increase of their wages, and also to have four coats yearly at Christmas over and besides the coats they have now, and their chains and cognizances to be repaired, f. 250. , June 11. — Edward HoUingworth and Thomas Bishoppe, two freemen, to be disfranchised for ever unless at the next Common Council they appear and purge themselves of evil and untrue reports which they have spread abroad of Mr. Major that now is [Abraham Metcalfe], as the makers of this "law " [resolution], or some of them, have lately heard and known, f. 250^. Vol. V. — A folio volume, extending from Oct. 1599 to Aug. 15, 1638 ; consisting according to a foliation at the foot of the pages of 280 leaves ; but of these, two are now wanting at the beginning, fol. 65, and ff. 268- 270, (besides only a fragment remaining of 279) ; and fol. 78 has been misplaced in binding between ff. 66, 67. Two leaves bear the number 6, and one separate un-numbered leaf is fastened in at f. 275**. Leaves are wanting at the end, but to what extent cannot be known. On a fly-leaf at the beginning is this memorandum : "24 Maii, 1605. The three great boules with ther covers were sent to London to be repared wherein ther was eny necessctie of repare, the which wore wayed, and conteined in weight fourescore and twoo ounces," (See under date of Doc. 20, 1604, infra.) [1600?] — The lease that Leonard Carre has of St. Laurence's Church and the shops there made up from seven years to twenty- one, at the old rent, he giving a pottle of sack and sugar for a niio, in con- eidcratiou of his defending \t iiis own proper costs and chargcjs a suit brought against the city for the same, and for jiis iiaviiig hy his lal)our and costs in tli(! " Checker (•liambor " [Exclicfpier] taken out co])ios of the books which will for over hereafter maintain tlio city's title, and also hath given the same Ijooks to the Common Chamber, f. 3^^. * Thomas T^odington, M.A., afterwards B.D., a liiiicoliisliin; inaii, and Fellow of Lincoln Collcfrc, Oxford, from 1582 to 1G05 iXuiir. Chirk, lieij. of Univ. of Oxf., Vol. II., Part III., p. 106). 70 LGOO. 16CK), Mjiy 3. — Forasmucli iis John Dawson was disfranchised for abuse otleivd to Mr. Miuson, Mr. Wharton imd Mr. Radlenn, but now hiis nuulc suit to them for his freedom, they having all become lover.", and friencis ; and forasmuch also as Holland Lillic was disfran- chised for abuse otl'ered to Mr. Metcalf, but ihcy have now grown unto a peace and an unity ; it is agrei'd that they be re-enfranchised, upon condition that they carry themselves lovingly, decently and dutifully unto the aldermen of this city. f. 4. No minister or preacher who shall have any benefice or charge out of the city of Lincoln to be elected preacher of the city, bnt such a nian to be chosen as shall i>ave no benefice, and lie and be continually amongst the citizens. Ibid. , .Sept. 27. — Mr. John Smith elected preacher of the city by 8 voices, over Mr. Luddiugton who had 7. f. 5'-' ^. [It mav be worth mentioning, once for all, the various officers who, besides the mayor and sheriffs, were at this period annually elected. Four chamberlains, one f'>r each ward ; four constables; one for each ward ; the common clerk ; three niayor's officers, viz. the sword bearer ("later gladii"), the mace-sergeant ("serviens ad clavara ") and the bellman ('* campanfe pulsator"); the sheriffs' clerk; three sheriffs' officers; four keepers of the keys of the chest; three keepers of the kevs of the pyx ; four searchers of tanned leather ; two searchers for curried leather ; and searchers for not coming to sermons, viz. the churchwardens of every parish, who were to present the offenders every Monday to the mayor. Besides these, there were overseers of the commons, and a pinder, elected at the yearly view of frankpledge.] The mayor's inventory of plate, &c. : one bason and ewer of silver parcel gilt, three goblets of silver with a cover to them, all double gilt, five silver tuns with a cover to thtm, parcel gilt, and therein ["all in a nest," 1601] one silver salt all gilt, one case of knives of wood to take up the table withal, one carpet, and one wicker basket to carry the plate in. f. 7. , Oct. 21. — Mr. Francis Billingham admitted a freeman, he, having made suit to the mayor and his brethren to be one of the burgesses for the city at the next Parliament, wherewith they are well pleased. Ibid. , . Mr. John Smith, the preacher of the city, to have a yearly stipend of 40/. paid quarterly, with Zl. 6s. 8d. yearly towards house-rent and leave to keep three kine upon the commons. Ibid. 1601, Feb. 28. — Mr. Malton, vicar of Belton, to have a gown-cloth, or 40*. price, given him, so that it be no precedent, f. 7^. , . The sheriffs to provide livery-cloaks yearly for their bailiffs of 30*. price. Ibid. , March 9. — None hereafter to be admitted freemen under the sum of 10/. ; all previous laws and uses concerning the same repealed and annulled, i. H. , . Every alderman coming to sermons, common councils, &c., without his liown, to forfeit 6s. 8c?. ; every sheriff and one that hath been sheriff, 5s. ; every cnamberlain and one that hath been chamberlain, 4*. ; and the mayor to issue warrants for the immediate levying of the forfeitures. Ibid. , Sept. 26. — Whereas one Hugh Atwell, parson of St. Tewe [St. Ewe] in Cornwall, and in time past parson of Calverley in Devon- shire, hath given 3/. to the use of the poor for ever, to keep them on 77 work, the stock to remain for ever, and the gain to be disposed of by the 160!. mayor to such as he shall think fit for the true disposition thereof, it is ordered that the said money be disposed yearly according to the true meaning of th£ giver, f. 10. 1601, Oct, 6. — Two persons elected assistants to the Mayor for the pricing of victuals according to the statute, because the Mayor, Edward Dynnys, is himself a victualler, f. 11. 1602, Feb. 20, — The schoolmaster and usher to have, each of them, 40*, for a gown, so as the same be no precedent, f. 1 2''. , Aug. 18, — For reformation of great abuses in the sheriffs' officers, ordered that if any officer commit any offence contrary to his oath he be immediately displaced, f. 13''. , . Because the city is very evil spoken of for taking toll excessively, which by a former law should have been reformed aud yet nothing has been done therein, a [committee]* is appointed to set clown the toll that shall be taken for everything in the city tofore tolled, that the same may be engrossed and set up in a table. Ibid. , . Stones granted out of the Friars to Mr. Ellis. Ibid. , . It is provided that no question shall arise in conse- (juence of the late absence of Abraham Newhouse from the city about his right to enjoy his freedom, his chief departure being but to make money to pay his debts. Ibid. , [Sept. 2 ?] — A grant to be engrossed and sealed assuring for life the stipend heretofore paid to Mr. John Smith, the preacher long since elected to preach every Sunday in the afternoon and every Wednesday in the forenoon ; provided always that he be not absent from the execu- tion of his place above twenty-one days in a year, except it be through sickness or else suits and troubles in law, and during absence that he find another man to supply his place at his own charge, f, 14. , Oct. 13. [On this date several orders are made in a Common Council, which show the existeuce of great dissensions in the Corpora- tion. They are as follows : — ] Two leases gi'anted by the mayor and three others oq 2 Sept, an- nulled because " impunged " and gainsaid by the majority of the aldermen, f. 17''. Item, for as much as many men unskilful and not franchest men of this city have heretofore been chosen sheriffs by the magistrates to whom such election did belong, and such magistrates partly by that means have preferred their will and not regarded the common good of this city, contrary to ancient usage heretofore ; and, by reason that such unskilful per.sons have been called to that office of Sheriff without bearing the office of Chamberlain, divers franchest men of our city of good wealth and ability have forborne to take upon them the place of Chamberlain, and that place of late time hath been supplied otherwise than of ancient time hath been used heretofore : For rcforumtion whereof, and that these places may hereafter be furnished witii th(! best sort of people of this city eligible thereunto, it is enacted and agreed l»y the mayor, sheriffs, citizens and commonalty of this city that from henceforth no magistrate or mayor of this city shall ehict or clioose any person or persons to be sherifFs of this city except such person so to bo * This word is not used in this place but is employed in this wny on the pre- ceding page of the Kegi^ter. 78 1602. elected have formerly been chamberlain^ any usage, custom, or liberty to the contrary uotwithstnndiug, upon pain of one hundred marks. f. 18. Item, whereas by an act of Common Council of 21 Oct. [1600] it was agrecil that Mr. .lolin Smith then elected preacher of this city should have [the stipend spocilied above under that date] ; now forasmuch as the said John Smitli hath approved himself a factious man in this city by personal preaching, and that untruly, against divers men of good place, and for that he is not licensed to preach, and is at the present inhibited by the L. Bishop of this diocese from the execution of his miuistjy and preaching; the said mayor, sheriffs [etc.'] euact and agree that the said John Smith shall be no longer preacher of this city, and that [all acts granting him his stipend etc.l be utterly repealed and revoked. Ibid. 16t>2, Oct. 13. — Twenty shillings yearly allowed for three years to Edward Rockatline, son of Edw. Kockadine deceased, if he so long remain a student at the university of Cambridge, for his better pro- ceeding in learning, f. 18*". Mr. Luddington elected preacher of the city by nine voices, over Mr. Dalbie for whom none were given. Ibid. , Dec. 13. — Agreed, that whereas there is likely to grow many suits prosecuted by the late preacher of this city John Smith against the Mayor [etc.] concerning one yearly annuity which he pretendeth to be granted to him ; and whereas also there are certain articles exhibited unto the L. Bishop of this diocese against him in the names of John Becke now mayor and Leo Hollingworth, with consent of this Common Council, for his enormous doctrine and undue teaching of matters of religion, and personal preaching of men of this city ; all such sums of money as shall be disbursed about the defence of such suits and the prosecuting of the said articles shall be repaid to the mayor out of the revenues of the corporation, f. 19. Mr. Browne, parson of Washiugborough, to be recompensed for the pains be hath already taken and is to take by preaching for the Cor- poration. Ibid. , Dec. 20. — [Ordered, by 6 to 3 in the inner house, and 21 to 7 in the outer house, that those members of the corporation who made those grants on wSept. 2 against the will of the majority which have been repealed, shall set down under their hands in the Council book that they did so without the consent of the others of the inner house, and that those others against whose will it was done also set down their names], that the same may be here recorded for a testimony thereof for evermore, upon pain of every one refusing to forfeit forty shillings. [The names of the majority are subscribed, but none of the others ; a blank is left, marked in the margin, " spaces to put to ther hands.'] f. 20. 1603, Jan. 25. — Persons worth 200/, in lands or goods to pay 20/. for the freedom of the city. f. 21, , March 14, — Leave given to the Recorder, in regard of some business he hath about London and other places this year, to nominate a deputy, f. 21\ , , Forasmuch as every one of those [of the minority] who were enjoined to subscribe the act of Dec, 20 has refused so to do, ordered that if they do not subscribe at the next Council, they shall each incur a further penalty of forty shillings in addition to the forty shillings already forfeited, f. 22. 79 1603, April 18. — An act "to disjustice and disalder Mr. Edw. i603. Dynnys," (carried unanimously by 30 voices) because he, when mayor, on 2 Sept. last broke open the chest containing the corporation seal, and affixed the seal to divers grants, against the will of the greater part of the aldermen, and thereby violated the ancient and laudable custom, and hath prejudiced and hindered the common profit, and hath falsely broken his oaths, and by his disordered proceedings hath caused great disquietness, expenses, many factions and manifold troubles, and hath obstinately refused to come to Council, and also did wrongfully take and enclose in his own grounds parcel of the waste and grounds of the corporation, without any law or order so to do. ff. 22'-23''. , July 5. —The order for attendance on the mayor at sermons extended to other places besides the Minster, and the penalties for non- attendance increased, for aldermen to one shilling, sheriffs eightpence, chamberlains sixpence, and every other freeman fourpence. f. 2o. , . Mr. Willian\ Gosse " disaldred " (by 5 voices to 2 in the inner house and 26 to 3 in the outer house) for the offences men- tioned in the act for " disaldering " E. Dynnys, and also because he refused to come to the Council and to attend the first proclaiming of King James, and at the second proclamation of his majesty's undoubted right and title did, during the most part of the said proclamation, sit in the presence of the mayor and his brethren and divers other gentlemen of good sort and quality, thoy all except the said Gosse behaving them- selves joyful and dutiful and with great reverence, but the said Gosse then keeping his hat on his head, and not showing that duty nor that willing acceptance of his majesty's due right and authority then pro- claimed as a good subject ought, to the evil example of others then present; and also on Apr. 18 did utterly refuse to stay at a Council or to give his advice touching some law and ordinances then to be made, f. 25^ , July 8. — Mr. Dalby elected preacher by twelve voices, over Mr. Luddington, for whom none were given ; to have a yearly stipend of 30/. for preaching on Sunday mornings and Wednesday afternoons, and further, to visit and give counsel to the sick persons of this city as occasion shall require, f. 26. , Aug. 27. — The lease of the tenement on Bower Hill which had been granted to the carpenters for the hall for that fraternity forfeited by them, because they had suffered the building to come to great ruin and decay, f. 26''. (Re-granted to trustees for the fraternity on Sept. 4. f. 28.) 1604, Jan. 7. — Mr. Dalby's stipend as preacher encrea.seri to 40^. f. 30, , Sept. 26. — Mr. Dalby to have his leases of Mary Hall and the bank at the Bargate, in which he hath 15 and 13 years to come, made in his name for 30 years, on condition that if at any time the .said tenement shall be converted to a hospital he shall have one year's warning to surrender his lease, f 34. Alexander Lawson to have his freedom for 6L, in consideration that there is none of his occupation {which is not specijivd) in the city, and that he is unmarried, and hath no children to ciiarge the town withal, and will not marry. Ibid. Mr. William Gosse is restored to his aldermanbhip l)y arbitration of the Mayor and the Recorder, he having procured from the King the referring of his cause to Lord Sheffield, who had employed 80 I.6CM. l>is lionouiii)>le tmvnil to oiul nil variances in the city, and was purposed to come thither about the eud of this uionth for a final hearing, but had eouseuted to the (leoi(liii<2 of the matter by the Mayor and Recorder. Thev declare that the causes for which Gosse was displaced were not wholly untrue or frivolous, and that the Ren;ister of the city shows that suiuirv aldermen had been displaced for less causes ; but that, considerinjT how convenient and coiumendable it is to reduce peace and unity, and havin<; particularly invited divers persons to whom he had Ejiven cause of just ofUnce to condescend to Christian amity and eoMcord, they award, firstly, that Gosse attending this Council siiall desire those whom he had offended to accept his unfeigned desire to live iu peace with them and all others ; and then, that he be re-elected as a member of the outward house at first, but they pray that at Christmas next, upon his good carriage in the mean time, he be accepted as a brother of the inward house, not as of mere right of restitution, but as by privdege and grace, upon assured trust of brotherly conformity in ;dl honest courses ; not minding by this favour to give any encouragement to expect the like upon like accidents. [Upon this follows a declaration, signed by Gosse with his mark, of his desire to live peaceably with every one ; and the record of his election by 23 voices over two given for another.] ff. 34^-35. 1604, Oct. 20. — Ordered that the mayor, aldermen, and sheriffs shall every year ride the two " fares parly " upon horses and foot-cloths, and that they be provided before Midsummer next, and sooner if the King's majesty come sooner to Lincoln ; the mayor's and his brethren's clothes to be very fair and "' side," (sic) and the sheriffs' very comely and beseeming their places, f. 37. , . Whereas Mr. Dynnys, late alderman, hath given 60/. to the corporation, the profit thereof to be bestowed upon the poor, 15/. are given to four persons severally for five years they giving good security for the principal and also for the " rent " at 10 per cent. f. 37. , Dec. 20. — The great mace and the three great silver bowls with the cover to be sent to London to be repaired, f. 37^ , . Agreed that no citizen or inhabitant dwelling betwixt Danstall lock and the High Bridge shall pour any soap-suds, chamberlye, suds of " metting " cloths, or any other stinking water, into the chenuels or streets, but carry and cast the same into back-lanes and other places where the casting of it may not any w&y annoy the .street-dwellers or any passengers, upon pain of ten .shillings for every offence, f. 38. 1605, March 2. — Whereas there be many privileges contained in the charter of this city which are therein meant to pass to this corporation but in law lack words to convey the same, it is agreed that the charter be renewed, and the defects thereof drawn into form of law. , Sept. 5. — Whereas Mr. Dynnys, late alderman and twice mayor, did for the affection he did bear to this city, give 20/. to this corporation, and since his death his wife hath made suit that the money might be turned into two silver bowls to the use of this corporation, and whereas her suit is granted, and the money is bestowed upon two gilt bowls with a cover, agreed that the mayor be discharged of the 20/. and be allowed the overplus money which he paid for the bowls, f. 39^ Xo dust to be cast or swept within six yards of either of the conduits, on pain of Qs. Sd. f. -iO. 81 1605, Sept. 26. — Mr. Langley admitted to the curateship of Belton, 1605. in succession to Mr. Molton, with a stipend of 20/., in regard of l(!tters from Lord Sheffield ;md also for that he comes from the Bishop with the titling allowances and approbations, f. 41'^'. , Sept. 28. — The provision for preventing danger by " skathe fyre " being not sufficient, it is agreed that each parish shall provide one clump of iron by Christmas next. f. 42''. 1606, March 8. — None to be common porters of fuel or other burdens but such as are appointed l^y the Mayor and his brethren ; and articles and orders to be mad-^ for their wages and srood behaviour, f. 45. A further order on Feb. 15, 1608. f. 56. , . Mr. Wilson's four pounds for fuel for the poor to be laid out yearly before midsummer, and the fuel to be housed up for distribution at Christmas according to Mr. Wilson's true meaning. Ihid. , . The schoolmaster and usher to have gowns given them, the cost of each not to pass 40*. f. 45''. 1607, July 28. — Mr. Mather to be curate of Hemswell, so long as it shall be thought fit and convenient by this corporation, f. 51'". , Sept. 26. — The charter to be pleaded for discharge of sums claimed by the Exchequer from the Sheriffs, which are therein granted to the corporation, f. 53''. , Oct. 22. — Whereas the apprentices and other servants of the citizens and inhabitants do weekly carry the sweepings of their houses and doors into back lanes and not to the places appointed for that pur- pose, whereby many highways are straitened, and corruption of the air is procured, and annojances to the passengers that way given and daily increased, it is agreed that the bellman shall keep under him a man or two to play the scavengers of this city, and with carts or car- riages to carry away the dust and sweepings of the houses and streets from the doors twice in the week, viz. on Wednesday and Saturday, to such places as the Mayor shall appoint, and for his pains and charges to be paid as the bellman and housekeeper can agree, and if they can- not agree then the Mavor to compound the matter between them ; and upon complaint from any churchwarden or overseer of any heap of dust being left at any man's or woman's door who has compounded for the carriage, the bellman shall forfeit fourpence. f. 55''. , . The penalties for opening shops on Sundays being found '* too little for so great an offence," they are increased to 3*. '\d. for the first offence, 6*. 8rf. for the second, 10.v. for the t.hird, and dis- franchisement for the fourth ; provided always that butcher.s, ale- brewers and l>ecrl)rewers, atid bakers, may sell before 7 a.m. in summer and 8 a.m. in winter, and that l)utchers may also sell after evening prayer. Ibid. , . No musicians or musician of this city or country else- where shall at any time hereafter use any nuisic upon instruments either at any marriiige or at or in any inn, alehouse or vietuallinji liouse, or any other place within this city or tiie suljurbs, but only tliose musicians that wear the city's livcay, without the leave and liking of the city's musicians, the assize time only exc(;pted. f. 56. 1608, Feb. 15. — An agreement madt^ upon "much talk" witli the millers, and with their consent, that no miller take more than (;no quarter of one peck of corn for every sto(!k of corn, grinding fetching and carrying, under ])enalty of five nuirks ; and if any milU^ put any sand o 79300' F 82 1608. into tiny meal, or use ftny other indirect course whatsoever to make the int'jil j^rouiid heavier or seem to he greater, that every such offender shall forfeit 10/. for every offence and suffer three months' iinprison- raent without bail or mainprize. f. 56''. 1(>08, July 24. — Mr. Dalhy's place as preacher declared vacant from Lanuuas next because he hath gotten a great living in the shire out of the city, and dwelleth upon it. f. 57. 1G09, March 6. — Whereas ^Ir. Knysmith is purposed to build at his house, and to set his building forward into the street about the space of one yard, it is agreed that his building be set out at the appointment and bounding of Mr. Aid. Mason, Mr. Hollingw^orth and Mr. Morcrofte. f. 61. -, Sept. 12. — Lord Sheffield and the Bishop of Lincoln having moved and entreated the Corporation that Mr. Dalby may have his full sti})end for the past year, and may continue as preacher unto Candle- uKUs next and then depart, it is agreed that these entreaties be granted, f. 61^ -, . " Mr. Wharton disaldred." W^hereas it pleased the King's Majesty to declare his pleasure to his subjects for the repressing of the multitude of maltsters, and that but a competent number should be allowed in all places within his Majesty's kingdoms, which said com- mand came unto the ^Liyor and aldermen of this city, whereupon they appointed a meeting at the Guildhail, there to take order to repress the supeifluous number of them, and calling ])efore them the said maltsters, one Williani Wharton, alderman, then and yet a conirnqn maltster, came also and earnestly required them that he might still use making of malt, and there affirmed before the Mayor and aldermen then present that unless they would admit him still to be a maltster he could not live, for that he was a very poor man, and could not make by aU means he had 10/. yearly for his maintenance and supportation : Now because the said William Wharton hath openly manifested his ability and sub- stance to be very poor, weak, and feeble, and hitherto for the space of three years now last past hath basely lived and behaved himself in this city, continually haunting alehouses, drinking there inordinately, and by means of such his resort many tradesmen of this city have been drawn into his company, and to spend their substance and their time unthriftly, which might better have been bestowed in sustaining of such poor men's families their wives and children; and forasmuch also as he doth still daily continue his disordered course of life, spending almost every day the one half thereof in disordered drinking in the aleliou.se, playing there at tables, cards, and such unlawful games, with people of mean estate and condition, and by his continual haunting and resorting unto alehouses hath in this late time of dearth and scarceness encouraged some of the said alehouse keepers to which he u.-^ually resorteth to brew, sell and utter, strong ale of less quantity for money ihan by his Majesty's laws and late proclamations in that behalf made they ought, in contempt of his Majesty's said laws and proclamations ; and for that he also doth many times distemper himself with excessive drinking of strong ale in connnon alehouses, insomuch as he is altogether unfit for magistracy and government whereunto his said place of alderman doth require him ; and becau.se his said course of life 's or may be some touch to the rest of his brethren, and may tend to scandal them if he should continue in his place amongst thera ; and because also some of his offences are against his Majesty's mo.st godly and wholesome laws, made and established as well for restraining of inordinate haunting and keeping 83 alehouses as also for the repressing of the most odious siu of drunkenness ; 1609. which tends to the overthrow and subversion of all civil government in this city, if persons of such disordered life should continue there in places of magistracy and rule, and would encourage others of light behaviour by his continuance and place in this city to follow his said base and odious course of life if he should escape unpunished ; and forasmuch as he hath openly confessed that his substance estate and ability is so poor feeble and weak as he is no way able to support and maintain the office and place of an alderman in this city in the judgment of his brethren and of the whole common council of this city here assembled ; for these and many other faults, offences, and mis- demeanours whei'eof the said William Wharton may justly be censured, it is now agreed enacted and established, by the mayor, sheriffs, citizens, and commonalty of this city, and by the whole common council here assembled, that the said William Wharton now is and fi-om henceforth for ever hereafter siiall stand and be disaldred to all intents and pur- poses, and that he shall not any longer be, use, bear, or have the place or office of an alderman of this city, any former election of him or any other matter or thing whai soever concerning him to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstaniling. tf. 6 1 ''-2. In the margin this note is added : — " This is one of the lawes mentioned in the Acte agreed on the xxix*'' of February a° R. Jacobi X°, 1611 in Mr. Dicconson['s] maralty, for Mr. William Wiiarton's disaldring, which is to bee defaced, for that the prosecutor thereof doth not nor cannot prove what he undertooke to prove and objected against the s.'iid Wharton " 1609, Sept. 12—" Mr. Beck disaldred." Whereas John Becke, citizen and alderman, hath encroached upon the king's high street near unto the High Bridge, in such place as the same street there was very narrow and strait, and thereby hath not only straitened the highway, but also hath thereby defaced the shop of Thomas Emmonson, citizen and draper, and for that offence hath been presented at a court late held, and never- theless, although he hath been moved to redress the same, hatli obsti- nately refused, and as yet the same remains unreformed j and because ftlso the said John Becke hath of long time haunted and used alehouses and common tippling-houses, sorting himself with men of base state and mean condition, and in the same ale-houses and tippling-houses doth daily spend the most part of his time [^etc, continuing in nearly the same terms as in the preceding act against Wharton ] the said John Becke, for these and many other his misdemeanours and offences committed and done, is clearly and absolutely disaldered. f. G2. To this a like marginal note is attached ; — " This is the Act for Mr. John Beck's disaldering which is to bee defaced for the unjustncs thereof, by a lawe mentioned hereafter \_ctc., as above'] for want of proofe, etc." , Sept. 2h. — Agreed that the city's Charter \n\ showed and pleaded, if need be, in the Crown olHce for dc^odands and the common j)l;u'(! [/>/ea«.?] and for outlaws' goods, f. 60. , Oct. 9. — The law against procuring of voices at elections of mayors, justices and sheriffs repealed as aj.uinst all persons other than such as shall give or promise any reward for obtaining of voices ; the old penalty of lOO.y. against such to stand and be of force, f. G8. , . Whereas the Lords of the Privy (,'ouncil have directed letters to the mayor and his brethren about the di.saldering of Mr. Wharton and Mr. Beck, with a commandment to certify the /ausos and F 2 84 1609. ri'usoiis of tlu' procci'iliiigs ngiiinst tlu'in, jv«;i-e«(l that :vs tlio answer will he soincwhrtt chftrgeablo the charges shall be boine by the Corporation, f. 68. 1609, Doe. 12 — Mr. Somcrscales to bo enrate at Belton, in successioa to Mr. Langley. f. dS''. , . A conlirmation of the charter to bo obtained from tho King. Ibid. 1610, March 25. — No common victualler hereafter to be admitted but such as shall be free of the city. f. 09. , . Tbe mayor to arrange for supply of the preacher's place pending a new election, f. 69*'. , June 7. — Thomas Dawson shall be at liberty to set posts and rails at his door in the street one yard and a half from his porch, paying for tliem and for his porch yearly to the city two pence, f. TO"". , Sept. 25. — Mr. Wylby elected preacher by ten voices over four for "Mr. Hawstead. To have a stipend of 35/. yearly for preaching on Sunday afternoons and Tuesday mornings, and other convenient times when special occasion shall serve, as either by the King's ai)pointment or at the entreating of the mayor ; this stipend to continue until some parsonage, curateship, or other living, within this city may be gotten for him towards his maintenance, and then his stipend to be mitigated for the ease of the common chamber as the mayor and the corporation shall think fit, having regard unto a sufficient contribution for Mr. Wilby's living, f. 72% ^ , . Dr. Barber to have and enjoy the standing of his rails and pales at the door of his dwelling-house in Eastgate in such sort as they now be, paying yearly to the city twopence, f. 72''. , . The chancel of Belton church to be paved with bricks, and 5*. yearly to be paid to John Man to keep the chancel repaired with lead and glass. Ibid. , Oct. 1.— Mr. Wharton and Mr. Beck restored to their places as aldermen, and those who had been substituted removed, in pursuance of two writs from the court called the Crown Office, f. 74''. , Dec. 15. — Mr. Wilby's slipend to be raised to 40/., the same that former preachers had. Ibid. , . Whereas thei-e be divers persons shut up in their houses for fear of the sickness, and other poor within this city, and have not wherewithal to relieve themselves, therefore every person of ability and worth to be contributory to that charge shall pay such sums as the mavor and justices shall set upon them. Ibid. 1611, March 21. — Whereas much jars and discord hath many times heretofore risen in this city about the office of Steward or Clerk of the Courts called the Mayor's and Sheriff's Courts, and the same office is from year to year passed on from one to another, and sometimes to such as seldom or never attend the same, and other sometimes to such as cannot execute the same, whereby the sheriffs are many times brought in danger, and the clerks not knowing the customs do much hazard the breach of the same, and through the often change of that officer the country much complains, not knowing where to fetch their warrants of arrest, which hath not heretofore been so used, neither is the like officer so changed in any the like corporation to this ; it is therefore enacted [by 21 voices to 10] that Stephen Mason, to whom the now officer is willing to surrender the office, be established in the same 85 and be not put from it otherwise than by the Common Council of this 1611. city upon just cause . . . . so as he do not practise as an attorney in the said major's and sheriff's courts, f. 75. 1611, March 21. — No other persons to be admitted as attorneys to prac- tise in any courts of the city but those now admitted, viz. Mr. Richard Smith, Mr. Thomas Enderby, Mr. Robert Smith, the town-clerk for the time being, and Mr. Thomas Newcombe ; future attorneys to be admitted by the Common Council, and the number never to exceed four. Ibid. , . Whereas there hath been some controversy between the Mayor and his brethren and Mr. Edmond Shutleworth about the office of Town Clerk, which controversy was heard and ended on Thursday the last day of Feb. before Sir Peter Warburton, knt., and Sir Thomas Foster, knt., the justices of assize at Lincoln, it is now agreed that the said Edmond -Shutleworth shall be axjcepted and established in the same office, in such sort as Mr. Carr his predecessor held it. f. ys**. , March 23. — Whereas there hath been some questioning about the stone stays lately built at Mr. John Beck's house on the High Bridge, and a leet jury have held it to be an encroachment [see under Sept. 12, 1609, siijjra], it is now ordered that the same stays shall be permitted to stand as they now be, so that the said John Beck and his heirs and assigns pay such yearly rent to this corporation for the same as shall be thought fit by the view and judgment of the aldermen. Ibid. , . Mr. Fereday of the county of Lincoln to be spoken with by the counsel of the city concerning the finding of offices within the city, because he hath sent word that he will either sit with Mr. Mayor in that service or else he will call him into the Court of Wards. f. 76. , . Richard Somerby, chief constable of the East Ward, having not only neglected to execute the mayor's warrant for levying a cessment in the ward for the relief of the people visited with the plague, but having said to the mayor's face that he might be ashamed to make out such a warrant, and that it was more than the mayor could justify, and that he would not execute the same do what he would, he shall therefore humble himself to the mayor and confess his contempt and iault and pay a fine of 40*., or else be disfranchised for ever. Ibid. , June 8. — Ferdinando Gibbyns and \blank~\ Lockyngton, the city's musicians, to have two liveries, f. 77. , . The freemen that have not paid toward the relief of those affected with the plague to be disfranchised. Ibid. 1G12, Feb. 29— Whereas Mr. William Wharton and Mr. John Becke, two of the aldermen of this city, were heretofore in the mayoralty of Mr. Geoffrey Wilson, now deceased, upon accusation of some offences then and after objected a;^ainst them, to which they were never admitterl to answer, displaced by act of Common Council from their rooms of aldermen and others placed in the same, who notwithstanding, in the mayoralty of Mr. Knifesmiih, by tlie King's writ out of liis Majesty's Bench and an act of (.'oiiimon Council were; placed in their said rooms and the otliers aj^ain displaced, as by all the same acts niay appear ; yet because the crimes oltjected against the said Mr. Wharton and Mr. Heck ait'fore the reverend lather in God William now Bishop of Lincoln as before the mayor of this city allirmed that their displacing proceediil not from him, nor of any matter which he could object against them, but by the procurement of others, who yet will none of them stand to maintain the said imputations or any of them. It is therefore now judged, ordered and decreed that all the said crimes imputations and oftenees objected against them at the time of their disaldering, and since for the maintenance thereof, are false malicious and slanderous, contrived and informed untruly against them, without any ground or just occasion ; and therefore, the more to shield them from such impu- tations, and to bring into oblivion such undue proceedings in this city, it is further ordered and decreed that the said acts of Common Council against the sjud Mr. Wharton and Mr. Beck shall be so defaced and blotted out of the book of Common Council that hereafter they shall never be to be understood or read ; and for avoiding of all such undue proceedings against men of such place in this city, it is further ordered and agreed that no alderman which now is or hereafter shall be of this city shall at any time hereafter be displaced from the room of an alder- man, or from any place privilege or preeminence belonging thereto, before the accusations shall be delivered to him in writing, and he have twenty days' space to answer thereto, and be admitted to his defence before the whole Common Council, f. 81. 1612, Feb. 29. — Whereas this city hath not had for these many years past any help or advice of George Anton, esq.. Recorder there, either in keeping their sessions of the peace or otherwise in their courts or affairs, though they have had mauv great occasions to stand in need thereof and to crave the same, and yet have borne with his not using the said place and office, though the fees of the same have been continually paid to him, and thereby have been enforced to be very troublesome to divers others learned in the law to no small charge of this city ; now, for that the said Mr. Anton is clear removed from this city, and hath left to himself no place of dwelling or residence therein, neither is likely to return thither again, it is ordered and agreed that the said Mr. George Anton shall be no more nor longer Recorder of this city; . . . . ; and for that William Ellys, esq., counsellor at the law, a man born in our city, hath taken much pains for the mayor, magistrates and officers of this city in the absence of their Recorder, and hath been willing upon every request to advise and assist them, and for that he hath a former grant of the Recordership upon the death, forfeiture or relinquishment of Mr. Anton, it is ordered that he shall from henceforth be and have the office of Recorder, to be executed in his own person, unless special and urgent occa.sion of the King's service hinder him at some time or times, and then by some sufl5cient deputy, f. 81''. , . Agreed that each of the five city's waits have a livery; that the three chains and badges be repaired, and one new badge and two chains be made ; and also that the common seal for letters be newly engraven, f. 82. — — , . Xone hereafter shall be made free of this city unless he be of some good trade, and will be able in substance to use his trade. Jbid. 87 1(512, Feb. 29.— Whereas William Marrett hath gone at Mr. Major's 1612. request to Peterborough, and brought Avith him one to set the poor on work to knit and spin, agreed that their charges be paid. f. 82^. , March 9. — No lease to be granted without reserving, besides the yearly money-rent, rent pigeons, fat turkeys, capons, waruous or other fruit, as shall seem good to the mayor and his brethren, and every lessee shall give on the granting the lease one bucket to the corporation, f. 83. , . Twelve articles of complaint objected against PMraund Shutleworth, the mayor's clerk, for neglect of his duties, absence from Lincoln, carelessness in keeping the rolls of bonds of the statute- merchant and the entries of the acts of the Council, neglecting to attend the mayor except when summoned, and then sometimes sending a young man his servant, who writes very l^adl}'^ and is very young and ignorant, seldom attending on the sword to the Minster sermons nor going into the quire with them, and refusing to issue warrants until first paid a fee. Having been openly examined upon these articles, and being unable to deny most of them to be true, and the rest, and some others not set down, being proved against him, therefore he is now displaced out of the offices of town-clerk, mayor's clerk, or clerk of the statutes, ff. 83'>-84b. , Apr. 18 Stephen Mason appointed town-clerk or mayor's clerk, and clerk of the statutes, f. 85. -, June 23. — Ordered tiiat the acts enacted on 29 Feb. 161 1 (-12) which have not been entered by Mr. Shutleworth, who left two leaves* space with loose papers containing the acts, be entered by Mr. Mason, and the leases which were left not enrolled be enrolled in the book for that purpose, f. 86. [All the entries from Feb. 29 are in a very clear and legible hand, which is thus shown to be Mason's ; the marginal note affixed to the act displacing Wharton and Beck is also in his hand. Some previous entries are in a hand which may well be that of Shutle- worth's young man who wrote " very badly."] -, Aug. 15. — The husbandmen and farmers of the land in the Helds of Lincoln having complained that they do in every harvest sustain great loss and damage by disordered gleaners, the following agreement was made between the mayor and his brethren and the farmers on Aug. I. 1. That no children, servants or people of anyone who hath been chamberlain or is ce.ssed to the King's subsidy be permitted to glean. 2. That no one come to glean but betwixt 8 o'cl. a.m. and 5 p.m. 3 That no one glean on any land before the corn be led from the same, nor upon any land where the corn is standing on either side, but shall begin at a fui"Iong where the most corn is cut down, and take the same furlong 'ocifore them. 4. That no one put any gleanings into sack, poke, or sheet, but make the same up into haudi'uls and bundles, as hath been anciently done and used ; and whosoever sliall ollend con- trary to any of these articles shall not only have their gleanings taki^n from them but also be imprisoned at the mayor's pleasure, .5. Also, to the end that the poor may have and take the gleanings of the fields as fully as hath in ancient time been used, and as in charity and by the ancient custom of this Christian kingdom they ought to have, it is therefore expressly ordered and agr(!ed, that no swine, shee}), or other cattle shall be put upon any land or willingly permitted to come until the same be gleaned by the poor; and that every person willingly offending against the same shall not oidy have; his ."^hec^p, swine, or cattle 88 1612. iinpouiuluil but shall also suff«'-- im}»nsonincut at the mayor's pleasure, f. 80^ l()12, Sept. 2. — Mr. i lionias Wilby's* stipend of 40/. as preacher grantee] to him for life, he continuing to hold the office, f. 87''. , . Thirteen niticles olijected against Mr. Leon IloUing- worth, alderman, ten of which are noted in the margin as being j;onfessed bv him. They are for refusing to attend the mayor when summoned for business, which in conseciuence could not be done; for bringing false charges against the mayor; for having been the means of pro- curing the displacing of Whaiton and Heck ; for imprisoning Mr. Gosse, an ancient alderinan, during his mayoralty without the consent of his brethren, and threatening another ; fur using vile and despiteful spe(H;hes which cannot for modesty be recited, and disturbing meetings with outrageous railings; for misappropriating wood to himself; and for refusing to i)ay tiixes for the relief of the poor. He is ordered openly to confess that he has wronged various persons, to pay for the wood, and to \):iY a fine of 10/., or else to be disaldered and dLsju-sticed. He refuses to do anything, and tiierefore finally, after Michaelmas, is dis- placed, ff. 88-90. , Sept. 28. — Agreed thst whereas there is 50*. left of the 4/. allowed for the charge of fetching Sir Thomas \Yhite's money received by the Corpor.-ition this last Bartholomew tide, the said Sir T. White's picture shall he procured to be set out in some comely scutcheon at Mr. Mayor's di.~cretion, to be hung up in this hou.se as a memorial of that worthy man ; and it it cost more than 50*., the overplus shall be allowed, f. 92. . Any person carrying himself tumultuously and intemperately at any court or meeting, or otherwise than mildly, temperately, peace- ably, and with respectance to such as he shall justly have occasion to speak to, shall be disfranchised ipso facto, f. 92^. , Oct. 12. — The opinion of the judges of the circuit to be taken about the appointment of the sheriff's clerk, f. 9rfi. , . William Broxolme, e.sq., disfranchised, for animating and countenancing divers lewd per.sons committing sundry riots in order to disinherit the city of their commons, and for refusing to pay the tpxations for the cattle he keepeth on the commons, and for endeavouring to draw the Holmes and other grounds out of the city into the county. f. 93. , , Robert Townson, tailor, disfranchised for being an associate and animator to the said W. Broxolme. f. 93''. , . Various peroons fined 205., or else to be disfranchised, for a riot at a court leet for the election of ju.stices. f. 93. , . The city's right to the chancel-seats in the church of Belton assigned to the farmer of the parsonage, f. 93''. 1G13, Jan. 21. — Mr. Leon Hollingworth re-accepted as an alderman, as he hath reconciled him.self to all the brethren and promiseth to make restitution for the wood and ashes, and subinitteth himself as to the fine, which is to be remitted on his paying 264-. 8rf. for the wood. f. 97. , Feb. 18. — Whereas Mr. Leon HoliingAvorth .... upon hio submLssion, with his promise of love and peaceable carnage, and his * Probably Thomas Wilby, of University College, Oxford, a Yorkshiremau, M.A. leO'J. (A. Clarke's Reg. of Univ. oj Oxf. II. ii. 264, iii. 265.) 89 entreaty that the writ which out of the King's Bench he liad sued forth 1612. for his restoring to his place might not be returned but by Mr. Mayor kept in his hand as void and of none effect, and thai they would be pleased to censure him themselves, was on Jan. 21 restored to liis said place, Avhich by words to Mr. Mayor and Mr. Swift he did kindly accept, and thanked Mr. Mayor for his kindness ; and whereas also the said Mr. Holiingworth, against his promise and his own entreaty of love and peace, not only this day rejected the acceptance of the said place, but refused the same, saying to their faces he made no such reckoning of an aldermanship as to accept it upon any terms or con- ditions, neither would he pay for the wood at all, but hath also since .Jan. 21 gone about to procure a new writ, and under hand to procun,- the mayor or corporation to be fined for not returning (he former writ, which Mr. Mayor would have had returned but that HoUingworlli himself in the audience of all tlie brethren did request that it might not be returned, and so took the same into bis own custody ; it is now therefore agreed that lie stand disaldered as he was before, and that the said writs shall be returned at the city's cost, with the causes of his disaldering or of his doings and carriage since, as the counsel the city shall use therein shall think fit. f. 97''. 1612, Feb. 18. — The charge of mending the mace to be paid. f. 98''. -, . License given to Robert Warde, brickmaker, to build a work-house and to dig earth for making brick and tile, and to have 10/. lent him freely for a year, and all the " tuffall " to be built at the city's cost. f. 98''. [The commencement of a copy of articles of agreement follows, for the completion of which a page and a half were left blank ; the bricks and tiles were only to be sold to the corporation, the dean and chapter, and the freemen.] , Apr. 17. — Whereas there hath been divers controversies and variances between Mr. Leon Holiingworth, lately disaldered, and divers of the aldermen, the said Mr. Holiingworth is very sorry for his being cause of the said variances, and promiseth hereafter to live a brotherly and peaceable life, and now desireth the love and favours of Mr. Mayor and his bretiiren, and that they wil' be pleased to accept him of their number again ; (herefbre the said mayor, etc., are content freely to jjass by all former occa.sions of breach, and do from henceforth accejjt of him as a brother and alderman in his former place, f. 101. , . Agreed that tlie writ Mr. Shutleworth hath sued forth out of the King's B(!nch against this corporation shall be presently sent up to be returned according to th(! suV)stance of the return now drawn in paper (and signed) to Mr. Rich. Smyth, the city's attorney of I'ccord, by him with advice lor the city to be put into court. Ib'uL , May 5. — Whereas there is a gathering made in the city towards the building of a scaffold for seats in the church of St. I'ctci- at Arciies^ Birroed that if the l('t-co\('r of silver broken in the chest, and two of the ordinary tuns cracked and ol' little use, they shall be made into a comely can fit for service, to go from mayor to mayor as is usual, and what they want in weight to make it strong and serviceable to be made up at the cost of the corpo- ration, f. 102'-. , . The brickmaker to liav(; his freedom so long us he continues making brick for the city. Ibid. 90 1612. 1(312, May 17. — Richard Touj^e, now iiewlyd elivered out of prison, and out of olotlu's and in great poverty, to have 40*. given him. f. 102''. , Mav 19. — The evidences for the title of the city to the com- mons called the Hohncs to be sent up to the counsel of the city for answer to a suit brought to prove them to be in the county of Lincolr. f. 103. , . A taxation agreed on for the cost of procuring a renewing of the charter with what speed may well be. Ibid. , , Further order for the return of the writ in Mr. Shutle- worth's c^se. f. 103''. , . Thomas Hamond to be free of the city so long as he continues to set the poor on work. f. 104. , , Agreed that John Woodward, hollow-ware man, who is ■ rcix)rted to be skilful about conduits, and the city being in want of such a workman, be for his trial set on work about the conduit, and if his workmanship be allowed to be good he shall have his freedom for 100*. ; and Will. Dickenson, wheelwright, shall also have his freedom for the same sum. f. 104. , Aug. 14. — Mr. Henry Kendall, sheriflF, fined for contemptuou«ily and obstinately refusing to attend meetings when summoned, f. 104''. And on Sept. 4 for continued obstinacy he is further fined 30/., to be disfranchised if the fine be not paid by Oct. 1. f. 106. J Sept. 6. — Aldermen who do not pay their cessment for the renewing of the charter to be disaldered, and other citizens to be rendered incapable of any preferment in the city. f. 107. ^ Sept. 15. — Petition from the outer house to the inner house for the repeal of a law made in Mr. Hollingworth's last mayoralty respecting leases of the parsonages, with a proposal that reversion of the leases of Belton and Hems well, the rents whereof are very easy, shall be given to such citizens as will double the rents and give such fines as shall be thought fit, such fines to be employed for the renewing of the charter, that the cessment of the citizens to that end may be eased, f. 108. Further request from 21 petitioners that when laws are hereafter made in the inner house they may be written on paper and delivered to the outer house, that the latter may have some reasonable time to con- sider of the same and not be compelled as heretofore to grant laws so suddenly and unadvisedly, f. 108''. Oct. 11. — The above petition for the repeal of the law about leases of the parsonages granted, and a lease in reversion of Belton for 31 years at an annual rent of 200/. with 60/. fine granted to Aid. John Beck, and a like lease of Heuiswell with an increase of 30/. over the old rent and a fine of 40/. granted to Aid. Hollingworth. f. 112''. (This latter lea.se was, with Hollingworth's consent, voided on Jan. 14, 1G17. f. 137.) Nov. 7. — Agreed that there shall be a house of correction made, according to the statute, of the house called the Freers under the Free School, and that malt querns and such other provision as shall be fit to set poor on work shall be provided, f. 113''. 1614, Apr. 14. — Henry Kendall comes and acknowledges himself sorry fur the unkind suit he has lately commenced against the Corpora- tion and wholly refers the matters of difference on his part to the mayor and his brethren ; and it is thereupon agreed that 17/. shall be 91 paid him for his allowance for housekeeping while sheritf, which had ^^H. been forfeited, and that he be restored to his freedom, f. 114*, ^. 1614. — Agreement with Thomas Hamond the "gerseyman" about the repair of his house. 1. 1 1 -i^. , May 14. — Decree of arbiti'ation by Mr. Ellis, the Recorder, and Nicholas Cholmeley, esq. in the dispute with Mr. William Brox- olme. The latter is to execute a deed withdrawing all his claim to the Holmes, and the city is then to restore his freedom, and to give hin: a lease of a small piece of ground, f. llo*^. , July 6. — A pump to be set up in St. Michael's parish, f. 116. , Oct. — In the inventory of plate there is now the " silver can with a cover all white" made out of one of the six tuns. f. 120. 1615, July 15. — Order respecting 20/. left by Mr. John Howe to the corporation to be let forth according to Sir T. White's will. f. 122. The house under the Free School let for lis. yearly rent to certain citizens who combine to buy wool and set the poor on Avork there, f. 122^ The townships of Canwick, Eranston, Bracebridge and Waddington each to provide two iron hooks with chains and wooden staves " accord- ing to the faciou of the hooks for skalefyers (sic) in the citieof Lincoln," and 12 leather buckets, to be kept in the several parish churches, for provision against fire, and the inhabitants to provide buckets to be kept in their houses, f. 123. , Sept. 23. — The sheriffs elect if they do not behave themselves well and courteously towards the mayor and aldermen, and be not agreeable and conformable, shall lose their allowances, f. 125. , Dec. 14. — A table and scats to be provided in the lower hall for the grand jurors at assizes and sessions, f. 128'^'. John Bn.cevvell fined 3s. Ad. for charging the mayor and his brethren with swaggering dealing when they with mildness were executing their offices, to the use of the poor children at the spinning school. Ibid. A marshal appointed to go daily from parish to parish, and to bring all wandering and begging persons to the house of correction and spinning school there to be set on work, and to have 12f/. weekly for his pains, f. 129. Brewers to be fined who " tiple " or sell by retail. Ibid. 1616, Feb. 4. — Mr. Thimolby Howdon to have 20/. yearly for preaching on Sunday afternoons, f. 129''. 1617, Jan. 14. — A law enforcing the due paving of the streets by every inhabitant before his own door. f. 135^. . . No foreign musicians to present their music for money or gain at any wedding or other meeting if the waits of the city shiill be willing to play, unless it be the musicians of some nobleman to (iicir own master only, at his house or lodging only, under pain of 2.v. from every housekeeper receiving them and o.v. from the musicians to the usc^ of the waits, who in case of default nvr, empowered to sue for the same \mder the name of The Masters, fellows and company of waits of ihe city of Lincoln, f. 136"'. , . A present to be provided towards the King's IMajesty's coming to this city if his intended progress hold. /bid. , Feb. 25. — A sum not exceeding 40/. granted to the mayor towards his (extraordinary charge of housc^keciping at the King's comi no- te the city and towards the foes of the King's olhcerij. f. 139. 92 1017. 1617, Maicli IT. — It is ii^rciil that JMr. Mayor [ivobert Mason J nuil liis bnthren, Mr. Recorder, Mr. Sherilfs, tlie Town Clerk, and every iiiHii else wliieli halh been slierifl' of this city hereaftor named, viz. Mr. Lawson, Mr. .lolin Dawson, Mr. I>iirgli, jNIr. Yates, ]\Ir. Sonicrby, Mr. Hongliton, Mr. Okley, Mr. Uob. lieek, Mr. Rieroft, Mr. Kendall, Mr. Anton, Mr. Cnniberland, Mr. Bi.shop, Mr. The. Dawson, Mr. Whitby and Mr. Smith, shall every of them provide himself a horse and i'oot-clotii of blaek, with black bridles and all things else suitiible and decent, against his ^Majesty's coming to the city ; and shall also proviile theniselves apparel good and decent for men of their degrees and callings ; and so attired and well provided shall all together, decently and in order, everyone observing his degree and keeping the same, meet his majesty at the outskirts of the county of this city or elsewhere. And that Mr. Mayor shall provide to attend upon himself two men, with either of them a livery cloak ; and every alderman and every sheriff and town clerk aforesaid shall also have and provide to attend on him there a man in a livery cloak, well, decently, and in good order appointed. And that Mr. Mayor and his brethren shall be all in their scarlet gowns, and those which have been .mayors in velvet tippets, as they use to wear; the sheritfs in gowns of purple in grain ; the t')wn clerk in a gown of some fine stuff, decently trimmed ; and all others above-named which have been sheriifs to be in black gowns guarded with velvet or velvet lace, plain on the back, on the citizens' ftxshion ; upon pain that everyone that shall make default shall forfeit lose and pay 10/. to the use of this corporation, and what other penalty this house shall think fit: [to be sued for in any courts.] f. 139''. Item, that no beer-brewer or other common seller of beer or ale . • • after the tenth day of April now next ensuing shall send any beer or ale in or upon any cart, carriage, or carts, with wheels shod with iron, upon pain of OS. f. 1 10. The manner of King J aims' first coming to Lincoln. Memorandum, that his Majesty being to come to this city, the mace- bearer was sent to the Lord Chamberlain at Grantham for directions when, where, and in what manner, Mr. Mayor and the citizens should meet his Majesty, who returned an.swer that his Majesty was intended that night to rest at St. Caterin's, and the day following to come into the city, and that therefore the sheriffs with some number of citizens in gowns should meet his highness at the skirts of the county, and so the day following the mayor and his brethren with convenient company of citizen>i to meet him at ihe Bar gate, and then and not before to have some speech to his Majesty, for that his highness did nut love long speeches. Whereupon, the 27th day of March 1617, a° XV. r. R. Jacobi, King James did come from Grantham to Lincoln. But the appointed place for meeting his highness at the skirts of the county was not observed, bv reason his Majesty hunted along the heath and came not the hiu^liway. And so tlie sheriffs and citizens removed from that place, and they, with either of them a white staft in his hand, clad in cloth gowns of purple in grain, and on horseback with foot-cloths, together with all of note which had been sheriffs on horseback with foot cloths and black «owns all of the ancienlest fashion, and all that had been chamberlains of note on horseback in their gowns of one fashion of violets' colour without foot-cloths, and divers other citizens in cloaks of like colour booted and spurred, on horseback, all which were in cloaks, with new javelins ["jatfelings "1 in their hands fringed with red 93 and white, (being set in order by one of his Majesty's officers, who 1617- came before his Majesty's coming to that end) two and two in a raniv, were appointed to stand in the highway near the Cross of the Cliff, where his Majesty could not miss of them, the sheriffs being hindmost. And when his Majesty drew near them, the two sheriffs only lighted, and way being made for them they bolh went to his Majesty in his carocli, and, kneeling, the elder sheriff delivered his staff lirst, and the King delivered it him again, and the other sheriff did the like ; and ao both took horse again, and rid, both bare-headed, before the caroch. The high sheriff of the county and his men by the King's officers then were put by, and the other citizens' in their degrees before the sheriffs rid, all bare-headed, before his Majesty, conducting and attending him to his lodging at St. Qatherin's. On the next day his Majesty coming to the Bar gate in his caroch, he there lighted, and took his horse-caparison of state, being most rich, where the mayor, the lecorder, and his brethren, the sheriffs, and other citizens aforenamed, attended him on horseback and foot-cloths, the mayor and aldermen in their scarlet robes, with every of them a man to attend him on foot in civil liveries, rauchwhat all alike. His Majesty came towards the mayor and recorder, who were both lighted on foot hard under the houses on the \^est side of the street within the Bar gate, and the mayor readily on his knee kneeling tendered the sword to tieliver it unto his Majc-ty. But his Majesty put the sword back with the back of his hand, [and] with all grace refused to take it from the mayor. Then the Kinj:'s Majesty asked the mayor if he had any speech to deliver, who answered " Xo, but this gentleman, who is our Recorder, hath one," and the King willed " Say on." So the Recorder, kneeling all the time on his knees, uttered his speech, which his Majesty heard willingly, and with great commendations ; which ended, the mayor delivered his Majesty a goodly " inamelled " and gilt silver cup of a full ell [" elne "] in height, in weight a hundred marks in silver or thereabouts, which the King took witli great delight and content, and, moving his hat, thanked them, and delivered it to one of his footmen to carry openly in his hand all the way to the Minster, and thence conveyed it to his lodging. After the cup delivered, the mayor mounted with the sword in his hand, and, placed between the two sergeants at mace, did bear the sword before the Kuig to the Minster, and the Earl of Rutland, being Lieutenant of the country, did bear the king's sword, all the said aldermen, sheriffs, and other citizens in tlicir ranks, youngest firsi, did ride two and two together up the High Street through the Hale unto the Minster gates at the west end thereof, where tli'i King kneeled down on a cushion [" rpiishon "] which was there pre[)ared, and prayed a short prayer, and so under a canopy which was held over him by 4 or 5 prebends in surplices went into the quire, the mayor still bearing the sword, alder- men and other citizens in tlwir gowns, going Ix-lore him into the (juire, and there sat by the Bisiiop's " piie " hanged about with rich hangings in a chair all piayer lime, Mr. Dean saying prayer,«, and the mayor holding up sword before him all prayer time. After prayers done his Majesty went about the. church to set; the ancient monuments thereof, and so went into the chapfir-house lo see it, and from thence to his caroch. and tlicrein went towards his lodging at St. Caterin's down Pottergatc head, Mr. Mayor Ijcaring the sworil until he took caroch as well througli Jiale Clo.se as church (avt). When he took caroch his own sword and all ornaments was put up. 'J'iic mayor, aldermen and citizens in their iardre the caroch to attend his Majesty on horseback to St. Caterin's house, where his Majesty at the door put (tffliis Iiat and dismissccl tlicin. 94 1617. On Sunday, boin^ the 30th of MarcU, his Majesty went to the Min- stiT in his niroch, and at tlie west door met him three l)is]iops and the dean and chapter, who made a short speech. Mr. Mayor and his biethren, sheriffs, and other eiti/.eiis, in their gowns did tliere (as was djreeted by the Lord C'haniberhuii ai\d his oHici-rs, from whom they had directions for all their carriajje and doiniis) go in their degrees before his Majesty, by two and two in a rank, niitil the foremost came at the quire-door, then they eadle, for his extraordinary pains in proclaiming lantern and candle-light, and that he should take better jijiiiis for suppressing the extraordinary begging of the poor, to have \0s. yearly paid him more than now he hath. f. 161. 1620, Aug. 16. — No stranger or tradesman not being free of ihis city to set up any stall or sell any wares on the market days. f. 106. , . A table to be made of the stallage, picagc, and other fees taken by the sheriffs. Ibid. All customs, compositions and writings to be looktnl up, old men examined, and the ancient ntint and usage of the commons to bo drawn into form, showed to the dean and chapter, and so 8(!( up, and (hat to that end some of the city do speak with the dean and chapter, that so all controversies and variances which iiereafter thereabouts maj' arise may for ever be prevented. Ibid. * This account is printed in Ross's Civitas Lincnlnia, lH7n, pp. 7.3-79. 96 162«). 1620, Au!^. 16. — Alli'oinpiuiios of trftdesmen to seek up their laws and I'ustoins, ami confor amongst fheiusclvcs what paiMicular sum evcrv com- pany will . , . Whereas there hath been great contention and suit between Mr. Fhipps and Mr. Walkwood, late the Free School Masters, about a promise of twenty nobles for Mr. Walkwood's good will to give over the school, it is now agreed for the ending of the controversy that the one half of the said money, viz. five marks, shall be paid to Mr. Phipps. Ibid. 1622, Apr. 30. — A recital of the old custom of the city for taking bonds from executors of wills on behalf of orphans, for the protection of orphans, with an order for the strict enforcement of the custom, in consequence of frequent wrongs by its violation, f. 182''. , July 18. — 6s. Sd. to be yearly paid to Gregory Stephenson for his life to provide three forms in the Minster lor those who have borne oflBce in the city to sit upon. f. 18.3^. , Aug. 14. — Any alderman giving over his office because of inability, through decay in substance, to support the place, shall have 3*. 4cf. weekly for his maintenance during the remainder of his life, f. 184. 1623, May 21.— The law made on Sept. 8 1621 for the deducting of .50/. froTu the mayor's allowance repealed, and that' sum ordered to be paid to the late mayor, f. 190. Anyone who will build a warehouse for wool shall have a convenient spot leased to him in the Freres or sheepmarket, subject to the reversion of the building at the expiry of the lease to the corporation, f. 190^. , . If .'my man will plant willows on the commons he shall have the profit of them for 31 years. Ibid. 1624, Apr. 22. — Whereas there be sundry children of poor inhabitants at the Free School who for want of books are much hindered in their learning, it is agreed that the mayor shall deliver to the now school- master, Mr. Clarke, 20s., to provide such Ijooks as he shall think most fit, so always ati the same books be preserved as the city's books in the said school for ever. f. 190. , July 32. — No alderman to have above three leases, no one who halli been sheriff above two, and no other citizen above one, of houses or lands of the corporation at one time. f. 197. , Nov. 16. — Whereas the stock of money given to the city for loans to the poor hath been le.«sened by loss through the taking of slender security, and the u.se hath been so lessened by. statute as that it will do little good amongst the many ])oor, and whereas Gregory Lawcock, a freeman, is contented, if he can have convenient stock, to take upon him to set all the i)Oor of this city ui)on work to spin, knit stockings, weave garterings, make stuffs, and other muMufacturcs of o 79300. O 98 16f4. wools, Hiul out of the ^aiii to clothe tlie same poor, and to that end yearly to deliver to the mayor so much eloth as shall lie worth {■blank-) ; it is agreed that the 6C/. given by Mr. Dennys be called in, and ujion pufiieient securities be" lent to the said Lawcock ; that I?0/. be freely given him to provide tools, bring workmen, and establish the manu- factories, and that 10/. yearly be paid him towards the charge and loss in teaching young spinners; and that to provide this yearly payment, tlie 10/. allowed for the four session.s' and mayor's account dinners be abated out of the mayor's allowance. And from Easter every citizen and other inhabitant of ability sluill wear at least one suit of apparel and one pair of stockings of such cloth or .stutf as shall be made in the city, ff. 203i'.-4. 1624, Nov. 16. — The Town-hall and the partition in St. Peter's church betwixt the mayor's scat and the chancel shall be decently coloured. f. 204. Xov. 29. — Hemswell parsonage not to be leased under double rent of that now paid. f. 204''. [The reversion to be granted to any freeman that will give the most by way of fine, Feb. 26, 1631. f. 245.] , Dec. 6. — Some coals to be allowed out of the common coal- house to the poor scholars at spinning-school, so it do not exceed one chalder all this winter. Ibid. , . F'or prevention of clamours and inordinate assembling oi beggars, it is agreed that a man shall be appointed to inhibit all beggars from that abuse, and with a strong locked iron box to take the daily charitable devotion of strangers and others, and to have for his pains therein the tenth part of what .shall be so gotten, the keys and money to be left every night with the first sheriff, to be disposed of by the mayor and his brethren, f. 205. 1625, Apr. 27. — Attendance enjoined at the publishing of pro- clamations from the King and at perambulations, f. 206**. -, May 16. — A wool-market to be proclaimed to be held in the Friers, where the sheep-market now is. f. 207^. , May 21. — Leave given to William Parker to try his skill for a year or two in serving the city with tile and brick, but Richard Warde not therefore to be released from his agreement to serve with brick at 13s. 4c?. the thousand, and tile at 20*. the thousand, good stuff, so long ns he shall live. f. 208. [Margaret Warde, widow of Rich. W^arde, continued as brickmaker, Apr. 10, 1661 ; vol. VII. p. 99.] 1627, June 19. — Mr. [Edward] Rayner admitted preacher for the Sunday lecture, in Mr. Holden's place, to have the yearly allowance of £20 and what else Mr. Wilby, some time preacher, had. f. 221 \_see under 1635.] , Nov. 3. — The King to be petitioned for the renewing of the charter, and for the prosecuting thereof 200/. to be borrowed upon mort- gage of divers messuages, &c. f. 224^. , Nov. 8, — The sheriff shall keep the cuckstool in the correction- house, and repair and maintain it from time to time. f. 225. 1G28, Apr. 26. — No butcher to stuff, blow, or make hollow, or use any deceitful dealing, in setting out of any loin of \ea!, mutton, or lamb, upon pain of 12d. for every townsman, and 2*. for every foreigner, nor kill any 99 bespt in his shop next the street nor kill any calf, mutton or lamb in 1628. the open street, upon pain of I2d. f. 226. 1628, May 3. — A law re-enacted [which had been revived Oct. 9, 1620, and repealed Oct. 20, 16-^1] by 17 voices to 9 that none be admitted to keep a common alehouse or tippling house except he be a freeman, and that upon the expiration of the licenses granted to those who are not freemen, or ti.eir dismission, they be not again licensed till they have purchased their freedoms, f. 226''. 