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PRESIDENT.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

SIR H. C. MAXWELL LYTE, K.C.B., M.A., F.S.A., Deputy Keeper of the

Public Records. SIR JAMES H. RAMSAY, BART.

COMMITTEE.

WILLIAM BROWN, ESQ.

WILLIAM FARRER, ESQ.

EDWIN FRESHFIELD, ESQ., LL.D., F.S.A.

SIR C. E. H. CHADWYCK HEALEY, K.C.B., K.C., F.S.A.

WILLIAM ALEX. LINDSAY, ESQ., K.C., Windsor Herald.

J. H. ROUND, ESQ., LL.D.

SIR G. F. WARNER, D. Litt, F.S.A., Manuscript Department, British Museum.

AUDITORS.

W. H. RYLANDS, ESQ., F.S.A. WILLIAM PAGE, ESQ., F.S.A.

HONORARY TREASURER.

EDWIN FRESHFIELD, ESQ., LL.D., F.S.A.

HONORARY SECRETARY.

CHARLES TRICE MARTIN, ESQ., B.A., F.S.A.

RULES.

I. — The Society shall be called " THE PIPE ROLL SOCIETY. "

II. — It shall have for its primary object the publication of the Pipe Rolls of the reign of Henry the Second ; but all National Manuscripts of a date prior to the year A.D. 1200 will be dealt with in the order of their importance.

III. — The Governing Body shall consist of a President, two Vice- Presidents, and a Committee of at least Twenty Members (with power to add to their number) ; and the Secretary and Treasurer shall be ex officio Members of the Committee. Three Members shall form a quorum. In case of equality of votes, the Chairman shall have a casting vote.

IV. — The Annual Subscription shall be One Guinea, payable in advance, and due on the 1st of June in each year.

V. — No work shall be supplied to any Member unless his Sub- scription for the year has been paid.

VI. — An Annual General Meeting shall be held, at which the Accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the Society shall be presented, and the same shall be printed and issued to the Members, together with a Report of the work done and in progress.

VII. — At the General Meeting it shall be open to any Member of the Society to nominate another Member to be placed on the Committee, subject to the approval of the Committee for the time being ; but at least one month's notice of such intention shall be given in writing to the Secretary.

PREFACE.

The present volume, Vol. XXXII, contains the Pipe Roll for the twenty-ninth year of the reign of King Henry II., collated with the Chancellor's Roll for the same year, preceded by an introduction contributed by Mr. Round, for which as well as for those in former volumes, the Committee here expresses its hearty thanks to Mr. Round.

It is issued in return for the subscriptions paid for the year ending on 1st June, 1911.

The Roll is printed, as resolved by the General Meeting on 16th June, 1903, in extenso, instead of in Record type, as in previous volumes.

The rules drawn up by the Committee on 25th August, 1903, for the transcriber, are as follows : —

Rules of Copying.

1. The Latin to be extended, with the exceptions hereafter noted.

2. I and J, U and V, to be written according to sound in ordinary words : to be copied as in the MS. in names of persons and places.

3. Figures to be in Roman numerals, as in the Roll, with a full stop before and after. L. s. d. to be printed in italic, e.g. .vj. /. .xiij. s. et .iiij. d.

4. Christian names to be extended when there is no doubt ; or when the evidence of the Roll itself or of one nearly the same date is available. Otherwise, copy the MS. and add an apostrophe.

5. F, not ph, in names like Radulfus.

6. Place-names and surnames in Latin to be extended. In English, not to be extended, with a final '.

7. Capitals to be used for proper names ; for institutions, such as Cancellaria, Scaccarium, when the mention is of sufficient importance to be indexed ; for titles such as Rex, Archiepiscopus, Cancellarius, Comes, when alone, that is, not followed by a name, and when the mention will be indexed.

8. Erasures, cancellations, corrections, and interlineations, to be mentioned in footnotes.

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9. Different readings in the Chancellor's Roll only to be noted when important, or when giving a name in full, which is abbreviated in the Pipe Roll.

