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John prior of Rouchestre and the convent of the one part and William
Hesille of the other part. Indenture of agreement, reciting that
in the king's court the prior averred that 6½ acres of land in places
called 'Pesecroft' and Stoke in the town of Darente, held by the said
William, are held of the prior and convent in right of their church of
St. Andrew Rouchestre by fealty, suit of their court of Darente every
three weeks, the service of paying 3s. 1½d. of rent a year, by the service
called 'landechepe,' namely paying 9¼d. and half a farthing after the
death of every tenant and after any alienation in fee, the service
called 'benerthe,' to wit ploughing one acre a year of the demesne
lands of the manor at the time of sowing wheat, carrying from the
barn of the prior and convent to the land so much wheat as may be
sown thereupon, there sowing it, and harrowing the land after such
sowing, the service of reaping, gathering and binding in sheaves in
the autumn season the whole crop of 2½ acres of the said demesne lands
sown with wheat, putting it in shocks, carrying three shocks to the
grange and there stacking them, and of reaping, gathering and binding
the crop of one rood sown with barley and half an acre sown with oats,
the service of enclosing yearly with hays and ditches 2½ perches sown
with pease, and the service of finding one man at the fitting time to
toss, turn, dry, gather and stack all the mown grass in the meadow of
the prior and convent of 'Bedemede,' and carrying one load of hay
to the manor grange, as appears in a record before the justices of
the Bench upon a writ of recordari between Elizabeth who was
wife of John Appelton of Derteford and the said William plaintiffs
and the said prior and John Redynge of Darente defendants in Hilary
term 21 Richard II, roll 337; and that by mediation of counsel on
either side the parties agreed, to wit that the said William and his heirs,
being henceforward tenants of the said land, shall do fealty to the
prior and convent and to their successors for the same, as the law
requires, and suit at the said court twice a year, namely once at the
court there holden next after Christmas, and again at the court next
after Midsummer by three days' lawful summons to them before
holding such courts, paying the rent of 3s. 1½d. a year, and doing and
paying the service called 'landechepe' when a case shall occur for all
services; and quitclaim by the prior and convent to the said William
and his heirs of the residue of the services aforesaid, hereby discharging
them thereof. Dated Rouchestre, 1 August 2 Henry IV. |
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John de Dynham knight to James Aumarle, John Pole, Robert
Maynard, Thomas Hertyscote and John Bole, their executors and
assigns. Gift of all his goods and chattels quick and dead, moveable
and immovable. Witnesses: John Dauney, Ralph Lapslode, William
Holebem, John Crosse, John Gamboun. Dated Notewille, 1 June 2
Henry IV. |