1629, Jan, 30. — The charter lately renewed was read. f. 231. , Apr. 27. — Upon further consideration of the law made May 3 last about alehouses, for that it appeareth that divers poor men and widows, iiot freemen, have no other means of livelihood but by keeping of alehouses, it is agreed that such as shall be approved by the justices may be re-admitted, but that none hereafter be newly admitted until they be first sworn freemen, f. 232. , June 8. — Forasmuch as there is a general dislike betwixt all parties about the maintaining of the work set up by agreement with Gregory Lawcock, and the said Lawcock hath, as he pretendeth, sus- tained great losses by the employment, and hath expended divers sums about looms and tools, which he offereth to leave to tlie use of the corporation, it is agreed that on payment of the sum of 30/. and delivery of the ?aid looms and utensils, and payment of such rents for the Friers as are due, the said Lawcock shall be freed from the said employment, f. 232b. , , The fines for non-attendance on the mayor at the riding of the two fairs lessened, f. 533. , Sept. 26.— Mention made of " the Queen'.s Cross." f. 234''. , Oct. 15. — A general assessment to be made for the repair of the common gaol, it being so ruinous and weak that the sheriffs are enforced to keep continual watch to prevent the escaping of the prisoners, f, 238. [About this time the Regis-ter appears to have been very imperfectly kept, and several pages are left blank. Very little is entered beyond leases, elections of officers, admission of freemen, and enrol- ment of apprentices.] 1632, Jan. 17. — No landlord to let a house to any foreigner without the consent of the mayor and the best part of the inhabitants of the parish where the house is, under penalty of 20s a month, f. 249. 1633, July 8. — No hides to be sold except in open market, f. 255. , Sept. 21. — The charge tlie mayor shall be put to at the enter- tainment of the lords, commissioners, and gentlemen, at the great meet- ing of Sewers in this city, by feasting them or otherwise, shall be borne by the corporation, f, 250. 1634, Feb. 5. — An indenture tripartite agreed to and sealed fo: the employment of one thousand pounds of the money collected upon the King's letters patent for relief of the city. f. 259''. , Feb. 22. — A covering to be made for the pulpit in the church of St. Peter at Arches, and some amendment of the aldermen's and aldresses' seats, /hid. , Feb. 26. — A letter under the King's sign manual of Dec. 7 last, reciting an order of King James for a survey for repair ol llu; Foss, and G 2 100 lor raisinji 3( 0/. in the county iuid .'KX)/. in the city tor the purpose, and the order jf ihe city tlurcupoii lor the Hhatinfr 50/ yearly for six years out ol" the uuiyor's ahowanee ; also recitiuir that K. James, to aid the «ork, jrranted to tht> eitv the niaking of three haroiiets, and ap|)ointed Kobert Moivrolt, alderman, to receive the sums of money, a: id that Morcron thereupon enga<;ed a skilful workman to carry out the work; hut that in consequence of this workman's death, and the sickness and t)ld nue of Morcroft, the woik hath heen neglected, but that ^lorcr:;.'!. having money in his hands and no exact accotmt thereof, paid over to the city 247/. 11*. 3r/. Now upon ^lorcroft's humble suit, examinatioti has been made by divers gentlemen of the county, and it appears there is due to him out of the said sum Hs/. 14*. 4^., which is hereby ordered to be paid to him. And whereas the yearly abatement of 50/. iiath. not been made from the mayor's allowance, it is ordered that it be charged upon the two last mayors, and on the four succeed- ing mayors, the King being informed with regard to the two last mayors that although they had the full allowance they did not keep and maintain the freemen's feasts according to the ancient and laudable custom. And order is given to proceed to the finishing of the work, the King being informed there are some skilful workmen now employed in that country, who are willing to undertake the same. f. 260. Order of the Court of Star Chamber, dated 24 Jan., upon the petition of Richard White and Robert Marshall, the two late mayors, appointing commissioners to examine the |)etition, Morcroft's accounts, &c., and directing that until the return of the commission be received and new directions given there be no further prosecution of the order against White, Marshall, or any others, f. 260'*. Followed by a memorandum that this order being published as was the former letter at this meeting, no* further prosecution is made upon the same letter. [On 29 Aug. 1635 there is an order for a conference with the Earl of Rutland about Morcroft's money, f. 266^.] 1634, Sept. 10. — Whereas there is great oppression in this city by the multitude of poor therein, which is found to come forth most part by poor people getting seme small sums of money to educate poor children which afterwards prove chargeable to the parishes where they live, it is therefore enacted that no inliabitant shall take upon him or her to take to educate any children that are likely to prove chargeable, except their own, without giving notice to and having the approbation of the mayor and one or i/iore of the aldermen, un pain of o/. for each oti'ence. f. 261. 1635, March 5. — Tne mayor and aldermen shall have liberty to deal with those i- culat»!d 8 May, IGUI, B.A. VJ Jan. 160S-4 ; died at Liacoln about or before lCtj3. 102 1638. obproprions oontumolioiis siilioious or convicious words, callvngc hyin tlioff, fiorsono, knave or fuls uian, or clles make eiiy assautc or affray iippon onv of his said T{rodr[ciiJ, tliatt lie thatt so mysbeliavitli liyin aa al)ouosai(l ns:3iynsu eny of his said HrC(h-[en], and so provid before the said Maier and the residewo of his l)rederne thatt so shall assemble to here the same prove, shall forfett xx.* for euery tyme, and than the Maier for the tyme beynge shalbe oliargied with the same some ior the tyme bcyng Htt his aceompt. " Also att the sjvme secrett Connsell it was ordird by thauctoritie aforesaitl thatt no maier ner justice of peiuse frome hensfiirth shall conmiytt eny of the Aldermen of the citie to ward fore no cause except treasone^ miudre, felony, or accessarye to murdro or felony, uppone the same forffetour, except thatt he do it by thadvice and consent of vi odre Aldermen of the same citie, and except also thatt iU for suertie of peace [be] demaundid oppynly att the sessions, or elles to award a warrant agaynst tJie same partie by thadvice of ii justicez of peace att the lest ; and yitt if the offre suertie itt [is] to be takyne." Vol. VI. — A folio volume of blank leaves with the exception of six about the middle of the volume which contain the proceedings of the year 1653-4, very badly written. It would seem likely that the earlier portion was left for the transcription of the minutes of probably some ten years preceding, which in the troubles of the Civil War had never been duly entered, or had .been lost; while some portion of later years was no doubt contained in the pages now wanting at the beginning of the next volume. 1663[-4], March 7. — The boundaries between the ground of the rectory of St. Peter at Arches and a piece of ground of Mr. Reyner's freehold next adjoining, as set forth by the jui"ors of a court-leet, are entered at the desire of Mr. Reyner, " preacher of the Grospeli in this citie." , — . John Bull the elder, William Deeping, Simon Browne, and Thomas Compton are admitted to be the city's waits or musicians. Inserted at the beginning of this volume is a certificate which belongs to the next, of the production of that volume in a law suit at Lincoln in 1833, signed by Stacey G-riraaldi, the genealogist, and others. Vol. VII. — A folio volume of about 355 leaves at present, but wanting 54 at the beginning according to an old foliation, which is continued in a modern pagination after fol. 63. It contains the Acts from Jan. 26, 165|, to June 3, 1710. The first entry is a copy of Sir William Ellis's " charitable disposition " for four poor widows in Lincoln. 1655-6, Feb. 2. — Agreed that a new common seal be provided, to be engraven in the same form to make the like impression to the old seal, and that the inscription in the outermost circle be " The comon scale of the city of Lincolne." f. 55^. , March 8. — "^Vheleas it is found necessary as nell for upholding the Lord's day and week-day lecture at the parish church of Peter at Arches as also for the encouragement and assistance of Mr. Edward Reyner and Mr. George Scottericke, lecturers at tlie cathedral, to provide another minister to assist them, agreed that 20/. per an. for five years be allowed to a minister of the Gospel, to W recommended by Mr. Reyner 103 and Mr. Scottericke, to assist them in preaching at the cathedral and 1655-6. said parish church, f. 55''. 1655-6, July 7. — Major Gen. Edward Whalley and Major Gen. James Berry admitted to the franchises of. the city. f. 57^. , Sept. 10. — The lease of Heraswell parsonage to be renewed to Anne, widow of Henry Scupholme, for 25 years at a rent of 30/., she paying 40/. arrears and a fine of 90/. f. 58. , Oct. 6. — The inventory of plate comprises one ewer, Mr. Dennys' two bowls, one tun, one salt, one tankard, one goblet of the old fashion, three beer bowls, one case of knives ; " all the other plate wanting, as hath been five last years, besides the case of knives lost, only eiorht now delivered." f. 59^. 1656-7, Feb. 28. — Agreed that the leads of the roof of Peter at Arches be repaired from the east to the furthest end of the common council loft, so as the heads of the mayor, aldermen, and common council be kept dry, and that a window-light be put forth against the loft ; provided that this be not drawn into a precedent nor disengage the parishioners from repairing the church, f. 60^. , July 25. — Nathaniel Tuke, clerk, to have 5/. yearly for his pains in preaching at Hemswell. f. 62^. 1657-8, Jan. 7. — In reply to a letter from the parishioners of Belton for nomination of a vicar and augmentation of his stipend, the former is promised and the latter refused, the present proportion being equal in value to what it was when the impropriation was granted, p. 67. , Aug. 14. — Mr. Edmund Laurence presented to the vicarage of H&nslope. p. 70. [Four leaves of a register of admissions of freemen from .Tuly 1658 to June 1659 here lie loose in the volume.] , Dec. 22. — Mr. John Baldwin admitted vicar of Belton, with the same allowance that his father had ; and if the corporation are satisfied of the good affections of the parishioners towards him and of his abilities for the ministry, then to have an augmentation of 10/. ; but this not to be a precedent, p. 77. 1659, Apr. 5. — The chancel of Belton [and the Free School-house of the city repaired, pp. 77, 78. , June 14. — The forty -seven pounds returned this summer from the county of Sussex of money collected by the briefs in that county towards the relief of this city in the time of its visitation by the pestilence to be made up to 50/. and put forth upon interest to be employed in the relief of the city poor. p. 79. 1660, Apr. 28. — The mayor to lay out the moneys of the Marshalsea to mariners and maimed soldiers, p. 85. , June 19. — The fee farm rent of this city (of 81/. per an.) to be re-grantes Bnrtholmew, widow, she l)eiiif^ very poor and about eighty years of Hge. Ibid. , Sept. 26. — 'J'hc yearly stipend of 40/. to be paid to Mr. Edward l^yner and Mr. Abdy, ministers and lecturers of this city. p. 89. , Oct. II. — An atldress to the Lord Lieutenant of the county, with a list of the soldiers to l^e arrayed, and the number of the common arms of the city, to be presented at wSleaford on Oct. 19. p. 93. , Nov. 28. — Letter from the King, of Nov. 15, for the displacing of intruded aldermen and restoration of those displaced "in these late ill times." Thereupon Mr. John Oliver is displaced and Mr. William Bishop restored, and Mr. Richard Wetherall is restored on Alarch 2 following to his place of coroner, pp. 97, 98. The King's letter again considered on June 1.5 and 26, 1661, and Alexander Newcome and William Dawson displaced, and Edward Blawe restored and Richard Wetherall elected, as aldermen, pp. 100, 101. 1661, Aug. 5. — Whereas a petition was preferred to the King by some tew citizens against the mayor and some of the aldermen, suggest- ing their embezzling the money of the city and other pretended mis- carriages, which business was heard before the Privy Council, and they were all dismissed from any further attendance at the Board about it, now for the further satisfactiun of all persons concerned in the said money it is agreed that diligent enquiry shall be made for the finding out of all stocks and sums of money misemployed and for the recovery and right employing of the same. p. 102. , . Agreed that the two maces shall be altered, and that the King's arms, crown and (;ross shall be set upon the great mace, and that the small mace shall have the King's arms engraven upon it. Ibid. 1662, Aug. 23-Sept. 23. — Orders and Warrants of the King's com- missioners for putting in execution the Act of Parliament for the well governing of corporations, displacing and restoring numerous members and oflScers of the corporation, pp. 1 1 1-13. William Dawson, displaced in 1661, is restored. -, Sept. 20. — Whereas we are informed from the Dean and Chap- ter that they having their library called Great St. Mary's formerly in the unhappy war plundered, some books of which library is conceived by them to be in our custody, it i- therefore agreed that they shall have a view of what books we have in the school library, and such of them as they shall sufficiently make appear did belong to their library to be forthwith restoied unto them. p. 116. -, Oct. 14. — Mr. Justice Terrill's proposition for an augmentation to the vicar of Hanslope refused, p. 120. — • , Oct. 23. — Warrants for displacing and appointiiig several members of the corporation, pp. 123-4. 1663, Apr. 21. — In consequence of an Act of Parliament nuw being in debate in the House (!ntion of the like lor the future, and for the profit and a> wiiich were contirme'l on Sept. 2.5. pp. 321-7. The ordinances, which are 18 in number, are said to be for "the " continuance, sustentation. maiutenonce and relief of the occupation, " mistery, craft and company of taylours," the ordinances heretofore granted having been discontinued and not oDserved, to the great decay and Imrt of the city. The subjects of the ordinances are as follows : — 1. Yearly election of a master, two wardens and a dean. 2. No tailor to set up or do any work before agreement with the master and the mayor ; foreign tailors to pay 40i'. to the master, etc. 3. Forfeit .)f 2/. (w. Sd. for " up.setts " before agreement. 4. Every foreign tailor to pay 3/. 6*. 8^/. for his " upsett." 5. No foieigu tailor to work at all in any private house, and no tailor of the company without it be for one day to do his customer a pleasure. 6. No person to set any on work except he be a master-man. 7. Two persons to be elected to be searchers of defaults in any manner of garment, oa complaint thereof. S. No person to shape or cut against the wool, or set any incon- venient piece in the outside of any garment unless for want of cloth or that the owner will have it so, nor set any cloth of the right side, nor shipe any motley or damask against the leaves or branches. 9. Payments to the dean and clerk at first entry and yearly, and where and when the four morn-speech days shall be kept, with forfeits for non- attendance. 10. Every journeyman working IG days to pay 4c?., and if he con- tinue a year to pay I2d. yearly. 11. Forfeitures for refusing to hold office, &c. 12. Lands may be bought for the company, and goods and legacies received. 13. Every brother to be a franchest man. 14. Concerning evil words and misbehaviour in the master's presence, to be punished by forfeiture or imprisonment. Tailors not to take more for making a pair of plain hose of an apprentice or servant than 4c?., and for making a coat with sleeves than 9d., for every doublet 1^. 4c?., and every coat without sleeves Id. 15. None to buy any cloth, &c., or trimming for any garment to sell the same again, or to buy or sell any linings, or to make for sale any drawers. 16. Concerning the burying of poor brethren, and allowances while living. 17. The master to ha'/e p^wer to commit brethren to ward who do not pay forfeitures. 18. Conc«-rning determination of ambiguities or doubts in these articles. 109 1680, March 27— Richard Sharpe to have a lease of a mfl-suage with 1680. a close or orchard in JSt. Mary's parish on giving bond of 50/. th'it he will not hury any person, nor suffer any person to be buried, in the ground belonging to the said house, p. 328. 1681, Aug. 25. — The town-clerk ordered to attend at St. Peter's church every Sunday afternoon in his gown, on pain of 12c?. for every default, p. 46. , Oct. 3. — In the inventory the seals are described thus, at greater length than before : One statute box with the greater part of the statute seal in it, two other silver seals, one old silver cognizance, aud one piece of silver which came off a sword panel. Also, one dozen of large white-hafted case knives, all in a case together with a cover, p. 351. , Dec. 14. — Upon the reading of a letter from Sir Thomas Meres at London about several French Protestants coming to inhabit in this city, and for a stock and convenient lodgings to be provided for them at the city's charge, it is ordered that the mayor do forthwith send a letter to Sir Thomas Meres, that there is not any convenient houses or places in this city for them to come to dwell here, and that the city is not in a condition to raise a stock for them, and also that it is tho opinion of this common council that it will be no advantage to this city but a prejudice to them and all others, p. 353. 1682, Oct. 2. — In the inventory, two dozen large pewter trencher plates given by Mr. Garnon, alderman, and two dozen and a half pewter trencher plates given by the present mayor, Charles AUanson, all having the city's arms thereupon, p. 361. 1683, July 18. — Address of congratulation to the King on the discovery of the conspiracy for the assassination of himself and his brother [the Rye House plot], p. 369. , Oct. 1. — In the inventory, four pewter ten-pound dishes given by aid. Coxall, and six dozen pewter trencher plates bought by Mr. I(Oddington for 40s., in lieu of a collation on his election as alderman, (p. 367.) The city weights are also entered, p. 373. 1684, Jan. 4. — William Hooton gives one dozen and a half mazarine pewter plates in lieu of 20*. for a collation on his election as an alderman, pp. 374, 375. , June 4. — Agreement with Joseph Newton of Leicester about the Jersey .school, p. 380. , . Saxilby bridge to be repaired, part of which has fallen. Ibid. July 10. — With an unanimous consent it is agreed that the charter granted bv King Charles 1. shall l)e surrendered to his present Majesty, p. 381. Sept. 4. — Letters read about the surrender of the charter, from < he Mayor to Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys at York, dated .Tuly 11, and iVom Jeffreys in reply, dated -Inly \\. The mayor thanks him in I Ik; name of the city for the honour of his late visit, informs him of the agreement for the surrender, and desires instructions by the bearers to whom and in what manner those '-mployed herein shall make application when at London or at Court. .Jeffreys returns thanks for the late kind and nol)lc reception of him and his brofhei- [-judge], and for their truly loyal vote; has given the King by thie post a full account of their loyal and j)ru(lcnt l)ehnviour; will not forget his promise of making their way easy, and freeing them from as much expense in money and time as he can. As 110 ' 1684. the King is sijddeuly designed for Winchester and from thence to New Markci, thinks it advisable that thoy await his further directions on his return from circuit, pp. 383—1. U>84, (~)ot. 6. — In the inventorv there are further j;ifts of pewter plates, fonr hvrge iron spits, racks, iron range and stamp, p. 386. , Oct. 18. — Form of surrender of that part of the charter touching the election of any persons into any city offices, " considering how much it imports the government of this kingdom to have men of known loyaltv and approved integrity to bear oliices of magistracy and places of trust " ; de>iring a re-grant of all privile;j;es in such manner and form as his Majesty shall judge most conducing to the good government of the citv, and with such reservations, restrictions, and qualifications, as he shall appoint, p. 388. ^lomornnr'um that on Nov. '2, being Sunday, 1684, the surrender and charter of Charles 1. were presented to the King by a deputation of four persons (introduced by Jeftreys), together with a petition for a new charter "and several other things," and that the King received them very kindly, and promised a new charter, &c. p. 389. 1685, Jan. 1. — Reception of the new charter. This morning, about 8 o'cl., Mr. Mayor and the aldermen in their scarlet gowns, the sheriffs, common council men, and chamberlains, all in their gowns, attended with the company of trained bands and several gentlemen, and inhabitants to a considerable number, walked from Mr. Mayor's house to Barr gates and so against St. Katherine's, and upon the green there Mr. Mayor received the new charter from Sir Thomas Hussey, hart., who had it sent to him by the Earl of Lindsey, the city's new Recorder. So Moon as Mr. Mayor received the charter and the key of the box where the same was, he opened the box, and took the charier out, and he, the aldermen, sheriffs, common councilmen, chamberlains, and most of the gentlemen and company there, kissed the seal, and after loudly shouted God save the King. Then Mr. Mayor delivered the charter to the Town Clerk, who was present in his gown, and ordered him to carry it open before him to the Guildhall. Thereupon Mr. Mayor with Sir Thomas Hussey and several ether gentlemen, the aldermen, and all the rest of the body and company, walked up the city to the Guildliall, the trained bands going before to make way ; the street was filled with people, the city's waits playing before Mr. Mayor, and the bells ringing. In this manner ihey came to the Guildhall, where the charter was openly I'ead by the Town Clerk, and the hall was crowded with people. Then Mr. Mayor was sworn mayor and justice of peace, which being done they came out of the Guildhall, and so went to the great conduit, which ran claret wine, and there drank the King s and Duke of York's health. After that, the gentlemen and company went along with Mr. Ma} or to his bouse to a great dinner. After dinner, in their way Mr. Mayor and the company drank the King's and Duke of York's health at the lesser conduit, which ran likewise clp.ret wine, &c. The bells rang all the day, and music played, drums beating, &c., and the night con- cluded with bonefires and ringing of bells clear tlirougb the city. p. 390. Memorandum : The Bishop of Lincoln gave 20/., and Sir Thomas Hussey, Sir Henry Monson, Sir Thomas Meres, knt., and Henry Stone esq., each 10/., towards the charges of renewing the charter. Ibid. , Feb. 9. — This day in the afternoon, not long after the post came in, his Majesty King James II. was proclaimed King in these several places., viz., upon the green in St. Botolph's parish, upon the hill against St. M.^iy'a church, at the Stone-bo, v, at Bail-gates, in the Minster Yard, HI and in Newport, by the Mayor and aldermen in their scarlet gowns, the Town-clerk, sheriffs, common-council men, and chamberlains, in (heir gowns, all on hoiseback, the Dean and Chapter being present, and several gentlemen citizens and inhabitants attending all on horseback, attended with a great number of citizens, inhabitants and olhers on foot, according to the order of Council. [This order then follows, with a copy of the King's proclamation as printed.] After his Majesty was proclaimed as aforesaid, the Major, aldermen, &c. went to the Guild- hall, where a banqueting was provided at the city's charge, and then thc-y went to some bonefires, and drank the King's, Queen's, and royal family's healths, and th^ night concluded with bonefires, drums beating, ringing of bells, &c. pp. 393-4. 1685, Feb. 28. — An address sent to the King on his accession, feubscribed by the Mayor, corporation, citizens, and inhabitants, to the number of five hundred and more. p. 395. , July 21. — Whereas for these several years now last past it hath been a custom in this city for the mayor elect and the two sherilTs elect severally to make and give a treat or banqueting on every Holy Rood day, being Sept. 14, presently after they were elected, and the said treat or banquetting not only being a great trouble and charge, and several abuses and misdemeanours committed on that day by the freemen and inhabitants and the great number of foreigners which constantly resort (o the said treat, to the great disturbance of the King's peace and abuse of the said treat ; and for that the said treat or banquf tting upon serious consideration is looked upon to be a thing altogether unnecessary and useless ; therefore it is hereby ordered that the .said treat .... shall for the future be clearly laid aside and none made. And the city being much in debt for money borrowed for the Foss dyke and for renewing the charter, 13/. 13*. "id. shall yearly be deducted from ihe Mayor's allowance of 90/., and 26/. 6^. 8d. from the sheriflTs' allowance of 46/. p. 398. . Mr. Henry Stonw, of Skellingthorpe, gave one new velvet iiat of maintenance, made in London, which cost near 20/. p. 399. 1686, March 6. — Order against the opening of any shop or the using of any trade by foreigners not free of the city. p. 408. , Oct. 4. — In the inventory, nine pewter dishes bought by Mr. Coxall, late mayor, of Mr. Froeston's executors, with his coat of arms and the city's set thereon, p. 416. 1687, Aug. 3. — Belton chancel to be viewed and repaired, p. 422. And the parsonage house, July 5, 1688. p. 436. A new sun-dial to be set up over the Guildhall, p. 422. , Oct. 3. — In the inventory of plate a large gold ring appears for the first time. p. 426. , Dec. 31. — Abraham Morrice, mercer, brought the following letter from the King to the mayor and ( orporution for making him a freeman without taking any oaths. " James R. Trusty and well- beloved we greet you well. Whereas w(! have received a good character of the loyally of our well-beloved subject Abraham Morrice, mercer, we liHve iliougiif tit hereby to recpiini you to make him ii freeman of that our city of Lincoln, with all the rights and jjrivilcges thereunto belonj^ing, without administering unto him any oath or oaths whatso- ever, witii whirh we are graciously pleased to dispense in his behalf. And for so doing this shall be your warrant. . . . At our Court at Whitehall, Dec, 5." After reading of the said letter it was ordered 1685. 112 I68b. and uirriHHl tlint tho said Abr. Morrioc bo iniule a freeman ... in jiursnanoo of his Majesty's letter, pp. 429-30. 168"^. May 26. — The nsual stipend of 20/. granted to Mr. Christopher Colson hitely eleefetl usher of the Free School, p. 434. ^ Oct. 1. — In the inventory the new hat of maintenance given by Mr. Stone is the only one mentioned. |). 440. 16H9, Keb. Ifi. — This day in the afternoon, presently after the post came in and persons had notice given, their majesties King William and Queen Mary were proclaimed [in the same places and with the same forinfdities as James 11. Ccipies of the letter from the Conncil, and of the two proclamations for the proclaiming and for all persons to continne in th-'ir offices, follow.] After their majesties were pro claimed the said Mr. Mayor, etc. went to the Gnildhall, where wine ale and biscuit were provided at the city's charge to drink their majesties' health, and in the evening they all went to several bonefires, and ther-' drank their majesties' and the royal family's healths, and the night concluded with bonefires, drums beating, bells ringing, music playing and several other expressions of joy. pp. 443-4. , March. — The order of Dec. 31 last for making Abr. Morrice a freeman ordered to be void and of none effect, his late Majesty having bv his Declaration dissolved and made his letter void. p. 445. 1690, July 10. — 120/. given by Henry Stone, of Skellingthorpc, esq., the interest to be laid out for the use of the poor yearly in coals, corn, or any other things as the Corporation may think fit. p. 459. , Aug. 13. — John Osbaldeston, M.A., student of Ch. Ch., Ox- ford, who has come to be rector of St. Peter at Arches, to haAe th(! usual yearly stipend of 20/. for preaching a sermon every Sunday in the afternoon and every Michaelmas day in the forenoon. Ihid. 1691, Feb. 28. — The inner chamber adjoining the Guildhall to be handsomely ceiled with Norway oak for 40/. p. 467. , Dec. 5. — The usual stipend to be paid to Mr. Thomas Muston who succeeds Mr. Osbaldeston, who is dead, at St. Peter's, p. 475. 1692, Apr. 2. — Christopher Hillyard elected vicar of Hemswell, in the room of Mr. Gibson, deceased, p. 476. But on Aug. 4, 1693, the vicarage being declared vacant by reason he had left the same and had taken no care to serve it for several months past, and the ])arishioners being very anxious to have a curate, John Towne is elected to be vicar by 19 voices over 4 for Anthony Smith, p. 491. 1693, June 21. — Gervase Turner elected curate of Belton, in the room of Mr. Upsall, deceased, by 19 voices over 8 given for John Sykes, and 2 for'Fulljam Blackman. p. 489. 1695, Jan. 23. — An address of condolence ordered to be presented to the King on the death of Queen Mary. p. 504. ^ Oct. 28. — This morning so soon as the post came in from Gran- tham Mr. Major and the aldermen received an account that his Majesty Kino- William was on his journey from London, and intended to be in this city to-morrow night, and so pass clear through it to his lodgings at Lieut.-Col. Pownall's house in the Minster Yard^ late the house where Bishop Fuller lived. Presently after, Mr. Major sent to the aldermen to meet him at the Guildhall to consult what was the best to be done, and accordingly they met together, and went clear down the street as far as the Little Goat Bridges, and as they went along they 113 ordered all the parishes to get carts and labourers to cleanse the streets, 169ft. and carry the dirt and rubbish away from thence. Which was done accordingly that day and the next day before the King came, as well as possibly could be done upon such a short warning. All the cross rails down the street were ordered to be taken up, and all stones, wood and other obstructions lying and being in the highway were removed. In the afternoon Mr. Major ordered his officers to give nonce and warning to Mr. Recorder, all the aldermen, sheriffs, common council men, and chamberlains, the steward and town clerk, all to provide horses, and to meet the next day at the Guildhall in their gowns at three o'cl. in the afternoon. 1G95, Oct. 29. — This day about three o'cl. in the afternoon Mr. Major and the aldermen [etc.] . . . all in their gowns, attended with the Major's officers in their gowns, all met at the Guildhall, and when all were leady they went into the High Street against the said hall, and there mounted on horseback, the city's waits, Newark waits, trumpets hautboys and drums being all ready, they rode down the street, two and two together, as far as the Great Barr gate, the music playing, trumpets sounding and drums beating before them, attended with a great number of gentlemen, citizens, and others, all on horseback. When they came there, and waited an hour or two, the sheriffs with their officers on horseback rid up Cross a Cliff, and about the midway to Reddhall they there waited for his Majesty's coming with torches, links and flamboys ; and about 7 o'cl. at night the King in his coach with some of his lords, attended with his guards, came there, and the sheriffs on their knees offered their white staves to his Majesty, but he did not take them. Then the sheriffs got upon their horses, and rode bare before the King's coach (the guards being on both sides them and the coach) till tiiey came to the Great Barr Gate, where Mr. JNtajor, the Recorder, alder- men and company staid. W^hen the King's coach was just through the gate Mr. Major on his knees offered ti) give his Majesty the great sword which belongs to the city, but the King did not take it. Then Mr. Recorder being just liy Mr. Major and near the King's coach, he on his knees made a speech to his Majesty, congratulating his Majesty's safe coming to this city, and how joyful the city in general were to see his Majesty, witli a great many expressions of loyalty and duty. Mr. Recoi'der ha\nng ended his speech, Mr. Major and lie got upon their horses (the rest of the aldermen and a great company of the Vjody of the city, with a great many g(Mitlemen and others, all on horseback), and so Mr. Major bore the sword before the King's coach, with the hat of maintenance on his head, clear through tiie city to tiie King's lodgings in the Min.ster yard, to Lieut.-Col. Pownall's house, as before. The aldermen went just before Mr. Major, and the other company before them all, on horseback, in ranks, the music, trumpets, and drums before, playing, .sounding, and drums beating, clear up the street, without inter- mission. The streets were full of flamboys, torches, links and candles, and crowded witli vast numbers of people, and great shoutings and loud acclamations of the people ; all the houses, shops and other places were all illuminated with lights and candles, the l»ells all ringing. When the King came to his lodgings, Mr. Major and the aldermen went in before his Majesty, attended by the genflemen and others. The King when he was got int« the house went up " staiths " into a chamber, and staid there a little while. After, the King came down again, and then Mr. Major, the Recorder, aldermen, steward, town clerk and sheriffs, all on their knees, kissed his Majestv*s liaiHJ, ;md were nl'terwards entei taiiied o 79300. H 114 at a biuiquft witJi wiiu' of all si>rt:> ami sweetmeats in great quantities, all at the King's rliaigo. Tln> next morning between 7 ami 8 o'el., Mr. iNLyoraud the aldermen in their searlet gowns, the town clerk, sheritTs and common council men, waited upon his ^Majesty to the Minslcr to liear prayers. And after the prayers were ended, his ^lajesty took coach and went immediately ta the Duke of Newcastle's house, to Welbeck in Nottinghamshire, attended by the high sheritV of Lincolnshire and a great many gentlemen and others, all on horseback, pj). 513-14. 1695, Dec. 16. — His Majesty having been graciously pleased, when he was lately here, to grant, nj)on the request of" the mayor and alder- men, a new fair to be kept yearly at such a time as the city should think convenient, enquiry to be made of some knowing persons when is tlie properest time in the year for the same, and a letter then to be sent to the city's parliament men to make application for the grant, p. 515. , . John Morris elected to the curacy of Belton, void by the death of Mr. Turner, p. 516. 1696, Apr. 30. — Three hundred and odd pounds in clipped money to be sent up to London to be exchanged for new milled money of gold. p. 517. , Aug. 22. — Order whe the new fair is to be kept and w hat tolls to be taken, p. 519. 1697, Feb. 8. — Order about a return to a Mandamus from the King's Bench to admit Abraham Moriicc, mercer, as a freeman, he ha\ing serveil seven years as an apprentice in the city. p. 527. , Dec. 8. — A house assigned for a house of correction, p. 538. 169S. — From this year the inventories cease to be registered, their contents being said to be delivered to the mayor " as by a note." p. 546. [1702: — There is no entry of the proclamation of Q. Anne J 1704, Aug. 8. — Order about a suit to be tried at the next assizes on a dispute with the dean and chapter about the liberties and privileges of the city, which the dean and chapter call in question and dis .wn. p. 598. , Sept. 23. — An address of congratulation to the Queen ordered,. on the victory gained by the duke of Marlborough, p. 602. 1706, May 21. — An entertainment to be provided at the city's chai'ge for the Bishop of Lincoln, p. 617. 1707, Apr. 3. — Proposed that 10/. be paid towards the relief of the poor episcopal clergy in Scotland, p. 628. [This is not again men- tioned, and therefore probably was not confirmed at the next meeting of the common council.] , . Ordered that the Queen be addressed to congratulate her upon account of the Union. Ibid. , Sept. 27 and Oct. 22. — Ordered that St. Hugh's fair be removed,. for all goods and merchandise, from the Friars to the High Street^ between the High bridge and Down Town lock. pp. 634, 636. , Nov. 13. — The chancel of Belton church to be viewed and repaired, p. 637. , Dec. — The mayor to pay lOA forthwith towards the loss by^fire at Grantham. Ibid, 115 1708, June 12.— 10/. to be given to the parish of St. Peter in East- 1708. gate towards repairing " Greeseing " stairs, they putting the same in sufficient repair and mnintaining theni so. p. 639. , Aug. 28. — An address to the Queen upon the late victory sealed and .sent up. p. 640. 1710, June 30. — Ordered that an address be presented to the (^ueen to congratulate her upon the success of her arms, and to stand by her and the Established Church, and the Protestant succession as established by Act of Parliament, p. 660. At the end of this volume, reversed, are the original signatures, on fifteen leaves, to the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and renouncing the Solemn League aud Covenant, of all the persons admitted to office in the corporation, from March 25, 1663, to Sept. 14, 1709. Vol. VIII. — A folio volume of 908 pages, extending from June 17, 1710, to 14 Sept. 1800. 1710[-11], March 8. — Every justice, alderman, and common council- man to attend the mayor, in their gowns, to church, on all Sundays, etc., under penalty of a fine of 12d., to be levied by distress, p. G. Again ordered on 14 Sept. 1724. p. 99. , Jan. 31 and March 13, — Rev. Mr. Garmston thanked for his sermon on 30 Jan. and 10/. voted for defraying his charge of printing it. 1714, Oct. 26. — Sliadrach Garmston elected vicar of Hanslope, and ] 0/. voted to Mrs. Ward, the widow of the late vicar, in consideration of her necessitous condition, p. 31. 1715, Apr. 22. — 20/. given to Spalding for relief of the poor sufferers * there, p. 32. 1716, May 24. — An address to be sent to congratulate the King upon his success in suppressing the late unnatural' rebellion, p. 30. 1718, Dec. 9. — Mr. Booth, usher of the Grammar School, desired to print his sermon preached at St. Mary's church upon account of the Anabaptists, and 10/. to be paid him for defi'aying the charge, p. 51. 1718[-9], Feb. 9. — Five guineas to be given to Mr. Booth for printing his book, being a Replication to the Anabaptists' answer to his sermon.* p. 58. 1719, May 9. — Application to be made for a brief for rebuilding the church of St. Peter-at-Arches. p. 61. , May 21. — 1000/. to be taken up at interest by the city and employed towards the rebuilding of the church of St. Peter-at-Arches, ibid. 100/. j)er an. to be paid for ten years from Mich. 1719. p. ()2. A small deficiency made up to the trustees, Sept. 25, 1736. p. 216. , July 10. — Tiie Mayor excused from giving a public dinner at the next sessions ; but in return to allow 20/. out of his salary to the city. p. 63. , . Trustees appointed to see to the a[)plication of the money given for re-building St. Peter's church. Ibid. 1720, Sept. 26. — A " branch of candlestick.s, containing M in num- ber," to be bought for 12/. 12j., to be used in St. Mary's church * "Friendly advice to the Auubaptists, or a reply to Mr. Ebeuezer llalTH Anti- dote," printed at Cambridge in 171'J. The seriuou "of IJaptisni," ^\•hi(■h Hall answered, was printed in 1718, in accordance with the request above. The author, Peuiston Bootli, was afterwards dean of Windsor. H 2 IIG or any other oluir(.'li whore the loclure->ervicL' shall be, as tlie v'lly lu.iy tlirect. p. 70. 1722[-3], Feb. 12. — Thanks; given to Loid Thauet for his benefac- tion of 40/, towards the rebuikling of St. Peter's church, p. 88. 1723, Sept. 19. — 600/. more voteil for the completion of St. Peter's ehuroh. p. 92. , Oct. 29 200/. given towards the ondownaent of St. Botolph's, to entitle it to the King's bounty of 200/. p. 94. 1724, May 26. — The seats of the mayor, aldermen and common council-men, and also those of the " aMresses " at St. Peter's church, to be lined, p. 97. To be new lined Aug. 27, 1781. p. 644. The seats in St. Marv's church to be handsomely lined with red cloth; April 17, 1736, p. 212. To be new covered, Oct. 15, 1793, p. 801. , July 8. — The stipend given by the city for the Master of the Free School increased from twenty nobles to twenty pounds per an. with 10/. lor a house, it being found that a deserving man will not accept of it under a salary of 50/., and the Dean and Chapter only allowing 20/. p. 98. This to be given to Mr. John Groodall, the dean and chapter having been unable to find a person duly qualified as having been educated at Westminster or Eton and of the degree of M.A. p. 100. 1725, Xov. 3. — A notice of a vacancy for two waits to be given in the Stamford Mercury, p. 113. 1726[-7], March 18. — An address to the King upon account of the Spaniards besieging Gibraltar and the Emperor's settling a trade at Osteud. p. 124. 1727, June 17. — Proclamation of George II. in seven places by the town-clerk, the crier repeating every sentence after him with a loud voice, p. 127. , Aug. 21. — Sir Thomas Saunderson, K.B., made a freeman of the city in return for his .setting up ii'on rails and doors and stone pillars at the front of the church of St. Peter-at-Arcbes. p. 130. , Oct. 10. — A "treat" to be given on Oct. 11, the coronation-day of Geo. II., the upper and lower conduits to run wine for the corpora- tion, and a hogshead of ale to be given to the common people, p. 133. 1728, Aug. 31. — 60/. allowed towards the beautifying and painting the altar-piece in St. Peter's church, the trustees for the said church laying down 30/. more. p. 140. , Sept. 26. — 1.5/. more allowed for the altar-piece, and a set of eight bells to be set up, the city paying such charges as cannot be raised by subscription, p. 142. 1729, Sept. 27. — Six lamps to be set up in the city. p. 152. And as many additional ones as the mayor and aldermen shall think con- venient. Dec. 4. p. 155. 1729[-30], Feb. 26. — A petition to be presented to the House of Commons against hawkers, pedlers, and petty chapmen, p. 156. 1730, May 9. — The pictures of the present King and his Queen Caroline to be bought at the charge of the city and set up in the Inner Hall ; and the outside of the Town Hall and the King's arms, with the figures there, to be new painted and cleansed, p. 157. 117 1731, May 10. — No persons not born within the city to have the 1731. freedom of the school, p. 167. , Nov. 20. — The use of the Town Hall and inner room granted to the gentlemen and ladies of the city for an assembly once a fortniglit or oftener. p. 173. 1732, May 2. — Estimate to be prepared of the expense of making the river Wytham navigable to Boston, p. 175. 1734, Dec. 7. — The great mace to be new gilt, and a new scabbard to be had for the sword and a new hat for the sword bearer, p. 201. I73.'i, Nov. 24. — Agreement between the city of Lincoln, the town of Boston, and the owners of low lauds, for the procuring an Act of Parliament for improving the navigation between Lincoln and Boston, p. 210. 1736, Sept. 25, Dec. 2. — Enlargement of the market place for butter, eggs, &c. adjoining St. Peter at Arches, pp. 214, 218. , Dec. 2. — 8/. 8*. given by two persons for a clock and chimes at St. Peter's, p. 219. , . — Michael Crawthorne, one of the waits, discharged of his place for forsaking the Protestant religion of the Church of England and embracing that of the Church of Rome. p. 220. 1740, June 14. — 50/. given towards a new steeple at St. Martin's church, p. 246. , Aug. 30. — Proposals of Rich. Ellison accepted for improving the navigation of Foss-dyke. p. 247. 1742, May 12, 24, — Resignation of William Gylby, esq. Recorder, by reason of his great years and illness, and election of Charles Mon.son, esq. pp. 264, 265. , Sept. 10. — Rev. Mr. Rolt lately elected master of the Grammar School in place of Rev. Mr. Goodall, who deceased on May 25. 71. 10*. paid to Rev. Mr. Sheltou, usher, pp. 266, 267. 1743, Dec. 7. "] — Addresses to George II. on his return to [4], March 7. | England, on the prospect of a French invasion, 1745, Sept. 25. )>on the capture of Cape Breton and the invasion 1746, May 28. | by the Pretender, on the victory at Culloden (the 1748, Doc. 19. J text of this last address is not given), and again on his return to England and a general peace, pp. 278, 279, 288, 292, 311. Addresses on April 22 and Sept. 27, 1756. pp. 365, 371. On the reduction of Louislmrgh, Sept. 14, 1758, p. 391. On the reduction of Quebec, Oct. 25, 1759. p. 443. 1749, Sept. 26. — On the appointment of Rev. Will. White to the curacy of llein.swell it was ordered that the curate should ])reach or cause to be preached there a sermon every Sunday, p. 316. , Dec. 14. — A proposal in favour of voting viva voce instead of by ballot rejected l)y 22 to 16. p. 319. [>')0\, Feb. 20. — Regulations for the better |)r('so repaired, beinp: iniicli dooayed. p. iVJS. 17ol2, .Juno G. — i'roposals I'or eslabiishiiii;- a inanuiactory of caiiiblets and shalloons read. p. .336. , Sept. 27.— Request to Will. George D.D. [Dean of Lincoln] to print, at the cxjiense of the city, his sermon preached on Sept. 18, at the nicotiiij; of subscribers to the charity schools.* p. 33H. I7i^3, May 22. — St. Mary's wooden bridge to be rebuilt with brick and stone, p. 341. 1755, Nov. 2. — Orders for regulating the coal-trade, p. 359. , Dec. 30. — Proposals for a nightly watch to be maintained by subscription, p. 361. 1756, May 13. — The salary of the waits to be 42*. a year each instead of 305., provided they go the watch four nights in the week from Michaelmas to Lady Day. p. 366. , June 9. — The great Bar-gates to be pulled down. p. 367. 1757, Feb. '.\ — Subscription for relief of the poor, on account of the dearness of provisions and fuel. p. 374. , Dec. 15. — Leave given to erect an assembly room over the market house, with card-room and tea-room. p. 384. 175S, Sept. 25. — The east side of the passage under the Stone-bow to be opened for passengers as that on the west side now is. p. 394. 1758, Nov. 8. — 10/. 10*. granted towards buying communion-plate for the parish of St. Peter-at-Arches. p. 397. 1759, June 23. — Francis Bernard, esq., removed from his place of Steward of the courts of the city on account of his accepting the office of Governor of the province of New Jersey and going to reside thei'e. p. 404. 1760, Oct. 31. — Ceremonial of the proclamation of George ILL p. 423. Addresses, pp. 431, 432. 1762, March 4, Apr. 12. — Petitions against a bill in Parliament for improving the navigation between Lincoln and Boston, pp. 439, 443. 1765. Dec. 5. — The lighting of street-lamps at the expense of tho city to be discontinued, except those at the new conduit and in tho market house, p. 485. 1766, Oct. 28. — Twenty guineas granted to Rev. Mr. Heuthwaite, master of the Grammiir School, for globes and maps, he having under- taken to teach the scholars geography gratis, p. 493. 1769, Aug. 29. — Order for taking down from houses in the High Street signs which project into the street, p. 524. 1771, Jan. 26. — A committee appointed to considw a proposal for making a navigation from Grantham to Lincoln, p. 541. 1781, Dec. 12. — Thanks given to Governor Pownal) for presenting the city with his Majesty's picture in a handsome gilt frame, p. 648. 1786, March 18. — 41. granted in addition to 6/. already granted to be distributed by the ministfr and churchwardens of St. Peier-at- Arches among such persons as shall sing or perform upon any musical instru- ment in that church during divine service on the Lord's day. p. 695. * The sorraon was printed at Lincoln in 1752 by Will. Wood. 119 1787, Feb. 20. — Petitiou against a bill in Parliament for building a 1787. bridge over the Trent at Gainsborough, p. 708. , Apr, 18. — The mayor to cause a proper place to be made in the Inner Hall for the reception of the books and records of the city, and lo provide the new patent lamps for the Guildhall, p. 714. 1788, Feb. 9. — A petition to Parliament against the Slave Trad carried by 9 to 2. p. 725. , Aug. 4, and Dec. 3, 1789. — 10/. 10*. subscribed towards the establishing of Sunday Schools in the city, pp, 730, 746. 1790, Feb. 6. — Proposal for an Act of Parliament for lighting the city. p. 747. 1791-2. — Various proceedings relative to navigation-plans connected with the Witham and Foss-dyke, and the town of Grantham, pp. 767, 772-3, 782, etc. 1792, jNTav 17. — Enquiry into the causes of the decline of the Grammar School, p. 781. , Dec. 17. — A sum not exceeding 20/. towards a subscription for checking the spirit of the disaffected, p. 790. 1793, Dec. 12. — One hundred guhieas subscribed towards an organ for St. Peter's church, and 12Z. 12*. a year as salary for an organist, p. 804. 1794, March 1. — Twenty guineas towards the subscription for pulling down Pottergate. p. 805. , June 5. — 300/. towards the internal defence of the kingdom. p. 807. , Dec. 22. — Forty guineas to the subscription for the poor during the present inclemency of the season, p. 814. 1796, Jan. 12. — The mayor had bought thirty pounds' worth of potatoes, fearing the price was likely to rise, in order to sell them at the original price, p. 835. Again on Dec. 26, 1799. p. 897. , Aug. 23. — The rector of St. Peter's is requested to take steps to prevent tlie ringers of the church from ringing so frequently for gentlemen coming to town and on other occasions, p. 844. 1797, InTov. 7. — Twenty guineas subscribed for the families of those who fell in the battle of Camperdown. p. 864. 1798, Feb. 14. — Five hundred guineas in aid of Government at the present crisis, p. 866. , March 10. — Orders for reduction of the expenditure of the corporation, to the extent of 2G0/. p. 868. 1798, Dec. 17. — 5/. 5.S'. a year subscribed to the weekly chaiity schools, 10/. 10a". towards a fund for the inoculation of the poor, and 21/. towards rd'efof the families of those who fell in the battle of the Nile. p. 877. 1 800, March 3. — Ten guineas ** towards the erection of the naval monument to perpetuate the glorious victories of the British navy." J). 890. June 7. — Fifty guineas towards erecting a new church in the parish of St. Swithin. p. 905. From the beginning of this volume there are entries of the annual gifts sometimes of plate and sometimes of money, rising from 20/. to 120 1800. 50/ , towards the lu.rse-nvcps. SovtMiil adilres.ses at various tinu-s to Geo. III. are in ili(> latter part oi" tho volume. From tlip year IS 18 the enrolments of freemen are in two folio volumes. For fifty or sixty years previously they are on rolls. CIVIC INSIGNIA. These ensigns of office are unusually fine and numerous. Of their making and tlieir cost, and of their occasional repair, notices are to be found at various times in the extracts ahovc from the Registers. They we4-e exhibited in the year )868 at the Art Exhibition in Leeds, and from the Catalogue by Mr. AY. CJhaffers the description of the first six articles in the subjoined list is mainly taken. The whole will be fully described in a forthcoming work by Mr. W. St. John Hope on the Corporation Plate and Lisif/nia of England and Wales. 1. Sword, with pear-shaped pommel and cross guard, originally inlaid and damascened with gold, of the fifteenth century. Length, 3 feet inclies. 2. Sword with flattened circular silver pommel, engraved on both sides with the royal arms of the time of Richard II. Silver cross guard, inscribed, " jehsus est amor meus. a deo et rege." Red velvet scabbard, mounted in silver at a later period, inscribed " tho. kext, MAYOR, 168.5," embroidered with crown and fleur-de-lis, portcullis and thistle. Length of sword 3 feet 8| inches. I4th cent. 3. State Sword, with siiver-gilt pommel and cross guard, presented by .John Kent, ]\Iayor, 1734, bearing the hall-mark of that year, with the same mottoes as the preceding. Red velvet embroidered sheadi, silver niounted. Length 4 feet 7 inches. 4. Short silver mace with cup-shaped end, with three shields of haip, fleur-de-lis, and cross; on the top the royal arms of Q. Anne, pierced border. I/Cngth 19 inches, o. Large silver[-gilt] mace, repousse, with the rose, fleur-de-lis, harp and thistle, and C. R. II., surmounted by a Crown; the stem chased with flowers. Length 4 feet 2 inches. 6. Silver badge anrl chain, worn by one of the waits, in proclaiming the fair \_etc.'], with the royal arms on one side and those of the city on the other. 1710. [This has more links, by a large number, than appear to have belonged to the waits' badges, which at most had 2^ links.] 7. A red velvet ciip of maintenance of the 16th century, with bread brim and crown, embroidered in silver, with the Tudor rose. But pee under date of July 21, 1685, and Oct. 1, 1688. 8. A sword-bearer's hat, with tassels. 16th cent. 9. A mahogany staff. See under thf^ year 1587. 10. A modern grand gold collar and chain of oflSce for the mayor, WlLLIAJI DCXN MaCRAY. 121 THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE CORPORATION" OF BURY ST. EDMUNDS. The records of this ancient town are neither so numerous nor, for the most part, of so early a date as might be expected. But the fact that, until the dissolution of the great Benedictine Abbey, the abbots were the lords of the place will account for the loss of many records, which were likely to perish when the abbey was destroyed, while others may have passed into the possession of Sir Robert Drury and of Nicholas Bacon, who successively obtained the bailiwick of Bury, or of the family of Kitson, to which extensive orvants ot the abbey property were made. The earliest of the documents were until the year 1890 pre- served with those belonging to the feoffees of the town charities described below, but they were then separated by authority of the corporation, and a calendar was drawn up and printed by a committee employed upon their selection. They are now preserved, together witli the royal charters, municipal registers, maces, and all the miscellaneous records, in a strong fire-proofroom in the Town Hall. The rolls of abbey accounts and rentals will be seen to be of much interest, and appear to have lain uimoticed hitherto. And the ordi- nances for the craft of weavers in 1477 (a trade which died out in Bury centuries ago) supply some of that matter for the history of trade guilds in England which is to be found among the records of most, if not all, of our ancient towns, and which needs to be bi-ought to light by the investigations of this Commission before that history (however much the general features of trade ordinances may be in their outline similar) can be completely Avritten.* The orders regarding workmen and servants in 1571-5 are also noticeable. In addition to these records I have also examined those of the charity feoffees, kept in a small chamber over the porch of the fifteenth-century Guildhall (which is distinct from the modern Town Hall) to which chamber access is gained through which was once the Minstrels' Gallery, by a strong and Iieavy door with several locks, requiring on the occasion of my visit the help of a smith before it would turn on its hinges. Here in an oak press containing thirty drawers (some now empty), which has superseded the use of a great iron bound ancient chest still ill the chamber, are stored the title-deeds of property belonging to the charities of Bury, having amongst them some of the abbey records, as well as ancient grants, as will be seen by the description which follows. The greater part of the contents of the drawers consists, however, of leases and like documents, of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In tliis Guildhall, of which on*; half is used for the borough s(\ssions and the other as a room for a subscription library, is also kept a valuable library Vielonging to the parish church of St. James. Among the books are four vellum MSS. : I. A collection of miscellaneous tracts, chiefly medical and theological, which, although its binding as one vol. is of the fifteenth century, tormcily formed two volumes in tiie library of the abbey, marked respectively M. 27 and B. 237 ; II. Bedo's Hist. Eccl.^ * Some peculiarities of spelling and phraseology are worth notice in these ordi- nances ; and anioiifTst tliem the following : — B;/ is always written hi>, and shall, rail. Withhold is used in the sense of holdwith, agree with, and exiunples are found of till' use of a.seeth =coH)iiensati()n, and (if(ii/iie = to carry away. 122 oarly loth cent. "Liber domus Sancti Salvatoris ile Syon, ex dono M, Robert! Elyot, A.D. 1190. Orate pro anima ojiis." It was jriven in 1595 to the library of St. James by Au^ustin Styward, who rticords tliat he was then 3(> years old. 111. Bede's Coninicntary on the Acts of the Apostles and the (w-neral Kp.istles ; early 13th century. The epistles beilin and end imperfectly in Koniaus and Hebrews. Giyen to St. James' library in 1039 by Thomas Steeven.s, headmaster of the Grammar School. IV. Cassian ; 11th cent. "Liber iloinus fratrnni in Dorsborch " [Dorshor<;, near Worms?]. In the IGtli cent, it belonged to one Walter Alan by the gift of Ivobert Ardern. A fragment from a breyiary which forms a fly-leaf contains part of the office for a festival observed iu tler- Tiiany, but not found in books of English use, " In festo lancere et clavorura." In the library of the Grammar School there is a fine folio Psalter with the offices for the dead, &c. written in the 14th cent., which is supposed to have belonged to the abbey, from its having the name of St. Edmund in red letters in the calendar, and from his name being placed next to that of St. Stephen in the list of martyrs in a litany. It was given to the school library iu 1706 by one James Harvey. | William Dunn Macray. I.— KOYAL CHAETEES. [For three of these charters new boxes were given by the Eecorder in 17M.] 1606, 3 Apr. — Charter of incorporation granted by James I. On five sheets of vellum ; the lines are numbered, and amount to 309. The impression of the great seal is very poor. The usual pen and ink portrait of the King is giv(!n in the initial letter. The charter is printed in the Appendix to Yates's History of the Abbey of St. Edmund's Bury. 1608, 1 July. — Grant by James I. to the burgesses of Bury in relief of their lamentable condition caused by a late immense fire, of all the tithes and pi'operty formerly belonging to the almonry of the :ibbey, with the buildings called lez Elemosiners Barnes, alias lez Ampners Barnes, and also of the Gaol, the Gaolhouse and the Tolhouse and the Market Cross, and all the materials of the same, including a small bell called the Tolhouse-bell or Market-bell, with markets, fairs, &c. ; at an annual crown rent of 28/. 3*. M., and paying the stipends of the curates and ministers of the two parish churches, &c. On three sheets ; 190 lines. Poor impression of the seal, broken. Portrait in the initial letter. Printed ibid. 1614, 17 Sept. — Charter of James I. establishing a coroner, justices of the peace, a court of record, ttc. ; and granting the churches and advowsons, representation by two burgesses in parliament, and iucor- porating feoffees, &c. Five sheets ; 479 lines. Initial portrait. Only two small fragments of the seal. Printed ibid. t Mr. Montague R. James, M.A., fellow of King's College, Cambridge, is engaged in preparing for publication a catalogue of the library of the Abbe^-, and tracing such books as are still known to exist. To hira I owe my knowledge of this Psalter. 123 1668, o June. — Renewal charter of Charles II. adding I'estrictions upon non-freemen, &c. Throe sheets. Engraved portrait in the initial. Small fragment of seal. 1684, 3 July. — Charier of Charles II. re-constituting the corporation with a mayor, aldermen, &c. Three sheets, with engraved portrait, and engraved border.s to each sheet. Bad impression of great seal, perfect. II.— MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS. 1293. See under 1367, lufm. 1295. — A long roll containing a list, made about the end of the fourteenth century, of all the lands and tenements belonging to the various officers in the abbey. It is headed, " Omnia terrie, tenementa, prata, pascua, pasturae, molendina, grangia et columbaria subscripta, pertinent ad diversos officiarios infra monasterium Sancti Edmundi anno regni regis Edwardi primi vieesimo tercio, et sunt taxata et decimata ut patet, etc." They are arranged under the several wards, East, West, South, Rysbygate, and North, and then under the various streets in the several wards. The inventory of records printed in 1890 observes that " nearly all the streets mentioned bear the same names as at the present time ; one exception is Angel-hill, which was then known as 3Iustowe." The names of the various tenants are gi\en, but tlie rents are not specified. The possessions of the Hospitals of St. Peter and St. Nicholas are also enrolled. And then follows the " Taxatio " domini Regis Edwardi primi " assessed upon the property of the various officers. 1299—1538. — Seven Sacrist rolls of the abbey : — 1299. — " Computus fratris Joh. de Snaylwell, sacr. Sancti Edmundi, a festo M[ichaelis] amio r. r. E. xxvii usque in cras- tino [sic] Palm, anno r. r. E. supradicto." Endorsed as being an account "in parte" for 27 Edw. The sura total of receipts is 181/. 1 1*. lO^d., and of expenses 203/. Us. 2Jf7. The latter include 33s. id. given to the poor on thi'ce principal feasts and 30a-. on JNIaundy Thursday. The last entry in the account is this: " Comp. lib. magistris Oxon. pro decima decime xP x'' <|ua. Item eisdem pro vestiar. xii''. Item eisdem i)ro incepciono eorundem anno preteiito omisso c'^." 1357. — Ac(!ount of Simon de Langham, from Annunc. lo Mich. 31 Edw. III. Amongst the " profectus ecclesiarum " are these entries, which occur also in the preceding roll, but are not there so fully ex{)r(!ssed, " De oblacionibus ad nigraiii crucen), iiij'' xxi''. De pixide, sancto Sythe, xii'" xix'' vi'' ob. qua. Do pixide sancte Petronille, ij^ iiij''-" Receipts are entered " de ciiarncpeny " (in the preceding account, <* scharnepeny ") " de landmol " (afterwards "landmool ") and from reliefs " cum hadgovel " (afterwards " liad- pavel,"j. 'J'lie expenses include gifts to servant." of the King and Prince, and to others. Sum of receipts, 212/. 3*. l.J " ; followed by, " Item, regiis mimis et aliis, diversis temporibus, vi»." Receipts, 330/. 18*. 7c?.; expenses, 332/. I6s. \\d. 1.304, 14 Dec. — Long roll of pleadings (nine membranes) at Bury on the morrow of St. Lucy, 33 Edw. 1., before the justices Will, de Berford, Will. Howard, and Will, de Carletone, in pursuance of letters patent from the King, dated at Morpat, 29 Aug., between the Al)bot and Nich. Fuk, with sixty-one otiicr townsmen of Bury, (all whose names are given,) with refenmce to alleged invasion of the rights of the abbot and his officers with regard to jnrisdit-tion within tiic town. The townsmen resisted the collectioa by the abbot's bailitl's of lines and dues, " ac (lususdam corruptelas i-t ordinacioncs Icgi et consnetiidini regni Regis su; libertatibus dicti abbatis sibi j)er carlas i)rog(Miit()rum Regis concessis contrarias in eadem villa ])roprio mofn statucrnnt observandas, ac diversa tallagia super pauperibus tenentibus ipsiu.s * He appt'urs tf) hiivf been one of four bishops nominated to Knily bctwi-cn 1422— 1431, and (icted as sufTniffan of Norwicli from I 124 onwards. lie was a I'"raiiciscan. [Cotton's Fa.sti Kcvl. Hib. J. sec. edit. «'.>, V. l.'i]. 120 alibatis df tjulitu vilhi pliuicsi pro voluiitatL' sua a.ssideiun'i, et tallagia ilia per graves ilistrietioiics ab eisdein oxtorserunt." Also, ou the Monday next after the Nativity of B. 'Miwy in the .SOth year of the King, Nicli. Fuk with his fellow-eonspirators " ordi- navernut ot stattierunt quod nullus maneret inter eos in dieta villa hal'iMis eatalla ad valenciani xx^ quin eis solveret duos solidos ot unum denariuin, quam quidani solueiomin vocant inter se ITiuttsiny- sifrer,'' and thnt any one having ehattels to the value of ten marks should pay UJ*-. ^(/. ; and these sums tliey extorted from various persons whose names are given. Also that no one should remain beyond a year and a day in the town Avithout being by oath to observe their conven- tieles and ordinances. Also at the same ti?ne they a[)[)oin(ed bailiffs of their own, and summoned persons to appear before them for trial of causes; and usurped the wardship of minors and orphans; of which instances are given which occurred on the Tuesday after the f. of St. Dunstan in the 32nd year of the King. In the same year, on the morrow of the Assumption of B. INIary, they ap}iointed gate-keepers for the several gates of the town. And at various other times in the years 3C-.'^2 of the King, they hindered the abbot's bailiffs from levying amercements and making distraints, resisting them " vi et armis, scilicet, gladiis, arcubus et sagittis " (sattitis, MS. !), and imposed tallages of their own on the abbot's tenants. They made also this ordinance, " quod si quis de confederacione predietorum Kicholai et aliorum vendiderit tenementum suum, si ille qui propinquior sit in sanguine venditoris venerit postmodum ad proximam Portmannotum, et velit restituere emptori quantum pro illo tenement o dederit, amovebitur ille emptor et tenementum liberetur petenti. Statuerunt eciam quod si quis ac- cionem habuerit petendi tenementum in dicta villa, nisi illud infra annum et diem venerit et petierit, per non clamium ab accione exclusus erit ; et similiter quod uxor de tenementis que sunt jus suum et hereditate[m] sua[m], per virum suuiu alienatis, post mortem viri sui exeludatur petendo eadem teuemeuta seu recuperando imperpetuura." They imposed charges varying fi'om 5*. yearly to a halfpenny per week upon thirty- five persons, whose names are recited, who were the abbot's men. " Lapides et grossas petras super ecclesiam et domos dicte abbatie ad infringendura et onerandum tectnram et cooperturam ecclesie sue et domorum maliciose projecerunt, et homines supradictos domos co- operientes gratis lapidaverunt, et per sic eos ab opere suo sepius impediverunt, ac homines, monachos, servientes et nuntios ipsius abbatis in negotiis suis missos per dictam villam transeuntes verbera verunt, et male tractaverunt, per quod idem abbas servientium eoruni' ea racione pluries {sic) amisit." By all Avhicli things ■ the abbot says that he is damnified to the value of 2,0C0/. And Nichohis Fuk and the remainder of the defendants deny in general all the charo'es of conspirac}' and molestation and interference with the abbot's rights ; but with regard to the tax levied on residenls and the imposing an oath to observe the ordinances, they say " quod ijisi. habent Aldermannum et Guildam mercatorum in villa predicta, et sunt liberi Burgenses, et i-eddunt judicia per Aldermannum de placitis in curia ipsius Abbatis, coram ballivis ejusdem in predicta villa placitarum, et quod ipsi aljsque aliquibus conventiculis illicitis coii- venerunt ad Grildaulam suam quotiens opus fuerit ad tractandum de communi proficuo et utilitate hominum et Burgensium predicte ville sicut eis bene licet. Et quod ipsi et antecessores eorum et pre- decessores Burgensium, etc., tali consuetudine usi sunt a tempore cujus non exstat memoria, soil, capieutli de quolibet homine maneute 1:^7 ill predicta villa, existente in decenua abbati-s loci predicti, habeute- catalla ad valenciam xxii% i^, per sic quod mercare possit inter eos et eoruin consuetudinibus mercatorum gaudere in eadem villa ; et similiter percipiendi xlvi'^ viii'^' de quolibet homine ville predicte liabente catalla ad valenciam x marcarum ad suam mercatum tenendum, et quod talis est ipsorum super hoc consuetude, scil. quod xii Burgenses de villa predicta eligere consueverunt quatuor homines ejusdem ville annuatim ad Gildam suam mercatoriam tenendum, quorum quilibet habeat catalla ad valenciam x marcarum, qui quidem quatuor homines sic electi premuuiri consueverunt per duos Burgenses de Gilda i)redicta qui dicuntur /es dies ad Gildam suam predictam tenendum, [et] iidem quatuor homines sic electi plegios inveuire consueverunt coram Alder- manno et Burgensiljus in Gilda aula predicta ad tenendum Gildana predictam, vel quod quilibet eorum solveret xl^ viii'^ qui Gildam illam teuere recusaret. Et ad hoc faciendum consueverunt Alder- mannus et Burgenses in A'illa predicta distringere singulos homines manentes in eadem villa habentes catalla ad valenciam x marc, inter eos mercari volentes et eorum consuetudinibus mercatoriis uti et gaudere." To the charge respecting wardships they say they are not bound to reply, because the abbot has vai'ied the form of the couq)laint in the writ and in the nar ratio. As to their usurping the custody of the gates they say that for twenty years previous to the date alleged they have been seised of that custody. With regard to their refusing to pay toll (" theoloneum "), all persons born in the town and living there and holding tenements have been accustomed from time imme- morial to be free from toll on paying two farthings, which rent is called Hadgovel. The corruptions and customs alleged to be contrary to the realm are their old customs always used by their ancestors in the court of the abbot, and they have not by any conspiracy made any new ones. Short rejoinders from the abT)ot follow. The jury consists of Thomas de Bavent, Robert de Barsham, Iloger le Stuimyn, Peter de Mellis, Robert de Stanham, Knts., Thomas de Mikelfeld, William de Hoo, John de Dureftherd, Robert Martin, Nicholas de Glannvile, John de Preston, and John de Hotebovile; who say that Nicholes Fuk and the rest are not guilty of any conspiracy and have not usurped the cognizance of any pleas, or taken amei'cements, or appointed bailiffs ; but that they have often hindered tlie abbot's bailiff in regard of the assize of bread and beer and forestall ings, &c., and have levied tallages upon poor tenants against the will of the abbot and executed distraints, and by force and arms have made rescues from the abbot's distraints, and although they are ignorant of the names of the particular tloers, these things were done by the maintenance of Nicholas Fuk and the rest ; " et quod quidain de villa predictac, (piorum nomina ignorant sibi, ])er assensum et manutencnciam predictorum Nicholai et omnium alioium, tractaverunt cum arcubus ad lapides {sic) in operarios ipsius abbalis in cooperiendo domos et edificia ecclesie ipsius abljatis predicte, sicut idem abbas (pieritur, sed dicunt monachos ipsius abbatis nou \ erbcraverunt nee mah; tractaverunt; dicunt tamcn fjuod predictus Kobertus filius Nicholai Fuk vciberavit vuhi(a-avit et male tructavit (piendaui uuiicium ipsius abbatis in villa predicta de faeto suo pro])ri(), et non per manulenenciam vel assensum predictorum Nicholai et aliorum." An the miinluT (tl' Torty-two. KurllitM- plcadinjjjs ensued iis to (iiu'stimis ot" rifiht, nnd the towiis-peoplo protlucc tlm record of aii ii rij^lit of choosing the alderman, on license from tiie ahbot lirst obtained, was granted to tlie town, a right pn>\ ionsly disclaimed together with the custody of the gates before WiHiani ile Valence and John de AVarrenne, Earl of Surrey, in the time of llcnry 111. Orders arc issued foi- levying the damages by distraint, and fi>r arrest of defaulters ; and the roll ends with a writ from the King (without date) enjoining the alderman on election to 1)6 presented to tin- abbot for admission, and to swear upon the high altar of St. Edmund to preserve all the rights of the abbey from infringement, &c., and with the sentence of the judges against the claim of the town to wardships and the right of levying the merchant- tax, and reserving the custody of the gates to the abbey. The case is noticed in Yates' Hist, of Bury, p. 128. lI^lG.