10. Reddit Compotum, to be copied redd. comp.

In the preface to volume .XXIX. p. viij. there are a few remarks about the extension of contracted words. In connection with them the following instances in the present volume are worth noting for the sake of explaining apparent inconsistencies. It is there stated that no word occurs which must needs be read concelamentum. In the present volume the word occurs several times. * In justification of what is said about the words Murdr' conceV, the latter word is extended concelato on this Pipe Roll once.* Juslida has hitherto been almost invariably used as meaning justiciary, but justiciarius is the more usual word in this volume,3 though justicia is found as well.4 The words in the same phrase sometimes vary. For instance, the last word of pro militibus quos non rccognovit 5 is occasionally written recognoscit, 6 though usually it might be extended either way, being merely recogn'. Grammar varies. On the same page we find habendis tenementis and ducendi bladum. 7

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

For 1883-4, three volumes :—

I. The Pipe Roll of the Fifth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1158-9

(9 rotulets).

II. The Pipe Roll of the Sixth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1159-60 (7 rotulets).

III. Introduction to the Study of the Pipe Rolls.

For 1884-5, two volumes : —

IV. The Pipe Roll of the Seventh year of King Henry II., A.D. 1160-1

(9 rotulets).

V. The Pipe Roll of the Eighth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1161-2 (7 rotulets).

For 1885-6, two volumes : —

VI. The Pipe Roll of the Ninth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1162-3

(7 rotulets). VII. The Pipe Roll of the Tenth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1163-4

(7 rotulets).

For 1886-7, one volume : —

VIII. The Pipe Roll ot the Eleventh year of King Henry II., A.D. 1164-5 (ii rotulets).

i. PP. 5, 60, us, 133- 2. p. 102. 3. See pp. 23, 38, 55. 4. See pp. 51, 105, 139. 5- P- 8. 6. p. 162. 7. p. 10.

PREFACE. IX

For 1887-8, two volumes : —

IX. The Pipe Roll of the Twelfth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1165-6

(10 rotulets). X. Ancient Charters prior to A.D. 1200. (69 Charters).

For 1888-9, one volume :—

XI. The Pipe Roll of the Thirteenth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1166-7 (13 rotulets).

For 1889-90, two volumes :—

XII. The Pipe Roll of the Fourteenth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1167-8 (14 rotulets).

XIII. The Pipe Roll of the Fifteenth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1168-9

(12 rotulets).

For 1890-1, one volume : —

XIV. Three Rolls of the King's Court, Richard I., 1194-5.

For 1891-2, one volume : —

XV. The Pipe Roll of the Sixteenth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1169-70 (n rotulets).

For 1892-3, one volume :—

XVI. The Pipe Roll of the Seventeenth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1170-1 (9 rotulets).

For 1893-4, two volumes : —

XVII. Feet of Fines, preserved in the Public Record Office, from A.D. 1182

to A.D. 1196. (225 Feet of Fines).

XVIII. The Pipe Roll of the Eighteenth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1171-2 (10 rotulets).

For 1894-5, one volume : —

XIX. The Pipe Roll of the Nineteenth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1172-3 (12 rotulets).

For 1895-6, two volumes : —

XX. Feet of Fines, preserved in the Public Record Office, of the Seventh and

Eighth years of King Richard I., A.D. 1196-7. (192 Feet of Fines). XXI. The Pipe Roll of the Twentieth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1173-4 (10 rotulets).

For 1896-7, one volume : —

XXII. The Pipe Roll of the Twenty-first year of King Henry II., A.D. 1174-5 (12 rotulets).

For 1897-8, one volume : —

XXIII. Feet of Fines, preserved in the Public Record Office, of the Ninth year

of the reign of King Richard I., A.D. 1197-8. (210 Feet of Fines).

For 1898-9, one volume : —

XXIV. Feet of Fines, preserved in the Public Record Office, of the Tenth year of

the reign of King Richard I., A.D. 1198-9. (308 Feet of Fines). A Roll of the King's Court, of the reign of King Richard I. (5 mem- branes).

