QUEER RENTALS

Evening Star, Issue 23208, 6 March 1939, Page 11

QUEER RENTALS

SOME ROYAL REWARDS During Edward ll.’s reign the manor. of Overall, in the parish of Lis top, was held by John Liston, by the service, of paying for, bringing, _ and .placing five wafers before the king while he sat at dinner on the day of nis coronaKeperland (or Copeland) and Alter-, ton, in Kent, were held in return for the service of holding the king’s.bead when be was seasick! - •• George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, received by royal grant in the twentythird year of the reign of Henry VIII., ■the site and precinct of the monastery of Worksop, with its appurtenances, in the shire of Nottingham, to he held from the king, by the service of the tenth part of a knight’s fee, and by royal service of finding the king a. righthand glove at his coronation, and to ■support his right arm on that day so long-as he should hold the'sceptre in his hand, and paying yearly £23 8s OJd. Jon de'Rockes held the manor of Winterslew, in Wilts, by the service of making a pitcher of claret at the king’s charge, and serving the kyig with a cup of it, taking the vessel, and any wine left in the cup, for himselfSir Osb'ert de Longchamp, knight, held Ovenbelle, in Kent, by the service of following his lord the king in hia ■ army into Wales for 40 days at his own cost, with a horse valued ss, and a sack, worth sixpence, having a needle in it. . ' The manor of Bnncston. in Chester, was held of the king, by the service of finding a man in the king’s army to go into Scotland barefoot, clothed with a shirt and breeches, having in one hand a bow without a string, and in the other an arrow unfeathered. The manor of the Finchingfield, in Essex, was held by one . John Compes, from Kiiig Edward 111. v by the service of turning the spit at his coronation. The manor of Boston', in Devonshire, was held in return for finding “ for our lord the king, two arrows' and one loaf of oat bread when he should bunt in the forest'of Dartmoor.” The manor of Chellington, in Shropshire, was held of the king by . the. service of finding one footman in time of war for the king’s army in Wales, with one bow and three arrows, and carrying with him one bacon or salted hog. ' t ■ ■ ' . . The manor of Morton, in Essex, wps held by Henry de Averyng, by finding one horse worth 10s, four horseshoes, one leathern sack, and one iron jug, whenever he was called upon, to march for 40 days with the king’s army into Wales at his own expense, Peter Spileman held_ lands of the king by finding an esquire with a hambergelt (coat of mail), for 40 days in England, and of finding litter for the king’s bed, and hay for the king’s palfrey, when the king’ should lie at Brokenerst, in the county of Southampton. .