BLAdd.Roll39650 (AD1443)
RAMSEY. VIEW OF FRANKPLEDGE WITH COURT HELD THERE ON THURSDAY, THE FEAST OF ST PETER IN CHAINS, IN THE TWENTY-FIRST YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KING HENRY VI AND THE EIGHTH YEAR OF THE LORD ABBOT JOHN STOWE. [1]
ESSOINS: John Horwode, Margaret Somersham, John Blench, Nicholas Ravele, John Morton.
[JURORS:] William Faunte, Richard Kelam, John Crisp, Thomas Ballard, William Browse, Thomas Derham, Thomas Barbor, John Ware, Richard Geyte, Nicholas Mabely, Walter Weste, John Sewer.
(CAPITAGE:) 6 s. 9 d. from the whole homage as common fine.
Postponement to the next leet, at the request of the parties, of a complaint of trespass by John Jakes against Ralph Gilham.
[PRESENTMENTS BY THE JURORS]
3 d. from Robert Alcumbury, monk, for not purging his ditch at Fesaunt Lane. [2]
3 d. from Thomas Botiller for the same there.
3 d. from John Amy for the same there.
3 d. from John Hunte for the same at Turvers Lane. [3]
3 d. from John Kyng for the same there.
3 d. from John Beronger for the same there.
3 d. from John Coupere for the same at the end of his garden.
3 d. from the Sub-Cellarer for the same at the end of the garden of his tenement recently held by John Beronger.
3 d. from John Wyndill for the same at the end of his tenement.
3 d. from William Huntyngdon for the same opposite his tenement.
12 d. from John Beronger for making an encroachment by ploughing the land of John Fen at his land, three feet in width and one furlong in length, against John Fen's will. Order to correct before the feast of All Saints [4] under penalty of 6 s. 8 d.
3 d. from Robert Skynner for putting dung in the King's road opposite the tenement of William Botiller, to the nuisance of the neighbors.
6 d. each from Walter West and Richard Geyte, ale-tasters, for not performing their office.
[PRESENTMENTS BY THE ALE-TASTERS]
6 d. from Matilda Barre (2 d. for not having a gallon), 12 d. from Amice Crane (2 d. for not having a gallon), 8 d. from Alice Scarlet (who brought her measures), 8 d. from Katherine Fyssher (who brought her measures), 8 d. from Agnes Newman (who brought her measures), 12 d. from Emma Barbor (who brought her measures),12 d. from Agnes Faunt (who brought her measures), 12 d. from Agnes Huntyngdon (who brought her measures), 6 d. from Margery Warde (1 d. for not having a pottle), 12 d. from Mariot Amy (1 d. for not having a pottle), 12 d. from Alice Coupere (1 d. for not having a pottle), 12 d. from Katherine Love (2 d. for not having a gallon), 8 d. from Agnes Claxton (3 d.), 12 d. from Joan Beris (who brought her measures), common brewers, for selling ale contrary to the assize.
6 d. from Margaret Poolyerd (who brought her measures), 4 d. from the wife of William Water (who brought her measures), 4 d. from Mariot Grene (2 d. for not having a gallon and pottle), 4 d. from Margaret Skynner (2 d. for not having a gallon, pottle or quart),4 d. from Margery Kirkeby (3 d.), 6 d. from Isabelle Duffeld (3 d.), 3 d. from Margaret Filhour (3 d.), 6 d. from Isabelle Stedeman (2 d. for not having a gallon or pottle), 3 d. from Alice Geyt (3 d.), 3 d. from Joan Deerham (3 d.), 3 d. from Margery Faukes (3 d.), 3 d. from Mariot Coupere (3 d.), 3 d. from Joan, wife of Simon Ely (3 d.), 3 d. from the wife of Thomas Stoon (3 d.), 6 d. from Agnes Gelam (2 d. for not having a gallon, quart or pottle), 6 d. from Margaret Berford (3 d.), 4 d. from Ellen Crisp (who brought her measures), 3 d. from Margaret Beteced (2d. for not having a gallon, quart or pottle), 3 d. from Joan Sherewode (3 d.), 3 d. from Margaret Gelam (3 d.), 3 d. from Alice, wife of Richard Gerardisman (3 d.), 4 d. from Agnes Rikkes(who brought her measures), 4 d. from Alice Cok (who brought her measures), 4 d. from Isabelle Welles (3 d.), 4 d. from Rose Ryng (who brought her measures), 3 d. from Agnes Gate (3 d.), retailers, for selling ale contrary to the assize and for charging too much.
