BLAdd.Roll39595r (AD1280)
RAMSEY. [VIEW OF FRANKPLEDGE HELD THERE ON] FRIDAY BEFORE THE FEAST OF ST HILLARY, IN THE THIRTEENTH YEAR OF THE LORD ABBOT WILLIAM. [1]
[JURORS:] Alan [2] le Tanur Junior, Alan Leaute, Alan le Tanur Senior, Stephen son of Fulk, John Crane, Hugh de Wardeboys Junior, Stephen le Porter, Walter ad Petram, Philip le Teler, William le Tem', Robert Chacede, Richard le de Beurepeyr, Ralph Note.
[CAPITAGE:] 6 s. 8 d.
[PRESENTMENTS BY THE ALE-TASTERS OF RAMSEY]
Presentments by John Norman and John Beaufrer, tasters of Ramsey:
4 s. from Cecilia le Taneresse for breaking the assize of ale. Pledge: Richard Cler'.
2 s. from the wife of Alan le Tanur Junior for the same. Pledge: Simon Chacede.
2 s. from Lucia de Len for the same. Pledge: Simon Dreng.
2 s. from Stephen le Porter for the same. Pledge: William Braciator.
4 s. from the wife of William Legat for the same. Pledge: Stephenson of Fulk.
2 s. from Joan Dreng for the same. Pledge: Simon Chacede.
18 d. from the wife of Richard Cler' for the same. Pledge: Simon Pollard.
6 d. from Christina Walun for the same. Pledge: John Botty.
4 s. from Agnes la Veneresse for the same. Pledge: William le Rideman.
18 d. from the wife of Walter de Halywell for the same. Pledge: her husband.
2 s. from the wife of Simon Pollard for the same. Pledge: Michael Forestarius.
2 s. from the wife of John Norman for the same. Pledge: John Norman.
2 s. from Katherine Togod for the same. Pledge: William le Rideman.
12 d. from the wife of Roger de Pistrino for the same. Pledge: Michael Forestarius.
12 d. from the wife of William de Hale for the same. Pledge: Michael Forestarius.
4 s. from Sarah Godefrey for the same. Pledge: her husband.
18 d. from the wife of Michael le Forestarius for the same. Pledge: John Norman.
12 d. from the wife of Alan Molendinarius for the same. Pledge: Simon Fabyan.
12 d. from the wife of William Pope for the same. Pledge: Alan Molendinarius.
[Amercement excused] from the wife of Alan de Pistrino (because she kept the assize.) Pledge: John Norman.
12 d. from the wife of Stephen de Wintonia for the same. Pledge: John Norman.
2 s. from the wife of John Crane for the same. Pledge: John Botty.
2 s. from the wife of Stephen son of Fulk for the same. Pledge: John Botty.
12 d. from the wife of William le Plomer for the same. Pledge: Walter de Halywell.
12 d. from Amabel le Catur for the same. Pledge: Hugh de Burg'.
12 d. from the wife of John Botty for the same. Pledge: her husband.
12 d. from the wife of Gervaise le Catur for the same. Pledge: John Norman.
12 d. from the wife of Walter Cupparius for the same. Pledge: Michael le Forestarius.
3 s. from the wife of Robert Chacede for the same. Pledge: Simon Pollard.[Amercement excused] from the wife of Geoffrey Faber (because she kept the assize.) Pledge: her husband.
12 d. from the wife of Simon Dreng for the same. Pledge: her husband.
2 s. from Christina de Beureper for the same. Pledge: Geoffrey Faber.
12 d. from Margaret Barun for the same. Pledge: Simon Dreng.
12 d. from Margery Lythfot for the same. Pledge: John Norman.
12 d. from the wife of John Garlock for the same. Pledge: her husband.
2 s. from Emma [Baron] for the same. Pledge: Richard Cler'.
12 d. from Katherine [3] Aring for the same. Pledge: Martin le Catur.
2 s. from the wife of Peter le Lavender for the same. Pledge: her husband.
12 d. from the wife of Robert Chacede the Cook for the same. Pledge: William Braciator.
12 d. from the wife of Robert Cler' for the same. Pledge: her husband.
12 d. from Benigna Cler' for the same. Pledge: Robert Cler'.
12 d. from the wife of John Praffyn for the same. Pledge: William Braciator.
12 d. from the wife of William Rose for the same. Pledge: her husband.
12 d. from the wife of John Baleger for the same. Pledge: Robert Nythyngale.
12 d. from the wife of Walter de Acrys for the same. Pledge: Michael le Forestarius.
18 d. from the wife of William de Ravele for the same. Pledge: her husband.
[PRESENTMENTS BY THE ALE-TASTERS OF HEPMANGROVE]
Presentments by William le Mouner and William Rodecok, tasters of Hepmangrove:
[Amercement excused] from Emma Powel for breaking the assize of ale, because she kept it. Pledge: John Norman.
