English Economic History: Select Documents. Various
The heir of William the Weaver holds the shepherd's land, and renders 12s. a year, because there are no animals.
Virgate.
John le Messager holds one ploughman's land, and renders 12s. a year, because there is no plough.
Adam le Wardur holds another ploughman's land, and renders 12s. a year, because there is no plough.
William Anore holds the smith's land, and renders 5s. a year, because there is no plough.
Reckoned as a virgate for the works of the paling.
Sum of rents of the aforesaid lands of the King's table, 47s. 8d.
King's Messenger.
Geoffrey son of Peter holds 6 acres of land, for which land he ought to carry the writs of the lord the King, when they come in the manor of the lord the King, wheresoever the bailiff shall wish within the county, at his own cost, and receiving 1½d. for going a reasonable day's journey out of the county and nothing for the return journey.
Cotters.
Names of the cotters and rents of assize of their tenements and the customs of the same.
Geoffrey Scurel holds one cotland and renders yearly 5s. and for works 49d.
Peter le Abbot and his partners hold one cotland and render yearly 4s. and for works 49d.
William son of Savary holds one cotland and renders yearly 4s. and for works 49d.
Juliana relict of Edmund and her partners hold one cotland and render yearly 5s. and for works 49d.
Richard del Ho holds one cotland and renders yearly 3s. and for works 49d.
William de Ros and Adam Pays hold one cotland and render yearly 5s. and for works 49d.
William de Uphavering the younger holds one cotland and renders yearly 5s. and for works 49d.
Reckoned as a virgate for the works of the paling.
Sums.
Sum of rents of assize of the aforesaid cotters yearly, 31s.
Sum of the same works yearly, 28s. 7d.
Sum of both, that is, rents of assize and the same works yearly, 59s. 7d.
Lands occupied over[100] the King and arrented by William Brito and his fellows.
Richard Hageman holds 16 acres of land of new purpresture[101] and renders yearly half a mark.[102]
Sum.
Sum, 102s. 11½d.
Richard Segar holds two dayworks with a house of the same [i.e. of new purpresture] and renders yearly 8d.
The same holds 1½ acres of old purpresture and renders yearly 6d.[103]
Sum.
Sum, 10l. 1s. 6d.
Edmund Prest holds 5 acres and renders yearly 10d.[104]
The prior of Hornchurch holds 66 acres and 2 dayworks of land and 1 rood of meadow of encroachment and renders yearly half a mark.
Richard de Dovere holds the watercourse from Romford bridge to the park of Havering, and for the watercourse from the end of the fishpond of the abbot of Waltham between Havering and Weald to the mete and bound of the limits of Havering as far as the watercourse extends, and renders yearly 12d.
Richard de Dovere holds 85 acres of demesne in several places and renders yearly 20s.
Sum.
Sum, 117s. 7d.
Sum total of all lands occupied over the King, 21l. 2s. 0½d.
Subtenants.
Names of all sub-tenants in the town of Havering who have chattels to the value of 40d. of whom it is acknowledged by the aforesaid jurors that each such tenant ought to reap, bind and cock one acre of oats of the demesne of the lord the King in autumn, and to find one man to mow in the King's meadow for one day at his own cost. And every of them, according as they join in a plough for ploughing their own land, shall plough for the lord the King each year for one day at the summer ploughing and for another day at the winter ploughing.[105]
Sum.
Sum of the rents of the aforesaid sub-tenants without ploughing, 4l. 6s.
The King is in seisin of the wardship of the lands and heirs of all the tenants of the same manor, and can hold them when he deems it to his advantage, and then he shall have no heriot. And if he deem it not to be expedient for him to hold the wardship of the lands and heirs in his own hand, he can demise the same, and then he shall have a heriot and relief.
Further, they say that all the tenants of the same manor can marry their sons and daughters without licence of the King or of his bailiffs, except the cotmen.
Further, they say that the King can tallage all the tenants of the same manor, except those who hold by charters of Kings at their will, according to their means, when he tallage other his demesne manors.
Further, they say that the pleas of court can be worth 40s. a year.
Further, they say that heriots and reliefs and other perquisites can be worth in common years 53s. 4d.
Further, they say that view of frankpledge can be worth in common years 6s. 8d.
Sum.
Sum total of all sums of the same manor, 112l. 10s. 11¾d., except free tenants and the ploughing of sub-tenants and customary carts.
[91] And 28 others named.
[92] cf. above, Rectitudines, p. 5, under Geneat's Service, "he must … cut the deer-hedge and maintain it."
[93] Produce or profits.
[94] November 11.
[95] Food for swine.
[96] Thirty-one virgates follow in like detail.
[97] Strips.
[98] September 29.
[99] November 11.
[100] In