^Copy made in the 17th cent, from f. 26 of the book entitled Nomina Villanim in the Exchequer, of the return made by the Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to the writ dated at Clifton, 5 March, 9 Edw. II. for the names of the cities, towns and villages in each hundretl, with their lords, so far as relates to the hundreds of Balberge, Corsford, Thinghowe, Risebrege, Thevvardistre, Blakeburne, and Lackford. 1341, 12 March, 15 Edw. [III.], Angl. 2 Fran. At Westm.— Letters patent granting that, whereas the charters granted to the abbot and convent provide that no secular person or minister of the King shall enter tlie borough besides them and their ministers, by reason whereof no justices have ever held any pleas, but the King has now commissioned justices to try cases of oppression and extortion, &c., committed by his officers and others in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Herts, and these justices have held a session at Bury, never- theless, out of the affection the Kiug bears to the glorious martyr the blessed Edmund, whose body lies in the abbe}', this session of the justices or any process by them there made shall not hereafter be any prejudice to the abbey, or be drawn into a precedent. Seal lost. 1349, 29 Sept., f. of St." Mich., 23 Edw. III.— Acknowledgment by AVilliam [de Bernham], abbot of Bury, of the receipt of fifty marks from Richard de Drayton, Ralph le Bochier, and others of the town of St. Edmund, in full payment of 2,000 marks agreed to be paid to Richard de Draughtou, the late abbot, and his successors, in yearly payments of 100 marks for twenty years, as appears by a record in Chancery. Small fragment of green seal. |;|,\1353-1439. — Five rolls of accounts of St. Saviour's Hospital, largely of agricultural produce and expenses. 1353, Mich.-13o4, Mich. Robert Cottone, " claviger." Total receiijts, 39/. 95'. \\\(1.; expenses, 39/. 19.y. 6|rf. Mention occurs of a garden called *'le Duffuszerd." 1374-5. — Nicholas de Banham, "claviger," in the time of brother Nicholas de Snytterton, hospitaler. Among the receipts are oblations " de pixide," 2s. 9d. Rents appear in this account. The stipend of the claviger is one mark. " In stipendio capellan- orum nihil, quia in compoto domini." Mention occurs of " le vynezerd." A deficiency of 38/. 0*. lOd. was made up " de cofris 129 domini, de quibus domiuus habebit allocacionem in compoto suo proprio. quia ipse satisfecit omnibus tangentibus ipsum com- potum." 1 385-6. — Brother Walter de Totyngtone, hospitaler. Oblations, 2*. Of/. Receipts, 104/. 17*. 11(/. Expenses, 185/. 5*. lOfrf. Nicholas Banham is still claviger. "In stipendio Willelmi Paltreymau xij^ x'', et non plus, quia sibi donata pro amore hospital.nrii eidem extendunt per tempus hujus compoti ad xii^. In tunica sua cum linura v* vi'^ In roba cum furrura hoc anno data Willelmo atte Lee, quia multa bona procurans, et semper excusans nimiam absenciam W. hospitalarii per moram factam London, pro negociis ecclesie, xvij' viij'^, unde in furrura ij^ Item in roba Willelmi Rys, quia amicus ecclesie etc., causa supra, xvij^ viij'^ unde in furrura ij^." John Kyrkestede is rewarded inj the same way for the same reason. " In liboracione T. Hasteley nihil computatur quia pro singulari amore persone sue [««(•].. Item in panno albo dato confessori domine die novi anni vij'* causa supra." " Stipendiu sacerdotum ; Item in salariis domini Joliannis de Alcunby, domini Johannis Lomb, et domini Johannis Baroun, vi", cuilibet eorum xl'^." Thei-e follows a further account by Totyngton, " de hiis que non concernunt conipotum oflBcii sui, anno qua supra," in which while the receipts are 13s id. the expenses are 151/. 17*. 2|f/. Under the head of " Elemosina " are noted 25^ spent in necessaries for five clerks at the Hospital ; 20"^ to a poor man to buy seed for his land ; 20^ to the fabric of the church at Melford ; "in expensis factis Londoc. circa Johannem Mykelwode addiscentem scribere cum Keteryngham, xl% viz. in mensa, in lecto, in necessariis pro corpore suo, et stipendio magistri sui, per compotum Johannis de Botlysham, atlornati ho.spitalarii in hac parte." Under the head of " Dona," " Item in dono tribus clericis domine Norff. venientis illuc pro honore et solacio paro- chianorum apud Melford, in iii. paribus caligarum de sanguiri, iij^ ix'^, pn.'c. par. x\'\ Item, in dono Johanni AUertonc, quando missus per dominam comitissam NorfF. fuit presens in sessione pacis in theloneo per ministros domini abbatis, ne rebellio etc. xiij^ iiij''. In dono famulo suo xx''." At the visitation of the convent on St. Saviour's day each professed monk had 6'^ and the prior 12^. 1386-7. — The same hospitaler. Oblations, 2.y. 9r/. Receipts, 106/. 2.y. 9|r/; Expenses, 234/. 3*. GJrf. The priests are John Alcunby, John Lomb, John Baroun, and William Chapman. Among ornaments for the chapel of St. Thomas are a "silver- box" placed beneath the feet of his image, 12', and a base bought of Simon, the abbey mason, for the image to stand on '* ad ilextrum cornu altaris," 6^. " In iij libris rubiis cum servicio saricti Thom(^ tarn de passione (juam de translacione, xiij^ iiij''. Item in apparatii altavis in dicta capclla, viz. in uno Reredeo.':, uno selure, i frontfili, ij curtynes, ij autcrclothes, ii corporasz, ij towayl, ij pilweres rebaned, 1". In majori canipana cnipta pro campanili X*." *' In expensis W. Heynes avement of St. Thomas' cha[)el, and tlien to Melford. O 79300. I 130 Till' dji\ of SS. Fabian iiiul Sebastiiiu was observed with feasting. A suppleniLMitjiry a^^'coiint (jis before) shows further expenses to the amount of 155/. 17*'. 10^'/. Anionijj these is a horse bought of (loi/i. Thomas Pope for -iijs. 8(/. whieh is noted as being "in perdilione, per dehisioneni prodieti Thonio Pope." Among gifts are payments to the minstrels of tliu Countess of Norfolk and thosf of the Karl Marshal ; to a snllVagan bishop " i)ro labore suo," luid his chaplain and vali't ; to a vah-t bringing 24 raljbits from Sir John Eyr ; to a preaching friar who came from Oxford; and "magistro.l. Bromptone pro labore suo eirca rotulum villanoruni, in panno dc scarlet empto de Egidio atte Pyrie, vj^ viij'V 11 38- i).— Adam Babyngton, bailiff. Receipts, 23/. 16*. dd. ; Expenses, 21/. 14*. Sd. This is only the account of the farm- bailiff, and not of the hospitaler. 1364, 2 Nov. 38 P]dw. III. At AVestni. --Letters patent, granted at the request of the burgesses, confirming the exemption from all lolls and customs at markets and fairs contained in the charter of Hen. [HI.] to the abbey and convent and burgesses of St. Edmund. Great seal in Avhite wax, perfect except in a portion of the legend. 1367, 24 Oct. 41 Edw. III. At Westra.— Exemplification, at the request of the burgesses, of process at Bury [in 1292-3] in pursuance of writs from Edw. I. dated at Westm., Friday after Exalt, of H. Cross an. 20, and at Wellebek 17 Feb. an. 21, for trial of dispute between the abbey and the town respecting the appointment of alderman and the keeping of four gates, together with other complaints with relation to the assize of bread and beer, interference with traders, opposition to the abbot's authority in cases of assault and violence, and to the burgesses' not permitting his bailiffs "amoverc fimaria extra villam ad nocumentum plebis jacencia et corrupcionem corporum et impedimentum transeun- cium," &c. The following were the jury : Stephen de Hauekedone, Robert le Fraunceys, Ralph de la Kersunere, Simon le Wilde, Walter de Clopton, Richard de Saxham, Sampson de Batesford, William de Rugham, Hervey Gorge, Robert le Engynur, John de Hunstertone, and William de Thelintham. It ends with an agreement with i-egard to the main point of dispute, that John de Orfeuere who had been elected alder - man shall renounce his election ; that the person elected shall be presented to the abbot who shall admit him, unless he can show reasonable and manifest cause to the contrary ; on admission he shall be sworn at the high altar of St. Edmund to preserve the rights of the abbey ; that keepers of four gates shall be chosen by the burgesses and admitted by the sacrist or his bailiffs at le Tolhus, and the custody of the fifth or east gate to remain with the abbey and convent. Hereupon, licence being first obtained from the abbot, John le Orfeuere was unanimously re-elected alderman, and was admitted by the abbot. A large portion of the great seal, in green wax, remains. This process is frequently refeiTcd to in the trial in 1304, napra. 1370. See under \AQi\. 1385, 9 Apr., an. 8. At Westm. — Greneral pardon from Richard II. to Thomas Halesworth, [alderman] of Bury for all insurrections, treasons and offences committed by him or anyone of the persons of the town before 22 Dec. an. 6 [1382] ; as also release from all sums of money due from him or his predecessors for which he or they are bound in the Chancery ; excepting that he and others are to contribute their due quota in payment of a fine of 2,000 marks. The introductory clause is as follows: — "Omnibus ballivis et fidelibus suis ad quos presentes litere 131 perveuerint, salulem. Sciatis quod cum onines homines ville de Bury ab omni gracia perdonacionnm et remissionum in parliament is nostris annis regni nostri quiuto et sexto aliis iigeis nostiis dicti I'egni uostri per nos factarum, quampluribus enormibus delictis suis caufatitibus, privati fuissentet excepti, ac postmodum ad supplicacionem quorundam Magnatum nobis assistencium, et pro eo quod certi homines ojusdem ville tam pro seipsis quam pro singulis aliis personis predicte ville viciuis suis gratie nosti-e in omnibus se humiliter submiserunt, ipsique homines pro seipsis et singulis vicinis suis predietis ut ad graciam nostram admitti possent quendam finem duarum milium miircarum cum consilio nostro, .... pretextu finis predicti, ad instanciara predictorum Magnatum, de benignitate nostra regia ipsos ad hujusmodi graciani noslnimduxerimus acceptandos ; Nos ea consideraeione perdonavirauset remisimus Thome Halesworthe de Bury sectam paeis nostre," 8ic. The larger portion of the great seal remains in white wax. The town had incurred heavy penalties on account of the excesses committed there by the rioters under Jack Straw in 1381, when Chief Justice Cavendish was beheaded by them in the market-place, and the pi'ior of the abbey was also murdered. 1387, 20 Ajrr. an. 10. At Westm.— Renewal by Rich. II. of the preceding pardon, at the supplication of the abbot and convent, adding the particulars that Thomas Halesworth of St. Edmund, otherwise called Thomas Halesworth, " Squier," was excepted from pardon by Pnrliainent, .among the persons of Bury, as one of the principal of those who were in insurrection in the county of Suffolk, and that twentj' persons submitted themselves and were bound for themselves and others to a fine of 2,000 marks, and that pardon had been promised to each of these and to all otiiers who should severally for themselves apply for it. Seal, in white wax, nearly perfect. 1390, 20 Feb., rt/?. 13. At Westm.— " T[este] J. Cassy."— Letters patent of Ivichard II. exemplifying a process in the Exchequer in Nov. 1389, releasing the town from the balance due of the fine of 2,000 marks ; i-eciting several writs; 1, of 5 Feb. an. 8, by which Roger Rose, alderman, Edmund FitzLucas, James Marham, John Osebern, Thomas Fornham, Adam Waterward, Thomas Ewelle, John GoUere, Thomas Godard, Geoffrey Wolleman, Henry Wrotham, Thomas Bernyngham, Richard White, Thomas Lacford, Alan de Den- ham, William Chevele, Thomas atte Perye, John Rery, John Calf, John Berard, Richard Rougham, Steplien lielman, William Thetford, and Waiter Lucas, all of Bury, were appointed to assess and levy the fine, many persons having refused to pay the sums charged upon them ; 2, of 1() Nov. an. 9, to the barons of the Exchequer to summon Robert de Kedyngton and John Overton, the baililfs, Robert de Bekerton, serjeant- at-arms, Thomas de Ikworth, and William Hore, who had been appoin- ted to supply information as to the condition and means of the various persons assessed and to appear with the assessment rolls, and also John Broghton, tailor, John Hanle, William de Draghton, John Berard, Edward Honton and Thomas Halesworth, appointed deputy collectors, to appear before them to give account of the sums collected ; reciting further that the said persons appeared at the Exchequer, and rendered their accounts, producing also at i\u: same time a writ, dated G July an. 13, to the Exchequer, ordering discharge from fiuthci account on the ground that the proceedings wer.; represented to l)e contrary to the charters of liberties granted to theabl)ey, directing that the assessment should be made l»y the oHicers of the abbey, and granting oOO marks of the balance to the prior (the abbacy being vacant) in relief of the abbey, I 2 132 which \s greatly depressed by injuries on the piirt of the townsmen ; reoitinu furthvM- thftt tlie persons summoned are discharged from all tintluT prociss, the sum of 1,0(X")/. having been paid to the King by thrii> several tallages, and tlie balance of 500 marks being granted to the abbey. Fragment of the Extbeciuer seal. — Copy (early in the rtfteeutli century, on a long roll of eigbl membranes) oi an J /ixpr.vimKS chavtev [oH Henry IV?]; reciting and contirming tlie Ibllowing charters: — A. Riebard II., 24 Nov.a/(. 7 [I3S.S], at Westin., being Insptwiinns uf 1. Edw. I., at Fyndon, 10 June, o//. ?)'^ [l.SOo], granting tiiat the abbey may hold at Henliowe the pleas arising in the eight Innubeds and half which are in its liberty. And also I/ispe.rinit(s of 2. Edw. 111., contirniing 3. Edsv. II. of 22 July an. 4 [13I0J at Wodestok, confirming the following series : i. Canute, ^yith the English vei'sion. Pi-inted in Kendde's Codex Dipl. iv. 15, \7. ii. Five charters of Ed\v. Conf. in English, as follows : — a. Confirming charters of Canute and Hardicaiiute. Printed in Kenible's Codex Dipl. iv. 231. b. Granting the half hundred. Ibid. \\. 222. c. Granting exemption from taxes. Ibid. iv. 224. d. Granting a mint to abbot Baldwin. Ibid. iv. 223. e. Granting Mildenhale to the abbey. Ibid. iv. 194. iii. Richard I., 21 Sept. an. 1 [1189]. At Westm. iv. Edw. I., 16 Xov. an. 9 [1281]. At Westm. con- firming — a. Charter of Hen, I. n.d. At Westm. b. Charter of John, 15 March an. ) [1200]. At Silvestou. v. Edw, I., 10 Feb. an. 10 [1282]. At Chiryndon. 4. Edw, III., 13 Sept. an. 4 [1330]. At Nottingham. 5. Edw. HI. 4 ]\Iav, an. 10 [1336]. At Westm. 6. Edw. III. 24 May, an. 26 [1352]. At Westm. 7. Edw. III. 4 June, an. 27 [1353], At Westm. B. Hen. [1. ?] at Falaise, n.d. Avitness Al. de Ver. C. John, 20 July ««. 17 [1215]. At Oxford. D. Richaru II., 12 Apr. an. ii. [1379]. At Westm. The conclusifjn of the original confirmation charter is not given, and its date thereiore does not appear, nor is the name of the King who grants it given at the beginning. 1408, 10 Jan., 9 Hen. IV. — Indenture l)y which T'liomas Halysworthe, aldeiman of the town, agrees on behalf of the town to accept five shillings from John WoUebetere as the annual rent for a tenement in le Cornmarket for which ten shillings has been formerly paid. Twenty- three seals are attached, bearing initials, meichanis' marks, and other devices, of the following witnesses : Adam Watirward, Richard Rougham, John Osbern, Giles Pirye, Roger Framptone, and .John Notyngham, formerly aldermen, Geoffrey Baret, William Methewold, John Lauuey, John Toft, John Drenkestone, Richard Baxstere, Walter Draweswerd, Rooer Ly.stere, Geoffrey Salle, Edward Houtone, Richard Iremongeie, Adam Baxstere, Thomas Ferour, William Ampe, chaundeler. Waller Cook, Michael Lalleford, John Regges, John Broughtone, and John Haule, burgesses. The two counter-parts of the indenture are preserved. 133 1424, 1 Dec. (III. 4. At Westm. — Two skins of an fuspcii /ii/ts vhm-tet granted by [Hen. VI.] to the tibbey, wuntiiifr the fii^t one or two skins. The portion remaininj^ contains an exempliticatiou of a eliarter of Hen. V. granted 1 Dee. 1414, in which are reciials of i. Charter of Rich. II., 24 Nov. an. 7 [13S3], reciting a. Edw. III. 13 Sept. an. 4 [1330]. At Xottingham. b. 24 May, an. 26 [13o2]. At Westm. c. 1 .Jnne, an. 27 [1353]. At Westm. ii. John, 20 July, an. 17 [1215]. At Oxford, iii. Rich. II. 6 Aug. an. 20 [1396]. At Dover. 1447, 13 Nov. flw. 26. At Westm.— Letters of Hen. VI. ordering that the charter of privileges granted to the abbey by Henry I. be observed, namely that it should enjoy the privileges granted by Canute and Edward [the Confessor], that no secular officer should enter tlie borough except by consent of the abbot and convent, that (hey and the burgesses should be free from all tolls and customf* at markets and fairs, and their domains free from all scots, gelds and aids. Fragment of great seal, in white wax. 1469. — See under 1550, infra. 1477, 8 June. — Ordinances for the reformation of abuses in the craft of the weavers ; on two membranes, "This indenture made the viii*"^ day of June in the xvii*^ yeere of the reigne of Kyng Edward the iiii*- between Thomas Heigham and William Helperby, bayliftes of the right reverent fader in God thabbot of Bury Seynt Edmund of the toune of Bury Seynt Edmund, on the one partie, and John Ivy, Edmund Baker, Regnold Chardro, John Dyllewyne, John Mey, Thomas Langham, Thomas Page, Richard .Stokes, Thomas Carletone, John Mace, Robert Langham, Robert Spark, .John Mey the yongger, Robert Parmenter, Richard Syward, John Fystone, Edmund Goodale, Edmund Oklie, John Laugham, Richard Grene, William Cole, .Jolin Lombe, Thomas Drawswerd, Thomas Senowe, John Honell, Clement Glokke, Hue Ravysby, Henry Longge, and .John Parmenter, of Bury aforsayd, wulvene and lynene veweres, on the othere partie, wythnesseth. Forasmoche as many persones and greato multytude of people as weell of menne as womenne and childrenne withinne the toune of Bury Seynt Edmund bee dayly gretly occupyed be the mene of the erafte of wevers, wewyng all manor of wulvene and lyneno cloetlie, to the greate avayle and profyth as weell of the sayd toune as the contre adyoynyng and the inhabitants of the same, and most specyally to the syngler increse profyth and avauntage of the ocupiers of the seyd erafte of pleyne wewyng bothe wulvene and lynene, wiche, be the deceyvable and untrewe werkyng and wewyng of some persones vsyng the seyd erafte, ys greateley discresyd, apeyred and decayed, and dayly discreseth apeyreth and decayeth, to the greate displesure of Ahnyghty God, and greate hurte benderyiig and lo.sse of alle the inhabitants of the seyd toune and cuntre, and be lyklynesse to the vtter distruccione of the occupiers of the seyd crafie lesse thannc convenyent ordinaunces and bylawez l»e made ordc^yned and prowyded for rcformacione of such sub- tylytes untrewtlies and deceytes as be some persones be vsyd in the seyd erafte ; Wherforc^ alle the ocupiers of the seyd <;rafte withinne the seyd toune of Bury, by one assent prayin and in the weye of charyte bortely besechen the Secristene of tlie monastery of IJury af()resa\(l, lord of the seyd toune, that certeyne provysyonns V)ylawes and ordinaunces may Ije niaad, to the plasiere of (iod, inerose and profyte of the seyd erafte toune and cuntre, be the sadde and discrete advyse of his ollic>.'ra and I'ouncell, niado iiuH-tyd and aiu-torysod in manor and forme as liiere after I'olowecth : — Fuist. yt ys be alio the norsones ocnpyin<:; the sevd crafte pro- vyded, agreed, and be the consent of the Secristene afornsevd, bo the advvse of his ofHeers and eonneeyll, inm-tyd, and for a byglihiwe, to (he plesnreof Alhnyghty (iod and jtrofytc increse and avanntage of the seyd crat\e, tonne and ciintre, made and anctorysed, that evt-ry mane as weell maisters, howshoKler?, apprentyses, servanntes hierid be the yeere ore be the ionrnoy. as all other men oeupyeng or excersysyng the seyd crafte of alio nianer of wnllene or lynene wewyng in the seyd toune of Bnry xall dewly assemble and mete togederc yeerly in the feste of Traiislaeione of seynt Edward Kyng and Confessor in the Gruyldehalle of the seytl toune of Bury, and thanneand theire chose iiii. discrete persones [^inidcrlincd for deletion~\ and able inene of the seyd crafte hauyng free holdc within the seytl tonne of Bury to be wardeyns, guyders and rewlers of the seyd crafte and alle persones ocupying the same for the yere folwyng, wiche iiii persones so chosen xall be presentyd within the space of xii dayes thanne immedyate folwyng by the olde wardeyns ore odere substancyall menne of the seyd crafte to the Balyffez of the seyd toune of Bury in the Tollehous of the seyd toune, and thanne and there xall take their charge of the seyd Baliffes, and be sworene upoue a boke dewly trewly dylygently and indeferently to ocupye excersyse fulfille and execute every poynt to them belonggyug their sejd office, and truly to correcte and presente alle mauer defautes deceytes misprysiouns doone be ony persone ocupying the seyd crafte- Also yt ys be alle the personesi aforne rehersyd, provyded inactyd and auctorysyd that the sey[d] iiii wardeyns in the maner and forme above rehersyd chosene and swore xall have full auctoryte and power yeerly in the place and tyme above rehersyd, and fro tyme to tyme as often be their discrecione xall thoughte behofull neccessarj^ or expedyent to swere every persone occupying or excersy[s]iDg the seyd crafte within the seyd toune of Bury dewly and treuly to kepe performe obeye fultille and execute every po^nt conteynyd and comprysidin this articuleand every articule folwyng. The seyd wardeyns xall have abo fro tyme to tyme,. as oftene be their discrecione they thynkke convenyeut or metely \_2y01cer to ?] make dwe serche in the seyd crafte, and have full auctoryte and power to entre in every mannys hous occupying the seyd crafte dewly and trewly to serche if ony thyug be usyd oecupyed or excersysyd be ony persone in the seyd crafte contrarye to these ordinaunces and bylawes as hereafter be rehersyd. And if ony persone dewly chosene to be war- deyne refuse and wyll not take his charge dewly and treuly to ocupye and excersyse the seyd office in maner and forme afornrehersyd, thanne that persone so refusyng xall lose and forfete xiii^ iiii'^, whereof the Secristene of Bury afbrnseyd for the tyme beyug xall have the one half, and the othera half to go to the sustentacione and maynteuaunce of the payent of the Assencione of oure Lord God and of the yiftys of the Holy Gost, as yt hath be customed of olde tyme owte of mynde yeerly to be had to the wurschepe of God, amongge otlier payenttes in the processione in the feste of Corpus Xri. And yf ony wardeyne of the seyd crafte be after the charge as ys aforurehers3d be hym take neclygent i-emisse or in ony maner of wyse defectyff in executyng or in excersysyng of his seyd ofBce, that wardeyne so devly foTinde defectyff xall loose and forfete for euery poynt that he is founde fauty or defectyff in iij\ iiij''., wherof the seyd Secristene xall haue the one half, and the other halfe to go to the sustentacione and mayntenaunce of the seyd pagent. Also yt ys be alle the occupierez of the seyd crafte, with the assent and agreement of the Secristene afornseyd in maner and forme aboue 135 rehersyd, provydyd, agreed, inactyd and auctorysyd, that eiiery persone vsyug the seyd crafte xall in manor and forme abouerchersyd dewly assemble and mete togedere the tyme and place afoinrehersyd, and thanne and there aforne the wardeyns or other substancyall menue of the seyd crafte take their charge and be swore dewly and treuly to kepe, performe, obeye, fulfille, and execute euery poynte conteynyd and com- prysyd in these provysiouns ordinauncos and bylawes. And yf ony persone occupying the seyd crafte of necligence wylfulnesse or froward- nesse, or ony other canse, vvithoute licence of the wardeyns of such cause as the seyd wardeyns xall thynkke resonable, be absent, and mete not with the wardeyns occupiers of the seyd crafte at the place and tyme afornelymytyd and assignyd, or diligently geve not his attendaunce abowte suche thyngges as there and thanne xall be do and execntyd, or be disobedyent vnto the seyd wardeyns in takyng of their otheor charge, or ony other thyng that the wardeyns with the more part of the substancyall householders of the seyd crafte xall be put to hym or resonably assignyd hym to do, or if ony persone occupying the seyd crafte be rebell to the seyd wardey[u]s and wyll not suiiir them pesibly without grutchyng to entir into his hous and to euery place convenyent to make their serche dewly in maner and forme afornrehersyd, that persone so dewly fownde defectyff in ony of these poyntes afornseyd xall forfete and loose for euery poynt that is so found defectyff in xiij^. iiij'V, wherof the Secristeno afornseyd xall haue the one halfe, and the seyd wardeyns the other halfe to the sustentacyone and mayntenaunce of the seyd payent and profythe of the seyd crafte. Also yt ys in maner and forme and be the auctoryte afornrehersyd ordeynyd and provydyd that no persone fro this day forward take upon hym to sette vp ony loonies or to occupie the seyd crafte within the sey[dj toune of Bury but suche persones as haue he apprentyses to the seyd crafte and haue sufficient kunnyng and understondyng in the same, and so be examynyd and admyttyd be the seyd wardeyns as able menne to sette vp and occupie the seyd crafte, and that no i)ersone of the seyd crafte within the toune of Bury xall not [#/c] occupie at oonys moo thanne iiij loomes, and that no persone haue \_/iavin(/?] sufficient kunnyng and understondyng in the occupacionc and excersyse of the seyd crafte and not beyng of pouere and hauour to sette up loomes and occupie the seyd crafte to his owyne propir vse increse and avauntage, occupie excersyse or werke in the seyd crafte be yeer be day or be the iourney with ony persone or persones within the seyd toune of Bury but suche persones or persone as be the seyd wardeyns be admytted to occupie the seyd crafte, and haue beforne the seyd wardeyns take their charge and be swoi-ne trewly to obserue and kepe alle these bylawes provysyonys and ordenaunces. And that no persone occupying [and] excersysyng the seyd crafte witholde or here ony ])ersone to labour with hym in the seyd crafte bo the yeer, the moneth, the wyk, the day, or be the iourney, but suche as he wull answcre for as weell for lijs good demenyng and beryng ageyne the seyd wardeyns and eucrv other persone of the seyd crafte as for the good and sufficient werkemanshepo of wichc [suche] werke as xalbc wroughte be hym, and liiut euery persone so wythhold heryd or wagyd be the yeer or lesse tyme coiilynue in the seyd toune oc(;upyid in th(i seyd crafte be the apace of a yeerc xall paye to the mayntenaunce and sustenlacione of the seyd payciit iiij"' And that no persone [rresume [any person jire.snmiuf/l to do coMlrarye to ony poynt conteynyd in these aiticules and poyntes afonirishcrsyd, xall forfete and loose for euery poynt tluit is so founde defecfyfl' in xiij^ iiij'', wherof the Secristcne afornseyd xall haue the one halfe and tho ecvil wnrdeyns to [s/V] the othere lialfe to the sustontacione and mayn- tc'iuiiince of the sjoyil parent and pmfyth of the scyd crafte. Also vt ys in manor and t'ornie and be the auctoryte afornrohersyd oidoynyd and provycly*! that euery foreyne weuer tliat fettylli of" the seyd touno of Bury niennys yerne for to webbe xall be contributoiie vnto the subtentadone of the seyd payent lyke as a deyzin weuer oweeth to bee. And that no persone of the seyd crafte in liury shalle receywe nnv apprentycez for sliortere ternie thanne he he lykly to haue suflBcient kunnvn*; withinne space of vii yere, nor to reseyue apprentys under cok^ur of ajournymanne for short tynie for to entre hyni in the crafte for a lucre. And that no persone of the seyd crafte shalle werke his crafte of weuyng wuluene or lynene in the seyd toune of Bury with ony other manne thanne with a nianne of the same crafte. And that no persone presume to do contrarie to ony poynt conteynyd in these rrticules vpon peyne of forfeture of xx" as oftyne tymys as ony persone of the seyd crafte is fouude defecJyff, wherof the Secristene afornseyd xall haue the one lialfe, and the seyd wardeyns the othere halfe to the «ustentacione and mayntenaunce of the seyd payent and profyth of the seyd crafte. A Iso yt ys in maner and forme and be the auctoryte afornrehersyd ordeynyd, inactyd and provydyd that no persone of the seyd crafte within the toune of Bury xall not [iic] receyve non apprentice into the seyd ci-afte fore shorter ore lesse tynie thanne vii yere. And that no persone of the seyd crafte in Bury xall not make no debate amongges tlie seyd felashippe, and wull not be rewlyd or be rebell and [^marked for deletioii] ayens the wardeyns, and will not be gouerned, xall forfete and loose for euery poynt that he is founde fauty or defectyf in xiii^ iiij*^, wherof the Secristene afornrehersyd xall haue the oone halfe, and the sevd wardeyns the othere halfe to the sustentacione and mayn- tenaunce of the seyd payent and profyth of the seyd crafte. Also yt ys in maner and forme and be the auctoryte afornrehersyd ordeynyd, inactyd and provydyd that what persone of the seyd crafte withholde ajurnymanne for a terme withinne wiche terrae the jurny- manne be vacant for the defaute of werke the maister shalle satysfye vnto bis jurnymanne for his losse be warde of the wardeyns, but yf the maister and the seyd journymanne may accorde be them selfe, and what journymanne witheholde with the maister of the seyd crafte begynne a werke in his maisteris loome and then leve of that werke and ocupie hym in other place, or be idell, wher thourghte his maisteris werke be not sped but is henderyd azens his custemers, xall satisfie to his maister of his damage by the consyderacione of the wardeyns but if the parties acorde be them selfe. And if ony persone manne or womanne dwellyng in Bury or in ony other toune compleyne hem vp[on] ony weuer in Bury that heire yeerne is not put in theire webbe, or that the webbe is ony [inarked for deletion'] onesufficiently wroughte, or ony other deseythe or defaute done to them in there webbe, and shewe the webbe or thanne it be fullyd. tlio werkemanne xall make aseethe and ameudez vnto the .ovener of the webbe for his harmes after the consyderacione of the wardeyns and agreement of the pleyntyfP. Also yf ony persone of the seyd crafte be malyce or fals coueytyse procure or aloyne ony apprentycez seruauntez or journymenne from the servyse of his maister that vsythe the same crafte in Bury, he xall make araendes vnto the maister after the awarde of the wardeyns and agrement of the maister. And no persone presume to do contrarye to ony poynt conteynyd in these articules vpone peyne of forfeture xiij» iiij'*, wherof the Secristene uforneseyd xall haue the one halfe, and the seyd wardeyns the othere halfe to the sustentacione and mayntenaunce of the seyd payent and profythe of the seyd crafte. 137 Also yt ys be alle the occupiers of the seyd crafte withe the assent and agrement of the Secristene aforueseyd provydyd, agreed, inactyd and auctorysed that no maner persone nor persones foreuers comyug to the seyd toune of Bury xall not (sic) take \-pone hym nor of them to sette vp ony loomes to occupye the seyd crafte of wuluene and lynene wewying "withs in the seyd toune of Bury but suche as haue be apprentyses to the seyd crafte withinne tiie seyd toune of Bury, and have sufficyent kunnyng and vnderstondyng in the same, and so to be examynyd and admyttyd be the seyd wardeyns as able menne to sette vp or to occupie the seyd crafte. And alle suche persones or persone foreuers or forener befurue the wardeyns and mo of the most substancyalle menne of the seyd crafte take their charge and be sworne dewly and trewly to kepe, performe, obeye, t'ulfiUe and execute euery poynt conteynyd and comprysed in the provysyouns ordenaunces and bylawes abowe rehersyd and after rehersyd, and that persone or persones foreuers that xall so be admyttyd to sette vp the seyd crafte xall pay at the begynnyng in settyng vp of his or their crafte of alle maner of wuluene and lynene wewyng xiii* iiij^, whereof the Secristene afornseyd xall haue the one half and the wardeyns [iinderlined for deletion'^ other halfe to go to the susten- tacione and the mayntenaunce of the seyd payent and crafte. And that no persone presume to do contrarye to ony poynt conteynyd in this articule vpone peyne of forfeture as oftyne tymys as ony persone is founde defectyff in xx^, wherof the Secristene afornseyd xall haue the one halfe, and the wardeyns to the sustentacion vse and profyte of the seyd payent and crafte the other halfe. Also yt ys be the agrement and assent afornrehersyd ordeyayd provydyd agreed inacted and auctorysed of alle the persones occupying the seyd crafte ordeynyd that one day with inne Lentene duryng the lete of the seyd toune of Bury to be assignyd be the discrecione of the Balyffez of the seyd toune xall appiere beibrne the seyd BalifFoz, be the retourn and warnyng of the subbaylleffez of the seyd toune and the wardeyns, xii or xiiii honeste and discrete persones of tiie seyd crafte thanne and there to be sworne and stx'cytely chargyd be the seyd lialiffez trewly and indeferently to inquere and to present alle the persones that in ony poynt mysbehave them or do ayene or contrarye to ony of lliese bylawes provysiouns and ordenaunces aforrehersyd, and them dewly to puuyshe accordyng to the same bylawes provysionnys and ordenaunces. And if ony persone warnyd be the wardeyns and subbaylleffez in maner and forme rehers}d to appere beforue the seyd Bayllelfez make dcfaute and appere not, that persone so makyng defaute xall forfete iii'^ 'iij'', wherof the Secristene afornseyd xall hawe the one halfe, and the wardeyns to the sustentacione vse and profythe of the seyd payent and crafte [the other half omitted^. Also yt ys assentyd, agi'eed, ordeynyd and provydyd that alle the for- fetures, fynes, peynes ore amercymentez that xall growe h'i reasone of the ordenaunces, provysyonnys and bylawes as weell to th<' seyd Secristene as to the seyd wardeyns xall be leuyed and gadered be the wardeyns and seruauntes and oHieersof the seyd Secristene^ that is to say be the subbaylleffez accordyng to the stretes to them be the clerc of the ToUehous deleuered of alle such presenttcmentes wiche xall be i)resentyd and amercyd ; wiche seyd wardeyns and subbaylleffez xall yeerly make a trewe accounpte to the seyd Seciistene of suche dueeha\ iour, and to keep her chureh on the sabbath days.] 8. Item, that there be no person that set np any allehowse unles he shnld have heeni-e under the justices' hands." At the end of the vohime is a list of " the names of the inhabitants for comcn conference " in 1570, and on other pages, i. names of poor peoph' to whom gowns were given in Nov. 1572 at the charge of the town house ; ii. winter liveries given 30 Oct. 1574; iii. cards and spinning-wheels also given in Oct. 1574. 1604, J 4 June. 2 Jas. T. — Grant from the Crown to Robert Drury, knt., of the tithes c^e. formerly belonging to the almoner of the moojis- tery, on a lease for forty years. Great seal, in white wax, partly broken . 1607. — A folio paper book, containing 22 written leaves, in a parch- ment cover, bearing the following title ; " Constitncions, lawes, statuts, decrees anil ordinaunces" made 18 July 5 Jas. I. "by the alderman, assistants and burgesses of the burghe of Bury St. Edmuude, for the good goverment of the said burghe and of the people and inhabitants of the same," by virtue of letters patent granted 3 Apr. 1606 to the alderman and burgesses ; examined and approved by Sir Edw. Coke, knt., and Sir Will. Danyell, knt., justices of assize for Suffolk, in their circuit, 21 July, 1607. The signatures of Coke and Danyell are attached at the end of the orders. The orders, in number 132, are arranged under the following heads : i. To avoid idleness and relieve the poor. ii. To avoid the misdemeanours daily done in inn.s, taverns, alehouses and tippling houses, iii. To avoid common nuisances within the streets and lanes, iv. For appi'entices and the making them free for service done, and how freemen shall order tlieraselves. v. For the good government of the corporation and to avoid abuses to the alderman and burgesses, vi. For process and fees of the court of record, vii. For the true working of cloth. The orders for the regulation of this trade amount to 38. viii. For the sale of victuals, ix. A prohibition to tailors, saddlers, 8cc. for the Imying of cloth, silk, &c. to sell again. X. For usage of the fairs and markets by strangers, xi. Against fi-ee- roen colouring foreign goods, xii. To avoid swearing and using un- seemly songs, ballads, libels and rhymes. Fourpence for every oath, and for every such song twelve pence ; in defiiult, the house of correc- tion, xiii. To prevent the infecting of youth in Popery by school- masters. No one, except the master and usher of the fiee grammar school, to teach children to read, write, or understand the English, Latin, French, Italian or Spanish tongues, without license of the alder- man and burgesses, upon pain of forfeiting for every default 6*. 8d. xiv. That lanterns and candles may be shewed in winter, as well to give light to such as for just causes go abroad in the night as to find out such as commit misdemeanours in the dark. xv. To prevent the excessive dearth of wood, coals, and other fuel. No brewers, dyers, or others using much fuel in their trades to burn any wood or charcoal, but only sea-coal, sedge, straw, or other such things ; and no innkeepers to brew except for their own families, xvi. To prevent deceits by such as buy and sell by unsealed weights and measures, xvii. To prevent the ex- cessive turning of barley into malt and the unnecessary number of maltsters, and the making of malt at unseasonable times, xviii. For tlie better orderintj of the market, xix. For the ordering of linen 141 weavers in their trad^. Nine orders, xx. For the ordering of bakers in their trade and the keeping the assize of bread. Twenty-seven orders, xxi. For the relief of the cutlers dwelling in this borough, and to prevent the resort of cutlers that are strangers. At the end of the volume are added three subsequent orders. One of 27 July 1608, that whereas on 11 Apr. by a tire commencing in a malt-house covered with thatch 160 dwelling-houses and 400 outhouses and houses of necessary use, or thereabouts, were utterly consumed, the loss being esteemed not so little as 60,000/., to the utter undoing of many of the inhabitants, the thatched houses being the principal occa- sion of the tire being cai-ried by the wind, it is ordered that no person building or repairing any house with overway and spars cover it with thatch but Avholly with tile, slate, lead, or board.* Another on 1 Sept. 1609 that whereas the streets are greatly impaired by the multitude of brewers' carts having wheels shod with iron, to the general annoyance of the inhabitants and of all such aa resort hither, no bx-ewer shall carry beer through the streets in any cart having such wheels. A third of 6 Jan. 162| that no one be elected ibr burgess in parliament but such as shall have been admitted a free burgess of the council of the borough, and shall have taken oath to defend its franchises. 1609, 1 Apr. 7 Jas. I. — Copy, on a paper roll, of a charter of in- corporation for the clothiers, clothworkers, woollen weavers, and tailors of Bury. Copy, on a paper roll, of constitutions and orders for the regulation of the corporation, submitted by George Boldero, clothier, and George Fisson, tailor, masters of the art of clothier;*, &c., and Edmund Heinard, clothier, and Edward While, weaver, to Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, and approved by him. Copy of a subsequent petition from clothiers and tailors, &c., praying that the charter may be withdrawn and the corporation supjjressed, on the ground that it was obtained by only a few persons against the will of tlie majority, and is made only a means for extorting money. 1613, 10 July. — Agreement signed by 40 burgesses that whereas the common carrier of the town has usually ti-avelled towards London on Wednesday morning in every week, he shall henceforth for the better observation of the sabbath day, set forth upon Monday and make his return upon Saturday, and the letter carrier so to travel that he may make his return upon Saturday. 1614, 20 Oct. — List of all the inhabitants of St. Mary's parish owing service at the court leet, and of all the brewers, innholdei-s, alehouse- keepers, butchers, millers, and " deasners " in the same parish. 1616-17. — Papers relating to a disputes lietween the brewers and the inn -holders : — 1. Copy of a petition from the common brewers of the town to the Privy Council, setting forth that whereas they are from time to time, according to rhc statute, restrained to sell their beer at set prices, the iiudiolders and alehoust^ keepers, as not being within the letter of the statute, and not .selling out of their houses, take liberty to brew beer of such excessive strength, priced at the rate of Hfl. per gallon, as that the l)eer made by the common brewers is not vendible; such strong beer being also an extraordinary waste of malt and wheat, and a bewitching means to dratv the people to drunkenness, idleness, and other vices displea-sing to Go- ; Suffolk House, 8 May. 3. Muster-rolls lor the Tfigh, East, West, North and South Wards of all tlio able men from 16 lo (K) ; (dkon 29 May. Those rolls are of much local interest as giving the names of pi<)bal)ly almost all the families then resident in Hnry. An endorsement gives the tot.-d number as 1335. 1662. Resolution, signed and seahnl by 12 commissioners for carrying out the Act for the well governing of Corporations, that Oliver Hovell's place as one of the 24 burgesses be void, he having refused to sign tlie declaration required by the Act, and admitting William Bi-owne in his U4 place ; 24 Oct. 1662. To this is nttiiched the declaration referred to, ny^iinst tlie Solemn League and Covt-nant, with the signatures of all the niondu'rs and othcers of the Corporation. On parchment. A copy of this is ontored ip. the Corjwration Minute-l)Ook. 1067. — Uental-book of the houses in Bury belonging to the town. III.— MINUTE-BOOKS OF THE CORPORATION These books only begin at the year 1652, and up to the commence- meut of the present century form four volumes. I. 1652-165)1. ff, 255. Up to about the year 1679 this register appears to have been often kept irregularly, many leaves being left blank for entries never made. 1653, 29 Dec. — Five shillings to be paid to the ringers for ringing yesterday at the proclamation of the Lord Protector. 1654, 30 Oct. — Mr. Yaxley elected minister of 8t. James's in the place of Mr. John Gibbon, deceased. But on 9 March following Mr. Browneing was elected instead. Then on 28 May it was ordered that June 8 be set apart as a day to seek God in the behalf of a minister to supply the place in the parish of St. James, and that Mr. Ray of Watfidd, Mr. Lea of Groton, Mr. Browneing and Mr. Clegate be desired to assist in the carrying on of the work of that day. And on 16 July Mr. Samuel Slater was elected. 1657, 16 July. — Thanks given to Richard Child, M.D., for offering to give advice to poor sick people without fee. 1660, 18 Oct. — Ordered that the charters and evidences belonging to the Corporation be severed from the evidences and writings belonging to the feoffees of the Guildhall feoffment, and put into several chests within the evidence house. 1660, 11 March. — "At this meeting it was put to the question as followeth and voted : 1. First, whether Mr. Nicholas Clegate and Mr. Samuel Slater are fit persons to be continued ministers of this burgh or not, in regard thev do refuse to be conformable to the discipline of the Church, according to the known laws of the kingdom. And it was carried in the negative. 2. .Secondly, whether in respect of their non-conformity they shall continue ministers of the respective parishes of St. Mary and St. James for any longer time than to our Lady-day next or not. And this was also carried in the negative. 3. Thirdly, whether they shall be permitted to preach in St. Mary's parish only until midsummer next, and no longer, they admitting the Book of Common Prayer to be duly read there during that time, and having paid unto them for their salaries for pi-eaching the Sundays' sermons and the Friday lectures in that parish, during the said time, twenty pounds apiece. And this was carried in the affirmative, nemine contrcidicentc. March 18, 1660. — We do subscribe and agree to these three votes. In witness whereof we have put our names, Nicholas Claget, Samuel Slater." 145 1661, 20 June. — Mr. John Burrough, rector of Ingliani, elected minister of St. James. 1661, 20 Jan, — Order respecting trustees of Lady Rivers' bequest of 81. per an. for four quarterly sei'mons. 1662, 4 Aug. — -Five pounds given to Mr. Tliomas Stephens as a gratuity for preaching and officiating at St. James's, to be laid out in books. 1663, 12 Oct. — The toAvn being without any settled ministers, the alderman is to be allowed such charges as he shall be at in providing ministers and giving them and their attendant-^ fit and necessary enter- tainment for the time they stay in town. 1663, 9 Xov. — Mr. William Williams elected to be one of the ministers at a salary of 80/. per an., with a dwelling house, or in lieu thereof 61., to preach once on Sunday and ro catechise, and the Friday lecture once a fortnight ; the proposed salary increased on 16 Nov. to 100/. per an. to preach twice on the Lord's day, and to visit the sick. But Mr. Williams professing inability of body to bear the burden of preaching twice on the Lord's day and once a fortnight on Friday, his election was annulled on 11 Jan. Dr. William Starkey was elected in his place on 21 Jan., and Mr. Thomas Johnson to be the other minister on 21 .luly, 1664, both on the same terms. 1664, 18 Aug. — Letter from the King, of 22 July, recommending John Moore to be town-clerk, in consideration of his good services to Charles I. and his sufferings for the same, and a letter to the same effect from the Earl of St. Alban's ; letters of assent from the Corporation ; and reply from Sir Will. Morice, Secretary of State, on 10 Sept. 1664, 27 Oct. — Draft of the new charter approved. 1664, 10 Dec— Letter from the Earl of St. Alban's, of 26 Nov., desiring that Mr. John Moore's name may be inserted in the new Charter as town-cleik. 1665. 10 Aug. — " Whereas it is conceived very necessary in these dangerous times of God's visitation timely to provide a pesthoiise in case it .should please God to send the plague amongst us, it is oi'dered and agreed tliat the great barn called Almoner's Barn belonging to the Corporation be used for that purpose, it being thought to be the most convenient pLice about the town, and the Corporation having no use for the .said barn tliis year." 1668, 27 March. — 45/. paid to Mr. John Clarke for two maces. Catechising for instructing the poor people of St. Mary's parish, according to Mi'. Jasper Sharpe's will, (o begin on Tuesday, 7 Apr., and 4/. per an. to be paid to the officiating ministt-r; Mr. John Temple, curate of St. Mary's, to be the minister pro temp. 22 May. — The alderman and burg(!sses having received intelligence that the King intends shortly to come in person to the town, and conceiving it a duty incumbent upon them to present him with a sum of money in acknowh^igment of their thankfulness for his and his grand- father King flanuis's large ami ample bounty and favour l)estowcd u[)on this Corporation, it is agreed that 100/. in guinea gold be presented to him, to be borrowed on their personal securities. 28 May. — Demand being made by th(! King's servants, upon his passing througli thi; town on Sunday last, for 36/ 6.v. as thcii (hie fees, the R(!Corder is to use his best endeavours to get I he charge fakcn off at London, but if he cannot prevail he aliall engage for payment liiereof. O 71)300. K 146 10(58, ;> Aug. — The now (.•hartor pn'scntcd aiul roail. 1(>6S. '29 Auiij. — Mr. Henry Meritoii signs an agriMMncnt on being appoinleil minister of St. James, to do what was re<|uired of the previous minister, nnd so to preach on Christmas Day, 30 Jan., 29 May, 5 Nov., and upon nil puhhc humiliation nnd thanksgiving days; he shall administer the Lord's Supper as enjoined liy the eanons of the Church of Kngland, and visit the sick if recpiested, and be resident in the town, supplying the plaee by himself. lUtiS, 15 ^Nlareh. — Particulars of the bill of homage-fees demanded by the King's servants on his passing througli the town (including 10*. for the King's jester), upon which payment is made to Mr. Thomas Duppa, gentlemau usher, who has come to the town to receive an answer, and Avho gives the Coiporation to understand that in case they are not paid a pursuivant will suddenly come for the alderman, and carry him np to London, which will be a great discredit and charge to the Corporation. 1669, 3 March — Resolved that Mr, Meritou is not a fit person to be continued minister of St. James, the King having made known his pleasure to that effect to the Recorder by word of mouth, and that the concurrence of the bishop of the diocese be desired therein. Then follow these copies of letters : " Mr. Recorder's report delivered to the Corporation as he had it ft'om the King's own mouth, touching Mr. Meriton. His most excellent Majesty having commanded his attendance upon him upon Sunday 20 Feb. 1669, he obeyed accordingly, and being there his Majesty commanded him to represent to the Corpora- tion that he took it not well from them who had received so many favours from him and his predecessors to choose a minister into the pulpit to instil bad principles into them and his people (of which he had received some information), and that he did expect a removal of him. To which Mr. Recorder answered (on the Corporation's behalf) that he knew they would be sorry for any actions of theirs Avhereby they should incur His Majesty's displeasure or reproof, and therefore doubted not but if upon mistake any such things were done it should be amended, and promised to represent unto them his Majesty's displeasure against the present minister Mr. Meriton. To which his Majesty replied. Let it be done, and tell them that he was much unsatisfied with the person in respect of his ill- carriages in the pulpit (or to that effect), which is an improper place for sowing of sedition, and therefore wished him again to let them know that he expected his removal, and that he would not suffer the pulpit to make reflections upon him or his government, which showed that he had a presbyterian spirit, and therefore his Majesty wished Mr. Recorder again to represent it to the Corpora- tion, that he might hear no more of it, lest it should reflect more upon them than they were aware of; wliich Mr. Recorder promised to do, and doubted not but that the Corporation would answer his Majesty's expectations in everything that was suitable to their trust and the great favours bestowed on them by the Crown. Sir JohnDuncombe's letter written to Mr, .James Cobbs touching Mr. Meriton. Mr. Cobbs, I thought it fit to let you know what hath passed here about Mr. Meriton, there having been many comj^laints made to the Kino- of him from several persons of his indiscretion and 147 unfitness for that place. His Majesty was pleased to call to him Mr. Sotherby your Recorder, and told him that he would not stand to defend and prove, but he expected that the Corporation should dismiss him, and choose another orthodox and able minister ; 'twas a great trust reposed in the Corporation to choose their ministers, and his ancestors had given the tithes to support them, and if they did not prefer such as was fit for that duty, he would take care to see better provision made. I cannot doubt but the Corporation avIU in this express their obedience to his ^Majesty's commands. I took liberty to excuse this their choice, and said I thought they had been mistaken in the man, and that he proved not what they expected ; but I doubted not so soon as tbey under- stood his pleasure they would render a present obedience to his will. Which pray let me knew when they have done it, that I may present his Majesty with the knowledge of it. Present my service to the Corporation, and assure Ihcm I am their very affec- tionate friend, and ready to serve them in all occasions. So soon as Mr. Sotherby's return to you, he will acquaint the Corporation with what his Majesty gave him in command. Your affectionate friend and servant. Feb. 22, '69. J. Dcncombe. Sir John Buncombe's second letter to Mr. James Cobbs. Sir, — I presented to his Majesty your accompt of what had passed in the Corporation, who was pleased very avcU to accept of the respect and duty . . . {blank) to him and his commands to dismiss Mr. Meiiton. I did not omit to let him know how well Mr. Eecorder had observed his directions, of Mr. Aldei man's and your own concern in his service, and the zeal of others. I did foibeai- aggravating the failings of some in their slowness (to call it by no worse name) to meet in so extraordinary an occa- sion, hoping they will be Avarned by this gentle notice taken of it not to do the like for the future. I must not forget to remind you of one thing which the King recommended to you l)y your Kecorder, that you take care to choose an orthoilo.x and discreet minister. I need not after that say anything. I hope you will be as observant in this as in what you have done, being so much your own good. If there be any appear to be unsatisfied, 'twere well you advise tliem to understand their duty better. IVescnt my affec- tionate service of the Corporation. I am your very faitlil'ul friend, March 10, '69. J. Duncombk. (These letters were ordered on 17 IMarch to be entered in the book.) 1669, 17 Marcii. — Mr. William Lyng elected minister in place of Meriton, but on 10 May he comes and declines to accept it, but at length eon.sents to act until ^lichaclmas ne.\t. 1670,18 Aug.— Dr. William HarbcMt, "an ablr aiul :in ortluidox divine," elected, but on 17 Oct. lie also declines (Section. 1G70, 4 MiU'cii. — Mr. flohn Edwards (about whose (pialilications bishop Ciunuiiig of Chichester had been consulted) elected minister of St. James, and admitted on 13 I\Iareh. 1672, .30 March. — 15/. to be paid towards the nt;w building of chambers at the Sliirehouse, whi(,'li iC not Imilt as is jn-oniiscd and the K 2 148 jiulgi'S expect, the Hssizes, a-i it is conceived, will l>c removed fVoiu the town. l()7li, 12 Apr. — A letter I'roin Mr. Edwards, from 8t. John's College, Cambridge, li Apr,, resigiiinj: his place as minister of St. James ; hopes his successor may by residing please the town letter than he hatli done. Dr. \\illiam Herbert is again elected and on 22 Apr. ad- mitted. , 2!) Apr. — Dr. \N'iUiam Starkey snrrenders his place a.s minister of St. ^hiry's. On 20 ^lay Mr. Charles Darby elected, who on 8 June declines acceptar.ce, being settled among jicoplo who do so Avell affect him and lie them. On 12 Dee. ]Mr. ^Villiam Clagett is elected, and is admitted. iGTo, 12 June. — Ordered that the King's arms be set up at the front end of the INIarket Cross as formerly they had been. 167G, 13 July. — The following letter from the King to the Corpora- tion was read : — "Charles 11. Trusty and well beloved we greet you well. Whereas we have been given to understand that upon the last vacancy of the place of a reader for the parish of St. Mary's by the death of Piggott, two persons standing to be elect into the said place, the one William Stewkley, an orthodox divine, the other John Bull, a young man, and unqualified for such an office, as not being in priest's orders and under jige, the said John Bull was for the reasons aforesaid protested against by the alderman and several of the burgesses of the Corporation at a general hall called for the said election, not one member of the aforesaid parish being for the said John Bull as we are informed ; whereupon the said William Stewkley being recommended to the bishop of the diocese by the consent of the said alderman and chief of the society as w^ell approved of for the said place, the bishop did license him to serve the said cure, and also gave his determination that the said John Bull could not undertake such an office, being not capable by qualification, but did inhibit the said John Bull from giving further trouble to the said VriUiain Stewkley therein ; notwithstanding ■which, the said John Bull still giving disturbance to the said William Stewkley and the Corporation, in regard he lutd one voice more than the other at the election, yet considering the difference of their qualifications and the judgment of the bishop in the case, We thought fit, for the preventing of further inconvenience that might grow thereupon, to send message to the CorporatioH that .they would acquiesce in the choice of the said William Stewkley, nevertheless we understand that there are some of the said Cor- poration who still dissent from it, and seem to make some doubt of the truth of our said message, We therefore, calling to mind that we f Mr. Lynlbnl, w lio resigned at Midsummer, 16S2 ; he is admiltod and .signs on 7 July. , 17 .fuly. — An address to the King agreed upon, and ordered to bo engrossed, upon the diseovory of the [Hye House plot]. " We cast this huiuhlo address at your Slajosty's feet, whereby we renew that loyalty whioh ever was and still is engraven in our hearts in indelible oinraotors, and to manifest our just abhorrence of the treasonable designs and cous|)iracios of factious, turbulent and auti -monarchical spirits, who ha\H' latilv confronted heaven itself bv desifjuiny; to murder vour sacred majesty and royal brother, and thereby to subject to ruin and destruc- tion the best of governments ; " &c. 16S4, 12 Apr., 7 May. — Agreed, nemine contradicente, to surrender the charters to the King ; with the form of surrender adopted, praying the King to re-grant the choosing of officers, and the lil)erties antl franchises, in such mauuer as he shall judge most conducing for the good government of the burgh. , 2 Oct. — Thanks given to Sir Thomas Hervey, knt., for the mayor's sword, which he presented to the Coi'poration upon his ]\Ia- jesty's creating them a mayor town. , 29 Dec. — Ordered that the mayor shall have the sword and mace carried before him on sucli days as the mace was formerly carried before the alderman. , 24 Jan. — Strict inquiry to be ma<[e, by two in eveiy ward, how many houses ore visited with the small pox, and the cburchwardens of each parish to give an account how many have died of the small pox since 1 May last. The charter to be left in the evidence house, and not in one single man's hands, and three keys to be made for the place where it lies. 1685, 9 Apr. — Sir Thomas Hervey and AVilliam Crofts, esq., unani- mously chosen burgesses in parliament. . 15 May. — A room under '"Moses Hall" assigned to Edward Worfon. , 20 June. — The market cro.ss to be tiled. A moveable '* Kucking stool " {sic) to be forthwith erected. , 8 March. — St. Clary's chancel to be repaired. A further order -on 6 Aug. 16S7. 1686, 17 Apr.— .\ " ducking '.tool " to be forthwith erected at the Eastgate water. [This was removed in 1838.] , 14 June. — The glass window in St. James's chancel to be repaired. , 13 Dec. — All the charters to be put into the chest in the evi- ro(".iro tlif hoMiiii:; of the lu'xl assizes i'cr the coiintv at Bun. • , 28 June. — The following letter from Lord Dover was read. "June 26,1688. — Gentlemen, Some time since I received .i letter from you very full of duty and loyalty to onr King, whieli von desired I would coniiiiunioate to his ^lajestv from your Cor- poration. I was extremely glad of to good an o[)j)ortunit3' of serving a Innly of men 1 always much esteemed and ever had inclinations to he kind to. Your King was jjjeased to read your letter himself, seemed much satisfied to find such an alteration in Bury, commanded me to thank you for it, and to assure you from him that as he expects you will make good your word to him, so likewise his Majesty will most inviolably keep whatever he has promised in his Declaration. " After having obeyed his ^Majesty's commands, give me leave in my own particular to return my sincere acknc^wledgnients for your kind exj)ressions to me. If ever it be in my jjowcr to deserve it from you, assure yourselves I shall do it with all the readiness imaginable, and not more than you ought to expect from one that is so much, Gentlemen, your affectionate humble servant, " Dover." , 19 July. — The deputy-recorder, John Sotheby, and the town- clerk, Thomas Hustler, removed by order from the King and Council of 6 July, and Edmund Coleman and Jonathan Perry admitted by order of 7 July, Avithout taking any oaths but those for the execution of their offices. , 10 Aug. — Edmund Coleman sworn in as Eecorder with all the oaths according to the statutes, and a common-council man admitted in the same manner, taking the oaths of allegiance and supremacy and the oath mentioned in slat. 13 Car. II. cap. 1. , 23 Aug. — Two aldermen sworn in as assistant justices, taking all the statutory oaths. , 18 Sept. — Order from the Privy Council for removing two aldermen (Thomas Burrough and Thomas Hustler, of whom the latter had been appointed on 16 March) and four common-council-men (of whom two had been appointed on 14 May) and appointing certain others in their places without any oaths but that for the execution of their office. , 12 Oct. — Two addresses to the King submitted for considera- tion, of which one was passed by a majority, to be presented by some of the members with all pos.sible expedition. It is ordered to be entered in the book, but the page which follows is left blank. , 22 Oct. — The King's proclamation for restoring corporations iv, read, and entered at length ; and the charter of surrender made to Chai'les II. not being enrolled in any of the courts, and all persons appointed since by any patent or grant being dismissed by the procla- mation, Martin vSpencely, gent., is elected alderman under the old charter, and all the surviving members of the old Corporation are restored and the places vacant by death filled up. , 12 Jan. — Sir Rob. Davers, bart., and Sir Tho. Hervey, knt., elected members for the convention -parliament. , 19, 24 Jan. — John Covell elected town-clerk; he takes the oath for due execution of his office, and signs the statutory declaration, 153 but tbe Recorder refuses to atlminisier the oaths of allegiance and supremacy "in regard King James had left the realm, and it Avas conceived those oaths would be abrogated and new oaths appointed in their stead. 1689 [-90], 6 March.— Sir Rob. Davers, bart., and Henry Goldwell, esq., elected for parliament. , 17 March. — The town music discharged frcm future service in attending the Corporation, nemine coiitradicente. 1690 [-91], 16 March. — Whereas endeavours have been made for some years, and in all likelihood will be in the future, to prevail with the judges to hold the assizes for Suffolk at Ipswich, now, forasmuch as the conveniency of the shire-house at Bury is beyond that of theirs at Ipswich, which with respectful and generous entertainment of the judges and their associates, officers and attendants, will very much conduce to prevail with them to continue the assizes at this place, which entertainment must be answerable to their qualities and expectations, and not inferior to what is offered them in othfr places, it is recom- mended to the innholders, vintners, butchers, bakers, and such like retailers of provision, to forthwith subscribe a competent sum of money, proportionable to each man's takings, which will certainly return to their advantage. 1G91, 7 May. — One arch in the north " oyle" of Moses Hall excepted from a lease of the building. II. — The second volume, containing 065 numbered pages and loaves, extends from 21 Dec. 1693 to 22 Dec. 1767, and is a veiy full and complete register. An index of matters, written on loose sheets, lies in the volume, and there are also two separate index-books of matters and names, one to the year 1713, the other to 1767. 1695, 11 Oct. — The offer of SO/, per an. or of the tithes great and small is made to the ministers of the two parishes, archd. Nich. Clagett and Mr. Mich. i>att ; and on 25 Jan. they accept the former offer, subject to payment of parliamentary taxes. , 11 Oct. — Mr. John Bull, curate of St. James's, to reside within the borough before Christmas and to officiate in his office, or to be discharged. He is "amoved for non-residence" on 21 May, 1703. 1696, 9 Apr. — An " Association " in defence of King William and in abhorrence of the conspiracy against him, signed by the Corporation and inhabitants. 1698, 20 March. — The cage and pillory to be removed from their present place, and set up against the workhouse or castle wall. 1707, 10 May. — Dr. Francis Hutchinson requested to print the admirable sermon preached by him at St. James's on 1 INIay upon the celebration of the happy union of England and Scotland, and thanks returned to him for his great laljour therein.* 170H, 29 Apr. — Schedule of iions and goods in the gaol. 'I'he list commences with " Widowes arms and bolts, three neck-collars"; there are thirty-two " bassils." 1710, 10 June. — Ordered that there be engraved upon the large piece of plate, used for a punch-bowl, given by the Lady Hervoy, wife of * This sermon was repriiiterl l)_v IJislioj) Ifutiliinson nt I)nl)liii in 173(, j\t tlie end of his Defmce of the ttucient Historians. John lord Horv»'y, the raiiso of the gift, ami the iinns of lonl ITrrvey and his wife and of the Corporation. 171 I, 18 Aug. — Thanks to l»c presentetl to John lord Horvey for the present of hi.s picture. 1713, 20 Aug. — Thanks to be returned to Tiionias Sutton, gent., for n present made hy him of a picture of John Sutton, gent., his hite nnele, n pious benefactor to tliis borough. 1711, 11 Sept. — Address to (leorge 1. on his accession. 1715, 19 Sept. — Address to hini on threatened invasion from abroad nnd riots and rebellions at home. 171H, 11 Dec. — 100/. given by the Karl of Bristol in consequence of the town having been long aftiieted with the small pox, for the relief of the families of the greatest sufferers. 1720, 8 Dec. — Dr. Fr. Hutchinson resigned his place as minister of St. James's, on being appointed bishop of Down and Connor. 1722, 16 Oct. — Mr. Benj. Malfalguirat, or Malfalgueyrat, surgeon, elected a common-eouncil-man. He was elected one of the chief burgesses 19 July, 1735, and on 7 June in that year Misael Remon Malfalquyerat, surgeon, was admitted as one of the common-council. 1724, 4 Aug. — Four persons are appointed to be the town muaic. On 4 Oct. 1733 five persons are appointed to be "the corporation music and town waits." with a salary of 40*. each yearly. 1727, 4 May. — Address to George II. on the war with Spain. 1728, 16 Dec. — Order for the repair of the maces. 25/. I7s. (kl. paid on 21 Aug. 1729 for their repair. 1732, 8 March. — -Resignation by Dr. Eob. Butts of his oflSce of lecturer at St. James's on being appointed bishop of Norwich. 1734, 13 Aug. — Ordered that St. Matthew's fair shall not for the future be continued longer than 2 Oct.; advertisements to that effect to be inserted in the Bury newspapers and the IF/utehall Evening Post. , 24 Oct. — Ordered that the scholars of the Free Grammar School have liberty to act plays at the playhouse over the market cross at any time before 10 Nov. next gratis, they making good all damage that shall be done thereby to the playhouse or seats or scenes there. 1735, 2ii March. — Ordered that all leases, writings and evidences relating to the Corporation be brought in, to be deposited in the Evidence house. 1737, 19 Apr. — Order i-egulating burials in the chancels of the two churches. 1745, 19 Sept. — Address to George II. upon the rebellion " in favour of an abjured pretender, by the dregs of a restless motley faction, outlaws and abandoned men, irrecoucileable to one another in every other principle and view but that of overturning our happy establish- ment." 1748, 18 Aug. — Five guineas to be paid to Mr. Thomas "Warren towards the expense he has been at in taking the plan of this town, and for the plan presented by him to the Corporation. [This plan now hangs in a room in the Guild Hall, framed and glazed.] 1751, 22 Aug. — Bequest by the Earl of Bristol of 200/. for the poor. 155 1760, 29 Nov. — A leugthy address to Geo. III. upon his accession. 1761, 27 March. — Consent given for the taking down of the five gates of the town on account of their ruinous and dangerous condition. On 6 June, 1765, a committee is appointed for the taking down of the West gate, who report on 22 Aug. that it has been taken down at a cost of ]0/. 9*., and the materials sold for 10/. 10*. 1762, 28 Oct. — Address to the King on the birth of tlie Prince of Wales, and on the victories gained bv sea and land. 1767, 20 Aug. — The sergeunts-at-mace and the beadles when they have new coats once in two years to have at the same time hats laced with gold lace. III. The third volume of the INIinutes contains 300 pp. and extends from 18 March 1708 to 19 Apr. 1805; and the fourth volume, of 614 pp., from 9 Aua;. 1805 to 21 Dec. 1835. These volumes arc indexed. The municipal regalia consist of two silver-gilt maces, 36^ inches long, each of them having on a circular cup-shaped top the rose, thistle, harp, and fleur-de-lis, each set between the initials C R, with a circlet of crosses, and fleurs-de-lis above and the royal arms Avithin ; the whole surmounted by a crown with orb and cross. Round the lower part of the stem is the inscription, "New cast in 1729. W'" Allen, Aid"," as noticed in the extracts from the Minute books above. This must, however, refer only to the stem, since the upper part is evidently ori- ginal, but repaired. The goldsmith's initials R.C. are on one of the maces, but without date letter ; the other mace has no mark. The initials R.C. are not infrequently found on plate of the early years of the reign of Cliarles I., but the name they represent is not known. The sword of state is 51^ inches long, of which the lilade measures al)Out 37. It has a massive silver handle, on one side of which is a figure of Justice, sitting, with sword and scales, and on the other a sitting figure holding a charter with four seals pendent. There is no goldsmith's mark or year-letter. The upper part of the blade is ornamented with arabes(]ue gilding. It is enclosed in a I'ed velvet sheath, having solid silvei' ornaments on both sides of crown and garter, rose and crown, the borough arms, &c. There are two halberds. IV. MUNIMENT ROOM AT THE GUILDHALL. The eailiest deeds lelating to the town i)roperty are concerned with the possessions of the hospital of St. Peter, which are now attached to the Gramnuir School. They arc contained in a parcel of documents chiefly of the time of Henry ID. and Edw. I. Rut one is found amongst these of the time of Hen. 11., which is as follows: — " Sciant presentcs et futuri quod ego Salomon do Wep.stcdc conccssi et dedi ct hac presenti carta mea confirmavi ad hospilale sancti Peti-i extra portam de Ri.sebi subinbio sancti TEdmnndi duodecim denariatoi nMldilus ad luminaria coram altan- sancfe Marie infra eeclesii! (sir) predict! hospitalis sancti Petri, |)ercipi('ndos ))n'dictcs denarios ht'twocii the niiiyor and bnr<];esses of II(MHor(i, ami Ur.