The history and antiquities of Boston, and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; comprising the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln. Including also a history of the East, West, and Wildmore fens, and copious notices of the Holland or Haut-Huntre fen ... sketches of the geology, natural history, botany, and agriculture of the district; a very extensive collection of archaisms and provincial words, local dialect, phrases, proverbs, omens, superstitions, etc. By Pishey Thompson. Illustrated with one hundred engravings.

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claimed view of frank-pledge, &c., which was granted him.' Warnerius de
Engayn, Ralph de Quappelode, and Ralph de Fenne, held lands under the Duke
of Richmond in Toft and Fenne, 20th Henry III. (1236).2
The King granted to Robert de Tatteshale and his heirs free warren over all
his demesne lands in Toft, in 1257.3
The Testa de Nevill gives the following information respecting Fishtoft.
Ralph de Fenne held of the fee of Petronilla the eleventh part of one fee in Toft.
Warenus de Engayne held the eleventh part of one fee. Alan de Hippetoft
held a fourth part of one fee. John de Huntingfield held a tenth part of one
fee, all in the village of Toft.
Ralph de Fenne held in Toft a fourth part of one knight's fee; and John de
Edelington held a sixteenth part of one knight's fee in the same, of Petronilla de
Croun, and she of the honour of Richmond.
Ralph de Fenne held in the same and in the wapentake of Kirton, a tenth
part of one knight's fee ut supra.
The land which John de Toynton held under Petronilla de Croun, was held
by her of the King in capite.
Roger de Huntingfield paid the 90s. scutage4 for three fees one quarter less,
which he held of Petronilla de Croun in Toft and Frampton, and she of the King
in capite.
Oliver de Vaux held land in Toft, of the honour of Richmond, in the reign of
Edward I.
In 1276, William de Huntingfield held ten tenements of Henry de Longchamp, by scutage service, the said Henry held of the King in capite, by what
service was not known., In the same year Hugh Finch and Alan de Hiptoft
of Fishtoft are mentioned.6 The property of Peter de Savoy, in this parish,
escheated to the Crown in 1281;7 and in the same year Alice, the widow of
Thomas Bernak, held lands, tenements, and rents in Toft, by right of dower.8
In the subsidy of the none or ninth, levied 25th Edward I. (1297), upon
agricultural stock and produce; the inhabitants of Fishtoft were assessed
41. 2s. 7d.; and four persons so assessed paid a ninth, or 9s. 2d.9
ROBERT, the son of WALTER, was assessed for 1 packhorse, 3s.; 1 ox, 4So; 1
cow, 4s.; 2 quarters of maslin or mixed corn, 2s. 6d. per quarter; 1 quarter of
oats, Is. 6d.; hay and fodder, Is. Total, 18s. 6d.; tax, 2s. 0 d.
HUGH, the son of WARIN, was assessed for 1 packhorse, 3s.; 1 ox, 4s.; I
cow, 5s.; 1 stirk, Is. 4d.; 2 quarters of maslin, 5s.; 1 quarter of beans, 2s.;
hay and fodder, Is.; and for 1 cart, is. Total, ll 2So 4d.; tax, 2s. 54d.
ALAN, son of ROBERT, was assessed for 1 ox, 5s.; 1 cow, 4s. 6d.; 1 calf, Is.;
1 packhorse, 3s. 6d.; 2 quarters of maslin, 5s.; 1 quarter and a half of oats,
2s. 3d.; and hay and fodder, 12d. Total assessment, 11. 2s. 3d.; tax, 2s. 5cd.
JOrHN DONNE was assessed for 1 packhorse, 3s.; 1 ox, 4s.; 1 cow, 5s.; 2
quarters of maslin, 5s.; 1 quarter of oats, Is. 6d.; and for hay and fodder, 12d.
Total, 19s. 6d.; tax, 2s. 2d.
In 1300, Ralph de Rochford was ordered by the King's Court at Lincoln to
open a certain road at Toft, near Freiston, which he had unjustly, and without
law, obstructed, to the injury of the free tenants of Lucia Peachee.l~
A messuage and twenty-four acres of land and meadow, the property of Robert
Placita de quo Wtarranto, p. 399. afterwards compounded for by a money payment
2 Additional MSS. British Museum, No. 16,118. called scutage.-HEWITT on Armour, p. 99.
3 Charter Rolls XLI., Henry III. membrane 2. 6 Hundred Rolls.
4 SCUTAGE or ESCUAGE, Service by the Shield; 7 Inquis. post Mortem, vol. i. p. 76.
a kind of knight's service by which the tenant was s Ibid. vol. iv. p. 446.
held to follow his lord to the field. 9 Subsidy Rolls.
5 Hundred Rolls, 1276. The actual service was o' Abbreviatio Rotul. Orig. p. 113,