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For 1903-4, one volume :—

XXV. The Pipe Roll of the Twenty-second year of King Henry II., A.D. 1175-6 (14 rotulets).

For 1904-5, one volume : —

XXVI. The Pipe Roll of the Twenty-third year of King Henry II., A.D, 1176-7 (12 rotulets).

For 1905-6, one volume : —

XXVII. The Pipe Roll of the Twenty-fourth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1177-8 (9 rotulets).

For 1906-7, one volume : —

XXVIII. The Pipe Roll of the Twenty-fifth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1178-9 (10 rotulets).

For 1907-8, one volume : —

XXIX. The Pipe Roll of the Twenty-sixth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1179-80 (ii rotulets).

For 1908-9, one volume : —

XXX. The Pipe Roll of the Twenty-seventh year of King Henry II., A.D. 1180-1 (10 rotulets).

For 1909-10, one volume :—

XXXI. The Pipe Roll of the Twenty-eighth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1181-2 (12 rotulets).

For 1910-11, one volume : —

XXXII. The Pipe Roll of the Twenty-ninth year of King Henry II., A.D. 1182-3

(13 rotulets).

The report of the auditor relating to the receipts and expenditure during the year 1910 is annexed.

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LIST OF MEMBERS.

AMHBRST OF HACKNEY, The Baroness, Didlington Hall, Northwold, Stoke Ferry. S.O.,

Norfolk. ARMITAGE, Mrs., Westholm, Rawdon, near Leeds.

BAER & Co., Messrs., Joseph, Frankfort a/M (per Messrs. Epstein Brothers, 10 Hosier

Lane, West Smithfield, London, E.G.). BALTIMORE, U.S.A., PEABODY INSTITUTE (per E.G. Allen & Son, Limited, 14 Grape

Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C.).

BANGOR, THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NORTH WALES (per the Librarian). BAYARD, Francis Campbell, Esq., Cotswold, Wallington, Surrey. BERLIN ROYAL LIBRARY (per Messrs. Asher & Co., 14 Bedford Street, Covent Garden,

London, W.C.).

BERTODANO, B. de, Esq., 22 Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W. BIRMINGHAM FREE LIBRARY, Ratcliff Place, Birmingham (per A. Capel Shaw, Esq.,

Chief Librarian).

BOLTON PUBLIC LIBRARY (per Archibald Sparke, Esq., Librarian), Bolton. BOSTON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY (per Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner & Co.,

43 Gerrard Street, Soho, W.). NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, 18 Somerset Street,

Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

BRIERLEY, Henry, Esq., Thornhill, Wigan. BHISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY (per Hon. Secretary and

Librarian, The Museum, Gloucester). BROWN, William, Esq., The Old House, Sowerby, Thirsk, Yorks.

CAMBRIDGE, TRINITY COLLEGE, Library of (per Messrs. Deighton, Bell & Co., Trinity

Street, Cambridge). CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, Cambridge (Francis J. H. Jenkinson, Esq., M.A.,

Librarian). CAMBRIDGE, The Squire Law Library (per Messrs. Bowes and Bowes, i Trinity Street,

Cambridge).

CARDIFF, The Central Library (Harry Farr, Esq. Librarian). CHAMBERLAYNE, Major Tankerville James, Government House, Cyprus (care of Messrs.

Holt, Laurie & Co., 3 Whitehall Place, S.W.). CHESTER FREE LIBRARY (per Ernest H. Caddie, Esq., Librarian, St. John Street,

Chester).

CHICAGO, NEWBERRY LIBRARY, U.S.A. (Jesse L. Moss, Esq., Secretary). CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF (per Messrs. Stevens & Brown, 4 Trafalgar Square, W.C.).

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CHORLTON, Thomas, Esq., 32 Brazenose Street, Manchester.

CHRISTIANIA UNIVERSITY (A. C. Drolsum, Esq., Chief Librarian, Cammermeyers

Boghandel, Karl Johans Gade, 41-43, Kristiana). COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY (per Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 24 Bedford Street,

Strand, W.C.). COPENHAGEN, ROYAL LIBRARY OF (per Mr. Francis Edwards, 75 High Street, Mary-

lebone, W.).

CORBETT, John Stuart, Esq., Pwll-y-pant, Cardiff. CORBETT, William J., Esq., M.A., King's College, Cambridge. CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y. (per E. G. Allen & Son, Ltd., 14 Grape Street,

Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C.).

DAVIS, H. W. C., Esq., Balliol College, Oxford.