^ula Ikirs^jcss, of London, widow of Thonuia liuriicss, Kofitos thiit living in or near the said borough were ilivors persons who ie?orted to conventicle'*, and that the m:iyor and hnrgoss\>s had been very diligent in executing tlie l;i\v against sueh perstms ; in consideration of this the King bestowed upon the inavor and burgesses and their successors, all fines and forfeitines of those convicted, under the sum of 300/., from the 2ytli of November 1670, less one third part thereof which he retained. The ujoney was paid to the hands of the late Thomas IJurgess, who died before rendering any .account thereof. The indenture witnesses that, for the sum of 100/. the mayor, &c. acquit the said Ursula from rendering account to them of any sums received. 1631. — Table of wages fixed by the Justices of the Peace. 1635, January 18. — Katilication by the Lord Keeper of Constitutions for the borough, 1637, March 7. — A bundle of briefs for the collection of money for sutferers by the fire which happened in Hertford on th. These exist for various dates from 1625 until recent times. Tlie first is lovieil on the whole boroui^h for the relief of such persons " as now are, or hereaftei- may be, infecU'd by the plague." In 1(J37 is the return of a rale on the whole borough levied " towards furnishing of one ship for His Majesty's service " ; and in the same year one for building '• Pest Houses." There are retnrns of the rate levied for tlie entertainment of judges for the following dates : — 1077-1686, 169C)- 16«)0. 1701-1710, and 1714-1726. S.Vt KAMKNT CERTirrCVTE AND OaTH llOLLS. These exist fr«)m 1680 until recent times. Recognizance Books. 162.S-1659. — These include lists of the inns within the borough in 1623 and 1G37. Miscellaneous Books. 1644-1736.— Town rents. 1794. — Corporation rent-roll. 1632-1786. — Examinations at sessions. 1638-1708. — Rates, All Saints parish. 1636-1637. — Accounts, All Saints parish. 1687-1723. — Sessions papers, affidavits, pleadings, &c. 1621-1750, 1763-1791. — Sessions minutes. A book containing various memoi-anda as to Mr. Noble's charity. W. J. Haedy. 165 MUNIMEiVTS IX THE POSSESSION OF THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF WORCESTER. The records of the Prior and Convent, and of their successors the Dean and Chapter, of the Cathedral Church of St. Mary, Worcester, are preserved in a room adjoining the Bishop's Registry in the Gateway Tower, to which they were removed in recent years from the long chamber over the south aisle of the nave of the church, where is now the cathedral library. The muniments have in past times suftered considerably from damp and from the ravages of mice. At present there is no danger of damp since fires are constantly kept, in two or three of the adjoining rooms, and both in January and April I have found the documents in a satisfactorily dry condition. It is i-ight, however, to add that the room in which the muniments are stored, while separated by a massive stone wall from the Clerk's Office of the Registry, is divided only by a light partition from the Registrar's room; and in both these rooms there are open fires uiiprotected by guards. I also observe that the cupboards in the muniment room itself are not, nor is the door of the room, kept locked, so that all the records are oi)en to the servant who cleans the rooms in the morning and to anyone who may chance to obtain access to them while the servant is otherwise engaged. I would venture to urge upon the Dean and Chapter the desirability of purchasing a safe large enough to hold at least the older volumes and deeds, or else to have the muniment room itself made fireproof. If a change of this sort were carried out it would be advisable to have shelves made sufficiently roomy to allow of the books standing u[)right. As it is, they are subjected to a great deal of unnecessary friction and ill-usage in consequence of their being stored in piles. The charters, which are preserved in drawers, ought to be laid out fiat, or nearly so, instead of being folded in small squares and tied up in bundles with string. It is also most desirable that they should dl be furnished with numbers and so arranged that it should be possible to verify a j)articular reference without a long search ihrough several diavvers. At present, even in the case of those charters which have leceived a pencilled number and been roughly calendared, it is impossible to say with certainty in which of several drawers tliey are contained : it is necessary to go through tlie tied-u}) bundles in a drawer packed full of documents, only to find perhaps that the document bearing a particular number is not among them. An attempt was indeed made nearly seventy years ago to establish a logular system of numbering and arrangement ; but this system (as liishop Edmund Hobliouse observed when he examined the collection in 1881) is now broken up, and the numbers supply no certain guide to the whereabouts of the documents. I. — TiiK PuioRs' Register Sede Vacant e. Of the two classes of documents into which the collection is naturally divide I, (I) books, and (2) dee:jivenu>nt for the payment of 10.[artholomew] bishop of Exeter, delegated by the pope to decide a cause between the churches of Oseney and VV^orccster relatinjr to the rights of the former in the church of Begeberia [Hibury, CO. Glouc.]. For Oseney appeared Eadward abbat, Harding prior, and the canons ; for Worcester, lloger bishop, Ralph prior, and the monks. Witnesses : Hamct of Gloucester, A. of Evesham, .John of Messeud' [Missenden], William of Lileshell [Lilleshall], abbats ; Robert of Ivenihvorth. Rem. of Selford, priors; Robert of Oxford, R. of Surrey, Simon of Winchester, archdeacons ; John dean of Chichester ; .John treasurer of Exeter; William dean of Lichfield; J. chancellor of Chichester; Master Moyses, Master Silvester, Robert monk, master Robert de Auc',* master Roger and Trustin, canons of Exeter ; Osb. canon of Kenihvorth, Philip canon of Derby, master Robert of Gilde- ford, Nicholas priest of Auinton [Avington], John of liilleshell, Aseat' of Messend', canons. Salisburi/ 1173. This document shows that John of Salisbury (unless there was another John) held the office of treasurer of Exeter a year earlier than was previously known. t f. 16. Confirmation by William [Courtenay] Archbishop of Canter- bury of the various churches, pensions, and tithes, held by the church of Worcester. Kempsey, 29 October " anno ab incarnacione Domini secundum cursum et computacionem ecclesie Anglicane " 1384, Ind. VIII. anno pontif. Urban. VI. 7. f. 17. Bull of Clement VI. appropriating the church of Croppethorne to the monastery. Avignon, 9 March, anno 8 [1350]. The special cause assigned is the need for repairing the cathedral church: "quod eadem ecclesia et eius campanile acquaniplura edificia prioratus eiusdem ecclesie, quorum refeccio et construccio ad eosdem priorem et capitulum noscitur pertinere, in tantum minantur ruiuam et tauta ac tali refeccione indigent quod ad ilia reficienda ac reparanda minime ipsorum prion's et •capituli redditus sufficiunt, absque eo quod aliunde super hoc subveniatur eisdem ; et quod i{)si prior et capitulum per hospitalitatem tam nobilium -quam popularium ad ipsum prioratum confluencium, et propter sumptus necessaries circa defensionem iurium prioratus eiusdem nuper factos, ere alieno sunt multipliciter onerali, eciam et gravati ; quodque redditus et proventus eorundem, j)ropter obitum tenencium jjossessiones et bona ab 'cis qui tempore epidemic in illis pa rtibus nuper ingruentisdecesseruut, in magna parte diminuti existant," &e. f. J 86. Confirmation by Clement VI. of the appropriation to the prior and chapter of the church of Overbury in their gift, in relief of their burthens and to assist them in sending two monks to study at Oxford (" pro supportacione huiusmodi onerum leviori ac sustentacion eduorum monachornm quos in Oxoniensi studio tenere oportet"), the latter obligation being made a condition of the grant. Avignon : 2 October anno 5 [1346]. * Auc' written Ahti, but the person is probably the Robert de Auco who is men- tioned as hcldiog the preberd of St. Pancras in St. Paul's Cathedral in 1145 and 1450 (Le Neve's Fasti Eccl. Anglic, ii. 423, ed. Hardy), and who was living in or after 1181 (9th Rep. of Hist. MSS. Comm., p. 68rt, where he appears in company with dean Ralph de Diceto) t Le Neve, i. 414. 169 f. 196, Appropriation by Clement VI. of the church of Wolvardeley [VYoIverley] to the prior and convent, substantially in the same terms as those cited above with reference to Croppethorn. Aviffnon : II fTune anno 10 [1351]. f. 26. Inspeximus by John [Green], prior (1388), of inspeximus of Henry [Wakefield], bishop, of a chirograph of a fine levied in the king's court for a month from Easter 49 Henry III. [1265] between John, master of the Carnaria at Worcester, and Walter [of Cantelupe], bishop, and of the deed of the said bishop Walter establishing four chaplains in the chapel of the Carnaria, or charnel house, at Worcester, 31 Jan. 1265-6* ; bishop Henry now appropriating the said chapel to the sacristry of the church of Worcester, 2 Oct. 1385. The documents are arranged according to churches, and the part of the volume which is strictly the Liber Pensiouem ends on f. 29. After this, with a new gathering, comes a series of leading documents bearing upon the rights of the prior sede vacante (the composition between archbishop Boniface and the prior, 1268, &c.); followed by miscellaneous documents relating to the property, rights, privileges, and exemptions of the convent. Among these are : f. 31. Appropriation by bishop Waller [Maydenstone] of the ciiurch of Tibberton to the precentory, on the ground " quod officium pre- centorie in Ecclesia nostra Cathedrali supra dicta propter sui exilitatom onera dicto otiicio incumbencia tam in librorum novorum scriptura quam antiquorum raparacionef et emendacione Clericorumque dicto oHicio deserviencium exhibicione (Equm (juoque ac famulum propter negocia dicte Ecclesie expedienda adinvenire tenetur ex consuetudinc hactenus approbata) nee non in multis aliis rebus ipsi officio necossariis con- sistencia sustinere non valebat (juovis modo." Fladbnry : 19 March 1314-5. f. 34. Escheator's inquisition as to the tenure of the priory's tem- poralities. Sept. 1 Edw. I. [1273]. The witnesses declare that all its possessions are held in i)ure and perpetual alms. f. 46. Grant by Henry III.J of a market to be held by the prior and convent at Shipston on Stour weekly on Saturdays and a yearly fair {feria) on the feast of St. Barnabas, its vigil, and morrow. Woodstock : 28 June, an. 52 [1208]. f. 476. Indulgence of Clement [VI.] to the prior and monks to eat fleshmeat from Sepluagesima to Qu!nquagesima,but not in the refectory, and for the rest of the year in the refectory. Villanova : 15 May, an. 10 [1351]. f. 50. Composition between Bishop William [of Blois] and the convent concerning the election of the prior [1224]. f. 51. JiuU of ClcnKmt [VI.] authorising the prior John of Kvcsham to make use of '' niitra, liaculo, tunica, et dalmatica ])a>t()riiHbM.s " ; and to give the solemn bles.-ing, except a legate or bishop be present {Avignon : S .Jan., an. 9 [13o()-l]) : followed by other coniirniutiidis of privileges by Boldface [IX.] {Rome: 11 Dee., an. 8 [1396]), Nicolas [IV.] {Rome: 5 Jan., an. 2 [1288-9]; and RictI, 1 Aug., an. 2 [1289]) and Boniface [IX.] {Rome, 13 Dec, an. 10 [1398]). The earlier rescript of Xicolas IV. contains a license to the prior and chapter to preach, consideriug " (juod plines ojt vobis sunt in divina pagina, in (pia * Printed by Thomas, uppeml. \'-\, p. 2G. t Sir. X Trinted by Nash, ii. 4-36. 170 t^tiuliuni infra clmistniiu ecrlesie veslre contiimc sicut osseritur vigere (linosritur, ploniiis orudili"; the socoiul one einj)()wcrs tliem to woar hats {pi/i( is rfl fihnit'iis tioti ciin'osis) (hiring divine service in cokl weather. f. 526. LvttiM- nndor prixy seal ol' Henry [IV.] forbidding the bailiffs of Worcester to have their maces carried before tlieni within the chnrch, cemetery, priory, and sanctnary. (T3nbwith : I'.S.) Westminster: 6 December an. '1. [1100]. f. 546. Endowment of a secnlar chaplain to serve the altar of the blessed Mary *' at rededore " in the cathedral chnrch (or, as it is in the rnbriCj " ad rubrum hostium in Navi ecclesie "), 1315. f. 55. Settlement of a complaint of the sacrist with reference to the expense he incurred '• in exhibicione pecunie pitancie piscis et vini pro O Oriens," 1339. f. 58. King's writ concerning a dispute between the bailiffs of the city and the church of Worcester as to the coroner's jurisdiction, Westminster : 19 December 22 Edw. III. [1348] and other documents of the legal proceedings down to Whitsuntide 23 Edw. III. [1349]. Inserted are a few documents in hands of the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries, f. 496, 626-676 {end of book). f. 62. Commission to Arthur, prince of Wales, and Thomas, prior, to execute the statutes relating to the keeping of the peace, the use of liveries, &c. [tindat€d'\ with the oath of a justice of the peace [in the same hand]. f. 636. Confirmation by Thomas [Cranmer] abp. of Canterbury of the possessions of the prior and chapter of Worcester. Gloucester : 30 August 1534. [The date is given by error as " Anno domini millesimo cjuingentesimo tricesimo (quarto decimo. Et nostre consecratiouis anno secundo."] f. 64. !Note of a customary payment : " Memorandum quod Prior Ecclesie Cathedralis Wigorn in prima creacione sua percipiet de singulis Maneriis et dominiis suis speciale subsidium anglic' Saddell silver viz. de dominio de," &c.* On the last flyleaf is an account '* Stauronun diversorum Maneriorum ab Antiquo Assignatorum Officio Coquinarii Ecclesie Cathedralis beate Marie Wygoru'." The sum is 159 swine, 318 hens, 3600 eggs, 280 geese. The volume contains two flyleaves cut out of a manuscript of Statius of the eleventh century. It is written in double columns, and the left-hand column in the first leaf and the right-hand one in the second have been mutilated to fit the cover. The passages are from the Thebais x. 877- 900 (i. col. 1), 902-924 (col. 2) ; x. 778-800 (ii. col. 1), xi. 53-75 (col. 2). This singular derangement of the order is apparently to be accounted for by the hypothesis of some leaves in the archetype, con- taining lib. X. 801-876, 925-939, xi. 1-52, having been misplaced. In a manuscript in the Cathedral Library, Q° 8, Dr. H. Schenkl found similar flyleaves which were manifestly taken from the same MS. of Statius and begin with lib ii. 70. Dr. Schenkl however erroneously assigned the writing to the ninth century.f _ — __^ — ■ — » * Cf. 1st Ledger, f. 136. t Wiener Studien, viii. (1888), 166-168. I am indebted for this reference to the kindness of ^tr. W. M. Lindsaj, M.A., Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. m IV. Register I. The volume designaled by Thomas and Nash Registek I. and by Dugdale " registrum quoddam penes decanum et capitulum ecclesiai oath. Wigornia?," is a small folio in gatherings of twelve leaves written as far as f. Ixiii in a hand of the middle of the 13th centnry. The uniformity of the handwriting is interrupted by insertions on tf. Iviii, lix, Ix. The book opens with the ' Nomina fundatorum Wigornensis ecelesie" {I?ic. "Tempore JEthelredi"), followed by the charters of Edgar (Lie. " Altitonantis dei largiflua dementia "), of William I. toWulstan bishop and Ur[so] de Abetot sheriff (confirming their customs and rights " Alfstano decano et monachis de Wigrecestra "), of bishop Wulstan concerning Alveston and concerning Tapenhal', of William I., Henry I. and his successors down to Henry HI., papal bulls, charters of bishops and of private persons. F. Ixi has a nev^ heading, " Incipiunt transcripta cartarum " ; but the documents are of the same character as the foregoing. The documents are of great local interest and contain notices of value for the topograplncal history of tlie city of Worcester : e.(/. " Hucstere- strete " is mentioned on If. Iv, \\h, " vicus cirothecariorum " on f. Ivii. On f. Ixiii is a charter of Henry III, : " H. Dei gratia rex Anglie dominus Hibern[ie] dux Normanii Aquitann et comes And[egavensis] omnibus baillivis et fidelibus suis ad quos presentes littere pervenerint salutem. Sciatis quod suscepimus in protectionem et defensionem nostram specialem priorem et monachos ecelesie Sancte Marie Wigorn in qua corpus Regis patris nostri ecclesiastice traditum est sepulture," &c., 1241. This charter is followed by entries of documents in a handwriting of the end of the thirteenth century, and the book becomes more and more irregular in res])ect of writing, ranging from that of the time of Henry III. to that of Edward I. Tlien from f. Ixxi to f. Ixxxviii the writing is of the 1 Ith and loth centuries. The volume deserves a full calendar: between 30 and 40 of the documents are printed at length by Thomas. Among the contents are : — f. Ixvii. The composition between archbi-hop Boniface and the monks (1268) on procedure diu'ing a vacancy of the see. f. Ixviii. Cardinal Otho's constitutions concerning regulai's : "In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus sancti. Amen. Cum grande sit opus et arduum civitatem Dei, que est sancta religio, no\is et inno- vatis propugnaculis premunire contra versuti hostis insidias, qui cam novis et antiquis iugiter nititur machinis debellare : nos O'.o miseracione divina sancti Nicholai in carcere Tulliano diacimus cardinal is, apostolice .sedis legatus, ex iniuncto nobis legationis oihtio adiuvandum [)ro viribus tarn favora])ilc opus obnoxios reputantc^s, quedam turn ex sancti patris beati Bencdicti Regula, tuni ex .sacris conciliiset canonicis saiu-tionibus, lum ex statutis etiam abbatum ordinis eiusdem luati Benedict! colligi fecimus et notari ; (jue si servati fuerint, sacre rcligioni erunt in presi- dium et tutolam. "Inprimis igitur duximus statueiuhifn (pnid niilhis ante vicesinuun annum completuin nd professionem et nonumd(<'iniuni ad probationcm in monastcrio drcetero admittatur. Item qui ad pi'<)l)alioP(.'in admissus erit professionem incontinenter* faciat anno {)robationis elapso vol exeat monaslerium, Ablias alioquiu vel ])rior (|;:i aliqiicm sine pro- fcss[ionej su.stinuerit ultra annum per prcsidcntcs capilulis gravitcr puniatur, et ille novitius nichilominus ])i-()titcri cogatur et halicatur pro proi'esso. Item quod al> aliquo qui viuli f'licrint adniittiuitdr. Reci[)i taineii poterit sine culpa si ipud sine pactione et tuxatione alicpia fuerit relato suo recipere non presumat. Alioquin ut proprietarius haberi debeat ac puniri. Item (juod in maneiiis monachi non morentur, nee etiam in eeclesiis nisi plures fuerint, saltern duo. Item quod dis- creti ae lide digiii ad olKcia de|)utcntur, qui ter saltern in anno prelato suo pivsentibus aliquot de seuioribus reddant de suis administratiouibus et oftieiis rationein. Et tunc (piicquid eis superfuerit, sive in pecunia sive in aliis (piibuslibet (juibuscuiujue rebus consistat, sine difficultate qualibet omiii fraude amota suis prelatis restituant et assignent penam proprietaiiorum contra facieutibus incursuris. Abbas quo([ue vel prior non habens abbatem saltem in aiuio semel coram conventu vel aliquot de senioribus ad hoc a conventa deputiitis reddat de statu monasterii et administratione sua plenariaru rationem. Item statuinius quod prelati bis saltem in anno publice in conventu in omnes proprielarios excom- municationis i-ententiam ferant, alias nichilominus nisi non resipiscaut punieutes maxime per ignomiaiam sepulture. Item statuinius quod silentium sp[oeialiter] in locis debitis et horis statutis iuxta Regulam obsevvetur, et quod signa studeant scire omnes. Ad hec, cum esus carnium sit monachis iugiter ordinatis per Regulam beati Benedicti et per statutuni nostrum nee non et abbatum Anglie presidentium eorum generali capitulo interdictus, ut monachis qui eonsueverunt vesci car- nibus per abusum tollatur materia et occasio murmurandi, precipimus abbatibus et prioribus ut loco illius cibi eis vetiti studeant et procurent monachis iuxta facultatem domus competenter alium ministrare. Item quod monachi tam ad dorsum quam ad lectuin secundum Regulam et facultatem domus habeaut sufficientia et congrua indumenta nee camiseis lineis vel birretis utantur. Item quod simul dormiant monachi, lectos habe- ant iuxta regulam, nee in eorum dormitatione desit lumen. Hospitalitem vero tam a prelatis quam a subditis secundum regule sanctionem et fa- cultatem loci cum caritate et hilaritate observari statuimus et mandamus semper, et ad hoc benignus et mansuetus monaehus iuxta Regulam deputetur. Idem cum inlirmis fratribus statuimus observandum. Item quod omnes horis intusint divinis et maxime collationi et completorio, nisi ex bonesta causa aliquis circa hospites occupatus de speciali licentia sen prelati necesse habuerifc remanere. Numeruui vero equorum et familie prelati studeant in quantum i)Oterunt moderare. Item statuimus quod abbates et priores continue iuxta Regulam scril)i faciant constitu- tiones et sanctiones summorum pontificum ad eos et eorum ordinem precipue pertinentes que in compilatione domini Gregorii noni pape sub infra scriptis titulis continentur, videlicet de regularibus et transeuntibus. De symonia - Quoniain simo- niaca labes. ^Monachi. De sententia I Universitatis. excommu- <^ Cum illorum ab- nicationis j soluiis. \^J)e mouialibus. Quod quibusdam. f Ex parte. Ad religionem* < Statuimus. \_ Ne religiosi. De statu monas- toremf ^Monachi. Cum ad vio- nasterium. In singulis. Ea que reli- giouis hone- stale. De fideiussoii- bus. De solutioni- bus. Si quorundatn. * In marg. : " li° 3°." t In marg. : " li" 3°." 173 " Ideo districte precipimus abbatibus et prioribus quod predictam regulam beati Benedicti et Deeretales et constitutiones suprascriptas scire studeant et ea secundum specieiu habeant. Curentetiam diligenter quod ea subditi non ignorent. Item statuimus et districte precipimus observari quod in conventu quolibet monachorum una lectio diebus singulis do predicta regula vel prescriptis sanctiouibus et statutis Lora competenti legatur et minus intelligentibus exponatur." f. Ixviii6. Writ of Henry III. to the sheriff of Worcester. Having ascertained by inquisition made by Mr. Symon de Walton that the prior of Worcester and his predecessors from time whereof no record is pre- served " habuerunt salsam suam in villa nostra de Wych' et sal suum bullire consueverunt et uti quodam bukecto communi ad hauriendum salsam suam, et pro illo bukecto aliquando dare plus, aliquando minus, et quod solebant locare homines deeadem villa ad hauriendum predictam salsam et ad bulliendum sal suum et ad reparandum plumbos suos, et per qnatuor plumbos bullire consueverunt, neque ad tempus quo baillivi nostri de Wych' ceperunt manerium de nobis ad firmam ; et quod idem prior per predictos baillivos super premissis est impeditus : tibi precipimus quod eundem priorem de premissis seysinam habere facias, qualem inde habiiit ante quani predicti baillivi eandem villam de ncbis ceperunt ad firmam. T[este] me ipso apud Messenden.'" N. d. f. Ixviii^. Ingpeximus by Henry III. of Charter of Henry II.: " Precipio quod prior et monachi sancte Marie de Wyreter \_sic] habeant iuste omnes fugitivos suos cum tota pecunia sua ubicuuque inventi fuerint. Et nullus cis super hoc eos iniuste detineat super decem libras forisfacture. T[este] Canc[ellario] apud JVyreter." Confirmed: Westminster: 8 March 50 Hen. III. [1265-6]. f. Ixx. Reply of Guido bishop of S. Sabina and legate of the apos- tolic see [afterwards pope Clement IV.] to the English nobles in rebellion against Henry III. Amiens : 26 July [1264]. " Gwydo miseracione diviua Sabineusis episcopus apostolice .sedis legatus viris nobilibus comitibus baronibus n)iUtibus et comitatibus* regni Anglic salutem in Domino. Si gens Anglorum ad antiquam veritatem hystorie sedula meditatione rocurreret, si sedis apostolioo bene- ficia circa se pluries inculcata cognoscerct, si eiusdem sedis dominium quo regi dontinatur et regno reverenter attenderet, in insolentiam crigi non deberet sed pocius ad obsequiuni inclinari. Estenim genspcculiaris populus et thesaurus gratissinius alme sedis, quem beatus Gregorius per Anglorum apostolum Augustinuni a dui)plici servitute liboraris Deo nosciturj adquisisse, (juemque nostris teniporil)us, ut Vetera taccanius, ab inclile meniorie domino Ludowico patre domiui regis Fraiicorum qui niodo regiiat ex parte maxima subactum, per . . . legati sui prudenciam pariter ct j)Otenciam de manu liberavit eiusdem, ct si gentis eiu.sdcm saluti consuleret et honori, Francorum regnum exasporaro tion timuit tarn carum, tam nobile, tam sublime, regnum a Domino Itene- dictnm. Miratur igitui- terra ct celi desuper obstupescuiit ad banc ingratitudinem Anglic nunc delapsam, si in matris et domini munifestam iniuriam legatum suum, non (jucmlibet sed corporis sui partem, si non merito saltim olllcio revcrenduiii, irreverenter abiciat et eiusdem legati nuncios sinq)lices et ])acifieos non admittat. Mira siquidem tar(iitas[?] et detestandacrudelitas negari niatri (|iiod Tartaris, paganis, scismaticis, et * Sic : not " coiiimuDitatibus." t MS. iiossitur. 174 jM^iiitus infiiU'libus iioa lu'gatiir, (|ii()ium Icgati ab omnibus r('L:;nis ct ouriis ct cnrialiter ailmittuntnr et pacientcr auditi ab omni gravainine lilHM'i remittuntur. Sane vos viri nobilcs et cai)ita papulorum nobis scribitis qtiod conimnnicato consilio sic Lond ordinastis et asseritis privilogiiun vestrum esse quod ad vos legatns nou veniat non petitus. Sed absit ut Roniana ecelesia logo propria so artavorit, ne possit per alios visitare quorum visitaciouem presencialiter nequit implore ; nee potuit ali(|uis summus pontifex legem ponere successori, quia non liabet imjx'riuni i)ar iu parem, nee papa unius predecessoris heres est sed suocessor. Cessant tamon bee omnia ipso facto, cum rex vestor institorit et iiq)ortune jieeicrit, sed nicliiloniiinis o])ortuno, ad reguum suum muUa dilacoraciono conoisum destiuari legatum : et nunc contempnitis desti- natum, querontem vos et non vestra, salutem vestram ot aliorum omnium siciontem ad j)acem salubriter reformandam, ot iusticiam misericordia temperandam piis visceribus hanelantem. Porro quern sic despi<'itis iuverecunde rogatis ut exercitum contra vos evocatum faciat revocari et indnoat dominum regem Francorum* ad pecnniam non solveiidam vestris, ut (Ileitis, emulis que debctur ]jro quingentis militibus regi vestro. Xos vero quo ad primum articulniu preces vestras prevenimus, ot in ipso convocacionis exordio quibus modis potuimus laboravimus ut nulla fieret militum congregacio : sed (piod volumus non valuimus optinere ; et tamen cossari tunc poterat sine dampno, cum nunc in mari et terra multis stipeudiis persolutis optineudi crevorit difficultas. Ad secundum articulum nou processimus, quia rem integram non invenimus pecunia iam soluta. Ceterum ad id quod fiualiter petitis ut vestris nunciis apud Bonoii. occurramus, sic Aobis duximus respondendum : quod videlicet apropinquare proponimus et ad vestros nuncios nostros mittere quorum communicato et intellecto tractatu, si dignum nobis videbitur nostram prosenciam exbibebimus, ot quicquid boni poterimus faciemus bonore sedis apostolice iu omnibus conservato. Demum mone- mus vestram nobilitatem obnoxius [s?V] quatinus discrete consilio com- municato a sini>tra ad dextram redoatis. Et si vobis nou sufficiunt exaggerata discrimina nova vetei'ibus non addatis. Xec enim credimus vos ambigere, quod omittere non potuimus, quin apostolice sedis iusti- ciam prout decuerit et licuerit prosoquamus. Dat. Ambian vij, Kal. August' pontificatus domini Urbani (juarti anno quarto." f. Ixx6. Bull of Innocent [HI.] confirming the exemption of the Cistercians from paying tithes. Inc.: "Audivimus et audientes mirati samus." N. d. [Reg. Innoc. III., Sujipl. xxxiv. (Migne, Patr. Lat. ■ccxvii. 62) ; dat. Lateran, 26 May I2C0.] f. Ixxvi6. Pleas in the king's bench, Westminster, 28 Edw, III. f. Ixxxvii. " This endent't made bytwene the Prior and the •Couent of the monastry and the Cathedral! Churche of oure lady of Worcesf on the oon partye and the Balyffesj and Comynalte of the Cyte of Worcest' on the othyr partye boryth witnesse that the sayde Priour «nd Couent hau geuyne lysance and grauntede to the sayde Balyffes and Comynalte that the sayde Balyffes and ther successoures Balyffes of the sayde cyte and yche of the sayde Balyffes for ther worshype and houo"" schall haue ther maces borii a fore them by ther sergeauutes when they come in to the sayde monaster and Cathedrall Church and wythin the * Franc\ t Cf. Nash ii. 309. Another copy of this document is iu the 1st Ledger, f. xxi. X MS. Balyffe, in the singular throughout. I correct from the 1st Ledger. 175 same monastry Chitrcli and Cymitory of the sayde Priour and Coueut <^lled Seyntmavy* Churchayf and with inne seynt Johannis and all soo ther' sergeauuts may here there maces undur' tlier' gurJylles yefF they wyll with inne the same monastry Churche and Cymitory and seynt Johannis afore wrytt in the absense of ther masteres and as for as moche as the sayde monastry Cnrche and Cymitory and seynt Johannis byn closely within the fraunches Jurisdiction and liberie of the sayde priour' •and Couente and owte of the fraunclies Jurisdiction and liberte of the sayde Cyte and that the bailyffes of the sayde Cyte nor nou other officers nor ministres of the sayde Cyte have no maner power nor auctorite nor never hadde to make any Areste or do any other exccucion be longyng •to any of the officeres wythiu the sayde monastry Churche and Cymitory and seynt Joliannis. The sayde Balyffes and Comyualte of the sayd Cyte graunteu and permittoil:]: to the sayd Priour and Covent tliatt§ yeff" her' after any sergeant of the sayde Cyte a rest or do any other execucion by colour' of hys ofiQ.ce Avythin the sayd monastry Churche Cymitory or seynt Johannis that then the Balyffes of the sayde Cyte att that tyme beyng' schall take awey the mase from the same sergeante and that the same sergeant' schall never be sergeant nor here mace wythin the sayde Cyte afterwarde. And yeff ther be any arest or any execucion don' wythin the sayde monastry Churche Cymitory or seynt Johannis by any of the balyffs of the sayde Cyte for the tyme beyng by colour of hys office or by any sergeant or other by hys commaundcment and that dewly proved before the supprior' and|| celerer' of the sayde monastery for the tyme beyng' and iiij of ther brethryn Menkes of % the sayde monastery by them therto chosyn and afore ij Aldermen of tlie sayde Cyte for the tyme being' and iiij of the worthyest of the syttsens of the sayde Cyte by the sayde aldyrmen all soo ther too schoseu yeff the sayde aldyrmen and iiij sittesens be soschosyu and wyll ther too attende wyth that they have ther' of warnyng by the space of vii dayes and yeff nott then the dew prefEe** ther off made and hadde be foure the supprionr .and Cellerer' and there iiij brethern that then noon of the sayde bailyffs of the sa}de Cyte for the tyme beyng' schall never have therafter any mase boron' a fore thom within the sayde monastery Churche Cymitory or seynt Johannis. In wytnes ther off &c. Mr. John Carpynter then beyng' Byschoppe of the Dyoc' of Worcesf Syr thomas lytylton Sergeant of the lawe Syr Walter Sculle Thomas Frogmortonfj Tlioraas Everdon and Humfrey SalweyJ;]; viz. that non of ther sargeants to have ther maces boron under ther' gurdellis nor opynly with inne the sayde monastry Churche Cymitor}' or seynt Johannis." On the back of the last folio (which should be " 89") is written§§ ; " Anno ab incarnacione domini m" cc" 1 tercio facta est hcc remissio particularis sive rclaxatio servicii quod non tanget regulam de consensu conventus adomino Th, priore ut divinum servicium protraxius pungtacius * So 1 .st Ledger : MS. Seynluarij. t Churrhehai/ in 1st Tvedger. § So 1st licdger: MS. arnl. II " And" omitted in the MS., liiit .so in l.-o.* Tho iurang»>ment spoki'ii of above nuist be later than abp. Coiirtonnv's iiispoximus of Jan. 10, 13S6-7. It dilTflrs also in several partienliTS from tiie a;jrooinont arrived at between bp. Wakefield and prior tTolin Grene, 13 Nov. 1391. j f. eeecxxxvi. '' In dei nomine Amen. Anno a nativilate eiu.sdem 1408 Indietione prima die dominiea \ ij" die mensis Maii bora tereiarum vel quasi, presbiteris^ snnetissimi in C'hristo patris et domini no.stri domini Gregorii divina providem-ia pape xii Anno seeundo, in L'ivitate I'y.sarum in An-biepiseopali p ilaeio videlieet in camera, infraseriptiis Reverendis- simus Antonins Epi.-^eopus Penestru preseueialiter residebat, presentibus ibidem magnitieo et egregio viro lohanne quondam domini Francisei de Ureinis laureneio Aiubalbi de Stephanest' valeriano de Fregia panibus de nrbe regionis transtiberi, domino Bartholoraeo loliannis de Monte gwaeie, domino Angelo de Fuseis eanonico lateranensis, et lorvo gunsidvi canonieo lametensi ac aliis quam pluribus§ testibus ad hoe speeialiter eonvogatis et I'ogatis : Cum hoc scilieet|| quod pridie videlicet die Veneris iiii.'' n)ensi.s predieti Mail hova tereiarum vel quasi prefatus sajictissimus dominns noster dominus Gregorius papa xii infrascriptus et aliis reverendis.>imis dominis Cardinalibus sancte Ilomane ecelesie tunc residentibus in Civitate Lucfina circa mandata fecerit de quibus infra fit mencio. Inprimis (juod infrascripti domini Cavdinales quamvi.s predieta mandata crederent, reputarent, ymmo tenerent fuisse et esse nulla et omnino invalida de iure et ab eis in quantum ferentur fuisse et esse nulla et omnino invalida in iure," they make appeal. f. ccccxliiii. in viarg. " Quomodo Basileu et alii plnres naeiones hono- rabiliter venerunt obviam epi.scopo Wyg' et priori Norwycenci ambas- satoribu.-; domini regis Anglie ad consilium Basiliense coucurrentibus." The text, giving the order of the reception, is printed by Thomas, doc. 123 pp. 140 f. VI. — The Ledgers. The Liber Albus is immediately followed by three volumes called by Nash the Ledgers (or as he writes the word " Legers"). Although these are precisely of the same character as their predecessor, and are in fact designated "Registra" in sundry sixteentli century notes on the flyleaves, it is desirable to retain the distinction of name not only for the sake of avoiding confusion but also because they are denoted by the numbers 1, 2, and 3 on the (modern) bindings. (1.) The I^'jRST Ledger has lost a leaf at the beginning, and the first date in it that can be fixed is 1 July 36 Hen. VI. [1458]. It begins therefore with the piiorate of Thomas Mnsard : it is carried through those of Robert Multon and William Wenlock, and ends in 1498. Among its contents are — f. 13t. Note of receipts by the prior "in prima creacione sua de sino-ulis maneriis se[u] dominiis suis " of the special subsidy known as «' Sadell selver." f. 14. Eental of the prior, 1463. * Green, i. 220 (where misdated 1363) : cf. vol. ii. append, p. xxxi, Dugdale (ed. 1817) i. 619a, Wilkins, iii. 202. t See Reg. Wakefield, ft. 936, 94. + Preshiteris, a mistake for pontificatvs. § MS. quam de phtribus. Ij Scilicet ; MS. s^ 179 f. 17. Older by Henry VI. (9 April, Jiu. 38 [14G0]) for the reception of the oaths of John Hampton and Henry Lombe, whom the king has pardoned for their rebellion before 20 November last past. With the oath of allegiance in Englisli. f. 22. Letter of Edward IV. to the prior asking for a benevolence to aid him against the invasion threatened by " oure grete Adversary Henre namyng hymselfe Kyng of Englond by the malicious counseille and excitation of Margaretc his wyfe namvng her selfe Quene of Englond." Stamford': 13 March an. 2 [1461-2]. f. 35i. Declaration by bishop John [Carpenter] of the boundaries of the sanctuary or cemeterv (" cimitorium ") of the church of Worcester (21 May 1460). f. bo. Revocation of licence to William Walewen, S.T.B., " ad scola- tizandum " at Oxford or Cambridge, 7 February 1468-9. (Walewen "was shortly afterwards admitted to the monastery of Evnsham, f. oob and £. bib.) f. 746. Appointment of the prior's servant, John Salwey, gentleman, to the office of " geiitylmankerver " at his table, 1472. The document is headed " de Officio Sironomontis ad Mensam." f. 107. Title of prior Wenlock's register, with the arms of the church (argent, ten torteaux gules) and of himself (azure, a lock or), and the dates 1492-1498. (2.) The Second Ledger begins in 1499 and contains the registers of priors Thomas Mildenhara, John Weddybuiy or Weddesbury, and William More. On a blank leaf (f. 107) is scrawled : " M'' that OAvyr* Masf y*^ p'or shall ress'f off eu'y vicar & pson j)sent by owirj place at ys de3th suche duyteis as yer folowit Itm. A Hatt A Typet & Tache A Rydyng Gowne & A port[uos].§ A purs a gyrdyll a payer of knyves a hors sadyll & brydill & hemes thereto. A peyre of bots & sporys. A Kanger." f. 182. " Ordo quidam observandus erga dominum regem Hen- ricum octavum &.c. Et in qtiali estimacione hal)ebimus Episcopum Eomanum :" a deed whereby prior More and the convent of Worcester unanimously declare their fidelity and obedience to king Henry VIII. and queen Ann his wife ; acknowledging him as " caput ecclesie Anglicanje" and denying that the bishop of Rome hath any greater jurisdiction in this realm of England than any other foreign bishop, &c. 17 August, anno 26 [1534]. f. 183. The oath in English follows : "Ye shall swero to bere fayth trothe and obediens to the Kynges mageste," according to the act of succession. f. 187. Archbishop Cranmer's " Iniuncciones et provisiones " for the order and discii)line of the convent: on the reading of the Bible, and its exposition v\ English ; the use of the common seal ; the need of making an inventory of the moveable goods of the monastery ; the * Corrected from ijowyr. t Partly erased. X Corrected from i/owir. § The end of this word, about six letters in length, is erased. I supply the termination from another copy in the book marked + 0"/'" ^'o. xii) f. ."lO. M 2 1X0 koopinj; ami iviultTin*: of iiccounts ; the provision of properly cooked food; and tlio rroneral comhict of the officers of the liouse. Knoll: 22 February 1534-6 anno conseor. 2". (3.) The 'rmui> LKixiKu is that of ** Henry Ilolbeche S.T.P., monk of Crowland and prior of the black monks studyinjj; at Cambridge, Avho was elected prior of tlie eatlu-dral church of Worcester by the convent nt the same place, 13 IVIarch 153.) and by . . . Henry VIII. . . . under Clirist supreme head of the Knglisli church on earth confirmed, 22 March 1535." It ends on 10 January 31 Hen. V J II. [1539-40, eight days before the surrender of the house]. VII. — The Registers of the Dean and Chapter. In succession to these ledgers are the many volumes variously known as the Ledgeks or Registers of the Dean and Chapteu, Ilolbeche having retained his office as first dean of the cathedral church. This series is numbered continuously with the ledgers, and thus begins with vol. iv.* It extends to the present day and to fifty-five volumes. Volumes xv. and xvi. mentioned by Nash seem to have disap- peared. The former ran from 12-17 Charles I. [1636-1641]. The latter began in 1641 but was presumably di.scontinued in the troubles of the civil war. Possiblj all that was written was eight leaves ending 23 June 1641 and now prefixed to vol. xvii, which begins in September 1660. Among other volumes are : — VIII. A book in parchment covers containing transcripts of charters relating to the possessions of the church in handwritings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. At least one leaf is lost at the beginning. IX. A charlulary and rental arranged under manors and written in hands of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. X. A small chartulary written in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. At the end is written, " Browne Willis," XI. A volume containing a journal and accounts of William More, prior, chiefly from 1513 to 1534, This hns been copied by or under the direction of Mr. Hooper, who has placed his transcript at the disposal of the Early English Text Society for publication under the editorship of Mr, Littlehales. XII. " The book marked -f " (thus cited by Green) or " Liber chartac. p. & cap," (as referred to by Chancellor Price in his MS. " Kotitia Dioec. Wigom.") is a volume in rough calf with a cross drawn on the back in ink. The volume contains miscellaneous collections, notes, inventories, and memoranda, written principally between 1532 and 1540, The following articles may te noted : — f, 1. "The provisions for stuff of howsold with impliments [onj our Manors of Crowle, Batnall, and Grymley, by the reverend father William More prior of Worcester" 1 May, 1532. * Xash open this series -with a Third Register, extending from 13 March 1535 to 10 January 1539; but a glance at the foregoing notice of the Third Ledger given by him will show that he is by accident describing the same volume again under a different name. 181 f. 3. Accounts of purchases, including many of books, made by prior More, October 1518. f. 7. Keceipts of fixed corn-rents from the capitular estates, 1513. f. 12b. Receipts in money of the officers of the house, 15 Hen. VIII. f. 13. Rental of the priory, 5 Hen. YIII., 1513. f. 27. " The indulgence to the Pater nostev et Ave Maria." f. 28. "' The scripture upon the iiij bells in the leddou steputt " : The first belt. Campanas dia serues has virgo maria. The ij"^ belt. Cri?tus vincit. Xpc regnat. Xpc impat. Xpc nos ab oiTii malo. The iij'i bell. Johes Lyudesey. The iiij*^'^ belt p. [Tholma Hoc ope impleto. Xpc virtute faueto. myldenhiii priore, Auo maria gracia plena diis tecum the clocke bell. f. 28. The prior's allowances, and the receipts and expenses of the several officers of the house. f. 52b. " Sohiciones ad le Spvcery money," and receipts for ** le ** Saddulselver." f. 536. Rental of the prior, 1518. f. 56. Salaries of the servants, and their Jivery. f. 57b. " Nomina qui habent hose money ad natalem Domini." f. 626. " Composicion betweene the prior and coventt of Worcetter " and the baylyes and cytesons of the same," 1 Aug. 1516, 8 Hen. VIII. f. 65. " Composicion for berynge of macis," 20 Jan. [1472], 1 Edw. IV. f. 66. Perambulation between the liberties of the monastery and the city, 12 April, 12 Hen. VII. f. 77b. Annals of the building of the fabrics of the church and monastery, 1372-1386, headed in a later hand " ^Edificiorum chrono- logia." f. 103. Ordinance respecting wills and customary dues at death. f. 101. Ciironological lists of the bishops and priors, drawn up before 1535 and continued in later hands down to the seventeenth century. f. 114. '• Lyvereye of bred " and "Lyvereye Ale." f. 1246. Procurations charged upon the officers for Cardinal Wolsey's legatine visitation, 17 April, 1525. f. 1256. " The Scholars Pension of Oxforde. "In prim is of the cellerar for ther bred alefewell and other necessares l)ayd of y*' rent of Blackwell to every one of tlieni . . . vi ti. " Item of (he chaniberar for titer comens and other necessary dewtics . . . . XXX .s. "Item of the kesynner for ther nu;te by the hands of y'" abl)()t of Oseney out of y" churche of Bybery for y" pension , . . xxx s." f. 1296. Rules for painting portraits of saints. f. 1306. Expenses of the cellerar, 1529, and other accounts. f. 133. " Do missis celebratis <|uoti(lic in ecclesia cathedrali beate " Marie VVigoni." 182 f. \[)5b. Historical notices concorning the church ami diocese of "NVorccster. {. i;?8. liuh^nturcs lu'twt'cn the nionasteriea of Malniesbury aiul AVorccstor traiisi'erring to the latter certain chambers at Gloucester Collejio, Oxford, 1412 and 1110:* " Indentura terre nostre in <:jlo\vcester college in oxonia. " Ilec indentnni testatur qiiod Thomas permissione divina abbas monas- terii de Malmmesbnry et eiusdem loci conveiitus assii>;naverunt [et] conces- serunt ex commnni concensn Tohanni priori ecclesie cathcdralis beate Marie Wigoriiie et eiusdem loci conventui(iuoddam solum sive f'undnm cum cdificiis ac aysiamentis dicto fuudo pertinent ibus : quod f nudum iacet in prioratu dictorum abbatis et conventus in Stock welstrete iu suburbio Oxou, confineus in longitudioe viginti et quatuor pedes et dimidium a camera AVynchelcombie versus boriam et in latitudiue viginti et unnm pedes; et camera superior eiusdem fundi continet in long! ludinc quin- quagiuta et duos pedes versus cameram Wynchelcombie, cum camera parva iuferiori iumediate siiuata inter edificium de Tewkesbury et Wynchelcombie, continente duodecim pedes in latitudiue et viginti et duos pedes et dimidium in longitudine : pro mora et habitatione mona- cborum dicti prioris et conventus causa studii \e\ necessitatis illuc destinatorum sive imposterum destinandorum. Et eciam predicti abbas et conventus concesserunt quod predicti prior et conventus ibidem possunt quocienscunque eis placuerit de novo edificare ac premissa habere et tcnere pro monachis suis qui illuc causa studii sive necessi- tatis vel more fuerint transmissi vel imposterum Iransraittendi absque impedimento vel contradiccione cuiuscumque dictorum abbatis sive conventus vel successorum suorum. Reservata pretatis abbati et cou- ventui et suis successoribus proprietate soli predicti. Racione tamen istius concessionis aliquam terram extra edificia predicta predicti prior et conventus ocupare sive vendicare non debent nisi causa reparacionis edificii predicti. In cuius rei testimonium uni parti huius indenture, penes dictos priorem et conventum remanent!, sigillum commune dic- torum abbatis et conventus est appensum. Et alteri parti eiusdem indenture penes dictos abbatem et conventum reraaneuti sigillum com- mune dictorum prioris et conventus in dorao eorum capitulari est appen- sum. I>at' in domo capitulari ipsorum abbatis et conventus ibidem die Veneris proximo post iestum exaltacionis sancte crucis. Anno regni regis Henrici quarti tercio decimo. " Item indentura alia de eadem. '• Hec indentura faeta inter religiosos viros Thomam permissione divina abV>atem nionasterii Malmmesbnry et eiusdem loci conventum ordiuis sancti Benedicti ex parte una, et Thomam eadem permissione priorem ecclesie cathedralis Wigoi-n et eiusdem loci conventum prefati ordiuis ex parte altera, Tesuitur quod prefati abbas et conventus tradiderunt, concesserunt, et assignaverunt dictis priori et conventui ecclesie cathedralis Wigora quandam cameram cum fundo eiusdem infra prioratum dictorum abbatis et conventus de Malmmesbury vocatum nunc Griowceter college in Stocwell strete infra precinctum univer- sitalis Oxoii, subtus cameram et mansionem superiorera scolariumf predicti raonasterii de Wigorn directe situatam, continentem infra * How entirely the arrangements had changed and the whole Worcester tradition disappeared by the seventeenth century, — and this too in buildings which not long after became the home of a revived college bearing the name itself of Worcester, — may be seen from Anthony Wood's City of Oxford (ed. A. Clark), ii. 252-255, Oxford 1890. t MS. scolaciu. 183 mui'os vigiuti pedes in longitudine et duodecim pedes in latitudiue : Habendam et tenendam predictam cameram cum fuudo predicto prefatis priori et conventui et eoruin successoribiis pro se et .> Cathodralis Wigorn.," contaiiiin*;^ sundry articles of visitation, lo7S-l(i,"}9 ; injunctions, acts, cVc, of the dean and clia[)tor, and caveats. Among the contenis arc : — " ArticU^s to be intpiired of for tht^ Catliedrall (Miurc.ii in the Visitacion of the Kight Reverend Fathirin god John Lo. Bi^'. of Worcester Anno domini 1636." Keipiisition by Henry VIII. to Hugh [Latimer] bishop of Worcester for an account of the revenues of the churches in the . The following memorial relates to the .eamc subject : — "To the light honourable my veric good Lord Sir William Peiyam knight L. Cheife Baron of the Exchequer. " Right honouralde, accordinge to yo"" Lords]iij)pes iustand favourable order taken in her ma'''"' Court of Excheiiucr in Kaster tcarnie last i)ast upon a motion tiien made by M'' Attourney gcnerall, and other our learned Cownsell, for the exoneration and extinguisbnicnt of an v\rrer- * The MS. lias sepalm instead of speales. 18G i(iH> of vij'' xvi*, whereby wo "the Doane and Chapter of Worcester be wrongfully rliargod, and ought in lawc, cciuitie, and good conscience to he long sitheiue dischardged Now if it may please yo"" good Lord- phypp, and that honourable Court of Exchetpier to be advertysed, We have sent vp this bearer iM"" Carington onr Treasurer wUi our ])rincipall evidence to attend and satisfyeyour L5' and her nia*"^'' oilicc rs Whereby it shall appeare vnto yo"' that neyther by our Fowndacion from King 11. theight our noble Fowndcr, nor dotation w'^'h We praise god was made perfect, neyther by our imperfect local statute, w"^!! never had lielfe by the untimelie death of our sayde most worthie Fownder, nor liy auie other Record We stand bownd under reformation of the Cowrt to maintayue anie students in Oxford tt Cambridge avUi an Yearlie exhibition forth of our sayde Churches Lands and possessions as it is pretended. But in trueth we should have beane dischardged of that chardge before y*" death of our sayde Soveraigne Lord the King in consideracion of the surrender of the liOrdshippes of Tyddington and Alveston parte of our sayde Churches possessions in the Cowntie of Warwicke and some other our Lands and tenements ells wheare, wh We surrendered to the sayde late Kinge H. 8' ea intentione, y* we should not be chardged w*h the allowance to maintaine the sayde scholars in Oxford and Cambridge, and our Land beinge of a better valew, than the sayde exhibition was, we trust yo' Honour, and y' honourable Cowrt, will take order we shall be dischardged of the sayde exhibition & of v^ tenth of the sayde Lande surrendered, secundum equura et bonum et serenissimi principis intentionem. We most humbly pray in the rio'ht of our poore Church that we may not be wasted and consumed w^h contynuall and chardgeable suytes as we have beane of long time. So we shall hartely pray to Almightie god for y<^ contynuance of yo'^ Ho'' in all honourable places of Justice and Judgement under her ma^es most Royall person, and happie government, whom god preserve. From our Cathedral Church of Worcester the x"^ of Octob"" 1595. Yo' Lordshipps to be commaunded, Fran. Willis." [The dean's signature is autograph.] Endorsed : — D. Willis his letter to the Lo : Cheafe Baron, for discharg from keeping of schollers in Oxford & Cambridg. A draught statement of the dean and chapter's case (undated) mentions that the 12 scholars (•' students in divinitie ") received each 6f. 7s. 4\d. Papers relative to the prebend in the church attached by King Charles I. to the Lady Margaret's professorship of divinity at Oxford. Among them is a letter from T. Gaisford, afterwards dean of Christ Church, V5 Jan. 1827, relating to the vacancy in the chair caused by the death of Dr. Collinson ; it mentions that " There are several candi- dates in the field, and it is quite impossible to conjecture in the present state of things which is likely to be successful. Fausset of Magdalen, Symons of Wadham, Shuttleworth Warden of New Coll., D' Nares of Merlon, and I believe Hawkins of Oriel will offer themselves." [The first named was in fact elected.] " An Inventorie of the plate and other things belonginge to the Cathedrall Church of Wore' taken by Tho : Wilsson D : of Dyvynyty and Deane there and Tho : Bastard thresorcr of the said churche and others of the chapter the 3 day of Decemb. Au° 157G, An" Eliz. xix°. Imprimis, 3 gobletts Avith a cover all gylte. Item,* 2 salts g>lte. * 'Written Inte. 187 Item, A flatt boule gylte. Item, two cupps with covers parcel gylte. Item, two white sylver cupps with covers. Item, fyve spones with knupps, and one other to be Answered by B. Lewis. Item, ix* playne spones. Item, A sylver posseutf potte for the communion. Item, two sylver Cuppes & a plate for the communion. Item, three garnysshe of pewter vessell. Item, 2 possent;}: pottes. Item, three changers. Item, 4 dos table napkyns, and 5 odde lost at thaudyte lo78.§ Irem, 3 new course tableclothes. Item, 6 olde table clothes. Item, 2 table towels." In a second column : " for the quyer. Inprimis tenne velvet Cussyons. Item, 2 cussyons of tyssue. Item, 4 cussyons of freres. Item, an olde cussyon to kneele upon. Item, 2 pulpitt clothes of tyssheAV. Item, 2 coverings for the communion table the one of tysshew, thother of flowres. Item, 4 white cussyons. and 3 of whyte and grene damaske. Item, a paule of blacke velvett. Item, a canopie bought when the queue was here. Item, 3 Longe carpetts to sytt upon at Sermons. Item, a white cope. Item, one new clothe for y® communion table and an other old one for y^ same. Item, 4 new cupbord clothes bought by M'" Carington thresorer, 4.° decemb. an° 1578. players gere. A gnvvnc of freres gyrdles. A womans gowne. A K**|| doke of Tysshew. A Jerkyn and a payer of breches. A lytill cloke of tysshew. A gowne of silk. A Jerkyn of greene. 2 cappes and the devils apparell." [The writing is faded and the paper injured by damp.] An account of 19 July 1661 gives the cost of making new j)lat(' afte the interregnum — £ ,v. d. "Two flagons w* 171°^ 17^*^* at 5^ 7'^ p oz. is - 47 19 7 one bason w* 82 4 at o« 7'' p oz. is - 22 18 11 two cupps & (wo covers and one bread plate guilt w"- is 096"^ at 7" 4'' p oz. - - - 3') 04 for graueing the Arnics - - . - ()() oi () for a box to pack them in ... 00 02 (5 100 9 " * Perhaps [.«]»>. f Written //P.scHi. X Written p'tent. § nic. || A'* nucc'itaiii. ISS All iiiveuttny ol" plutL' luul otlui- utensils for the vcar ending 28 Xov. Ui81. and others of hiter date. Papers eoneerning the petition of the eity of Woreester [1G41] against tho D. Si C. and their management of the cathedral service ; and con- cerning a dis[)nte between the same [1071-2] with rt'ference to the immunities of the ehuivh. Sundry accounts for repairs in the catheih'al. Petition from members of the choir to the 1). t^- C. lor comjH'nsation for their loss of income in KMo and 1(540 "in regard of the said warres and the king's enc mies prcvalency in the same times." Plan showing ** where to find the severall Graves of those that lye buried within the Kayles at the Altar before it paved by Mr. William Thorneburry the then Treasurer of the CoUedge of Worcester " [temp. C'h. II.]. Order by the dean and chapter : "July the 26, 1072. Wee whose names are subscribed do here1)y Give our Consents, That the Kich Arras shalbe sold to D'" Turner for One Hundreth & Filty poundes in witness whereof we sett to o"" Handes. Wm. Thomas. Barnabas Oley, subd : Natuanaell Tomkins. Tho : Lamplugh. H. Greslky. W. Thornburgh." Papers relating to the leaden steeple on the N.E. of the cathedral church : — Account, Friday 18 Febr. 1047 : " The Lords and Commons . . . being informed that in y^ Cathedrall Church Yard of y" said City there is a steeple called the Leaden Steeple & fixed to the said Church, nor imployed to any other use then a wood house, the lead and other materialls of which steeple are estimated at above 1200^'\" have thei-efore ordered and ordained that certain persons be empowered to sell the steeple, and to employ the money " for reedifying of y*^ said Almes-Houses .... & for y" repair of y*' Churches of S* John in Bedwardine . . ., Dodderhall, and Castlemorton." The steeple sold for 617/. 45. 2d. " By the Comittee for the County and Cytty of Worcester. Ordered that M"" John Tylt shall forth w^^ paye unto M'" James Warwicke minister of Handley Castle Ten pounds out of the overplus of meanes remayne- inge in his hands i-aised by the sale of Lead for the repaireinge of the CoUedge Church at Worcester. Given vnder our hands this 15 daye of September 1051. B. Lechmere. William Dingle y. Gbrvase Bucke. Wm. Collins. Edw. Elvines." Order to John Tilte from the committee for the city and county of Worcester for ihe payment of 20/. " out of the overplus of raoneyes Remayning in his hands raised by the sale of lead for the repayring of the CoUedge Church at Worcester" to '-Mr. Syinon Moore Minister of the CoUedge att Worcester, being a very faithfuU precherof God's word and of singular good affection to the Government of this Commonwealth," who had " suffered greate losses by the Scotch Army at Worcester." Signed by B. Lechmere and four others. 13 Sept. 1651. 189 Order for a further sum of 10/. to be paid to S. Moore out of the " overplus of money raysed of lead taken of the CoUedge church to . repaire and keepe the same for a pnblike meeteing place for the service ' of god," 17 January 1652[-3]. A like warrant to " pay unto Henry Nason Clarke of the Colledge at Worcester the symme of Ten Poundes out of the Remainder of moneyes raised of the lead taken of the College Church," 10 Aug, 1653. Many other warrants of like contents. Warrant of Charles II. assigning I'ents for the repair of the catliedral church, 9 Oct. 1660. An estimate of " Damages done to the Cathedral Church of Worcester (as is supposed by the late powers") dated 6 November 1660. The sum is 16354/., whei-eof nearly one-half is charged for lead taken off all the roofs, and priced at 20/. the fother. The " Bookes, Brazen Eagle, Communion plate" are valued at 100/; the organ at 700/. Copy of letters of privy seal of Charles I. revoking reversionary almsmen's places, countersigned bv Fran : Windebank, 31 Jan, 1637[-8], Resolutions of D. & C, 1 Feb. 1642-3, inter alia agreeing to supply King Charles I. with 1000/. to be obtained by the felling of "timber trees out of Cornwood." '* The bill for the Auditours supper at Talbout 25 Novemb. 1G27, " for shoulder of mutton for Capon - - - - for a Rabbet - - - for (ier _ - - - foi bread and beare Sume - - S' 0," The bill for the audit in Nov, 1763 was 76/. 07.v. 02Af/. Other audit bills run from 1661 onwards. Account for building " the newe double Organs in the Cathedral Church" [1613] with particulars of the registrature and a list ofj sub- scribers. Letter to the D. & C. recommending one Bartholomew Mason for a vicarage in their gift. Signed by W. Burghley. F. Warwyk. R, Leycester. F. Knollys. Francys Croft, Uat. 14 March, s.a. Letters missive from Elizabeth to D. 8c C. for the election of Richard Fletcher bp. of Bristol to the see. Signed. Bat. 13 Jan, 1592, Hampton Court, Papers "touching the paym' of Tyth salt ariseingc out of the BuUaries of Salt Water within the Burrough " of Droitvs'ich, 5 Oct. 17 Jac. I. [1619], Notes of deodands [I()7S-1720]. Memoranrd III. to the prior and convent for their appro- priation withont licence of the church of Dodderhill. Keti- ington: 22 May, anno 33 [1359]. Drawer 12, labelled " Ancient Manuscripts, &c.," contains cer- tificates, citations, indentures, and various other deeds ranging from 1331 to 1615. They were examined in 1881 by Bishop Hobhouse, who has left a rough docket of each bundle. Among them are — " Rotulus Bonorum Temporalium in Episcopatu Wygorii " with the sums paid by each religious house, c. 1300. It is not copied (as suggested by Bishop Hobhouse) from Pope Nicolas's Taxatio ; but the sums paid are calculated on the basis of ^\j of the figures in that valor. License of Henry [VI. ?] to the convent to make a conduit to sujjply the convent with water fi'om Hynnewyk [Henwick] over Severn- bridge. Citation by the abbats of Oseney and Rewley and the prior of St. Frydeswyde [Oxford] in the diocese of Lincoln, appointed by John XXII. to act in the matter, requiring the prior and monks of Great Malvern to appear at Pershore to answer for their resistance to the prior of Worcester's visitation sede vacante. 1333. Valor of the property of the College Church of Worcester, as founded by Henry VIII. Anno 32. The roll is wrapped in two leaves of a handsome late twelfth century service book (propria sanctorum), of which other leaves, once used as fly-leaves or wi-appers, are preserved among the muniments. Injunctions ordered by Richard Davids, professor of divinity,. Thomas Tonge and Roland Meyrigg, professors of the laws, and Richard Pates, professor of the comein lawes of this realme, Queen Elizabeth's visitors, for observance by the dean and chapter, (n. d.) Drawer 14, labelled " Ancient Charters," contains leases, grants^ quitclaims, &c. Many are cf the 13th cent. They have been numbered and briefly described by Bishop Hobhouse. In other drawers and presses lie large numbers of compotus and court rolls, and similar documents. These are entirely unarranged, and it .seemed inadvisfible to enter upon what would necessarily be the heavy task of examining them. It may be presumed that they relate exclusively to the manors belonghig to the chapter, though it is. of course, possible that other documents have strayed in among them. Besides the presses and drawers already described the muniment room contains a box full of charters, many of which appear in strictness to belon;; not to the dean and chaptci-, but to the bishop. Among them are : — Charter of John granting to master Mauger, elect of Worcester, and his successors " tales libcrlates mV)yr' et do Aluithecli/rclie cum pertinentiis quales habeant in aiiis maneriis suis P'piscopatiis Wigorn' . . . . sicut bone memorie Ricnrdi Regis fratris nostri carta testatur. Testibus Viviano Archidiacono Derebyen, Hoberto Capellano O 79:500. N 19 + iiosfio, ilohannc de liraoncostr, K. Com Leicestf, W. CoiTi de Ariiiulel, W. Maiiscallo. Com do Pcribroc, Willolino do Aubeif;;iiy, "NVarino filio Geroldi, Fuloone de Kaiitilupo. Data per maiuim H. Cantuar Ai-chif'piscopi Cancellarii nostii apud Sagiuiu, Octavo die Augusti Auno Kogui Nostri Prirao " [1190]. tiiaiit l)v Wm. Picot of lands to the convent. Witne.'^ses : Thomas Piior [de "Saucto Se]pulchro,* . . . de Carevilht, John Matin [?], Thomas de Cestreton, clerks : Jordan de Vir[?]rain . . . ilospeth, Symon de Ui Newelaiide, Huctred . . . Robert [CJauuin, William Telneui, Geoffrey de Spechele. Very frcnpncntary. [c. 1200.] Cirant of Oodfrey [de Lucy] bishop of Winchester to the church of St. Thomas the Martyr de Lesnes [or Westwood, in Kent] and the canons there of his house " dc Stranda" with its buildings, &c. ; " salvo eo quod Johannes de Luci predictam domum cum omnibus pertinentiis suis (juoad \ i.xerit habebit et tenebit reddendo inde annuatim predictis Canonicis de Lesnes dim Marc argenti." Winchester: 25 Aug. anno uontif. xv°. [1204]. Test. '' Grregorio Unfrido Capellanis. Ph. de Luci, Rob. de Luci. Magistro Willelmo de Terri Clericis, Johanne de Briws. Stephano de exclusa, miUtibus, ot multis aliis." Deed of sale by John de Luci to Mauger bp. of Worcester of certain houses in the Strand, and of their rents, " unde Godefridus de Luci pater meus antequam esset episcopus terram emit et domos fecit." Witnesses : Goscelin Marshall, Master Michael de Bukinton', Peter Cabair, Master Anfr', Robert of Antioch, William Le Norreis, Abel de Wigorn' John de Wigorn', Richard Camerarius, Warin le Goiz, Robert Scrippe, Asegod, William Telneui, William C'apeil, Master Nicholas, Alexander Le Gorgurer, Ingulf his brother, Ascelin Le Meirin, Stephen Clerk, and many others, [c. 1200.] Seal. Final concord between Henry son of John of Trochemertoii and Mauger bishop of Worcester, whereby the former acknowledges the grant by the bishop of half a hide claimed by him at Fladebir' [Fladbury] " de se hereditario tenendam salvo eidem domino meo Episcopo et successuribus eius et domino Regi antiquo et debito ser\-icio eiusdem dim hide," and half a hide " in hamello de Hulk," saving as before, et preterea .salvo ei novo servicio et successoribus eius quod ego pro ilia dim hida debeo, scilicet octo solidos per annum," the grantee surrender- ing all claim to a virgate in Norwich [Northwick] and half a hide in Upton. Witnesses : Ric. Louel parson of Fladbury, Rob. Pipart, Hug. Pipart, Osb. of Lench, Simon de Noualauda, Will, de Mora, Will. Egue, Rob. de Trochemertoii, Jordan de Wicowan, Mr. German, Thom. Boet, Ric. Camerarius, and others, [c. 1200.] License of King John to Bp. Walter [de Grey] to assart in his wood of Fladbury. Witnesses : P. bp. of Winchester, Wm. Briwerr, Hugh de Nevill, Walter de Lascy, William de Kantilup, Hugh de Mortuo Mari, James de Poterna, Henry dc Ponte Audomar. " Dat' per raanum Magistri Ric de Marisco cancellarii nostri apud Turrim Londofi xv March a° 16." [1214-15.] Privilege of Gregory IX. : " Gregorius episcopus servus servorum dei Dilectis tiliis magistro et fratribus domus militie Templi in Anglia Salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Cum a nobis petitur quod iustum est et honestum, tarn vigor equitatis quam ordo exigit rationis ut id per sollicitudinem officii Probably at Warwick. 195 nostri ad debitum perducatur efFectum. Ea propter, dilecti iu domiuo filii, vestris iustis postulationibus iucliuati, omnes libertates et immunitates a prcdecessoribns nostris Eomanis pontificibus per privilegia et alias indulgentias domui vestre coccessas, libertates et exemptiones secularium exactionum a regibus et principibus ac aliis Christi fidelibus rationabiliter vobis indultas, terras quoque possesdiones et alia boua vestra sicirt ea omnia iuste ac pacifice obtinetis vobis et per vos eidem domui, auctoritate apostolica confirmamus et preseutis script! patrocinio communimus. Nulli ergo omnino homiiium liceat banc paginam nostra confirmationis infringere vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Siquis autem hoc attemptare presumpserit, iudignationem omnipoteutis dei et beatorum Petri et Pauli Apostolorum ejus se noverit incursurum. Dat' apud Vrbem veterem V. Id. Septembr' Pontificatus nostri Auno primo." [1227.] [ The seal is lost ; hut the red and yellow silk which tied it remains.^ Mandate of Innocent IV. : " Innocentius episcopus servus servorum dei. Dilectis filiis . Decauo ecclesie Warewykie Wigorniensis diocesis et Roberto de Cathe- broc Canonico Licbefeldensi Salutem et apostolicam beuedictionem. Cum dileetos filios Egidium Decauum Capellanum nostrum et Cauonicos Herefordenses necnon et Herefordensem ecclesiam cum omnibus bonis que impresentiarum ijdem Canonici omnes et singuli et ecclesia predicta rationabiliter ac pacifice possident aut in futurum iustis modis dante domino poterunt adipisci sub beati Petri et nostra protectione duxerimus admittendos. Disci-etioni vestre per apostolica scripta mandamus, qua- tinus dictos Decanum et Cauonicos ac eorum singulos necnon ipsorum ecclesiam non permittatis contra protectionis nostre tenorem super premissis ab aliquibus indebite molestari. Molestatores huiusmodi per censuram ecclesiasticam appellatione postposita compescendo. Xon obstante si aliquibus a sede apostolica sit indultum quod excommunicari aut interdict nequeant vel suspendi absque sedis ciusdem speciali mandato pleuam et expressam faciente de indulto huiusmodi mentionem. Quod si non ambo hiis exequendis potueritis interesse alter vestrum ea nichilominus exequatur. Dat Perusii iij Non. Febr. Pontificatus nostri Anno Nono." [3 Feb. 1252.] [Tied with hemp : seal lost.'\ Notarial attestation of bishop Nicolas of Worcester's letters patent declaring the prior and chapter to have free power of action, administra- tion, and jurisdiction sede vacante. Alvechnrch : G Jan. 1266-7 (^attested London : 22 Feb.) . ,^:iCitation by Ottoboni cai'diual deacon of St. Adrian and legate of the apostolic see to [Boniface] archbishop of Canterbury requiring him to appear himself or by his proctor to answer for the conduct of friar Martin of Clyve, whom the archbishop had appointed his vicar and commissary general for the creation of officials iu vacant dioco.'jes, and ■who had in company with Mr. William de Rokelandc appointed official by him exercised sundry powers in the diocese of Worcester during the vacancy of the see by the death of bi.sho[) Walter, to the manifest prejudice of the establLshi-d rights of the prior and chapter .ve«/r vrrrante. Warwick: 10 August anno pont. Clem. IV. 2. [1207.] " Memorandum (piod convcnientibus venerabilibus patribus doniinis Nicholao Winton suffragancorum Cantuar' provincio decauo, Kogero Coventr' et Lichefeld' Waltero Exonieil Willclmo liathou et \\'elleu Godefrido Wygornieii et lohanne Hereford Episcopis, Anno Domini m" ce° Septuagesimo apud Rading'. In crastino dominice (|ua cantatur Letae lerusaleui ad tractandum super indempnitutibus suis et suarum N 2 196 ccclesiarmn nc suoruin subclitorum et prooipue ecclesie sue metropolitane sodis Cantvmr' ; necnon super hoc (|uod scde melropolitana vacante nuniachi ecclesie Christi C'antuar' usurpare nituiitur in personis et ocolcsiis et ecclesiis suftragaueorum episcoporum provincie Cantuar' iurisdicliouem metropolitnnum continfieiitem, quam nuiKiuam hactenus obtinuorunt, in non modicum preiudicinin dictorum sufFraganeorum ecelesiarum suarum et subditonim suornm, falces suas in messes alienas mittore indebite tractnntos, nichil iuris ex hoc, comodi, sen honoris futuro metro])olitano attribuentcs sou adquirentes, licet per hoc colore quesito presumpcionem suam queraiit palliare : Unanimi consensu dictorum dominorum convenit ne quod inter eos salubriter et unanimiter statutuni fuerit ordinatum seu provisum super premissis tractu temporis aliquorum vel alicuius dissensu valeat in irritum vel ad iniquum revccari ; Videlicet ut quod ab omnibus statutum fuerit ab omnibus equauimiter supportetur et onere equali sustentetur et sub fidei reiigione securitas legitima de inviolabili communis eorum provisionis observacione prestetur. Salva in omnibus auctoritate sedis apostolice et metropolitani Cantuar'. Ad que omnia et singula premissa fideliter et plenarie observanda singuli predictorum dominorum Episcoporum sese ad invicem obligarunt bona fide promittentes se omnia et singula predicta observaturos et pro viribus suis et impleturos et super suniptibus circa deffensionem predictorum factis, si quis fieri contingat, pro rata seu jiorcione quemlibet eorum contingente plenarie satisfacturos. In cuius rei testimonium huic presenti memorando dicti domini episcopi sigilla sua fecerunt apponi." Seals lost. Letters patent to Godfrey bp. of AVorcester " quod domos suas infi-a clausum suum Wygorn et quandam domum suara infra manerium suum de Wydyndon in comitatu Glouc' muro de petra et calce firmare possit et keruellare ad modum castri." Westminster : 20 October 55 H. III. [1271.] Acts of the court of arches in proceedings against the dean and chapter of the prebendal church of St. Mary, Warwick. [1284 ?] A mandate of Robert [KilwardbyJ abp. of Canterbury to the official of the archdeacon of Gloucester declaring the action of the prior of Worcester in exerting authority over Gloucester and Tewkesbury during the last vacancy of the see to be null and void and contrary to the composition made between abp. Boniface and the prior and convent. The refei-ence is to the high-handed proceedings of the prior in March 1302 in attempting to visit those monasteries, and then in issuing excommunications against them for refusing to submit to his jurisdic- tion.