2 s. from the wife of William le Tanur for the same. Pledge: William le Rideman.
[Amercement excused] from the wife of John le Tanur because she kept the assize. Pledge: Roger le Rideman.
12 d. from the wife of Robert de Orlyens for the same. Pledge: Roger le Rideman.
[Amercement excused] from Mariot le Forester because she kept the assize. Pledge: Roger le Rideman.
18 d. from the wife of William Molendinarius for the same. Pledge: William Rodecok.
18 d. from the wife of William le Rideman for the same. Pledge: her husband.
12 d. from Juliana ad Petram for the same. Pledge: William Rodecok.
12 d. from Lettice, ancilla of S[imon] le Forestarius for the same. Pledge: William le Rideman.
Concord between Simon Bercarius and William le Rideman, complainants, and Peter son of Robert Porcarius, defendant, in a complaint of assault and bloodshed, for which Peter is amerced 6d. Pledge: John le Tenur, by whom Peter agrees to pay Simon 4 d. damages.
6 d. from William Sculle, naif of Warboys, for marrying a certain woman at Ramsey without licence. Pledge: Thomas the man of the Reeve. [4]
Memorandum that John Norman is the pledge of Stephen son of Fulk for paying Alan Fot 12 d. before the feast of the Purification of Blessed Mary. [5]
[PRESENTMENTS BY THE JURORS]
[No amercements recorded] from Lord William le Moine, Greyland, Richard de Beyvil, William de Stowe, John de Arpefeud, William de Wyrlewyk, Robert Walun, Robert son of John Beumys, Thomas le Cumsinus, Alan de Wald, smith, John son of Sarah, Richard Dreng, chaplain, John Tutseyne, Adam de Helpeston, Hugh Dunch, Elias le Stabler, William Wrau, Acelin de Peykirk, Stephen de Wintonia and John le Treur for default.
6 d. each from Robert de Smalwode, John Bolegray, Robert Gyling and Hugh de Neyvile for obstructing the ditch of Park Ditch [6] and appropriating land so that the men of the vill could not journey there with their boats. Order to correct. Pledges: the one for the other.
[Amercement excused] from Hugh de Burg, pauper, for narrowing the road leading to the mill by a width of three feet. Pledge: William Braciator. Order to correct.
The same regarding William Wrau for the same. Pauper. Order to correct.
6 d. each from Simon Chacede and Ralph Clericus, pledges of Robert Chaceden the Cook, for his failure to unblock the lade he obstructed to the nuisance of Roger Cocus. Pledge for Simon: John Norman. Pledge for Ralph: William Braciator. Order to correct.
6 d. from Roger Cocus for appropriating land from the lane called Perunnelles Lane. Pledge: Alan le Tanur.
6 d. from Robert Chacede the Cook for unjustly knocking down Peter le Lavender's hedge. Pledge: Thomas the man of the Reeve. [7]
6 d. from Ralph Cler' for obstructing one lade and building an additional room, to the nuisance of Katherine de Celario. Pledge: William ad Petram. (Order to correct.)
6 d. from Stephen de Wyntonia for appropriating land from the property of Roger Prat and from the meadow of Wendeleslythe, [8] two feet wide and a whole furlong in length. (Order to correct.)
[No amercement] from the Sacristan of Ramsey for appropriating one lade at the head of the vill by planting trees there where the men of the vill [Blank.] (To be discussed.)
[No amercement] from the Almoner for making one lade extending from Ashbeach [9] to Wrongebech, planting trees there and appropriating land from the common pasture. (To be discussed.)
[No amercement] from the same Almoner for obstructing one ditch in the vicinity of his alder ground which makes it impossible for the men of the vill to journey there with their boats. (To be discussed.)
[No amercement] from Agnes le Vanneresse for appropriating land from one lade opposite her house six feet in width and from one ditch to the other ditch in length. (Order to correct.)
6 d. from Walter de Halywell for narrowing the lade opposite his house and for narrowing the King's road opposite the front of his house to an amount of three feet. Pledge: John Botty. (Order to correct.)
[No amercement] from the Cellarer of Ramsey and his men for making a bridge at Beaupre too narrow for boats to pass, and for erecting a weir there, to nuisance. (To be discussed.)
[Amercement excused] from Sarah ad Petram, pauper, for making a chase with her animals at New Field [10] where no one should be unless he has any beast under control. (Order to correct.)
6 d. from Roger Prat for the same. Pledge: John de London. (Order to correct.)
6 d. from Roger Pellipar for the same. Pledge: Thomas le Revesman. (Order to correct.)
6 d. from Geoffrey de Hauvyle, householder, for not being in tithing. Order that he be distrained by his body.
6 d. from Richard Long for the same.
6 d. from John de Mildenhale for the same.