DOWNSIDE ABBEY, the Librarian of, Stratton on the Fosse near Bath (per Messr. Geo.

Harding, 64 Great Russell Street, W.C.). DUBLIN, LIBRARY OF THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF THE KING'S INNS.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND (per Messrs. Hodges, Figgis & Co., 104 Grafton

Street, Dublin). ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin (Grenville A. J. Cole, Esq.,

Librarian).

TRINITY COLLEGE (Rev. T. K. Abbott, D.D., Librarian). DUIGNAN, W. H., Esq., Gorway House, Walsall. DURHAM, LIBRARY OF THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF (Rev. Canon Greenwell, Librarian).

EDINBURGH, ADVOCATES' LIBRARY (David Renton, Esq., Keeper). SIGNET LIBRARY (John Minto, Esq., M.A., Librarian).

FARRER, W., Esq., Hall Garth, Carnforth, Lanes. FOSTER, Rev. C. W., Timberland Vicarage, Lincolnshire.

FRESHFIELD, Edwin, Esq., LL.D., F.S.A. (Hon. Treasurer), New Bank Buildings, 31 Old Jewry, B.C.

GLADSTONE, Robert, Esq., junior, Woolton Vale, Liverpool. GLASGOW, MITCHELL LIBRARY (per F. T. Barrett, Esq., 21 Miller Street). GOTTINGEN UNIVERSITY, LIBRARY OF (per Messrs. Asher & Co., 14 Bedford Street Covent Garden, W.C.).

HALLE UNIVERSITY, Library of (per Herr Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig ; per Messrs

W. Wesley & Son, 28 Essex Street, Strand, W.C.). HARDING, George, 64 Great Russell Street, W.C. HARRASSOWITZ, Herr Otto, Leipzig (per Messrs. W. Wesley & Son, 28 Essex Street,

Strand, W.C.). HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Library of, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. (per Messrs. E. G. Allen

& Son, 14 Grape Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C.).

HEALEY, Sir C. E. H. Chadwyck, K.C.B., K.C., F.S.A., Wyphurst, Cranleigh, Surrey. HEAPE, Charles, Esq., Hartley, High Lane, via Stockport, Cheshire. HUGHES, H. R., Esq., Kinmel Park, Abergele, North Wales.

ILLINOIS, University of (per Messrs. G. E. Stechert & Co., 2 Star Yard, Carey Street, Chancery Lane, W.C.).

JOYCE, The Hon. Sir Matthew I., 16 Great Cumberland Place, London, W. KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Maidstone.

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LANCASTER, W. T., Esq., 7 Clarendon Place, Mount Preston, Leeds.

LAWRENCE, Laurie Asher, Esq., F.R.C.S., 51 Belsize Park, N.W.

LEEDS LIBRARY, Commercial Street, Leeds (D. A. Cruse, Esq., M.A., Librarian).

LEEDS PUBLIC LIBRARY, Leeds (Thomas \V. Hand, Esq., Librarian).

LINDSAY, W. A. Esq., K. C., Windsor Herald, College of Arms.

LIVERPOOL FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY, William Brown Street, Liverpool (Peter Cowell,

Esq., Librarian). LONDON, SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W.

(C. R. Peers, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., Secretary).

ATHENAEUM CLUB, Library of (Henry R. Tedder, Esq., Librarian), Pall Mall, S.W. BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY (per Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner & Co.,

43 Gerrard Street, Soho, W.). BRITISH MUSEUM, Department of Manuscripts.

HOUSE OF COMMONS LIBRARY (per Wyman and Sons, Ltd., 109 Fetter Lane, B.C.). THE LAW SOCIETY (S.P.B. Bucknill, Esq., Secretary), Law Society Hall, Chancery

Lane, W.C.

LINCOLN'S INN LIBRARY (A. F. Etheridge, Esq., Librarian). CORPORATION OF LONDON, Library of, Guildhall, E.C. (Bernard Kettle, Esq.,

Librarian). LONDON LIBRARY, 12 St. James's Square, S.W. (C. T. Hagberg Wright, Esq.,

LL.D., Secretary).