* Fulham: 13 July, 1303. . iii., which was destroyed in the fire of 1731, and contained a work sonutiuies cited as '' AnnakiS Cestr." or " Chrou. Cestrens." This extended I'roni tlie Inrth of Christ to 1255, but is shown from the two leaves which remuin (though these are for the most part undecipherable) to have been "a chronicle or coutinuous narrative, and not mere annals."* It was not therefore strictly the original of our three manuscripts, but it is possible that these were abridged from it. On the other hand, the Cottonian MS. is stated to have stopped short at 1255, while the Lichfield text runs on to 1259, the Gastrell to 1295, and the Mostyn to 1297. Mr. Christie considers it probable that the Cottonian chronicle " was the original (or a copy of an earlier original) compiled and preserved in the abbey of Chester, from which many of the entries in the Mostyn and (jastrell MSS. relating to events before 1255 were copied, and that the subsequent entries, and probably the whole of the MS. of which the Mostyn MS. is a copy, were made and compiled under the direction of Simon of ^Vhitchurch and completed after his death."f Abbat Whitchurch was elected in 1205 and died in 1290. The Lichfield MS. was, there- fore, it may be inferred, transcribed from the Chester Annals at the time when they were in process of compilation. For the period through which it extends it includes all the notices of the Mostyn MS., with three exceptions (under 1238, 1241, and 1244), and in several places supplies considerable lacunae in it, besides correct- ing the grammar- and the spelling of proper names. It should be remarked that in two cases where these lacunae occur there is a space left blank iu the Mostyn MS. There seems no reason for doubting that the Lichfield and Mostyn MSS. are both transcripts of the same original ; only the one is by an early and competent, while the other is by a late and ignorant, scribe. The Gastrell MS. is disfigured by interpolations which cannot be earlier than the fourteenth century, but it too is no transcript of either of the other copies, but is a series of extracts taken, either directly or more likely through an intermediate (interpolated) copy, from the same original. At the same time the possibility always remains — though I consider it less probable — that the two older manuscripts on the one side, and the Gastrell MS. on the other, represent respectively a longer and a shorter body of extracts from the destroyed Chester Chronicle in a copy which was continued down to 1259 at the time the Lichfield transcript was made, and to 1297 when the Mostyn MS. was written.J It will be noticed that in the Lichfield MS. an attempt has been made to accommodate the title of the bishop to the Lichfield tradition. The Annals speak always of the bishop of Chester or of Coventry; but under 1245, when the Mostyn MS. makes Eoger of Weseham consecrated bishop of Chester, a later corrector of the Lichfield MS. has substituted the * Note by Mr. E. M. Thompsou, cited by Mr. Christie, introd., p. xxv ; of whose resuhs the account iu the text is a summary. t Ibid., p. xxix. X As for the chronology of the Annals, Mr. Christie is of opiuion that the year is made to begin with 1 April (introd., p. xxx). But 30 March is included at the beginning of 1194,26 March of 1234 and 1254, and 28 March of 1245. We may infer, therefore, that the annalist's practice was to begin the year with Lady Day. He is not, however, quite uniform, since in 1264 he includes 24 March at the begin- ning of the year, and in 1259 4 April at the end. 211 word Lichfield,* and under 1238 an erasure doubtless betrays a similar change. Where these Annals end on f. oci, the vacant space is occupied by a long index of the contenis of the Register, some leaves of which are obliterated by galls. Then follow, ff. 11, 12, some documents added about 1400 and later. After these twelve leaves there begins with a new foliation a copy of the Annals of Burton, written towards the end oi the thirteenth century (fF. 1 — 77). The text is important because the editor of the work, the late Dr. Luard, was ignorant of the existence of any other copy than that found in the Cottonian jVIS., Vespas. E. iii., from which he printed it in the Annales Monastici, vol. i. (1864), and which belongs, excepting "the first few leaves," to the fourteenth century .f The Lichfield MS. ends with the words ' Obiit lohannes filius Galfridi 'J in the year 1258, thus omitting the last tour years of the Annals as they stand in the Cottonian MS.§ The deficiency is not due to the de- struction of the concluding portion of the transcript or to the loss of any leaves. The last sentence ends on the seventh line of the second column of f. 77, and is written iu a style which gives the impression that the writer meant to proceed further. The fact that the substantive part of these Annals ends in 1258, as the preceding copy of the Chester Annals does a year later, seems to show that about that date the ambition of the secular chapter of Lichfield was roused to emulate the example of so many of the regular churches by drawing up a body of annals which, while recording the great events of English history, shoidd devote special attention to theaffairs of the church and diocese. For this purpose it may be presumed copies were ordered to be made of the annals kept at the neighbouring religious houses of Burton and Chestei", and these copies, made within not many years of the last records contained in tl-.em, were placed at the head of a newly opened register of the church of Lichfield. That the Intention of continuing them was not seriously carried out is but one more illustration of the characteristic habits of the clergy in a secular chapter. They had not, like monks, their daily apportioned tasks, whether in writing or in manual labour, and the projected Lichfield Annals were never made. The relation of the Lichfield MS. to the Cottonian as printed by Luard is not hard to indicate in general terms. That the latter is not derived from the former is proved by its greater compass as well as by certain varieties of reading. I take it that they both were transmitted from the same original at Burton, but that the Lichfield MS. was copied before the original had been continued beyond 1258. If this bo so, w«' are able to carry back the date of the composition of the Annals a stage earlier than was previously ascertained. It is evident that the Lichfield copy was made for ns(! elsewhere than at Burton Abbey, since for example under 1087 the words " Ilic dedit nobis, videlicet monasteiio ■ * In connexion with lliis question of names I may call attention to the title "Annales Cestrien.ses " in the Mostyn MS. as indicative of :i late date. All tin- notices of the destroyed Cottonian M.S. call its contents " Chronicon Cestrcnse," and Wharton iiniforriily speaks of the "Annales Cestrenses." In our MS. we find " Cestr." regularly abbreviated, and the county called " Cestresir'." t Ann. monast., i. pref. p. xxvii. t I'. 4Cl,ed. Luard. § Tp. 401— .lOO. o 2 212 " Btirtonionsi * " appear in oiu" text as " Hie dedit monasterio Burton' " ; anil this fiict supports the hypothesis 1 have sugjjested above that the book was written definitely for the church of Lichfield. A later band has here and there added a few \vords+ or an entire sentence. J; In the space left vacant where the Annals end a hand of the latter part ottlie lourteenth century has supplied the headinj^s of years from 1250 to 1312, but the entries under these years are few and unimportant. They are written in .several hands, and in different ink, and are as follow : — 12t>4. Belluni apud Lewes. 12G5. Bellum apud Euesham. 1272. Obiit Henr. rex quartus. 1274. Cor. Edward in f. sancti Magni. 1280. Mr. Radulfus de Semprinham decanus Lich. x. kal. April. § 1201. Electus e:;t Walterus de Lang' in episcopura Lich. et in cap. Ecel.ll 1295. El. Walterus de Langetoun in epm. Lich. 1305. Ob. rex Edwardus filius Henrici apud Burgum sujier sabt. die translacionis sancti Thome. On the next leaf, f. 78, begins a series of narratives of interest for the history of ^lercia, and in particular for that of the church and see of Lichfield. These narratives, which are written in a hand of the four- teenth century, are all abridged, with unimportant modifications from "William of Malme.sbury's Gesta Regum, i. 74 — 95. The abridgment has been made from an inferior text : thus we have Egritum for William's Eyricum, and Mecehuium for Mercelinnm (§ 74), Ehgelbrithutn for Egelbnhtum (§ 86), Lambrichium for lambrihtum (§ 87). The narrative ends with the murder of St. Kenelm, " Nomen et decus martirii adeptus ibidem est sepultus,"l! to which is subjoined " De quo dicitur, In Cleu sub spina iacet in eouvalle** bovina Rege puernatus Kenehnus decapitatus."tf (f. 81 a col. 1.) The margin contains a number of glosses, of nearly the same date as the text, some of which deserve quotation, I prefix to each the passage to which it belongs and the reference to the corresponding section in William of Malraesbury within brackets. [Et tandem anno xxx™o, ab Oswio fratre Oswaldi mterfectus,JJ infernaliumanimarum numerum auxit. § 74.] Interfectus in Deuiseb'na iuxta rivum de Uisi. Auxit, quia paganus ut in legenda sancti Oswaldi. [Oswius regnum suscepit. § 75.] * P. 185, ed. Luard. The sentence continues, ' Ufram maiorem etminorem, tem- pore suo, cum tota terra de ultra Dova et Eccleshall' ; where the Lichfield MS. has in place of the last -word ecclesiis. + Thus under 1084 the exact date of bishop Gerard's death "ii Idus Ian." is supplied. ;J; For instance, after the account of the martyrdom of St. Alphege (p. 184, ed. Luard) it is added . "Sibertus duxit coream per annum cum sociis in Saxoa'a." § Cf. Wharton, Angl. Sacr. i. 465. (\ Entered under the wrong year. % W. Malmesb. Gest. Keg. i. 95 (vol. i. 95, ed. Stubbs, 1887). ** Written over an erasure. tt A form of the well-known verses which differs from those collected by the Eev. D. Royce, Landboc sive Registrum Monast. de Winchelcumba, i. (1892) introd. p. vii, note. It Sc. Penda. 213 Oswius : sub quo beatus Cedda, abbas sancte Marie in Listingay, a Wyne Lundon episeopo in archiepiscopatum Ebor' est consecratus. [Episcopatum Lundonie cuidam Wyne vendidil. § 76.] Wyne : qui prefuit anno vi^'lxvii, Theodoro tunc archiepiscopo Cant', qui CeJdam adininistracioni Eboracensis eeclesie fecit presidente Wilfrido, ut in logenda sancti Cedde. [Wlfero post xix annos det'uncto. § 77.] Defuncto. Eius tempore sanctus Ceadda t'uit episcopus Licti anno gracie vi^lxxv'", ut in eiusdem legenda patet. [Ethelredus * * * apud Bardeneyam in raonachum tonsus mox in abbatem est alteratus. § 77.] Hie eciam Burc sancti Petri construxit. Unde versus : Tres fratres fuiraus funduutes Burc. Ego primus rexegodum vixi Burc post Peada bene rexi. Hii Burc feceruut. Confirmo quod ambo dederuut. Hoc dictum est de Ethelredo frat'S Wlfridi. In quingenteno simul anno ter duodeno, sub Peada rege valido t'ulgenteque lege est hec fundata domua et Medehamsteyde dicta tunc, nunc voce rata urbs Petri benedicta.* De isto tamen Peada uon inveni scriptum : unde credo quod erratum sit. Sit in noroine Pead pro Weda.f [Denebertus Wigorn, Wereuberthus Legecestr', Edulfus Sitnacestr', VVlford Herford, Alheard Helinaneusis, Ticlifrid D.muicensis. § 87.] Legecestr' unitur Lincoln. Hodie est Norwic.J Danuicensis : hodie Lincoln. These histori(.'al articles are Followed by a few documents which occupy the remainder of the leaf. First, in the same column, in a charter hand, also of the fourteenth century, is a writ of Edward III. for the release of a prisoner : — f. 81a. The King to the sheriff of Warwick. ' Ex parte lloberti de Luggor', quem ad denunciacionem venerabilis i)atris Walteri archiepiscopi Cant', tanquam excominunicatum et clavcs eeclesie contempnentem, per corpus suum secundum consuetudinem Anglic per te iusticiari prccepimus, donee sancte eeclesie tarn de contemptu (juani de iniuria ei illatu ab eo fuerit satisfactum ; nobis est ostensum (piod, licet idem llobertus eidem archiepiscopo freipienter obtulerit ydoneam caucionem de parendo mandatis eeclesie in forma iuris, ut per hoc absolucionis beneficium cousequi possit, idem tamen archiei)iscopus caucionem illam ab eo hactenus admittere recusavit : de (luo niiramur. Et (juia nolumus quod idem Robertus diucius in persona contra iusticiam detinesvtur, tibi precipimuH (|uod in propria persona tua accedus ad prcfatum «^piscopum, et ipsum ex parte nostra moneas et efticaciter inducas ut, accepta ab eodem lloberto cau(;ione predicta, ipsum a prisona prodicta mandet deliberari. Et si idem archiepiscopus id facore nolnerit, tunc ipsum Robertum a prisona j)redicta, si ea occasione et non alia detineatur in eadem, deliberari facias.' Nottinyham : 8 May, a. 1 [l.'}27]. * The verse in the manuscript i« defective. t ThiB {^losH is in difiercnt ink from the others. X lieferring to " Ilelmanensis." 2U liit-encc of lloiu v 111* to tlic titan and thapter (on I ho applicnlion of Mr. W , prtHMMittu-of tlip fliuroh and of t-anon iln«;li de ShoteViy) for tlu> oloction of « l.ishop, ;J May, a. 23 [12:59]. f. 81/>. Licont-e of the same (on tliP application of Mr. Ralph do la Coke and Mr. Aloxandor lo Blund, canons of the cluiroh) for the same purpose. 11 .In no, a. 26 [12J2]. Licence of Edward I. (on the application of Mr. Lnke of Ely and Mr. Henry of Cornwall, canons) for the same purpose. 12 Jan. a. 24 [1295-6].' The next article, f. Hlb, col. 2, is the first of a series of papal instruments whiob form a remarkable and characteristic feature of the Register. None of them, except those printed by Dugdale, are calendared in the Registrum of Jaffe (2nd ed.) or Potthast, unless the fact is stated.! Letter of Iloniface VIIL, notifying the appointment of administrators of the see of Coventry and Lichfield during the suspension of bishop "Walter Langton, 30 Mf.rcli 1302 (a very ignorant copy). Bonefacius episcopus servus servorum Dei dilectis filiis Priori et Conventui Coventr' et . . Decano et Capitulo Lich ecclesiarura Salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Inter cetera t[uibus coraissa nobis a Domino universali cura Doniinice gregisij: astringimur, exitant nos ecclesiarum .status quas inspicimus ex quovis casu vel cau.sa fluctuare turbinibus vel eis deformacionis iminere dispendium, ut ipsis, ne detrimentum incurrant, de oportuno et solubri remedio per nostrc cooperacionis ministerium succurratur. Dudum siquideni ad audienciara nostram gravi relacione perducto quod Gualterus Coventr' et Lich episcopus diversa et gravia scelera, que taraen ex causa duximus subticenda, commiserat ac eciam committebat, et quod super eis erat in illis partibus pulilice diffamatus: nos, volentes scire super illis plenius veritatem, episcopum peremptorie citari fecimus, ut infra certum terminum uostro se conspectui personaliter presentaret, recepturns pro merit!*, ac alias faclurus et receptur.is quod iusticia suaderet, nostrisque pariturus beneplacitis et mandatis, vel suam, si posset, innocenciam ostensurus. Set quia prefatus episcopus, citacioni huiusmodi parere§ contempnens, in dicto termino [f. 82] et post ilium per plures menses tfciam expectatus non comparuit personaliter coram nobis, nos contra ipsum laliter contumacem pro huiusmodi contemptu ef contumacia procedentes eum ab execucione pontificalium duximus autoritate apostolica suspendere. Eodem autem episcopo ad nostram postmodum presenciam accedente, cum de ipso nobis super diversis criminibus gravis delaciu facta esset, nos super illis in cui'ia nostra, quadam inquisicione|| premissa, quani sibi non duximus publicandam, ponsata negocii qualitate, prefatum episcopum ab administracione spiritualium et teraporalium duximus per nostras sub certa forma litteras suspendendum, et nichilo- minus ad eliciendum super huiusmodi criminibus plenius veritatem per easdem precepimus litteras inquiri super eis in partibus Anglicanis. Ne igitur Coventr' et Lich ecclesie interim exposite neglectui videantur, * I have not thought it necessary to enclose the numerals of kinjrs and popes iwithin square hrackets, since it will be understood that in hardly- any cases are they expressly given in the MS. f MauN- of these documents, though not perhaps as many as might have heen ex- pected, are described by Mr. \V. H. BHss in his Calendar of Entries in the papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland, i. : 1198-1304 (1893). X ^IS. dominici regif. § MS. parare. || MS. inquestione. 215 neve careaut oportune cure presidio, ac incurrere valeant in spiritualibus et temporalibus detrimentum, uos cupientes tales ad ipsarum custodiam deputare per&onas quaium bonitate ac studio presei'vari a noxiis, ad sabibria dirigi, et prosperis possint (Deo propicio) successibus ampliari^ dilectis filiis magistris Philippe de Evordon, Helie de ISTaptoii, er Thome de Adberbuf, canonicis Lich, de quorum providencia, discrecione, ac diligencia eircumspecta plenam in Domino fiduciam optinemus, curam, administracionem, et procuracionem ipsarum Coventr' et Licti ecclesiarum tarn in si)iritualibus quam in temporalibus apostolica autoritate com- misimus libere in omnibus exerceudas : ita quod in utriusque dispoueudi, precipiendi, et ordinandi, prout earundem ecclesiarum utilitati expedire viderent, et contradietores per censuram ecclesiasticam, appellacione postposita, compescendi habeant plenam et liberam facultatem, donee id per apostolicara sedem revocari contingat, vel de dictis ecclesiis aliter ordinari, alienacione verum ipsarum ecclesiarum eis penitus interdicta. Ceterum, ne interim prefatus episcopus in obprobrium pontificalis officii raendicare cogatur, pensatis facultatibus ecclesiarum predictarum ac persone ipsius episcopi condicionibus diligenter, de fructibus earundem ecclesiarum dicto episoopo sustentacionem non excessivam sed temperatam expensarum autoritate nostra ministrare procurent. Idioque universita- tem vestrara rogamus, monemus, et ortamur, attente per apostolica vobis scripta mandantes, quatinus administracionibus et procuracionibus ipsius super premissi;^ sic umiliter et efficaciter intendatis quod possitis exinde merito coramendari : alioquin sentenciam quam ip>acis nostre lesionem, et terrorem po[)uli nostri manifestum, undc dampna et pericula graviora in l)r('\ i tiinetur cvenire nisi remediiun cicius ad hoc apponatur: Nos danipnis et periculis huiusmodi* precavere volentes, ut tenemur, assignavimus dilectos vt fideles nostros Ilugoncm de Menilt, lohannem de Hinkeleye, et lohannem de Myncrs, et| duos corum ad inquirendinn per sacramenfnm proborum et legalium honiimnn de comitatu tuo, tarn infra libertates (piain extra, per (pio-t rei Veritas melius sciri poterit de nominibus illoruui (jui huiusmodi cont'cderaciones, congregaciones, et conxenticula illieita scu alia huiusmodi mala, per que * MS. hp. t >re>nantlt']: 30 Oct., a. 1 [1189]. (iniut by Henry III. to Roger, bisht)p of Coventry and Lichfii'ld, and his successors of free warren on tlieir manors of Lichfield, Hewod, Lanijeilou, Ku{;g»'t, Kanocbur', Berlccwic*, Ecclesale, Brewode, and Beudesert, in Suiffordshire ; Preez in Shropshire; JSallowe in Derby-, shire ; and Ichenton, Tachebrok', in Warwickshire. Woodstock : 2 June, a. 43 [1259]. f. 1416. Grant by Henry III. to bishop Alexander of f
. Commission of Gregory IX. to the bishop of London and the priors of Merton and Westminster to deal with the dispute between the bishop and the prior aud convent of Coventry concerning St. Michael's chapel in that city. Lateran : 10 July, a. 7 [1233]. f. 1596. Writ of Henry II. to the .sheriff of Staffordshire to hear claims of the bishop of Chester and to see that he suffers no injustice. Witness: W, fil. Grer., chamberlain. Northburn.j Mandate of Innocent TV., relating the disputed election to the ))ishoprick of Richard abbat of Evesham and of William [of Montpellier], and th(^ death of the former and resignation of the latter, and appointing Rfoger Weseham] dean of Lincoln. Lyons .- 4 July, a. 3 [1245]. f. 1606. Mandate of Martin-IV. to the abbat of St. Mary de Pratis, Leicester, the archdeacon of Northampton, and Master Giffrid de Yecano[?], canon of Caml)ray, to hear the cause brought by Walch[el]inus, canon of Lichfield, against Raynerius de Vichio, called de Florencia, in the matter of the church of Horburne [Harborne]; Orvieto : 20 May, a. 2 [1282]. f. 161. Mandate of Nicolas III. to the dean of Salisbury to inquire into charges of alienation of their lands and possessions by the dean and chapter of Lichfield, and to restore the same to them. *S^^. Peter^s, Rome : 13 Apr., a. 2 [1279]. Mandate of Gregory X. to the prior of Coventry to inquire into charges of alienation of his prebend [at Harborne] by Henry de Gamo, canon of Lichfield, and to restore the same. Lyons : 1 July, a. 3 [1274]. f. 1626. Mandate of Martin IV. to the abbat of LilleshuU, ordering him, at the petition of the dean and chapter of Lichfield, to procure the restoration to ihem of lands improperly alienated. Orvieto : 27 June, a. 1 [1281]. Mandate of Martin ]V. to AVilliam de Conflens, archdeacon of Here- ford, and to the treasurer and precentor of the same, to hear the appeal of the dean and chapter of Lichfield against the sentence of the arch- bishop of Canterbury in the dispute concerning tiie chiu'ch of Harborne. Orvieto: 27 June, a. 1 [1281]. * The (late is intercstitij,' bcciiusf pope .lohn is said to have been crushed by the fall of a wall on 20 May, and to have died "infra triduum " (Obcrti .Stanconi Anuales, in Men. Germ. Hist, xviii. 2H.''j [1863]). Thodateof his death, however, is usually given as 20 May (Annal. Placent. Gibell., ibid. p. 568). This document in later by twelve days than any registered bj* Potthasf. t Eyton has recorded no notice of Henry II. 's being at Northbournc, a village lying westward of Deal. The only time that the king is known to have been at Dover while VVariri fitz Gerold was (;hand)erlain was early in January 1155-6 (Eyton, p. 15), and to this date the writ may well be assigned. 220 f. Kv'i. MaiulHto oi' Martin IV. to tlic nbbat of St. James' mid the prior of St. Aiuln'w's at Nortlianiptoii, and to the archdeacon of the same, to ikx'ide the case of the dean and chapter of Lichfield against the dean and chapter of Pencriz [Pcnkridgc], who resisted their riglit in the moietv of the mortuary lees of Cannock. Orvkto : 31 Jan., a. 1 [1381-2]." f. lt>3/;. Mandate of the same to the same to decide the case of the dean and chapter of Lichlield against the dean and chapter of Penkridge aj5 to their spiritual jurisdiction in Cannock, disputed by the latter. Orvieto: 5 Jan., a. 1 [1381-2]. f. 164. Letters patent of Edward I. to bishop W[alter Langton] granting him " in anxilium civitatis paviande " a variety of customs and other dues, of which a tariff is given, at Lichfield for seven years. 18 April, a. 27 [1299]. f. \Q>ob. Mandate of Boniface VIIL to the prior of Coventry to hear a dispute between the church of Lichfield and the prior and convent of Routon as to tithes [at Adbaston]. Lateran : 5 Jan., a. 6 [1301]. f. 166. Decision of commissioners under a mandate of Honorius [IIL] {Lateran : 26 Jan., a. 5 [1221]) in a dispute touching the chapel of Wanere. Witnesses : Geofirey prior of Coventry, William prior of Kenihvortli, Mr. William de Manecester, Roger de Canvitt, Roger Panculf, and others named. f. 167. Mandate of Gregory IX. to H[ugh] elect of Coventry* to execute judgment on the monks who asserted rights and levied tithes in parish churches during the vacancy of the see. Lateran : 20 April, a. 14 [1240]. Mandate of Innocent IV. for the hearing of a dispute between the dean of Lincoln and the bishop of Coventry and Lichfield concerning the presentation to the vicarage of Wirkesworth. Bull of Boniface VIIL to the chapter of Lichfield declaring the innocence of Bishop W[alter Langton] of the charges brought against him by Sir John de Lunetot,f corresponding to that to the King, of the same date, printed in Rymer's Foedera, i. 956 seq. (ed. 1816). Anagni : 8 June, a.' 9 [1303]. f. 1 826. Acknowledgment by Albert de Nevilla, rector of Mamecestr', of his obligation to pay yearly to the bishop the cathedraticiini of 2s. [Beginninff of thirteenth century, before 1214]. f. 1836. Writ of Richard I. to the knights and burgesses of Coventry and all belonging to the priory requiring them to do homage and fealty to Hugh [Xunant] the bishop. Witness : Earl William, at Guaidint'' \_Geddin(/ton, in Northamptonshire], 17 Sept. [1189]. :j: Ff. 184 seqq. contain numerous documents relative to the constant differences between the churches of Coventry and of Lichfield as to their respective rights in the election of their common bishop ; and include (f. 1876.) a mandate of Honorius III. {Lateran: 31 May, a. 8 [1224].) * Hugh i'ateshull was elected about Christmas 1239, but not consecrated until 1 JiJy 1240. Le Neve, i. 547, ed. Hardy. t Thus corrected from Linetot. Z The year is fixed by the council held at Pipewell abbey, about four miles distant from Geddington, 15-16 Sept. 1189. Richard was again " apud Gaidinton " in April 1194 (Howden, iii. 243 seq.). 221 f. 1846. A brief statement of the jurisdiction possessed by the secular cathedral churches of the province of Canterbur}' : Salisbury, Chichester, Wells, London, Lincoln, Exeter, and Hereford. f. 1876. Mandate of Martin IV. for the determination of the jurisdic- tion of the bishops of Coventry and Lichfield and of St. Asaph. Monte- Jiascone: 27 Sept., a. 2 [1282]. f 1906. Mandate of Innocent IV. to restrain the abbat of Burton and others from dealing with matrimonial and other causes. Lyons: 18 Mar., a. 7 [1250]. Mandate of Innocent IV. to the bishop of Coventry to restrain his archdeacons from exacting procurations when they did not visit personally or in due manner. Lyons : 20 Mar., a. 3 [1246]. Mandate of Martin IV. for the hearing at Reading of the complaint made by the bishop of Lichfield and Coventry concerning tlie jurisdiction exercised by the archbishop of Canterbury over persons subject to the former, a. 2 [1282-3].* f. 191. Judgment of Innocent IV. in the dispute between R[obert Grrosseteste], bishop of Lincoln, and his dean and chapter concerning the visitation of the prebendal churches and other questions of juris- diction and canonical obedience. N.d. ^Lyons : 25 Aug. 12451] (Potthast, No. 11,833). Followed by the composition between the dean and chapter of Lincoln and Boniface, archbishop of Canterbury, touching the jurisdiction and episcopal power during the vacancy of the see. Lambeth: 11 Kal. June [22 May] 1261. f. 1986. Confirmation by Honorius III. of the chapter's right to elect their dean. Lateran : 23 April, a. 5 [1221]. Confirmation by the same of the liberties and immunities of the church of Lichfield. Lateran : 7 June, a. 8 [1224]. Letter of Honorius III. to bishop Alexander empowering him to enforce the statute against non-resident canons. Lateran : 20 April, a. 8 [1224]. f. 199. Confirmation by ^the same of the church of Torenthon [Thornton] to the chapter. Lateran: 24 April, a. 5 [1221]. Licence from Innocent III. to bishop G[eofirey de Muschamp] to resume lands alienated by his predecessors. Lateran : 7 Jan., a. 1 [1199], (Potthast, No. 564.) Letter of Urban HI. empowering H[ugh Nunant], bishop elect of Coventry, to appoint the prior of that monastery. Verona: 18 June (1186).t In the following leaves, ff. 1996, 200, are five documents relating to the possessions of the church of Lichfield, which are printed by Dugdale, vol. vi., 1251, sc(i., No. xxx.-xxxiv. f. 201. Confirmations by Innocent IV. of the taxation of vicarages ; two letters dated Lyons 5 and 4 Aprii, u. 7 [1250]. f. 2016. Indulgence by Innocent IV. to the church of Lichfield in respect of the reception of letters of provision. Lyons : 5 March, a. 3 [1246]. * The place and exact date are not supplied. t See the text printed from the Libcr Ni^jer at Linenhi hy II. Bradshaw, Statutes of liincoln Cathedral, pp. .'J 15-3 18, Cambridge, 1892. X The year is added in the margin. 222 SolcMui l)ull ol' Innocent 11. ei»nlinniug the possessions of tlus church of Liobfu'ld. Latvian: IS April, 1139. Printed by Dugdale, vi. 1252, No. XXXV. f. 202. Confirnirttion by Clement III. of the restoration of tbe priory of Coventry. Lateron : 12 Febrnary, a. 2 [1 lSh-0]. Confirmation bv Inuoeent 11. to bishop Roger of bis possessions and liberties, and in particular of the collegiate churches of Stafford and Peucridge. Lateran : 21 April, 11. S9. f. 2026. Contirmation by Lucius II. to the same of the churches of Staflbrd, Pencridge, and Wolverhampton. Lateran: 4 May, 1144. Printed by Dugdale. vi. 1252, No. xxxvi. Solemn bull of Innocent II. confirming the possessions of the church of Coventry. Lateran : 19 April, a. 10 [1139]. f. 203. Contirmation by Lucius 11. of the same. Lateran : 4 May, a. 1, 1144. Printed by Dugdale, vi. 1252, No. xxxvii. f. 204. Carta Henrici diicis de cuneo monete Licfi. Heuricus dux Norm et Aquit' et comes And' omnibus, &c. " Sciatis me dedisse et coucessisse ecclesie sancti Cedde Licti et AYaltero Coventr' episcopo familiari et dilecto amico meo, ut unus cuneus monete et moneta .sit imperpetuum apud Lich sicut rex Stephanus concessit et carta sua confirmavit. Quare volo etfirmiter precipio ne viuis ei iniiiriam* aliquam faciat. Teste Reg' com. Cornub., Guar' fil. Ger' Oamerariot, Henrico fratre suo, apwd Rouecestr." ; [1154. ]J The charter is followed by that of Stephen, also to bishop Walter, here confirmed. § {Witnesses: Richard de Luci, William Mart[el], R. de Canvilla. London [1151 ?]) and that of Richard I. (12 Nov., a. 1 [1189]). f. 2046. Confirmation by Honorius III. of a sentence of S[tephen Langton], archbishop of Canterbury, annulling an election to the see of Coventry and Lichfield. Lateran : 12 May, a. S [1224].|| f. 2066. Confirmation by the same to the dean and chapter of their churches of Bakewell and Hope. Lateran: 4 May, a. 5 [1221]. Confirmation by Gregory IX. of the judgment against the monks of Coventry in their claim to exemption from the bishop's visitation. Viterbo: 8 Jan., a. 9 [1236]. f. 2156. Ordinance of bishop Hugh [Nunant] touching the union of the church of Adbaldeston [Adbaston] with the deanerj' of Lichfield. Easter next after the death of Reginald bishop of Bath [i.e., 1192]. f. 2166. Confirmation by Honorius III. of the same. Lateran : 7 April, a. 8 [1224]. * MS. iu iniurid. t MS. Snar' Jit Ser\ X Henry was at Eochester in 1154 (Gervase of Canterbun*, i. 158, ed. Stubbs, 1879), before he left England for Normandy " circa Pascha " (Robert of Torigny, s.a.). § Printed by Dugdale, vi. 1252, No. xxxviii., where the form Marc' is read as Marcer. ! Another copy of this bull is in doc. B. 22. The month is apparently wrong, since Honorius consecrated Alexander of Stavensby bishop of Coventry on 14 April 1224 (Matthew Paris, Chron. Mai., iii. 89, ed. Luard, 1876). 223 f. 217. Confirmation by R[ichard] archbishop of Canterbury, as legate of the holy see, of the possessions of the dean of Lichfield. [11 77- 1182].* f. 219. Letters of Henry III. exempting the bishop and the canons of Lichfield from the obligation of hospitality in their houses within or without the close. 25 Oct., a. 56 [1271]. f. 2326. Bull of Clement lY. confirming the excommunication of the dean and chapter of St. Mary's, Stafford, for resisting the bishop's visitation. Viterbo : 3 Aug., a. 3 [1267]. f. 2356. Minutes of the election of a dean in succession to John of Derby, 31 Oct. and 5 Dec, 1319. f. 240. Mandate of Honorius III. to the chancellor [of England] and to M[artin] de Pateshella, canon of London, to hear and decide a dispute concerning the alienation of portions of the prebends of the church of Lichfield. Lateran : -4 June, a. 8 [1224]. f. 241. Letter of R., prior of Coventry, accepting the votes of the canons of Lichfield at the election of bishop Hugh de Pateshuft in spite of there being but few present. [1239.] f. 2416. Two charters of Stephen granting to bishop Roger and the church of Lichfield the church of Wolverhampton, and the churches of Pencridge and Stafford. I Both are printed by Dugdale, vi. 1252, No. xxxix., xl. f. 242. Grrant by Edward 1. to bishop Roger [de Meulan] of the forest of Cannock. 1290. Printed by Dugdale, vi. 1252 seq.. No- xli. f. 255. Notification by the churches of Lichfield and Coventry of the death of bishop Roger de Meuland, Friday after St. Lucy [IG Dec], 1295 ; and summous to the two chapters to meet on the Friday after St. Hilary [20 Jan., 1295-6] to elect a successor. Convention between bishop Roger and the prior of Coventry settling the form of the visitation of the house by the former. 1283. f. 267. Rescript of John XXII. to the archbishop of Canterbuiy :J Johannes episcopus servus servorum Dei venerabili in Christo fratri . . archiepiscopo Cantuariensi tocius Anglie primati salutem et fratemam in domino caritatem. * Bishop Richard Peche, to whom the document is addressed, died 6 Oct. 1182, and one of the witnesses, William archdeacon of Gloucester, wan appointed in 1177 (Le Neve, iii. 76). t The former is dated at Oxford and witnessed by Ph' Cant' and W. Mart', who appear in Dugdale as ' canter.' and ' Marcer,' institid of Philip the chancellor and William Martel. Philip de Harcourt became chancellor in 1139, and in Christmas of this year he is found with Stephen at Salisbury (Sarum Charters, p. It, ed. W. Rich Jones and W. D. Macray, 1891), whither the king had gone from U.xford (cf. Contin. of Florence of Worcester, ii. 122, ed. 15. Thorpe. 1849; and Uouud, Geoffrey dc Mandeville, pp. 4G seqq.). The grant of the charter may therefore lie jilaced during the king's visit to Oxford in December 11.39. The other charter is dated at West- minster, and witnessed by William archbishop of Canterbury and Henry bishop of Winchester. The archbisliop died on 26 Nov. 1130. Both prelates attended the King's Easter Court in March of that year (Itound, l.r. pp. 202 seq.'), to which date the document is probably to be as>igned. X This letter was no doubt addressed to archbishop Iteynolds, and its date should seem to be not long after the battle of Bannockburn. 224 Qiioniam ex iniiincti) til)i administracionis oflicio animanim eura tiMieris sulubritt'i- gorero, ot pro tloino Domini ascondiMitibus ex adverso luurnin iiioxpusrnabilom te prebere, veibuin Domini in ore tuo alligatum esse nou expi'dit, tpiiii loqiiaris in spiritu libcrtatis quod (luietem populi, quod eoclesie libertatem, honorom Dei, ct liberacionem patrie conforat, ft spoc'ialiter karissinium in Cbristo filium nostrum, Eilwardum regem Anglie illustrem, ad viam veritatis et iusticie (Domino inspirante) reducat. Sane, frrtter, aperte vides, nisi forte dissimules,* quod ecclesia, que libera debet esse, sub regis predieti regimine variis exaccionibus et angariis inte;iitis opprimitur, sicque depressus est status eius a multo iam tempore ut cvidentor anciUari cogatur. Bona eius, ad que laica mauus extendi non debet pro libito, diripiuntur in predam ; clerus vexatur indebite et habetur probro30 contemptui ; vixque reperitur aliquis quem sic zelus dominice domus comedat, utf velit super illius concussione moveri.i In regno iusticia, que principaliter elucere debet in priucipe, debito eultu non colitur ; set ad iniurias et oppressiones iniquas frenum multorum impune laxatur. Officiarii regii, regalibus iuribus non conteuti, bona et iura fidelium tiranuidem^ excercentes occupant et usurpant. Inter hec Terribilis in consiliis super filios bominum, sponse sue zelans honorem et comodum, guerrarum dispendia suscitat, in quibus ecclesie tbesaurus iuiuste direptus expenditur ; uec commissa ex hiis prelia prosperantur, cum nunquam ecelesie spolia vel depredaciones pauperum felicem habuisse reperiantur eventum. Inter hec eciam Ille qui iudicat pro mansuetis terre, gemitibus oppressorum pie compaciens, propter iniusticias huiusmodi regem et regnum humiliat ; eosque ab illis quibus olini consueverant imperare inaniter afiiigi permittens, eorum statum ignominiose conculcat. Miramur igitur, si te in premissis, que ut credimus ignorare non potes, zelus Domini aut ecclesie non tangit afflictum, si regis vel regni compassio te non movet. Miramur, si, veluti canis mutus, latrare non valens aut non volens, impietatem suam non annunciaverit impiis ne, si in|| impietate sua mortui fuerint, eorum anime de tuis manibus requirantur. Miramur, si, homini deferens contra Deum, officiarios predictos avertere, quantum necesse^ f uit in hac inliumana tirannide, timuisti. Quid autem ? sic fraternitatem tuam monendam duximus et oj'tandam in Domino lesu Christo, per apostolica scripta tibi precipiendo mandantes, quatinus ad excelleucie regie puritatem, gratam Regi regum, per quem datur regnare principibus, conservaudam intendens, ipsum in regno suo eiusque regnum sub eius regimine dirigere pro viribus satagas, [f. 2676] eumque exhortacionibus eflScacibus solerter inducas, quod ecclesias ac personas ecclesiasticas regni sui semper habeat in lionore, ab eorum iniuriis omnino desistat, suosque officiarios desistere faciat ; iura et libertates eorum manuteneat, protegat, et defendat, ac eos favorabiliter prosequatur ; expediciones bellicas non de ecclesiarum vel pauperum spoliis, set fiscali ei'rario faciat, ut eas feliciorem exi turn habere contingat ; iusticiam ministret et ministrari faciat; talesque ministros publici iuris statuat, qui Deum timeant et iusticiam diligant, et nullum in eius execuoione formident, qui non sequantur retri- bucioiies et munera, qui penarum graciam non acceptent, et qui de assistenciura sibi favore fiduciara impunitatis aut audaciam non habeant serviendi. Quid eciam ? ipse idem** interdum se pauperibus visibilem, adhibilem, et affabilem preheat, eorum clamores et gemitus non con- * MS. dissimiles. i t MS. nee. \\ si in written si, as though sihi. X MS. nioneri. % MS. ncce, with no mark of contraction. § MS. tirannide. ** MS. ide\ 225 tempnat, tarn viilue a>liutoi-iuni introeat, oppressiones pauperum relcvet, pupillo et orphano sit adiutor. Compieiontes de f»e aiit ofliciariis et familiaribus siiis audiat pacicnter, cicias (piaai alios illcs cxpcdiat, nee conviciis afEc-i vol comminacionibus deterere permittat ; et ut ea que semper dio:na sunt principi cogitet et se in illis libenter exerceat, pvelatos el viros illuniinatos* suo assi'etentes babeat lateri, tpii ca maturitate et honestate profulgeant cpiod in coram preseuciaf iiiordinatiim aliijuid agere verealvir. Sperainus etenim quod, si rex ipse implere premissa curaverit, Rex regum sibi et regno suo placabitur, eius(iac uegooia diriget, et, cum illi pla uiorint vie eius, iuimicos eius pia Llignacione ad pacera convertet. Porro,j ut hiis cor regum ad suum vcrtat arbitrium, ille eciara in cuius manus sunt corda regum requirenda, esse tredimus ad divinum auxilium, ut ipse qui supra regna hominum dominatur regem ipsum et regnum eius et eius iucolas benigne respiciat, suam eis trauquillilatera et pacem misei'icorditer Iribuat, eostjue in beneplacito suo diiigens vias et actus eorum in sua prosperitate dispouat. Et ut quod in hac parte petimus multiplicatis iutercessionibus facilius assequa,mur volumus et mandamus, quatinus tu ceterique prelati quibus super lioc scribimus per singulas vobis subiectas ecclesias in mis^arum celebracionibus et oracionibus certa facialis sufPragia fieri pro rege et regno predicti.^, ut in sermonibus publico faciendis, fideles ad implorandum pro eis Patris eterni clemenciam inducatis et facialis induci, publicaturi et publicari facturi iudulgenciam quam per apostolicaslitteras orantibus pro rege predicto nuper graciose§ concessimus, et nichilominus autoritate nostra alias, de quibus nobis videbilur, largituri. Uat', &c. f. 2696. Grant by John to the archbishop of Dublin of the advowson of Pencridge. Dour' \^Dover'\ : 18 Sept., a. 17 [1215]. f. 2746. Ordination of the vicarage of St. Michael's, Coventry. 1249.11 The following section, beginning with f. 275, is in a new hand of the latter part of the fourteenth century : — f. 2786. Monition of bishop Alexander [of Stavensby] to the dean and chapter against exhuming the body of bishop William of Cornhill. N.d. [c. 1224]. f, 2876. Ordinance of the chapter fur saying the mass of Si. Chivd at dawn. 1327. f. 2886. Memorandum of the customs of the secular chapters of cathedral churches in the province of Canterbury (Wells, Ilercford, London, Lincoln, Salisbury, and Exeter*[) as to the custody of tempo- ralities and spiritualities during the vacancy of the see. f. 2956. Confirmation by Ilonorius IIL of the liberties and pos- sessions of the church of Lichfield. Lateran : 7 June, a. 8 [1224]. f. 2976. Rescript of TJicgory IX. touching tli(! election of a bisiiop of Coventry and Lichiiehl. LatcniH : 18 March, a. 1 [1227-8]. * MS. illos limoralos. t MS. p'.srn''''- X The following sentence is corriijit. § MS. (/rose. II Dr. (Jox (rives the date incorrecflv us " rirrit 1290." T[ Chichester is not included. ( oiniiare above on f. 184/». rosoo. '2-26 f. 2J)8. Letter ol" Ilonoiius I II. to the bishop of Coventry [Alexander of Stiiveusln ] lelicviiig him I'loiu the burthi'ii of certiiin causes unless expri's^ly eonuuittoil to liiui. Latvran : 15 June, a. 10 [122G]. With this le;it' the lu'jriistor closes. Among the other volumes in the possession of the dean and chapter are the following : — I.-VUl. 'J'he Chapter Act Books, beginning in 1384,* contain much that is of more than local interest, and it would be well that a further calendar of their contents should be published than that given by Dr. Cox, who necessarily limits himself to " brief notes."! With occasional hiatus, and a long blank in the middle of the seventeenth centurv, the series, so far as it is preserved in the Registry, extends ct)ntinuously down to 1 795. Besides these there are two books (,X1'., XLI.) of rough minutes of chapter acts, 1531-3 and 1541-2; a volume (IX.), entitled " Acta capitularia," relating to jurisdiction in the pecu- liars, 1709-1731, and seven volumes (X.) of the "Acts of the heb- domadary Chapter," which also begin in 1709. The earliest book of Statutes now preserved in the Registry, named on the cover '' Liber primus Miscellaneorum " (XIII.), was written near the end of the sixteenth century.;]: It contains the older collections of Statutes arranged under bishops, together with some miscellaneous articles. The statutes down to those of bishop Geoffrey Blythe are printed by Dugdale vi. 1255-1266, No. xlvii.§ The book itself includes also those of bishop Overton and other documents. There are besides several later volumes containing the statutes of the church. A volume (XYIII.) containing dean Heywood's visitation of the vicars of the church and of the citizens of Lichfield, 1461-1466, together with some wills. A fragmentary book (XXIII.) containing charters, &e., relative to the pensions due to the chapter. \6th-\Qth cent. Two chartularies of the church (XXIVa., XXV.). \bth and IQth cent. Three volumes (XXVI.-XXVIII.) containing records of dean Hey- wood's benefactions to the church in the latter part of the fifteenth cen- tury (lettered " Cantaria Sci Blasii "). These are preserved in the Chapter Library, but are properly included by Dr. Cox among the Munim»-nts. Another volume (XXIX.) contains dujjlicates of a portion of the same documents. * An earlier volume, Leginuing in 1321, lias unfortunately been separated from the series and is now preserved in the Bodleian library (MS. Ashmole 794). It is much to be desired that it should be restored to the cathedral registry. ■f Catalogue, p. 86. J A fourteeath century copy is preserved at Lincoln Cathedral. See Bradshaw, pp. 91,224. § Tt is natural to suppose that this volume is the "Autogi-. penes Dec. et Cap. Eecl. Cath. Lich." which Dugdale used ; but the number of small divergences, as well as other peculiarities, make it more probable that he transcribed an older text, which may be presumed to have been subsequently lost. As an instance of variety of reading the MS. XIII. has near the beginning " assensu recte legentium," and gives in the margin the obviously correct alternative " accentu." Dugdale, however, has neither of these, but " attentu." 227 Accounts of the garrison of the close (LIII. B) 1645-6. The *' Oliverian Surveys " of the capitular estates and jurisdictions, in two volumes (LIV.,LV.)- 1649. Various books of leases, accounts, Ac. From the great collection of single Documents in the possession of the dean and chapter I select a few specimens which either from their antiquity or for other reasons appear to be of special interest. Those to which an asterisk is added are exhibited in glass cases in the chapter library. A. l.[*] Grant by Robert Mariniun "pro satisfactione patris mei et pro salute anime eius " [i.e. of the Robeit Marmion who died ex- communicate in 1143] to the church of Lichfield in perpetual alms of the church of Toreiitoue [Thornton] with tlie appertiuences thereto. JVitnesses : Roger, archdeacon of Salop ; Nicholas, king's chaplain and treasurer of the church of Lichfield ; master Terricus ; master Geoffrey de Lent[on] ; Richard de Curzun ; William clerk; Robert De Moy; Ralph Poter; Ridelus; Ivo De Moy; Hugo De Cuilli ; Jordan son of Simon ; William son of Thomas ; and many others. N.d. [Middle of \2th century]. A. 2.[*] Grant by William son of John, ■with the assent of Seburga his wife and of his heirs, to Matthew,* canon of Lichfield, of land " intra toftum quod fuit Lamberti " and a fishpond, in consideration of the pay- ment of 3\ marks of silver by Matthew ; after whose death the said William and Seburga are to pay from this land for ever 2s. to the " Mar- tirlogium " and 2.s. to the fabric of the church of Liclifield. JVitnesses : Ernulf, canon ; Dionisius, canon ; master Robert de Fencriz ; Henry, canon; Robert, chaplain; Nicholas, chaplain; Richard de Wurefeld; William, the dean's clerk ; Adam, chaplain ; Ov'-uius ; Richard son of Matilda, chaplain; Richard de Freford, chaplain; Jordan, deacon; William, master R. de Pencriz's cleik ; Samson of Lichfield ; Henry Eang; William Curant ; Henry the goldsmith; and many others. [Late 12th cent.] Seal fragm. A. 3. Deed of the same, engaging to carry out their promise with respect to the payments to the church of Lichfield. Witnesses : the same as in the preceding, but with the omission of Robert the chaplain, Ovianus, Richard son of Matilda, Richard of Freford, Jordan, and Henry King, and the addition of GeoftVey the deacon, John de Pipa, and Henry tlie reeve (who occupies the same position in the list, and is no doubt identical, Avith Henry King).| [Same date.] William sou of John's seal imperfect. B. 17. Grant by bishoi) Hugh and the dean and chapter of Lichfield to canon Matthew, who ut the time of the grant t, which belongs to the time between 1189 and il98. •f I call attention to the ifleutity of twelve or thirteen names out of (ifte(;n in thii charter with those in the fore^^oing one beeauxe Dr. C"ox ha.s unuccountubly dated the two documents ten 3 ears apart, r. 1170 and c. 1180. The nature of the second deed implies its simultaneous production, and this the n;imes of the witnesses prove. p 2 228 A. o. Grant* by kiiii; John to the (.•huicli of the Messed Mary and St. Cedtla of Lioliliold and to (JeottVcy bishop of Coventry ami his* successors, of the church of }}atheewcll [IJakcwell] " secundum ortlinein ct dispositionem quam Hugo hone meniorie Coventrensis episcopus super cadeni eeclesia de IJatliccwoll fecit," conditional on the niiiintenance of threi' priests to do serviee in the church of Bakcwell ; the church of Lichfield agreeiuii: furtliLM- to provide a " presbiter prebendarius " to sing mass daily for the king's health and after his death f(M- tin- salvation of his soul. JVituvsxcs : William Maresc', earl of Tembroc ; Willian>. earl of Salisbury ; John de Prateti ; Robert de Turn- ham ; Thomas Basset ; Engelr de Pratett ; Kichard de Eevcriis ; William de Cantilupo. Given bv the hand of S[inion] archdeacon of Wells, Valoyn' [Valognes^ 3 Febr., an. 1 . [1 199-1200]. Great seal restored. A. G. Grant by Thomas de Hamstedc to GeofFrey son of Simon de Pipe of a rent of 12^7. in the town of Lichfield from the houses of William son of Thomas Swalve, " que domus slant inter capitales domos Lacobi de Staus et domos lohaunis filii Nicholai Albl," at the rent of one roseflower on St. John Baptist's day. JVitnesses : Master Heniy Cheynturel ; Richard de Hulton ; William de Hovediswoche ; Henry le Kyng ; Alexander le King; Richard le yung ; John Bonde ; and many others. [e«<7 of twelfth cent.'] Seal fragm. B. L Grant by GeoEFrey bishop of Coventry to the " commrma Licheffeldensis eccle.sie que supra modum tenuis est et modica " of 20 marks yearly " ad cervisara habendam " charged on the church of Hope and its chapels. JVitnesses : Mr. Erard canon of York, Mr. John de Newerc, Mr. Nicholas de Weston, Osbert de Witinton, Michael the chaplain, William de Damartin, Thomas of Beverley. [^Beginning of IZth cent.] B. 9. Grant in frankalmoign to the church of Tydeswell, and to Ealph, the dean, and the chapter of Lichfield of a toft at Litton "ad edificandum et claudendum prout viderint slbi expediri," with full perambulation, " perlica continente viginti pedes ; " mention being made of the '• iter quod extenditur a capite ville de Lyttoii et sic ad crucem lapideam versus Tideswell." fVitfiesses : Thomas, precentor of Lich- field ; Ralph "Rusteng, canon ; John de Uttokeshat ; Thomas de Crawett successor ; Alan, vicar of Tideswell ; Ralph son of Ralph, priest, Henry de Lytton, Simon de Ascett, Hugh Martin, and others. f [1214-1222]. B. 3. Confirmation by bishop W[illiam of Cornhill] to the church of Lichfield of one third of the church of Bakewell which Stephen Ridelj had held. Witnesses: Mr. John Blund ; Mr. Nicholas de Weston; John de Guiges ; William de Hadfield ; Richard de Chaucumb ; Henry de Sancto Botulfo ; Ralph, clerk of London ; Simon Pinel ; Robert de Marisco, and many others. [1215-1223.] Seal imperfect. B. 4. Grant by the same to the same of the church of Hope Avith the chapel of Tideswell. JVitnesses : Mr. Ralph de Meidestan, archdeacon of Salop; Mr. Robert de Bosco; sir William, chaplain; William de Hatfield; Ralph de Pointon, clerk ; and many others [1215-1221]. * This charter is printed al length, but from a transcript, in Dugdale vi. 1251a. f The handwriting of this charter forbids its attribution to so late a date as the times, 1254-1278, when Ralph Sempringham Mas dean and Thomas Wymondham precentor; it murt be as.signed, not indeed (as Dr. Cox says) to c. 122.'i, when TN'illiam Manchester was dean, but to the period 1214-1222 of the decanate of Kalph Nevill, when we have to assume a precentor Thomas unknown to Le Neve. X Compare belc^, doc. A. 9. 229 B. 11. Confirmatioa by bishop Alexander [de Stavensby] of the grant to the chapter of the churches of Banc well, Hope, &c. fVii- nesses : the dean and many of the chapter and others, by name. [1231-2*]. Printed by Dugdale, vi. 1251«. D. I. Indenture between Heniy de Lexinton, the king's treasurer, and Kalph Vernon, whereby the former grants the latter tlie right to plough arid sow certain lands " que seminate fuerunt die et anno quo assisa no^■e dissaisine commune pasture in BaucveH: capta fuit inter eos aput Notingeham," Monday before St. Luke, 25 Hen. III., without exceeding or altering: the extent tilled. 1243. B. 14. Confirmation by bishop Roger [Weseham] of B. 1 1. IVitnesses : Mr. Ralph, archdeacon of Chester ; Mr. Henry de Wjshawe, the bishop's official; Mr. R. de Lacoke, Mr. T. Cumin, Mr. A. de Staunford ; Wakelin and William, chaplains; Roger de Thorton, William de Burgton, Thomas de Bradeford, the bishop's clerks ; and others. Tachehroc: 11 April, a. 2 [1247]. MM. 8.[*] Judgment of the papal commissioners in the dispute between the priory of Lenton in N^ottinghamshire and the chui-ch of Lichfield. 1252. /Se«/.s of Walter, prior of the Friars Minor of Leicester ; of Adam of Stanford, archdeacon of Chester ;t of the priory of Lenton ; and of its proctor, the subprior. Printed by Dr. Cox in the Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, vol. v. (18«3), pp. 157-161. Y. 2. Acknowledgment by William de Luceby, archdeacon of Derby, of the exemption of the churches of Bathekwalle, Hope, and Tideswelle from his jurisdiction, as decided by the archdeacon of York, ' iudice a domino papa delegate.' Witnesses : Mr. William de Mauecestr', dean ; Mr. Thomas, precentor ; Mr. Richard de Glovernia, treasurer ; Mr. Peter de Radnoure, archdeacon of Salopesbir' ; Masters William de Kilkenni, Hugh de Sotteby, Walter de Perton, Robert de Chebbeseie, Alexander Blund, and sirs William de Eccleshat, Simon de Norwis, John Francisc', Ralph de Terne, canons of the church of Lichfield; and many others. N.cl. \_c. 1254.] Seal. D. 5. A bond of Robert son of Hugh of Hope, reciting '* (juod cum viri venerabiles Radulfug decanus ct capitulnm Lych eccle.>^ie mihi et heredibus mcis concessissent et dedis.sent in feodum et hereditatera unum mansum et duas bovatas terre in Hope, tenenda et habenda de eis et eorum successoribus per liberum .servicium dimidie marce annue que Henricus prepopitus quondam de eisdem ct eorum eccle^ie de Hope in vilk-nagio tcnuit : ego e.\ certa et expressa ac fideli paccione obligavi me et heredes meos eisdem decano et capitulo et eorum successoribus in perpetuuu), quod nee ego nee heredes moi dictum tcnementum particu- latim untpiam possimus diminuere nee per partes in alicpiom vol aliquos transferre, set illud in perpetuum integrum conservabinuis et indivisum hii.i quibus de gradu in gradum iure d('l)cbitur hf-rcditario ; nee illud integrum ludeis aut \ iris religiosis sen cnicuH(iue alteri dare, venderc, vel invadiare aliquaudo [mssimus nisi de eorunidem et successorum * The flato is fixod within these limits by the signature of William de Ijiicebi, archdeacvjii of Derby, whose predecessor, William di; Miiseham|), died in 12.'$! (Ann. Duubtajil., in Luard's .\iin. .Moiiast. iii. 12C), and by that of Hichard do Staveucsby, treasurer cf the church, whose successor appears in X'lWi (Le Neve, i. ;)8l). t This seal and document fix the date of archdeacon Adam, whose place in Le Neve, vol. i., .'iO'), is occupied by two otln-r f)llicers, and who there makus his appear- ance first in i27l. 230 snoniin jit^sonsii oxprosso." ff'ifncsscs: Dotninus Thomas do Wymond- Lani, precoutor ; Mr. William do Attelbor«;o, William do Stanford', William do Xonton', and Walkelin de Hoiiton', canons of the church of Lichtiold ; William, vicar of Hope ; John Daniel ; William Folegambe ; Thomas his brother; Thomas le Archer; William Alii ; Peter le Here; and others. X.d. [1254-1278]. Seal. A. 7. Gnmt by Simon the chaplain " lilins Kadulfi Ruffy Lycchyfeldye " to William chaplain of Lycchyffeld, called Bonde, 4^^. of yearly rent, to be received 2d. from Henry de Ang[ii]lo, 2d. from Hugh l*yte, and ^d. (or else '" inium par albarum cerotarum ad Pentecosten ") from Hugh's servant. JVitncsses : Henry le Kyng, Richard de Hylton, Richard de Fosseto, Nicholas Bluud, John Bonde, Richard Felawe, Ralph Tenghy clerk, and others. [^Second half of thirteenth ceuturi/.] A. 9. [*] Inspeximus of Heury III. of the grant by his father John, when earl of Moriton, to Hugh bishop of Coventry of the church of Hoppo with the chapel of Tidewell (which John had sealed and laid "super altare dominicnm ecclesie Coventreie" and which bore date 1192, given by the hand of Stephen Ridel, his chancellor, with 7i-itnesses, Robert, earl of Meuslent ; William Brieguerr' ; Gerard de CauA-itt ; Engeram de Prateit ; Regiii de Wassenvitt; Hugh de Nevitt ; William de Hardredeshift ; and the whole chapter of the church of Coventry; and many others). — IVitnesses : W[alterJ, bishop of Bath and Wells ; Roger de Leybourne ; Robert Aguillon ; John de Verdun ; William de Grey ; William de Aette ; Nicholas de Leukemore; William Relet ; Ralph de Bakepuz ; Bartholomew de Bygod ; and others.* Kenilworth : 1 Sept. a. oO [1266]. G?-ea< *e«/ restored. N. 12. Bailiff's account of the town of Lichfield. 2 & 3 Edw, I. [1273-4.] Z. 1. [*] Ordinance of John [Peckham], archbishop of Canterbury, touching the revision of the stipends of the clergy at Bakewell, &c. 1280. Seal (' restored from a duplicate| ') representing an archbishop vested in pall, chasuble, stole, &c., and with mitre, having in his left hand an archiepiscopal cross and holding up his right in blessing ; legend lOHES : DEI : GRA : ARCHIEPS [ : CAKTUA]r1EX : TOCmS : ANGLIE : peima[s] : the reverse showing the martyrdom of St, Thomas. Printed from a transcript in the Registrum Album, f. 102, in Dugdale,vi. 12463— 1248a, No. xv., but with a bad text.J A. 10. [*] Letters patent of Edward L quitclaiming to the bishop of Coventry & Lichfield and to the dean and chapter of Lichfield all right in the advowson of the church of Bakewell. Rothelanum [Bhuddlan] : 12 Nov. a. 10 [1282]. Great seal restored. RR. 3. [*] Rental of the treasurer of York cathedral. 1292. 13 leaves, of which the first and last pages are much defaced. AA. 5. [*] Letter to Walter Langton [ canon of Sandiacre in the church of Lichfield, afterwards bishop] from a clerk sent on business [possibly connected with the king's wardrobe] to the North. 29 June 1293-5. .* The same witnesses subscribe a document of the same place and date in Dugdale, v'^'l2^\b, concerning Bakewell. t Cox, p. .52, n- 2. j Thus in the first paragraph " a convictu papali," for " populi " ; and near the end (p. 12476) •' Erubesce ergo Sidon, vobis dicitur, ait Mar." for " ait mare " (referring to Isa. xxiii. 4). " Agues " (p. 12476 middle) for " agnos" is probably a misprint. 231 Domino sue reverentisslmo,* doinino W. de Langetoii suns clericus de Estham cum salute se totum. Ecce, domine^ nocte qua veneram apud Morpath, infirmabar ibidem, et ibi lacguebar fere usque ad mortem per v. dies, et in convalescendo per iiii. dies, ita quod vix veniebam apud Berwycum in vigilia apostolum Petri et Pauli. Sed modo, laudato Deo, sum satis incolumis et omnes littere mee sunt integre et salve similiter. In crastino apostolorum predictorum ego cepij" iter meum versus regem Scottorum quij est in reraocioribus partibus tocius regni sui. Et visitabo debitores domini uostri regis undique per viam et ostendam eis litteras potestatis nostre et eis strictissime iniungam quod sint apud Berwycum infra certum tempus cum pecunia in qua tenentur. Et impetrabo litteras regis ad compellendum omnes et singulos debitores predictos si necesse fuerit ad debitum solvendum in quo tenentur. Ac bene promitto, volo in fide qua teneor, quod non dormiam in exequcione liuius negoeii, ut videbitis dum fuero sanus. Litteras directas magistro Johanni Louel et vie' Novi Castri eisdem tradidi ut iussistis. Valeat dominus mens per tempora lougiora. Scriptum apud Bervryk' die apostolorum predic- torum. RE,. 5. [*] "Exitus maueriorum abbacie Burgi sancti Petri tempore vacacionis de baronia a xxv. Sept. anno r. r. xxvij " [1298]. RR. 6. Writ of Edward 1. concerning a payment to merchants of Lukes [Lucca] out of the wardrobe. Fragm. AA. 4. Mandate by W[alter Langton] bishop of Coventry and Lichfield to the prior and chapter of ISTorwich, for the publication of Clement V.'s decree aimulling King Edward l.'s confirmation of the charters. 1306. W. permissione divina Conventt* et Lieti episcopus, executor ad infrascripta exequenda a sacrosanta sede apostolica deputatus, vene- rande religionis§ viris priori et capitulo Norwyc salutem et mandatis apostolicis humiliter obedire. Mandatum sanctissirai patris divina provideucia summi pontifieis domini Clementis pape quinti, non abolitum, non cancellatum, non abrasum, set suspicioue omni carens nee in aliqua sui parte viciatiim, vera bulla plumbea et filo canapis modo consueto bullatum, nos recepisse noveritis sub verborum contincncia infrascripta : Clemens episcopus servus servorum Dei vonerabili frairi . . episcopo Conventr' et Licti salutem et apostolicam benehuiina soiniiialiant. Idi'inque ii'x pnulenter illorum mai'liinaiioni'in aihortoiif^ ac volens tunc cunviilis ti'inpoiis vitare IH'ricula, roiu'os.'-ioiu'.s liuiiismodi tliixit plus coactus (luam voluntaiic tacu'iula;", et tasuloiu ii» legimm prtulictum co i)c).slm(.(liini revertente, licet noil dum guerris sodatis eii-deni, iidoin iiiaj^nates et alii concessiones huiiismoili per iiupoitunitatein et presuinptuosuni instaiieiain per eum opliuueruiU eciani innovari, regalihus super hoc exliibitis litteris ut in omues iniVingentes concessiones prefatus bis anuis singulis per omnes regui predicti cathcdrales ecclesias excommunicacionis senteucia pro- innlgetur, sicut in cisdeia litteris regis sigillo siguatis plenius et seriosius continetur. Cum itaque sedes ipsa, que reguurn prefatum diligit inter omnia r- gna nuindi, et regera an ipsum reguum gerit in viseeribus caritatis, agnoscat conoessiones casdem presuniptas et factas in sui honoris dispendium et regalis excellencie detrimentuni, conces- siones casdem et vigorem ip-arum et quicquid per eas fuit quomodo- libet subsecutum, ac cciani excommunicacionum sentencias, que in eisdem ecclesiis vel alibi fuerunt per illaruiu observacionera forsitan promulgate, autoritate apostolica de pleuitudine potestatis rcvocavimuSj anuUavimus, cassavimus, cassas nullas et irritas nunciavimus, litteras super illis confectas viribus vacuantes, ac descernentes regem ipsum et succcssorcs suos reges Angtad illarura observanciam decetero nonteneri, eciam si de observandis cisdem sacramentum forsitan prestitisset ; pre- sertim cum, quan3()]. S. 18-25. Correspondence between Richard liancroft, archbishop of Canterbury, and tiie dean and cliapter arising out of the former's attempt on three occasions to procure the election of his nominee to a canonry in the church. 1605-1608. tS. 9. Grant by bishop Robert [Wright] to Roger Fleetwood of the prebend of BobenhuU with power to exercise jurisdiction " iuxta vim, * The (Iced luay be either of ]{oKer Norbiiry or of llobcrt .Strefton, probiibly the former. The notes of date are tbat it mentions Staunton a« dead, and liis lieir Sir Alexander Walshan) as livinfj. Now Staunton free •Trtmmar scJiool at (irvniesbv, at the request of Sir EdAvard Norlh, t'liaiieellor (>f the Court of" Angnientations ; with one master and one undi'i-iuaster, to bo nominated by the Mayor and Hiiigesscs. Power is jriven to them to aecjnire hinds and tenements to the yearly vahie of forty marks for the support of the sehooL Also, lieenee to 'J'liomas Thondviison, perpetual ehaplnin of the chantry called Kaynard Chaun- trie, in tln' i)arish cluireh cf St. James, to give and grant that chantry, and all its nnuiors, messuages, ornaments, jewels, hauls, &.C., t(. tlic Mayor flnd Burgesses, in part satisfaction of the said forty marks ; the same bein" oftlie yearly value of 4/. 5.v. 6(f., over and above Ov. 6d. reserved to the King as a tenth. Seal gone, but the silk remains; and it bears the rovrd sign manual. 1 Edw. YI. Sept. 20 [1547]. — Deed of Thomas Thomlynson, chap- lain of the chantry called Jxaynarde's Chantry in St. James's Church, whereby, under licence from the King, and in consideration of 80/, paid bv the Corporation, he grants to them the said chantry and its possessions, subject to a yearly rontcliarge of 9s. 6d. payable to the King, Charities. (Box I.) 10 Eliz. May 25 [1568]. — Decree in Chancery in a cause between the Corporation, complainants, and Jackson and others, defendants, as to an annuity charged by Katherine Mason, widow, on the manor of Groulceby, and lands there and at Asterby and Scamblesby, l>y deed dated 10 Oct. 5 Edw. VI. [1550], in favour of the Corporation, for a school- master to teach grammar and the Latin tongue at Grimsby. 9 Eiiz, Aug. 4 [1567]. — Depositions taken before Sir Richard Thimbleby, knight, and Thomas St. Poll and Edward Dighton, esquires, in the same cause. Edmond Fraunces of Golceby clerk, oet. 60, says one Stut had the manor-house and rectory by lease from King Henry VJII. within this 10 years, and mentions several occupiers. Other witnesses (Eobert Fyshe of Golceby, £Et. 35, John Jackson of Asterbv, a^t. 40, Robert Wi'ight of Grimsby, a^t. 48, Robert Wyndell of Holton', ret. 46, Robert Hundbbye of Grim.sby, clerk, a?t. 50, William EUarde, set, 30, Wm. Wright, ast. 30, Wm. Bonde, ret. 80, Wm. Kent, set. 50, Robert Fotherby, ret. 33, and Robert Lorde, ret. 60, all of Grimsby) depose that John Bellow, esq., held the manor of Golceby by knio-ht sei'vice, and sold the same to the Defendant John Hatton and Clare his v.'ife for 200/, 1616, April 22. — Office copy, dated 5 July 1619, of the will of John Fotherby of Little Charte, co. Kent, elork, giving 4/. per annum to the poor of Grimsby. There is also' a contemporary extract from this will, enclosed with a letter to the Mayor from the testator's nephew, W. Fotherby, dated 14 Feb. 1645. 1638 June 27. — Office copy will of Anthony Acham of ITolborne, co, Middlesex, gent., whereby he charged the manor and advowson of Asterbv, and lands there and at Goulceby and Randby, Avith various annuities payable to the poor of St. Andrew's Holborn, St. Bride's 241 Fleet Street, Asterby, Gouk-eby, Knaresbrough, Liucolu, Stamford, Louth, Grimsby, Nottingham, Northampton, and Grantham, Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 9 June 1642. 1718, July 28. — Deed of Jane Dymoke, widow of the Hon. Charles Dyraoke of Scrivelsby, esq., deceased, and only daughter and heiress of Kobert Snowdec, gent., and Dorothy his wife, deceased, which Dorothy was formerly widow of George Acham, gent., deceased ; whereby, after reciting the will of the said Anthony Acham, the title, that the lands descended to his brother Geo. Acham, and a suit against the said Charles Dymoke, she confirms the said charities. 1658, Aug. 13.