Volume 1
History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster / By Edward Baines ... The biographical department by W.R. Whatton.
- Edward Baines
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster / By Edward Baines ... The biographical department by W.R. Whatton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![II. Drenches. 82 The History of the doned, and were to have a Scutagium from the tenants. They were scutifert, and attended not on the Lord in the field. “ Tapera SocMAnriA.—The Oath of Fealty for Soccage Tenure, 17 Edw. II. was as follows :— ‘¢ Hear me, my Lord K., I, A.B. will bear faith and loyalty to you for the lands I hold of << you, and I will justly performe the Customes which I ought to do to you at times appointed. ‘< So help me God, and his holy Angels.” And so shall kisse the Book. « Socmanria, Cortera, Customaris.—Curtillum est parva curtis predictam signat rusticam cum adscriptitis predys, (Curtillum is a small curtis (house) with lands attached to it.) Curtis est mansio ad inhabitandum cum terris et possessionibus pertinentibus, (is a small house to dwell in, with lands and possessions belonging to it.) And the inhabitants are cald cottari or nativi, who have country habitations at the Lord’s pleasure, and are cald customary tenants, and hold in Bondagio per voluntatem curie seu manerij, (in Bondage by the will of the Court or Manor,) or in villenage, which properly signify the service due from a villain, i.e. conditioni colo- nario pro vel vide adscriptio glebe.* « Natrvus—lIs taken from him that is born Servus. “ Bonpi—Are those qui pactionis vinculo se astrinxerunt in servitutem, (who have tied themselves to servitude by a bond of agreement,) for Bondi, in Latin, vinculum (a bond), Bondi are quasi astricti nuncupantur, (are so called as if bound.) Extent. terr. et tent Dom. D. Lanc. 26. Edw. 3. Altcar. “ VitLaANni—are those qui glebe ascripti, (who being ascribed, enrolled, or registered of the glebe,) till the Lord’s domains; nor can depart from thence without the Lord’s permission. They are called villani from their living in the country, and they for the most part are exercised in operibus sordidis. “ Nativi.—Most of the nativi held a small quantity of land, thereupon cald cotary (cottagers), for which yearly they paid a rent, as likewise pro operibus falca- tione pratorum Domini, (for performing services in mowing the, Lord’s meadows,) and pro focali ad domum sewaulam Di, pro casis ad maremium pro edificiis domorum aut castri dni, (for firing (fuel) to the house or hall [to bring] timber for the building of the Lord’s house or castle); neither cold they marry their daughter, or suffer their son to be shorn a monk—he shall be prepositus (perhaps overlooker, in this place) of his Lord’s manor rustic, when he is elected thereunto, requiring nothing for his pay. They are to plow, harrow, reape the Lord’s corn, and bring it to his barn, and pay marchet for their daughter’s marriage. ‘‘ DRENCHES ad soccagium pertinent, (Drenches belong to soccage,) Domesday Book, Cestrescer, (between Ribble and Mersey.) Rogerius Pictavensis tenuit * Not intelligibly quoted.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33521682_0001_0116.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