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE LIBRARY (per Wyman and Sons, Ltd., 109 Fetter Lane, E.C.). REFORM CLUB, Pall Mall, S.W. (W. R. B. Prideaux, Esq., Librarian). ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY (H. E. Maiden, Esq., Secretary), 7 South Square,

Gray's Inn, W.C.

SIGN COLLEGE LIBRARY, Victoria Embankment, E.C.

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Messrs. H. Butterworth & Co., 12 Bell Yard, Temple Bar, W.C.). H. M. TREASURY, WHITEHALL, LIBRARY OF (per Wyman & Sons, Ltd., 109 Fetter

Lane, E.C.).

LONGSTAFF, G. B., Esq., Highlands, Putney Heath, S.W.

LYTE, Sir H. C. Maxwell, K.C.B., M.A., F.S.A., Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (Vice-President), Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, W.C.

MANCHESTER, CHETHAM'S LIBRARY, Hunt's Bank. (Walter T. Browne, Esq.).

PUBLIC FREE LIBRAIRIES (Charles W. Suttonj Esq., Librarian), King Street,

Manchester.

THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY (H. Guppy, Esq., Librarian), Deansgate, Manchester. THE VICTORIA UNIVERSITY, Library of (Chas. Leigh, Esq., Librarian), (per Messrs.

J. E. Cornish, 16 St. Anne's Square, Manchester). MARTIN, Charles Trice, Esq., B.A., F.S.A., (Honorary Secretary), North Croft, Wooburn

Green, Bucks. MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, South Hadley, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Miss Blakely,

Librarian). MURRAY, Dr. David, 169, West George Street, Glasgow.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE PUBLIC LIBRAIRIES, New Bridge Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

(Basil Anderton, Esq., B.A., Librarian).

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY (Messrs. Stevens & Brown, 4 Trafalgar Square, W.C.). NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY, Albany, New York, U.S.A. (Messrs. G. E. Stechert & Co.

2 Star Yard, Carey Street, Chancery Lane, W.C.). NORTHUMBERLAND, His Grace the Duke of, &c. (per J. C. Hodgson, Esq., Librarian,

Alnwick Castle).

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NORWICH FREE LIBRARY (Llewellyn R. Haggerston, Esq., Librarian). NOTTINGHAM FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY, Nottingham (J. Potter Briscoe, Esq., F.R.S.L. Librarian).

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140 Strand, W.C.).

RAMSAY, Sir James H., Bart. (Vice-President), Bamff, Alyth, N.B.

READING FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY (W. H. Greenhough, Esq., Librarian).

ROUND, J. H., Esq., M.A., 15 Brunswick Terrace, Brighton.

ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, THE, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin.

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SALTER, Rev. Herbert E., The Manor House, Dry Sandford, Abingdon.

SEEBOHM, Frederic, Esq., F.S.A., The Hermitage, Hitchin, Herts.

SHERWEN, The Ven. William, Archdeacon of Westmoreland, Dean Rectory,

Cockermouth.

SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Taunton. STOCKHOLM, Royal Library of (care of Messrs. W. Wesley & Son, 28 Essex Street,

Strand, W.C.).

STRASSBURG UNIVERSITY, Library of, Strassburg. SWEET AND MAXWELL, Ltd., 13 Chancery Lane, W.C.

TAIT, James, Esq., 9 Beaconsfield, Withington, Manchester.

TAYLOR, Rev. Thomas, The Vicarage, St. Just-in-Penwith, Cornwall.

TEMPEST, Mrs., Broughton Hall, Skipton, Yorks.

TORONTO UNIVERSITY (per Messrs. C. D. Cazenove & Sons, 26 Henrietta Street,

Covent Garden, W.C.).

TOUT, T. F., Esq., 21 Mauldeth Road, Withington, Manchester. TRITTON, J. H., Esq., Lyons Hall, Great Leighs, Chelmsford.

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THE GREAT ROLL OF THE PIPE

FOR THE

TWENTY-NINTH YEAR OF THE REIGN

OF

KING HENRY THE SECOND

A.D. Il82-Il83

THE

GREAT ROLL OF THE PIPE

FOR THE

TWENTY-NINTH YEAR OF THE REIGN

OF

KING HENRY THE SECOND

A.D. Il82-Il8

NOW FIRST PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL IN THE CUSTODY OF

THE RIGHT HON. THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COUNCIL OF

THE PIPE ROLL SOCIETY

LONDON

PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY BY

THE ST. CATHERINE PRESS LTD.