— Deed of William Thorold of Cuxwold, gent., granting to the Corporation, for binding poor boys apprentices, a rent- charge out of lands at Scartho, of which the deed recites the descent by the custom of Borough English. Ordinances of the Borough. (Box I.) 6 Hen. VH., Jan. 8 [1491]. — Be it known and had in mynd that William Vicars, beyng the Mayer of the Burgh of Grymesby, and his Comburges underwrytten, for the gude reuyll, governaunce, and savying of conscience, pleasur of allmyghty God, and for mayntenyng of the said Kynges Burgh and the Inhabitantez therein, base be gude deliberacion and a sadd councell and wysements of the seid Mayer and his Comburges ; that is to say, Peyrs de le See, William Lylburn, Stephan del See, Hugh Edon, Thomas Bell, John Awnger, John Cuke, James Beverley, Thomas Asseby, Kobert Smyth, John Empryugham, John Wryght, Cuthbart Wytton, William Peveryll, John SheryfP, Kerry BenyngAvorth, John Gayton, John Fonnan, Thomas Benyngworth, Horry de le See, John Fraunkesh, William Rosse, John Cowhop, John Awldwyn, Robert Swalowe, John Benman, and Richerd Beteneve, AVilliam Forman, Stephan HatclyfF, William Ogle, Robert Walker, Stephan Palmer, Thomas Williamson, Thomas Symkyn.son, Ranold Peter, Adam Carlton, William Glasyner, and Andrew Bell, Laurence Johnson, John Whytley, Robert Archer, William Awldwyn, Alexander de le See, John Burton, Jacob Dynewell, Henry Drowry, Thomas Watton, Tiiomas ^Nlyffyn ; by a hole assent has stabled., ordand, and swornc of the Hooly Mesbuke and the holy Canonc w^ the holy crucifix av* the figure of our Savyor Jhe therupon to theis artekyls Iblowyg, that is to say : That thei shall be rcdy w*owtyn fere or drede of any man in any degre to resort to ther Mayer for the tyme beyng to maynti-ne him and his successors in all the poyntys and articculs contened in the Ciiartcrs graunted by the Kyng and his noble progenitorys, and in the Burges othe, viz., ther shall no man provoke nor styrr to chose in IMayor nor BaylyfP from the day of tlic nnikyng of this presence but such as kan be thoght shall be most proper i)rofi'tab!c in kepyng of good rowyll and governaunce for the said liurgli and the Jnhabitance be the Elecciou and wyll of the most parte of votes of the .said Comburges. Item, if tlicr happen any variance among the said IJurges, than it is agrede that ther shall iiij Burges of the forsaid ]{urgc'«ses he apoynted and indcferently chosyn to agre theym, and to sckc none oth.cr mayn- tenance but ther Muyor, as it is more playnly contcnyd in ther Burges oth. Item, if ther oc any man of any degre that will \ex, truble, hyndor,, or do wrong to any of the seid IJurges or inaul)cnt<'/, v>^'in the said O 793UO. q 242 town, that tlii-n ovtM-e ylko one of (he siiiil Burgos and all thcr reteuures that one or all may niayke shall be ledy in tbtr best array fensable to v/*''stantl all sueh niysdocrs, and to iniiyntayne the Mayer, the Kinges Burgh and Fniunclus. And evere sworn Burges t^hidbe redy to cum and compleyn to tbor Mayer ot" all such delauts as has bene moved and done, and inespeciall by .John JMyssynden, his breder, and his servauntcs, and of enygentilraan or yoinan that has done ^\ rong or sliall do to the ?aitl Kynges Burgh and the privclego and ryghte. And all the articles betbr rehersyd shalbe kei)t of evere manes by half befor rehersyd, and to be redy w*'' body and his guds to mayntene and performe the premesys evere man syngnlarly l)y hymself befor rehersyd b}nds hym in xl'' sterlyng, to f'orfett if any of the said Burges discover or puplysli the seid articles to eny person buttetheseid Burges w'out the assent of thcym all ; or if any of theme all be intreted the contrary be any person of any degre, lie or they so doyng or trespassyng agayn the seid articles shall run in the contempt and forfet xl'' to Qf soveraign Lord Herry the vij', to his Chaunceler of Yngland, the parson of Saynt I\Iarysse of Grymesby beforesaid, and to the vicar of JSaynt James of the same, to the byhove of maynteuyng of the ij parish kyrkes of Grymesby befor said and devyne servise, als of[tJ as it may be praisd of hym or them. In witnesse whereof the forsaid William Vicars, Mayer, w* all his Comburges befor rehersyd, to this presence has sette ther seales. Geven at Grete Grymesby, the viij day of January, in the yere of the reign of Kyng Herry the vij*' vj">. Bond of same date from William Vicars, Mayor, and 27 of the Burgesses to the King and his Chancellor for the time being, the Rector of St. Mary's, and the Vicar of St. James's, in 40/., conditioned for performance of the said ordinances. On vellum. A portion of the Mayor's seal remains. Endorsed : Bond for performing of orders and letters of the Earle of Westmoreland. Also : Artikles maid in the time of W""' Vickers maio"" wch. avc are bound to observe by o^' ould ordinance. There is a copy of these ordinances, &c. at fo. 57'' of the earliest Court Book. 14 Hen. VI., Oct. 3 [1435]. — Ordinances commencing, "In the laude and joy of oure Lord Jhii Crist, and of the most holy moder and vyrgyne oure lady seynt Mary, and all the holy celestyns of heven, to the releve and snstentacion of the kyngs burgh of Grymesby," &c. These ordinances have been published in a little book on the town of Grimsbv, by Robert W^alker, printed at Gi'imsby, by and for the Author, in 1833. The original vellum has been so much injured by the application of galls, probably for the purpose of coj^ying for Walker's Book, that the writinsr is now all but illegible. Royal and other Letters. (Box I.) Most of these letters are without the date of the year, though it could no doubt be supplied in many cases from internal or other evidence. Several of the Royal letters relate to the fee-farm rent, which seems always to have been a source of anxiety and trouble to the Corporation, 243 one of the mayors, according to Madox, ha%dng been imprisoned for its nonpayment. The fee-farm rent continues to be paid by the Borough Treasurer down to the present day. 1. Letters of Kings Henry VII. and Henry VIIL, tinder the signet, to the Mayor and Bttrgesses of Grimsby, and others. By the King. Trusty and welbeloved, we grele you wel. And for asmoch as we be enformed that certain Inbabitantes of oure town of Grymmesby, not dreding the displeasance of God nor tboifence of us r.ud. oure lawes, have made grete attemptatz on riotous wise ageinst oiue paix upon the religious persoues the Freers Augustines situate in the same oure town, and over this enditing certain of their brethern Avithoute eny reasonable cause and ageinst alle good conscience, to their uuportable charge and cost ; with the which demeaning we be gretly displeased, if it so be. Wherefore we, having consideration unto the premisses, and not wolling in eny wise such unlawful entresse to be bad in to tlieir place withoute their licence unredressed, wol and charge you, asferforth as in you is, ye see that by noon inhabitant bilonging unto oure said town from hens- forth be doon eny such attemptatz ageinst the said religious persones, employing youre diligence and laboure to the discharging of their endite- ment, to thentent that the forsaid religious men, withoute damage, los of goodes, or bodyly harme, maye quietly attend unto their devine, vertueux, and devoute occupations. And that ye faile not herof, as ye wol avoide oure displeas'". Geven under oure signet, at oure mano'" of GrencAviche, the first day of Octobre. Addressed : To oure trusty and welbeloved the mair and thinliabi- tantes of oure town of Grymisby. By the King. We signifie unto you that we have understandcn by piteuse and lamentable compleint ho we uo considoracioa nor respect taken unto our letters writen unto you nor to surcesse of the grete attemptatz that yo ha\e doon ayenst our lawe.s and certain his brethern, and in especinll ayenst our welljeloved John us for the right of their Church by commaundement of the Abbot an .... taken upon you to ofFende our grace in that behalf, in such wise as ... . disples'" and so plesed as ye have geven us grete cause. Wherfore Ave write unto you . . straitely charging . . . amonges othrc thinges to surcesse and leve your handes of such injuries and wrong ... ye have doon and attempted ayenst the s;iid place contrary to tlie grannies of our noble progenitour.s and of us ye on alwise kcpe our paix ayenst the said Abbot, Jiis l)rctlu'rn and siM-vanles, and in especiallo ayenst the said John Aylesl)y, so that he may saufly ride and goe for the prouflit of the said place, as his deweto is, and not to be perturbed nor letted l)y you to sewc unfo us for the Avelo of the said Church. As ye wol an swere unto us at your ])eril. (Icven under our signet, at our pahiis of Wcstni', the ix day of fsNtucmbrc. Addressed: To tlie mair, bailiffs, and inliabitanlz of oure towne of Grymniysby. Endorsed : The Kvnges Ictt'-r l<« tbc Maiiv of rjrvin^liv tnchyng the Abbot of AVellow. ' ... Decayerl. Q 2 244 l\\ the Kinsr- H. R. [Henry VII.] Trusty ami wc'lbolosoil, wo pieto you welo. Ami whore wo be' croiliMy enfonnnocl that thorc is griimitocl unto you by ourc^ progonito's tlivorsc iirivilop;e of the couiming of the [King of] Romayus for- siitl ; ami in asnioclie as, be it soo or nat soo as it is befor written, good l>ollecy luljufioth we shiihle proviile lor the worst: 'J'herfor we wol and eharge you that ye have sure and contynuel await uppon almanner of vessaiiles w'in yo'' ollices, and in especial w'iu the crekcs and in othre small rivers liable to passe ernyers or botes to the see, that no manner suspect persone be sutlVeil to pa«se, but that lie be attached, and ther- uppon with the dt'meanyng and ground of his suspection be saufly sent unto us ; and Ave shal see to youre reasonable cost in that belialye. And therefor faile ye not (>f the premisses, as ye propose to avoide o' right grevous displeasour, and the dangler that therupon to you may ensue. Geven undre oure Signet, at our Castel of Wiudesore, the xxj day of July. Addressed : To our trusty and welbeloved thoOicers of the Towne and Creke of Grymesby. By the King. H. E. [Henry YIT.] Trusty and welbeloved, we grete you wele, lating you wit that we been enfourmed that emonges diverses ordonances made by the Maior, Burgeises, and Comonaltie of our towne of Grymesby for the good rule and politique governance of the same, by virtue of such privileges and contirmacions as by oure noble progenitours have been unto thaim graunted and by us conferraed, it hath been ordeyned and of longe tyme used and coutynued, thit for thelleccion yerely of the Maire of oure said Towne personnes of the same, such as been Bourgeises and of the Comon Counsail there, and moost sufl&sant and able, shal name two personnes of thaim self ; and therupon the said Comonaltie, after their discrecions, to chose oon of thoos two to bee maire as Tor the yere folowing ; which ordonnances is to us right aggreable. We therfore wol and straitly charge you that from tyme to tyme ye see that the said ordonnances bee obsened and kept, if it bee according to the privileges, graunts, confirmacions and usages afore expressed; nat suffring euy personne, of what degree or co[udieion] soo ever he bee, to doo enything that shuld sowne to the breche therof. And if any personne [orl personnes presume to attempte to the contrarie, that ye doo hym or thaim to be punisshed according to o^' lawes, or elles to certifie us of his or thair names without failing, all . . . drede and parcialitie leyde apart, as ye wil answere unto us and avoid our dis- j)leasour. G[even] undre our Signet, at Eippon, the xviij day of August.* (J. Harpisfeld) ? Addressed: To our trusty and welbeloved the Coroners, Bailleifs, Comon Counsail, and inhabitaunts of oure towne of Grymesby, and to every of [them'j. By the King. H.R. [Henry VII.] Trusty and welbeloved, we grete you wele, And bee credibly enfourmed that certain sommes of money of the rentes and revenues of the landes and livelode which apperteyned to the late Erl of West- morland and to his son the late Lord Nevil, in your receipt and charge, and * See a similar letter, also partly defaced, on p. 248. 247 groweii due uuto tiiaym at Whitsontide last passed, and also to ihe Lady Nevil by reason ofhir joinctur, resten yit impayed ; wberuponwe wol and desir yon, tliat with al convenient spede and diligence after tlie sight hcrof, ye bring or suerly sende al the said sommes of moiiey unto the said Lady Nevil. And astouching such fees and annuities as were graunted hertofor and assigned upon the said landes and livelode appointed unto hir for liir said joinctur, Ave wol that ye doo spedily levie and gadre the same, and thaym ke^Je and reteyne in your handes without any payment therof making til ye shal undrcstande our furthr' raynde and pleasour in that behalve : Xat failliug in th'execution of the premisses as ye wol aunswer therfor as the caas shal require. Geven under our signet, at our Monasterye of Stratford, the furst day of August. Addressed : To our trusty and welbeloved the Mair of our Town of Grymesby. By the King. [Henry VII.] Right trustie and right wclbyloved Cousyn, we grete 3'ou well. And where as cure noble progenito^' Edwarde the Seconde, sometyme Kynge of Englande, gave and graunted amonge other thingcs by liis letters patentes uuto youre anncester Edmonde of Wodestok and to his heyres an annuall rente by the name of Fee Ferme of fiftie pouudes, which the Maio'^' and Baillieft'es of oure towiie of Grymmesby, Avythia oure Countie of Lincoln, have by vertue therof custumably payed unto youe and youre auncesters yerely in oure Eschequer, w^^iu the quiudene of Saint Michaell th'archangell : We understande, by credible reporte made unto us, that aswell by reason of there excessive and unportable charge in that behalf, a.r, of the grette desolation and decay that oure .saytlo towne is now fallen iij, and also of the poverties of the sayd Mayo'" and Bayiiefi'es they be not of power to contynew the payment of the sayde Fee Ferme, but, raither then to be any further charged Avyth the same, entendc to surrendrc and yelde into oure handes all soch liberties and fraunchesies as unto them were heretofore graunted by Henry the Thirde and other oure noble progenitors, Kyn^cs of Englande; which we lie Avolde shuldc hapne hi oure dayes, for, as we unilerstande, yf any soch surrendre sholde bo made, the sayde annuitie and fee ferme, wj'th the liberties and fraunchescs aforsayde,.were lyke utterly to ceese and to be of none effccte. Whereupon we entendc, aswell for conservation of the same as of the repayre of oure sayde towne, to directe oure k-tters of Commission unto certaync persons, gcvinge them in commaundeinent to survey oure sayde towne, wyth all the members and commodities thereunto belonginge, and them trulie to oxtende to a yerely value ; of the which surveyaunce and extent, when it shalbc appoyntcd, ye shall have a reasonable knowledge, to th'intent that ye may conve- niently sende soch of youre counsell as it shall lyke youe to l)e at the same ; and according to the sayde extent ye and youre hey res yerely after to be content and payde wythin the sayde (piiiidcne in oure sayde Eschequire by the Mayor and Baylylfes there for the tynio being, and they to be discharged of any further payment, but onely after tlie rate of the sayde extent : praying youe that Avytli this direction ye wolde holde youe content and pleased, for if the corporation be ones dissolved and broken, ye can never after have any parte of the .«aydo fee ferme by vertue of any graunte heretofore made to youe or any of yonro sayde auncesters. (Jeven under oure signet, at oure Palais at Westm', the xth of February. 248 On paicliinent. EnJorsoil : The eopio of the Khigus letter to therle i>f WostuK rl:nule for the discharge of xx'' pnrcell of the Fee Ferme of Gryinshy. A copy of this letter is I'literod in" the earliest Court Book, fo. 51)'^'. Till' date of the entry prececHiiir it is 2 June 10 lien. VIII. [1518] ; but the date appears to be about 14SS or 1490. Comixare entries on pp. 268, 271. By the King. Henry R. [Henry VIII.] Trusty and welbeloved, we grete you wele. And where as oure powr subgiect William Thomlynson Imth us and oure Coun- saill, how that he hath of the grauute of the late Maire and Burgesses of .... of Grymmesby their sufficient letters undre the common seel of our said towne the Spitelhouse of Saint Mary ^Magdalene w*out the Barregates there, and procuratoiie of the same for [? life], a.s by his said letters, which he shewed unto us and our Couusaill, it may appere shewed unlo us that you now entende to expelle and put the said William out of the same w*out of cause reasonable, contrary to the said graunte, right, and good conscience : We, entendiug justice indiffe- rently to be ministred unto every o"" subgiettes, wol that ye permitte and sufl're the said Wittm peasibly to enioye the said house as he hertofore hath according to his said graunte w*out any manner of interrupcion to the contrary, onles that ye have any cause reasonable to be shewed before us and oure Counsaill why ye shulde interupte hym of the same ; and if 3"e any suche cause have, then that ye certifie us and o^ Counsaill therof, to thentent that we, by thadvis of oure said Counsaill, may so oi'dre the matier in eschewing of his further suyte and vexaccion. And that ve faille not thus to doo as ye tendre o'' pleasure. Geven undre qt signet, at o"" Mano'^ of Grenewich, the xiiij'^> day of Aprill. \Y. Atwater.* Addressed : To oure trusty and welbiloved the Maire of oure towne of Grymmesby and to the Burgesses of the same. Very dilapidated ; good signature of the King at the top. By the King. ■ Trusty and welbeloved, we grete you wel. And late you wite, that it hath be do us to understande howe amonge diverse ordinaunces and laudable custumes made by the Maire, Burgeises, and Comonalte of oure towne of Grymesby for the good publique and paissable rieul and gouveruaunce of the same, it is conteined as we . . . enfourm . . for th'ellection of the Maire our said towne of the same, suche as be of raoost habilite and reputacion and of the Comune Consail name two personnes of theym selve, and therupon the said Comonalte, after their discrecions, chose oon to be thair Mair as for the yere folowing ; the whiche ordinance is to us right agreable. "Wherfore we write unto you at thistyme, wolling and straitly charging you that fro tyme to tyme ye .se that the said ordinance be observed and kept, not souffering any personne, of what degree or condicion soever he be, to do any thing that might sowne to the breche therof. And yf any personne wol attempt * He succeetled Cardinal 'Wolsey as Bishop of Lincoln in 1514. 249 to do the contrary of this oure commaiinderaeDt, that ye do hym to be puuisshed after oure lawes and custumes of oure said towne. And faille ye not herof as ye wol eschue oure grete displaiser. Geven under oure signet, at our Castel of Leycestre, the last day of Septembre.* Addressed : To oure trustie and welbeloved the Maire, Coronuers, and Juratez of oure towne of Gi'jmesby. By the King. Henry R. [Henry VIIT.] Trusty and Avelbiloved, we grete you well, lating you wit that callyng to o^" remembrance the grete idle and sturdy vagaboundes within this o'' Realme, that will by noo gu . . . meane o"" commaunde me .... to labo"" and travaill for their lyving, but being roted in idelnes doo wander in all partes, both to the greate perill of o"" good and faithfull subjettes, and to thindei'aunce and damage of the pore irapoten .... sustenaunce and relief is moche diminished by thimportunate beggyng of suche sturdy and idle th'entent order may be taken [in] tyme that the weedes over growe not the corne, that is tha to mischief and noughtines of lyvyng be not sufPred to molest or trouble our good which desire to lyve lik true honest men in their degres ... as o'" pleasure and .... comni .... is that every of you for yo*' partes shall have good and . . . . nt respect in all that o"* statutes for suche vagabundes may be duely put in . . . quiett and the better repression of suche idle persons a Id be noysora and luirmfull [to the com]ouwealth ; we woll and straitely charge and commaund you, that you shall not only cause watches to be dually kepte every night in all places accustomed w*in that o"" town from ix of the elocke at night till fyve of the clocke in the mornyng, from the day of the rccept hereof or assone as ye can take order for the same, unt ill the feest of Saint Michaell th' archaungell next ensuyng ; but also that you shall take certen direction with every parte of that o"^ said towne that shall kepe suche watches, that they shall nightly cause one housholder at the leste of the honesiest and best sorte to be presente in theyr watclie, to th'entent the same may be the more substancially kepte for the quiet of o"" good subjettes and the repression and punnish- ment of the worste sorte that seketh . . . hing of those that in their degrees lyve after an honest godly fashon. Eftsones therfore .... commando .... we specially trust you not only to see this o' pleasur put in due execution, but respect and regarde that it may be ousei'ved and contynued in all places as is a tyme prescribed, as ye woll answer unto us for the contrary. Geven under o'' signet, .... Hampton Court, the xxth day of May. Addressed : To o'' trustie and welbiloved the Maio'' and his brethern of that o"^ towne Grymysbye. Very diUipidated, There is only one other royal letter of later dale, as follows: — 1606, Jan. 4. Westminster. Part 1,'opy of a letter from the King, addres.sed to the Slieriffs and Justices of Teaco in the Counties of Nottingluun, Derby, and Lincoln, the City of Lincoln, and the West Hiding of Yorkshire, recommending contributions for tlie repair of the haven of Grim.sby. Th'.re is: a .'imilar letter, also partly defaced, on p. 216. 250 Auioug the royal letters there is a eopy on paper of " the charter of Southwolil." It is really a writ to all sheriffs, mayors, &e., dated 5 July 18 lien. [VI. ?], conunanding them to permit the men and tenants of till- town of Southwold, in the county of Suffolk, -which Gilbert de Clare, late I^arl of Gloucester and Hertford, held, as appeared by an Inquisition, temp. Hen. III., exemplified by King Henry [IV. ?], the King's gmndfather, to be quit fi-om toll, pontage, passage, pickage, pavage, and murage. 2. Letters of iiob/e/neii and others to the Mayor and Bnryesses of Grimsby and others. [Before 1459.] Letter of John Viscount Beaumont. Right trusty and welbeloved, I grete you wel. And forasmuch as it is supposed that there shall now hastily ben a Parlement, which if it so shall be I pray you right hertely, considered that my right trust)- and welbeloved servaunt Rauff Chaundeler is like newely to ben maund hi yoi^ town at Grymesby, wherfor of reson he shuld rather shewe his diligence in suche as shall be thought spedefull for the wele of yo"" said town thanne sum other straung persone, yt may liiie you for my sake in yo'' eleccion for yo'' Burgeises of yo'' said town to graimte yo'' good will and voys to my said servaunt, to th'entent that he myght be oou of yo^ Burgeises to apere for yo'' said town in the said Parlement. And such as I may do for you I shall at alle tymes the rather porfourme to my power, as knoweth God, which have you ever in kepiug. Writoii at Eppeworth, the xv day of Decembre. John viscont Beaumont.* Addressed : To my right trusty and welbeloved the Mayer and Bailyfs of Grymesby be this delivered. [1464-71.] Letter of William Skipwyth. Worchipffull and welbeloved brother, I recommand me on to vow. And for as mysche as y am enformed that Kyrstoffer Pycate, a teuaunt and a man of myn, haeth don a forfette to the town, the wysche y am fuUe sory and ill a pays that any servant of myn schuld do howte that were agaynest yowr .... of the town other wysse than the law wold [warrant ?] ; for y wold prey for to take the mater in to ... . hand, and that it lyke yow for to lette . . . . u and other he dyd forffet to thesse to men, and lette hym Kirstofer ch[ose] other, and letten theym sette a nende betwyx theym. And as for the forfette that he dyd agayenst the town, whan ye and y raette to gedyr, the end schalbe made in that wysse that ye schall hold yow content. No more y write to yow at this tyme, but God liaA e yow in ys kepyng. Writon at Cal'thorp, this .... day of feverer. Be youre brother and frend, William Skipwyth. Addressed : To the worshipffull and ryght tristy and welbeloved brother and frend Hew Edon, may re of Gremysby.f * Apparently the Lord Beaumont who was killed at Battle of Northampton in 1459. t Hugh Edon was mayor in 1454, 14G2, and 1471. 251 [1474-80.] Letter of Dame Alice Rotherham. Ryght worscbypfwll Syr, I commende me unto yow and to all fyowre bredyr hertely with all my herte, dysliyryng to here off yowre wellffare, prayng yowre maysterschyppe of yowre scharyte that ye be g^^'d frende and wel wylber to the pwre hows of nownys of Grymysby off syche serten dwtys os you can iuf wrme yow off ; fore qwhy, me semys tliat thay fawle into the generaU sentens that wit howldys holy schyrche dwte, of that qwhyche it is possesste in of holde tyme, and all that consentys yerto or swpportys the vvroyng ; qwhare fore I pray yowe to supporte them in thare ryght and to be fawerhabwll wuto tham, os my trwste is in yow, and OS ye wyll that 1 do honythyng fore yow in tyme to cum ; and also I schall pray my Lorde my swne to be gwd lord to yow in any matter that ye haff to do, os in that that he may do for yow ; qwhare fore I pray yow tendyrly to remembwr me and thys pwre nownys, yowre pwre beyd women. Nomore at thys tyme, bot grasiows god haffe yow in hys mersyffwU kyppyug. Wrytyn at Nettylam, the iij day of Awgwst. Be dame Alys Eothera' moder to my lorde schansler.* Addressed : To the worschyppfwll Mare of Grrymsby and to hys bredyr be thys deliverde. [c. 1487.] Letter of John Sayutou. Ryght worshipfull and w* all my hert enterly belovyd maystre and freudez, I recomaund me to yow as hertely as I can, praying you to gyff faithfuU credence to my fellow and frend Thomas Broghton, youre neghpur, the brynger heroff, in all sucho thyngez as he will say to you on my behallf, as touchyng such passid in the Parlemeut, and for the worship and wele off yo"" touuc for }0^' franchez. Written at London, the xvj day of June. Yo'" own man and frend, John Saynton. Addressed : To the ryght worshipfull and my full gode maysters & frendez, the Mayre off the toune of Grymesb}-, and all the inhabitaunco of the same. [ ] Letter of Ralph Earl of Westmorland. Right trusty and intierly welbeloved, we grete you ofte tymes well, no doubting but [it] is in your frcshe rcmembraunce how that in relieving and helping of you and al othre iuhabitantes of the towne of Grymesby we, at the instance of the King o'" sovercin lord, as long as it shall plese us, pardoned unto you yerly of our duetee x". And also avo, of our owne fre will, for the love and favour that we alway bar and yit her unto you, having compassion and plte of the povcrtce that ye alleged at that tyme, at our]wil put in respite yerly x", to th'cntent that of the rema- nent of our said dates furth w'ull wo shuld w^out delay l)e redily paied when we .sent therfor. Yit all this notw'standing, we but late sent unto vou as for a knawn persone our servauut John Kemp for (he r(;niaiient of o'' said duetee, to whome yo made delais and caused hym to lary therefor, likly as he had a.sked our hole duetee. Wc therfor let you plainly witte, that if ye at eny tyme heraftre enstraunge you to make * Schansler no doubt means Chan re 1 1 or, namely, Tliomas l{otlicrii;iin, IJIsIdj) of Lincohi, 1472-1480 ; lie becuine Chancellor in 1474. Toily pnvinoiit unto ^uclic poi'sono or poisones as avv- send therefor, bringing therof to you a sufficient aeqiiilaunce, we shall frome tbens fiirth araise upon you our hole duetco, w^ suehe proccsse if uede bo as the lawe will geve us in that bihalf. Writen undre our signet, at our Cas(ell of Ivaby, the xxv day of Octobro. Rauf crl of Wesfmerland and lord JSTeville.* Addressed: To our Kight trusty and intierly welbeloved the Maire and Burgeis of the towne of Grymesby. [ ] Letter of Ralph Earl of Westmorland. Eight Avelbeloved, I recommaunde me unto yowe. And whereas I understonde that youre towne of Grynn'sbye must send up to the Parlia- ment two Bnrgessis of the same, wheche if ye do so wolle be to you no littill charge in susteanyng tlu!"" costis and expensis; whorefor, asvvell for the welle of youre seid towne as other speciall causys, I advise and hartely reqnyre you to send unto luy hondes youre wrytte directed for the eleetioune of the seid Burgessis, wheche I shall cause to be sub- stauncially retoorned, and appoynt ij of my counsale to be Burgessis for youre seid towne, who shall not only regarde and set forward the welle of the same in suche causis, if ye have any, as ye shall advertise me and theym upon, but also dymmynyssho yo"" chargis of olde tyme conswete and used for the sustentacioune of there seid costes. And in this doyng ye shall shewe unto me a singuler pleasure, and unto yo'" selfEs con- venient proffit; whe'^of I efftsons hartely requyre yowe not to faile as ye intend to have my goode wylle and favo'" in lyke maner shewed accordingly. Thus hartely fare ye welle. At my Castell of Braunce- path, this xvjt'^ day of September. Yowrs assured KaufF Westmo'land. [ ] A hastily written letter [to the Earl of Westmorland ?], without date. Pleas it yo'' gode Lordchip to know that ther hath beyn w* me dyvers of the inabetantes of the town of Giymsby from the May"", desyryng me to writ to yoAV, besekyug yow to be to them good lorde in helpyng of them to ther discharge owt of the Kynges Exchekir for soche mony as thei pay to yo'^ Lordchip as pai'cel of ther ferme, wer of thei can in no Avis be discharged av* owt the especial helpe and favor of yo'' gode Lordchip ; and y* it wol pics yow to Avrit to sum of yo^" councel at London to helpe them to the .same. ^Nly Lorde, pety it wer but thei sholde hafe helpe theirin, for the lak ther of pittes many folkes in dreid to com and inabit ther w^in the same towne, wiche shal be gretly to the decay of the same, as divers of the said inabitans, berers heirof, wol shew to yo"" good Lordchip. And thus almyghty God preserve [you]. No signature, the lower part of the paper having been cut off, perhaps for the sake of the autograph. [1520 ?] Sept. 27 [12 ?] Hen. VIII. Sir Thomas Darcy, knight. Lord Darcy, " who married Edith relict of Sir Ralph Xevyll, knight, son and heir apparent of Ralph Nevyll, late * Cf. a receipt from an Earl bearing this description dated 1st Oct. 4 Edw. IV. [1464], in one of the Court Books, further on. Also a letter therein, apparently of the same period. 253 Earl of Westmorland," acknowledges tlie receipt from John Fotherby and Patrick Annesley, bailiffs of Grrymesby, of 30/. fee-farm rent, viz., 15/. for Easter 10 Hen. YITI., and 15/. for Michaelmas 11 Hen. VIII. Signed, T. Darci. Seal gone. [ ] Letter of Tbomas Gryce. I. H. S. Ryght trusty frendes, aff bertyst manner I recommend me unto yow. And so hit is that my Lord Darcy bath send this berer John Halyle unto yovr, dysseryng yow to do so moch for hys Lordshyp att the tyrae as to levy and gedder bis renttes & fermes of Grymsby & Beysby dew to his Lordshyp att Ester last past ther, and the same to delyver unto the same John Halyle, and suerly his Lordshyp weill deserve yo'" payns therfor w"^ thankes, as know*^ our Lord God, who kep yow in gud helth. Scribylyd att Templehirst, this iiij'*^ day of Aprill. I pray yow geve further credance to this berer. Yo"" luffyng frend to his power, Thomas Gryce. Addressed : To myn old frendes & luffers Rob* Stevenson & Richeitl [Roch ?] and every of thame be this delivered. [ ] Letter from John Lude (?) of the King's Exchequer, to the Mayor of Grimsby. Says that the town stands in arrear in the Exchequer, for which process should have gone out last term, "as Calelyn can shew you," but that he had paid 2*. out of his own purse to slay it. Begs ihat the Bailiffs will bring the quittance from my Lord Darcy. The writer has been 10 years attorney for the town, but for four years has had no fees. " Wherefor I pray you to move my masters your brethren that I may be somewhat recompensed therefor as reason wold." [ ] March 15. " From the Kinges Hono"" of HuUe." Letter from Mychaell Stanhope to the Mayor and Bailiffs of Grimsby. States that the bearer, Anthony Fitzherberd, stands under arrest at the suit of S"" Gey Gikell, priest, for 5/. 6s. Sd., and for IG quarters of corn, which came from Waltliam, most of it from Mr. Robert Skerne's ground, of whom he hired it. Last year " I was labored unto by my cosayne John Babyngton, whow sent me a letter desieryng me by the same to spare ondyferently the cornc that was at tlie parsonage of Waltham, for that the parson, Mr. John Fitzherberd, one of the Kynges majesties chaplenys, had wrytc hym a letter decclaryng by the same that he had lette the sayd parsonage of Waltham to lerme unto the sayd Antony Fitzherberd. For further decluracion to veryfy the truthe, this Fitzherberd was forsed to obtayne a letter from the Kinges Counsayll to William IJstwayt of Waltham, tliat dwelt in the sayd parsonage, for to exf)ulce hym forth tlierof." Tiic i)arson of Waltham is uncle to the bearer, and also agreed to let him the parsonage farm, so that he thought his uncle would rather blame llu; priest, S'' Gey Gekell, than maintJiin him therein, and thus he is now destitute not only of counsel but also of witnesses, ttc. '2rA [la-i'y], Januiuy 1. London. Lcftor tVoni ''yours ns yett unuinvnintyil, Richard Ooo;lrick," to the ^Ijiyor of CJrimsby and his brethrun, tliunking- them for rlectinjjf him a Burt of St. G regory.— Power of iittorncy from Ivobert Lordyng of Cirymi-sby and jNIarjory his wife to Robert Dawlyn of same to deliver to John dc Si'O of Little Cotos and William Lucy of Cirim.sby, chaplain, seisin of certain land at Grimsby. 13 lieu. JV. [1112.] April 16.— Grant by Robert Lordin and Marjory his wife, of Grimsby, to John de See, son of Peter de See, of Great Cotes, and Sir William Lucy, chaplain. 2 Hen. VI. [1424.] Mareli 4. — Bond by John Pye of Urymesby, mariner, to John Harpour, rector of Searthow. 1) Hen. YI. 1431. Thursday after Purif. of B.V.M.— Gi-ant by John Barrowe, burgess of Grimsby, to Isabella his wife, of a messuage in Northsanctmarigate, which he had by feoffment of Robert Pyshale of Grimsby, AYalter Pyshale of Keleby, and Henry Cowper of Grimsby. 30 Hen. A'l [1451.] ISTov. IG. — Power of attorney from Thomas ^larflete of Kyngeston on Hull, maryner, to John Carleton of Grymesby, to receive moneys due from William Lyen alias Furbether. 11 Edw. IV. [1471.] Sept. 10. — Indenture between Richard, Abbot of Welhowe, beside Grymesby, and the convent of the same, of the one part, and John Sheryff, Maire, and the Bailiffs and Burgeses of Grymesby, of tl.e otLer part. Pursuant to arbitration by Robert Sheffeld, it is agreed that the Abbey shall suspend for 80 years the payment by the Corporation of 11/., part cf the fee-farm due to the King, and granted by him to the Abbey ; and in consideration thereof, the Corporation shall suspend for a like term the payment of ol. 13s. ll^d. per annum by the Abbey in respect of certain houses, &c. in Grimsby. The Corporation also grant to the Abbey, for the same term, the third part of a marsh called AVulsoo, 6 acres and 1 rood of waste in the East Marsh, near the Haven. The Abbey seal remains, almost perfect. Endorsed is a memorandum, dated 24th Sept. 1492, betAveen Sir Hiehard Humbleton, Abbot, and the Convent of Wellhowe, and William Vicars, Mayor, and the Bailiffs and Burgesses of Grimsby, as to a yearly payment to be made by the Abbey over and above the 31. 13s. ll^cl. suspended by the deed. 20 Edw. IV. [1480.] Oct. 15. — Recognisance by Hugh Edou and John Forman, churchwardens of St. Mary's, Grimsby, to Stephen See of Grimsby, gent., in 20/., to abide by the arbitration of Richard, Abbot of Wellow, William Glasyner, mayor of Grimsby, Master Thomas Rome, i-ector of St. Mary's, -lohn Saynton, recorder of Grimsby, and John Bras, vicar of St. James's, between the said Edon and Forman, and the said See. 1 Edv/. V. [1483.] June 20.— Release by Wm. Grethed, burgess of Hertilpole, to Sir John Byrde, canon of Vv'^ellow, and Sir John Brasse, vicar of St. John's, Grymsby, administrators of the goods of Richard ManfcWe of Gremysby, deceased. 3 Hen. VIL 1487. Sept — Lease of premises at Grimsby by the ;Mayor (Vfilliam Glasyner) and Burgesses to John Wright for IG years. 259 19 Hen. VIIT. [lo27.] Dec. 1. — Indenture between Bryan Curtis of Great Grymesby, burgess, and Peter Bell, of Skarthow and Eliz*"^ his wife, sister and heir to Thomas Kydger, late of Grimsby. Recites that Philip Blesby and Jaiie his wife, late wife of the said Thomas Kydger, have a rent-cliarge on all the said Bryan Curtis's land in Weelsby, as jointure of the said Jane, llelease. 1 Edw. YI. [1547.] Oct. 23. — Indenture between Andrew Nowell, esq., sheriff of Lincolnshire, and the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Grimsby, as to the election for Parliament of Richard Gouderyk, esq., and John Bellowe, esq. 1 Mary. [1553-4.] Proceedings at the 'suit of John Watson, sou of Richard Watson of Huthom, co. York, against Robert VVryght, burgess of Grimsby, for " slanderously misreporting and calling the said John villayn and knave in Great Grymisby in the church," &c. 1555. June 24. — Power of attorney from Richard Ayscough of Asbye, gent., to Thomas Wyse of Brigsley, to receive a debt due from John Graye of Great Grimsby, bocher. 1586. May 30. — Deed consolidating the Rectory of St. TTary and the Vicarage of St. James in Grimsby ; signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Lincoln, George Portmort, mayor, and about 30 burgesses. A fragment of the Corporate seal remains. 18 James I. [1620.] 20 June.— Counterpart lease for 18 years of Grimsby Ferry, between Grimsby and Hull, by the IVIayor and Burgesses to Wm. Hallington of Grimsby, sailer, and Emm Oraine, daughter of John Craiue, deceased. The lessees to provide a boat at convenient times for passengers, &c., charging freemen, their wives and children, and their servants on their business, Id.; and foreigners and non-freemen 2d. each. Rent — one good and well-fed brawn, one quarter of good sweete and well-fed ox beef, a bottle of sack, and 20^. 15 Chas. I. [1639.] July 30.— Lease by the Mayor (Gervasc Holies) and Burgesses to Paul AViller of Grimsby, clerk and burgess, of land adjoining the Vicarage, for 60 years, at 1a-. rent. 1696. 30 Sept. — Articles of Ag cement between Henry Hildyard of Kelsterne, esq., and Christopher Ilildyard his son, of the one part, and the Mayor (Robert Alfurd) and Corporation of Grimsby, of the other part, as to diverting the stream between Great Coatcs and Little Coates, so as to supply Grimsby with fresh water and improve the Town. 1714. Aug. 21. — George Clayton of Grimsby, gent, (now Mayor) to David Field of Saniehop, esq. IMortgage of 120 acres in West Marshes. Satisfaction endor.sed. Inquisition's and Dei'OSItions, &c. (Box L) 15 Edw. HI. April 7 [1311]. — Inquisiliuu ad (jiaid dd/ntiii/u, taken at Grimsby by the oath of Robert Mainidavyle of Hdesby, and othens. An imperfect copy, found amongst fragments of old Court Books. " Ex Buiidello Escaet' de Anno 15" regiii Regis Ed. 3." R 2 2oO [23 Eliz. 1581.] — Proccodiiigs in a suit between the IMayor (AVilliani Scales') and Hurgosses, Plaintiffs, and Georeje Ileneapje, escj., Luke Sutcliffe, Adam SuteliflV, Salainon Sutclit^'e, and John Sutcliffe, Defendants. The Ti'xW states that Wellow Abbey anciently possessed a rent of 11/. out of the tee-farm of the town, and by indenture dated 10 Sept. 11 Edw. IV. [1471] granted the same to the Mayor (John Sheriffe) and Burgesses of Grimsby for 80 years ; and in return the Corporation granted certain lands to the Abbey for the same term. The Abbey Avas suppressed about 28 Hen. VIII., and its possessions granted by the King to Sir Thomas Heneage and Dame Katherine his wife, and his issue in tail male, with remainder to John Heneage. The said Thomas having no male issue, the premises descended to George Heneage, esq.^ son and heir of the said John. The Defendants have entered on the premises belonging to the Corporation. (Box II.) 23 Eliz. [1581.] — Interrogatories and Depositions in the same suit. Depositions taken at Louth, 5 Sept. 23 Eliz., before Andrew Gedney, "William Metham, Robert Saundersou, and George Pormort, esquires. The -witnesses are : Robert Fotherby, set. 47 ; Christr. Hatclitf, oet. 57 ; William Rose, set. 55 ; Richard Cooke, xt. 63 (all burgesses of Grimsby) ; Robert Empringbam of Grimsby, gent, and alderman, aet. 34 ; John Sandall of Grimsby, tiler, xt. 67, sometime servant to the Abbot of Wellowe ; "William Sutton of Clee, husbandman, oet. 54; John West of Cleethorpp, husbandman, a^t. 60 ; Richard Wells, a3t. 60, and James Lavorack, aet. 80, both of Clee, fish drivers. Depositions taken at Grimsby before same Commissioners, 22 March, 23 Eliz. Hector Wentworthe of Clee, gent,, ajt. 50, says about four years ago he received from Mis. Hatclifl', new or late wife of Mr. Stoke, late of Camberwell, co. Surrey, a lease from the Maj'or (John Sheriffe), Bailiffs, and Burgesses of Grimsby to the Abbot and Convent of Wellowe of a marsh called Wolso ; and he delivered the same to Mr. Paton (late belonging to Sir Waiter Mildmay, knt.) to procui-e for himself and this deponent certain arrearages amounting to 200/. supposed to be dne ta Her Majesty. Robert Fotherbie, set. 47, says that when a child be heard Richard Hempringham, gent., then ast. about 60, mention certain bounds in perambulations. William Lusbie, of Grimsby, burgess, jet. 70, also remembers this about 36 years ago. Depositions taken in London, 28 June, 22 Eliz. Christr. Payton of London, gent., ozt. 34, says he was privy to the exhibiting of an Information by the Attorney- General as to a rent of 11/, a year, formerly of Wellow Abbey, and detained by Hector Wentworth, gent. Hector Wentworth says that about five years ago Richard Themelbye of Grimsby, gent., delivered to him the seal of the late dissolved Abbey of Wellow, and that last summer or the summer before he sent the same to Mr, George Hennage by one of his servants. The following also give evidence : — Richard Curtis, aet. 66 ; Richard Wallys of Clee, set, 60 ; Robert Andesley, now Mayor of Grimsby, aet. 74. Annexed to the proceedings is a plan or map of Grimsl)y, showing the lands in dispute. 261 4 James 1. April 11 [160G]. — Inquisition bv commission from the ■Court of Exchequer as to the exten: and value, hv. of the East and West Marshes and Fitties, and as to a few private individuals having occupied same under colour of a grant of 15 Edw. III. 10 James T., September 10 [1612]. — Depositions taken at Grimsby before Wm. IJeading, esq., Kd. Rossiter, esq., Thos. Bard, esq., Thos. Curtei.s, gent., and Thos. Danbje, gent, by commission from the C'ourt of Exehequor in a cause between Sir Chas. Egerton, on behalf of the King, and the Corporation, as to the East and West Marshes and Fitties. The witnesses are : — Michael Spencer, gent., set . 50 ; Robt. Hus- thwayie of Grimsby, gent., eet. 78 ; Wm. Kelke, gent., a?t. 55 ; Barnard Colton of Grimsby, gent., jet. 72 ; Rob. Hudson, jpt. 60; Hy. Neave of Cleethorpes, yeoman, aet. 66 ; John Fotherbie of Gt. Coates, yeoman, set. 70 ; Edward Barnistone [Barnardiston] of Great Coates, fient., iBt. 60 ; Michael Dynis of Great Coates, husbandman, ;et. 76 ; John Brasebridge of Bradley, labourer, who has known Grimsby 50 years. The witnesses give evidence as to the Marshes, leases of same, overflowing of the sea, charters, &c. Depositions taken at Binbrook in the same cause : — William Hansard of Grainihorpe, geiit.^ vet. 41 ; and John Sutcliff of Grira.sby, gent., set. 46. Memorandum endorsed as to evidences taken to the Assizes at Lincoln, 9 July 1621, by Mr. Lyon Kirke, Mayor. 1624, Jan. 4. — Depositions taken at Grimsby before Michael Emerson, gent., Wm. Marshall, gent., Robei-t Manby, gent., and Anthony Smyth, gent., by commission from the Court of Exchequer, in a cause between the Corporation and Hustwaite Wright, gent., for the recovery of out- rents payable out of lands at Bradley. Laurence Draper of Would Newton, yeoman, sat. 70, says Grimsby is an ancient haven towne, and he hath known it 60 years, but it is not so populous nor so much frequented by merchants and mariners as here- tofore it hath been. He knows Bradley; there are two manors there, one of which was anciently called Lord Wells' manor, the other was sometime one HuBtwood'g manor. Defendant is in pcssession of both, but Mr. Pelbam claims part of Lord Wells' manor. The other landowners at Bradley are John Drapiir, deponent, John Jeckhill . . . Tatam, widow. Trinity College, Cambridge, and Sir Christopher Hilliard, knt. Lord Wells' Manor place, containing 3 acres, adjoins Horner or Pinfould Lane. Ozias (also written Josias) Draper of Ley borne, yeoman, set. 56. Edward Atkinson of Theddlethorpe, gent., oet. 5S), says there were two manors ; one Lord AVells' and the other called 'J'unstalTs Manor, which came to one Ustward, whose daughter and heir manied James Wright, Defendant's father. Deponent Ijccame a freeman about 36 years ago. Thomas Scofield of Scarthoe, hu.sbandman, let. 60. John Dalton of Barnaby, ycjoman, a-t. 8(». John Kirton of Grimsby, gent., ait. 54. The said Laurence Drapxjr says that there were two messuages belonging to Lord Wells' Manor, ono called the Loidsliippe, now decayed. Has heard that the Mayor and IJiirgcsses had the privilege of hunting a boar yearly on Holy llood day in liradley Woods. .James Curtcs of Grimsby, gent,, a[!t. 55, has known Giinisby about 45 years. 1637. — Bill, &c., in a suit commenced by Trinity House, Hull, as to Lodenage or Lowage, and I'rimagc or Stowage, viz., '.U/. per ton of wine, 2G2 oil, lish. or other mon-linndisc l>ronglit into the Port of Grimsby, rlniminir tlint (irimsby wns (lopcmliMit on Hull. Grimsby eljiiins to be older than Hull as a port, ami disclaims dependeiKH'. Extent Books and Miscellaneous Documents. (Box I.) 18 Ivic. IT. [1394-5.J— The t'liamberlains' Account Roll. There arc many more of these Eolls in Box XI. 6 Hen. VII. Dec. 3 [1100]. — Contemporary copy of a Boyal Com- mission to John Viscount Wels, Sir Thomas Burgh, Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, Sir William 'I'irwhyt, and Sir Robert Dymmok, knights, Robert Sheft'eld, Andrew Dynimok, and John Hennege, to enquire into the particulars and amount of the quitrents, &e. payable out of Grimsby, Clee, Bradley, and Swallow, on account of the alleged poverty and desolation of the Borough. 7 Hen. YII. [1491-2.]— Bailiffs' Extent Book. A folio parchment book of 14 pages, containing an account of the outrents payable to the Corporation, and the houses and lands on which they were charged, as returned by the Commissioners, Sir William Tirwhit and John Hennage. 35 Hen. VIII. Oct. 9 [1543].— Extent or Rent-roll of Grimsby. A paper book stitched in an old parchment MS. cover. (There are several 18th century Rent-rolls in Box XL) 24 Eliz. May 28 [1582]. — Exemplification of a decree in the^^Coiirt of Exchequer in a cause between the Corporation and Mr. George Heneage as to lands of the late di.s,solved Abbey of Wellow. Great Seal, nearly perfect. 13 James I. [1615]. — Exemplification of verdict and judgment for recovery of the East and West Marshes and Fitties. The Charter of 24 April 15 Edw. III. is recited for the Corporation's grant of same. 34 Eliz. Sept. 4 [1-592]. — Commission of gaol delivery to William Kelke, mayor, William Willoughbie, esq.. Sir Geo. Henueage, knt., Sir Geo. St. Poole, knt., William Wraye, Edward Morison, recorder, Edward Skipwith, esq., Christopher Hatcliffe, Richard Cooke, John Hatcliffe, Christopher Harrington, Richard Thimblebye, and John Kingston, aldermen. Most of the Great Seai remains. 40 Eliz. July 3 [1598]. — A similar commission. Court Rolls. (Box II.) These include Mayor's Court Rolls proper (apparently the prede- cessors of, and in part contemporaneous with, the Court Books), Plea Rolls, Hustings and Great Court Rolls, and Views of Frankpledge for Grimsby, Clee, and Swallow. They are for the most part in a state of great disorder, partly no doubt owing to their being written on paper, which has become dilapidated. An exception to this is a large roll dated from 14 Ric II. to 3 Hen. IV., which is written on pai^chment, and to which a petition 263 of the Citj of Lincoln, transcribed below, is attached as the first skin of the roll. The earliest Rolls appear to be of the time of Edward III., and there are large numbers of them for the reigns cf Eie. II., Hen. IV., V., and VI., Edw. IV., Hen. VII., r.nd Hen. VIII. In the same box there is also a small Court Minute Book of 13 Hei). IV,, a bundle of Bailiffs' Account Eolls from temp. Hen. V., several Corporation Labour Account books of the 16th and 17th cen- turies, several lists of Burgesses, and a Poll of the Burgesses, 23 Oct. 1554, when John Bellow, esq., and Thomas Constable, alderman, were elected Burgesses for Parliament. Copy of a Petition of the Citizens of Lincoln, in the time of Richard III., attached to the parchment Roll above ment'oned : — To the Kj'ng oure leige Lord. [Humbly shew ?] unto youre Highnes the Maire, his bredern, and Citezyns of yowr desolate and auncien Cite of Lincoln, that yt Avolde please youre benyngn grace to have in youre gracious and full gracious i-emembrance the grete and long continued desolacion, decaye, ruyu, and importun cherges . . . born and charged upon youre seid Cite to growe to the utter and destniccion therof, wythoute a reformacion and releve by your piteuous and exuberant grace iherin to be purveyd and graunted. Souerayne lege Lorde, the meanez and causes of the seyd decay and dystruccion of youre seyd pore Cite ar conteyned in the bylle hereefter. The rele"ve . . . whereof .... youre grace is thoght by the sympuU advyce of us the seyd Mayre, hys bredren, and Citezins, youre ti-eue lege men, expedient and behoffull for the grete comfort and amendyng and sustentation of youre seyd Cite. Th'efecte conieyned in thicz articlcz then foloyng. The causez of the ruyne of youre Cite of Lincoln. noble progenitours by theyre letteris patentez grauutod to the seyd Cite that noo Merchantez straungers or Esterlyngez north- weyz that come into Lincolnshire th.^.t broght any r.iarchandise to sello, that they ?ulde bryng it hole to the seyd Cite, and to sdle it in non other towne, upon peyne of forfetor tymes they sold, bought, and bartered wythin the seyd Cite with doth, wherupon was usede grete cloth ma!rtiilito thai liiith bene here by pestelance and otberc sekeiuv. that in coiu'ius ol' :nurch:uul.v ?;-,>. is there, lor wythin xxx veres \Yas x or xii notabull inarehainly.H be Ijiii^yng to the Slapull of I'alez ilwellyiig in thys youre Cite, wiiere nowe is at thys thiye nnLt past thn^ voiiji men w'hal ar here nbydynire. Here eomyth no repayre of K)nles ne otbir pentyhuen, wher thorough that tlic craftmen and vittelerz ar departied oute of thys youre Cite, and inlial)ett them iu odur jilaeez in ihys sehyre where more recours of pepnll is, as itt daiely apperyth; soo that the strete/ where they dwelled ar now voied, and the how.synp; btors' papers); nnd Recognisances and Alehouse bonds, temp. Elizabeth. CdURT Books. Box IV. Court Book,coninioncingin 1453, and contiiiuingwith tolerable regularity for about a linndred years, but contniniiig also enrolments of deeds, Avills, and other documents of much later dates. A paper book of 354 folios, bound in the orij:;inal onk boards and sheepskin. It commences with a list of the Bnrgesscy^ in 29 Hen. VI. [1450-1], -whieh, being on the first page, is becoming illegible, and is therefore here transcribed. Nomina Burgensium existencium in villa de Grymesby anno Regni Kejris Henrici sexti vicesimo nono. Richard Manfeld, Mayor. John Enipyngham. John Bene. John Lekc. Roger Barbour. Henry Beel. Richard Tomlyuson. John atte Hall. John Mathewe. Richard Waltham. William Gannes. Richard Asseby. John Coke. William Hatclyff. Henry Est. Hugh Edon. John Shirref. Thomas Hopkynson. William Graa. Richard More. Robert Carlton. Robert Beverlay. Bobert Pelton. John Bayous. William Copeland. Alan Tomlyuson. William Smyth. Thomas Bolyngton. John Grjme.sby. William Edon. Robert Barkonr. John Swauland. William Betenef. William Leveryk. John Bachiler. No date. — Copy deed b John Dovvle. Stephen Cowyke. Thomas Smyth, junior. AVilliam Markham. Henry Laceby. William Gj-aunt. Thomas Smyth, senior. John Skendelby. William Copeland. Robeit Miles. ttichard atte Hall. Henry Cotes. William Wayte. William Fletchoiir. John Parsonson. Yv'^illiam Chapman. John Tarry (?) Richard Bramley. John Bramley. William Rampton. Thomas Beel, Robert Takhill. Robert Baumburgh. Henry Pelton. RoUand Neuton. Robert Pei'esson. John Beel. William Graunt. William Graa. Robert Rooe. John Gannes. Robert Horner. Robert Smyth. James Cope. Thomas Whitworth. (fo. 1.) John Dene and others (apparently acting for the Corporation) releasing to Grimsby Abbey their claim to land which the Abbey held by gift of Amia de Welesby and William Fitz Drogo and John son of William de Welesby, knights. Witnesses, Thomas Moigne and Richard Chedworth, parson of Swalowe. (fo. 96.) 267 33 Hen. VI. 1454, Oct. 24.— Copy Jet lei- from Eobert Bovill, Prior of the Hospital of :it. John of Jeru.salcm in England, dated nt Clerkenwell, as to William Asseby of Grj'mesby, a, tenant of the said Hospital, as of the Prcceptory of Wylughton, co. Lincoln, (fo. 10.) 6 Edw. lY. [146G], Aug. 10.— Deed between Thomas Muigne and John Newport, esquires, of the one part, and Robert Bele, son of William Bele, and .Josian his Avife, and .Janet Belc, sometime wife of Thomas Bele, broder of the said Robert, of the other part ; reciting that there had been oontrover.sy as to messuages, &c., at Grimsby, late of William Bele, parson of Irby, and Moigue and Newport had been appointed arbitrators by Sir Thomas Burgh, knt. The said Robert is to liave the said messuages, as devised l)y will of the said Sir William Bele, parson of Irby, to William Bele, father of the .said Robert, (fo. 37''.) 10 Edw. IV. [1470], July 12.— Richard, Abbot of Wallow, i.s admitted a Burgess, " for certain causes the Mayor and Burgesses thereunto moving," and does fealty. 21 Edw. IV. [1481], March 20. — Grant by the King's Escheator to Thomas Moigne, John Bra.sse, vicar of St. James's, and John Byrd, canon of Wellowe, of all the goods of Richard Manfeld alias Crrethed, late of Grrimsbv, who in his lifetime was outlawed, and his goods forfeited to the King. (fo. 11\) ... Edw. IV. [ •], May 7.~A letter from the Abbot of Whitby^ read and allowed. Contents not stated, (fo. 1 V\) 4 Edw. IV. [1464], Oct. 1.— Receipt fi-om Ralph, Eail of West- morland and Lord de Neville, for 30/. in full payment of the fee-farm of .50/. a year, over and above 10/. parcel of said fee-farm released at the instance of the King. (fo. 14'\) 14 Edw. IV. — Quitclaim from Margaret, widow of Thomas Duffeld of Grimsby, and Thomas DulFeld and Hugh Duffeld, their sons, to John Kydyer, Thomas Moigno, William Grymesby, and Henry Moigne, as to land in Hoole and Itterl)y in the parish of Clee, which they had by grant of Thomas Spenser. 21 Edw. IV. [1481], Oct. 9.— John Barbour, cap., does fealty for lands in Grimsby late of Roger Barbour his father, (fo. 2 P.) 22 Edw. IV. [1482], Oct. 8.— Robert Haunserd, John del See, son of Patrick del See, George Haunserd, Stephen del See, and Richard Betenef do fealty as feoffees of lands in Grimsby, late of the said Patrick del See, to the use of Patrick's wife for life, and then of the said John del See. 22 Edw. IV. [1482], April 16. — Alice Dyon, daughter and heir of John Dyon, does fealty foi- her father's lands in Griinsln', and grants .same to her mother .loan Carlton, for lifi;. 20 Edw. IV. [1481]. — M** that Tyseday, the xxiij*' day of Januer' in the 5er of Iho ranc of Kyng Edward tlic foritt .\x'', it is confinnc, over the charge of xj //. that is paid to the said Abbay ; the which cliaige base pute iorth aud waisted away the inhabitantcz thcr was wouut to bi', and yete dayly it wavstos and goys away, and none is lykc ther to abyde ; and ihat is grcte pety, and to the Kyng aud liis heieres of grete iuu'te in that parte of his Roabno, for it has bene a grete strenght and shuldc be to ail tl»e eouutre a safe portc and a kay. And also it apperes be okl bokos of CC yeres sithen tliat it was in quired be dy vers iuquestes of the seide towue, that it was than in \alour of the saide Ixj //., and viij li. over, that the Kyng gave yerly to the Bailies for the gcdiryng theroff ; for the which charge ther tlar no people com therto to inhabit aud abyde, with owteu yo"" gracious aud abundant hynesses remedy in these premesis in tyme passed, havyng consideracion heroff, has yerly abayted theym xx //. of yo'^scide 1 //., the which thei have no ccrtanty off, but att yo"" pleasere ; and yett the resydewe is to theym inportunable, and yerly undose ij men that be chosyn Baylefe for the yer. Wherfor ther dar no people cum ther to inhabyt, and so the towne is lyke utterly to go away, w* owtyn yo'' gracious remedy be had in that behalfe, and blyssed disposyciou wold consider howe thatt yo^" saide suppliantez have the seide towne in fe ferm of the Kynge, and yerly yeldys the rent to yo"^ seide Lordshipp, Wold it therfor please yo"' noble disposiciou for to be agreable to yC seide suppliantez to resave of them yerly xx fi. and no mor, ami ther upon youre saide Lordshipp and yo"' heyres yerly to aquyte the saide towne in the Kynges excheker at London by yo"^ aquietance, as ye doo at this day : this to be graunted to yo"" seid sup- pliantez, ther heires, and their successoures under yo'" grete seall for ever more. Thiese premesis not hade, oure saide towne is utterly disti'oyed, the Avhich us must nedis shewe to the Kynges gude grace, if so be it may be. And if it pleased yo"" gracious Lordeshipp to re- member the premesis, and be agreable to theym, than thei truste to Allmyghty God the Towne shall encresse and inhabett agen, to yo"^ grete pleasour, and all the inhabytauutoz therwellyng ever to be bounden to pray to all myghty God for yo'" gude prosperite and longe tyme to endure, to the pleasur of all myghty God, who have yowe in his blyssed kejjyng, both body and soull. (fo. 47".) 3 Hen. Yll. [1488], May .31. Bolyngbrook.— Letter from Thomas Thokheth, esq., feodary of the Duchy of Lancaster within the county of Lincoln, certifying that Thomas Corteys of Clee, as a tenant of the Duchy of Lancaster, was free from all tolls &c. by the King's letters patent. (Sewed to fo. 5L) 3 Hen. VII. [ 1487], Oct. 2. Memorandum.— M'^ the Teusday, the 2nd (lay of October, &c. witness that William Glasyner, Mayor, John Glasyner, William Forman and all the Couburges underwritten couventyd and agrede that if the Erell of Westmorland, or any other in his name, wyll rays of the forseid John Glasyner and William Forman for the fee farm of the said Grymesby more than xx\'j'' xiij^ iiij'', that then the seid Mayor, Coroners, Bailyffs, w^'" all the Conburgesses und"' Avryten shall surrender the seid town to the Kings hard,* or els to fyud abetter mene for the seid town in discharge of the seid Bailyffs ; and the seid Baylyffs to have all mauer of rents and revenyes, and they to dyscharge the seid town of all other charges belongyng to ther office. Subscribed by 30 burgesses, (fo. 52^) Cf. the Royal letter on p. 246, and the other agreement on p. 268- 271 6 PIou. VII. [1490], Aug. 2.— From henceforth no maner of man inhabityng w^in the Burgh of Grimsby shall have nor kepe w'iu hows eny bussell skepp, whych is the iiijt^^ parte of a quarter, to meve w*, excepte a cole mesure. And that evere man having a mesure called the London bushell, whych is viij parte of a quarter, that his said London bushell be gude and able accordyng to the standcrd, and sealed w-t the seall of the said Burgh of Grymesby. And Avho tiiat doyth the contrary, and be fun gylty thereof, shall forfvtt to the said Burgh xij^^ als oft as any ar fuud thereof defect}fl. (fo. 55'-.) 10 Hen. Yll. — It is agreed that no person shall be arrested, nor any toll taken, on Wednesday, the market day, (fo. 56^) • 7 Hen. YII. [1492], April 10.— It is found that William Glasyner, burgeis, contrary to his Burgeis oath, hath behaved hymself contrary to the Mayor and his Burgesses, whereas he went to AVilliam Lilburn, gentilman and burgess, saying thies wordes folowyug : " William, I requer yewe that Maister Myssynden and ye may be at one and frondes as gentilmen, and if it be so hee and ye be frendes and lufTers, he setts littill by the Mayer and other his JBurges of Grymesby." Notwith- standing, the Mayor and Burgesses, in common Hall, pardon and forgive the said William Glasyner, on condition that he shall from henceforth be of gude and trewe demeanor, &c. (fo. o8'\) 13 Hen. VII. [1498], Aug. 4.— James Beverlay, Mayor. John Clement of the City of London, son and heir of Williani Clement, did fealty for his father's burgage lauds and tenements. The Discent and Petigrewe of the above wryten John Clement. M'^ that William Canon, in the yere of O"" Lor:l M' CC and od yeres, had issue lawfully begotten Peter, whych had issue Henrj-, and this Henry had issue John and Isabell. John died w*owte is.-ue, and Isabell toke unto liusband Walter Keleby, otherwyse called Stalvngbrought, the whych had issue betwyx tham llobert, whych Eol)ert Keleby had issue Johane, whych Johane toke unto husband John Clemeut, the whych Johane and John had issue betwix tham William Clemeut, fader unto the said John Clement. (Jo. 61.) 12 Hen. VII. [i-^97], May 21.— At this Court William Enderby produced, and desired to be enrolled, the will of John Enderby of Grymesby, dated 27 Aug. 149'i. To be buried in the churcliyanl of S* James, Grimsby. To Lincoln Cathedral, xij^'. High altar and fabric of S* James's church, vj'' each. Fabrics of S' Mary's church, S'^ Augustine and Olavy's church, Welhowe, and churches of S' Leonard's house of Nuns, of the Friars of the order of S' Francis, and of the order of Hermits of Grimsby, vj'' each. To my wife Elizabeth, uiv capital messuage and lands in Staynton in le Hole, and all other m\ laiuls else- where in CO. Lincoln, for her life, witli remainder to my right heirs. My elder son John, all my lands in lOlvyngton co. York. My yrtunger son John and my son Thomas ii cow and 10 sheep eacli. My duuglilers Mai'garet and Sibbell two cows and 10 sheep each. Residue of goods to my wife Elizabeth, executrix. Witnesses : Master Jolin Brasse, vicar of S^ James'.s, Grim.sby ; John Einpryngham, then Mayor of Grimsby ; Stephen de la See and James Beverley, tiien Coroners ; •lames Dynewell and Tlioinas Synikynson, then Baiiills. (fo. 62.) 1500, June 11. — Award of i\rbitrators between the right worshipful S"^ Richard Humbleton, Abbot of Welhowe, and S"" Holiert Smyth, parson of o"" Lady church in Giim.sby. (fo. f)2'\) 272 19 Hen. VII. [loOl.] Miircli (». — Aiulri'w WodJ of Lethe, mer- clmut and marvnev, chargi'd by John llattlyff of Grimsby with refusing to lU'Ccpt payment lor morehandise in current money, sayin«;j, "'J'his is but oalf." The said John answered and said " It is no oaff ; it is the Kynp;is mynt eurrant in Ynghind, that I and the Kyngis \oge people may not refuse." And the said Anch-ew answered and said, " And yo*" Kv'nj^e were here p''sent, I woUl not take thcr of one peny. I owe hym neither dewte nor servece," &e, (A loose pjirehment, after fo. 62'^.) [4 Edw. IV., 1464 ?]* Letter of Ralph Earl of Westmorland and Lord Neyill. — To my Right trusty and w'ele beloved frendes the Maire and Eailefes of the tonne of Grymesby. Right trusty and wele be loved frendes, I grete yowe oftymes wel. And as for my rent of yo'' toune of Grymesby, wherein yee have not onely delayed and witholden my payracntes, but of [re.have] also sewed to Kyng intend^•ng therby to [put ?] me fro the substance of my said rent, thowghc I tru.ste in his gode .... that after myn services to his highness he wele be content and pleased that I occupye and enjoye myn inheritaunce under his lawe and gracious supportacion, ae fyne of the saif tlicis, for tlu-yiu (•(iiislitutiiiites, to warn, tli'iiimimlt\ ami to ivivyvc rcsliturion ol" siu-h goodt's us irom the saiil schyi»piT is'amynk Clarsson ccrtayn tym passed have beyn (akken of un Kyehanl Olyver, sch\[)iu'r of the sehyi*|) nainyd tlu' IVIvkkcll of Hull, IJoyse of (iiymysbe, and Kol)erl Jiaehton of Scharhruijii, all inhabitantes ami subjeetes of the kyng«lom of Ingland, w* tlieyr adlier- rentes, ^v' all dommaiges and interest in the eawis of the said Namynk sustenyd, and for the same to ployl and to porsue to an end byfor all Juges, and to obserf all terms of the law, to mayk eomposieione and doyug to gyf qwvltans of his recey[)t, and to keyp fre from all aft"^ demaundes and harmleis, and on or more in his plays to snbstytute ; and further generally and sj)eeially to doo and levy herin all that wiehe they eonstitut^intes in theyr own persons myght or owght to doo ; promysyug allso to keip and caws to be kept sure and of -jooc; worth for ever all that wiehe by theyr constilutyd and his substitntyd every of theym in the forsaid eawse, av* all that may eoneern the same, shalbe doon or Icyft, in all condieion as if it wher downe by theym eonstitutantes in theyre own persons ; and all w'out frauyde or gyle. In witnes of trewith we have eauseid the seall of eaussys of the said town of Hanserdame heruuto be appendyd. Geven the sext day of August in the yer of O'' Lord God m^° \^ xl and ix. Sett oner ow} tt of Duche in Inglyscli by me Hubbard, scryuen'(?), notary, aff my eajjaeyte, manu mea. (fo. 285''.) 6 Edw. VI. [1552], Nov. 13.— Bond by John Bellow of Kewstead, esq., to pay and deliver to John Dean, alias Lawrance, bastard son of S'' Robert Lawrence, elerk, deceased, the sum of 50/., a silver salt with a cover, a gilt cup and cover, 5 silver spoons, and a gold signet, when he shall attain the age of 21, in satisfaction of the goods late of said S*" Robert Iiawrance, and Katherin Mayson, alias Lawrance, sister of the said S'" Robert. Also to keep the said John Dean at school till 16. (fo. 289^) 1 Eliz. [1559], Jan. 12. — Bond by John Bellow of Newstead, co. Line., esq., to indemnify the town against his costs and those of Master Harrington, chosen Burgesses for Parliament, (fo. 291''.) 7 Eliz. [1565], July 26. — Bond by Lawrence Meres, Recorder, to come twice or oftener every year to keep the sessions, &c. (fo. 301^.) 9 Hen. VII. [1493], 4 Sept. Letter from Henry Lacy to Master Hempryngham. — Maister Hempryngham, in ryght gud herty maner I recommend me unto you, hertely thankyng yow of all kyndnes. Ser, the cans of my wrytyng unto yoAV at this tyme is that I may be bold on you to have the over syght of all such howsyng and ground which I have in Grimesby, that is to wyt, v schoppis by Saut James Chireh, and a stabull w* a myln hous, w* a ground to the same by John Stopis hous, and also a ground that was Wylsons adioinyng to the same ; whych stabull and myln hous betwix my broder Robert Lacy and William Butler and o"" nebur must be repared, and scharply and schortly thei haue promysed me ; and so doon I hartely pray yow to se the said bowsing and ground orderd to the best, and that no person occupy yt bot for the mony ; and my v schoppes to lat thame .... as you thynk good to honest and trusty persons. The rent off evere schop is iiJ5. iiijrf., and me thynk better it is to gyfF somewhat a gane than to mynych any thyng therofF; but I fully remyt evere thyng to yo"" wysdom, and as yow may resave any mony to repare the said schopes is also my broder and I standes in bargannyng for the same, but not fully agreed nor concludit ; wherefor now, senc I depart out of this contre, ther is no 2< / mau w'iu Grimesby I caue so futhefully trust, uor be so bold upon as yow ; and yf yt \y in my poure I trust to serve yo"" kyndues. Also you schall resave be this bryuger iij kays to the sclioppes, and tho that vvantes, my broder Robert praye Henry Skytt' his servauut to mak theme, and he will content hym for the same. And thus I i)ray Jh'u have yow in his mersy and full kepyng ; amen. At Kelbv, on Thursday, tli;- iiij day of Septerabr' A° ix. H. vij^ Yowr Henry Lacy. (fo. 3l7i^.) 1 &2 Ph. & AJary [1555], June 26.— Deed by John Bellow of Ifewstead [de Xovo loco) on Anckehohn, esq., to Philip Tyrwhytt, esq., Richard Hempryngham, Thomas Apleyerd, Henry Thryscrosse, John Goldwell, Thomas Alldred, and John Apleyerd, gentlemen. Grant of all his lands, Sec. in Grimsby, Clee, Bradley, Little Coter-, and Stallingbro', to the use of himself and Ursula his wife. (fo. 333".) No date.— Rental of Clee. (13 Hen. VIH. is the date of the pre- ceding entry.) Rents due to the town of Grimesby : — Furst, of Henr' Moyn for It' of the same It' of the same for Idale in Klee It' of Robert Slov/nt It' of Henr' Grimesby - It' of Wat' Warne It' of Thomas Bell It' of the nuns of Grimesby It' of the Abbot of Wellow It' of John Kygier for landes lat Fowler It' of the same for landes lat Stellion (?) „ ■ „ „ Laceby It' of Hurcbyned It' of Thomas Curias It' of Henr' Cowlbe It' of landes late Cort'- It' of Margaret Laceby - It' of Henr' Dymbletoii- Summ.' (fo. 345''.) 17 Hen. VH. [1502], May 31.— Rol)ert Lacye, maior. To the Court came Robert Gardner and Henry Hill of Walberdyswyk, tenants of the manor of Blvdimre, co. Hutfolk, and producewii of Grimsby, (fo. 346''.) 1305, xvii. kl. April.— Docd of Walter dc Well and Walter son of Richard Storme of ltter])y, parish of S' Saviour Clee, which is appro- priated to (Jrimesby Abbriy, as to tithes of fish, Sci'. (fo. .'510.) - - yS yijjd - - (blank). - - viijd - - iij'i)'^ - - xxiijd - - iij' iiij"^ - - if xjd - - ijs yd - - X'' ler - ijs viijd (?) - iiij'' - ij'' ob. - - XV'' ob. - - xiiij'' - - xiiijd - - xi]^ - - Vijd - - j'^ [I totali.^ ' - xliij^ i'' 278 15 ITrii. Vri. [1500]. Feast of rontrcost.— Dood of Ivjitliorino TTyll of Mvi'li Olenn, eo. Loic, widow, and Tho" llyll of .Stow<;htt)n, oo. Leic, leasiiiij tlioir moad in liaxstovijnto in Gryni'^sby^ north of a tenement of Dame Elizalteth Cnnstalmll, widow, to Alexander Forrest of Grymesby, burgess, (fo. 8 19.) 8 Hen. VII. [1493], Mareli 29.— Letters of the Mayor, Barons, and Commons of Wynchelse, iu favour of John Fermour. 1177, Aug. 17. — AVill of John Shcryife of Great Grimsby, merehant. To be buried in the church of B. Mary the Virgin at Calesse. Lincoln Cathedral, G^ 8''. S* James's Church, Grimsby, 5 inarks. Chapel of tb^ Stapyll in Calesse, 20^ Image of S* Thomas there, 40''. High altai- of S^ James's Church, for tithe.s forgotten, 6^ S'^. Humberston Abbey, 20». W™ Brown, 40^. Eliz''^ Brown, 6^ 8^1 Katherine my wife, my principal house wherein I reside at Grimsby for her life, with remainder to my son Robert Sheryffe. I also leave him other houses and lauds (described) at Grimsby and Bradley. Son John Sheryffe, a messuage in S' Marygate, &c. Son W™ Sheryffe, a messuage in Brig- howgate, etc. Daughter Eliz^'^ Sheryffe. Residue to wife and sons Robert and John, executors, (fo. 353.) 25 Eliz. — It is ordered that no manner of person, beinge a laborer, that dothe or shall come to dwell and inhabitte w^'^in this burroughe shall not worke as a laborer there before he be admytted by M"" Maior and his bretheryne to dwell here and to worke as a laborer, and paie to the use of the towues chamber 2* for his furst amyttauce. Every shomaker, taler, cobler, glover, smythe, weaver, tynker, and guch like occupacons paye to th' use of the townes chambre for their saide furste admyttance, yf he be a maried person, 3^ 4"^, and yf he be a syngler person, 5*. Every pedder 5% marcer 10^, draper 10% and suchlike occupacons 10^ each. Every niarchant venterrer and such like 20^. Xo owner of property in the borough to let any house or shop to any person not an inhabitant of the borough. 3 Hen. VII. [1488], May 20. — Contemporary copy of a long charter as to grant by King Edward [III.] to John Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster and Blanche his wife of the possessions of Henry Earl of Lancaster, father of Henry Duke of Lancaster, (fo. 354.) 11 Hen. [VII. ? 149G ?], June 26.— Royal letters as to the inhabitants of Tetnev, Hole, Itterby, and Thrunscoe, parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster, (fo. 355^'.) 14 Hen. VII. [1499], June 14. — Royal letter of protection for two Scotch merchants, under the Signet. Henry by the grace of God, Kyng of England and of Fraunce, and Lord of Irland, to all mayers, scheryffes, bailyffes, constables, coustumers, comptrollers, serchers, kepers of poortes and passages, and to all maner other o"" officers, mynistres, and subgietes, as weleby see and fressh waters as by land, to w!iome thies oure lettres shalbe shewed, and to evere of theym, gretyng. We late you witt that of our grace especiall, for certein cousidei'acions us moving, we have by thiese presentes taken Andrewe Mailnynge and Andrewe Swan, of the Realme of Scotland, merchantes, theire factor's and attorneyes, unto o^ proteccion, tuicion, saufgarde, and defence, and have licenced them joinctly and severally to come into this o"" Rey™'', and all other places under o'' obeisaunce, withe a shipe or shippes of the portage of oon hundred tonnes or undre, laden 279 w* almauer goodes aad merchandises, and w* two maisters, sixtene marvners, thre pages, and also w* harnesse and alle other thvnges lawfull and necessary for the defence of them and of their said ship and goodes ; and the seid merchandises to uttrc wUn o"" said Reahiie and obeisaunce for their most profitt and advauntages ; and therupon to recharge the same ship or shippes in the same o'' Reahne and obeisannce w* all maner gi-eynes, victailles, goodes, and raerchaundises lieffull, and theym to conveye or doo to be conveied into Scotland afoj'seid, their to make like uttraunce of theym ; and undre the same foarme to goo and come, passe and repasse, as well by see as by land, abide and sujourne w* in this o"" seid Realme and obeisaunce, as often as theim shall lyke, durynge the space of oon hole yere next ensuynge the date herof. Wherfore we woll and straitly charge you that ye quietly permitte the said Andrewe Mailnyng and Andrewe Swan, anil theire seid facto''s and atto^'neis, to use and enioye the hole effect of thies [)reseutes, w*out eny lawfull lette or impedymeut of you or eny of you to tlie contrarye, as ye woll eschewo o"" grete displeasour and aunsweve unto us therin at yo"^ perilles. Provided alwaies that of o^' custumes, subsidies, and other duties to us rightfully belonging for the said greynes, victailles, goodes, and merchaundises we be faithfully aunswered. Provided also that undre colour hereoff they nor eny of theym doo or procur to be done eny thyng prejudlciall un(o us, o'' said Realme, or o"" subgiettes of the same, upon peyn of fortilure and breche of this o'' sauf conduct, w' othei- perilles and daungiers which may ensue unto theim in that bihalif. Given undre oure Signet, att oure ]Mano'" of Shene, the xiiij^** day of Juyn, the xiiij yere of o"* Reigne. (fo. 356'\) At the end of the volume are entered the original bonds, with their signatures and seals, from the Members of Parliament for the Borough, to indemnify the town against expense. Amongst them are : — Thomas Hatclyff of Hatclyff, esq. 1 97 Q f i kq^ Thomas Ellys, junior, of Wyham, esq. J ^ ' Thomas, Lord Clynton and Saye, 7 Oct. 1601. Sir John Wraye of Blyton, knt. "1 g,^ j^j^^^j^ ^^^^ Richard Towtheby of Healing, esq. j William Skinner of Thornton, esfj., 2 ]March 1625. After fo. .361, llie folios are numbered (apparently in error) 352, 353, and 354. The second fo. 355 is in a bundle of fragments of Court Books in Box VII. Court Book, 1539-1,518. A paper book of 125 folio?, stitched into a pre-Reformation MS. cover. Most ofthe.se Court Books contain (besides the usual routine business of the Mayor's Court) Sessions for hiring .servants and apprentices (when the names of masters and servants, &c. are entered), and Sessions for weights and measures, and trade marks. 31 Hen. VIII. — Leonard Curteys, Mayoi-. A deed of .Tolin Kyngston of f}rimsl)y is entered, as to a sliip callfd the Anne of Cales, bought of .lohii Sk.'irlett. Henry Whytgyft,* a juror. 37 Il'-n. Will. — "One coyttc, coljour violet," piaysed by Henry Witgift and others. * Tbc father of tin- Arcliliisliop. 280 I ImIw. VI. — William Boiul, tlio 'rn-asiuvr, t(t have for his pains, the ;?rd penny that roniis into this Court by frayes.* .lohii Ht'lli)\v, estj., AhU-rninn, a;;r»H's to serve in Parliament, and not to make any charge for the same against the Borough. Court Book, 1562-loTo. A pajK'r l)(K)k of 2S1 folios, in parchment bindin}». Contains Views of Frankple(lpe w"'in this borrowe, or a man of any manner of track; whatsoever, before he l)e thereunto fiirst allowed l)y Mr. Maior and his bretheryn. 