4 d. each from John Barre, John Newman and John Berford, and 8 d. from Thomas Cok, butchers, for charging too much.
4 d. each from Richard Geyte, John Weste, Thomas Pollard, John Missangle and John Grenelane, cobblers, [5] for charging too much.
6 d. each from Richard Wayte, Robert Grene, William Wayte, Richard Towte, Thomas Bysshop, William Wykes and Nicholas Burgeys, and 4 d. each from Nicholas Therfeld and John Hosyer, tailors, for charging too much.
4 d. from Robert Skynner and 3 d. from John Pursse, skinners, for charging too much.
6 d. each from Richard Cok, William Conyngton, Richard Faukes, John Hide, and 3 d. from Simon Ely, weavers, for charging too much.
4 d. each from Thomas Derham and Henry Fuller, fullers, for charging too much.
4 d. each from John Horwode, Leonard Wyne, John Barre, John Berford, 8 d. from Robert Denton, 4 d. each from Agnes Faunt and Thomas Cok, 3 d. each from Agnes Bocher, Thomas Derham, Isabelle Steedman, 3 d. from Robert Coupere, 4 d. from Margaret Kirkeby, 4 d. from Alice Draper, 3 d. from Robert Skynner, and 4 d. each from Alice Pope and Alice Parker for selling bread and other victuals and charging too much.
[No amercement recorded] from [...] [6] the female servant of John Bury of Ramsey, in that on Thursday before the feast of St Nicholas, at Ramsey, in the twentieth year of the lord King Henry VI, [7] she entered the house of John Brigge of Ramsey, against the peace, and took and carried away 4 s. in cash from his goods and chattels found there.
Note that the same servant, on Friday before Christmas, in the twenty-first year of the said King, [8] at Ramsey, broke into and entered the house of Thomas Wedon, against the peace, and took and carried away two kerchiefs valued at 12 d. from the goods and chattels found there.
3 d. from Robert Bellamy, glover, for washing putrid pelts in the common lade, to nuisance.
3 d. each from John Berford, Thomas Cok and John Newman for washing animals' entrails in the common lade, to nuisance.
12 d. from Thomas Tyler for entering the house of Robert Broun at night and assaulting his wife, Ideyn.
3 d. from the same Thomas for a hue and cry justly raised on him by the said Ideyn.
12 d. from Robert Stoon for assaulting William Coupere with a drawn dagger in his hand, against the peace.
4 d. from Thomas Love for assaulting John, son of Thomas Browse with a drawn dagger in his hand, whom he would have stabbed had he not been prevented.
6 d. from Robert Sewer for assaulting Richard Huntyngdon and striking him, against the peace.
3 d. from John Elys for committing housebreaking against Agnes Reignold, against the peace.
4 d. from Alice Morton for unjustly raising the hue and cry on Andrew Cokfeld, against the peace.
1 d. from the wife of John Symmes for putting a dead dog, which was putrid and rotting, into the lade, to the great trouble of her neighbors.
Ordinance that no one shall put pigs in the common street to stay there without a keeper, under penalty of 40 d.
Ordinance that the Bailiff shall immediately seize the said pigs as forfeit, under penalty of 12 d., as often as necessary.
3 d. from John Hunte, now in the lord's service, for putting dung next to the lade opposite the tenement of William Gase.
