Volume 1

The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset / Compiled from the best and most ancient historians, inquisitions post mortem, and other valuable records and mss. in the public offices, and libraries, and in private hands. With a copy of Domesday book and the Inquisitio Gheldi for the county: interspersed with some remarkable particulars of natural history; and adorned with a correct map of the county, and views of antiquities, seats of the nobility and gentry, &c. By John Hutchins, M.A.

  • John Hutchins
Date:
1774
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Credit: The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset / Compiled from the best and most ancient historians, inquisitions post mortem, and other valuable records and mss. in the public offices, and libraries, and in private hands. With a copy of Domesday book and the Inquisitio Gheldi for the county: interspersed with some remarkable particulars of natural history; and adorned with a correct map of the county, and views of antiquities, seats of the nobility and gentry, &c. By John Hutchins, M.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A little attention to Hoveden’s account of this matter will remove the difficulty arifing from thefe contra- diTory accounts. That writer fays, that at the interview between the emperor and the king at Worms [JVer- mafia], after Michaelmas, it was agreed that the lattej ffiould pay the former 100,000 marks of pure filver Co¬ logne weight, and 50,000 marks more in lieu of the aid he ivas to furnifh for reducing Apulia : the fil'd payment to be made immediately, and hoftages to be given for the payment of the reft to the emperor and the duke of Auftria, viz. 30,000 marks to the former and 20,000 to the latter. But the payment of the 50,000 marks was conditional, and only to take place if the king did not make good his promife to the emperor about Henry late duke of Saxony0. If he did, he was to be quit for the 100,000, and the emperor was to make up 20,000 to the duke of Auftria.P. The diftincf account given by this cotemporary hiftorian is confirmed by the record here printed, which fixes the ranfom at c, e. 100,000 pounds fterling, which Mr. Folkes eftimates at 194,000 b fterling, making the Cologne .weight heavier than, the old Tower pound; but-by the Chamber of Accounts at Paris the Englilh pound was reckoned as heavy as the Cologne b “ The feutage for this fum was raifed at the rate •of 20 s. a knight’s fee upon the greater fees, and 12 s. 6 d. upon the lefier r. The churches both ca¬ thedral and parochi 1 melted down their plate; the bifhops, abbots, earls, and barons gave one fourth of their yearly revenue; the Ciftertians, and monks of the order of Sempringham s, the profits of their wool for one year; and the inferior clergy a tenth of their tythes. All things being fettled for the king’s releafe at Spires on Chriftmas day, A. D. 1194, t^ie emperor had an offer of 50,000 marks of filver from the king of France, and 30,000 from prince John of England to pro¬ long his confinement till Michaelmas, or 1000 pounds of filver per month as long as he pleaied to detain him, or 50,000 marks of filver to give him up to them, or keep him for a year longer. But, policy pre¬ vailing; over intereft, Richard was at laft relealed at Mentz on the Purification of the Virgin Mary, Feb. 2, after giving holtages for the payment of the ref of the ranfom. How much was a&ually paid in hand does not appear, except that Diceto Mays the king gave hoftages for the immediate payment of 10,000 marks. After a confinement of fifteen monthsu, or, as Hoveden molt exaflly Rates it, a year, fix weeks, and three days (during which he was brought to a kind of public trial before the emperorx, but defended himfelf lb well that he was eafily acquitted) Richard returned to his dominions, and landed at Sandwich March 20. e 0 - 0 Henry, furnamed 7he Lion, duke of Saxony, who married Richard’s lifter Matilda, had been difpofleffed of his dominions by the emperor’s father, but on his fubmiffion reftored to part oi them by the prefent emperor. t1 Hoveden, p. 414. s Clarke, on Coins, p. 324, note ’. r Carte, I. 75S, ex Rot. Ncubrig. iv. 38, fays there were three fucceffive levies ot this money. ’ Dieeto calls thefe monachi albi, p.672. Hoveden, p.413, or Jo de Sempringham, Their revenue, as well as that of the Ciftercians, eonlifted in wool. £ P. 672. 0 Bromt. ubiJ'upra. * M. Paris, p. 173; Bromt. 1252, 1253 ; Neub. iv. 33, and had, if we believe Knighton, p. 2408, been expofed to the rage of a hungry lion, whofe heart he tore out, and thereby acquired the name of Cceur Je Lion. Hoveden [p. 412] fays, that by the advice of bis mother Eleanor, he gave up his kingdom to the emperor, who reftored it to him immediately in the prefence of the nobles of Germany and England, to hold of him by payment of 500001. fterling yearly: but before his death he difeharged Richard from this and every other engagement. IN QJJISITIONES fee tempe R.eg’ Joins per totam Angliam anno feilt regni fui xii° 8c xiii in quo- libet Comitatu de ferviciis militum Sc alior’ qui de eo tenent in capite fedum Rotulos libatos Thefaurario per manus Vicecomitu Angl’ tempe pdift’. Dorsete Sc Somers’. Epifcopus Bathon’, xx mil’. Abbas Glafton’, xl mil’. Abbas de Mucheln’, i mil’. Abbatifla de Sco Edwardo, viim. Abb’ de Cerne, ii m. Abb’ de Abbedebyr’, i mil’. Abb’ de Middelton, ..... Abb’ de Sireburn’, ii m.; 8c quintam ptem i ni. Garin’ filius Gerald’, xiiii m. Will’ Malet, xxiirn. 8c dimid’; 8c duas vtas ptes unius m. Niehol’ de Meriet, i m. Philipp’ de Columbar’, xm. Wills de Martini v m. & dimid’; 8c fedm libr’ x fn. & dimid’. Robertus fil’ Pagani, xv m. Henr’ Lunel, xm. Ricus fil’ Willi de Hafelber’, iiim. Sc im. Phillip’ fil’ Rob’, i m. de Com’ War’. Wilts de la More, i ifi. Henr’ de Cultura, i m. Rad’ fil’ Willi de Cumbrebir’ dimid’m. Fulco de Alno, i in. Wandr’ de Curcell, i m. Afcuil de Sulenny, dimid’m. Mauricius de Gant, i m. 8c dimid’. Odo de Wandeftr’, dimid’m. Hubert’ de Burg, xv m. 8c fc’ dnica ii in. Galfr’ Malregard 8c Elias de Boviton, di’ in. Alured’ de Line’, xxiiii m. 8c dim’. Rob’ Belet, i m. Rob’ de Mandeville, 8c terc’ pt’ un’m. Will’ de Anguil’, i m. Robt de Novo Burgo, xv m. Wills de Kahan, iii m. Wills fil’ Rog’ de Lulleword, im. Gilb’ de Say, i m. in Ginele. Jacobus de Novo M’cato, xviim. 8c dimid’ 8c quarta’ ptem un’ mi lit’. Ric’ Lunel junior, ii m. Hugo de Gupdevill, i m. DRAY-