1911

INTRODUCTION

The King, who had spent the latter half of the previous fiscal year abroad, was detained there throughout the whole of that which is covered by the present roll. The demands of his graceless sons and their rivalry between themselves caused him continual anxiety and kept him marching and counter-marching through his continental dominions. To this absence reference is made in entries of payment for respite of pleas 'donee Rex veniat in Angliam ' (pp. 30, 61, 116), but more significant are the charges made for the transport of treasure from Southampton at Easter and at Whitsuntide, in August and in September (pp. 148-9). It was England's function then, as under his son and successor, to supply the money needed for warfare beyond the Channel. At home, under the strong rule of Glanvill, the great justiciar, peace was preserved ; but the King was at one time so alarmed at the prospect of a fresh general revolt that he sent orders to seize the earl of Leicester, who had been a leading rebel on the previous occasion. This accounts for the entries on the roll (pp. 40, 153-4) recording the issues of the earl's lands, which had thus come into the hands of the King at Whitsuntide. From them an allowance was made to the earl for his keep and for his clothes, three shillings a day being also allowed for the countess, her daughter and her servants, beginning in April (p. 75). Echoes of the previous rising will be found under Northamptonshire (p. 121).

It is evident that the King still relied largely on the royal castles for the security of his realm. Pre-eminent, as on the previous roll, is the great fortress rising at Dover, on which no less than _£483-10-0 was expended this year, doubtless under the supervision of ' Maurice the engineer ', whose pay to again accorded (p. 160). Money was spent, as in the previous year, on (the castle at) ' New Hastings,' the massive keep of Colchester, and ' the tower of Northampton. ' The Tower of London is only mentioned as a gaol.

Money, however, was forthcoming also for the King's ' aula ' at Clarendon, for the work in Sussex, on the castle, chapel, and ' chamber '

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at Arundel, and on the ' chamber ' and kitchen at Stanstead, and for the cellar at Silverstone, one of his Northamptonshire hunting seats. For his wine he did not depend, like the archbishops of York (p. 59), on any English vineyard ; it came by sea to Southampton, where it was stored in cellars, and then carted, as in this year, to Clarendon, Marlborough and Ludgershall (pp. 129, 141, 148).

Money was also still required for the three promised religious houses, Waltham abbey, Amesbury nunnery, and the Somerset Charterhouse at Witham. We have, for instance, three entries of county revenues charged with fifty marcs each for the work at Waltham, while those of Dorset and Somerset were charged with ,£40 and those of Berkshire with forty marcs for that at Amesbury. The Carthusian brethren received £30 from those of Devon for their food and for the work at Witham, and ten marcs for their clothing. The material needed for these houses illustrates the transport system of the time. The lead for Waltham Abbey came, as before, from Yorkshire and was shipped from Yarm to Stratford at the mouth of the Lea valley ; for Amesbury the lead was brought from Shrewsbury to Gloucester, doubtless down the Severn, while the timber, felled in the weald of Sussex, was shipped from Lewes, then a port, to Southampton.

Prominent on the roll of this year are two great circuits of judges, the results of which it records. The eyre for the northern portion of the kingdom was conducted by Thomas Fitz Bernard, Robert de Witefeld, and Alan ' de Furnellis ', by whom pleas were held in Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland, the county of Lancaster, Yorkshire, Lincoln- shire, Derbyshire and Notts, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Leicestershire. They also sat at York and Carlisle. The southern eyre was that of Roger Fitz Reinfred, William Ruffus, and Michael Belet, who visited Northants, Hunting- donshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, * Essex and Herts, f Beds and Bucks, Berkshire, Surrey, London and Middlesex, Sussex, and Hampshire. In addition to these there seems to have been a south- western circuit, the great Glanvill visiting Dorset, Somerset, and Corn- wall in conjunction with Michael Belet, and Devonshire possibly by himself.

Rutland was doubtless part of the southern circuit, being visited by Roger Fitz Reinfred l et socios suos.' Some counties are more doubtful. Wiltshire, between the southern and south-western circuits, was, appar- ently, not visited.