26 Eliz. — .John Southc, gent., is aj)poin(cd to pi'osccule as altc.rncy for the town on a bond made to the Mayor and Uurgesscs by iJobert tStorye of Conysl)io and 'i'homas Risfurtlie of Lowthi- in 40/., for not re[)airing vS' James's church, as in tin- condilion to the l)(>n(l. 282 27 Eliz. — Miiii. that ntt this Courtc it is agreed by the whdlc Courte (Xpofi-r Ilatelvt" exoepte) that I\rr. Marke Ilolte shall putt in his owno l>onile tur Hjtpeirauiu'*' bol'urc Mr. jNIaior, when he shalbo eallcd, ami that at Kveiiiighaiii in Yorkshire at the i)arsouaj!;e will he bee. Also that wheras Marke Holte was in snspieion for teriiige the pro- elamjvcon hitelie sett out by her Hieghnes for the suppression of setlieious bookes, bvlles, or other thinges, in eonsijirrow. osij., ami George Pelhain of Gray's Inn, esq., as Burgesses for ParHauieut. And their bends against expenses ; with seals of arms. George Pelhani pays 10/. to be admitted to the freedom. Same year, Aug. 26. — Poll for the same eandidates. And bonds of Broxholme and Charles Pelham of Broeklesby, esq., thereon. Court Book (part of), .32 Chas. II., eontaining folios 1)30 to 1-4G. 1088, Jan. 11. — Poll for Sir Edward Ayseoghe of South Kelsey and Sir Thomas Barnardiston of Ketton, co. Suffolk, as Burgesses for Parliament. And their bonds for expenses. 33 Chj\s. II. — William Broxhoimeof Barrow, esq., is eleeted Recorder, in phvee of Edward Kinge, esq., deceased, and signs the declaration against the Solemn League and Covenant. Bonds by William Broxholme of Barrow, esq., and Charles Pelham, esq., on their election as Burgesses for Parliament, (fo. 338.) 83 Chas. II. — Francis Bcatniflfe admitted to a nies.'^uage, as heir to Mr. Thomas Beatniffe, deceased, (fo. 343.) 33 Chas. II., Sept. 26. — Mr. Alexander Wright elected Schoolmaster during the good pleasure of the whole town. (fo. 347.) Court Book, 1689-1720. A large book of about 1,070 folios, but extremely decayed, and a great part of the leaves loose. - 1688, Dec. 11.— An order dated 28tli Oct. last, signed by Sir Edward Ayscogh, knt., Vincent Grantham and Edward King, esquires, for the towne of Grimsby, for setting out three foot soldiers. 1688. — Resolution to plead to a Bill of Quo JVartrtnto lately exhibited Ly the King against the Corporation. Various charters, &c., are taken out of the Chamber, and sent to London, for the purposes of the defence. 1689-90, March 3. — Poll of the Burgesses for Sir Thomas Barnar- diston, Sir Edward Ayseoghe, and John Chaplin, esq., on the election of two Burgesses for Parliament. 1690. — Old Charters, which had been sent to London, are now restored to the Chamber. 1691. — Xathaniel Gannock, citizen and ii.shmonger of London, purchased of his brother John Gannock of Boston, gent., all his messuages in Grimsby, bequeathed to him by the will of Ralph West, late of Irljy, gent. 1691. — Geo. Clayton, late Mayor, fined, 5/. to the Chamber, and 20*. to the poor, for omitting to make the Election Feast and Michaelmas Feast. 1692, Oct. 4. — Bridgett, wife of Henry Deane, found guilty of stealing a peticoat, and sentenced to be whipped at the whipping post, stripped to the waist, till her body be bloody. 1710. Poll for Arthur Moore, esq., William Coatesworth, esq., and Robert Viner, esq., as Burgesses for Parliament. 1713. — Poll for Arthur Moore, esq.. Sir James Parke, knight, Wm. Coteswortb, esq^., and Matthew Boucherett, esq. This volume consists chiefly of mere names. There are a few admissions of Freemen. 287 Court Book, 1720-1738. 1720.— Poll for election of a Burgess to Parliament; Arthur Moore, esq,, and Robert Viner, esq. The former elected, in place of Sir Robert Chaplin, expelled the House of Commons. 1720, June 14. — Geo. Clayton elected Town Clerk in the place of Mr. Charles Bransby, deceased. 1721. — Mandamus to admit AVilliam Stampe to the Freedom. Re- solved to show cause, and meanwhile not to admit the said Stampe. 1721.. — Resolved to solicit a general Inspeximus and Confirmation of the Corporation charters, and an alteration of the Market day from Wednesday to Friday. 1729, Feb. 3. — An instance of tlisfrancliisement for felony. Court Book {Curia Forinseca), 1694-1727. Imperfect ; first 52 pages wanting. Scarcely anything except names of jurors and parties to suits. Court Book {Curia Forinseca), 1727-1733 ; containing similar entries. A bundle of fragments of Court Books and Views of Frankpledge, from temp. Ric. III. to William and Mary. , Fines or Final Concords. (Box VI n.) These are Fines acknowledged before the Mayor, Coroners, &c, for the time being, on conveyances of lands or tenements within the Borough. They are about 300 in number, and range in date from temp. Edw. III. to Charles I., with a few later. Sacrament Certificates. (Box IX.) These certificates are not arranged, but appear lo bo all of the 18th centviry. This same box contains also Sessions Rolls and Papers for 1741, 1775, and 1809 ; and a Roll of Subscriptions by the Ju.stices in Quarter Sessions to the Oaths against Papal Supremacy and Transub- stantiation, 1761-1774. Ciiamjucrlains' Accounts, &c. (Box X.) This box contains bundles of Chamberlains' Accounts and Vouchers between 1H2S ai il 1836. Also, Oaths against Pajnil Suprenuicy, &c.,an«l other Sessions Papers between 1690 and 1781 ; Verdicts of Court Leet, 17th and If^th centuries; and Freemen's Admissions, 1824-1832. (Box XI.) A very dilapidated bundle of Chamborluins' Aecounts, temp. Ric. II., and other bundl(!s for tciup. Ileniy VIIl., Cotniiionwealth, and Charles II. ; a few Election Indentures of the I7th and 18tli centuries; Sessions Papers and Admissions, 1737 ; 18th century Corporation Rentals; and modern letters and vouchers. 2SS (Boxes XII. Mild XIII.) (.'on lain uiily priiitrd Statuit's at Iiirm'. (liox XIV.) Counterparts of Leases of Corporation property between 1662 and lS2o, and one of 1611. iSIAYORS OF GRIMSBY. The following list av.is eompiled from the Corporation Records by Colonel Gervase Holies, who was Mayor of Grimsby in 1636, 1638, and 1663, and it is taken from his unpublished Collections amongst the Lansdowne MSS. : — William de Bolingtou. Peter dc Alsliara. William de Bolington. Ralph de Utterby. Richard Atte See. John Rayuer. Richard de Wefewang. Ralph de Utterby. William de Elmeshale. John de Cotes. Geoffrey Pedde. John de Xewland. Geoffrey de Aschby. John de Heliug. Walter de Slutheby. William de Elmeshale. William de Wele. Robert de Burton. William de Wele. William Duffeld. Richard de Misen. Simon White. John Poage. William buffeld. Simon de Grimsby. Simon White. William DufFeld. Robert Bolicgton. Robert IV. Robert Bolingtou. William Duffeld. William Fosse. .J. de Stalingburgh. .John Litster. Richard Barbor. William Fosse. Roger Granesby. Robert Py. Gilbert A Prestey. Roger Granesby. Robert Py. 1202. B., Mayor of Grimsby. 1363. 1203. Baldwin. 1364. 1205. Edmund del Kal. 1365. 1206. William Clerk. 1366. 1207. John le Art. 1368. 1209. Adam Welby. 1360. 1210. William Russel. 1372. 1219. Baldwin. 1374. 1261. Philip de Wivelsby. 1377. 1287. William Fraunke. 1.378. 1280. j> ij 1379. 1293. Richard Brisbancke. 1382. 1304. Hugh le Salter. 1383. 1307. Robert de Wath. 1386. 1309. ^^'illiam de Groule. 1388. 1311. Robert de Norton. 1390. 1312. David Tavern er» 1391. 1313. Gilbert Rayner. 1392. 1315. Henry de Riby. 1393. 1316. William Russel. 1394. 1317. William Tinctor. 1395. 1318. Hugh de Killingholme. 1396. 1319. John de Raseu. 1397. 1322. William Basill. 1400. 1325. Henry de Riby. 1402. 1336. Simon de Funtenay. 1403. 1338. Thomas Skirbecke. 1404. 1341. Augustine Attwoode. 1405. 1342. John de Riby. 1406. 1344. Simon de Funtenay. 1107. 1346. Peter Atte See. 1409. 1347. J> M 1410. 1348. Simon de Funtenay. 1411. 1352. Peter de Haisham- 1412. 13.53. William Nevile. 141.3. 1354. Thomas de Cave. 1414. 1356. William Herwike. 1415. 13.57. -John Ingson. 14:6. 1360. Peter de Halshara. 1417. 1361. William Herwike. 1418. 1362. Ralph de Utterby. 1419. 289 1420. William Fosse, 1490. 1421. William Briggesley. 1491. 1422. Robert Py. 1492. 1423, William Barrow. 1493. 1424. Walter INIanby. 1494. 1425. Roger Graaesby. 1495. 1426. William Barrow. 1496. 1429. Simon Elkington. 1497. 1430. John Hyll. 1498. 14.32. William Barrow. 1499. 1433. Roger Granesby. 1500. 1434. John Empringham. 1501. 1436. John Carbote. 1502. 1438. John Edon. 1503. 1439. Richard Fulnetby. 1504. 1440. Simon Elkington. 1505. 1441. Robert SherrifFe. 1506. 1442. Henry Bele. 1507. 1443. .John Empringham. 1508. 1444. John Dene. 1509. 1446. AVilliam East. 1510. 1448. Roger Barbour. 1511. 1449. Henry Tomlinson. 1512. 1450. Richard Manfeld. 1513. 1451. .John Empringham, 1514. 1452. John Dene. 1515. ji Henry Bele. 1516. 1453. Jolui Atto Hall. 1517. 1454. Ilugli Edon. 1518. 1456. Richard Manfeld. 1519. 1457. .John Newport, Esq. 1520. 1459. Richard Alesby. 1521. 14G0. John SherrifFe. 1522. 1461. .John Newport, Es((. 1523. 1162. Hugh Edon. 1524. 1463. John Cooke. 1525. 1464. .John Atte Hall. 1526. 1465. .lohn Newport, KfH[. 1527. 1468. Thomas Broughton. 1528. 1469. .John Newport, Es(|. 1529. 1471. Hugh Edon. 1530, 1472. •John Sheriffe. 1531. 1473. Robert Ilarmer. 1532. 1474. John Newport, Esi|. 1533. 1475. Stcplicn del See. 1531. 1476. .John Newporl, Es(|. 1.5.35. 1477. TIii)in;is Broughton. 153(5. 147S. Robert C'onstal)l('. 1537. 1180. William (ilMsiner. 1538. 1481. rclci- dc la Sec. 1.539. 1 182. WilliaiM (lliisincr. 1510. 1483. >» M 1541. 1484. Stephen dc; la Sec. 1513. 1485. Thoiuas Portmort. 1514. 1487. William (llasiner. 1545. 1488. Thoniiis Bell. 1516. 1489. William (llasiner. tj 70'10O 1547. William Vicars. Thomas Alseby. Thomas Bell. James Beverley. John Empringham. Thomas Bell. Thomas Alseby. James I^everley. William Vicars. Henry Beningworth. Robert Lacy. William Vicars. » ?> Alexander del Sec. Bernard del See. >j »» -John Empringham. Bernard del See, Christopher Ayscogh, Esq. Peter Mason. William Buteler. Philip Hamby. Thomas Barnardiston, Esq. Peter Mason. Richard Thymolby, Esq. •John Eotherby. Richard Thvmolby, I<]s(|, William Hatcliffe; l^hilip ITamb3^ Bryan Curtej'^s. ." " Richard Thymolby, Esc]. John Fothcrby. Richard Thymolby, Es(|. Bryan Curtoys, Richard Thymolby, Es(|. Peter Mason, Richard Tliymolby, Esc). jNIichael Mason. Robert Cooke. Richard Tliymoll)y, Es(|, Michael Mason. Riclianl lMni)ringhani. Ricliard Tliymolby, Esi|. Jjcouard (-urliMs. Michael Mason. I'alrick Ilansley. .lohu {{arnardiston. Rob(Mt Cooke. John Kingston. Richard lOmpringliatn. John Bellow, Ks(|. Hieliaid l']iii|>riiigliam. 1' IW lo48. Ki< lijinl Thyniolby. \:A9. .K)lm Billow, Estj. I,')o0. William Simson. l').")l. KoIktI Cooke. i:)52. John Hollow, Esij. 15.")3. .lolui Kingston. 1554. Kiclianl Kiupiinglimn. 1555. .lohii Hcllow, Esq. 155(i. Kirliaril Cooke (son). 1557. Kobfit Cooki' (fatlu'r). 1558. Ivifhard F'hnprin^hain. „ Koherl Writ^lit. 1555). William Royse. 15G0. RoltLMt Wiiulyll. 15(il. Martin Fotlu'rby. 15G2. Mifliacl Emprin;5. RoluTt Cooko. I5(i4. Thomas ^laddison. 15UG. Micliael Empringliam. 15G7. Roltoit Annc'sley. 1569. Richard Hansard. 1571. Robert Wright. 1572. William Scales. 1573. Richai'd Hansard. 1574. Eobert Holdesworth. 1575. William Rose. 1576. Thomas ]\Iorison. „ William Scales. 1577. Micduu'l Empriugham. 1578. Christopher Portmort. 1579. William Scales. 1580. Robert Aunosley. 1581. John eJackson. 1582. Christopher Ilatcliffe. 1583. Robert Empringham. 1584. John Hatcliffe. 1585. George Portmort. 1586. John Jackson. 1587. Christopher Harrington. 1588. William Wray, Esq. 1589. John II;itclifte. 1590. Richard Thymolbv. 1591. William Keike. 1592. John Kingston, Esq., son of John. 1593. Godfrey Lawghtou. 1594. Richard Waterhouse. 1595. Anthony Wilson. 1590. .John Hatcliffe. 1597. William Kelke. 1598. Solomon Sutcliffe. 1599. 16U0. Richard Collon. 1601. Edvvard Jackson. 1G02. Anthony Wilson. 1603. Solomon Sntcliffe. 1604. lliimon Greuthead ami William Gowcr. 1605. John Kingston, Esij. 1()06. Bernard Colton. 1607. Edward .lackson. 1608. Solomon Sutclitle. „ W. Gower. 11)09. William Kelke. lOlO. Robert Empringbam, ( ieiit. 1(>1 1. William (Jowcr. 1()12. Anthony Wilson. 1(313. jNlichael Spenser. 1(514. Edwai'd Jackson. 1G15. William Tod. 1G16. Michael Spencer. 1617. William Gowcr. 1G18. Daniel Somerscales. 1G19. Panl Cooke. 1620. Leo (or Lyon) Kirke. 1G21. Edward Heatou. 1622. William Tod. „ M. Cooke. 1G23. Moses Cooke. 1624. William Gower. 1625. Thomas Lamson. 1626. Thomas Sea. 1627. Freschville Holies, Esq. 1G28. Moses Cooke. 1629. Paul Cooke. „ Edward Heaton. 1630. William Gower, son of William. 1G31. Robert East. 1632. Arthur Brooke. 1633. Edward Popple. 1G34. Richard Brather. 1G35. Richard Fotherby. 1G36. Gervase Holies, Esq. 1637. Moses Cooke. 1638. Gervase Holies. 1639. William Booth. 1G40. T. AVest. „ Zacharias Alford, 1641. 1642. Samuel Procter. 1643. Edward Heaton. 1G44. T. Tod, sou of William. 1645. Thomas More. 1646. W. Beardshaw. 1617. Thomas Beatniffe. 1648. William Crew. 1649. Thomas Morley. 1G50. Thomas Tod. 1651. Thomas Newton. 1652. Richard Tod. 1G53. Edward Thomas. 291 16.54. Charles Weselhead. 16(31. William Popple, son ot ]6oo. William Booth. Echvurd. 1656. Samuel Procter. ^^^^ Christopher Clayton. ,,. _w ,p rp , 1603. Gervase Holies. -,*.„. * , , . 1G64. T. Heaton, sou of Kclwanl. „ W ilham Leardsliuw. ^q^^q^ Christopher Clavlou. 1658. „ „ 1667. A. Booth, sou ol" WUliam. 1659. William Draper. 166S. William Poi.ple. 1660. Edward Cooke. 1069. Sir F. Holies, Knight. AlFUKL) GlBIJONli. T 2 INDEX. Ahbot : G., Archbishop uf Ciinteihury, 142. Kobert, mauuiuission, of, 2C9. William, 2G9. Abtly, Mr., 104. Abetot, Urso de, slierifl' of Worcester, 171. Abindon, William de, 208. Ab}', Kieliard de, 257. Acham : Anthony, 241. will of, 240. George, 241. Acres, John, 138. Acton Burnell, statute of, 13, Acts of Parliament, 37, 107, 115, 117 (2), 119,264, 265. for augmcutiufT livings in corpora- tions, 104. for well governing corporations, 104, 143. for payment of members, 149. for taxing wages, 55. concerning the six articles, 183. for the union of churches, 46. of Succession, 33, 179. for holy days, 183. Acts relating to Justices of the Peace, 107. Acts, Scobell's, 107. Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles, JJede's Commentary on, 122. Ad quod damnum : inquisition, 259. writs of, 8, 105. Adbaston, 218, 220, 222. Adberburi, Thomas de, 215, 217. Admiralty, Court of, 25C. Aette, William de, 230. Agamemnon, 13. Aghton, William, 10. Aguilloii, llobert, 6, 230. Ailemer, Samuel, sheriff of Suffolk, 1 13. Alan, Walter, 122. Alanson : (Jharles, mayor of Lincoln, 109. Kobert, 25. mayor of Lincoln, 34, 35, 36. his wife, 34. gild plate pawned to, 35. or Alynson, Williain, 38, 39 (2), 42. Albany, Duke of, regent of Scotland, 176. Albi, John son of Nicholas, 228. Alhini, William of, 166. Annales : Cestrienscs, or chronicle of .St, Wer- burg's, Chester, 206, 210. Monastic!, 211. Obcrti Stanconi, 219. I'laccnt. Gibell,, 219. Anne of ('ales, sliiji, 279. 294 Anno, guoon, U J. li'ttlT 1«). It*i3. :uUlrossos to, lit (,'2^, 11 T) (,2). nrms of, I'JO. Annosley : ratrick, iitW. KolHTt, '2W {'2). Aiitiilolf, by Ebono/.er Hall, 115. Anfioch, Robert of, 194. Anton : Gi'orgc, csii., recorder of I>iiicoln. 86, 92. Mr., recorder of Lincoln, 73. Aplcyerd : John, 277. Thoniiis, 277. Apparel, Statute of, 03. Arcfueoli-ifiii, the, ICC. Arcbboldj William, 31. Archer : Robert, 241. Thomas le, 230. Arches : Court of, 2.13. acts of, 196. citation from, 142. Dean of the Court of, 215. Ardern. Robert, 122. Arsjentein, Richard de, 5. Aristotle, 13. Arnleir", church of, 216. Arras, in Biirgone land, 30. Array, commission of, 33. Art, John le, 288. Arthur, Prince of Wales, commission to, 170. Arundel : Richard earl of (1378), 9. Thomas earl of (1414), 10. Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, 176. Asceir, Simon de, 228. Aschbv, Geoffrey de, 288. Ascough, Sir William, knt., 32, Ascuge, Robert, 280. Ashburton, 6. Ashby, 257,259. letter dated at, 257. Ashley, John, 18. Assebv : R'ichard, 266 Thomas, 241. William, 267. Assize of bread, 44, 45, 46. beer, &c., 8, 127, 130. novel disseisin, 229. ,iudges of, 8, 10. , Justice of, .50. , pleas of, 9. Assizes, 48, 52. " Association," the, in defence of William III., 153. (1682), 149. Asterby, 240 (2), 241. Astewodefeld, 190. Astle, Thomas, Keeper of Records in the Tower, ICC. Atclyff, John 273. Atkinson : Kdiniind, mayor of Lincoln, 44. Kdwanl, 26 f. Mr. KcduM-t, 101. Atkyii, Thomas, notary, 21. Attelherge, William de, 230. Atte See : Peter, 257. Richard, grant by, 257. Attorney General, the (1595), 185, 257. Information by, 26'). Attwoode, Augustine, 288. Atwater, W., bishop of Lincoln, 248. Atwell, Hugh, parson, 76. Aubeigny, William do, 194. Auc', Robert de, canon of Exeter, 168. Audeley, Sir Thomas, Lord ("hancellor, 16. Audesley, Robert, mayor of Grimsby, 260, 281. Augmentation : Court of, 43. Chancellor of, see North, Sir Edw. decree in, 138. Treasurer of, 12. Auncell: Joan, 273. John, mariner, 273. Avignon, documents dated at, 168 (2), 169, 198. Avington, Nicholas priest of, 168. Awelton, document dated at, 3. Awldwyn: John, 241. William, 241. Awnger, John, 241. Aycue, Mr., 254. Aylesby, John, 243. Ayscoghe, Ayscough : Christopher, esq., 289. E., letter of, 256. Sir Edward, 286 (3). Sir Francis, 254. letters of, 254, 255 (2). Richard, 259. Ayscugh, Mr., 55. B. Baby ng ton : Adam, 130. John, 253. Bachiler, John, 266. Bacon : Nicholas, 121. grant to, 139. Sir Nicholas, 139. bart., of Redgrave, petition of, 143. father of, 143. Robert, 208. Baf, Adam, Walter son of, 156. Bagard, Dr. John, 183. Bakepuz, Ralph de, 230. 205 Baker: Edmund, 138. Mr., M.P. for Hertford, letter of, 163. liaketone, Robert de, prior of St. Peter's, Binj, 156. Bake-well, Baucwell, 219, 222, 220, 231. church of, 2-27, 228 (2), 229 (2), 230 (2). Balberge hundred, 128. Baldwin: mayor of Grimsby, 288(2). Mr. John, 130. his father, 103. Mr., 95. Ballio!, Jot;c. de, 2. Ballot, voting bv, 117. Balyff, John, 274. Bancroft, Bichard, archbishop of Canter- bury, 235. Banhim, Nicholas de, 128, 129. Bannockburn, battle of, 223. Barbadoes, 163. Barber: Dr., 84. Gabriel, letter to, 162. Barbers, ordinance respecting, 22. Barbor, Richard, 288. Barbour : John, 267. Roger, 266, 267, 289. Bard, Thos., esq., 261. Bardnej', 61. abbey, 213. abbot of, 34. Baret, Geoffrey, 132. Barewe manor, 218. Baril: AVilliam, 257. Dionisia his wife, 257. Barkour, Robert, 266. Barkworth, 264. Barlings, abbot and convent of, 24. Barlow, William, bishop of Lincoln, 86. Bamaby, 261. Barnardiston : Edward, 261. John, 289. Nathaniel, sheriff of Suffolk, 143. Sir Thos., 286 (2). Barnes, Mr., preacher of Lincoln, 73, 74. Baroun, John, 129 (2). Barrow : Isabella, 258. Jolui, 258. William, 289 (3). Barrow or La Barewe, 190. Barsham, Robert de, knt., 127. Bartholomew : Robert, sheriff of Lincoln, 96 (3). , widow, aldresH of Lincoln, 101. Bartone, Great, accounts of manor of, 138. B'lrwe, William, 125. Busilienxe consilium, 17B. Basil], William, 288. Basset, Thomas, 228. Bastard, Tho., treasurer of Worcester, 180. Bastard, (Spanish wine), 1;''7. Bate, Robert, 6. Batenhale, 191. Batesford, Sampson de, 130. Bath and Wells, bishop of (1409), lo. Batnall manor, 180. Batt, Mr. Michael, 150, 151, 153. Battell, Mr. George, letter to, 161. Battely, Mr. Nicholas, 149. Baumburgh, Robert, 266. Baune, Mr. Sergeant, of Nottingh;im, 101. Baveut, Thomas de, 127. Bayeux, Philip bishop of, 2. Bayous, John, 266. Baxstere: Adam, 132. Richard, 132. Bealasset or Belasset, a Jewess, 11. Beardshaw, William, 290, 291(2). Beatniffe : Francis, 286. IMr. Thomas, 285, 286. Thomas, ma3-or of Grimsbv, 283 (2), 290. Beauchamp, Thomas, earl of Warwick (1378), 9. Beaumont, John Viscount, letter of, 250. Beck : John, S3 (2), 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90. Mr. Rob., 92. Becke : John, mayor of Lincoln, 78. Becket, Thonuis a, martyrdom of, 230. Bedale, Robert, 23. Bede's Commentar}- on the Acts and tin Epistles, 122. Ecclesiastical History, 121. Bedford : John, duke of (1414), 10. archdeacon of, 49. Bedwardine, St. John's church in, 188. Bedwardvn, 191. Beel, Bele: Henry, 266. Henrv, 289 (2). Janet", 267. John, 266. Josiau, 267. Robert, 267. Thomas, 266, 267 (2). William, 267. Sir William, 267. Begeberia. See Bibury- Beiberi, John de, 192." Bckerton, Robert, 131. Belesby, 259. Belet, William, 23o. Belief, the, 18. Bell : Andrew, 241, 268. Elizabeth, 259. John, bishop of Worcester, 183, 204. Mr., 19. Peter, 259. Thomas, 241, 277. 289 (3). Bellasys, Sir Henry, of Woriaby, K.B., 285. 29U CJuy do, Kiirl of Warwick, 7. Walter lU', Si-ni'schal of tlu' lloiisc- hoKl, 7. Hollow, John. hoiid>, .'vo., of, '2 7(5 (,2). 277. 0Si|., 240, 280, 2811, 21Hi (3). M.l'., 263. leltor to, 23-1. Mr., 2JI. Silvester, tlootl In , :.'74. rrsula, 277. IWliuiiu, Stephen, 131. Helton, CO. Lincoln, 71, 72, 76, 81, 84, 112, 114. survey of lands in, 19. church, 84. cbaneel of, 84,88, 103, 111, 114. p:irsoiia^'e of, 49, ."iO, .51, 62, 88, 90 (2), HI. lea.'ie of, 67. rcbuildinjj of, 62 (2). parishioner:; of, letter of, 103. rectory of, 12. vicar of, 103 (2). vicarage of, 95, 107. Belue, Thomas, 199, Bemon fee, liberty of, 13. Bene, John, 266. Bened. Abb., Gesta Henrici II., 218. Benedict, of Lincoln : exile of, 11. Agnu or Agni, daugbter of, 11. Hagin son of, 11. Benevolence from the clergy, 190. Bengco, church of, 159. Beningwortb, Henry, 289. Benman, John, 241. Beniic, William, 32. , , chaplain, 28. Benyngholm, William dc, 257. Benyngworth : Harrv, 241. Thoruas, 241. Berard, John, 131 (2). Berdwell, Simon, 157. Beriord, William de, justice in e5re, 125. Berkeley, lord, 198. Berkestone, John, chaplain, 11. Berkewic manor, 218. Berlin, 167. Bermondsey, monks of, 159. Bernard : Francis, esq., Governor of New Jersey, 118. K., 234. Bcmham, William de, abbot of Bury, 128. Bemyiigham, Thomas, 131. Bern,', Major Gen. James, lO."^. Beitie, liobert earl of Lindsey, Lord High Chamberlain, 282, 283. 'Berwick-on-Tweed, 231. document dated at, 231. Betenef : Richard, 267. William, 266. Betenevi, liicbard, 211. Hiudcscn nuini>r, 218. Ik'verlay : .lanu's.coroner and mayor of Grimsby, 271 (2), 289 (2). Robert, 266. Beverley : James, 241. Thomas of, 228. Beysby, farm of, 253. Bibury, co. Gloucester, 168, 181. Bigod, Roger lo, Earl of Norfolk, Marshal of Lngland, 7. ]{igot, llngli. Justiciar of England, 209. r.illingliam, Mr. P'rancis, 76. Binbrook, 261. Birkit, Mi-. Richard, 60. Birlingham, 191. Birmingham, 233. Bishop, Bishoppe : Mr., 92. Robert, 28. Thomas, 75. William, 104. Bitton, William de, bishop of Bath and Wells, 195. Black Monks near Lincoln, the, 16, 24. Blackman, Fulljam, 112. Blackwell, 181, 191. Blakebume hundred, 128. Blaunkney, 6. Blawe, Edward, 104. Blesby : Jane, 259. Philip, 259. Bleys, W. de, bishop of Worcester. See Blois. Blideburi, Suffolk, 23. Bliss, Mr. AV. H., 214. Blois: Henry of, bishop of Winchester, 223. William of, bishop of Worcester, 169, 191. Blount, Thomas, 264. Blowe, Henry, mayor of Lincoln, 70, 71, Bhmd : Alexander, 229. John, 228. Nicholas, 230. Ralph le, 214. Blunte, Captain Francis, 200. Blydbure manor, Suffolk, 277. tenants of, grant to, 277. Blythe, Geoffrey, bishop of Lichfield, 226. Boase, Mr. C. W., Register of University of Oxford, JSSo, 158. BobenhuU, prebend of, 235. Bochier, Ralph le, 128. Bodleian library, the, 226. Boet, Thomas, 194. Boldero, George, clothier, 141. Bolingbroke, 28. letter dated at, 267. Bolington : Robert, 288 (2). William de, 288. Bolt, John, 281. Bolton, Richard, lo. 297 Boljugtou : Thomas, 266. William de, 257. lioucheiett, Matthew, esq., 286. Boud, Bonde : John, 228, 230. William, 240. William, 274, 280. Bone, Robert, 12. Boniface : archbishop of Canterbury (1268), 166, 169, 171, 192, 196, 221. citation to, 195. VIII., letters. Sic. of, 214, 220 (2). IX., bulls, &c. of, 169 (2), 199. Bononia, 174. Bonport, document dated at, 218. Booth : Mr Peniston, 115. sermon and book by, printed, 115. William, mayor of Grimsby, 282, 283, 290, 291. A., son otV291. Boraston manor, 184. Borough on sands, 212. Borough English, custom of, 241. Bosco, Kobert de, 228. Boseworth, 257. Bo.sse, .John, cleik, 21. Boston, 18, 19, 43, 52, 74, 117, 265, 286. agreement of with Lincoln cit}-, 117. haven, 47. navigation to, 117, 118. Botlysham, Joliu de, 129. Bouhs : .John, 233. William, 233. Bourchier, Thomas, bishop of Worcester, 166. Boverum, 207. 15ovill, Robert, prior of the hospital of St. .John of Jerusalem in Enghmd, letter of, 267. Bowden, Cheshire, 29. Bower, Richard, 285. Bowyer, Mr., 64. Boxford, William, 125. Bo.vley, Kent, abbey of, 197. Boy Bishop, the. See St. Nicliolas. Boyvyle, Thomas, sheriff of Lincoln, 22. Bracebridge, 11, 91, 95. Bracewell, John, 91. Braflborne, Nicholas, 21. Bradeburne, 191. liradeford, Thomas de, 229. Bradekote, 191. Braden, John, 283. Bradewas, 191. Bradewortli, Manser de, 12. Bradley, 261 (2), 262, 277 (2), 278. manors and woods at, 201. I5randey : John, 266. Richard, 266. I'rampstoii, .lohn, 27. BraTiiston, list of inhabitants in, 74. Brandon : Charles, Duke of Suffolk, 35,38, 39. letters from, 38, 39. Brandys, Paul, 24. Bransby : Mr. Charles, 284. Mr., 287. Branston, 24, 91. Braonccstre, John de, 194. Bras, John, 258 (2). Brasebridge, John, 261. Brasse : John, vicar of St, James's, Grim.sby, 267. Master John, 271. Brathcr, Richard, 290. Brauncegate, 12. Brauncegate, Jacob, 12. Brauncepark Castle, documents dated at, 252, 272. Brauniford, Wulstau, prior of Worcester, 176. Braunstone, II (2), 23. village of, 11. Brayford, Lincoln, water of, 57. Bread and beer, &c., assize of, 8. Brecon : document dated at, 197. dean of, 197. prior and convent of, 197. Breton, John Ic, bishop of Hereford, 195. Bretylbank, William, 28. Breviary, portion of a :\1S., 139. Brewing : statute concerning. Ml. in alehouses, reasons against, 142. Brewode : manor, 218. wood, 218. Brian, David, 47, 48 (2). Bridtoll, 3, 4. Briefs : for collecting money, 103. for sufferers by fire, 160. for collection of money for relief of Lincoln city, 103. for rebuilding a church, 115. Brieguerr', William, 230. Briene, Guy de, chamberlain (1378), 0. Briggesley, William, 289. Bright : Robert, mayor of Lincoln, 22. Nicholas, 30. Brigslcy, 257. Brisbancke, Ricliard, 288. Bristol, 6, 183. Karl of (1718), 151 (2). Britiinnia, .lohn de, 7. Uritanny, first crossing of Henry III. into, British navy, glorious victories of lb( Briwerr., Willi:iin, 3, 191. Briws, John de, knt., 19 (. Brocke, .John, 269. Brocklesby, 286. Broghton : .lohn, 131. Thomas, 2.')1. 119. 298 Brokesby, Burtlioloimw, \M>. Urouiiitono, MiistiT.I., 130. Uromwich, IIU. ihuroh, 2(H). llronesoomb, Walter, bisliop of l-lxitir, 1 '.>.■). r.rooko. Arthur, 'io'i, 290. IJroonios'irovo, Walter, clerk, lo7. nri>ttt>ii iiiimor, 209. Hnuightone : John, \:\-2. Thonins, 289 (.2). Uroune, liobert, 257. lirowii, HrtnviU' : E.lward, 21. Edward, 30. ElizaLeth, 278. George, Alderman of Lincoln, 29 (2). Mr., parson of Washinfrboroiifih, 78. llobert, alilerinan of Uury, 142. Simon, 102. William, 143. William, 278. BrDwiieing, Mr., 14 4. Brownists, 203. Broxholmo : Richard, 282, 283. William, of Barrow, 285, 28G (3). bond of, 285. Broxolme : John, 41,42. of the Inner Temple, 16. William, esq., 88,91. Bruer', 209. Bruualston, William of, 233, 23j. Brunse, Thomas, 2G9. Bryan : Reginald, bishop of Worcester, 204. William, 199. Bucham, William de, Thomas son of, 156. Bucke, Gervase, 188. Buckhurst, Thomas lord, 256. Buckingham, Thomas earl of (1378), 9. Bucks, commissioners for concealed lands in, 64. Budiford, William de, 192. Bukinton, Master Michael de, 194. Buknall, Sir Thomas, a priest, 6. John, 148, 149 (2), 151, 153. the elder, 102. Bunche: Richard, town clerk ot Lmcoln, bn, Mr., 71. Burbyngham, 233. Bureford, Aldewin de, 192. Bureston, 192. Burewaremot, 3, 4. Burford, (CO. Salop), 191. Burgess : Thomas, 160. letter to, 162. Ursula, widow of, ICO. Burgh : Sir Edward, 27. Lord, 33, 34. Mr., 92. Sir Thomas, 262, 267. llurghersli, Burgherssh : Haitliolcmew, 12. Sir Bartholemew, 5. chantry, 4.'l. lUirgo, 11. de, Karl of Kent, Justiciar, .'j. BurgtoM. William de, 229. Burnham, William de, abbot of Ibiry, 157. Burrough : Mr. John, 145. Thomas, 152. Burrowc, Maurice, sheriff' of Suffolk, 143. Burton, .34. abbey of, 211,212. ^" abbot of, 221,234. Annals, the, 206, 207, 211. — , j\ixta, Lii;coln, 14. Lazars, Master of, 23, 66. Burton, John, 241. Robert de, 288. Sir Robert, chantry priest. Thomas, 16, 30, 33. Burtone, John de, 9. Burwash, Henry, bishop of Lincoln, Chan- cellor, 193. Bury, William, 125. Bury St. Edmunds, 125, 126, 127, 131, 133, 139, 156, 157. Alderman of, 126-128, 130, 131, 132, 140, 142, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 1.55, 156. letter to, 143. alehouses, 140, 141, 142, 143. apprentices, 136, 140 assizes in, 148, 152, 153. of bread and beer, 127, 130, 141. bailiffs of, 131, 134, 137, 139. seal of, 138. baihwick of, 121. bakers in, 141, 153. brewers in, 140, 141 (2), 142. petition of, 141. bullring, the, 139. burgesses to Parliament, 122, 141, 142, 143, 149 (3), 150, 151 (2), 152, 153. butchers in, 141, 153. Castle, 153. churches in, 122, 143, 153, 154. St. James's, 121, 122, 144 (2), 145 (2), 146 (2), 147, 149 (4), 150 (2), 1.53 (2), 154 (2), 157. St. Mary's, 141, 144, 145, 148 (2), 149 (3), 150 (2). clothiers, tailors, &c., 139, 140. charter to, 141. constitutions for, 141. I petition of, 141. coroner, 122, 142. Corporation of, 121, 123, 140, 143, I 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154. letters, &c. of, 145, 149, 150, 151 (2). ' letters to, 148. Calendar of MSS. of, 121-153. charters and evidences of, 144, 145, 149, 151, 154. minute books of, 144-155. plate of, 149, 1.53. 299 Bury St. Edmunds — conL Corporation seals of, 151. court leetof, 137, 141. court of record, 122, 140. cutlers in, 141. deputy lieutenants of, 143. disputes with the abbey, 130, disturbances in, 130, 131. "ducking stool," 150. evidence house, 144, 150 (2), l.')4. fine imposed on, 130, 131. fires at, 122, 141. foreigners in, 137. freemen of, 140. fuel in, dearth of, 140. gaol and gaol house, 122, 153. gates and gate keepers, 12G, 127, 128, 130, 155. Grammar School in, 122, 140, 143, 154, 1.55. library of, 121. governors of, grant from, 143. Guilds in, 126, 127.^ Guildhall, the, 121, 12G, 127, 134, 144, 154, 155. minstrels gallery in, 121. Hospitals in : St. Nicholas, 123. St. Peter, 123, 143, 155, 156 (2"). St. Saviour's, 128-130. chapel of St. Thomas in, 129. house of correction, 140. incorporation of, 142. innholders, 1 fO, 141, 142, 153. petition of, 142. judges at, 126, 148, 153, 157. justices of the peace, 122, 140, 152. " Kucking stool," 150. lands in belonging to the abbey, 138. legacy to, 142. lighting of, 140. maces, 121, 145, 150, 151, 154, 155. nialsters in, 14'). markets and fairs, 122, 130, 133, 140, 154. market bell, 122. market cross, 122, 148, 150, 154. market place, 131, 139. mayor of, 150, 151 : and see Pryme, Ric. : Stafford, .John. sword of, 150, 151, 155. municipal registers, 121. municipal regalia, 155. newspapers of, 154. ordinances of, 126, 1.3'J, 140, 141. pageants in, 134, 135, 130, 137. pillory and cage, 153. plague in, 145. plan of, 154. playhouse, 15-1. pleadings at, 125-128, 1.30. poor in, 139, HO, 142, 144, 145, 154. Poitmaiinote, 126. posts to. 111. provosts of, Jocey ami Thomas, 15C. recorder of. 122, J42, 143, 145,149, 1.53. Bury St. Edmunds — cont. recorder of, deputy, 152. rental of town of, 139, 144. Royal charters, &c., 121, 122, 123, 130 (3), 145, 146, 150. surrender of, 150, 152. servants in, orders concerning, 139. sessions at, 121, 129, 139. Shirehouse, the, 147, 153. snuiU-pox in, 150, 154. soldiers at, 139 (2). spinsters in, 139. St. Nicholas's Chapel in, 139. stocks, the, 139. suits against, 124, 125-128. taxation in, 126, 127, 128, 131, 138, 157. terriers of lands in, 1 57. Tolhouse, the, 122, 130, 131, 137. tolls in, 127, 130, 133. town charities, 121. town clerk, 145. depntv, 152. Town Hall,' 121. town lands, 157. feoffees of, grant to, 143. town music, 150, 153, 154. township of, 139. trained bands in, muster of, 143. vagabonds in, 139. victuals, sale of, 140. visit of Charles II. to, 145. weavers in, ordinances for, 121, 133- 138, 141. wool and wool trade in, 133-137, 139. workmen in, orders concerning, 139. workhouse, 153. yearly rent to the crown from, 122. j le Connnarket, 132. i Bury St. Edmunds, places in : j Angel-hill, 123. " le Duffuszerd," garden called, ^8. Eastgiite water, 150. East ward in, 123. muster rolls of, 143. les Elemosiners Barnes alias les A7npners Barnes, 122, 145. Frcnkijsemanestrete in, 156. High ward, muster roll of, 143. "Moses Hall " in, 150, 153. Mustowc, 123, 156. North ward, 123. muster roll of, 143. Riscbigate, 155. Rysbygate ward, 123. Soutli ward, 123. muster roll of, 143. Westgatc, the, 155. West ward, 123. muster roll of, 1 (.{, Bury St. Ednuinds, Benedictine Abbey 121, 126, 131, 132, 157, 1.58. abbot of, 121, 125, 128, 129 131, 133, 1.38, 139, 157. Baldwin, 124, 132. accounts and rentals of, 121. almoner and almonry of, 122 156. :iO() Ihirv St. Kilimuuls — cunt. Heiu'ilii'line Al)lH>y bell, culU-il Clop- ton, 124. Hliick Cross in, las, 121 (2>. clmiH'ls in : do lo oliarni'l, 121. St. Andivw, 121 (2). St. Botulph, 121. St. Giles, 124. St. James, 124. St. John, " iid fouteni," 123. "ad nionteni," 123. St. Ltiuroiicc-, 12:5, 125. St. Margaret, 123. St. .Mary, 124. Maijdak'ue, 114. St. Nicholas, 123, 125. St. Robert, 158. charters of, 132, 133, 13K. crypt of, 124, 125. disputes of, with the town, 130. dissolution of, 121, 138. firants to, 128, 131,132, 133,138. great campanile, 125. Great Cross in, 124 (2). injured by the townsmen, 132. jurisdiction of, 125, 139. lands, &c. belonging to, 123, 138. law suits of, 124. liberty of, 132. library of, 121, 122. minstrels in, 124, 125, 157. mortuaries, 125. obedientiaries, 157. officers of, 123, 124, 125, 130, 131, 133, 137, 157. penitentiary, 158. precentor, 158. prior, 124, 131, 157. privileges of, 133, 143. provost of, 156 (2). " Eaketey, Rakenteyn," door in so called, 124. records of, 121. refectory, 124. Sacrist, 124, 130, 133-138. rolls of, 123. lands in Bury belonging to, 138. St. Katherine, alms chest of, 124. St. Petronilla, alms chest of, 123 (2). St. Sythe, alms chest of, 123, 124. shrine of St. Edmund, 124, 128, 130, 157, 158. sword of St. Edmund, 158. tithes belonging to, 139, 140. Treasurer or Chamberlain, 157. vineyard belonging to, 124, 125. royal visit to, 157. Yates's History of, 122, 128. Busseby, John, prior of St. Katherine's Lincoln, 23. Bus.shby, John, 1 1 . " Bustage" money, 51. Buteler, William, 289. Butler, Joan, 273. Hutler, William, 273, 27C. Butts, Dr. Robert, bishop of Norwich, 154. Bygod, IJarlholomew de, 230. Byngley, Harry, will of, 24. Byntewonh, 272. Byrehemoro, George, presentment by, C4. Bvrde, Sir John, canon of Wellow, 258, "267. C. " Cabal at Whitehall, England's api)eal from," 190. Caball, Peter, 194. Calais : church of St. Mary the \irgin at, 278. exportation of wool to, 22. staple at, 22, 264, 265. chapel of, 278. the staple removed to, from Lincoln, 31. Caldeon : Isaia, a priest, 107. his >ons, 107. Calf : Hagin, 12. John, 131. Calthorp, document dated at, 250. Caluwhull, 191. Calverlej', Devon, 76. Camberwell, Surrey, 260. Cambridge, 62, 70, 95, 115, 124, 179, 186. charter of, 62. black monks studying at, 180. legacy to, 143. mayor and corporation of, 56. St. Michael's House at, master and scholars of, 235. University, 78. Cambridge, Edmund, Earl of (1378), 9. Camden Society, the, 166. Camerarius, Kichard, 194 (2). Camperdowii, battle of, 119. Cannock, 220. forest of, 223. Canoe, church of, 216. Canon : Henry, 271. Isabel, 271. John, 257, 271. Peter, 271. William, 271. Canterbury : archbishop of (1330) 9, (1409) 10, (1414) 10, (1585) 70, 216, 219, 221, 259. R., archbishop of, 7. Richard, archbishop of, 223. S., archbishop of (1378), 7o. Theodore, archbishop of, 213. archbishopric of, 192, 196. cathedral, 196. chapter of, 192. Christ Churcb, monks of, 196. ])rior and chapter of, letter of, 197. 301 Canterbury — cont. court of, 216. Prerogative Court of, 241. province of, bishops suffragan of, 195, 196. jurisdiction. Sec. of secular cathedral churches in, 221, 225. sec of, 197. Canterton, 191. Cantilupc chantrj, 43. Cautilupe, Fulc de, 194. Thomas de, 192. Walter de, bishop of Worcester, 1G9, 195. William de, 194, 228. Canute, 133. charters of, 132 (2), 138. Canviir : Gerard de, 230. Roger de, 220. Canvilla, R. de, 222. Canwick, 11, 19, 91. list of inhabitants in, 74. manor of 11, 48. Cape Breton, capture of, 117. Capeir, William, 194. Capella, Henry de, 5. Carbote, John, 289. Cardiff, G. Cards, playing, 82. Carevilla, . . . . de, 194. Carington, Mr., treasurer of Worcester, 186, 187. Carlisle : H. bishop of (1378), 9. J. bishop of, 7. W. bishop of, 5. Carlton : Adam, 241. Joan, grant to, 267. John, 258. Robert, 266. Thomas, 133. William de, justice in eyre, 125. Carmarthen, 6. Caroline, Queen of George II., 116, Carpenter : John, bishop of Worcester, 175, 199. declaration by, 179. Carr : Jolin, 27. Leonard, 13, 68, 71 (2). 72, 75 (2). Mr., 85. Sir Robert, bart., 106. (Jarta: Antiqiia, Chancery, 2. Carter : Gilbert, 272. Richard, mayor of Lincoln 0564), 57, 58. Casse, William, 2H(>. Cassian, 122. Cassy, J., 131. Castile and IjCoii, John King of, Diikr of Lancaster (1378), !». Castlemorton, 188. Castlethorpe, 49, 62, 64. chai)elry of, 21. parsonage of, 61. Castleton, George Viscount, 106. Catelyn, — , 253. Cateroll, Sir Richard, 2S. Cathcbroc, Robert de, canon of Lichfield 195. - ' Cuthedraticum, 220. Catskj'n, Nicholas, clerk, 65, Cattelyn : Alice, 275. Robert, 275. Catterall : Anne, 274. Barbara, 274. Beatrice, 274, 280. Robert, 274, 280. Thomas, 274. William, deed by, 274. Causekuyght, William, chantry of, 34. [CJauuiu, Robert, 194. Cave, Thomas de, 188, Cavendish, Chief Justice, murder of, 131. Uenry, Earl of Ogle, 106. Cawood, Jolm, 56. Cecil : John, Earl of Exeter, 106. Robert, Karl of Salisbury, 161, 256. letter of, 160. letter to, 161. — — officers of, 160, 161. Sir William, Lord Burghley, 50, 53 189. Celestine IT., 219. Certiorari, writ of, 52. Cestreton, Thomas de, 194. Chaffers, Mr. ^\^, 120. Chalende : Edward, 275. Eniott, 275. Janet, 275. Thomas, will of, 275. Chamber, William, mayor of Lincoln, 22. Chamberlain, Warin son of Gerold, 2. Chambre : John a, alias Cook, 245. William, 6. Chancellor of England, the, 2 12. Thomas, the, 2. Mr., 254. Chancery, the, 8, 130, 277. decree in, 240. masters in, 275. j)etition in, 143. records in, 128. Chai>lain, William, called Bonde, 230. Chaplin : John, esq., 288. Sir Robert, cxpiiUed the House of Commons, 289. Chapman : Mr. Robert, 17. William, 129, 266. Chappell, Clirislopher, 27 (. Cli.irdro, Rcgiiold, 133. Charing Cross, letter dated from, 39. Charitable purposes, statiifcH conccrninc gifts for, 13. '^ Charles, Trince, afterwards Charles I., council of, letter from, 162. ■.iO-2 Charlo- 1.. KiiifT of Ka;ilaiKl, I.s. Hf*. \00, 14:>, IJo, 180. 186, 188, 18l». lottors, &o.. of. no, 200 (2), •joi (,y). '-'^- (•'»). 2o;{ ((■>). under sijiu inamial, ".''.'. iH'iievok'iue to, 190. charters •irnntetl by, 13. lOU, 158. siirnntlor of. 110. fee-farm rent granted to, lo3. fjuanl of. 202. intends to make war ujion I'ar- liament, 202. outline portrait of, LS. privv seal of, 189. liroclamations of. 98. revenues of, 190. secretaries of state, 201, 202. ships for scrviee of, 101. " State Tracts printed in the reign of," 190. Charles II., 24, 10.->, 106, 109, 110(2), 120,146,117, 149, 150, 152, 160, 162, 190. letters, SiC, of, 13, 104, 123 (2), 145, 148, 158 (2), 189. letters, &c., to, 104, 162 (2). addresses to, 109, 149, 150. ancestors of, 147. arms of, 104, 148. eommissiouers of, 104, 10."^. conspir.icies to assassinate, 109, 150. jester of, 146. portrait of, 13, 12]} (2). servants of, fees demanded by, 145, 146. stiitute of concerning oaths, 152, visits Bury, 145. Charnepeuy, 123. Charte, LitUe, Kent, 24o. Charter Kolis, the, 2, 3, 5. Chaucumh', Kichard de, 228. Chauent, Peter de, 6. Chauncey : K., letter of, 162. Sir Ilenrv, recorder of Hertford, letters to, 162 (2). John, charity of, 160. Chaundeler, Ralph, 250. Cheadle, 235. Chebbeseie, Kobert de, 229. Chedworth, Richard, 266. Chequer, 97. Cherry, Benjamin, mayor of Hertford, letter to, 163. Cherry Willingham, 14. Chese'man, John, the knitter of Lincoln, 17. Chester : Annals, the, 206,211. compaiison of three texts of, 206-209. bishop of, 210, 219. diocesan registry at, 206. llalpli, archdeacon of, 229. St. Wcrburg's abbey at, 20G, 209, 210. chronicle of, 206. Chevele, William, 131. Chcvington manor and park, 138. Cheyne (?), T„ letter of, 268. Cheynturel. Master Henry, 228. Chichester : cathedral, jurisdiction, itc. of, 221, 225. J., chancellor of, 168. John, dean of, 168. Kalph, bishop of. Chancellor, 5. Child, Kictard. M.l)., 144. Cbildcwite, 3, I. Chiichetouu. .SVe Kirtou in Liudsc}'. Cholmclev, Nicholas, esq., 91. Chorleton, 191. Clirist Church, Oxford, 112, 186. Christ's College, Cambridge, 65. Christianity, Court of, 215. Christie, Mr. Kichard Copley, chancellor of Chester, 206, 207,210. " Christmas, Crying," ceremony .so called, 58. Church of England, 151. canons of, 146. nonconformity to. 144. Protestant religion of, 117. Church goods, commissioners for, 46, Churches, Act for the union of, 46. Churchehille, 191. Churchill, .John, Duke of Marlborough, victory gained by, 114. Cistercians exempted from paying tithes, 174. Civil War, the, 1, 102, 104, 180. " Civitas Lincolnia, from its municipal and other records,'' 1 . Clagett : Mr. Nicholas, 149, 151, 153. Mr. William, 148, 149 (2). Clare, 129. Gilbert de, earl of Gloucester, 200. , Joan, wife of, 200. , earl of Gloucester and Hert- ford, 250. Kichard de, earl of Gloucester, 209. Clarel, Master John, archdeacon of Staf- ford, 215. Clarence, Thomas, duke of (I4M), 10. Clarendon, document dated at, 132. Clark, Andrew, Ueyistcr of Univemity of Oxford by, 68, 75, 88. Clarke : Katherine, 274. John, 145. Mr., 97, 162. Kichard, 159. William, 46. Clarson, skipper Nanmyuk, 275, 276. Clatham, John, 280. Clay, the, avooI, 14, 15. Clayton, Ciatou : Christopher, 284 (3), 291 (2). David, 284 (2). ^ George, 257, 284 (2). George, mayor of Grimsby, 259, 286, 287. Cleatham, John, 280. Clec, 260, 262 (2), 267, 269, 270, 277. Idale in, 277. rental of, 277. St. Saviour's parish in, 277. :so8 Cleethorpj), 260, 261. Clegate, Mr. Nicholas, 144 (2). Clement : III. confirmation by, 222. IV., 173. bull of, 223. v., 197. . bull of, 231. VI., 177 (2). bulls, &c. of, 168 (2), 16'J (3). VII., 204. John, 271. pedigree of, 271. William, 271. Clerk, Gierke : Ralph, of London, 228. Kichard, recorder of Lincoln, 2.'j. Robert of Lincoln, 23. Robert, the, of Neutuue, 156. Ralph and Walter, his sons, 156. Stephen, 194. William, recorder of Lincoln, 32. William, 227, 288. Clerkenwell, letter dated at, 267. Clifford, Rich.ird, bishop of London, 176. Clifton : Mr. Henry, 204. , chapter clerk of Worcester, 176, 177. writ dated at, 128. Cliftuna, Robert do, 192. Clinton : Roger dc, bishop of Lichfield, 222, 223. and Sayc, Thomas lord, 279. Cliva, 191. Clodeshale, 191. Clopton, Walter de, 130. Cloth trade, the, stock for setting up in Lincoln, 26. Cloths, 6, 7. not made in England, &c., punish- ment for buying, G. and clothmaking, 44, 45, .'iO. Clyfton : William, 12. William, citizen and merchant tailor of London, 138. Clynton : E,, lord, 255. letters of, 254, 256 (2). Clyve, friar Martin of, 195. Coates, Great and Little, 258, 259, 261, 277. Coatcswortb, William, escp, 286 (2). Cobbs, Mr. .lames, letters to, 146, 147. C'ubbi/nyewollt:, wool so called, 15. Cockfighting, 94. Cockles, 36. Codde, Richard, 6. Coddenigi, Crusi rie, 192. Code Dipt., Kemble'fi, 132. Codington, 209. Coins and coinage, 105, 106, 1()7, 114. Cok, William, 1:58. Cokaync, Thomas, chaplain, 21. Coke : John, 266. Ralph de la, 214. Sir Edward, knt., 140. Colby parish, horse races in, 106. Colchester, Jocey of, 12. Cole, WilHam, 133. Coleman, Edmund, 152 (2). ColeshuUa, Ralph dc, 192. CoUaie, Andrew, parson of ].)iuidce and preacher of Edinburgh, 203. CoUius, Wm., 188. Collinsou, Dr., Lady Margaret professor of divinity, Oxford, 186. Colonia, John de, 233. Colson, Mr. Christopher, 112. Co) ton : Barnard, 261. Bernard, 290. Richard, 290. Common pleas, 83. Court of, 238. Common Prayer, Book of, 144. Compton, Thonuis, 102. Concealed lands, 64. Concilia Matjncc Dritaitniic, Wilkins', 176, 177. Conrilium J\[agnitm, 9. Confirmation Rolls, 238, 239. Confleus, William de, archdeacon of Here- ford, 219. Conquest, the, 9. Constable : Robert, 289. Thomas, M.P., 263. Conventicle Act, the, 158. Conventicles, fines and forfeitures for at- tending, 160. Convention Parliament, the, 152. Conysbie, 281. Cook, Cooke : (ilius a Chambre, John, 245. Edward, nuiyor of Grimsby, 285, 291. .lohn, 283, 289. Master, 275. Moses, 290 (4). Paul, 290 (2). Richard, 260, 262, 290. Robert, 28 1, 289 (2), 290 (3). Robert, blacksmith, 72. Walter, 132. Cooper, William, letter of, 162. Coots, Robert, 27. Cope, James, 266. Copeland, William, 266 (2). Coppin, Daniel, 19. Cork, 6. Corn, clearness of, 34. Cornhill, William of, bishoi> of Lichfield 225. grants l)y, 200, 228 (2). Cornwall, 6. Henry of, 214. Iteginald, Earl of, 7 (2), 222. CornMood, in;). Ciirponitidn /'/air and Inslyuia of Eiu/- land and !♦'(//<■*, woik on, 1 20. S04 C^>^J)l>l•«tion^ ; Act for Will {lovorniiii,' of, 104. 1 13. nii^nioiitin>j liviii{;s in, Idl. jiroi'hunatioii for rcstoriiijr, 1 jli. Corpus Christ! Colloiic, Oxfonl, Gi<. Corpus Christi, procossiou of, 134. Corsfonl luiiKlro'l, 12S. Cortcys, ThoMins, 270. Cotes : lloiiry, 266. .Tohii'ilo, 'JS8. Cote/, manor of, 264 : <(«. Dingley, William, 188. Diryksoon, Mr. Henryk, 275. Dobson, Christopher, 70, 71. Doddeham, 191. Dodderhall, 188. Doddtrhill, church of, 185. Doderhull, 192 (3), 193. St. Austin's, 192. Dogmcrsfeld, document dated at, 10. Doncaster, document dated at, 11. Doncestria, William de, 209. Dorsborch (Dorsberg n« ar Worms?), 122. Doughty, Joseph, 18. Douglas, a Scotsman, 181. Dove (river), 212. Dover, 219. documents datei at, 1.'I3, 225. Dover, Lord (1688), 1.50, \rA. letters to, 151 (2), 152. letters from, 152. brother of, 151. family of, 151. Dowle, John, 266. Down and Connor, bishop of. See Hutchinson, Francis. Draghton. William de, 131. Draper : John, 261. Laurence, 261. Osias, 261. William, 291. Draugliton, Richard de, abbot of Hiiry, 128, 157. Drawswerd : 'i'homas, 133. Walter, 132. Drayton, Richard df, 12K. Drenkesfone, .lolin, 132. Drcwry, Sir Wobert, 41. IT 306 Drogheil.i, <■>. l>nMiwii'h, liiillHrie> of Milt water in, 189. Dropo, John, H.A., 61. nrowric, Drowry : lloiiry, 241'. KoluVt, -2 7 J. will of, -274. Aliei', (liiughter of, 274. Isabtl, dauphtor of, 274. KatheriiK-, daughter of, 274. Dniry : Kobert, kiit., 1 :?'.». grant to. 14(i. Sir liohort, 121. Druymerston, 191. Dublin, 6. archbishcp of, grant to, 22.J. Ducking stool, 20. Dudkv, John, Karl of Warwick, 200. Duillum, 3, i. DutFeld : Hugh, 267. Margaret, widow, 267. Thomas, 267. Thomas, his sou, 267. William, 288 (4). Dugdale, 171, 178, 184, 200, 214, 216, 218, 219, 221, 222 14), 223 (4), 226, 227, 228, 229, 2.30. Duncomhe, Sir John, letters of, 146, 147. Dungannew, 207. Diintiampstede, Douastede, 191. Dunstanville, Rob. de, 2. Dunstapl. Ann., 229. Duppa, ilr. Thomas, gentleman usher, 146. Durdent, Walter, bishop of Lichfield, 217. grant to, 222. Dureftherd, John de, 127. Durham : A., bishop of, 7. bishop of (1409), 10. dean of, 1 90. Duttone, friar William, 198. Dycon, John. 6. Dydson, John, 183. Dyghton, Dyghtoue : Mr., schoolmaster, 31. Robert, 24. William, 28 (2). William, 33. Dyllewyne, John, 133. Dymbleton, Henry, 277. Dymock : Andrew, 262. Charles, 74. Hon. Charles, 241. Sir Edward, knt., 74. Jane, 241. Sir Robert, 262. Dynewell : Jacob, 241. James, 271. Dynis, Michael, 261. Dynnvs, Edward, mayor of Lincoln, 77, 79 ' (2), 80 (2). bequest by, 80. wife of, 80. Dyon : Alice, 267. John, 267. John. 39 (2). E. Ealand, ^fr., 94. Earl Marshal, the (1386), 130. Early English Text Society, 180. ' East : Robert, 290. William, 289. Eccleshall, 212, 217, 218 (3). Eccleshal', William de, 229. Eddeworthe, Stephen de, 6. Edgar, charters of, 171. Edgbaston, 233. chapel of, 216. Edon : Hugh, 241. Hugh, 258. Hugh, mavor of Grimsby, 266, 289 (3). letter to, 2.50. John, 289. William, 266. Edward the Confessor, 2, 133. charters of, 1.32 (.'5). Laws of, 167. feast of Translation of, 134. Edward I., king of Engl.-vnd, 8, 49, 123, 125, 126, 128, 155,156 (5), 158, 169, 171, 200, 212 (2), 216,220, 224, 231, 232. letters patent, &c. of, 115, 214, 220, 223, 230, 231. charters of, 7, 106, 132 (3). debtors of, 231. provisions by, for staple of wool, &c., 6. wardrobe of, 230, 231. writs of, 128, 130. Edward II., 14, 159, 184, 206, 247. letters patent of, 216 (2), 233 (2). charters of, 8 (2), 106, 132, 192. writ of, 128. Edward the Black Prince, 123, 157. minstrels of, 157. Edward III., 8, 18, 123(2), 128, 157, 159, 174. letters patent, &c. of, 4, 14, 128, 130 (2), 235, 238 (2), 239 (.3), 261, 262, 278. charters of 8 (2), 9 (2), 132 (5), 133 (3), 158, 177, 193 (2). minstrels of, 157. Queen of, 157. visits Bury St. Edmunds, 157. writs of, 170, 213, 215 (2). Edward IV., 23, 35, 63, 64, 133, 139, 157 C2), 158, 175, 181, 265, 267, 269, 272. 307 P^dwaid IV. — conf. letters patent, &c. of, U, 179, 236. charters of, 11 (2), 22, 23, 25. petition to, in Parliament, 5. threatened invasion of, bv Henrv VI., 179. Edward VI., 16, 42, 47. letters patent, &e. of, 41, 200 (2), 238, 240. exemplification by, of an Act of Par- liament, 12. accession of, 40. liis commissioners of Church goods, 46. petition to, 44. proclamations by, 42, 44. signature of 20o" (2). ■writ of, 254. Edwards : Mr. John, 147. letter from, 148. Edwin the prevost, Adam son of, 192. Efra, the Spirit, 13. P^gertou : Sir Charles, 261. Sir Thomas, Lord Keeper, 256. Egue, William, 194. Eland, William, gent., 233. Elizabeth : Lady (afterwards (^neen), 47. Queen of England, 13, 17, 18, 49, 56, 58, 64, 69, 138, 143, 1.59, 186, 187, 193, 260. letters, &c. of, 189, 200. charters of, 13, 139, 158, 239 (2), 282 (2). arms of, 68. council of, 50. laws and statutes of, 139. proclamation by, 53. for suppressing seditious books, 282. seals of, for recognizances, 13, 50. secretary of. See Cecil, Sir William. signature of, 200. sketch of 13. •writ from, 72. Ellkington, Simon, 289 (2). Ellarde, William, 240. Ellesmere, '1'., Lord Chancellor, 141, 142. Ellis, EUys : Mr. Leo, mayor of LiiicolM, 62 (2), 63. Mr., 77. Thomas, junr., of Wyhani, 279. Mr. William, 73. Sir William, knt., recorder of Lincoln, 86, 91,95. deed of gift by, 18. be(|uest f)f, to poor widows in Lincoln, 102. Ellison, ilichard, 117. Elmer, Mr., jirchdeacon of liincoln, 60. Elmeshale, William de, 288 (2). Eltliam, John of, Earl of Cornwall, 9. Elvines, Edw.. 188. P^lvyngton, co. York, 271. Ely: bisliop of (1330), 9, 24. G., bishop of, 5. church of, 24. Luke of, 214. Nicholas of, bishop of Winchester and Worcester, 195 (2). Elyot, Robert, 122. Emanson, Robert, 257. Emerson : Francis, 68. Michael, 20 1. Emly, bishop of. See Windele, Robert. Emonson, Emmonson: Thomas, 71. Thomas, 83. 70. Emperor, the (1727), 110. Empringham, Empryngham : John, 244. .John, 268. John, mayor of Grim.sbv, 271, 274, 289 (4). Master, 276. Mr. Michael, mavor of CJrimsbv, 2S0, 290 (3). letters to, 254, 256. Richard, 260. Richard, 277. Richard, mayor of Grimsby, 289 (3). 290 (2). letter to, 254. Robert, 260, 290. Empyngham, .John, 260. Enderbj' : Elizabeth, 271. .lohn, will of, 271. John, and John, sons of, 271. Margaret, 271. Sibyl, 271. Thomas, 271. Thomas, 17, 85, William, 271. Engayne, Hugh dc, 159. Engine for burning prisoners on the cheek, 20. England, 124. Chancellor of, mandate to, 223. Church of, 179, 180. internal defence of, 119. invasion of, threatened, 164. Ireland, and Wales, staple of wool, tkc, in, 6, 7. Pope has no jurisdiction in, 179. prosjx'Ct of I'reneh inviision of, 117. triule guilds in, 121. I'nion of, with Scotland, 153, " England's ai)peal from the private; cidjal at Whitehall," 190. Engynur, Robert Ic, 130, 156(2). Epworth, document dated at, 250. Erith, Kent, 20'.i. Erpyngliani, Sir Thoiiuis, steward of tiie Household, Id. Erskine, Thomas, Viscount I'Vnton, 1 12. " E.scaet de anno 15" Edw. 3," 259. Eschcator of co. Liiu;obi, gniut by, 267. Escheator's in(|nisiti(m, 169. IT 2 808 tsirop, Kiihiird tie, 192. Kssox, I'JS. Hoiiry df, (.'Oii.sliililo, U, 7 (2). Gi'offrey, son of IVtor, Enrl of, a. Est. lIonrv,'-266. Kstablislu'tJ Chun-li. thi", 1 l.'i. Esterliiijis, -JC.:?. Ksthani. 'JXl. EtbelriMi. 21:t. hrotluM- of Wifri.l, •li:\. Ktoii. 1 1(). Euerarde, , (>. EHffene, I'rinve, 20. Eujreniiis III., 219. Everdon, Thomas, 175. Everinghain, Vorks, 282. Evesham, hattle of, 212. Evesham : A. abbot of, 1(58. John of. 169, 176. 177 (2), 198. Richard, abbot of, 219. Silvester de, bishop of Worcester, 191. Thomas, abbot, and the convent of, grant bv, 200. Evordon, Philip de, 215. Ewelle, Thomas, 131. Ewehne rectory, 201. Exchequer, the ; 8, 10,22,62, 81, 128,1:51, 247. 252, 253, 263, 264, 268, 270. Barons of, 131. writ to, 218. Chamber, the, 75. charter enrolled in, 32. Court of, 185, 186. decree of, 262. commissioners from, 260. Memoranda of, 11. Office, letter dated from, 162. process in, 131. records, 42. Red Book of, 198. seal of, 132. suit in, 53. Treasurer and Chamberlains of, 277. writ, 25. Exclusa, Stephen de, kut., 194. Exeter, 6. Bartholemew, bishop of Exeter, award of, 168. Thomas, bishop of (1378), Treasurer, 9. canons of : Movses, 168. Roger, 168. Silvester, 168. Trustin, 168. cathedral, jurisdiction of, 2:il, 225. John, treasurer of, 168. John Cecil, Karl of, 106. Eye, John, penitentiary of Bury, 158. Eylestone : church of, 23. chapel of St. Edmund the King in, 23. John, of Lincoln, will of, 23. Eynsham monastery, 179. Eyr, Sir John, 130. Ey ton, " Court of Henry II.," 218, 219. F. "Facsimilics of Anc. MSS.", 200. Fniaisf, docunu-iit dated at, i:{2. Fanshawc, Henry, i'S(|., 285. Earfonl, Sir Robert, parson of Hhumkney, vicar of Scou)>wyke, C. Farmer, William, of Tbavies Inn, IIoll>orn, 107. Fasti Ecclesiee Anylicana, ed. Hardy, 168. Fasti Ecclesia Hibernia, Cotton's, 125. Fastynggangeven, 257. Faiissct, — , Lady Margaret professor of divinity, Oxford, 186. Favrkener, — , alderman of Lincoln, 41. Felawe, Richard. 230. Fereda}-, Mr., of co. Lineohi, 85. Ferentino, document dated at. 21 7. Fermour, John, 278. Ferncs, William, 67. Ferour, Thomas, 132. FeiTOur, Robert, 48, 49. Ferui-, John le, of Bury, 156. Field, David, esq., 259. Fifteenths and tenths, 49. Fisbage, Richard de, 208. Fi.skerton, 14. Fisson, George, tailor, 141. Fitz Drogo, William, knt., 256. Fitzherberd : Anthony, 253. Mr. John, 253. Fitzhugh, Sir Henry, chamberlain, 10. Fitz Joceline, Reginald, bishop of Bath, 222. FitzLucas, Edmund, 131. FilzMartiu, Alexander, chantry of, 24, 43. FitzParnell, Robert, Earl of Leicester 194. Fitzwilliam, Sir Thomas, knt., recorder of London, 262, 268. Fladbury, 194 (2). document dated at, 169. Flanders, 231. Fleet prison, the, 63. Fleetwood, Roger, grant to, 235. Flemyng chantry, 43. Fletcher, Richard, bishop of Bristol, 189. elected bishop of Worcester, 189. Fletchour, William, 266. Florencia, Reym'er de Wichio, called de, 216, 219. Folegambe : William, 230. Thomas his brother, 230. Foleker, Nicholas son of, 156. Folkingham, Thomas, 11. Fordham : John de, keeper of the privy seal (1378), 9. John, prior of Worcester, 177. Forest, charter of the, 217. 80! t Kormaii : John, 241, 258. William, 241, 270. — , alderman of Lincoln, 2!». Fornham : All Saints, manor of, 138. parson of, 139. St. Genevifvc, manor of, 138. St. ^lartiu, manor of, 138. Fornham, Thomas, 131. Forrest, Alexander, lease to, 278. Fortesciic, Sir John, 256. Forthdrove, furthedrove, 124 (2). Fortrey, Samuel, 18. Foss-dyke, Lincoln, 18, 6o. tolls at, 18. Fosse, William, 288 (2), 28'J. Fos.seto, Richard de, 230. Foster, Sir Thomas, justice of assize, 17, 85. Fotherby, Fotherbie : Elizabeth, 288. Henry, 280, 281. John, will of, 240. John, 201. John, 275. John, 253, 280, 289 (2). Martin. 280, 291. Richard, 282, 290. Robert, 240, 260 (2), 280. Thomas, 28o. W., 240. Fountenaye, Simon de, 2o7. Fowler, — , 277. Fox : Charles, town clerk of Hertford, 163. William, 27. Framptone, Rogt-r, r.!2. France, 24, 173, 244. Kinfjs of, 174. Francisc', John, 229. Frank, John, 10. Fianklen, John, 62. Fraric, 156. ]-'raunces, Kdmoiid, 240. Frauiiceys, R()l)ert Ic, KiO. Frauncis, — , macebearcr U) tlie Lord Chancellor, 49. Fniunko : Sir William, knt., 269. William, 288. Fraunkesli, Jolm, 241. Fraxino, William de, 217. Freake, Ivlmuiid, Ijishoj) of Worcester, visitation by, 1H4. Freemanlle, document dated at, 218. Freeston, Mr., 111. Freford, Richard de, chaplain, 227. Freire, Sir Thomas, cliaiilain, 32. Freman, Master, 36. I"'rcnch invasion, prositcert son of (iilbert di', 155. (iaryng : Margate I, 272. Robert, 272. Gasci, John, 234. Gascon wine, .31 . Gascony, (>. merchants und peopli' of not aliens, ft. (iastrrll, Franeis, bishop of Chester, MS. of, 206 209, 2'0. Gaunt, .IoImi nf, duke of LancasliT, Id, 18, (laye, (iiihert de la, Scienlia u idnw of, 156. (Jaye Minor prebend, 2in. Gavtou. John, 2 11. :no Ufdiliiijrton, Northanis, 2'2it. Gednev, Aiulrew, esq., iOO. Gold, 7. Gct>rpi' I.. Kiuir of Knglimd, uddri'ssi:* to, 1 IT), lit). 154 (2). Goorgi' II. : :uldie>scs to, 117 ('.»), l''-* (-M. 257. itniis of, IIG. ooronatioii day of, 1 16. picture of, 116. proi'liiiiiicd King, 116. (-iucon of. >'<( Caroline. returns to England, 117. George, 111. : addresses to, 118, 120, 155 (2). picture of. 118. proclaimed, 118. (jueen of, 190. George, William, D.D., doau of Lincoln, 118. Gerard: bisnop of Lichfield, 212. Walter son of, 156. Germany, J 22. Gerold, Warin son of, 194. Geroldi : Guar' fir, chamberlain, 8, 222. W. fil., chamberlain, 219. Gesta Jieijttin, 212. Geynesburh, William of, bishoj) of Wor- cester, 196. Gibbon, Mr. John, 144. Gibbous, Mr. Alfred, Report by on records of Great Grimsby, pp. 2.37-2"91. Gibbyns, Ferdinando, 85. Gibrahar, 116. Gibson, Mr., vicar of Hemswell, 112. Giffard : Godfrey le, bishop of Worcester, 166, 195, 196, 198, 200, 204. Osbert, 5. Walter, bishop of Bath and Wells, 230. Gifford, Emmanuel, 143. Gikell, Sir Gey, priest, 253. Gildcford, master Kobert of, 168. Gilliatt, --, 106. Glaudforth Briggs, 274. Glannvilc, Nicholas de, 127. GlasjTier : John, 270. AVilliam, 241. William, mayor of Grimsby, 258, 267, 268,269,270, 271, 289(5). lease by, 258. Glokke, Clement, 133. Gloucester, 20, 234. documents dated at, 170, 197. archdeacon of, 196. J. de Grei, 3. William, 223. College, Oxford, 182 (2). monastery of St. I'eter at, 196, 197 (4). abbot of, 196, 199. letter of, 197. Hamel, 168. see of, 200. Gloucester— com/. and Hereford, G. earl of, 5. Humphrey, duke of (1414), 10. Glouc', John, 19S (2). Glovernia. Kichanl de, 229. Gnatsale, Thomas, sacristan of Hury abbey, 138. Godard, Thomas, 131. Goi/., Warin le, 194. Goldesmyth : W.,"l98(2). Is', wife of, 198, Goldwell : Henry, esq., 153. John, 277. GoUere, John, 131. Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 142. Goodall : Edmund, 133. Mr. John, 116, 117. Gooderich, John, coroner of Bury, 142. Kichard, letter of 254. Gooding, Mr., 149. Goodknappe : Kalph, 37, 60. William, 16, 6U. conveyance by, 16. Gorge, Hervey, 130. Gorsti-e manor, 209. Gosse : William, 72. Mr. William, 79 (2), 80, 88. Gouderyk, Eichard, esq., 259. Goulceby, 240, 241. manor of, 240. Goulston, Mr., 163. Government, the, 119. Gower, William, 290 (5). William son of, 290. Graa, William, 266 (2). " Gracoman " of guild pageants, 25, 26, 27, 29. Grafton, John de, 124. Granesby, Roger, 288 (2), 289 (2). Grange : Dr. E. L., 237. W., esq., town clerk of Grimsby, 237. Grange, manor of the, 157. Grantham, 92, 112, 118, 119, 241, 254. corporation of, orders of touching the poor, 101. fire at, 114. Grantham : Mr., 51. Thomas, 16, 41. Thomas, clerk, 48. Thomas, will of, 24. Thomas, lands of, 65, 66. Thomas, mayor of Lincoln, 11, 22 (3), 23 (2). Thomas, vicar of Hanslape, 49 (2). Vincent, 32 (2), 33, 34 (2), 3.5, 42. Vincent, 286. William, gent., 56. Graunt, WiUiam, 266 (2). Gravenor, Mr., 161. 311 Gray : Agnus, 274. John, 259. Lord, :?4. William, 281. Gray's lun, 19. Groat Britain and Ireland, Calendar of entries in Papal Registers concerning, 214. Greathead, Hamon, 290. Great Seal, the, 8, 9 (3), 13 (3), 110 (3), 12 (3), 13 (4), 14 (5), 122' 123, 130 (2), 131 (2), 133, 138, 140, 200 (2), 262 (2). Commission under for Benevolence from clergy, 190. Greek church in London, 107. Green, 183. John, 60. John, prior of Worcester, 169, 178. Mr., of Boston, 74. Richard, 133. Valentine, 1G6, 178, 180. Greenwich, documents dated at, 142, 243, 248. the Court at, letter dated from, 254. Greetwell, 14. Grege, Sir William, 275. Gregory IX., 172, 194, 209, commission of, 219. confirmation hy, 222, 225. mandate of, 220. Gregory X., mandate of, 219. Gregin-y XII., 176, 178. Grei, J. de, archdeacon of Gloucester, 3. Gresley : C, esq., 236. U., 188, Grethead alias Maufeld, Richard, 267. William, release by, 258, Grey : John, 281, Reginald de, 7. Walter de, bishop of Worcester, license to, 194. William de, 230. " Grcyse," fat capons of, 35. Grinialdi, Stacey, genealogist, 102. Grimel, Grimley or Grymhulle, 191. Grimsby, Great, 7, 237, 239, 210, 242, 245, 250, 252, 254, 257, 258, 260, 261, 262, 267, 268,269,271, 272, 274, 275, 270, 277, 278, 280, 284, 285, 286. abbey, 266, 269, 270, 271, 277. alehouse bonds, &c., 266, 284. apprentices at, 241, 275, 279. Augustine Friars in, 243. Bailiffs of, 238, 241, 246, 247, 250, 253, 257, 258, 260, 263, 265, 268, 269, 270, 271, 273, 280, 282, 285. extent books, Sic, 237, 262, 285. bellman, 274. borough of, 238, 287. ordinances of, 241 , 242, 246, 2(8. burgesses, lists of, 263, 266. chariiberlains of, 280, 282. Grimsby, Great — conf, chamberlain's accounts of, 237, 262, 287. charities in, 240, 241. churches of, 238, 269. Holy Trinity, 272. St. James's, 239, 240, 242, 257, 258, 259, 267, 271, 272, 274 (2), 275, 276, 278, 281 (2). St. Mary's, 242, 257, 258, 259, 271 (2). Common Chamber, 281, 283, 286, Common Hall, the, 271, 273, S80, 283. coroners of, 257, 268, 270, 271. , letters to, 246, 248. Corporation of, 237. 239, 240, 241, 242, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 266, 284, 287. bill of Quo warranto against 286. grant by, 258. ordinances of as to debt, &c., 267, 268, 284. oflBceis of, 239. out rents payable to, 262. ReiJords of, Calendar of, 237- 291. treasurer of, 243. Court Leet, 283. verdicts of, 287. Court Books and Rolls, 237, 242, 248, 259,262, 265, 266,279,280,281, 282, 284, 285, 286, 287. decay and desolation of, 247, 262, 259. deeds belonging to, 251. documents dated at, 242, 256. extent or rent roll of, 262, 282. fairs at, 238. fee farm rent from, 242, 247, 248, 251, 252, 253, 256, 258, 260, 267 268 (2), 270 (2), 272, 285. ferry at, 259, 274, 281. final concords or fines, 237, 287. frays in, 280, 282, 283, 284. freemen, 259, 261, 273, 282, 283, 284, 287. admissions of, 237, 272, 273, 275, 285, 286, 287. free scliool at, 237, 210, 283, 284, 285, 286. lands of, 239, 240. friars in, 269, 'J7I, 274. gaol, 238. delivery, commission of, 262. haven of, 249, 255. 258, 261, 269, 281. 285. Ilistoiy of, by Kobert Walker, 242. Hustings and (Jreat Court rolls, 262. Incorporation of, 239. inipiisilioiiH and depositions, 259. insolvent drhtors' papers, 266. keys of, 282, 283. King's Court, 273. King's revenue, and extent of, 268, 270. leabes in, 237, 257, 258, 259 (2), 285, 288. :U2 (triuisln, Cifi'iit — vuut. liveries in, '244. maee. 273. 282, 283, '2^:>. serjennt of, 273. mumlaiinis to, 287. market, 287. Mayors of. 238, 239,240, 241, 242, 243, 247, 248, 252, 256, '2't7, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 266, 267, 268, 27t>, 271, 273,277,278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 2S4, 285, 287. Utters, \,e., of, 269. letters to, 238 (2), 240, 243 (2), 244, 245, 246, 248 (2), 249, 250 (2), 251 (3), 253 (2), 257 (4), 255 (5), 256 (5), 257,262, 268, 272. Cowrt rolls, &c., t)f, 262. elections of, 246, 248. list of, 288-291. members of Parliament for, 250, 252, 254 (5), 255 C4), 259, 263, 274 (2), 276, 279, 280, 283 (2), 285 (2), 286 (7), 287. uuns of, St. Leouard's house of, 251, 270, 271, 277. officers of the town and creek of, letter to, 245. order of Hermits at, 271. overliowiiig of the sea, 261, 269. parish clerk. 284. plan or map of, 26o. plea rolls, 262. poor of, 240, 241, 236,286. port of, 261. punishments at, 283, 284, 286. Kayner's chantry, 239, 240, 272. recognisances, 266. Recorder of, 257, 262, 276. 282, 283, 285, 286. Eoyal Charters to, 237, 238 (10), 239 (3), 241, 256, 257, 275, 282, 286, 287. and otlier letters, 242-5". roll of oaths against Papal Supre- macy and Transuhstantiation, 285, 287 (2). sacrament certificates, 237, 266, 287. .Sessions, 238, 265, 276, 279, 283, 287. papers, 237, 265, 287. and decrees of sewers, 285. soldiers raised by, 286. Spetvll Garthes,'269. Spitelhouse, the, 248, 269, 282. St. John, Fraternity of Hospital of, 258. High Stewartl of, 282. stocks at, 284. surrender of to the King proposed, 268, 270. survey of, 247. tolls in, 271, 277. Town ClerK, 237, 284, 287. Town Hall, 237, 284. " townes house," the, 280. trade of, 238, 278, 281. " twflven-.en," 282, 283. (irimshy, t ireat — voiil. vagaboi\ds in, 249. vicarage of, 249. water supply of, 259. weights and measures in, 2/1, 279, 281. (irimshy, places at or near : Marr, 273. Harregates at, 248. Maxtergate in, 278. IJlewstoue, the, 284. Mrighowgate, 278, 281. Cliauntry house and farm, 284 (2). Cross in" the .Market St. -ad, 273, 2^4. Dedeman.-lteuedland at, 257. Kitties, the, 261 (2), 262. Kast Marsh in, 258, 261 (2), 262, 285. marsh called Wulsoo, 258, 260. Northsanctmarigate, 258, 274 (2). Seamore Bridge, 284. St. Marygate,'278. Wellowgate; 284. West Marshes in, 2.59, 261 (2), 262. Grimsby : Edmund de, letters patent to, 239 (2). clerk, 272. Henry, 277. Sir John de, rector of By nte worth, 272. John, 266. Kose of, ship, 276. Simon de, 288. William, escheator of Lincoln, 11. William, 267. Gris, John, 156. Gronale, William de, mayor of Grimsb3-, 257. Grosseteste, Kobert, bishop of Lincoln, 21, 221. Groton, 144. Groule, William de, 288. Gryce, Thjmas, letter of, 253. Gr^'.iiesby, John. .See Grimsby. Grymlej' manor, 180. Guevara, Willoughby, gent, 283. Guienne : Duchy of, 6. merchants and people of not aliens, 6. Guiges, .John de, 228. Guild : of the clerks of Lincoln, 23. let to farm, 28. pageants, 1, 25. of the Kesurrection, in St. Martin's, r.iucoln, 24. Guillerinus, cardinal of St. Laurence in Lucina, 198. Gunning, Peter, bishop of Chichester, 147. Gunsalvi, Lorvo, 178. Gyereseyeue, 3, 4. Gylby, Wm., of Gray's Inn, recorder of Lincoln, 19, 117. Gjll, Robert, mayor of Lincoln, 6. 313 H. Habingflon, — , 184. Haiieelfl, William rtc, 228 (2). Hadgavcl, liadjiovel, 123, 127. Hale, arcluleacon \V. H., IGO, 1G7. Hale's " Reyistruni" 191. Halesworth : Tlionias, aldcruiau of Hiiiy, 131. pardon to, 130, 131.' indenture l)v, 132. Hall : Alice, 274. Mr. Ebenezer, " the Antidote " by, 11.5. John, 50. John, 274. John, atte. 266, 289 (2). Paul, 274. llichurd atte, 266. Ilallesworth, Nicholas, 125. Halktt : John, 163. Mary, daughter of, 163. Mrs. Sarah, widow of, 163. Halley, Nicholas, 269. Hallington, William, 25U. Ilalliwell-Phillips, J. ()., 2(>4, 205. Hallow, 191. church of, 191. Ilalshani : Peter de, grants tu, 257 (,2), 288 (3). Agnes his wife, 257. Halton : :Mr. Francis, 282, 283. John, mayor of Lincoln, 30. Kol)ert, letter of, 256. William, 284. llalyle, John, 253. ]laly>w()rtlu'. See Halesworth. Hamby, Philip, 289 (2). Hamelok, Thomas de ]{oos, late lord of, 6. Hamilton, Sir James, 203. Hanio, William son of, 2. Hamond, Thomas, the " gcr>(ynian," 90, 91. Hanioiir, Uandall, 30. Hampton, document dated at, 138. Haini)ton, John, 179, Master Nicholas, 191. J I amjiton Court, documents dated at, 39, 189, 249. Hamstede, 'I'homas de, grant hv, 228. Ii:ui;ipcr, the, U (2), 12. " ll;inderother," 9. Ihiii.liey Castle, 188. llanle, John, 131. Ilanney, Kobcrt dc, 21. Hansard : Itichard, 290 (2). William, 261. Hauslape, Hanslope, Bucks, 49, 51, 61, 100, 103, 115. advowson of, 47. curate of, 62. parsonage of, 16, 5u, 51, 62. priest of, 49. rectory of, 12. vicars'of, 48, 49, 104, 107. vicarage, 21. Hanslay, Patrick, 274, 289. Hanson, Thomas, 1*6. Hdiit.siiifj.tilrcr, 126. Harl)orne : church of, 216, 219 (2). prebend of, 249. Harcourt, Philip de. Chancellor, 223. Harcurt, Richard de, 217. Hardicanute, charter of, 132. Hardredeshill, William de, 230. Hardwick, Humfrey, clerk, 203. Hardy: Mr. W. J., Keport by, 158, 164. T. D., 218. Hargrave manor, 136. Harlinge, Christopher, 282. Harluwe, J., 125. Harmer, Robert, 289. Harmston parish, horse races in, 106. Harpisfeld (?), J., 246. Harpour, John, rector of Scarthow, 258. Harrington: Christopher, 262, 290. Master, 276. Harrison, Jahi\, clerk, 46. Hartlebury : .lohn, prior of Worcester, 177. manor, 193. Hartlepool, 258. Harvey : James, 122. W.,2. office copies attested by, 8 (2). Hasteley, T., 129. Hastinges : John de, 7. Lord (1511), 37. Hatcliff, Hatclyfl': Christoi>her, 260, 262, 282, 290. John, 262. .John, mayor of Crimsby, 282, 290 (3). Mrs., 26ti. Stephen, 241. Steven, 274, 275. Thomas, of liatclyir, esq., 279. William, 266, 229. William, son of Steven, 27 1. . Hiiworthin, '207. Hawkers, pedlars ami iictty cliaimu'ii. l>Ctition :i«;aiiist, 1 lt>. ]la\vkiiis, — , 186. Hawstead, Mr., 84. Hayward, Alir., 20 Heath, Nicholas, bishop of Worcester, 204. Iloatoii : Kdward, 290 (.3). — , T., son of, 291. Hedirsetc : Geoffrey de, 157. Simon do, KiO. Heigham : Clement, knt., 139. Sir John, knt., 142. Thomas, i:?3. Heighiugton, 14. Heinard, Edmund, 141. Heliug, .John de, 288. *' Helmerother." 9. Helperby, William, 133. Hembury manor, 193. Hempriiigham. Sec Empringham. Hems-well, Hemmiswell, co. Lincoln, 60, 81, 103, 117. chancel of, 101. parsonage of, oO, 98, 101, 103. . invenLorv of goods in, 00. lease of," 90 (2). rectory of, 12. A-icar of, 101. vicarage of, 68, 103, 112. Heneage, Henneage : George, archdeacon of Lincoln, 38 (2), 39 (2). George, esq., 260, 262. Sir George, knt., 262, 282. John, 260, 262 (2). John, esq., 274. John, juur., 274. Dame Katherine, 260. Master, 275. Mr., 254. Sir Thomas, 260. Henhowe, 132, 139. Henley, friar K. de, 198. Hennych. See Heneage. Henry I., King of England, 2, 5, 7 (3), 8, 9 133. charters of, 132 (2), 171. Henry, Duke of Normandy and Aquitain, &c. [afterwards Henry II.], charter of , 222. Henry II., 3, 4, 5, 155, 198, 218 (2). charters of, 8, 106, 173. Gesta, 218. grants by, 2 (2), 7. writ of, 219. Henry III., 1, 24, 128, 130, 155, 156 (5), 169, 171, 198, 208, 209, 247. Homy HI. — rout. letters patent, &c. of, 5, 106, 223. charters, &o. of, 4, 5, 6, 106, 173 (2), 230, 237, 238 (2). confirmations, &c., by, 200, 217, 218 first crossing into Britanny, 5. grants by, 22, 169, 171. Edmund, son of, 207. half brothers of, 209. licences of, 42, 214 (2). rebellion against, 173. Henry IV., 124, 132, 182, 157, 158, 199. [s/c:III.] 212,262. charters of, 10 (2), 105, 132. privy seal of, 170. Henry V., 124, 158. charters of, 10, 133. brothers of, 10. uncle of, 10. Henry VI., 11, 15, 21 (2), 35, 125, 157, 159, 177, 178, 179, 265. letters patent of, 21, 22, 23 (2), 265. charters, &c., of, 10, 11, 133 (2), 193 (2), 238. licences from, 10, 11. order by, 179. visits Lincoln, 3.j. writs of, 10, 250. Henry VII., 35 (2), 138, 242, 270, 272. letters patent, &c., of, 23, 243, 244 (2), 245 (2), 246 (2), 247, 270, 277, 278 (2). charters of, 12, 138. commission of, 262. pardon by, 199. rebellion against, 245, 246. Henry VIII., 16, 24, 30, 35, 38, 39, 40, 47, 50, 53, 54, 125, 138, 179, 180, 181 (3), 183, 184 (2), 193, 240. letters patent, &c. of, 39 (2), 52, 238 (3), 243, 248 (2), 249. letter to, 38. charters, &c. of, 12 (2), 28, 105, 138 (3), 199, 260. grant to, 185. pardons by, 14, 158. commission of array, &c., 26, 33. Anne, Queen of, 179. arms of, 36. Chamber of. Treasurer of. See Tuke, Sir Brian. Council of, 33, 39. death of, 40. gifts to, 36, 37. head of the Church of England, 179, 180. goes to France, 39. founds Worcester Cathedral, 185, 186. maces of, 37. portrait of, 12. Queen of, 37. address to, 37. visit of to Lincoln, 36, 37. writ of, 33. Henwick, 193. 