Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester Volume 2; V. 11 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ... have no provender supplied from Easter until Michaelmas but by courtesy; that the sergeants should oat such meat as they found in men's houses, without buying other meat for their use; and that they should not eat in any manor houses of the barons. The foresters perambulated their districts in the same manner and with the same powers as the sergeants of the earldom, and of the baronies; but their jurisdiction was not exclu-ive of that of the sergeants.--Ormerod, vol. ii. p. 52. The complaint of the shepherd might have been made after their visitations: Thei goo aboute be viij or nyne, And done the husbondes mycull pyne, That carinii is their mele. Thei take geese, capons, and henne, And alle that ever thei may with renne, And reves us our catell. I have fayre chamburs thre, But non of them may be with me, While that thei be thare, Into my cart-hows thei me dryfe, Out at the dur thei put my wyfe, For she is olde grey-hare. pro me et heredib3 meis quod dicti Religiosi et eorum successores, ac etiam omnes tenentes in eadem villa, imppetuum quieti sint de hac putura et omnimoda alia seruitute vel consuetudine mihi vel heredib3 siue subforestarijs meis inde facienda, preter preces et orationes. Et ut hec mea concessiti et remissio et quietaclamatio rata et stabilis imppetuum preseruet huic scripto sigillum meum apposui. Hijs testib3, dnis Willmo Trussel, et Ricardo de Mascy, militib3, Willmo de Heskayth balliuo de Haleton, Willmo Gerardo, Jacobo de Pulle, Ricardo de Aston, Ricardo de Schoresworth, Rogero de Toxtath clerico, et multis alijs. XX. XXI. Quietaclamatio, duplex, Uriani filij Johannis de -ancto Petro de Putura seruientium pacis pro Wynlaton. PO T U M sit omnio3 hominib3 present et futuris hoc scriptum visuris vel audituris quod ego Uria...