Are we to add Gloucestershire to the circuit of the northern justices ? The roll names, under that county, Thomas Fitz Bernard alone as holding

* A fine relating to St. Edmund's was levied before them at Norwich at the opening of the fiscal year.

t The Pipe Roll adds the name of Thomas Fitz Bernard for these two counties, but the Chancellor's roll omits it and that of William Ruffus as well.

INTRODUCTION XXV

nova placitci; there is no mention even of his 'socii.' But there happens to be forthcoming the transcript of a fine levied at Gloucester in March '1182' before all the three justices of this circuit, which proves that here also they must have sat together. The point is of some im- portance, for on the roll of two years earlier (27 Hen. II) Ranulf de Glanvill is similarly named alone as holding nova placita in Lincolnshire (p. 59) ; yet, as I have elsewhere shown, a fine of the previous December shows us four colleagues sitting with him at Lincoln. *

The case of Oxfordshire is peculiar. Close collation with the previous roll proves that the pleas entered on p. 102 are those which had been held in the previous year by Roger Fitz Reinfred, William Basset, Michael Belet, and Robert de Witefeld, but that the entries ' de oblatis curie ' on p. 103 are all fresh. So too in Kent we have no eyre, but the important entries of pleas 'at the Exchequer' on pp. 158-9 are all new.

Wace, who wrote in Henry's reign, may well have had in mind the pleas recorded on these rolls when he described the harassed peasantry of Normandy in an earlier age.

Tant i a plaintes e quereles E custummes viez e nuveles, Ne poent une hure aveir pais ; Tute jur sunt sumuns as plais, Plaiz de forez, plais de moneies, Plaiz de purposes, plaiz de veies,

Plaiz de defautes, plaiz de toutes. f

'Plais de moneies' are represented by several fines inflicted for offences connected with the recent change of coinage. Reference is made to these offences in the Introduction to the previous roll (pp. XXHI-IV). On the present one we find Henry the Englishman, a Londoner, compelled to pay no less than 200 marcs for keeping dies in his possession after his discharge from the mint and for changing (money) 'contra assisam,' while another Londoner, Henry 'Pineferding', com- promises a ' calumpnia cambii ' for 100 marcs. Cities and towns were in trouble over the same matter; Exeter, which had paid 100 marcs the year before ' pro habendo respectu de inquisitione cambii et assise,' now gives the same amount for further respite ' de placito cambii'; Newcastle, Norwich, and Thetford, Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth are among the towns fined. A Sussex man and three in Cambridgeshire have been similarly changing money ' contra assisam ' ; Roger of Ludlow has been buying and selling with the old coinage ' contra assisam,' and another Herefordshire man, William the moneyer, is fined in connexion with the change of coinage. Minting, we learn, was a duty which a

* Eng. Hist. Review, XII, 296. f Roman de Rou, 11. 841-848.

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man could be called upon to perform ; under Oxfordshire, Walter the linendraper (le Lingedrapier) is fined five marcs ' quia noluit facere monetam domini Regis.'

The salient feature, however, of this year's pleas is the fine, small though it was, inflicted on Hundreds or Wapentakes for murdrum. Next to it, as an offence, comes ' concealment ' or ' concealment of plea.' The names of the Hundreds or Wapentakes amerced occasion- ally deserve study ; thus in Essex, Clavering, Froshwell, and Witham are styled 'half hundreds,' and Hinckford a c hundred and a half,' while the Hundreds of ' West ' Uttlesford and ' South ' Chelmsford suggest that these Hundreds were then divided. J