315 Hepeworth, Heppewoith, 156. John Ic Bret fie, U6. laud called Giistes in, 156. Whatecroft, 156. Herbert : Dr. William, 147, 148, 149. widow of, 149. W., 200. Herd, Herde : .John, M.I)., prebendary of Lincoln, 67. Thomas, 6. Hereford : Cathedral, 197. chancellor of, 197. dean and chapter of, 199. . jurisdiction of, 2'il, 225. Giles, dean, and the canons of, 195. Wlford, bishop of, 213. Herefordshire, 218. Heremyte, Kohert, 176. Herford, 218. Herforton, 191. Herrysou, George, 42. Hertford, 158, l.J9. apprentices in, 163. assizes at, 161, 162. baiiififof, 159. Borough Court, records of, 159. bye-laws, 159, 160 (2). "cadge " for, 160. Castle, 161. extent of, 159. charities in, 160, 163, 164. churches in : of the Blessed Mary, 159. All Saints, 159, 162, 164. parishioners of, letters from, 162 (2). constitutions for, 160 (2). Corporation of, 158, 159, 161, 102, 163. buildings, 158. Calendar of MSS. of, 158-104. deeds, &c., of, 159. Cowbridge in, IGO, 162. elections at, 102 (4), 163. fire at, 160. freemen of, 160, 163. Free School at, 103 (2). gaol in, 159. inhabitants of, petition of, 162, 103 (5). innholders, 103. justices in, 101, 104. justices of the peace, 160. Lc Holmes, 159. letters, &c., dated at, 102, 163. loyal subjects of, petition of, 102. Manor Court rolls, 159. markets and fairs, I5H, lOI. market place, 159, 101. cross in, 10l», 101. Mayor of, 159, lOO, 101, 102, lO.'J. letters of, 101 (2), 102. letters to, 160, J 62 (5), J 63 (2). Court of, 158, 159. Hertford — conf. members of Parliament for, 163 (3), 163 (2). New Inn, 161. pest houses, rate for building, 164. Petty or Special Sessions, 159. plague in, 164. Quarter Sessions, 159, 164. rate books, 164. recognizance books, 164. recorder, 160, 162, 163. Koyal Charters, 158. sacrament certificate and oath roUs, 164. sheriff of, letter to, 162. St. Mary, prior and monks of, 159. stocks and whipping post, 100. survey of, 159. town clerk, 158, 163. Town Hall, 160 (2). town rent rolls, 164. Turner's History of, 160. vill of, extent of, 159. wet docks at, 163. Hertfordshire, 128. assizes for, 161. gaol for, 159. Hertylbury, Walter, almoner of Worcester priory, 185. Hervy, Heryejf : Alexander, 11. John Lord, 154. picture of, 154. wife of, 153. Sir Thomas, knt., 149 (3), 150 (2), 152. Herwike, William, 288 (2). Heselwood, — , painter, 68. Hewod' manor, 218. Ilewthwaite, Kev. Mr., 118. Heylyng, Thomas, 257. Ileynes, W., 129. Heyuyngcs abbey, co. Lincoln, 34. Ileywood, 234. Ileywood, — , dean of Lichfield, 226 (2). Iliekes, — , dean of Worcester, 184 C-)- Hickes' Thesaurus, 200. Higdoyn, Henry, sheritf of Lincoln, 22. Hilclewin, Kichard son of, 192. Ilildyard : Christopher, 259. Henry, esq., 259. William, 284. Hill: Henry, 277. Katlierine, >vidow, deed of, 278. " Oriuadus," 24. Robert, 27 I. TlioMias, 278. William, 4(t. Hilliard, Sir (Christopher, knt., 261. Hillingdon, 20O. Ililliiigwnrtli. KicliaKi. I I. 11 ill yard: Christopher, 1 12. Christopher, 273. Lady .lohan, 273. ;ii(i llillvnril -( <>»j/. IVtor. 27:1. his son, -7'-^. Hichar.l. '2::\. Hiukolovo. John do, -ilo. llistoriial MiimisiTipts C'oiiiinissioii, 121, 16S. IIi>l)lio\iM'. bishop Kdinmul, 165, I'.l.J (3). Hochanl, Kllon. 157. llwlivnsou, .lohii, iiiiiyor of Liiicohi, (JO. Ilodpi's. Tlioiuas, .juiir., esq., Hi.l. Moilshoiu-, Aldoniiaii. 60 (2), 70. IlodvlstoiR' : Kall.h, will of, '24. Kohcit, mayor of LiiRolu, 22. llo;,'i'kyiison, HogiT, ti. Alioo, 274. Koliort, 274. Ilolhoclu', Henry, S. T. P., monk of Crow- land and prior and dean of Worcester, 180 (,2). Holborn, Middlesex, 240. St. Andrew's, 240. Holden, Mr., <.I8. lloldesworth, Robert, 290. Hole, 278. Holland, 20. Holies : Fresehville, esq., 290. Col. Gervase, mavor of Grimsby, 259, 282 (.3), 283 (2), 285, 288,290 (2), 291. collections of, 288. Sir F., knitrht, 291. Hollington : Martin, aUlermaa of Lincoln, 56 (2). disfranchised, &c., for suing at Westminster, 56. Hollingworth, Hollyngworth : Edv.ard, 75. Leo, 78. Martin. See Hollington. Mr. Leon, 88 (2), 89 (2), 90 (2), 94. articles against, 88. Mr. Michael, 107. Mr., 82. Holme, Richard de, 9. Holmes : George, 2. office copies by, 8 (2). Richard, 256. Holostoyt, John Ysbrantson, 275. Holt : John, gentleman, l.'J8. Mr. Mark, 282. Holton, 240. Holwey, 191. Homb,'john, 129. Honcll, John, 133. Honorius IIL, 216, 218, 233. confirmations by, 221 (2), 222 (2). mandates, &c., of, 220 (2), 223, 223, 220. Honton. Edward, 131. Hoo, William de, 127. Hoole, 267. Hooper : John, bishop of Worcester, 204. Mr. J. II., M.A., chapter clerk mid registrar of Worcester. 2o:i. •J(»5. Mr., 180. Hooton : Jolm. 18. William, 109. Hope, 222, 229, 230, 234. church of, 228 (2), 229 (.S), 23o. Hope, l\obert,son of Hugh ol', bond of, 2:.'9. Mr. W. St. John, 120. Hopkynson, Thomas, 266. Horhurnc, church of, 23.'!. Horc : Peter le, 230. William, 131. Ilorncr, Hobcrt, 266. lloriiigeserde, Robert de, 156. Horningsheath, Great and Little, 157. Horse racing, 106, 120. Horsham, 191. Hotebovilc, .lohn de, 127. Hotham, Sir John, 201 (2). Houchard', Rosjer, Hubert son of, 3. Houghton, Mr., 92. House of C'ommons, the, 104, 202. petitions to, 116, 162, 163. member of, expelled, 287. Ho u ton : Edward, 132. Walkelin de, 216, 230. Hovediswoche, William de, 228. Hovell, Oliver, 143. Howard : Charles, Karl of Nottingham, 256. Theophilus, Earl of Suffolk, letter from, 143. letter to, 143. Thomas, Earl of Suffolk (1616), 142. William, justice in eyre, 125. Howdeu, 220. Howden, Mr. Thimolby, 91. Howden's Chron., 218. Howe, Mr. John, 91. Howlet, Robert, 27. Hub})ard, — , scrivener, 276. Huchunsone, John, will of, 24 Huchyuson, William, 51. Hudson : Robert, 261. William, 36. Huggard, Walter, will of, 24. Hughes, Dan., 205. Hull, 17, 26, 201, 202, 258, 262, 265, 275, 281. customs at, 22. document dated at, 255. ferry to, from Grimsby, 259, 274. the King's honor of, letter dated from, 253. mayor of, 255. mayor, customers and comptroller of. letter to, 244. the magazine at, 201. the ship Michael of, 276. Trinity House at, 261. Hulton, Richard de, 228. 317 Humber, the, 265, :281. Huiuberston abbey, 278. Hurubleton, Sir Kichard, abbot of Well- bowe, 258, 271. Humes, Humez, Kichard de, Constalmlar, 2, 7 (2). Hiindilbie, lluudylbie Sir Robert, 281. Itobert, clerk, 280. Ilimdiaby, Robert, 240. Hunstertoiic, John de, 130. Huutindon, William de, 102. Huntingdon, .35. Huuton, Mr., 20. Hurcliyued, 277. Kurd, Mr , registrar of Worcester, 204. Hussey, Husey : Sir Johu, knt., 24. Sir Thomas, hart., 110. Thomas, esq., 46, 48, 254. Husthwayte, Kobert, 261. Hustler, Thomas, town clerk of Bury, 152 (2). Hustwayt, Hustwayte : Alice, 283. Easter, 283. Ellen, 283. Francis, 283. (ieorgc, 280 (3), 281. Leonard, 2«3. Hustwood's manor, 2G1. Hutchinson, Dr. Francis, 153. appointed bishop of Down and (Connor, 154. Huthom, CO. York, 25'J. Hutton, Sii' Richard, judge of assize, 101. Hvgdon, Henry, G. Hyll, Jolni, 289. Hylton, Richard dc, 230. Hynde : William, conniion clerk of Lincoln (1505), 58, 60. death of, 66. William, town clerk of Lincoln, 40 (2). Hynewick, 191. Hyrd : Antliony, 67. John his son, 67, 68 ; mid see Herd. I. Ichenton, Warwick, 218. Ickewiirllic, Sir 'I'lio. de, knt., 150. Icconih, 191. manor, co. Worcester, 185. Idesworthe, 234. Idley, I'et.r, 11. Ikeryngham, Robert d.-, 124. Ikworth, Thomas de, 131. Imliction, the, 168, 178. Ingham, 145. manr-r of, 264. Ingram, Sir Thomas, (-haplain, .31 . Ingson, .lohii, 288. Inner Temple, London, 16. letter datefl at, 256. Innocent II., bulls, &e., of, 222. III., bull of, 174. IV.. mandate?, &c., of, 195, 219, 220, 221 (6). Ipswich, 1 53. shirehouse at, 153. Irby, 267, 286. Irchynnet, William, (;. Ireland, 6. 7, 201. IremoDgere, Richard, 132. Ireton, Kichard, 21. Irisli bishops as suif'ragans in England, 124, 125. Italy, 166. Itterby, 267, 269, 277, 278. Ivy, John, 133. J. Jackson : Edward. 290. Edward, 290 (2). Jolui, 240, 290 (2). .lohn, 30. — , 240. Jaffe, Registriim of, 214, 219. James 1., King of England, 8, 18, 79, 82, 83,84,97, 99, 100, 140, 141, 145, 160, 161,261. letters patent, &c., of 140 (2), 249. charters of, 122 (3), 158, 2«2. commission from, 13. heals of the King's evil, 94. otHcers of, 91, 92, 93. porter of, 94. portraits of, 122 (3). presence chamber of, 94. ])roclaimiiig of, 79. visit of, to Lincoln, 80, 91-95. James, Duke of York, brother of Cliarles II., no, 150. conspiracy to assassinate, 109. James II., King of Ergland, 111, 112, 151, 152, 153. letter from, 1 11. addresses to, 1 I 1, 151, 152. bill of Qun wdiraiito exhibited by, 286. charter of iiicorpiiration of, 2159. Declarations of, 1 12, 152. instruments from, 151. messengers of, 151. order of in Council, 152. proclainuil King, 110, 111. proi'lamation of, for restoring eor|io- riitions, 152. (^uecn of. 111. James, Montague 1!., frlluw nf King's Cd!- Icge, Cambridge, 122, Jeekhill, John, 201. JeffreyH, Lord Chief .histice, 110. letter of, 109. letter t... 109. 318 Joniivii : ix>r.l, 151. Thonias. es(|., 141i (3). Thoniiis. kilt.. 143 (2). .K'nnvns, Mr., GO (2), 70. .lorsoy School in Limolii, 18. iiKister of, 18. JonisaUui, .">8. Jesns CoUo-ro, Oxford, 17(». Jews in Lincoln : nnnies of, 11, I'J. burial jrround, 12. Jobson, .lolm, «ill of, 21. Johaiuiis. W. filius, 7. .lohn. King of Kngland, 'A, 5, 23S. charters of. 2.3, 106, 132 (2), 193, 194, 238. grants by, 22."}, 228. buried in St. Marv's, Worcester, 171. will of, 200. writs, &c., of 218 (3). •Tohn, William son of, grants of, 227 (2). Seburga his wife, 227. John XXL, commission of, 219. XXIL, 193. rescript of, 223. Johnson, Joan, 140. daughter of, 140. Johan, 274. Laurence, 241. Mr. Thomas, 14.5. .fuda, a Jew of Lincoln, 12. Judgesou, Steven, 274. Jugge, Kiehard, 56. Jurden, John, 269. K. Kal, Edmund del, 288. Kanocbur' manor, 218. Katharine [Howard], Queen of Henry VIII. : letter from, 39. appointed Regent in King's absence, 39. Kedyngton, Robert de, 131. Kekingwick, 191. Kelbury, 191. Jvelby, document dated at, 277. Keleby, 258. Isabel, 271. .lohane, 271. Robert, 271. alias Stalyngbroiight, \yater, 271. Kelke : Mr. John, 100. William, 261. William, mayor of Grimsby, 262, 282, 290 (3). Kelsaye, letter dated at, 254. Kelsey, South, 286. Kelsille, Richard de, l.'JT. Kelsteme, 259. Kemble's Code.r Dipl., 132. Kemescye, 191. Kemp : John, 251. William, 38. Kemjisev, document dated at, 168. Kendall": Mr. Henry, sherift' of Lincoln, 90 (2), 92. Thomas, 7 1 . Kcnilworth : document dated at, 7, 230. Osbert, canon of, 168. Robert, prior of, 168. William, prior of, 220. Kensington, document dated at, 193. Kent : John, mayor of Lincoln, 120. Thomas, mayor of Lincoln, 120. William, 240. Kersunere, Ralph de la, 130. Kesteveu wool, 14, 15. Keteryugham, 129. Ketton, Suffolk, 286. Ketylbyc, document dated from, 255. " Kidds " for a bonfire, 20. Kilkeuni, William de, 229. Killala, Thomas, bishop of, 124. Killingholme, Hugh de, 288. Kilwardby, Robert, archbishop of Canter- bury, 196. King, the, 25. bounty of, 116. and Council, 6, 127. post of, 30. . subsidy of, 8". King, Colonel, 285. Edward, esq., 285, 286 (3). Mr. Edward, 283. Henry, 227. King's Bench, the, 114. Court of, 238. , writs out of, 85, 89 (2). , Westminster, pleas in, 174. King's College, Cambridge, 122. King's evil, the, 194. King's Lynn, legacy to, 143, Kingston : John, 262, 279. John, 289, 290. John, son of .John, 290 (2). Mr., mayoj- of Grimsby, letter to, 254. Kingston upon Hull. See Hull. Kinwarton, 200. Kirkby Morshede, letter dated at, 256. Kirke, Leo ( or Lyon) , mayor of Grimsby, 261,290. Kirkeham, — , 1 1. Kirsocke, Hugh, 274. Kirton, John, 261. Kirton in Lindsey, manor of, 23. Kitchen, John, letter of, 1 62. Kitson : family of, 121. .lohn^ 138. Thomas knt., 138. , Margaret his wife, 138. Knaresborough, 241. Knife.smith, Knysmith, Mr., 82, 85. sw Kuight, Knygbt : Edmund, 16. Mr., mayor of Lincoln, temp. Eli/,., 37. Richard, 21. Knighton, 191. Knights fees, 274. Knights Templars in England, 194. Knitting school at Lincoln, regulations for, 17. Knoll, document dated at, 180. Knowles, Knollys : Sir Francis, 189. Sir William, 2.56. William, C7. William Lord, 142. Kydger, Thomas, 259. Kydyer, John, 267. Kygier, John, 277. Kynowick, 191. Kyng : Alexander le, 228. Henry le, 228, 230. Kyngston, John, 275 (2). Kyrkestede, John, 129. L. Laceby : lienry, 26G. Margaret, 277. Lacford, Thomas, 13l. Laches (Lachish ?), 58. Lackford hundred, 128. Lacoke, K. de, 229. Lacy : Edmund de, earl of Lincoln, 209. Henry, earl of Lincoln (1311), 14. Henry, letter of, 276. Robert, ma^or of Grimsby, 276, 277, 289. Lady Margaret's professor of divinity, Oxford, 186. Lake, Thomas, 142. Lakingheth, Henry de, 124. Lalleford, Michael, 132. Lambeth, documents dated at, 176, 221. Lamkey, Laurence, 284. Lamplugh, Tho., 188. Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, 206. Lancaster : Duchy of, l;{, 24, 270, 278. Councd of, letter from, 162. Henry, Duke of, 278. Henry, Earl of, 278. Heiuy I'lantagt'uet, Karl of, IK. John, Duke of, and Aquitaine, 278. Blanche, wife of, 278. .John, Duke of, King of Castile aiul Leon (1378), 9. John of Gaunt, Duke of, 7. Thomas Earl of, 7. Landniol, hiiidmool, 123. Lane, Sir William, 2 of, 15<;. Le Gorgurer : Alexander, 19 1. Ingulf, his brother, l".)4. Le Mans, document dated at, 218. Le Meirin, Ascelin, 19 1. Le Neve, 228, 229, 23(;. Fasti hlvrlvsiring- ham, h'.ilph ; Manchester, Wm. ; Nevill, Kalph ; Denton, James. and Chapter, 211,216, 217, 218, 219 (4),220 (2), 221, 223, 227, 229, 233, 234, 235, 236. letters, &c., of, 216, 227. letters, &c., to, 214 (4), 216,220,222, 225, 22S, 229,230, 234. Act books, 226. clerk of, 205, 236. muniments of. Calendar of, 205-237. catalogue of, he, hy Dr. Cox, 205. ordnance of, 225. pensions due to, 226. registry of, 205, 200, 220, 236. Magnum RegistrumAlbum, 206. statutes, 226, 234. deanery of, 218, 222, 233. diocese of, 211. document dated at, 217. dues at, 220. manor of, 218. market at, 217, 218. mint at, 222. paving of, 220. precentor of, 214. see of, 214, 216. vacancy of, 220. Vicars' Close at, 216. Liebermann, Dr., 167. Lilburn, William, 271. Lilleshall, Lilleshull : abbot of, 219. John, canon of, 168. William, abbot of, 168. Lillie, Roland, 76. Lincoln, cit3' of, 1 120, ^Kt.f.s/w, 241, 254, 264, 274. agreement of with city of lioston, 117. alabaster men in, 54. aldermen of, 1-120, passim. lines imposed on, 25. alehouses in, 18, 61,64, 81, 82,83, 99. licensing of, 18, 56. All Hallows church, 32. apprentices, 21, 24, 70, 81, 108, 114. armourers of, 57. arms, 105, 106, 109, 111, 120. assembly room in, 1 1 8. assizes at, 91, 100, 114, 261. attornies in, 85, 89. 821 Lincoln, city of — cutil. bailiffs and provosts of, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18, 76, 96. bakers, the, 30, 32, 44, 46, 63, 81. gild of, 31. beggars in, 98. bellman, 39, 50, 51, 81, benefices in, 32. Black Monks near, 16, 24, 34 (3). " Blythe, the," great book called, 25. brewers of, 38, 43, 47, 49, 56, 61, 65, 81,91, 92. bricklayers, 60. brickmaker to, 89, 98, 106. bnrgesses to Farliament, 25, 30-34, 41, 47, 48, 49 (2), 50, 74, 76, 114. burgess-pence, 34, 49. Burgh chantry, 25. Burghmanmot, 8, 9. butchers in, 81, 98. butts to be made in, 41. carpenters of, 79. Castle, 13, 19, 238. precincts and privileges of, 18. Chamberlains of, 13, 24, 25, 36, 53, 64, 67, 77, 78, 87, 92, 110, 111, 113. roils of accounts, 20. chanter, the, 52. chantries, 26, 27, 34, 42. lands, 42. charter sought for, 50. choristers' school, 22. Christ's Hospital in, 19. church goods in, 38-43,44,45,46,48. citizens, petition of, 56. general pardon to, 14. clerks, guild of, 23, 41. plate, SiC, of, 41. clothiers and clotlunaking, 12, 26, 44, 45,47,51.98. ^ coal trade in. Hi-, cockfightiiig at, 94. coinage in, 105, 106, 107, 114. C'ommon chamber, 32, 33 (2), 34 (2), 38, 40, 41, 44, 49, 52, 60, 61, 66, 67, 73, 75, 84. plate in, 37, 57, 62, 67, 71, 72, 74, 76, 80, 89, 91, 96, 101, 103, 107 (4), 109 (4), 110, 111, 120. Comnioii Coiiiicil, 1-120, passim. common seal, 21, 22,32, 33,44, 79, H6, 102. common strike, TiS. common waters, 43 (2). commons of, 33, 76, 88, 95, 97. conduits in, 80, 90, 110, 116, 118. Cordwainers' corapuny. Set^ {Shoe- makers. coroners, 13. C'orporation of, 1-120, ;j«.sm'///. letter to, 46. Acts of, I, 24, 78, 83, 85, 86, 87, 90. charity estates of, 19. ehest, 48. courts leef, 24, 33, 43, 50, ('.3. 83, 85, 88, lol. 102. 1 () 79300 Lincoln, city of — cunt. Corporation of, ducking stool, 20, - inner and outer house of, 78, 79, 80, 90. Corpus Christi guild in, 32, 47. counsel of, 85, 89, 90, 101. county of, 10, 11, 13, 92 (2), 264, 265. Courts in called IMayors' or Sheriffs' Courts, 84, 85. clerk or steward t)f, 84, 118. crier, 96, 106, 116. cuckstool, 98. " custemare " of, 22, 28, 51, 52. customs at, 95, 96, 97, 100. cutlers, 57. debts in. Act for recovery of, 117. decay of, 31, 65, 68, 263. deodands, &c., in, 83. documents dated at, 2, 7, 216, 244. 255 (3). dyers or lytsters in, 55. ensigns of authority, 107. escheator's office in, 95. farmers and husbandmen of, 87. fee farm annual rent from, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 16,31,32,37,38,39,40,42, 47, 66, 96, 103, 263, 264. fencer of, 94. fifteenths and tenths from, 37, 40, 49, 50, 52, 55, 03. fire, precautions against, 55, 62, 64, 68,81, 91, FitzMarlin chantry in, 27, 30. franchise of, 49, 51, 52, 55, 01, 62, 04, 69, 74, 77, 78, 79, 86, 90, 90, »9, 103, 117, free grammar school in, 16, 22, 26, 27, 31, 52, 54, 56, 61, 62, 67, C8, 73, 90. 91, 97, 103, 105, 112, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119. freemen of, 18, 19, 23, 24, 26, 28, 48, 63, 04, GO, 07, 08, 73, 74, 75, 70, 85, 89, 99, 100, 103, 111, 114, 116, 120. French protestants eome to, 109. Friars or Freres in, the, 09, 72, 73, 75, 77, 90, 97, 98, 99, 114. Dominic, 27. Grey. 1 0, 33, 34. Minors, 8. gaol, the, 17, 57. gilders in. 64. girdlers, 57. glasiers, OO. glovers, 19. charter of. 57. (liiilds in, 1,4, 7, 16, 23, 2 1, 32, 35, 41, 54. the (Jrcat, 35, 30, 38, 40, 42. j)late and rents of, 35, 39 (2), 48. pageants, 1, 25, 26,27, 29,36, 41, 47. (luildhall, 6, 8, 25, 27, 28, 30, 51, 55, 03, 74. 82, 110. 111,1 12. 113, 118, 119. X 322 Liiioolii, i-ity ot'—ioiit. lialfponoL' and fartliiii'js in. 105, 106 (4), 107 (-2). hiilos, salo of. '.)•.). Holy Hood church, 41, 44, Hi. Holy Tiinity cliurch, 33. Hospital of Holy Innocents in, IC>. Horsomai>hals, 57. horse races at, 7."), 94, 100, 106, 120. house of correction in, '.»0, 91, 08, 114. Inisbaudry in, 96. innhoklers, 62, 69. inuoculation of tlie i)oor, 119. lusijjnia, Civic, 120. ironmongers, 67. Jersey scliool in, 18, lo9. Jews in, 11, 12, 263. Judges at, 52, 53, 63, 85, 88, lOl. justices of peace, 10, 13, 38, 39, 47, 55 (2), 56, VO, 71, 84, 99, 102, 110, 115. Kitchen, the, prison called, 42, 64, 70. knittiufi; school established at, 17, 98. lamps for, 116, 118, 119. lands conveyed to, 15, 16 (5). leases in, 87, 97, 99. leather searchers and .sealers, 64, 76. liberties of, 11, 36, 37, 43, 144. limemakers, 60. maces of, 74, 80, 89, 95, 104, 105, 107, 117, 120. macebearer, 21, 50, 70, 92, 93. maltsters in, 52. manufactories in, 117. Marescallus, 3, 4. market house, 19, 117, 118. markets and fairs, 8, 10, 13, 14 (2), 29, 30, 32, 48, 49, 53, 61, 67, 75, 95, 96, 99, 105, 114 (3), 117, 120. Marshalsea, the, 103. masons, 60. Mayor of, 1-120, panxini. '- letters to, 6, 39. elect, 105, 111. to be the King's escheator, 10. Mayoress, 37. mercers, 30. merchants, foreign, 5, 7, 15, 57, 2G3. millers, 60, 81, 82. Minster, the, 25, 66, 74 (2), 79, 87, 93, 94, 96, 97, 114. reader in, 67. minstrels and musicians of, 21,81,85, 91, 102. musters in, 24, 52. mysteries in, to have charters, 55. offices in, 73, 76, 77, 84, 87, 96, 97. elections to, 73, 76, 77, 83, 84, 88, 105, 110. old school house in, 52, 54, 56. orphans in, ordinances for, 63, 64, 97. painters in, charter of, 54. parchment makers, 57. parishes in, Act for union of, 12, 46, 47, 55, 104, 105. Parliament at, 216. parsonages belonging to, 56, 65, 90. Lincoln, city of — cont. rateruoster play at, 29. pavers, 60. perambulation of common lands in, 25, 98. j.efitions from, 116, 117, 263. I'iepoudre court, 14. pillory in, 28, 36, 49. pinder, 76. l)iniu-rs and pointers, 57. plairue in, 1,11, 25, 29,42,44, 49 (2), 71, 84, 85, 101. plasterers, 60. plav from Uihie at, 56, 58, 60, 62. poor in, 38, 40, 41, 51, 61, 62, 64, 70, 73, 74, 76,81,84, 87,90,91, 95,97, 100, 101, 103,-105, 112, 118, 119. porters, 81. Portsoc, 3, 4. post in, 30. privileged places in, 24. prisons in, 42, 57, 64, 70, 99. proclamation called the Mayor's cry in, 63. provisions for government of, 14. pyx, the, 76. quitrents to the Crown from liouses in, 11. Recorder of, 13, 19, 25, 26, 28, 31, 34, 35 (2), 37, 38, 43, 46, 47, 49 (2), 63, 64, 66, 68, 73, 74, 78, 79, 80, 86, 92, 93, 105, 110, 113, 117. Records of, 95, 96, 119. Calendar of, 1-120. embezzled, 28, 29. Registers, 1. 10, 19, 21. revenues of, 31, 78, 96. riots at, 88. rivers leading to, navigation of, 107 (2), 117, 118 (2), 119. Royal Charters to, 1, 19, 32, 36, 56, 62, 63, 66, 80, 81, 83, 105, 106. 109. Calendar of, 1-14. lost, 14. renewal of, 25, 26, 48, 80, 84, 90 (3), 96, 98, 99, 105, 110, 111. ruin and desolation of, 11, 12, 37, 263, 264, 265. scarcity at, 56, 82, 118. scavengers, 81. schoolmaster for, 66, 67, 107. two schools in, union of, 68 (3), 69, 72. scriveners, 57. seals of, 109. Secret Council, 24, 25, 31 (2), 42, 46, 47, 48, 56 (2), 60, 63, 65, 66, 101,: 102. Sekfreris [Fratres de Sacco] in, 16 sergeants of, 28. sessions at, 61, 91, 102, 115. sewers, commissioners of, 99. ' sheepmarket, 97, 98. sheriffs of, 1-120, po.9Si/«, 264. letter to, 249. elect, 91, 105, 111. turn, 101. 323 Liucohi, city of — cont. shipmouey, 101. Shoemakers, fellowship of, 41, 54. charter of, 52, 5.3. Hall, 41, 45, 54. shops iu, to close ou Sundays, 0'.), 81. skiumarket iu, 22. skinners of, 57. smiths, charter of, 57. soldiers iu, 29, ,30, 52, 64, 68, 103, 104. spinning school in, 91, 98, 99. Spital ou the Street, Hospital of, 45. spurriers, 57. St. Andrew's church, 2, 44, 45, 46, 48. St. Anne, guild of, 16, 25 (2). 26 (2), 27, 29, 32, 36 (4), 38 (2>, 41, 43, 47, 48, 63. let to farm, 28. St. Augustine's, 32, 33 (2), :U, 61. St. Bayth church in, 33, 34. St. Benedict's, 12, 36, 63, Tl. chantry iu, 28, 31. St. Botolph's, 110, 116. St. Cuthbert's, 1 2. St. Edward's, 41. St. George's, 12. guild, 32, 36. St. Hugh's fair, 114. St. John's called " la T'ouro.'" 12, 46, 60. 75. St. Katherine's church, 63, 110. St. Katherine, prior and convent of, 23 (2), 29. St. Laurence's, 46, 75. chantry in, 24, 30. parish, 30, 36, 44, 69. St. Leonard's, 34. St. Luke's guild, 54. charter of, 54, 55. St. Margaret's, 44. St. Mark's, 11, 34. St. Martin's, 12, 117. accounts of churchwardens of, 1. guild in, 24. St. Mary's, 34 (2), 36, 67, 68, 109, 110, 115, 116. guild of, also called the Great Guild, 40. vicar of, 41. St. Michael's, 2, 33 (3), 34, 91. on the Hill, 12, 22, 24, 29. St. I'etcr at Arches, 19. 20, 55, 89, 98,99, 102, 103, 107, 108, 10!), 112, 116 (3), 117, IIH (2), 119 (2). , rebuilding of, 1 15 (3), 1 16. Eastgate, 74, 1J5. at Hottes, 33, 34. at the Plea, 38, 42. at the Skiumarket, d<;-*troyed church of, 22. St. I'eter'B, Great, 66, 75. St. Saviourgate, the Knitter's house in, 17. St. Swithin's, 33 (2), 41, 58, 119. St. Thomas upon the Bridge, ctiaiitiy in, 26, 27, 32. Lincoln, city of — cont. stainers in, charter of 54. staple at, 6, 31, 49, 72, 263. statute merchant, bonds of, 87. stodis, 29, 42, 48, 51, 104, 106, 109. strangers and foreigners in, 61, 71, 95, 98, 99, 111. Sunday schools established in, 119. sundial at. 111. supplication from to the King, 37. survey of to be made, 42. swans in, 28. swords of, 38, 42, 74, 93, 107, 113, 117, 120. swordbearer, 74, 76, lu8, 117, 120. Tailors, Company of, 47, 108. charter of, 52, 53, 108. ordinances of, 108. tanners, 30, 49. taxation of wages in, 55. thatchers, 60. tilers, masons, &c., charter of, 60. tipplers and tippling houses in, 47, 49, 56, 61, 83, 91, 99. tokens coined in, 105, 106. tolls at, 9, 49, .52, 56, 62, 77, 95, 96, 114,264. Town Clerk, 1, 13, 19, 30, 40, 66, 68, 70, 71, 72, 75, 85, 87, 92, 94, 105, 106, 109, 110, 111, 113, 114, 116. Town Hall, 20, 97, 98, 116, 117. tradesmen's companies iu, 96. trading, unlicensed, 101, 116. trained bands, 110. Trinity church, 48. next the Black Friars, 34, 45. at the Gresefoot, 30, 33 (2), 34. at the Grey Friars, 33, 34. vagabonds iu, 29 (2), 31, 40, 64, 91. venison feast at, 69. on the verge of destruction, 5. victuallers iu, 51, 56, 61, 77, 81, 84, 263. victuals, pricing of, 77. visitation of by pestilence, 103. royal visits to, 20, 35, 36, 37, 80, 91- 95, 112-114. waits, 20, 31, 38, 46, 47, 48, 52, 53, 58, 73, 75, 86, 91, 102, 110, 11.3, 116, 117, 118, 120. walls and bailey of, 8, 12, 15, 18, 60, 62. Warden of, 15. wards of, 32, 40, 53. watch in, 28, 118. watercourse and w;it( r l. writ of Qui) Wurrinito a!::iiin>t, '21, 1 ().">. writs for colloi'ting nionov for ivliof of, 103. Lincoln, citv of, places, iS;c., in or near ; l?ii<;crholmwonl, 79. liracehridge bridge, 94. Branncegate, 12. Brodgaite in, .51. Butter Cross. 44, Gfi. Butstone, 16. Calcroft, 15. " Chequj re in the Myres," 56. Chiviot -wall, 16. Clasgate gate, Claskytgate, 31, 54. Clasgate prison, 57. St. Bumbold's withont, 31. Close, the, 52, 54, 64. " Cross of the Cliff," the, 62, 93, 95, 113. Cross upon the hill, 35. Daustall lock, SO. Down town lock, 114. Eastgate, 28, 73, 84. the Old George in, 27. Eastbargate, 54. tower at, 60. East Ward, the, 85. Fo.ss-Uyke, the, 111, 117, 119. collection for cleansing, 26. repair and scouring of, 97, 99, 100. Freemen's Hall in, 57. Fynkelstrete, 16. " Gawte " bridge the, 28. Gottes, the, St. Michael's at, 33 (.3). St. Peter's at, 33, 34. Great Barr Gate, 113, 118. Grenepasture, 16. Gresefoot, Trinity Church at the, 30, 33 (2), 34. " Greeseing " stairs, 115. Gressington house, 41. Gretewelle, 16. Gretewellegate, 16. " Greysse " (z.e. steps), 46. Hempgarth, le, 15. High Bridge, the, 26, 27, 32, 46, 80, 83, 85, 114. chantry over, 38. chantry priest of, 35, chapel upon, 26, 27, 36, 42, 44, 46, 51, 53. High Sireet, 60, 93, 113, 114, 118. Lincoln, city of, places, &e. — rout. Holmes, the, ground called, 88, 90, 91. Inland, 16. Little Goat bridges, 112. ' Mall, the, 31. Mary Hull, 79. Minster Yard, 110, 112, 113. Monk's Ijcas, 16, 73. le Monk's stone, 16. " Myres, the," 26. Newlandgate, 8, 54. Newport in, 73, 11 1. ( )ldebagerholniegate, 16. Plea, the, St. Peter's at, 38, 42. Pottergatc head, 93, 1 19. Pulter Hill, 51. " Quenes Crosse," the, 63, 99. " Sarzin's Head," the, 17. Saxilby bridge, 109. St. Cu'thbert's parish, cross in, 66. St. Mary's Bridge, 118. Seynthughcroft, 15. Seyntjohneswong, 16. Snykedyke wall, 16. Soper Lane in, 8. South ward of 95. Southgate Bridge, 57. Sparrow lane, 1 6. Spread Eagle, the, 94. le Stamp, a stone wall called, 16. Stamp cause, causeway called, 16. " Staubow" in, 31, 33. Stonebow, 54, 68, 110, 118. the George by, 94. Stiibcross, stone cross called, 16. Styntes, 15. Vineyard, the, ground so called, 52. Walkergate, 8. Wayermylne, windmill called, 16. Westbargate, 54, 60. Westgate bridge, 61. Westtowerby water of Bray ford in, 57. Wythom, water of, 16. Lincoln: Benedict of, exile of, 11. '■ Agni or Agnu, daughter of, 11. Hagin son of, 11. Earl of (1514), 25. (1572), 66. family of, 66. Henry Lacy (1311), 14. John de, 9. Knitter of, the, 17. Lincoln: archdeacon of, 60, 62. bishop of, 2, 9, 13,18, 20, 26, 32, 41, 42, 47, 48 (2), 55, 63, 70, 71, 72 (2), 78 (2), 81, 82, 86. 93, 94, 100, 10.5, 110, 114, 213, 259: caid see Smal- broke, Richard ; Grosteste ; Long- land ; Barlow, Wm. ; Fuller, Wm. palace of, 37, 94. J. bishop of, 7, 30. Robert, bishop of, charter of, 159. Cathedral church of St. Mary, 5, 8, 10, 18, 20, 21, 23, 32, 54, 106, 221, 226, 264, 27), 274, 275, 278. 325 Liucolu — cont. Cathedral Church of St. IMarv, Chanter of, 30 (2) 52. Chapter hou^ic, 93. Close, 18, 19, 25, 48. fee farm rent piiid to hv the city, •38 (2), 39, 42. lectures at, 102. records of, 44. chancellor of, 30, 31. deau of, 28, 66, 67, 70, 71, 93, 105, 219, 220; and see Pope, John; George, Wm. and chapter, 8 (2), 10, 13, 18, 22, 23, 27, 31, 37,42, 56, 66, 68 (2), 73, 89, 91, 95, 104, 111, 114, 116, 221. library of, called Gi-eat St. Mary's, 104. diocese of, 193. commission to curates in, 26. prebendaries of, 07, 93. precentor, 22, 45. Lincoln College, Oxford, 75. Lincoln county, 2, 5, 47, 85, 88, 90, 100, 263, 26*5, 271. assessments in, 100, 101. clerk of, 70. escheator of, 10, 11. feodary of Duchv of Lancaster in, 270. justices of assize in, 17. Justiciars of, 8. Itinerant, 9. writ to, 6. Lord Lieutenant of, 52, 93, 104. merchants of, 2. murders in, 244. ports of, 7. sheriffs of, 5, 8, 1 1, 22, 28, 29, 1Q, 93, 94, 100, 101, !14; and see New- market, Thomas de ; Koyvyle, Thomas; Long, William; lligdoyn, Henry; Skipwith, Sir '\Vm. ; Ays- cough, Sir Francis ; Thorold, Wm. ; Nowell, And. letler to, 249. staple for, 49, 263. timber, coal, &c., in almost cord, 157, Litster, .John, 288. Littlebury, Martin de, Justice in Eyre, 47 Henry IIL, 9. Littlehalcs, Mr., 180. Littleton, Lytylton, Sir Thoni;is, 175. Litton, 228. Liveremere, William de, prior of St. Peter's hospital, Bury, 156. LlandafF, bishop of, 166. Lloyd, Walter, 284. Lockyugtou, — , 85. Loddingtou, Mr., 109. Lodenage or lowage, 261. Lodyugtone, Peter de, 8. Logor, Robert, 231. Lomb, Lombe : Henry, 179. John, 133. John, 129 (2). London, 6, 13,22, 29,30,32,33,34,35,36, 39, 50 (2), 51 (2), 62, 66, 74, 75, 78,80,95, 101,106,109,111,112, 114,124, 125, 129, 141,145,146, 160, 174, 195. 233, 252,254,257, 260, 263, 286. letters and documents dated at, 35, 72, 73, 190, 196, 222, 233, 251, 254, 268. Benedict of, 12. bishops of (1409), 10, 219. W. (1378), 9. William. 3. Wyne, 213. bushel, the, 271. Cathedral church, jurisdiction, itc, of, 221,225. citizens of, 3, 4. drawing of a lottery in, 63. Flora of, Jewess of Lincoln, 12. Greek church built in, 107. houses at Newgate in, 216. " Powles " Churchyard, 56. Queen's Head in, 62. St. Hride'.s, Fleet Street, 24 L St. Katberine's in, 64. prior of, 66. ■ Salomon of, 12. Tower of, 201. docunu'nt dated at, 19 I. under sheriffs of, 65. Long : William, sheriff of Lincoln, 22. Longehami), William, liisliop of \')\\, Chancellor, 218. Longes]>ee, William de, earl of Siilisliury, 228. Longespeye, NN'iiliam, 208. Longge, Henry, 133. Longmore, Mr. Charles Klton, town clerk of Hertford, 158. Lonsd;ile, Kev. Catuni, 205, 236. Lord : ClKunberluiii, the, 92, 91. Cbancellor, the, .'12 (1555), 48, 49, .50 (1586). 71, 173. Chief Baron (167n, 162. Keeper, ihe. 50 ( 16.35), 160. I'ri.leclor, the ( 1547). 41. :i2(i Lord Will's iiiauor, :.>G1. Lonlo, Koboit. '2A0, 274. Lonls and Commons, order by, 188. lu'iuonstraiicos and l>ectarations of, 202 (,2). Lord's Prayer, the, 18. Snpper, the. 146. Lordynf^ : Ivobert. 2JS ^2\ Marjory his wife. 'JTiS (2'>. Loscmer. Sir .lohn. 32. Ltistwithiel, (>. Louaine, Matthew de, 6. Louel : John, 231. Riehard, parson of Fladhury, 191. liOiiis, Kinor of France, 173. Lonisburgh, rednction of (17.JS), 117. Lonth, 17, 241, 260, 281. Lovell, Sir Thomas, knt.. 31 (2). Luard, Dr., 211. 212. Lubeck, 255. Lucana civitas, 178. Lucas, Walter, 131. Lucca, 231. Luceb}', William de, archdeacon of Derby, 229. Luci, Lucy : Godfrey de, bishop of Winchester, 194. grant by, 194. John de, 194. deed of sale by, 194. Philip de, 194. Kichard de, 2, 5, 222. Robert de, 192, 194. Sir William, chaplain, 257, 258. Lucius II., 219. confirmations by, 222 (2). Lnddinffton, Lodington, Mr. Thomas, 75, 76, 78, 79. Lude (?), John, letter of, 253. Luggor, Robert de, 213. Luke, John son of, 156. Lunetot, Sir John de, 220, Lusbie, William, 260. Lusom, Thomas, 280. Lnther, Martin, 183. Lye, friar Walter, 199. Lyen alias Furbether, William, 258. Lylburn, William, 241. Lynch, John, 199. Lyndesey, John, 181. Lynford, Mr. Thomas, l49, 150. Lyng, Mr, William, 147. Lyon, Samuel, town clerk of J^incoln (1785), 19. Lyons, documents dated at, 219 (2), 221 (6J, 232. Lystere, Roger, 132. I/ytton, Henry de, 225. Lyttyll, John, will of, 274. M. Mace, John, 1.33. Macray. Mr. \Villiani D., Reports by, 1- l.'i8.' Mad.lcr, 14. Madison, Tiiomas, mayor of Grimsby, 280, 290. Afadox, 243. Magdalen : College, Oxford, 1S6. Hall, Oxford, 72. .Magna Carta, 217. Maidstone, 207. Mailnynge, Andrew, 278, 279. Makeworthe, John, dean of Ijincoln, 21. Malberthorp, Robert de, 8 (2). ISIalfalgnirat, or ]Malfalgaerat : Mr. Ueujamiu, 154. Misael Rcmon, 154. Malmesbury : monastery of, 182, 183. Thomas abbot of, 182 (2). chapter house of, 182, 183. William of, 212. Malmsey, 157. Malsters, number of, to be repressed, S2. Malton, Mr., vicar of Belton, 76. Malyern : Great, prior and couyent of, 161. prior and monks of, 193. Hill, 200, Malvern, John, prior of Worcester, 176, 177, Mamecestr', 220. Man, John, 84. Manby : Robert, 261. Walter, 289. Manchester, William, dean of Lichfield. 228, 229. Mandamus, writ of, 114. MaiAden, William, 257. Mandeville, Geoffrey de, 223. Manecester, William de, 220. IManfeld, ^Manfeldc, alias Grethed, Richard, 258, 267. Richard, mayor of Grimsby, 266, 289 (2). Maoistey, Mr., 161. Manners, Francis, Earl of Rutland, 95. Manning, John, 51. Manumission, deed of, 269. Mapiltone : .John, 10. Thomas, the King's mason, 125. :Mara, the Spirit, 13. Mare ', Osb ', 217. IMarcand, William, 257. Marcse', William, p]arl of Pembroke, 228. Marflete, Thomas, mariner, 258. Margaret : Queen, assignment of dower to, 158. of Anjon, Queen of Henry VI., 179. 327 Margesson : Robert, parish pnc!. W., Earl of Pembroke, 218. W., Earl Marshal and Earl of Pem- broke, 194. AVm., 201. Marsshe, Thomas, 63. IMarston, Nathaniel, clerk, 203. Martel, William, 222, 223. Martin IV., mandates of, 219 (3), 220 (2), 221 (2). Martin : Hugh, 228. Robert, 127. Mary, Queen of England, 47 (3), .50, 138, 139. attorney of, 47, 48, 49. grant by, 1.58. letter of, 255. Mary, Queen, wife of William III., pro- claimed, 112. death of, 112. Mason, Agnes, 269. Bartholomew, 189. John, " shipman," 269. will of, 269. Katherine, 240. Martin, 16, 52. Michael, 273. Michael, 289 Ci). Mr. Aldermin, 82. Mr., 76. Peter, 283.. I'eter, mayor of (IriniRby, 273, 275, 289 (4). Robert, mayor of fiincoln, 92. Stcplien, 17. Stephen, 84. )Stephen, town ch'rk, itc, of Lincoln, 87 (2). Massbook (Mesbuke), the. 2 11. Mather, .Mr., 81. Miitiii'we, .John, Mi). Maltilda, Richard son of, chaplaiuj 227. Matin (?), John, 194. Matthew, canon of Lichfield, grants to, 227 (3). Mauger, Master, bishop elect of Worcester, 193, 194. ^laundavyle, Robert, 259. Maunday Thursday, 43, 123. Mautravers, .John, steward of the House- hold, 9. Mawyn, Elizabeth, 273. May : Hon. Baptist, 285. Charles, 285. Mrs. Jane, 285. Maydenstone, Walter, bishop of Worcester, 169. Mayson : Martin, mayor of Lincoln, 68. William, 67 (2). Mechlyns, 245. Medehamsteyde, 213. Medici, Giuglio dei, bishop of Worcester, (afterwards Clement VII.), 2(H. Meidestan,' Ralph de, archdeacon of Salop, 228. Melbourne, Lord, letter, of 163. Melburne, Thomas, 6. Melford, 129 (2). Mellis, Peter de, lent., 127. Memoranda Rolls of the Excheiiuer, the. 11,22,23. Meniir, Hugh de, 215. Merchants: alien, trade regulations for, 6, 7, foreign, 7. statute of, 13. Mercia, 212. Mercury, 13. Meres : Lawrence, recorder of Lincoln, 276. Sir Thomas, 110. letter of, 109. Meriton : Mr. Henry, 146, 147. appointed minisfei- of St. -James's, Bury, 146. dismissed by direction of Charles II., 146, 147. Merston', R., 98. Merton, prior of, 219. Merton C;ollege, Oxford, 186. Mcskenning, 3, 4. Mcsloii, .Joiin, 159. Mctcalf, — , inventory of his furniture, 17. Abraham, ma^nr of I^incoln, 75, 70. Metham, William, cs.i., 260. Methewold, William, 132, Mculan, Meiiland : R., bishop of Lichfield, 217. l{()ger de, b'sliop of ('ovcntry and Licbficld, 195, 218, 223. grant to, 223. death of, 223. M<'iilcve juvtii Eoulhriic, I !' I ]\I.usli-nt^ Robert, Karl i.f, 2."tii. Mfwiing', Rog.T de, 2(18. ;i2^ M< \ John. i;iseiuleii, Myssyndeii: docuiuent dated at, 173. Anthony, recorder of Lincoln, 35. Ascat, canon of, 168. .lohn, abbot of, 168. John, 242. Master, 271. Moigue : Henry, 267. Thonias, 206, 267. deed of, 267. Melton, Mr., 81. Mou. Germ. Hist., 219. Monetarii, 4, 6. Monk, Robert, canon of Exeter, 168. Monson : Charle.s, esq,, recorder of Lincoln, 1 17. Sir Henry, 110. Sir John, .>. Alhoard. hishoj. of, 21:?. Inshop of (1114), 10. Til., bisliop of, .J. i-athoilral, 232. legacy to, 143. prior of, 178. prior and chapter of, maiulate to, 231. ll>Iorwi>, Simon ury, 130. Oriel College, Oxford, 186. Ormesby monastery, 273. Thomas, prior of, 273. Orvieto, docunicnts dated at, 195, 219 (3). 220 (2). Osbaldeston, John, M.A., 112 (2). Osbert, Hugh son of, charter of, 192. Osebern, John, 131, 132. Osnev, 207. abbot of, 181. 193. Edward, abtot of, 168. canons of, 168. Harding, prior of, 168. monastery of, 217. Ostend, 116. Ostia, Cardinal Angelo of, bishop, 175. Otho, Cardinal, constitutions of, 171, — Oto, papal legate (1238), 207. ^-- Ottoboni, cardinal deacon of St. Adrian and papal legate,t95. Outlawry, writ of, 84. Outlaws, goods of, 83. Overbarrow, 191. Overbury, 191. church of, 168, 177. Overton : .lohu, 131. William, bishop of Lichfield, 226. Overton Quatermars, 215. Oxenbridge, Viscount, 1. O.xford, 68, 72, 130, 168, 179, 181, 1S2, 183, 18.5, 186, 203, 209. documents dated at, 132, 133, 167, 203 (5), 223. Christ Church, 201. " City of," by Anthony Wood, 1 82. Gloucester College at, 182. Ladj' Margaret's professor of divinity at, 186. Parliament at (1681), 149, 254. R., archdeacon of, 168. St. Frideswide in, prior of, 193. scholars at, 125. Stockwelsti-ete in, 1»2 (2.) "Tewkesbury-, edificium de," 182. University, 200, 201 (2), 202 (2). printer of, 202. registers of, 68, 75, 88, 158. " Wynchelcombie camera," 182. " Oxon. raagistri," 123. " Oxon. scolares," 124, 125. " Oxonie clerici," 207. Oysters, sale of; 36. P. Page, Thomas, 133. Paget, Sir William, 200. Pakington, Little, 191. Pale^trina, Anthony bishop of, 176, 178. Palfrey man, William, 129. Palmer. Stephen, 241. mi Tauculf, Roger, 220. Papal Registers, Calendar of Entries iu relating to Great Britain, 214. Paradise food, 157. Parham, 69, Paris, :Matthew, 222. Parke, Sir .lames, kut., 286. Parker, William, 98. Parkyus, Richard, 71, 72. Parliament, the, 11 (2), 13, 22, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 (3), 38, 47 (o), 49 (3), r)0, 64, 65, 74, 76, 107, 131, 151, 200, 201 (6), 202 (5), 216, 236, 238, 250, 251, 252, 254 (5), 255 (4), 283. petitions to, 119, 162. petition to the King in, 5. Acts of, 12, 37, 50 (2), 65, 68, 72, 75, 115. Act of, concerning the si.x; articles, 183. for payment of members, 149. Bills iu, 118, 119. burgesses in, payment of, 25. the Conventiou, 152. election of members of, 41. knights sent to, 277. ordinance of, 283. at Oxford (1681), 149. Return of members of, 283. subsidy granted by, 37, 39. Parliamentary elections, writs and inden- tures for, 143. Parmenter : John, 133. Robert, 133. Parry, Henry, bishop of Worcester, 184. Parsonsou, .John, 266. Partryche, Peter, chancellor of Lincoln, 21." Pastone, .John de, 156. Pateneye, Master Plxilip de, 234. Patent Rolls, 5, 239. raternoster play, the, 29. Pates : Richard, bishop of Worcester, 204. Richard, professor of common law, 193. Pateshclla, Martin de, canon of London, 223. Patcshull, Hugh, bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 220, 223. I'aton, Mr., 260. Pawlct, William, lord St. .John, 200. Payton, ( 'liristophcr, 260. Pcada, abbot of Peterborough, 213. Pcche, Richard, bishop of Lichfield, 223, Pechesleye, 191. Peckhani,.John, archbishop of Canterbury, 197. ordinance of, 230. seal of, 2.30. Pe. ~'t;>i. ivii'vo, Uo)«'it. r-'."). J'oltou, Tlumm-, l>i>lu>p of Woivi-stir, UKi. VoMv AiuU>iii!ir', Menn do, 19 1. I'odIo. Mr. KoKiiii'ia L.. Hi-ports by. lOJ- •236. I'ope : .lohn. 12. Mr. .lohn. fluuioellor of Lincoln, 44. Thomas, 130. , archdeacon of Lincoln, 48. I'opery, 140. rophiun. Sir .lohn, 2.")6. Popple : E.lward, 2ttO. William, son of Edward, 2'.ll (,2). Portmort : Christopher, 200. (jcorjie, mayor of Grnnsby, 259, 2G0, 290. Thomas, 289. Portuual. 244. Posts to be provided for King's and Coun- cil's letters, 35. Poter, Ralph, 227. Poterna, .Tames de, 194. Potthast, 214, 219, 221. " Powes," Lady, 29. Powle, alias Pmvley, — , license to, 67. Powlett, Lord William, 257. Powuall : Governor, 118. Lieutenant Col., 112, 113. Prateir : Engelr' de, 228. Engeram de, 230. John de. 228. Prattinton, Peter, M.D., 191, 204. Preez, Salop, 218 (2). Prestey, Gilbert A, 288. Preston, John de, 127. Pretender, the, invasion by, (1745), 117. rebellion in favour of, 154. Price : Matthew, 183. — , chancellor of Worcester, 176, 180, 205. Prideaux, John, Vice-chancellor of Oxford and bishop of Worcester, 204. letters to, 2(iO-3. sent for to Parliament, 2M3. Prika. Koliert de, 215. Primage or stowage, 261. Privy Council, the, 13, 29, 33, 35, 46. 50, 61, 62, 03, 70. 101, 104, 248, 253, 264, 265. letters of, 41, G6, 70 (3), 83, 112, 142 (2), 143, 162, 2.J6. petition to, 141. bill supplicatory to, 71. orders of, 142, 151, 152. Privy Seal, the, 24, 50. keepers of, 9, 10. pardon of a tax under, 63. Privy seals, 33. Proclamations, 40, 41, 42, 44. for suppressing seditious books, 282. Procter : Mr., 283. .Samuel, 290, 291. Prophete, Master John, keeper of the Privy Seal ( 1409, cSic), 10 (2). Protestant religion, the, 1 1". sueeessioii, tiie, 1 I 5. Prowet, .Vlexander, precentor of Lincoln, 22. Pryme, Richard, mayor and alderman of Bury, 151. Psalter, 122. Puclesdou, 191. Pulton's Statutes al L(ir<)c, 107. I'ye : Hugh, freemason, 61, 66. John, mariner, bond of, 258. Robert, 288 (3), 289. Sir Thomas. 159. ]*ycate, Christopher, 250. Pydelc, 191. Pykke, Sir John, 28. Pyrie. Giles atte, 130, 132. Pyshale : Robert, 258. Walter, 258. Pyte, Hugh, 230. Q. Quakers, the, 1 90. Quebec, reduction of (1759), 117. Queen's Bench, the, 6G. (iuceu's College, Oxford, 107. Querns, 46. Quo Wdrranto, writs of, 14, 47, 03, 105. R. Rabaj-ne, Elias de, 6. Ruby Castle, document dated at, 252. Raciiton, Robert, 276. Rada, the Spirit, 13. Radestoke, 234. Radferm, Mr., 76. Radnourc, Peter de, 229. " Raiges, the city of," 58. Raleg., Ralph de, 5. Ralph : John, son of, 156 (2). Ralph, son of, 228. Rampton, William, 266. Randby, 240. Raustone, Dr., 25. Rasen, John de, 288. Ratheby, John, mayor of Lincoln, petition of, 11. Ravysby, Hugh, 133. Ray, Mr., of Waifield, 144. Reading, 221. document dated at, 195. 333 lieading, William, esq., 261. Recognizances of debts, IS. Record Office, the, 1, 14. Records, the Public, 8. Recusants, 143. Reddhall, 113. Redgrave, 143. Reformation, the, 1. Reg', Earl, 8. Regges, John, 1.32. Reginald, Earl, 2. Religious houses, dissolutiou of, 65. Remoustrauces and Declarations of Par- liament, 202 (2). Requests, Masters of, C4. Reredos, 129. Rery, John, 13 1 . Reveriis, Itichard de, 22S. Rewley, abbot of, 193. Reyner, Rayner : Agnes, grant by, 257. Anora, 257. Edmund, clerk, grant to, 257. :Mr. Edward, 98, 101, 102 (2), 104, 107. John, son of, 107. Gilbert, 288. .lohn, 272, 288. Peter, 257. William, 257, 272. Reynolds, Walter, archbishop of Canter- bury, 197, 213. letter "to, 223. confirmation by, 192. Riby : Henry de, 288 (2). John de, 288. Rich, Mr., 50. Richard I., King of England, 24 (2), 193. charters of, 2, 106, 132, 222. writs, &c., of, 218 (2), 220. Richard II., 2, 5, 18, 53, 120, 157, 159, 262. letters patent of, 14, 131, 198. charters of, 2, 9 (2), 10 (2), 132 (2). 1.33 (2), 238. council of, 131. pardon from, 130, 131. parliament of, 131. uncles of, 9. writs of, 131 (3). Richard III., 159. petition to, 263. charters of, 11, 14. Richardson : John, 205. Thomas, 25<;. Thomas, sergeant at I'lw, recorder of Rury, 142. Richmond : letter dated from, 7". honor of, 9. , men of, 9. Ricrolf, Mr., 92. Ridel, Stephen, 228, 230. Rieti, document dated at, 169. Ripon, document dated at, 246. Risebrege hundred, 12H. Risfurthe, Thomas, 281. Rither, William. 11. Rivers, Lady, bequest of, 145. Robert, Geoffrc}' sou of, alderman of Bury, 156. Robertes : INFargarct, 281. Robert, 280. Robin Hood balhid, 67, " RobynSj lame," 70. Robyusou, John, clerk, 52. [Roch ?], Richard, letter to, 253. Rochester, document dated at, 222. Roekadine : Edward, 78. ■ Edward, son of, 78. Roderhnm, Jolm, 10. Rodthorne, John, 72. Roes, Peter, 280. Roger son of Robert, bishop of W'orces- ter, 167, 192. Rokelande, William de, 195. Rolt, Rev. .Mr., 117. Romans, King of, 245, 246. Rome : doeumeiits dated at, 169 (3). bis]u)p of, 179. cluirch ol', 117. St. Peter's, documents dated at. 19'.', 219. Rome, Master Thomas, 258. IkOoe, Robert, 266. Roopcr, Lady, bequest by, 74. Koos or Ros : Reatrice de, 5. John, Lord, 106. Lord, 31 (5), 32. Thomas de, late Lord of Hanii-lok, 6.] Rose : Roger, alderman of I'urv, 131. William, 260, 290. Ross : Mr. John, 1. private collections for liincoln, 1. William. 241. Ross's (Jifilas l^iiKulniii, 1 I, 20. Rosseter, Colonel Edward, 28.3. Rossiter : Mr. 18. Richard, esq., 261. Rotherham : Dame Alice, Utter of, 251. Thomas, bishop ol Lincoln, Clian- cellor, 251 . William, iildcnnan of l.iiicohi :ind J. P., 4 7, 5(1, 51. commitfeil for contcm|pt, 5(1. disfrancliisement of, 5(i. niMMilled, 50, Roueii, archbishop of, 216. Uoughiim, Richard, 131, 132. Ronton, prior and convent of, 220. liowccstrc, Willi.'im de, 209. liowgham, Kdward, 125. Wowhiim, Edward, B.l)., 15H. Roycc, Rev. ])., 212. Royse, William, 290. 384 Koy>to«, ;<5. doiimiciit datid at. liOO. Kiiililhiii, tlofumoiit tluti'd at, L'.td. Kiulhall, Mr., of Gloiicosfer, '_'(). UutTv. Simon son of lv:ili>li, irnint by, 230. Knirgt'l' : " Vbmvh of, 216. manor, 'J 18. Unirhiini, William ile, 130. Kumui'V or Rhumney, Oswald, clerk, 103, lot." Kupibus, IVler .de. bishop of Winchester, 194. Ivushworth, Mr., 70. Russel : John, Lord, 200. William, 288 (2). Knsleng, Kalph, canon of Liclifiekl, 228. Uutland: Earl of (1542, &c.) 37, 41, 43, 47 (2), 48 (3), 49 (2), 51 (2), 52, C6, (1017)93, (1G35) 100. rent from city of Lincoln to, 47, 48,49, 51. secretary of. See Ferrour, Robert. Edward, Earl of (1585), 17. Francis Manners, Earl of (1G18), 95. Henry, Earl of (1558), 16. Thomas, Earl of (1.536), 16. Ryby : John de, mayor of Grimsby, 257. Thomas, chaplain, 11. Rycroft, Mr. William, 100. Rye House plot, the, 109, 150. Rymer's Foedera, 220. Rys, William, 129. Rysbie manor, 138. Sacrament, the, 26. Saddell silver, 170, 178, 181. Sagium, document dated at, 194. Sagreve, Stephen de, 207. St. Albans : assizes removed to, 1 62. Earl of (1664), 149. letters from, 145 (2). St. Alphege, martyrdom of, 212. St. Asaph, bishop of, 221. St. Augustine, 173. St. Benedict, constitutions of the order of, 171-173. St. Briavel, 191. St. Catherine's, Lincoln, 92, 93, 94. St. Chad : abbot of St. Mary in Listingav, 213. bishop of Lichfield, 213. made archbishop of York, 213. St. Chrysogonus, Conrad of, 176. St. Clement, guild of bakers in honour of, 31. St. David's : A. bishop of (1378), Chancellor, 9. diocese of, 197. St. Edmunds [Bury], sec Miiry St. Edmunds. St. iMve, Cornwall, 76. St. Helens, church of, 191. St. James, 59. St. .loiin, 58. St. John of Jerusalem iu England, Hospi tal of, 267. St. John's near Worcester, 200. St. John's College, Cambridge, letter dated from, 148. St. Katharine's " Montis Sinaii," monk? of, 157. St. Kcnelm, murder of 212. St. Luke, 58. St. Martin in montibus, Jordan of, 176. St. Martin's in the Fields, Middlesex, 18. St. Nicholas, bishop of, 124, 125, 157., St. Paul's Cathedral, prebend of St. Pan- eras in, 168. St. Poll or Poole : George, letter of, 254. Sir George, knt., 262, 282. Thomas, esq., 240. St. Sabina, GuidC' bishop of, j)apal legate, / letter of, 173. Saio, Hugh de, 192. Salamon, J., 233. Saleford, John de, 234. Saleman, Thomas sou of, 150. Salisbury : Cathedral, jurisdiction, &c., of, 221, 225. dean of, 219. John of, treasurer of Exeter, 168. Salle, Geoffrey, 132. Sallow, Derby, 218. Salomondesford, Clement de, almoner of St. Edmund's, 156. Salop, Roger archdeacon of, 227. Salter, Hugh le, 288. Salwarpe, 200. Salwey : Humfrey, 175. John, 179. Sammer, — , .LP. for Lincoln, 27. Sammes : Master, 26. William, 32 (2), 33, 34. Samos, Joseph archbishop of, 107. Sancta Eremiua, William de, 6. Sancto Botulfo, Henry de, 228. Sancto Johanne, John de, 7. Sanctuaries authorised, list of, 183. Sandall, John, 260. Sandel'i;, Fulk, 205. Sanderson, Dr., chaplain to Charles I,, 201. Sandes, Edwin, bishop of Worcester, 204. Sandwich, Lord, 190. Saniehop, 259 Sapcote, Henry, esq., 68. Sarum C^harters, 223. Saul, Serjeant, 20. 335 Saundersou : Kobert, esq., 260. Sir Thomas, K.B., 116. Savoy, Peter of, 9 (2). Saxham, Richard de, 130. Saxilby, 18. Saxsey, Thomas, olerk, 139. Saynton, John, recorder of Grimsby, 2")8. letter of, 251. Scales, William, mavor of Grimsby, 260, 290 (3). Scamblesbj", 240. Scarborough, 276. Scartho, 241, 2.58, 261, 275. church, 238. Schardebroc, Benedict de, loG. Schenkl, Dr. H., 170. Schenstan church, 217. Schirnak, 191. Schoppholm, Master, 275. Scobell's Acts, 107. Scofield, Thomas, 261. Scot and lot, 1 1 . Scotate, 3, 4. Scotch army, the, 188. merchants, letters of protection for, 278. Scotland, 52, 176, 278, 279. episcopal clergy in, 114. King of, 231. ' Union of with England, 114, 153. Scots, the, 218. Scottericke, Mr. George, 102, 103. Sfiotipwyke, G. Scrippe, Kobert, 194. Scrivelsby, 241. Scrope, Kichard le, steward of the House- hold (1378), 9. Scaccarium, 3, 4. Senile, Sir Walter, 175. Scupholme : Anne, widow, 103. Henry, 101, 103. See, Sea : Alexander de le, 241, 289. Bernard de le, 274, 289 (3). Harry de le, 241. John de, 258. John del, 267. Judith, 283. Patrick del, 267. Peter atte, 288. Peter de, 258, 289. Piers de le, 2J 1 . Kichard atte, 288. Stephen, 258. Stephen del, 241, 267, 269. Stephen de la, 271, 289 (2). Thomas, 282, 290. Seelc or Sele, John, M.A., 72. Segrave, .John de, 7. Selford, Kern' prior of, 168. Semar, Simon, 275. Semprinham, Kalph de, ileun of Liclilidd, 212, 228. Senowe, Thomas, !3;{. Servall, Agnes, 140. Sextens (ilins Westley, manor, 138. Seymour, Edward, Duke of Somerset, 200. Seyntpole, Seyntpoll, George, recorder of Lincoln, 38, 39, 41, 49. release b}-, 38. Mr., 280. Shairley, John. See Sherley. Shakespeare, Shagspcre, William : marriage license of, 205. " Outlines of life of," 205. Sharpe : Mr. Jasper, 145. Richard, lease to, 109. Shaw, Sliawe : :Mr., 161 (2). Mr. Hugh, 107. Sheen, document dated at, 245, 279. Shefeld, John, 273. Sheffield : Lord, 79, 81, 82. Robert, 258, 262. Shelton, Rev. Mr., 117. Sheppej-, P]astchurch in, 197. Sheritfe, Sheryff : Elizabeth, 278. John, 241. John, mayor of Grimsby, 258, 260 (2), 289 (2). John, 278. will of, 278. Katherine, 278. Robert, 278, 289. Wilham, 278. Sheriff's indentures and writs for Parlia- mentary elections, 143. Sherley, John, mayor of Hertford, letters of, 161 (2). Sherrard, Bennett Lord, lt)6. Shipmoney, 101 (2), 164. Shipston on Stour, 191. grant of a market and fair at, 169. Shirref, John, 266. Shoteby, Hugh de, canon of Liehtield, 214. Shrewsbury, 6. Shrojicshire, William de, of Waltham, chaplain, grant to, 272. Shuttleworth : Ednumd, 7.5, 85, 87 (2), 89, 90. — , Warden of New College, Oxford, 186. Sidbury, 189. Signi, document dated at, 219. Silvester, Mr., 71. ap])ointeil vicar of Belton, 71. Silveston, document dated at, 132. Simon: Jordan son of, 227. , mason of Bury .St. Eihnunds abbey 129. Simoiiis, Tliiirstan til', 2l8. Simson, William, 290. Sitnacestr', Edulf bi.shop of, 213. Skailes, William, 2')6. Skarlett, John, 279. Skellingthurpe, IH, 111, 112. Skelton, .Mr., 282. Skeniielby, Jolin, 266. Skerne, Mr. Kobert, 253. Skiinirr, Willinm, of Thornton, 279. 336 Skipwith, Skipwvlh : Kdwanl. isi|., 'iW. Mr. Kihvnnl. '280. Mr. (icor-^o, 2')4. Sir Williuin, letter of. '2itA. Williiiiii. letter of, '250. Skirhecke, Tlioiims, '288. Skvrhek, W'illinin de, '2.S7. Skvtt', lleiin. -jn. Slater, Mr. .Snimicl, U4 ('J^. Slave trade, petition against, 11 '.t. Sleaford, Jl"), 104. Slownt, Robert, 277. Sliithebv, Walter de, 2SH. Smalbroke, Hichard, ItiMliop of Lincoln, license and letter from, 19. Smart, Wiiliani, .^S. Smith : Anthony, 1 12. .Tohii, of Ilnll, 270, 276. .John, son of Warin the, of Ifeppe- worth, 1,5 G. Mr. John, 76 (2). 77, 78 (2). suits by against Lincoln city, 78. Mr., 92. Richard, 85. Robert, 16. Robert, town clerk of Lincoln, 8.j. Smyth, Smythe : Anthony, 2G1. Mr, Edniund, 284. Francis, 283. John, 273. ^Master, 275. Nicholas, 245. Richard, 62. Mr. Richard, 89. Robert, 241,266. Sir Robert, parson of St. ^fary's, Grimsby, 271. Thomas, junr., 26u. senr., 266. Mr. Thomas, 283. William, chautrv priest of the Bridge, Lincoln, 31, .32, 35, 48. William, 266. William, clerk, 40. William, mavor of Lincoln, 39, 40. wife of, 39. William, pnest, 38. Snaylwell, John de, sacristan of St. Edmunds, 123. Snelland, 18. Snowden : Dorothy, 241. Robert, 241. Snytterton, Nicholas de, 128. Socrates, 13. Soldiers, levj-ing of, 29, 30. Solemn League and Covenant, the, 115. declaration against, 144, 286. Solicitor General, the (1671), 162. Somerby : Mr., 92. Richard, 85. Somers, Lord, 184. Sonierseules : Daniel, 290. Mr., 84. Somei.set : Charles, esq., 143. Kdward, Karl of Worcester (1616), 142. George, knt., 143. .lohn, Earl of (1409), 10. Sothcrby : .lohn, deputy recorder of Rury, 1,')2. Mr., recorder of ISur}', 147. rejiort b\', 146. Sotteby, Hugh de,"229. South,'Mr., town clerk of Lincoln, IOC. Soulhe, John, 281. Southwark, prior of, 2.'M. Southwold, Snft'olk, grant to, 250. S])ain, 244. war with, 1.j4. Sjialding, 115. monastery of, 42. Spaniards, the, 116. Spark e : A., letter of, 162. Robert, 133. Spechele, Geoffrey de, 194. Spechley, 191. Spencely, Martin, alderman of Hury, 152. Spencer : Michael, 261. William, 27. Spenser ; Michael, 290 (2). Thomas, 267. Sperman, Edmund, 280. Springe, William, sheriff of Suffolk, 143. Stafford : collegiate church of, 222 '2), 223. Hugh, Earl of (1378), 9. John, mayor of Bury, 151. Ralph, archdeacon of, 217. St. Mary's, dean and chapter of, 223. Staffordshire, 217. sheriff of, writs to, 215 (2), 219. unlawful assemblies in, 215. Stalingburgh, J. de, 288. Stallingbro', 277. Stamford, 35, 49, 241. music, the, 150. Stamford Mercury, the, 116. Stamp, Stampe : George, 47. George, alderman of Lincoln, 52. 63. William, 287. S>anford : document dated at, 8. Adam of, archdeacon of Chester, 229. William de, 2.30. Stanhope : Lady Dorothy, 106. Michael, letter of, 253. Stanlegh, document dated at, 233. Stanley : John, 26. John, steward of the Household (1409), 10. 337 Stanlowc : Joan, II Johu, 6. William, 11. Stantoiie, Thomas de, 15G. Staple, the, 49. . at Calais, 22. of wool, &e., provisious for, C, Star Chamber, the, 70, Court, 63. order of, 100. secondaries of, 63. Starkey, Dr. William, 145, 148. Stathuni, Nicholas, 11. Statute against hunting hares, 281. of apparel, 53. concerning oaths, 13 Car. II., 152. for finding surety for good behaviour, 25. merchant, rolls of bonds of, 87. of Westminster, the first, 21C. Statutes at Large, Pulton's, 107. Statutes : of Acton Uurnell and of merchants, 13. made at Westminster and Leicester, 3 & 4 Henry VI., 10. merchant, 72. seal of, 72, 74. printed, 288. of the Eealm, 217. Statius, manuscript of, 170. Staunford, A. de, 229. Staunton, co. Worcester, 183. Staunton, Hervey de, 235. Staus, James de, 228. Stavensbj : Alexander of, bishop of Lichfield, 218, 222, 225. letters to, 221, 226. confirmation l)y, 229. Kichard de, 229. Staynton, 273. John, r,-j. Staynton in le Hole, co. Lincoln, 27L Steevens, Thomas, 122. Stellion (?), — , 277. Stephanest', Ainbalbi de, 178. Stephani, W. fil', 218. Stephen, King of Kngland : charters of, 222, 223 (2). grant by, 217. Walter son of, 156. Stephens, Mr. Thomas, 145. Steplienson, Stevenson : rjrcgory, 97. Robert, letter to, 253. Steward, Mr., 161. Stewkley, William, 148, 14!(, 151. Stilton, 35. Htocton, Cecilia, 198, 199. Stoke-tioldingtoii, 61. Stoke I'rior : manor, court rolls, kc, of, 1K4. ni'tory, IHI. Stoke, .Mr.', 260. Stoke-;, Hir-hard, l.i'.i. f Stone : Henry, esq., 110. Henry, will of, IS, Mr. Henry, of Skelliugthorpe, 111. 112(2). , Sir John, vicar of Erith, 269. Stopis, John, 276. Storme, Ixichaid, 277. Walter, sou of, 277. Storr, William, 68, 72. Storye, Kobert, 281. Stourbridge, 191. Stowe, Eichard, precentor of Bury, 158. Stowghton, CO. Leic., 278. Stow's Chjonicle, 141. Sfoytt : John, clerk, vicar of Uanslapc, 48 (2). resignation of, 48. Strand, the, 194 (2). Stratford : college of, 183. Master John de, 192. monastry, document dated at, 247. Straw, Jack, riots under, 131. Stretford, friar John, 198. Stretton, Kobert, bishop of Lichfield, 235. Sturbridgc, 56. Sturmyn, lioger le, knt., 127. Stut, — , 240. Styward, Augustin, 122. Subpa'na, writ of, 48. Subsidy : Act of Parliament concerning, 264, 265. commissioners of, 51. raised from wool, 22. Subsidies, 37,39, 41. commissioners for, 39. letters to 39 (3). Succession, Act of, 33. Sudbury, 129. Suffolk, 23, 128. assizes for, 152, 153. Duchess of, 41,44. Duke of, her son, 41, 44. Duke of. Sec Brandon, insurrection in, 131. justices of assize for, 140. letters, &c., to, 142 (2). order of, 142. Lord Lieutenant of. Sre Howard, Tlieopliihis. sheriff of, 128. trained bauds in, 143. Suffolk House, letter dated from, 143. Surflet, Surlleft, co. Lincoln : articles demanded by inhabitants of, 43. church and piirsonage of, 11,42,46, 47, 49, 50. .--wanmark In-longing to, 41. rectory, |)arsonage and advowson of, 16, 112. vicarage of, 12, 43 (2). Surrey, K., archdeacon of, IGH. Sussev, moMi'v iiollcetcd in for relief of I.iiii'.iiii fit\ , iin 3.S8 Sm.lifTo : Ailum, -0(1. .John, -ir.O, 2f.l. Luko, 'Jf.o. SalaiiKUi. 260. Soliuiioii, 29(1 (4). Sntham, i-luirch of, 234. Sutton : Aiubroso, esij., 46. Ihtiiiiiioiul, 6. llanunoiid, 44. ll.iinmond, i^oiit., 283. .lolm. l.M. Sir Kalpli, priost of Ilanslapi', 49 (2). Mr. Uul.crt, M. Sir Kobtrt, '2(<7. Thomas, 154. William, 260. Suttons, the, of Lincoln, 44, 46. Swallow, Sv.alo we, 262, 2C6, 273. court rolls, fiC, of, 262. Swallow, Margaret, 272. Kobeit, 241, 272. Swalve, Thomas, William sou of, 228. Swau, Andrew, 278, 279. Swanlaud, Johu, 266. Swanmarks, 64. Swift, Mr., 89. Swinthorpe in Snellaud parish, 18. Swyniioppe, document dated at, 256. Sydenhalc, 191. Sykes, John, 112. Symkyuson, Thoma.'^, 241, 271. Symons, — , 186. Sympson alias Taverner, Alice, will of, 2.3. " Syon, liber domus Sancti Salvatoris de," 122. Svward, Richard, 133. Tachebroc, documeiit dated at, 229. Tachebroke, Warwick, 218. Tailbois : John, mayor of Lincoln, 27, 29. Master, 27. Mistress, 29, Sir IJobert, knt., 264. Tailor, Robert, walker, 273. Takhill, Robert, 266. Tapeuhal', 171. Tarrat, Mr. Edward, 2.'j6. Tarry (?), Johu, 266. Tatam, — , widow, 261. Tatersall Castle, letter dated at, 2.^6. Tatintone, Peter de, 7. Tattesliall chantry, 43. Taverner, alius Svmpson, Alice, will of, 23. David, 288. Teale, — , 1 '.>. Telneui, William. 194 (2). Temple : Mr. John, 115. Lawrence, 191. Mr. Schoolmaster, 68. Templehirst, letter dated at. 253. Tenfjiiy, Ralph, 230. Tcimyson : I.K)rd, 284. Ralph, mayor of Grimsbv, 284. Tenths and fifteenths, 10, 11.' Ternc, Ralph de, 229. Terri, .Master William de, 194, Tcrrill. Mr. Justice, 104. Tcruen', park of, 218. Test, Wido fir, 217. TesUi, Gwiir, 196. Tetney, 278. Tewkesbury : church of, 199. document dated at, 199. John, abbot of, grant by, 199, monastery, 196, 199, " Tewkesbury, cdificium de," at Oxford, 182, Thanet, Lord, 116. Thavies Inn, Holborn, 107. Thebais, the, by Statins, 170- Theddlethorpe, 261. Thelintham, William de, 130. Thelnctham, William de, 156. Themelbye, Richard, 260. Thetford, William, 131. Thewardistre hundred, 128. Thimbleby, Richard, 262. Sir Richard, knt., depositions before, 240. Tninghowe hundred, 128. Thisscrosse, Mr. 190. Thodintona [co. Glouc], 191. Thokheth, Thomas, feodary of Duchy of Lancaster iu co. Lincoln, letter of, 270. Thomas : Edward, 290. William, 166, 169, 171, 177, 178, 192, 199, 200. William, 188. William, son of, 227. of London, ship, 269. Thomlynson : Thomas, 240. deed of, 240. William, 248. Thompson, Thomson : Mr. Alderman of Grimsby, 284. Mr. K. M., 210. William, 280. Thoren', I'eter de, grant by, 257, Thoruborough, John, bishop of Worcester, visitation by, 184. Thornburgh, "w„ 188. Thornbury, Mr. William, treasurer of Worcester College, 188. Thornton, Thorneton, 221. church of, 227, 233. Thorntoii; John, mayor of Hull, letter of, 255, 830 Thorold, Tbarold : Anthony, recorder of Lincolu, -19, 64. William, 241. William, esq., warrant of, 255. -,44. Thorp : Peter de, 257. Walter de, 217. Thorton, Roger de, 229. Three Senators, Christinas poem of the, 1. Throgniorton : Thomas, 10. Thomas, 175. Thrunscoc, 278. Thryscrosse, Henry, 277. Thiirald, Ralph, 1.56 (2). Thymbleby : Mr. John, 280. Mr. Richard, 280. •Sir Richard, knt., 281. Thymolby, Thyinylby, Mr. Kiehard, mayor of Grimsby,"27X, 289 (8), 290. Thynne, Sir John, knt., 16. Tibberton, church of, 169. Tilleshope, 191. Tinctor, William, 288. Tirwhit, Tirwhyt ; Master, 271. Sir Robert, letter from, 40. Sir William, 262 (2), 274. Tithes, proclamation concerniLg payment of. 42. Tobias, play of the story of, 58, 60. 62. Tod: Richard, 290. T. son of Williaat, 290 (2), 291. William, 290 (2) Toft : John, 1.V2. Wilham, Tokens, coinage of, 1 Tomkins : Nathaniel, 188. treasuier of Worcester, letter to, 200. Tomiiuson, Tomlynson : Alan, 266. Henry, 289. Richard, 266. Tonge : Mr., mayor of Lincoln, 74. Richard, 90. Thomas, profcHsor of law, 193. TotoBbache, l9l. Totyugtonc, brother Walter de, 129 (2). Tower, the. Records in, 3, 166. Towne, John, 112. Towncnd, Lincoln, 73. Towiinon, Robert, 88. Towthcby, Uichard, of Healing, 279. Toynton, Johan, 27:3 Trade «ui Ids, I, Il'I. Trained bands, nnisters of, 143. Transubstantiation, oaths agaitmt, 285, 287. O 79300. Trent, the, 18, 65, 265. Act of Parliament for improving navigation, 18. • proposed bridge over, 119. Trerew, 6. Trevor, Sir Thomas, judge of assize, 101. Trinity College, Cambridge, 261. Trochemerton : Henry son of John of, 194. Robert do, 194. Trymylbj- : Stephen, 16. Katherine his wife, 10. Tudhoe, co. Northumberland, 215. Tudor rose, the, 120. Tukc : Sir Brian, Ti'casurer of the King's Chamber, letter from, 3.^. Nathaniel, clerk, 103. Tuker, Mr, William, 102. Tunstall : Lady Elizabeth, 269. Thomas. 269. Tunsfall's manor, 261. Tupholnie abbey, grant by Heiuy IlL to, 22. " abbot of, 14 Turkey-work chairs, 20. Turner, Turnor : Dr., 188. Sir Edwar>), 162. son of, 162. Gervasc, 112, 114. Thomas, letters, &.c. of, 162 (.2). Turner's History of Hertford, 160. Turnhani, Robert de, 22S. Turnour, Robert, chantry priest, 24. Tutbury Castle, document dated at, 244. Twelfth day, 23. Tydeswcll : Alan, vicar of, 228. church of, 228, 229, 230, 234. grant to, 228. stone cross near, 228. Tydyngtou manor, co. Warwick, 185, 186. Tylt, Mr. John, 188 (2). Tymberden, 191. Tymworth : Richard, 124. W., 125. Typtot, John, treasurer (1409), 10. Tyrwhyt, Tyrwhytt : Marnuiduke, 25.'> Philip, esip, 277. Sir Robert, letter of, 255. Sir William, 29. u. Ut'ra major ct minor, 212. Tlbtred of tlic liuuiceas, charter of, 200. Underwood, Mr., 250. Union of Kngland with Scotland, 114. I'niversity College, Oxford, HH. 7. ;uo John, lt»7. Mr., 111'. Uptou, iy4. Ilcury, 11. Urbau : 111., k'lUTOf, -.'Jl. IV., 171. v., 177. VI., ic.s. Urciuis, L'lanoiscus do, 178. Ursell, 11 Jew of Wickfonl, Lincoln, 11. Ustwanl, — , 261. Ustwayt, William, 253. Utterby : Ralph de, 288 (3). Robert li, Lincoln, II. WioKwiiu", .Ionian ilo, liM. Wiouiub, document date. market at, .")."). St. Andrew's church in, U, St. Edward's church, 4lt, 'f2. St. .Tohn's chvirch in, 46, 47, 52 {2), 61. St. Margaret's in, 44. St. Mary's in, 53, 55. Trinity church in, 45, 52. Wilbv: Mrs., 95. Mr. Thomas, 84 (2), 88, 98. Wilde, Simon le, 130. Wilkius' Concilia Mayrnf Brifainiiep, 176, 177, 178. Wilkinson, Ricliard, 284. Wilier, Paul, clerk, 259. Willet, Mr. Paul, clerk, 282, 283. William I., King of England, 2. chatters of, 171. William III., 1,20, 114. address to, 112. association in defence of, 153. coachmen of, 20. conspiracy against, 15.S, 162. cooks, 20. grant by, 14. portrait of, 14. proclaimed, 1 12. surveyor general, 20. visits"LincoIu, 30, 112, 113. Williams, Mr. William, 145. Williamson, Thomas, 241. Willis: Browne, 180, 184. Francis, dean of Worcester, letter of, 18.'), 186. Willoughby, Willonghbie: Lord (1568), 63. (1642), 201. (15.')3), 254. , of Parham, 69. .Stephen, 107. William, esq., 262. Willyford, Barthomolew, 27. Willymott : Mr., "Allegations against," 163. Ralph, town clerk of Hertford, 163. Wilson: Anthony, 290 (3). Dr., Master of St. Katherine's, Lon- don, 64, 66. .lohn, 16, 69, 73, Wilson — vmit. Mr., 81. Thomas, l).l)., dean of Worcester, 186. — , 276. Wimburn, .Jordan de, archdeacon of Chester, 216. Winch, C'hristopher, esq., 255. Winchcombe : Tideman de, bishop of Worcester, 167. vicarage of, 167. William abbot, and the convent of, 167. Winchelcumba, Lanboc sive Registrum Monast. do, 212. Winchelsea, mayor, iScc, of, letter of, 278. Winchester, 6, 110. document dated at, 194. bishop of, and chancellor (1414), 10. Simon archdeacon of, 168. Windobauk : Sir Francis, 1 89. J., 200. Winilele, Robert, bishop of Enily, 125. Windsor : letter dated from, 40. Castle, documents dated at, 5, 9, 246. Windyll, Robert, 290. Winkfeld, Sir Robert, 274. Winterburne, Thomas, 71. Winwood, Ralph, 142. Wirkesworth, 220. Witinton, Osbert de, 228. Wittou, St. Mary's, 203. Wivelsbv, Philip de, 288. Woad, 44. Wodd, Andrew, 272. Wodestok, Edmoud of, grant to, 247. Wodward alias Wod worth. Sir Robert, 28. Wollebetere, John, 132. Wolleman, Geoffrey, 131. Wolsey, Cardinal, 181, 248. Wolstan, bishop of Worcester, 177. Wolverhampton, 222, 223. Wolverley, 191. church of, 169. manor, 184. Wolvey, 233. Wood : Anthony, Cili/ of Oxford bv, 182. William", 118. Woodford, John, est[., 143. Woodstock, documents dated at, 5, 132, 169. Woodward, John, 90. • Wool, 50. custom on, 49. exportation of, 22. subsidj- on, 22. Wool trade, 14, 15. customs on, 14. Worcester, 171, 196, 197. 218. aldermen of, 175. almshouses, 188. bailiffs of, 17o (2), 173, 174, 175, 181. bridge tolls at, 189. Carnaria, or charnel house, at, 169. :i48 Worcester — cont. Caniaria, chapel of, 169. John, master of, 169. charters of, 177. college at, 188, 189. clerk of, 189. coroner, 170. documents dated at. 7, 173, 175, 196, 218. Eport Street, 190. Gateway Tower, 165. High Street, 189. History and Antiquities of, 161. " Hucsterestrete," 171. Hulton Street, 190. liberties of, perambulation of, 181. maces, 170, 174, 175, 181. Oniric, provost of, 200. petition from, 188. the Keformation in, 205. saltpan in, 173. Scotch army at, 188. Severn bridge, 193. sheriff of, Urso, 200, 203. writ to, 173. St. Helen's, 203. St. Nicholas, 203. Talbout, 189. " vicus cirothecariorum," 171. royal visit to, 190. Worcester : archdeacon of, 192, 2.S4. Bishops of, 167 (2), 168, 177, 178, 193, 198, 199, 200, 205: ami see Giffard, Godfrey ; Polton ; Bour- chier ; Wakefield, Henry ; Cante- lupe, Walter of ; Maydenstone, Walter ; Blois, William of ; Car- pyiiter, .John ; More, William ; Mildonham, Thns. ; Weddeshury, John; Latimer, Hiigli ; Freake ; Whitgift, .lolin ; Tarry, Henry ; Fletcher, Richard ; Morley, Geo. ; Bell, .John ; Freake, Fihnund ; Thoriiborougli, John ; Manger ; Geyneshiirh, William of; I'rideaiix, .Tolui ; Montaciite, Simon ; l?ryan, Hegiiiald ; Medici, Giuglio dei ; Heath, Nich.; I'ates, liic. ; Hooper, John ; Sandcs, Edwin ; Grey, Walter de ; Ely, Nicholas of. Denebcrt, 213. Itoger, 167, 168. Tideman, 167. Wiiistan, 171, 177. letter to, 200. acts of Consistory (.'oiirt, ike, 204. Italian prelates. 166. list of, 181. mimiments of, 204, 205. IJegistry, 165, 199, 204. visitation by, 192. Will Room, and wills, 20», 205. and Gloucester, 200. hishopri(' of, treatise on, I 81, I'.l.'J. temporalities in, 1 '.).'{. Worcester — cottf. Cathedral church, 165, 167, 168 (3) 170, 171, 174, 175, 176, 177, 181 182, 184, 18.5, 186, 188. 189, 190 234. arms of, 179, 197. chapel of St. Mary, 198. choir of 187, 188. crj-pt of, 192. damages to, 189. grants to, 168, 190-193. " liber canonum," 184. library of, 165, 167, 170. organs, 189. plate belonging to, 186, 187, 188, 189 C^), 197. ■ precentory of, 169. "rededore" in, 170. rentals and cartularies of, 180 (3). sanctuary or cemetery of, 179, 188. .St. John's in, 175. lead steeple of, 188. survey of, 166, 188. valor of, 193. vestments of, 198, 199. Chancellor of, 1 76. Chapter House, 200. Dean of, 180, 192: and see Hol- beche. Hen. ; Hickes ; Willis, Francis ; Wilsson, Thos.; Digby, W. charges against, 184. and Chapter of, 165, 166, 184, 185, 186, 188, 190, 193, 199, 203. letters, &c. to, 1 88, 1 89, 200, of, 188, 189. grants to, 171. by, 185. clerk of, 176. maintain students at Ox- ford, 185, 186. muniments of, Calendar of, 165-203. property of, papers relating to, 189. Registers, 171, 180. diocese of, 166, 167, 176, 182, 184, 195, 205. benevolence and loan from clergy in, 190, 203. deaneries in, 184. revenues of churches in, 184. visitations, 183, 184. see of, 165, 166, 200, 203. vacancy of, 166, 167, 168, 169, 193, 195, 196 (2), 197. treasurer of. See Cnrington, Mr. ; Bastard, Tho. Worcester : Monastery of St. Mary, 165, 167, 168, 169, 171, 180, 182. annals of building of, 181. bells of, 181. cellerar, 175, 181 (2). chamberar, 181. " kesy liner," 181. I^i"g ■lobn buried at, 174. ;i4t Worco.xtii — (•(>«/. IHTiuubulatioii ol" lilurtio ol, isl. j»o>sossioiis of, 1G8. Trior of, 16:), 106, 167, IC'.i, 170, 171, 17S, 176, 177, 178, 17»l, l'.>2, 1'.I6, 234 : itiid src Green, .lohii ; Eve- sham, .lohn of; ^\'yk, Jolin de ; Uniunsfonl, Wulsfan ; Miilvcrn, •lohu ; Fordlmni, Joliii ; Haitle- bury, .Tohii ; Miisnrd, Tlios. ; Mtil- toii, 11. ; Weiiloclc, Win. ; Ilolliecke, lien. ; Mjldeiiliain.vThos. letters, .'te. of, I'JC, 11)7 (2). letters to, 179, 197 (2). lohn, 182. Kalph. 168. Th., 17.'). Thomas, 170, 182. Walter, 199. election of, 169. gentleman carver of, 170. iurisdiction of, 166. Lcdirers, 178-180. Lilier Alhus, 176. list of, 181. registers of, 16.')-1 8U, 190. tempoi'alities of, 169. visitation by, 193. and Chapter of, 168 (2), 169, 170, 181, 192, 19.'> (2). grants, &c., to, 168, 192. and Convent of, 16.^>, 167, 171, 174, 179, 181, 182, 183, 185, 191 (2), 196. grants to, 168 (2), 169 (3), 173, 192, 193, 194, 199, 200. chaj)ter house, 183. jurisdiction of, 175. officers of, 181 (3), 200. records of, 165, 190-193. provisions for discipline of, 1 79. refectory, 1C9. rental of, 166, 178, 181 (2), 183. Sacristy of, 109, 170. scholars of, 182, 185. common seal of, 179. "le Spicery," 181. statutes of, 170. Subprior, 175, 192, 197. surrender of, 180, 183. Worcester, Florence of, 223. Worcestershire, 203. arms furnished by the clergy in, 184. Collections for History of, by T. Nash, 165. Committee for, and Worcester citv, orders by, 188 (2), 189. Historical Society, 166. sberiff of, warrant to, 203. Worcester College, Oxford, 182. Wormesley, prior of, 199. Worms, 122. 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