• Close Rolls, Richard IINovember 1385

instant prayer the king has granted to him and the heirs male of his body, to be taken of the ancient customs upon wool and woolfells in the port of Lenne in part of the 1,000 l . ( above

• Close Rolls, Henry IVNovember 1411

to suffer the men and tenants of Queen Joan of the manor of Clyve co. Norhampton, which is of the ancient demesne of the crown as appears by a certificate of the treasurer and chamberlains of King Edward III sent

• Close Rolls, Henry VISeptember-November 1431

Bageley, father of Thomas Bageley clerk deceased, was thereof seised, that the said borough is an ancient borough and the said city an ancient city, and according to custom therein used and approved time out of mind all tenements therein

• Close Rolls, Edward IIIDecember 1373

or recognitions without the court of the said castle and manor for lands thereof held, if they are of the ancient demesne of the crown, unless they hold lands of other tenure by reason whereof they ought to be put

• Close Rolls, Richard IIFebruary 1381

. in the pound. Order, upon petition of the merchants of Almain, to take of them over and above the ancient customs previously paid before the date of their charters the customs of 2 s . upon a cloth of

• Close Rolls, Richard IIJuly 1389

rent issuing from lands severally held in fee by divers tenants within the manor of Wachet, which is of the ancient demesne of the crown, delivering up any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by

• Lateran Regesta 6501467

he had faculty for the purpose by public instrument from the then treasurer of York, to whom the presentation by ancient custom belongs, presented the said Thomas to the said bishop William; that Richard Andrewe, dean, and the chapter of

• Close Rolls, Edward III, Part 2May 1343

the price of the sort of the county and 40 s . a sack beyond for the subsidy above the ancient custom of 1/2 mark, to wit, in co. Somerset 126 sacks, in co. Southampton 88 sacks, in co. Dorset

• XXICharter of James II regarding erecting of Glasgow into a regality (1450)

free ish a nd entry, bludewits, hereyelds and marchets of women, with free forest and warren, with fees, forfeitures and ancient rights consuetudes and customs, and with justice and chamberlain ayres and their issues, ports and passages, with chapel, in

• Plea Rolls for StaffordshireIntroduction

and tallages without the assent of the whole realm ( par commun assent de tut le royeume ), saving the ancient aids and prises due and accustomed, which would be the aids such as scutage due by tenure, and the

• IntroductionDating

the characteristic that Blackstone noticed in their sturdy ancestors. (3) Modern equivalents of ancient dates. For the convenience of the reader the modern equivalen ts of the ancient forms of date have been given, for it is not every one

• The Memoranda of John Wood, Town ClerkIntroduction

such an officer has yet been found in documents of earlier date, the office of Town Clerk is a very ancient one. Case II. deals with the election of Capital Burgesses and Aldermen of the Borough, and gives extracts from

• Venice1504

the Signory in place of Valentinois-an irreverent and most cruel tyrant, of whose fellow no record exists in any history, ancient or modern; notwithstanding which, the Pope at the suggestion of bad men, lays blame on the Republic, which has

• Close Rolls, Edward IIIDecember 1342

ancient custom of 1/2 mark a sack, as with the assent of the council the king assigned to him 2731/2 sacks of the wool apportioned in co. Northampton for the present year at 111/2 marks the sack beyond the

• Close Rolls, Edward IIIJune 1352

the last biennial and triennial tenths, and paid the same, and that they were discharged of the residue of the ancient tax upon them, then to direct the collectors of the triennial fifteenth now current in the county of Southampton

• Close Rolls, Richard IIDecember 1390

marks a year of the ancient customs upon wool and woolfells in the said port from Mich aelmas 9 Richard II, and at his prayer, because for divers causes he might not of the ancient customs be contented of 1,000

• Close Rolls, Edward IIIOctober 1346

tun of wine and the said ancient custom which the king has reserved for the fees granted and assigned thereupon, so that after those fees have been paid all the residue of the ancient custom should remain to those merchants,

• Rectors and their timesJohn Abbiss (1819-83)

ecclesiastical rights, and what table of fees they had, they replied that they had an ancient table of all such fees which some of the ancient inhabitants affirmed had long 'sithence' been confirmed by the then Bishop's chancellor which they

• Close Rolls, Richard IIFebruary 1386

ought to be and ever heretofore used to be time out of mind; as the said town is of the ancient demesne of the crown, as it is found by certificate of the treasurer and the chamberlains sent into chancery

• Close Rolls, Henry VINovember 1433

subsidies to be levied in that port and the ports of Melcombe, Exemouth, Dertemouth and Briggewater, in part payment of ancient debts due from the king to him and the men he had upon the safe guard of the duchy