Two entries are of interest for Exchequer practice. In one (p. 59) we learn that the details of certain receipts from the vacant see of York are set out " in brevi Receptae Thesauri." The reference here is to that receipt roll of the Exchequer which was among the " rotuli receptarum " mentioned in the Dialogus, * and the roll in question exists for 1185 and has been published by the London School of Economics. It is referred to on the Pipe Roll of that year as the ' Breve Receptas Thesauri ' under the account of the revenue from the same vacant see as on the present roll. The other is the entry relating to the ferm of the borough of Wallingford, with regard to which the King had given his decision "in domo thesauri t consumato (sic) Scaccario XXV anni" (p. 139). This appears to refer to the close of the Exchequer session of Michael- mas 1179. The Pipe Roll of that year does not help us, but on that of 1178 we find an entry which explains the matter (p. 99). The account for the ferm of the borough for fourteen years had been held over because the King had granted it at a ferm of .£40 " arsae et pensatae," but accounts in that form were not received at the Exchequer. Part of the accumulated debt was then discharged in ' blanch ' money, but the larger portion was held over " per breve regis donee inde loquatur cum baronibus. " It seems to be to his decision on the subject that the present roll refers. Three reeves (prepositi) of Wallingford had then farmed the town for £40 ' blanch ' a year for three and a half years (p. 138), but Thomas de Druvall accounted for the issues of the borough "ut custos " from May 26 to Michaelmas 1183 (p. 139), his payment representing less than the amount of the ferm. In addition to these two entries we have charges, under London, for the usual payments to the usher of the Exchequer and for the purchase of ' burell ' and of linen cloth " ad scaccarium Baronum."

We again observe how important an item in the royal revenue were fiefs and church lands in the King's hands. From the vacant see of York the treasury received over £1750 net profit this year, which

I The Hundreds of ' Westhudelesford ' and ' NordChelmeresford ' are named on the roll of the 13'" year (pp. 155-6).

* Ed. 1902 (Clarendon Press), p. 107.

t A ' domus thesauri ' in Salisbury castle occurs on the previous roll.

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doubtless accounts for the scandal of its remaining vacant eight years after this. From the revenues of that of Lincoln .£540 was paid in for the first half of the financial year, but Walter de Coutances, elected in May and consecrated in June, was allowed to enjoy them as from Easter. The vacant deanery and prebends and the archdeaconries had all contributed to this amount. On p. 72, the archdeaconry of Northants is separately accounted for during three quarters of the year ; its annual value seems to have been some ^144. The bishopric of Chester had become vacant by the death of Richard Peche a year before this account, but although his successor was not consecrated till Sept. 25, the Crown claimed the revenues for three quarters only.

Of lay fiefs the most interesting is that of Chester, still in the King's hands owing to the earl's minority, because of its exceptional position ; but the revenue from it was not large. Far more valuable were the joint honours of Arundel and Petworth, which the King, for reasons still unknown, was keeping in his own hands. Their gross value was over £526. It should be observed that the earl, though normally styled of Sussex, is once or twice (p. 107) allowed the style of ' Arundel,' as if his right style was in doubt, and that ' Catelington et Chintinges ' (p. 108) must have been Catherington, in the south-east of Hampshire, * one of the manors of the earls, and Chinting in Seaford, Sussex, f Both were then held by Robert ' de Praeriis.' § The Wiltshire lands of Geoffrey de Perche, which had been in the King's hands since his death (appar- ently about Easter 1181), had been made over, in the present year, to his brother, the Count of Perche; but these were only worth £\9 a year ; Newbury the Crown retained. In Essex the manor of Stisted had similarly come to the King on the death of William ' de Alinton ' (of Allington Castle, Kent) owing to his daughter's minority. {

Another important source of revenue is found in such feudal incidents as the great ' fine ' of a thousand marcs for which Fulk Paynel, three years earlier, had obtained the Honour of Bampton. On the present roll (pp. 114, 124) we find an interesting list of the sureties in various counties who were liable for part of the balance due. Only those in Devon and Somerset could belong to the Bampton Honour ; among them were the townships (mllatce) of Bampton, Uffculme, Bridgwater, and Huntspill, which had to contribute over ^£27 between them.

There are many entries on the roll of miscellaneous interest. It is by no means clear why the citizens of Norwich and the burgesses of Cambridge and of Huntingdon should be amerced (inter alia) at this year's eyre ' pro libertatibus suis habendis.' The arrival at Dover of the bishop of Acre (p. 160) reminds us that the sorely pressed Kingdom of

* On the roll of the 26th year it is described as " in dominio Regis " (p. 132). f Compare Testa de Nevill, p. 227. § Compare Liber Rubens, p. 201. J See Rotnlus de Dominabus, p. 38.

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Jerusalem was looking to Henry for help.