3 d. from John Gase for the same opposite his tenement.
3 d. from John Love in that, with his pigs, he overturned dung and put it into the lade opposite his tenement, to nuisance.
3 d. from Henry Schirwode for breaking the pavement opposite his tenement, to nuisance.
Order that the said pavement be repaired before the feast of St Michael [9] under penalty of 12 d.
2 d. from Joan, wife of Henry Schirwode, for putting ashes in the lade regularly, to nuisance.
3 d. from John Amy for making [a pool] [10] with his servants.
6 d. from William Boteler, 2 d. from Richard Geyte, 3 d. from John Fysshere and 3 d. from William Stedeman for putting ashes and dung in the lade.
6 d. from William Botler for having a privy above the lade, to nuisance.
6 d. from John Amy for the same.
3 d. from William Duffeld for having an open privy against the lade.
6 d. from William Osselok Gyldsowe for being a common eavesdropper [11] and for listening to the secrets of William Spyser in his house, against the peace.
Ordinance that all the doors of the weirs and all the ditches of the cotes between Ugmere [12] and Ramsey Mere [13] are to be kept open as they should be, under penalty of 40 d.
3 d. from John Yakes for breaking the damming in the old lade.
3 d. each from Henry Schirwode and John Love for having dogs contrary to the assize. [14]
Order that the said dogs be removed or killed before the feast of St Laurence, [15] under penalty of 12 d.
6 d. from John Dalby for killing Alice Shelford's pig with his dog.
3 d. from Thomas North for not cleaning his ditch at Huntingdon Way [16] in two places.
3 d. from John Keteryng for the same opposite Graunfordiscroft.
3 d. from John Bocher for the same at Huntingdon Way. [17]
3 d. from Thomas Whete for the same opposite his croft.
6 d. from Thomas Vygorows for the same at Stone Cross Lane, [18] to nuisance.
2 d. from Margaret Wenyngton, common retailer at Hepmangrove, for selling ale contrary to the assize.
Election and swearing-in of Thomas Deerham with William Weste as ale-taster.
4 d. each from William Abbot, John Randes and Richard Weston for not contributing to the common fine.
Election of Thomas Vigorows as Constable and ale-taster of Hepmangrove.
Ordinance that no one in the Little Wyght [19] opposite his house from Carite Bridge [20] up to the house of Gerard de[...] [21]permit land and dung to remain between the causeway and the ditch, so that water can flow from the causeway into the ditch, before the feast of St Michael the Archangel, [22] under penalty of 12 d.
6 d. from Thomas Browse for not coming to be one of the jurors, having been often called and exacted.
3 d. each from Nicholas Stucle, knight, John Wakirle, Margaret Kirkeby, William Botiller, William Abbot, John Randes, [no amercement recorded] from John Love, Andrew Claxton and John Botiller, 3 d. each from John Newman, and the tenant of the land of John Crosse of Farcet, owing suit, for default.
12 d. from John Horwode and 8 d. from Leonard Wyne, bakers, for selling dishonest bread.
[No amercement recorded] from Brother Gilbert de Chateriz forBroolode concerning a trespass committed there by Henry [?Win]sham. [23]
Notes
1. 1 August. 1443.
2. MS: Fesauntis Lane.
3. MS: Turverislane.
4. 1 November.
5. MS: sutores.
6. Blank.
7. 30 November, 1441.
8. 21 December, 1442.
9. 29 September.
10. MS: slo.
11. MS: ewsedropper.
12. MS: Ubmere.
13. MS: Ramseymere.
14. See 13 Richard II, Statute I, c. 13 (Statutes of the Realm 2, p. 65).
15. 10 August.
16. MS: Huntyngdon Weye.
17. MS: Huntyngdon Weye.
18. MS: Stoncroslane.
19. MS: le Litilwytgh. Deleted: Lytillweh, Lylt.
20. MS: Caritebrigge.
21. Torn away.
22. 29 September.
23. Partially obliterated.