Memorandum that Alan Leaute is the pledge of Stephen son of Robert de Hocton for coming and presenting himself in the [court] of the Lord King at Hatton.
6 d. from Agnes le Revere for receiving Ralph Balle, kitchen boy, [11] contrary to the assize.
[6 d.] from John Norman for receiving Richard de Suho. Pledge: Alan le Tanur Junior.
[No amercement recorded] from William de Wenyton for receiving, contrary to custom, [12] prostitutes [13] and strangers who frequently raised the hue and cry, to the terror of the vill. Pauper.
(Order that no one receive the above.)
Presentment that Thomas son of Lucia de Len wrongfully [14] took and received small groups of geese and hens, as a matter of custom, [15] and that he did this at Upwood and Wistow. (To be discussed at Ramsey.)
[No amercement] from Margery Nothing, pauper, for receiving contrary to the assize.
6 d. from Hugh Dunch for unjustly raising the hue and cry on Reginald Muntabon, who had done nothing against him but had come to guard his balliwick.
6 d. from Nicholas le Peddere for receiving William de Scotia. Pledge: William Powel. (To be discussed.)
Presentment [16] that Stephen de [....] [17] sold four and a half millenaria from Middle Moor [18] worth 12 s. 6 d.[.....], [19] John Norman [sold] a half millenarium worth 2 s. 6 d. Pledge: William Braciator. Robert Baron sold a half millenarium worth 5 s. Pledge: William de Ravele. (To be discussed.)
Memorandum that a millenarium is worth a half-mark.
Presentment concerning Elias le Catur and Gatte Bidd[...] [20]for one millenarium worth 5 s., for which they vouch the Cellarer to warrant. Pledge: Robert Chacede, cleric. (To be discussed.)
Presentment that Lord William le Moyne, John de Ravele and Alan Cocus do not have common in Middle Moor [21] and that they all make destruction, specifically Lord William concerning 12 millenaria. (To be discussed.)
6 d. from Godfrey Andreu for receiving a certain mower in Middle Moor. [22] Pledge: Alan le Tanur Junior.
[No amercement] from Elias le Tanur, pauper, for keeping fire in a small cottage, to danger. [23] Pledge: John Beureper.
6 d. from Nicholas [...], [24] [No amercement] from Thomas son of Serle, pauper, 6 d. each from Richard de Borewell and John Tutseins, and [No amercement] from Peter Carectarius, pauper, for the same.
[No amercement] from the Cellarer of Ramsey for narrowing the road at Cole Lane [25] by digging. (To be discussed.)
Order to distrain the wife of Robert le Turner for having a stable and dung heap in the common, to nuisance. (To be discussed.)
Presentment that Gileman [and] Alexander de Assebech are naifs and make themselves free, and [also] Adam de Weston, carpenter, Gerbert le Turber, Robert de Orlyens, John son of Stephen and Simon, his brother, John de Ravele, carpenter, and Richard le Lavender, who bought a certain messuage, which is seized into the lord's hands.
Presentment that all the bakers kept the assize of bread, but [the jurors] say nothing about weights.
Order to correct a purpresture from one hedge made by Agnes la Vaneresse against Ralph Note.
[No amercement] from the Lord Abbot for enclosing a ditch and the hedges at Alfuerychesgatehale where the men of the vill ought to have a road to their common with their animals. To be discussed.
[No amercement] from the Cellarer of Ramsey for failing to correct a ditch he made in the King's road called Beteristrete.
Presentment that the watercourse has been rendered a nuisance by a wall which the Lord Abbot raised at Aluerychesgate le bole.
[No amercement] from the Almoner of Ramsey for failing to correct a ditch he made between the park of Bury and the common, so that the men of the vill cannot journey to the marsh with their animals.
[No amercement] from Philip de Elesworth for appropriating to himself a certain alder grove next to the bridge of Bury, which is and should be the common pasture of the whole vill.
Presentment that the Lord Abbot assarted a certain alder grove called Bury Fen [26] and made there a separate park where the men of the vill, at all times of the year, ought to have common for their animals.
Notes
1. 12 January, 1280.
2. Alanus" written twice.
3. Deleted: uxor.
4. MS: homo prepositi.
5. 2 February.
6. MS: Parkdych.
7. MS: homo prepositi.
8. MS: Wendeleslythe.
9. MS: Assebech.
10. MS: Neufeld.
11. MS: focarius.
12. MS: ex consuetudine.
13. MS: meretrices.
14. MS: male modo.
15. MS: ex consuetudine.
16. This entry is badly damaged, whole lines being obliterated.
17. Obliterated.
18. MS: Middelmer.
19. Obliterated.
20. Obliterated.
21. MS: Middelmor.
22. MS: Midelmor.
23. MS: ad periculum.
24. Obliterated.
25. MS: Colane.
26. MS: Byrisfen.